LIGHTNOVELSTORY Never pick a skill thoughtlessly while climbing the tower.
If it seems truly hopeless, the only option is to abandon your climb, lose everything you’ve built, and start from scratch.
The most essential thing for climbing the tower is [Skill].
You could join some [Companion] group and receive [Common Skills].
If you dislike that, you have to utilize the advantage of the unique, one-and-only 『Legendary Class』, which comes with extreme drawbacks, to climb.
Legendary Classes are difficult to handle outside the tower and within its ever-changing conditions. No information is available until you find your path after awakening. That’s why the [Flame of Idol] skill shown was unique to Wakamou.
In such a dire situation, this fool chose [Video Recording] instead of an attack skill.
[Video Recording]
– Implements a camera perceived by the [Climber].
– Automatically transmits to the account [Shrine] linked to the [Climber].
“A shrine, you say!”
Indeed, in modern times, a YouTube account could be considered a shrine for idol worship. In the tower’s eyes, idols vanish without people’s belief and trust, using it as power, akin to gods. With the world modernizing, traditional idol worship faded.
But as the tower sees people worshipping virtual(?) entities, it must have thought, “Ah, idol worship is back!”
“Wow, it really looks like a camera from 『Virtual Chat』.”
The camera hovered like a disc in the sky, raising concerns if it was recording properly. Since it’s filming, you have to check the footage yourself later. For now, you adjust the distance accurately with the sense gained from long 『Virtual Chat』 activity.
Upon reaching the second floor, there’s something more critical than grasping the situation or identifying the layer information.
‘Greetings are crucial for a VTuber! They’re the lifeline of a VTuber!!’
The innocent YouTuber facade ended. Youtubers can’t be forgotten easily, but Wakamou was a special case. Whether ridiculed for his baseball antics, spewing crude jokes while dabbling in bitcoins and stocks, or trolling horribly solo in AOS or FPS games, and though lively in collaborations, he was often taken down early for being a race starter.
There’s no turning back to a serious character now, it’s too late!
‘Besides, the concept already overlaps…!!’
Initially, the concept was simply of a thousand-year-sealed fox deity resurrected. Contrary to Wakamou, recently debuted in Stellamyth, a separate ‘game-savvy fox deity’ existed. Though there are countless foxes, Gumiho, and fox deity VTubers, wouldn’t having two fox deities in one nation seem like concept plagiarism…?
“Kon kon kitsune, konban Wakamou. Konmico, everyone’s fox deity Wakamou. Henceforth— a decadent fox living as Imiho, ditching Gumiho training, tainted by the mundane!”
The greeting tumbled out after only a brief hesitation. All were VTuber greetings Wakamou knew, especially fox-related ones.
“I’ve only ever been a Clipper…! How could someone like me possibly become a VTuber!!”
They are all dazzling gems striving toward their dreams showing talent. Among them, suddenly throwing a rock – wouldn’t that be a bit problematic? Even if I don’t mind being stepped on, I worry more about inadvertently scratching the gems lined up together.
What does it take to become a VTuber?
A virtual YouTuber at the end of the day is a streamer; requiring skilled communication, instinctive timing, social skills to quickly connect even across languages, and a reservoir of broadcast experience built through laborious perseverance over time. Plus sincerity to avoid future broadcasting issues with good character and demeanor.
What’s most important is consistency!
In that area, I’m confident. As a Clipper, I’ve seen countless VTuber broadcasts… Wakamou has countless mentors!
Though lousy at gaming akin to dirt as a VTuber, the musical prowess is near-pro level, and the skill of drawing fan art is honed daily.
No problem absorbing knowledge about games, anime, and memes from communities.
Don’t forget! VTubers are at the heart of otaku culture!
Pretending to be clueless for genuine viewer reactions will only backfire now!!
“Why couldn’t they change my voice if they’re changing my body…!!”
The voice was androgynous enough to confuse viewers about the gender. Although female VTubers might attract more viewers, with such a voice, vocal projection is problematic.
“Even VTubers who can’t sing have their charm, so it doesn’t matter…!”
There’s no shortage of funds if capital is crucial to a VTuber! Furthermore, no worry about crafting the planning necessary for daily broadcasts. Wakamou possesses unparalleled, overwhelming content in a world saturated even to black seas with VTubers and streamers! As long as there are no blunders! As long as I conduct myself well, I stand in an unmatched dominant position no one can steal!
I’m the lone broadcaster in the tower!
The channel could even be titled that way.
As long as the tower stands, there are no content limits!
‘In the end, nothing is really important. A VTuber fundamentally relies on role-playing. Even if my identity is a Clipper, if I’ve become a VTuber, I must uphold the setting of a fox deity freed after a millennium. Including greetings, mannerisms, all must manifest another self as the fox deity!’
Of course, some mask their true self by becoming VTuber idols and artists. However, there are also those who build a concept around their real self as a VTuber – Wakamou most admired and deemed this trait as truly VTuber-like. It’s not to dismiss pre-existing VTubers…
Idols are all about story!!
The same goes for VTubers!!
“VTubing is a path of hardship incomparable to tower climbing…”
Sometimes people might enter seeing it as easy, attracting viewers would certainly be fun. But, the increase in antis, and the VTubers and streamers who fall and vanish – aren’t they countless? Even being dulled, I’m on the brink of stress from the overflow of emails directed at me as a Clipper.
Compared to other streamers, a VTuber’s job is to maintain an extreme persona. Some even cling to their concept until graduation. Among those whose concepts break, others continue to broadcast under their “VTuber’s name.”
Yes, hiding one’s identity also offers some advantages as a VTuber—but is it feasible?
Just as Batman’s mask for Bruce Wayne in Gotham, consider the self from today completely dead, born anew as the fox deity!! Commit to living as if you’re truly a fox deity whether it’s possession, reincarnation awakening, whatever it takes.
You have to think that you died and were completely reborn as the Fox Deity!! No matter if it’s possession, reincarnation, or awareness of a past life, you have to live thinking you were always the Fox Deity.
Since I need to increase the number of subscribers, it’s practically mandatory to stream as a VTuber.
At the very least, I want to survive until next year’s festival and the debut of the 8th generation.
And─ if I keep the ‘VTuber’ profession alive! Our beloved other VTubers won’t have to climb the Tower!!
For those who succeed as actors, singers, or pro-gamers, I can send them off with a smile.
But I can’t send VTubers who might die climbing the Tower, trying for their dreams.
“I have to do it! Me!”
As an entertainer who can’t even decide on a greeting, my talent is disqualified!! Unable to grasp if the filming is going right, what to shoot, or what to say when no one’s around! Despite watching countless broadcasts and finding them entertaining, I can’t articulate them from memory.
For a VTuber, the moment you feel embarrassed about your concept is as good as dying! (Not true).
“Regret not making a greeting as the Clipper. I’m Wakamou Inarizushi. As you can see, I’ve been living freely with the overflow of modern resources… but the Tower dragged me here!! As a God, my power has waned. Huh? Was I really the Fox Deity? I said I’m the Fox Deity, didn’t I!”
Muttering to the camera alone, lamenting my fate as if I were always the Fox Deity, I try to deliver my lines as naturally as possible.
“So, I decided to do a Tower climbing VTuber broadcast through magic… No, no… This isn’t it… I need to be more shameless.”
But then, realizing my speech blunder, I hit my forehead with a fist and sighed.
In that case, viewers would counter with, “Huh? Isn’t he just a streamer then?”
‘Let’s just climb up and think.’
The camera could either stay fixed on me or follow me around. I placed it in front of me and slowly explored the second floor.
And only after I intended to climb the Tower did I recall information about the 2nd level.
[Climbing the Incheon Tower’s 2nd Floor World]
-Climbers need to wield the environment of the Tower as their weapon! Let’s hunt [Horned Bunny]!
[Platinum Achievement Conditions]
-Create a weapon using 3 or more natural materials existing on the 2nd floor (0/1)
-Defeat [Horned Bunny] without getting injured (0/1)
“Hmm… I guess it’s because the 1st floor is an easy stage, so everyone climbs up right away, but this is subtly complex in its own way.”
The path to the 2nd floor opens after capturing [Oil Slime]. So there hasn’t been any Platinum Achievement on the 1st floor of the Incheon Tower until now. Who would light a bonfire and set up camp in that place? You just climb up quickly.
If the 1st floor is rest, the 2nd floor is hunting. It was a kindness unbefitting a 100-story Tower. They say up to the 10th floor, all Towers are kind to climbers… Since you can exit the Tower anytime there’s almost no casualties unless you make a real mistake. Of course, emerging after suffering a fatal injury Unrecoverable or not, one still faces death all the same…
“More importantly, if the whole body is 100% Mana, you have no muscles or bones, right…? What’s the difference from being a ghost… Oh, so that’s why it’s an Idol.”
Grumbling, but securely fixing the camera in front and carving two rocks together like a caveman.
Crunch Crush!
The tirelessness was definitely an advantage.
‘I registered as a climber with the Association and can get equipment according to my Job… but with this kind of Job, I need to get used to it.’
Not obtaining a [Skill] was a devastating loss. The biggest problem with the Legendary Class is its existence itself. No matter how much I think about it, the only Job a VTuber can relate to is the priest line. Even if I try to claim a different Job, I’ll get stuck at the [Job Restrictions] existing on the equipment.
Ka-thud Ka-thud.
I mean, wandering outside with this kind of body and getting shot to death could happen, right? Look, I’m obviously not a Human.
Even when the Tower collapsed and monsters poured out from it, human civilization didn’t fall apart because, unlike in novels, human firearms were still effective. No matter how many rampaging green skins there are, helicopters with machine guns mow them down, and tanks finish them off, tidying up the situation instantly.
In that sense, the fact that Seoul is still not recovered suggests something fearsome living there that even modern weapons can’t handle.
“Oh, it’s done.”
After examining the neatly carved stone and securing it with branches peeled from a tree using a thick Y-shaped stick, I felt a nostalgic flow of warmth as if returning to my childhood, rejoicing like a caveman with a Oh-ho-ho dance and prepping a broadcast scene as I looked for [Horned Bunny].
Horned Bunny is literally a rabbit with a horn on its head that charges at you. They say it’s about the size of a Giant Rabbit, but without needing to search far, I made eye contact from the grass.
“Victory belongs to the preemptive strike!!”
Swinging the axe right in front of me hit the ground.
Even after swinging and missing, feeling like an idiot, I hit my forehead and exclaimed, while Horned Bunny charged for my forehead, quickly targeting my eyes with a jab!
“Ouch!!! My eyes!!! Eyes… eyes?”
Why doesn’t it hurt?
Even the stabbed Horned Bunny was bewildered, standing on two feet with rabbit eyes, looking at me.
Surprised that there was no wound despite the jab at the eyes was only momentary. I swung the axe in my hand and smashed Horned Bunny’s head.
“I should edit this out, right?”
[The 2nd floor of Incheon Tower has met the Platinum conditions and is open to all humanity!!]
“Oh, it’s noisy. Now really. This time, really need to pack some offensive skills…”
I knew I was terrible at games, but who knew my reflexes were this useless. The fact that I couldn’t even hit the sneak attack on an unsuspecting and oblivious Horned Bunny from behind was really telling; without the support of a [Skill], it’s easy to be buried as an early climber in the wilderness like this.
[Rewards increase due to the Tower Platinum Strategy]
“[Flame of the Idol] should I choose?”
[Choose 1 Reward]
[Flame of the Idol]
-Consumes possessed Mana to generate flames.
[Lightning of the Idol]
-Consumes possessed Mana to launch lightning spears.
[Adored God]
-Mana regeneration speed increases relative to the number of Believers.
[Internet Connection]
-Enables internet connection within the Tower.
[Acquired Skill [Internet Connection]!]
“Ah, crap, I’m screwed!!!”
Wrong! My hand moved on its own…!!
But still!! But still!!!
“Can’t miss watching VTuber broadcasts while climbing!!!!”