The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 37

Chapter 37

[tip. Please note that if you continuously team-kill, a penalty will occur.]

Reading the tip and the chat window, Seo-jun returned to the respawn location.

“Ah. That would certainly be the case.”

-Yeah, striking teammates can’t be helped.

-If they didn’t get hit just because they are on the same team while multiple people fight, they might bring out strange strategies like human shields.

-Even so, team-killing is a bit LOL too much.

-For real, to anyone, the enemy team is roughly red and our team is blue.

It seemed team-killing was not allowed in The League.

He thought this was probably due to realistic reasons rather than the direction it aimed for.

In The League, since they fight mostly using wide-area skills, if attacks hit allies, it imposes a major restriction on their actions.

However, although For Chivalry also has fictional martial arts, since most battles follow realistic aspects, allowing allies to be hit actually becomes a choice that captures more realism.

“But how do you save them?”

-Just approach closely and make a motion of reaching out your hand.

-An effect will appear. Then revive.

-But what if they get executed?

What was execution again?

Indeed, it seemed there was a lot to learn.

“Shall I go and apologize first?”

It was when he had almost arrived at the respawn location.

“Hey, you crazy bastard, you die once too!”

Someone leaped out from the overgrown bushes to the side and ambushed Seo-jun.

ID Number1SwordInTheWorld.

It was the user who had been team-killed by Seo-jun.

The sword swung from left to right by Number1SwordInTheWorld grazed the very front of Seo-jun’s nose.

Seo-jun instantaneously gathered internal energy in his feet to increase his speed, narrowly adjusting the distance.

This was a detailed control that required proficiency.

“How dare you. Deflect the sword of this seat?”

Of course, it was difficult for Number1SwordInTheWorld to recognize even these details and realize the fundamental difference in skill.

Since he was a newbie who had entered For Chivalry only two weeks ago.

“This seat must hand down a punishment to you.”

And he was deeply immersed in roleplaying, which was one of the ways to enjoy For Chivalry.

Roleplaying refers to actions where one presents a personality and setting different from reality for the purpose of fun mainly in a virtual world, and For Chivalry was a game optimized for this roleplaying.

Whoosh!

Seo-jun bit his lip while ducking his head to avoid the opponent’s sword.

Did he bite his lip because it was hard to dodge?

No.

Simply.

“Impudent! Heavenly Demon 14. Unconditionally offer your neck to this seat’s sword! Quickly!”

It was funny.

That clumsy way of speaking, and the choice of words.

This seat.

It was a word hard to hear even in his past life.

Pfft.

-Hmm. That newbie is enjoying For Chivalry real well, isn’t he? (Rubbing nose)

-A proper newbie!

-LOL I’m watching For Chivalry for the first time today, have the Murim bastards played like this until now? LOL. Only they were doing something this fun.

Whoosh!

The enemy’s sword missed entirely by a hair’s breadth, and at that result, the opponent tilted his head.

“Huh? Why isn’t it hitting at all?”

His concept broke.

Seo-jun could not hold back and burst into laughter.

At this, Number1SwordInTheWorld only then realized the difference in skill between Seo-jun and himself, his cheeks flushing red.

He felt embarrassed by the concept he had maintained until just now!

Originally, if you win a fight, roleplaying is that much more exciting, but if you suffer a miserable defeat, there was a risk of having to endure that much embarrassment.

“Ha, you’re pretty good. Just kill me again or whatever. The game is tilted anyway, I should just rest. Is that why you team-killed too?”

Number1SwordInTheWorld stared at Seo-jun with a hollow face.

Seo-jun stopped laughing and revealed the truth.

“Sorry. It’s my first match, so I didn’t know. The same goes for how to save people.”

“Sigh.”

Number1SwordInTheWorld sighed as if it was absurd.

I got completely trashed by a guy playing his first match?

“You fight really well. You must have made a name for yourself in other games.”

He thought of himself as somewhat of a talented person.

Because although limited to the beginner zone, he maintained an 80% win rate.

So when he roleplayed, it was really fun.

But the real deal was different.

So he thought.

“Well. Fighting is my job.”

At the fact that Seo-jun killing him was a mistake and his favorable reaction, he started roleplaying again.

“Yes, indeed the Heavenly Demon is special. This seat is deeply moved. Won’t you go with me to turn this game around?”

Seo-jun almost laughed again,

And he let Number1SwordInTheWorld in on one secret.

“Ah, but just for your information, this seat is currently streaming.”

While copying his way of speaking.

Number1SwordInTheWorld froze in an instant.

He asked in a quiet voice.

“By any chance, how many people are watching…?”

“Let’s see. The number of viewers who have sought out this seat is eight thousand in total.”

Seo-jun grinned.

It had dropped a bit since then.

But it was a fairly large number.

Mostly foreign users had left.

“Ah, crap. Should I desert.”

He slapped his forehead.

-LOL.

-Forced dark history LOL.

-His sense of entertainment is insane.

-Is he a guest you recruited? LOL.

Just as Seo-jun was having fun teasing him, a team chat was sent.

[What are you guys doing. Don’t play around and quickly play the game!]

[IDs are Number 1 in the World and Heavenly Demon? You guys are doing all sorts of things. Are you a duo?]

Since team chat could be seen by any teammate, Number1SwordInTheWorld checked it and spoke to Seo-jun.

“First, let’s go to the center together, Heavenly Demon-nim. Do you know the game rules? But if you didn’t even know how to revive… you didn’t do the tutorial, right?”

Seo-jun and he departed again toward the center where soldiers clashed.

“This seat has no need for such…”

“Argh!”

“I didn’t do the tutorial, indeed.”

“Phew.”

“No, you were doing it with such excitement until just a moment ago.”

“That was when I didn’t know eight thousand people were watching.”

Despite speaking like that, he seemed to be someone who didn’t get embarrassed easily.

“Anyway. How much do you know about conquest battles?”

“I don’t know.”

“Not at all?”

“Yes.”

Number1SwordInTheWorld did not get angry at Seo-jun and calmly began to explain.

“First of all, the goal of the conquest battle is to kill all the enemies.”

“But they respawn.”

“Yes. That is precisely why we must destroy the enemy’s fortress. Because if you die while the fortress is destroyed, you cannot respawn.”

Ah.

So that was why the fortress’s HP was depleted.

Seo-jun checked the current health of the fortresses.

[Blue (靑): 183] vs [Red (赤): 441]

Both were depleted, but his team’s health was depleted by a much larger margin.

“And although there are many ways to deplete the opponent’s fortress health, taking bases is the most efficient. It depletes heavily when occupied, and just maintaining it depletes continuously. Besides that, defeating enemy soldiers or users also depletes the fortress health.”

“I see.”

“Yes. And that base far away is indicated by a mark. Red means the enemy occupies it. Blue means allies. Purple means the opponent is currently occupying the base. The central base is particularly important because it is the only one with soldiers.”

Seo-jun examined the status of the bases.

All three were red.

-Teacher! Thank you!

-He explains well.

-An overwhelming comfort different from when playing Dawn of the Assassins LOL. Is this multiplayer?

-If it were single-player, the streamer wouldn’t have understood the rules even after ten rounds. No, he wouldn’t have tried to LOL.

“Oh. People say you explain well.”

“Ah, really? I guess since it’s the beginner zone, many people who don’t know enter, so explaining is familiar to me.”

“I see. So to summarize the conclusion, it just means I shouldn’t die and catch all of them, right? Easy.”

“Ah…”

-LOL.

-I feel a sense of self-skepticism and suffering thinking ‘did I explain just for this’.

-This guy, LOL, not listening to words at all, LOL.

“Well, let’s go.”

Seo-jun manipulated the streaming window, stepped forward with his right foot, and put his weight on it. Then he applied force. Using the light body technique deployed at maximum output, he flew into the base, not the battlefield.

“Sigh…”

Behind, Number1SwordInTheWorld followed while letting out a sigh.

[Channel Point Prediction starts.]

[This game comeback.]

[Possible] vs [Impossible]

-President Jin! Opening betting at last!

-Let’s go!

-Cho-Am, bet all of it here too, got it?

-This is unconditionally impossible LOL, even if it weren’t a mid-game entry.

-But it’s the streamer.

-The fortress will be destroyed soon. From then on, it’s practically sudden death.

-Yeah, he has never died even once in Dawn of the Assassins.

[Point Prediction closes in 1 minute.]

The central base beside the path where soldiers fought was just an ordinary pavilion.

As Seo-jun entered, the red border on the ground indicating the base boundary turned purple.

And the gauge resembling the loading bar in the center of the base began to gradually fill up.

“Heavenly Demon-nim. If we wait just a bit more, we’ll seize it, but…”

The loading bar that had been moving steadily stopped abruptly.

“They’ve come.”

Seo-jun instantly grasped the meaning and turned around.

From behind, an enemy rushed at Seo-jun.

Perhaps because the enemy also used light body techniques, the speed was fast.

Clang!

Sword met sword, and their gazes crossed.

Seo-jun parried as he did in Dawn of the Assassins, but there was no effect.

Rather, a brief stiffness was imposed on Seo-jun.

‘It seems there’s some other system.’

In that state, Seo-jun was pierced by the sword of another user who popped out from the side.

-LOL.

-If you don’t know heavy attacks, you gotta die.

-This is why I bet on impossible~ Patriotic bettors, you nervous?

“Hey, catch him quickly!”

Seeing another user pop out from the side, Number1Sword tried to protect Seo-jun, but yet another user appeared to stop him.

“Heavenly Demon-nim, watch out!”

The enemies who appeared at the central base were three in total.

Seo-jun applied weak force to his feet as soon as he broke free from stiffness.

‘From now on, I won’t deflect; I’ll dodge all of them.’

The sword of user Manyang, striking downward from above, narrowly shaved Seo-jun’s bangs.

Manyang locked eyes with Seo-jun at the moment the tip of the opponent’s short hair was cut and fluttered down.

And though it was a split second, he felt an unrecognizable chill.

He could not read fluster, fear, or the emotions that one should ordinarily show.

“I can’t lose from the very first match.”

Seo-jun’s mouth opened.

And.

His sword lunged in rapidly, aiming for Manyang’s neck.

Whoosh!

The fact that he narrowly dodged the enemy’s sword meant the enemy was also within his range.

Manyang, who had not yet escaped the beginner zone, allowed the strike but burned with fighting spirit.

There is still plenty of health!

His duo partner, Cheonyang, stood on the opposite side with Seo-jun in the middle to aid him.

“Let’s catch him quickly and go teach that ‘this seat’ guy a lesson.”

“Yeah. If we just catch these guys now, it seems we can end this round easily too!”

Clang clang!

But.

Why isn’t he getting caught?

Manyang saw his comrade on the opposite side biting his teeth with a bewildered gaze.

In just one minute, his comrade’s HP had depleted by more than half.

Compared to that, the enemy had not allowed a single attack since getting hit the first time.

“Hey, there’s no time.”

“Do it well!”

“You do it well!”

The problem was.

That even after just a little more time, the Frenzy state would trigger.

Frenzy is a state that triggers when you fill the gauge accumulated while facing multiple enemies alone.

A user in a Frenzy state temporarily gains a shield and movement speed, and the stamina and internal energy required for light body techniques become infinite.

Even now he’s barely getting grazed, but if he even enters a Frenzy state?

“Damn it! Quickly! You come and attack too!”

“Sorry, Heavenly Demon-nim! I lost!”

-It’s going to fill up soon LOL.

-If it’s Frenzy state, he can catch all of them in an instant. First of all, stamina is infinite.

-Let’s go comeback! Let’s go patriotic betting victory!

While dodging the 2-on-1 attacks, Seo-jun checked the chat window and guessed the reason for the enemy’s impatience.

Looking back, Number1SwordInTheWorld had been defeated in a 1-on-1 and lay collapsed, and the enemy who faced him was also joining toward Seo-jun.

Within the urgent situation of 3 vs 1, Seo-jun merely indulged in other trivial thoughts.

‘What is patriotic betting anyway.’

Looking at the atmosphere, it seemed those who bet on him winning were patriotic, and those who bet on him losing were treasonous.

‘Anyway. So internal energy is infinite, right?’

Once the gauge filled completely, he could feel his movements grow faster.

Seo-jun grinned and declared.

“From now on, this seat shall show you why I am called the Heavenly Demon.”

From behind, the sound of Number1SwordInTheWorld letting out a sigh was heard.

“Ah…”

Surely it was not a sigh in a good sense.