Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 254

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Chapter 254

[Starting broadcast.]
[Couldn’t clear it, huh? lol]

Seo Jun entered the Capsule and turned on the broadcast.
He felt refreshed after a solid sleep from noon to six.
It absolutely wasn’t because someone else had failed.
“Ahem. Good evening, everyone.”

-So that was the plan all along!
-This bastard! This bastard! This bastard!
-Must’ve had a good laugh reading all those posts calling him reckless and cowardly lolololol
-For a strategy to fit this perfectly? This was clearly intentional

Seo Jun had woken at six and checked the raid status.
It was exactly as he’d predicted.
‘They won’t clear it.’
Clearing seemed nowhere in sight.
Reaching the tenth phase was an unexpectedly strong showing, but that had to be the end.
In other words, the other party should have slept long ago.
They should have given up by three at the latest.
“Everyone saw the broadcast title, right? And you remember what I said right before the broadcast ended yesterday?”
Seo Jun spoke as he tapped the screen before him to access Racle.

-Yeah
-Um
-If we can’t clear it, we grab the First Clear! Yes!
-Let’s go!
-lololol picking up scraps, turn it on!

“Picking up scraps? Everyone, how many times have we cleared from the first phase onward? And yet we only grabbed one mechanic after giving them seven full hours—feels pretty unfair, honestly.”
Seo Jun clicked his tongue.
Mechanics deeper in the raid are worth more, but that doesn’t change the fact they haven’t even cleared the tenth phase pattern.
“I’d say that Tperper fellow should concede the point, don’t you think?”

-It’s Tperper, not “Tparpar” lol you reading his name wrong?
-Wow, Tparpar! Is the room master descending for New Year’s Tparpar vibes?
-About to become a total sellout
-Plenty of people already know him
-The Great Sertsubi legend, is it?
-If he proves he went inactive there for a really long time, then okay lol
-The Great Sertsubi x Sword God’s Tale lololololol
-Can he pull off Zero Damage again today!

“Zero Damage doesn’t mean anything. Only the First Clear matters. Right. So basically, sweet deal, yeah? Yeah, I’ll admit it. Who said nobody should sleep?”
Seo Jun entered Racle and immediately assembled a raid party to enter the Four Heavenly Kings raid.
The first gate wasn’t cleared. They’d have to start from the beginning.
That’s just how it went.

-Like, who told him not to sleep?
-Who threatened him with a sword?
-lololol
-Just a genius. Needs to go to grad school!
-But clearing it this way is kinda…lol
-It’s pretty cowardly

The same person had posted two comments in a row.
‘Could this be Tperper?’
Seo Jun, wondering if this person would really be typing while they should be sleeping, just moved on and replied.
“Well, it’s fine. When to rest is ultimately up to each party leader’s judgment, but it seems some people have their complaints.”
“What? There are people like that?”
“Good morning.”
“Haha, I think he was being considerate of this old man, but people sure have a lot to say about it being cowardly or whatnot.”
Everyone gathered at the raid start point.
“If we clear it in a few hours, will you admit it?”

-If it’s a First Clear, gotta admit it no matter what lolololol
-It’s all strategy, how many times do I gotta say nobody told him not to sleep!!!
-For real lol
-Still, I’d say five hours would be reasonable?
-Tperper’s party said they’d come at one, so let’s clear it in five hours lol

“Five hours? Understood. Two and a half hours! If we can’t clear it in two and a half hours, then for a fair fight, we’ll rest for two and a half hours and show up at one. Everyone good with that?”
“Yeah, sure.”
“If you say so.”

-Yes!
-Clear announcement in two and a half hours!
-If they’d kept going yesterday, wouldn’t they have cleared it?
-Could be. Honestly seeing what Tperper’s party did, I kinda wished the room master had done it lol
-If it’d been the room master, he’d definitely have grabbed the boss by the collar and thrown it off the map!
-Nah, he can’t do that either
-This madman shackling himself again!

Seo Jun hadn’t shackled himself for no reason.
“But! In return, you all should show some sincerity too, don’t you think? So here’s the deal: we’ll treat this as a mission. If we fail by ten-thirty, we rest as promised and clear it with your sincerity intact. But if the sincerity isn’t sufficient, we just skip the mission and won’t rest.”
At that moment, the party members’ expressions became slightly bizarre.
As if they were looking at something that wasn’t human.
“What? This is the bare minimum. What.”

-Fairness my ass, just trying to squeeze money lol
-lololol mission rewards, hurry up and pay you guys who want to clear it lololololololol
-Relentless, just relentless lol
-Guys desperate for First Clear are gonna pay up lololol
-Tailored extortion lol

Listening to the mission fees accumulate, Seo Jun thought.
‘Would we have cleared it if we’d kept going yesterday?’
Probably not.
Human focus is a finite resource, and throwing it at something mindlessly won’t necessarily produce results.
‘We got proper rest.’
It would be much easier than yesterday.
Usually, skill doesn’t improve much the same day you practice, but after sleeping and waking up, it improves noticeably.
You can feel it yourself.
“Let’s go.”
So two and a half hours.
It would probably be possible.

* * *

‘Two and a half hours, two and a half hours.’
Typing in chat, Tperper realized from Seo Jun’s broadcast that they had another chance.
‘I really gotta sleep now……’
Sleep, wake up, watch the tenth phase breakdown, copy it, and they clear it.
That way, he brings those viewers back.
So all he had to do now was rest.
And the raid on the broadcast started.
Even though Tperper knew he had to sleep right then, he watched with his own eyes one last time how strong their raid skill had become after sleeping and waking up.
And.
With numerous evasion techniques and cleanly organized movements, they cleared the first phase in under fifteen minutes.

[Oh? Just like you said, after sleeping it really comes back clearer. The body moves better too.]
[Did you calculate even this? You really do have what it takes to be my ally!]
[Dang So, just keep the minions busy.]

They encountered the second phase, Dark Knight Paine, in under thirty minutes and successfully pulled off the eighty-health-bar mechanic, the sixty-health-bar mechanic, and were approaching the forty-health-bar mechanic.
Tperper rejected reality.

[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]
[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]
[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]

‘That difficult thing……’
The countless attacks from the skeleton that had frustrated them were blocked. Easily.
Seo Jun in the broadcast evaded the attacks as freely as if entertaining a young niece—nothing like how they’d been kept up with the day before.

[Nice! Meteor! Kehehehehe!]
[With dodging already easier and Seo Jun even using Evasion for us, it’s so much more comfortable.]
[This seems somewhere between Moderately Skilled and Hardcore Skilled!]

The forty-health-bar pattern.
The other party reached it first but then wrapped up, so this was essentially their first attempt at the mechanic.
They’d been shown the breakdown strategy, but there should be at least a few failures, wouldn’t there?

[Nice, 119!]
[Perfect coordination, and we’re still at Zero Damage! Next, tile markers!]
[Geomsin is a god!]

The enemies took their positions appropriately as if they’d discussed it that morning and pulled it off in one go.
What about the unconventional attack pattern that came next?

[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]
[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]
[‘Geomsin1’ has neutralized Dark Knight Paine!]

Blocked.
Blocked again.
This was all happening in thirty minutes.
What took them hours to grow accustomed to, the other party cleared much more easily with just that single Evasion technique.
But even in a truly desperate situation, Tperper didn’t lose hope. He added 100,000 won to the mission bounty, turned off his phone, and closed his eyes.
‘Damn. Still, they’re gonna need over two hours minimum to break down the tenth phase and clear it. So now I really……’
And right then, Tperper fell into deep, blissful sleep.

* * *

To Seo Jun’s eye, the tenth phase mechanic that the party had labored through all night to uncover looked like this.
First, an NPC message appeared saying the boss was about to recover its health, and the boss swung its sword wide from the center before going still.
The Red Knight’s Greatsword, which had been shattered and then reforged into a weapon during phase one, now crumbled into fragments again and began orbiting the map’s edges like Saturn’s rings.
Next, three statues rose from the six-o’clock position below the map and sent energy to the boss.
And the boss’s health recovered instantly. Up to twenty.
Ten seconds later, the boss used a Total Annihilation attack and killed everyone.
That was it.
They had to infer from here.
Those who’d reached it first just flailed around and figured out nothing.
The moment they arrived at the tenth phase, they immediately sprang into action.

[Danger! Dark Knight Paine is trying to recover!]

They’d already discussed what to investigate and were prepared.
“We can hit the boss! The recovery’s too fast to see clearly, but!”
Tae-woo shouted.
And shortly after, people’s voices began to ring out.
“Nothing at twelve o’clock! Same if we go inside!”
The countless sword fragments orbiting the map’s edge.
They entered that zone to check.
Whether there was anything or nothing.
“Nothing at three either.”
“A single hit even with the Shield will kill you. Hehehe.”
“Confirmed.”
Ppoppi’s role was to quickly check the damage from the sword fragments orbiting the edge.
Since even one hit would kill, they had to dodge carefully.
“Nothing at nine either, sir.”
Having heard Siksik Corner’s final report, Seo Jun looked straight ahead.
Avoiding the fragments circling like space debris, Seo Jun had taken on the task of investigating the six-o’clock area where the statues were.
And having arrived after dodging the incoming fragments with hands clasped behind his back, Seo Jun synthesized the information.
“If we go to six o’clock, we can touch or hit the statues……”
Boom!
Ten seconds passed.
Total Annihilation came down.

* * *

“Looks like we need to destroy all these statues, yeah?”
It was everyone’s shared opinion.
“Seems like it.”
“Do all three need it? Can one person destroy them all?”
“Probably three would be needed? Maybe not, though.”
When Seo Jun spoke, Tae-woo answered.
“Then what do the other three or five do inside the map?”
“Let’s just try destroying all the statues and see what happens, yeah?”
“Ah, classic Siksik Corner.”
“Next try, maybe three head to six o’clock and three hit the boss inside?”
“Hmm, getting to the statues and destroying them in ten seconds doesn’t seem too hard, so who should head to the six o’clock zone?”
“Oh! Wait, everyone, hold on a sec.”
“What is it?”
“Right now the accumulated mission money is two million won, and that’s not enough. Remember, if we don’t clear it by ten-thirty, that money gets returned to all of you. Keep that in mind.”
After that, they progressed smoothly through the strategy.
But time, as always, doesn’t bend to will.
As they died a few times working out the mechanics, time flew by and grew increasingly tight.
Though Seo Jun might have judged it acceptable, the others didn’t.
Especially those parties who’d given up on First Clear early in the morning and gone to sleep, had only gotten insufficient rest, and were now trying again.
Notably, they’d shown such eagerness in hopes of snatching the First Clear that they’d paid a lot in sincerity, making Seo Jun’s failure far more urgent.

[Super skilled masters are doing this well and it’s only slightly below Hardcore Skilled]
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Now that I think about it… whoever started at Absolute Hardcore Skilled is really amazing?
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[The First Clear will come from a casual party.]
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That’s us!
Tperper’s party seems to have failed,
so if we just get past ten o’clock!!!!
We snatch it lol
BTW for that we put 200k won into our party’s mission bounty.
……That bastard…
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-Writing posts instead of raiding, doesn’t look good for them lol
└For real lol

[Where did Monster go?]
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Monster said he’d ruin the party in Raven and still hasn’t shown up lol Monster’s standards are insane!
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[It’s not that the vanguard breaking through the mechanics is strong]
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It’s whoever lands the final blow that’s strong!
Ten o’clock.
Coming soon.
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-So you guys can still clear it by one, right?
└Who’s to say? (Original poster)
-What about Tparpar?
└Turned into a kid in dreamland having a sweet nap lololololol from what I can see, their party probably won’t even wake up by one lololol and it’s Tperper anyway

The vanguard, in the lead but running out of time to finish.
“Ah, yes. Everyone? We’re clearing it now. I’ll happily take the four million won sincerity.”
And the followers scrambling to catch up, desperately hoping the front-runner stumbles right before the finish line.

[lololololol nope, you’re right on the edge now]
[This time you gotta clear it, there’s no way around it!]
[We gotta get our sincerity back!]

The final race of someone sleeping lit up in flames.

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