Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 260

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Chapter 260

[Full Statement from China’s Kael Master Geomsin, Who Turned on Stream This Morning]
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Geomsin? That guy’s not my copycat, right? Ah, just joking.
So you’re asking if I believe in stuff like luck and spirituality and all that?
Of course not.
But clearly, if the pattern changes, he won’t be able to do anything, right?
What do you think about changing the pattern generation rules because of that person?
Well, I agree with it.
If it’s really skill and not luck, he’ll show it even after the change.
It wouldn’t matter to him anyway.
So we have to change it.
Of course, we won’t.
ㅋ (I added this expression because that’s literally the look on his face)
I won’t say anything more.
Still, I’m envious that he managed the first five-person clear by sheer luck.
Korea’s just always been lucky like that, you know?
Even in the pro scene.
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-By lucky chance he pulls it off, but in actual play he’s never even done a three-person clear ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The gap is just different, why’s he talking like that?
└Do you think they actually believe that?
└Nah
└Come on, just try it first ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Actually Korea’s got people thinking that way too, so whatever. Can’t blame China or overseas
└Still arrogant though?

[BREAKING: When Korean viewers asked if there was no respect for foreign streamers, Geomsin frowned and ignored them.]
[Seems to be bothering him a lot ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Geomsin’s good with sword Champions in general, but Kael is just a matter of a man’s pride, you know.]
[BREAKING: Geomsin racing through the restructured Kael ranking! Can’t find his footing! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[Other factions starting their races too!]

The patch had been applied.
The moment midnight arrived on the Prime Meridian.
So for Korea it was applied at 9 a.m.
The patch notes had gone up an hour before.
Of course, when the patch drops doesn’t matter. The true trial that will crown a champion has a long stretch ahead.
So there was no need to sprint from the start.
But Seo Jun had prepared to turn on his stream.
China was running.
An Italian player was running.
‘The editor mentioned Yamada Yasuo—apparently a dark horse appeared in Japan too.’
Japan was running as well, he’d heard.
Then he couldn’t sit this one out.
“Hey, Seo Jun.”
“Yeah?”
“You turning the stream on now? It’s only 9 o’clock.”
Tae-woo, who had gone into his room muttering something nonsensical about being scared and then, finding nothing to do inside, had come back to Seo Jun’s room, asked from behind the chair where Seo Jun was sitting.
From behind Seo Jun’s back as he sat in his chair.
“Yeah, gotta turn it on.”
“But why the computer?”
Seo Jun said nothing and tinkered with the stream settings.
This much is easy enough.
By the way, his past of assembling a computer without even properly removing the plastic wrap before installing components is classified information.
“Huh? Why the computer? If you start now, all the attention’s gonna focus on you anyway—wouldn’t it be better to stream directly from the Capsule?”
Tae-woo was worried.
Though it was clear his concern wasn’t for Seo Jun.
When Seo Jun turned to look back, Tae-woo’s face wore an expression so sincere and grave, as if he were gazing at the ceiling contemplating something as momentous as world peace.
Seo Jun let out a small laugh and turned back to finish setting up the stream.
“I don’t know what’ll be said in the overseas communities. I’m just going to do it like I always do.”
Like always.
At those words, Tae-woo picked up on something unmistakable.
Viewers usually call that sense of killing intent.
Tae-woo spoke.
“Good luck.”
Tae-woo, who originally just wanted to pop his face on stream because he had nothing better to do, left.

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-Seo-ha
-Why’d you turn it on so early today
-Seo-ha
-Viewers not going to work, another win for us!!!!!!
-But those viewers are probably sleeping now, so it’s the ones at work watching from the office ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Saw the notification and ran right over
-All the attention’s focused here right now, how can you hold back the hype ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So you saw the announcement?
-Of course I saw it, that’s why I’m here

“Alright everyone, hello. The announcement? Of course I read it. Apparently there are some changes coming to certain Champions’ trials, which is only natural, they said.”
Though in Seo Jun’s case, it was a bit different.
He didn’t say so outright—technically they said that because they value the metric of Adaptability, Kael’s users will be selected with these changes in mind, so there will be pattern variations—they explained it that way in the patch notes, but anyone who knows, knows.
This is Targeting.

-Yeah
-An organism perfectly adapted to one environment dies without fail when the environment changes
-Trolls made it all the way here
-40,000 people this early. There’s no way there aren’t trolls

“Don’t fight, okay? So, that’s why I turned on the stream quickly to show you.”

-But if you’re gonna show us, why not just turn it on in the Capsule instead of in real life
-Intelligence gathering???!!

“Intelligence gathering could be part of it, but more than that, I wanted to give someone an opportunity, which is why I’m streaming from here.”

-You’re about to declare legal action against the trolls!!
-If you turn yourselves in we’ll go easy on you ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-As long as it’s not me!!!!!! Let’s go to court!
-Hmm, but if you actually sue, it just ruins the streamer’s image…
-You scared? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Then who is it for, came the inevitable questions in chat.
Seo Jun didn’t drag it out and stated his target directly.
“It’s for Geomsin. China’s Geomsin.”
And it would also be an opportunity for those users Pineapple Pizza and Yamada Yasuo or whatever, but for now he didn’t mention them.
Since Geomsin was the only one with a bad personality.

-I knew it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Geomsin you bastard, taste what the Mun-jang can do
-But how exactly are you giving him an opportunity? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Just like when he’d declared he’d slept through the First Clear race, Seo Jun made his proclamation.
Confident and arrogant.
But if the one saying this was Seo Jun, who had done exactly this before and pulled off the First Clear, trust came naturally.

-Another declaration of war, let’s go!
-Is that even possible?
-For real ㅋㅋ

“The standard for ‘getting the hang of it,’ by the way—what was the second-place record last time? 262 seconds? Right. So if within 9 hours a record under 300 seconds comes out, I’ll just give up on Kael.”
Seo Jun declared he’d abandon Kael.
Depending on what his opponent did.
“So what am I gonna do for the next 9 hours, you ask? Nah, I’m not gonna stream raid or anything, don’t worry. There’s stuff I need to do.”

-Yeah seriously
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ???
-What are you doing!

-You should just go into the Capsule ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Just try it (lying down arrogantly)

The same playbook as before.
Giving them a chance.
Opinion split into two camps.
The first reaction was along the lines of, we knew it.
Mostly—actually, entirely—from Korean communities.
There was faith in Seo Jun.
Ah.
If Mun-jang says something like that, there’s definitely something solid behind it. Like before.
The second reaction came from overseas communities, from trolls, and finally.
From the Chinese broadcast where Geomsin was cutting down the Tumbler, the trial of Kael, feeling out the pattern.
The streamer watching a man in his late twenties from China, fine-featured and handsome by any standard.
Geomsin’s stream.
Trabol is a global platform that’s conquered even China.
Since there’s no Korean dubbing, real-time subtitles translate as the streamer speaks.

His viewer count was over a hundred thousand—he’s a mid-tier streamer in China.
In the continent, you don’t call mid-tier streamers big money.

The second opinion was that Seo Jun was scared.
That he was bluffing and naturally trying to set up a scenario where if Geomsin succeeded, Seo Jun would abandon Kael.
That’s what this was.
So all the overseas viewers were betting that Seo Jun wouldn’t even attempt Kael.

The fact that the pattern’s rules had changed, that old habits built up until now had to be shed—that was definitely an ordeal.
But befitting someone at the very peak of the continent, despite his casual demeanor, his eyes gleamed sharply. And when one cycle ended, a donation came through.

50 yuan is about 10,000 won in Korean money.
Because China’s broadcast culture favors large viewer counts but rarely sees donations, even with over 100,000 viewers the minimum donation was 50 yuan.
And so.

That Korean streamer guy was trying to pussy out and his viewers were coming in the streamer’s name to act up, he thought.
If he just twisted the right knife, wouldn’t a teachable moment materialize?

[Yeah, I’m Korean. Curious? ㅋ]

The way to grow familiar with vital points is just to do it over and over.
Looking and quietly analyzing won’t teach you anything.
The body learns it unconsciously—that’s the answer.

-Small-country guys don’t know their place and act up
-That streamer and his viewers are probably on the same level anyway

He figured as much and continued building experience while chatting with viewers.
About 30 minutes later, the donor came back.
This time with a somewhat unusual message attached.

[Two strikes after the next one, aim straight at the vital point ㅋ]

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