Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 15

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Episode 15

Seo Jun’s eyes closed as he stepped forward, commanding the space, drawing his Longsword down with deliberate slowness.
Among those watching, not a soul understood what strategy lay hidden in that single footfall.
Scritch-scritch-scritch.
The tip of Seo Jun’s blade touched the Shield. Then it began to scratch across the surface.
Slow enough that the AI ought to respond, yet not glacial—it looked precisely like something the system could handle.
But for some reason, the AI couldn’t mount a proper defense.
Scritch-scritch-scritch-scritch.
The blade drew lines across the Shield’s face until, in a heartbeat, it accelerated.
Whoooosh!
Seo Jun collected his spent blade and opened his eyes.
And then.
Crack!
The Shield shattered, fragments scattering through the air.
All of it happened in two seconds flat.
“Wow! That’s insane!”
Alpaca shouted aloud.

-??????
-He can do that?
-Did he find it on the first try?
-What did we just see??? ㄷㄷ

“You found it! Eyes closed, no less! What is this? Are you seriously an alien?”
Alpaca clapped reflexively as he spoke, words tumbling out.
His mouth had already stretched as wide as it could possibly go.

-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-But seriously, what are you seeing?
-This is genius!
-Now he really looks like a master ㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s faking it. Didn’t we confirm this yesterday?

“Faking it? No way! I honestly thought Seo Jun was just showing off until now. But he wasn’t. Wow. What does he see? I genuinely have no clue.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The regular bettors are pissed
-Why’d you bet on them? Why’d you bet on them? Why’d you bet on them?
-Come to your senses? Come to your senses? Come to your senses?

The moment Seo Jun destroyed the Shield, it was effectively confirmed that everyone who’d bet on finding four or more grains would lose 55% of their Channel Points.
The chat began spiraling into chaos.

-Give my life savings back! Give my life savings back! Give my life savings back!
-This is fraud! This is fraud! This is fraud! This is fraud!
-Streamer! That’s my tuition! Just this once…
-Our memories together are being deleted!!!!!!!!!!

From the ones losing their minds.

-Serves the regular bettors right ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Regular bettors = cowards
-Should’ve trusted No-Name Left!

A chaotic crucible mixing those mocking the regular bettors with the rest.
The usual sight. And part of the appeal of Channel Point Prediction.
Seo Jun had drifted closer to Alpaca.
Alpaca spotted the groggy guards beyond Seo Jun and understood the situation at a glance.
Seo Jun had only incapacitated them to allow for communication, then come here.
But the moment he arrived, he unleashed Area Provocation.
“Ahem. Well then, folks, why’d you bet on the regular option? Wow, someone bet 250,000 Points? ID is King Jeon Ja-san? Doesn’t live up to the name, does he.”
For reference, the Channel Point Prediction system displays the username and amount of whoever places the largest single bet.
And 250,000 Points was the maximum anyone could wager in a single round.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Threw away 250,000 Points in one goㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-How does the guy who busted get the ID ‘Safe Assets’ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“And it’s strange. Why do so many of you like this? This isn’t just risky for the regular bettors, is it?”
Seo Jun began reading the betting odds aloud.
“Let’s see. Only 1% bet on me finding four or more. Are all of you in that 1%?”
What he was really asking was this:
Are you guys safe?

-Oh!
-He’s right…
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Watching him nail it first try, I mean… you know what that means, right? 99% are about to get wrecked ㅋㅋㅋ
-Looks like we’re all screwed together, luckily.

The regular bettors, who’d been losing their minds, found a spark of hope.
Now that it looked like everyone who’d been mocking them would lose too, the mood shifted to celebration.
Oh, they’re ruined? Actually, perfect!
That was the mindset.
“That’s why I told you to believe and bet.”

-You told us too late ㅠㅠ

[‘Hope Circuit’ donated 10,000 KRW!]
[Isn’t it possible this is just a lucky break? He could find only one more next time, right?]

-Yeah, I’m already guaranteed to lose anyway
-Does that look like a fluke to you? ㅋㅋ
-Eyes closed and he breaks it. With eyes open, he’d probably find a hundred. For real

Seo Jun chuckled at the donation and turned back toward the guards, blade in hand.
“Ha. Could be a fluke. Sure. You bet.”
Alpaca, who’d watched the entire sequence, let out a small murmur of admiration.
He’d teased the viewers while keeping them firmly on his side, and transitioned the stream smoothly forward.
“Wow.”
It seemed his talent extended beyond just gameplay to broadcasting itself.
Frankly, Alpaca had assumed he’d need to carry this co-stream.
But he was wrong.

[Concurrent Viewers: 30,000]

So many people were tuning in and watching.
Seo Jun would likely leave a strong impression here—there was no doubt about it now.
“You wretch! Not content with breaking into the Estate, you dare shatter the Shield of a House Neville soldier?”
One of the groggy guards stumbled to his feet and leveled his blade at Seo Jun.
The guard who’d been sprawled beside him also rose and took his place at his side.
They were preparing to help each other execute a Combined Strike.
It was one of the distinctive traits of the guards Seo Jun had faced in the Tutorial.
‘Come to think of it, the grunts didn’t try a Combined Strike when I was fighting Drake.’
Probably the difference between some ragtag gang’s street thugs
and actual elite soldiers.
As Seo Jun continued, he felt himself growing more and more drawn to the game’s charm.
‘The detail is incredible.’
The creator’s care was evident in systems like Parrying and grains—mechanics that let even a skilled combatant like Seo Jun enjoy himself.
And the bizarre assassination methods he’d seen on the forums seemed to showcase the ultimate freedom of design.
The guard who’d lost his Shield repositioned behind the one still carrying one.
‘If I used Parrying, I could finish this very quickly.’
But what the viewers wanted was to watch him destroy the Shield and the soldier’s blade simultaneously.
Just now, he’d honestly gotten lucky.
He hadn’t been able to narrow down the Shield’s grain to a single candidate.
So he’d picked one of three and traced it first—and it turned out to be the right one, which made the whole play look clean.
The blade had been the same.
In his mind’s eye,
four curved lines were etched across the guard’s Longsword blade.
If he traced just one of those curves correctly, he could destroy the weapon.
Seo Jun’s intuition was telling him exactly that.
Intuition is merely another sense operating beyond conscious awareness—the unconscious mind processing information and sending a signal.
Which is why intuition’s accuracy improves the more experience you accumulate.
For example, people often fall into a State of No-Self.
When studying, playing games, or performing music—when you focus so intensely on an action that you forget yourself entirely—you transcend your ordinary limits.
And this State of No-Self is precisely the phenomenon that arises when consciousness fades and the unconscious mind takes control of the body.
Which means the unconscious isn’t something lacking—it’s something to be leveraged.
Especially in chaotic, dynamic combat.
‘Right now it’s just two soldiers, admittedly.’
Seo Jun focused as hard as he could on the blade’s tip.
And he stepped forward.
“Block and counterattack…!”
The moment the guard with the Shield drew close and shouted, Seo Jun exploited the tiny opening and traced the Shield’s grain that he’d identified earlier.
It was a clean strike.
Crack!
The wooden Shield split and shattered, wood fragments hanging momentarily in the air.
This part was easy.
The Shield-bearer panicked, and the soldier behind him saw his opening and brought his blade down toward Seo Jun.
‘No.’
Seo Jun was planning to target all four curves in a single pass.
And the guard’s blade descending toward his forehead wasn’t coming at an angle that would make a one-hit destruction easy.
So Seo Jun deflected the guard’s strike.
No Parrying judgment registered.
He’d done it intentionally.
And as the rebound sent Seo Jun’s blade bouncing back, the Shield-less guard lunged at Seo Jun’s waist from the right.
‘Now.’
Seo Jun exploded with tremendous focus, raising his blade and meeting the incoming guard’s sword blade directly.
“Breath.”
Then, pressing his blade flush against the enemy’s, he traced the curves like connecting stars in a constellation.
He couldn’t rely on luck this time, so this was the only trick someone like Seo Jun could pull off to shatter a blade in one strike.
First curve. Wrong.
Second curve. Same.
Third curve. Bad luck.
The guard’s blade tip was almost upon him.
But Seo Jun, having calculated even this timing, remained unshaken and kept moving.
Finally, just before it reached his waist, Seo Jun’s blade precariously traced the last curve—
Clang!
The guard’s blade shattered.
He’d found the grain.
Tink-tink-tink.
Shards of the broken blade fragmented like glass, scattering across the grass below.
‘The last one. That luck was rough.’
Whoooosh.
Seo Jun exhaled a deep breath. No matter what, this kind of precise, inefficient movement demanded tremendous focus.

-Wow ㅁㅊ
-?????
-Is this real???
-What the… How did he even do that???

Hooks came pouring in instantly.

-Again, a one-hit finisher!
-Like a scene from a movie ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This one actually looked hard though?
-So cool oppa, I fell for you. (Heart heart)

Seo Jun swatted down the incoming strike from the second guard like catching a fly, and executed a successful Parry.
Then he finished off both soldiers.

-The control mechanics on this guy are absolutely insane ㅋㅋㅋ
-Alpaca’s expression right now = my expression
-ㄴㄴ Our expression

“Wow! Seo Jun! I’ve fallen for you too.”
Alpaca ran toward Seo Jun, who was still catching his breath, speaking as he approached.
“I mean, how are you even seeing these things and moving like that?”
Alpaca was utterly hyped. He’d just witnessed something incredible.
Incredible difficulty and dramatic execution.
‘If he’s this good, then beating Shin Ha-yeon won’t be a problem!’
Alpaca nearly let the thought slip from his mouth and almost gave away the secret.
“That’s a trade secret, I’m afraid?”
Seo Jun let out a smug smile.

-I’m genuinely curious ㅋㅋㅋ
-I mean, okay, seeing the grains—maybe that’s alien stuff—but how’d he even build up this skill level??
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

He glanced at the chat and chuckled.
Why does being an alien get you a pass on that kind of thing?

-By the way, he’s only been playing for 3 days
-What does he do in real life to have these skills?
-Seriously, I’m curious what his actual job is ㅋㅋㅋ

“Real life? Uh. Just a normal twenty-something guy……”
“No way! You’re not normal at all.”
Alpaca interjected from beside him, contradicting Seo Jun outright.
“Huh? Why?”
“I mean, saying you’re normal with that face would be a lie.”

-?
-Seo Jun is handsome?
-Just the usual streamer flattery, probably ㅋㅋ
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-Can’t exactly say another streamer is ugly

“You know that avatar he’s wearing right now? That’s his real face.”

-????
-??
-Come on ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Seriously, having this skill AND good looks? That’s totally broken;;;​
-Devs, patch balance?
-What’s the Earth admin even doing…
-He must’ve tweaked it at least a little……

“He didn’t modify the avatar. I’ve seen him in person.”

-I don’t believe you.
-I’ll just assume he tweaked it
-Bullshit ㄴ

“We’re doing an after-party meal at the Studio later with Seo Jun, so why would I lie? You can check then.”

-Oh?
-Oh, might be legit then ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The after-party sounds fun

Seo Jun marveled at the natural way Alpaca wove in a reason for viewers to keep watching till the very end.
And a donation chimed.

[‘That One’ donated 10,000 KRW!]
[It’s gotta be edited! I’m sure of it!]

“Tsk.”
Alpaca clicked his tongue and reached toward the chat, and donations immediately flooded in again.

[‘That One’ donated 100,000 KRW!]
[Hush now. Quiet.]

Alpaca glanced back at Seo Jun, and when Seo Jun shrugged—signaling to let it slide—Alpaca nodded and spoke.
“We’ll let it pass just this once.”

-The manager just walked by with a sword ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Almost got banned
-Check out the quick thinking to throw the jewelry fee ㅋㅋ
-You should go pro too ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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