Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115

The only light in the Ventilation Duct came from thin slivers filtering through the iron grating at irregular intervals.
Their vision was severely limited, and all that lay ahead was darkness.
From beyond that darkness, something appeared.
Tap, tap, tap, tap.
It was a brisk, cheerful footstep.
Or was it threatening?
Tae-woo flinched, but he didn’t freeze or cry out.
Seo Jun waited quietly.
Whatever was approaching revealed itself just enough to be glimpsed.
“That’s the hero we saw in 2D mode, isn’t it, everyone?”
It was the protagonist from the game-within-the-game they’d seen in the intro.
“Ah, I was scared for nothing.”
What little they could see emerging from the darkness was enough to identify him.

[What is that.]
[The main character?]

The protagonist’s eyes met theirs, and he turned around.
Then he ran off again.
Seo Jun followed, thinking that cheerful pace had been the right read after all.

[Wait! Stop right there!]
[Why is he so fast!]

Unlike the urgent voices of the other characters, Seo Jun strolled along at leisure.
And Tae-woo couldn’t move ahead of him, never knowing what might burst from the darkness a single step ahead.
Of course he pretended not to be scared, acted as though he enjoyed walking anyway, but Seo Jun felt it all.

-Cognitive dissonance lmao
-The characters are going there! but the Abbot just strolls out with his hands behind his back lmao
-The game devs told him to run. At least run a little

[We have to catch it right now!]

As he continued strolling leisurely, the passage suddenly brightened, and the protagonist’s silhouette came into view in the distance.

[Get him!]

Then the protagonist vanished downward in an instant.
As they drew closer, they saw a hole where the iron grating had been removed.
That was why it had brightened so suddenly.
“They’ve designed it so you can’t go the other way.”
It meant you had no choice but to fall. There was no getting around it.
Thud.
After landing, Seo Jun looked around. They had finally entered an interior space.
Yet even this newly entered interior seemed strange.
“A conveyor belt?”

* * *

“I can’t see the bottom.”
Tae-woo’s comment was one Seo Jun agreed with.
The interior was quite vast, the ceiling impossibly high. Below was equally incomprehensible—the floor was so far down it might as well not exist.
So where had they landed?
On a conveyor belt suspended in empty space.
That’s where they stood.
“Seo Jun, if we fall from here, we’re done for, right?”
“Why don’t we try and find out.”
So the space they could move in was limited.
Most of the space was empty and vast.
Looking up, they spotted multiple conveyor belts attached to a distant wall, far too high to reach.

[There! The door’s closing!]

When they looked ahead, there was a door leading to the next room at the far end of their path, and the protagonist was entering it.
Seo Jun thought he’d just barely caught the protagonist smirking.
The door closed, and the light above it changed from green to red.
At the same moment, the conveyor belt lowered from the door’s front down a certain distance.
The path had vanished.

-It’s locked lol
-The path dropped too lol
-Where is this place
-Something’s gonna pop up from below, I’m freaking out…

How could they open that door?
Then.
Click.
A sound rang out, and at the same moment Seo Jun felt a slight weight settle at his waist.

[What is that?]
[Something just appeared in your hands!]
[The sword is gone.]

New objects materialized—one in Seo Jun’s hand, another at Tae-woo’s waist.
“Hmm, nails and a gun…?”
Seo Jun examined the gun that had appeared at his right and the small Storage Bag at his left.
Tae-woo, meanwhile, had a gun with a thin barrel and what looked like an Oxygen Tank attached to it strapped to his back.

-They both got guns?
-Now go kill each other!
-Tae-woo’s clearly got an Air Gun and the Abbot has a Nail Gun. If they fight, the Abbot wins!

Right then.
“Looks like they want us to use these for something.”
Seo Jun approached the end of the severed path.
The path that had lowered.
And on the far side, a closed door, beside which something that appeared to be an Electronic Access Control Device, awaiting a card.
A Control Panel?
“Feels like I should try shooting it right now, doesn’t it?”
He pulled out a nail and loaded it directly into the Nail Gun.
Then he aimed ahead and pulled the trigger.
Whoosh!
Crack!
As the nail embedded itself in the Control Panel, it sparked and exploded, the lowered path rose back up, and the door swung open.
“Ah, so that’s how it works.”
He understood.
Meanwhile, Tae-woo grumbled from behind.
“What the, now I’m useless? Told you I’m not good at support.”
As he activated the Air Gun and swung it through the air.
Seo Jun looked at Tae-woo with an expression of fond admiration—as if to say, ‘How I envy you, trembling with fear yet still speaking so thoughtlessly.’
“Think about it. How could you not be useful?”

* * *

They moved into the next room.
The next room was connected to conveyor belts in the same way.
And.
“Just like before.”
The path vanished abruptly right in front of them.
“Your time to shine.”
“No! I’m scared!”
“Now you’re admitting it openly.”
At present, they couldn’t determine the exact shape of this space.
Whether it was the shape of the letter L, or perhaps lowercase ‘n’.
They needed to turn left and venture deeper, but the path had broken off right before they could.
Where was the door this time?
“Try heading there.”
Seo Jun pointed ahead.
A small section of floor remained to the upper left diagonal, untouched by the lowering.
“No.”
“Scared?”
“Yeah, scared.”
That excuse didn’t work anymore. A real disappointment.
“You can’t make it with just a Double Jump.”
That was Tae-woo’s reason for refusing.
“Oh!”
Tae-woo snapped his fingers.
“What did you remember?”
“Nothing, but I realized this thing has crazy output power.”
Tae-woo fired the Air Gun, air rushing out with a hiss.
A current of air formed in front of the gun, and Tae-woo was pushed slightly backward.
“See? By the way, I can also absorb this. Anyway, what I want to show you is—”
Tae-woo took a short running start and leaped.
A distance that even a Double Jump couldn’t cover.
Whoosh!
But as Tae-woo aimed the Air Gun downward and fired, his body lifted once more into the air.

-Triple jump! My god
-Yeah, Double Jump is possible so there’s no reason this wouldn’t work lmao
-Oh

So he hadn’t half-assed the game up to now, clearly.
He landed on the corner to the upper left and sighed with relief.
Falling was something he’d rather do anything but experience.
“Phew. This is a little tricky.”
“What do you see?”
“Yeah. This space is definitely n-shaped. Um, how do I explain this? The door isn’t at the end of the ‘n’—from your perspective, it’s just straight to the left.”
I see.
So from where they’d entered, the door was directly to the left, but a wall jutting out from the middle was blocking it.
The problem was that wall preventing him from shooting the nail.
“Can you do anything with a triple jump?”
“No.”
“Then, hmm. Hey. Try blasting wind at your front.”
“Got it.”
A current of air formed in front of Tae-woo.
The wind pouring from the barrel he held created a whirlwind.
Whoosh!
As Seo Jun fired a nail diagonally toward where Tae-woo stood, it shot straight initially, but the spreading air current caught it and twisted its trajectory.
Crack.
The nail struck something in the space.
“Ooh? Almost had it.”
There was adjustment possible, so with a bit of fine-tuning, he’d nail it soon enough.
“Hey, I’ll keep firing nails from the same spot. You move around. I don’t know exactly where the Control Panel is.”
“Roger.”
Whoosh!
Crack!
Whoosh!
Crack!
Whoosh!
Crack!
After adjusting the trajectory multiple times,
the nail finally struck the Control Panel instead of the wall, and with a rumbling sound, the path rose, connecting where Seo Jun stood, the center where Tae-woo stood, and even a different exit on the far side.
“So that’s how this works.”
“Let’s move to the next room.”
They entered the next door, and just as before, the path lowered.
And.
“Oh, this time we have a Branching Path?”
A Branching Path appeared on both sides.
The doors at the end of each Branching Path weren’t locked, but after examining the interior of the room, Seo Jun and Tae-woo reached a conclusion.
“You take the left, I’ll take the right.”
The puzzle in the left room had to be solved by Seo Jun with the Nail Gun, and the right room was Tae-woo’s.
“Where’s the door?”
“Same as before except the right side. The Control Panel, everything.”
Tae-woo performed a triple jump to scout ahead before reporting back.
This time, the difference was that the door was on the right, and there was no remaining path in the middle.
The wall jutting from the middle still covered the door, and the Control Panel was the same.
“Let’s solve the puzzle quickly and get back.”
With that, Tae-woo entered the right room.
Tae-woo went into the room hidden behind that protruding wall in the middle.
Hmm.
But alone now, Seo Jun felt a sudden spark of curiosity.
“Everyone, does this really have to be done together?”

-?
-Again? lmao
-This guy’s max-spec friend I’m telling you…
-Abbot…
-It’s time. The Celestial Demon’s bullshit is coming
-That guy who pulls that crap is definitely Orthofaction. I know it

Wasn’t it something everyone wanted—to not play the game normally?
Besides, Seo Jun had to prove this game was excellent.
Because that was advertising.
“Actually, if you think about it, I just need to hit the nail, right? I already know the layout from before, so it’s not like I don’t know where the Control Panel is.”
He’d grasped the structure in the previous room.
Seo Jun held a nail between his fingers as he spoke.
“Kyaaaahhh!”
A scream came from the adjacent room.
Looks like something had startled him.
“Let me try. If this works, it means this game is a masterpiece! High degree of freedom, that’s what it means! So you should buy it!”

-What kind of insane thing are you saying
-Talking about freedom in a co-op adventure game lmao
-Please don’t scam us again lmao
-Ah lol if it works I’ll buy it
-fr fr lol

“You did say it.”
Seo Jun swung his arm and launched the nail pinched between his fingers.
The nail embedded itself in the wall, no different from when he used the Nail Gun.
He pinched another and fired it.
He checked the speed.
He got a feel for it.
Then.
He loaded the Nail Gun, held a nail between his fingers, and clenched his fist.
The Control Panel was on the right where he stood, but the jutting wall blocked it.
He’d considered running forward, looking to the side, and firing, but he’d die doing that, and then he’d have to restart, which was pointless.
So from here, if he threw it in an arc—
No.
If he altered the trajectory mid-flight—
Seo Jun took a deep breath and swung his arm.
The nail left his fingers, launching slightly weak to the right.
At the same time, he quickly moved his left hand, firing the pre-loaded Nail Gun.
Whoosh!
The nail from the gun traveled far faster than the one he’d thrown.
Swish!
The gun’s nail caught up to his thrown nail in an instant, striking its rear end.
The first nail lost momentum from the impact and spun wildly,
but its trajectory bent sharply to the right.

-???
-No way?
-lmao this is ridiculous

Crack!
The nail smashed into the Control Panel, the sound echoing through the space.
Seo Jun himself marveled, lowering his hand to look at it.
“Wow… It actually works.”
The path rises from below.
It seemed,
like he’d just discovered a new Hidden Throwing Technique.

-Grappling hook, sword, even throwing blades. ㅅㅍ this soldier’s a cheat build
-‘another’ lmaooooo
-Wow masterpiece!

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