[For Real] Discussion Thread for Leveling Junkie Bro Part 16 [Turned Out to Be a Madman]
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281 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Summary of Junkie Bro's bizarre behavior three days after the Divine Knight Incident:
- Junkie Bro confirmed to be the Divine Knight-san Slayer.
- Junkie Bro forcibly seized a Mithril Holy Sword from Divine Knight-san.
- Junkie Bro's level revealed: Level 29.
- Junkie Bro acquires [Danger Sense].
- Junkie Bro earns the [Swordmaster] title, thereby obtaining the [Mighty Blade] skill.
- Junkie Bro uses two [Life Magic] skill orbs on Hinata-chan in one go.
- Junkie Bro's furious floor conquest: Progressed from Floor 5 to Floor 7 of the Shinjuku Dungeon in just one day.
- Junkie Bro conquers Monster Rooms across multiple floors.
- Junkie Bro begins insanely high-speed farming loops in the Floor 7 Monster Room by combining [Sword Aura] and [Mighty Blade]. Note: The bar for replicating this is high since Hinata-chan's Healing Magic is an absolute prerequisite.
- Junkie Bro suspected of being a Potion Addict.
- Junkie Bro raises Hinata-chan's level by a staggering 10 levels in a single day. Junkie Bro himself also goes up one level, reaching Level 30.
- Junkie Bro obtains a [Fire Magic] skill orb in roughly one day and uses it on Hinata-chan.
- Junkie Bro and Hinata-chan collect nearly 5,000 Magic Stones in two days. According to calculations by volunteer users, the haul easily exceeds 100 million, amounting to around 140 million yen.
282 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Is that about everything? Typing all that out was super exhausting...
283 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Thanks for the hard work.
284 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Thanks!
285 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Man, looking at this summary again, that's way too much content for just the past few days lol. For any normal explorer, even a single one of these bullets would go viral on its own. Honestly, you can't even keep up with the comebacks lol.
286 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Hinata-chan's Yo!Tube channel has been blowing up like crazy too, huh. Junkie Bro's battle against the Divine Knight being broadcast to the entire world was huge. Her comments are flooded with Foreign Bro-and-Sis fans right now.
287 Anonymous Ordinary Person
His name recognition has spiked not just as Ina Bauer Bro, but now as Junkie Bro too. It's hilarious seeing all those Bros and Sisters flooding into Hinata-chan's channel just to find out Junkie Bro's true identity, lololol.
288 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Well, you can't blame them. Junkie Bro doesn't post any footage of his own explorations, after all. Hinata Channel is literally the only reliable source of info on him right now lol.
289 Anonymous Ordinary Person
I mean, looking back at Hinata-chan gaining 10 levels in a single day, it's just completely insane. They're in a two-person party, so the Experience Points are split down the middle, right? Gaining 10 levels despite that is nuts, isn't it? Just how many Experience Points is he farming?
290 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Wait, is power leveling that easy to pull off?
291 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 290 Like hell it is!!
292 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 290 As if anyone else could pull that off!!
293 Anonymous Ordinary Person
That's only possible because Junkie Bro has [Taunt] and kills everything in seconds, plus the loop strictly requires Healing Magic. I get why it looks like power leveling, but in reality, it's just efficient division of labor.
294 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Besides, there's no way out. If Junkie Bro slips up or you draw aggro for even a split second, you're pretty much dead, you know?
295 Anonymous Ordinary Person
But if I pay Junkie Bro, do you think he'd do the same for me? Even with Hinata-chan included, experience would only be split three ways, right? Seems like I could shoot up toward Level 29 pretty quickly.
296 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 295 How much are you planning to pay a guy who pulls in over 100 million yen in basically a single day?
297 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 295 What are you, an oil baron? Besides, Junkie Bro craves Experience Points way more than money, so offering him cash is probably totally pointless anyway.
298 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Ugh, fair point... And paying for power leveling would be the same deal with any other high-level explorer, I guess...
299 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Well, putting power leveling aside, looping Monster Rooms is undeniably broken in terms of efficiency, both for experience and for profit. Well, assuming you can actually pull it off, that is.
300 Anonymous Ordinary Person
By the way, realistically speaking, just how strong is Junkie Bro right now? We can obviously tell he's ridiculously strong just by watching, but the top-tier guys are conquering Floor 20 and stuff, right? Headshot Yakuza even conquered Floor 25. Compared to that, Floor 7 honestly feels kind of low, you know?
301 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 300 Well, if you're just looking at the conquest floor numbers, it's understandable to think that way. Active pro explorers have been posting on ZX and stuff, and apparently Junkie Bro is already strong enough to solo Floor 10 right now. By the way, explorers capable of conquering Floor 10 are said to make up less than 0.01 percent of the total population.
302 Anonymous Ordinary Person
0.01 percent means one in every ten thousand explorers!!? Wait, is conquering Floor 10 really that hard?
303 Anonymous Ordinary Person
There are around 3 million explorers in Japan. And currently, there are only about 300 explorers in all of Japan who have advanced past Floor 10. That's why anyone who clears Floor 10 is lumped together under the title of "Top Tier." By the way, the Minimum Recommended Level to conquer Floor 10 is Level 40 for a five-man party. And that's only for explorers whose combat power punches above their level; if you aren't blessed with your skills, they say it's tough even at Level 50.
304 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Sorry, I'm not an explorer, so I don't really get it. What makes it so difficult? Someone please enlighten me.
305 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 304 Hard to explain what makes it tough in just one word, but... Starting from Floor 5, the conquest difficulty of a dungeon spikes dramatically. The reason is that the levels of spawning monsters suddenly jump, and the monsters themselves start using powerful skills. Things like [Fighting Spirit] and [Flame Magic], and as you go deeper, they start casually throwing around [Sword Aura] too. On top of that, monsters inherently have higher stats than humans, so giving them [Fighting Spirit] alone makes them absurdly dangerous. It completely nullifies the baseline advantage that humans had up until that point.
306 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Ah, I see. It's true, explorers only beat higher-stat monsters under the assumption of having a skill advantage. Using [Fighting Spirit] lets monsters temporarily overtake our stats. Losing that edge sounds pretty terrifying.
307 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Wait, then how do explorers who go past Floor 5 manage it? They'd just lose over and over otherwise, wouldn't they?
308 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 307 At that point, all you can do is rely on human ingenuity and adapt. Things like equipping superior weapons and armor, baiting them into traps, or relying on magic items and magic equipment.
309 Anonymous Ordinary Person
That method sounds like it'd cost a fortune.
310 Anonymous Ordinary Person
In reality, it costs massive amounts of money. That's why being an explorer doesn't make you as rich as you'd think. Your money just completely melts away into equipment and items.
311 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Even Junkie Bro?
312 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Junkie Bro is an exception. That's why everyone is making such a fuss about him.
313 Anonymous Ordinary Person
That guy is on another level... He doesn't use items, his only gear is a sword, and he slaughters unfathomable amounts of monsters...
314 Anonymous Ordinary Person
I definitely wouldn't recommend trying to copy him.
315 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 314 Like anyone could!!
316 Anonymous Ordinary Person
We're getting sidetracked. Going back to the topic: why are Junkie Bro and the top-tier folks able to keep pushing forward? They aren't just dumping money into it, right?
317 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Throwing money at the problem only works up to Floor 8. Beyond that, relying on gear alone becomes practically impossible. To advance past Floor 8, you absolutely need rare skills. The people who can push further are those who satisfy the acquisition conditions for useful rare skills like [Danger Sense], or those who earn strong titles like [Swordmaster] to get powerful skills.
318 Anonymous Ordinary Person
And once you make it past the Demonic Floor 10 boss room, you've officially earned your place among the top tier in both name and reality. Anyone capable of breaking through that room has effectively proven they possess useful rare skills and have the potential to advance past Floor 10. Given enough time, every single one of them should be able to reach at least Floor 20. Meanwhile, it's hilarious how Junkie Bro could probably already break through the Floor 10 boss room right now lol.
319 Anonymous Ordinary Person
> 318 How can you be so sure?
320 Anonymous Ordinary Person
I mean, the Floor 10 boss room spawns a Goblin Army of 32 goblins, including a Goblin King. Junkie Bro already took down Divine Knight-san, who's said to be even stronger than a Gob-Kin, so with his current [Sword Aura] and [Mighty Blade] combo, he could easily break through.
321 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Ah, so that's why...!! No wonder people are freaking out over Junkie Bro looping the Monster Room!!
322 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Have you finally realized? Just how insane Junkie Bro's actions are.
323 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Keep in mind, Junkie Bro's current level is 30. That's a full 10 levels below the Recommended Conquest Level, yet pro explorers are openly stating he could solo Floor 10.
324 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Pro explorer here. Listening to stories about Junkie Bro makes me feel like I'm losing my mind...!!
325 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Hm? Did some breaking news just drop?
326 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Popped up on my feed too. A Magic Stone Theft Incident at the Shinagawa Magic Stone Power Plant?
327 Anonymous Ordinary Person
A theft was discovered at the Nihonbashi Power Plant too, apparently. Hey now, what on earth is security doing over there?!
328 Anonymous Ordinary Person
Is this gonna be okay? Aren't we going to get power shortages?
329 Anonymous Ordinary Person
It'll be fiiine. Junkie Bro will supply the Magic Stones.
330 Anonymous Ordinary Person
He is the Human Magic Stone Power Plant, after all lololol. He'll supply thousands of Magic Stones a day lol. That guy never takes a break, so he can do it daily lololol.
331 Anonymous Ordinary Person
I was about to call off-topic when the conversation shifted, but it looped right back to Junkie Bro in seconds, which cracked me up lolol. How did a magic stone theft naturally pivot right back to him? lolol