The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 50
Chapter 50
On Adventure, a major gaming webzine site in South Korea, numerous gaming communities existed.
Although each community had a different inclination and culture, and incidents and accidents were frequent, the primary evaluation of users was that there was still no place like Adventure for obtaining game information.
[Demonic Sect Elder Baek Wi-gang evaluated my martial arts skill as Peak First-rate. How is it?]
Among them, Hyeopben was the community for For Chivalry, and the people who used Hyeopben mostly referred to the community by another name.
Namely.
Nohyeop.
The reason they called it by such a name was simple.
The English word “no,” meaning people who lacked chivalry, in direct opposition to the game name For Chivalry, and—
In the sense that there were the so-called “wuxia boomers,” a portmanteau of wuxia and boomer, who obsessed over outdated, orthodox wuxia—
老.
Namely, because it could capture the character “old” (노) together as a double meaning.
However, the actual average age of the site’s users was on the very young side.
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(Test Video)
Living forty years as a warrior of the Namgung. It seems I have not lived in vain.
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-Is Peak First-rate not a realm difficult to achieve? That is indeed an achievement that serves as a model for our sect. How about coming to the Demonic Sect this time?
└No, you devil…
-But this game hasn’t even been around for forty years? Brother Namgung, how did you do that?
-So you’re Demonic Sect garbage, why are you taking the test? So you’re Demonic Sect garbage, why are you taking the test? So you’re Demonic Sect garbage, why are you taking the test?
└You can take the test even if you don’t join, you bastard
-Hawawa, that is amazing
└Uhyo! Super awesome!
└Why do guys who use Japanese speech styles keep showing up no matter how much I block them.
└There is no such thing as a chivalrous hero. This is the Nohyeop you chose. Grit your teeth and bear it with sheer spite.
And the roleplaying was a bit severe.
It felt like they were letting out things here that they were too embarrassed to do in the game.
Of course, that did not mean there were no roleplayers in the game, nor did it mean that Nohyeop only had comments like these.
Rather, ordinary posts accounted for about 70%.
That is, posts that seriously analyzed and shared information.
-Looking at the video, they demonstrated it by mixing the Namgung Clan’s martial arts in the game well. Shiver. Since Baek Wi-gang would catch on if they did it exactly the same, they also varied the movements well. Are they an expert?
└Is he a black belt?
└We have to view them as at least a ranker. Among the Namgung Clan rankers, who would do that? Look at how they even wore a mask to hide it, haha.
└If you learn this old man’s identity, you will get hurt. (Post Author)
└I’m so jealous of the Peak First-rate title! Just one candy for me in the Demonic Sect.
Even so, it was only ordinary by the standards of an internet site.
-I’m a wuxia newbie who hasn’t even decided on a faction yet. Is Peak First-rate that hard?
└Yep
└There are standard movements for the Demonic Sect test. If you practice those for about a month and demonstrate them with all movements perfectly aligned, you can get the First-rate title.
└But you won’t get Peak First-rate. They say that to get Peak First-rate, you don’t know what it is, but you have to do it truly perfectly. There’s a reason the post author brought their own faction’s martial arts too. Since it’s the martial arts movements they used the most, they must have had that much realization. For your information, there aren’t many people who received Peak First-rate, not even 50.
└Oh my…… What do I do if it’s that hard
└Even so, it only changes the title that appears next to your nickname. Aside from getting good treatment when entering the Demonic Sect if you get a good evaluation, there’s nothing else, haha. Are you going to the Demonic Sect?
└No!
└Then it doesn’t matt
└Hahaha
A comment responding firmly and naturally, as if it was not even worth considering, to the question of whether they would go to the Demonic Sect.
And replies that anyone could see were mocking.
The numerous people ignoring the Demonic Sect that appeared when scrolling up!
Third Elder, a ranker of the Demonic Sect, really did not like the current atmosphere of Nohyeop.
“Dammit.”
└What’s even funnier is that among the Demonic Sect guys, there is no one who reached Peak First-rate, Hahahahaha
└For real?
└Yep
└How, in the Demonic Sect test of all things, Hahaha
└Baek Wi-gang is at fault, Hahaha
“No, if you’re going to say it, explain it properly! Just saying it like that makes it look like Demonic Sect users are worse than others.”
The characteristic of the Demonic Sect’s martial arts was that they had no movements.
Compared to the Mount Hua Sect, which possessed as many as twenty-four movements in a single martial art characteristic, it was to the point of being far too shabby.
Actually, it was not even a matter of being shabby. Because they did not have any at all.
“So you should let them know that there are no Demonic Sect players who reached Peak First-rate!”
The people who received the title of Peak First-rate were all, without a single exception, users who modified the martial arts movements they had unfolded while playing the game for thousands of hours.
In the first place, if one was capable of personally creating real martial arts movements, they would open a dojo instead of playing games.
“Or maybe not. A gamer might earn far more than a martial arts instructor……”
Having such silly thoughts, Third Elder intended to write a comment to explain about the Demonic Sect.
However.
└They are making such a big fucking deal over a mere Peak First-rate, haha. The 14th Heavenly Demon of the Great Heavenly Demonic Sect received the title of Great Grandmaster, haha. Look at those trash Namgung Clan guys getting all excited, lolol
An ordinary bait comment was visible.
The nickname was Fanatic.
Third Elder felt like slapping his forehead with a ‘smack’.
“It’s a Demonic Sect member……”
Both the nickname and the behavior.
Anyone could see he was from the Demonic Sect.
Although he also occasionally used boomer speech style in the group chat and liked roleplaying, he did not drag bait openly like that.
It was a bit embarrassing.
└Great Grandmaster my foot, Hahaha. Were you dreaming?
└14th Heavenly Demon? Haha. Didn’t you Demonic Sect guys have several hundred Heavenly Demons?
└Their imagination is at least good, haha. Bullshit about a Great Grandmaster.
It was a bit too embarrassing.
People said that the most effective response to bait was to ignore it.
However, looking at this comment now, Third Elder realized that there was a more effective response than ignoring it.
Namely, ridicule.
“Don’t tarnish the Demonic Sect’s image any further…… Fanatic.”
His desire to explain vanished completely.
He just wanted to escape from this place.
So he clicked the back button.
[Today’s Battleground Victor.]
[Upvote if you are proud to be a reliable Orthodox Faction warrior, haha]
[Demonic Sect Elder Baek Wi-gang evaluated my martial arts skill as Peak First-rate. How is it?]
[What is True Martial Arts, and 180 Reasons Why For Chivalry is Authentic Wuxia]
“I’ve seen them all.”
He habitually pressed refresh.
10 o’clock, when the Battleground closed.
It was the time when Nohyeop was most active.
If he pressed refresh, about one recommended post would pop up.
And although Third Elder found the newly posted article absurd, he burst into laughter.
“Hahaha. No, is he a crazy bastard? Isn’t this guy really a calculated anti-fan? Ah. What am I really going to do about the Demonic Sect’s image.”
Though he said that, it was honestly funny.
The post author was the baiter Fanatic who had been ridiculed earlier.
And the title was.
[“The Demonic Sect has gone crazy” The reason why the Orthodox Faction is trembling in fear and the Unorthodox Faction is in an uproar. “Just what on earth is the identity of the 14th Heavenly Demon?”]
“Ah, jeez.”
Now they were about to get stuck with an image of extreme national pride, no, extreme Demonic Sect pride.
Third Elder, who was laughing inwardly even as he let out a complicated sigh, moved his mouse.
You couldn’t not click a title like this.
However.
Third Elder’s eyes, which had been smiling when he entered, widened.
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(Clip of Receiving Great Grandmaster)
The true Heavenly Demon has arrived. From now on, the era of the Great Heavenly Demonic Sect will open. The Heavenly Demon descends! All demons submit!
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-????
-Hahahahahahaha
-Is this for real? The title is hilarious in the meantime
└Seems edited
└It’s true that there’s no way a higher-tier title would suddenly appear out of nowhere
-If you look closely, it’s similar to the standard movements, but how could that be when even Peak First-rate doesn’t come out?
-Starting with the post author’s nickname being Fanatic…
Attached to the post was a clip of a streamer actually receiving the title of Great Grandmaster.
People seemed to be in a state of uncertainty upon seeing this.
A grade seen for the first time appearing so suddenly out of nowhere?
It was the same for Third Elder.
“What is this? Is it real or what?”
Did the title of Great Grandmaster even exist in the first place?
Then why hadn’t other people been able to obtain it until now?
Third Elder felt the need to obtain more information.
And the best way to get such information was to try it himself.
“I’m turning on the capsule right away.”
For now, the situation itself seemed real.
Although the majority of the comments questioned its authenticity, the video was prominently displayed on Travel, after all.
Third Elder immediately entered the capsule.
And he turned on the stream.
[Starting the streaming.]
Not many viewers came in.
At most dozens, and at least about one person.
Because it was not a broadcast he did to make a living.
He was a student.
Specifically, the kind of student who was barely allowed to use the capsule if he did well on his exams.
He thought that he couldn’t stream properly and didn’t have that kind of talent.
-Why are you suddenly starting the stream?
-For real
-Kid, just go to sleep, you need to grow taller
-Is it vacation?
-Talent show on
NamgungFamilyWaiter and JustOnePenny, who were in the group chat, were visible.
In addition, rankers and people who frequently visited the community were also there.
Since everyone was resting after the Battleground ended, they had entered when his stream was turned on.
“I don’t know what vacation you’re talking about.”
Was it not said that the end-game content of some RPGs was simply running around in town?
The actions of veteran players were mostly similar.
Although they had nothing to do in the game, they did not leave the game either.
Because of that, they chose streaming for fun.
Third Elder as a streamer, and the others as viewers.
-What do you mean you don’t know, you were the most excited when vacation started
-This is why you shouldn’t reveal your identity, haha
-Third Elder’s avatar is a solemn old man, but in reality, he has chubby cheeks…
-A guy whose blood color got censored because he’s not an adult, haha
“Insolent! This elder merely changed the age mode because I did not wish to see the red color symbolizing the Heavenly Demonic Sect emerging from the bodies of lowly creatures. Do not spread groundless rumors that this elder is a middle school student.”
-Haha
-You play cute so well
-Orthodox Faction ranker brothers, where are you going to attack in tomorrow’s Battleground?
-Don’t try to extract information
-Come now, when avoiding each other is mutually beneficial
-What do you mean when you’re going to defend anyway, haha
It was more accurate to view this place as an extension of the community rather than a typical streaming environment.
Third Elder kept watching the video of receiving the Great Grandmaster title while opening a window and climbing the stairs of the Demonic Sect.
Gradually, older brothers who took an interest in him appeared.
-What are you watching?
-And why are you climbing the Demonic Sect mountain?
-Huh? Why are people gathered over there?
The place Third Elder arrived at was the sparring stage where Baek Wi-gang was.
At a location where it was usually hard to see even a single ant, several people were packed inside.
And every single one of them was staring into the air, which was also the case for Third Elder.
-Seeing that he isn’t answering, he must be sulking
-Hey, are you sulking?
-He is sulking, haha
-So cute
-That looks like the Demonic Sect test video, is it right?
“Hmm.”
Third Elder let out a low groan after finishing watching the video.
And he turned his gaze to the chat window.
“Ah, I’m not sulking, and they say a Great Grandmaster, which is higher than Peak First-rate, appeared in the Demonic Sect test. Brothers.”
And with the standard movements, at that.
That was even more surprising.
To receive a title higher than Peak First-rate through a slight variation of the movements for which First-rate had been the limit until now.
-?? What is a Great Grandmaster?
-Yeah, don’t talk bullshit, haha
-You guys go check Nohyeop right now. I just saw it and it seems real?
-But isn’t that Seo-jun? The one I mentioned last time
Ah.
That streamer from back then.
“For now, I think I’ve roughly grasped what was modified from the standard movements, so I should give it a try. There’s no limit on attempts anyway.”
He climbed up onto the sparring stage.
The other people around still seemed to be checking the video.
“Heh.”
It was in these aspects that the difference in talent between a ranker and an ordinary user showed itself.
He confidently drew his sword on the sparring stage and demonstrated the movements.
He narrowed the stride of his feet, twisted the angle of the sword, and added sharpness.
As the sword moved, he felt a sense of unity as if all lines were connecting into one.
He had confidence.
That at the very least, First-rate would come out.
Since it was a result he had already received once, after all.
And the result was!
“Tsk tsk. You have no basics and no talent for composing movements. You are Third-class! Get lost!”
The eyes of Third Elder, who had the First-rate title hanging next to his nickname above his head, began to shake violently upon hearing the scolding.
“Pfft.”
Although the people watching him around covered their mouths, laughter leaked out.
“Ah, damn.”
With blood rushing to his cheeks, he wanted to turn off the stream immediately and run away.
-Hahahahahahaha what did you do
-Even at his worst, he wouldn’t get Third-class, Hahahahahahaha
-Please return your First-rate title
-Great Grandmaster, should I go try it once too?
-Let’s go to the Demonic Sect to take the test right now.
-To take the test X To tease our cute middle schooler O
And.
Famous rankers who held the Peak First-rate title began to move to determine the truth.