The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 88
Chapter 88
*Swish!*
The sword containing maximum sword qi slashed the vital point of the stiffened Heavenly Killing Star.
Health remaining at slightly less than a third?
It vanished.
[Heavenly Killing Star Defeated!]
[Enemy Fortress Health -20]
The damage of sword qi enhanced through the Heavenly Demon Divine Art was reliable.
If this level of return for internal energy—which was not infinite but a limited resource—was strange, he hoped they would consider the reality that most players still did not use it.
– Heavenly Killing Star cut down during a 3v1!
– shiver.
– Is he actually winning????
– That guy is dead meat, seriously. Using a heavy attack there? Ugh, he’s like the cancer of the Orthodox Faction.
– Trying to send him packing in one go instead of hitting twice, and he bites the dust, lol.
“Too much is as bad as too little. Of course, if he hadn’t gotten greedy, I would have just kept dodging until he did, so the result would have been the same, though.”
Becoming relaxed from the moment it became a 2v1, Seo-jun began reading and replying to the chat while lightly dodging NamgungFamilyWaiter’s attacks.
– Ah. So that’s how he gaslights them?
– Confidence in being able to keep dodging, wow.
– He always shows and proves, so I can’t say anything, lol.
“Ah.”
*Clang!*
NamgungFamilyWaiter, whose attack was blocked, lamented.
He had his attacks blocked no less than Heavenly Killing Star did the day before.
“Got PTSD?”
JustOnePenny said.
“No.”
Instead of surrounding Seo-jun from front and back, the two stood side-by-side.
Because standing separately was dangerous now.
Even if the enemy’s sword was slow, hadn’t it already been fully proven the day before?
That it was unavoidable and powerful.
Of course, JustOnePenny still believed that if there were two of them, they could create another variable or escape.
But that was only possible after level 6 when they learned active martial arts.
The reason was the fundamental difference in skill level.
“A purely martial battle is out of the question.”
JustOnePenny judged as his shoulder was cut, and his comrade next to him grumbled.
“Where on earth did he come from, seriously.”
Although he did not press them hard like the day before, their enemy, Seo-jun, was steadily landing his attacks.
In contrast, they had been failing in everything since Heavenly Killing Star died.
“Maybe we could put up a fight if we at least had active martial arts.”
A sword pierced the chest of JustOnePenny, who was analyzing until the end, and his health depleted, turning him into a corpse.
“Now it’s a 1v1.”
[JustOnePenny Defeated]
[Enemy Fortress Health -20]
***
“We won the first battle, everyone.”
It wasn’t a battle that took long.
Because both he and the enemy wanted to settle it immediately rather than drag it out.
The result was his victory.
Seo-jun disposed of the enemy, swiftly occupied the center point, and went inside it.
His health and resources recovered.
– Kya.
– Winning a 3v1.
– Is he a boss monster, seriously? lol.
– But wasn’t it an advantage that he alone could use martial arts traits?
– Aren’t you thinking about the penalties of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art?
– If there were no penalties and no traits, he probably would have finished them off long ago without even losing health.
Since one could not recover if the enemy was present, he had to wrap it up now.
“Correct. If I could just use the sword without penalties, I wouldn’t have been hit even once.”
[‘WhoAmI?’ donated 50,000 won!]
[Shin Ha-yeon Slayer!]
“You’re banned.”
– lololol
– lol
– First of all, if you don’t like that sort of thing, shouldn’t you refrain from bragging yourself?
– Even if it wasn’t extremely disadvantageous, winning a 3v1 makes bragging legal, lol.
– Why are you downplaying multi-player battles? Isn’t the streamer’s skill higher than 3 rankers combined?
– Whatever, lol. Does a 3v1 mean the difficulty is three times higher? lol.
With his health almost full, he stood up.
“I’ll sum up multi-player battles for you, so don’t fight.”
Seo-jun calmed the chatters who were about to fight and gave a brief explanation.
That having more people naturally made one stronger but not proportionally so was not a difficult concept, and most people who were interested knew it.
Of course, this was only applicable to For Chivalry, where friendly fire was possible.
Systematically, no matter how much skills were sprayed in all directions or what they did, if teammates were not hit and only enemies were affected, wouldn’t the difficulty of coordination drop tremendously?
– Ah, so it’s like that in For Chivalry.
– It is indeed different.
– Why are you even watching For Chivalry streams without knowing this?
– Well, I’m watching because I like the streamer~
– These guys are ignoring the original viewers who have watched since Dawn of the Assassins.
– So you’re saying the streamer isn’t worth 3 rankers.
“Ah, I didn’t say I wasn’t worth 3 rankers. Obviously I am higher.”
What Seo-jun explained was merely the characteristics of multi-player battles, and he did not say his skill was lower than three rankers combined.
– ??? lol. Indeed, he didn’t say he wasn’t.
– True.
– It’s not without credibility.
Uh?
This wasn’t the reaction he expected.
Why are they acknowledging it so readily?
Normally, a gift set of consonants representing “nonsense” [ㅈㄹㄴ] should have come out, so the fact that the viewers unexpectedly accepted it and let it pass flustered him slightly.
Fortunately, the chats he had expected began to appear with a time lag.
‘Phew.’
– Nonsense, no.
– You couldn’t have won without Heavenly Demon Descent Steps, yes or no?
– The difference shows from level 6.
– What about the Green Forest then? The Green Forest also starts with a passive trait, lol.
– The Assassination Guild’s basic passive traits are applied too.
After confirming his health and resources were fully restored, Seo-jun stepped out of the capture point and went to the center.
“Well, looking at the fights after level 6 will decide who is right. Won’t it?”
– True, lol.
– So where are you going now?
– Surely not the enemy fortress?
– They will respawn soon, so spawn-camping will be a bit awkward, lol.
The viewers expected him to go to the enemy fortress right now.
Because Seo-jun had always done so after going to the center and defeating all opponents at first.
Fighting them as soon as they revived to prevent them from coming out while ordering teammates to the center via chat to kill soldiers was his main pattern.
He had preferred it because the game could be finished quickly with the continuous damage from three capture points and the damage dealt every time soldiers were killed.
Suddenly, Seo-jun, who went to the center, began to kill the soldiers.
“If I only aim for vital points, it takes three hits without using resources.”
Entering the battlefield in the center where the Orthodox Faction and the Demonic Sect soldiers fought, Seo-jun began thrusting his sword, marvelously targeting the soldiers whose health had dropped below a certain level in the chaotic situation.
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
Although there were differences in equipment between the Demonic Sect and the Orthodox Faction soldiers, it was not easy to distinguish them by their gear.
Instead, because colors on parts like insignias were painted red for the Demonic Sect and blue for the Orthodox Faction, distinguishing them by color was quite easy.
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
– What are you doing?
– Why are you suddenly killing grunts? A guy who never did this before.
– Scared? lol. He’s playing seriously, lol.
Seo-jun killed the soldiers with absolute focus.
One by one.
Without taking even light damage in the melee, he targeted only the enemies’ vital points to kill them efficiently.
“Why am I doing this? To finish the game quickly.”
No one believed him.
– Then just go to the fortress, lol.
– Look at him trying to widen the level gap.
– No, it’s correct to occupy the center for this, but lol, you’ve never done this.
In-game levels rose with experience points gathered by killing soldiers, processing special objects on the map, or occupying and maintaining points.
“It’s not like rising in level makes a big difference anyway.”
Although the active martial arts traits that opened or upgraded every six levels differed, he knew well that it was impossible to widen the gap by more than six levels no matter how many he killed.
Therefore, Seo-jun, who had a different reason, was speaking sincerely.
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
[Enemy Fortress Health -5]
– If it doesn’t make a big difference, then stop, lol.
– Upvote if you think the streamer is scared and wants to get even slightly faster, lol.
– He seems to think it’s actually hard?
Of course, no one believed him.
***
“We lost this.”
Heavenly Killing Star said inside the fortress.
A user who became a corpse was given two options.
Watch the surroundings from where they fell and rejoin immediately if a teammate revived them.
The second was to just return to the fortress in a dead state if they judged there was no hope.
The latter was a system that allowed smooth communication among dead players.
“Ah. What is the 2nd ranker doing. We lost because of you.”
NamgungFamilyWaiter and Heavenly Killing Star chose to go to the fortress and wait.
Although it was a short respawn wait time of less than a minute, these two were rather impatient.
There was also the drawback that remaining on site made communication inconvenient due to the distance.
“Yes, yes. Sorry. I didn’t expect him to spin and land a parry there.”
It wasn’t like he had eyes in the back of his head, and if he designed that while surrounded alone, it made no sense, did it?
“Sure.”
The waiter accepted it. It seemed like it was just something said in passing.
“You’re quite calm.”
“Look who’s talking. I thought you would be shocked after losing.”
“I know. We lost a 3v1 but I don’t feel that wronged.”
Heavenly Killing Star nodded and said.
“It means it’s impossible with pure skill.”
He had no intention of making excuses like the enemy being able to use active martial arts or whatever about a many-on-one.
Because they clearly couldn’t beat one person with three.
NamgungFamilyWaiter thought to himself.
‘How far down the rank tiers do I have to go to win a 3v1?’
In terms of ranked game tiers, maybe if he went down about three steps?
That meant the difference between him and that streamer was more than three tiers.
Even if For Chivalry was a somewhat old game, it was an absurd result because he was clearly at the absolute top tier.
There was an excuse.
“That’s only when considering pure mechanics, and things will be different once we hit level 6.”
He could lose in terms of pure fighting skill.
Even if For Chivalry was a game with a high proportion of pure fighting skill, it was still a game.
“Because he still sucks at the game.”
“Indeed.”
He was good at fighting and had good controls, but he sucked at the game.
“Since he always crushes people with mechanics, he probably doesn’t need game skill.”
Although he appeared to play the game well, that was not true at all.
He had never seen anyone play the game as carelessly as that streamer.
“Anyway, what is this beggar doing?”
20 seconds left until respawn.
No sooner had he finished speaking than JustOnePenny was summoned to the fortress.
“What were you doing before coming here?”
“I was watching what the opponent was doing. We don’t have time for this.”
“Why?”
“Right now, the Heavenly Demon is grinding levels like crazy. We need to stop him, but do you think we can win if we go back to the center as soon as we respawn?”
He quickly asked as he returned to the fortress and began setting the situation straight.
Because although JustOnePenny was also a veteran, he possessed skills that were a tier below the other two.
“I think it’s better to hit level 6 before attacking him.”
“We probably won’t win.”
JustOnePenny said without a trace of hesitation, as if he had expected that response.
“Then we have no choice. We need to narrow the gap as much as possible, hit level 6, and fight. Let’s split up. Waiter, you go to Point Gap, and Heavenly Killing Star and I will go to Point Byeong.”
They scattered immediately upon reviving.
And they had not noticed until then.
That from the moment they revived, the rate at which their fortress’s health was depleting had slowed down to a degree that was obvious at a glance.