Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 283

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Chapter 283

[Material Collection]
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Cresit requests that you gather as many materials as possible from the otherworld he named Chaos and bring them to the laboratory.
Objective: Material Procurement
Reward: ???
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One hour into the third day.
People reached their hands toward the green fracture.
Watching them vanish in an instant, Seo Jun moved forward and forward.
With just over ten participants, their turn came almost immediately.
Seo Jun reached toward the fracture, and his body was sucked straight in.
“Is this the place?”
After a brief moment of disorientation, the world that came into view was dark.
There were light sources floating in the sky, but there were several of them, and none shone with the intensity of a sun.
The murky lights cast a dark teal hue across the barren landscape.
“The atmosphere is quite mysterious.”
If there had been fog, it would surely have seemed a graveyard or some other afterlife—that was the color now illuminating the desolate terrain.
To the north, massive tree trunks twisted together to form canyon-like terrain, and soldiers stood guard around the fracture.
“Which way shall we go, sir?” Yon asked Seo Jun.
Yon asked Seo Jun from beside him.
Other participants, overhearing the conversation and deciding their direction, looked toward where they stood.
They had confirmed that Yon and Seo Jun had formed a team.
During the ten-minute break earlier, the two had spoken in a secluded spot, so this would be fresh information to the others.
It wasn’t critical, but the kind of thing worth knowing.
Perhaps the most important thing of all—the two could hunt together.
It was cooperation, but to the other participants, that’s how it appeared.
“Mm.”
Just moments before, they had sketched out the broad framework of their strategy but hadn’t settled on specifics like which direction to head.
They had decided where to go.
Somewhere far enough that almost no one else would come, and flat terrain.
“You’d better take the lead.”
Seo Jun tapped Yon on the shoulder.
Since materials couldn’t be found nearby, the participants began to scatter.
The materials they sought were diverse in type.
And obtaining each one took some time.
Flora that could be gathered by climbing into the canyon of giant trunks to the north.
Ore that could be gathered with a Harvesting Tool by descending into crevasses similar to those that appeared scattered throughout the area.
Flora and fauna gathered from the misty marshland.
It was still unclear what else might happen inside this place.
Though the participants were sharing information to some extent.
The item itself was merely a kit that took up one inventory slot, and when used, produced a tool suited to the surrounding environment, so there could be other terrains yet undiscovered.
The materials themselves update in the quest window only once they’re found.
“Understood. We can head anywhere. We need to go far anyway, so what does it matter?”
Seo Jun’s Judgment Sword was visible even from a distance, and if they hunted near the entrance, they’d eventually encounter someone, so they needed to go far.
And if they went so far that no one would come, the direction hardly mattered.
They began running south, leaving behind the entrance directly opposite them and the great canyon of trees.
“It feels like an adventure, sir.”
“Doesn’t it.”
Even going far, they could return at any time.
As long as monsters didn’t gather and create interference.
“One’s appeared.”
“Let’s take it down first.”
They couldn’t gather monsters yet.
This time, a wild-dog-like creature had appeared.
Both lunged simultaneously toward the oncoming monster, raising their weapons.
Taran, the defender, is not a support hero but a bruiser.
Both tanking and dealing damage—the position called top lane in men’s games.
Taran’s weapon is his fists.
Specifically, a barrier he can wrap around his entire body.

[Magoahak Defensive Field]

Taran is a hero who fights with knuckles wrapped in a mana field while defending his body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Fists from the left, sword from the right—both struck the wild dog.
The monster’s health dwindled in an instant.
Seven seconds passed—longer than one might expect for two-on-one combat—and the beast breathed its last.
Thirty seconds after confronting them, the monster would howl and one more would join.
These creatures had the trait of calling another ally if not defeated within thirty seconds.
“Phew. Did you see? I told you it was hard?”
“Dodging isn’t difficult though.”
“That’s only if there’s one or two…”
They pressed onward in succession.
Until they felt confident no one else would follow.
Four minutes of straight travel, then two minutes angling right.
Six minutes later, they arrived at a perfectly barren flatland with nothing around it.
“We’ve arrived.”
From that point, both began to wait in silence.
Yon, apparently somewhat nervous, kept talking to Seo Jun.
“Sir, do you really think I won’t die?”
“If you die, you retire.”
“…”
“…”
“How did you even come up with a plan like this?”
“After hearing about the monsters, I remembered you. It’s perfect.”
“I mean, it fits, but… you’re absolutely insane, sir.”
Seo Jun glanced briefly at Yon.
Yon looked away from his gaze.
“Since the AI already said they double each time, we can’t modify it mid-way.”
“You talk to the AI?”
“Cresit said so. Be careful of the creatures in this otherworld.”
“How does that mean AI?”
Presently, a wild beast with eyes glowing green appeared before them.
The monster herding hunt had begun.
The contrast was stark: Yon’s tension against Seo Jun’s unwavering composure.

* * *

“Ah, one’s appeared! The insane plan begins!” Bang Ju clapped enthusiastically, delighted.
Day three.
Seo Jun was still in motion.
The official broadcast would surely be covering this.
It had to be.
“Did the official broadcast hear those two talking just now, everyone?” Bang Ju chuckled.

-No way

-Was watching Baek Do-yul for a sec while they talked
-Christina in Atura too
-But other broadcast teams compiled everything and wrote the script instantly, so can’t they explain? Bang Ju has no such team, right?

“The casters can explain things, sure. But you need to hear the two of them talking directly for it to mean something and be fun! And why would I need another team! I only need to watch Seo Jun, okay?”

The creatures in this otherworld doubled in number every thirty seconds.
Left alone, they accumulated as powers of two: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256…
At average DPS—excluding Ultimate skills—killing one of these monsters took roughly fourteen seconds.
That meant the moment there were four of them, if they didn’t use an Ultimate, they were essentially dead.
If they retreated and made it back to the starting point, the soldiers Cresit had stationed would handle it, but was that even possible?
How many would they become on the way?
“Ah! Thirty seconds have passed. A howl! Two of them now! Both heroes are just defending!”

-Dude

-The idea itself is overkill
-For real

“A stroke of genius, truly. Only Seo Jun could pull something like this off.”

Gather the monsters madly.
Then eliminate them all at once.
How?
“Taran’s Ultimate! Defensive Field Conversion!”
An Ultimate that granted invulnerability for a set duration and reflected ninety percent of incoming damage across a wide area.
“I’ve calculated it too, and it seems about right. Five Judgment Swords would be a one-combo kill! More than enough!”
Four of them splash damage, one taken directly by Yon.
Since Seo Jun and Yon could hit each other.
Of course, attacking each other would flag them in the system, but as long as that didn’t get reported to Cresit, it would Reset in thirty minutes anyway, so it didn’t matter.
“There are many problems! If it fails, it’s Retirement.”
If either of them couldn’t survive and died, it would be the end of their record right there.
Having done nothing with it.
Well, Seo Jun had done quite a bit even by day three, but wouldn’t it be a shame?

-Insane! Insane! Insane!

-But isn’t it easy? The admin just uses his five-combo Ultimate all the time. It’s just fighting NPC otherworld creatures
-How would that be easy?

“Seo Jun is aiming for one hundred twenty-eight creatures to kill in a single strike! That’ll take about three minutes and thirty seconds!”

“Thirty seconds when there are sixteen! Thirty seconds when there are thirty-two! Thirty seconds when there are sixty-four!”
While they wouldn’t face all thirty-two at once, surviving under a constant barrage of rotating attacks would be
“Twenty seconds to five Judgment Swords when there are one hundred twenty-eight!”
Nearly impossible.
“Now eight!”
The creatures multiplied in an instant.
“This can still be reversed! If both use their Ultimate, they can handle eight! But! Ah, here they go! They’re not attacking—just defending!”
Yon and Seo Jun focused on combat in silence.
No more idle chatter was needed.
“Sixteen!”
Wild beasts surrounded them, striking relentlessly without pause.
No breath to spare, literally.
Constant movement, constant defense.
Seo Jun looked at ease.
Yon still did too.
“Thirty-two!”
Yon allowed one beast’s attack through. A leg was bitten.
Thanks to the mana field wrapping around him in response, health loss was minimal, but still much time remained to endure.
The thirty-two wild beasts circled and kept diving in.
Sometimes one lunged at a time, sometimes two. Sometimes three. Sometimes four.
They had to dodge or block every single one.
Fortunately, the beasts hadn’t completely lost their reason or begun recklessly ignoring distance and injuries.
But it was too tight.
Yon’s health was steadily depleting.
If Yon died, Seo Jun would struggle to survive too.
To wipe the monsters out at once by stacking splash damage, at least seven Judgment Swords would be necessary.
Was that even possible in this chaotic melee?
‘Or can Seo Jun survive somehow?’
Bang Ju clenched his fists even as he maintained faith in Seo Jun, watching the fight unfold.
“Sixty-four! Countdown thirty seconds!”

* * *

Meanwhile, it wasn’t just Bang Ju watching Seo Jun.

[He’s insane. According to what he says, killing everyone else is fine.]

Even knowing it’s cooperation!
I’m actually starting to think this Korean might really kill them all. I’m scared.
It’s supposed to be cooperation, but this isn’t working!!!!!
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[Does anyone know why Yon keeps groveling to that streamer?]

From before the monster herding hunt even started.

[With that level of physicality that outlasts Yon, I get why he became a streamer.]

He drew aggro to a degree beyond that.
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All through the monster herding hunt.

The reason was simple.
The official broadcast kept spotlighting Seo Jun.
And why the official broadcast kept shining on him was equally simple.
Attention couldn’t help but gravitate toward him.

[That Korean is annoying, sure]

But he draws aggro every single moment.
This is what a streamer is. Others should reflect.
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[Success alone would reverse the deficit and achieve rewards that defy logic.]

The drop rate for materials from otherworld creatures is fifty percent.
If one hundred twenty-eight die, roughly sixty-four items fall. With only six inventory slots in the History Record, the two would have to make desperate runs back and forth!
Of course, the conditions are harsh.
The Koreans’ famous five-combo Judgment Sword had to be pulled off amid that massive horde, and the Blessing of Radiance had to be saved for Taran’s Ultimate timing.
Most of all: twenty seconds at one hundred twenty-eight creatures.
Yon had to hold.
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[Sixty-four!!!]

But.

Factions harboring displeasure would grow giddy.

[Huh? This is Yon in danger.]

Health below half!!!! Even less!!!!
Both are done for now. Hahahaha.
But I knew this would happen!
Hahahaha!
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