Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 345

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Chapter 345

[Hahahaha!]
[Hehe. Wow, Yun-ho is a real legend.]
[Oh, so that was Ha Yun-ho. I’ve never seen him in person before, and I was so startled I didn’t recognize him……. Hehe.]

Ipda-kgoGamehaja dragged out the end of his words awkwardly.
His voice grew smaller too.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What a legendㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Pretending not to have seen him
-Yun-ho, that’s embarrassing
-If he’d caught that, how many resources would that beㅋㅋㅋㅋ

People’s thoughts tend to run alike.
Tae-woo asked the exact same question that Seo Jun’s viewers were asking.

[How many resources were there at that moment?]
[Three slots of Low-grade Metal Ore are filled, so that’s 300 pieces.]

Seo Jun corrected him.
“Precisely 297. You mined exactly three slots.”
Ninety-nine pieces per slot.
Seo Jun was the kind of person who kept track of the household’s resource count.
Every time he came and went, if resources went missing, he’d joke about thieves breaking in.

[Seo Jun, let’s move past that.]

There was probably about one slot of scrap metal and miscellaneous junk combined.
Anyway.
“Sure.”
Morning meeting time.
They gathered to watch the video that had happened to Ipda-kgoGamehaja and laughed together.
They hadn’t logged in yet.
“So let’s set today’s goals now.”
Since Jo Am was the last watch of the night, the seven people excluding Jo Am began to set their tasks for the day.
“Today we need to make a choice. The Survivor Camp is about to open, and we can access the Tier-3 Farming Zone.”
The Tier-3 Farming Zone was entirely composed of raids.
A raid originally meant forming an assault team or special forces to make a sudden attack.
In the Tier-3 Farming Zone, a raid targets not an enemy team’s base but NPCs.
They’re the bosses that commonly appear in games.
“We’re almost ready, and we could probably aim for one or two attempts today.”

[That’s right.]
[If we raid, we can finally get things like the Rocket Launcher, and then we’d need to go right away for siege warfare against another team, right?]

“Yes.”
They were currently the only team capable of accessing Tier-3.
And if they succeeded in Tier-3 Farming today, the gap at that moment would widen to a degree that could never appear again in the game.
In other words, it was the optimal timing. If they succeeded, the opposing team wouldn’t sleep properly tonight.
They wouldn’t know when they’d strike.
“Of course, to that extent.”

[They’d immediately try to stop us. They’ll try to block us beforehand. While we’re raiding. Without a doubt.]
[That would be fatal. Do-yul’s right—they’ll definitely come.]
[What about this? Tactical Seo Jun deployment! Let him raid alone! We take down the teams trying to interfere.]
[Tae-woo………]
[Yes?]
[That’s actually pretty good?]
[Right, rich guy? Then how about a donation!]
[I’m on board!]

By the way, the two of them had started joking around at some point.
They weren’t actually donating.
That was unfortunate for Tae-woo.
“Yes, they’ll definitely come to stop us. Because if only we end up with Tier-3 weapons and we use that to widen the gap further, it would be hell.”
Even thinking about it, Seo Jun found such a scenario genuinely terrible.
From the opposing side’s perspective.
Most teams could be dragged around by Seo Jun and Baek Do-yul for the entire remaining period.
Every single day, morning and evening, collecting dues as the Last continued.
‘This would be pretty boring.’
Wouldn’t it be too one-sided?
“That’s why there’s a second option. Instead of forcing ourselves to challenge Tier-3 now, we just go to the Survivor Camp.”
The Survivor Camp was, simply put, a demilitarized event zone.
There you could complete quests or exchange resources for currency.
Through that currency, you could obtain various items necessary for survival, and players couldn’t attack each other.
With gambling-like systems and various other events, even though it had no weapons, it could be a game-changer for teams that had gathered many resources.

[Is there a need to go to the camp?]

“Yes. Our victory condition isn’t simply about eliminating enemies.”
Their objective was to earn the most Achievements that the producers had selected.
The types of Achievements were truly diverse.
And there was no way the criteria that determined such survival would be limited only to combat Achievements.

[Thanks to Seo Jun, we’re probably first in every combat-related metric……]

Baek Do-yul had just acknowledged it.
Kill count.
Kills per death.
Cumulative damage dealt.
Amount of resources plundered.
And so on.
First place in countless combat metrics clearly pointed to either Seo Jun or their team.
Thanks to Seo Jun.
But there was no telling about other things.
And naturally, among the actions possible in the Survivor Camp, such Achievements could exist.
What Seo Jun was saying was: instead of forcing Tier-3 raids while being intercepted, let’s secure those Achievements here.
There were various opinions on whether rushing directly to Tier-3 was overextending or not, but eventually the opinions converged.
The snowball could keep rolling even at the Survivor Camp.
Rather than playing boring patrol rounds every day from now on as if strictly enforcing discipline, why not just go to the Survivor Camp and roll the snowball there.
That was the conclusion.
“Understood.”
For the Survivor Camp to open, certain conditions had to be met.
Day three.
The conditions were nearly all satisfied, so today, or immediately if they wished, it would open.

* * *

Last is a survival game.
It touches upon life itself.
For one exciting raid, you have to do tedious hours of hard labor.
But that tedious labor—
“How about it!”
Over the past hours, day and night, all the team members had gotten it done.
Especially the rich guy and Ipda-kgoGamehaja.
‘Are they machines?’
In truth, none of them knew it then, but these two had a track record of surviving by being overlooked by enemies several times.
Enemy teams that killed them without realizing they were Seo Jun’s team were currently trembling as day three began.
This was a hidden history that would later be revealed.
However, Ha Yun-ho was the first to let someone go even while making eye contact.
In that sense, Ha Yun-ho was truly remarkable.
“Good, then let’s go offer our resources to the camp.”
Ha Yun-ho’s team, Bear and Ryan’s team, and both the Plunderers and Hunters teams were all streaming.
So naturally, rough information could only be grasped.
They were basically streaming so everyone could share information, and they made good use of that information.
“Let’s go.”
The location of the Survivor Camp varies with each game.
Farming zones usually work the same way.
So what had to be done first was finding the Survivor Camp’s location.
But since that was already revealed, they geared up and headed toward the camp spot.
“Since it’s morning, there are no subcontractors around.”
After the first day, encountering another person became quite difficult.
That’s the power of a 24-hour server.
Of course, with as many people as there were, avoiding people entirely was also difficult, but still.
The camp is constructed within the game, as the explanation goes.
Naturally, building something requires resources.
These come from users—a system where once a certain amount of resources gathers, a camp appears.
Naturally, the resources poured in during construction later convert into currency, and at this time an additional 15% bonus is given on the exchange rate at the camp.
“Let’s pour them in.”
Upon arriving at the camp site, they began dumping a massive amount of resources.
They approached the relevant NPC, repeatedly opened the exchange window, and literally devoured items.

-Whoa
-Rich! Mighty!
-The rich guy is nice
-You dare say the rich guy is nice?
-With the 15% bonus, they’re getting crazy amounts of currency
-And they’re about to use that currency to go to Tier-4……
-If they gamble with it, that’d be hilariousㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

And then, as they kept devouring items, at some point—
“Listen. Seems like you’re just about ready? That should be enough.”
The NPC spoke and disappeared into the camp.
And a server-wide message appeared.

[The Survivor Camp has opened.]

At the same time, their vision flickered.
Their eyelids closed and reopened to the world slightly more slowly than usual.
Slow enough to be perceptible.
Whoosh!
Before their eyes appeared the entrance to the camp.

[Attacking other players inside the Survivor Camp may make you a target of the Mediator. Be careful.]

The Mediator.
This AI, regarded as one of the final boss-tier NPCs, appears when a player commits murder in a Safe Zone.
Once it appears, unless caught, it will chase down and kill the problematic user for the rest of the server duration—a very troublesome NPC.
Being an individual, it acts freely and wields Tier-4 weapons, the highest-class arms.
The Rocket Launcher is included as well, and if a Mediator’s target moves beyond a certain distance, the Mediator removes the player’s Sleepbags one by one.
Eventually, the Mediator will come to the player’s home.
If you mess up, you could have 40 rockets rain down on your house, so a user who has awakened the Mediator must do one of two things.
Catch the Mediator, or keep playing tag and running away.

“Be careful, Seo Jun.”
“Me?”
“Really, be careful.”
“Me?”
“If the Mediator shows up in this situation, we’re done for. Even if we catch it, we won’t be catching anything. We don’t have weapons that can do proper damage, and it’ll be a real disaster. We haven’t done Sleepbag Setup.”
When raiding the Mediator, to prevent your house from being destroyed, you madly set up Sleepbags across all maps—this is called Sleepbag Setup.
“Haha. Seo Jun will handle this one well on his own. Seo Jun doesn’t particularly kill people.”
“Right, Imua. Seo Jun doesn’t particularly kill people. But if there’s a reason, that crazy maniac just kills them, you know?”
That’s the problem.
Tae-woo shot Seo Jun a look, and Seo Jun confidently puffed out his chest and pulled a gun from his inventory window, slinging it over his shoulder.
“Don’t worry. I won’t kill.”
“Put the gun away first!”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Mediator special: sends all camps back to the stone ageㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The Mediator kind of resembles the boss?
-The Mediator is just crazy about gear
-But even when the boss says stuff like that, he really doesn’t kill people
-Seo Jun has the highest kill count though ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ boss is definitely a psychopathㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Still, no way he’d kill. If the Mediator shows now, we’re really screwed. Damage won’t go through
-The Mediator basically needs at least Tier-3 weapons as a baseline ㅋㅋㅋ
-Ah ㅋㅋ At least this time we get to see the boss’s anger management ㅋㅋ

Their team entered the camp first and began enjoying various content.
And teams that had been watching from outside, teams that had seen the server-wide message inside the game, began gathering one by one at the Survivor Camp.
Safe Zone.
You could calmly converse, form temporary alliances, even barter.
All possible because fighting was suppressed.
But—
If in primitive society, people were courteous because they could respond to each other with violence,
In civilized society with laws and public order, rude people appear instead, or so the saying goes.
One hour after the Survivor Camp appeared in the wilderness that was Last,
That theory was proven.
A server-wide message issued a warning to users.

[The Mediator appears.]

Someone unknown had caused trouble.

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