Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 20

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Episode 20

Behind Moobie Soft’s decision to develop their company’s do-or-die project in Korea rather than at their headquarters—which had produced all previous entries in the series—stood Eve Pymo.
He was a renowned game developer the company had recruited from outside, brought in as the declining studio struggled to adapt to the age of Capsules.
Now serving as both Chief Creative Officer and president of the Korean branch, he’d made the bold decision to come to Korea and develop directly there, citing data showing Korea had the world’s highest Capsule adoption rate and consumers most attuned to emerging trends—a departure from the localization-only approach of the past.
Though there was considerable skepticism from the start, as the project progressed, he’d grown confident in the success of this new series and was already preparing the follow-up project for expansion afterward.
And the moment Shadow in the City’s success was confirmed on its launch day, the next project kicked off at full speed.
The path ahead seemed clear and straight.
But there was one problem.
His carefully laid plan was in danger of derailing from the very beginning.
All because of a single streamer.
Kim Yun-chan, summoned to the executive office early that morning, spoke hesitantly.
“I told you I had a bad feeling about this…….”
“Enough. Just explain it to me. Why is Weakness Detection already unlocked!”
Eve Pymo was
“Haha, right? I didn’t expect it to be figured out either.”
Kim Yun-chan flashed an innocent smile, and Eve Pymo’s curiosity stirred.
“Figured out? What do you mean by that?”
“Boss, we estimated it would take users at least a month to unlock Weakness Detection.”
“Honestly, even if it took half a year, I wouldn’t be surprised. How often does someone happen to strike the grain, destroy their weapon, get it on video, and have it shared with everyone?”
“Exactly. Even if someone deliberately went searching for the grain, realistically it would take at least a month minimum.”
“Plus, given how much there is to do in our game, spending time on Weakness Detection is unlikely.”
Eve Pymo took pride in the Assassination System he’d built into Shadow in the City.
“Right. There’s too much else to do. Who’s going to waste time hunting for some grain to destroy weapons by luck? It doesn’t make sense.”
It was content meant only for completionists—those who’d cleared every challenge and exhausted everything else the game offered, down to the last detail.
And indeed, Rampage and the grain had been designed precisely with them in mind.
“So why was Weakness Detection unlocked a week after launch?”
Unlocking Weakness Detection itself wasn’t the issue.
The problem was that obtaining it meant being able to pierce Richard Neville’s Heavy Armor and defeat him using Rampage—one of the Rulers.
And defeating a Ruler with Rampage gave Fragment of Order.
They’d hidden Easter Eggs related to the next project scattered throughout the game, and Fragment of Order was one of them.
Collect all the fragments, and you could undertake a short quest tied to the next project.
And releasing a teaser video at the moment when public attention peaked was his natural and effective way to build hype for the next title.
That was the promotion strategy he’d carefully designed.
The problem was that the Fragments could now all be collected before the teaser video was even ready.
“As for why it was unlocked, like I said—it was figured out.”
Eve Pymo barely restrained the urge to punch the serene, carefree Kim Yun-chan across the face.
“Stop going in circles. Give me a real explanation.”
“Yes, sir.”
Kim Yun-chan sent Eve Pymo a clip.
It was footage from a collaborative broadcast with Alpaca.
“Hmm? Clean execution.”
“Right? This was something someone else discovered first—the streamer Seo Jun reproduced it here.”
“I see. Pretty skilled.”
“And in the next video, that streamer actually finds and destroys the grain.”
“What?”
Eve Pymo thought he’d misheard and asked for confirmation.
“He found the grain? That streamer?”
“Yes.”
After watching the second video—where the Shield and Sword were destroyed—Eve Pymo stared at Kim Yun-chan with wide, incredulous eyes.
“How is that even…… Does this make sense? Did the guy just get a bug where Weakness Detection was already available?”
Eve Pymo, who’d boasted that his game had no bugs, now invoked the word—a sign of how absurd the footage was.
“No. We’d have caught something like that immediately.”
“Then…….”
“Based on watching his entire collaborative stream and having become a fan of the streamer Seo Jun, it seems he read the pattern. Though I admit it’s hard to believe—seeing just two examples and inferring a sword path that an AI and entire teams agonized over—but if he says that’s what he did, what can we do.”
I didn’t ask you to become his fan.
“So what do we do?”
“What, sir?”
“How long do we have left for the teaser video production?”
“A month.”
“If we start overtime today and push as hard as possible?”
“One week……?”
“So what’s the probability that streamer collects all the Fragments within that time?”
“I can say with certainty, thankfully—100%.”
That’s not thankfully, you idiot.
“Well, we don’t necessarily have to release the teaser video right away anyway.”
“Then the plan falls apart! The whole plan!”
Eve Pymo pressed his temples habitually, searching for a solution to the problem.
They say not everything goes according to plan, but this was truly unexpected.
While it might seem trivial, he didn’t want the next project to derail from the start.
“Oh, by the way, the broadcast is starting. Want to watch together?”
For a moment, Eve Pymo nearly threw the stack of documents on his desk, but instead spoke politely.
“Get out! And stop watching streams during work hours!”
“Yes, sir!”
“Sigh…….”
None of this would have happened if they hadn’t created the Fragments in the first place.
If no one had suggested that for the players pursuing Rampage, allocating at least one Easter Egg to Rampage-related content would be good.
Come to think of it, the person who made that suggestion was Kim Yun-chan too, wasn’t it?
Eve Pymo, frustrated, kept rewatching Seo Jun’s footage.
How on earth did he figure it out?
He messaged Kim Yun-chan through the internal messenger and received another video.
One showing Richard Neville’s Heavy Armor being neutralized in a single strike.
‘He defeated a Ruler without even having Weakness Detection?’
This is…….
Beautiful.
A feast for the eyes, you might say.
More footage featuring Seo Jun rolled in afterward.
Especially when finding Drake’s location, Eve Pymo couldn’t wipe the satisfied smile from his face.
The route Seo Jun had found was one of Eve Pymo’s own ideas.
‘So that’s how it gets discovered.’
There’s a sense of accomplishment in it.
In seeing players enjoy the game they’d poured their souls into—in their own way.
And the moment where they think, ‘Oh, that works too?’
The surprise on the user’s face.
It was everything they’d hoped for when building the Open World.
Eve Pymo watched the footage several times more in amazement, then quietly hit the follow button.

* * *

“Hello, everyone.”
Seo Jun waved lightly in greeting.

-Seo Jun
-Seo Jun
-Why’s the stream title like this?
-Seo Jun!

[1,700 Viewers]

The chat scrolled rapidly upward.
At nearly 2,000 viewers, the engagement was certainly on a different level.
He’d heard his chat was already bustling compared to viewer count, but this was something else.
With the surge in viewers, the chat speed had accelerated exponentially.
So.
“Now, Joseon’s Assassin, Dae Bang-eo, and Patient on White Horse—you’re all here, right?”
At his words, moderator badges appeared next to those usernames in chat.

-Yes!
-Yes. I’ll do my best.
-Leave it to me. I’m Jo Am, owner of 25 million points, and I’ll manage carefully.
-The moderator names are all bad guys lol
-How are the mod names Extortioner, Patient, and Assassin ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

They’d been watching since day one.
Looking back through chat history, they’d never caused problems and had faithfully enjoyed every broadcast, so Seo Jun had asked them to moderate, and they’d eagerly accepted.
For reference, Brick Extortion King hadn’t responded yet.
“These folks will be managing chat going forward, filtering out any messages that break our guidelines. Thank you so much.”
Meanwhile, Joseon’s Assassin used points to add special effects to their message.
So this is what wealth looks like.
“And since we have chat rules now, please give them a quick read.”

-I’m jealous of the mods.
-I want a badge too.
-I want to carry a sword.
-! Rules
-! Rules
-! Rules

Messages appeared asking to see the rules.

1. Please keep chat focused on the broadcast.
2. If you see something bothersome, don’t start fights in chat—send the mods a whisper.
3. You know what’s not allowed, right?

Chat rules on Travel varied by streamer with no standardized format.
Some laid down strict guidelines; others just wrote “Use formal speech, please.”
Some included warm greetings and well-wishes for a fun time watching.
Seo Jun’s rules, by contrast, were concise.
He preferred a free and open atmosphere for conversation.

-Summary: Just be cool
-Understood
-What exactly is not allowed?

“What’s not allowed? You know roughly already. Honestly, unless it’s seriously over the line, you won’t even get a warning.”
He’d already worked it out with the mods.

-Real recognize real
-If you write it out too explicitly, people always find loopholes, then act shocked when they get banned even though they technically followed the rules

[‘ㅇㅇ’ donated 10,000 Won!]
[Won’t you recruit a broadcast settings helper?]

If they’d just typed it, he’d have scrolled past. But donations demand acknowledgment.
“……Thanks. I’m not recruiting for that.”
Having someone help with broadcast settings would be nice, but the phrase “settings helper” in the message felt suspicious.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s gritting his teeth ㅋㅋ
-That’s delightful.
-World’s first tech-inept streamer. But the skill level is insane.
-So what’s today’s title anyway?
-We’re doing Dawn of Assassins again today, right?
-Do normal assassinations too.
-Let’s go Rampage!
-Show more Weakness Detection. I want to learn the skill too.

The chat was still chaotic since they hadn’t properly started.
Seo Jun began building momentum to move things forward.
“Oh, the title? Well, I’ve noticed quite a few people expressing doubt about how I found the grain. I think I should take responsibility for not explaining properly, so I’m sorry.”

-Doesn’t look sorry at all.
-Come on. At least bow ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“But I’m not hacking. And I’m not a game developer.”

-Why are people even saying hacking.
-Actually uses hacking (lol)
-But would anyone seriously believe a college student is a Moobie Soft developer?
-So how did you really find the grain? Curious

Seo Jun nodded along with the chat, as if in agreement.
“To get straight to it—the grain pattern I figured out involved multiple trajectories connecting the parts that wear the most when using the equipment, arranged in a way that’s easy to cut through.”
While it diverges from real-world weak points, the developer’s logic matched my hypothesis, and it proved correct.

-??? Still don’t understand
-Are you a blacksmith? How’d you figure that out?
-How smart are you ㄷㄷ

“Anyway, I was planning to prove this properly today, but now that I already have Weakness Detection and people will just say I hacked the Capsule no matter what I do, there’s no point, right?”

[‘Travel Scholar’ donated 10,000 Won!]
[The hacking allegations are the ancient tradition of this channel.]

-That’s true lol
-When you’re so skilled, people suspect you
-Ancient tradition (day 4 of streaming)

He thanked the donor and pressed on.
“So I reported it.”
Seo Jun’s expression turned serious.

-?????
-Reported what?
-What’re you reporting suddenly.

“Myself.”
Seo Jun pulled up the inquiry window he’d prepared—a message to the developer of Dawn of Assassins.

[Hacking Report] [I think I might be hacking without realizing it. Could you check?]

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Is he crazy?
-So that’s the self-report ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Ah ㅋㅋ The developer proves it for you!

“Well, explanation done. Let’s jump into the game.”
Seo Jun shed the seriousness like it never existed, stretching with innocent ease.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That the attitude of someone doing an apology broadcast?
-He’s calmly insane
-Broadcasting genius ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“So today’s broadcast is……. Let me see, a mission just came in? Developer of Dawn of Assassins, thank you.”
Seo Jun deftly adjusted his stream settings and accepted the mission.
A window appeared in the upper left of the broadcast screen.

[Clear the Magic Tower Master without using Weakness Detection — Mission Reward: 1,000,000 Won]

Bounty missions like this could be claimed upon completion.

-Wow a million won ㄷㄷ
-ㅗㅜㅑ
-But does the Magic Tower Master have anything to break? They don’t even have gear
-Aren’t we talking about spells?
-So spells can break too? If you know this, are you really the developer? Maybe?

The bounty was substantial for a first mission.
He’d been planning to visit the Magic Tower anyway.
“Really, are you actually the developer?”

-There’s no way he actually is
-Streamer, why so naïve ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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