Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 197

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Chapter 197

About three seconds after Spoon dodged the second chain.
Whoooosh!
The chain shot out once more.

[Chain of Destruction]

The thin, elongated chain that burst from the Magic Circle brushed past a minion with perfect precision before flying toward Spoon’s position.
Spoon, mid-attack on a minion, spotted the chain and managed to twist away just in time.
This last attack was Seo Jun’s calculated setup.
After laying down that first move, he had orchestrated everything that followed.
It wasn’t easy.
There were too many variables, minor errors he couldn’t account for.
But with a three-second gap, and especially if he kept trading blows in succession—whether with Eric or chains—
he could guide his opponent where he wanted.
So this chain launching one second later was

[Chain of Destruction]

Seo Jun’s gambit.
If he’d leveled to five and could cast three skills simultaneously, he could keep pounding relentlessly.
He could have pinned Spoon down like the Monkey King trapped in Buddha’s palm.
But as things stood—
the Monkey King that was Spoon brazenly taunted Seo Jun.
“Another gambling loss for you? Ha ha ha!”
Spoon had stopped moving, and that was precisely why the chain passed right in front of his face.
The chain ended up embedding itself in a ranged minion behind him, then vanished.
“Oh.”
Rumi, standing in front of Seo Jun, gasped. Not because Seo Jun had failed.
It was because Spoon kept taunting him.
“That doesn’t sound good.”
“Don’t care. Try landing the next chain on me!! Ha ha ha!”

-LMAOOO the audacity
-Spoon’s really rubbing it in huh ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wait, people can’t hear this on Spoon’s stream! Everyone should come here
-Why’d those guys mute their voices anyway
-He lacks the qualifications to be a streamer
-So when does he finally land the chain????

Spoon showed no intention of attacking Seo Jun.
It wasn’t so much a damage exchange as a one-sided pattern: Seo Jun threw skill, Spoon evaded. No counterattacks.
From what he could see, Spoon’s current goal was lane management and not dying.
With Rumi, he always kept minions between them, positioning himself to avoid her skills.
And when skills came from Seo Jun, he dodged; basic attacks, he let slide.
He struck the minions one or two fewer times than Seo Jun, slowly pulling the wave toward their tower.
The whole sequence looked incredibly complex, but it wasn’t actually that difficult.
The biggest factor was that Rumi wasn’t creating any real complications.
Rather than tracking Seo Jun’s moves and reading the situation, she was simply following Spoon around.
This couldn’t be helped.
It was more than just fundamentals—something only Wind Sword could manage.
‘Still, she’s grasped the basics of movement well.’
Seo Jun simply smiled with satisfaction and threw another attack.
Creating the situation was his role.
Since he could fire two chains at once, he waited a moment.
And once the next sequence took shape in his mind’s eye, he immediately conjured a Magic Circle behind him, hidden from the enemy’s view.
The Magic Circle’s generation radius was two meters from him.
Summoning it from behind meant losing four meters of range, but the reason Seo Jun placed the Magic Circle behind him was simple.
To hide it.
The moment the enemy sees the Magic Circle, they’d spend three seconds bracing for it, trying every desperate move, making it hard to land a hit.
But if they don’t know it’s been created, Seo Jun can guide them exactly where he wants.
One second.
Two seconds.
At that moment, Seo Jun subtly sidestepped, and Spoon spotted the Magic Circle.
Three seconds.
Whoooosh.
The sound of the chain dragging across ground as it launches.
A chain thrown not to guide, but to hit.
And that chain—
Thunk!
struck Spoon, who’d pivoted left a moment too late. His health dropped sharply.
A skill this hard to land carried proportionally high damage.
Seo Jun laughed in disbelief.
Spoon, his expression slightly troubled, retreated, and Gong Beol-re immediately began healing.
Gong Beol-re’s hand glowed green. Then it faded moments later.

[Sacrifice]

-Oh!
-Finally landed it!
-But seeing this, calling him a prophet or whatever? Feels wrong. Just normal Eric play
-Ugh, getting thirsty for Yeongdo^^
-He wasn’t always like this!
-So he’s getting a feel for it now?
-Doesn’t look like it from the master’s reaction

The second chain passed through a completely different spot. Spoon had taken a hit and retreated immediately.

-Nah not it
-If the master had been playing, he would’ve accounted for that retreat too
-Probably wouldn’t have let him retreat in the first place
-How?
-Well, he founded the Blunt Sword technique after all
-This guy just played around for 10 days and got nerfed lmaooo

Whether the chat mocked Seo Jun or not, he quickly reviewed the sequence.
The flinch he’d shown on the first attack.
On the second attack, similar circumstances, but his dodge was different from the first.
Same with the third.
There was no pattern.
Why had he moved instinctively at first, then corrected? Why no such hesitation the second time?
What method was he using?
Seo Jun didn’t have no theories.
“You know how difficult it is to go against your instincts?”
Seo Jun spoke up.
“Pardon?”
He resumed farming in a calm state. Spoon didn’t seem about to engage him in any damage exchange.
While he continued, Seo Jun explained to Rumi. Spoon would listen too.
“Humans automate a lot of things. Walking, running, sitting, lying down. You could do them consciously, but mostly you just do them.”
Likely because if the brain had to consciously process each of those countless actions, it would consume enormous amounts of energy. Evolution had made him this way.
“That would make sense, I suppose……?”
Not just Rumi, but Spoon too—who was hitting the newly arrived minions—was listening closely.

-Is he passing on secret knowledge?
-Nah. Keeps failing and now he’s making excuses cause he’s embarrassed
-That actually checks out lmaooo
-This guy talks big when he thinks we’re not watching ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-After 10 days of slacking, even this much is fair game
-Though he doesn’t seem to have slack off actually
-Looks like he grinded pretty hard

“In combat, it’s the same. Right now, if we faced the same situation a hundred times, we’d react the same way a hundred times.”
Combat varies slightly each time, so we don’t realize it.
“The reason is we don’t have time to act consciously. If you think before reacting, you’re too slow. Your body moves by instinct, following what it remembers. That’s how countless battles play out.”
That’s why fundamentals are emphasized and drilled repeatedly.
Because what emerges in dire moments is the action the body knows best, and the solid fundamentals displayed then cannot be ignored.

[Chain of Destruction]

Whoooosh!
Thunk!
The lane fight continued even as he spoke.
More fiercely than before. Just without any damage exchanges.
“I see.”
Rumi had heard this story recently in a different way.
Seo Jun had explained training similarly before.
So she was curious.
Why was he bringing this up now?

-Master’s totally making excuses right now ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-That’s cute
-So what’s the reason for your failure, master!
-The chat quality seems to have dropped… Is it cause of Spoon’s mute bringing in new viewers?
-Nah just the existing viewers love when the master gets hit. Happened a lot
-Just recently it was ten million won ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“I’ve been reading that all along. It’s basically instinct, and it’s surprisingly simple and easy to spot.”
“I see. Well, if it were really that simple, it wouldn’t be something only you could do, right? And because it is, I’m all the more glad.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because the preparation we brought seems to be working.”
“Ah, the method you prepared? Going against instinct really is terribly difficult. Impressive.”
“Thank you.”
“Even if it meant listening to someone else’s words.”
Seo Jun gazed at Spoon at ease, conjuring a Magic Circle in the empty air to the side. Not behind.
For a moment, Spoon froze. But he quickly regained his composure.
“Ha, ha, ha. What’s that supposed to mean?”
Seo Jun chuckled softly.
“Dammit. You figured it out?”
“Well, nothing too tricky. Just…….”
Gong Beol-re had cheered when they fought lightly before the minions arrived, but as it grew uncertain when Seo Jun’s chains would come, Gong Beol-re had gone silent. Looking at that silence, Seo Jun understood.
The silence could only mean one thing: Team Voice was on.
And Gong Beol-re lacked the skill to switch interfaces freely. D-rank, after all.
So keeping Team Voice on continuously made sense.
The real question was the reason why.
Why would Gong Beol-re need to keep Team Voice on? Especially when she hadn’t been doing that before?
An order?
No. D-ranks giving orders was exceptionally rare, and Spoon didn’t fall into that category.
So it was simple to deduce.
Gong Beol-re was using Team Voice to give orders—to fight instinct.
Probably calling out directions. Just random ones.
And that method was quite lethal to Seo Jun.
If every moment Spoon was switching up his habits, he could figure out the pattern.
Seo Jun was confident in that.
But directions called out randomly from afar by a third party couldn’t be predicted.
“So it’s become true gambling, hasn’t it?”
“Yes. Gong Beol-re doesn’t know about any of that anyway, and whenever you use a skill, she just calls out the direction.”
Of course, Gong Beol-re’s call might align with Seo Jun’s prediction. Pure chance.
But that would also mean it aligns with where Spoon intended to move.
Then Spoon just moves opposite to whatever Gong Beol-re says.
“Ha ha ha. Using Telepathic Communication. Interesting.”
It was familiar to Seo Jun. That’s why he’d caught on right away.

-Telepathic Communication lmaooo
-Is Gong Beol-re a master too? Backseat gaming?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Oh so that’s why she turned it off. Wondering if they could still use it after moving past Group Stage
-As if that won’t get caught lmaooo The master would just notice anyway
-Turn the voice on, Spoon!

“Heh heh. This is something you won’t be able to counter, Seo Jun. I’m just going to focus on farming. So I was actually excited when we ended up bottom.”
Gong Beol-re was positioned far in the back where she couldn’t reach.
So he had a point.
Spoon cried out powerfully and redirected his bullets at a minion with low health.
And immediately prepared to dodge.
The Magic Circle that Seo Jun had just conjured.
The chain would shoot out from there.

[Left]

Hearing Gong Beol-re’s Telepathic Communication—Team Voice—Spoon checked which direction he’d naturally wanted to move.
Different.
So he’d just follow that.
After all, Seo Jun’s Eric had become ordinary now. He could take a few hits.
As long as he didn’t engage in the fight, Seo Jun’s harass couldn’t break through the healing.
In his assessment, Seo Jun could no longer land definite hits—only gamble on probability.
‘Now.’
Bang!
One of two bullets was enough to farm the minion.
Then he’d shift his body left while firing the second shot—
Wait?
Seo Jun’s eyes weren’t tracking him. He’d wanted to wipe that serene expression off his face just once.
Bang!
By the time the second bullet fired,
Seo Jun’s mana sphere and chain were already streaking through the air like arrows.
Not at Spoon. At the bullets Spoon had fired.
“Give the minion a taste of good farming, why don’t you.”
Whoooosh!
Clang!
The consecutive sound effects weren’t the sound of the minion being pierced.
The minion Spoon had aimed for never received the bullets—it died at the hands of Spoon’s own minions.
And Seo Jun summoned another Magic Circle beside him.
“I don’t necessarily have to predict only you, you know.”
Still at ease. Exactly the same as before.

-Kyaaa!
-I knew you had it!
-Okay I’ll admit the prophet 50% ㅋㅋㅋ
-Whoa! Since the body’s hard to hit, he hits the bullets! You madman!
-Is the paradigm of laning shifting?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The eater vs the blocker

“……Will things go the way you want even from here?”
“We’ll find out. Give it a try.”
The positions had shifted once more.

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