Chapter 122

[Who the hell is this guy that twenty thousand people are watching? It’s my first time seeing him]

A post was uploaded to the community for The League.

It was because a streamer they had never seen before had risen in the Travel category for The League.

A viewer count of twenty thousand people was an extremely high number for a streamer.

Although he would be classified as a mid-sized streamer rather than a large corporate one, he could not be ignored.

Since even becoming a mid-sized streamer was a position that only a few could reach.

But when an unknown streamer was in such a spot, it was only natural to become curious.

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(Travel Screenshot)

Who is this?

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Comments were posted on the thread that asked who he was.

-You don’t know Heavenly Demon?

└ No (Thread Author)

-You really don’t know him

└ For real, lol

└ Idiot, lol

Actually, he had not asked nicely.

Since he had used the swear word “this guy” from the very title of the post, the replies answering the question had no choice but to be spicy.

-No, do I have to know? (Thread Author)

The thread author seemed to feel wronged.

And how could there be so many people who knew that streamer?

Most of those writing comments seemed to know him.

Although that was probably because community users who did not know him would not post comments in the first place.

└ I’m a Teusu and that streamer is an absolute nobody? (Thread Author)

Nobody.

Slang meaning someone who has never been heard of or seen.

└ What do you mean nobody, he is the Heavenly Demon-nim

└ Isn’t he the Sword God now?

└ Uh-huh, you Orthodox Faction. Stop playing tricks

└ Silence!

└ Hmm. Did you guys by any chance come from Nohyeop? (Thread Author)

When seeing such comments, a user with some interest in games would naturally think of For Chivalry.

It was the only martial arts game with a decent size.

Recalling the fact that the Battleground had just ended, the thread author posted this comment.

-Is the Battleground that big of a deal? Hmm, lol (Thread Author)

The thread author thought this.

Only those who watched the Battleground did, and even if it was watched a lot, it was just Bangju whose views and viewers exploded; if you looked closely, wasn’t it not enough to produce a mid-sized streamer?

It doesn’t even reach the average of The League.

Surprisingly, it was true.

And the scale of The League was large enough to ignore it.

└ Now you’re looking down on For Chivalry?

└ You’ll only come to your senses after getting parried by the Heavenly Demon-nim

└ This is The League community, you guys should come to your senses (Thread Author)

It was a world where there existed 1-million or 2-million ITubers whom one had never heard of.

Even though he had spread his name widely and active in For Chivalry, it was unavoidable that there were far more people who did not know Seo-jun.

Therefore, The League users who knew of Seo-jun’s days in For Chivalry began to urge others to watch his gameplay videos just once.

└ The level of people sucking up to some useless streamer, lol (Thread Author)

└ Don’t speak carelessly just because you have a mouth

└ You will know once you watch his gameplay just once

└ He’s fucking good. He’s a skilled streamer. Just watch him once

└ Here they are (Clip) (Clip) (Clip)

└ Watch this too. It’s crazy. (Clip)

However, the author spoke like this.

└ Yeah, that’s just because you guys fought in For Chivalry, lol. The level of For Chivalry, lol (Thread Author)

They realized.

Currently, the author was writing comments without even watching the clips.

For if he had seen Seo-jun’s play, it was natural that any desire to write such a comment would have completely vanished.

At least, if he had proper eyes in his head.

Fortunately, he seemed to have eyes as he appeared to be watching something.

└ Wow, holy shit, he chose Kael? Are we going Kael-pest? (Thread Author)

Only then did the commenters who knew Seo-jun feel at ease.

└ You must be watching the stream?

└ Then there’s no need to say anything more, lolol

└ Disengage!

└ What is it. Where are you guys going in the middle of a fight. (Thread Author)

└ This guy is scheduled to become a Demonic Sect member soon, lol

└ For real, lol

└ What the hell are you talking about! (Thread Author)

***

Kael was a character who lived by the vital points and died by the vital points.

Starting with the skills, they could only be used after slashing a vital point three times within a certain period of time.

That certain period of time was ten seconds after attacking a vital point.

If ten seconds passed without successfully attacking the next vital point, it would be reset.

Surprisingly, it was a relatively generous condition that was doable if someone who was somewhat familiar with it just concentrated.

Of course, it was also a difficulty that would mass-produce pests.

As for the ultimate, on top of that, one had to add three more times, accumulating a total of six times.

This was also not to the extent of being completely impossible.

But it was likewise sufficient to mass-produce pests.

‘It is a high-risk, high-return where if you lose focus even slightly, you can’t get anything.’

The standard for judging the skill of such Kael users was how quickly they could attack the vital points and use the skills.

Why was that?

Weren’t the vital points generated randomly anyway?

‘Because it is not random.’

Thrusting his sword into the vital point before him, Seo-jun moved his sword toward the vital point that would appear next.

While Seo-jun made predictions in a split second, the viewers were talking about what had happened just now.

-No, seriously, is there some rule and did he memorize it? Lololol

-Two seconds to build up stacks for a skill, holy shit, that makes no sense, lolol

-Masters are fast, but… this is too fast! Stream host!

That was correct.

Masters could attack Kael’s vital points in succession faster than others.

Here, masters referred precisely to experts who had played thousands or tens of thousands of games on a single character, Kael.

Seo-jun’s sword moved without hesitation.

The vital point revealed by the light generated.

A horizontal slash. After that, a thrust.

Clang! Clang!

And from the moment it generated, the tip of the sword touched and moved to break it.

Exactly two seconds.

[Blessing of Radiance]

The reloaded arrow flew over, and Seo-jun’s body was enveloped in light.

-Wait, again?

-Crazy

-Is he duplicating the invincibility skill?

-Seriously what is this, lolololololol. It’s so absurd

-This is too OP

Players who delved into a character to the limit, performing all kinds of tricks, and possessed immense skill at least on that character, were called experts.

And Kael was on the side of having many experts.

What kind of trick could such Kael experts show?

It was satisfying the skill conditions and using the ultimate quickly in complex and disadvantageous combat situations.

If they eventually satisfied the skill conditions within twenty seconds in any situation, they were said to play decently.

If they slashed within ten seconds, they could rise to the ranks of experts.

If they became able to use the skill within eight seconds, they were definitely a Kael expert with Challenger-level physical mechanics.

But.

-Two seconds again! Holy shit, lololol

-Does that make sense?

-Does he seriously have a genealogy for this?

-A cheat sheet, holy shit, lololololol

Seo-jun’s sword slashed the vital points.

Slashing and slashing again. Without a moment’s rest. While using the skill said to be the best in terms of pure performance whenever he was about to be blocked.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

“Huh? Uh. Wait, stop!”

The health, which had been decreasing every time Seo-jun attacked a vital point, was completely depleted.

[First Blood!]

The enemy, who had widened his eyes in embarrassment, died.

[Mid nice]

[What the! Nice Kael!]

They were the voices of his teammates.

In The League, one could chat with the entire team even while the game was in progress.

And they could also know where everyone was through the mini-map.

They could also ping to send brief information to allies.

One just had to pull the desired options from the interface that popped up next to them, like a chat window summoned by thought.

This kind of user-friendliness was an advantage that The League had possessed since its PC days.

Seo-jun smiled slightly and then went to clear minions.

“Oh dear. I failed to control my strength.”

***

[Unstoppable!]

Seo-jun opened the interface for a moment at the narration.

The enemy’s KDA was visible.

It was 0/5/0.

Since Seo-jun’s KDA was 5/0/0, the enemy Mid had already died five times to Seo-jun.

[Hey, hey. Is Kael crazy!]

[Were you a Kael expert!]

[I believed in you.]

[Isn’t the enemy Mid just trolling?]

Seo-jun spoke while listening to the cheers of his teammates.

“Why, the enemy Mid went away again as soon as they arrived. Leaving me lonely.”

-If he fails to control his strength two more times, he’ll get a pentakill, lolol

-Stream host, quickly release the cheat sheet! Release the cheat sheet! Release the cheat sheet!

-No, how is he doing it… It really seems like there is some rule?

-Kaels-pests who are drooling right now, upvote lolol

In the past, Kael when Seo-jun played him was a bit different from now.

‘I was slightly surprised when I checked the information yesterday.’

The concept of having an advantage if one saw a vital point and attacked it quickly was the same, but there was no invincibility skill and there were no conditions for the ultimate.

Instead, he remembered that the speed buff obtained from attacking a vital point was more than twice as high as it was now.

The core remained the same. But the skills had changed little by little.

‘So back then, everyone didn’t focus on attacking vital points quickly.’

It was different now.

-It’s absolutely certain that there is a rule

-No, if that exists, there’s no way they wouldn’t have discovered it… Man. It’s truly fascinating

-This is the stuff! He did it just like how he found the grains! The stream host is an alien!

-Is it possible because he’s smart?

-No, no. I think the game companies are exposing all the secrets because the stream host is the successor to Surface.

-Why on earth would such a precious person come to Travel? Lolol

For Kael now, speed was everything.

‘If it were random, luck would have been everything rather than speed.’

The reason why experts could slash vital points faster than ordinary people was

because they had acquired some fragments of the rules through playing thousands or tens of thousands of games.

For when they played Kael, they had instinctively stepped foot, even if just slightly, into the domain where Seo-jun stood.

“Everyone, why did you think the rule of generating vital points was random in the first place?”

-Because, lol, we couldn’t find it

-If you play a lot, you can tell where it will generate by intuition, lolol, but you don’t know once you go into detail

-It was partially random

Until now, users and experts had inferred like this.

The rules are set roughly for whether it is left or right, up or down, so you can know if you accumulate experience!

But in detail, whether it comes down from the shoulder, whether it’s in the form of thrusting in a circle, whether it has to be slashed vertically, and where the start of the trajectory generates, is random!

Because they couldn’t find it!

This was precisely the established theory before Seo-jun played the game.

Probably, the majority of people who did not watch Seo-jun still thought so now.

“Everyone, you get it now, right? The game company only likes randomness when selling gacha items.”

Seo-jun’s viewers witnessed the fact that Kael’s vital points had a pattern.

-yup

-He found this out just like how he saw the grains, lolololol

-lolol, gacha items, lololololol

-They do love gacha like crazy

-But really, lololol, what kind of person is he to see this!

-A common newbie of the peninsula

-This is our stream host

-Explain in more detail, please!!!!

“I will give a detailed explanation later. Well then. Since I have reached level six, shall we see how long it takes to use the ultimate?”

Since it took two seconds to accumulate three, what if he had to accumulate six?

Just then, the Mid who had five deaths was trudging along without a single thought.

Originally, if one died that much, their soul left them, and they were bound to move like a machine.

Seo-jun approached closely.

The enemy Mid, who had been coming blankly, was startled. However, perhaps because he was absent-minded, his reaction was slow.

Seo-jun slashed the first trajectory diagonally.

Clang!

Next, it was time for a thrust to come out.

‘It must be the left chest.’

Seo-jun’s sword, which he had drawn back, extended in a straight line.

Clang!

As soon as the paths of numerous angles appeared, they disappeared by Seo-jun’s sword.

“I don’t want to watch anymore…”

The shattering sounds of breaking glass were heard six times in an instant.

As the conditions were met, a mark appeared above the enemy’s head.

‘That must be the Mark of Heresy.’

A person with that mark floating above their head meant they had become the target of the ultimate.

‘In the past, one had to aim and hit the ultimate properly, but they said now it’s guaranteed to land as long as the mark is generated.’

There was no need to say what was good for Seo-jun.

Since only four seconds had passed.

“It was done like this.”

As Seo-jun plunged the sword into the ground with both hands, visualizing the sword falling from the sky:

Rumble!

[Sword of Judgment]

A great vibration echoed in the atmosphere, and the sky split.

Kael’s ultimate was activated in just four seconds, and

the giant sword descending from the sky fell onto the face of the enemy Mid, who was staring blankly at the sky.

“Wow. Seeing it in person, Kael’s skill is really cool.”

Those words came from the enemy Mid’s mouth.

It was easy to become like that if one died every time they came to the lane.

“You didn’t die, though.”

The Sword of Judgment had an execution effect that killed immediately if health was below a certain level.

And although the enemy’s health had been slashed six times through the vital points, it was not depleted to that extent.

“Yes, I didn’t die. In that case, please kill me now. I’ve watched the skill well, so I’ll go.”

-lolol His mental state is really gone, lolol

-Originally, Kael is supposed to be the one going 0/6/0, lolol

-Ah, I’ve watched the skill to my heart’s content~

-Please explain the method quickly… I play Kael and I really can’t hold back

***

Seo-jun did not know, but Kael was a hero whose already high popularity had exploded after receiving a rework.

To the extent of receiving evaluations that he had become the successor to the swordsman who was always with the wind, a representative pest character of the PC era.

However, the main culprits who created this perception did not care even if they were called pests.

They did not care about the skills, nor the victory or defeat of the game.

Only the ultimate!

As they chose Kael and played the game to use the Sword of Judgment, their interest was only in how many seconds they took to use the Sword of Judgment.

Speed had been important since the past.

Even in the PC era, there was a character who was the predecessor of Kael, who carried a rapier and popped vital points.

The ultimate of this 2D character was to generate vital points in four directions—front, back, left, and right—simultaneously.

And people created numerous combos that popped these four vital points in one second.

Because this speed was power and skill itself.

Afterwards, as it transitioned to virtual reality, numerous elements like the basic environment, vital point mechanism, and hero concept changed, but the essence did not seem to change easily.

Seeing that many Kael-pests thought Kael’s skill depended on how quickly one could pop the vital points by somewhat ‘predicting’ the next one.

And now, a piece of news that would drive every single one of those Kael-pests crazy if they saw it was uploaded to the community.

[Whoa… crazy… did a 4-second Sword of Judgment really appear??]

And the person who carried this news first was the author of the thread that had asked about Seo-jun earlier.

Although the beginning was different, it was the moment a second ‘Joseon’s Assassin’ was born.