Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 338

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Episode 338

A computer in a Korean studio hummed to life.
It meant the studio owner had started streaming.
“Hello, everyone! Who am I? I’m Bang Ju, the guy who hits the Seo Jun coin perfectly every time!”
Once again, a streamer appeared on screen, grinning and sucking honey.
He was Bang Ju, Trabol’s finest amateur commentator.
Bang Ju’s smile was that of someone who knew exactly how much honey he was stealing.

-lol just everyone’s Bang Ju
-this bastard Bang Ju got Observer again
-so everyone can enjoy Bang Ju’s stream!! is that it!!!
-well… sorta

“Why did I start an hour late? Because I have to! So everyone, go watch Seo Jun’s stream instead! The first-person immersion is really good there too!”
Bang Ju chased away the viewers gathering in his room.
It was true, after all.

-honey-stealer with some shame lol
-yeah he’s got shame lol
-coordinated with the broadcast station but anyway the debt is the streamer’s lol

Bang Ju read the chat and found himself nodding without thinking.
Seo Jun’s track record of broadcasting under his ID in the History Book had surely been a huge help in landing this broadcast commentary as well.
‘I should worship him!’
If there had been no viewer base just watching commentary, Bang Ju wouldn’t have taken on the broadcast commentary.
He might have stolen Korean viewership from someone like Seo Jun.
No matter how small or low-tier Bang Ju himself was.
‘But since that’s Seo Jun, I can’t help but be small.’
Fortunately, that wasn’t the case.
Everyone who would watch Seo Jun’s stream did; only those who wouldn’t or couldn’t came to Bang Ju’s stream.
Either way, what mattered was.
“Right! Now we begin the Last commentary broadcast! People are starting to log into Last’s map. Let me explain this game — first, the server stays on 24 hours a day!”

-wow that’s intense
-real-world 24 hours?
-never turns off?

“That’s right, it never shuts down. So here’s the key thing — sentries! What if someone raids your house while everyone’s asleep offline?”
You lose all your resources.
A raid.
That’s what you call it when you loot another team’s house.
In Last, the bosses on the map and other people’s houses are treated the same as raids.
“You have to stop the raid! How? Set up a sentry, and if someone comes, call them on the phone!”
Within Last, there’s an evil app that sends a signal to trigger either a very loud horn alarm or a dormitory morning wake-up call through your phone.
Most people use that app.
“This game’s objective is to go for Achievements. I don’t know which ones exactly, but there are already posts on the community guessing about them, so take a look if you’re curious.”
The key point here is that there are multiple achievements.
You have to perform excellently across the board while surviving to win.
“It’s going to be intense. And since it’s worth trying as long as your camp isn’t completely ruined, the game will be extremely fierce! Now, ah! Yun-ho’s streaming and Seo Jun’s streaming are meeting!”
The scene that viewers already knew unfolded. A shakedown.
Everyone said they saw it coming anyway.
“Ah, there’s a look of realization in his eyes. That’s dangerous for gamers.”
Seo Jun went hunting.
Bang Ju had watched the real-time broadcast, so he knew the future one hour ahead, but he was considerate to those who didn’t.
“Ah! One of the two people who just met has a Crossbow! They pull it out with an evil grin! Seo Jun is also approaching head-on with an evil grin! Crossbow! He shoots! Wait — he catches it! He caught it! And he delivers a jab!”

-????
-insane lol
-????
-i saw this an hour ago but it’s still ridiculous lol
-catching an arrow flying sideways is amazing enough but catching it head-on to block it is even more amazing

“Ah! They both die! From Seo Jun’s jab! Seo Jun, who farmed items, waits a moment! Is he praying?”
It’s so teammates will come back and he can catch them. But they didn’t, so Seo Jun moved on.
Thus he encountered raiders.
Bang Ju began explaining these people in detail, but the viewers seemed to already know the result well.

-Cut! lol
-Veteran player what even lol
-Lost on positioning and aim both
-Even if you can forgive the arrow-catching as an act of god, losing on such basic fundamentals?
-They don’t have guns yet
-what were we expecting from a Last veteran that they wouldn’t catch the arrow lol
-and finding arrows is like Zhuge Liang’s celestial wisdom lol

“Right! Even if they’re veterans, we don’t ask them to catch arrows every time!”
It’s something only Seo Jun can pull off.
But precisely because of that, the disappointment runs deeper.
Being overwhelmed in positioning against Seo Jun, who realizes the principle that overwhelming physicality makes the mind comfortable, by someone with better positioning and basic understanding.
Of course, Seo Jun isn’t just physically gifted — he actually understands combat itself.
So when a gap appears in his opponent, he exploits it and brings overwhelming victory.
And if no gap is visible, he has the physicality to create one.
Bang Ju explained this point.
To maintain tension.
“The key is how quickly normal users get used to Seo Jun’s physicality! After that, he stops giving many openings! So they respond to the next move! That’s why they still don’t know!”
Do they really not know?
Even as Bang Ju gave this commentary, he found himself worshipping inside, thinking Seo Jun would probably just catch everything anyway, and let out a hollow laugh.
Heh, heh, heh.

-Ah so that’s it!
-good explanation
-yeah there wouldn’t usually be this much of a skill gap
-Last noobs posting this explanation to the community lol
-their best veteran got stomped from the start, imagine the shock lol

* * *

“Right. I’ll head back now.”
After catching the last remaining player, Seo Jun began looting the corpse.
They had everything you could get early on — stone, wood, ammunition, cloth, food, and all sorts of junk, starting from cloth.
And a lot of it too.
“You farmed quite efficiently in such a short time.”
In less than an hour of moving around and sweeping like locusts, Seo Jun marveled at their skill.
“I’ll have to use this subcontractor outfit often. Major Corporation meta incoming. Memorized your nickname.”

-lol not subcontractor
-they’re screwed. got flagged for doing well lol
-like a grad student getting highlighted by a professor and dragged into grad school lol
-the professor memorized the name! it’s over!

[Didn’t you die?]

“No, I’m heading out now. We’ll build a house and then hit the nearby farming zones. Keep gathering resources.”
Resources are always in short supply. From the most basic resources to rare materials needed to craft high-tier items.
“I noticed the regular teams here do their jobs pretty well. They stick together, so the delivery quantities match up.”

[By the way, boss. Did you memorize the names of those Hunter or veteran teams? What were the nicknames of the people you faced?]

Jo Am picked up on something and cut into the conversation.
“Ah. There were people like that? Ah!”
Seo Jun preferred to erase unnecessary information from his mind.
“Skeleton? I think that was it.”
He didn’t know what skeleton meant, but that was the nickname of the last remaining user.

[Those were raiders! You got all of them, right?]
[As expected, impressive.]
[That’s what you call a carry. Ha ha.]

“Yes. I have a habit of erasing information I deem unnecessary from my mind, so I didn’t pay attention. Now that I think about it, that was very important information.”
Seo Jun berated himself for not knowing beforehand that this was a subcontractor game.

[Why?]

“Good teams naturally have plenty of resources, so it’s good for collecting taxes. Our raid definitely goes there.”
Seo Jun had already told Jo Am, the third-in-command and manager this game, their target beforehand.

[Boss, I think your true nature just showed. Collecting taxes?]

“…….”

[And the raid…]

Stung by Jo Am’s words, Seo Jun cut him off and ran forward.
“Hold on. Another subcontractor outfit just showed up. Shame there’s fewer of them this time.”

[…….]

Jo Am was momentarily at a loss for words.
But taking it in stride, he calmly resumed what he’d been saying.
He wasn’t surprised, dissuaded, or excited.

[We’re the ones who’ll be raided.]

He had naturally expected that Seo Jun would keep making enemies.

* * *

Seo Jun arrived at the house.
The house was built in the common bunker style, and the builder was Baek Do-yul.
Building a house is an extremely complex and skill-intensive task.
Only Baek Do-yul and Seo Jun had perfected this skill in such a short time, which is why Baek Do-yul built the house.
This narrow, solidly constructed shelter was an excellent hideout that wouldn’t be easy to breach early on.
The moment Seo Jun entered, he put items into the chest built there, and the people watching from the side as the chest filled cheered.
“Wow! Is this a Major Corporation?”
“That’s how you become a streaming Major Corporation! That’s our boss!”
“We’re rich!”
It felt like listening to the chat in real-time voice. Must be genuine viewers.
“We’ll have pretty solid early-game resources and equipment. Let’s move out right away.”
Baek Do-yul quickly crafted weapons and armor.
Normally, you’d need to split into a farming party and a resource-gathering party.
But their start was generous, and it was decided both parties could go to the farming zone.
‘The snowball’s starting to roll.’
It was exactly as Seo Jun had thought.
They split into 4 and 4 according to the parties they’d divided beforehand.
Seo Jun and Baek Do-yul each took the lead of one party.
They inserted weak links like Bu-ja and Ip-dat-go-ge-im-ham, one each.
Jo Am and Tae-woo, slightly weaker among the aces, went to Seo Jun’s party, while This-is-not-murim and Siksik Corner, the highest-tier players, went to Baek Do-yul’s party.
The house was built right between two farming zones, so they’d split left and right.
“I’ll head right.”
Seo Jun took the area closer to the center. The farming zone was vast and the map was wide.
The chance of meeting someone else?
Not high.
But then.
On the way to the farming zone, Seo Jun scratched his head.
“Hold on. There are signs here up to the Drum Can. Enemies.”
A Drum Can is a chest in the game that usually holds miscellaneous items.
The fact that it’s been opened means someone was here.
Judging by timing, the probability they were still farming was very high.
“Heh, heh…….”
Seo Jun let out a hollow laugh, his expression darkening.
“This seems intentional, doesn’t it?”
“What? Why?”
The farming zone they’d come to was the Underground Warehouse.
This was the most optimal place to quickly advance the Technology Tree to craft more items.
It had the disadvantage of lacking other elements, but Seo Jun’s goal was to raise the Technology Tree as fast as possible, and besides, they had plenty of basic resources now anyway.
Tae-woo asked after hearing this.
“Hey, but why do you want to level tech so fast? And what do you mean intentional?”
“Ah. Once I get to Tier 4 workbench, I can make a Frying Pan. That’s my goal. But the enemies below predicted that and came here first to raid it. To interfere with me.”
“…….”
“…….”
Jo Am and Bu-ja said nothing.
Just looked at him with eyes that asked, ‘Is that right?’
And Tae-woo cried out in disbelief.
“What are you talking about, you lunatic! It’s probably just a coincidence!”
“No. I’m certain, Tae-woo. We’ve been targeted. This is a snipe.”
Seo Jun headed down to the Basement.
To retrieve the goods before the presumptuous subcontractor outfit left.

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