The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 83
Chapter 83
[Eo-u-jeong]
[Eo-u-jeong], short for “Anyway, the winner is the Orthodox Faction,” was the private chat room for the rankers belonging to the Orthodox Faction.
Right now, a brutal beating was taking place in this room.
– ???: I just need to win.
– What kind of confidence was that?
– The contribution score is legendary, lol. Even the developer probably didn’t think of this case.
– In the first place, Movie Soft is to blame for not setting a limit on the reputation score you can get.
– Up until the 11th consecutive win, it was still tolerable so the atmosphere was good, but because of someone…
– Right, that one guy is the problem, what sin did the other people commit?
– First of all, he has no tact.
– He has no thoughts either.
– No brain either.
Of course, no one could deny that this beating was, naturally, reasonable and justified.
The individual ranking spot where only a few select rankers competed?
They could just let that slide.
Just because the most skilled person was decided to be that streamer, how much of a problem would it cause for people who weren’t in first place to begin with, and how would it change the world?
But the reputation score was different.
The Demonic Sect faction had directly surged in power and become a threat.
– If you’re watching, why aren’t you answering quickly?
– Haha… I thought it would look even worse if the strongest expert of the great Orthodox Faction, who ranks first in Battleground victories, backed out because he was afraid of losing, hyung-nims!
– lol, look at that. I can’t help but laugh out of absurdity.
– He really seems to have no tact, thoughts, or brain.
– Anyone want to go on a real-life raid against Heavenly Killing Star (99/100)? If you join, we go.
– Ah, lol. If it weren’t for him, we could have crushed the Unorthodox Faction in 1,500 different ways and won the championship, but because of someone, we have to rethink everything.
– Me too, lol.
– Me too, lol.
– Strongest expert my foot, pfft, lol.
– You got completely reamed, just beg.
– The reason why Heavenly Killing Star didn’t lose due to bad luck (Link)
– Hyung-nims, I’m sorry! T.T
[‘Heavenly Killing Star’ has been kicked out.]
– Nice!
– Justice is alive.
– This is the way of the Orthodox Faction.
– What’s the point, lol. In the end, we still need him if we want to win.
– Ah…
– Ah…
– You hear that you lack tact often, don’t you?
– Let’s just invite him back and beat him up, lol.
[‘Heavenly Killing Star’ has been invited.]
While the Orthodox Faction was beating up that one problematic guy like that, trivial gossip was being exchanged in the Unorthodox Faction’s chat room, [Wijeongcheoksapa].
[Wijeongcheoksapa]
– If we can’t stop the Heavenly Demon, the gap will widen even more, adding the 14 rankers to our defeat, shiver.
– We just need to stop him, lol.
– And can we actually stop him?
– He literally told everyone to bring it on and went on a 12-game winning streak, lol. It’s truly absurd.
– It is fucking cool, though.
– It’s also nonsensical that he did it with the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, lol.
– He was literally the Heavenly Demon, shiver.
– He’s also a smooth talker.
– He looks annoying.
– Are you jealous?
– Yes, especially his face.
– Indeed, considering Gui-hyung’s face… you’re allowed to be jealous!
– Sigh… His character model was designed so damn well, fuck.
– Hey, lol, don’t call a person’s appearance a “design”, lol.
Finally, in the Demonic Sect.
[At Least Second Place]
– Shouldn’t we change our chat room name?
– I really, desperately want to win just this once.
– We need to hold onto Seo-jun-nim, lol.
– Even if we hold onto him, I don’t think it’s possible to get this much reputation score in the next Battleground.
– Then is this our last chance…?
– Unless Movie Soft loses its mind and heavily buffs the Demonic Sect, we have to look at this as our last chance.
They were resolved.
It was the first, and perhaps the last, opportunity.
Although the specific topics and atmospheres of the three chat rooms were completely different like this, they shared a few commonalities.
Specifically, even past midnight, many people did not sleep and were chatting actively, and the topics were all related to Seo-jun.
While everyone was chatting about what happened today like that, a piece of news hit them.
[Eo-u-jeong]
– It’s up, lol.
– What?
– ITube.
[Wijeongcheoksapa]
– The crazy notification title, is this for real? lol.
– What is it?
– And it’s a premiere? Who taught him that bad habit? Fuck.
– What is it?!
[Eo-u-ma]
– Uhyo! The Cult Leader’s video is up!
– But it’s not today’s stream, is it?
– Looking at the title, it seems to be today’s???
– Is that even possible?
– Just shut up and watch whatever it is, and like and subscribe too.
***
[I Became the Number One Under Heaven in the Game.]
[5 minutes left until the premiere.]
All viewers who subscribed to Seo-jun and had not blocked notifications through separate settings received the alarm.
The premiere.
It was a system that played the video once like a live broadcast before uploading it.
– The premiere is tilting lol.
– As far as I know, the editors completely manage the ITube channel. Editors, is this how you do it?
– No, but is this an edited video??? Or streaming?
– Would he have uploaded an unedited video as a premiere?
“I didn’t know they would actually edit this in just a few hours.”
Having received the unilateral notification from the editors that they would upload it by at least 1:00, Seo-jun sat in front of the computer and opened ITube.
– The title is hilarious, lol.
– It’s not a game possession/transmigration, but the title isn’t wrong either, lol.
– Number One Under Heaven in For Chivalry is indeed acknowledged.
– Starting in 3 minutes~
– If it’s unedited, let’s immediately terrorize the dislike button.
It was savage.
Indeed, the harsh world of ITube.
Thankfully, streaming did not have dislikes.
If it did, dislikes might have piled up in heaps every time he went wild.
“Should I write in chat?”
It wasn’t because he wanted attention.
– Hello, everyone.
Because it was his channel, the chats he left had the effect of standing out clearly.
– It’s the owner!
– Just turn the stream back on, lol.
– Seo-ha!
– We have this instead of the stream, haha.
He didn’t say much after that.
Seo-jun, right now, was likewise a viewer.
He intended to enjoy that pleasure.
If there was one drawback, it was that from a viewer’s standpoint, he slightly disliked this premiere format.
“One minute left.”
When will it pass?
***
The time came and the video started.
After the intro dedicated to For Chivalry passed, the screen was slightly black-and-white as the recap played.
Seo-jun recalled the video uploaded the previous morning.
It was the video about Day 9 that Lee Geon-yeong had stayed up all night to make, to help with the live collaboration broadcast with Bangju.
– It really seems to be an edited video?
– Wow. When the rankings were revealed, I was seriously wondering who this guy was.
– A recap is essential.
Summarized explanations of the previous video appeared.
The fact that Seo-jun had taken first place in the rankings.
Those who heard the news were all shocked.
The contents of a post, now deleted, that suspected collusion with Movie Soft were stamped on the screen one by one like a newspaper headline.
– Looking at it now, it’s just ridiculous, lol.
– Did they write a post like that?
– Seriously, how dare they doubt the Number One of All Time, lol.
The screen shifted, and Heavenly Killing Star’s declaration to fight him after reading it appeared.
At the same time, that screen shrank, gradually revealing Seo-jun receiving the Duel Challenge Letter video donation.
The reaction of Seo-jun in the video upon seeing this was…
[Looks like it’ll be fun.]
He smirked.
The screen lit up right after his wide-range provoking donation played in Bangju’s stream room.
That was all Day 9 content.
– We didn’t know back then, lol. That he would cause even more trouble after that.
– That wasn’t even a provocation level, lol. He just knew he would obviously win.
– The start of a legend, shiver.
– It would be funny if the video ended here, though, lol.
– Honestly, editing in three hours after ending the stream is impossible, lol.
The real-life Seo-jun laughed upon seeing the comment.
However, unfortunately for them, the video did not stop.
– ?? This actually works. The Demonic Sect seems to be a black company?
– The exploitative capitalist Heavenly Demon, shiver.
– Guarantee the human rights of the editors!
Regardless of that, in the video, Seo-jun began the game in earnest after talking to Bangju.
The first game ended easily.
The screen shifted to Bangju’s perspective and his commentary played.
[Are the rankers scared? Hmm. In any case, the first four matches are games where you can gain contribution score, so it wouldn’t be strange even if they didn’t stream snipe. No, rather, it’s reasonable.]
Simultaneously with those words, the next game’s opponent was quickly displayed.
And the ranking window was pulled up to the side, with a circle drawn around one spot to make it stand out.
Along with a question mark.
The opponent was the 5th place in contribution ranking, Dignity of the Unorthodox Faction.
– lol, Seo-jun-nim’s editor is trolling Bangju?
– Like streamer, like editor, lol.
– The subtitles say ‘The unreasonable 5th ranker’, wtf, lol.
The battle between the 5th place in contribution ranking and Seo-jun began.
The battle was shown cleanly.
Captured through the game replay using a field of view that was most immersive from Seo-jun’s perspective while portraying the battle well.
However, unless special effects were added, it was often hard to even tell when Seo-jun’s attacks occurred.
Just like now.
Although the sword of Dignity of the Unorthodox Faction, who had been granted the first move, thrust at Seo-jun’s shoulder, it was instead Dignity of the Unorthodox Faction who had his throat slashed and suffered fatal damage.
Because viewers might find it questionable, the scene was shown again in slow motion.
“Since it’s an edited video, they can explain it in detail unlike the livestream.”
Seo-jun muttered as he watched the screen confirming that he had already found the optimal position and completed preparations to slash the throat even before receiving the sword attack.
Looking ahead and preparing in advance was the difference between a master and a novice, but to those who missed it, the subsequent process would look simple and easy.
But if it was shown like this?
– Kya.
– His movements seem really efficient.
– The basics of the heavy sword are already showing slightly from back then.
– He must be seeing the future.
– Everyone, did you see that? That’s me, haha.
The corners of Seo-jun’s mouth curled up as he sent the chat.
– lol, him doing this ruins the mood a bit.
– Just keep your mouth shut, hyung.
– For the Number One of All Time to lack weight/dignity like this, tsk tsk.
This was all image-making to appear approachable.
Indeed.
The Seo-jun in the video thrust his sword forward, returning the exact same attack Dignity of the Unorthodox Faction had used.
– Everyone, this technique is harder than it looks. To change the trajectory of your arm mid-way, your entire body from the lower half up has to move together…
– Ah, whatever.
– If you’re going to do this, turn on the stream.
– Open the door!
– Someone keeps bragging in the chat with long blocks of text, why aren’t they getting banned?
– Because he’s the channel owner, lol.
– When he’s not holding a sword, he’s just a friendly neighborhood hyung, lol.
– And when he holds a sword, he is the Number One of All Time, the Heavenly Demon himself, lol.
Seo-jun smiled and began using commentary as an excuse to brag at every subsequent step.
Then it transitioned to the next match.
A manly and splendid match between Seo-jun and This is Not the Martial World unfolded.
The problem was that there was nothing to commentate on in this scene.
*Boom!*
*Boom!*
In response, the viewers instead urged Seo-jun to commentate.
– Why did that happen?
– I wonder what kind of profound intention is contained in that!!!
– Please brag quickly!
– Seriously, what kind of smart mind game is he playing to punch holes in the ground like that?? I’m so curious!
[So, do you think you can keep dodging?]
[I can do this all day!]
– Could it be they were actually playing Omok using the ground as a board?
– Just two idiots, lol.
– Look at him not chatting only at times like this, lol.
– Are you exercising your right to remain silent? lol.
Seo-jun, who had been interacting like that, smirked and took his hands off the chat when a slightly disadvantageous situation came up in the video.
Because right now, he was a viewer.
Afterwards, shifting his gaze from the chat window to below the video, Seo-jun was momentarily flustered and amazed.
Wow.
“30,000 concurrent viewers for a premiere?”
The fruits of the editors’ hard work were manifesting right at this moment.