Chapter 124

Seo-jun played three more games in a row playing only Kael.

During that time, there were people who wanted him to play other heroes and people who wanted a three-man ult, but the opportunity did not arise for either.

The former was simply because Seo-jun did not want to play other heroes.

The latter was because the game ended before multiple people could even gather.

As the enemy Mid deserted or the Jungle deserted, a surrender came out quickly.

Infighting occurred as well.

Seo-jun thought that the newbies these days seemed to lack perseverance.

Of course, he did not say it out loud.

“It was fun today too, T-bye.”

Having finished his Travel broadcast, Seo-jun came out of the capsule.

***

Since it was before going to sleep, Seo-jun washed his body first and then sat in front of his desk.

It was the Seodongbu meeting.

[Han Ji-min: Boss! The video of you becoming the Number One Under Heaven in the game finally hit 1 million views!]

[Jin Seo-jun: Wow!]

The one-on-one video with rankers, which had risen to third place on trending videos, hit one million views and became the video with the highest view count on Seo-jun’s channel.

Although it took two weeks, there was an emotion evoked by the number of one million.

[Lee Geon-yeong: As expected! It was worth uploading them immediately!]

[Han Ji-min: Agreed.]

They had been waiting for it to hit one million while repeatedly refreshing for the past few days, and the video finally reached that position today.

[Lee Geon-yeong: Just how much money did we make from that video alone, whoa]

[Han Ji-min: I think it will be around 7 to 8 million won?]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Wow… crazy.]

[Han Ji-min: Congratulations, Boss!]

[Han Ji-min: (Emoticon of a character congratulating roughly)]

Fact is, they probably liked the fact that the digit had changed rather than the money itself.

‘At any rate, is the money I get from that video around 3.5 to 4 million won?’

To Seo-jun, who had become independent and led a frugal college life, and had lived an honest life in his past life, it was a large sum of money to earn from a single video.

Looking back at his past, Seo-jun nodded.

‘I was certainly clean.’

While corrupt officials took money from bad guys to protect them, stole money from good people, or stood by and watched them get harmed,

Seo-jun had done exactly the opposite.

That did not mean he forcibly extorted money from bad people or anything.

When he took them to the room of truth, they would offer it up on their own, so why would he bother to extort it?

[Jin Seo-jun: I’m buying coffee to celebrate our first 1 million views!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Wow! You mean work more!]

[Han Ji-min: Drink this quickly and concentrate on churning out videos, you slaves!]

[Han Ji-min: That’s not what you said, right?]

[Jin Seo-jun: Yes, haha. I’m buying cake too.]

[Han Ji-min: Cake? That sounds delicious. Thank you!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Me too!]

[Jin Seo-jun: And lastly, I know a good fitness center, I’ll buy you memberships too!]

Immediately after, silence descended upon the chat window.

‘Hmm.’

The ‘1’ next to the messages had clearly disappeared, so why were they not replying?

It would be good to think about health.

No matter how much of a martial artist one was, no one could defeat time.

Of course, since aging had not properly come to him and he had not lived that long, departing at a young age, it was not something for Seo-jun to say.

In any case, it was natural that taking care of oneself in advance was good.

Seo-jun, who was having such useless thoughts, typed in the chat again.

[Jin Seo-jun: How about the membership?]

As soon as the chat rose, the number vanished. They did not seem to have left.

[Han Ji-min: Oh, right! Boss, did you see the email?]

[Jin Seo-jun: What about the membership?]

[Han Ji-min: It’s not that, an invitation email for LiOS came!]

[Jin Seo-jun: Oh?]

Seo-jun’s eyes widened at the unexpected news.

There were two ways the tournament organizers gathered streamers.

One was receiving applications, and the other was inviting them.

Usually, they invited people first, then selected applicants and held a lottery accordingly; the proportion of invitations was about 10 to 20%.

Originally, this proportion had been much higher.

However, now that the streaming market had grown and the number of streamers had become immensely large, the situation had changed.

Except for the minimum key streamers needed for box office success, the options had become diverse enough that there was no need to finalize spots in the tournament through invitations in advance.

Simply put, in the past when the overall pool of streamers was small, the organizers were in the weaker position.

-Do you by any chance have thoughts of appearing in the tournament? Streamer-nim, if you do not come, we are ruined.

It was like this in the past.

But now:

-For those who will come, please come! The prizes are also abundant!

it had changed like this.

Because of that, Seo-jun had thought it would be even harder for him to receive an invitation.

Oh Ji-hye had also said that wouldn’t be possible.

Yet, it was fascinating that an invitation came like this.

[Jin Seo-jun: It seems I fortunately managed to attract a bit of attention.]

[Han Ji-min: Boss, you said you wanted to go to LiOS, right? That’s great!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: I don’t think it’s just attracting ‘a bit’ of attention…]

Seeing Seo-jun’s chat, Lee Geon-yeong thought from afar:

‘Please practice some self-objectification, Boss.’

Whether they did so or not, Seo-jun was consistent.

[Jin Seo-jun: I thought this level of attention would be a bit insufficient, yet they invited me.]

[Han Ji-min: True. Boss did reserve his strength a bit. Still, doesn’t it mean you are visible even in their eyes? This is completely like an awl in a sack.]

[Jin Seo-jun: Oh, smart, aren’t you?]

[Han Ji-min: Hahaha]

[Lee Geon-yeong: …]

[Jin Seo-jun: Then I will go sleep now.]

[Han Ji-min: Yes!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Yes!]

[Han Ji-min: Ah, right. Check your email trash can once!]

Email trash can?

Was it because of the LiOS invitation?

[Jin Seo-jun: Understood.]

Seo-jun closed the chat room, accessed the site, opened his mailbox, and entered the trash can.

And he realized the fact that Han Ji-min had cleaned up the mailbox quite hard, and that the matter was not related to LiOS.

Rather than LiOS, it was The League.

Among The League, emails related to Kael.

[I want to have the vision you see]

[The pattern, please]

[It will probably get nerfed or changed, but I want to know just once too]

[How much does it cost? Whatever amount we fund, it will come out! Trust the Kael-pests!]

Hundreds of emails had accumulated in this manner.

It was to the extent that Han Ji-min, who moved these to the trash can, was amazing.

“The contents are mostly similar.”

Seo-jun’s impression upon seeing the emails was just about this much.

They were sincere about Kael.

Seo-jun entered the community to grasp more detailed circumstances and found the Kael Board of The League.

Upon entering there, he came to know the course of events.

[I can’t type in the chat?]

==

Must wait 3 hours after following

==

At first, they had tried to ask Seo-jun directly.

However, they were blocked by the chat restriction.

-We are screwed, we can’t run wild. We can’t threaten either.

└ If you do, he’s the kind of guy who will take a one-week break to discipline the viewers. Be careful.

└ Wow, holy shit, we really have to be careful

-Can’t you existing viewers type in the chat for us?

└ Even without us, requests to let them know keep rising in the chat, but the stream host is not even casting a glance

└ Will he cast a glance if we spam?

└ That will probably get disciplined too, lol

└ Then spam with donations, go?

-Guys, let’s do it through email instead of donations. That’ll be clean. Anything else is just a nuisance

That was how the emails had come.

As it was a mailbox opened for viewers to express their opinions in the first place, the Kael users’ choice was appropriate.

Seo-jun pondered for a moment.

Since there was no reason to hide it, letting them know did not particularly matter.

“But even if I tell them, it won’t be meaningful.”

An explanation was indeed possible. But if it was something that could be seen just by knowing the principle, someone would have discovered it long ago even if it were not Seo-jun.

“Still, considering the sincerity of sending the emails.”

Seo-jun entered Travel while sitting in front of the computer.

And he turned on the stream.

The stream title was Kael, and on the screen, there was only a black background with nothing.

He watched the Kael Board while waiting for a moment.

[That streamer turned on his broadcast!]

-Suddenly? Why?

-Has this happened before?

└ No

-Didn’t he turn it on because of us?

-The stream title itself is Kael

-Whoa, is he teaching us right away? Holy shit

-I love a communicating streamer so much, going immediately

Confirming that the expected reaction came out, Seo-jun turned his gaze to his chat window, which was flustered by him suddenly turning on the broadcast.

-What is this?

-Oh??

-Seo-hi?

-Hyung, did you make a mistake?

-Say something

-If it’s Hyung, it’s fine. Let’s just pretend you didn’t turn it on by mistake and broadcast again

-Is it that repertoire where you accidentally turn on the stream without knowing and make off-air remarks, causing an accident, whoa

-A lot of people went down that way, haha

They were saying brutal things.

Although a streamer causing an accident without knowing the broadcast was turned on was an annual event, Seo-jun was not destined to be that protagonist.

“No, it’s not. Everyone, you know that my personality shown on stream is a bit bad, right?”

-Seo-hi

-His voice came out

-You knew your personality was bad? That’s surprising?

“That personality is actually a concept for the stream. My real personality is a bit different. I’m nice. So even if the stream is turned on without me knowing and broadcasts for twenty-four hours, I am safe.”

-Talking bullshit again, again

-Hyung, nobody believes that

-The established theory of academia is that you are suppressing your personality because it’s a broadcast, lolol

-So why did you turn it on?

-PC game?

“Ah. The reason I turned it on is to teach you how to see the next vital point pattern of Kael.”

The Kael users could not type in the chat right now, but if they somehow could, they would probably have spammed ‘ㄷ’ and ‘ㄱ’.

“I’ll tell you directly without long words. Kael’s pattern is visible if you just use your brain a bit.”

The viewers, about three thousand of whom had gathered, were momentarily stunned.

“The notice will be uploaded soon, so please check it. T-bye.”

Whether they did so or not, the broadcast was terminated, and

-?

-What is this

-Crazy bastard, lolololol

-If everyone is curious, check the Kael Board of The League, go

-A fucking malicious bastard, lolol

-Kael-pests wailing, lolololol

In the chat window after the broadcast ended, a lot of laughter rose for a while.

They were clearly those who went to play on the Kael Board at the news that Seo-jun had become a hot topic rather than the pattern.

Those viewers kept spamming ‘ㅋ’s.

They would probably go to that board soon.

Like Seo-jun right now.

[??]

[Is it a provocation?]

[Are we being picked on?]

[pfft, lolol]

[“It’s visible if you just use your brain a bit.” Upvote if you are fucking dumbfounded, lololololol]

[I think that bastard is bluffing because he doesn’t know either]

[Yep, the bluffing repertoire came out long ago, lolol]

Seo-jun smiled with satisfaction and then began to write a notice on ITube.

Conveniently, a post that caught his fancy was uploaded too.

[It’s not too late to get angry after checking the notice, guys!]

==

But it is fucking annoying.

You’d better write the notice well, streamer ^^

==

Although it was not the contents of the post.

In any case, if left like this, although people were laughing now, serious people could also emerge, so he had to upload the notice quickly.

Seo-jun typed rapidly and pressed enter, and the notice was uploaded to Seo-jun’s ITube community.

[I will explain Kael’s pattern directly on tomorrow’s broadcast!]

The reaction was good.

Comments from non-subscribers rose in an instant.

-Oh!

-Whoa!

-Kael-pests, we won! It’s the power of email!

-This streamer will probably go to the corporate level! He is a nice person! His face also looks kind!

-We’re also going to use the two-man ult now, hahaha

-Simple bastards, lolol

-It seems your trolling and viewer-taming have reached the level of art, Hyung-nim…

He did not explain it in advance through the notice.

If he had, they would have definitely lost sleep trying to uncover the truth of what Seo-jun said, which was a pity.

‘One can just think that Kael’s next vital point is in a position of exactly medium difficulty to connect after slashing the previous vital point, but if I wrote this in writing without any other explanation…’

instead of healthy discussions and research all night, it was certain that they would produce only insults toward Seo-jun.

It was an unavoidable thing.

Medium level.

Appropriately.

Doing it well on one’s own.

Sensation was a matter that could only be explained like this.

Someone who designed it himself could just upload the formula, but even if they looked at that formula, no one would become able to predict it. Not even the creator.

Still, it was not that there was nothing Seo-jun could do.

‘Either teaching them how to develop the sense, or directly helping them to realize it even a bit.’

Conveniently, there was also an email with a title that caught his attention.

[Is the Kael in this old video by any chance Seo-jun-nim? I’m a fan!]

The person who sent the email was a skilled individual of the highest tier, Challenger.

He came to know as its main content was a brief self-introduction and requesting guidance, and thinking that he had found just the right email, Seo-jun clasped his hands.

And he muttered with a rather serious expression:

“So they are a Challenger, huh.”

Viewers who had watched Seo-jun so far were sick and tired of it beyond just disliking it when he said he would teach them.

That it was because most of them were Bronze and Silver seemed to have been proven just now.