novelraw Chapter 405
Chapter 405
Chapter 405
0.
Seonghyun, whose eyes opened on their own in the morning, woke up and checked the clock to see it was around 6 AM.
As Seonghyun, for whom waking up early had become a routine, washed his face simply and came out as usual.
A groaning sound welcomed Seonghyun.
“Ughhhhh.”
“Oh? You're already up?”
“Ever since you came, I wake up because I hear movements every dawn.”
It was none other than Lee Geondong waking up early for some reason.
As Seonghyun saw Lee Geondong like that, he asked gladly.
“Then since you're up, want to go to the gym together?”
“……What a formidable guy.”
“Are you saying you don't want to?”
“No, let's go.”
“Oh.”
Lee Geondong got up diligently, perhaps having many thoughts after seeing Seonghyun's body in Sokcho, where they went together a while ago.
However, unlike Seonghyun, let alone washing his face, he just roughly grabbed some clothes and followed Seonghyun.
As Seonghyun looked at Lee Geondong as if asking if he wasn't going to wash up.
Rather, Lee Geondong looked at Seonghyun as if he was strange.
“……? I'm going to wash up when I sweat anyway, so why wash up before going?”
“……That, never mind.”
Thinking it could be like that since their lifestyle habits were different, Seonghyun chuckled and nodded his head.
Well, it could be like that.
Not wanting to particularly interfere with his friend's lifestyle, he headed to the gym together with him just like that.
Although they didn't have the intention of doing excessive weight training from the morning, just in case, Seonghyun and Lee Geondong started doing cardio to simply loosen up their bodies.
Although it was early dawn, perhaps there were many diligent people as there were more people than expected, but there were still enough treadmills for the two to get on side by side.
As some time passed like that, unlike Seonghyun who was used to morning workouts, Lee Geondong became exhausted.
Of course.
“At least walk slowly.”
“Ugh, I should.”
As Seonghyun said, Lee Geondong slowed down his speed and started walking, and Seonghyun was only running to the extent that his breathing wouldn't be disturbed.
Of course, even just that speed was a speed Lee Geondong couldn't even dare to attempt, but.
“Ugh, you relentless thing.”
“You'll get used to it as you keep doing it.”
Seeing Seonghyun speaking while chuckling like that, Lee Geondong shook his head and then noticed a slight murmuring within the gym and looked around.
Seonghyun wasn't paying attention, but Lee Geondong could feel it.
That the people around were murmuring while looking at Seonghyun.
Normally, he would have thought it was happening because Seonghyun was handsome, but.
‘Seeing even the men surprised looking at Seonghyun…….’
It seemed they had recognized Seonghyun.
Well, they didn't approach or anything so as not to be a hindrance for now, but.
Seeing them recognize him, Lee Geondong felt that Seonghyun had definitely risen to stardom.
While having such thoughts, suddenly.
Lee Geondong looked at Seonghyun and asked.
“Hey Seonghyun. Come to think of it, is Michael-nim's team doing okay?”
“Huh? Why Michael hyung?”
“No, I was wondering if their recognition went up like yours since they did a live broadcast with you? Still, it would be fine if they changed their appearances a bit, but…….”
“Ah, that's true.”
Seonghyun scratched his cheek while running as if he hadn't thought that far.
Since Seonghyun didn't know he would become this famous either, did he.
He knew the Rapid Guild's live had a massive number of viewers, but who would have known it would exert this much of a ripple effect.
Seonghyun muttered as if he was a bit troubled by that.
“This could be a nuisance. They did agree to the live, but I feel a bit sorry, I should ask them.”
“Yeah, let's talk to Rapid's side to see if there's anything uncomfortable for them. Since Yoojin Noona said she was looking into countermeasures.”
“Yeah, well, I should do that.”
While talking with Lee Geondong, Seonghyun sent a message hoping the Michael Party members weren't experiencing any major discomfort.
Asking if there was anything uncomfortable.
1.
Just as Lee Geondong and Seonghyun had worried, the Michael Party also experienced something similar to what Seonghyun and Ahn Yubin went through yesterday.
Well, looking at it one way, it was a given.
Wasn't it a massive live stream watched by nearly a hundred million viewers in total?
Didn't half of them watch the Michael Party along with it just to see Seonghyun?
It was inevitable for them to be recognized.
So when Michael went out to have a drink with his friends yesterday evening, everyone recognized him, and it was the same for Lowell and Noir.
Since they were MeTubers with quite a considerable scale even before, there were times they were recognized occasionally.
However, since it was their first time being recognized by everyone like celebrities, they were bewildered.
A natural occurrence for those experiencing this for the first time.
It happened because all three naturally had appearances that were almost identical, but anyway, as people recognizing them became frequent, the trio of the Michael Party were all bewildered yet quite happy.
It couldn't be helped that Noir, who seemed somewhat timid, also looked quite happy.
Because they wouldn't have done MeTube if they disliked this kind of attention either.
That was why when the message came from Seonghyun, everyone responded happily.
[Seonghyun - Is everyone okay? If you have any discomfort due to the sudden rise in fame, please let me know anytime.]
[Michael - Wow, everyone recognized me so I was surprised, but there was nothing uncomfortable!]
[Lowell - Me too! It was actually exciting lolol]
[Noir - It was uncomfortable, but I am okay. I was prepared for this much, and it was nice because everyone seemed to look upon us favorably.]
All three sent messages to Seonghyun like that, and seeing that, he scratched his head.
Well, should he call it a relief since he didn't seem to have caused a nuisance?
Anyway, communicating through messages like that, they set a time to gather, and from the morning, all three of the Michael Party, including Seonghyun, gathered at the Michael Party's hideout.
The reason for gathering was obvious.
Since there was a live broadcast today as well.
A meeting was a given.
The current ranking was.
[Abyss Ranking]
[1st Place - Michael Party : 89th Floor]
[2nd Place - Demon King Backup Team 1 Luna Party : 87th Floor]
[Joint 3rd Place - Demon King Backup Team 2 Kyou Party : 86th Floor]
[Joint 3rd Place - Demon King Backup Team 3 Embris Party : 86th Floor]
It was roughly like this.
Although Kyou and the Embris Party had fallen behind a little, they hadn't fallen behind that much.
It was safe to see them as virtually similar.
Of course, Seonghyun and the Michael Party in 1st place were in a safe zone with a 2-floor gap even from the closely chasing Luna team, but.
It wasn't to the extent of not needing a meeting because of that.
The topic of whether they should speed up a bit more did come up.
“Huuuum, but even if we try to speed up right now, the Demon King-nim is doing most of it…….”
“That's true too…….”
“It is.”
Michael and Noir agreed with Lowell's words.
Even though they wanted to help more, the Michael Party was already giving it their all.
It was hard to speed up any further.
If they were to speed up, it meant telling Seonghyun to exert more power, but since they couldn't go that far, just when they were about to discuss formulating a different plan.
“Well, I'll try to speed up more.”
“I-Is that possible?”
“R-Right now is already quite fast!?”
“T-Tell me about it.”
All three asked Seonghyun back in surprise, but.
Seonghyun smiled and nodded his head.
“I should conserve some strength since we don't know what will come out later, but I can make the speed a bit faster.”
Since Seonghyun hadn't gone all out yet.
As Seonghyun said so, the Michael Party nodded while looking at each other, saying let's do our best then.
Seonghyun smiled watching the Michael Party like that, and talked about the schedule.
“Since today is Sunday, I wondered if we should do a morning broadcast like yesterday, but since we decided to start at 2 PM, let's do our best from then on.”
“Sounds good!”
“Let's go!”
“L-Let's go!”
Everyone shouted like that and strengthened their resolve.
2.
As soon as it became 2 PM like that, the Rapid Guild channel and Michael's channel jointly turned on their live broadcasts, just as announced in the morning.
And as relay rooms were also created, the same composition as yesterday was formed.
Still before entering the Abyss.
Everyone strengthened their resolve and started the race again, and not long after the live broadcast started, Seonghyun defeated the boss of the 89th floor and entered the 90th floor.
-ㄷㄷㄷㄷ?
-Wow, seems he adapted now, he caught it right away ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Freaking fast???
-No, the backup teams seem really freaking strong too…… what is the Demon King?
-Didn't he practically catch it alone?
-The other team members really aren't doing much……
“Ahem, I admit it.”
“I-I admit it.”
“W-We are trying our best too, but…….”
“If we jump in, it feels like we'll be a hindrance.”
Michael tried to deal with it in his own way by drawing aggro, Lowell attacked with arrows, and Noir attacked with sneak attacks, but.
Seonghyun's attacks were much more destructive and powerful than any of that.
They had no choice but to admit it.
The viewers also felt that and had no choice but to laugh watching them make self-deprecating jokes.
-lolololol
-It's nice to see them admit it lololol
-Purely admitting they are riding the bus lololol
-I want to ride the Demon King bus too T_T
-Real, they must be leveling up like crazy, right?
“Oh, it's no joke. We were lucky, hahaha.”
“Fufufu, it's all thanks to me since I spoke up in advance!”
“That is true.”
As they hosted the broadcast and engaged in appropriate small talk like that, everyone cleared the 89th floor and prepared to go down.
As Seonghyun also smiled at their broadcast hosting and took the lead to go down.
A few viewers expressed their doubts.
-The Demon King is a magic class, so why is he standing in the front???
-Right? Shouldn't Michael stand in the front?
-Exactly;;;
As a few sent out such chats.
Michael spoke as if asking them to cut him some slack.
“No, everyone, he seems ten times stronger than me…… if I take the lead, what else would I do but die?”
At Michael's words purely admitting it, the viewers also had no choice but to admit it.
-lololololololol
-That is true.
-lololololol It's right for the strong person to stand in the front.
-lololololol
-Michael is freaking funny lololol
-I should subscribe lololol
By the time the atmosphere became amicable like that.
Seonghyun realized something strange as he went down and examined it closely.
Then.
'It's a different energy.'
If there had been bosses with the energy of the abyss up until now.
Now, it felt like it deviated a bit from that track.
If the abyss was an energy with a strong feeling of capturing, pulling, or forcibly dragging something down, the current energy was domineering and felt like it would shatter everything to pieces.
He could tell just from the feeling.
'Destruction?'
As Seonghyun went down while thinking so.
Sure enough, unlike the giant types up until now, a human in the form of a shadow that looked to be about 2m tall at most was standing there.
And Seonghyun grinned watching that.
Thinking it would be worth trying from now on, he drew his sword, and the guy aimed its clenched fists towards Seonghyun with a confident attitude.
“It seems it will be a slightly different battle this time.”
Along with Seonghyun's words, Seonghyun and the shadow-formed human disappeared from their spots and clashed with each other in the middle of the cavity.