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Chapter 64 - 64

Hayate and Rena had reached the seventh floor of the Grade 4 'Yellow Dungeon.'

"Rena, break that pot over there."

"Okay!"

In a distant corridor, a pot was placed alongside some wood fragments. Rena accurately shot the pot Hayate pointed at, triggering a trap set in the corridor and impaling the monsters directly above it.

"Your knowledge of dungeons is amazing, Hayate. I didn't know about that trap. It's not on any of the strategy sites, is it?"

"Probably not. You can get Orbs from the small fry monsters here at a low rate, so I spent a lot of time here back when it was a game. Because of that, I have a pretty good grasp of how to efficiently defeat monsters. By the way, it's more of a gimmick than a trap. It won't activate unless you hit it from more than ten meters away."

"I'm curious how you, a close-combat weapon specialist, figured that out... but anyway, since this is being streamed, that gimmick is definitely going to be on the strategy sites now."

This scene was being forcibly broadcast to the world.

Not just this gimmick, but Hayate had been generously sharing information throughout his dungeon explorations. From the beginning, he had no intention of keeping the knowledge necessary for dungeon clearing a secret for his own benefit. He believed it would be good if the information he shared helped people clear dungeons more safely.

Currently, due to the Goddess's power, the settings of the game FWO were being reflected in the real world. The development company of FWO was aware of this and had released all information, including hidden settings, for the common good of the entire world.

However, the amount of information was vast, and apart from a few who were seriously aiming to clear dungeons, it wasn't widely viewed. In the first place, the dungeon settings could be changed at the Goddess's whim, and in fact, the mid-boss in the Grade 3 'Spring Dungeon,' the water dragon Leviathan, had been changed to a fake Hayate.

Explorers around the world were trying to gather information about dungeons by watching Hayate's streams rather than reading the official information from the developers.

Hayate and the others didn't know it yet, but on the stream's comment section and social media, many people were calling him things like 'the walking FWO strategy guide.'

"The Orbs really aren't dropping, are they."

"Well, you get maybe one for every thousand you defeat. If you're aiming for drops from small fry, it's better to be a sage class and just spam area-of-effect magic. The Orb drop rate from the mid-boss here is high, so I used to defeat the mid-boss and then farm the enemies around here while it respawned. I always do it that way."

"I watched that stream too! But that wasn't this dungeon, was it?"

Hayate had done several grueling streams in the past when FWO was a game, where he would keep streaming until he got an Orb, an item for strengthening equipment.

But that wasn't all.

Just because he wasn't streaming, it didn't mean he wasn't farming. Hayate had farmed mid-bosses and final bosses countless times.

"I'll farm anywhere until I get a rare item."

"I see. So, why didn't you stream those farming sessions on a sub-channel?"

"Is there a demand for a stream of someone just killing the same monster over and over?"

"I would have watched. You could have streamed for ten hours and I would have been fine with it. I would have loved to have Hayate's stream playing in the background while I studied or something."

"The 'for work' kind of thing, huh. Even if there's a demand, being watched by someone for ten hours straight would be tough for me. Besides, if I streamed everything down to gathering materials for my equipment, I might get countered in PVP."

"I see. That's certainly true."

"On the other hand, you didn't do much material-gathering streams, Rena."

Rena had hardly ever farmed small fry monsters.

"I had a team that would gather items and things for me."

"Whoa, seriously?"

"In return, I worked hard on crafting gambits."

Gambits were extremely difficult pieces of equipment to craft, requiring one to raise their 'Dexterity Level' stat by endlessly combining and crafting items.

In FWO, there were two types of players. There were those who holed up in dungeons, gathered items, sold what they didn't need, and left equipment crafting to others. Then there were players who didn't defeat monsters to gather items themselves, but instead bought materials on the market and crafted them into other high-value items to make money.

Havate sometimes crafted his own equipment but was generally the former type. Rena was the latter.

"Speaking of which, Rena, are you going to craft any gambits this time?"

"I'm thinking I'd like to. It would lessen the burden on you, Hayate. Right now, you're always protecting me, but I think they'll become necessary from here on out."

"Maybe so. The market is getting well-stocked too, so maybe doing a crafting stream once in a while is an option."

"Leave the crafting streams to me! I've done a ton of them. I think my fans would enjoy that too."

"Sounds good. Our viewership has grown, so let's do more than just dungeon clearing!"

"Let's do it!"