The Veteran Swordmaster’s Stream (Novel) - Chapter 99
Chapter 99
[Nonsense]
[He definitely must have done something!]
[Really, Movie Soft intended to push the Heavenly Demon! Otherwise it makes no sense!!!!]
[It’s a bug… I saw it.]
There are five stages of human grief in accepting death.
Stage 1: Denial.
This is simply the stage of failing to accept the facts.
[It’s hilarious to see the Orthodox guys losing their minds collectively lololol]
-Currently in Stage 1: denial of reality!
-Even in the Heavenly Demon’s room, it’s currently a mess lolololol
-You killed the Orthodox Faction, Seo-jun!
└It’s true he actually killed them lolololol
Stage 2 is Anger.
[Sigh, this is so fucking annoying]
==
Why attack the Orthodox first? Why attack the Orthodox first? Why attack the Orthodox first? Why attack the Orthodox first?
Did we commit some crime? Did we commit some crime? Did we commit some crime? Did we commit some crime?
So fucking annoying
==
-Stage 2 has appeared
-Next up is bargaining lolololol
-You Orthodox bastards who grew up like flowers in a greenhouse, this is the taste of the Demonic Sect!
-They’ll probably say, ‘Please spare us just once, Movie Soft-nim’ lolololol
Stage 3: Bargaining.
[Please spare us just… I got predicted.]
This wasn’t it.
[What was the result when the Demonic Sect’s headquarters got looted last time?]
==
In the end, they got a faction buff, right? So at least some people returned.
But we got looted too?
So.
Shall we gather the cohesion of our prestigious Orthodox Faction and shout for a buff?
==
-wtf lolol they are bargaining like this lololol
-Have they seriously gone mad lolololololololololololol
-That time was a real issue, whereas you guys just got looted lolol
Stage 4: Depression.
[Can it be considered balanced when we can’t even block a single Heavenly Demon…?]
[Not logging into For Chivalry for a while.]
[It’s truly over…]
The final Stage 5, Acceptance, was easily resolved thanks to Seo-jun.
[Real-time Heavenly Demon: Declared that he will create a travel companion as quickly as possible because the Orthodox Faction might feel lonely.]
==
Now, the Unorthodox Faction. Time to get hit?
==
-Take the Heavenly Demon!
-lol yeah, wtf. I can’t be the only one dying.
-You Unorthodox guys experience this once too lololol
-Since it came to this, just let the Demonic Sect win
-Here he comes
-All that remains is charging straight in!
***
Naturally, the Demonic Sect and the Unorthodox Faction clashed.
Day 17 results.
The Demonic Sect succeeded in its attack.
There were three regions remaining.
Day 18 results.
The Demonic Sect succeeded in its attack.
There were two regions remaining.
After the final Day 19 ended, the Demonic Sect players had this thought.
[Why are we this strong?]
[At first it was just ‘let’s crush the Orthodox Faction,’ but are we seriously winning?]
The championship drew right before their eyes.
The Unorthodox Faction tried to block them somehow, but…
[The Heavenly Demon simply doesn’t lose a game!]
==
How on earth do we block this guy? It seems we can block them if we win against him just once.
==
Those words held credibility.
Ultimately, they believed that if Seo-jun lost just once, they could block the soaring Demonic Sect.
Although the number of players wasn’t exact, the prevailing opinion was that they were neck and neck.
This was because if one side had been significantly more numerous, matchmaking against AI would have been visible, but no such posts were uploaded.
[Serves the Unorthodox Faction right lolololololol]
[That was exactly how we felt]
[Push them all the way back!]
And a post dedicated to Seo-jun, who had not lost a single match like that, was uploaded.
[Sword God]
“What is this really?”
Seo-jun read Lee Geon-yeong’s message and logged into Nohyeop to check the post.
He heard that someone had edited a video of his plays.
Entering the post, Seo-jun immediately played the video that was visible.
On a black screen, silence continued for about three seconds.
Then, the sound of clashing swords broke the flow.
Clang!
Clang clang!
Swords clashed once more.
And clashed again.
The interval between clashing sword sounds gradually quickened tensely.
Whoosh!
The screen suddenly brightened.
Simultaneously, the video’s perspective focused on someone.
A sword blocking an enemy’s form.
It was the perspective of the person holding that sword.
The scene transitioned rapidly, and this time, an enemy’s sword was approaching.
The owner of the perspective lightly blocked it.
The background changed again, showing a scene of slashing an enemy’s neck.
Following that, he quickly blocked a sword swinging down from above, dodged an attack coming from the side, and extended his arm.
Then, with his clothes fluttering, he landed in front of the enemy.
From then on, a faint, suspenseful BGM set to a club beat gradually grew louder and the sound quality became clear.
“Oh.”
What Seo-jun was watching now was a video where someone had spliced together numerous scenes of his battles.
Upon seeing this video, Lee Geon-yeong had expressed jealousy, wishing he had made it first, while simultaneously praising it for being better than his own work.
It was indeed well-made.
“Huh? Are these scenes in reverse order?”
Come to think of it, the scene shown at the very beginning was the moment he fought two-on-one against the Unorthodox Faction rankers today.
What followed was yesterday’s fight.
Two days ago. Three days ago.
“Correct.”
And now, Seo-jun was facing three Orthodox Faction rankers alone.
The music grew increasingly tense, as if signaling that the chorus was approaching.
Through a split-second edit, time slowed down and Seo-jun turned his body.
In order to parry the sword of Heavenly Killing Star attacking from behind.
And the moment Seo-jun raised his sword in front of Heavenly Killing Star, who was stiffened thanks to the foot he had stomped right after,
the screen shifted, showing Seo-jun from Heavenly Killing Star’s perspective.
Seo-jun’s emotionless eyes enlarged, and as if obscuring those eyes, Seo-jun’s sword and sword qi descended, cutting the screen in half.
Slash!
With that, the screen went black, and
[Sword God Mad Movie]
letters popped up as the video officially began.
Seo-jun began to watch, feeling as if he were reviewing his own games.
The numerous fights of the one-on-one martial duels.
There, Seo-jun’s sword was slow yet fast.
Although it was a video containing only scenes, it portrayed them well from the enemy’s perspective.
The decisive moment with Baekho.
Capturing the scene where the sword spun around and deflected an attack just as it was about to touch the escort goods.
Seo-jun facing Namgung Cheon,
followed by scenes of him driving his sword into the wall and climbing up to defeat Namgung Cheon appearing in succession.
The appearance of him utilizing Berserk Mode when first playing For Chivalry.
And.
even the appearance of him fighting the assassin order rising from the shadows.
Afterward, defeating the Rulers.
“The last one is Ettore.”
The video wrapped up ending with the fight against the tutorial boss of Dawn of the Assassins.
The video was uploaded to Nohyeop. It proudly occupied the number one spot in the Top 10.
This was thanks to its quality and the Nohyeop forum burning hot due to the Battleground.
And the title of the post and video that hit number one was none other than:
Sword God.
His title from his past life.
Seo-jun scratched his cheek reluctantly.
“How did they know?”
The nickname and concept he used in For Chivalry was the Heavenly Demon.
But this person had attached the name Sword God to Seo-jun.
They wouldn’t have named a video made with this level of sincerity carelessly.
If so, it meant that in the eyes of this video editor, Sword God suited Seo-jun better.
“Did they watch the livestream?”
If they had watched the livestream and saw him speak so discourteously, it would have been hard not to judge, ‘Ah, this bastard is indeed the Heavenly Demon.’
If they had attached the title Sword God even after watching the livestream,
what was it, a feeling like someone was telling him that although he had gone around acting like the Heavenly Demon on purpose, that was actually no different from his true self?
Anyway.
“I didn’t expect to hear the title Sword God here.”
It wasn’t that bad.
Was it indeed fate?
Seo-jun checked the comments.
The best comment at the very top was visible first.
-Heavenly Demon is a perfect fit for him lol
Oh. This also put him in a bad mood.
I see.
Seo-jun, accepting the fate that could not be avoided no matter what, nodded and checked the next best comment.
It was a reply to the first best comment.
└But Sword God also suits him fucking well?
The number of likes on both comments was almost identical, with almost no dislikes.
Meaning both suited him that much.
The argument of the Sword God camp was as follows.
└Seriously just the god of the sword lolol
└Watch the Training Ground. He cleared all games with swordsmanship skills
└I’ve never seen the streamer use a weapon other than a sword
└There was a pipe, newbie
└lolol pipe murderer lolol
And the argument of the Heavenly Demon camp was:
└Just considering his usual personality, Heavenly Demon is right
└ikr lol
└Sword God is too cool. Use Heavenly Demon!
└One thing’s for sure, with that bastard’s personality, Orthodox is absolutely out of the question lolololol
└Even if he had been born in the Orthodox Faction, he would have joined the Demonic Sect himself and claimed the title of Heavenly Demon lololol then invaded the Central Plains just like in the Battleground. In that sense, Heavenly Demon is a perfect fit
He was put in a bad mood again.
Although the personality displayed on the stream was entirely manufactured with not even a single gram of his true self in it,
still, for some reason, it put him in a bad mood.
Yet, seeing them naturally debate about him in the comments of the post that ranked number one on Adventure’s Top 10 made him feel somewhat proud.
Even if it was thanks to the Battleground and special circumstances, it wouldn’t be easy to have people discuss him so naturally in comments.
No matter who said what, the greatest beneficiary of this Battleground was Seo-jun.
Since he had engraved his name into the minds of everyone who played For Chivalry.
Now.
He just had to wrap it up well.
“Tomorrow.”
It was time to see the end of the 20-day race.
[Ah, yes. Call me Sword God]
-Sword-men
-Heavenly-men
-It’s Heavenly Demon!
-Can’t you just become the Sword God and come to the Orthodox Faction?
Seo-jun smiled faintly, turned off his phone, and went to sleep.
***
It was shocking.
From the perspective of MONSTER, the indie game development company that had marked Seo-jun, it was utterly shocking that Seo-jun had surpassed 20,000 viewers.
“A new high price.”
The meaning itself was a newly achieved high price.
And Seo-jun had achieved that all-time high.
“Basic viewers of his recent streams is 20,000?”
It was crazy.
Just how large a crowd was he bringing along.
A person who barely struggled to reach 10,000 had done martial duels, and upon starting to progress in the Battleground in earnest, began to gather an immense number of people.
In a word,
Seo-jun’s value skyrocketed.
Damn it.
At this point, there was only one thing they could say.
“We should have bought back then.”
This was impossible.
Once the Battleground ended, the bubble burst slightly, and time passed, the viewer count would naturally head toward its original place.
Although it would naturally be higher than before, the face value was too high right now.
It was expensive enough to be high even considering it was a special circumstance.
And by the time the bubble burst enough for the streamer to be evaluated at his proper value, the advertisement would have already been released.
“Fortunately, we drafted many other candidate groups……”
However.
“Isn’t that right? Huh? Representative?”
What are you doing?
Why are you staring so intently at the video of that skyrocketed stream?
Why are you writing a comment?
The content is, well…
Roughly, ‘The Demonic Sect is invincible’?
“Representative?”
“Ah…… Yes?”
“What shall we do? With a different combination?”
“What are you talking about? We must recruit him unconditionally. No matter how much money we have to give.”
“Pardon? That is the upper limit price……”
“Buy it! Buy the stock or whatever! That’s going to work. The Demonic Sect will win!”
What on earth does that mean, Representative.
Were you perhaps in the Demonic Sect?
“Let’s skyrocket just like the Demonic Sect, let’s go!”