The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 62
Chapter 62
“Damn Heavenly Demon villain.”
Baekho drew a flying dagger and raised his arm.
Did he create a new ID and choose the Tang Clan this time?
“You finally made it out of the beginner zone where you were stuck for several years. Congratulations.”
“Ha. Talking trash is really annoying. Yeah, I came to get you!”
Raising his voice, Baekho swung his arm vigorously.
The flying dagger released from his fingertips drew a long sideways arc, aiming at Seo-jun’s temple.
If one were to point out the characteristic of the Tang Clan’s attacks, it would be that the trajectory of the flying dagger changed with each form.
Also, it was famous for the fact that the game provided aim correction.
Under the influence of this correction, however, the attack always ended up in the exact center of the vital point, making it rather easier to block and preventing precise throwing, so high-level players did not use it.
Clang!
Seo-jun lightly lowered his sword, intercepting the flying dagger in mid-air.
“As expected, you parry well. You crazy Heavenly Demon villain bastard.”
He did not know why he kept calling him a villain.
-Hahaha, from his perspective, he’s a Heavenly Demon villain indeed.
-How many times did he say ‘I am the Heavenly Demon’? He really is on the level of a villain, hahaha.
-Even in our eyes, the streamer is indeed on the level of a villain.
-Isn’t that guy who ended up making another account to stream snipe him a villain too?
-Well, he was originally a noob-crushing villain anyway.
While profound contemplations on the villain were being shared in the chat window, Baekho drew flying daggers in both hands again and swung them.
“Then try parrying these too!”
The flying daggers flew in, drawing unusual trajectories in the same manner.
Seo-jun, reading the trajectories, twisted his body and swung his sword.
Clang.
The flying daggers lost their power and fell to the floor.
“This too!”
As he avoided the two flying daggers, another flying dagger flew in a straight line into his field of vision.
Seo-jun felt a sense of unease, looking at Baekho with a meaningful expression beyond that flying dagger.
***
A week ago, he—whose game nickname was Baekho and real name was Lee Sang-chul—had his account deleted in For Chivalry, a game he had enjoyed for several years.
The first emotion he felt after being kicked back to the lobby was definitely bewilderment.
“Isn’t it a bug?”
It was not.
“They didn’t catch me until now, and now they’re imposing sanctions just because of a streamer like that? Does this make sense?”
How many years had he spent in the beginner zone?
“Right. Let’s check what pretext they used to sanction me. I didn’t throw matches, nor did I troll.”
Match throwing was the act of intentionally losing a game.
By trolling, not participating in the game, or leaving, and so on.
Game companies naturally blocked this and considered it a subject for sanctions.
However.
Clearly, all he had done was play the game diligently.
“If this is a problem, they should have fucking made it so people would climb out of the beginner zone immediately!”
He went onto the website and looked at the sanctionable behaviors.
As a result of checking, there was nothing about the act of continuously enjoying the game in the beginner zone.
“Exactly. This isn’t right!”
He immediately posted a thread on the community board.
[Accusing Movie Soft of sanctioning users without any criteria.]
===
Hello, users of Nohyeop.
Movie Soft sanctioned me, claiming that I played in the beginner zone.
I guarantee you that I did not commit any sanctionable behavior.
As a user who just occasionally enjoys For Chivalry lightly, I felt that my skills were lacking to leave the beginner zone and I was also scared, so staying behind and playing the game was everything.
The game company also did not make a big deal out of it, and I used to play the game occasionally like that.
However, while enjoying the game as usual, I suddenly had my account expelled.
I have left an inquiry asking for the reason for the sanction, but I cannot understand it at all.
If my behavior was a problem, why did Movie Soft leave me alone until now?
And I question whether whatever I did is something that warrants having my account deleted immediately without a single warning.
===
The post seemed well-written in his opinion.
He had never written this kind of post before, but he thought it explained his situation and the atrocities committed by Movie Soft fairly well.
“Now, shall we look at the reactions?”
After writing the post, he submitted several inquiries and even made a call to customer service, then returned to the post, which now had dozens of comments.
It was the first comment.
-Are you Baekho?
└ It’s Baekho, hahaha.
-What were you hoping for when writing this post, hahaha?
└ No conscience whatsoever lol.
└ What happened?
└ That bastard got banned.
“What? How do they know?”
The people in the community seemed to know him well.
Because it was Baekho’s first time visiting and he usually had no interest, he had not known, but he had a certain level of recognition in Nohyeop.
Furthermore, the board he posted on was the Incidents and Accidents Board.
Had it been the Free Board, it might have been different, but the Incidents and Accidents Board was a place where the most veteran players of an already dead game resided, and there was no way they would not know Baekho at all.
-You deserved to be banned.
└ Did you think you would be safe after bullying our cute and precious newbies!
└ Barf
-As a Taoist of Mount Hua, I could not tolerate such lawless behavior that even market ruffians would not do, but… Finally, Splendid Soft (영화(榮華) 소프트) is doing its job.
└ That’s not the right Hanja for ‘Younghwa’. And why aren’t you translating ‘Soft’? Aren’t you going to commit to the concept?
└ 喝 (Shout)!
-If you make a new account, come to the Demonic Sect. The Demonic Sect will be able to embrace you.
└ You are in the Unorthodox Faction, so why are you recruiting that bastard into the Demonic Sect, you motherfucker?
└ Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
It was a complete mess.
What he wanted was at least a certain degree of sympathy, and insults.
However, the comments, busy playing among themselves, did not seem to have a shred of interest in the content he wanted them to see.
“What is this.”
Originally, Nohyeop was just that kind of place.
There were comments that focused on the content, though.
-It’s clearly written that bad-mannered behavior within the game can be sanctioned at any time, so what is this bastard talking about, saying he didn’t commit any sanctionable behavior?
└ If he had that kind of conscience, would he have crushed noobs there?
-Baekho, no, you’re not even Baekho anymore. Since you lost your nickname lol. Just go to the Demonic Sect. Even if your account was deleted, you can create one more. But if you get banned one more time, it’s a permanent ban, so be careful.
└ Stop bringing the Demonic Sect into this, fuck.
His eyes trembling more and more as he read the comments, he shouted.
“Oh, right, my nickname!”
A rare nickname of that level was not common.
In any case, he deleted the post that had negative public opinion, or rather, didn’t even have any public opinion to speak of.
Whew.
Then, taking a deep breath calmly, he thought.
“Right. Honestly, I expected that I would get sanctioned eventually.”
Although he had written the post by downplaying his faults ‘just a little bit,’ he too knew the fact that his actions were abnormal and bad-mannered.
So, he had no right to complain even if he got banned.
In the first place, the game was just to pass the time.
But.
Why was he so angry?
Why?
The moment he calmly dug into his inner emotions like that, he realized.
It was not the fact that he was sanctioned, but the fact that he had been completely played with that made him angry.
That obnoxious face and voice came to mind.
[Surely, the developer won’t leave such a bad-mannered user alone, right?]
He immediately turned on Travel and entered that streamer’s VOD archives.
He wondered why, and with what kind of deep-seated resentment, the streamer had mocked him and even egged on the game developers to ban him.
[Ah, that noob-crusher guy is really bad. Thank you for the 10,000 won donation.]
[The title of newbie cutter is a waste on him. Thank you for the 10,000 won donation too.]
Along with those words, ‘hahaha’ rose up in the chat window.
And the most important fact.
There were no such donations.
“Heavenly Demon villain, you son of a bitch! Ah! Fuck! Even this was a lie!”
He had been thoroughly played.
Just thinking that they had made a laughingstock out of him from beginning to end and that thousands of people had watched and mocked that sight made his chest feel stuffy.
Annoyance surged up.
He did not know why he had to receive so much stress in reverse from a game he played to relieve stress.
***
When the next day came, he thought.
“I must take revenge.”
Indeed.
If he did not repay it somehow, he would not be able to sleep.
“First, let’s admit it. It won’t work with skill.”
The night before, even when he tried to sleep, he could not, so he stayed up all night looking up information about Jin Seo-jun, lying down, and looking it up again.
That was the conclusion he had reached.
It would not work with skill.
In that case, what should he do?
He had to know his enemy, and prepare so they could meet.
[‘Jin Seo-jun’ has started streaming]
Watching his stream the next day, he found a way to take revenge!
He logged into For Chivalry.
The game starting from the very beginning.
“Ah, fuck.”
[This nickname is already in use.]
[Would you like to use ‘Baekho 3’?]
[Would you like to use ‘Baekho 4’?]
[This nickname is already in use.]
“Who on earth uses nicknames like these.”
[Would you like to use ‘Baekho 5’?]
[This nickname is already in use.]
“They took this one too. Ah!”
For a moment, he thought about using a different nickname.
However, if he were to take revenge, it would look better to use a nickname similar to before.
It wasn’t like he was going to take revenge in hiding anyway.
***
“This is an opportunity.”
After joining the Tang Clan of the Unorthodox Faction, he bided his time.
And eventually, the opportunity came.
The optimal one at that.
He thought that he only needed to inflict a defeat on that guy just once.
Because the competition for the 16th place in the individual rankings was that fierce.
“Stream sniping is doable.”
Other viewers had succeeded as well. There were three opportunities left.
“The game mode is also highly suitable.”
In Escort mode, even if he did not win the battle, he could inflict a defeat on Seo-jun.
Perhaps if not today, the opportunity for revenge might never come again.
While watching the stream to catch the timing, he started the game.
“Did it work? Did I get in? Please! You’re dead!”
Although the stream was cut off once the game started, he had a method that worked.
He hastily began to run.
The teammates left behind whispered among themselves as they followed behind him.
“What is up with that crazy guy?”
“Let’s go quickly too.”
“Okay.”
Even if he heard strange remarks, it was fine, so he had to go quickly for now.
Because if he failed to stream snipe, he would have to finish this match quickly to aim for the next opportunity.
Fortunately, a game message arrived that calmed him down.
[Looking at the timing, it seems you ran into him?]
A message from the friend he had asked.
If one could not watch the stream within the game, someone who could watch could just let them know.
Just one piece of the most important information.
[There is a large brown box in the middle of the wagon, and the small box right next to it, on the left side based on the direction the wagon is going, is the escort goods.]
[Thanks]
A defeat due to the damage to the escort goods would feel absurd and hollow to Seo-jun.
This was what stream sniping was all about!
He slowed down his speed and sent his teammates ahead first.
In order to clearly grasp the position of the escort goods and devise a trajectory to hit it.
‘Confirmed.’
Deriving the trajectory, he stepped forward.
“Did you miss me, bastard?”
“Who is that?”
“Wh… what?”
“Hmm… I’m seeing that ‘ID’ for the first time.”
“You son of a bitch.”
He almost lost his reason for a moment, but held back.
‘Being that confident and shameless will only last for now.’
The Heavenly Demon villain lightly parried the flying dagger he threw.
Right. Of course he had to parry it.
“Then try parrying these too!”
Throwing two flying daggers simultaneously, he prepared the most crucial blow.
Currently, the Heavenly Demon villain’s position was slightly away, diagonal to the wagon.
Therefore, he aimed the trajectory so that it initially appeared to head in a straight line toward the Heavenly Demon villain, but would curve midway to strike the escort goods.
Then, the game would end immediately.
“This too!”
You are dead.