Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 133

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Chapter 133

The chains wrapped around his outstretched arm—the one about to hurl the Mana Sphere—suddenly unfurled in unison.
They hung suspended in the air for a moment, then were pulled backward as if some invisible force were drawing the far end, vanishing into space behind him.
Whoosh-sh-sh!

[Liberation]

Arthur’s ultimate.
As Spoon dodged the destructive chains, they found purchase on minions instead, granting Seo Jun exactly the experience he needed to level.
And Seo Jun used his ultimate immediately, drawing trajectories in his mind in that instant—paths that could not be dodged, paths that wouldn’t tangle.
‘One hit and you’re dead.’
Trajectories utterly inescapable and perfectly untangled.
Twenty of them.
The deeper he tried to render them with precision, the more his thoughts twisted, until things refused to work as intended—that was the nature of such a number.
So there was no need to use all twenty. One hit would suffice to kill; he didn’t need to construct a scenario where escape was mathematically impossible. He was confident he could land it anyway.
But wasn’t this more fun?
Not bad from a streamer’s perspective either.
The real problem was the twenty trajectories woven around those two.
What was needed here wasn’t reason—it was instinct.
Try to think it through and it tangles.
Seo Jun drew every angle, every distance, every trajectory as fast as he could, trusting his senses as if he were lost in a trance—relying on pure instinct.
Then he projected that image.
‘No matter where you go, you won’t escape in three seconds.’
A Magic Circle appeared.
Spoon looked around, his eyes finally settling on Seo Jun. There was no sign he’d attempt to flee.
Seo Jun smiled with satisfaction.

-All twenty at once
-Wow dude ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-But isn’t the streamer inside the Magic Circle too?
-Doesn’t matter even if he gets hit

Three seconds.
Two seconds.
One second.
Whoosh!
Chains shot from all twenty Magic Circles at once, their ends laying waste to everything inside.
“You mean I got hit too?”
The chains generated behind Seo Jun extended outward, grazing his arms, legs, and face.
Looking forward, Spoon—who had been standing still—now had a chain impaled through him from behind.

[Double Kill!]

-Insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wow!
-Master class
-Beats two Challengers 1v2 perfectly ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-His true weapon wasn’t a sword—it was the chains all along!
-The god of war himself ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Seriously insane ㅋㅋㅋ

Seo Jun smiled with satisfaction at the result playing out untangled and exactly as intended.
“No matter where you’d gone, you would’ve been hit. The only space in the world where you couldn’t be hit is exactly where I’m standing.”
Well.
Though to be fair, it might have been possible to dodge with some ridiculous contortions,
but he didn’t bother mentioning that.

[Whoa, whoa, whoa?!]
[Wait, what just happened in mid-lane?]
[I was heading over to help, but Seo Jun got them first! Wait, how did you even do that? Anyway, I’m going straight to top now.]
[If we just play well, we can win this game, yeah? Ha, our only weak point is us. Yoon-ho, please play well.]

Loomi, a streamer.
One of the most frequent co-streamers with Hah Yoon-ho, her tier was low Gold, and her position was Support.
She was now in the bottom lane with Hah Yoon-ho.
Whoosh-sh-sh.
Chains wrapped around Seo Jun’s arms like snakes and coiled back.
Seo Jun spoke.

[Thanks. Just don’t worry about winning or losing—let’s have fun.]

The outcome of the game didn’t matter.
It was just a friendly match anyway, and Seo Jun had already won in his own game.
‘This should be good for an A rating, shouldn’t it?’
If he got a B, the situation that followed could be worse than not playing at all.
If he’d gotten a B, winning the championship would have been guaranteed.
But if he took the Capsule and logged off, that’s one thing. If he continued streaming after this, then winning with too many antis would be a disaster.
So Seo Jun, confident he’d already secured an A, relaxed.

-Why’s he being so nice
-Favorability Play activated
-Look at him being careful in a streamer tournament
-Once we get closer his true colors will show ㄱㅊㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Viewers calling him out like that were still valuable nonetheless.

[Yoon-ho? Yoon-ho! Where are you going! Stop!]

Hmm.
Streamer Loomi was shouting in all-chat.

[You damn Yoon-ho, throwing away the game the second Seo Jun says not to worry about winning?!]

The bottom lane situation was deteriorating.
Hah Yoon-ho’s tier was Silver. In Riven’s grading system, that was an E.
For reference, an E-ranked captain was actually pretty good.
When bidding on high-tier players, there’s no need to worry about positions.
Consider a truly valuable prospect whose position overlaps with the captain’s.
A higher-tier captain might hesitate one more time before bidding on such a prospect, but an E-ranked captain?
Since there’s often no real difference between yielding and going elsewhere or shifting to their main position, they can just take the bid.
In other words, wider options meant a higher chance of building a strong team.
Of course, you don’t know until the auction opens.

[Our ally has been defeated.]
[Speed Bullet –> Hah Yoon-ho]
[Enemy gets Double Kill!]
[Speed Bullet –> Loomi]

The enemy ADC secured a Double Kill.

[Seo Jun, I’m really sorry.]
[Ha ha. I messed up! We were doing fine until now.]
[No, it’s really okay.]

Seo Jun wasn’t bothered. This game wasn’t about winning.
They kept insisting it was fine.

[Our ally has been defeated.]
[Top Player –> Malling]
[Enemy gets Double Kill!]
[Top Player –> Top Enthusiast]

Apologies came flying at Seo Jun again, left alone now.

[We got caught out on a Gank Counter. I’m really sorry! Truly!]
[That was my fault.]
[No, it’s my bad for ganking wrong.]

Gank Counter.
When the Jungle comes in for a gank but the ganking side ends up getting killed instead—like what Seo Jun had just done.
They were nice people, but they sure couldn’t play.
The tier balance seemed decent too.
Seo Jun just accepted it all and said:

[It’s fine. Let’s just have fun gaming.]

-Is he gritting his teeth? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s alone now ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Playing the game happily? He’s not tilting, right?

Well, if your team plays poorly, you can lose. Seven years ago he’d lost plenty of times.
This wasn’t a solo queue—Riven was a team game. And you couldn’t always win.
‘If I really grit my teeth and try hard, maybe I could win this one too.’
But as mentioned before, his game ended here.
Seriously, it was fine.

* * *

Riven.
The most trafficked gaming community among all Adventurers games, without question.
Get posted here and a streamer could earn a year’s worth of income in a month, so they say.
Of course, you’d need something with impact—either a streamer tournament or a pro tournament or the equivalent.
Seo Jun’s discovery of Kaell’s pattern had recorded high view counts before, but wasn’t really trending material overall.
The Kaell board alone had become the size of the current Assassin’s Dawn community, but that was it.
Maybe it was only possible because Kaell was such a quintessential meta champion.
The Arthur board, by contrast, hadn’t gotten many posts, showing the pain of playing a niche hero.
Riven was major among the majors, in any case.
And with so many people gathering, so many subjects come up.
Streamer tournaments would naturally be among them.
But this tournament also would’ve been one of those topics that gets a few posts and fades away.

[Point Tournament happening now]
[Why are you watching? Always the same people anyway]
[That’s the charm]
[There’s a new face]
[Looks like some kind of showcase happening]

And that would have been the end of it.
But now, some time later, the same topic was suddenly flooding Riven.

[…Dude I’m losing it]
[Wow… just wow…]
[Arthur is totally broken]
[If you haven’t seen this, you’re missing half your life]
[Anyone watching the Point Tournament right now?]

==
Shocked when the Double Kill popped up suddenly.
So I rewatched the clip and saw an insane play.
Wait, is this even possible?
==

-Same dude, same ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I was watching Yoon-ho and I spotted exactly that route too. Insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What are you guys talking about?
└Point Tournament stuff
└I wanna join the convo, someone fill me in
└Seriously what’d you guys see
└(link)

Following the link, there’s a post with a clip.
And in that clip, there’s shocking footage.
Spoon—a Challenger ADC with some notoriety on Riven.
He participated in the tournament and apparently went mid—that much checks out.
But why is he losing?
And why is he getting solo killed by Arthur?
The clip is short.
Still, it clearly shows him getting predicted and hit by chains, getting solo killed.
But because the footage was so shocking, they wanted to know the full context.

-Where’s the original
-What the hell happened?
-He got stomped 1v1? Who’s the opponent? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Since it’s from Arthur’s perspective, following the clip leads to that perspective’s owner.

[Seo Jun? He won 1v1?]

==
Remember that Kaell thing from last time?
The weak point thing was super interesting, and Arthur’s pretty good too.
==

One commenter, recalling the past, spoke like this.
But if it had been only this, the posts wouldn’t have exploded and continued multiplying as they are now.

-This isn’t just “pretty good”
-He won more than 1v1. He won 1v2.
└Fake (Original Poster)
└(clip)
└??? What? (Original Poster)

Not just the OP, but many users who hadn’t watched the tournament began seeing Seo Jun’s plays one by one.
And naturally.
Things caught fire.

[Wow, chains firing off one-second intervals and every single one hits ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Gotta be lucky right? Or wait, that makes no sense even if it’s luck]
[A Challenger ADC and Diamond Jungler, and he beats both 2v1? That easily?]
[That’s not the Arthur I know]
[This is edited, right?]
[I don’t believe this “prediction” thing.]

Seo Jun’s posts flooded Riven so thoroughly that barely anyone hadn’t seen them by now.
He played so shockingly well.
Is it actually possible to predict-counter a Challenger, every second, beating a 2v1 gank?

[What the hell is Arthur <– this guy?]

==
Insanely overpowered damage every second, kept spamming high-damage skills
No wonder even Challengers lose
Nerf urgently needed
==

-Seriously? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Yeah (Original Poster)
-Does that look easy to you?
-Arthur's had a 5% pick rate this whole time because hitting even one of three skills is hard, and now you're saying predict 1-second intervals, three seconds ahead with Prediction Shot? You insane?
└Didn't know that. (Original Poster)
└So what the hell is Seo Jun <– this guy? (Original Poster)
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Look at that quick pivot lmao
└This comment's got a point ㅋㅋㅋ Who even is he? Seems like insane brainpower

And talk about Synchronization Rate began popping up too.

[I mean, the Kaell pattern thing before too. Talent's just insane. His Synchronization Rate is probably over 100, right?]
==
Currently only 4 people in Korea over 100, but if one more gets added it's 5.
Then Korea would have the most in the world!
Game Nation indeed!
==

-Truly a Korean! ㅋㅋㅋ
└Korea existed!
└Typo sorry
-Oh? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Sounds possible
-Synchronization Rate doesn't mean much. It's official ㅉㅉ
└Over 100 it does. Surface Special manages those. Official too.
-Makes me curious
└Definitely seems crazy high
└Real talk

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