Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 126

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Episode 126

Windblades hadn’t played Cael Game Board at first. He simply had no interest.
Then one day, a video with poor quality randomly appeared in his algorithm.
The date the video was uploaded was before he’d even started the game. A flicker of curiosity led him to open it.
But the poor quality made him skip through it, until by another stroke of chance he caught a brief glimpse of someone wielding a sword—someone named Cael—cutting with startling speed.
There seemed to be no delay in checking Vital Points, just swift, efficient slashing.
He wondered if it was possible.
What if there was no need to slash quickly—what if just maintaining buffs with leisurely strikes would work? Even the pre-Rework Cael would generate Vital Points the same way, wouldn’t it?
Of course, since no one knew the pattern, he couldn’t tell if then and now were the same. The consensus was that it probably differed, so people never asked.
So he looked into it himself.
If the Vital Points were indeed the same, he was desperate to know how that person had done it.
He searched for more videos.
As he played and studied Cael, he somehow became a master without ever intending to. Not a deliberate choice at all.
Apparently he was the first to clear a two-person run in-game, or so they said.
After becoming a Cael master, his rank kept slipping from Challenger to Master whenever he played Cael, but it didn’t sadden him.
After all, since he’d finally met the person from that old video, he had plenty to discuss as a fan.
Windblades pulled open a travel window. Seo Jun’s Streaming was playing on his viewer.

-Either you understand it or I’m flipping both of you
-Are you acting right now? lol
-You learned beforehand, and the only one who got proper instruction
-Whoa no way

It wasn’t like that.
Windblades genuinely didn’t understand.
He could follow what was being said, but how was he supposed to know the middle part?
He could have revealed the conversation history from yesterday’s travel message right then and there.

[Seo Jun: Ah. And tomorrow, just say you understand.]
[Windblades: Sorry?]
[Seo Jun: Just say you understand whenever I ask. Don’t worry about it.]
[Windblades: Got it.]

Seo Jun asked again.
“You understand, right?”
His eyes were full of mischief.
Windblades had no choice but to answer.
“Yes…….”
Come what may.
“As you can see, my lecture isn’t a scam, everyone.”

-Then prove it
-But is that really all?
-Tell us more
-Otherwise it’s a scam

“That’s all there is. Why would I hide anything? And that’s plenty, I’m telling you. Look, see for yourself.”
Seo Jun touched the settings.
The relationship between Seo Jun and Windblades was then set to hostile, and Windblades stared at the Vital Points marked across Seo Jun’s body with despair.
“Could you do this with a dummy instead?”
For some reason, he felt he could guess what would come next.
“No. Fight me. It’s better to do it like real combat.”
Real combat.
It’s an inherently violent word, but why did it feel so unsettling now?
Windblades looked at Seo Jun uneasily.
That.
Hadn’t they not gotten close enough to actually hit each other yet?

-See, he was planning to beat him all along lol
-The room master doesn’t change
-Don’t know? Beat them until they understand
-Ah. So it’s educational! Get it?

The viewers seemed to think the same.
Seeing this, Seo Jun shook his head firmly.
“Everyone, I’m only going to defend. What are you thinking?”

-What?
-??
-He’s holding back?
-The best defense is offense lol isn’t that right?

As the viewers doubted, Windblades too looked forward with suspicious eyes, but Seo Jun simply stood with his sword held vertically before him, waiting for the attack with composed ease.
‘Sigh.’
Fine, he must have something in mind.
Surely he wasn’t going to Parry and toy with him like that.
He walked slowly toward Seo Jun, then suddenly accelerated.
Whoosh!
A strike aimed at catching him off-guard from the start.
But Seo Jun couldn’t possibly have been caught off-guard.
Clang!
Yet still, he broke through Seo Jun’s defense and cut the horizontally marked Vital Point.
It was clear Seo Jun had deliberately failed to block properly.
He realized Seo Jun genuinely had some purpose in mind.
“Why didn’t you chain immediately?”
“Because…….”

-Because you don’t know lol
-Seems like he really doesn’t
-Don’t be stubborn alone

The viewers answered instead.
“Go again. Think carefully about the middle part.”
“Understood.”
Seo Jun’s defense broke apart just as easily, and right before the next Vital Point spawned with a burst of light, Windblades wracked his mind to the limit, trying to predict where it would appear.
His forehead felt hard as stone from the strain.
‘Middle difficulty. Middle difficulty. Middle difficulty.’
Predicting and cutting this time was out of the question. Not even close.
But at least now he had to turn his mind over to grasp some feeling.
An anxious desperation born from wanting to catch even the slightest hint.
It wasn’t because of Seo Jun’s broadcast, or what people were saying.
He just wanted to understand.
If this was his chance, if there was a way, he didn’t want to miss it.
But of course, he couldn’t predict, couldn’t even grasp the tail end of a clue.
And yet.
‘Huh?’
After cutting the Vital Point, his mind had frozen, and naturally his sword had stopped. Right at the tip of where it had come to rest.
A new Vital Point spawned.
‘What?’
Coincidence?
No, it couldn’t be.
He attacked again and Seo Jun blocked.
But he easily brushed aside the defense and cut the Vital Point.
And.
‘Again?’
Once more, a new Vital Point spawned naturally at the tip of his sword where it had stopped.
Even the viewers sensed something strange.

-Why is his sword position over the Vital Point? Did he catch on?
-Just looking at Windblades’ expression, it seems like the room master is doing something lol
-Anyone remember the Blunt Sword? lol

“Imagine there’s a sieve with a hole so small only one marble can pass through. If you tried to force all your marbles through at once, what would happen?”
Suddenly, what was this about marbles?
“I’d imagine they’d get stuck. If you’re lucky, one might slip through.”
“Then if you keep forcing while they’re stuck, could you pour them into the sieve?”
“No. You’d have to shake gently or widen it and let them fall slowly. So the marbles don’t block each other from falling into the hole.”
He pictured marbles balancing against each other right above the hole, blocking one another, refusing to fall.
“Right. Insight is the same way. The more you cling, the more you block. But if you let go, it flows.”
“Insight?”
“Relax your tension.”
Seo Jun’s playful eyes suddenly transformed in an instant.
He returned to normal so quickly he wondered if he’d imagined it, but he felt an inexplicable depth wash over his skin.
“I understand. I’ll try again.”

-Guess this is the only way he can teach
-How would some streamer know what’s official or anything
-If Windblades really does catch on, this is insane
-Will he though? lol

The more swords they exchanged, the more he realized that what he’d thought was Seo Jun casually blocking was controlling everything—his attack, every step he took.
Yet he didn’t resist that control.
And as the Vital Points kept appearing, he attacked freely.
No matter how many times he was hit, his health stopped at 1—he wouldn’t die.
He still couldn’t predict.
But the more Vital Points he cut, the more his sword found where Seo Jun intended it, the more his movements fell into rhythm.
And the more he saw the results pouring forth.
The more he felt something locked inside him starting to loosen.
All his past experience and the experience he was building now interlocked with intention, reorganizing itself fresh in his mind.
He couldn’t explain it in words, but he felt he was understanding something.
Then, at some point.
Seo Jun stopped and spread his arms.
And his concentration, pushed to the edge, didn’t stop moving even without Seo Jun’s guidance. And for the first time, he moved before the Vital Point even appeared.
First Vital Point.
He slashes the diagonal line falling from left to right with a gentle slope.
Second Vital Point.
He recovers his sword and thrusts a hand’s breadth above the end of the diagonal.
Third Vital Point.
“Flow.”
The word spilled out naturally. Not spoken consciously.
After that.
Clang!
The moment the Vital Point spawned, Windblades’ concentration shattered with a snap.

-Insane
-What was that?
-?
-He predicted before the Vital Point appeared, right?
-This is actually possible?

Seo Jun, who had been standing with arms spread, smiled with satisfaction.
‘Lucky timing.’
He’d known Windblades could catch on, but to hear him in a State of No-Self—that he hadn’t counted on.
‘If this hadn’t worked, I would’ve just kept drilling until it did. Guess the potential was quite high.’
There was no need to explain what “drilling” meant here.
“Congratulations. You’ve caught on.”
“What was that just now……? Was it the technique?”
“Yes.”
“I feel like I couldn’t do it again if you asked me to.”
“Well, you’ve at least grasped the thread. Congratulations. Don’t lose it.”
Windblades flinched at the words, as if Seo Jun had read his very thoughts. After that, he stared at Seo Jun with emotional eyes.
This was actually possible?!

-So you need one-on-one tutoring for a proper class? lol
-Professor strong on practice, not theory lol
-Even if those two are colluding, this is insane
-Like some martial arts master guiding through Insight? That’s possible? lol

Even if Seo Jun explained things in a way that didn’t make sense, they knew he couldn’t help it. But if no one understood as a result, wasn’t that ultimately meaningless?
Some viewers might have harbored doubts about it being a scam.
But Seo Jun demonstrated it directly by teaching someone else.

-This is it
-So that was the play all along!

“Now let’s do it for real. Windblades.”
Seo Jun smiled wickedly and rolled his shoulders and neck. He shook out his arms and stretched his body fully, as if he was about to get serious.
At this point, with almost everything done, Seo Jun was warming up.
“What are you planning to do……?”
“After-service.”
It doesn’t seem like it.
“Isn’t it already over?”
“It’s still not enough.”
It seems like something else is lacking.
Windblades’ face, full of emotion moments before, shifted into confusion.
Probably his instinct was right.
Seo Jun was the type to always repay what others dealt out—even if he made them do it himself.

The Liios operations team was in an impromptu meeting.
“Now he’s not just predicting Vital Points—he’s even teaching them to others. How is that B? Come on.”
The meeting topic was about a streamer who was doing things that ordinary people couldn’t even imagine.
“If you see him teaching a Challenger, the answer’s obvious.”
The woman spoke in a sharp tone to the man sitting across the conference table.
“He’s currently a Master, not a Challenger.”
And the man countered without even blinking.
“That’s just because he plays Cael. Windblades, that expert, was originally Challenger rank.”
“Still, Streamer Seo Jun doesn’t have a rank at all. He doesn’t have a rank. But you want to put him in Group A with Challengers and Grand Masters? That doesn’t make sense, does it?”
“He was the best in For the Sect. What guarantee is there he won’t be the best in the league?”
“Those are different games, and what if he gets Cael banned? How is he supposed to play a hero?”
“He’ll play anything.”
“B is appropriate. Master to Diamond.”
“A. There’s no room for argument.”
Liios assigns grades based on participant skill.
The reason for the grading isn’t to create discrimination, but to prevent taking 2 or more participants of the same grade as a team in the Auction, so that team members’ skill levels are evenly distributed.
Previously they divided groups by position, but the current method works better, giving the Auction more chaos and fun, so it became standard practice.
Currently, they were in a meeting to determine the grades of streamer applicants who had accepted recruitment offers.
This had to be decided first so they could select and place applicants for the remaining spots.
But from the start, things were creaking.

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