Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41

The Assassination Order: Dawn community.
Ambun.
It wasn’t just a place where people communicated with streamers in real time—it had become a gathering ground for viewers who wanted to share interesting things they’d seen with others.

[Horror, Strange] A User Who Vanished Mid-Air in Real Time]
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Where on earth did this user go?
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-(Raccoon photo) The streamer took care of it, so don’t worry!
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Mumyeong Jwa sent Righteous Fire Ascension ㅋㅋㅋ
└ He sends ascensions whenever he feels like it, and Mumyeong Jwa is genuinely the GOAT.
└ But what’s Righteous Fire Ascension?
└ It’s a new skill name
└ ㅋㅋㅋ

[Based on the timing, isn’t the streaming scene blessed by this AI?]
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Jin Seojun, genius of broadcast! Jin Seojun, genius of broadcast! Jin Seojun, genius of broadcast!
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-Or maybe he coordinated with MovieSoft. The timing’s gotta be that precise ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Streamer’s specialty: loves dramatic production
-That guy saw the game company’s penalty message instead of Pearl Horse Lantern
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[But if you want to practice Grimdawn, why not just be good at the new game from the start and practice it legitimately like the streamer does?]
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Why does someone like Baekho end up banned for cowardly lurking in the Beginner Zone? I honestly have no idea.
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-How could that possibly work?
-You’re saying you don’t know how to play as well as the streamer, right? Right? Yeah?
└ Oh, so the post author meant that ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I almost got mad for a second
└ ㅋㅋ I thought they were asking why I don’t play like the streamer. Who’s dumb enough not to know that? It’s not that we don’t know—we can’t do it.

[Just checked and Baekho’s account really is deleted ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ someone else grabbed the nickname]
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For Cooperation doesn’t practice it, but man, I’m jealous!
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-So someone really snatched the Baekho nickname? That reaction speed is typical of that streamer’s viewers
└ ㅋㅋ
-Is Baekho even famous?
└ ㅇㅇ pretty famous
└ But why are you even bringing him up here? And everyone, let’s talk less about Mumyeong Jwa. You guys said you were For Cooperation

Eventually, as posts continued mentioning Seojun, people began asking why they kept talking about him when he didn’t even play Assassination Order: Dawn.
Weren’t posts about Grimdawn practitioners getting banned in For Cooperation unrelated to the community’s topic?
The responses varied.

[??? Why are you talking about Seojun?]
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For Cooperation Community is scary. I like our cozy Ambun.
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-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ agreed
-Honestly, someone like Mumyeong Jwa is our everyone’s streamer
-But if we go to For Cooperation Community we’d probably get banned ourselves hahaha
└ How does garbage like this make top 30 and get best comments? This place is doomed.

[But it was our streamer who brought this person in while we were playing Assassination Order: Dawn, so shouldn’t we be able to talk about that?]
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(Viola photo)
(Viola photo)
(Viola photo)
(Christina photo)
(Viola photo)
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-ㅆㅇㅈ
-Real talk, if not for the streamer, we wouldn’t have met Viola for at least a few months
└ Viola is definitely legit!
-There’s something sinister mixed in there. I think we need to do an ideological check. Is this a society or a faction?
└ Demonic Sect!
└ We accept the Demonic Sect ㅋㅋㅋ since Mumyeong Jwa’s nickname is Heavenly Demon.
└ I played For Cooperation for one day and I’m already inducted into the Demonic Sect ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[Honestly, from the moment Mumyeong Jwa became a 10-level AI, wasn’t he Ambun’s best output?]
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We might as well beg the streamer not to abandon us ㅇㅈ?
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-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Everything’s good except why is the streamer our output
└I don’t really know either, but I’m just pushing it through (post author)
└ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Historical revision activated
-ㅋㅋ That bastard Mumyeong was our weakest link
└ The world where Mumyeong is the weakest is genuinely terrifying??
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Absolute horror

The reasons people gave for why mentioning Seojun was acceptable were diverse.
And most of them contained no logic whatsoever.
Yet except for a small minority, people quickly assimilated and started playing along.
This was because Seojun’s recognition was, at least within the Assassination Order: Dawn community, extraordinarily high.
While being the only one who doesn’t know about a story can feel isolating, Seojun’s fame was so pervasive that he couldn’t possibly be that unknown story.
And gradually, mentions of Seojun began to appear in the For Cooperation community as well, and news of him reached even the small chat rooms of For Cooperation rankers.

[Hanpunman]: Guys, a season 14 Heavenly Demon appeared ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Huh ㅋㅋㅋ Another Heavenly Demon?
[Hanpunman]: Turns out this Heavenly Demon defeated Shin Hayeon first. The fundamentals are different.
[Samjangro]: No! We already have a Heavenly Demon. How can there be more than one Heavenly Demon, the sky itself?!
[Hanpunman]: We don’t have a Heavenly Demon, what’s the concept

These were users ranked in the top 100 within For Cooperation, and the loudest talkers in this room.

[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Oh? Is that the streamer Jin Seojun or something? Did he come to play For Cooperation? I gotta check it out
[Hanpunman]: ㅇㅇ but he turned on ads right when he logged in ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ lol
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: A capitalist Heavenly Demon has real class ㅋㅋ
[Samjangro]: No!
[Samjangro]: ~~@@ ..Young punks…saying whatever they want!!@@
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Is spouting nonsense a trait of those who chose the Demonic Sect?
[Hanpunman]: The Demonic Sect’s performance is so trash, you gotta understand their madness ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Lee Dongsu]: ㅋㅋㅋ
[Samjangro]: Anyway,,,, kids these days!!! ,,,dammit@@
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: And he’s the youngest among the rankers too ㅋㅋ

Since it was a chat room created for a small group of rankers to socialize after account verification, they’d never met outside the game, but they knew each other reasonably well.

[Hanpunman]: Can’t help middle school ㅋㅋ It’s the age of stormy passion
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Using that awkward old-timer speech pattern must be exhausting
[Samjangro]: …

Watching this, professional player Lee Dongsu began laughing and chiming in about Seojun.
Professional players registered at SurfEase receive a main account for public use and a secondary account; Lee Dongsu’s secondary account for enjoying For Cooperation was named Lee Dongsu the Bandit King.
With limited playtime, his ranking was 183rd, but that was still a respectable position.

[Lee Dongsu the Bandit King]: Baekho got banned too ㅋㅋ
[Hanpunman]: Oh, I was purposely not mentioning that.
[Samjangro]: Was Namgoong the one who got stomped by Baekho back then? Must be in a good mood now
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: ㄷㅊ
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: But why’d he get banned?
[Lee Dongsu the Bandit King]: Seojun was practicing Grimdawn during a broadcast where MovieSoft was advertising, got caught. But the funny part is, he got beaten and sanctioned by Seojun
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: ㅇ Really?
[Lee Dongsu the Bandit King]: ㅇㅇ
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Baekho actually fights really well in the Beginner Zone settings though.
[Samjangro]: That’s because you…got stomped…
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Samjangro, shut up. You gonna bring up middle school again?

The chat room filled with laughter.

[Lee Dongsu the Bandit King]: Anyway, Baekho’s gone now. Someone else grabbed the account
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Hanpunman]: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

More laughter rippled through.
Lee Dongsu laughed in real life and started pulling Seojun’s old videos into the chat room.
He got beaten up every time they met at the Gymnasium, but somehow he felt proud knowing Seojun.

[Hanpunman]: Wow. He’s genuinely good? Baekho’s loss makes sense
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Assassination Order: Dawn looks fun. Should I try it?
[Hanpunman]: Wanna do it together?
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: After the Warzone ends, let’s go.
[Hanpunman]: Right, there was a Warzone.

For Cooperation opens a Warzone game mode every six months twice a year for three weeks.
The Warzone is a game mode where factions battle over the Central Plain, and every time players win a battle, they gain Contribution Points for their faction.
The top 16 players with the highest Contribution Points receive special rewards and are invited to a tournament hosted by the game company.

[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: But wouldn’t Seojun be able to get good results in this Warzone too if he’d just come to our game a little sooner and adapted?
[Hanpunman]: Well, what can you do? The Warzone starts tomorrow ㅋㅋ

The Warzone starts tomorrow.
It was unrealistic for a newbie who’d barely made it out of the Beginner Zone to aim for a high rank.
Even if the streamer miraculously adapted perfectly to the game and his school system in a single day, that one day’s gap would matter significantly in the Warzone.
That’s why the other rankers felt regret.
But Lee Dongsu the Bandit King thought differently.
“Honestly, I think it’s possible.”
The reason was simple.
Seojun played better than he did, and Lee was a professional!
Lee Dongsu had only finished the Demon Tower boss yesterday and was doing a Hidden Quest today.
Even though he’d spent all day on Assassination Order: Dawn, hadn’t Seojun succeeded on his very first try?
“Of course, knowing his personality, he probably won’t even think about rewards or anything and just does whatever he feels like doing.”
Anyway.

[Lee Dongsu the Bandit King]: One thing’s for sure—if he’d come a little sooner, Seojun would definitely be first in individual ranking ㅋㅋ
[Hanpunman]: That’s… well;; You’re a bandit who’s never done a Warzone before, so you have no sense of Contribution Points ㅋㅋㅋ
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: He beat Shin Hayeon, so maybe 16th place is possible?
[Samjangro]: Don’t you know what 16 is? Being good at the Training Ground doesn’t mean you’ll be good at For Cooperation. There are lots of other factors
[Hanpunman]: This guy’s trying to counter because Seojun uses the Heavenly Demon nickname ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Samjangro]: A newbie who hasn’t even chosen a faction would get 16th place ㅋㅋ
[Samjangro]: That’s nonsense
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Maybe.
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: But there’s one thing I’m sure of ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Hanpunman]: What?
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: The Demonic Sect is gonna finish last this Warzone too.
[Hanpunman]: ㅋㅋ
[Samjangro]: Sigh… wait and see starting tomorrow! This Warzone is different!
[Namgoong Segajeomsoi]: Reminds me of some baseball team in Busan ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Hanpunman]: That team that’s been saying “this year’s different” for 30 years? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

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Seojun climbed out of the capsule after a light morning warm-up.
It was his daily routine.
“Hmm. Today I guess I’ll choose a faction and… what else?”
The last game from yesterday had been uneventful—aside from Baekho showing up.
He’d leveled up to the faction selection stage and turned off the broadcast, deciding to explore with his viewers today.
“Should I go with the Demonic Sect?”
Considering his nickname, it was a fitting choice, but honestly he didn’t have a strong opinion.
As long as the stream was entertaining, it didn’t matter to him what he did.
“Anyway, we had 6,000 viewers yesterday when we ended…”
A huge number of people had watched.
It seemed like the aftereffects of the Training Ground would carry over today as well.
He was glad he’d gone for it.
He’d gotten a decent feel for streaming now.
Toward the end of the broadcast, viewership had dropped compared to the start, but that was unavoidable.
“Lots of foreign viewers, after all.”
And plenty of people probably left after seeing the ending of Assassination Order: Dawn.
Still.
“I got the first button right on a new game.”
Seojun sat down at his desk, turned on his computer, and pulled up his donation history.
When he saw the performance report from the past week, his mouth dropped open.
“Oh.”

[This Month’s Total Donations]
[4,370,000 Won]

Adding the 700,000 won he’d earned from the joint broadcast with the alpaca, his revenue for the past week exceeded 5 million won.
‘Base pay for editors is 1.5 million per person.’
In just one week, donations alone had covered this month’s break-even point.
‘This is crazy. I thought we’d be in the red at first…’
And then there was this.
Ad revenue too.
Han Jimin, his editor, said the YouTube algorithm seemed to already be favoring him.
She said his subscribers had already crossed 20,000.
‘It actually seems like I could afford the capsule without the tournament.’
Not that he was giving up on Rio’s.
Seojun methodically went through everything that was happening and mentally organized his plans going forward.
Then, at that moment, Seojun’s phone rang.

[Han Jimin]: Boss, I think you need to check this out.

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