Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 251

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Chapter 251

“Whoa! We cleared it?”
“Nice!”
The final pattern matched Seo Jun’s prediction perfectly, and they succeeded on the second attempt.
They’d gotten lucky.
And thanks to that, they’d reached 0 health.
The moment Dang So’s Meteor came crashing down and the boss’s health ticked away from the 0 line, the screen froze and a cutscene began.
This meant the Raid was cleared.
Unless there was a surprise hidden round waiting to ambush them.
“First-stage Perfect Clear! Now that’s what friendship looks like! That’s friendship!”

-Kyaaa!
-Universe’s first gate clear! Universe’s first gate clear! Universe’s first gate clear!
-Came out way too easy
-lol for real
-That bastard Tae-woo lmaooooooooo how much does he love it lmaooo

In the cutscene, the sword in the center began vibrating violently under relentless Skill strikes.
The tremor was visible to the naked eye.
And then the sword—
Crash!
Shattered into countless fragments with a tremendous boom, scattering in all directions.
Clink-clink-clink.
As the pieces of the sword fell and dust settled, silence descended upon the area.
But soon, a tremendous wave of power centered on the floating ship swept across the entire landscape.
It felt like fury.
Energy began to gather.
Seo Jun watched with keen interest.
The Raid had two phases.
So now it was time for the final boss to appear.
The camera zoomed in on the lower front section of the airship floating in the sky.
The bottom of the airship was splitting open to both sides.
What appeared next was a black Cannon wreathed in crimson aura.
Without warning, the Cannon fired a sphere of red energy, and as the terrifying projectile hurtled toward their field of vision—
A small airship flew in from behind, deploying a Shield to block the energy sphere.

[Hmph.]

A dark voice echoed from above the airship.

[That’s right! Come up here! I’ll judge you personally!]

The large airship’s bottom closed, and the small airship jutting forward landed near them as the cutscene ended.

-We’re gonna ride that thing up!
-Rekt, Dark Knight Pane style
-Let’s clear this in an hour too!
-But this is gonna feel like a letdown lmaooooooooooooooooo

Reading the chat, Seo Jun was certain they wouldn’t pull off a one-hour clear.
‘Now the real thing starts.’
The first phase had definitely been difficult.
Everyone would acknowledge that.
Even without Seo Jun’s party, they’d have cleared it in four to five hours.
‘Now that we’ve shown the patterns first, other parties will clear it in two or three hours.’
But if you asked whether that made it record-breaking difficulty, 99% of users would rightfully say no.
Sure, getting hit hurt and potions were scarce, but once you got used to it, the patterns were dodgeable—and most importantly, the mechanics were simple.
This wasn’t record-breaking or anything like that. It was just easy.
‘More like a taste test?’
So the real thing was only beginning now.
One day.
Two days?
Three?
No matter how long it took, this would be a marathon.
Being happy about getting ahead right now wouldn’t matter much.
“Krahaha, the universe’s first clear! This old man’s heart’s catching fire too!”
“Other parties still haven’t even seen 10 health! Yeah! Now that’s teamwork!”
“Hey Siksik Corner. What are you doing?”
“Look here! Didn’t you see my magnificent Meteor?”
It’d been impressive to watch.
Seo Jun grinned and looked at the window that appeared before them.
It was a window displaying comprehensive statistics—who dealt how much damage, who took how much damage, and much more.
It was common enough; The League showed similar breakdowns after matches.

-Let’s see the damage!
-How much did the guildmaster put in?
-I don’t think he’ll hit 25% anyway
-Even with the evasion stuff

Before showing the full statistics, the Raid’s MVP was announced first.
Along with a photo, they displayed a descriptor for the role played in the Raid.
And the Raid’s MVP was—

[Possessed Acrobat Geomsin 1]

Seo Jun.
“Haha. Possessed again, huh.”
For reference, Seo Jun’s damage output was 17%.
If the four Damage Dealers each did their share, they should be putting in 25%, so Seo Jun was clearly underperforming on damage.

-POSSESSED!!!!
-Acrobat’s the one you get MVP for if you nail Counter or Evasion, but Possessed lmaooo that’s actually amazing
-But he did Evasion 7 times so it’s weird he didn’t get Possessed. You get Acrobat MVP for just 2 lmaooooooooooooooo

“Anyway, the important thing is that I carried us again, right?”
“Fair point.”
Dang So conceded without resistance for once.
Back when they used to do raids together, he’d hate it whenever Seo Jun got MVP with low damage numbers.
“Who else would get it besides you? Thanks to you, the rest of our damage went up, and it only makes sense that the gap opened up between us and you, the newcomer, hahaha.”
He was just excited about landing top damage.
Dang So’s damage was 32%.
Unsurprisingly, he was no slouch as the strongest Meteor Mage when he landed all his skills.
“Of course! Though I also have to give myself credit for dealing good damage too. On the universe’s first clear, at that!”
‘Ah, he’s excited not just about top damage—but about being top damage on the first clear in the universe.’
Seo Jun let it slide.
“Now, we got the first phase first, and we could say we have some breathing room, but there’s still more to go, right?”
“Yes, Seo Jun.”
“That’s right.”
“Yeah, let’s pull off a Perfect Clear just like this!”
“Sounds good.”
Seo Jun nodded and glanced around with a slight smile before heading toward where the airship had landed.
“Let’s go.”

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Once everyone moved closer to the airship, a cutscene played.
They flew high into the sky.
The NPC began their explanation.
They laid out a sense of foreboding about fighting a great evil.
Once up on the enemy’s airship, it was time to clear some adds.
They cleared the adds and moved where the map directed.
The black airship floating in the sky had an unusual design.
First, the hull resembled a normal ship’s form.
But its structure consisted of countless shimmering black crystal-like ore extending outward like icicles.
With gaps here and there, it felt like looking down from a high-rise building with a glass floor.
“How is it even floating in the sky like that?”

-Don’t look for historical accuracy, guildmaster lmaooooooo
-But the atmosphere is insane, right?
-It’s good, dark, lmao feels exactly like the curtained room I’ve lived in for 13 years, so cozy lmao
-lmao

The adds that appeared were Skeleton Soldiers.
They cleared them at a leisurely, normal pace and pressed forward.
“Is the Dark Knight a Death Knight?”
“That’s quite likely.”
Ppoppi’s Dad asked, and Siksik Corner answered.
They didn’t say anything more and continued ahead.
The excitement had faded. Everyone was tense again.
The dark atmosphere probably contributed to that.
Then they saw a central arena-like map and, at a distance, a black-armored knight sitting on a chair made of skulls.
The name above its head was Dark Knight Pane.
Under the helmet was a skull for a face.
“Confirmed as a Death Knight. Let’s prepare for battle.”
As they approached slightly, the final boss—the legendary warrior they’d anticipated would be record-breaking in difficulty—rose from its seat.
It stretched out a hand, using Psychokinesis to summon the fragments of the Greatsword that had shattered earlier, assembling them back into their original form before grasping it.

They died before they could even get down 10 health.
They’d tried to be as cautious as possible, even without identifying clear patterns.
The reason they died so quickly was simple.
Their attacks suddenly turned toward teammates and dealt damage.
“Since we have an Observer, let’s check what happened.”
“Understood.”
They challenged again to identify the anomaly.

-Still maintaining zero hits taken lmao
-Outside of failing a cooperative mechanic, he absolutely won’t die lmao
-Gotta admire it! Looks tough!

Every 10 seconds during the Raid, four small red circular Floor Markers burst from the ground—visible only on the Observer—and standing on one when it triggered caused your body to move uncontrollably, forcing you to attack teammates.
In other words, this Raid required them to constantly identify and avoid Floor Markers every 10 seconds as a baseline mechanic while fighting.
Thankfully the Floor Markers appeared 5 seconds before detonating, but it was an extremely annoying and high-difficulty constant pattern.
After confirming this, two more died and they reset. Everyone voiced their frustration.
“Man, this really IS record-breaking, huh? And we haven’t even seen the main mechanics yet.”
Tae-woo’s comment earned agreement from Ppoppi’s Dad.
“It’s definitely difficult.”
“Seo Jun. What if you Job Change right now? You could reset the Skill Enhancement Tokens you’ve already used, and equipment transfers anyway, so really no problem.”

-Guildmaster do it!

-Original guildmaster: Shut up, buddy. If I do this as a beginner, that’s what I’m doing. You not learning patterns fast enough?
-The guildmaster really wants that Perfect Clear lmao
-Seems relaxed now but bet he changes jobs in like a day lmao

Far more so than the first phase they’d called difficult.
He doubted the others could intensive practice their way through in under a week.
‘Hmm.’
They might face a damage shortage problem.
‘Keep that in mind for now.’
“Let’s go again. It’s been an hour. Fighting spirit!”
“Yeah!”
“Let’s do this!”
“Full DPS mode activated!”

Especially in a Raid where over ten minutes get deleted with each attempt in the try-pot.
After confirming the first mechanic that appeared at 80 health, they concluded that all party members had to survive to solve it, and Seo Jun didn’t use Evasion until the entire party was completely comfortable with the patterns.
Everyone, including the viewers, sensed this would be a long haul, and they all recognized that learning thoroughly was the better call than rushing through.
And in that time, 2 hours and 30 minutes flew by. A second party cleared the first-phase boss, and news of clears started appearing on Raven.
Seo Jun’s party’s progress was passed directly to the next runners.
Besides Seo Jun’s party, the first to clear was streamer Hakko’s party.
But because they were second, viewers abandoned Hakko for streamers pulling ten-thousand-viewer counts, and one streamer in that lineup thought:
‘Pane absolutely can’t carry alone. And with everyone else’s skill level? We’re slightly ahead. They brought close friends, but we brought specialists. 2 hours and 30 minutes is totally reversible.’
Reconsidering various factors, the streamer declared with full confidence:
“We’ll lap those guys and get a Perfect Clear. Comebacks are the best thrill, after all.”

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