Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 118

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Chapter 118

[A Newbie and a Veteran Playing a Game That’s Been Out for Less Than 3 Hours.avi]

A four-minute short video premieres exclusively on Seo Jun’s AiTube channel.
With Seo Jun’s subscriber count having grown considerably, there were many viewers who hadn’t caught the live broadcast, and the premiere was the perfect way to see their reactions in real time.
At the start of the video.
A doll falls from the ceiling and approaches menacingly before the screen cuts to black.
Soon, text appears.

[NEWBIE]

The video begins inside a corridor.
An urgent atmosphere, mounting pressure drawing tighter.
What is approaching? What are they fleeing from?
Thud, thud, thud!
The sound of someone—something—in pursuit.
And then.

[AAAHHH!]

When the viewpoint turns to look back, the doll comes into view.
The scream belonged to Tae-woo.
Each time he turns to look back, the doll draws closer, delivering pure dread.
If he stops for even a moment, he’ll be caught.
Yet in this tense chase, what poured forth was the reaction of someone who’d become a master of horror—and it was more than enough to make viewers laugh.

-Is that Tae-woo?
-That’s today’s stream!
-LMAO it IS scary though ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Why does he scream every time he watches but keeps replaying it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Just run! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

While watching horror game footage isn’t quite the same as entering virtual reality firsthand, it tends to land with genuine fright regardless.
But when the streamer makes it funny, the horror dissolves—and transforms into pure entertainment instead.

[Stop! Just STOP coming!]

The doll wasn’t found just because he’s good at horror games “as a streamer.”
For horror games, the streamer’s reaction is everything.
If they react with genuine enthusiasm, the fear diminishes and the game itself becomes something people want to experience.
A game that a favorite streamer suffered through.
If it has decent production quality, viewers either want to try it themselves, or they want to watch another streamer they like play through it.
In other words, audiences become curious, and if it catches on as a trend, it can explode into massive success.
Forced scares, jump-scares, cheap tricks—people resent those.
But a chase sequence is different.
That particular atmosphere is perfect for streaming.

[Open it! Open the door, hurry!]
[It was a left turn back there, you idiot.]

And in that instant, a calm voice cut through, and the field of view—which had been locked onto the escape route ahead and the doll pursuing behind—shifted sideways.
Someone was walking backward slightly behind Tae-woo, directing him toward the correct path.
To anyone watching, it was jarring.

-That’s the owner, right?
-Pulling something weird again?
-Why is the Heaven Demon walking backward?

But Tae-woo’s urgent pace was so swift that Seo Jun quickly vanished from both view and attention.

[Thud, thud, thud, THUD!]

Tae-woo tenses at a doll bursting forward from ahead, making sounds barely interpretable as human before he screams and throws himself to the side.
He enters the next corridor, performs the required mechanism, and when the door opens automatically in the one after that, he rushes in and begins looking around like a madman.
That’s when Seo Jun emerges from the corridor behind him and fires a nail.
Whoosh!
The nail embeds itself in the control panel, and the descending door stops partway.
And then.
Thud, thud, thud, thud!
The approaching sound grows louder until the doll pushes through headfirst from the corridor.
In that instant, the door descends like a guillotine, severing the doll’s neck, and its nearly hairless head goes rolling across the floor.

[AHHHHH—wait?]

Tae-woo’s voice, which had been about to scream in full force, suddenly shifted—the tension draining from it.
Not because the chase had ended and relief washed over him.
Because.

-That was scary…??
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What is this?
-No way ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The doll’s face, rolling across the floor, had objects embedded in it that were unmistakably not part of its original design.
Nails.
And the thick eyebrows those nails had formed.
Just as curiosity set in about what had happened, the screen darkens and the scene shifts.

[VETERAN]

This segment also began in a narrow corridor.
But the perspective was different.
The viewpoint faced the opposite direction of travel.
The corridor ended, a dark room appeared, and the camera still faced backward.
A doll climbed up the wall and onto a conveyor belt.
It advanced rapidly, threateningly.
When it entered the corridor again, it was squeezing itself in.

-Whoa! Face backward!
-Obviously the owner
-This is why veterans are like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-But isn’t this even scarier?
-Dead serious horror

The live chat comments from AiTube viewers matched exactly with those watching Seo Jun’s broadcast.
If occasional backward glances delivered startled frights, then constant forward-facing was pure, unadulterated dread.
And so a voice emerged from the footage.

[I’m telling you not to be scared, but that makes it worse, doesn’t it? Hmm.]

Then you’d think facing forward would solve it, but a veteran’s mind worked differently from everyone else’s.

[How about we give it an eyebrow tattoo?]

-???
-What is he saying
-If you stop trying to understand, it gets easier ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

His follow-through was equally exceptional.
Even as Seo Jun ran backward—in a situation where a single mistake meant being caught—he yanked a nail from his waistband and flicked it with his fingers.
Nails began accumulating on the doll’s eyebrow as it chased them.
Tae-woo, glancing back occasionally, didn’t notice, but those nails embedding themselves in the doll’s forehead gradually built up into thick, caterpillar-like brows.
Since the doll had barely any hair on its head, the densely packed nails commanded fierce visual presence.
The absurd sight instantly flipped the genre from horror straight to comedy.

-Why are you desecrating the doll like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Ah those caterpillar eyebrows are killing me ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-And his hands are disgustingly fast, insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

More than that, even as Seo Jun walked backward and diligently applied his “eyebrow tattoo,” he didn’t forget to handle the game’s mechanics.
By the final room, he pulled off a ridiculous feat with the Nail Gun.
Whoosh!

-??
-What nail was that just now?
-Is this what being a true veteran looks like?
-The game’s been out for 3 hours! Brand new!
-Backward walking, insane skill, maniac-level antics. No way around it—this guy’s definitely a veteran ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

This video, capturing the streamer who’d somehow become a hardcore player in just 3 hours and horror specialist Tae-woo’s contrasting reactions, posted to the community exactly as titled.
For the Sect’s users, who’d suffered plenty at Seo Jun’s hands and roughly understood what he was up to, the title made instant sense, and they showed keen interest.
And the post rapidly climbed into the top ten.
Chase sequences are inherently entertaining content, but the clash of opposing reactions was so unique that it stood out.
First it’s scary, then it’s absurd and hilarious!
The game now had everyone’s attention, and its viral potential was guaranteed.
What comes next, only time will tell.

* * *

The final game’s story concluded with the revelation that the entity who’d left a message in the box was actually a fairy, and that this fairy had been working to instill genuine teamwork in the two protagonists.
And with that, they cleared the game and exited, resuming their broadcast.
“I had no idea you were that frightened of horror,” Seo Jun said, settling into his chair at the desk.
He’d spoken casually, as if making an observation.
“Neither did I,” Tae-woo replied.
Currently, an edited compilation of all Tae-woo’s screaming moments was playing on their broadcast, looped by viewer donations.
“Number one in Top Ten? And it hit the trending page? No way. Broadcast break… stop.”
Tae-woo’s mind was already racing ahead to the countless horror game partnership requests that awaited.
And the scenes from today’s broadcast would inevitably be recycled endlessly in Tae-woo’s channel going forward.
“I should take a break from streaming,” he muttered.
“Order chicken first,” Seo Jun countered.
“Again?”
“Yep.”
After telling Tae-woo to order food, Seo Jun settled the mission rewards from the very first tutorial section.
“Thank you.”
They each walked away with well over 1.5 million won.

-Holy shit
-Never falling for this again!
-If there are no safe assets, where are we supposed to invest?! What are we supposed to eat?!

Tae-woo emerged from his room after a brief absence.
“Done,” he said.
“Got it.”
These two had a habit of grabbing late-night snacks whenever broadcast break timing lined up.
But with today’s collaboration stream, this was the natural next step.
Tae-woo announced to chat:
“We’re gonna wrap it up when the chicken arrives, chat.”

-Why no mukbang?
-Want to get unalived?
-Get back to basics
-Give us your address^^ I’ll come block your door

A pro streamer like Tae-woo wouldn’t blink at this level of “threats”—he’d brush past them effortlessly.
Seo Jun simply played dumb and left it all to Tae-woo.
And he was a pro streamer now himself.
Downtime was free time.
Seo Jun spent the remaining broadcast chatting about trivial things with viewers.
The game they’d just played, For the Sect.
He’d occasionally spot comments about the Assassination Guild’s dawn.
Posts from people who’d captured all the Rulers and progressed through the Hidden Quests, lamenting that they still hadn’t unlocked Christina’s secret scene.
That sort of thing.
“What’s your next game gonna be?” one viewer asked.
The question that garnered the most attention was naturally what game Seo Jun would tackle next.
Seo Jun fell briefly into thought.
Not because he hadn’t decided what to play tomorrow.
He’d already settled on beginning The League.
But the League of Streaming’s application announcement hadn’t been posted yet, and he was weighing whether to express his intent to participate in the LIOS competition.
Most people typically stayed quiet until they were officially selected.
If he announced The League as his next game, questions about LIOS would inevitably flood in.
“Tomorrow’s a broadcast break….”
Oof.
The chat’s atmosphere darkened instantly, and Seo Jun flinched.
“Just kidding. Starting tomorrow, it’s The League.”
And the moment those words left his mouth, the chat speed doubled.
Far faster than when he’d mentioned the break.
The League was called the national game—the user pool was massive.
It’s the biggest virtual reality pro league title.
While it might not claim the title of “first virtual reality game,” most people would undeniably name The League as the first thing that springs to mind when they think of virtual reality gaming.

-Yes!
-Let’s dominate The League too!
-You going for LIOS? You going for LIOS? You going for LIOS? You going for LIOS? You going for LIOS?
-Right, LIOS exists! Let’s gooo!
-Now let’s see you go up against real pros! ㅋㅋㅋ
-But what if a scout offer comes in? You giving up streaming?
-Will you use a sword in The League too? Not gonna lie, seems kinda boring

He’d already fielded pro offers.
As for the sword—well.
Seven years ago, in the old days, The League was the only game he’d played, and every character he’d run wielded a blade.
He was confident he’d been damn good at it.
‘Seven years have passed, so much must have changed.’
He’d figure it out as he went.
Seo Jun deliberately ignored chat messages asking about LIOS and replied:
“Any other questions?”
And a donation chimed in.

[‘ㅇㅇ’ has donated 50,000 won!]
[How did you and Tae-woo become so close at the beginning?]

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