Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 123

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Episode 123

For the Sect, players research martial techniques.
Trajectories, applications, counters to enemy techniques—anything worth digging into, they pursue relentlessly to find ways to use it.
Because what they’re drilling into here is technique itself, skills often turn up that can be applied in other games, or even in the real world.
That’s why players of For the Sect carry the impression that something about them is special.
Yet, in the end, the research they conduct differs little from what players in other games do.

[About Judgment Sword Kael’s patterns]
[Why Kael players must keep grinding with Kael to build intuition, no matter how poorly they perform!]
[If you want to master Judgment Sword, experience is the answer—period.]

The essence remains unchanged: players research skills and build proficiency to play better.
The distinction lies only in whether that proficiency transfers to other games or not—and that’s what puts For the Sect in the spotlight.
What Kael players hunt for is Kael’s vital point generation pattern.
Unlike movements that can be applied the moment you pick up a weapon in a different martial backdrop.
This pattern shines only when you select Kael in The League—no amount of proficiency changes that.
Most games are like that anyway.
Even marksmanship: the most crucial feel is always different—from weapon to ammunition type—so the practical skills often matter little beyond basic fundamentals.
But here’s the question: are you playing games to fight better in reality?

[Nobody’s great from the start. Eat the flames and just keep grinding!]
[Keep at it and you really do get the feel, and your speed picks up lol]
[When the enemy tries to block me from popping vital points, studying swordplay helps surprisingly]

No.
Games are just supposed to be fun.
Why research?
Obviously, to beat the other guy.
When a crazy play comes off that you barely believe you pulled—that’s so fun you sleep like a baby that night.

[Judgment Sword Kael 16-second clear]
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I main Bronze Kael.
Even if it’s a fluke, that’s insane, right?
(video)
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-That’s insane
-That’s legit high-level play ✓
-Just tanked the enemy skill as invulnerable then slashed the vital point as soon as it appeared, slashed again the moment it popped up, whoa!!!! The combos were CLEAN
-Must be in a trance state
└Actually seems like a real trance
-I reckon this should play at the funeral
└Watch the deceased’s insane play one last time before you go lol
└Pass it down to your kids. Keep it as a family heirloom, they say
-Kael freaks I wanna kill. Can’t you see in the video? That guy went 0 kills 9 deaths
└Lol nah wait let me check that’s hilarious
└0 kills 9 deaths legend lol
└That’s the Bronze Kael experience! (nods)

People love spectacular plays.
Whether they do it themselves, watch a pro, or see some stranger post it—they love it.
Gamers are the sort who’ll even marvel at an enemy’s play if it’s impressive enough.
In that world, the spectacular plays Kael players revere are popping vital points.
Breaking through the enemy’s interference, predicting where the next one will appear, making perfect reads each exchange in a split second, popping vital points at speed—that’s the play.
The ultimate is flashy.
Its impact is so strong the Kael fanatics call her not “the Light’s Delegate Kael” but “Judgment Sword Kael” or just “Judgment Sword.”
But if you think about the pre-rework patch when you didn’t have to pop them fast—she wasn’t nearly this popular. That tells you what they’re really hyped about.
Speed.
And then news arrived on The League’s Kael board.

[Yo Kael freaks. Someone hit 4-second Judgment Sword?]
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Real?
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-Bullshit lol
-If it’s 4 seconds that’s just fucking broken lol. That a hero or a cheat?
└4 seconds means each vital point pops in 0.6 seconds? Is that even possible lol
└Speed-wise it’s definitely doable
└That’s only if they just swung recklessly without aiming at vital points at all
└If 4-second Judgment Sword is real, Kael’s vital point system just gets nerfed
-But if it was a fluke anyway, right? Some high-level player gets lucky and lands 6 shots, totally possible
└I think that’s it
└There are people who keep throwing at a dummy and sometimes randomly nail 9 or 8 seconds, probably that
└Yeah that’s most likely

The fastest you can pull the skill off is 8 seconds.
Land Judgment Sword at 16 seconds and you’re called legendary.
But 4 seconds?
That couldn’t possibly come from normal gameplay.
So.
Against a dummy just standing there, they kept spamming the next vital point like a multiple choice test and got lucky six times in a row—that’s what everyone thought.
Lottery winners exist, so why not?
That’s what they figured.
But a post landed on the general board, and the misconception got corrected fast. The Kael board went haywire.

[It’s real though?]
[Streaming on TraVble right now]
[What the hell????]

Like everywhere else, The League’s general board had a habit of moving past posts, even if they drew amazement, unless they sparked fights or controversy.
Yet 4-second Judgment Sword became a topic, and plenty of related threads popped up.
Still, the response here wasn’t as intense.
The Kael board.
The shrine of Kael fanatics.

[What the fuck!!!! Is there a PATTERN!!!!!]
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Am I the only one drooling right now?
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-Against basic newbies in casual… hm……
└Does that matter? What matters is there IS a pattern. (OP)
└Dummy or newbie, doesn’t matter—the fact that a pattern exists is now proven. (OP)
└Amen to that lol
└If we can just memorize the pattern, even if not 4 seconds, time cuts could be huge lol gonna lose it

They had hope.
If they figured out the rule, it’d save more time than all the guides and coaching videos combined.
And if it’s a streamer, wouldn’t they be likely to share?
But there was a question that had to come first.

[So who IS this guy? What does he do?]
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Checked the general board comments—says it’s Kael and The League first game?
How’s that possible? What is this?
Who the hell is this person?
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-Don’t call him “that guy.” He’s the noble soul about to teach us the pattern
└But will he really share it that easily?
-He found the pattern by reviewing the video first. That’s how he is
└The Master’s always consistent lol
└You guys who know something, spill. What kind of player is he

About who Seo Jun was.
There were people who knew.
Actually, quite a lot of them.
Fortunately, For the Sect was on hiatus, so there was plenty of time to play around.

[Ever seen a Rampage play? Know the Ruler?]
[You know the edit in Assassination Guild’s Dawn?]
[Know the Xuan Huo Technique?]
[Know the Heavenly Demon Divine Art from For the Sect?]

Stories about Seo Jun poured in one after another.

[That’s insane lol]
[So much coming out lol]
[After seeing it all I’m even more curious. What does this guy actually do?]

-Honestly we’re curious too
-Just a regular college student

Seo Jun’s history unfolded alongside his AiTube link.
A trail you couldn’t help but believe!
Convinced it was real, not fraud or manipulation, they faced one last problem.

[Will this streamer actually tell us?]
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If only he knows, it’s broken for him. If everyone knows, Kael just gets nerfed.
And is a nerf all? The devs could change the pattern or even do a full remake.
Isn’t it better to keep sucking it up solo? Though that assumes the devs leave him alone even if he’s solo.
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-Makes sense
-As a 10-year viewer of the Master, I’m telling you—he will share, but we won’t get it
└10 years lol
-So what do we do?

The conclusion was inevitable.

[Just beg him]
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That’s gotta be it.
==

-Show the power of our obsession
-Kael fanatics, move out
-Damn. And he’s casting a Double Kill Ultimate right now!
└Double Kill Ultimate?? That’s insane

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Seo Jun’s eyes met the two enemies closing in on him.
With mid-lane fallen, the jungler and support had finally come to help.
Though their mid-laner was still cold as stone.
‘A bit late, but.’
Normally, rookie junglers’ primary job isn’t helping other lanes—it’s farming monsters in the jungle and scaling.
Still, if mid got killed that badly, coming up lane isn’t strange.
What caught Seo Jun off guard was the support showing up at all.
They rushed straight at him.
They probably thought he’d run.
But instead of backing up, Seo Jun stepped forward, closing the gap faster.
The jungler is a beast tracker.
A hero that switches between animal and human forms while fighting.
The support is a spirit thief—their main trait is the Grab, a crowd control skill that locks onto an enemy hero and drags them in.

[Javelin Throw]

A long-ranged spear from the beast tracker shot toward Seo Jun’s face.
Seo Jun activated his Invulnerability skill.
He had Stacks built up from before.
“Skill’s down! Grab him!”
The moment the spirit thief tried to land the binding skill.
A light slash appeared in Seo Jun’s eyes as he closed in.
‘Support first.’
Ching! Ching! Ching!
In under two seconds.
The support reflexively swung, and in that moment Seo Jun charged his skill.
“What… what is this……”
The spirit thief player’s face went pale.
He heard it clearly.
The burst sound of vital points shattering—three times.
Ching! Ching! Ching!
Even in shock, Seo Jun’s blade didn’t stop.
Behind him, the beast tracker transformed from human to beast and pounced.

[Pounce]

The support also answered with a Grab skill, but.

[Blessing of Light]

Both skills nullified.
Seo Jun spun and retargeted the jungler who’d lunged at him.
The Heretic Mark was already floating above the support’s head.
Just as the blade moved smoothly, the jungler shifted from leopard to human form.
The vital point shifted too.
Probably intentional.
‘Good game sense.’
But tracking the newly shifted vital point and slashing it wasn’t hard.
Ching!
The vital point shatters.
From there on, it was all in Seo Jun’s favor.
The jungler, sharp with game sense, shifted forms and blocked with spear, trying to guard the vital point. But once you let that first hit through, the next vital point’s location is something only Seo Jun knows—it’s already over.
Three more burst sounds rang out.

-The Blessing of Light’s about to have a cooldown on it lol that’s broken
-The ultimate has cooldown but it’ll probably get one like that
-Getting nerfed ㅠㅠ
-Nothing to nerf honestly. It’ll just be a targeted patch against the Master
-Wait, does this count as a Double Kill Ultimate?

Seo Jun’s blade moved fluidly through the invulnerability window and finished it clean.
The Heretic Mark appeared above the jungler’s head too.

-Whoa
-Seriously broken
-Double Kill Ultimate is so rare even bullying newbies that seeing it’s legendary
-Newbie-bullying specialist streamer lol

The Heretic Mark lasts 30 seconds.
To land a Double Kill Ultimate, you need to keep one marked target alive
and hit a second target with the mark within those 30 seconds.
Without a Challenger-versus-Bronze skill gap, it’s nearly impossible to pull off.
Actually, one Challenger player accidentally ran into a Bronze in a custom game and landed it for the first time in-game—that Double Kill Ultimate.
Seo Jun drove his blade into the ground.
“Uh, why is—?”
“Block it!”
The jungler looked skyward and screamed, but sadly their team had no invulnerability skill.

[Judgment Sword]

A colossal blade fell between two rifts opening in the sky.
Crash!

[Double Kill!]

-At least Master rank ✓
-I bet he’d eat Challenger players too
-But why aren’t the Kael fanatics coming to beg like they said lol
-Later he’s gonna be the first to land a Triple or Quad Kill Ultimate lol
-Quad Kill is legitimately horror
-If the devs don’t do a targeted patch he might pull it off with luck lol

After that, the enemy team had a discussion, and shortly after, they surrendered. The game ended in victory.

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