I Became a 6★ Gacha Character

The ogre thrashed with its remaining leg until it finally succumbed to blood loss and turned into a mana stone. The hidden centaur unit had already been killed by its rampage.

Though we'd gotten a named-level mana stone and dozens of regular ones without much of a fight, Han Se-ah's expression remained gloomy. Just before the ogre appeared, she'd been ranting to viewers about bugs and errors, trying to justify her frustration.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"I can't... I just... ugh..."

-Looks like the only bug is the one named Han Se-ah lol After all that complaining one just shows up? Right there on the road? You just had shit luck?

-Whines about not finding ogres being a bug all afternoon then one drops right at dinner time lololol

-So what are you enhancing with that stone? Staff? Bow? Mommy's probably low priority, better buff the DPS first right?

-Against an army, enhancing the staff with lightning or ice for high-tier magic seems standard

-But if we don't enhance our girl's bow her specs will be weak, she's already specialized in scouting so her damage is low

Though its massive body, amplified from 9m to 10m, thrashed about bleeding everywhere like a broken truck about to demolish the ground, fortunately even the scattered blood neatly gathered into mana stones.

Han Se-ah's inventory gained one named-level stone and twelve purple stones. The centaurs' stones had scattered somewhere during the ogre's rampage and weren't easily retrievable.

But Han Se-ah's face remained tight under the viewers' concentrated fire.

"No, I just can't believe this. So ogres were everywhere? Like on floor 59 we just passed through, there was an ogre at some outpost munching on goblins and spitting out mana stones, and on floor 58 one was dancing around stepping on mines like they were Shooting Star candies? And I just didn't see them because of bad luck?"

-Yo did your brain melt or something? Your mouth's running wild lololololol

-Time for the 37th forum owner dismissal proposal?

-Make that the 42nd with five more this evening, let's remove her one more time for the ogre drought lol

-But how do you not find a single one until floor 60? What if we can't find the boss either?

Han Se-ah's misfortune was naturally the viewers' joy. After whining all afternoon, an ogre casually strolled in from across the plains - viewers wouldn't miss this opportunity.

Hundreds of chat messages starting with "No" immediately flooded by. These vicious cyber ghosts had apparently memorized everything Han Se-ah said from morning till evening, creating endless variations.

Since Heroes Chronicle streamed in real time, Han Se-ah's broadcast ran from around 9AM until late night, grinding away her life. In other words, some viewers had been recording her dialogue for 11 hours straight from 9 to 8.

...Internet streamers, especially female ones, really attracted some terrifying demons.

"Got all the mana stones?"

"Looks like we cleared all the returning centaurs, should we look around? Shame about the scattered stones."

"If you're going to do that, no solo actions... Hey, Olek! I said no solo actions!"

While Han Se-ah sat on the palisade getting roasted after storing the mana stones, the Ice Cross Knights snickered about collecting more stones during their break.

It was amusing watching noble children searching the dirt for stones, but boys always had fun doing stupid things with friends.

The knights naturally started betting portions of soup on who could collect the most stones. Meanwhile Olek ran off alone despite being told not to, and Alisa hurriedly followed, unable to leave him by himself.

The contrast was stark between the internet broadcaster's gloom as she endured cyber ghosts' crossfire on one side, and the cliché, almost old-fashioned rom-com unfolding on the other.

"What are you doing, Hanna?"

"Ah, Roland."

The flood of chat messages was dizzying. The harassment seemed worse than usual, and strangely Han Se-ah wasn't fighting back, so I approached worriedly. She looked up at me.

...But her face wasn't gloomy or irritated as I'd feared. Rather, her bright eyes showed deep contemplation.

As I wondered what was going on, Grace and Katie lightly jumped up onto the palisade. Glancing back, I saw Irene neatly organizing the sleeping bags Han Se-ah had taken out earlier - not just her own, but all the party members' and knights' as well.

"What's up? Something wrong?"

"I was just thinking... Roland, I have a question."

After glancing once more at the viewers ignoring even Irene's mom moves, she grinned and spoke when I looked at her expectantly.

"Could we capture ogres alive and use them as weapons?"

"...What?"

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In the midst of a roasting storm that could wound a fragile person's heart, Han Se-ah had a thought:

'Wait, wouldn't it be sweet if we could use berserk ogres against the monster army? Two birds with one stone!'

At this point, she really was a broadcasting genius.

While toxic chatters got purged by AI for crossing lines and stalker-like viewers who'd recorded and memorized everything she'd said since morning kept roasting her, all she thought about was how to cheese the game.

Anyway, Broadcasting Genius Genius Han Se-ah suddenly had this idea. Since a boss monster with army mechanics wouldn't be easily handled by a few knights, why not make ogre hunting the top priority?

Though ogres didn't appear just because you looked for them, and Han Se-ah herself had only found two so far, she had reasons for this thought.

"If we used our party funds to commission the Magic Tower, couldn't they make devices to find and capture ogres?"

"Hmm, not a bad idea. If mages could make them quickly, it could be really effective."

"That would reduce injuries to adventurers and knights too, right? I think it's a good plan."

She had complete faith the Magic Tower could do it.

After all, Magic Tower mages churned out tower teleportation gates weekly, even with system assistance. How could such people fail to capture a simple muscle-bound monster with no special abilities beyond being big and tough?

Plus she had another reason for thinking of capture - a certain mage's request she'd seen but not accepted before.

"Also, some mages once posted a request to capture ogres for experiments. We didn't take it since we were trading them for enhancement stones in the underground city... but thinking differently, maybe they posted the request because they already had capture methods?"

"That makes sense."

"The mages wouldn't have just demanded captures without any way to do it."

Grace and Katie nodded along as Han Se-ah spoke, agreeing it made sense. I silently listened too, thinking her words weren't unrealistic nonsense.

By this point, even viewers who'd been busy teasing Han Se-ah were intrigued. How could game stream viewers ignore the idea of throwing 10-meter-tall mad giants at enemy armies? Who'd pass up the sweet matchup of named monster group vs boss monster?

The chat naturally shifted from mocking Han Se-ah to discussing ogres vs army. Messages teasing her bad luck had completely disappeared.

"So we gather as many ogres as possible, or even post requests in our name for other adventurers to capture them. Then we use them against the boss monster, and when they die we trade their mana stones for enhancement stones. Any survivors we can sell to the Magic Tower for research."

-Slave soldiers in life, trade currency in death, seriously lololololololol

-Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero? Is this a hero?

-But listening to the plan it sounds possible lol The Magic Tower isn't poor and they did post capture requests

-Sorry for calling you stupid sob Sorry for calling you stupid sob Sorry for calling you stupid sob Sorry for calling you stupid sob Sorry for calling you stupid sob

-Don't we have decent party funds saved? Haven't made bombs lately since we were busy up north

Catch ogres. Wreck ogres, wreck the boss, wreck enhancement stones, wreck the boss clear rewards. As Han Se-ah spoke, an indescribable madness seemed to gleam in her eyes.

Just like a proper mage.