Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 352

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Chapter 352

‘Surely not. Even in a situation like this, only our team…’
Lloyd denied the reality.
The opponent has no margin for error.
In the Last, retaliation is only possible for two kinds of players: one who’s abandoned the game, or one who has everything to gain.
But that wasn’t the case, was it?
This was someone with something to protect.
And with danger breathing down his neck, no less.

[West is down too. Hell, as many as four Forward Bases and we’re getting singled out. How annoying.]
[What? By that guy?]
[Yeah.]
[Is he only after us? Leader, you hearing deaths from other teams?]
[I am. Same direction as you—West—and it was Baek Do-yul who got them. Everywhere else, maybe one or two per team at most.]

If the Hunter Team hadn’t been walking in with their heads down like fools, they would have caught on.
Right now, Seo Jun was—
“Psycho!”
He was plucking members of the Hunter Team like someone hand-picking toys from a crane game.

[Haha. Psycho’s right.]

The Leader laughed.
And Lloyd’s blood ran cold for a moment.
Their team had a casual atmosphere where everyone spoke informally to each other.
This applied even to the Leader.
But the Leader could laugh that lightly while ruthlessly discarding any teammate who overstepped, like throwing out garbage.

[Look, our aim is deterrence, not plundering their resources. A death doesn’t hurt us. Let’s get revenge. Bad taste, sure, but.]

‘Phew.’
Lloyd’s brow tightened.
It was because of Seo Jun that he’d gotten spooked even after getting permission.
An underdog being hunted and ambushed shouldn’t move like this, should he?
Lloyd was running fast.
He arrived at the corpse.

[Huh? He’s after us too? But not a chance in hell.]

Lloyd’s mouth curved up.
No matter how skilled, not against their Leader.
The Leader was the only person he respected.
He’d created the Hunter system from nothing and hunted down every game out there.

[They’ve put up shields and the Plunderer even has a good sniper who hit the Leader with a Love Shot, so maybe that’s why?]

“That’s part of it, but mainly it’s the Leader. Even he goes down to a Headshot in one hit.”
Lloyd collected all the items and re-armed himself, then took aim at the tower and held position.
Though only a short time had passed, players from other teams had already cleared more than half the distance.
So there was no need to struggle reaching the Outer Wall.
It would breach soon enough from another direction anyway.
Mmph.
He steadied his breathing.
He pressed the scope to his eye and centered his crosshairs on the direction where the enemy had appeared moments before.
And he waited.
He’d definitely come back.

[Dead. We really are the only ones being targeted. Haha. Psycho. Hey, what did you touch? Though I guess with him focusing on us, we might reach the Outer Wall a bit faster.]

The Leader was dead too.
Lloyd smiled soundlessly and kept waiting. Waiting and waiting.
‘I’ll take the revenge.’
The wait was short.
Brief, but with intense concentration, it felt longer.
When an enemy team member aimed at him from the South and fired once, he didn’t flinch at all.
If it wasn’t from Seo Jun, he reasoned, a Headshot wouldn’t kill him outright anyway, so he simply ignored it.
Then, after barely a minute, a silhouette finally emerged.
Seo Jun.
Arrogant.
Standing in the exact same spot as before, not bothering to aim at him.
He was in a state of intense focus.
The speed at which Seo Jun’s barrel found him was almost imperceptible.
But regardless, the finger on the trigger tightened.
‘So arrogant.’
Love Shot.
If he’d pulled the trigger the instant Seo Jun appeared with zero hesitation, it wouldn’t have been a Love Shot, but since he’d been planning to aim, it came a fraction too late.
That’s why it was a Love Shot.
‘But catching him at all is enough to leave a mark.’
Within his razor-sharp focus, the gunshot pierced his ears.
Bang!
In moments, he’d take the hit too.
But he didn’t care.
He watched it unfold clearly.
That moment of revenge—and education—happening even as he fell.
But then.
‘Huh?’
His focus shattered.
An outcome he’d never anticipated.
The man waiting calmly for death didn’t die.
Likewise, the opponent who’d fired and should have fallen didn’t die either.
Both bullets—his and the enemy’s—vanished from the air as if they’d never existed.
Alarm bells screamed in his mind.
But with his concentration broken, he could only watch helplessly as what came next unfolded.
Like those Koreans he’d seen in intelligence reports who’d faced the Dull Blade.
Powerless.
Seo Jun’s health dropped.
He’d been hit once by fire from the other teammates.
But Seo Jun paid no mind, held his ground, and reloaded.
His hands moved, the barrel dipped, rose again.
Every motion was slow yet impossibly fast.
‘I have to dodge…! Or someone land a Headshot!’
Bang!
The gunshot, distant enough that he shouldn’t have heard it, rang out clearly.
Thup!
His forehead exploded inward.
And only in that moment of death, with tension no longer paralyzing his mind, did his thoughts resume flowing.
Lloyd understood. Understood why Seo Jun hadn’t died. Why.
‘Insane bastard. Pulling that in a real fight.’
Seo Jun’s first shot hadn’t been aimed at his forehead.
Seo Jun had aimed at his barrel.

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-Whoa…
-That scared me
-Bullet hitting bullet lolololol
-So what’s that guy?
-Probably someone who sent a donation yesterday
-Now that’s what I call a lesson lololololol
-Now even bullets get a hit? Psycho Boss

After firing his second shot, Seo Jun descended from the platform immediately.
His health had dropped to critical levels.
But he wasn’t dead, so it was fine.
“Threat neutralized.”
“Psycho, I saw that. How did you survive?”

-Honestly when Jo Am told him an enemy was targeting him and he said he’d stand in the same spot again, I thought he was a maniac
-Why’d he stand there again lololol turns out to hit the bullet
-So like, it’s hard to hit a target when you can see it, but hitting one straight from the barrel? Easy
-Wait lol hitting when you can see it is impossible right? Even for the Boss. Right?
-Possible

Seo Jun reloaded and explained to Jo Am.
“Since you told me the enemy’s direction, distance, and that they were standing still with the gun aimed, it’s easy.”
“What’s easy about that!”
“Like this.”
Seo Jun used an Emergency Recovery Kit to restore his health, climbed back onto the platform, killed another person, and came back down.
That person was, of course, from the Hunter Team.
“Nice! Another cut! I mean, we can take anyone in this stage, but how are you landing shots so clean?”
The teammates hadn’t noticed yet, but the viewers knew.

-It’s not that we can take anyone lolololol
-Boss is locked in, grinding hard for revenge on the Hunter kids, teammates got no clue lololol
-Enemy team already noticed
-Ryan was suppressing laughter lololol
-Bear was suppressing laughter too lololol

“But Seo Jun.”
Baek Do-yul called out to Seo Jun, who was preparing for the next strike.
“Yes?”
“The East seems to be breaching soon.”
“East?”
Seo Jun responded to Baek Do-yul’s warning from the West, and Siksik Corner, positioned in the East, bristled nervously.
Timidly.
“S-seems like they’re close, but how did you know that?”
“My apologies. I just had a feeling. Time to move.”
“Let’s go.”
While his teammates moved down below the tower to hold position, Seo Jun climbed onto the platform, eliminated everyone he could reach, then looked toward the East.
East was where the Leaders had been positioned.
The enemies would be directly beneath the Outer Wall, so from his angle, he couldn’t see anyone.
They’d moved the safest, but arrived first because Seo Jun had ordered them to prioritize keeping him alive.
Proper deterrence wasn’t possible.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Four explosions rang out, and one section of the Outer Wall collapsed.
‘Our team can rebuild the wall if we go back down, but—’
If they did, the scattered enemies below would kill Seo Jun.
After that, walls from other directions began to crumble as well.
But that was fine.
The interior of the Tier 3 Forward Base was spacious.
Within that expanse stood multiple Buildings connected by a Sky Bridge, with the Sniper Tower’s upper sections blown away.
Along every Sky Bridge and from within each Building, they could suddenly thrust their barrels out to fire.
That’s why, even with the Outer Wall destroyed, enemies couldn’t easily pour in.
“No one’s dead yet, right?”

[Right.]
[The situation is good.]
[Let’s attack.]

“Just watch out for the explosions.”

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[Ah! Boss! Or I mean, Seo Jun! The moment Hunter Team kills exceed thirteen, the Outer Wall gets destroyed! Seven of the nine Hunter Team members are on the Battlefield now—excluding the ones guarding the Base and Forward Base!]

That meant Seo Jun had killed most of them twice over.
Selecting only Hunter Team members.
At this point, it was nothing short of madness.
True madness.

-Boss lolol even now singling out only Hunter Team members is incredible
-Gotta not get caught right?
-Hunter Team is holding up fine

[That’s right! Hunter Team is holding strong! Since the goal’s just deterrence anyway! Sure it stings, but if we achieve our aim!]

Ha Yun-ho, watching Bang Ju’s broadcast from outside, wore a serious expression.

[Here we go, entering the interior! A nightmare fortress, truly!]

Bang Ju began describing Seo Jun’s fortress.
Ten-plus Buildings, each one a fortress unto itself, and the siege team couldn’t even think of approaching the central Base until they’d torn down every single external fortress.
Destroying the Outer Wall to reach the Sky Bridge and second level was impossible.
There was only one Stairway leading to the upper level controlled by the Defense team—in the central Base alone.
Should the assault team advance toward the center without grinding down the outer fortresses, hidden Turrets and combined Defense fire at Chokepoints would ensure total annihilation.
They could descend from above, but ascending was impossible, and they’d never know when the Defense team might thrust out their barrels to attack.
A fortress specializing in defense.

[Bang! Bang! Wow! The siege team is really tearing into it now! And matching that, our Defense team, the Boss’s team, is deterring them! It’s clearly a defense-specialized fortress, but breaking through could happen fast if we’re not careful—right now the Siege team has the advantage. Can they overcome it? Oh! And while we’re talking, the Boss takes down another Hunter Team member on their way back! Right, can’t get caught! Haha!]

Separate from Bang Ju’s running commentary, many were saying Seo Jun was moving inefficiently.
Blinded by revenge, marching toward defeat.
But.
“Ugh.”
Ha Yun-ho let out a sigh.
Seo Jun wasn’t acting like this for mere revenge.
He’d brought them together to win, so he was simply acting accordingly.
Of course, some personal feeling had crept in.
“He said if he looked like he’d win, we should go straight to the Hunter Team’s main base and wipe them out. If he thought he’d lose, just do whatever. But those two missing guys—I think they matter.”
He had to make a choice.
Seo Jun had politely informed him that if he looked like winning but Ha Yun-ho didn’t raid the Hunter Team, then Ha Yun-ho’s team would be next on the Stone Age list.
Politely.
Honestly, from Ha Yun-ho’s perspective, it wasn’t a bad demand.
If Seo Jun looked like winning, he wouldn’t be asking them to reinforce the siege—just loot the Hunter Team’s resources, which was pretty decent.
So who wins matters.
Ideally, he’d lose.
An overwhelming first place needs to be checked.
And he didn’t have to help either.
Seo Jun was perceptive enough that if he looked like losing, he wouldn’t push the issue.
But.

[Ah! By the way, everyone, those two missing members? We can finally reveal it! They’re mining resources! It all comes down to whether they can gather everything needed to reach Tier 4, or whether they break before that!]

Ah.
So they were gathering resources.
“Let’s move. This one’s won.”
Ha Yun-ho didn’t want to go back to the Stone Age.

-Damn! Planning to finish with a Frying Pan, Boss!
-But what happens if you reach Tier 4? lololol
-Something happens
-Ah lol this is an auto-win for the Boss if we just hold out
-Looks like we’ll get pushed through before that tho
-Nah the Frying Pan doesn’t change much lololol anyway Plunderers lol
-Another Building just got demolished

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