Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 4

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Episode 4

An action-adventure open-world infiltration franchise game: Assassin Brotherhood’s Daybreak.
On its opening day, the game surpassed two million concurrent viewers, and even a week later, it was still dominating trending discussions on the platform.
In particular, this series installment, Shadow in the City, introduced unprecedented freedom and urban assassination-focused gameplay that earned widespread acclaim from day one.
People began comparing it to the most flawless open-world game of the past, calling it Assassin Brotherhood’s Daybreak: The City’s Breath, or simply Doseum.
‘They said you can assassinate using any method whatsoever.’
When assassinating, targets die in a single strike no matter how elevated their position.
Instead, players must personally investigate everything: the target’s routine, the assassination location, entry methods, tools, and escape routes.
This exceptional degree of freedom enabled assassination attempts of every imaginable variety, sustaining the game’s momentum.
So even after a week had passed, viewership never dropped below eight hundred thousand.

[Download of has been completed.]

The moment the notification chimed, Seo Jun pressed the broadcast start button.

[A complete newbie at both streaming and VR gaming—trying Doseum for the first time. Who wants to kibitz?]

It was the title Tae Woo had decided on.
‘It’s not my first VR game, actually.’
But Tae Woo had insisted the title was perfect bait for hardcore deep-sea players and veteran gamers, so Seo Jun had typed it to draw people in first.
Not that he found it particularly convincing.
When a message appeared saying the broadcast would begin in five seconds, Seo Jun looked away from the broadcast window and pressed the game start button.
In an instant, the lobby dissolved into shadow, and neo-European buildings began sprouting up chaotically in an otherwise empty, dark space.

* * *

The starting point was a Back Alley.
‘Is this on auto-pilot?’
Seo Jun’s body was already performing Parkour on its own.
He navigated past fetid streets, vaulted over walls, climbed fire escapes and window ledges upward.
Crash.
“Who’s there!”
He crossed a clothesline, stepped on a flowerpot on a balcony, and knocked it over.
But Seo Jun’s body ignored it and continued upward, swinging from a flagpole hung by a residential building.
Once on the roof, he began leaping between buildings, sprinting toward some unseen destination.
As the atmosphere gradually brightened, entering what looked like the Entertainment District, the surroundings suddenly flooded with light and noise.
Hahaha.
Hohoho.
Ladies in ornate yet practical Belle Époque-inspired dresses and dapper gentlemen flickered in and out of view between buildings.
And then, suddenly, there stood a Clock Tower rising alone in the heart of the city.
Seo Jun began climbing the Clock Tower’s outer wall without hesitation.
‘If I relax and just let it happen, it feels like I’m moving myself.’
But the moment he tries to force movement with effort, he realizes he has no control.
He repeated the climber’s motion of launching his body upward across a difficult course.
But as he neared the summit, the outer wall offered no more handholds.
Whoosh.
Gravity seized his chest, and as his body fell toward the ground, the world began to spin.
Even as he plummeted, Seo Jun remained limp and waited.
His body then performed a perfect somersault in mid-air before firing a Wire from his right arm at precisely the right moment.
Click.
The hook caught the summit.
Zing!
As the Wire wound tight, Seo Jun ran along the Clock Tower’s outer wall on the taut line and pulled himself up to the peak.
Dong, dong, dong!
The Clock Tower chimed on the hour, and crows, startled by the sound, took flight with flapping wings.
Cool night air washed over him from the front, carrying laughter from the Entertainment District below and the sound of stringed instruments.
All the nocturnal dissonance blended into one, feeling like an announcement of the game’s true beginning.
As if to show him what sort of place the city he’d play in truly was.
‘Good direction.’
He paused for a moment to take in the view.
“Listen, Dain. This mission could kill you.”
A beautiful, clear voice rang out.
His body turned toward the sound, and a woman in a hood emerged from the darkness behind him.
Blonde hair poked out from beneath the hood, swaying as she walked.
“Ha. Christina. When has any mission been safe?”
Seo Jun’s mouth had opened.
But the voice that emerged wasn’t his own—it was the voice of a character named Dain.
“That’s…”
“To kill others, you must be prepared to die.”
“Right, I understand. Still, be careful. They may have noticed.”
“Don’t worry. Go wait at the tavern.”
Christina nodded in acknowledgment, handed over a Mission Note, and spoke quietly.
“There is no truth. Doubt endlessly.”
Seo Jun replied:
“Even chaos itself.”
He then fired the Wire, anchored it to a nearby roof, and descended along it like a zip line.
Just before reaching the bottom, he released and landed on a street lamp, then jumped down to the ground below.
The moment his feet touched earth, Seo Jun felt strength flood through his entire body.
“Ah, ah.”
Is the tutorial over?
Words came out naturally, and his limbs moved at will.
Ding—

[Tutorial Quest—Assassination Mission]
[Ethor is a mid-level administrator and high-ranking nobleman who supplies orphans from the streets to the Secret Society and the Magic Tower.
The Assassin Brotherhood has therefore assigned his assassination to one of their members: Dain.
Quest Clear Condition: Ethor’s Death]

A notification sounded, and the game system window appeared.
A path to Ethor’s Mansion and his location were now marked on the map.
“So I’m supposed to assassinate him. I need to head there first.”
This was Seo Jun’s first game outside the AOS genre, but he had a rough idea of what to do.
He headed straight in the direction of the blue marker.
When the path was blocked, an alert appeared.

[Climb up the pipe.]

When he grasped the pipe and applied slight pressure, he felt the same sensation as when Dain moved his body earlier.
“So the game assists like this.”
But when he completely released his strength, he slid down with a scraping sound.

[Try jumping.]

He was supposed to jump between buildings, but he was curious what would happen if he missed.
He fell straight through the gap between buildings.
A faint pain spread across his entire body.

[Try crossing using the wire.]

Hanging from the wire didn’t require much effort, so he stayed suspended longer.
After a while, he gradually felt his strength waning.
He fell to the ground again.
Just as Seo Jun was beginning to enjoy this unfamiliar sensation, he suddenly remembered something he’d forgotten.
‘Wait, I’m streaming right now.’
Even so, this should be early—how many people could possibly be watching?

[4 Viewers]

He was surprised by the number.
Even streaming all day, he might not get a single viewer normally. Was it the game choice, or the title?
Uncertain, he opened the chat window.

-This is actually a real noob lmaooo
-Ah lol this is why I watch noob streams
-If this is acting, Nobel Prize minimum lmao

Huh.
The viewers were chatting among themselves.
Now that he thought about it, they’d all seen what just happened, and it felt embarrassing.
“Sorry, I just noticed the chat.”

-ㅋㅋ
-It’s cool. Watching a noob run around amazed is pretty fun lol

Three of the four viewers were chatting.

[White Horse Bullet]
[Best Defense Is Winter Great Flounder]
[Sidewalk Bathroom Wall Brick Extortion King]

‘Those usernames are something else.’
They were funny yet disorienting.
Is this the trend here?
Seo Jun set those thoughts aside and recalled the advice Tae Woo had left.
‘If there aren’t many people, don’t obsess over viewer count—practice filling the silence with sound. If there are, talk casually within the natural flow of the stream without disrupting it.’
The reason people watch low-viewer streams is usually because it’s easier to interact.
In the chat of big-name streamers, messages fly past too fast to be noticed.
Heading toward his objective, Seo Jun attempted light conversation.

-Streamer, are you actually a real noob?

“Yeah, I am.”

-Ah lol I checked your account record and it was clean. Created 2 days ago.

“You can check that?”

-Yep
-You need to switch to private mode.

“That’s a hassle.”
Seo Jun didn’t see a real need to change it.

-So you turned on the stream because it was a hassle?
-Lmao

‘They’re all chatting pretty actively. Is this normal?’
He felt the need to look at chat from other streams.
“Hm, I’m almost there. What should I do now?”

-Open the mission note
-When you open it, you can see detailed info on the mansion in 3D
-It’s a tutorial, so it shows most of the info and the assassination route. Just follow it

They actually gave proper answers to genuine questions.
Seo Jun opened the Mission Note as instructed, and the blueprint system activated, revealing a 3D display like something out of a movie.
The screen allowed him to zoom in and out of specific areas, rotate angles, and even modify the map—all possible.
The display showed the mansion’s layout, secret passages, enemy positions, and even a detailed infiltration route all the way to Ethor’s location.
Ethor’s position was the innermost chamber of the mansion: the second-floor bedroom.
“Twenty enemies. My inventory has a Gauntlet and a Sword Stick?”
The Sword Stick was a staff whose interior was a scabbard, concealing a thin blade that could be drawn in emergencies—suited for assassination and self-defense.
The staff itself was also capable of striking enemies, with shallow blade edges embedded along its length and a pointed tip like a sword’s.
The Gauntlet featured assassination blades extending from the back of the hand and a Wire launcher built into the wrist.
“Are these just the default tutorial loadout? Anyway, I just need to kill Ethor, right?”

-Yep
-Yeah
-Yep

Should I try it?
Seo Jun picked up the Sword Stick and walked straight toward the main gate.
Immediately, chat erupted in objection.

-Wait, follow the note like we said
-Let him go. Other players went through the front too and died, then figured out wall climbing themselves
-The lord advances

“Why? Can’t I go through the front?”

-Don’t backseat game, let the streamer play
-It’s fine, just open that front gate and go in
-Those guys are just mobs. One hit kills them

The shift in tone was professional.
“Hm, sounds like the front might not be the way.”

-Ah, the streamer noticed now you guys
-The lord was about to advance

Seo Jun felt puzzled by the viewers’ reactions.
“But I heard this game lets you do anything. So why can’t I go through the front?”

-You can?
-Gg
-Lmaooo stop messing with the noob

Unable to watch any longer, the viewer who’d been silent until now typed something.

-Usually instead of infiltrating and assassinating, you can just charge through the front and kill all the enemies
-which is called Musou Play…

The viewer explained it like this:
In this game, while targets die in a single strike regardless of position, if discovered, players must engage multiple enemies in grueling melee combat where NPCs have several times more Health Points than the player. Most people try to stay hidden.
However, some veteran players discard assassination plans entirely and charge through the front gate.
It’s called Musou Play.
Musou Play was far harder than normal assassination, even without information gathering.
This installment, Shadow in the City, received praise for naturally guiding players toward assassination gameplay through difficulty adjustment while maintaining freedom of choice.
“So is it impossible to clear the tutorial using Musou Play?”

-Dunno. No one’s cleared it that way yet.
-Big streamers would rather just play other stuff than waste time on it lol
-Someone tried for 10 hours, gave up, watched the ending to finish the first playthrough
-Even hardcore community people haven’t reported success

“So it’s not impossible?”
Seo Jun focused solely on this point.

-Yeah, if you had control skill like Shin Ha Yeon it’d be possible
-Theoretically you’d just need to dodge all of Ethor’s attacks and land every one of your own on vital points within the time limit
-So easy lmao. Shin Ha Yeon beats anyone lol

“Shin Ha Yeon? Well, let me try then. Whatever.”
Seo Jun spoke with confidence.
Either way, beating an AI was still a win, right?

-????
-Do you even know who Shin Ha Yeon is?
-Get that guy who said Shin Ha Yeon beats anyone lmao

Seo Jun walked straight toward the main gate.

-The lord advances
-Ah. Noob… do you really need to taste it to know if it’s poop or paste?
-5 min later Streamer (crawling on ground): So if I do it like this I won’t get caught right? lmaooo
-Lmaooooooo

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