Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 263

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Chapter 263

[Bedouah’s Trial Ranking]

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 542
#2 – Shin Geom (China) – 541
#3 – Toma (France) – 523

Seo Jun sat in solitude, meditating.
He was waiting with patience and composure.
Anyone with ordinary temperament or even decent judgment would have withdrawn by now.
‘Not a chance.’
He didn’t know that person’s nature with perfect certainty.
But Seo Jun understood a trait common to all the talented.
Pride and an iron will.
Innate talent—the kind that never let them taste overwhelming defeat—was a blessing in itself.
‘But a blessing isn’t always a blessing.’
There is no remedy good in every situation.
When the ranking he’d been watching for ten minutes shifted, Seo Jun’s lips curved upward.

[Bedouah’s Trial Ranking]

#1 – Shin Geom (China) – 558
#2 – Geomsin (Korea) – 542
#3 – Toma (France) – 523

Just as expected.
‘A noble competition unfolds.’
Pride blinds the eyes, and a strong will could never accept retreat. Not from oneself.
“Not streaming feels peaceful, actually,” he murmured to himself.
Seo Jun slung the Machete across his shoulder, speaking softly.
This wasn’t bad either.
With viewers it would be more entertaining, of course.
“But for a true contest between masters—one fair, where both show their full strength—this feels more right.”
It was the sort of remark that would have made viewers indignant and Shin Geom book the next flight to Korea to find a brick. Seo Jun raised his sword.

[Begin the Trial?]

The system read his intent and opened the notification. The trial began.
Desert wind rushed in.
The ground beneath his feet transformed into sand, and grains were swept up by the fierce wind, starting to obscure his vision.
Fortunately, none of it reached his eyes.
Bedouah was cursed—condemned to wander the desert eternally, turning any place he stepped into wasteland.
And so his defenses against sandstorms were thorough.
A special item kept sand grains from entering within a twenty-centimeter radius, instead smoothly deflecting them away.
Like the eye of a hurricane in the heart of a violent storm, only the space where Seo Jun stood remained calm.
He lifted the Machete.
Beyond the radius, a pattering sound erupted.
Sand grains striking the blade.
A countdown began in a corner of Seo Jun’s vision on the Trial interface.

[5]
[4]
[3]
[2]
[1]

The ten-minute timer started, and Seo Jun immediately swung the Machete.
In the swirling yellow dust, blue grains glimmered and gleamed.
Desert Crystals—his target.
The moment Seo Jun’s Machete struck a Desert Crystal, the score beneath the timer ticked up.

[+1]

Yes. Just one point.
He swung the Machete again.
Again and again, swing after swing.
The tip with Bedouah’s Trial: you mustn’t stop, not for an instant.
‘I’ll follow the tip.’
He had to target blue crystal after blue crystal without pause.
In a game, this difficulty would be nothing. But this was a real trial.
Crystals flew relentlessly, and the sandstorm grew fiercer.

[+1]
[+1]
[+1]
[+1]

‘The all-time record was 587, wasn’t it?’
Even at maximum speed, one per second.
Which meant no one would ever reach the 600 barrier.
Perfect execution was simply impossible.
‘I should try my best to reach it, then.’
This was no different from a true bout between masters.
Unseen by anyone, Seo Jun methodically destroyed one crystal per second.
To any veteran of Bedouah’s Trial, his Dynamic Visual Acuity and body control would have been awe-inspiring.
At nine minutes, Seo Jun had destroyed 540 crystals.
Ten more seconds passed, and he’d broken 550.
At this rate, he seemed certain to shatter 600—the ultimate, most perfect record—
Until something interfered, and he had no choice but to abandon the trial.
Truly, he had no choice.
“Oh. A sudden dizzy spell.”
If Tae-woo had seen it, he’d have laughed himself silly.
Regardless, Seo Jun’s final score was—

* * *

[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
==

[Bedouah’s Trial Ranking]

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 559
#2 – Shin Geom (China) – 558

That absolute bastard ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
==

-Seo Jun! Seo Jun! Seo Jun! Seo Jun!
-Worldwide trash-talk incoming!!!!
└Even Britain’s like, “That’s… a bit much…” ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

After that, the time to the next ranking update shrank below ten minutes.
It was Shin Geom, challenging immediately as if he already knew Seo Jun would win by just one point due to unavoidable circumstances.

[Just 4 minutes after Geomsin takes first! Shin Geom retakes the crown!]
==

#1 – Shin Geom (China) – 565
#2 – Geomsin (Korea) – 559

==

-Wow, the guy’s good
-Just warming up, right?
-From 560 on it’s actually rough ㅋㅋㅋㅋ only about 4 seconds of leeway per minute

And exactly ten minutes later, Seo Jun happened to reclaim first at 566.
Five minutes after that, Shin Geom took Bedouah’s crown again.

[Wow! Already in the 570s!]
==
The ranking’s got the year’s best trials—the cream of a year’s worth of attempts compressed down, right?
Top ten was in the 570s, and Shin Geom hit that in a single day of intense focus.
Sure, you could say someone that skilled just got a score reflecting their skill. But 570s needs more than ordinary willpower.
It’s genuinely impressive.
==

-For real ㅋㅋ concentration insane
-And this is only how many minutes in today? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He’s a monster
-Is he the peak of 1.4 billion people for nothing?

[But who do we have in Korea?]
==
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Roughly predicting the Bedouah ranking in ten minutes.

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 573
#2 – Shin Geom (China) – 572

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Huh?
==

-I’m Nostradamus, hit that upvote ㅋㅋ
└Nostradamus doesn’t talk like that…
-I acknowledge the prophet!
-There’s a guy with precognition here too ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Ah. Korea has that guy.]
==

#1 – Geomsin (Korea) – 573
#2 – Shin Geom (China) – 572

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ who predicted that earlier?
I called it too ㅋ
==

-For real ㅋㅋ
-For real ㅋㅋ
-I did too
-Let’s see how many minutes it takes Shin Geom to retake it this time!

It was an incredibly tight contest.

[A match where you can’t see an inch ahead—this is real!]
==
How does he keep winning by just one every single time! This is genuinely fierce!
==

-This guy handles it smooth ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Broadcast Master gets full marks! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Packaging trolling like that ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Seo Jun is a god!

And after Seo Jun reclaimed first with 573,
five minutes passed, then seven, and the ranking still hadn’t refreshed. People began to wonder.
Had he failed?
And after ten minutes, it still hadn’t changed.
This time they wondered differently.
Had he fled?

[Flee? Or fail?]

And a little while later, Seo Jun started his second stream of the day.

[Let’s do the review!]
[Broadcast Master’s title ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What a madman]
[Determined to resurrect your opponent through magic no matter what ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

* * *

[Beginning Streaming.]
[Did he beat it?]

“Ah, ahem. This is my second time today,” said Seo Jun, welcoming the incoming viewers.
He greeted the flood of spectators warmly.
“Well, I was bored waiting, so I started streaming. As for me… well…”

-This bastard has no excuse ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I mean, if I did nothing for twenty minutes I’d be bored too
-Just set the best record ㅋㅋㅋ

“Ah. You all asked me to turn it on, so I did. Everyone was curious about the True Sword Contest.”
True Sword Contest.
That resonates well.

-???
-How is that a True Sword Contest? A life-or-death duel? When one person was getting hit the whole time?
-So what happened to Shin Geom! Tell us, Broadcast Master!
-He lost too bad. Bringing shame like that ㅠㅠㅠ

“Ha. Perhaps Shin Geom had something come up. He’ll return eventually. And how am I bringing shame? That was a fair, straightforward match between warriors,” said Seo Jun smoothly.

-Just a guy whose brain broke ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Perpetrators always forget what they did ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-For real ㅋㅋ
-Just pure perpetrator mentalityㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

As Seo Jun scanned the chat, his eyes brightened.
“Oh? Viewers. It just updated. Is this the third time?”
It had taken twenty minutes.
But since Shin Geom had started early, his first attempt failed. His second attempt went wrong from the start, so he restarted.
The third attempt succeeded, it seemed fair to say.
Or he’d rested after failing the first time and tried again.
Either way.
“Looks like it’s my turn. Shin Geom pulled off 575, so with sufficient time he could go higher than that. That’s threatening, wouldn’t you say?”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Your voice doesn’t sound very threatened though?
-Why are you hyping up Shin Geom, you bastard
-Chinese viewers flooding in ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Indeed, Seo Jun’s chat now had many Chinese viewers.
About 110,000 Korean viewers and 80,000 Chinese ones.
Auto-translation was on, but you could figure out most of it anyway at a glance.

-Are you that good?
-Disrespecting others—one should be more moderate about it.
-This Korean man cannot toy with us now. Shin Geom grew tired and failed.
-Having rested sufficiently, who knows. One must be careful.
-China will not forget this matter……

And so forth.
So Seo Jun said:
“Ha. I haven’t been toying with anyone. Let me show you,” he said.
Shin Geom was watching his broadcast right now.
That’s why he’d turned it on.
Seo Jun began the trial.
Desert wind swept in. Blue points glimmered, riding the wind toward him.
Seo Jun methodically destroyed each approaching Desert Crystal.
His goal this time was simple.
Five minutes.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Without respite, responding perfectly to each incoming crystal, Seo Jun swung his sword from that one spot.
Without a single mistake.

-??? At this pace, the Korean guy’s going 600, right???
-That concentration is insane
-Shin Geom…… can he really not win?

It looked simple but was genuinely difficult.
Ten minutes of sustained focus, and the blue light was sometimes obscured by sand—you had to infer its position accurately.
Once per second, for ten minutes straight?
The 587 record wasn’t the maximum for nothing.
But Seo Jun broke that record at exactly 587 seconds in.

-Insane…
-This isn’t a record achievable in a single day……
-It takes perfect condition and luck overlapping……
-What’s Shin Geom doing!

And just before the 600 record was set,
Seo Jun threw down his sword at 599.
“Oh, my hand’s cramping.”
Not because 600 would mean there was no hope left.
“My hand really is cramping. I had to stop earlier too because of sudden dizziness.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This bastard ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Will the Chinese viewers believe that?

“So… who’s the next hero?” asked Seo Jun.
He was curious.
Would there be another? Or would this be it?
Would Shin Geom aim for 600 or back off?
And whether Seo Jun wondered or not,
the Chinese community
finally

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