The Final Boss Has Returned - Episode 110
Boundless Skies!
Unlike the sky of Arde World, Yujin and I were flying through a gloomy sky filled with dark clouds, riding atop a Bone Wyvern.
Beside the Bone Wyvern carrying Yujin and me, Vampire King Nosferatu had transformed into a bat and was flying alongside us, while Lich Dice sat at the creature’s neck.
[Kieeeeeek!]
[Kiiiiiiii!!!]
From afar, the bizarre shrieks of monsters reached my ears.
Yujin and I taking flight on the Bone Wyvern had truly been a close call.
Because enemy forces had charged in right after the Bone Wyvern soared into the sky.
[LOL wow LOL he’s running away to the sky LOL]
[Crazy lol so this is how he escapes lolol]
[Why is a Bone Wyvern here lolol]
[Aah… This is called a ‘Bone Wyvern.’ It’s an undead that can fly.]
[So lol where are we going now?]
The viewer count continued to rise, and proportionally, the chat scrolled by even faster.
And among those increased viewers, there were not only ordinary users but also quite a few named users with considerable reputations.
[Verda: Yujin-nim, are you alright?]
[Erena: Oppa! Are you okay?]
[Sharp: No, you said you were going to raid a dungeon, so why on earth are you here!]
[MuscleJjangJjangMan: Hey Yujin, you’re really okay, right?]
The members of the Lightwing Guild, Yujin’s comrades!
They had entered my chatroom.
Maybe it wouldn’t be strange for Yujin, but guild members who were clearly wary of me, and Verda in particular, who always painstakingly prepared to screw me over—I never expected them to enter my chatroom!
‘Not only am I partying with Yujin to raid a dungeon, I never thought his comrades would enter my stream too. Truly, you live long enough, you see everything.’
Well, since whispers don’t work from Arde World to Broken World, they probably had no choice but to enter the chatroom.
That’s what I thought.
For the record, whispers don’t cost points, so right after the Bone Wyvern took off carrying Yujin, Dice, and me, I had tried sending one to Shin Hayeon just to test it, but instead, the message “Whispers cannot be sent in this region” was all that popped up.
[Holy lol Verda-nim is here]
[Sharp-nim is here too!]
[Wow, the whole Lightwing Guild is here lolol this is crazy lolol]
[Crazy lolol look at this stacked chat lineup]
[This is truly legendary, legendary]
I smirked and looked at Yujin in front of me.
“Don’t worry, I’m completely fine, so don’t worry. Nothing happened. Thanks to Dracan-nim dealing with things quickly, don’t worry too much. See you after you log out.”
Just as the Lightwing guild members who heard Yujin’s words were typing chats with nuances like “take care of yourself”—
[Hayeon: Dracan-nim.]
A chat message appeared before my eyes.
It was Shin Hayeon.
“What’s the matter?”
As I, who saw Shin Hayeon’s message, reacted to the chat for almost the first time since the stream began, the chat window exploded once again.
[What? Wasn’t Dracan not reading chat?]
[Holy shit, did you guys see Dracan just react to a regular user who isn’t Yujin?]
[No way, this is the same guy who didn’t even twitch the corner of his mouth when I donated a million won earlier?]
[Wow, I’m clipping this]
[Dracan-nim! Me too! Please say my nickname too!]
[Just who is that person;;]
[Does anyone know who this Hayeon person is?]
I had reacted to someone else’s chat besides Yujin!
With just that fact alone, the chatroom transformed into a cauldron of frenzy.
The chat window was a varied mix: people asking for their own nicknames to be called, people saying they would clip this scene, people saying it was their first time seeing a reaction, and of course, people asking about Shin Hayeon’s identity.
In that situation, Shin Hayeon’s chat rose up once more.
[Hayeon: Just, I was wondering if you were alright.]
“Don’t tell me you were worried?”
I laughed at those words.
Shin Hayeon.
The idea of her worrying about someone was something I couldn’t even imagine.
At my words, Shin Hayeon remained silent for a while, and the chatroom, having seen me react twice, was filled with all sorts of speculation and wild theories.
[Who the hell is this Hayeon person?]
[Hey someone look it up lolol]
[At this point it doesn’t seem like a coincidence;; do they know each other?]
[No but who is Hayeon lol]
[Dracan-nim. Who is Hayeon?]
Countless chats flooded by, but I couldn’t feel any particular need to say anything, so I stayed silent.
Above all, if Shin Hayeon didn’t want to reveal her identity herself, there was no reason for me to open my mouth first.
[Hayeon: Yes. I was worried.]
“For you to worry about me. The sun will rise from the west tomorrow.”
At my words, Shin Hayeon fell silent again, and watching her like that, I smiled faintly.
[No way, crazy, did he just smile? I didn’t see wrong, did I?]
[Her nickname is Hayeon too, could she be his girlfriend?]
[Obviously his girlfriend lolol]
[Wow crazy;;; if it’s real that’s insane;;]
The chatroom was zooming in and reproducing all sorts of rumors after seeing my appearance like that, but I was still ignoring their chats, and eventually, the chat began to flow in a strange direction.
[Yujin-nim! Please ask Dracan-nim who this Hayeon person is!]
[Quickly quickly!]
[You absolutely have to ask!]
Yujin!
The viewers had started demanding that he ask questions to him, since he was someone who took reactions well.
Yujin, hearing that question, smiled awkwardly as if troubled.
“H-ha ha. Dracan-nim. What should I do about this?”
“Well……”
At Yujin’s words, I trailed off.
Because I had never been in such a situation before, no particular escape strategy came to mind.
Perhaps it was the same for Yujin, as the moment their awkward laughter continued.
[Hayeon: Everyone, are you all that curious about my identity? :)]
Shin Hayeon’s chat appeared on the screen.
[Yes! I’m curious!]
[Who the hell are you?]
[Are you really Dracan’s lover?]
[However, I truly want to know that.]
And with that, chats kept flooding up right behind it!
I narrowed my brows watching that sight.
‘What on earth is she trying to do?’
The moment I was trying to guess Shin Hayeon’s intentions behind asking if they were curious about her identity.
[Hayeon: (link)]
Shin Hayeon posted a link.
And perhaps because they checked the link, after a moment, chats started popping up sporadically.
[Shin Hayeon. Director of Jeil E&M……. The second daughter of the Jeil Group chairman……?]
[So she’s a chaebol?]
[Everyone take your hands off the keyboard!!!!]
Shin Hayeon!
She had linked her portal site profile.
And with that, the chatroom’s atmosphere turned ice-cold in an instant.
Because the name value of ‘chaebol’ was that enormous.
And Shin Hayeon, having seen that spectacle, posted one more chat.
[Hayeon: Has everyone’s curiosity been satisfied? :)]
Reading that chat, I had a hunch.
That Shin Hayeon was enjoying this current atmosphere!
Almost no one responded to her chat mixed with emoticons.
I shook my head back and forth, and while I was doing so, Shin Hayeon’s chat appeared again.
[Hayeon: Anyway, I’m relieved to hear nothing serious happened. Please do tell me if anything happens, and I’ll see you after you log out later.]
“Got it.”
With those words, Shin Hayeon stopped posting chats, and Yujin and I continued racing through the sky on the Bone Wyvern.
“This wasteland truly has no end.”
Looking at the wasteland where no end was in sight no matter how far we went, Yujin spoke, and I nodded at his words.
“Yeah.”
It was truly a wasteland with no end in sight.
“We need to find somewhere to land.”
Although a Bone Wyvern’s cruising range was far longer than a normal wyvern’s, it was still impossible to stay airborne for an almost infinite amount of time like a Bone Dragon.
If Lich Dice’s mana ran out, the Bone Wyvern would have to land as well.
‘Moreover, there’s no guarantee that the enemy’s forces consist only of ground troops.’
The enemy!
There was no guarantee anywhere that the Hive Mind’s subordinates only had ground forces.
There might be individuals among them capable of flight.
And before meeting such enemies, I needed terrain where we could hide somewhere.
The quest was something to think about after that.
At that moment, as I gazed at the endlessly unfolding wilderness.
“Dracan-nim.”
Yujin called out to me.
“The quest you mentioned earlier, may I ask what kind of quest it is?”
What Yujin said next was exactly about the quest!
Hearing his words, I finally recalled that I had briefly mentioned the quest to him before being sucked into the dimensional gate leading to this other world.
I pondered for a brief moment whether to share the quest with him, and soon made a decision.
“Seeing is believing, so I’ll share the quest directly. Read it and judge for yourself.”
Since I was going to use the strength of a top-ranker like him for my quest anyway, it was better to share the quest with him.
Moreover, unlike the previous game, mystery no longer worked in Second.
Of course, the secretive practices of the previous game—keeping truly important honey information such as honey farming spots, honey dungeons, and new regions secret to exploit among themselves—hadn’t completely disappeared.
But unlike the previous game where quest information was locked up tight and only revealed to the world after being cleared, in Second, due to the existence of ‘Arde Live’—where one could earn money by live-streaming quest scenes and dungeon raids or uploading them as videos—most named users now shared quest information with their viewers rather than hiding it.
Because that earned more money.
Besides, this place was another world anyway, and it wasn’t a location where anyone could come to interfere.
Therefore, I sent Yujin a quest share message through the system without much resistance.
[Would you like to share the quest ‘The Vanished Lycanthrope Clan’ with party member ‘Yujin’?]
“Yes.”
[A quest share request has been sent to ‘Yujin’.]
[‘Yujin’ has accepted the quest share request.]
Immediately, the message that Yujin had accepted the quest share request popped up.
“I see. So this is the kind of quest……”
Having read the quest contents, Yujin nodded as if he finally understood something.
[No I’m dying of curiosity. What kind of quest gets you sent to another world lol]
[Yujin-nim, please answer!]
Along with that, the chat window was flooded with questions again, and Yujin, seeing those chats, asked in an awkward voice.
“W-what should I do? Is it okay if I tell them?”
“I’ll tell them.”
The moment I finished speaking, chats began rising frighteningly fast.
[Omg lolol Dracan said he’ll answer lolol]
[Dracan is totally generous with reactions today lolol]
[Our Dracan has changed lolol]
I looked at the chat window and slowly summarized the quest contents in a single line, delivering it concisely to the viewers.
“The quest I received is to find the whereabouts of the Lycanthrope Clan, who should be somewhere in this other world.”