Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 187

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Chapter 187

[Ugh, damn it. Just got back from overtime. Which part of the broadcast today was actually fun?]

9 p.m.
The broadcast was entering its closing stages—the kind of hour where things wind down or reach their natural end.
It hadn’t even been three hours since the stream went live.
Of course, if they were playing a story-driven game or doing a second session, three hours would be nowhere near enough.
But the streamers had all gone crazy lately, and ever since they’d brought in that particular person, three hours had become plenty.
The idol of gamers.
A god to the gaming community.
They’d brought in pro players, hadn’t they?
Even if it was the same person and they were on break, three hours of a pro’s time always felt like you’d somehow squandered money.
Pro players, no matter how skilled, spoke with the brass-faced psychopathic precision of people who’d say things like “Do you know how much I could earn in three hours?”—though they backed it up with abilities that matched the claim. They weren’t quite drama-school instructors or corporate CEOs generating a trillion won in annual economic value, but they came close.

==
Is there still a lot to see in three hours? Should I just watch it from the beginning through replay?
Where should I watch?
Recommendations please!
I’m on the subway right now and soon as I get home I’m cracking open a beer and diving right in lol
==

In any case, whether or not an actual loss of time had occurred, three hours was enough for teaching purposes, and since keeping the pros up late wasn’t feasible, the broadcast was winding down naturally.
It was only natural that posts evaluating today’s broadcast, along with comments from Riven’s top commentators, would rack up upvotes and climb the boards.
A post that quickly earned ten upvotes and made it to the top-ten board was soon flooded with comments.
It started with criticism.
As communities tend to do.

-So you’re a Finger Princess? Everything’s already in the 30-upvote posts you’d read if you actually looked. Your job seems hopeless. Was the overtime even worth it?

Finger Princess was a term for internet users who asked questions without bothering to search, hoping someone would just spoonfeed them the answer.

└lol sounds like the overtime actually wasn’t worth it
└You heartless bastard lmao
-Why do you even work at a company that makes you pull overtime? Quit that place lmaooo
└What company do you work at?
└I don’t work at a company? I’m just saying quit lol let’s both just watch streams instead
└Ah lol I guess the viewers really are a special breed lmao (OP)
└Are you saying I should become a full-time viewer?
-This guy got absolutely screwed in life
└At this point he’s definitely lost half his life lmaooo
└Why? (OP)
└Because there were literally five pros on today.
└Holy shit so who am I even supposed to watch? I was planning to see Lee Dong-su (OP)

Besides plenty of other jokes and light comments, the reason this post rapidly earned ten upvotes—the reason it gained another twenty in mere seconds—came down to one thing:
it was the perfect arena for debating which part was actually entertaining.
That’s just how communities work.

-Obviously no contest lol. Baek Do-yul right? Just him being champion is enough. Current Strongest Mid.
└Baek Do-yul showed up? Insane (OP)

Current Strongest Mid meant the world’s strongest mid-tier player.

└One win and now he’s Current Strongest Mid? This is getting irritating
└Technically he’s Current Strongest Mid right now lol. As for All-Time Strongest… hmm, Baek Do-yul?

All-Time Strongest meant historically the strongest player ever.

└That’s a bit much…
└Yeah that’s overstepping
└We can agree he’s Current Strongest for now but All-Time Strongest? Come on ^^

In any case, this wasn’t an argument that needed settling right now, nor was it an arena worth opening here.
So before the fandoms could start fighting, the OP shut it down.

└The pro league hasn’t even started yet, why are we doing this here? So I should just watch Mental’s broadcast then? (OP)

What mattered to them was the cold beer waiting at home and deciding what to watch while drinking it.
Not watching the dumbest, most aggressive fanboys duke it out.

└Yeah I only watched Mental’s stream
└How do you resist watching when the champion’s streaming lmao
└True but your downvote ratio lol what’s that about (OP)

The upvotes and downvotes pouring in in real time.
Comments recommending Mental’s broadcast were getting downvoted.
And the upvote count on that comment mere seconds in:
7.
Downvotes:
60.
Overwhelming.
Far more people disagreed. Which meant?
The arena had opened.
But the victor was already decided.

-I seriously question whether those people are sane. Overseas communities are talking about that stream right now—what, Mental? Baek Do-yul? lmaooo
└lmao so they showed the pasta eaters the taste of kimchi huh lmao
└lmao Hawaiian users are saying thanks
└A Korean topped pasta with kimchi!!!!
└Overseas? What the hell happened (OP)
└Check this out (Kael Trial screenshot)
└Whoa… a five-times difference from second place? This looks like that Seo Jun guy. Did he do this? Was today’s broadcast an Annihilation Match? (OP)

Annihilation Match meant content where one side fights until the other’s destroyed, done with the resolve of Desperate Determination.
So everyone laughed.
They just laughed.

└lmaooooo
└lmaooo
└A-lmao-nnihilation-lmao-Match-lmao
└Kael first place only worth 240k won tho lmao
└OP definitely never actually watched Bangbang’s stream I’m calling it
└Why are you laughing! (OP)
└This Finger Princess won’t even search for it. Listen up.

But someone had to sum it up anyway.

-Here’s what happened today: 1. On Level 10 AI, Bangbang provoked Baek Do-yul and they kept trading victories…
└This guy can’t summarize for shit. I’ll do it myself. Minor rewording. 1. Geomsin and Baek Do-yul fought one-on-one
└Damn lmaooo that hooked me right in
└That’s the right version lmaooo
└??? (OP)
└2. They tied, but Baek Do-yul got overwhelmed by the aura and admitted defeat, then backed off. Then he fought Taker one-on-one
└lmao how much are you abbreviating and mistranslating lmao
└??? (OP)
└3. Taker got destroyed. Then he fought a viewer in a ten-million-won match
└4. Won. Then fought the Kael first-place player. Just shut up and watch Bangbang’s stream, it’s legendary
└??? (OP)
└lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo this is absolutely ridiculous
└But they’re right. Just shut up and watch Bangbang’s stream lmaooo
└If you don’t see that you’re missing out big time
-Just watch it? Really? You’re sure? Do I trust you? (OP)
└Missing the livestream because of some job and then complaining about it
└Obvious OP’s never watched Bangbang even once, but sure just watch lmao

The OP, unsure but trusting, followed the advice.
And hours later, in the early morning, another post went up.

[Goddamn it. I really want to quit this company. How much of my life have I actually wasted?!]

The joint broadcast on the first day, which drew the most attention, ended in an overwhelming victory for Wealth Gap.

* * *

Lee Dong-su had agreed to stream every other day.
Training gains didn’t show up every day (though they did show up roughly every other day), and streaming daily would wear down his image.
Some mystery was necessary, or so the saying went.
‘Seems like it’s already over.’
Lee Dong-su finally snapped at Seo Jun when asked what would happen if he ranked first in every hero—telling him just to stop doing that.
The viewers built an internal rapport with Lee Dong-su at that moment, sensing his humanity.
The thought that he too couldn’t stop Seo Jun.
He’d even shown high-school-boy energy, calling people hyung and noona. That was just his natural personality.
Anyway, the second day was when Lee Dong-su wasn’t streaming.

[Ha Yun-ho]
[I’m sick. I’m resting. My whole body just hurts.]

[Rumi]
[…. . .-.. .–. — .]

[Alpaca]
[I’m thirty… I’ve decided to accept aging. So I’m taking a Broadcasting Hiatus. Am I getting old?]

It was the day Wealth Gap’s streamers took a collective Broadcasting Hiatus.
“Wind Sword, why did you come?”
At 5:55 p.m., Seo Jun invited Wind Sword to the Lobby and asked.
“How about you?”
“I’m fresh as a daisy?”
Wind Sword looked at Seo Jun with exasperation in his eyes.
‘He gathered us at the Gym in the morning, drained us completely, then sweet-talked us into continuing training until four in the afternoon—eat, train, rest, train, eat—and then came to stream. Seriously.’
They’d all genuinely needed the rest. Because of Seo Jun.
But.
Wouldn’t it only make sense if Seo Jun, who’d coached all four of them, was the most exhausted?
Both mentally and physically.
Yet he was fresh as a daisy?
“So why did you come?”
Wind Sword was also pushed to the absolute limit of physical and mental exhaustion.
He’d taken an hour nap, but that wouldn’t cut it.
But the reason he came anyway was:
“Seo Jun…”
Wind Sword’s face was the picture of grievance.
“Yes?”
Seo Jun simply smiled brightly.
“You said… if I came today, you’d help me with the Kael trials again like last time…”
He was exhausted to death.
But he couldn’t give it up either.
He’d felt it work last time.
Sigh.
Wind Sword wept inside.
“If you’re tired, you should rest.”
“But you said if I skip today, you won’t teach me anymore!”
He was dying of unfairness. Why did it have to be like this?
Seo Jun laughed.
“Did I? Anyway, I can’t skip the whole broadcast and stream alone feels weird. So let’s keep today’s joint broadcast short and focus on teaching you.”
“Okay…”
“Today’s joint broadcast will wrap up once I finish teaching Wind Sword.”
“Sounds good.”
The second day’s broadcast went on for over four hours.
It was a secret that Wind Sword slept twelve hours straight the next day before showing up at the Gym at noon.

* * *

The third day.
They smoothly did a joint broadcast while receiving training from Lee Dong-su.
Instances of various aches and pains, bringing a Carrot, or tapping out Morse Code with their hands—all were cleanly ignored.
Naturally, there were more than enough viewers catching on to their distress signals; in fact, hardly anyone didn’t notice.

-lmaooo
-Something’s clearly happening but the Wealth Gap regulars just want Bangbang to keep tormenting them lmao
-Help who? Who needs help? I can’t hear you!

When had the viewers ever sided with the streamers instead?
Then came the morning of the fourth day.
Before Seo Jun arrived, rebellion was being plotted in the Gymnasium’s pre-dawn hours.
“Yesterday with Taker, we did ten thousand downward strikes with a Wooden Sword. My arms are about to fall off!”
Wind Sword spoke up.
“Ten thousand strikes? At least you got to hold a sword. Me? I just did Horse Stance the whole time. Is this a Shaolin monastery?!”
He meant squats.
Seo Jun had also made sure to call them up to the ring between sessions and beat them.
He was remarkably thorough.
“At this rate I’m actually going to die.”
Rumi, who’d collapsed and slept the moment the broadcast ended, spoke up.
“Sigh, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
Ha Yun-ho opened his mouth, taking on the responsibility of being the team leader.
“We need to bring down Seo Jun.”

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