Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 165

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Chapter 165

Two blades closed in on Pado from front and back with blinding speed.
There was no escape.
Pado traced their trajectories and realized with crushing clarity that no dodging maneuver could evade both attacks.
Pado blocked the blade coming from his front.
Thud.
Seo Jun followed immediately with the next attack, relentless.
Their eyes met.
Even though the match wasn’t over until death, Pado knew.
It was finished.
The moment his Ultimate cut off, he’d felt it instinctively—a turnaround was now nearly impossible.
Yet Jungler either hadn’t surrendered or simply reacted on instinct, drawing his bow at Seo Jun from a diagonal angle to shield him.
Whoosh!
If the Mark detonated, Pado would die without question.
Even one more basic attack would seal his fate.
A fight already decided.
Seo Jun, who had glanced sideways for just a moment, didn’t slow his assault—he pressed straight in for the finish.
Even if he took the arrow, it wouldn’t chip away much health; he just wanted to end this quickly.
But in that instant, Pado couldn’t accept it passively.
Even if a fight’s end was predetermined, he wouldn’t go down without resistance.
Here, if he could squeeze out any additional intelligence about his opponent, he could prepare better for the next engagement.
And the next fight encompassed not just the Damage Exchanges and Skirmishes and Teamfights that lay ahead, but even the next game they’d meet on the Main Stage.
And so.
Clang!
The clone that had been behind Pado had moved to his side without him noticing.
The clone batted away the incoming arrow in Seo Jun’s path while Seo Jun’s blade pierced Pado’s body.
Two shadows crossed in his vision.
‘So that’s why he wasn’t worried about it. But fighting all tangled up like this seems even harder to handle….’
Pado understood in that moment.
Perhaps his opponent had been holding back this whole time.

[Geomsin –> Pado]

* * *

Bang Joo’s roar echoed through the Commentary Booth once more.
“Wow!! That’s absolutely insane!”

-No joke lol
-That’s just nuts
-With at least 2 brains, how could it not be?
-Wait, don’t humans have 2 brains anyway? Left and right hemispheres?
-Learned something new—cerebrum and cerebellum. Two brains!

How many brains one had wasn’t the point.
Bang Joo provided commentary with calm precision.
“The Mid-lane Pride Match goes to Seo Jun with a dominant victory!”
The win was expected, but at this scale, “dominant” was the only word for it.

-Kya
-So it’s multi-tasking gameplay
-Time to spam Geomsin lol
-Is it Geomsin this time?
-Taking on two people at once? I can’t help myself
-Please, just control yourself!
-Nope, you guys can’t do it
-But what happens if the clones sync up like that at the end? How does that work?

Bang Joo read the chat and continued commentating.
“Until just now, what we saw was each side fighting strictly one-on-one. But if both bodies move as one unified entity like we just saw—if they synchronize perfectly—this is something no single opponent could ever handle.”
“But Bang Joo, wasn’t that always the case though…?”
Who would fight fair against that.
“That’s right. Even Dokkaebi, fighting a one-versus-many, had to avoid it, didn’t he?”
“But at least he won against it.”
“Then in this game too…”
“We don’t know yet!”
Arin smoothly reminded them that the match wasn’t over.
“True. The match isn’t finished yet. But based on what we just saw, if it goes to Teamfights it’s six-versus-five, so Wealth Gap looks like they should win comfortably…”

-Did a teammate get cloned lmao
-Geomsin board is going crazy right now
-Eric board is also going wild
-Why Eric tho lol

Of course the Geomsin board on Riven in The League community saw an explosion of activity.

[Realms Truly Exist!]
[Geomsin Solo Rank Hardstuck!]
[Every time skill cooldown resets you can 2v1 now, how can you not try?]

-Technically speaking it’s hard to call it a 2v1 advantage because that’s abandoning the skill’s original reversal utility and is more of a playstyle sacrifice
└True
└Just gotta reach that realm regardless
└Multi-tasking is god-tier!

[But isn’t it a bit ambiguous though?]
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Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. Deflecting arrows and blocking swords. That’s not doing 1 and 2 simultaneously, that’s doing 1 2 1 2 1 2 incredibly fast by swapping between them
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-So can you do that much?
-You didn’t see the end? Attacking while defending at the same time?
└Synchronization exists too…
-Ban this guy!
-Actually our brains do work that way

[Who owns our board now?]
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(some handsome streamer Seo Jun clip) just this guy lol
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-Did you just say “this guy”? Show some respect
└Why are you telling them that lol (original poster)
-Eric fans also gave up their board lmao they got destroyed
└They showed us the secret anyway so shouldn’t we get the know-how passed on?
-What about Eric then?
└They don’t even have a permanent board population so there was nothing going on anyway lol
└Actual posts from that time. [You guys hogging all the good heroes like this is insane] [Why aren’t you commenting?] [Lmao even the commenters are just people like me who watched the broadcast lolol]

While reading these posts in real-time under the desk, Bang Joo felt a hand land gently on his phone.
It was Arin.
Bang Joo, taking the hint, swallowed his disappointment.
‘I didn’t get to check why the Eric board went wild.’
But looking at the situation in general, he could make a guess.
Thanks to the comments on the last post he’d seen.

-You Eric fanboys saying you’re the true streamer Seo Jun’s biggest fans, what do you think of this?
└We need to prove we’re even bigger fans
└How?
└Dunno, let’s just invade
└As a passing Demonic Cult member, we can’t stand this either

‘Probably a raid happened.’
It wasn’t a daily occurrence, but it wasn’t unheard of either.
Still, one post from what he’d seen earlier stuck with him.
He knew the brain couldn’t process two things truly simultaneously.
Like the post said, you could rapidly alternate between task one and two, but you couldn’t use both at once.
And at first, Seo Jun’s play seemed to fit that category.
Rather than moving simultaneously, it was possible to explain it as performing tasks in sequence—just at an astonishing speed and precision.
But then came those final actions.
Seo Jun moved simultaneously.
That explanation didn’t hold anymore.
‘Is he really a new species of human?’
Just like with Dull Blade—nothing but amazement.

* * *

“Ah! He’s caught! Support! Mental’s down! You pushed too far in lane, didn’t you?”
“And meanwhile, Seo Jun at base is buying his second Rune! His first Rune strengthened the duration of Shadow Sorcery, so what’s the second?”
“It’s not a Spell Rune.”
There are two types of Runes.
The first teaches you Spells—useful abilities with slightly longer Cooldowns than normal skills.
The second type enhances your skills.
“This one extends the Ultimate’s duration! He’s really planning something!”
“So no extra shadow swaps or added Mark damage—he’s got his priorities set.”
“Looks like he’s planning to show it off in Teamfight.”
The Laning Phase ended without further Mid kills, and Wealth Gap and Heavy Mental chipped away at each other without any true large-scale Teamfight, managing the game instead.
“Now if they lose one Teamfight wrong, they could get wiped, right?”
“Yes. They need to be careful.”
With the second tower destroyed and the game in mid-to-late stages, losing a single Teamfight near their base could end everything.

* * *

Mental rejoined the team, and just as Seo Jun was farming jungle mobs below, an upset occurred above.

[I’ll grab that Ward.]
[Oh! That spot’s pretty deep, be careful…!]
[Ah!]
[It’s 4v4 for now!]

A Skirmish had broken out.
Blue dots on the Minimap were allies; red dots were enemies.
Through the Minimap, Seo Jun confirmed that enemies had appeared.
‘They pushed too deep for Vision.’
The one caught in the Ambush was Alpaca.
Securing Vision had been his priority—perhaps too much so.
Seo Jun immediately moved to join.

[I’m sorry! I got ambushed! Don’t mind me…!]

There was no way the team could abandon a teammate.
It wasn’t about the kind of camaraderie found in shounen manga—it was just that they were nearby when the fight started, so they were dragged in regardless.
The problem was that Seo Jun wasn’t there.
And Alpaca getting ambushed had triggered it.
So.

[Pado –> Alpaca]

Alpaca, caught in the Ambush, died first, and the teammates began retreating to avoid more deaths.

[Let’s pull back.]
[We might lose more people this way. Their skills are landing! Ugh.]
[Ah. Fear used his Ultimate on me so I couldn’t flee. They’re using it on me.]
[Ugh! Tali’s Mark!]

But Ha Yun-ho died too.

[1898 –> Ha Yun-ho]
[Pado –> Rumi]

And Rumi fell as well.
Arriving at last, Seo Jun spotted Wind Sword retreating from the front, enemies closing in.
The pursuing opponent team members were engaging, trading skills as they chased.
All Seo Jun could do for now was help Wind Sword create distance, then watch the enemy team go for the Rift’s most powerful jungle monster and look for an opening.
The Rift’s unwanted guest—Crash.
The players’ pet name: Worm.
High health and high attack power made it impossible to solo, and even all five couldn’t farm it without taking damage.
But as a high-risk, high-reward trade, it granted excellent Buffs—and naturally, with so many of Wealth Gap’s teammates dead, the enemy team would aim for it.
Wealth Gap now faced a Choice: keep intercepting from afar to prevent it, wait for a weak window to fight, or secure the Last Hit to steal the Buff.

-Guess we gotta let them have it, can’t help it
-Alpaca let’s get it together
-But why doesn’t the boss give map control orders? Does he not know how to read the map?
-Seems like he’s doing it on purpose
-So game shotcalling only works for other A-rank players, not this guy? Pado sets all his own Traps too
-Yeah and look, he got 2v1’d lol
-Yeah, they let the Worm through and lose the game
-Three down, 5v2—best to just wait for them to respawn lmao

But he could roughly guess what they were saying.
Viewers were predictably scattered in their takes.
So.
“Why are you all saying 5v2, chat,”
Seo Jun whispered softly—just for the viewers to hear.
“If we win this, we can end the game right here.”

-Just give them the Buff
-It’s 5v2 what are you on about lol

Right as Wind Sword called out, Seo Jun assessed the enemy’s remaining health and cast his Ultimate on the one with the lowest—the enemy Top laner.

A shadow formed and immediately reached out.
But someone on the enemy team had prepared for this.
So as if waiting, a skill shot toward him at lightning speed.

The incoming lunchbox explodes right beside the clone.
In that instant.
Seo Jun swapped positions with his shadow.

Geomsin can briefly escape the damage zone by swapping with the shadow in that ultra-short window—a precise timing trick used only by Geomsin masters.
As the enemy Top turned around, Seo Jun stood before him and drove an Assassination Strike deep into his abdomen. When another attack came flying, he swapped positions with the skill’s shadow instead.
“Doesn’t that make it 4v3 now?”
Seo Jun, standing where he’d originally been, spoke to the viewers as he faced the enemy.

-Isn’t he still alive?

-The clone’s there so it’s not 3, boss
-Must’ve failed what he was trying
-There’s the Mark though

Everything unfolded in an instant.

If they destroyed the clone spawned by the skill, the Mark would detonate and kill the Top laner.
If they left it, the Top laner had time to recover—but then Seo Jun would tear through them via that shadow.
It was Geomsin’s textbook play.
The enemy’s decision came fast.
Pado moved.
Seo Jun willingly surrendered the clone.
Boom!
The Mark detonated, claiming the Top laner’s final health.

[Geomsin –> Kadon]

This had been his plan from the start.

“Alright then, Wind Sword. We’ve evened the numbers, so now we fight.”
Seo Jun smiled as his Ultimate clone’s hand settled on Wind Sword’s shoulder.
“Numbers? Ah…”
Wind Sword turned his head both ways, then flashed the same smile.
“Yeah, looks like it.”

-Kya

-If it’s just Wind Sword and the boss left, this looks winnabke
-What are you on about, they still have 4 lol stop the Stan energy
-And there’s not 3 clones anyway right?
-Wanna bet Points?

And Pado let out a relieved sigh.

Even though three clones were impossible anyway, so it didn’t really matter.

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