The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 44
Chapter 44
The Battleground is a famous content.
It was the most popular mode in the highly recognized For Chivalry, and stories that drew attention every season came out from it.
A three-way battle where one chooses one of three factions to compete against users of opposing factions and capture or lose territory couldn’t possibly be unfun.
“So, what shall we choose?”
First of all, let’s decide the pledge, you guys.
Seo-jun spoke as he read the increasingly bizarre penalties with dumbfounded eyes.
“I’m talking about the goal of the Battleground.”
– Just do the penalty first, LOL.
– Real.
– So what faction did you choose?
“Ah, I plan to choose the Demonic Sect.”
Orthodox Faction, Unorthodox Faction, Demonic Sect.
Among these three, the Demonic Sect was the weakest.
To the extent that they had never won the Battleground even once.
The reason was because their performance was bad.
Because the performance was bad, the number of skilled players was relatively smaller than in other factions, so they couldn’t win in the Battleground, and because of that, new users wouldn’t join.
It was a faction trapped in a repeating vicious cycle.
– Don’t cross that river.
– Of all choices, the Demonic Sect, LOL.
– Having that nickname makes it understandable.
“Right. Since I have this nickname and all.”
If one considered contribution points, it was better to go to the Orthodox Faction.
Because the Orthodox Faction had won the most Battlegrounds so far, and was the faction with the greatest possibility of winning this season as well.
Users of the winning faction receive additional contribution points.
Even without that, the Orthodox Faction was popular and had good performance by nature, and since its record of victories accumulated, users had no choice but to flock to it.
It was a faction in a virtuous cycle, the complete opposite of the Demonic Sect.
Of course, that did not mean Seo-jun choosing the Demonic Sect meant he had completely given up on the prize money.
“And it’s not like the Orthodox Faction or the Unorthodox Faction seems particularly better than the Demonic Sect either, though?”
– Then set the pledge as winning, LOL.
– Oh, LOL. The Demonic Sect winning? LOL.
– Who on earth did you learn For Chivalry from? T_T. The Demonic Sect is garbage. Repeat after me.
“The Demonic Sect winning? Sounds good. Simple.”
It seemed the first pledge was decided.
Seo-jun was thinking of one faction goal and one individual goal for the pledge.
– Practically a declaration that he will execute the penalty, LOL.
– Look at him just committing to it first, LOL.
– Uh-huh, he is the Heavenly Demon.
– Seeing what the streamer is saying, I bet all my points that he doesn’t properly know what the Battleground is.
– In the first place, the streamer didn’t know anything about the game!
It was natural for the viewers to find it absurd.
Because the ranking of a faction was not something that could be helped by individual strength.
No matter how unprecedented an appearance Seo-jun had shown in Dawn of the Assassins, the viewers knew the fact that an individual could not defeat a collective group.
The same went for Seo-jun.
“Yes, I also know that it is difficult for the Demonic Sect to win. So I plan to add another pledge. As long as just one of the pledges succeeds, there will be no penalty. How about it?”
– Okay.
– Honestly, the Demonic Sect winning is too much.
– We should just count it as non-existent, LOL.
They agreed much more easily than he thought.
The Demonic Sect.
Did it have that level of an image?
The viewers put forward various opinions while conversing with Seo-jun.
Getting into the top 16 of the overall contribution points ranking came out first, and other than that.
Becoming number 1 in contribution points within the Demonic Sect.
Not failing in attack and defense even once.
Collecting the most fame points accumulated whenever playing.
And so on.
Many opinions came out.
Seo-jun gathered them and conducted a viewer vote.
Every single one of them had a very high difficulty level.
Because most of them had watched Dawn of the Assassins, their standards for Seo-jun were high.
Nevertheless, the reason why Seo-jun accepted the opinions they presented.
Was because he was confident.
“Oh, you gave the most votes to the top 16. Well, then, let’s decide the penalty now.”
The pledge was set to getting into the top 16 in the contribution points ranking.
It was a goal that coincided with the prize money.
It was doable.
– Finally.
– Diving into the sea in the middle of winter.
– A Rage Quit single-session clear stream.
– Rather, a single-session clear stream of catching 5,000 razor clams in a mudflat.
– Showing Christina-nuna’s cutscenes.
– Isn’t a cutscene not a penalty? LOL.
Although some strange things were mixed in, various penalties came up.
Seo-jun wrote them down one by one on the roulette.
He had no choice but to write down the magical girl one too.
Because the person who suggested that penalty shot 100,000 won as a donation.
“Yes, I’ll add drinking Pine Bud Drink instead of water for a year. Instead, I’ll make it for a week. Stop spamming.”
All sorts of strange things came up, and Seo-jun filled the slots while adjusting the intensity of those penalties to an appropriate level.
“Why am I so calm, you ask? Because it doesn’t matter what gets selected.”
He intended to do it properly.
The thought that it would be very bothersome was also what he thought when he didn’t know about the Battleground properly.
– Insane confidence.
– Please, magical girl. Please, magical girl. Please, magical girl. Please, magical girl. Please, magical girl.
– I want to see cross-dressing and going to a club, though?
– You evil bastards, LOL. You guys just get out of here.
Honestly.
If something like that got selected and he failed, he might have to quit streaming.
No matter how young he was and that he had never grown old in his past life, he remembered a life where he was called an elder wherever he went.
Seo-jun shook his head and moved his mouse.
“Starting now.”
Whirrrr.
The roulette spun.
Perhaps because he had put in everything visible, a single slot of the roulette was extremely small.
Cold sweat trickled down his back.
It was entirely due to the magical girl.
Gradually the speed decreased, and the roulette stopped.
– Ah, jeez…
– Rigged.
– This isn’t it.
– Rigged.
– Isn’t a game single-session clear too easy for the streamer? LOL.
– Rigged.
“Aha.”
Seo-jun showed an appearance of being truly regretful.
While smiling mischievously.
“If I fail, I’ll do a Rage Quit single-session clear stream.”
Rage Quit was the name of a game, an extremely difficult indie game.
Wasn’t the name itself literally Rage Quit, expressing exiting in anger in English?
However, he knew, and the people also knew, that it practically did not correspond to a penalty for him.
“Well, then, I’ll enter the capsule right away.”
– That triumphant expression is so annoying, LOL.
– Someone please teach him a true lesson.
[‘RiggedDice’ registered a mission!]
[If you spin the roulette one more time and add one more penalty — Mission reward: 300,000 won]
Seo-jun’s hand, which was about to clean up the computer screen, stopped.
The nickname displayed through the settings was RiggedDice.
Once they started donating, they were a big spender viewer who shot in units of 100,000 won.
“Hmm.”
If he spun the roulette one more time, the mission succeeded? He couldn’t resist this.
However, accepting it at once was a novice move.
“Everyone, if I spin this one more time and cross-dressing gets selected, I’ll be contemplating whether to quit streaming and go into hiding, so why should I take the risk? I won’t do it.”
– LOL, to that extent?
– Hyung, let’s go clown streamer this time!
– You’re not doing this? Seriously?
– There are so many brilliant penalties in there…
That wasn’t it.
If he was going to make him take a risk, there had to be a corresponding return.
As if reading Seo-jun’s thoughts, alarms perfectly suited to the current situation came up.
[‘IfItCantBeSolvedWithMoney’ added 100,000 won to the prize!]
[‘ConsiderIfTheAmountIsLacking’ added 100,000 won to the prize!]
[‘MoreMoney’ added 50,000 won to the prize!]
– LOL, legendary unity.
– Are you trying to insult me!
– Are you trying to buy me with money!
“Ah, this really… I shouldn’t.”
While saying that, the mouse cursor moved toward the roulette.
At the sight of Seo-jun’s words and actions mismatching, the chatroom began to snicker.
– But to rebuke it, the money was simply too much!
– Don’t submit to capitalism, comrade!
– Do you have no pride?
Although many chats teasing him came up, Seo-jun ended up spinning the roulette.
An exciting BGM flowed out.
When time passed and it stopped, Seo-jun’s expression turned as if he had chewed on feces.
Seo-jun pressed between his eyebrows at the disastrous result, and then opened his mouth.
“…You know it’s fine as long as I succeed, right?”
Yes.
It was truly fine as long as he succeeded.
– Of course. We know very well, pfft, LOL.
– LOL.
– (Clenching teeth) Y-You know it’s fine as long as I succeed, right?
– I told you not to do it.
– Magical girl, YES!
– How on earth did this land on the magical girl, LOL.
– It’s the karma of capitalism, indeed.
The roulette had stopped in the slot that the pointer should absolutely not have pointed to, of all things.
[Dancing in a magical girl outfit in front of the main gate of the university the streamer attends]
Damn it.
This is why one shouldn’t covet money.
Although he originally intended to do it properly.
From now on, he was in a situation where he really, truly had to exert his full effort.
***
As soon as Seo-jun entered the capsule, he executed For Chivalry.
Beyond the village, bamboos shot up like mushrooms after rain, and pandas rolled around on the streets.
[You have achieved LV 5. From now on, you can select and enter the Murim faction you want.]
An information window meaning to select a Murim faction blocked his eyes.
Seo-jun pressed the confirm button to clear the window and walked toward the center where the streets gathered.
It was to find the path to the Demonic Sect.
– Since it’s the Demonic Sect, he’s starting by giving up on the winning pledge.
– Since that kind of penalty came out, are you really going to do the Demonic Sect? Not going to the Orthodox Faction? LOL.
– LOL.
“Sigh.”
Seo-jun left behind the excited viewers.
In For Chivalry, there were a total of seven detailed Murim factions that players could select.
Mount Hua Sect, Namgung Clan, and Beggars’ Sect of the Orthodox Faction.
Green Forest, Tang Clan, and Assassination Guild of the Unorthodox Faction.
The Demonic Sect.
Peculiarly, the Demonic Sect did not have detailed factions.
However, its trait builds were more diverse than other factions.
So a joke saying ‘the reason why the Demonic Sect is garbage is because the optimal build hasn’t been found yet!’ also came out, but what kind of people were the game veterans? Could they have failed to find the optimal build?
The established theory was that it was simply garbage.
‘Honestly, I thought of the Mount Hua Sect too, but I have absolutely no connection with them.’
Seo-jun clicked his tongue and hurried his steps.
“Everyone, but if you select the Orthodox Faction or the Unorthodox Faction, can you freely change the detailed factions?”
– Not freely, LOL.
– But it’s changing within the faction, so there is no penalty in the Battleground.
– The difficulty of the test when changing sects is higher than when entering. So you have to make a good choice first.
“Ah, do you have to take a test to enter too?”
– Yeah.
– And the Demonic Sect is the hardest to get a high grade in, LOL.
– Taking tests in a game too, dirty!
“Ha, I’ll study everything starting tomorrow.”
At Seo-jun’s declaration of studying, the viewers were busy teasing him again.
However, regardless of what they imagined, Seo-jun resolved to play the game efficiently.
He arrived at the center.
It was the large building where they had started the conquest battle.
There was a large map next to the entrance of the building.
When he approached and clicked it, a map unfolded like a hologram in front of Seo-jun.
“I have to go all the way outside the village.”
The Murim factions of For Chivalry were divided into two categories by location.
Either inside the village, or outside.
In the case of the Namgung Clan, Tang Clan, Beggars’ Sect, and Assassination Guild, their headquarters were inside the village.
And the Mount Hua Sect, Green Forest, and the Demonic Sect were located on the east, west, and north mountains respectively, based on the very first starting location outside the village.
“The Demonic Sect is to the north.”
The Mount Hua Sect was to the east, and the Green Forest was to the west.
“I just have to go straight up along the street the way I came.”
When he went outside the village, the entrance to the mountain appeared.
Seo-jun went up the stairs and headed toward the Demonic Sect on top of the mountain.
“So what is the Demonic Sect’s entry test? And what is the reward?”
– You demonstrate martial arts forms to the NPC, LOL. You can just create your own and show it.
– Is it because the concept of the Demonic Sect is originally about building your own style?
– Getting a high grade is huge when starting, but don’t tell me you are going to look at the guide in the community?
– Ah, LOL. If you don’t want to become a magical girl, you have to look up every single guide now.
– Real, like fire falling on the foot.
It seemed there was a reward.
A substantial reward, at that.
If so, he unconditionally had to perform well.
“Ha, why would I follow a guide.”
There was no need to worry.
Martial arts forms?
Whatever it was, getting the highest grade was in the bag.