I Became the Goddess of a New World

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Chapter 1: The Inquisitor, Pera

The Inquisitor, Pera.

Even if it weren’t for the current Taxidermy incident, she was already one of the named users in Akare.

Although limited to the underground gallery.

Ironically, the largest community related to Akare was indeed the gallery.

But now she had been taxidermied not in the gallery, but in Inventory.

In the infamous Taxidermy, no less?

The controversies surrounding Pera had already been glorified in the past and worn out as memes.

Rice-eating Saint, Hacker, Crazy Lady, and so on…

Nicknames created from Pera’s outrageous behavior.

These nicknames merged together to form the “Aurora Alternate Account Theory.”

Was there any decisive evidence? No. But there was certainly enough circumstantial evidence.

As the forced bait gradually became stale.

People started believing in the Aurora Alternate Account Theory one by one.

In the meantime, controversies kept rolling in; could dopamine even escape?

Of course, the instigator would be furious and hopping mad.

[Suzuka’s stream has started. – Akashic Records 4 hours ago]

[Suzuka’s stream title: Waiting Room for Pera’s First Broadcast]

Currently, Suzuka was hunting with the Major Corporation Party.

They had dedicated almost half a day to hunting in order to match the entrance level for the Twisted World Tree raid.

However, everyone had decided to stream briefly and take a break today.

The reason was none other than Pera’s first broadcast being confirmed.

Of course, it wasn’t truly due to Pera’s first broadcast that they were resting.

Everyone felt the need for a break after all the effort since Akare’s launch.

As Pera had some friendly relations with the Major Corporation Party, it also served as a suitable arrangement, and above all, out of curiosity.

Especially within the Major Corporation Party, there was someone with keen interest in Pera.

Was it the magically tutored Sweet? Or maybe Suzuka, who had always been keeping an eye on her?

Neither.

“Suzuka. By any chance, about that request I made last time…”

“Oh, I forgot.”

“…Really? Well, that’s a shame.”

Glancing at the slightly drooped head of Master Kim, Suzuka let out an awkward laugh.

For a few days now, Master Kim had been asking about Pera during their breaks.

Even during hunting breaks, he’d look up videos like ‘Pera PVP Compilation.’

He was showing a lot of interest to the point of separately requesting PVP from Suzuka.

This guy is serious.

That was one thought that occurred to Suzuka.

Now that they had become close siblings.

Master Kim’s gloomy reaction was hard to ignore, prompting Suzuka to hurriedly open the friend list and send Pera a whisper.

After the clarifications, would she be able to do a bit of PVP with Master Kim?

A moment later, Pera replied.

“Oppa. I’ve got permission.”

“Really?”

What was it about that PVP?

Could a voice filled with gloom brighten up so quickly?

“If you send a friend request, she’ll accept it.”

“Oh, really? I need to hurry and send it then.”

Master Kim smashed the head of a Dark Elf knight that jumped out from the bushes with one hand while manipulating his friend list with the other.

Currently, the Major Corporation Party was hard at work hunting in a place called ‘Twisted Whispers.’

Elderheim was divided into three areas: Outer, Inner, and Central.

Twisted Whispers was located in the Inner area and was primarily inhabited by Dark Elf monsters.

The appropriate level was between 70 and 75. It was the highest-level hunting ground among the existing ones.

“Shall we head out soon?”

Master Kim said as he whispered to Pera.

Everyone seemed tired. A nod served as a response.

Oh, of course, except for Master Kim.

Anyway, the Major Corporation Party disbanded,

And Suzuka and Sweet moved to a safe zone to wait for a while.

“Are you going to host?”

“Yeah. I got her to agree, so I have to take responsibility.”

Hosting. Connecting one’s stream to another streamer’s.

Since Suzuka had encouraged her, she planned to host and support her.

Sweet also wanted to reciprocate help, just like she had received from Pera.

For that reason, both of their thoughts aligned.

[Pera11’s stream has started. – Akashic Records just now]

The stream on Pera’s channel, which had been previously followed, had begun.

[Suzuka hosted Pera11.]

[Sweet hosted Pera11.]

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In a dungeon located on the outskirts of Elderheim, a Malice-Infested Place.

It was a dungeon featuring monsters associated with the Salvation Church.

The Malice-Infested Place was treated as a kind of gatekeeper.

Blindness, poisoning, hallucinations, burns, and so on…

The monsters from the Salvation Church cast these troublesome debuffs.

As a result, adventurers had no choice but to continue progressing through the dungeon while afflicted by various debuffs.

Forget fatigue, the difficulty itself was quite high.

Just like the once-avoided hunting ground in the low-level phase known as the Echo of the Wraith.

With its hard difficulty and high fatigue, the Malice-Infested Place became a naturally low-priority dungeon.

But why all of a sudden the explanation about the Malice-Infested Place?

The reason was simple.

I was currently standing right in front of the entrance to the Malice-Infested Place.

“Ha…”

After a heavy sigh, I steeled myself.

My gaze shifted to the ‘Start Streaming’ button.

It was a button I had never pressed even once until now.

And I thought I would never press it in the future.

I closed my eyes and hit that button.

[Pera11’s stream has started. – Akashic Records just now]

[Pera11’s stream title: I’ll Clarify.]

Now, there was no turning back…!

[Suzuka hosted Pera11.]

[Sweet hosted Pera11.]

As if they had been waiting for this moment, Suzuka and Sweet sent their hosts.

My gaze instinctively focused on the real-time streaming stats showing the number of viewers.

[Total Viewers: 59,941]

[Verified Viewers: 44,555]

Almost 60,000. That was quite a large number.

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Hello dear gallery owner.

What’s this stream doing at number 1?

Who are you?

Nice to meet you.

I love Aurora.
―――

The chat felt… familiar.

Having done a few live streams as Aurora, the situations now and then were no different.

A chat box that could hardly keep pace with the eye.

Messages that seemed to be chaos incarnate.

Running a live stream as a Director was pretty similar, wasn’t it?

It wasn’t as big of a deal as I had expected. Maybe I was naturally inclined towards this?

“Hello. I’m the Inquisitor, Pera, the star of today’s hottest topic.”

*Bows*

After a brief greeting and self-introduction, I cut to the chase.

“Clarification… I mean, is it necessary to do this…”

There hadn’t been any issues when I eliminated the cultists recklessly.

Although their worship of me was the biggest problem.

Anyway, it was much better than the Gold Sun, who had targeted me while crafting videos against me.

“I’ll just show you the original footage from my perspective.”

I played the pre-prepared replay of the original footage.

– What a fucking bitch…

– No, seriously.

– What a fucking bitch.

Including the conversation between me and Gold Sun,

The edited insults concealed by Gold Sun were broadcasted live.

Just showing this was practically enough to end the clarification.

*Ding!*

At that moment, an expected donation sound echoed.

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[Anonymous donated 1,000 won]

– No matter how much you cursed, does that make beating someone up okay?

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“…”

Have I immersed myself too deeply in this virtual reality?

Or is it just simple trolling?

Whether it was my thought or shared with the viewers.

The chat was flooded with comments like “Gold Sun’s here, Sun, how embarrassing, get lost, damn it.”

Such comments kept pouring in.

That kind of thing deserves a ban.

I turned off donations and continued.

“Is that clarification enough?”

Should this even be considered a clarification?

It felt like it was over too quickly.

But, well, who cares?

What truly mattered wasn’t the obvious clarification.

I had a much grander objective than just this.

The chat was already swamped with comments like “So what now?”

Ignoring the repeated inquiries about whether I was really Aurora, I proceeded.

“They say that merely clarifying isn’t enough for Suzuka.”

I shifted my gaze from the chat box toward the entrance of the dungeon.

“I wondered what would be good to do… I thought this might work.”

I decided to solo the dungeon that had given me the hacker controversy, the Cradle of Dark Magic.

If I could show them a sight of ‘accomplishing something that others can’t,’ I thought it might spark a heated reaction.

For that reason, I chose to solo the Malice-Infested Place.

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Wait, seriously?

Is soloing the Malice possible?

Even with Aurora’s skills, that’s impossible!

———

A wave of skepticism arose from my declaration of soloing, but…

Well, it didn’t matter much.

I had long since grown accustomed to being doubted.

From before I made a name for myself as a hero in this world, in the days of anonymity or even after achieving numerous feats.

There would always be skeptics.

And all I could do was keep proving myself.

[Entered the dungeon “Malice-Infested Place.”]

“Intruder!”

As soon as I entered, I was spotted by a Salvation Church disciple who was scouting the area.

It was one common occurrence, so I remained calm and responded immediately.

After casting a blessing, I burst forth in brilliant light to blind my enemy’s sight.

Then, I swiftly leapt forward and swung my mace to subdue him instantly.

“Over there!”

“How dare you enter here!”

[Salvation Church Official Priest Lv. 65]

[Salvation Church Evangelist Lv. 66]

The official priest unfolded the scripture and began chanting prayers.

Black flames. A mix of shadow and shimmer. Dark energy.

Clearly harmful things were pouring in.

I quickly used the Holy Shield but couldn’t absorb all of the attacks.

[Afflicted with ‘Blindness.’]

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Can’t see, huh?

Damn debuff on!

Blindness is such a scam!

If I survive, it’ll cost me a million won!

Damn it.

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Debuffs.

Typically, debuffs can be cleared with the priest’s purifying skill.

Using the ‘Holy Water’ consumable is one way to resolve it.

But Holy Water is expensive and Purification has a long cooldown.

[Afflicted with ‘Burn.’]

However, fighting while your vision is limited would be a foolish act.

Now I would just end up allowing additional attacks and getting hit with even more debuffs.

So is there no other choice but to use Holy Water or Purification?

No.

There was a method to purge debuffs for priests without using Holy Water or Purification.

I took out a ritual silver dagger from my pocket.

And then I slashed through my line of sight rendered blind.

Swoosh-!

Blood gushed out.

And at that moment, the blindness debuff vanished.

Like how setting firewood ablaze can lead to a wildfire.

If you destroy the area where the debuff is active,

The debuff no longer affects you.

A so-called fire-for-fire tactic.

A fire will lead to a bigger fire.

And, oppressive debuffs through the destruction of the afflicted area.

“It doesn’t hurt.”

Of course, in a state where the pain mitigation was active, I only felt mild pain.

My health was surely down to below half due to the area destruction.

If I were any other class, I would have needed to be healed separately by a priest if I received such serious injuries.

But I was an Inquisitor, one of the priest class jobs.

Heal.

Thanks to the gathered enlightenment points, I had raised my Heal level to 3.

That was the highest level currently available.

Using a level 3 Heal, my eyes rapidly regenerated and I immediately used Divine Judgment on the monsters in front of me.

Right after, without hesitation, I sliced through the burned area with my ritual silver dagger.

Slash-!

Swoosh-!

Flesh and blood splattered, but it only looked gruesome.

It didn’t hurt at all.

Anyway, just like before, I healed the wound I created.

I moved my freshly regenerated arm around.

Hmmm, I feel fine.

Confirming that there were no issues, I said softly,

“This is how you clear debuffs.”