Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 192

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Chapter 192

The closing remarks of the tenth day’s broadcast rang out.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Tomorrow’s the Group Stage, then.”
“Coach! Thank you so much for everything!”

-Lee Dong-su! Lee Dong-su! Lee Dong-su! Lee Dong-su! Lee Dong-su!
-Learned so many training methods.
-Thanks for all your work, professional!
-That such a distinguished person would go this far ㅋㅋㅋ
-Last 4 days he showed up every day! Nice!
-But honestly compared to the other teams we didn’t do much lol never even had a scrim
-Connection King Ha Yun-ho tolerating this
-For real lol the guy who gets hives if he doesn’t call his company streamers

‘I’m too busy dangling carrots to have time to scout people.’
Ha Yun-ho read the chat and mentally protested.
There was actually another reason.
“Travel.”

-Alright everyone, place your final bets
-Still supporting the captain? lol
-Not me?
-Travel
-ㅂ

The broadcast ended. It was the final practice day.
With it came tension, and beneath that, worry and anxiety began creeping in.
“So we’re really going to do this, right?”
“Trust me, Rumi.”
Seo Jun spoke with complete confidence.
“Was it really the right call not to do even one scrim?”
“Everyone practiced their main heroes.”
This time it was Lee Dong-su who answered.
“Even if you practice your main hero, if they ban it… well, that won’t matter.”
At Wind Sword’s words, everyone’s eyes turned toward the same point.
After all, the ban card would be played against Seo Jun anyway.
“Even so, we haven’t come up with any strategy at all, and that worries me. Don’t you think we should at least brainstorm something starting now?”
“Wind Sword, seriously, don’t worry. Since we can’t know how our enemies will come out, it’s all meaningless anyway. We’re not in a position to target their weaknesses—we’re receiving their attacks and countering them.”
That was Seo Jun’s perspective.
Analyzing each team’s weaknesses and penetrating those weaknesses to seize victory—a strategy like that?
At their level, it was inherently difficult to construct.
The ability to analyze was one problem, but the scarcity of data to analyze was the bigger one.
Weren’t these teams just created for this tournament?
Of course, if they’d devoted these past ten days to strategy with Lee Dong-su’s help, they could have dramatically raised its success rate.
They might have even won the championship.
In fact, the other teams were considering exactly such strategies.
They had no other options anyway.
But Seo Jun had the ability to make a choice with even higher odds than that.
And that was precisely:
“Our team has become strong. And only the weak resort to analysis.”
Growing stronger.
When you’re strong, every problem resolves itself.
There was some saying like that, wasn’t there?
If your body’s in good shape, your mind doesn’t suffer?
“I don’t think that’s quite it…”
“Should we just discuss this among ourselves without you, Seo Jun?”
“Even the coach seems like he’d help.”
“You can tell Lee Dong-su is also having doubts about this.”
The response was cold.
Seo Jun looked at his teammates with confusion.
They genuinely seemed to think something had to be done.
Lee Dong-su tapped Seo Jun’s shoulder from beside him.
“Why is everyone worried now, do you think?”
“Good point.”
“Just think about it. Ten days of improving your skills is already crazy on its own, I’ll grant that. But even so—”
Even so?
“Look back at the past days. Has each teammate improved day by day? Did they climb gradually? Or did they just keep getting crushed by you consistently?”
Ah.
“I see.”
Now he understood their concern.
Because they’d been beaten every single day, they unconsciously believed they hadn’t changed at all, that these past ten days had been a complete waste.
No matter how much Seo Jun told them they’d grown, if they didn’t feel it themselves, there was nothing he could do about it.
“Then they’ll know tomorrow.”
“Straight into actual competition?”
“Yeah.”
“You’re really something else. One mistake and it’s 100 million won.”
And so the next day arrived.

* * *

Points.
Traveler memories, Traveler money, Traveler honor, confidence, or everything.
Who was the greatest asset collector on Travel?
Asked this question, Travelers would unhesitatingly name one tycoon.
I am none other than Joseon Assassin.
A Travel legend who once bet 250,000 points on a 1% long shot and won 25 million points in a single match.
After that, he continued blindly betting without even reading the details, and accumulated another 5 million points.
He was overwhelmingly in first place.
And when he bet all 30 million points at once, he became a name everyone knew.
Some Travelers said that even if he lost his entire fortune, he should be hailed as the king of Channel Point Prediction and honored forever as the god of gambling.
Naturally, all of this was:
Extremely irritating to the second-greatest asset collector.

[Wallet is Empty]

Current Points Held:

[14 million points]

Before Joseon Assassin appeared, this user was the one who first accumulated 10 million points and enjoyed fame as the supreme and incomparable one.
This user’s specialty was exploiting vast amounts of time, rivaling the fortunes of the world’s richest men.
He was a time billionaire, analyzing every streamer who frequently opened Point Predictions and knowing even their minor habits.
Based on that, he predicted and multiplied his points.
His accuracy rate was 70%.
Even though the profit ratio from each win differed, a 70% accuracy rate was more than enough to grow points.
So he became the greatest.
“Before that bastard showed up…”
Unlike him with his meticulously recorded analyses and animal instinct, the raw feral heart—just sheer thoughtlessness.
A user who bet completely mindlessly and in one go achieved twice his position.
“Joseon Assassin.”
He spat out the name as if ready to devour it.
The monitor displayed in detail what the participating teams in Lieos had done over the past ten days.
“If I don’t catch up this time, it’s over.”
The opponent had already carelessly thrown 30 million points again.
He saw here an opportunity to reverse the situation.
“Idiot.”
So he began his analysis.
Of course, if his analysis concluded that Wealth Gap would win the championship, everything he’d done so far would become meaningless.
Six months until the next Lieos.
Would streamer Seo Jun even exist by then? And would Joseon Assassin go all-in again?
The probability was low.
He should give up cleanly.
But his analysis revealed hope.
“This has potential. No, more than potential.”
By his assessment, Wealth Gap’s probability of becoming champion wasn’t that high.
Then what?
Staying still would be the thing to do.
“I did something stupid. Just betting without even looking.”
First place would lose everything.
“But I have to do that stupid thing too.”
Wallet is Empty decided to bet. Everything he had.

[The finals are coming. Where’s everyone betting?]
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I’m betting on Tae-woo Eight!
Go Tae-woo, fighting!
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-Why did you bet there?
└Because you can win the most (OP)
└lololol crazy, what if they don’t win the championship? you just lose it?
-Since when did betting content become about which team drops from Group Stage? lololol
└As a Tae-woo Eight fan, that’s rough…
└So you’re betting on Tae-woo Eight to win the championship?
└No way. Would I trust Tae-woo if I were crazy?
-Lol but what if Wealth Gap actually wins? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Joseon Assassin gets 4.54x lol

The betting ratio on Wealth Gap was 22%, making them second.
Even though Joseon Assassin bet 30 million points, if 300,000 viewers watching Lieos each bet just 1,000 points, that’s 300 million points.
And 1,000 points was really the minimum—plus, normally betting has a 250,000-point limit, but tournament betting has no such restriction, so far more points flow in.
In other words, even with 30 million staked, first place might not be achieved.
In fact, looking at how much the top betters on each team had wagered, it came out to millions of points.

[If Wealth Gap wins, honestly]
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A serious wealth gap will form on Travel.
One person owning over 130 million points? That kind of deprivation makes me want revolution, you know? ^^
==

-Whoa…? The chat turns red
└Was that revolution the proletarian kind? Oh no
└Report them lol
-Joseon Assassin is just a god, man. God of betting. The fact that he’d bet that much is insane. Everyone’s just going all-in following him lololol if it wasn’t for him people would’ve bet more reasonably
└What about Wallet is Empty?
└That’s a has-been now lololol When this guy earned 4 million, Joseon Assassin earned 5 million. If it weren’t for Joseon Assassin fanboys, the gap would’ve kept growing. Still hasn’t been able to bet his whole fortune and lol—betting on Wealth Gap might not even put him on the top betters list? He’s just a has-been man pay him no mind

These comments.
This public opinion.
Wallet is Empty hated it deeply.
The perception that Joseon Assassin was the best at Channel Points.
To overturn that.
“I’ll bet everything too.”
His cursor moved to the upper right, closing the community. Then the Travel screen appeared.
He navigated to the Channel Point Prediction page.
It was pinned at the top. Who will win at Lieos?
Time remaining until betting closes: one hour.
His eyes filled with bloodshot determination.
If he lost this, he had no idea when he could recover.
Is this what real gambling addicts feel?
No.
It wasn’t about wanting to win. It was about reclaiming his position.
He had no interest whatsoever in succeeding and watching his points multiply and return. Only first place. That position.
“Yeah. The champion said it multiple times. That Pado could hold them off with just coaching.”
The difference in team members couldn’t be ignored there.

[Heavy Mental] – 23%
[Mental Cracked – 4.72 million points]

Wealth Gap had shown nothing.
The other teams had done scrims, then received feedback by using their pro eyes watching pro games. These guys hadn’t even done a scrim.
In the other teams’ occasional scrims, you could feel teamwork gradually improving, but Wealth Gap had none of that.
Even during broadcast, they were too busy just messing around with the pro, Lee Dong-su.
Mental hardship or whatever.
So the team seemed to have the best chemistry among all teams, but would that closeness translate to in-game teamwork?
Everyone knew it absolutely wouldn’t.
Play a duo ranked ladder with a close friend and you’ll understand.
Game style synergy is separate from friendship.
So it was entirely possible. Wealth Gap was even the team all others feared most.
Truly, properly executed counter-strategies might knock them out in Group Stage today—making this their final day.
People didn’t seem to think so; the odds were tight. But he could see it.
“Phew.”
His trembling hand clicked the mouse.

[Heavy Mental] – 24%
[Wallet is Empty – 14 million points]

He dumped it all in cleanly.

[Wallet is Empty drops in one hour before Group Stage!]
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Bet everything I had!
==

-Has-been
-Has-been
-Dead
-Heavy Mental? Smart move
└But what’s he doing? He’s a has-been anyway. Staying still without betting was his highest chance at first lololololol

And one hour later.
Group Stage began.

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