NOVEL WEB Chapter 4
The term “mass slaughter broadcast” sounds grandiose, but the content is quite simple.
The main content involves entering a dungeon solo and hunting down all the monsters or defeating the boss monster alone.
As mentioned earlier, a B-grade hunter license or higher is the minimum requirement for a dungeon mass slaughter broadcast, but just having the license isn’t enough.
The broadcasting company and the Hunter Association comprehensively assess whether “this person has the skills to broadcast in a dungeon freely” through multiple rigorous examinations and interviews before granting permission for the dungeon mass slaughter broadcast. This stringent screening process arose from various incidents in the early days.
Once the Great Rift incident, when gates and dungeons first opened, stabilized, a new order was established in society.
However, in the beginning, they gave permission for mass slaughter broadcasts to anyone, leading to many lousy hunters who were wiped out in a bloody mess within ten minutes of entering the dungeon.
Naturally, without strict regulations, there were those willing to do anything to grab attention, making it bound to happen… There were even cases where ordinary people hired hunters to live-commentate, only for a hunter to be caught off guard by a monster and die on live broadcast, a scene that was aired uncensored.
In recent times, the dungeon mass slaughter broadcast has become something akin to a guarantee that “I can conquer this dungeon while interacting with viewers, as leisurely as taking a stroll, and even if I’m caught off guard by a surprise attack, I can return safely.”
It goes without saying that highly skilled hunters don’t struggle for money, so they have no reason to bother with broadcasting.
Even if hunter streamers have become mainstream and popular, S-grade and A-grade hunters can rake in money just by participating in a few raids. The salary provided by the government is also substantial, so it’s rare to see high-grade hunters doing mass slaughter broadcasts unless they enjoy broadcasting or need quick donations.
The fact that gaining permission is not easy at all has made mass slaughter broadcasts a rare form of content.
Recently, however, mass slaughter broadcasts are nothing more than poor hunters struggling to attract attention by attacking C to D-grade dungeons.
Of course, even just that allows viewers to enjoy the thrilling action of hunters tackling dungeons with raw power, observable live, which is certainly attractive content. Still, there are practically no genuine S-grade hunters or strong individuals engaging in mass slaughter broadcasts.
By the way, even if it’s an A-grade dungeon, it is impossible for an A-grade hunter to solo it and tackle all the monsters and the boss.
Unless there’s a situation where only the dungeon boss is present without any tricky mechanics or mobs…
In A-grade dungeons, every single monster is rated A-grade, and the terrain, difficulty, mechanics, monster distribution, and average number of monsters are all rated A-grade.
It might be possible for someone with S-grade or overwhelming talent to reach S-grade, but generally, to conquer an A-grade dungeon, it’s recommended to have a party of at least three A-grade hunters.
– So, what’s the dungeon’s grade, streamer?
“I don’t know!”
– What? No idea?
– What? No clue?
– Why not?
– That’s not good, you know?
– So you don’t know?
“Actually, I came here because a friend recommended it to me. The association doesn’t even have plans to tackle it yet, and they say the external erosion level is at a low C-grade.”
– If the erosion level is C-grade, isn’t it a C-grade dungeon?
– It is C-grade.
– It’s expected to have goblin hordes if it’s C-grade, haha!
– No, no! There are A-grade dungeons with a C-grade external erosion level too!
“Yeah, as the viewer mentioned, the erosion level and the danger within the dungeon don’t necessarily match up. It’s been years since the Great Rift, and not much is fully understood yet.”
Thud!!
Saying that, I grabbed the head of a goblin trying to ambush me from behind a tree.
The goblin, probably not expecting me to catch its head through the tree, screamed and struggled, but it was far quicker for my hand holding its head to burst it open than for the goblin’s scream to echo.
Squish!!
“But, since it’s only goblins… it seems like it’s confirmed to be C-grade. Maybe it could even be D-grade.”
– Just getting squished like tofu, haha!
– How did the streamer find the one behind the tree?
– Whoa! Haha, it just exploded!
For the record, viewers watching the broadcast won’t see any insides or blood.
The smart, artificial intelligence drone cameras filter out any scenes deemed too gruesome.
For example, blood appears white like milk, or if bones or guts get crushed, only those parts are subtly hidden or replaced by something else.
And so, I spent quite a while slicing through goblins.
Time-wise, it had been one hour, and the goblins I hunted down were stealthily devoured by the tentacles protruding from my back.
At some point, my belly got full, and I stopped eating, avoiding the viewers’ gaze.
Instead of a mass slaughter broadcast, it turned into a casual chat. A just chatting broadcast.
“I failed at making goblin head soup, so what should I eat next? Obviously, goblin head soup.”
– ??
– Huh?
– What???
– ???
– Huh??
– You have got to be kidding me!
– Please everyone, stop. Our Seongnyeo Noona just wants to make a joke.
– Haha! Noona is being silly!
– This is too much.
“Just think about it for a moment…”
Smash!!
Before replying to the chat, I ran over and killed a small goblin ambush that was about to shoot arrows from afar.
That little jerk ruined my soup!
“Enemy of the soup!!”
Giekk?!
Ugggh!!
Though I had immense strength, when I struck it with rage, it blew apart like it had hit a bomb.
– No, Noona, do whatever you want….
– So strong..
– Isn’t it a problem if someone’s dating Noona?
– That jerk is banned!
– Crossing the line, haha!
– ‘Halkard’ has been banned.
“Oh, I didn’t mean to ban anyone, but it seems the admin couldn’t resist. Everyone should flatter the admin more than me, okay?”
– Long live Admin! ^^7
– ^^7
– ^^7
– ^7
– ^^&^^&
– Admin is stronger than the streamer.
“Now, to continue my story… there’s no such thing as failing in my cooking. I will definitely eat it.”
– Noona, do whatever you want…. If you like Noona, that’s enough…
– Then cook with the goblin I just killed.
– Sure, haha! But it just exploded!
“Just for the record, normal goblins don’t taste good. I’m definitely not eating that. What I was going to make into soup earlier was a rare species called Hobgoblin.”
– Was the Hobgoblin possibly the dungeon boss?
– Then the dungeon must already be completely cleared.
– But how does Noona know that regular goblins taste bad?
– ?
– ?
– ???
– Wait, did you eat one? Haha!
Wow, these sharp commenters.
“No comment.”
– Hahaha!
– Haha!
– ?
– Have you really eaten one? Haha!
– Seriously, did you eat one?
“Maybe I did eat one…”
– No way! Haha!
– Hahahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– No, did you seriously eat it?
– Noona… do whatever you want, but don’t just eat anything you find…
– When did that happen??
“I didn’t eat it today. I had practiced eating it before making soup with a Hobgoblin.”
However, normal goblins are not only disgusting; they are just a mess of disease.
“To put it simply, it felt like eating raw cockroaches without any cooking. I mean, at least cockroaches can taste somewhat shrimp-like when you eat them, but normal goblins—even after I purified them—felt like eating a disease bucket; their taste was extremely bitter, and above all, the texture was awful. Their fine hairs remained, so when the goblin’s scalp brushed against my palate, I felt like I would vomit. I typically don’t throw up after eating, but…”
Eww, damn..
Look at the detailed description!
– Noona… goblin scalps are not food…
– Something may come back up after dinner, haha!
– Why the heck did you eat that, you crazy girl!
– Noona… just don’t do everything you want please…
[‘Half&HalfChicken’ donated 30,000 won!]
– But streamer, did you try eating cockroaches?
– Ah, Haha! Is she a bug Seongnyeo?
– No way, I don’t think she has eaten them before actually, haha!
“If I tell you my traumatic stories from that other world, you’ll all cry buckets…”
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 100,000 won!]
– Ah, stop the nonsense and just broadcast.
– Hahahahahaha!
– Hahahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Emotional selling gets a hard block here, haha!
– Returnee’s emotional selling is outdated too, haha!
“Hey, what the heck…”
Emotional selling! Before returning, the series of hardships I experienced created a grand narrative full of heroes and witches…
Ah, why am I even saying this now?
Just as viewers said, it could be seen as mere emotional selling to the people of this world.
There are even returnees who have fabricated their stories like a novel and were found out.
Whether they were attention seekers or just trying to earn money, regardless, from then on, no one believed returnees’ stories.
Moreover, I’ve heard that the immigration authorities managing returnees even bring along hunters with lie detectors and truth-read abilities…
“Anyway, the normal goblins were that bad. A rare species like a Hobgoblin could taste really good.”
– Yeah, it broke before tasting it, haha!
– Ground: Soup gurok
– Hahaha!
– Gurok is a thing! Hahaha!
How dare you joke about my cooking?
“That viewer who joked about my soup, ban that person right now, Admin!”
[Ha]
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Everyone loves the admin more than the streamer.
“You know, that’s just a joke.”
As I chatted with the viewers and smashed down the ambushing goblins, I realized I had gone around the forest entirely.
But something felt off.
Usually, whether it’s a C-grade dungeon or a D-grade dungeon, there must always be a boss monster guarding it.
A dungeon boss has a distinctive presence and is essentially the owner who maintains the dungeon’s integrity.
Yet in this forest-type dungeon, no matter how much I wandered around, there was nothing out of the ordinary.
Aside from the goblins living here and that it had a pleasant but slightly chilly climate, there was no difference from an ordinary forest outside.
“This is strange. The dungeon doesn’t seem to end.”
– Where’s the boss monster?
– Isn’t it sleeping underground?
– Sandworm?
– Sandworms appear in desert terrains, right?
– Ugh, the image of the streamer eating sandworm raw meat comes to mind.
– She ate it cheerfully!
– No, that was disgusting!
“The external erosion level is just C-grade, but with only goblins appearing, it’s likely D-grade at best. The goblins’ gear consisted of clubs, rusty swords, and arrows…”
If there were a typical C or D-grade lower dungeon boss, it would have been just a mediocre challenge.
But the Hobgoblin I caught earlier was not a boss but simply a rare subtype. The fact that the boss monster didn’t appear despite my rampaging around the dungeon raised significant concerns.
Boosh!
At that moment, the administrator sent me a whisper.
She might be more insightful than I am and perhaps figured something out.
“Everyone, I just received a suggestion from the admin.”
– What did they say?
– Got to follow the admin’s words.
I controlled the tentacles sprouting from my back and wrapped my hands around them.
Simultaneously, divine power began to gather at the tips of my fingers and tentacles.
The tentacles supported my hands from shaking, and the massive divine power started accumulating to the point where it exuded great physical force.
– Wow, haha! What is that?!
– This is insane!
– Whoah!
– Noona, do whatever you want!!
– It’s about to EXPLODE!!!
– If that bursts, everything will go boom!
– The streamer is probably blowing up the dungeon because the boss won’t come out! Haha!
“Don’t worry. I already confirmed there’s no one around.”
After all, I was the only one permitted to enter this dungeon.
Once the pristine divine power became so intense that it warped the surrounding space, I felt an incredible weight in my hands.
“The boss isn’t coming out, so… well, let’s just wipe everything out. If it doesn’t show up even after I blow this up… it must be hiding underground.”
– Something big is coming!
– Is the streamer going to blow up the camera too? Haha!
– She did that last time, haha!
– Oh, that again? Haha!
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 50,000 won!]
– Thanks to the streamer, I’m having a pleasant viewing experience.
“Thank you for the donation. I’m going to blast this. Is everyone ready to adjust the volume? It’s going to be quite loud.”
After giving the viewers a final warning, I clenched my hand tightly around what I held.
[Miracle – Divine Body Destruction]
Boom!!!
By compressing and condensing the divine power I had gathered, the miracle is manifested.
It is said that compressing a hunter’s magical power could wipe out an entire village, but what I gathered was divine power, an even more high-density energy crystallization.
As I gathered it to the point where it exuded physical force and then unleashed it, a huge sound rang out like a nuclear bomb exploded at my center, blowing away everything around me.
“…Ugh, my ears… are they… ringing?”
Of course, the drone cameras filming me had protective shields of divine power around them.
Actually, there was an incident before when I used this and lost all the expensive cameras.
The camera prices don’t matter, but considering the time it takes to manufacture and deliver the cameras, not being able to broadcast is quite a loss.
– What’s happening?
– What the heck? Haha!
– Wasn’t this a forest dungeon?
– It has turned into wasteland! Haha!
– Hahaha!
I briefly checked the viewers’ reactions before surveying my surroundings.
I had obliterated everything, including the dense forest and the burrows where goblins could hide.
Nothing was visible…
“Wait, that’s not quite right?”
As the trees of the forest were all shattered and the obstacles blocking my view disappeared, I realized why the boss hadn’t appeared in this dungeon.
The small gaps I thought the goblins would be hiding in were left large and torn due to the miracle I had just unleashed.
From there, a thick wave of erosion energy began seeping out, making my skin tingle.
As I got closer, I noticed the telltale shimmer of a gate.
This can’t possibly be the exit, can it?
– What is that?
– What’s that thing?
– What is that!?
– That’s exactly what it is…
[‘Tenryentenren’ donated 150,000 won!]
– It’s a mimic dungeon. How did you find it?
“What’s a mimic dungeon? Do you all know?”
– What’s that, you nerd?
– Mimic dungeon? I don’t know, haha!
– No clue here either!
– I know! AHHH!!
[‘KawaiiHorned’ donated 10,000 won!]
– It’s a dungeon within a dungeon. The external erosion level only shows C to D-grade, but in reality, it created another gate inside the dungeon, lowering the perceived erosion level. The actual erosion level could be higher than A-grade, and the dungeon’s difficulty may be dangerous to tackle alone.
“Oh, so the dungeon tricked humans, huh?”
– Yeah, yeah, yeah!
– Yesss!
– But if that’s true, isn’t it super dangerous?
– Streamer, you need to get out of there!
– It is indeed dangerous, yes!
To put it simply, whether the dungeon’s master has a goal to invade the human world or simply wants to hide, they deliberately deceived the dungeon’s erosion levels, creating a dungeon within a dungeon.
As the viewers mentioned, if it truly is a mimic dungeon, the rank of this dungeon would skyrocket. And if I were to cross that gate, it wouldn’t just end with a few goblins appearing.
Wait… then that means…
“There could be elite goblins or variant goblins in there, right?”
– What?
– Huh?
– Yeah?
– Huh??
– Noona, don’t!
– Stop streamer!
– Stop right now, haha!
It was too late.
My judgment was swift and accurate.
– Haha, why is she going there, haha?
– That’s dangerous, haha!
– Whoah! Haha, she’s really going in!
– You crazy girl!!
– Stop, please!
– Haha, you won’t listen to us!
– Seriously, this is the dungeon massacre broadcast! Haha!
– For real, haha!
Before the viewers even had a chance to react, I dove straight into the mimic dungeon.
There could be variant goblins in there!
I could retry making my goblin head soup! How could I resist!?
[Oh man, this is wild.]
The admin’s whispers tickled my ears, but I deliberately ignored them.