Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 247

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Chapter 247

[The first reward is a Title. It’s only natural, right? We’ll bestow a Title befitting the pioneers.]

-Whoa!
-Yeah. In RPGs, there’s nowhere that Titles matter more ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It’s a one-of-a-kind Title, stuff like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[The second reward is a Raid Statue that can be placed in the Guild Hall. Among guild members, some already have Statues, but I don’t think there’s a Guild Master who would refuse to display one in their Guild.]

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ For real
-With just one Statue like that, a Guild’s prestige goes up!
-Guild member… please don’t leave us
-But what if the Guild Master achieved a Perfect Clear?
-What if there were 8 Statues?

The director in the video laughed, and Poppie’s Dad beside him added something.
“Hmm, if you get something like that, you might not be able to come back to your blood oath guild.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ If Poppie’s Dad succeeds, he’d be one of less than 10 Perfect Clear raid members here! But there, he’d just be the Lord of the Server. Wait, why does the Lord of the Server look cooler?
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Honestly, the Server King boss is just more awesome ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Anyway, these are insane rewards

[The third reward is, yes. It’s the last one, but also legendary. The third reward is a Skin Avatar!]

A Skin Avatar simply means clothing.
But what kind of Skin Avatar would they call it legendary?

[We’ll create a custom Avatar that only the raid members who actually achieved the Perfect Clear can use. We’ll invite the game company and actively reflect your preferences.]

Oh?
That’s actually impressive.
Usually, when you create an Avatar, you can sell it and make a lot of profit, but using that resources exclusively for one party means they’re being treated that specially.

[Don’t you think that kind of special treatment is necessary?]

-Whoa!
-You can wear a custom Avatar in the game and keep wearing it? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-A land of magnificent beauty! A land of magnificent beauty! A land of magnificent beauty! A land of magnificent beauty!
-That’s-a-amazing!
-This is worth acknowledging!

[Haha. Well then, let’s wrap up the rewards talk and now discuss the detailed information about the raid. First of all, many of you predicted 8 players, but the actual raid composition is 3 players per party, two parties for 6 players total. Yes, I apologize that it’s not the standard format.]

-So that’s why the Director told us not to pre-form parties at the Showcase ㅋㅋ
-The director definitely told us beforehand there was a high chance it wouldn’t be 8
-Anyway I already arranged 8 people, what do I do? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-They’re doing this to save on Avatar production for 2 extra people!
-That’s gotta be it

[Then I think that’s all the information I can share. To be clear, the difficulty is genuinely extreme.]

The video ended.
It had been quite impressive.
They’d thrown out the necessary information while hyping players up with rewards.
It seemed like they’d been laying out the context for various circumstances ahead of time so people would accept it.
‘I didn’t watch the Showcase.’
They called it the Showcase that changed the game’s fate.
But anyway.
Poppie’s Dad spoke up.
“Hmm, this is a bit of a problem?”
It was probably about the raid composition, but despite his words, he didn’t actually look troubled.
Seo Jun sensed why.
Poppie’s Dad cast a subtle glance his way.
A side-eye.
Another side-eye.
“Hehehehe, so Dohwang, if our raid composition becomes like this, we’d have to rebuild the entire party from scratch, wouldn’t we?”
He casually sounded him out while watching Seo Jun from the corner of his eye.
“Huh? Brother. Um… is that so?”
“Hehehehe, but how did you arrange your party members, Geomsin?”
There it is.
He acted exactly as expected.
Right now, Poppie’s Dad was fishing to see if he could join Seo Jun’s raid party.
Even prepared to abandon his existing party.
‘Since he’s a Guild Master, abandoning it wouldn’t be a big deal anyway. And they probably just roughed out a composition, but it seems they were planning to finalize it properly starting today when they got the information.’
Seo Jun started counting his members.
They hadn’t actively recruited yet, but he already had a rough idea of who would join.
Seo Jun, Tae-woo, Dang So, Taste Test Corner.
Two slots remained.
“These people seem like they’ll stick with me. Right? You’re not thinking of dropping anyone?”
“Of course not!”
Obviously he wouldn’t drop Dang So.

[Taste Test Corner: Oh, so you’re really taking me?]
[Taste Test Corner: Sageking team got buried just right ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

Speaking through chat, he sounded full of confidence.
What about Tae-woo?
“Um…”
“What?”
“If the difficulty is way harder than expected, it could take days, right?”
“Yeah, probably.”
“Hmm.”
Tae-woo was hesitating.
The Director outright said it was a legendary difficulty. Looking at the rewards, there’s a 100% chance the clear itself will be brutal.
Honestly, Tae-woo was confident in his skill, but he was skeptical about whether he could aim for a Perfect Clear.
If that’s the case, he’d definitely cause retries due to his mistakes, the public opinion would turn sour, and if they failed… it would inevitably become a hassle.
Just as Tae-woo was putting off his answer because things were getting realistically annoying.
Seo Jun smirked and said.
“Hey. Don’t worry. I’ll bus you through.”
Tae-woo’s hesitation evaporated.
“Then let’s do it.”
He’s a beginner or whatever—but if that bastard Seo Jun is bussing him through, why worry at all?
It was a sentence that flashed through Tae-woo’s mind in just 0.1 seconds.
“Alright.”
“Hehehehe. So that’s four people. Where will you fill the last two slots?”
His intentions were totally transparent.
Hehehehe.
Seo Jun showed mercy to his junior.
The way he spoke in respectful dialect to his senior and all that.
“Would you like to do it together?”
“Oh! Hehehehe. If we divided our Guild members by 6……”
Even though it wouldn’t divide evenly, he was going to do it anyway.
“But! You should know that going with me first will have some disadvantages.”
“Oh? What kind?”
“I’m a streamer, so I’ll broadcast the raid, and if that happens, inevitably, as the Monster mentioned earlier, other people can gain advantages.”
They won’t gain anything, but what about general players?
From his broadcast and from competitors, they can pick up everything from small tips to gimmick solutions.
Especially for the gimmicks in the latter half of the raid—to get familiar with a gimmick and find its solution, you have to clear all the preceding gimmicks first.
But on the first attempt, since they haven’t mastered the earlier gimmicks either, reaching the late-stage gimmick to even research and practice it isn’t easy.
But if they can obtain information about where another team progressed in the raid?
The reduction in learning curve that results is much larger than expected.
“Would you still be fine with that, Poppie’s Dad?”
He wouldn’t be ignorant of this.
And Poppie’s Dad answered with a smile.
“Of course something like that wouldn’t bother me.”
“I see. So you’ll do it?”
“I’ll do it! No, ahem. Well, first I should ask the Guild members’ opinion……”
“If you don’t do it, Poppie’s Dad, what about these two next to you…?”
“Wait! I’ve decided I’ll do it. I’m the Guild Master anyway—what does it matter if a couple people are missing?”
Of course.
“Wow, brother.”
“Are we really being ditched?”
“No, I just think doing it with this young man will be more fun.”
“I see.”
“Well then, one last slot to fill. Since Dang So and the Taste Test Corner guy are supporting, I just need to bring one dealer.”
Dang So is a Mage, Taste Test Corner is a Mechanic.
Both said they’d take a support build cut if there was a shortage, so anyone would’ve been fine really.
“Ha! When did I ever say I’d support! Get a supporter! I’m a dealer! A dealer no matter what!”
It really didn’t matter.
“Miion?”
“Oh, I can’t abandon the other Guild members.”
“You’re ignoring me!”
She was ignoring him—correctly so.
Huk-wol Geomje and Pa-cheon Dohwang shook their heads.
Hmm.
“Who should it be? We need someone really skilled.”

-Take me!
-Pick one from the Geomsin crew ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What about that guy? That 119 guy was good

“The Geomsin 119 that someone recommended in chat as being skilled? Could that be you, 119?”
Seo Jun scanned the chat.
That same person posted again.

-No ㅋㅋ

Shield Timing wasn’t something they handled carelessly.
Seo Jun could remember most fights.
So the Geomsin 119 he remembered today was indeed a skilled player.
“It’s a shame. I’d really pick them if they were actually in our Guild’s 119.”
Then they could be a support too, which would satisfy Dang So’s demands.
Before Seo Jun could finish, the chat came up again.

-Actually I am hehe

“Haha. Prove it then. So you’re someone who’s subtly recommending yourself? Just like Dang So. Just like Tae-woo. And……”
An old man who calls Samoyeds “Samufunds” and someone whose internet and real-life personalities are polar opposites.
“Hmm… I’m the only normal one here?”
Seo Jun lamented.
Anyway, the party was formed like this.

-The real problem is you, you
-When you’re next to the room master, abnormal becomes normal ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-When will this bastard finally gain some self-awareness?
-Really ㅈㄴ brazen ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

* * *

Time passed quickly.
Since 8-player and 4-player raids were normally standard, Seo Jun made his raid party practice with a few extra people as the main content.
During that time, other players each attempted the raid and received support, building up the atmosphere.

[Hello. I’m a Hacco streamer called Noodle Guild! We’re going to try once!]
[Our party is just ordinary office workers, but we’re all trying the challenge by taking days off ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[I’m a bit confident in control? If you become a named figure in history, don’t you have to try once?]
[If you become a famous named entity in an RPG, you can exist forever in many users’ minds. Those of you who still remember the Fallen Powerkings, raise your hands!]

And when 3 days remained, a post went up that further ignited the fervor for the Perfect Clear race.

[Hello, this is Monster.]
==
Now I’m speaking without holding back, you bastards.
We’re gonna grab the Perfect Clear and ruin your whole festival atmosphere so get ready ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
So what, ban my ID Raven or not~
I’m done holding back
==

-This bastard ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ got real ugly
-If you really Perfect Clear after this, I’ll acknowledge it
└Though the community will go crazy
-Just leave ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Honestly at this point I just think Monster<–is some pathetic loser, you know?
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└For real ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Having a breakdown?
-What, you mad?
-Yo why you getting so dark? He's gone full villain ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Just funny
-Monster's true feelings right now (not like this—wish they'd just curse me out!)
-The best way to deal with an aggro monger is to turn them into a laughingstock
└Oh so that's what it was. Knowing that, the room master who turned the Monster—who was causing such a ruckus on the Solar Line server—into a laughingstock in one go really looks impressive now
└Respect! Admiration! Respect!

It seemed like it passed well, but if Monster actually got the Perfect Clear, a real disaster would unfold.
No one wanted it, and no one would celebrate.
The festival could turn into a funeral in an instant.
So people started pouring gold onto Seo Jun's character's sleeves and the entire raid party.
No, they started gifting it.
Begging them to raise their stats somehow.
Just taking their money in the most literal sense.
The most damaged victim of that was Tae-woo.
"Stop sticking to me! With other people's money! Without using your own!"
Seo Jun's luck was just decent.
It was just that Tae-woo's stayed consistently and severely bad.
"Regression to Mean! Why won't Regression to Mean come for me!?"
It was always the same.
And time passed until raid day.
Due to concerns about Seo Jun's bizarre physicality, they'd calibrated all basic speeds to near maximum.
As a result, the raid difficulty became equally bizarre, so forced to raise the rewards and just accepting fate, the developers turned on their streams to watch.
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you, as they say?
That was exactly their situation, and viewer predictions turned out correct.
The room master in the stream the developers were watching was naturally Seo Jun, who'd made the raid bizarre.
"Haha. It's nice that the stream with so many people watching is starting right now. Nice!"
"I feel grateful and sorry toward this streamer."
"Right. But if they gain too much advantage through information leaks and break it way easier than other parties, a lot of people won't accept it……"
Reducing the sections where information leaks were possible, raising the difficulty of leaks themselves to force failure—it was unavoidable for the developers to minimize how unfair the advantage was.
"If we do this and they still break it easily, we'll have to accept it."
"Haha. That'd really be tough, wouldn't it?"
"Anyway, thanks for broadcasting. Now with things like surprise attacks we put at the start of the dungeon, everyone can get startled together at the same time."
"Our light jab before the match, haha. No matter how incredible a player is, they absolutely can't dodge it… Wait? They blocked it? Insane."
"Huh?"
An attack they were certain was impossible to block without prior knowledge.
An attack they'd expected to launch a surprise block challenge later.
When someone blocked it from the start without knowing.
They.
Suppressed the fact that had just occurred to them—that maybe they hadn't truly gazed into the abyss.
The raid had begun.

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