The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 7
Chapter 7
The moment he defeated Ettore, Seo-jun lost control of his body, and a cutscene began to play.
“You hypocritical hound of the Assassin Order! I will not go alone like this!”
“!”
However, unlike Seo-jun, Dane, who was currently controlling his body, could not react immediately, and Ettore ran into the bedroom with a body near death and tore a piece of parchment.
Kaboom!
A fierce explosion erupted nearby, and the air was red as if it were burning.
“Damn it!”
As Dane checked outside the window, the nearby buildings were exploding one by one, with flames and timber scattering.
And at this rate, the next would be!
Crash!
As soon as Dane realized it, he threw himself out of the window to escape.
The screen showed Ettore laughing behind him.
Kaboom!
The moment Dane broke the window and leaped out, a massive explosion occurred behind him, and the flames scorched Dane’s back.
Ringgggg!
Tinnitus rang out, and by the time he began to regain his blurry focus with his face pressed against the grass.
“Over here! There is a terrorist here!”
From afar, blurrily, he could see soldiers swarming in.
Even in his dizzy state, Dane desperately got up and began to run.
He fell forward while climbing over the mansion’s wall, but got back up and climbed to the rooftop.
A chase unfolded.
By the time the distance was gradually widening and Dane’s vision was becoming clearer, an arrow flying from behind lodged in his shoulder.
And subsequently, a spell launching a fireball scored a direct hit.
Ultimately, Dane, with his battered body, fell into the river beside him.
An unidentified figure watched the scene.
The soldiers judged that he was dead after seeing him fall from the roof and turned back. And from there, the scene transitioned.
A man was staring blankly at the sea.
And just as he stood up to go somewhere, a dark shape washed up by the waves caught his eye.
The man gradually approached the shape and realized it was a corpse.
The man leisurely searched the corpse, took a brooch with a flying eagle—the symbol of freedom—from the chest of its clothes, and put it into his own pocket.
***
After regaining control over his body, Seo-jun looked at the chat window first.
– The cutscene hasn’t changed at all ㅠㅠ
– Dane dies every single time
– How is the protagonist looting a corpse LOL
Then, he said what he had been wanting to say since earlier.
“If it were me, I would have deflected the arrow and the magic.”
– LMAO
– Ruining the mood, crazy LOL
– It really seems like he would
“No, doing that with someone else’s face is too much.”
– Real LOL
– He deserved to die LOL
After checking the reactions in the chat window, Seo-jun clapped his hands.
“Okay, so what should I do now?”
The place he was currently in was a tavern.
Christina, whom he had seen during the tutorial, was wiping a cup.
“No matter how you look at it, it seems like I’m supposed to talk to her…”
Seo-jun approached her. As he got closer, the auto-progression began once again.
“A customer? Do you need something?”
“Something I need? Yes. A whole lot.”
Christina showed signs of wariness, and Seo-jun took the brooch out of his pocket and slammed it onto the table.
Christina was startled and hastily grabbed the brooch to hide it.
Then, after scanning the surroundings to see if other customers had watched, and confirming that fortunately there was no reaction, she hurriedly took Seo-jun into the kitchen where only the two of them were.
“Who are you?”
“Calm down. I just came because I thought I could help.”
“What… does that mean?”
“I’m confident in requests. Especially assassinations.”
“…How much do you know?”
“Everything. I know the tiresome history, the goals, and even the fights between your Assassin Order and the cabals that form the social ruling class. Because I once fought those cabal bastards in Sion.”
“Are you, perhaps… a guy from the west?”
“That’s right.”
“A mercenary who does anything for money, then there is no way you would side with the cabals. Good, then let’s exchange names. I am Christina.”
“I am…”
Seo-jun’s mouth regained its freedom.
– Oh, is he finally choosing a nickname now?
– Was Jin Seo-jun his streamer name all along?
– Real name isn’t bad either lol
Currently, Seo-jun’s streamer name was his real name. This was because he hadn’t set it separately.
Streamer names were so diverse and free that one could just use a friend’s name like Kim Tae-woo, name themselves after a percussion instrument, or even use a slightly modified catchphrase.
‘The safest bet is a real name.’
Since he didn’t even know how long he would be doing this anyway, there was no point in agonizing over it.
And as for the game nickname.
“Unnamed.”
[Would you like to set it as ‘Unnamed’?]
It was a trendy term in his past life.
Unnamed. Contrary to the meaning of having no name, it was a moniker that seemed to have some weight, so it was highly popular in his past life.
[Yes]
“Okay, good, Unnamed.”
“How should I contact you when I need to?”
“Wait, before that, I need to know where the owner of this brooch is.”
“I buried him at the western pier.”
“I see. Alright.”
Christina showed a calm reaction even upon hearing the news of her colleague’s death.
It seemed like a presentation to indirectly show how easily a person could die in the line of work they were engaged in.
[From now on, you can receive assassination requests at the ‘Sun Tavern’!]
“Use this to contact me.”
[You have acquired a ‘Signal Stone’!]
Seo-jun received the item called the Signal Stone and came out of the tavern.
– Unnamed all of a sudden?
– Is the streamer’s nickname going to be Unnamed from now on?
– How can a person’s name be Unnamed LOL
“Ah, Unnamed is just a game nickname. But since I haven’t decided on a streamer name yet, I’ll go with this for now. Just call me whatever you like.”
[Jin Seo-jun – 6 Viewers]
– Yep
– Seo-ha!
– Kya! Unnamed! It’s a nickname that perfectly suits an assassin! GOAT!
“Alright! I will end the stream now. I’ll turn on the stream at the same time tomorrow. T- *cough*. T-bye.”
Seo-jun stuttered, finding it somewhat cringey to shout T-bye.
– LOL so cute
– T-bye
– I’ll definitely come tomorrow.
“Uh, but does it save if I just leave?”
Games were truly difficult in this aspect.
It was absolutely not because he was old.
– LOL I thought you were leaving
– You can just turn it off. For real.
– Oh, this newbie LOL anyone would think it’s his first time playing a game
Flash!
***
“Hey.”
“Yeah?”
“Is this you?”
[Video of a newbie, new to both streaming and gaming, parrying 13-to-1 to clear minor mobs and defeat Ettore for the first time in the universe during the tutorial (Seriously not fake)]
[Views: 750][Upvotes: 25]
Tae-woo clicked the screen of his phone to check the video.
“No matter who looks at it, it’s definitely you.”
The place they entered was the Dawn of the Assassins community.
The reason was because of a strange chat that had appeared in Seo-jun’s chat window a moment ago.
– Should’ve come earlier, can’t believe I missed that LOL
Seo-jun, who was reviewing his broadcast, thought that he had not seen such a chat during the stream, and upon checking the time the chat was posted, it was a few minutes after the stream had ended.
So he scrolled up the chat window.
– Is this the unrivaled stream?
– Why is it offline?
Besides these, many similar chats had been posted.
Seo-jun was flustered. This was because there was no way people would visit even after the stream had ended.
Of course, in the case of well-known big streamers, people would sometimes visit even when the stream was offline.
However, Seo-jun’s was a stream that had only just been watched by six people.
So he had asked Tae-woo, who ended his stream at a similar time, and found this post.
[Video of a newbie, new to both streaming and gaming, parrying 13-to-1 to clear minor mobs and defeat Ettore for the first time in the universe during the tutorial (Seriously not fake)]
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(Video of the 1-to-13 fight)
(Video of the first clear of Ettore with unrivaled play)
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A user named ‘Joseon’s Assassin’ had meticulously clipped and posted it.
‘It was that viewer from earlier.’
He was quite an impressive viewer, from recognizing his skill early on to spamming the chat.
Seo-jun scrolled down the screen to check the comments.
– Fuck, the title is fake from the very start
– Cho-Am is good at parrying as expected lol. It’s at a godlike level.
– Is this your first time playing? You should have some conscience.
└ But was his skill originally at this level?
└ It’s not me. Lord Unnamed did it. There is absolutely no fabrication in the title.
“How do you get a first clear on your very first day and even gain a viewer who promotes you? Incredible.”
Tae-woo said from the side, looking dumbfounded as he watched this.
“Promoting?”
“Yeah, what else would this be if not promotion?”
Tae-woo scrolled down the screen to highlight a comment.
– It seems this bastard Cho-Am changed his avatar to a slightly better one because he’s streaming. His old face was really……
└ LMAO fuck, lowkey throwing shade
“Hold on. No, not this one.”
– So who is he?
└ Go check here (channel link) quickly. He is seriously insane.
– Is this really the first clear of Ettore?
└ Yeah. He was a newbie who couldn’t even climb walls properly.
└ Is that even possible, crazy
– Dawn of the Assassins 10,000-hour veteran, Mr. Cho-Am. Please refrain from pretending to be a newbie.
└ I said it’s not me!
Although it was clearly directed at Joseon’s Assassin, Seo-jun momentarily felt a prick of conscience at the words ‘pretending to be a newbie.’ But since he was indeed a newbie to Dawn of the Assassins, whatever.
– Wow, his skill is seriously insane.
└ He just ended the stream (channel link), watch the VOD at least. Lord Unnamed is the hope of unrivaled play!
Seo-jun understood what Tae-woo meant.
“So this is why you call it promotion?”
“Well, yeah. Your followers must have increased by now.”
Tae-woo was right.
The followers, which were at six, had exceeded sixty before he knew it.
[68 Followers]
“Oh.”
“And it will probably hit 30 upvotes soon. Then they will increase by a lot more. I’m going to sleep now.”
In the community, there was a feature that filtered only the posts that had received upvotes from more than thirty people on the bulletin board.
And since the majority of people who only lurked in the community mainly viewed posts with thirty upvotes, the difference in view counts between posts with ten upvotes and thirty upvotes was massive.
“Sure, sleep well.”
Seo-jun felt a strange sense of anticipation.
***
The number of upvotes on the post written by Joseon’s Assassin surpassed thirty, just as Kim Tae-woo had predicted.
And the community caught fire, just as usual.
– Newbie my ass, it’s fake.
└ How do you even fake it?
└ Does our friend not know about something called video editing? haha
└ Then are you saying a streamer with six viewers hacked the travel server? Fuck, LOL. That’s more impressive than defeating Ettore.
– People are so naive. Do you really believe that at face value? Lord Unnamed, my foot lol
[Why the 30-upvote video of Lord Unnamed is fake]
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Because I can’t do it!
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– Real LOL. The bastards calling it fake are just jealous.
– But honestly, can’t most pros do at least that much?
└ These guys changed their tune. ‘It’s fake’ -> ‘Anyone can do it.’
[Why the video of Lord Unnamed is legendary]
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There are several reasons why veterans haven’t been able to defeat Ettore for a week.
One is that, in the lore, Dane is close to an ordinary person and cannot use skills. That’s why you have to play without skills in the tutorial as well.
(The developers probably intended this)
Two is that Ettore’s weapon is a flail, which has no parry judgment. In other words, there is no instant kill. (But this is the same for most bosses. An instant kill is only possible through assassination.)
The third is the time attack, which is actually the biggest problem.
Honestly, most veterans would be able to hold out while just fighting somehow.
But dodging everything you need to dodge and continuously hitting only the same spot within five minutes?
Unless you perform feats like in that video, it’s impossible.
Until seeing that video, most people thought it was impossible. Because there was no one who had properly succeeded in seeing how far the damage could be amplified.
The pros are busy.
That streamer named Seo-jun who defeated it on the first try has insane skills. In the first place, who could grab a flail at that distance, neutralize all attacks, and slit the neck?
But a newbie? What on earth is he.
I was just in awe while watching. He is a true god of control. Who on earth catches that and beats it LOL
I hit subscribe immediately.
Anyway, now that I know defeating Ettore is at least possible, I’m going to challenge it (can’t resist this), but honestly, I don’t think I can do it.
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– Conclusion of this post: The pros were busy, so he got the first clear. That guy named Seo-jun isn’t particularly amazing.
└ This guy is seriously suffocating.
└ Just go watch the video once. He’d eat most pros for breakfast.
└ Stop fucking exaggerating. A pro just because of one first clear?
– Upvote for the analysis
[In the first place, why make such a fuss about a first clear or whatever? LOL It’s not like many people even challenged it.]
– This was definitely written by someone who has never played a game. The unreasonable hate is insane.
Seo-jun, referred to as Lord Unnamed due to the influence of Joseon’s Assassin, was on the lips of many people, and in the end, their conclusion converged into one.
[Honestly, if you think Unnamed should turn on his stream right now to be verified, upvote lol]
– It hasn’t even been three hours since the stream ended.
└ Yeah, but I’m still going to hold my breath until he turns it on. Don’t you dare stream. If someone dies because you don’t stream, it’s only Lord Unnamed’s loss. (Author of the post)
└ (This is an already deceased comment.)
└ Someone please teach that bastard what a loss is? LMAO