Chapter 118

[A Newbie and a Veteran in a Game Released Less Than Three Hours Ago.avi]

A short four-minute video was uploaded on Seo-jun’s ITube as a premiere.

As it was Seo-jun’s channel which had gained many subscribers, there were many ITube viewers who did not watch the live streams, and the premiere was exactly where one could see their reactions vividly.

The beginning of the video.

A doll dropped from the ceiling, and as it approached menacingly, the screen went black.

Before long, text appeared.

[Newbie]

The video started inside a passage.

An urgent atmosphere, a gradually tightening pressure.

What was approaching? What were they fleeing from?

Clang, clang, clang!

The sound of someone chasing was heard.

And.

[Argh!]

As the owner of the view looked back, the doll came into view.

The scream belonged to Tae-woo.

The doll, which got closer every time they looked back, delivered a sense of thrill.

It felt like they would be caught if they stopped their legs for even a single moment.

However, the reaction of Tae-woo, who had now become a master of horror games, flowing out in such a tense chase scene was enough to bring laughter to the viewers.

-Is that Tae-woo?

-It’s today’s broadcast!

-Ack lolol it is scary though lol

-Why does he look back again when he screams every time he does lolol

-Just run away! Lolol

Although it might not have compared to directly entering virtual reality, watching videos related to horror games was also bound to feel scary in most cases.

However, if the streamer was funny, that fear would be diluted and instead replaced by fun.

[Stop coming! I said stop coming!]

It was not for nothing that MONSTER had sought someone who was good at horror games ‘as a streamer.’

In a horror game, the streamer’s reaction was more important than anything else.

Only by reacting in a fun way would the fear decrease and the feelings toward the game lead to goodwill.

A game where the streamer they liked had suffered.

If the quality of that was also quite decent, one would naturally want to try it directly at least once, or want to watch another streamer they liked play it again.

In other words, from the viewers’ perspective, they would want to make others play it, and if this became a trend, it could strike a massive jackpot.

If it was forced horror or jump scares, they might have disliked it.

However, a chase was different.

Its unique atmosphere was perfect for streaming.

[Open it! Open the door quickly!]

[It was a left turn earlier, you idiot.]

And at that moment, a relaxed voice was heard, and the vision, which had been focused only on the escape path ahead and the doll chasing from behind, shifted to the side.

Beside him, falling slightly behind and walking backward, someone was talking about the direction ahead.

To anyone looking, it was unnatural.

-Is that face the channel owner?

-Looks like he’s doing something weird again?

-Why is that guy walking backward?

However, because Tae-woo’s urgent steps were extremely fast, Seo-jun quickly vanished from the field of vision and attention.

[D-d-d-d-gasp!]

Tae-woo, extremely tense about the doll that might pop out ahead, made a hard-to-interpret sound before finally screaming and dodging to the side.

After that, he went to the next passage, performed the gimmick, and went to the next passage again, entering as soon as the door opened automatically before beginning to look around like a madman.

Just then, Seo-jun emerged from the passage late and threw a nail.

Fwip!

The nail embedded itself in the control panel, and the door coming down from above stopped halfway.

And.

Clang, clang, clang, clang!

The approaching sound gradually grew louder, and the moment the doll shoved its head out of the passage,

its neck was severed by the door that came down like a guillotine, and the doll’s head, which had little hair, rolled over.

[Arghhh, huh?]

In the voice of Tae-woo, who was about to let out a massive scream since it had come to this anyway, the tension momentarily evaporated.

It was not because he felt relieved that the chase was over.

It was because…

-Whoa, it was scar…??

-Lolol

-What is that?

-What the lolol

It was because on the doll’s head that rolled over, things that anyone could see were hard to call its original appearance were embedded.

Nails.

And the thick eyebrows formed by those nails.

When curiosity remained as to what had happened, the screen went dark and the scene transitioned.

[Veteran]

It was the same in that it started inside a narrow passage this time as well.

However, the field of vision was different.

The owner of the screen was looking opposite the direction of movement.

The passage ended, and a dark room appeared, with the gaze still fixed backward.

And the doll climbing onto the conveyor belt along the wall was visible.

The doll approached rapidly and menacingly.

When they entered the passage again, it even squeezed its body inside.

-Wow! Turning backward!

-This is clearly the streamer.

-Is this why he is a veteran lolol

-But this is scarier?

-It’s fcking horror.

The real-time chats of the viewers watching on ITube were exactly identical to the reactions of the people watching Seo-jun’s live broadcast.

If looking back occasionally was a jumpy, startling kind of dread, facing it from beginning to end was pure horror.

Thus, a voice flowed from the video.

[Ah, I’m doing this so it won’t be scary, but it’s actually scarier? Hmm.]

Then he could have just looked forward, but the veteran’s thoughts were different from those of ordinary people.

[Then should I give it some eyebrow tattoos?]

-???

-What does that mean?

-It’s easier if you give up on trying to understand lol

His ability to take action immediately after speaking was also extraordinary.

Even in the urgent situation where he could be caught if he made a single mistake due to running backward, Seo-jun immediately took out a nail from his waist and threw it by hand.

Nails began to accumulate on the eyebrows of the doll chasing them.

Because Tae-woo had only caught glimpses, he had not known, but the nails embedding in the forehead gradually piled up, creating thick caterpillar eyebrows.

Since the doll had a face with almost no hair, the nails packed closely together intensely revealed their presence.

At the ridiculous appearance, the genre changed from horror to comedy in an instant.

-No, why on earth are you humiliating the doll lolol

-Ah, those caterpillar eyebrows are such a laugh trigger lolol

-In the midst of that, his hands are filthy fast, you crazy guy lolol

Furthermore, even while walking backward and doing his absolute best to etch the tattoos, Seo-jun did not forget to take care of the gimmicks.

Reaching the final room, he showed off a crazy stunt with the nail gun.

Fwip!

-??

-What was that nail just now?

-Is this a true veteran?

-You said it’s only been three hours since release! You said it’s a new game!

-Walking backward, insane skills, and crazy behavior. No matter how you look at it, he is indeed a veteran lol

This video containing the reactions of Tae-woo, a streamer specializing in horror, and the streamer who had become a veteran in just three hours, was uploaded to Nohyeop under the exact same title.

Because the For Chivalry users had suffered so much at Seo-jun’s hands, and also knew roughly what Seo-jun was doing now, they quickly understood the title and showed great interest.

And this post received much attention and rose to the Top 10 in an instant.

Since a chase scene was content with guaranteed fun anyway, showing polar opposite reactions was highly unique.

The first time was scary, and the second time was so absurd that it brought laughter!

Now the game had received much attention, and the buzz was guaranteed.

Only time would tell what the future results would be.

***

The story of the last game ended with the fact that the entity who had left the message inside the box was actually a fairy, and that the fairy was planning to genuinely instill a sense of cooperation in the two protagonists.

And after finishing the game, they came outside and resumed the broadcast.

“I didn’t know you would be so scared of horror.”

Seo-jun said after sitting at the table.

“I didn’t know either.”

Currently, on their broadcast screen, a viewer donation was repeatedly playing a compilation video of all the moments Tae-woo screamed.

“We’re number one on the Top 10? And we entered the trending videos? No. Stay… Stop!”

In Tae-woo’s mind, handshake requests from countless future horror games were probably being visualized.

Furthermore, the scenes shown in today’s broadcast would surely be milked continuously in Tae-woo’s channel in the future.

“Sigh. I should end the stream.”

“Before that, order some chicken.”

“Today too?”

“Yeah.”

After speaking to Tae-woo, Seo-jun settled the mission that had been set during the initial tutorial.

“Thank you.”

They each took home over one million won, which was because Tae-woo had set the difficulty to Nightmare and created a situation where only one life remained.

This was well done.

-*Trembling*

-I will never get tricked again!

-If there’s no safe asset, where are we supposed to invest! What are we supposed to live on!

After briefly going into his room, Tae-woo came out and spoke.

“I ordered it.”

“Alright.”

Even without this, the two had been eating late-night snacks whenever the timing of ending the stream aligned.

However, since they had even done a joint broadcast today, it was a natural sequence of events.

Tae-woo said.

“Everyone, I’ll only stream until the chicken arrives.”

-Ah, why no mukbang?

-Do you want to die?

-Go back to your roots.

-Give me your address please ^^ So I can block your door.

A professional streamer like Tae-woo was bound to brush off this level of threat without even batting an eye.

Seo-jun simply pretended not to see and dumped it all on Tae-woo.

He, too, was now a professional streamer.

The remaining time was free time.

The viewers and Seo-jun spent time talking about trivial things.

The game they had played earlier, stories about For Chivalry.

Occasionally, discussions about Dawn of the Assassins were also visible.

People who had defeated all the Rulers and proceeded to the hidden quests, and laments about still not having seen Christina’s cutscene.

And so on.

“What game am I playing next?”

And naturally, the most interest was focused on what game Seo-jun would play starting tomorrow.

Seo-jun fell into a brief contemplation.

He was not contemplating because he had not decided what game to play tomorrow.

Since it was time to start The League now.

However, with the application announcement for the League of Streaming not yet posted, he was contemplating whether or not to state his intention to participate in LiOS.

Normally, most streamers tended to hold their tongues until they were selected.

If he announced that his next game would be The League, such questions would surely arise.

“Tomorrow, no broadcast…”

Whoa.

Seo-jun flinched at the suddenly hostile atmosphere.

“Just kidding. Starting tomorrow, it’s The League.”

And the moment he finished those words, the chat rose twice as fast.

Even faster than when he had just mentioned taking a day off.

The League had an immense player pool, to the point of being called the national game.

The largest game among virtual reality professional leagues was also The League.

Although it did not hold the title of the first virtual reality game, it was an undeniable fact for many people that the first game that came to mind when thinking of virtual reality games was The League.

-Kya!

-Let’s conquer The League too!

-Are you going to LiOS? Are you going to LiOS? Are you going to LiOS? Are you going to LiOS? Are you going to LiOS?

-Ah right, there was LiOS. Let’s go!

-Now let’s compare skills with real professionals! Lol

-But what if you get scouting offers because of this? Are you going to abandon streaming?

-Is the streamer going to hold a sword in The League too? Honestly, that’s a bit meh.

He had already received professional offers long ago.

And as for the sword, well.

Seven years ago, the only game he had played was The League, and every single character he played in it had held a sword.

At that time, he took pride in having been extremely good.

‘Though much must have changed as seven years have passed.’

He could verify that gradually.

Seo-jun intentionally ignored the chats asking about LiOS and spoke.

“No more questions?”

And then a donation rang out.

[‘ㅇㅇ’ donated 50,000 won!]

[How did you and Tae-woo first become close?]