Chapter-10 · EP-161

Episode 161: Hero

'Justice Man is too strong' 'Come out, all of you who were mocking him just now'

Comments praising the young explorer who came to the rescue continued.

But the hero who came to save Benji wasn't invincible either.

His first attack, a surprise from behind the Angry Goblin, was a good hit, but once the goblins' aggro turned on him, he was on the defensive.

Benji just groaned in pain from his ear and abdominal wounds.

Zero, so large and strong-looking, just swung his club at the approaching goblins, letting out pathetic sounds. There was no way he could defeat them swinging like that.

The goblins showed no interest in Crow, who had conveniently passed out. The goblins were hostile only toward those who had attacked them.

In that sense, Hood, the bystander, wasn't attacked and was engrossed in filming.

"7000, 7100… Hehehe…"

Hood occasionally counted the concurrent viewers with glee. To him, his companions' predicament was just content for the stream, wasn't it?

The comments section was filled with cheers for the young explorer who had come to the rescue.

But despite the cheers, he was being pushed further and further back.

There were six goblins on screen now. When the remaining ninety or so eventually gathered, he probably wouldn't survive either.

Would the decisive moment, when everyone on screen died, really be streamed today?

I couldn't look away.

"Are you all alright?!"

Despite being in a tight spot himself, the young explorer called out to Quadra Stream.

The massive outbreak of Angry Goblins was ultimately their own fault. I felt sorry for this young explorer, getting caught up in it.

Then, in the next moment, the young explorer finally defeated an Angry Goblin.

His wooden sword cut through the air.

The moment the Angry Goblin's claws swung down, he narrowly dodged the trajectory.

And as if with a return stroke, his wooden sword accurately struck the goblin's neck.

With his wooden sword raised, deflecting goblins with beautiful swordsmanship, he looked like a scene from a movie.

"Help me!"

Zero let out a pathetic cry that wasn't an answer to the young explorer's question.

When the camera turned to Zero, his movements had clearly become sloppy due to fatigue.

Then Benji's scream was heard.

"Just help us already! You're so relaxed, you must be a high-level explorer, right? You have a duty to help us!"

After all that, that's what he had to say...

I was disgusted by Benji's rotten character.

'Shut up, Benji' 'As expected of a notorious streamer lol' 'That attitude after being saved is just sad'

The comments section was also filled with condemnation of him.

And then, the young explorer's response to those words surprised me even more.

"I'm still level 2."

Huh?

What did he just say?

Level 2?

'No way that's level 2 movement' 'He's definitely lying lol' 'Huh???' 'Level 2????' 'No way' 'That's level 5 movement'

The comments section didn't believe him either.

Normally, the only people on the third floor are level 3 or 4 explorers, and occasionally slightly higher-level explorers guiding them for leveling.

And yet, level 2?

Had this young explorer, overconfident, wandered into the third floor while still only level 2?

At that point, I was sure Benji and his group would never be saved.

But then…

"Ah? Sorry, I probably just reached level 3."

The camera moved. It showed two explorers a short distance away, fighting four goblins – apparently companions of this young explorer.

One was swinging a mace to block goblins from getting through, the other was dealing with goblins that jumped in with a wooden sword.

They were probably holding back the remaining 90 goblins, preventing them from reaching this spot.

And the experience from the goblins those two had defeated went to this young explorer in their party, leveling him up.

'Level up!!!' 'Go on a rampage!' 'You're the star today!!!'

True to the viewers' expectations, the level 3 young explorer's movements became incredible.

He struck an Angry Goblin's neck with his wooden sword, defeating it. In the same motion, he turned and defeated the next.

In no time, he had wiped out all the Angry Goblins swarming around him.

"I'll come to you!"

He then went to rescue Zero.

His sword, now at a higher level, was defeating Angry Goblins in one hit.

It was almost hard to believe he was really level 3.

Before we knew it, the Angry Goblins around Quadra Stream had been wiped out.

What happened to the remaining 90?

When the camera showed the young explorer's companions, they were seen slowly walking toward him.

There were no more Angry Goblins in sight.

Could it be that these young explorers had defeated all of them?

It was unbelievable, but remembering how the young explorer – the one we viewers had called Justice Man – had been mowing down goblins, I had to believe it.

According to online information, those who caused Angry Goblins to appear invariably died, but Quadra Stream had become the first survivors.

The comments section was a storm of praise for them. I could no longer keep up with individual comments.

By that time, the concurrent viewer count had exceeded ten thousand.