NOVEL WEB Chapter 6
Chapter 6: Newdelpark
“Thank you! I knew you’d be able to do it.”
“I’m pretty good, aren’t I? Thanks.”
“Haha, yeah.”
As expected, nothing special happened.
Still, that boar was rougher than it looked.
The farmer chuckled and handed me a piece of paper.
It was quite a clean sheet, something rarely seen in the fields.
[Tutorial - 1]
Objective - Head to the Land of Beginning.
Reward - 80 experience points, Job Recommendation Letter.
“There’s a friend in town who’s good with weapons. He was quite skilled back in the day. If you go to him, he’ll help you.”
A job change, huh?
You can’t play a game without a job change.
Back in the world I was possessed into, I had taken the job of a Holy - Spearmaster.
For reference, a Holy - Spearmaster is a class that wields a spear infused with holy magic.
If I had to compare, it’s closer to a battle mage.
I wonder if something like that exists here.
An arrow appeared.
I followed the path.
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Devil of Angel is a world where countless races live.
From common fantasy races like orcs and elves to dwarves, spirits, goblins, trolls, nymphs, and many more.
Various races appear, and when exploring special dungeons, one can even transform into them.
However, there are two exceptions.
Two races that vanished without a trace after the 7th Celestial-Demonic War.
Celestials and Demons.
Despite the game’s name, these two races hardly ever appeared, even as boss-level enemies.
Three years after launch, aside from a few rare saintesses or fallen humans, they were almost impossible to find.
“Wow…”
I arrived at the Land of Beginning, a medieval town.
A familiar yet distinctly unique sight.
The most striking difference was, of course, the flashy players.
Players adorned with various weapons chatted as they walked around, while the NPCs, presumed to be non-player characters, interacted with them.
“Wow, that character customization is insane.”
“What the heck.”
“They must’ve poured a ton of time into that.”
As I wandered the town, taking in the sights, I occasionally heard comments seemingly directed at me.
They probably thought I couldn’t hear them, but being a Celestial-type human, my hearing was incredibly sharp.
This hearing had caused me quite a bit of trouble before.
I couldn’t just pretend not to hear, but I also didn’t want to acknowledge it outright.
“Hey! Hello~ guys! What episode of Newdelpark is this? The 7th one?”
Then, a loud voice rang out from the town square.
It was as if a sound amplification spell had been cast.
Some people frowned, but the woman continued speaking as if nothing else mattered, her eyes fixed on a small black circle in front of her.
Could that be… a camera?
Now that I thought about it, I had wondered how live streaming worked in virtual reality.
“Hey! Stop only looking at pretty girls! Look at me, look at me!”
The woman, who seemed to be a streamer, shouted as she gestured wildly at the camera.
Her behavior was quite bold, but if she was making this much of a scene in the middle of the town square, she was likely a pretty famous streamer.
She had black hair tied in a straight ponytail behind her head and red eyes.
She wore black clothes that barely covered the essentials, with small weapons attached to her waist.
She looked like an assassin type.
As for her skill level…
I wasn’t sure, since I didn’t have ‘Detect.’
“What? Who? That guy?”
Had I stared for too long out of curiosity?
Or was it just that her appearance naturally drew attention?
For some reason, it felt like she was looking right at me.
“Wow. No way.”
Yeah, she was definitely looking at me.
The streamer waved her hand vigorously and called out, “Hey, let’s talk for a second~.”
“Eh.”
I quickly fled the scene.
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[?]
[?]
[What was that?]
[He disappeared. Did he use a return scroll?]
[Wasn’t there no return effect? That movement speed was insane.]
[Ye-natang messed up, lol. Of course, he’d run away after all that commotion.]
[Ah.]
[A.]
“It’s because of you guys!”
[? Why is this our fault?]
[He ran because you made a huge scene.]
[You have to treat newbie-chan gently…]
[But honestly, he was insanely pretty.]
[Agreed, that character customization was top-tier.]
[Agreed.]
[For real, lol.]
Ha…
Ye-natang—no, Twitch partner streamer Yena sighed.
It had been a while since she saw a newbie worth paying attention to.
And not just any newbie, but a ridiculously beautiful one.
She had no idea how much effort had gone into that character customization, but even as a woman, she found herself captivated.
His physique was so perfect that it made her question whether the game even allowed such a body type.
On top of that, his outfit, which looked like something a saintess from an angelic guild would wear, was so well-designed that she briefly doubted if he was really a newbie.
“Hah, he was definitely a fresh newbie, though.”
One of Yena’s skills, ‘Level Detection,’ allowed her to observe levels lower than her own.
The level of that stunning newbie just now was 7.
Most players reach level 4 after completing the tutorial, so he must have leveled up a bit by hunting monsters on the way to the Land of Beginning.
[It’s a shame, honestly.]
[Agreed. Where else would you find a newbie like that?]
[He could sell for over 100 if it were possible.]
[100? More like 300, easily, lol.]
[He was actually crazy. That character customization was next-level, lol.]
[If he starts streaming, I’m ready to switch over immediately, lol.]
[For real, lol.]
[For real.]
[Agreed, agreed, agreed.]
“What do you mean switch over? Banned.”
[Sorry.]
[Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.]
[We will never act out again.]
[We apologize, we apologize, we apologize, we apolojin.]
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Even as Yena said that, she let them be.
After all, more than half the chat was just joking around.
The ones who were actually going to leave wouldn’t even say anything—they’d just leave or cause trouble before disappearing.
If anything, that newbie drawing attention from outside viewers would actually be a win for her.
She hesitated for a moment.
A newbie like that was bound to attract attention.
And not just any attention, but the kind of attention that could skyrocket her stagnating NewTube channel.
Plus, he wasn’t just a newbie—he was a newbie with insane mobility.
Even though he wasn’t fully geared yet, his movement just now had been so fast that even she, an assassin, could barely track him with her eyes.
She glanced at the viewer count.
5,100.
It seemed like a big number, but compared to her past glory, it was pretty low.
With so many streamers flooding the scene these days, it was hard to maintain a large audience.
“What was that? A unique trait? Or racial buff? If I had to guess, I’d say it’s a trait.”
[Trait.]
[Ts.]
[It’s gotta be a trait.]
[Yeah, there’s no way he’d be that fast otherwise. Probably some ultra-speed trait.]
[If not a speed-related trait, then it’s a racial buff.]
[He just looked human, though.]
[But Yena is still faster, right?]
“Of course.”
As she spent about 10 minutes discussing the mystery, her viewer count rose slightly.
7,970.
The community must’ve started circulating screenshots of that newbie’s character customization.
People in the community always went crazy over well-made, attractive characters.
This was a good trend.
She had to ride this momentum.
“That’s it. Oppas! Today, we’re finding that newbie!”
[?]
[She’s really making a content grab out of this.]
[LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL]
[Will he really show up if she looks for him? Judging by how he ran, probably not.]
[For real, lol. If some crazy woman started chasing me, I’d bolt too.]
[For real, lol.]
[Run, newbie-chan… This is not normal…]
“Uh-huh~ No one can resist when you shove it in their face~”
It had always worked. That’s why it had worked six times before.
Yena quickly moved, tracking the newbie’s trail.
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“What the hell is that?”
I had slipped out to the outskirts of town.
I could roughly guess what was going on, but I had no intention of getting involved.
I was just here to play the game, not to get wrapped up in anything.
Besides, I was sick of people’s attention.
‘I lived as a saintess for ten years.’
I had spent years meeting people’s expectations and standing alone.
Sure, I hadn’t done that kind of thing for the last twenty years, but I wasn’t about to start again here.
“Is this the place?”
A small shop that didn’t seem to get much foot traffic.
Smoke rose from inside, and tools were hanging all over the walls—it looked like a blacksmith’s forge or maybe a workshop for crafting small items.
I pushed open the familiar wooden door, and a hearty voice greeted me.
“Welcome!”
“Hello.”
“So, you’re the one Corps mentioned.”
Following the directions from the recommendation letter, I arrived at a shop where a sturdy man with thick back muscles stood.
The burly man, proudly showing off his muscles, glanced at the weapon hanging from my waist and scanned my body.
It wasn’t a lustful gaze—more like a trained eye measuring my skill.
“…Your body doesn’t look like it could even lift a sword, yet you managed to take down a boar?”
“It wasn’t that hard.”
“There are plenty of people who can’t even do something that ‘easy.’”
Really?
I tilted my head in confusion.
The man waved his hand dismissively and said that a spear would suit me better, handing me one.
How did he know?
A plain spear, without any special engravings.
It didn’t seem to be made from any rare materials or infused with magic—it was just a well-crafted weapon meant to function as a spear.
[Job Change - Spearman 0.1]
Objective - Hunt 3,000 monsters.
Reward - 3,000 experience points, 3 gold coins.
“Go on, then.”
“…Yeah.”
So, games are all about grinding, huh?
With the plain spear in hand, I trudged out the door.