Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 277

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Episode 277

“Hahahaha! Kael is talking about Point Copying right now!”
Commentator Kapil laughed heartily after hearing Seo Jun’s words.
Seo Jun held the Fish Net and waited quietly once more as Kapil continued his commentary.
“If it were possible, he’d have done it long ago. He’s succeeded once out of eight attempts, so the success rate is 12.5 percent! I’m actually a bit worried that he’ll burn through all his Points like this. Please, I beg you—only use your Public Points.”
Kapil was half-serious.
Watching him lose continuously might make for decent content, but if that shakes his mental state and leads to an excuse for why he lost to a pro, that wouldn’t be ideal.
Of course, if he were really the kind of pathetic person who gambles away everything like that, there’d be no point in evaluating him at all.
Meanwhile, as Kapil was thinking such things, Penguin and Arin grew grave.
“Hmm…….”
“Isn’t this dangerous……?”
“You think so too, Arin?”
“Yes……. Of course. If it actually gets copied…….”
Kapil’s eyes filled with question marks.
“?”

* * *

At the same time, the team leaders of History, who had been in a meeting after hearing Seo Jun’s words, entered emergency mode.
They were gathered in Korea.
“The AI can forcibly stop it, right? It has to be able to.”
“It can stop him if he keeps succeeding? Was that even accounted for in the first place? Isn’t this basically leaving everything up to the AI’s judgment?”
“Should we take the server down right now?”
“First time?”
“If the balance gets destroyed this badly, we’re done. Dead. Did you all forget what we put in the next season’s teaser? If Points flood the market, we’re finished!”
“And we’re seeing a prophecy come true in a single day! The climax hasn’t even moved across the chaos into Pangaea yet!”
An enormous torrent of overlapping voices poured out all at once.
It was a crisis.
No one knew how to respond, and everyone was in chaos.
What the production crew had originally wanted was the confusion of participants caused by mysterious attackers.
Since the new region, the Other World, was itself chaos, they’d designed it that way.
But.
“Why because of one participant!”
Chaos had come to them.
Should they forcibly shut down the server and apply a Hot Fix?
Or should they trust the AI to judge and impose sanctions on its own?
“Isn’t everyone way too worked up? Let’s just watch for now. It might’ve just been something he said. One successful try.”
“”That’s not it!””
Several team leaders cried out in unison.
“That guy doesn’t say things he won’t do!”
The other team leaders stared at the optimistic one with eyes that said, ‘Do you still not get it?’
That’s right.
Seo Jun had never said he could do something he couldn’t do.

* * *

Perfect Memory.
An ability to perfectly recreate in one’s mind the memory of any moment received through the sensory organs.
The famous anecdote about boarding a helicopter, looking down at the entire city, and drawing it over the course of several days was well-known.
He remembers that view.
He remembers the sounds.
He remembers the tastes.
And beyond recreating them in his mind, he reproduces them in reality.
As paintings.
As music.
As cuisine.
Such superhuman individuals exist.
Seo Jun was one of them.
Movement.
When people dance for the first time, they’re unfamiliar with every single motion, so to speak, they creak.
Muscles have memory, as the saying goes—even the most basic movements at the finest level of granularity require skill.
The perfect control of one’s body.
It was one of Seo Jun’s specialties.
And remembering all of his movements.
That too was one of Seo Jun’s specialties.
In other words.
‘If I succeed just once.’
After that, I can simply recreate the sensation of the moment I caught the fish.
The seven failures were to find that one success.
Other people need to repeat endlessly and countless times to develop the feel, for their bodies to develop the muscle memory, and eventually reach mastery to become artisans. But Seo Jun needs only a single successful experience.
He can become a master.
Because he can reproduce the exact same result whenever he wishes.
Of course, for Seo Jun, this was merely an incidental skill that came alongside reaching the highest peak.
“Proceeding with Point Copying.”
It’s quite useful for Streaming.
Holding the Fish Net, he remained still for a moment, then slowly and at an angle, he inserted the net into the water.
He hadn’t paused to refresh that sensation again; rather, it’s just that things like this need to be done with timing to be more entertaining.
And.
‘I told them to stop it quickly if they were going to.’
It was a courtesy.
But they didn’t stop it.
‘Then I’ll just do it. They should’ve come up with an excuse themselves.’

[1 Achievement Point has been deducted.]

He grasped both the movement that had succeeded before and even the sensation of how to move to tear or not tear beyond that point.
Because once you succeed, you can compare what was different from before.
Current Achievement Points: 74.
He felt the currents in the water.
The energy transmitted by the subtle movements of the Coral Fish.
It’s dangerous.
If more than three of them approach nearby, the net will tear when you move.
The difficulty isn’t high for nothing.
He sensed the intention behind this—to make him lose Points no matter what if he kept going.
He wondered if it was the production crew’s intention or the AI’s intention.
For a moment, Seo Jun remained absolutely still.
He lifted the net smoothly.
In the brief moment when the Coral Fish entered in front of the net, when water movement was minimized.
He brushed the fish’s flank with the rim of the net.

[1 Achievement Point has been acquired.]

The message appeared.
Seo Jun immediately picked up the next net.
The shop owner NPC congratulated him.
The same reaction as just before.
Seo Jun laughed.
When would that shop owner’s reaction change?
“I’ll recover the principal quickly.”
Recovering one’s original investment.
Isn’t that important?
Of course, he had no intention of stopping once he’d recovered the principal.
Who could quit a gamble with a 100% win rate?

[1 Achievement Point has been acquired.]
[1 Achievement Point has been acquired.]
[1 Achievement Point has been acquired.]

Right?

* * *

“Look at this!”
All the team leaders’ heads turned toward one person.
The team leader who’d made the optimistic remark.
They all knew it wasn’t his fault.
It was entirely their failure to make quick decisions.
“So we just have to trust the AI…….”
“79.”
“Once he does this one, it’ll be 80.”
“Recovered the principal……. And going beyond.”
Profits began to appear.
No, this was too polite a way to put it.
That’s right.
Seo Jun, who had just succeeded seven times in a row, wasn’t making profits.
It was quite literally.
“Points are being copied…….”
This is dangerous.
This needs to be stopped.
“80…….”
At someone’s flat proclamation, everyone swallowed hard.
“81.”
Time moves damned fast.
No.
This participant is just damned fast at fishing.
“82.”
Will the AI do its job?
Based on its performance so far, it should definitely adjust the balance.
“83.”
“This is hopeless!”
“Not a single mistake! Insane Korean!”
“That’s racist.”
This team leader said so.
“So what! That guy really is insane!”
Chaos.
“84.”
It was nothing but chaos.
The team leaders had been ambushed.
Only this one team leader, who had subtly been hoping for Seo Jun to perform well, smiled quietly to himself.
Of course, if the Content were to fail, they’d have to stop him immediately.
They couldn’t let him indefinitely earn Achievement Points from 500 to 1,000.
“Quick, let’s think of an excuse.”
“Just say we’re applying a Hot Fix. What excuse? We all know what’s coming.”
They gave up and began rapidly contacting their team members to prepare.
“Please hang in there, AI. Block the Bug!”
It’s not a Bug.
Right, it’s not.
Or is it?
Is it a Bug?
The thought patterns of all the team leaders present converged into one.
They all simultaneously felt as though their consciousness was intertwined, forming a single collective consciousness.
“That’s not what we made it to do. Really. 86, 87, 88, 89, 90.”
Five more—so 95. And when it reached 100, thankfully.
The strange phenomenon stopped.
“We knew you’d come through!”
“AI, you’re the best!”
“Damn it. This is it. This is what I’m talking about.”
“It’s adjusting in real time!”
Precisely when Seo Jun had earned about 20 more Points, the NPC approached him and spoke.

[I think you should stop now. You seem to have enjoyed yourself enough.]

“Wow!”
“Right. We’ve had plenty of fun!”
This team leader regarded his excited colleagues with reluctant affection, but couldn’t dampen their high spirits.
Their pride.
The Super AI.
It was doing its job properly.
The shop owner NPC closed the lid of the pool containing the fish.

[Why?]

That crazy streamer said.
“What’s he doing now.”
“Just go.”

[Really, you’ve enjoyed yourselves quite enough. Trying to have more fun here is just thieving tendencies. Show some consideration for the shop.]
[Hmm.]
[Then, shall I close the door now?]
[Hold on.]
[Do you have something else to say, Judge?]
[Ah, yes, I do.]
[What is it?]
[You. Are you a heretic?]

Seo Jun smiled with a menacing edge.
It was an expression they didn’t like.
Gulp.
The team leaders began swallowing nervously again.
“Did he upset his mood?”
“What’s he going to do now…….”

[……?]
[If you weren’t a heretic, the Judge of the Doctrine wouldn’t have any reason to interfere with my work.]

The freedom that comes with technological advancement—that’s the problem.
In old-fashioned games, an NPC standing next to the player would just recite their programmed lines no matter what nonsense the player spouted, whether they set off bombs or walked around in underwear.

[M-may I ask what work I’ve interfered with, Judge?]

Seo Jun was gaining Achievement Points according to the system, but from the NPC’s perspective, it was just the Judge of the Doctrine amusing himself with fish-catching because he was bored.

[I was conducting an undercover investigation to catch heretics.]
[I see.]
[But you’ve obstructed my investigation. Do you understand what this means?]
[Oh dear, Your Honor!]

The NPC immediately prostrated himself.
But the team leaders were confident.
No matter how much freedom the system had, a fabricated lie wouldn’t get past it.
The shop NPC was just an AI’s response.
And the AI knew that Seo Jun’s words were false.

[I really didn’t mean to interfere! In that case, I’ll gladly make space for you. Please, come inside the shop!]

So it went over smoothly.
The AI wasn’t one that could fail to achieve its goal of preventing Seo Jun from earning Achievement Points through the fish game.
“There’s nothing more to say! Hahahaha!”
“Deceiving it is impossible! The AI is all-knowing!”
“We just let it decorate History with our intentions and the AI’s intentions, like puppeteers pulling strings!”
They fired off victory celebrations in rapid succession.
At this level, it was perfect.
That was the moment.
One of the team leaders, someone who had grasped something, had their expression crumble.
At the same time, Seo Jun chuckled softly and smiled peacefully.

[Actually, it’s fine, brother. Then I’ll be going now.]

The obnoxious judge with attitude, now suddenly a reasonable person, left the shop and.
“?”
“……?”
As he moved elsewhere, he spoke.
Was it to them, or to the AI?

[I’ll head to the next Mini-game.]

At this thunderbolt news, they froze.
The reason the AI had stopped Seo Jun was that he’d been gaining far too much profit from the Coral Fish game.
The other Mini-games.
“There’s a high chance it won’t stop him preemptively.”
“It’ll only stop him after he’s done copying Points.”
“And this participant knows that very well.”
That’s right.
It wasn’t over yet.
Afterward, Seo Jun was able to purchase prophecies in an instant.

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