Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 362

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Chapter 362

[Ha Yun-ho: I think it’s about time we revealed this to the public.]

After reading the message, Seo Jun turned to his teammates.
“All right, let’s go ahead with the camping trip and set up a schedule. That’s all for now—thanks for your hard work.”

[Thanks for your work! I’ll be returning to my duties as manager!]
[Yes! Now we’re back to being Viewers again!]
[Good work.]
[See you later.]
[Thanks.]

-Haha, pfft pfft pfft
-The Viewers did well too
-So it was right that the streamer carried us on his back!
-But the Viewers also played their part, didn’t they?

“Yes, everyone worked hard. We won thanks to you all.”
The team members had provided support exactly as Seo Jun had first envisioned.
He was grateful for that.
Buja and Silent Gamer had both carried far more than he’d expected.
And Baek Do-yul—simply making time for this was commendable enough.
The rest were no different.
Really.
Everyone but Tae-woo deserved his thanks.
The call ended. Seo Jun chuckled softly, then turned to address his audience.
“So then.”

-Stop the broadcast!
-Wait, is he actually going to broadcast a hiatus?
-We haven’t even done anything yet today
-24 hours have passed so technically nothing happened today either lol same, we just won the last raid yesterday

“Ha. Don’t worry. I’m not talking about a broadcast hiatus. Instead, I wanted to tell you about the next schedule.”
The response was hot.
Seo Jun’s every word now had the power to create waves.
He had demonstrated feats that no one else could pull off and built up considerable recognition.
At least in Korea, it would be fair to say there were almost no gamers who didn’t know Seo Jun’s name.
He had participated in every major event, so there was no way around it.
Especially that history book. It was huge.
Of course, there could still be people who didn’t know Seo Jun.
The world was vast, and there were plenty of people who simply paid no attention to the outside world.
To say everyone knew him would be arrogance.
But Seo Jun was at least confident about this much.
If he were to say he’d do something in a certain game, he could become the king of that game’s community.
‘The power is absolutely staggering.’
His fanbase had grown to absurd proportions by now.
Some people couldn’t fully see his influence because there was no single unified community for him, but insiders in the industry said this:
If he created a café, the post generation speed would be able to crush mid-tier communities, even if user count wouldn’t reach that far.
And if he created a brand-new community just for him, it would crack the top rankings by traffic and could even threaten Adventure, which hosted communities for all sorts of games.
It all came down to what Seo Jun chose to do.
“What do you think I’ll be doing?”

-Shin Ha-yeon Slayer?
-That was one of the Leo’s championship rewards, wasn’t it? lol The opening match
-I forgot because the opening ceremony footage hasn’t gone up yet
-Shin Ha-yeon Slayer, you crazy bastard lol

“Haha. Well, everyone, if the next schedule happened to be the opening ceremony,”
Seo Jun smiled with mischief written all over his face.
The corners of his mouth rose and his eyes curved.
It was the face of an uncle teasing his beloved nephews.
“I’d have to take a three-week Broadcasting Hiatus, wouldn’t I?”

-Aaah!
-What kind of lunatic talks about the Shin Ha-yeon Slayer lol
-Streamer, that’s too cruel…… I’m actually dying
-Why would he take a hiatus? He should do practice broadcasts!

“How can I do practice broadcasts? I’m going to be facing someone so formidable—how could I expose all my skills and strategies on stream?”
At least most observers saw Seo Jun as the strongest gamer currently active in the league.
But there was dissent.
Shin Ha-yeon.
She too was overwhelming, and just as Seo Jun’s fans said people needed to wait and see when others dismissed her as weaker, her fans were now saying the same thing.
Her fans were currently insisting that the true winner could only be determined once they faced off.
Ultimately, it was a problem born from the fact that no match had yet settled the question.
‘I’ll face her soon enough, though……’
It was an event match.
They’d already discussed everything. All that was left was to show up.
“An old disciple of mine……. No, never mind. So I won’t be taking a hiatus, right?”
Seo Jun dropped a plot hook.
What would they think when they saw this?

-Yes!
-Please don’t take a hiatus
-What disciple lol
-He’s not calling Shin Ha-yeon a disciple or anything, right?
-Is he talking about the Wealth Gap team members? lol But the teams are decided randomly anyway, so why would he bother training them?

Anyway.
“So has anyone figured out the next schedule yet? I’m like a bee, always chasing the sweet events, you know.”
Seo Jun was a bee.
Any major event, and he would participate.
So then?

-Could it be???
-Wait, wasn’t that booth slot confirmed ages ago?
-Is it possible because he’s the streamer?
-Whoa, hold on… I thought I wasn’t going because I didn’t see the streamer there

This wasn’t about a game.
“Haha. I pulled some strings with the organizing committee at Points. So I managed to get in. Of course, some of this is only possible because it’s me, but anyway—let’s meet.”
Seo Jun announced his next destination with confidence.
“In reality—no, at TrStar. Let’s see each other, everyone.”
A fan meeting.
That’s what he would be doing.

* * *

TrStar was a special event held in Seoul.
It wasn’t a game show or anything like that.
But it was very much like a game show.
First of all, TrStar was short for Trabol Stars.
Because it was originally held with the goal of gathering Trabol’s streamers together for a fan meeting.

-At least within Trabol, you guys are the highest stars!

It was inspired by a donation like this from a Viewer, and several streamers including Ha Yun-ho got together to plan it, and Trabol as a company accepted it.
Now, at TrStar, which had become one of the biggest events within Trabol, the job was simple.
First, you rented a large venue.
Then each streamer took charge of a booth.
And the Viewers freely walked around the booths having fan meetings.
That was it.
The preparation period for TrStar had to be long.
Because it wasn’t just about signing autographs and shaking hands at the booth.
Night broadcasts were obviously happening.
At each booth at TrStar, streamers performed prepared content.
This content varied widely: from singing to actual festival-style games like water balloon dodging, and cooking streamers even opened actual establishments.
Establishments that didn’t sell alcohol, but they had the atmosphere.
But the most popular content by far was virtual reality games.
Games you could play together.
At first it was just a place for fan meetings, but as TrStar was held over and over, the scale grew and more people came.
Naturally, competition became part of such events, and once they started picking the most popular booth, each booth began to develop more and more cleverly to draw crowds.
This is when game companies started getting involved.
By offering sponsorships.
Game companies would give certain streamers access rights to mods or new titles they were preparing for a simple preview.
Then those streamers would have fun with people through them.
It was a win-win situation: the game got promoted and the booth benefited.
So TrStar grew once more, and it became an event that streamers without clear content couldn’t easily participate in.
So Seo Jun’s declaration that he would appear at TrStar with only six days left created a huge sensation.

[Streamer at TrStar?!!!!! Really?!!!]
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Can I see him in person too?

-They say the real person is even better
└According to Tae-woo

[Are you prepared? The roster came out months ago, before you even did your first broadcast lol]
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Wow, thinking about it that way it’s legendary. A streamer who started his first broadcast after the roster was announced is now being invited to TrStar lol

-So anyway, how is he actually participating lol
└Even if they have to create a new slot

[In reality….we’ll meet…]
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I’m a guy but
Why am I excited?

-It’s impossible not to be excited when you get to see humanity’s greatest gamer
└Is that so? Ah. I see.
└I was about to argue because I didn’t like the praise, but then I thought about the streamer’s accomplishments and just agreed lol
-I’ll admit his skill! But I don’t know if he can beat me with his face!
└What are you then lol
└Everyone’s going crazy with excitement lol

The news of Seo Jun’s late participation in TrStar set each gaming community ablaze.
Really, everywhere was burning up.
His broadcast was the same way.

-lol Cut!
-But seriously, it really does seem like an insane number of people will show up for this TrStar
-I’m definitely going
-Me too lol

Seo Jun thought about it.
This was starting to look inauspicious.
Too many people gathering in one place wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
TrStar was fortunately held for more than one day, but still, something felt off.
‘Hmm.’
If he added any more hype to this, it wouldn’t be good.

-So what’s the streamer’s booth content then lol
-It’s gotta be a one-on-one match
-Arm wrestling, maybe?
-My forearms are super thick but can I beat the streamer? Wait, probably not. The streamer would definitely win using wrist techniques or shifting center of gravity or something. Or maybe he’d poke you in the eye.
-Why would he poke your eye lol
-Which company sponsored him?

Seo Jun had to reveal it now.
The content of his booth.
Of course, some people kept it private.
Actually, most streamers who received sponsorships from game companies didn’t reveal anything until right before the event started.
But he hadn’t received a sponsorship from a game company.
The reason wasn’t about preparation time or anything like that.
‘If I accept a game company sponsorship, I lose a lot of autonomy in running the booth.’
Anyway.
“I didn’t receive a sponsorship. It was unavoidable because I joined late.”
Truth be told, there had been an insane number of companies offering to sponsor him.
Even the Viewers didn’t take it at face value.
“But there’s nothing to be done about it. I need to work on making the best booth even without a sponsorship.”
The booth that received the most votes from the attending Viewers would receive prize money and a Crystal Trophy, and most importantly.
They’d get the right to have their face plastered on the Trabol app and banner.
You could have only your voice play during donations for a while.
In other words, you could plaster Trabol however you wanted.
There’s no way he’d pass that up.

-If the streamer’s face is the draw, wouldn’t people vote for his booth just because they want to see it?
-He might be ugly in person though!
-Could he?
-lol for real though, how ugly could he be?
-So what’s he actually doing!

“Haha. The theme of my booth is,”
One way or another, Seo Jun’s booth content had to be revealed beforehand.
Because people needed time to prepare.
It wasn’t him preparing.
“Find something I can’t do.”
Reactions came asking what exactly they were supposed to find.
“Find something I can’t do. Reality or gaming—anything goes. Bring something you think you can do but I probably can’t. If you succeed and I fail when we try it at the booth, I’ll give you thirty million won. An athlete? A craftsman? An expert?”
Seo Jun grinned wickedly.
“Come on down.”
Would the place really end up paralyzed?

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