Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 280

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Chapter 280

Shin’s Ultimate Skill was a self-buff type.
A skill that drew upon the power of the family’s guardian tree, growing larger for a fixed duration and receiving a powerful buff that increased destructive force.
Shin first hurled his enlarged left Chakram at Seo Jun.
The Chakram was a thin ring-like weapon with a hollow center.
Capable of both throwing and slashing at a skilled level, the Chakram could unleash a diverse array of combat techniques befitting its form.
The moment Kael’s Sword deflected Shin’s Chakram and they both closed in on each other.
With his remaining right Chakram, he deployed a skill to slash the surroundings, while with his left he used a skill to retrieve the thrown Chakram.
The slashing skill dealt high damage.
The retrieval skill didn’t deal much damage, but it carried a brief stun.
Both seemed impossible to evade, so Shin executed his combo as planned.

[Return]
[Crescent Slash]

Yet, less than 0.1 seconds after activating them, Shin instinctively understood.
Seo Jun’s position had shifted subtly—and in that new position, an escape route had opened.
Shin could see it himself, though whether Seo Jun saw it was another matter.
No—had this outcome always been inevitable?
The Chakram was retrieved, and his right hand executed a short forward slash.
And of course, Seo Jun was nowhere within that range.
One step.
Toward Seo Jun, who had closed in once more, Shin swung his Chakram in continuation.
Clang!
Sword met cold metal ring.
Shin released his grip on the Chakram for an instant, then seized it again, executing an unconventional technique.
Power twisted; the sword caved inward.
A move that would have been impossible to counter without practice.
However.
The sword, caved downward, snapped straight into a V-shape instead.
Shatter!
A sound like breaking glass pierced the air.
That most dangerous sound to heed when facing Kael had reached his ears.
As the blade came upward, it was grazing his vital point.
‘Dangerous!’
In a moment, the tide had reversed completely.
Shin understood it well.
Just how lethal Seo Jun’s Kael was.
To avoid taking even one strike from it, he’d wanted to use techniques that could be called all-out power from the start, yet was instead immediately turned against.
‘No Judgment Sword.’
Arrogant.
Yet the thought flickered through his mind—he had good reason to be arrogant.
Shatter!
He couldn’t mount a defense, but his opponent moved without pause, designing the future one move ahead.
‘Trust instinct.’
He surrendered everything to intuition.
Normally he would have woven together sense and intellect, intuition and reason. But not now.
There was no time to think.

[Crescent Slash]

Shatter!
The moment he slashed a third vital point, his skill found its mark.
Or so he thought it would.
He’d believed he could achieve even a modest, acceptable result and comfort himself to press onward as things stood.
After all, Kael’s stacks didn’t grow stronger with accumulation, and there was no Judgment Sword.
But.

[Blessing of Radiance]

Seo Jun’s speed in slashing the third vital point was infinitesimally faster, and by the time his skill landed, a radiant aura already enveloped Kael.
Shin was dominated completely.
None of his unorthodox techniques worked.
Not with Chakram throws, not with his unconventional sword tricks.
Every attack was blocked and neutralized.
By superior movement.
By a defensive blade.
By attacks that simultaneously defended.
“Heretic, do you wish to flee?”
His health had diminished, and the Ultimate Skill’s effect had faded.
“What are you saying, you mad judge?”
Fighting roused the blood in a person.
Shin was roused. A cornered rat.
Yet his opponent remained playfully serene. That was far more terrifying.
“Listen, heretic.”
“You call me that because you don’t know my name, don’t you?”
“……”
“Exactly, you bastard!”
“You’re perceptive.”
“Madman.”
“Then you’ll have to die for me. Heretic.”
“You’re insane.”
He’d never imagined he’d be eliminated like this.
‘By someone who doesn’t even know my name.’
Kael’s Sword hung before his throat, and Shin’s vision darkened.

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“Is he dead?”

[Even though I kept calling, he didn’t answer. Looks like he’s dead.]

“Well, I suspected as much after seeing the Judgment Sword drop. Seems that Korean provoked him again. Rather annoyingly.”
Shon of America.
A professional player from America who’d argued earlier and more forcefully than his current conversation partner that they should avoid Seo Jun.
He had a strength in analysis.
His obsessive nature in dissecting opponents had earned him consistently high win rates in every fight.
“Christina’s keeping me at a distance adequately enough.”

[It’s still 2 vs 2. Now things are getting dangerous.]

“But the conditions themselves are far too favorable for us.”
So maintaining the status quo meant their victory.
Even if pushed back, so long as they didn’t lose more than 50 meters.
Both were doing the same job, but the completion conditions differed.
Atura often saw neither side pushed effectively, resulting in mutual failure, but this time the conditions were glaringly obvious.
‘The instruction is clear—neutralize that person by any means necessary. Give it your all.’
It was why his pride stung.
The participating numbers, the victory conditions.
Still.
“Let’s win.”
If it were 3 vs 2, their victory would be assured, but even now it wasn’t impossible.
Shon briefed his teammate while efficiently disposing of soldiers.
The map showed only the battle line.
Following the line, you could locate soldiers in combat.
The efficient method was to constantly search for active battlegrounds and move there.
You could keep moving left and handle soldiers, or move left, handle them, and backtrack to your previous position.
Soldier-on-soldier combat continued unabated.
Meeting a teammate meant combining forces for swift disposal, then dispersing left and right.

[The battle line is getting pushed back slightly?]

“Keep catching as many as you can.”
No anomaly had occurred.
It was merely a difference in skill level.
‘I’m not this good? Christina is skilled too, but.’
Shon frankly acknowledged that he fell short of his opponent’s caliber.
Which was why he’d warned them.
Of course, he could win 2 vs 1, and 3 vs 2 as well, but.
‘But we ended up 2 vs 2.’
Still, if things continued as they were, they’d win.
There seemed insufficient time for the line to be pushed back 50 meters.
‘If we were being pushed instead, I’d have given up long ago.’
Just as Shon smiled at their precarious victory.
He encountered someone at a battle point.
‘When did he get here?’
Seo Jun, who’d gone left relative to Asiarus, had come this way.
Leaving his soldier behind, he immediately departed as fast as possible.
‘Since there’s time to handle the soldiers……!’
He’d just taken a hit, but Seo Jun couldn’t possibly follow him here.
Because he had to process soldiers first.
And yet.
Twenty seconds after entering the next battleground, Seo Jun appeared again.
At the next battlefield too.
And the one after that.
Seo Jun followed.
‘This bastard. Is he actually handling soldiers properly?’
He was.
The battle line kept getting pushed back.

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Though hidden beneath the speed of Seo Jun’s Judgment Sword, Kael’s basic DPS was extraordinarily high.
Slashing vital points yielded additional damage and buffs not quite at skill-tier level, and Seo Jun could strike those vital points at breakneck speed.
Sustained damage.
And since it wasn’t 1 vs 1, he could strike two locations simultaneously against surrounding enemies.
With continuously generated stacks, he could utilize leftover Blessings of Radiance to land another hit during times he should have been taking damage.
Thus Seo Jun could process enemies far faster than anyone else and pursue a Daran noble.

[Heretic, look to the heavens.]

Seo Jun immediately deployed the Judgment Sword against soldiers.
In case they charged like his previous opponent.
But his opponent didn’t take the bait.
After the fourth repetition, instead of following the battle line, he feinted his direction to escape Seo Jun’s sight.
And thanks to those four delays, Seo Jun was able to complete his mission 35 minutes before the end of day 2.
Five minutes remained until the mission time limit.
All daily missions end 30 minutes before the day concludes, unless otherwise mentioned in the quest.

[Thank you for your efforts.]
[Thank you as well, Christina. I’ll be returning to the capital now.]

[Conflict Zone Support]
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Conflict Zone Support: Atura, disputed territory with Daran.
Assistance desired to the fullest extent.
Objective: Push the battle line back by 50 meters or more.
Reward: Achievement Point +70
Failure: Achievement Point –20
Participants: Two
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[You have acquired 70 Achievement Points.]

Bang Ju let out a cheer.
“Seventy points! That’s insane!”
After day 2 began, people had predicted Asiarus’s defeat.
It was 2 vs 3.
The conditions also favored Daran heavily.
“Yet they succeeded spectacularly, securing 70 points and achieving a total of 268 points—now the undisputed golden king of the History Book! And he didn’t buy the Prophecy Book! Not buying it, I tell you!”
The fact that Seo Jun wasn’t buying the Prophecy Book was also generating considerable discussion.
“And on top of that, a 1 vs 1 victory against the rookie without the Judgment Sword even gives him the Impact! I knew he was good, but I didn’t expect him to be this skilled! Well, I did know, but.”
Most Koreans would have known as well.

-He’s just at Taker-level lol
-fr fr
-He catches pros with clones, what did you expect

But overseas, it was different.
Professionals.
Unlike Korea’s already fractured perception, the wall between professional and amateur remained solid in the international consciousness.
Yet even that barrier was beginning to crack before Seo Jun.
“Plus the mad heretic judge!”
Barely a day had passed—in the History Book’s timeline, only day 2 had elapsed.
Someone receiving attention he might never garner despite decent performance throughout the entire History Book period was now receiving all of it.
‘The person himself wouldn’t see it, though.’
Bang Ju chuckled.

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[Days 1 & 2 Summary]
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(Photo of Seo Jun)
Basically he just played Geomsin lol
Summary complete!
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-wwww He’s literally a god, so calling him “heretic” is fine lmaooo
-All Koreans knew this would happen, right?
-I thought he’d lose
└But he didn’t
└How does 2 vs 3 make sense? Huh?
└It makes sense. They won~
-Only possible because he’s Geomsin

[How will the Forest Beast Hunt quest connect?]
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I’m curious?
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-They just get marked as “heretic” by Kael and die to the Judgment Sword in the end
└This checks out
└This comment will be legendary.

[The Train side seems important. Any deductions?]

-I looked into the future. Geomsin will occupy Train
└Dude. We want actual spoilers (Original post author)
└Info) This comment will be legendary
-Go to the West

[International communities are the same]
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No info posts. Just spam about Geomsin.
Not mindless praise, though.
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[Guys, you have to deduce from Kael in the first place. All you can learn from Train is cooperation. That’s literally it.]

[International take on why Kael gave up the Prophecy Book.]
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200 points are just a waste~
Later the shop opens and you can buy runes. Why burn it on prophecy?
Just frame anyone with info as “heretic” and you get info yourself??????
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-International folks are learning about the boss real well lmao
└They know him too well?lmao
└fr
-Seriously though, maybe the AI purposely stopped at 200 to make him buy the Prophecy Book quickly. But the boss is a contrarian, so he just didn’t. That’s possible.
└Why is “contrarian” your serious take?lmao
└That’s the boss though
└That’s also plausible

[So what’s the AI going to do now?]
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Seems like it just wanted him to buy the Prophecy Book and he didn’t.
The lucrative trap (2 vs 3) it set for 70 points got dismantled anyway.
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-Man vs Machine brewing lmao
-The boss’s real enemy was the computer! He was John Connor!!!!
-Not sure what the theme is but just gimme Kael destroying everything lmao
└Hitting it right now lol
-AI: I need balance but there’s a monster ㅠㅠ
-Just send everything at him

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Meanwhile, the man who’d caused all that commotion, Seo Jun,
“I’ve accumulated plenty of points now. If the next Cardinal mission isn’t spectacular enough, I think I’ll head to Train instead.”
This time, while eating pasta at his leisure, he decided his next destination.
Day 3 dawned.

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