The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 90
Chapter 90
The nickname was ‘ILikeDemonicSect’.
In accordance with Seo-jun’s orders, he was currently in the bushes slightly away from Point Gap.
Seo-jun had told him to hide at first, and then capture Point Gap after checking the chat once the enemy was clearly spotted in the center.
He had also told him to hide again afterward, as the enemy would return.
So now, he was hiding in the grass.
‘Here they come.’
In the distance, NamgungFamilyWaiter approached the point.
The enemy ranker, looking somewhat exhausted, began capturing it again.
‘He told me to wait until he leaves, and then immediately capture the point this time.’
Seo-jun had not explained his plan.
He had only told each teammate what they needed to do.
Yet, looking at how things were unfolding, it seemed everything was going exactly according to plan.
‘What will he do now?’
Would he go back to the center to farm experience?
Or would he come all the way to Gap?
Although he had nothing to do but watch, he was still pleased.
How absurd had it felt when he first heard that the three enemies were rankers?
He had even wondered if the game developers were in their right minds.
Even if they had a teammate who had accumulated an unprecedented amount of contribution score.
But the important thing was.
‘We are winning the game right now.’
It made no sense, but the streamer had won a one-on-three fight by himself, and afterwards, he picked off the enemies one by one.
Exactly as he intended.
What was his nickname again?
Heavenly Demon 14.
‘Is he not the real Heavenly Demon?’
In the end, though he did not know who would win this game, he believed the streamer had sufficiently demonstrated his skill.
‘Hmm?’
NamgungFamilyWaiter suddenly left the point with a flustered expression.
Although he did not know the reason, he immediately headed to Point Gap and completed the capture, just as Seo-jun had instructed.
Since there were no further instructions, he had to follow the previous orders.
And when some more time passed and a system message popped up, ILikeDemonicSect could not help but look astonished.
[Heavenly Demon 14 –> Heavenly Killing Star]
[Heavenly Demon 14 –> JustOnePenny]
“Crazy.”
Did he seriously kill them the moment they respawned?
It was truly absurd.
Even if the enemies were ordinary players or rankers it would be one thing, but weren’t they at the absolute top tier?
Expectation slowly crept up from the depths of his heart.
‘If it’s the Heavenly Demon, he will surely lead the Demonic Sect to victory…!’
No.
That sounded too much like a fanatic.
Anyway, in this Battleground,
he felt a real sense of anticipation that the Demonic Sect might actually win.
***
[Heavenly Killing Star defeated!]
[Enemy Fortress HP -20]
[JustOnePenny defeated!]
[Enemy Fortress HP -20]
Was a three-on-one fight burdensome?
No. Had he not won easily?
Looking only at his remaining health after the battle, it was a bit ambiguous to call it easy, but even those were attacks he had intentionally allowed in order to end the fight quickly.
The most important thing in battle was vision.
If surrounded, one might lose sight of the rear and lose vision, but that could be solved by occasionally glancing back and predicting the next move.
How could anyone have known that Heavenly Killing Star would use a heavy attack?
Then, what if the opponent was in a state where their potential to use skills was unlocked?
Even so, Seo-jun was confident that it would still be difficult for him to lose.
“I will now return to the center.”
Seo-jun spoke as if intending for the enemies, who had become corpses in front of the fortress, to hear, and entered the side path between Gap and Eul instead of the wide-open central path.
-What kind of mind game are you playing now, O descendant of Zhuge and Master of the Demonic Sect!
-Are you planning to pick off the Waiter as well, O GOAT of the assassination world!
-When on earth did he assassinate anyone lololol
-Manager, stop calling him the GOAT and moderate the chat lol
After walking to a point out of the enemy’s line of sight, Seo-jun emerged from the side path onto the main central road.
Because the side paths of the map were narrow and branches got in the way, they caused many obstacles to movement.
“Now. Let’s go to the center and level up.”
Upon reaching the main road, Seo-jun even used the lightfoot technique to speed up.
And the moment he arrived, he jumped into the middle of the fighting soldiers.
“Have you arrived, Heavenly Demon?”
The teammate who had been steadily killing enemy soldiers in the center as requested by Seo-jun welcomed him with a bright face.
“Yes, hello.”
“I believed in you!”
Seo-jun began to kill the soldiers along with him.
No matter how many they killed, the front lines would not shift, so there was no need to worry.
“Let’s clear all of them.”
He had heard that if three of them actively focused only on killing enemy soldiers, they could see their own allied soldiers resting before the next wave arrived, and he wanted to see it for himself.
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
.
.
-As expected of a genius!
-Farming as much EXP as possible after shaking them up once, huh.
-I believe you! You really are from Hankuk University!
-But tryharding this hard is a bit…
At first, the reactions were like this.
“Point Gap has been captured.”
Seo-jun, checking that the point’s color was changing, drew his sword qi toward an enemy thrusting a shield forward, smashing the shield along with the enemy soldier to kill him.
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
-Using sword qi in the right place at the right time, too, Heavenly Demon!
-You must have a reason for leaving Gap alone!
-Meaning he has a plan for everything.
However,
As time passed and Seo-jun continued to hold his ground and kill soldiers, the reaction gradually began to change.
“No, what do you mean I chickened out, guys?”
Even while saying so, Seo-jun ducked to evade a soldier’s predictable attack, and instead of the soldier blocking his front with a shield, he stabbed the neck of another soldier who exposed a weakness.
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
-Of course they don’t believe you when you’re farming so hard lolololol
-Stop farming and fight already!
-Looks like he’s serious this time.
-He’s trying to widen the level gap as much as possible after shaking them up once lol
-This is also strategic though.
Public opinion swayed back and forth.
“No, I just showed you earlier. Me dominating the three Orthodox Faction rankers.”
-Ah, yes. He ‘dominated’ them.
-His brain play was pretty sexy though lol
-It felt good to see those Orthodox bastards get beaten helplessly lololol
-Anyway, you’re leveling up now because you’re worried it’ll be tough later.
Seo-jun read the comments and spoke.
“I have no worries about this game. We’ve already won.”
-Then stop farming.
-Head to Point Gap!
Ignoring the chat, Seo-jun looked at the approaching enemy soldiers and raised his sword.
‘But I don’t know about the next game.’
Since the enemy would also prepare starting from the next game, there was a high probability of psychological warfare unfolding.
He had confidence, but mind games always carried a high probability of failure.
Currently,
The enemy fortress health was steadily decreasing.
The Waiter, who was at Gap, reportedly returned to the fortress out of fear that Seo-jun might go to Gap after appearing in front of the Orthodox fortress, and then returned with three teammates.
This choice was the correct answer in Seo-jun’s eyes.
If they had sent one person to each of the three points from the beginning, it would have been difficult for Seo-jun to deal with it properly.
Now that the game had progressed far, the situation was different.
Perhaps because Movie Soft hadn’t completely lost their minds, his teammates were of a fairly high standard.
‘Did they say they are around a level just below rankers?’
What if Seo-jun stayed in the center and sent his remaining three teammates to one place?
They might be able to handle a three-on-one to some extent, but that was only when their levels were equal.
They wouldn’t be able to defeat three players who had reached level 6.
“By the way, it seems the Orthodox Faction rankers are trying to reach level 6 somehow rather than dying in vain, right?”
-lol those ugly Orthodox bastards
-As a member of the Unorthodox Faction, today’s stream is really so fun lol
-trembling (budubudu)
-Unorthodox characteristic: about to be wiped out
-Yeah right, no
-Only the Demonic Sect, which has the streamer, wins consecutive victories!
Therefore,
it was safe to say that the victory had practically gone to him.
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
[Enemy Fortress HP -5]
It was not just because all the soldiers disappeared again and the enemy fortress health was heavily depleted.
“The enemy’s level is 5.”
They were indeed climbing eventually, thanks to the passive experience gain and the experience obtained from maintaining one captured point.
However, Seo-jun’s level was 10.
A twofold difference.
This was why the center was important.
Although they had held three points for a fairly long time, it could not compare to the experience gained from killing enemy soldiers.
“If the enemy reaches level 6, I’ll probably be level 11.”
There were many laughing chats.
This was because, excluding the martial arts that strengthened at every 6th level, the stat difference from level scaling was not significant.
The prevailing opinion was that he was aiming for level 12.
‘Actually, I don’t need it.’
He had just wanted to farm hard.
Truly.
-Heavenly Demon, the rankers at Gap have departed.
After checking the team chat, Seo-jun began to warm up, and his teammates quietly backed away.
-Let’s turn this around! The streamer didn’t reach level 12!
-There’s a chance. Rankers with martial arts? That’s different lol
-True, it was nonsense for rankers without martial arts to beat the streamer, who is Korea’s number one swordsman in pure skill at the Training Ground.
-I’m really curious to see how it turns out
***
The flower of For Chivalry, martial arts, was the reason the game had become so tryhard.
The reason was that the forms (초식) were complex and highly versatile.
But where was a game that wasn’t difficult?
The true cause lay with the veterans (고인물들) who continuously researched, dueled, and utilized the traits and forms of those martial arts.
Forms were not simple skills, but realistic movements that could be utilized.
Therefore, it was incorrect to talk about pure skill and say it was only natural for Seo-jun to win.
For Chivalry rankers had exceptionally good physical stats/reactions, and there were many who looked down upon the Level 9 AI, which was considered professional level.
The problem was,
their pride had been shattered because Seo-jun had won so easily in the martial duel the previous day.
“Swordsmanship! Let’s fight without skills!”
Those who acted with such pride were, in nine cases out of ten, For Chivalry players, while players of other games would think, ‘There they go again,’ yet inwardly acknowledge them.
However,
after the martial duel, that pride had vanished, and all that remained was ‘martial arts one-trick’.
‘Rankers who are frogs in a well’ was their own self-perception.
So they desperately hoped to win this battle, but…
“Damn it! Take this!”
JustOnePenny’s club swooped down on Seo-jun, slightly modifying a form of the Dog Beating Staff Technique.
Since the martial arts trait he had chosen was the Eight Immortals Drunken Fist, no additional effects from the martial art could be expected, but the form itself was powerful.
This was because the sequence (투로) was the most suitable for the situation where Seo-jun was cornered.
“Did you think that would work?”
However, instead of stepping back, Seo-jun leaned forward and moved his sword, causing the club-wielding player to naturally envision the subsequent situation.
The opponent would soon deflect the club and then slash his body.
A question arose.
Why on earth did that simple response produce such a result?
Just as Seo-jun’s sword deflected the club diagonally and was about to slash his neck,
Clang!
fortunately, support arrived from Heavenly Killing Star nearby.
Next, the Waiter launched an attack, but…
‘Does this make any sense? There are three of us?’
Seo-jun, whose attack had been blocked, blocked the incoming attack in return.
Neither side had succeeded in landing a single attack.
They weren’t losing, but even a draw was extremely damaging to their pride from their perspective.
“If we don’t kill him quickly! We really will lose!”
As Heavenly Killing Star shouted, drawing his sword and infusing it with internal energy to unleash a form,
Seo-jun pre-emptively thrusted his sword into empty space.
That single point in empty space was precisely the location that blocked Heavenly Killing Star’s movement.
“Come on in.”
JustOnePenny wore a look of utter incomprehension as to how he was supposed to come in when Seo-jun was blocking everything himself.
And Seo-jun…
-Here it comes
-Been a while since we saw this lololol
-The thing we couldn’t see during the Great Art of Absorbing Stars because he had to end the fight quickly
-Kya! The hype is real!
-The heavy sword is no longer a heavy sword!
leisurely withdrew his sword and beckoned with his hand.
This was because the reason he had sent his teammates elsewhere would arrive soon.