The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 86
Chapter 86
If you win a game, you accumulate points for that area corresponding to your reputation score based on your position.
Following the simple rule that if the attack points were higher, it would be occupied, and if the defense points were higher, the status quo would be maintained.
Ultimately, the essence of the Battleground was a game of territory control to see which faction held the most land in the end.
For the next ten days, they would fiercely monitor each other while losing and gaining territory.
In such a situation, the role assigned to Seo-jun was disturbance.
Charging in right from the start at 7:00?
What are those Demonic Sect bastards thinking?
Or is he acting on his own?
And the reaction they wanted was:
– Look at him queuing up for a game right away, lol.
– No backing down, lol.
– Was this discussed beforehand?
– Common-sensically, their most important force is charging in head-on, so why would it have been discussed?
It was a reaction along the lines of, ‘Isn’t he just acting recklessly? If it’s that streamer, it’s possible.’
“Haha. From now on, we don’t really need bonuses for successful defenses and such anyway. I’m just going to do as I please.”
– Is the result of that a reckless charge, teacher? lol.
– What about our victory… You said you’d lead us to victory!
– Please take lots of land from the Orthodox Faction guys! That’s how we win.
He could tell which faction they belonged to just by looking at their reactions.
Seo-jun held back his laughter and spoke.
“A game has been found.”
His vision turned black.
***
Four users were summoned to the waiting room of the fortress.
‘Are they all rankers?’
Seo-jun and a user with a reputation score similar to his level did not exist in For Chivalry.
Originally, because users with a similar reputation score were few, most matchmaking was done with users who were slightly higher than the overall average, but.
He grew curious about what kind of users he would meet when he had a reputation score over ten times higher than the second place.
‘I don’t think they’ll be rankers, though.’
The time taken for game matchmaking was two minutes.
Those two minutes were quite long, but it was at a similar level before as well.
‘Even if it has risen enormously, nothing has changed. Indeed.’
It was probably an inevitable limitation.
Seo-jun smiled and looked around.
His teammates smoothly began to straighten out the situation immediately.
“Hello.”
“Have fun.”
“Hi.”
“Let’s decide on positions first.”
“Check the opponent’s traits. Once we decide what to do… Heavenly Demon Divine Art? Ah, fuck. What is this?”
Correct.
The perception of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art trait was bad, wasn’t it?
Was it a trait that even Koreans couldn’t stand, which nobody used?
“That’s way too much. Is he a troll?”
“No, why that kind of trash. Wow, he even chose ‘Cognitive Slowness’ in the sub-traits.”
“He’s doing all kinds of things.”
Everyone chimed in with a word as they looked back at Seo-jun.
He could tell how painful collective bullying was.
“Ah, I felt like this would happen today. He must have watched that yesterday and copied it.”
“What is ‘that’?”
“Didn’t you watch the duel arena dojo challenge yesterday?”
“I don’t know.”
“Wow. You didn’t watch that.”
– Seriously, you didn’t watch that.
– He basically missed out on life, lol.
– But doesn’t the guy who watched recognize him?
– From the Demonic Sect’s perspective, a game warning has been issued, lol. So funny.
– Trolls who copied the streamer and chose the Heavenly Demon Divine Art are scheduled to run wild today.
“Exactly. You didn’t watch it. I watched the replay.”
One who didn’t know, and two who did?
‘It seems there are no stream snipers.’
If so, it was understandable why they didn’t recognize Seo-jun right now.
Unless they were a hardcore viewer, who would memorize a streamer’s game ID?
And remembering a face seen once was not easy either.
The viewers thought similarly.
– To recognize him, there needs to be some huge feature, lol.
– Something like unique character customization or a name that sticks in the mind?
– True.
– Snipers, aren’t you going to support our streamer’s prestige? Quickly snipe him, pretend to be passing Teammate 1, and make a big fuss, lol.
Seo-jun looked back at the stream snipers he had met so far.
It might be better for them to just pretend not to know.
Sigh.
Time to just play the game.
He stood in front of the entrance while sighing.
“Look at that troll bastard pretending not to hear.”
“You heard all of our conversation.”
“With what thoughts did you bring the Heavenly Demon Divine Art? I want to hear that first.”
– What thoughts? lol.
– Is this the taste of a power-hiding expert?
– Please flame him to your heart’s content, ignore him.
– He should say, “I am the Heavenly Demon.”
The viewers laughed, and the teammates gave up early on.
“Ah, this match is ruined.”
“We can win.”
“No, we can’t.”
“Just enjoy it.”
“He isn’t listening, though?”
“Couldn’t he at least pull his own weight?”
“Look at him not answering until the very end.”
In the end, the person who had talked about the duel arena dojo challenge grabbed Seo-jun’s shoulder.
“Sigh, troll. Do you think you can copy him just by doing—*gasp*. Hold on. Why are you so handsome? By any chance… are you the Heavenly Demon-nim?”
– ????
– lol, did he recognize him by his face?
– Huge feature = handsome face.
– Fuck, I suddenly got super annoyed.
– Being handsome is just nice, lol. Viewers who saw him once even remember him…
“…His ID seems to match too.”
“Heol, really? Wow, hello. It’s an honor.”
“Hello.”
Seo-jun nodded and greeted.
“Have a good game.”
““Yes!””
“What is that, you weebs!”
“Shut up.”
“Quiet!”
In any case, since they recognized him, he should play the game as usual.
“Then I will go to the center by myself.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
“No, why does he say he’s going to the center alone…”
“Uh-uh. How dare you.”
“Don’t talk back!”
As for the game after that.
Considering the balance, the level of the four opponents was higher than his three teammates, but.
Even so, Seo-jun easily won the game by holding down the center tightly on his own.
***
Heavenly Killing Star looked around.
The Namgung Clan’s map.
In particular, the finest pavilion was the command center where JustOnePenny and several Orthodox Faction users were gathered.
Actually, it wasn’t quite a command center.
Since those gathered were roughly communicating using a chat room.
[Eo-u-jeong]
– What do we do?
– I don’t know what their goal is.
– No, why are they causing such a fuss from the start when not even 10 minutes have passed?
– Every time he wins once, it’s equivalent to 14 wins for a ranker.
– Shouldn’t we stop it?
– So, is striking us the Demonic Sect’s goal?
– What is the Unorthodox Faction doing?
Everyone was communicating via chat, so it was quiet, but the sound of gears turning in their heads felt audible.
Normally, he would have acted independently to take first place, and the Orthodox Faction users would have left him alone, but this season was different.
For reference, NamgungFamilyWaiter was also just spectating from the side.
They were not the only ones.
As the race for first place had become meaningless, the interest of the top-tier users naturally shifted to the victory of their faction.
Since the balance of power had also been adjusted by the Demonic Sect, they anticipated that this Battleground would be fiercer than before.
– For now, only the Heavenly Demon is moving on the Demonic Sect’s side.
– Looking at the stream, he seems to just be doing whatever he wants.
– Surely not, lol. He must just be saying that.
Indeed.
They are really working their brains hard!
– The Unorthodox Faction guys are matching into games on the Demonic Sect’s side.
– Did they think the Demonic Sect was targeting the Orthodox Faction?
– Let’s take other territories on the Demonic Sect’s side too.
– Is it impossible to defend that?
JustOnePenny replied,
– It’s a bit like that. In the end, the ranker resources of all three are similar, but even if 14 of us go in to balance the scales, there’s no guarantee we can win everything.
– Then what if we fight the Heavenly Demon and win?
– Is that possible?
– What if we initiate a multi-player fight with several people?
– If we aim for that, and the Demonic Sect guys also come to help and queue together, it will become a 2v2 in ranker terms. If we lose that, we’ll have to hand over the territory just like that.
Hmm, right.
The Demonic Sect might aim for that too.
Heavenly Killing Star was thinking similar thoughts, wishing he had popcorn, when a sudden question occurred to him.
But.
Why would it match 2v2?
– Hey.
– Shut up, you.
– Just don’t speak.
Oh.
Even though he was treated poorly, he had to say a word.
– No… hyung-nims.
– I told you to shut up?
– Just bark if told to bark, and bite if told to bite.
– This is indeed the Orthodox Faction, lol.
– No! Hyung-nims! I’ll just say this one thing. Why on earth do you think a 2v2 will be caught if the Demonic Sect rankers queue together too? The Heavenly Demon’s reputation score is so high? If the matchmaking system is normal, wouldn’t it put two rankers against one Heavenly Demon?
After a moment of silence.
JustOnePenny, who was beside him, let out a word.
“Oh?”
And chats popped up one after another.
– …Oh? Could it?
– Oh?
– Is that so?
– Ganging up angle?
They grasped the situation in an instant.
Because it was the first time such a thing had happened, they hadn’t noticed it!
– As soon as the 2nd match ends, snipe him immediately.
– To think you had that kind of brain.
– How many are we sending?
– But if it works, even sending 4 rankers is a profit. If 4 rankers defeat the Heavenly Demon, it defeats 14 people’s worth of points, so I think we absolutely must do this. The expected value is ridiculous.
Even sending four was a profit.
If it was a 4v1, it was not easy to lose even if they tried.
Yet, the result gained by doing so was too massive.
– But if that territory is breached, only 3 territories will be left until our main base. It’s the shortest distance. How about just defending safely? Let’s just watch today.
The current time was 7:10.
Although they hadn’t grasped the enemy’s intention, that streamer had already finished his second match, prompting their choice.
As if the heavy sword weren’t enough, he was forcing a choice even in this kind of game.
He was truly a genius of gaslighting.
– Main base my foot, lol.
– Let’s block it right away.
– So how many people?
– How about trying with 2 first? Since we don’t know how it will turn out.
– Go safely with 3.
– That hurts my pride too much.
– Not even 2v1 but 3v1, lol.
– Anyway, let’s go.
– I’m going.
Perhaps all the reputation score Seo-jun had gathered might become useless.
***
Seo-jun queued for a game again after coming out to his original position.
“Am I not resting? What’s the point of resting. Let’s finish it quickly.”
– Orthodox Faction. Are you going to just leave it like this?
– How does a game end in just a few minutes? lol.
– Only the innocent regular users are dying in front of the fortress.
– You say he can’t go in front of the fortress because the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, unlike the Great Art of Absorbing Stars, doesn’t recover health? Then he just needs to not get hit! Wow!
While Seo-jun was estimating how long he would have to wait this time.
*Ding.*
A chat popped up along with an in-game message.
– Uh? Something flashed?
Seo-jun immediately checked the map in front of his eyes.
The Battleground map was the Central Plains, divided into multiple pieces by the game company.
Although it wasn’t divided that much, with 12 pieces per faction, it was slightly complex.
‘Jiangnan is the Unorthodox Faction. The west of Jiangbei is the Demonic Sect. The east is the Orthodox Faction.’
The map showed which user was queuing for a game.
In areas where a high-ranking player queued, a specific icon would appear, and clicking that icon would reveal the ranker’s nickname.
After about an hour, red icons would probably light up all over the map and make it complicated.
Right now, it was quiet.
The northern area where he queued for games.
Among the border points where the Demonic Sect and the Orthodox Faction met, Seo-jun immediately clicked the flashing icon in the Orthodox Faction’s territory.
What was shown was:
His ID, Heavenly Demon 14.
And the newly appeared Orthodox Faction users.
“Three? Quite a few have come to defend.”
[Heavenly Killing Star]
[NamgungFamilyWaiter]
[JustOnePenny]
– Legeno.
– Wow, crazy.
– They really mean business.
– All the fucking famous named players are coming, wtf lol, this is unreal.
If so, this side couldn’t just sit idle either.
Within less than ten seconds, allies who had coordinated beforehand were added.
– This side is super fast too.
– They are coming to support.
– Let’s let the Orthodox Faction bastards taste 16 people’s worth of points!
– This is the Battleground!
– Classic.
[Dang So]
[Bandit King]
[Heavenly Demon 14]
3v3.
Although the viewers were excited that a new confrontation had been created.
‘I wonder about that.’
Seo-jun was skeptical.
Because it didn’t seem like the matchmaking system would view Seo-jun as on the same level as just another ranker.
The Demonic Sect side and Seo-jun knew this.
However.
A game was found.
“Going in.”
Even if in the worst-case scenario he had to do a 3v1 because the rankers weren’t matched as teammates.
Seo-jun smiled and warmed up.
‘3v1? Let’s try and win.’
– By the way, what’s up with the nicknames of the kids who came to help the Demonic Sect? lol.
– They are definitely not normal.
– The successor of the Tang Clan and the King of Bandits, lololol.
– When on earth did the Unorthodox Faction and the Demonic Sect merge? lol.
Indeed.