Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 266

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Chapter 266

[Beginning broadcast.]

The next day, Seo Jun turned on his stream at his usual time.
6 p.m., quitting time.
Like yesterday, he started outside the Capsule.
Seo Jun stepped out of the room for a drink of water after turning on the stream.
This much was easy now.

-Seo Ha
-Stream’s up!
-Good to see you
-Streamer’s not here
-Is it our world now?
-Come on, let’s talk trash
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ These crazy viewers ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The viewers found this situation comfortable enough. Plenty of streams started with silence and waited over ten minutes.
Still, Seo Jun returned quickly, closed the door, and sat at his desk.
“Sorry, my throat was dry. Nice to see you all. Trash talk? Let’s hear what you were planning to say.”

-Caught red-handed ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-We hadn’t even started yet so mitigating circumstances apply, right? ㅇㅈ?
-Even conspiracy itself can be a crime in law, folks

“Yeah, that’s how it goes. Welcome, everyone. Like I said yesterday, today isn’t a joint broadcast, remember? About who I’d beat—”
Seo Jun sat upright and faced the camera mounted above the monitor.
And a slight smile played at the corners of his mouth.
If Shin Geom was watching, this was a little provocation.
He was taking a break from streaming.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Yesterday you talked about some righteous martial artists’ showdown, didn’t you ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This guy’s hopeless ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Shin Geom in tears
-Honestly, even if he lost, it’s in the past now so there’s no need to manage his image anymore
-The most important thing. There aren’t many Chinese people in chat right now

True enough.
There didn’t seem to be many messages from what looked like Chinese viewers.
Even if there were some, they didn’t matter much.
Even if it made it to Chinese communities.
It was already in the past, and once a trending topic flared up and died down, it rarely became a major buzz again.
Of course, nobody thought Seo Jun’s statement from yesterday was about maintaining his image or showing consideration—but Seo Jun dismissed such facts lightly.
“Alright then, let’s go.”

-Sampling all the Champions? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I’m really scared, streamer
-Sampling (setting records almost at the limit and stopping)
-Even pros are like, can Bedua do 600? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“Obviously someone can do 600, right?”
Seo Jun read the chat while adjusting the screen.
“Just not Shin Geom.”
Even with his limit of 580, or failing starting around 570, his mentality wouldn’t make it easy.
It’s only possible when someone maintains the highest concentration at every moment and continuously breaks through their own limits.
If displaying brilliant plays is an ability, then unleashing full power—meaning concentration—is also an ability.
Seo Jun thought Shin Geom was high in this regard but not the highest.
“So who can do it? Who knows?”
Someone will manage it.
Someone whose peak performance plays are slightly less flashy or precise than Shin Geom’s but whose concentration is better.
‘There are people who do this well.’
Professional gamers.
Those who digest an absurd volume of training by making gaming their job, chasing League championships.
How they’ll perform, though, I have no idea.
Even now, a day later, no famous named player had appeared to set records in Bedua’s Ranking.
‘Probably can’t hold back?’
Surprisingly, Seo Jun had predicted the entire current situation.
Or rather, he’d orchestrated it.
The reason he’d set his record at 599 the day before—one short—and mentioned other Champions, wasn’t because of Shin Geom but because of the developers.
‘If the dev team comes out saying we’ll just take the 2nd place and call it a day, then there’s nothing I can do, but the odds are low.’
It was unprecedented and wouldn’t lack a story to tell.
So they’d go looking for pros.
‘Did they offer special rewards? I have no idea about that.’
Anyway.
Seo Jun smiled and watched the screen.
“Right. I’ll proceed now. Today I want to properly learn about the Historical Records. My participation is basically confirmed at this point, yeah?”

-That’s true ㅋㅋㅋ
-Regardless, you’ll never take 1st from Kael ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Kael 50, you crazy bastard ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-How the hell did you manage that ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“Alright, let’s check it out. Let’s go into that wiki, your closest friend.”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Turn it off, streamer
-The streamer’s looking at it too
-Honestly, it’s well organized~

“So, Historical Records. What does Historical Records do as content? It’s right here. Players of The League can directly create and shape the story. There’s a caveat in the footnotes. That you and I can’t do it? Hmm, we actually can. Should I fix this?”
It’s a wiki meant to be edited.
Anyone can contribute.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ The streamer can fix it and no one can say anything ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I mean, you could just do it, so why list it as a content you can’t do ㅋㅋ

“Just kidding. Let’s look through the rest.”
Seo Jun scrolled down and read the content.
“Oh? A special AI continuously adjusts the situation as needed?”
Tens of players were thrown into the world. Minimal action constraints.
The only real constraint was the audience’s opinion and public sentiment.
So the situation could always change.
Of course, major themes were already set.
Wars between nations.
Survival in the jungle.
Adventures undertaken by imperial command.
Suppression campaigns.
But the future could end before the story even properly unfolds—it’s like a rugby ball, impossible to predict where it’ll bounce.
So adjusting and modifying these situations in advance was too difficult for humans.
“There’s apparently a rumor about an AI in testing? Well, I don’t know much about that.”
The wiki mentioned a conspiracy theory about an AI being developed in the Surface for future full-scale MMORPG use.
The truth was unknowable.
The only evidence was that Surface was the parent company.
It didn’t matter much anyway. There would be years between official announcement and game release, and there hasn’t even been any mention yet.

-RPG lovers ㅋㅋㅋ Just play Racle
-Racle needs to survive long for the streamer to keep getting mentioned like this ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Let’s go cause chaos in the Blood Alliance!

Seo Jun ignored the chat and read the next section.
“So, the most important thing—this year’s Historical Records. There are 50 Champions announced in total. And looking at the distribution of Champions’ factions, they seem evenly spread, so it would be hard to call it a conflict between specific nations or factions.”
Pangaea, the continent of The League.
A massive supercontinent where the vast majority—about 80%—consisted of harsh natural environments difficult for humans: the Sahara desert, the largest expanse, and the Great Forest.
The remaining 20% is where humans built nations and cities to live.
Within that, 10% is occupied by two nations in the Southern Plain.
Against this backdrop, what they need to watch isn’t anything else but the factions of Champions involved in this content.
“Not all Champions from the Church of Light are participating, nor all military branches of nations. They’re spread evenly… Hypothesis 2: World war? Doesn’t seem like it.”

-For real ㅋㅋ
-World what
-Let’s check if there’s a Champion who failed art school among them!!!!

“Hypothesis 3: treasure hunting, or enemies from another dimension. Or a natural disaster hits. Hmm. Why are they saying three? Shouldn’t it be Hypothesis 3, 4, 5?”
Anyway.

-For real ㅋㅋ
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Natural disaster? Already happening?
-The streamer IS the natural disaster ah ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-There’s definitely a hidden Champion!!!!
-A hidden villain arc after years?!

Hidden villain.
It wasn’t guaranteed that only Champions publicly announced by the game company participated in the Historical Records.
This had been introduced as a twist element years ago and had become a hypothesis factor every time players theorized.
Because of this, those who played only one Champion would still try to rank even if their Champion hadn’t appeared.
Unless they were really good at only that Champion, though, there was no need to push so hard.
“The current consensus is that with 50 publicly announced Champions, there’s essentially no room for a hidden villain faction.”
It hadn’t appeared for years, and this time there were many Champion specialists, supposedly.
“And oh, each Champion’s rank 1 players get confined in facilities equivalent to 5-star hotels during the period!”
Seo Jun actually knew all of this, but he pretended to see it for the first time.
For the entertainment value of the stream.

-ㅇㅇ They say the food there is insanely delicious ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Phone confiscation
-Can’t let them see the internet and find out what other Champions are doing ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

“Alright, so now let’s categorize some decent Champions.”
Seo Jun went to the This Year’s Historical Records section and scrolled through the list of publicly announced Champions, then stopped.
“What do I mean by decent Champions? Well.”

-Seems like he means Champions worth doing in the Historical Records?
-Having strong backing definitely helps
-The jungle and desert guys are Unaffiliated so they have complete freedom of choice, but ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ they’re kinda weak
-Might as well go Empire faction ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Kael is Empire too after all
-ㄴㄴ The streamer being solo is actually cooler

“Not that kind of thing. I mean Champions unrelated to Resonance in Trials.”

-Ah-ha!!
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Assimilation rate 10!
-Foreign people will flip if they find out about this
-So you’re gonna cause chaos in a few Trials today?
-Any other Champions who use Resonance besides Id?

“No, you all, chaos? I’m not—”
Seo Jun made an ambiguous denial and prepared to enter the Capsule.
“This is just tasting. Sampling.”
And.

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[Streamer ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
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So he said he’d only do 10 Champions today to wrap up—what’s he talking about?
More tomorrow?
This whole thing?
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
This is what he calls sampling?
==

-Basically he chatters through the first round like a tutorial then ends the second with the best record ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ And he calls this sampling??? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The streamer didn’t hold back!
-At this rate all 50 Champions might get done…
└Seems like he’s skipping a few Champions that look weaker ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[What if the streamer goes it alone?]
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Dude, today he leisurely finished 10 Champions in 2 hours like homework ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Is there anyone who can beat those records?
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-Is there?
└There isn’t?
-Those are seriously all-time records, right? And he does it in two tries? What is this guy?
-Physically, nobody’s a match anymore at this point
└You know what? I’ve thought that from the beginning
-Let’s have a cozy Historical Records date with just the Resonance users and the streamer!
└A four-person Historical Records date? This is too good ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Will the game company let that slide?

[You guys ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ North American communities ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Mass panic incoming ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
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They’re saying to copy the Korean idea and raise an emergency fund, or make him stop from the next broadcast ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ At this point I’m wondering if there’s a streamer faction in the Historical Records. Even the same factions would cut ties, and viewers would approve ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]

The first day passed since Seo Jun declared he’d properly sample the Trials.
And the aftermath was tremendous and chaotic.
Some people in the game company were seriously considering sanctions, while others were spouting flamebait about letting only one person in.
Posts about blocking it from tomorrow on received high praise as the most realistic opinion, and while everyone expressed shock at Korea,
a few people began climbing the rankings Seo Jun had set on his first day with 10 Champions.
Those few people were all famous players.
A mountain far higher than any named streamer.

[Oh? Pros are showing up!!!]
[Looks like they’re challenging the record?]
[Wait, if this keeps up, the structure becomes… The world’s pros gathering to defeat the Demon King Seo Jun???? I mean, he’s just a streamer, is this real ㅋㅋㅋ]

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