Chapter 1: GAME CLEAR

I cleared it!

I shouted as I stretched out my arms upwards.

The word 'CLEAR' appeared, written in a sizable font on the computer monitor in front of me. I had just cleared the final stage of this game.

Fuck yeah! I did it! I finally beat this damn game!

Sob.

I even let out a little tear of joy. Thinking that it took me half a year to complete the game definitely helped bring out the tear.

Tower Defense & Dungeon Attack RPG, .

The game was released 10 years ago. One could call this game a classic at this point.

It was a turn-based RPG where the player had to pick and train the heroes in order to protect the city. The player's task was to clear the dungeons spawned outside the city by placing the characters on the map and piloting each and every one of them.

However, the game was infamous for its extremely hard difficulty, because reviving a dead hero was not an option.

The game had been globally popular at the time of its release, but it was now just another one of those old classics.

One might wonder why I decided to play the game at this time.

First of all, nobody in the world had been able to clear the game's highest difficulty.

The hardest difficulty was called 'Hell'. And on top of it, there was a game mode called 'ironman' which force-saved and overwrote the saved data. Combining both of these brought you the 'Ironmanhell' difficulty.

This game saved every single user's clear data on the server and ranked them according to their records. However, there was nobody who had ever beaten the 'Ironmanhell' difficulty.

There were some people who had cleared the 'Legend' difficulty, which was right below the Hell difficulty. There was even a person who cleared the Hell difficulty without the ironman mode, but nobody had ever cleared it in Ironman mode.

But now, 10 years after its release, there finally appeared a person who successfully cleared the Hell difficulty in Ironman modeand that person was me!

It is a basic human instinct to conquer the unknown. I'd challenged myself to climb the unconquered mountain.

And for the second reason,

Wow, that's crazy. Mr. Classic Nerd actually did it.

Congrats!

Seriously, I have to commend CN for his spirit lol

First in the world, gz

You've done well for the past half year.

There was another monitor beside the one that had the game playing. The chat window on the monitor beside the first, which was for streaming, exploded with words of commemoration. I smiled as I read through the chat.

I told you all, didn't I? A game exists to be cleared, no matter how difficult it may be!

I am a gaming streamerone that only plays the most difficult classic games Even my ID is 'Classic Nerd'.

If you asked me whether I had a lot of viewers, my answer would be 'quite'. Because nostalgia was great content that people enjoyed, and watching someone get tortured by the game's difficulty was entertaining.

Usually, I'd average around 3k viewers, but today, when I had reached the final stage of the game, I peaked at more than 10k viewers. And after people heard the news of the clear, the stream was met with even more eyes.

['Mission Fairy' just donated $100!]

Alright, today's your day man. Here's what I promised before.

The concrete viewers of my stream who had promised donations if I cleared the game started sending them in one by one.

['Garbage game enjoyer' just donated $50!]

Wait, you were supposed to play the game for at least half a year more! You can't clear this already!

['BlackBox' just donated $10]

You actually did it. I honestly gave out the mission thinking you were never gonna do it. You got me.

['A dog that barks whenever it sees a boring stream' just donated $30!]

Can't bark today. Here you go.

Goodness~ Thank you all for your support! I'll continue to work harder!

More donations came in, and I responded to each one showing my appreciation. The viewers continued to talk about the clear, and the atmosphere of the chat was akin to a festival's.

Being the first one to clear a game that hadn't been cleared for the past 10 yearsAs a gamer, there was nothing greater than this achievement. The viewers who watched me venture through this journey celebrated and congratulated me.

It's so sad that the saintess died in the final battle :'(

For an R-rank character, she carried a lot

It couldn't be helped If the 2nd party didn't buy the aggro then reaching the boss would've been impossible in the first place.

I actually shouted out loud when the 3rd party got wiped It was a party filled with SSR-rank heroes and they all died.

Even the 1st party got wiped, except for the main character, Lucas. It really had me on edgeas I watched.

The viewers started talking about those who had died in the final battle, as they had grown quite attached to the characters they watched for the past half year.

In this game, the player had to roll for the characters with the in-game currency and train them. The result was completely random, so the player had to choose which heroes to train according to their ranks, which were the SSR, SR, R, and N-rank.

The viewers had different favorites, and they watched the stream as they empathized with them. From cooland strong SSR-rank characters to characters who had shown a great performance despite being ranked N.

'In the end, they all died'

I smiled bitterly. The game's crazy difficulty had a structure that coerced sacrifice in order to proceed.

I did try my best to keep the units alive for as long as possible, but everyone except for the main character died in the final battle against the boss.

Well, it doesn't matter since my goal was to see the ending, not get a perfect run.

Hey! It's fine, he cleared the game! The empire is saved!

Link to our main character Lucas getting the last hit on the boss >>Here