Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 267

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Chapter 267

Seo Jun’s setting records in ten champions wasn’t particularly surprising to Korean viewers.
Seo Jun had already shown them with Bedua.
Before that, it was with Kael, and before that, with Id.
And even further back, with For the Sect, and at Assassin Guild Dawn.
He’d hammered it into their heads so thoroughly, over and over, not to doubt.
Of course, there were still some who harbored suspicion, but they were a minority.
However, foreign audiences were only just starting to learn about it, and they’d only seen Kael and Bedua.
Was that enough?
To make people believe things that shouldn’t be possible?
The answer was that for the vast majority, it still wasn’t enough.
But.

[Anyone who isn’t pro-tier, come at me. Hahahaha.]
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Ten records today. Easy stuff. Watch the broadcast and you’ll see. Isn’t this pro-tier?
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He kept demonstrating.
Breaking records one after another.
Just like with Id.

-Pro-tier is now an undeniable fact
-He seems to have a talent for always achieving perfect records
└What do you mean?
└└Well, I don’t know the ceiling of his physical ability, but it seems like this Korean streamer has a talent for always maintaining maximum concentration. That’s what I mean.
└└└So that’s one way to interpret it
-Id was already one of the most perfect records set. But this streamer shortened it using a concept called Sound Play, to just two orbs. On the first try
└Why two orbs? Isn’t Id’s trial guaranteed to be faster with four?
└└This streamer’s Synchronization Rate is 10. Making four is difficult for him, apparently
└└└What???????

[A Synchronization Rate of 10 — something is definitely wrong with this]

-You can play well even without a high Synchronization Rate
-But all pros have high ones
└Some have low ones
-Hmm. I need to doubt whether he’s pro-tier again
└Why again?
└└Being able to consistently do 90% of your ability is a talent, but if you can’t show 100% performance?
└└└You idiots. Ugh. Haven’t you seen the Five-In-One match? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└└└└Koitz getting frustrated wwwwwwww

The next day, Seo Jun set ten more new records in champions.
If Seo Jun hadn’t dropped his weapon by accident or gotten dizzy, the number one spot in twenty champions would have been locked to him.
Unless he found a new method to shorten the record like he did with Id.
Of course, even granting that, it didn’t mean Seo Jun couldn’t take first.

[To surpass him and enter the history book in first place, you’d have to set the highest record of all time.]
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You’d have to execute every play perfectly.
No one knows if this is even possible until you reach the absolute top tier of players.
So how does that user manage to pull it off every single time?!
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And during that single day, among the pros who began reaching for the ranking, they pushed their records to the maximum and refreshed them every few hours, but no news came of anyone reclaiming first place.
In their heads, this was natural, but for foreign users, common sense was crumbling.
Because.
The Korean guy could.

[Even famous pros can’t do it all at once. They climb slowly over long periods, gradually breaking their limits. So what about that Korean player!!!]

The next day.
Seo Jun touched only five more champions.
Twenty-five.
Half.
And after stopping there, he said on his broadcast:

[???: Hmm, I just sampled a bit here and there casually, but there’s nothing good. Guess I should just stick with Kael. Hahaha.]
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This Korean is completely enjoying himself right now!
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-Is he drawing aggro worldwide because we said something about Kael? That’s terrifying
└No. He’s always like that
└└Then that’s a relief. Good.
-He’s at the level of Shin Ha-yeon and Baek Do-yul. At least when it comes to concentration
└He may not have done it in-game, but in the trials he’s shown the same monster-tier performance as those two, and I’m accepting that now
└└That’s enough to call him pro-tier
└└└We don’t know that yet
└└└└Why are you stirring this up? What if that streamer Seo Jun does all fifty and finishes them?

[So what is that streamer doing now?]

Seo Jun said he was taking a break from the league.
The trials period set for selecting champions from the history book, separate from his usual practice, was two weeks long.
And right now there were ten days remaining.

-He said he’d play PC games during the ten days of waiting
└What PC game?
└└He said he didn’t know either
-So he’s saying he’s seen it all. Sounds a bit arrogant
└He’s got the credentials to be arrogant
└└Let’s educate that Korean! Go!
└└└If he can pull it off in ten days hahaha

International community sentiment eventually settled like this.
While Seo Jun hadn’t made a direct provocation toward foreign viewers, his actions were certainly enough to be grating.
Precisely because of that, they thought it would be satisfying if the pros from each nation could teach Seo Jun a lesson in the history book — someone who’d claimed first place in twenty-five champions and now just played random games while waiting.
The pros from each country, that is.
Hopefully those who were now gradually climbing the ranking would beat Seo Jun in the main tournament.
Of course, to do that, they first had to claim the number one ranking spot.

[International community reaction lololololol Wanted Criminal of Jianghu lololol The Broadcast Host is definitely the Heavenly Demon]
[He’s back! The Heavenly Demon!]

The community for For the Sect regaining its vitality was a bonus.

* * *

Shin Geom.
The Chinese streamer who’d suffered the worst at Seo Jun’s hands and lost face challenged Bedua’s 600-point record for three straight days.
But he hit a wall.
No matter what he tried, he didn’t feel himself progressing past the limit, and each attempt and effort came to him like building a castle on sand.
And his instinct was accurate.
“That crazy Fang bastard. He just concentrates well. So he’s greatly advantaged in other trials too.”
He had to take revenge. But he felt his limits.
He lacked the fundamentals — the basic ability to sustain maximum concentration at every moment.
He could develop that foundation, but not within the time remaining.
Fundamentals were always the hardest thing.
“I’ll definitely catch you.”
He gritted his teeth while reading posts about Seo Jun that appeared on Chinese communities.
He couldn’t broadcast.
He didn’t want to show on stream how he was scrambling to break the opponent’s record.
Countless comparative comments would flood in.
“I’ll win if we fight inside that arena. Right. If the preliminaries’ champions don’t match well, even if I’m brilliant, I’ll get eliminated. It’ll be over.”
Shin Geom had a way.
Choose a different champion.
Time was plentiful, and if that bastard wasn’t on the ranking, he had more than enough credentials to aim for first place.
The problem was.
“He could snipe me too.”
So Shin Geom entered Seo Jun’s broadcast, where he was playing an old PC game called StarCraft.
He was currently creating a room and waiting for an opponent, and the game’s broadcast title was this:
Shin Geom translated the letters from the image and clicked his tongue.

[1v1 — Even after 30+ years, still a beginner. Come on in.]

Well, what mattered wasn’t the content of that game or the title.
It was the mission visible from the viewers’ perspective.

[No More Trial Attempts — Mission Reward: 13,000,000 won]

“Money-obsessed monster.”
Shin Geom muttered.
He still hadn’t accepted that mission.
This was the result of the issue drawing attention, with people worldwide chipping in money little by little.
It was also highly likely that the number one players in the remaining twenty-five champions had contributed.
“I’ll chip in too.”
Shin Geom added two million won.
Once the mission was accepted, the opponent could no longer interfere with him.
From that point on, Shin Geom would seriously challenge a new champion.
Shin Geom was steadily preparing to crush Seo Jun.

* * *

When a week remained, Seo Jun saw the mission reward reach twenty million won and hit accept.
Meanwhile, the pros were each picking champions and diligently raising their skill levels.
“Listen, Raycel.”
“Yeah?”
“That Sense of Immersion you mentioned. I think I’ve caught that moment a few times now. But maintaining it is hard?”
“If you felt it, then you’re good to go now.”
Currently, all champions except Kael had pros playing them, and the champion Bernard had selected was Bedua.
A week. He had to show a flawless performance within that time.
“Really?”
“If you properly grab onto that state, it won’t break unless there’s external interference.”
Then the 600-point record would come. Soon.
“Raycel, did you enter that state when you set the Id record this time?”
“Yeah. When I focused only on this compared to when I had a schedule, I could definitely find it better.”
“Id is something that streamer didn’t even touch, so you didn’t need to be perfect. Why did the coach clear your schedule anyway? Even if you make it into the history book, you’d just be playing second fiddle. Kekeke.”
“Shut up.”
“Anyway, thanks. I’ll try again. Probably everyone worldwide is doing the same thing as me, right?”
“Do well then. One week left.”
Bernard clenched his fists with a grin.
“One week? If it takes that long, we pros would all lose face. Let’s show them what we’ve got.”
And the next day.
Bernard succeeded at 600 points.

* * *

[Korea’s pro gamer Baek Do-yul succeeded first!!!!! By the way, this guy claimed first place in the ranking just one day after appearing on it.]

-It is impressive, I suppose
-Is the monster still a monster?
-Will the other pros take long or fail…
-Again a Korean, damn it…

[Bernard’s here!]

-He actually pulled off 600 points in the most iconic Bedua. Bernard, America’s pride!
-That’s right! I said he’d do it!
-It was just the busy schedule that was the problem, fully achievable with his skill
└But doing twenty-five consecutive ones? Don’t you think that’s a different dimension?
└└Shut up, Korean!!!! We did it!!!!!

[Was a really great experience, Sami Giroux too.]
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France’s former representative team mid-laner Sami Giroux succeeded the same day!
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After that.
Success reports kept coming.
Talented individuals abandoned their training schedules and devoted themselves to just one thing.
They had a clear direction for how and what to train, and the target was set.
It was strange that they didn’t fail.
“It’s over, Seo Jun. The trials!”
Tae-woo laughed merrily.
Because Tae-woo believed things hadn’t gone as Seo Jun expected.
“I guess so.”
The pros had all succeeded, and.
“So Seo Jun, you’re only holding first place in one record now? Just Kael?”
While watching Seo Jun browse foreign communities on the computer, Tae-woo laughed heartily once more.
“You didn’t expect them to do this well, right? Huh? Never thought they’d all succeed without exception.”
And then Seo Jun turned his chair, and Tae-woo could see his face.
That same expression he always wore.
“Yeah, I really didn’t see that coming.”
A smile brimming with composure that everything had gone as he desired.
Beyond it, the bright monitor entered Tae-woo’s view. He could see which post Seo Jun had stopped on.

[Thank you for growing the heroes (pros), Korea’s Demon King! Now there’s nothing left but to become undefeatable!]

Not just in Korea, but worldwide.
The narrative had been set in place.

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