Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

Normally, when a broadcast was ongoing, the community wouldn’t fill up with related posts.
Most people were concentrating on the stream, except for the small minority trying to relay it.
But now was different.
A live broadcast watched by over a hundred thousand people.
Even if just one percent of them briefly diverted attention to the community, that was still a thousand people.
For this reason, the For the Alliance community right now was flooded with countless posts about Seo Jun and posts getting upvoted.
The merger broadcast dominated the entire community.
Once the stream ended, it was obvious that posts would multiply several times over.

[Are these Rankers actually just garbage? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[The posts these beat Rankers wrote yesterday are hilarious ㅋㅋ]
[Is this guy really that good? Or have we just been stagnant with no growth?]
[The Demonic Sect must be loving this]

Interestingly, there were relatively few professional players who enjoyed For the Alliance.
Some people undoubtedly accessed with secondary accounts, but that was true for other games too, so typically people estimated how many competitive players enjoyed a game based on the visible numbers from main accounts. Appearances, in other words.
And the visible number of professional players enjoying For the Alliance was two.
The reason so few pros played it was likely due to the barrier to entry.
There were so many martial arts and techniques one had to know to properly enjoy it that it wasn’t a game busy professionals could pick up casually.
But.

[Barrier to entry? Stagnant game? Experts? ㅋㅋㅋ]
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No matter how I look at it, we’re just idiots who dirtily bought up a ton of martial arts this game company made and don’t actually know real swordsmanship.
We didn’t even realize it, thought we were good trapped in a well, and then a real expert took us down even with a slow sword, not caring about martial arts or anything else, and that’s when we woke up.
The ocean truly is vast!
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-Are the guys from The League here stirring up trouble?
└It looks like players from other games smell blood and are trying to strike now
-I was confident in swordsmanship alone, but after seeing this today I’m not sure. Are these really the experts I knew? My heart swells…
└Don’t get all inspired now ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-We were frogs in a well!

[Martial arts mean nothing]
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Guys who lose to such a slow sword definitely can’t do anything if they go to other games.
Game skills ㅋㅋㅋ
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-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-Skills were an illusion
-Not really? Other game masters are also ranked in the top 100 here. Everyone who’s good is good.
└Nah ㅋㅋㅋ rankings here are skill-focused so that’s why. If we’re talking pure physical ability without skills, that master would probably rank way higher.
└What’s the standard for physical ability
└Let’s use the Training Grounds. Honestly it’s funny that the game company goes on about martial arts and alliances with skills they made

What was the reason for such reactions?
There were indeed users from other games mixed in.

[Ah ㅋㅋ I bet if For the Alliance Rankers went to other games they’d just be like Diamond tier <– if this is true give me upvotes ㅋㅋ]
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Well, starting with me
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-This guy's account shows he plays The League so why's he doing this here
└That checks out ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Could you be Diamond in The League?
└Saw his past posts ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ he's definitely Diamond ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This settles it. Let's just say the streamer is good
└Otherwise our perception of For the Alliance will take a hit ㅋㅋㅋ

Though some cross-game users were exposed this way, most posts were genuinely written by people who enjoyed and loved For the Alliance.
The reason those people acted self-deprecatingly was due to their psychological resistance to acknowledging Seo Jun as he continued breaking through opponents.

[Someone beat this guy already]
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How does it make sense to lose to a streamer who'll leave without hesitation once the Battlefield Mode ends?
And to the Heavenly Demon Divine Art at that.
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-What if the Heavenly Demon Divine Art was actually broken?
-Why do the Demonic Sect guys lose with something so good
└Because they don't use the Heavenly Demon Divine Art ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└Secrets revealed: demons aside, if anyone else uses that Trait System it's considered sacrilege, so they've been sitting on something this good. For real
└That's actually not that good ㅅㅂㅋㅋ

The fact that they lose easily to a slow sword was also a factor.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
For those who came to this game for the martial arts concept, it was a Trait System with a name they could never tolerate, yet were forced to accept.
If that Heavenly Demon Divine Art was even slightly better, everyone agreed the Demonic Sect would immediately reach the number-one player count and dominate every battlefield.
Yet a streamer who'd only been playing For the Alliance for a short while, wielding the very Trait System that pushed them away from the Demonic Sect, was defeating their pride—the Rankers.
Out of spite, they couldn't acknowledge the streamer.
But as they continued to helplessly take loss after loss, around the time they started thinking, "Were we really frogs in a well?", a donation appeared in Bangjoo's stream.

[Bangjoo just got a donation.]
[Sounds like the pathetic excuse of a loser ㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[From the opponent's perspective, what difference does sword speed make?]
[Pathetic, This Is Not Murim ㅋㅋㅋ just let's say our skills are trash, so why talk about the opponent's situation?]

At first, they mocked This Is Not Murim.
But once you watched from the perspective of the user that Bangjoo was facing.
The opinion flipped one-eighty.

[Crazy ㅈㄴ, getting chills ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[From the opponent's perspective, the sword speed… is different?]
[Should've lost.]
[How do you escape from there?]

Just genuinely good.
Skill had to be acknowledged.
Still, questions remained.

[From the opponent's perspective, the sword speed… is different?]
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How is this even possible? Even if perspective can feel different, come on ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ the difference is way too big?
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They could understand losing helplessly.
Watching directly, they couldn't think of how to counter it.
You have to see something to even backseat game.
If you can't see anything, it means the opponent's skill exceeds yours, so you can't backseat game at all.
Yet you could still question.
And to resolve those questions, This Is Not Murim stepped up again.

[Regarding the Dull Sword that Cheonma 14 mentioned at first.]
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There are many types of sword techniques.
Swift Sword, Illusory Sword, Flowing Sword, Dominating Sword, Heavy Sword, Secret Sword.
You've probably heard of these before.
But there may be those hearing of Dull Sword for the first time.
So to explain what it is first, Dull Sword means a dull blade.
A dull blade has no inherent advantages.
It's not something you should aim for.
Yet, this Dull Sword is the most captivating of blades.
It is a blade that touches the very pinnacle of the martial way, achievable only by absolute masters.
Have you ever wondered how to defeat an opponent with a slow blade?
Knowing the opponent's movement alone won't let you land an attack. The speed is too slow.
So to win, you must be able to control the opponent's movements freely.
But controlling another's movements freely. That seems far too difficult.
Yet there are methods.
Six-Part Bone Extraction.
A strategy of giving flesh to take bone.
Those of us who wield great swords and have sturdy bodies use this method often.
And Dull Sword goes beyond this.
Dull Sword controls the opponent outright.
It neutralizes the blade.
It sends intuition false warnings.
It tangles the feet.
It fixes the gaze.
It breaks the rhythm.
It destroys balance.
A slow blade that strings the opponent along as it wishes, that one knows yet cannot stop—that is Dull Sword, the realm Seo Jun has reached.
And now I will show you the analysis of how his strategy operated against me.
Now I will show you the analysis of how his strategy operated against me.
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Seo Jun opened the community and read the post together with 17,000 viewers.
He was currently at a standstill after defeating the Heavenly Slaying Star and winning seven consecutive matches.
People simply refused to match against him anymore.
He read Bangjoo's message, watched the replay once from the opponent's perspective, and was browsing the community.
Even with the time he was spending, matchmaking wouldn't connect.
Maybe today would end here.
"What do you all think?"

-A blade you know yet cannot stop, so good! That's peak Heavenly Demon vibes! Mastermind! ㅋㅋㅋ
-Is that actually true????
-When did This Is Not Murim use 'rhythm' and 'words' in that post!
-Bring out the pickle on-point!
-Mastermind! Someone roll me up a hamburger!

Seo Jun burst out laughing.
'What the hell did that person do that they keep acting like this?'

-Let's just say the master is the best in the realm
-Sounds like a legendary realm ㄷㄷ
-But looking at the analysis, it seems right?
-He said he'll analyze other matches later too ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So is it right? The person involved should explain

Dull Sword—controlling the opponent to land attacks with a slow blade.
To put it bluntly, the post's contents were not wrong.
Maybe because he wrote about what he directly experienced and felt.
"I'll leave what's actually true to your imaginations."
Even if he explained, they probably wouldn't believe him anyway.

['Tell Me Now' donated 1,000,000 won!]
[.]

A donation message so urgent he couldn't even write content appeared.
"Wow. Thanks for the million-won donation. About that post…."
He had to explain now.
With so many viewers, there were people who could drop a million won at once.

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ forget the pinnacle of martial way, Dull Sword, whatever, but a million won is something I can't ignore
-Stance shift speed is insane

"That's right. Yes. You control the enemy and make it so they can't escape. Otherwise how would you win."
Seo Jun nodded readily.
There was nothing else to explain differently.
"It's basically the same principle as the 'give flesh, take bone' thing that was mentioned. Just more complicated and harder. But the fundamentals are the same. I guide the opponent's movements however I want."

-When you say it so matter-of-factly, it almost sounds convincing
-So he was toying with them? ㄷㄷㄷ
-Basically gaslighting them ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Gaslighting sword technique, Dull Sword ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Comparing it to ankle-breaking makes sense

Ankle-breaker.
In basketball, it's a term used when flashy dribbling breaks a defender's balance.
"Yeah. That would be similar."
Just harder.
Seo Jun didn't bother with further explanation.
Everyone knew what he had done was harder than just breaking someone's balance.
"For details, check the analysis. I'll point out any wrong parts."
He wasn't going to explain the how—it would be incomprehensible anyway.
People naturally didn't believe easily.
What Seo Jun said essentially meant he'd played the Rankers like puppets, so it was only natural.
The posts appearing in the community lately were mostly that tone too.
So Seo Jun added with a laugh.
"If you think it's a scam, come fight me."
Eight consecutive wins.
Desire stirred.

-Pushing drugs ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Sir I think you're gonna let him win one more ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Even without the eighth win, first place seems already confirmed

Reputation Points could be earned in quadrupling amounts every two consecutive wins.
Two consecutive wins gave 50 points, four consecutive wins gave 200.
Six consecutive wins gave 800, and eight consecutive wins gave 3,200.
Because of this, the number of Rankers who had ever achieved eight consecutive wins could be counted on one hand.
No matter how overwhelming one's skill was, if you hit a matchmaking wall like Seo Jun right now, you couldn't achieve eight consecutive wins.
And every Ranker fortunate enough to achieve eight consecutive wins without exception had claimed first place in that Battlefield Mode at the time.

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