Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 125

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Chapter 125

Seven years ago was a time when virtual reality businesses had barely gotten off the ground.
The state of virtual reality back then was comparable to a developing nation lacking in infrastructure.
But if you ask how it exploded with growth over those seven years—
it was because Surface, a massive capital with generous investment, deliberately poured out virtual reality infrastructure all at once starting the following year.
A professional league emerged, driving the explosive popularity of virtual reality.
The streaming company Travel was acquired by Surface and began offering official Capsule streaming services.
All transactions related to avatars and lobbies were activated, and widespread advertisements for virtual reality were plastered across the city.
Because of this, the seven-year-old video linked in the email had poor image quality.
“Wow, brings back memories.”
Travel hadn’t launched seven years ago, but some company was providing a streaming service, however crudely, in beta form, so the video remained.
The problem was that the image quality wasn’t great.
Apparently there was insufficient technology to convert brain wave signals fired from the Capsule to the brain into digital signals.
If you turned on that company’s streaming inside virtual reality, there was no need to convert the signal, so you could view it clearly, but most viewers, now and then alike, didn’t watch streaming from inside a Capsule.
The streaming market grew in the first place because there was some barrier to entry for getting into a Capsule.
Moreover, at that time, it was fair to say that almost no one knew about virtual reality itself compared to now, so most of these old remaining videos were either poor quality or deleted without getting much viewership.
Seo Jun clicked the link with a smile, feeling nostalgic.
It wasn’t a broadcast streamer’s video, just an old channel where someone had filmed a game a few times and left it abandoned.
Most of the people in the video were using basic avatars, which brought Seo Jun a certain sense of longing.
Now, using a basic avatar was rare, but back then, playing games with your own face was a foreign concept.
Not just the early early days—those very earliest of early users where it was natural to create your own avatar one to two years before most others.
The basic avatars mostly had their faces hidden by masks or visors, lessening the sense of strangeness.
Honestly, if Seo Jun encountered and fought multiple people wearing the same face, he might find it a little frightening.
In that video, he found himself from seven years ago.
The opposing mid in the video owner’s game had been Seo Jun.
Ting! Ting! Ting!
Seven years ago, Seo Jun had been rapidly breaking vital points even though the mechanics didn’t require him to break them immediately.
“No need to watch more. Let me just check the rest.”
There were several links in the email, and Seo Jun quickly played the next video.
Similarly, it was a video uploaded for fun by an ordinary person, not a streamer, and as he skipped ahead a bit, his past self appeared.
“This is me too.”
Seo Jun played the next video.
It was the same.
Since the video owner wasn’t Seo Jun, he didn’t appear many times, but how on earth did they find these?
It’s a bit creepy.
“They’re all me, aren’t they?”
Whoever found these years-old videos with fewer than 100 views has impressive skills.
The reason is curious too.
Why, exactly?
Just then, a reply to the email Seo Jun had sent came in.
Through Travel message.

[We would be truly honored if we could collaborate!]

* * *

The next day.
Seo Jun finished his League match and returned to the Hall of Heroes.
It was like the lobby of The League, also serving as a shop.
“All done. That was fun.”
Seo Jun was currently streaming.
It had been two hours since he turned the stream on.
Of course, he still hadn’t revealed the Pattern.

-The room master is genuinely terrible lol
-Look at those Kael Enthusiasts being quiet
-Gotta be careful lol
-You’re not going to act recklessly here, right streamer?

He had said he’d explain today, but he hadn’t said he’d explain right after turning the stream on, hadn’t he?
The Kael Enthusiasts who had prepared by following the day before were about to riot in chat.
But ever since Seo Jun made an example by banning a few terrible users, they had gotten good at controlling their anger.

-Making people watch streaming for 2 hours straight, that’s harsh
-If you don’t like it, just leave and watch the replay lol
-But seriously this guy is really good
-The suspicion of fraud is gone

“Glad the fraud suspicion is gone. I’ve never cheated on my stream, but our existing viewers don’t quite believe it. Well then, let me explain now!”
Seo Jun headed toward the Practice Room.
The Practice Room let you summon scarecrows or bots, and you could also invite friends for one-on-one matches.
Most importantly, you didn’t need to purchase any hero.

-Wow!
-Thanks!
-But even if you explain, you guys won’t be able to do it
-Real talk lol
-Still gotta know

Kael users who called themselves Kael Enthusiasts naturally knew this well too.
No matter how detailed Seo Jun’s explanation, only an extremely small number with truly high skill would benefit from it.
However, as proud Kael Enthusiasts, they couldn’t miss a broadcast like this.
There were also still many people who remained skeptical.
Since they said Seo Jun had found similar things before, they let it pass for now, but originally, people should have already been calling out hacks or bugs.
They were watching with the mindset of, let’s see how reasonable this explanation actually is.
If they weren’t satisfied even a little, they’d attack immediately.
‘Can’t get them to understand.’
This wasn’t something that could be explained rationally.
Because of that, rather than explaining, you had to show them.
“Ah, everyone, we have a guest today. It’s Baramgeom!”
Seo Jun arrived in front of the Practice Room and immediately sent an invite.

-Huh??
-Isn’t that the Kael master streamer who did the first 2-person game?
-The one who succeeded at the 2-person game first vs one who succeeded in one attempt lol
-Guess he’s teaching the Kael master wow

Baramgeom.
A user Seo Jun had talked to yesterday, whose highest tier was Challenger.
Notably, he said that whenever he plays a bit as a side job, he streams, maintaining around 1,000 to 2,000 regular viewers.
The reason his nickname was Baramgeom was because he used to practice swordsmanship with the wind before switching to Kael.
Seo Jun introduced these facts to his viewers and greeted him.
“Hello, Baramgeom.”
“Seo Jun. Hello. Thank you for the invite.”
“We should be the ones thanking you for appearing on my stream. Shall we get started then?”
“Sure.”
“Oh, and note that Baramgeom also hasn’t heard the explanation yet, so he’s in the same position as all of you.”
“That’s right.”
As Seo Jun stepped into the Practice Room, a window appeared before his eyes asking him to select a hero.
Seo Jun selected Kael, entered, and summoned a scarecrow in front of him.
“Well then, let me give you a proper explanation. Baramgeom, please listen carefully too.”
He drew the sword that appeared at his waist and approached the scarecrow.
A line of light was created.
“The patterns in a game like this will contain the creator’s intent unless it’s random. In other words, a Generation Formula. You’ve grasped that to some degree already, haven’t you?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Baramgeom, who had approached from the side, nodded.
He was probably one of the users who had grasped patterns the most.
Apart from Seo Jun, that is.
“Previously, with the Assassination Guild’s Dawn Severance, we could find this intent too.”
He mentioned first what most had already confirmed by watching Seo Jun’s YouTube videos.
“So from now on, I’ll share the creator’s intent for this Kael. And that is: the middle.”
Seo Jun began his explanation.

-The middle?
-What’s that supposed to mean

“The next vital point will be generated at a position that’s neither too hard nor too easy to chain from after you hit the previous vital point. Now, if the next vital point’s position were the easiest to chain, where would it spawn?”
Seo Jun made a motion as if drawing diagonally across the scarecrow.
“Hmm, would it spawn the same way, in exactly the same position?”

-The easiest would be to just reverse what you just did, right? Since stabbing circles can’t just graze them

Vital points consist of dots and lines.
And simply cutting or grazing them doesn’t break the vital point.
Lines require 80% or more to be cut through to break, while dots only break from stabbing attacks—a fairly strict judgment.
In that case, the easiest would be if a vital point spawned that just reversed your previous motion.
“Rather than drawing an exact same line, it would be a bit easier if you angled it a bit more depending on the situation, but they’re similar. You can think of it that way.”
The vital point is generated considering countless variables that even Seo Jun doesn’t know—the positions of both himself and his opponent, the angle of his arm and sword after breaking the vital point, his footwork, and more.
So he can’t know exactly right now.
If the creator would implement this for him, Seo Jun would quickly get the feel for it.
“When you stab, a line would be generated based on where you stabbed. So now, which position would be the hardest to chain from?”
“Hmm.”
Baramgeom let out a thoughtful sound and moved his sword through the air a few times himself.
He doesn’t seem to know.
“Let me just give a rough hint to help you develop the feel—it’s every position where your arm would naturally bend if you tried to chain that vital point without pause. Getting it now?”
Since you couldn’t understand it unless you realized it yourself, Seo Jun waited.
“Ah… hmm…”
Baramgeom seemed to catch the feel fairly quickly.
He thought hard for a moment, then spoke.
“I get the gist, barely, but… so how does that middle exactly work…?”

-For real lol
-This is so vague
-Isn’t this fraud?
-Really hmm…

“Fraud, you say?”
Seo Jun approached the scarecrow and drew his sword smoothly but quickly.
It was faster since the enemy was stationary.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.

[Judge’s Sword]

Six bursts of sound passed, and vibration rang out.
Kael’s ultimate crashed down from the ceiling.

-Not fraud, I guess lol
-Oh I get it now lol
-I’ll just believe it’s a hack lol
-But honestly I’m still a bit suspicious?
-I don’t care about that stuff. Refund me
-For what?
-My time lol
-Crazy guy lol

Though they were laughing, there were scattered reactions of people who weren’t convinced.
‘Can’t help it.’
Again, they have to realize it themselves.
Vital points fall outside the category of things that can be explained or memorized.
Because there are too many variables, only the accumulated intuition from countless experiences of handling each situation as it comes can solve this kind of problem.
Because of this, Seo Jun shared examples where understanding was at least somewhat possible, along with the intent.
If sufficient experience and skill have been built up, recognizing this intent alone could lead to significant improvement.
Seo Jun, who knew the level masters had reached, could say so confidently.
‘The issue is that most people lack both skill and experience.’
As time passes, masters will naturally prove Seo Jun’s words.
But how many days that will take is unknown.

-Really have no idea
-Utter nonsense. Just like with the Severance, feels like total nonsense now too
-Kael Enthusiasts, if you can’t trust the room master, just leave
-Definitely not Enthusiasts
-Then what are you guys trusting that for?
-‘Cause he always proves it with demonstration lol
-How could you explain the Parrying principle either? lol
-Whatever, just process the refund faster
-Problem consumer there

So having prepared for people like this, Seo Jun spoke with a smile.
“A refund? Well, if even one person understood after listening to my lecture, that’s not fraud, right?”

-Fair point. At least if someone understood lol
-Lecture, what
-Professor, the pace is too fast, nobody understood!
-Go bring someone then lol
-Definitely not gonna happen lol

“Yes. And I see one right here. Someone who clearly understood the explanation just now, judging by the look in their eyes.”
Seo Jun looked at Baramgeom.
“…?”
Baramgeom’s eyes widened.
Me? When?
His expression looked like he was saying exactly that.

-His eyes got huge lol
-Doesn’t look like that at all?
-Zero confidence in that expression lol
-This is it. We’re done

Of course, Baramgeom needed more time to reflect on it.
But Seo Jun had a way to shorten that.
“When you, Baramgeom, grasp the feel for the Pattern, I’ll acknowledge it. Got it?”
Seo Jun was now ready to perform a trick.

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