The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 41
Chapter 41
The Dawn of the Assassins community.
Amven.
Here, not only did viewers communicate with the streamer in real-time, but they also gathered to share the interesting things they saw with others.
[Horror, Bizarre) A user who disappeared in mid-air in real-time]
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Where on earth did this user go?
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-(Raccoon Photo) The streamer handled it, so rest assured!
└ LOL.
-Mr. Unnamed sent him to ascension, LOL.
└ Sending people to ascension as he pleases, Mr. Unnamed is truly the GOAT.
└ But what is ‘ascension to immortality’?
└ It’s the name of a new skill.
└ No way.
[Looking at the timing, isn’t the God of Streaming protecting him?]
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The genius of broadcasting, Jin Seo-jun! The genius of broadcasting, Jin Seo-jun! The genius of broadcasting, Jin Seo-jun!
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-Or he might have planned it with Movie Soft. The timing couldn’t be like that otherwise, LOL.
└ Streamer’s specialty: loves dramatic staging.
-Instead of seeing his life flash before his eyes, that guy saw the game developer’s sanction text.
└ LOL.
[But if you want to crush noobs, can’t you just play a game you’re playing for the first time well like the streamer and legally crush noobs?]
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Why hang around in the beginner zone like a coward like Baekho and get banned? I genuinely don’t know.
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-Is that even possible?
-You mean you don’t know how to play well like the streamer, right? Right? Huh?
└ Ah, so that’s what the writer meant, LOL. I almost got angry for a second.
└ Real, LOL. I thought you were asking why others don’t do it like the streamer. Is there any idiot who thinks people don’t do it because they don’t know? They don’t do it because they can’t.
[I just checked, and it’s true that Baekho’s account was deleted, LOL. Someone else took the nickname.]
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I don’t play For Chivalry, but I’m jealous!
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-In the midst of that, there’s someone who grabbed the Baekho nickname? The reaction speed is indeed like streamer, like viewer.
└ Real, LOL.
-Is that Baekho guy famous?
└ Yeah, somewhat famous.
└ But why on earth are you asking that here? And everyone, tone down the talk about Mr. Unnamed. He’s playing For Chivalry now, damn it.
Eventually, with the continuous posts related to Seo-jun, people began to ask why they kept talking about him when he didn’t even play Dawn of the Assassins anymore.
Wasn’t the story of a noob crusher getting suspended in a game called For Chivalry unrelated to the community’s topic?
The reactions to this were diverse.
[??? Why talk about Seo-jun?]
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Hyeopben is scary. I like our cozy Amven.
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-LOL, agreed.
-Honestly, Mr. Unnamed is basically everyone’s streamer.
-But if we go to Hyeopben, we’ll probably get Ip-ben, hahahaha.
└ This kind of trash post gets 30 upvotes, and this kind of comment gets the top comment. This place is completely ruined.
[The one who brought this lady while playing Dawn of the Assassins until just now was our streamer, so can’t we talk about that a bit?]
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(Photo of Viola)
(Photo of Viola)
(Photo of Viola)
(Photo of Christina)
(Photo of Viola)
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-Totally agree.
-Real, if it weren’t for the streamer, we would have met Viola-nuna at least several months later.
└ Viola is definitely approved!
-I think something evil is squeezed in the middle? Let’s do an ideology check. Are you with the Assassin Order or the Cabal?
└ It’s the Demonic Sect!
└ Demonic Sect is approved, LOL. Since Mr. Unnamed’s nickname is the Heavenly Demon.
└ He played For Chivalry for just one day, and he already joined the Demonic Sect, LOL.
[Honestly, from the moment Mr. Unnamed became the Level 10 AI, isn’t he the greatest output of Amven?]
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It’s not even enough to beg the streamer not to abandon us, agreed?
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-Real, LOL.
-Everything is good, but why is the streamer our output?
└I don’t really know too, but let’s just insist on it (Writer).
└ LOL.
└ Historical distortion: ON.
-Real, LOL. That guy Unnamed was the weakest among us.
└ A worldview where Unnamed is the weakest is actually terrifying??
└LOL, absolute horror.
The reasons why people thought it was fine to mention Seo-jun were diverse.
And most of them did not possess a single shred of logic.
However, except for a few, everyone soon assimilated and began to play along together.
It was because Seo-jun’s recognition, at least limited to the Dawn of the Assassins community, was extremely high.
If people talk about a story only they know, one feels alienated, but Seo-jun’s recognition was so high that it couldn’t become such a story.
And gradually, Seo-jun began to be mentioned in the For Chivalry community as well, and the news of Seo-jun was delivered even to the small-scale chatroom of For Chivalry rankers.
[JustOnePenny]: Guys, the 14th Heavenly Demon of the season has appeared, LOL.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Oh, LOL, the Heavenly Demon again?
[JustOnePenny]: I looked into it, and this Heavenly Demon beat Shin Ha-yeon first of all. His pedigree is completely different.
[ThirdElder]: Silence! The Heavenly Demon already exists. How can there be more than one Heavenly Demon, who is heaven itself!
[JustOnePenny]: There is no Heavenly Demon, so what kind of roleplay is this?
These were users who ranked within the top 100 in For Chivalry, and they were the most talkative users in this room.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Oh? That streamer named Jin Seo-jun or whatever? He came to play For Chivalry? I should go watch.
[JustOnePenny]: Yeah, but as soon as he arrived, he turned on a sponsored broadcast, LOL. Legendary.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: A capitalist Heavenly Demon is legitimate, LOL.
[ThirdElder]: Silence!
[ThirdElder]: ~~@@ …Young ones… there’s nothing they won’t say!!@@
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Is talking nonsense a racial trait of the guys who chose the Demonic Sect?
[JustOnePenny]: The performance of the Demonic Sect is such garbage, so you have to understand even if they go crazy, LOL.
[BanditKing]: Real, LOL.
[ThirdElder]: Anyway,,,, kids these days!!! ,,,Damn it@@
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Coming from the youngest one here, LOL.
As it was a chatroom created for a few verified rankers to socialize, they had never met in person outside, but they knew each other to some extent.
[JustOnePenny]: 8th-grade syndrome can’t be helped, LOL. Since it’s a period of storm and stress.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: You’re working hard to use that awkward boomer-speak.
[ThirdElder]: …
Watching this, the professional player Lee Dong-soo snickered and began to talk about Seo-jun.
Professional players registered under Surface receive sub-accounts in addition to their official public accounts, and the nickname of the sub-account under which Lee Dong-soo enjoyed For Chivalry was BanditKing.
Due to a lack of play time, his ranking was 183rd, but it was a sufficiently high rank.
[BanditKing]: Baekho got banned too, LOL.
[JustOnePenny]: Ah, I intentionally didn’t talk about that.
[ThirdElder]: Was the one who wrecked Namgung-hyung in the past Baekho? He must be feeling good right now.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Shut up.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: But why did he get banned?
[BanditKing]: He got caught crushing noobs on Seo-jun-nim’s broadcast while Movie Soft was sponsored. But what’s also funny is that he got sanctioned after getting wrecked by Seo-jun-nim.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Really?
[BanditKing]: Yeah.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: That bastard Baekho fights really well when limited to the beginner setup, though.
[ThirdElder]: That’s because you… got wrecked…
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Elder, shut up. Shall I raid your middle school once?
Laughs of ‘LOL’ filled the chatroom.
[BanditKing]: Anyway, it’s not Baekho anymore. Someone else took the ID.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: LOL.
[JustOnePenny]: LOL.
Laughs arose again.
Lee Dong-soo laughed in reality and began to bring and share Seo-jun’s previous videos in the chatroom.
Even though he got beaten up every time they met at the gym, he felt proud for no reason that he was acquainted with Seo-jun.
[JustOnePenny]: Wow. He’s really good? It wasn’t for nothing that he beat Baekho.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Dawn of the Assassins looks fun. Should I play it too?
[JustOnePenny]: Go together?
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Go go after the Battleground ends.
[JustOnePenny]: Ah, right, the Battleground.
In For Chivalry, a game mode called Battleground opens twice a year for three weeks on a quarterly basis.
The Battleground is a game mode where factions clash over the Central Plains, and whenever they win a battle, players gain contribution points for their faction.
And the 16 players with the highest contribution points receive special rewards and are invited to tournaments hosted by the developer.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: But speaking of Seo-jun-nim, if he had come to our game just a bit earlier and adapted, wouldn’t he have been able to achieve good results in this Battleground too?
[JustOnePenny]: What’s the point of that. The Battleground starts tomorrow anyway, LOL.
The Battleground starts tomorrow.
It was unreasonable for a newbie who just played a game in the beginner zone to aim for a high ranking.
Even if that streamer adapted perfectly to the game and his sect in just one day tomorrow, the gap of that single day was immense in the Battleground.
Because of that, the other rankers felt a sense of regret.
However, the Bandit King, Lee Dong-soo, thought differently from them.
“I think it’s possible in my opinion.”
The reason was simple.
Because Seo-jun was better at gaming than he, a professional gamer, was!
Lee Dong-soo barely defeated the Magic Tower Master yesterday and is conducting his hidden quest today.
Although he hadn’t clung solely to Dawn of the Assassins all day long, hadn’t Seo-jun succeeded in just a single try?
“Of course, with that hyung’s personality, he probably won’t care about rewards or anything in the first place and will just do what he wants.”
Anyway.
[BanditKing]: One thing is for sure, if he had come just a bit earlier, Seo-jun-nim would have secured 1st place in the individual rankings, LOL.
[JustOnePenny]: That’s a bit much… That Bandit guy probably has no sense of contribution points at all since he’s never done a Battleground, LOL.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Since he beat Shin Ha-yeon, maybe around 16th place is possible?
[ThirdElder]: We don’t even know if 16th place is possible. Just because he’s good at the Training Ground, will he be good at For Chivalry too? There are many other factors.
[JustOnePenny]: That guy is going on the defensive because Seo-jun-nim uses the nickname Heavenly Demon, LOL.
[ThirdElder]: What do you mean 16th place for a newbie who hasn’t even chosen a faction yet, LOL.
[ThirdElder]: That makes no sense.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Maybe.
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: Still, there is one sure thing, LOL.
[JustOnePenny]: What?
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: The Demonic Sect will come in dead last in this Battleground too.
[JustOnePenny]: Real, LOL.
[ThirdElder]: Ha… just wait and see starting tomorrow, seriously! This Battleground is different!
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]: It reminds me of a certain baseball team in Busan, LOL.
[JustOnePenny]: That team saying ‘this year is different’ for 30 years? LOL.
***
Seo-jun lightly stretched his body and came out of the capsule.
It was his morning routine.
“Hmm. Today, I’ll select a faction, and what else should I do?”
The last game of the previous day could be seen as having ended blandly, except for the incident where Baekho appeared.
He had shut down the broadcast after reaching the level where he could select a faction, and today he decided to look around together with the viewers.
“Should I go with the Demonic Sect?”
Considering his nickname, it was a decent choice, but in truth, he didn’t care much.
As long as the stream was fun, it didn’t matter what he did.
“By the way, since the viewers were at 6,000 when it ended yesterday…”
An immense number of people had watched.
It seemed the aftermath of the Training Ground would continue today as well.
It certainly seemed like a good decision to reveal it.
Since he had grasped the feel of broadcasting to some extent.
Toward the end of the stream, people had dropped off compared to the beginning, but that was unavoidable.
“Since there were many foreigners, it can’t be helped.”
And there must have also been quite a few people who left after seeing the ending of Dawn of the Assassins.
Even so.
“The first button of the new game was fastened well.”
Seo-jun thought like that, sat at his desk, turned on his computer, and opened the donation history.
Soon, as he looked at the report card for the past week, his mouth automatically fell open.
“Oh.”
[This Month’s Donation Total]
[4,370,000 won]
Adding the 700,000 won received during the joint broadcast with Alpaca, the earnings for the past week exceeded 5,000,000 won.
‘Since the editor’s base salary is 1.5 million won per person.’
It could be seen that in just one week, the break-even point for this month was exceeded solely through donations.
‘Insane. At first, I was thinking of a deficit…’
On top of that.
There was also the sponsored fee.
As for ITube, the editor Han Ji-min said it seemed to have caught the algorithm already.
And the subscribers were said to exceed 20,000.
‘I feel like I can really buy a capsule even without the tournament.’
That did not mean he was giving up on LiOS, though.
Seo-jun reviewed the events progressing step-by-step and organized in his mind how he would proceed in the future.
And at that moment, Seo-jun’s phone rang.
[Han Ji-min]: Boss, I think you should take a look at this?