Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 111

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Chapter 111

In a co-op game, progress typically requires the cooperation of two or more players.
But this kind of cooperation carries a different character from ordinary team games.
In team games, even if one player fails or drops out, others can fill the gap if they play well enough—difficult, perhaps, but manageable.
Just as Seo Jun, left alone in For the Sect against ordinary users, could claim victory whether it was three-versus-one or five-versus-one.
But co-op games are different.
Often, filling that gap is systemically blocked.
Of course, exceptions exist.
If the developer built a Solo Play Route into the co-op game.
Naturally, such cases are rare.
A Solo Play Route is one of the trade secrets used to set a game apart, but Monster hadn’t taken that approach.
Then what’s the other exception?
“Could it be a bug? Why don’t we make a wager?”
Seo Jun grinned wickedly.
A solo clear in a co-op game from the start?
And with a mission, no less?
This was absolutely worth attempting.

—Seriously? Solo from the co-op tutorial itself? LMAOOOOOOOOO
—No way
—If it works, Monster’s the one with the problem
—Dude, you really think you know what you’re doing? Hmm?

“Nah, I don’t really know what I’m doing. But still.”
Seo Jun paused the game for a moment.
His avatar froze, and he drifted back to his original form in a ghostly, translucent state.
The location changed as well.
“Go ahead and bet. Scared?”
Naturally.
The audience took the bait of such a crude provocation.

[Complete this boss solo on first try — Mission Reward: 200,000 won]
[Actually just pissed off now. Let’s wreck this guy!]

—LMAO what a dumbass falling for that
—There’s tens of thousands watching, how could they all resist lmao
—Ugh
—The biggest victim right now is dead Tae-woo who keeps sending “retry” messages LMAO

* * *

The dead have no voice.
Tae-woo was dead, and therefore unable to relay his words to Seo Jun.
Through streaming software or other external programs, his voice might reach someone’s ears, but within the game itself it was impossible.
All Tae-woo could do was send small messages that appeared on Seo Jun’s screen.

[Let’s do this together!]
[We help each other!]
[We help each other!]
[We help each other!]
[Retry 1/2]
[We help each other!]
[Retry 1/2]

—LMAO this is what a collab looks like
—With Tae-woo like this, you gotta watch the host go through the tutorial alone lmao
—Is this really a safe asset? Like, for real?

If Seo Jun succeeds on the mission, they lose their money.
If he fails, they get their original stake back.
Return on investment?
Of course there is.
A streamer struggling financially and looking miserable—that’s enough.
So what matters to them is this: do we have a real shot? Is this asset safe?
And Seo Jun’s current mission success rate was 100%.
No matter how impossible the mission seemed—even something absurd like a Demonic Cult victory—he pulled it off.
The broadcast viewers began to debate.
And naturally, this topic spread to various corners, swelling Seo Jun’s viewership.
The mission reward grew along with it.

—Quick turnaround
—They said they didn’t create a separate Solo Play Route!!!! That’s it! This is a genuine safe asset!
—But what if it’s just overwhelming physical specs?
—That guy’s physical prowess is kinda buggy
—Shouldn’t they open points betting for this? lmao

[+Prize Money: 2,000 won added]
[+Prize Money: 5,000 won added]
[+Prize Money: 10,000 won added]
.
.

And at that moment, Seo Jun unpaused the game.

“Let’s go. Keep watching and gambling. Plenty of prize money to covet, I see.”
A million won.
If he succeeded, would he split it with Tae-woo?

He demonstrated various movements utilizing the Double Jump and actions through the Grappling Hook, never making a single mistake throughout the process.
One death and the mission was over.

“Oh.”
And in the midst of it all, following the tutorial’s progression, Seo Jun was finally able to draw a sword from his waist.
The unfortunate part was the moment Seo Jun drew it.

—Once that guy gets a sword, I feel like he can do anything
—Risk Asset alert!
—Seriously, people are really stopping donations just ’cause he drew a toy sword? For real?

“Right? For real.”
The prize money froze at 1.5 million won, Tae-woo’s messages disappeared, and the tutorial advanced to the next stage.
‘Now I get it.’
They realized why Tae-woo didn’t force a restart even though he was dead.
“Save me! Now I can talk! Can you hear me, Seo Jun!”
A green marker appeared on one of the garbage blocks that the trash compactor had compressed into a square shape.
Tae-woo.
Only one of his arms and his head jutted out slightly from the edge of the block.
“If I go over and pull, it looks like I can save him.”
“Hurry! Dash around and create distance—I think we can make it!”

—Yeah
—Or there’d be a riot

“Money or you?”
“Money.”
Seo Jun answered without a moment’s hesitation, keeping his focus on the narration.
The narrator was explaining the compactor at that very moment.

[Forget those specs—tell me the weakness!]
[The weakness is definitely those eyes! You have to destroy the eyes! If it can’t see, it can’t do anything!]

(O . O)
Then it began digging into the mountain where Seo Jun stood with even greater fury.
(＼ ／)

[Make it lie down! Lay it flat and stab it with your sword!]

But how to make it lie down?

[Just get me out first!]

—Mission failed!
—Safe asset confirmed! ✓✓✓

Double Jump alone wouldn’t cut it.
This game’s air time is long because distance is possible, not height—that’s how it’s designed.
So even combined with the Grappling Hook, which has a cooldown, reaching the eyes was hopeless.
So the game was telling him this: first you have to save Tae-woo, or there’s no way forward—which means mission failure.

“Sounds like I need to save you first for a solution to appear. But that’s mission failure.”
1.5 million won.
Split with Tae-woo, that was 750,000 won each—a substantial sum.
Recently, winning the Battlefield tournament in a single day earned far more, making this seem small, but the Battlefield tournament wasn’t hourly—it was a three-week haul.
This was hourly income.
The amount was climbing in real time, bit by bit.
‘They’re really pulling out all the stops.’
Seo Jun looked away from the chat and began studying the Compression Robot’s movements.
A clue had emerged.
‘Eyes and sword.’

—Lmao is the host deliberating?
—Ah lol it’s literally a co-op game
—Yeah why’d you take a co-op ad and then try to solo it lol
—Everyone’s happy knowing they can laugh about it
—Just hit the fail button!

“Alright, I gotta save you first, don’t I, Seo Jun! Hahahaha!”
Seo Jun filtered out the noise.
Keeping his balance, he began skiing down the garbage mountain.
(＼ ／)
Head, a hollow space below the torso, two wheels, and the distance to two arms connected to the bucket.
The movements shown so far by the Compression Robot. Its operating range.
And every spec of Seo Jun himself.
He’d mapped it all.
So he didn’t need to know the monster’s pattern. He could react on sight.
“This looks doable, doesn’t it?”
As Seo Jun approached, the shadow of a long plate passed over him and beyond.
Bang!
The Compression Robot’s scraper struck the ground behind Seo Jun.
It immediately began retracting its arm to drag him into its body.
But before the impact could shake the ground he stood on and break his balance, Seo Jun had already jumped.
He hurled his Grappling Hook at the flat scraper sweeping toward him from behind, launching his body onto the robot’s blade.
Whoosh.
The robot ended up scraping only the ground instead.
The Grappling Hook cooldown is two seconds.
And those two seconds are enough time for a body lifted by the grappling rope to fall back to its original height.
So reaching infinite height through the grappling hook is impossible.
That’s how it was designed.
That’s also why the robot couldn’t be caught.
But.
When two seconds passed and Seo Jun fell back to ground level, the height of his jump—
The robot was already raising its arm again, pulling itself up, and Seo Jun locked onto the scraper with his grappling hook a second time.
Click.
The moment the grappling hook caught the scraper, the robot lifted its arm.
Seo Jun’s body spun through the air, drawn upward by the rope.
Height.
Enough to reach the robot’s eyes.
“Huh?”

—?????
—Why’s he flying?
—Still short though
—Phew

But when height and distance fell just shy—
Seo Jun deployed his saved Double Jump at the perfect moment.
A skill usable only once per airborne sequence.
It wouldn’t lift him much higher, but it would lift him—
Crack.
And his sword drove straight into the robot’s eye.

—???????
—What?

And in that instant—

[+Prize Money: 2,000,000 won added]

Someone lost 2 million won one second after placing a bet on the mission.
“Uh…”
Seo Jun, equally startled to have tried once and succeeded, fell to the ground and spoke.
“No refunds.”

* * *

Silence hung in the Director’s office at Crown.
Not because someone said it was impossible for a player with long airtime but low height to land a Double Jump perfectly, much less for a newbie to pull it off.
Not because someone said the Grappling Hook control with its distance adjustment would require at least one whiff, falling to the ground.
Not because they claimed it impossible to execute everything on the first try.
Not because, having anticipated multiple attempts at soloing the tutorial boss, they’d told the Director failure was inevitable.
Not even because the Director’s expression had grown increasingly skeptical—as if superior specs were the only answer when money alone wouldn’t win hearts.
Simply.
Not because of all that had just transpired.
“I told you not to put money on it.”
But because someone bet money they could have kept if they’d just waited one more second.
Silence settled over the Director’s office.
“…”
“That’s enough. Get out. I need to figure out my countermeasures now.”
An order to vacate was issued.

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