Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 231

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Chapter 231

Thunder Bear Tago.
A boss and raid target with fast-paced combat as its baseline difficulty, requiring players to disable its gimmick to slow it down for clear attempts.
The gimmick and its disabling are orthodox, and clearing Tago solo grants a badge because the difficulty becomes moderately challenging once the gimmick is removed.
The boss’s front paw came down.
And the moment it began to move with subtle shifts, Seo Jun understood.
‘It’s fast.’
Incomparable to the Stone Statue.
In absolute terms, the difference between the two might not be great, but from Seo Jun’s perspective, it was considerable.
Of course, it was still slower than him.
Exactly as the Mart Tasting Corner had described it.
‘Surprisingly precise in hitting the essential points.’
Thunder Bear Tago’s attack speed was slightly slower than players.
This could mean basic attacks are difficult to evade.
But the point the Mart Tasting Corner wanted to emphasize was that Parrying is difficult.
The faster a projectile’s speed, the narrower the precise timing window for a successful Parry becomes.
And eventually, if the opponent’s attack speed exceeds the swing speed?
Parrying would become completely impossible.
But.
Ultimately, it’s all about timing.
If your body knows that moment, that rhythm, your hands can catch it without difficulty.
That being so.
As the front paw came down, Seo Jun’s blade, stepping back slightly in sync, descended simultaneously.
The Slash activated.
Two weapons met at Seo Jun’s shoulder height—
His blade perpendicular to his body, parallel to the ground, and perpendicular to the front paw.
The collision was inevitable.
Even if the timing window was narrow as a thread, even if seasoned veterans who had refined their senses somewhat had to rely on luck, attempting multiple times to barely get it right—
For Seo Jun, it was still easier than he expected, though still requiring thought.
Crash!

[‘Geomsin1’ has stunned Thunder Bear Tago!]

“Huh…?”
Seo Jun drove his massive front paw into the ground and turned back to look at the stunned Thunder Bear Tago.
“What’s wrong?”
He smiled as he asked.
“No, this? In one try…? Is that even possible?”
“The system message appears for those who struggle to understand. What’s there to question about?”
“That’s not what I meant……”
“You all saw it differently, didn’t you? How I did it? This much is easy.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I saw it clearly
-Aah… The guild master’s Parry? I saw it well
-Fact: I only watched
-I really only watched ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-All viewers are now amateurs ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Compared to the guild master, we are amateurs ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[MartTastingCornerSurvives: Whoa! No way!!!!!!! Parrying against Tago in full buff form—even skilled players trying their best don’t exceed a 20% success rate ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ How is this even possible!]

-So it really is you ㅋㅋ It really is the guild master, Tasting Corner
-That looks pretty difficult though
-Let’s go try it too!

[MartTastingCornerSurvives: Try one more time]

“One more time? Geez, how much more proof do I have to give, everyone?”
Seo Jun complained in a lighthearted tone and turned back to face Tago again.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-You’re destined for this
-Then please at least be reasonable about it!!
-Honestly, this is the guild master’s fault
-Before the 5-man raid, even Penguin lost and said ㅇㅈㄹ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Right on timing, Thunder Bear Tago recovered and rose up on its hind legs.
This time, a scratch attack.
Its right front paw—from Seo Jun’s perspective, coming from left to right.
The moment it was targeted, Seo Jun spun his body full circle to the right while simultaneously moving backward.
And his blade, moving with his body, struck the front paw once more with perfect precision.

[‘Geomsin1’ has stunned Thunder Bear Tago!]

-Whoa!
-Now he’s even showing us a circus act ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-That bastard spun deliberately
-Why?
-Just to show how relaxed he is

[MartTastingCornerSurvives: Wow… No, Parrying appearing even once in a raid is fine… But… Wow……]

“For real?”

[MartTastingCornerSurvives: If not, would it be different?]

“Hm… So that’s about it?”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ So that’s about it?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That’s usually the banter where viewers scratch at streamers, but why are we being scratched?
-Actually, newbies who haven’t done Last Chronicle don’t get scratched by it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s the existing users watching the broadcast who’d definitely get scratched ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I got scratched ㅋㅋ My dream is to do one Parry and become the raid hero…

Watching the chat and reactions, Seo Jun realized that Parrying held far greater importance than he’d thought.
‘Was it really that important?’
He’d said it earlier as a joke, after all.

[MartTastingCornerSurvives: Wow, you. I finally get it. You really are amazing……]
[MartTastingCornerSurvives: Now I understand……]

There it is.
Once he showed the real thing in action, the internet expert switched to formal speech.
“But what does the Parry effect do besides causing the stun?”
“Pardon? Why do you ask?”
“I realized I never heard an explanation of the effect.”
“Ah, the tutorial… Oh right. You skipped it.”
“Yes.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It was unintentional
-Damn tutorial skip!

“The reason people cheer when a Parry happens in a raid is entirely because of the stun state.”
“What exactly is a stun?”
“First of all, it’s Free Damage Time.”
“Yes.”
It meant a window where damage could be dealt freely.
“And additional damage is added. Thirty percent. It varies by raid, but usually if you land a counter three to five times or successfully Parry once, you enter an invulnerable state and get your damage window.”
“I see.”
“So someone who can freely Parry successfully whenever you want… you’re really……”
“Really what?”
As he spoke, Seo Jun continued landing perfect Parries.
His success rate was one hundred percent.
“Wow… If you just picked a proper class, everyone would really want to recruit you……”
Watching him, the Mart Tasting Corner felt a sense of regret.
A gamer’s desire to see a player of celestial-realm skill perform amazingly with a proper profession kindled within him.
Seo Jun was far more remarkable than he’d initially thought.
“What’s wrong with being a beginner?”
He was remarkable in another sense too.
“Hah… But won’t there be a damage shortage?”
“We can verify that now. Start the timer. If the gimmick can be cleared regardless of speed, there’s no need to execute it, is there?”
“True.”
Since he hadn’t dealt proper damage yet, the measurement would be quite accurate.
The Mart Tasting Corner watched as Seo Jun, after each Parry, alternated between the remaining 2-stage Slash, 3-stage Slash, and Thrust (a basic skill) attacks.
‘As expected.’
Clean.
And.
Eight minutes and ten seconds after starting the timer, Seo Jun was able to defeat Tago.
“How’s this?”
“The worst class, the Gunner, with only the skip token gets an 8-minute clear, so……”
For reference, the boss’s health is fixed regardless of party size.
“Still looks weak though.”
“But it’s doable, right?”
At that moment, he despaired.
This would never convince him.
“You’re right… So just stay Beginner. Or don’t you want to be number one in raid damage?”
“With a proper class, I’m guaranteed to be first. Isn’t being first as a Beginner what makes the game fun?”
“I see.”
The Mart Tasting Corner gave up thinking any further.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Right
-Easy first place isn’t fun, right
-But first place as a Beginner is probably impossible ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Raids are team fights, and if the guild master Parries, everyone gets Free Damage Time anyway
-ㅇㅇ Right
-If the guild master had been a Gunner continuously Parrying and took down Tago, it would’ve been a 6-minute clear. The difference is bigger than expected
-But anyway he’s doing his part ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Yeah… At least that way balance works out

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After exiting the raid, Seo Jun ignored Dang So’s complaint about why he was abandoned for streaming and not waited for, and created a guild.
The guild name was Geomsin Guild.
More precisely, one of the viewers had reserved the name and then transferred the guild master position to Seo Jun.
Then, taking as many people as possible in first-come-first-serve order who had the “Geomsin” nickname—
“If there’s any talk or trouble, immediate expulsion.”
He told the guild members to level up the guild on their own, then ended the broadcast.
He announced in advance that tomorrow he’d be doing the flower of RPGs: equipment enhancement.
In response, his secretary said she’d plan out what to do.
Dang So stayed behind grumbling and continued enjoying the game.
The guild members who had joined Geomsin Guild started opening chat rooms among themselves to discuss how to level the guild as quickly as possible.
And after that, over seventy thousand people who had watched the broadcast began launching Last Chronicle one by one.

[ㅋㅋㅋㅋ So Parrying looks kind of doable?]
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I’m a Last Chronicle newbie with pretty decent Parrying.
At this level, even if I don’t get 100% Parry success, I should be able to skip the tutorial
==

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-From what I can tell, you probably won’t skip and will end up as a tutorial model student
└Learning everything properly according to the developer’s intent
└Can confirm (OP)
└30 minutes have passed. When’s the confirmation coming?
└(OP)
└1 hour has passed. When’s the confirmation coming?
└(OP)
-Honestly man. You can’t Parry, right?
└No wait, on that sword at that slightly protruding part, hitting it precisely is harder than I imagined. My Parrying’s really good (OP)
└Even if you get the timing down to hit it a few times out of many tries, the angle difficulty is ridiculous (OP)
└For real? I should go try it once

[Real veteran from Last Chronicle beta days. Tutorial room skip difficulty is seriously as hard as full-buff Tago]
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It’s beyond imagination.
I saw it on stream and thought, well, might as well get the title, and I struggled.
If Tago is timing, this is angle.
The two difficulties are similar.
^^ But what’s up with that streamer? Never fails, keeps succeeding?
Makes it look so easy ㅋㅋㅋ
==

-For real ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Looks so damn easy
-I heard they were a pro from another game, so I thought they were just pretty decent, but it’s beyond imagination
-I’m a Mage and I wish we had someone like that in our raid group ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The topic most Raven users were discussing was Parrying.
Just as Seo Jun had failed to notice that Parrying had far greater status than he’d thought,
Most veteran players, like the Mart Tasting Corner, hadn’t noticed that Seo Jun was more exceptional than they’d realized.
But as people tried the tutorial skip again themselves and saw what Seo Jun demonstrated on Tago, they gradually came to understand the situation.

[Let me sum up the current situation]
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Newbies: Marveling at how much harder Parrying is than expected
Veterans: wtf is that monster?
==

-Lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-That’s right
-I’m genuinely terrified

[Perfect Clear’s definitely gonna get stolen ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
==
If the Four Kings have Parrying, it’s definitely going to happen.
The developers better notice and patch it if needed!
==

-Asking for a fix now ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-But he’s a Beginner?
└Even as a Beginner, if he Parries that much, we’ve confirmed damage output is still decent, last place but something. And in raids, thinking of other classes getting Free Damage during stuns, isn’t he basically the strongest?
└Hm… Is that so?
-But there are gimmicks and stuff, so the Four Kings with Parrying probably won’t be in invulnerable state for 80% of the raid duration, right?
└Even accounting for that, two stuns should be enough to do more than his share ㅋㅋ
└And if he reaches Max Level it’s definitely possible to do more than his share ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Beginner <– broken class]
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Critical hit rate synergy? Damage boost synergy?
This is constant stun synergy.
This doesn't make sense.
Devs not balancing?
==

Synergy refers to buffs that can be applied to party members as well.
Usually it's a temporary 5 to 10 percent boost to party members' damage, but the stun is 30 percent and can be constant.
This was the source of the greatest alarm among veteran players.

-ㄷㄷㄷ So with Beginner you get stun synergy ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ
└Ah ㅋㅋ Starting today, if a Beginner applies for my party, I'm taking them for sure ㅋㅋㅋ Beginner synergy is a broken class!!!!!!
└Me too ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[The team that deals with gimmicks first is the one that gets Perfect Clear]
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This is absolute.
But if damage is high, and if you can skip basic patterns,
You can attempt gimmicks more frequently in a short timeframe.
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Of course, even those who felt a sense of crisis still had dissenting opinions.

[You absolutely have to bring him to the raid group. Really absolutely.]

-There's no way he plays perfectly every time. No way it's easy for him either ㅋㅋ
└For real ㅋㅋ
-It could take 3, 4 days to Perfect Clear. It's just a concentration battle
└No way he's got good concentration too ㅋㅋ
└For real ㅋㅋ
-Besides, the time he can actually spend stunning in a raid might not be that much, so it's not necessarily guaranteed
└I still think if he can do it, you absolutely need to bring him in
└But he's a streamer? How are you going to bring him?
└At this point I'm gonna draw aggro to join that raid group…

Regardless, Seo Jun had shown enough gameplay to draw the aggro he'd pulled from the viewers.
The discussion naturally shifted to tomorrow's broadcast, and the level of interest in Seo Jun was sustained.

[Will that guy try to reach Max Level? He's probably got money.]
==
While it's rare among streamers to find someone who isn't a sucker for reasonable spending, they do exist,
==

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Most are suckers ㅋㅋㅋ
-Spending money is basically content itself ㅋㅋㅋ
-Please have bad luck please
└Enhancement fails and ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ gets frustrated and rage quits! That works!

* * *

And.
A message appeared in the Solain Guild monsters' group chat.

-Should we gather users who have Luna-on characters?

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