Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 328

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Chapter 328

Calm. Like a still lake.
His eyes never lose composure, no matter the situation.
Anyone who noticed this felt chills run down their spine.
Baek Do-yul, who had watched the footage countless times, and the veteran film crew—they all caught it.
Beyond the smile, there seemed to exist a still, vast, unimaginably inhuman spirit.
Yet his words suggest otherwise.
To the eye, his gaze seems to flash.
No—it glimmers.
So the people around him had no choice but to rub their eyes and look again.
Was it calm? Had they misread it?
Were they just going mad?
“Really just protein? In all seriousness?”
“Yes, protein. What else would a crocodile be?”
“How is that… protein?”
The saltwater crocodile population had not only recovered completely—it had become so abundant it was now a growing headache.
For one thing, saltwater crocodiles are dangerous.
They’re highly intelligent, aggressive, and savage.
They don’t fear humans; they see them as prey, and they can leap high out of the water.
The power of their tail—which lets that massive body soar over two meters above the surface and propel them at high speed through the water—is terrifying.
As a carnivore, if a wild crocodile intent on attack bites you, you’d best accept immediately that the bitten part no longer belongs to you and learn to live with it.
Such is the creature.
The average saltwater crocodile is 4.7 meters long, with recorded specimens reaching up to seven meters.
“We were briefed. Told to avoid them no matter what. And that thing looked genuinely about six meters long, didn’t it? We were lucky it was basking—if it hadn’t been…”
No matter how powerful a saltwater crocodile is, it remains a wild animal.
They prefer hunting from an overwhelmingly advantageous position, striking prey unaware.
“So dangerous circumstances could have unfolded, yes?”
“Yes. And right now, Seo Jun is walking straight into that danger of his own accord.”
“But.”
“But?”
“But if we catch that saltwater crocodile in this situation, the food problem gets solved completely.”
“……”
Everyone knew a truly dangerous situation could unfold.
The production crew had prepared extensively to prevent accidents, and if one did occur, they were ready to respond immediately.
The crocodile was the same.
Before Baek Do-yul got close enough to be in real danger, the camera operators had already noticed, and they’d planned to warn him if he approached further.
One way or another, they had to stop Seo Jun and talk him out of it.
“Since this crocodile didn’t appear during the preliminary survey, it’ll leave if we leave it alone. Saltwater crocodiles are territorial.”
“So we have to catch it before it goes!”
“It already noticed us, so it might have woken up already.”
“It’s still just an animal.”
There was no arguing. They couldn’t stop him.
Seo Jun laughed softly and spoke.
“Then please stand by so you can pull me out immediately if it bites me. After that, I’ll hunt.”
Seo Jun offered a compromise.

* * *

The saltwater crocodile basking on the Beach came into view.
Its size was, as Baek Do-yul said, easily six meters.
A crocodile this size might as well be called a dinosaur.
Its total weight would exceed one ton.
Its head alone weighed two hundred kilograms.
The male crocodile, stirring from its basking, took a defensive posture toward the strange intruders drawing near.
Its mouth, easily large enough to swallow a human’s lower half, opened slightly.
And then it began moving—slowly, very slowly—one step at a time.
The veteran hunters stood ready to shoot without hesitation if trouble arose.
The strongest tranquilizer, which takes effect in one minute rather than ten, and shotguns.
Step. Step. Step.
Past those hunters, a real-world madman holding a longsword walked forward.
The cameraman, safety personnel, and veteran hunters—the entire crew—tensed while praying the situation would unfold as planned.
That the crocodile would simply move straight ahead and retreat into the Beach.
Normally, when approached during basking, crocodiles don’t attack and flee instead.
This is the instinct of a predator: wounds are fatal in the wild, so they only fight when absolutely safe.
But in that moment.
Seo Jun, approaching the crocodile from the side in a straight line, suddenly shifted his direction to the right.
“Stop!”
“Do what we agreed, please!”
“Everyone stay calm.”
The man with the longsword, Seo Jun, moved slightly and turned to face the crocodile head-on, the sea at his back.
“I’m telling you, it’s fine?”
And he laughed quietly.
The crew was speaking quietly even in this urgent moment to avoid agitating the crocodile as much as possible.
But he had the confidence to suppress it whether the crocodile grew angry or not.
Was it arrogance? Recklessness?
No.
It truly wasn’t arrogance or recklessness.
What he’d shown in the game was trifling.
If one knew what experiences from his past life dwelt in Seo Jun’s mind, absolutely no one would worry.
He had navigated danger far more severe.
A mere six-meter crocodile was nothing more than a ton of butchered meat.
Even if hundreds of such crocodiles gathered, it would change nothing.
‘I apologize for worrying you.’
In any case.
“Please be ready to pull me out immediately if it bites me. And children, absolutely do not try this at home.”
Ah.
Adults shouldn’t try it either, come to think of it.
Ordinary adults wouldn’t try it anyway, so that’s an exception.
Step.
Step.
Step.
Seo Jun gripped the longsword in reverse and lifted it toward the ground.
He would finish it in one thrust.
It was respect for the hunt.
The crocodile wasn’t human, so appealing to its character would accomplish nothing.
And he had to think of the crew’s racing hearts too.
“If it charges, we shoot! Just shoot!”
“Then won’t I get hit?”
“Please just move back!”
“Crocodiles run fast too! Be careful!”
A crocodile can only hide its body in water.
That’s simply what such a creature does.
And to reach the water, it must inevitably face Seo Jun.
The distance closed.
Already, the space between them was closer than the crocodile’s own body length.
Five meters.
Four meters.
Three meters.
Ssssss.
The crocodile raised its head.
Seo Jun, as if unconcerned with such things, maintained the same pace and walked on.
The instant Seo Jun, having simplified the situation into a forced charge, was about to drive his blade down—
“Huh?”
The crocodile’s head simply turned away.
And then.
Thump-thump.
With its massive body crashing and bounding, it scrambled into the Grassland.
“What?”
“What?”
“Huh?”
“Phew! But… why?”
The saltwater crocodile.
Had fled inland—not forward or diagonal, but away from Seo Jun.
As if it were genuinely frightened.

* * *

—Lmaooooooo
—Conqueror’s Color is insane lol
—It fled the other way? lmao
—The crocodile’s eyes really did look startled lmaooo

“Look, catching the crocodile in this situation would be perfect. And I know you won’t try to copy it anyway.”

—Obviously lmao who copies this insane squad leader!
—lmao my legs were shaking
—Even knowing he’s safe lol that’s too much ㅠㅠㅠ

But it wasn’t over.
Seo Jun on screen spun his head and spoke.

[When a crocodile moves onto land and exhaust itself like that, it enters a vulnerable state. We should pursue it.]
[Wait…!]

Despite Baek Do-yul’s protest, Seo Jun disappeared into the Grassland, and the camera hurried after him.
‘The veteran hunters weren’t caught on camera—good shot.’

—lmaooo please squad leader please!!!!
—I feel sorry for the crocodile now lmao
—Everyone got worked hard because of the squad leader lmao
—Baek Do-yul’s voice lmaooo where’s the champion going?
—This thing being a champion lmao

It wasn’t true.
They weren’t worked hard. Especially not Baek Do-yul.
As the camera rushed through the Grassland, Seo Jun’s narration began.

[Viewers absolutely must not attempt this, but I’ve decided to show you how to hunt a crocodile, so I had no choice but to take the risk……]

—Clearly not lmaooo
—This show just decided to go full entertainment lmao
—Did you see the squad leader’s eyes when it came to protein?
—The crocodile didn’t flee to land for nothing
—But seriously, seeing the crocodile flee… does the squad leader have something????
—He must. Even socialized humans have an incredible ability to detect dangerous atmospheres, so a wild animal one slip-up away from death?
—Is the crocodile’s threat detection real??

[When hunting a saltwater crocodile, you must be careful of the tail. The power that enables its explosive acceleration is beyond imagining……]

And the camera finally caught Seo Jun, capturing on screen his Longsword driven through the spine behind its head and Seo Jun lying atop the dead crocodile.

—???? Already caught?
—???
—The crocodile is already dead lmao
—How’d he drive it in that fast???

[I do regret not being able to show you the actual hunting scene since the situation was so urgent.]

Viewers question if it was really so urgent.
“It was urgent. Really.”
Then why are you lying down, they ask.
Wasn’t the urgency really not because it was dangerous, but because you were afraid the crocodile would just run away, they ask relentlessly.
They keep questioning.
Seo Jun changed the subject.
“Everyone, do not try this—absolutely not, understand?”

—Won’t lmao no way

* * *

Moving a one-ton crocodile was work in itself.
They decided to butcher it and transport it.

[Now then, Baek Do-yul, let’s see what you’ve got.]
[Why me?]
[Wasn’t Baek Do-yul the one who received special focus on Butchering during training?]
[Oh, was that it? Just a moment—didn’t you ever ask Seo Jun about Butchering?]
[No.]
[Why not?]
[I didn’t have time because I was focused on learning Hunting properly.]
[I see. But there doesn’t seem to have been any content on hunting, does there? We all learned the common stuff together anyway, didn’t we?]
[Well, if I hadn’t learned it, I wouldn’t have hunted the crocodile!]
[I see……]

—Burn! lmao Where do you get off toward Seo Jun who hunted a crocodile!
—That’s 100% just a “I’m not doing butchering” mindset lmao did Hunting even exist?
—This show just said let’s go entertainment lmao the whole vibe is different lmao
—Baek Do-yul knows and just stays quiet cause of the crocodile slayer lmao

[Ah. Please remove the Crocodile Hide properly first.]
[Yes? Why?]
[It looks cool.]
[……]

Seeing how blatantly he mentioned training made the whole vibe genuinely different.
Even a survival expert has to learn, of course, but mentioning it on broadcast doesn’t look good.
Same with requesting the hide.
‘Even though during preparation, Streaming kept mentioning educational content.’
Baek Do-yul began butchering the crocodile with visible strain.
Seo Jun carried the butchered pieces.
Thus the two wrapped up the hunt cleanly, and the scene jumped ahead a day.
To reveal what Bear and Ryan would see.
It was a six-meter crocodile hide, hanging from a tree like damp laundry right beside their perfectly constructed Camp.

—lmaooo
—It really looks massive hung up like that lmaooo
—Squad leader lmao how’d you even hang it on that tree lmaooo
—100% hung it so those guys would see it 100%.

[Say, Bear, you think the production crew only gave guns to our team?]
[The smoked meat looks properly done. Damn. And the Camp—is that even doable in a day?]
[This is…
[Yeah. We really need to do our best.]

Thus, the two skilled survivors awoke and began moving frantically, spurred by the crocodile hide itself—having arrived less than ten minutes before.
Yet someone’s Longsword also began moving frantically, no different from usual……

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