The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 58
Chapter 58
“Heavenly Demon…”
“Stop it, you bastard.”
By the time the surrounding gazes gathered at Dang So’s shout, a user sitting on the chair next to him smacked the back of Dang So’s head.
“Keuhuk.”
“I told you to try begging, when did I tell you to praise him out of the blue!”
“How is this praising!”
“Isn’t ‘Advent of the Heavenly Demon’ praising? Huh?”
Hmph.
In Seo-jun’s eyes, the user presumed to be Dang So’s companion was quite sensible.
He seemed like the first normal user he had seen since coming to For Chivalry.
‘Thinking like this makes me feel like I shouldn’t play this game anymore…’
He hadn’t known it would be this kind of game.
He looked above the head of the user who had spoken sensibly. The nickname was Unnamed.
It was the nickname he had used in Dawn of the Assassins.
-Did he just praise him out of nowhere? Lolololololol
-Unnamed? The streamer’s character was Unnamed too.
-Isn’t Unnamed the standard rule for assassins?
It was indeed the standard rule.
“Sigh. You couldn’t even beg properly, so just get lost to the Demonic Sect.”
“Unnamed! Don’t give up on me!”
“Shut up.”
“I said I don’t want to go to the Demonic Sect! Hurry up and persuade that guy!”
Dang So pointed at Seo-jun with his finger, and Seo-jun made eye contact with Unnamed, whose gaze moved along that finger.
“Hello, Heavenly Demon-nim. I’m Unnamed. My faction is the Unorthodox Faction.”
“Greetings.”
“So, are you going to take this bastard—no, this guy, to the Demonic Sect?”
“Yes.”
Since they had not signed a contract or taken any collateral, they could not force him even if he refused to accept the bet.
However, seeing how he was trying to persuade him like this, it seemed he surprisingly did not run away.
“Is that so? Then please take him away quickly.”
Wait, he wasn’t even trying to persuade him.
Dang So looked up at Unnamed with an expression filled with a sense of betrayal.
“You! Didn’t you say you would persuade him!”
“When did I? Besides, who told you to make such a bet? Huh? You reaped what you sowed.”
He was right.
“Ha! Do you have no loyalty?”
“Yep, none.”
Dang So stood up, grabbed Unnamed by the collar, and began to shake him.
-He should have persuaded him himself lololol
-I’d abandon him too
-Still, Dang So is a decent asset, but he’s not holding onto him.
Frankly speaking, Seo-jun thought Dang So would just run away.
Even if he ran away and met him again, he could just ignore him.
Since many people had watched, those who knew would tease him, but wouldn’t that be all?
“Stop shaking me.”
“I don’t want to?”
“If you hadn’t foolishly insisted that it was a scam, huh? Does that skill look like a scam to you? Huh?”
“Fine! I get it, so hurry up and persuade him!”
“Ugh. You’re not making sense. Do you really want to die? I’ll literally…”
“Fine. Enter a one-on-one with me.”
“I’m sending the request right now.”
The collar-grabbing soon escalated into a fight.
A border was drawn around them.
A transparent barrier was erected so that people could not enter, and those nearby began to gather to watch.
“By the way, everyone is accepting the results of the bet quite readily.”
Seo-jun also began to watch the fight.
-Of course!
-They have honor
-The name of the game is For Chivalry, so they have to keep the bet
-Chivalry my foot. What is the game I’ve been playing up until now lol
-They’re so deeply entrenched in the game that most of them know each other’s names, so there’s no way they can get away without keeping a bet lolololololol
The victory of the one-on-one duel went to Unnamed.
According to people’s explanations, Unnamed’s ranking was lower and his matchup was unfavorable, but the opposite result had occurred.
As for the reason behind this, people offered various opinions, such as that going to the Demonic Sect was just that shocking, his mental state was shattered, and so on.
Was the Demonic Sect really that bad?
Dang So looked up at the ceiling with a vacant face, and Unnamed approached Seo-jun and spoke.
“I’d appreciate it if you could get rid of this guy quickly.”
He did not know how he was supposed to get rid of him.
Dang So approached and said.
“Lord Heavenly Demon, I will remain in the Unorthodox Faction and steal information. So, if you cancel the bet, the Demonic Sect will surely be able to win!”
Seo-jun once again admired him inwardly.
Indeed, this guy spoke quite normally.
“Yeah, you’ve just been kicked out of the chat room.”
It seemed his foolishness remained unchanged.
Although he had no intention of granting it, to think he would say that right to his face.
“By the way, Heavenly Demon-nim.”
Unnamed, who had dismissed Dang So, looked at him solemnly.
“What is it?”
“It will be difficult for the Demonic Sect to win.”
Why was he suddenly showing signs of wariness?
‘I know.’
***
“Well, since things turned out this way, I think it’s for the best!”
Having ended up going to the Demonic Sect, meaning he no longer needed to beg Seo-jun, Dang So’s tone of voice returned to normal.
They walked out of the town and headed toward the Demonic Sect.
Seo-jun had no reason to go along, but since he had plenty of time left, he joined him.
“Let’s aim for the Demonic Sect’s victory!”
‘I told you that won’t work. It’s impossible.’
“It’s a pity I can’t make it into the top 16, but wouldn’t it be quite nice in its own way if I create the Demonic Sect’s first victory?”
‘I’m telling you, it’s not that it’s “nice,” it’s just impossible.’
They arrived at the sparring platform.
“Baek Wi-gang isn’t here.”
“Well, since the NPC who appeared in the raid was Baek Wi-gang, it’s only natural that he isn’t here, isn’t it?”
Instead, there was a different NPC.
Dang So went over there, demonstrated his skills, and changed his faction to the Demonic Sect.
“But isn’t Great Grandmaster seriously a scam?”
“……”
“Just let me see the quest window once…”
***
The news that someone had cleared the Orthodox Faction in three minutes began to spread.
It started from the chat room where the Orthodox Faction’s rankers gathered, [Eoujeong] (Anyway, the Winner is the Orthodox Faction).
-Guys, someone cleared our faction in three minutes?
-Did the route get leaked?
-Ah. The Unorthodox Faction bastards are going to take the lead right from the start.
-Don’t worry, no no. The route isn’t normal, seems unrealistic.
-Really? Then I won’t care. Anyone making a Demonic Sect route, please share some info.
-It is impressive, though.
Since they had urgent matters at hand, they did not pay much attention.
The Unorthodox Faction’s chat room, [Wijengcheoksapa], made efforts such as designing traits to utilize that route, but they concluded that fighting with all their internal energy depleted would take longer to kill the target, and lost interest.
Overall, it was a normal reaction.
However, it was different on No-Hyeop, which was in the midst of a fierce debate.
[The 3-minute Orthodox Faction route is out.]
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-Wow, so there was a method like that.
-Highly skilled Demonic Sect players might find it worth trying.
-For me, I’d probably get stuck right from stabbing the sword into the wall and landing on it haha
-Oh. He really did it? Where did the guys who were cursing him earlier go?
The reason Seo-jun had been criticized also included the fact that he had made absurd remarks.
However, since those remarks had turned out to make sense.
[The bastards who were calling him a scammer just a few minutes ago]
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Where did you go?
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-Wow, these guys were cursing him so savagely.
-Look at the unreasonable hate.
-They’re dumbasses who nitpicked over four minutes to someone who cleared it in three minutes lololol
└Real, four minutes wasn’t a bluff but an expression of humility?
└Can’t those guys get banned?
└Blocking is the only answer!
-They’re the type of guys who’d claim he hacked the raid too.
As even normal people who said to wait and see because there was no evidence had been criticized, the aftermath was severe.
[There’s nothing special in either the quest window or the item window, you fabrication-crying parrots]
-It seems Great Grandmaster is his real skill too. He’s revealing everything they asked him to show on stream right now?
-This should be enough.
-In the title category, alongside Great Grandmaster, there’s Peak-Level, First-Rate, and all of them.
-Look at them cursing so hastily.
-Is a Demonic Sect victory possible too?
└Fanboying should be done in moderation. What do you mean victory.
└Look at you popping up only on comments like this lolololol. Hey. Do you still think it’s a scam? Huh? You 3-minute curry-like bastard who was proven wrong in three minutes.
└3-minute curry lolololol
└The 3-minute curry squad bastards are just too stupid.
└I found the screenshot of him cursing him. He was indeed part of the 3-minute curry squad lol
The comment telling people to fanboy in moderation was deleted soon after. However, the term “3-minute curry squad” began to be widely used.
[Justice prevails!]
[Show yourselves, 3-minute curry squad who were just criticizing Lord Heavenly Demon.]
[The only scam was your lives.]
[The shortest-lived has-been controversy, 3-minute curry!]
Just like that, before Seo-jun even knew it, the brief controversy came to an end.
***
Seo-jun added Dang So as a friend.
“He’s just stupid and acts up because he likes attention, but he’s a good kid.”
Such was the viewers’ evaluation, and Seo-jun did not think much of it.
Afterward, he looked around at the people playing in various battlegrounds.
Going to No-Hyeop, he realized that there were quite a lot of people who had criticized him.
Actually, up until this point, Seo-jun had thought only Dang So had doubted him. However, seeing how the situation had resolved itself, he laughed along with the viewers.
And after ending his stream, he went onto ITube to gather information on how the previous battleground had played out.
[Here, the Orthodox Faction’s choice leads them to victory!]
Thanks to a streamer whose content entertainingly summarized and commented on the battleground situation, racking up hundreds of thousands to millions of views every time, he was able to enjoy watching it.
The next day, the game mode of the battleground was Occupation.
Since Occupation was originally the most popular and basic mode, it took up the most time.
And although people were curious about the reputation points he had acquired for achieving the three-minute record the day before, Seo-jun did not make them public.
“From now on, I will also keep my reputation points private.”
Having seen the controversy the day before, he had decided to hide information as much as possible.
Because it was also possible that a comparison with others might occur.
Reputation points affected contribution, but they also served as MMR, or Matchmaking Rating.
MMR referred to the score that served as the standard for game matching.
This meant that if reputation points were high, games would match high-rated players together, and if they were low, low-rated players would be matched together.
Afterward, Seo-jun was also invited to the Demonic Sect’s group chat room.
Dang So, who had entered the Demonic Sect, had joined it and fooled around that day before inviting Seo-jun.
[Even if Only 2nd Place] [999+]
It was pitiful.
To think the room title was aiming for second place.
The number of users present was in the sixties.
-Lord Heavenly Demon, your three-minute record was amazing, you are our hope.
-I believe in you
-If we get 2nd place in this battleground, it’s totally possible to serve you as the real Heavenly Demon.
-For real lol
-Guys… stop it. We look too pitiful…
The atmosphere was amicable and gentle.
Perhaps because they had received so much disregard, at least within the chat room, their camaraderie for each other seemed tighter than that of other factions.
Though that might not be the case in-game.
According to what he had heard, purple dye and underwear sold incredibly well in the Demonic Sect.
Seo-jun continued his winning streak the next day, and the day after that.
Despite the evaluation that his traits were clearly for crushing newbies, he had won easily.
Granted, there were opinions that he would no longer be able to crush newbies with his build as the gap in reputation points gradually widened and he began matching with players of a certain caliber.
Day 6.
The clock hands pointed to seven o’clock, and the map was uploaded.
-Today is Escort. I just realized.
-It’s my first time seeing it, is it a mode only in the battlegrounds?
-Yep
-They say if you just play the game, they’ll get you a job at an escort agency!
-Practically a game mode for those bandit bastards
-For today at least, we have to fight the Unorthodox Faction, for real.
Seo-jun said.
“If it’s an escort, it does seem appropriate to play against the Unorthodox Faction.”
The game mode was Escort.
The defending faction had to assist the escort bureau in transporting the cargo or escort VIPs to their destination, while the attacking faction had to seize or damage that cargo.
Here, the escort bureau could be easily compared to a post office, and the cargo to a parcel.
And whenever one embarked on this escort journey, there was one faction that always appeared.
Namely, the Green Forest.
Where did the escort journey take place?
Mostly mountain travel.
And it was inevitable that there would be bandits in the mountains.
Therefore, in the Escort mode, fighting against the Unorthodox Faction was regarded as the standard rule.
-Attack, let’s go
-We have to seize it from the Green Forest bastards
-The situation is super funny lol
The situation the viewers found funny was precisely when a faction other than the Unorthodox Faction attacked the Unorthodox Faction’s territory.
In Escort, the side attacking the territory was assigned the objective of seizure.
Because of this, if they went to capture the Unorthodox Faction’s territory, a picture would emerge where bandits protected the escort bureau and the cargo, while the Orthodox Faction tried to steal that cargo.
“Yes, but even so, I won’t be attacking.”
He could not give up the success bonus.
Seo-jun did not underestimate the veterans.
[The escort journey will begin in 1 minute.]
Still, in order to meet the bandits, he chose the territory of the Unorthodox Faction’s reception area and opted to defend.
“Hi there.”
“Hello.”
“Yes. Let’s play well.”
Seo-jun was summoned to the starting point.
His teammates were visible.
Escort was played with 3 players per team.
“Huh? Holy shit. It’s the streamer. Hello.”
But someone who recognized him appeared.
-A viewer?
-What are you, did you stream snipe him?
-So envious of the viewer participation
Viewer participation.
It was the abbreviation for viewer participation.
Normally, when a streamer decided to do a viewer participation stream, they would select viewers to play the game together, but there were also cases where they met randomly by chance.
Seo-jun pondered for a moment.
Whether to speak informally or formally.
While he spoke formally to the viewers, he had been communicating using the Heavenly Demon’s tone of voice as much as possible with the people he met in the game.
But to meet a viewer in the game.
While Seo-jun was lost in thought like that, a female teammate who did not know him asked.
“Is he someone famous?”
“Yes. He is Dawn of the Assassins’ greatest output, none other than the Shin Ha-yeon Slayer, and the true Heavenly Demon!”
Hearing those words, Seo-jun decided to talk down.
“Silence.”
‘Please.’
-Lolololol
-Shin Ha-yeon Slayer, what a crazy bastard lololololololololololololololololol
-This might be a bit controversial?
-The fans are coming to protest lol
-This statement has nothing to do with the viewers
-Quick cut-off, shiver
The female teammate’s eyes widened.
“Oh. Is he that amazing of a person? But he just told you to shut up?”
Then, his viewer replied.
“That’s an insane reward.”
-Ah, it is indeed a reward lol
-Lolololololololololololololololololol
-I’d love it even if he told me to shut up
-Anyway, he’s going to carry the game, so if he tells me to shut up, I should shut up
-For real lol
-As expected, like streamer like viewer lol
Why on earth was it ‘like streamer, like viewer’?
He really didn’t know.
Putting his question behind him, Seo-jun let out a sigh and said.
“Let’s just play the game.”