Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 122

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Chapter 122

[Who the hell is this guy broadcasting to twenty thousand people? Never seen him before.]

A post appeared on The League community board.
An unfamiliar streamer had surfaced in the Travel The League category for the first time.
Twenty thousand viewers was an exceptionally high number for a streamer.
He’d be classified as a mid-tier streamer rather than a major corporation affiliate, but it was still significant.
Only a select few mid-tier streamers ever reached that position.
So naturally, people were curious about this unknown streamer occupying such a slot.

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(Travel screenshot)
Who is this?
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Comments flooded in response to the innocent question.

-Don’t know Seo Jun?
└OP
-How can you not know this
└ㅋㅋ
└ㅋㅋ

But the post wasn’t exactly innocent.
The title itself had started with a curse, so the replies were equally spicy.

-Wait, should I know this guy? (OP)

The original poster sounded aggrieved.
And so many people knew this streamer?
Most of the comments seemed to recognize him.
Though naturally, community users who didn’t know him wouldn’t bother commenting.

└I’m actually a streamer myself and this guy is a total nobody to me? (OP)

Nobody.
Slang for “heard of nothing, seen nothing.”

└A nobody, eh? So this is Seo Jun.
└Isn’t he the Sword Saint now?
└Easy, Orthofaction. Don’t spout nonsense.
└Agreed!
└Wait, did you guys come from For the Sect? (OP)

Any gamer with passing interest would naturally recall For the Sect at a comment like that.
There was hardly any wuxia game of comparable scale.
The original poster, remembering that the Battlefield had recently concluded, replied:

-Is the Battlefield really that big a deal? Hmm ㅋㅋ (OP)

The poster was thinking:
The Battlefield—sure, some people watch it, and maybe viewership spikes and chat gets flooded. But isn’t it basically mid-tier level when you really look at it? It doesn’t even match The League’s average.
It wasn’t that strong compared to The League average viewership.
It was oddly an accurate take.
The League’s tier structure was simply that vast.

└Now you’re dismissing For the Sect?
└You need to get Parried by Seo Jun to learn some respect.
└This is The League community, you guys need to get a grip. (OP)

It was a world where YouTubers with a million or two million subscribers existed without anyone hearing a peep about them.
Even though Seo Jun had built a significant reputation and accomplished much in For the Sect, there were far more people who didn’t know him than those who did.
So the League users who remembered Seo Jun’s For the Sect days began recommending he watch at least one gameplay video.

└Hyping up some mediocre streamer ㅋㅋ (OP)
└Don’t mouth off like that without thinking.
└Just watch one playthrough, you’ll see.
└Seriously insane skill. He’s a skilled streamer. Just take a look.
└Here, clips (clip) (clip) (clip)
└Check this out too. Insane. (clip)

But the poster said this:

└Yeah, you guys fought him in For the Sect ㅋㅋ You’re For the Sect survivors ㅋㅋ (OP)

Then they realized.
The poster wasn’t even watching the clips before commenting.
If he’d actually seen Seo Jun’s gameplay, his urge to post such comments would naturally vanish.
At least if his eyes were working properly.
Fortunately, he seemed to have eyes that functioned.

└Wow, he’s picking Kaell? Are you a Kaell fanatic? (OP)

Those who knew Seo Jun felt at ease at last.

└Looks like you’re watching the stream?
└Then there’s no point talking anymore ㅋㅋㅋ
└Fall back!
└Wait, what? You guys were fighting and now you’re leaving? (OP)
└This guy’s about to become a Demonic Cult disciple ㅋㅋ
└ㅋㅋ
└What the hell are you talking about! (OP)

* * *

Kaell was a character who lived and died by vital points.
His skill required hitting three vital points within a set time window to activate.
That time window was ten seconds after the first vital point hit.
If the next vital point couldn’t be struck before those ten seconds elapsed, the counter reset.
Surprisingly lenient, and with a bit of focus, even a regular player could manage it.
Though the difficulty level was certainly enough to create fanatics.
The ultimate required stacking six hits total—three more on top of the skill.
This too wasn’t entirely impossible.
But it was similarly generous in creating fanatics.
‘One slip and you lose everything—high risk, high reward.’
The benchmark for measuring a Kaell player’s skill was how quickly they could strike vital points and activate their skill.
But why?
Didn’t vital points spawn randomly?
‘Because it’s not random.’
Seo Jun drove his sword through the vital point before him, then moved toward the next one that would appear.
While Seo Jun predicted in a split second, the viewers were discussing what had just happened.

-Wait, is there actually a pattern he memorized? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Stacking the skill in 2 seconds makes zero sense ㅋㅋㅋ
-Experts are fast but… this is insane! Streamer!

That’s right.
Experts could chain Kaell’s vital point strikes faster than other players.
More precisely, “experts” meant masters—those who’d played thousands upon thousands of matches with a single character, Kaell.
Seo Jun’s sword moved without hesitation.
The vital point revealed by light materialized.
A horizontal slash. Next came a thrust.
Ting! Ting!
The moment it manifested, the sword’s tip struck and shattered it.
Exactly two seconds.

[Blessing of Radiance]

A barrage of arrows descended, and Seo Jun’s body erupted in light.

-What, again?
-Insane
-Can invulnerability copy itself?
-What the hell ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is ridiculous
-This is way too op

Masters are those who delve to the extreme, employ every technique at their disposal, and possess tremendous skill specific to at least that one character.
And Kaell had plenty of masters.
So what techniques could Kaell’s masters display?
It was quickly fulfilling skills in complex, disadvantageous combat situations and using the ultimate.
Achieve the skill within twenty seconds under any condition and you’d be called decent.
Within ten seconds and you could join the master tier.
If you could activate the skill in eight seconds or less, you’d surely be a Kaell master with Challenger-level mechanics.
But then.

-Two seconds again! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-How is this possible?
-There’s definitely a blueprint for this.
-Blueprint my ass ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Seo Jun’s sword slashed at a vital point.
Slash after slash, relentless. Whenever he seemed to stall, he’d use the skill with the best performance stat available.
Ting! Ting! Ting!
“Huh? Wait… stop a sec—!”
The enemy’s health, which had been decreasing with each vital point strike, was completely depleted.

[First Blood!]

The stunned opponent fell.

[Mid nice]
[Dude! Kaell good!]

His teammates’ voices.
In The League, you could communicate with your entire team during matches.
The minimap let you see where everyone was.
You could also place pings to send brief information to allies.
An interface would appear alongside your thoughts like a chat window, and you could drag your desired option to it.
This convenience was an advantage The League had carried since its PC era.
Seo Jun gave a slight smile and headed to farm minions.
“Ah, I miscalculated the force there.”

* * *

[Unstoppable!]

Seo Jun opened the interface briefly at the narration.
The enemy’s KDA was visible.
0/5/0.
Seo Jun’s KDA was 5/0/0, meaning the enemy mid-laner had already died to him five times.

[Whoa, is Kaell insane?!]
[Was he a Kaell master this whole time?!]
[I always believed in him.]
[Isn’t the enemy mid just trolling?]

Seo Jun spoke while hearing his teammates’ cheers.
“Well, the enemy mid just left as soon as they came. Poor guy.”

-If he miscalculates twice more he’ll get a pentakill ㅋㅋㅋ
-Come on, share the blueprint already! Share the blueprint! Share the blueprint!
-How does he do this… there’s gotta be a pattern, right?
-Kaell fanatics drooling right now get upvotes ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Back then, when Seo Jun played, Kaell was somewhat different.
‘I was a bit surprised when I checked the info yesterday.’
The concept was the same—see vital points and gain advantages by striking them quickly—but there was no invulnerability skill, and the ultimate had no conditions.
Instead, the speed buff from hitting vital points was more than twice as strong as it was now, from what he remembered.
The core remained unchanged. But the skills had shifted slightly.
‘That’s why back then nobody focused on hitting vital points super fast.’
Now it was different.

-There’s definitely a pattern here, no doubt
-But if there was, how wouldn’t people have found it… Man, this is wild
-This is the good stuff! Like we just cracked the code! The streamer’s an alien!
-Maybe he’s just smart?
-Nah, I think the game devs leaked all their secrets to the streamer since he’s Surface’s successor
-But why the hell is such a prestigious person streaming on Travel? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

For Kaell now, speed was everything.
‘If it were random, luck would be everything, not speed.’
The reason masters could strike Kaell’s vital points faster than amateurs was simple.
Through thousands upon thousands of matches, they’d absorbed fragments of the pattern into their bones.
When playing Kaell, they instinctively grazed the realm that Seo Jun inhabited.
“Tell me, viewers—why did you ever think vital points spawned randomly in the first place?”

-Well ㅋㅋㅋ because we couldn’t find the pattern
-You can kinda tell through instinct where they’ll spawn if you play enough ㅋㅋㅋㅋ but the details stay hidden so
-Partially random, I’d say

Until now, users and masters had been theorizing like this:
The general direction—left or right, up or down—is fixed by rule, and experience lets you figure it out!
But the specifics—whether it comes down from the shoulder, whether it’s a circular thrust, whether you need a vertical cut, where the stroke begins—that’s all random!
Because they couldn’t find it!
That was the consensus until Seo Jun started playing.
Anyone not watching him probably still thought the same.
“Here’s a fact for you: game companies only love randomness when they’re selling gacha items.”
Seo Jun’s viewers witnessed the truth—Kaell’s vital points followed a pattern.

-ㅋ
-He found this too just like he cracked the code ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ gacha items ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-They do love those gacha pulls
-But seriously ㅋㅋㅋㅋ who even is this guy and how does he see this stuff?!
-Just your average newbie from the peninsula
-That’s the real deal right there
-Give us more details please!!!!

“I’ll explain in detail later. So… we just hit level six. Let’s see how long the ultimate takes?”
If three took two seconds, then six would require stacking twice as many…
Right on cue, the mid-laner with five deaths was walking over mindlessly.
When you’ve died that many times, your spirit leaves and you move mechanically.
Seo Jun approached.
The approaching enemy mid flinched slightly in surprise. But they’d lost focus and reacted slowly.
He drew the first trajectory diagonally.
Ting!
Next should be a thrust.
‘Left chest, then.’
Seo Jun’s sword, drawn backward, shot forward in a straight line.
Ting!
The moment countless angled paths appeared, Seo Jun’s sword erased them all.
“Stop looking already…”
The sound of shattering glass rang out six times in succession.
Once the condition was met, a mark appeared above the enemy’s head.
‘That’s the heretic mark.’
That mark above the head meant the target for the ultimate had been chosen.
‘The old ultimate required precision to land, but now it automatically hits once the mark appears.’
There was no need to explain why that was good for Seo Jun.
Only four seconds had passed.
“This is how you do it.”
As Seo Jun planted his sword with both hands into the ground and visualized falling blades from the sky—
Boom-boom-boom-boom!

[Judgment Sword]

The sky split with a tremendous tremor.
Kaell’s ultimate activated in mere four seconds.
A massive sword fell from the heavens and crashed down on the blank-faced enemy mid-laner.
“Wow, seeing it firsthand—Kaell’s skills are seriously cool.”
The enemy mid-laner had said it.
When you die like that every time you come to lane, it tends to happen.
“Looks like he survived though.”
Judgment Sword had an execution effect that killed outright below a certain health threshold.
But the enemy’s health, though reduced by six vital point hits, wasn’t cut down enough.
“Yeah, didn’t die. Well, let me finish this for you. Thanks for watching the skill.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ their mental’s completely shattered ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Kaell’s supposed to have 0/6/0 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Ah, got a good look at the skill, off I go~
-Please explain how… I main Kaell and I’m literally dying to know

* * *

Seo Jun didn’t know it, but Kaell had become an explosively popular champion after receiving his rework.
He’d even earned the reputation of being the successor to the legendary Rapier-wielding Swordsman, a notorious fanatic character from the PC era.
Yet those who created this perception didn’t mind being called fanatics.
They didn’t care about the skill or whether the game was won or lost.
Only the ultimate!
Since they picked Kaell specifically to use Judgment Sword, their only interest was how many seconds it took to activate.
Speed had always mattered.
Back in the PC era, there was a character who became Kaell’s ancestor, wielding a Rapier and shattering vital points.
That 2D character’s ultimate would generate vital points in all four cardinal directions simultaneously.
And players discovered countless combos that destroyed all four in a single second.
This speed was power, and it was skill.
When it transitioned to virtual reality, many elements changed—basic mechanics, vital point systems, champion concepts—but the core seemed unchanged.
Most Kaell fanatics believed his skill depended on how accurately they could ‘predict’ the next vital point and shatter it quickly.
And now, such Kaell fanatics had discovered news on the community board that would drive every last one of them insane.

[Wait… Is this… a 4-second Judgment Sword?!]

And the first person to break this news was the original poster from earlier.
Though the origin differed, it was the moment a second Assassin was born.

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