Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 313

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Chapter 313

Three massive pillars of light—or rather, blades so enormous they resembled pillars—tore through the sky and plummeted earthward.
The entire sequence took barely ten seconds.
Ten seconds.
A four-second Judgment Sword?
For Seo Jun, it was more than enough.
His attack speed and movement speed had both increased dramatically.
Faster than four seconds—fast enough to catch all six participants completely off guard.
Boom-boom-boom-crack!
To those watching the city from afar, it felt like Judgment Day itself had arrived.
The colossal blade materialized above their heads in an instant.
Even as the three pillars drove into the ground, piercing through the road surface and half-obscuring their vision, Seo Jun continued his assault without pause.
This stance of his proved that the Ultimate skill he’d just unleashed was nothing more than an ordinary attack.
The Black Mask’s counterparts were shaken, but they didn’t slow their defenses.
“Ten seconds are up!”
Whoosh!
A throwing star flicked out from a sleeve, which he snatched mid-air and hurled back in one fluid motion.
He widened the distance, falling back.
The throwing star flew in a perfectly straight line toward Kael’s face, sucked in like a magnet.
It was a move that forced even the invulnerable to dodge instinctively—and almost no one could override their instincts without prior training and preparation.
But unfortunately, the opponent knew their situation far too well.
Without so much as a blink, Seo Jun took the hit and closed the distance.
His health, of course, didn’t drop.
The blade grazed his neck. The timing was faster than expected.
‘The blade…!’
It had extended freely—by rune. Something he could acquire on day twelve.
Crash!
The Judgment Sword drove into the earth, exploding with a thunderous roar.
“Did everyone survive that?”
Slice!
In the moment of checking, a vital point was cut.
Unstoppable blade strikes continued pouring down.
The pillars faded. Their vision cleared. There was no more invulnerability time left.
“No one’s dead!”
The six of them, who had spread outward in a radial formation, all simultaneously reversed direction ninety degrees and rushed back in.
They knew the Blessing of Radiance still remained, but now was the moment for counterattack.
No one had died.
Even the hero who had the Heretic Mark applied directly hadn’t been executed.
Had they taken a few more hits, it might have been different—but oddly, the opponent had used his Ultimate skill the moment the third mark appeared.
The Tank, temporarily granted a Shield, naturally survived, and the Dealer hadn’t dropped to execution health.
Because he had performed quests on Train, he immediately drank a Potion.
The last one was a Dealer with only 40% health remaining. If they were going to aim for anyone, it would be them.
The six heroes naturally began designing their strategy for the battle, picturing how things would play out if one of them became the target.
The low-health hero would fall back.
Not meeting the enemy head-on, but entering the fray slightly later, reading the situation first.
They didn’t need words, didn’t need to exchange glances.
They understood how to unfold the fight, which part of the Black Mask to target, what situations to watch for.
Their odds of victory were still high.
‘His health will diminish in a single burst!’
For the Black Mask, high HP was paramount.
First and foremost, the Black Mask had to be able to withstand their attacks.
Otherwise, one moment of carelessness and he’d take multiple skills at once and die a miserable death.
With so many people attacking, he had to be even more careful.
Second was a dedicated Skill good for fighting multiple opponents.
Area of Effect Skills, summoning Skills that spawned minions equal to the number of enemies—things like that.
But their opponent lacked those two things, the most efficient tools for fighting multiple foes.
So naturally, none of them doubted Seo Jun’s victory.
And then.
“What?”
Seo Jun burst through their encircling attacks in an instant.
He hadn’t used an invulnerability Skill.
Just before their Skill reached him, his movement speed increased slightly—barely enough that their attacks missed entirely.
That tiny difference was fatal.
Seo Jun, who had escaped the Skill barrage without any invulnerability Skill, rushed toward where the 40%-health Dealer stood.
‘It’s Instant Acceleration!’
Kael’s runes didn’t include anything like that. Then it was from the shop, or a special Quest reward.
But the effect was so subtle that it was unclear, and there was no time to deduce what it was.

[Phantom Mark]

A CC Skill to restrain Seo Jun shot out immediately.
Seo Jun’s speed didn’t increase greatly.
So the Skill released by someone who adapted instantly was naturally on target.
“Damn it!”
The reason they hadn’t used this Skill earlier was now evident.
Seo Jun’s body, who had slipped past them and was turning his back, became wrapped in light.

[Blessing of Radiance]

Perfect invulnerability that granted CC immunity.
The low-health Dealer was now exposed to Kael—to crisis.
The Skill that would have restrained him should have been activated after this ended.
Still, they didn’t think it was a major problem.
As long as he didn’t die. As long as they blocked. Their team would arrive soon.
And before the five of them’s eyes, a merciless spectacle unfolded.
A professional’s blade wavered, drifting aimlessly through empty air.
Yet by contrast, Seo Jun’s blade tore through bodies without a single unnecessary stroke.
As if it were only natural.
By then, they finally understood what they were facing.
Why they had been chosen as the Black Mask’s counterparts.
And why he had so boldly sacrificed health itself.
“Geomsin.”
Someone approached, murmuring Seo Jun’s nickname.
He severed vital points. Beyond merely severing—it was like a wolf tearing with its fangs.
It appeared that way.
The white lines that materialized were instantly torn apart by the blade.
Slash!
It was merciless.
“Rush in!”
“He’s still invulnerable!”
And they learned of Seo Jun’s second chosen rune.
The Dealer died. Torn to pieces.
And immediately, Seo Jun turned his body and looked at them.
It was eerie.
He was smiling.
His health had diminished. The invulnerability time of the Blessing of Radiance was not that long.
So now they just had to kill him.
“CC him! Pin him down!”
Pure white Aura filled Seo Jun once more.
In their minds, information about a certain rune naturally surfaced.

[Judgment Sword: When you kill an enemy who had the Heretic Mark and it has since disappeared, all your Skill cooldowns are reset. Damage dealt to enemies bearing the Heretic Mark is increased.]

This was a Kael rune normally designed to use Blessing of Radiance and Judgment Sword one more time while executing—to maximize synergy.
It would synergize well with the execution Judgment Sword.
But in Kael’s case, since his Ultimate was conditional, resetting the cooldown didn’t mean much.
So it was a neglected rune among Kael users, with better alternatives available—but not for this opponent.
“His health still dropped!”
“Target his back! Focus on defense!”
“He seems to be healing?”
“Life Steal!”
Watching Seo Jun immediately continue his next action without hesitation, they had one thought.
Wasn’t every moment of this fight choreographed from the start?
Then wasn’t the ending already decided?
And that thought was correct.
“My brothers? Shall we dance once more?”

[Judgment Sword]

Seo Jun attacked by continuously adjusting his attack speed and movement speed in minute increments, while they, like the Dealer who had died moments before, helplessly offered up their vital points.
An overwhelming difference in skill.
He landed his attacks, dealing damage faster than they could recover—but still.
Three pillars fell once more.
“Ah…….”
What appeared was a full-health Kael.
It was despairing.
Like a true final Boss.
“Once more, my brothers? How do you feel?”
The opponent, grinning as he reported yet another death, was the source of their despair.
Only one option remained.
“We have to run!”
“Where will you go?”
Seo Jun laughed softly.

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[Six foreign pros already wiped out? What do you think?]
[Potions used so far? Zero ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s ridiculously easy]

Seo Jun had won his first battle.
It hadn’t taken long.
The other teams were still hard at work clearing the remaining Corridors to reach the final phase.
So there was no way reinforcements could arrive.

[Shocking?]
==
This is the guild leader!
==

-Six pros getting rolled without doing anything is scary, not gonna lie
-Why did they lose so easily?
-Must’ve been nerfed
-Not enough information
└The opponent was in the same situation
└└But with invulnerability Skills, they could’ve led the fight favorably even without info
└└└So in the end, wasn’t it just an overwhelming skill gap?

[Skill gap seems right.]
==
World’s finest analyst John Peto: The Black Mask is deliberately controlling his speed right now.
We know which Potions the Black Mask bought.
So we know that his speed burst isn’t thanks to a Potion—it’s his actual speed.
In other words, the Black Mask is deliberately slowing himself, then speeding up—alternating on purpose.
This kind of play normally breaks one’s own rhythm—it’s a crazy thing to do.
One’s own mind gets tangled before the opponent’s does.
But the Black Mask pulled it off naturally, controlling every moment of the fight exactly as he wanted.
That’s elite-level skill.
==

-Wait. What do you mean his speed got faster?
└Yeah. I don’t get how he accelerated
└└Watch John Peto’s broadcast, you idiots! Hahaha!
-This is the guild leader!
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Ah, I see
-Yeah Bang Ju explained it too~ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Koreans, don’t get carried away. There are still many Participants left, and they’re feeling something’s wrong. They’ll band together and move as one.]
[Acting like it’s already over! How arrogant!]
[Actually not Korean but Americans copying just the ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ too. Hahaha!]
[The more they gather, the harder it gets for the Black Mask. But even if he’s forfeited health, he’s still overpowered. The Participants need to gather, and they’ll realize it.]
[Changing your tune ㅋㅋㅋ Cute guys]

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While destroying the Phase 2 Corridors, the Map system window underwent a change.
The great city of Brion in Astheros.
The list of Participants there was disappearing, one by one.
“Hey, are you seeing this?”
Yeon asked the colleagues clearing the Corridor alongside him.
They were all people grateful enough to come help when Yeon needed them.
Unlike a certain cursed older figure.
“Yeah, checking now.”
“Deaths?”
“Has to be. Brion shows Kael’s marker there too. Six people and they’re dropping like flies.”
“The opponent must be fighting with resolve to the death? Maybe they burned a Potion or two for recovery? Or chose a Life Steal Potion instead? Should we head to Brion right after this?”
“Wait!”
Yeon spoke firmly.
Because he felt it.
They needed to go together. They needed to gather first.
“Let’s hit the other Phase 2 Corridors next. Better if we stick together while moving.”
By now, only one—or two—Participant remained in Brion.
Those who had vanished from the list either fled or died.
They could only see who was in Corridor zones.
Yeon was certain the death rate was 100%. That Monster never let anyone escape.
“Got it. But that last person in Brion seems to be holding out pretty well? Still not dead? Should we go help?”
Yeon was certain.
“He’s not holding out.”
“What?”
“Not holding out. He’s probably just keeping them alive. Otherwise, with no one to talk to, he’d get bored. Probably whoever’s left has health so low one hit would finish them.”
More than that.
It was a trap.
Making it look like they were holding out, to blind them with greed, to make them want to catch the Black Mask.
What made Seo Jun frightening was this.

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