Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 226

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Chapter 226

“All right then. I’ve got myself a secretary now. Shall we give it a shot?”
Seo Jun turned his gaze from the chat window on his right to face forward.
And he examined the massive stone statue before him.
Its face was covered by a helmet.
The colossal medieval knight statue, nearly three meters tall, gripped a spear and shield as weapons.
“Does it start automatically once I get close?”
Since it was a tutorial, there shouldn’t be anything too complicated.
As he was about to move forward with that thought, a message from the still-open chat room stopped him.

-Hold on!

“Mart Sisik Corner Survives on Advertising? What’s up?”

-You’re gonna bet all alone? lol
-Trying to get a free ride?
-If you lose, you gotta put something up too
-I’ve got character deletion on the line, so something equivalent to that

“Fair point. Though I’m going to win anyway, so it doesn’t really matter, does it?”
Seo Jun made his voice as annoying as possible on purpose.
His face wouldn’t show anyway, so he might as well get under their skin with his voice.

-Ugh lol stop the noise and hurry up and bet something
-Fellow Raven users, I’m gonna take this guy down and bring peace back to Raven, so just trust me
-So what are you betting?

“Ha ha. How about I use the ad money to buy some Raven Goods and hand them out to users?”

-That’s actually pretty good lol
-Yeah lol that works
-But how much did you get paid for ads?

“The amount’s confidential. If I lose, I’ll cough it up. So should we actually start now?”
Seo Jun confirmed the agreement in the chat and took one last look at the messages.
Character deletion vs. ad money?
The reaction seemed fair enough.
Actually, many people were aware that Seo Jun had put up the larger bet.

-Isn’t the amount pretty big though?
-Easily tens of thousands, I’d bet. The room owner’s betting several maxed characters
-But that’s Parrying right? Super easy?
-Deflect is a bit different from Counter though
-So five Judgment Swords is doable?
-lol straight up
-What even is that Judgment Sword, you weirdos lol nevermind, just hook me up with one good, room owner
-Deflect is like lol doing it even once makes you the star of that raid, rookies

After gauging the public sentiment well enough, Seo Jun walked toward the center of the room, which reeked of an abandoned shrine.
As he approached the stone knight, it seemed like he was about to start a conversation with an NPC, just like before.
Except this time, it wasn’t an NPC—it was a system message that appeared.

[Adventurer’s Shrine]

“Oh. That’s it then?”
It wasn’t.

[So you really came? Welcome! Learn the basics of adventuring here in this shrine! I’m actually the owner of this place!]

Along with a voice, the NPC’s dialogue appeared.
“Is that the same NPC from before? What a personality.”

-lol for real
-“So you really came” <–that's the funny part
-You literally told him to come! lol

Seo Jun listened to the explanation that followed.

[First, let me teach you the most basic skill for adventurers! Want to try saying "Skill Menu"?]

And simultaneously, a new system window appeared next to the map.

[Adventurer's Shrine]
[Skills]

"If I follow the sequence, Counter and Deflect should show up next, right? Sisik Corner?"

-Yep, hurry up
-But calling yourself Sisik Corner is kinda annoying lol
-Say your full name

"I don't feel like it. Now, skill menu."
Seo Jun opened the skill menu.
He hadn't advanced his job yet, but there were skills in the menu. Basic shared skills for adventurers perhaps?
"Slash? Double Slash? Triple Slash?"
The skill names were pretty awful.
"Is this right?"
Seo Jun asked Sisik Corner again.
For some reason, talking with this viewer was fun.

-You haven't advanced your job, dumbass lol
-Have a drink~
-lol but it suits you
-They disappear when you job advance

Look at that.
Seo Jun was putting on quite a show to entertain this person.
"Got it. So then……"

[Skills activate when you act according to what's written in your skill menu! When you activate a skill, you get bonus damage and additional effects! Want to try?]

Rather than answering, Seo Jun read the description for the topmost skill, Slash.
"Swing a sword? That's it?"
Just swing it and it works?
Seo Jun unsheathed the sword hanging from his back and swung it with both hands.
Whoosh!
The moment he swung the blade.
A very simple effect appeared—light traced along the sword's edge, drawing an arc, and vanished.

-That's Slash. The sign that the skill activated
-Wait, did the skill activate? I didn't think you could even swing like that
-lol wtf

"So this is Double Slash?"
He hadn't read the skill description yet, but somehow he knew—if he swung from left to right.
And then back from right to left, once each.
The skill would activate.
"Huh."
And when he did the second slash, the attack speed increased.
A normal back-and-forth swing would take twice as long, but with the increased attack speed, it only took about one and a half times as long.
"The effects are equally lackluster."

-Newbie getting impressed by newbie skills lol
-Once he jobs advance and gets a new class, his mind's gonna blow
-But before that he's gonna get demolished and cough up the ad money lol

Sisik Corner was consistent.
"Since I've used the skill, let's move to the next step."
Seo Jun noticed that the second window in the system box that appeared earlier had opened, and he clicked on it.

[Movement]

It activates on demand and has a cooldown, apparently.
"And since I haven't advanced my job yet, I can only use Acceleration. Other classes can probably do things like leap far with their weapons or teleport instantly, right? Got it."
The next window opened.

[Combat]

[Adventurers across the continent face many……]

The NPC gave a pretty generic explanation about how players would spend a lot of time fighting monsters in the game.

[So let's try fighting!]

And suddenly they were fighting.
The stone knight statue in the center began to move.
Three meters tall.
The massive stone figure with a long spear and a large circular shield suited to its size approached Seo Jun.
Its movements weren't frantic.
"So we're fighting right away? Sisik Corner?"
Seo Jun called that name again. Sisik Corner.

-Would you not fight then? lol
-Ah lol
-Hurry, show us
-Just kidding, the enemy's HP doesn't decrease anyway, so you gotta die first to progress. Just die for now

This kind of thing always got him fired up.
"Is there seriously no way to kill that statue? No possibility at all? Veterans, tell me."
According to what he found out through the main chat, it was completely impossible.
Even if he were as skilled as Shin Ha-yeon, there was simply no way to deal damage—it wasn't about being good enough.
Seo Jun was baffled.
"Did the game company really make the game this lazily?"
The viewers were equally baffled.
Though not at the game company.

-Lazy? Nah room owner lol
-Just skip it instead of fighting, so what's lazy about that? lol
-Beat up Ethor! Destroy Ethor!
-But Ethor at least takes damage, right? This thing doesn't
-Yep no damage

This is the third part of the Adventurer's Shrine tutorial—combat.
By "later" the chat probably meant the next stages.
He was curious if they'd show him some system mechanic to deal with that boss eventually.
Before he knew it, the statue had closed the distance and thrust its spear at close range.
Whoosh!
Seo Jun sidestepped the massive spear to the right.
Then a shield the size of a small child came crashing down on him without pause.
Of course, Seo Jun easily slipped to the side again. He was already reading the next attack from his movements.
The only unexpected thing was.
"The difficulty's pretty high for a tutorial, isn't it?"

-It was designed to make you die, room owner lol
-By the way, getting hit even once kills you

I see.
"But what exactly are the conditions for a Counter, Sisik Corner? Explain please."
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
The spear thrust forward in rapid succession.
This seemed to be its basic attack.
Would the special pattern they call "gimmicks" show up later?
While Seo Jun easily dodged the spear and shield, Sisik Corner began the explanation.

-You dodge pretty well, you definitely got some skill lol
-Counter is using a specific skill (Slash can Counter) to perfectly deflect the boss's basic attack
-The angle's usually perpendicular to the center of the enemy's weapon—the angle that receives the attack most completely
-You can Counter right now
-Deflect isn't possible

Counter seemed somewhat similar to Parrying.
"Got it. Let me try."
Seo Jun narrowed his vision to the stone statue alone to perform a Counter.
In that moment, both Sisik Corner's chat and the main chat disappeared from his awareness.
There was only one reason for this level of focus.
The difficulty was much higher than he'd expected.
Even Parrying was hard.
'Deflect must be even harder. But it seems possible—so why do they say it's impossible?'
That question remained, but for now he concentrated on the Counter.
The spear came thrusting at him from all angles.
And whenever he dodged near the shield, an attack with the shield would inevitably come.
The pattern was clear now.
Whoosh!
Just as the pointed spear tip aimed for his heart again.
Seo Jun swung his sword from above downward, perpendicular to the ground.
His most confident blade stroke.
And when Seo Jun was confident, it meant he could control every movement of his body and the resulting trajectory of his blade.
The Slash skill activated. From the side, the effect would draw a circular arc.
And when that arc was halfway through, the blade in Seo Jun's hand met the tip of the spear precisely overhead, perpendicular to it.
Vertically.
Crack!
With a sound that didn't seem like metal striking stone, the statue staggered backward.
"Huh. So that's Counter."
Incredibly difficult.
No wonder they called it the crown jewel of raids.
Does every other raid have this level of difficulty too?

-???
-Wait???

Suddenly Sisik Corner started spamming question marks.

What?
Why had they stopped bantering?
Seo Jun moved on despite the disappointment.
"What do you mean? Counter?"

-Yeah
-But it was the spear, right?
-I mean what the heck
-…wait what

"I still don't get what you're saying. Anyone else care to explain?"
Seo Jun turned his gaze to the main chat.
The existing viewers were posting confused messages too, but the veteran viewers were reacting like Sisik Corner, and some were offering explanations, so Seo Jun grasped the situation and laughed.

-lolol is this guy screwed?
-You countered the spear tip just now, right? Was that even possible???
-For the rookies: when Sisik Corner said Counter is possible now, he meant countering the shield lol so how did you counter the spear tip lololol
-Sisik Corner's probably shaking right now lol
-This streamer's on a whole different level of skill? Wtf lol

So the difficulty wasn't abnormally high—other raids probably weren't like this.
Come to think of it.
The difficulty of performing a Counter could vary wildly depending on the weapon type and attack method. A thrusting spear was definitely on the higher end.
Anyway.
"So you're asking how I countered the spear then?"

-Yeah that's it
-How do you counter a spear like what the
-Bug? What……
-Does he actually have the skill? No one's ever done this before
-No seriously how did you do that?

Seo Jun smiled and swung his sword downward again.

['Geomsin1' has repelled the Ancient Statue!]

And with that, he let slip a single word.
He believed one word would be explanation enough.
"Skill?"
Parrying.
Well.
He'd shown this level of thing plenty already.
Right?

-lolol
-Ah lol
-That's the room owner for you lol
-He makes it look so natural and easy, you don't even realize how hard it is. His skill is literally another dimension lol
-Seriously let's go make some money at Sisik Corner this guy lol

The existing viewers seemed to agree.

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