Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 50

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Episode 50

South Korea’s major gaming web magazine site Adventure hosted countless game communities.
Each community had its own character and culture, and incidents were frequent, but users generally agreed that Adventure was the best place to gather game information.

[Demonic Cult Elder Baek Wee-gang evaluated his own martial arts skill as Super Mastery. What do you think?]

Among them was Hyeopben, the For Cooperation community, and the people who used Hyeopben typically called the community by another name.
Namely.
No Hyeop.
The reason for calling it this was simple.
It combined the English word “no,” which is the opposite of the game name For Cooperation, and meant people without cooperation.
It also combined “martial arts pulp” with “old farts,” meaning so-called martial arts old farts who obsess over outdated traditional martial arts.
Old.
That is, it carried a double meaning with the character for “old.”
However, the actual average age of site users was quite young.

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(Test Video)
I’ve lived as a martial artist of Namgung for forty years. It seems I haven’t wasted that time.
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-Isn’t Super Mastery a difficult level to achieve? Truly an achievement worthy of being our sect’s model. Why not come join the Demonic Cult?
└No way, you demon…
-But this game hasn’t even been out for forty years, has it? How did you manage that, Namgung?
-So they’re Demonic Cult trash but why take the test anyway? So they’re Demonic Cult trash but why take the test anyway? So they’re Demonic Cult trash but why take the test anyway?
└You can take the test without joining lmao
-Wow that’s really amazing
└Uwoh! So amaazing!
└Why do those people who use Japanese speech patterns keep showing up no matter how much I block them?
└There’s no thing called a martial artist. It’s No Hyeop, what you chose. Hang in there with wickedness and grit

And the gimmicking was rather intense.
It was as if they were venting things they were too embarrassed to do inside the game.
Of course, that didn’t mean there were no gimmick-obsessed players in the game, nor that No Hyeop had only comments like these.
In fact, ordinary posts made up about seventy percent.
Posts that analyzed seriously and shared information.

-Watching the video, the in-game Namgung Se really mixed those martial arts techniques well. Since Baek Wee-gang catches it the same way, the technique variations were good too. Is he high-ranked?
└Is he a black belt?
└At least he has to be a Ranker. Who else among the Rankers could do that? Look at how he even wore a mask to hide his identity lol
└If you find out the old man’s true identity, you’ll get hurt. (Post author)
└I’m jealous of the Super Mastery Title! Just let me have one from the Demonic Cult and I’m done.

But by internet standards, that’s just ordinary.

-So is Super Mastery hard when you haven’t even decided on a faction yet?
└yup
└There are National Standard Techniques that are tests for the Demonic Cult. If you practice for about a month and really perform all the movements identically, you can get a Mastery title.
└But you can’t get Super Mastery. To get Super Mastery, I don’t know what, but you have to be really perfect, they say. The post author brought martial arts from his own faction for a reason. Since those are the techniques he used most, he must have gained a lot of insight from them. By the way, very few people have gotten Super Mastery—less than fifty.
└Oh no…… What am I gonna do if it’s that hard
└So what, it just changes the title next to your nickname anyway, and getting it well just means better treatment if you join the Demonic Cult, nothing else lol. Are you going to the Demonic Cult?
└No!
└Then it doesn’t matter
└lolololol

A comment responding to the question of whether they were going to the Demonic Cult with firm confidence that it wasn’t even worth considering.
And replies that were clearly mocking.
Scroll up and you’d see countless people dismissing the Demonic Cult!
Sam Jangro, a Ranker of the Demonic Cult, was deeply displeased with the current atmosphere of No Hyeop.
“Damn it.”

└What’s even funnier is that none of the Demonic Cult guys have achieved Super Mastery lololololol
└fr?
└yup
└How are they gonna do it in the Demonic Cult test lol
└Baek Wee-gang messed up lol

“If you’re gonna say something, explain it properly! Just blurting it out makes it sound like Demonic Cult players are worse than everyone else.”
The characteristic of Demonic Cult martial arts was that it had no techniques.
Compared to the Huashan Sect, which had twenty-four techniques for just one martial art property, it was pitiful beyond measure.
Actually, pitiful wasn’t the right word. There were none at all.
“So I need to tell them why no Demonic Cult players have achieved Super Mastery!”
Everyone who received the Super Mastery title had modified martial art techniques they’d deployed over thousands of hours of gameplay—without a single exception.
If you were good enough to actually create a genuine new martial arts technique from scratch, you wouldn’t play games—you’d run a dojo.
“Or maybe not. A gamer might earn way more than a martial arts instructor…….”
Entertaining that idle thought, Sam Jangro was about to write a comment to defend the Demonic Cult.
But then.

└At best they just got Super Mastery and they’re going overboard lol. The 14th Heavenly Demon of the Great Demonic Heavenly God Sect received the Grand Master title lol You see how Namgung Se got excited over nothing lol

A typical attention-seeking comment appeared.
The nickname was Gwang Shindo.
Sam Jangro felt like slapping his forehead.
“A Demonic Cult member…….”
Everything about him—the nickname, his behavior.
Anyone could see he was from the Demonic Cult.
He occasionally used old-timer speech patterns in the group chat and enjoyed gimmicking, but he didn’t bait attention so brazenly like this.
It was a bit embarrassing.

└What Grand Master lol You dreaming?
└14th Heavenly Demon? lol Don’t you guys have like hundreds of Heavenly Demons in your Demonic Cult?
└Nice imagination lol Grand Master stfu

A bit more embarrassing, actually.
People say the most effective way to respond to bait is to ignore it.
But Sam Jangro, looking at this comment, realized there was something even more effective.
Ridicule.
“Stop tarnishing the Demonic Cult’s image……. Shindo.”
His desire to explain anything just vanished.
He just wanted to get out of here.
So he clicked the back button.

[Today’s Battlefield Victor.]
[Feel proud if you’re a martial artist of the reliable Righteous Faction lol]
[Demonic Cult Elder Baek Wee-gang evaluated his own martial arts skill as Super Mastery. What do you think?]
[What is True Martial Arts and 180 Reasons Why For Cooperation is Traditional Martial Arts]

“I’ve seen it all.”
He habitually hit refresh.
Ten o’clock. The Battlefield had closed.
This was when No Hyeop was most active.
Hit refresh and maybe one or two upvoted posts would appear.
And when a new post came up, Sam Jangro was baffled—but he burst out laughing.
“Hahaha. Is this guy insane? This isn’t intelligent anti, right? Ugh. What do we do about the Demonic Cult’s image?”
But honestly, it was hilarious.
The post author was Gwang Shindo, the attention-seeker who’d been ridiculed earlier.
And the title was.

[“The Demonic Cult Has Lost Its Mind” Why the Righteous Faction Trembles in Fear and the Evil Faction Is in Chaos. “What Exactly Is the Identity of the 14th Heavenly Demon?”]

“Oh crap.”
Now the image was going to be painted as nationalistic pride—no, cult pride.
Sam Jangro let out a weary sigh, though inwardly laughing, and moved his mouse.
There’s no way you could resist clicking on a title like that.
But then.
Sam Jangro’s eyes widened as he laughed and clicked in.

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(Grand Master Title Acquisition Clip)
A true Heavenly Demon has arrived. From now on, the age of the Great Demonic Heavenly God Sect will unfold. The Heavenly Demon Reborn! Long Live All Demons!
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-????
-lololololol
-Is this real? The title is hilarious by the way
└Seems like editing
└It wouldn’t make sense for a higher-tier title to suddenly appear out of nowhere
-Looking closely, it’s similar to the National Standard Technique but how does Super Mastery not even show up
-The post author’s nickname is Gwang Shindo from the start…

The post included a clip of a streamer actually receiving the Grand Master title.
People seemed to be in a state of uncertainty watching it.
This grade appeared for the first time out of nowhere like this?
Sam Jangro was the same way.
“What is it? Is it real or what?”
Was there even a Grand Master title to begin with?
Then why hadn’t anyone else obtained it until now?
Sam Jangro felt the need to gather more information.
And the best way to get that information was to try it himself.
“Booting the capsule right now.”
At least the situation itself seemed real.
Most comments questioned its authenticity, but with the video right there on Trap, it was hard to doubt.
Sam Jangro went straight into the capsule.
And turned on the broadcast.

[Beginning stream.]

Not many viewers came in.
From dozens at most to as few as one.
It wasn’t a broadcast meant to make a living.
He was a student.
The kind of student who only got permission to use a capsule after doing well on exams.
He didn’t think he could broadcast properly or that he had the talent for it.

-Why suddenly turn on the broadcast?
-fr
-Just let the kid grow up, he needs to get taller
-Is it winter break?
-Talent show on

Namgung Se from the group chat appeared, along with Jeom So-yi and Han Pun-man.
And various other Rankers and community-active users.
They had entered his broadcast after the Battlefield closed and they were resting.
“I don’t know what winter break you’re talking about.”
Wasn’t the final content of any RPG game running around town?
What seasoned players do is mostly similar.
They have nothing to do in the game, but they can’t leave the game either.
That’s why they chose broadcasting for fun.
Sam Jangro as the streamer, and the others as viewers.

-You can’t fool me, you were most excited when winter break came
-This is why you shouldn’t expose your identity lol
-Sam Jangro’s avatar is a stern old man but actually has puffy cheeks…
-Not even an adult yet so the blood color gets censored lol

“Tch! This Elder simply changed the age rating mode because I abhorred the sight of that vulgar red color that symbolizes the Heavenly Demon Sect leaking from the bodies of lowlifes. Do not spread baseless rumors that this Elder is a middle schooler.”

-lolol
-Nice performance there
-Righteous Faction Ranker hyungs, where are you attacking tomorrow on the Battlefield?
-Don’t try to leak intelligence
-Well ehhh, it’s better for both sides if we avoid each other anyway
-Besides you’re going to defend anyway so what lol

This was more of an extension of the community than a typical stream.
Sam Jangro opened a window and continued watching the video of someone receiving the Grand Master title as he climbed the stairs of the Demonic Cult.
Older players began to take interest in him.

-What are you watching?
-And why are you climbing Demonic Cult Mountain?
-Huh? Why are there so many people gathered over there?

Sam Jangro arrived at the Martial Arts Arena where Baek Wee-gang was.
In a place where you could barely spot an ant before, several people now crowded the space.
And they were all gazing at empty air, which Sam Jangro also found himself doing.

-He’s not answering, looks like he’s sulking
-Hey, are you mad?
-He’s mad lol
-So cute
-Isn’t that a Demonic Cult test video or something?

“Hmm.”
After watching the video all the way through, Sam Jangro let out a sigh.
Then his eyes turned to the chat window.
“Oh, I’m not mad—it’s just that a Grand Master title, which is above Super Mastery, showed up in the Demonic Cult test. Brothers.”
And it came from the National Standard Technique, at that.
That was what shocked him most.
Until now, Mastery had been the limit for techniques, but someone had received a title higher than Super Mastery through slight variations.

-?? What’s Grand Master
-Yeah stop spouting nonsense lol
-Go into No Hyeop right now and check. I just saw it and it looks real
-But isn’t that Seo Jun? The one I mentioned before

Ah.
That streamer from back then.
“I roughly figure out what he modified from the National Standard Technique, so I should give it a try. There’s no limit on attempts anyway.”
He climbed onto the Martial Arts Arena.
The other people around still seemed to be checking the video.
“Huh.”
This was where the talent gap between a Ranker and an ordinary user showed.
He confidently drew his sword on the arena and performed the technique.
He narrowed his foot width, changed the angle of his blade, adding sharpness.
As the sword moved, he felt all the lines connecting into one, a sense of unity.
He was confident.
That he’d at least achieve Mastery.
He’d received that result once before, after all.
And the result was!
“Pah, pathetic. You have no fundamentals and no talent for composing techniques. You’re third-rate! Get out of my sight!”
Sam Jangro, whose nickname bore the Mastery title, felt his eyes shake violently as the harsh rebuke echoed above his head.
“Pfffff.”
The people watching him from around the arena covered their mouths, but laughter leaked out.
“Damn it.”
Heat rushed to his cheeks, and he wanted to shut off the broadcast and run away immediately.

-lololololol what did you just do
-No matter how bad you are, you shouldn’t get third-rate lol
-Please turn in that Mastery title
-Should I try going for the Grand Master title too?
-Let’s go take the test and head to the Demonic Cult.
-Go take the test X Go bully our cute middle schooler O

And.
Famous Rankers with the Super Mastery title began moving to verify the truth.

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