Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 351

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Chapter 351

[Honestly, who do you think is going to win?]
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Really, be honest.
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-Hunter Team, no question!
-Did you see that shot from that distance? How is there any doubt?
-But wait, two members of the Demon King’s team are farming way off in the distance. They’re really allowed to fight while doing that?
└Right?
└They don’t look like they’re coming home anytime soon.
-Bang Ju is showing the house layout now!
└All three attacking teams are logged in,
└so they really built the house structure brutally ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Seriously the worst defensive setup, even inconvenient for the homeowner going back and forth ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The fortress’s defensive structure consisted of numerous Sniper Towers capable of protecting the Outer Wall, with a layout designed so that even after infiltrating beyond the outer barrier, attackers would face continued illogical assaults.
Instead, it was a house that confined the battlefield to the inside rather than the outside.
‘This is better.’
Teammates positioned near the house began filtering inside.
Before the fighting started, the three teams had already begun constructing Forward Bases at some distance from the residence.
“Come in at your leisure.”
Seo Jun spoke while briefly dispatching an enemy who’d stepped into the line of fire aimed at his teammates.

[Thanks!]

The teammates took their positions, and Seo Jun waited.
The Forward Base was erected easily.
Normally, a Forward Base shouldn’t be constructed so easily or so openly.
But the attacking teams, having assessed the fortress’s structure from a distance and recognizing that the outside wouldn’t become a proper battlefield, began building their Forward Bases leisurely.
They would respawn there when they died.

[Man, I’m nervous.]
[You nervous too, Tae-woo?]
[Yeah.]
[Let’s watch carefully.]
[Baek Do-yul, you’re really reliable.]

The fight would end in an instant.

[Everyone, fighting spirit!]
[That’s right, everyone, let’s go!]

It was a 6 versus 25 fight.
The numbers alone were suffocating.
No matter how advantageous defense might be.
Seo Jun moved to the highest Central Tower, and once in position, Jo Am’s briefing came through.

[They’re approaching.]

From four directions, encircling.
The perimeter of their Outer Wall was long.
But the Central Tower was tall, and it was possible to cover all four directions.
Teammates took positions at towers in each direction.
The attacking team immediately deployed Rocket Launchers.
Their intent was to neutralize the Sniper Towers.
“Try not to die. And follow the plan we prepared.”
From four directions, players from different teams shouldered Rocket Launchers and aimed at the towers.
This was the maximum range where Sniper Rifle bullets couldn’t land accurately.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The numbers are overwhelming
-Looks like they agreed not to spare weapon items
-Playing it textbook

“Everyone ready.”
They stood openly to defend the towers.
Seo Jun in the center watched.
Interception.
‘I shouldn’t worry about where Baek Do-yul is.’
Four rockets came flying in slightly staggered from different directions.
Whoosh!
Pap-pap-pap-boom!
Hearing the faint gunshots and explosions, Seo Jun stared at Ryan in the distance.
Their eyes met.

[Nice!]
[Clean interception! Awesome!]
[It’s not like we’re Mediators—a player’s interception is nothing special.]

For a Mediator, the difficult part was timing the interception so the attack doesn’t get cancelled; but if a player was standing there openly, aiming at them, interception itself wasn’t that hard.
Of course it was high-difficulty play, but these players had the skill for it.
And.
Ryan grinned and opened his mouth to give orders.
Inferring from lip-reading through a scope was difficult, but it was roughly understandable.
Urgent voices came through simultaneously.

[North, one more incoming!]
[South, additional launcher.]
[East is critical. Two of them. Baek Do-yul, do you have it?]
[Ha, West has two as well.]

“Eight total? That’s some serious farming.”

[South is actually three.]

-Wow
-Launcher farming went well
-Even farming all day, if your luck is bad you might not get a single launcher
-That’s two days worth of items
-Does an Ordinary Person still win against this?
-Yeah, the Demon King wins
-This is looking bad for the regular guy already, nine shots ㄷㄷ

Nine Rocket Launchers.
This was becoming tedious.
The West where Baek Do-yul was stationed—skip that.
The East had Siksik Corner and Lee Moo-ah.
Skip that too.
The North had Tae-woo.
And finally the South, with three launchers, had Jo Am.
Seo Jun’s judgment was swift.
He quickly issued orders to Jo Am while focusing on the South. Or rather, beyond focus—he fired bullets.
First.
“Shoot below, Jo Am.”
Bang!
Then the rocket launched.
Meanwhile, Seo Jun aimed at the next rocket.
If there was even a moment of hesitation, the instant the rocket hit the outer wall—
With no delay, Seo Jun’s finger pulled the trigger.
Bang!
Pap-pap-boom!
Three rockets detonating in succession in the South, where he was watching.
It was a super save.

-Wow
-Insane ㄷㄷㄷ
-Is he still an Ordinary Person? Still? Still?
-Amazing!
-Yeah, Tae-woo’s launcher rockets got hit
-Meanwhile Baek Do-yul handled two as well ㅋㅋ Absolute beast

The users in the South showed expressions of dismay.
But the attack wasn’t over.
This was only the beginning of the Raid.
“Next volley incoming. Everyone stay focused.”
Seo Jun was well aware of this and calmly did what needed to be done.

* * *

“Ah! A war of attrition continues!”
Rockets began flying in increasingly erratic patterns, and over ten players waited.
For the moment when the towers capable of sniping their approach would crumble.
“How many rockets are they firing! And yet not a single one has been destroyed! It’s like the Demon King’s Fortress!”
Bang Ju moved the camera’s focus across the gazes of over twenty people as he shouted.

-Honestly, the South hasn’t landed a single hit yet, so yeah, it’s like the Demon King’s Fortress
-Argh, the regular guy is putting up a fight
-And a damn impressive fight too
-The South guys are insane, every time they pause between staggered shots, the Demon King turns around to help Tae-woo up North once

“That’s right! The guys shooting rockets from the North shouted feedback—they said don’t stop! When you get the timing, that guy keeps covering other areas too!”
But they couldn’t hold out long.
When the sixth rocket finally struck the tower they’d been targeting, the protruding part above the outer wall of the North Sniper Tower collapsed.
Tae-woo, who’d leaped down just before it crumbled, took Fall Damage, but recovered his HP with a Drink Item and immediately rushed to another tower.
“Ah! Seo Jun makes no mistakes! But Baek Do-yul and the two players with him! Even Jo Am, who the Demon King assists! Everyone continues to make mistakes!”
As time passed, mistakes accumulated.
The side firing rockets had no real mistakes to speak of, but the side intercepting required considerable concentration.
In Baek Do-yul’s case, handling two at once wasn’t twice as difficult—it was exponentially harder.
“Eventually all collapse! What remains is the Central Tower! Where Seo Jun is! Ah! Five rockets heading there!”
They explode.
This was something Seo Jun couldn’t overcome alone.
If he were by himself, that is.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Those whose towers crumbled naturally converged on the center, and the remaining rockets were far too few to obliterate the Central Tower.
“Ah, attack after attack! Yet it held! The Central Tower held! And now! The Siege Team has exhausted their Rocket Launchers! They look flustered! This is going to be tricky! Of course they can still breach, but…!”

-Now that’s a Demon King ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Yeah, just because the Central Tower’s left means they can’t stop us from getting close to the wall, right?
-For real ㅋㅋ
-But the Demon King still has rockets left, right?
-When they fight inside, the Siege Team’s gonna have a rough time
-Still, he has a higher chance of becoming an Ordinary Person, you lot

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“Ah, they don’t have any more either? None at all?”
Lloyd, the youngest of the Hunter Team, asked after hearing his teammates’ conversation.

[Yeah, nothing left. Done.]
[The other teams are in the same boat.]
[They defended relentlessly. We farmed items pretty hard too.]
[And they didn’t even counter-fire with launchers.]

“What the….”
Lloyd had assumed they’d demolish the towers according to plan and breach safely.
Even after seeing rockets being intercepted in midair repeatedly.
“How did they even shoot like that…..”

[Stop talking and get ready to breach.]

“Yeah, yeah.”
Tsk.
It was frustrating, but just because a Sniper Tower remained didn’t mean he needed to be intimidated.
They weren’t the only ones capable of sniping.
Rather, if a group this much larger trained their sights on him as they approached, he wouldn’t be able to emerge so easily.
‘Should I get hit?’
Lloyd was the one who’d donated to Seo Jun.
His team’s leader told them to do as they pleased.
After all, there was no one reckless enough to cause real damage, and he trusted them.
If there were, he’d just bench them.
So was Lloyd’s donation provocation?
No, it wasn’t.
After all, any provocation becomes a brilliant act if you win, and a petty one if you lose.
And they had no reason to lose.
‘Tsk, I’ll get hit then.’
It irritated him.
Seo Jun, gazing down at them from the Central Tower.
‘Our eyes kinda locked. Am I actually scared?’
Twenty-five people.
Minus the four protecting each team’s Forward Base, that left twenty-one approaching.
Holding them back even briefly would be difficult.

[What matters is where those two went. Anyone see them? Once we confirm that, we can go right now.]
[The two non-combat members. They were the rich guy and “shut up and play the game” guy, right?]
[What if those two target the camp?]

“One person here would be enough to stop them.”
The leadership was now debating whether to station two people at each Forward Base.
But as Lloyd thought, what could those two missing non-combatants possibly do in the rear?

[Just go. 3, 2, 1.]

They entered within each other’s range of fire.
Aiming at the tower simultaneously.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Suppressive fire as they closed the distance to the outer wall.
The sound of gunfire was endless.
But there were no casualties yet.
The Defense Team wasn’t trying hard to stop them—dying now would be critical.
The real fight would happen inside the outer wall.
This was just a deterrent.

[Where is that bastard? Which direction? Someone who can see him, respond.]

That was the moment.
From the Central Tower emerged not the player originally fighting, but Seo Jun from behind, and he fired.
“Ack!”
A precise Headshot straight through the brow—the ally attempting to breach from the side dropped dead.
Bang!
Finding his focus, Lloyd tried to target Seo Jun, but met his unwavering gaze and fell—then Seo Jun vanished.
They were skilled enough to land hits on Seo Jun’s body as he emerged suddenly, but they couldn’t finish him.
“Huh?”
Lloyd was dead.
He’d respawn back at his original position easily enough.
A few rules had been established during the Raid to prevent chaos, including that only the item’s owner could pick up items dropped outside the outer wall.
“Damn….”
But when Lloyd respawned at the Hunter Team’s South Forward Base, a teammate was briefing him.

[South, suddenly appeared from behind, fired two Headshots, and disappeared. Seems like he took some body hits but no meaningful damage……]

Words that had sounded like a radio transmission, system-automated, gradually became vivid in his ears.
“South, suddenly appeared from behind, fired two Headshots, and disappeared. Seems like he took some body hits but no meaningful damage……”
“Did you die too?”
“Yeah. I’m dead.”
“Of all people, us two? Bad luck…. Wait.”
The image of that Demon King-like figure standing atop the tower, grinning down at them moments ago flashed through Lloyd’s mind.
When their eyes locked perfectly—he hadn’t fired because Lloyd dodged.
What if he was simply gauging how many were in each direction, and their eyes just happened to meet?
Then the next report came in.

[North, that person showed up similarly. Got hit with a Headshot and died. HP was full and no hits landed.]
[I’m dead too.]

Lloyd, tasting madness directly for the first time, clenched his jaw in bewilderment.
“What’s even happening right now…. No, there’s no way…..”

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