The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 40
Chapter 40
The headquarters of Movie Soft Korea.
Kim Yoon-chan scratched his cheek while looking at the monitor.
“A noob crusher.”
Kim Yoon-chan was a Teusu (a nickname for Travel stream viewers, combining Travel and Baeksu [jobless]), who kept streams on no matter what he did at home.
As a true Teusu who occasionally watched streams while keeping an eye out at work under the pretext of checking game sentiment, he was in a state of happiness because he could openly watch the stream under the pretext of verifying the sponsored broadcast.
First, he contacted the CS (Customer Satisfaction) team of For Chivalry.
It was a department that handled inquiries from various customers.
And he turned his eyes back to the stream.
[Now, the game is won, and I will calculate the points now.]
-Patriot Punch! Patriot Punch! Patriot Punch!
-Treasonous bettors, are you in your right mind? Treasonous bettors, are you in your right mind? Treasonous bettors, are you in your right mind?
-Streamer, that’s my college tuition!
-That repertoire is so predictable, LOL.
-Then my retirement funds…
[This game comeback.]
[Possible] vs [Impossible]
[55%] vs [45%]
This was the result of the channel point prediction that Kim Yoon-chan checked.
“Ah, they should have obviously bet on ‘Possible’. Are they blind? No, it’s actually better for me if they don’t believe him. Anyway, thanks for the meal.”
He also obviously bet points.
A considerable amount, on ‘Possible’.
How regrettable it was that he couldn’t watch the collab stream with Alpaca live last time.
“Hmm, if I had bet back then, would I have bet on ‘Failure’?”
After all, finding the grain was something truly hard to even imagine.
[Why did you guys believe in me so much? Go commit treason. No, saying it like this sounds weird. In the first place, why is it called patriotic and treasonous betting?]
-LOL.
-A streamer forcing treason, shaking my head.
-Should we immortalize this in the controversy section?
“Cough. No, he’s got a bit of craziness.”
While constantly saying strange things with an unbothered, calm expression, he also played the game well.
He played truly, insanely well.
Yet it wasn’t that he lacked social skills.
He was just incredibly slick.
On top of that, he even possessed the appropriate luck and ability to create a narrative.
“From his very first match of For Chivalry, he entered mid-game, met a noob crusher, turned the game around, and even taught him a true lesson. Kyah.”
Was he born to be a streamer?
The start was good.
[Number1SwordInTheWorld sent a friend request, and I just accepted it. Oh, he came here right now.]
In For Chivalry, you could meet people on the general map as well.
In preparation for large crowds, there were also channels like in computer RPG games.
Private channels also existed for users who did not want to meet others.
[Heavenly Demon-nim, I watched through spectating. You really won. Daebak.]
[I told you. This game is simple; you just don’t die and catch all of them.]
[That is truly so. Heavenly Demon-nim, if you have time by any chance, do you want to queue as a duo for the next match too?]
-LOL.
-Didn’t that guy feel embarrassed about roleplaying since it was shown on broadcast?
-Ah, when you can get carried, who cares about such a temporary, fleeting emotion? LOL.
‘You can’t resist a carry.’
Kim Yoon-chan snickered and typed in the chat.
By the way, as expected, watching a stream during working hours was fun.
Ordinarily he wouldn’t be able to watch this much, but today was special, wasn’t it?
‘How will the reaction be? Hearing it earlier, there were quite a few foreigners.’
Coincidentally, a message from Yves Paimo arrived.
The content was short and to the point.
-To my office.
Kim Yoon-chan headed to the president’s office immediately.
Upon entering inside, the voice of the streamer he had been listening to until just a moment ago came out.
“Wait, were you watching the stream too, President?”
Come to think of it, the person who set the mission when defeating the Magic Tower Master last time… was it the President?
While Kim Yoon-chan stared at Yves Paimo with suspicious eyes, Yves Paimo was peering into his monitor with a satisfied face.
His eyes were going to fall out.
“I am watching to verify.”
“There’s no need to watch all the way to For Chivalry, though.”
“It’s during a sponsored broadcast.”
Since when did the president make sure to watch streamers doing their assignments?
Kim Yoon-chan’s suspicion deepened even further.
“Well, setting that aside, why did you call me?”
“Ah, the thing is, the reaction this time is turning out much better than expected.”
“If you mean reaction…?”
“I’m talking about the overseas side. Thanks to him occupying the Level 10 AI spot in the Training Ground, quite a lot of overseas viewers flocked to his stream, and because of that, people began to show interest not only in the teaser video but also in the full story of what happened.”
“Ah.”
“Since foreigners are curious, Koreans explaining things like the Fragments of Order, Rulers, and Grain also appeared, and that in turn is coming under the spotlight.”
It was a positive thing.
No matter how much a company promotes to create interest, there is a limit.
It was like state intervention in a capitalist market.
If the state intervened, there would be an effect, but isn’t it the most efficient and the best-case scenario for the market to move on its own?
It was the same here.
“Wow, especially since you, President, felt it was a pity that the full story was revealed in Korea. After all, the easter egg had to be unlocked in the English-speaking world for more people to know the details of the event. But if interest is drawn like this…”
“Exactly. It’s a situation that couldn’t be better for us. And I thought about it, but apart from our sponsored broadcast and the easter egg, did he really have a reason to reveal Unnamed’s identity today of all days?”
In truth, it wasn’t that the contract with Movie Soft was absent from Seo-jun’s calculations.
However, first of all, defeating the Level 10 AI again was driven more by a desire to provoke his junior, Shin Ha-yeon, who was following behind.
And revealing his identity was a move to gather as many people as possible since he was switching games.
Movie Soft was just a bonus.
However, they did not know.
“That is true.”
“Hehehe, he’s very smart. If it’s like this, we have no choice but to give him something more.”
“That would be so. As expected of Seo-jun-nim. Kyah.”
“Hmm, what would be good as a gift? A sponsored fee increase? Or one more sponsored broadcast?”
“That would be good too, though I don’t know if he would accept the latter. Oh, something like this might also be good…”
Perhaps a good idea occurred to Kim Yoon-chan, as he pulled out his phone from his pocket and began to search for something.
Yves Paimo waited quietly, and after scanning through something like videos quickly, Kim Yoon-chan handed his phone to Yves Paimo.
[What is parrying? – Dawn of the Assassins (Shadows in the City) #1]
[A story of wiping out a gang after getting caught pickpocketing – Dawn of the Assassins (Shadows in the City) #2]
[If you trust me and bet points, I will return them 100-fold – Dawn of the Assassins (Shadows in the City) #3]
[Noble Faction Ruler? Stripped all armor except stockings – Dawn of the Assassins (Shadows in the City) #4]
“Oh… That is quite an interesting title.”
These titles were all made by Han Ji-min, who possessed know-how in channel management.
Because ITube’s algorithm was so complex, it was impossible to clarify the exact correlation of whether it was thanks to the titles or not, but in any case, Seo-jun’s ITube continued to sail smoothly after employing the two editors.
To the extent that it recorded an average view count of 50,000, with the highest view count reaching 130,000.
The highest view count was the collab video with Alpaca.
It was thanks to the people who migrated over after watching Alpaca’s video.
“That is Seo-jun-nim’s ITube.”
“Aha. So what about it?”
“I watched all of them, and the explanations are good and they are fun, you know? President, let’s produce English subtitles for the videos of him catching the Rulers.”
“English subtitles?”
“Yes. On top of that, if we pin a link to Seo-jun-nim’s ITube in the comments of the teaser video…”
“The users can easily know the full story, Seo-jun’s ITube gets promoted, and we also get to repay him. This is completely, what was it? Catching a crayfish after running away?”
“Clearing the ditch, sir.”
“Right, that.”
“Then shall we proceed like that?”
Yves Paimo nodded.
“If you’re going to do it, produce them for all the videos uploaded so far. If we only do the videos related to the Rulers, it would be too heartless.”
“Jeong, indeed. You’ve completely become a Korean.”
Yves Paimo burst into laughter.
“Well, setting that aside, what happened to Baekho?”
“Ah, hold on. I got contacted by the For Chivalry CS team, and they say there shouldn’t be any problem even if we impose sanctions.”
“Hmm, no problem under the terms of service either?”
“Yes. What the user Baekho did was indeed an ill-mannered act. They say the reason why the operations team didn’t catch him until now was because it was ambiguous since that user didn’t play the game much, nor did he throw matches.”
“It certainly is ambiguous.”
“Right?”
“Just force-delete his account.”
“Pardon? Is that allowed?”
“Originally, severely ill-mannered users are all force-deleted. In my eyes, noob crushing is also a sufficiently severe act.”
In For Chivalry, general insults or leaving matches only resulted in warnings or suspensions, but if ill-mannered behaviors like intentional trolling to lose on purpose or severe insults were clearly confirmed, they ruthlessly force-deleted the account.
They could make a new account.
However, they had to start from the beginning, and if they were force-deleted once more, they could not enjoy the service permanently.
“Yes, sir. Understood.”
“And we should prevent the situation where someone can remain in the beginner zone continuously no matter how much they win. Though, in the first place, no one would have known that there would be a user trying to stay in the beginner zone continuously.”
“That is true.”
“He is helpful in many ways; I’m glad we entrusted the sponsored broadcast to him.”
***
“Wow, Heavenly Demon-nim, we are on a 4-game winning streak!”
Number1SwordInTheWorld was swinging his sword around in the base where all the enemies had collapsed.
Not only did they unconditionally win the games, but he occasionally sent him forward and even taught him, so there was no way it wasn’t fun.
Although getting teased by his tone in between was annoying sometimes, Number1SwordInTheWorld considered the embarrassment to be his tuition fee.
“I can select a sect now. Would you like to do just one last match?”
“Hmm, shall we?”
Seo-jun had also accumulated enough experience to select a sect if he did just one more match.
If one completed the streamer verification, they could use various convenience features, and skipping the beginner zone quickly through an experience buff was one of those features.
“Sounds good.”
-One more match, one more match, one more match!
-It’s about time to wrap up, though.
-Because he’s leveling up soon.
The convenience features for streamers did not only include rapid leveling up.
However, Seo-jun could not enjoy them right now.
This was because most of the features in For Chivalry could only be accessed after escaping the beginner zone.
Therefore, the moment one selected a sect was the true start of For Chivalry.
In that sense, Baekho, who loitered in the beginner zone, was a truly strange guy.
“Why isn’t he appearing?”
“Pardon?”
“Ah, Baekho. We haven’t seen him for four matches.”
“That noob crusher? Wasn’t he really sanctioned?”
“Is that so? That’s good.”
-LOL.
-The streamer really killed him, shivering.
-Murder, controversy, immortalized.
-What do you mean murder, you crazy guy obsessed with immortalizing, LOL.
“Well, even if he met Heavenly Demon-nim, I don’t think he could do anything.”
No sooner had Number1SwordInTheWorld’s words finished.
Matching for the last game was caught.
[Conquest battle begins.]
And while scanning the enemy team’s list, Seo-jun and his companion’s eyes locked.
It was because Baekho was in the enemy team’s list.
“He ended up finding me and sniping me after all, everyone.”
-Aren’t you working, Movie Soft?
-Let’s cut him quickly.
-Real, LOL.
While you could watch the stream when catching matching, you could not watch the stream during game progression.
That meant playing while watching the broadcast was impossible.
“Sigh.”
He’ll show up on his own while playing.
Just as he expected, when he went to the central avenue where NPCs traveled, Seo-jun confronted a user flying from the opposite side.
“Hey, you Heavenly Demon, no, Jin Seo-jun, you son of a bitch. You dare to bluff?”
Bluff? What bluff was he talking about?
“Do you know how anxious I was, thinking I would get suspended because of you? You’re dead now. Now that I know your stream name, don’t think you’ll be able to play this game in the future.”
Aha.
“Movie Soft sponsored broadcast? Manager? So what? Did you think you could suspend a user who hasn’t been suspended until now just by doing that?”
Seo-jun instantly figured out the reason why he hadn’t bumped into Baekho until now, and spoke to his viewers in a voice loud enough to reach Baekho on the opposite side.
“No, so, what Baekho over there is saying is that he was scared thinking he would get suspended, right? Then when he didn’t, he came to snipe me belatedly.”
-Seems like it, LOL.
-That Baekho guy is telling us the whole story. If you think about it, maybe his brain is pure?
-What does it mean that his brain is pure?
-It means he’s stupid.
“Shut up. Be prepared from now on.”
Baekho shouted loudly from afar, drew his sword, and leaped high.
He flew rapidly through a proficient light body technique, and Seo-jun prepared to deflect it.
It was at that moment.
“Huh? Hey, you son of a bi—”
Pop.
Suddenly, Baekho stopped in midair as if lagging for a moment, and then disappeared from the world after leaving a death cry.
It was when he had come about halfway toward Seo-jun.
-?????
-What’s this?
-A new type of skill?
-An evolved form of the light body technique?
-Shift Form and Change Position? Shivering.
The people were momentarily flustered, and the same went for Seo-jun.
However, he did not lose his composure even amidst the confusion, and checked the opponent’s list to grasp the situation.
The list showed an empty space because one person had left.
Seo-jun finally lost his composure and burst into laughter.
-Ah, LOL.
-No way? LOL.
-Look at him disappearing with a pop.
The viewers also seemed to have realized.
Seo-jun immediately delivered the victory news.
“Everyone, Baekho has ascended to immortality. Please pay your condolences.”
-LOL, legendary timing, LOL.
-X
-X
-Ascension form is insane.
-I believed in you, Movie Soft!
-How can his last words be, ‘Hey, you son of a bi’ LOL.
-LOL.