Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 13

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Episode 13

-Alpaca!
-Stream’s live!
-ㅎ2
-ㅇㅎ!

Alpaca watched the chat window scrolling upward at a rapid clip.
He couldn’t calculate exact numbers, but it was climbing faster than usual.
Collaboration streams always drew attention and pulled in viewers.
There was the promotional video that had gone up the day before, plus the buzz from Seo Jun’s community, led by talk of the Assassin’s Guild stream.
But the deciding factor was the twenty thousand people watching Alpaca’s broadcast live-witnessing Seo Jun’s gameplay.
All that interest in Seo Jun had seeded endless chatter about the collaboration across Alpaca’s fan café.

[Viewers: 4,327]

Just seconds into going live, he’d hit four thousand.
The number kept climbing with no sign of stopping.
Alpaca smiled contentedly as he watched, then dove into virtual reality right on cue.
“Whoa!”
The screen brightened from darkness as Alpaca entered the Lobby.

-Alpaca!
-ㅎㅇ
-Came to see the nameless one
-Whoa
-ㅡㅅㅡ

[Viewers: 10,000]

The viewer count had already surpassed ten thousand, heading toward twenty.
“Welcome, everyone. You know what today is, right?”

-Enough. You get out.
-Why would I come without knowing?
-IKR get Alpaca’s face off the screen lol

“Yeah, yeah. But it’s my stream and nobody seems to be here to see me. Sigh.”
Alpaca showed a hint of disappointment, but the viewers stayed consistent.

-ㅇㅇ
-Yeah, that’s right.
-You’re terrible at this though.
-Nah I came to see Alpaca.
“Oh? The Winter Flounder fan says you came to see me?”
After streaming long enough, Alpaca had developed the ability to spot specific usernames in the flood of chat.
It was essential for maintaining smooth conversation with viewers through a chat window that moved at lightning speed.
And then.
“Best Defense Is Winter Flounder” typed again.

-Got to see the Cyen Wang though lol

“No Cyen Wang today, you bastard. You’re banned.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Total scumbag lol
-??? Why not today?

“Why not today? Good question. Because today I have to learn about Solo Clear. From who? Introducing my professor for today!”
Alpaca proceeded naturally, chatting with viewers, then signaled to Seo Jun waiting outside and called out.
“Streamer Seo Jun!”

-ㅉㅉㅉㅉ
-Clap clap
-Wooow
-….
-Why isn’t he coming?

Alpaca pointed the camera at the spawn point in the Lobby and waited.
An awkward silence stretched on, and when it exceeded the normal loading time, Alpaca couldn’t afford dead air, so he blurted out something.
“Huh? Why isn’t he coming? Seo Jun, if you’re watching your stream, get in here quickly. I’m getting embarrassed right now. Hey! Manager, what are you doing!”

-Phone collab? lol
-Is the collab not today or something?

“It’s not a phone collab. We’re going to do offline drinks afterward.”
Then.
An alert popped up in Alpaca’s friend list.
It was a whisper message.
“Oh? I got a message. Oh no. Is something wrong?”
Alpaca hurried to open the whisper, worried something had gone wrong.
And its contents were completely unexpected.

[Um, I’m not sure how to get to your Lobby… could you send me an invite? hehe…]

Alpaca’s expression of embarrassment became genuinely sincere.
Was it real?
Was it just for the stream?
Either way, he had to recover.
“Well… um, Seo Jun only started the Capsule less than a week ago, so everyone, please understand.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅅㅍㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-ㅎㅎ that’s so aggravating lol
-This is our professor? lol

* * *

Caw! Caw! Caw!
Daebak-i, stationed in the Lobby, cried out to the sky, announcing the arrival of a new figure.
“Hello. Sorry for being late. Streamer Seo Jun here.”
The center of the Lobby glowed brilliantly, and Seo Jun’s character materialized.
Seo Jun bowed awkwardly, his expression a bit strained from the rough start.
“Haha! It happens. If anything, you’re still a beginner.”
Seo Jun recalled the most bewildering moment from inside the Capsule just now.
Glancing at the chat’s reaction without paying much attention, he felt relieved.

-Still, not being able to get to the Lobby is rough lol
-<<<<<< The beginner teaching people
-Alpaca's fault for not preparing lol

The chat window with nearly twenty thousand people had a different level of firepower.
Messages scrolled up so fast it was almost dizzying.
And while he'd noticed it before, this room's chat had a slightly spicy tone to it.
Roasting the streamer had become a form of content.
Each stream's chat culture divides based on the streamer's personality.
Some streamers keep their viewers under control and beat them down, and those viewers actually enjoy it, while others pursue completely clean broadcasts.
Seo Jun found himself drawn to this kind of free atmosphere.
'I won't get torn apart for my skill… probably…'
That much seemed certain.
Alpaca began explaining the reason for starting the collaboration.
"So! As you all know, thanks to Seo Jun catching Drake, I ended up doing the Cyen Wang."

[Some Idiot just donated 1,000 Won generously!]
[???: If that succeeds, I'll make that person my teacher, learn from them, and do a Solo Clear of Drake with Cyen Wang!]

The donation notification rang at the perfect moment, and Seo Jun burst out laughing remembering yesterday's scene.
"Are you really going to ban me? And Seo Jun, you shouldn't be laughing. Even if I'm the one who misspoke, if you hadn't caught Drake, I wouldn't be doing Cyen Wang in the first place!"
"That's true. I do feel some responsibility to you, Alpaca."
"Right?"
"The problem is, on day two of the game, someone was confidently claiming they couldn't catch Drake on Solo Clear, and I just went ahead without thinking and caught it anyway. That's on me."

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Counter-roast activated!
-Translation: Sorry. But it's your fault.
-Translation: What are you gonna do about it?
-Translation: Alpaca was an idiot

How far were they going to take this? Making excuses while ripping into Alpaca.
Seo Jun and Alpaca locked eyes and laughed.
Alpaca couldn't shake the thought that Seo Jun was bold. There wasn't a trace of nervousness in front of all these viewers.
He even seemed to be enjoying himself, landing another blow.
"Yeah. I messed up. So please save me, Professor."
"I'll do my best, Alpaca."
Everyone in this place—Seo Jun, Alpaca, and the viewers—knew he couldn't be saved.
"Alright! Anyway. There are two things we're doing today. One is entering my game and showing how Seo Jun catches Drake, and while…"

-???
-Don't freeload
-What's with the act lol

Hooks flew instantly.
Seo Jun watched Alpaca quickly backpedal, his expression turning regretful.
"Yeah, well. Just joking. I'm planning to enter the professor's game and learn by watching him play."
The Assassin's Guild: Prelude has a feature called Co-op Assassination.
This is a multiplayer function where you can invite other users
into your own game,
and the invited user can help with assassination missions or interfere with the host.
"Oh, but I'm doing bare-handed assassinations too, and it seems like you're playing bare-handed as well. Is there a special reason? And what basic skill did you pick?"
"Hmm… well, I don't really have a reason or a skill, honestly."
"You haven't been using any skills this whole time? You know, like basic passive skills that speed up attack or damage multipliers and stuff?"
"Yeah."
"Why?"
"Didn't really need them?"
The truth was, he hadn't known about them until he started playing.
But if he admitted that, he'd look incompetent.
So Seo Jun chose to spin it.

-Wow!
-Done for!!! Can people even do that?
-That's what true bare-handed is
-If Alpaca's gonna brag about bare-handed, this is the minimum lol
-So he really did catch it without skills?
-Yeah
-Alpaca needs to reset his skill points and play right now!

Since Seo Jun arrived, Alpaca felt like every situation was turning against him.
But seeing the viewer count hit 25,000, his spirits lifted.
"And there's no skill menu in the game interface at all?"
That was why Seo Jun didn't know skills existed. He'd learned they existed while preparing for the collaboration.
"You unlock the skill menu when you go to the Tavern to take your first quest. Christina will unlock it for you."
"Ah. I guess I just went to say hello after the tutorial ended and never visited the Tavern after that."
I see.
A question suddenly struck Alpaca in the middle of their conversation.
"Wait, hold on. Then why did you even catch Drake in the first place? You weren't commissioned by the Assassin's Guild for that."
"I was pickpocketing at the Market and got dragged away by a gang member."
"Oh…?"
Seo Jun said it so matter-of-factly, but Alpaca's expression kept shifting.
"Oh…"
They'd had a meeting yesterday, but he hadn't known these details.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-wwwww So a pickpocket caused the Cyen Wang wwwww
-The real culprit is a pickpocket lol
-Is he even a master? lol

"Haha. Well, you did uphold the Market's
reputation, hahaha… sigh.
So the second thing we're doing relates to that skill."
That was why Alpaca had brought up the skill earlier.
Alpaca opened a window.
"This is a screenshot of my skill menu."
A photo with an enlarged description of an unlocked skill appeared.

[Weak Point Detection]
[Unlock Condition: Destroy 10 weapons via Flaw (2/10)]

-lol Is he actually doing this?
-Impossible.
-What even is that?

People interested in the game caught on immediately, while casual viewers asked for an explanation.
"Now let me explain. Have any of you seen a video like this?"
Alpaca opened a new video.
The video showed an enemy's Rapier getting shattered into pieces when a player attacked a specific point on it.
Whether it was another NPC holding the same kind of Rapier or the attack came from a different weapon, the result was the same if that specific weak point got hit.
Then came an alert.

[Unlock Condition: Destroy 10 weapons via Flaw (2/10)]

The video ended there.
"Everyone, you know how in fantasy novels there's the concept of a 'flaw'—a weak point where objects break easily! If we just find 10 of those, we get the Weak Point Detection skill!"
So far they'd found two flaws.
One was the Rapier that broke by accident in the video and spread around.
The other was a Longsword flaw discovered through an NPC who teaches about flaws when doing a side quest.

-So how do we even find them lol
-What's the pattern?
-Nobody knows.
-But what kind of skill is Weak Point Detection anyway?

"We don't know what kind of skill it is. It's the last skill left to unlock. That's why I asked yesterday if maybe you'd be able to find the flaws since you're so skilled."

-Why are you chasing your own agenda in a collab stream?

"Chasing my agenda? Aren't you guys inconvenienced by the unlocked skill?"

-So why invite the professor just to figure it out lol

"Because I'm not skilled enough!"

-What confidence! Alpaca!
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So what's the conclusion?

"Right. The conclusion is that after watching the video, Seo Jun said he might be able to figure out the pattern of the flaws. Isn't that right?"
"Yeah, well."
Seo Jun shrugged. With his usual composed expression.

-??? Confidence has limits
-That's a stretch lol
-How would he know that?
-Is the boss opening today? lol

"So! Today we're betting on whether we can find them during the stream!"
This was basically the main content of the broadcast.
Flaws? Master? Teaching? It was all buildup for this.

[Channel Points Prediction has begun]

Behold: Channel Points Prediction.
The thing that drove viewers insane.

-Let's go!
-Boss! Take my points!
-Today's bet should be easy hehe

What people didn't know then
was that the biggest upset in Prelude history was about to unfold.

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