The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 38
Chapter 38
“From now on, this seat shall show you why I am called the Heavenly Demon.”
Except for the word ‘this seat’, it was a sentence that his bad friend from his past life, who was of no help, used to enjoy using.
It meant that the historical accuracy was maintained fairly well in its own way.
“Is this the time for that?”
Number1SwordInTheWorld shouted.
There was a limit to roleplaying!
“Watch out behind you, …eh?”
His eyes, which had been staring at Seo-jun with a stunned face, widened in surprise.
And his hand clenched automatically.
“Uh… huh?”
The enemy who had charged at Seo-jun after defeating him was also flustered.
Three sword blades flashed toward a single point from different directions.
Why was the enemy behind him right now?
“How did he dodge and get here?”
“Watch out! It’s the Frenzy state! The time has come!”
Manyang urgently shouted.
“I know too! But I couldn’t see him!”
As someone who missed the movement, he had no way to deal with Seo-jun.
And since his health had dropped a lot compared to the other two due to fighting Number1SwordInTheWorld, he was hit by Seo-jun’s sword from behind and died in an instant.
[Babjwo defeated]
[Enemy fortress health –20]
“Damn it! Why is he so fast!”
Manyang attempted to escape from the pavilion, which was the base, by deploying a light body technique.
The way to deal with an enemy in the Frenzy state was to hold out until the Frenzy state ended.
However.
They did not know.
The fact that Seo-jun predicted their movements and moved before them.
“Where do you think you are going?”
Seo-jun bypassed Manyang. And blocked the front.
It was a natural result. His speed was faster. Moreover, he had even started first.
Seo-jun’s robe, which was his basic attire, fluttered fiercely.
Manyang swallowed dry saliva.
He had no confidence in breaking through Seo-jun and escaping.
And Seo-jun thought, facing Manyang.
‘Did they say that the amplified movement speed of the Frenzy state is the same as when deploying a light body technique?’
Suddenly, he became curious.
“Everyone, if you use a light body technique in the Frenzy state, how fast does it get?”
-Ordinary people can’t control their bodies at that fast speed and end up crashing into walls, LOL.
-Most people only use the light body technique in the Frenzy state when chasing on a wide open road.
-I heard that experts use it even during battle, though.
Seo-jun checked the chat, gripped his sword again, and spoke.
“I see.”
The Frenzy state did not simply make the movement speed faster.
The speed at which the body moved had generally become faster.
To explain it in terms suitable for gaming.
It meant that the attack speed had also become faster. That was not all.
“Where do you think you are reviving?”
Seo-jun discovered Cheonyang reaching out his hand to revive the enemy who had fallen first behind Manyang, who was facing him.
And he immediately applied force to his foot in contact with the ground.
Crack!
He kicked off the wooden floor of the pavilion vigorously.
The speed was incredibly fast.
He passed by Manyang in an instant and cut Cheonyang’s body with his sword.
The enemy’s health was heavily depleted, so he died in a single strike.
[Cheonyang defeated]
[Enemy fortress health –20]
However, even after cutting the enemy, Seo-jun’s body did not stop.
Rather, he flew with the momentum to crash into the wall.
‘I expected at least this much.’
In that moment, while half-suspended in midair, Seo-jun rotated his body.
And he drove his sword into the wooden floor, momentarily reducing his speed with that force.
Screeech.
‘Fortunately, I tried it because I could affect the map.’
It went exactly as he thought.
Once his speed was controlled to some extent, Seo-jun deployed a light body technique back to his original position and cut Manyang.
[Manyang defeated]
[Enemy fortress health –20]
The fight ended in an instant.
There were not many viewers who accurately grasped the art Seo-jun had displayed.
Still, everyone recognized that Seo-jun had shown incredibly high-difficulty play.
-???? I went away for a moment and came back to find two people dead.
-Kyah!
-Is that Thunder Flash? LOL.
-Why does this guy keep showing acrobatics shows instead of playing the game he’s supposed to? LOL.
-I am an 8,000-hour veteran of For Chivalry, and you catch the recoil of the light body technique in the Frenzy state like this? I learned something today.
-I cannot forgive myself for doubting Seo-jun-nim and placing a treasonous bet. What should I do?
-This is patriotism! This is a nation!
-It’s not a nation, you bastard.
“What in the world is this.”
The user Manyang, who had become a corpse, looked back.
The single corpse had become two, no, three.
“Are you… a noob crusher?”
Yanghak was an abbreviation for ‘slaughtering commoners’ (slaughtering noobs), and in the gaming world, it was a term mainly used when a master faced beginners.
He was suspicious of whether Seo-jun was a bad-quality user who continuously matched and fought with beginners in the beginner zone, specifically without entering any sect.
To answer that question, Seo-jun thought about how his friend would answer in this situation.
‘Lower your eyes, you insignificant creatures.’
Ah.
As expected, he was indeed a crazy guy.
Seo-jun just replied with random words.
“This seat is the Heavenly Demon.”
Manyang thought.
Crazy bastard.
“Sigh, but we still won the game. Your fortress will be destroyed soon.”
Seo-jun heard those words and looked at the chat window.
Wondering if there was any rule he didn’t know.
-Indeed?
-The fortress health is pretty low indeed.
-So what, in the end, they have to kill him directly to end the game.
-But it’s a bit funny that he mistakes him for a noob crusher, though it is understandable, LOL.
Fortunately, it did not seem to be the case.
“Anyway, let’s try to revive.”
The stopped capture gauge of the base began to fill up again.
Seo-jun approached Number1SwordInTheWorld and began to revive him.
“Wow, Heavenly Demon-nim. That was awesome. Daebak. This seat is deeply impressed!”
-What’s this, not even ‘the company commander is impressed’, LOL.
-Please, just do one, LOL.
-Where does a guy who lost a 1-on-1 get off roleplaying! Roleplaying confiscated for the next 10 minutes!
A green light hovered around and gathered toward Number1SwordInTheWorld.
And on top of Number1SwordInTheWorld’s body, a timer also began to fill with a green light.
“But Heavenly Demon-nim, is this really your first match?”
“Yes.”
“No, we might actually win this?”
[Captured Base Eul (乙)]
[Enemy fortress health –100]
Seo-jun realized the fact that bases were called Gap, Eul, and Byeong inside the game.
At that moment, sad news arrived.
[Blue (靑): 0] vs [Red (赤): 281]
[Our ally’s fortress has been destroyed]
[From now on, players cannot respawn]
Hmm.
“It seems if the fortress is destroyed while reviving, you can still finish saving them.”
Number1SwordInTheWorld added further explanations.
“When the fortress is destroyed, people can revive one last time. For me, it’s because Heavenly Demon-nim is reviving me. Otherwise, I would have revived at the fortress. But… one of the enemies is pretty good, so they are probably waiting near our fortress to end it quickly…”
[Baekho –> Dilla]
[Baekho –> ChurchToYeongheo]
“See. Didn’t I tell you?”
“Hmm, does that mean our teammates who just died can no longer respawn?”
“That’s right. In my opinion, the real noob crusher is that opponent team. He was facing three of our team members alone.”
-That wouldn’t be a standard, though? LOL.
-<<< Someone who just did a 1 vs 3 a moment ago.
-But the streamer is actually worse than a noob crusher. He keeps saying it's his first match and planting a sense of self-skepticism.
-But was it Baekho?
-Seo-jun-nim, that guy is more famous than you think.
-He's still doing that, LOL.
-I'm jealous of his nickname.
The user with the nickname Baekho seemed to be a real noob crusher.
Reading the chat, fortunately, noob crushers were not a big problem in For Chivalry.
The reason was that if you played the game just a little, you could escape the beginner zone in no time.
If the period of staying in the beginner zone had been long, noob crushers could have become beings that ruined the game.
‘Even setting aside that fact, noob crushing is indeed bad.’
[‘That Person’ donated 10,000 won!]
[He became somewhat famous by defeating rankers in private 1-on-1 games. He is also called the newbie cutter.]
-LOL, he was a named user?
-For Chivalry, a game where noob crushers are famous.
-I heard a rumor that he is a high tier in other games, though.
“Thank you for the 10,000 won donation. I see.”
Seo-jun expressed his gratitude without thinking much about it, but Number1Sword, who was watching from the side, urged him.
“Heavenly Demon-nim, let's quickly go capture other bases now.”
After Seo-jun revived him, he gripped his sword immediately.
However, Seo-jun did not budge at all.
“Why?”
Seo-jun stared at Number1SwordInTheWorld with eyes that genuinely did not understand.
“Ah… that's because we have to capture bases in this game?”
“Even if we just stay capturing it, doesn't the enemy's fortress health decrease continuously anyway?”
“That is true, but.”
“Then, we can just wait here.”
“If we stay here, all four enemies will group up and come, though?”
“What's wrong with that?”
“Pardon?”
-LOL.
-Move a bit, streamer!
-So lazy, anyway.
“No…”
If they were numerically disadvantaged, they should run around the map together and conduct guerrilla warfare to create some kind of variable, so why was he staying still!
“It's fine. Will we lose just because of this?”
-This guy simply has absolute confidence in winning, LOL.
-Indeed, if your body (skill) is good, your head doesn't have to suffer!
-A named noob crusher? This side is the greatest GOAT in the history of the Assassin Order!
-Ah, LOL. Can that noob crusher guy beat Ettore, Drake, the Magic Tower Master, the Knight King, and the Queen? LOL.
-Add the Assassin Order too.
The viewers who had watched Seo-jun's battles until now did not doubt his defeat.
Even if the opponent was a famous user who had defeated rankers.
***
Someone popped out of the bushes.
An ID was displayed above his head.
It was a user.
[Baekho]
He prepared to strike downward with his sword at a diagonal.
An enemy who had respawned in the ruined fortress spotted Baekho and took a stance to deflect the sword.
In For Chivalry, if the force of the deflection was not sufficient, the deflecting side would be subjected to stiffness.
Thus, the enemy made a large motion.
“Yeah. No way.”
However, Baekho was a noob crusher who had played For Chivalry since its early days.
To him, For Chivalry was just for killing time.
When he was playing other games and wanted to toy with people lightly, he would log into For Chivalry.
Baekho smoothly withdrew his sword midway through striking downward.
“Uh… Huh?”
It was a feint motion.
He had not applied force from the very beginning.
He had only pretended to apply it.
The enemy's sword failed to control the recoil, and taking advantage of that gap, Baekho stabbed the defenseless enemy's neck.
Using sword qi, that was.
The enemy's bewildered face was visible.
“Goodbye.”
[Dilla defeated]
And someone attacked Baekho from behind, but he knew it from the very beginning.
He deployed a light body technique and used martial arts again.
Actually, it was not even worthy of being called martial arts.
In conquest battles, as you played the game, your level rose according to your contribution, and as your level rose, the skills you could use also increased.
In the beginner zone, the skills that could be used were limited. Using sword qi was the end of it.
Of course, by entering a sect and refining a build, combat would gradually diversify, but that was bothersome.
It was one of the reasons why he stayed here.
Complex games were enough with other games.
Here, he just wanted to crush noobs without thinking.
“Cough.”
Without even looking back, the sword qi he extended backward pierced the enemy's stomach.
[ChurchToYeongheo defeated]
“Let's finish it quickly.”
He examined the game interface.
Three of his teammates were dead.
“What's this?”
Looking at the kill log, three people had been defeated by a single person.
“Hmm. A mid-game entry user. Another noob crusher? Or luck?”
He used a light body technique to run quickly toward the center.
As his level rose, other stats also went up constantly.
Although growth was not a highly important game mechanic, if it were a battle between masters, that subtle difference could not be ignored.
The same went for skills.
“Well, it doesn't matter, but if possible, I hope it's another noob crusher.”
Because something too trivial was also not fun.