Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 88

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Chapter 88

Slash!
A blade carrying maximum Sword Aura cuts into Cheon Sal Seong’s rigid vital point.
Health remaining—just a fraction over one-third?
Gone.

[Cheon Sal Seong Eliminated!]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –20]

The damage from Sword Aura enhanced through the Cheon Ma Divine Art is reliable.
Inner energy isn’t infinite—it’s a finite resource—so if this return were strange, then most people wouldn’t avoid using it in the first place, which is reality.

-Cheon Sal Seong 3v1 cut!
-Wut
-Can he actually win????
-He’s dead for real, why use a heavy attack there, this Orthodox Faction bastard
-Was gonna hit twice but sent it in one and lost lol

“Greed begets ruin, as they say. Of course, if I hadn’t been greedy, I’d have kept dodging until you were, so the outcome would’ve been the same.”
The moment it became 2v1, Seo Jun relaxed and began dodging Namgung Se Ga Jeom Soi’s attacks casually while reading and responding to chat.

-Ah, so that’s gaslighting?
-The confidence to keep dodging
-Since he’s always doing show and prove, there’s nothing to say lol

“Hm.”
Clang!
Namgung Se Ga Jeom Soi sighs as his attack is blocked.
Yesterday, he’d had his attacks blocked just as relentlessly as Cheon Sal Seong had.
“Got PTSD?”
Han Pun Man said.
“Nah.”
The two positioned themselves to the sides instead of boxing Seo Jun front and back.
Standing separately was dangerous now.
Hadn’t yesterday proven thoroughly enough that the enemy’s blade was unstoppable even at slow speed?
Unavoidable and devastating.
Of course, Han Pun Man still believed that with two people, he could create a different variable or escape.
But that’d only be possible after learning Martial Arts from Level 6 onward.
The reason: fundamental skill gap.
“Pure fighting just won’t work.”
Han Pun Man concluded with slumped shoulders, and his companion grumbled beside him.
“Where did you crawl out from, really.”
Unlike yesterday’s relentless pressure, their opponent Seo Jun was executing attacks steadily and successfully.
In contrast, they’d been failing at everything since Cheon Sal Seong died.
“If only we had Martial Arts, we could at least hold our ground.”
Even as he analyzed to the bitter end, a blade pierced Han Pun Man’s chest, his health drained to nothing, his body a corpse.
“Now it’s 1v1.”

[Han Pun Man Eliminated]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –20]

* * *

“We won round one, everyone.”
The fight hadn’t lasted long.
Both he and his opponent preferred deciding quickly rather than dragging things out.
The result: his victory.
Seo Jun cleaned up the enemy and swiftly occupied the Central Area Stronghold, then went inside.
His health and resources fully recovered.

-Wow
-He beat 3v1
-Is he a boss mob for real lol
-But being able to use Martial Art Trait alone was an advantage, right?
-What about the Cheon Ma Divine Art penalty?
-Without penalty and without the trait he probably would’ve caught them all without taking any damage

With enemies around, he couldn’t recover, so he had to finish this now.
“Right. Without the penalty, if I could just use my blade, I wouldn’t have taken a single hit.”

[‘Who Am I?’님 donated 50,000 won!]
[Shin Ha-yeon Slayer!]

“You’re banned.”

-lol
-Haha
-If you don’t like that, shouldn’t you stop showing off first?
-Even with a big disadvantage, winning 3v1 makes it legal to brag lol
-Why all the dunks on team play? Isn’t the Abbot’s skill higher than the top 3 rankers?
-What lol does 3v1 mean the difficulty is 3x?lol

With his health nearly full, he rose from his seat.
“I’ll break down multi-person fights for you, so stop arguing.”
Seo Jun calmed the chatty conflict while explaining briefly.
It wasn’t difficult to understand that while more people naturally make you stronger, you don’t scale proportionally with their numbers—most interested people already knew this.
Of course, this only applied in For the Alliance, where team kills were possible.
In a system where you can spray skills in all directions and do whatever you want, but your team isn’t affected while only enemies are, wouldn’t the difficulty of coordination drop drastically?

-Ah, so that’s how For the Alliance works
-It’s different then
-Why watch For the Alliance streams if you don’t even know this?
-I watch for the Abbot~ ♡
-Disrespecting the OGs who’ve been here since Assassination Guild’s Dawn
-So the Abbot isn’t worth three rankers combined

“Ah, that’s not what I meant. Of course I’m stronger than all three combined.”
What Seo Jun explained was merely the nature of multi-person fights; he never said he was weaker than three rankers put together.

-??? lololol he didn’t say “not” huh
-That’s fair
-Not unreasonable

Hm?
That’s not the reaction he expected.
Why are they accepting it so readily?
Normally he should’ve gotten a full combo of consonant soup, but the viewers surprisingly seemed willing to accept that it made sense.
Fortunately, the comments he’d been expecting started appearing with a time delay.
‘Phew.’

-Bullshit
-You wouldn’t have won without Cheon Ma Divine Authority yes or no
-The gap shows from Level 6 onward
-Then what about Nok Rim? They also get a passive trait from the start lol
-Assassination also has basic passive traits applied

Confirming his health and resources were full, Seo Jun left the stronghold and headed to the Central Area.
“Well, once we see Level 6+ fights, we’ll know who’s right, won’t we?”

-Fair enough lol
-So where are you going now?
-The enemy stronghold?
-It’ll be annoying to camp the entrance with respawns coming soon lol

Viewers assumed he’d head to the enemy stronghold.
That’s because Seo Jun always did this: go to Central first, beat everyone there, then proceed.
His main pattern was to make them spawn and fight repeatedly, preventing them from leaving, while sending teammates to Central via chat to crush soldiers.
With constant damage from three strongholds plus damage from killing soldiers, he could end games quickly—which he preferred.
But suddenly, Seo Jun went to Central and started hunting soldiers.
“Targeting vital points means no resource cost—three hits to drop them.”
Seo Jun entered the chaotic battlefield where Orthodox Faction and Ma-gyo soldiers clashed, and amid the confusion, began expertly piercing his blade through soldiers whose health had dropped below threshold.

[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]

Ma-gyo and Orthodox Faction soldiers had different gear, though not always easy to distinguish by equipment alone.
Instead, banners and similar parts were dyed red for Ma-gyo and blue for Orthodox Faction, making color-based distinction simple.

[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]

-What are you doing?
-Why suddenly start hunting mooks? This guy never does this
-Coward? lol going hard mode lol

Seo Jun commits his full focus to hunting soldiers.
One by one.
Even in the melee, he takes only trivial damage while hunting enemies by targeting vital points—efficiently, thoroughly.
“Why? ‘Cause I want to end the game faster.”
Nobody believed him.

-Just go to the stronghold then lol
-Trying to widen the level gap, I see
-That’s literally why occupying Central makes sense, but you don’t usually do that

In-game Level rises through experience gained by hunting soldiers, handling special map objects, or occupying and holding strongholds.
“Leveling up doesn’t create a huge difference.”
Different Martial Art Traits unlock or upgrade every 6 Levels, but no matter how much you grind, you can’t open up a 6+ Level gap—he knew this well.
Which was why Seo Jun, having a different reason, spoke the truth sincerely.

[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]
[Enemy Stronghold Health –5]

-If it’s not a big difference, stop lol
-The Abbot getting impatient and wanting to be even slightly faster lol legend lol
-Does he actually think this is hard?

Of course, nobody believed him.

* * *

“We’re losing this.”
Cheon Sal Seong spoke from inside the stronghold.
A downed player gets two choices.
One: stay where you fell, keep watch, and if an ally revives you, rejoin immediately.
Second: if it looks hopeless, just respawn at the stronghold as a dead player.
The latter was a system allowing dead players to communicate smoothly with each other.
“Ah, Rank 2, what are you doing? You got us beaten ’cause of you.”
Namgung Se Ga Jeom Soi and Cheon Sal Seong chose to respawn at the stronghold and wait.
Less than a minute of wait time—short, if you ask, but these two had temperaments that hated delays.
Staying on the field meant distance made communication harder, a disadvantage.
“Yeah, sorry. Didn’t know you’d spin around and Parry from there.”
He wasn’t blessed with eyes in the back of his head; plotting that while solo-surrounded would be nonsense, wouldn’t it?
“Fine.”
Jeom Soi accepted it—seemed like he was just venting.
“You’re calm about it.”
“You’re the strange one. Thought you’d be shocked after losing.”
“Right, weird. Lost 3v1 but I’m not even mad.”
Cheon Sal Seong tilted his head as he spoke.
“Pure skill-wise, we couldn’t match him.”
He had no intention of making excuses—that the opponent used Martial Arts, that 3v1 was different, whatever.
Three people simply couldn’t beat one. That was clear.
Namgung Se Ga Jeom Soi thought to himself:
‘How far down can I win a 3v1?’
Maybe about 3 tiers lower in ranked gaming?
That meant this streamer outclassed him by at least 3 tiers.
For a game as dated as For the Alliance, that was an absurd result for a top-tier player like himself.
There were excuses, though.
“That’s only pure physical skill. Once we hit Level 6, it’ll be different.”
He can lose pure fighting skill.
Even if For the Alliance weights pure fighting skill heavily, it’s still a game.
“That guy can’t actually play the game anyway.”
“Right.”
Good at fighting, good control, but can’t game.
“Always crushing people with pure skill—he doesn’t need game sense.”
Seems like he plays the game well, but that’s completely false.
He’d never seen anyone play a game so carelessly as that streamer.
“Anyway, what’s this bum doing?”
20 seconds until respawn.
Barely finishing his thought, Han Pun Man spawned in the stronghold.
“What were you doing?”
“Watching what the other guy’s doing. This isn’t the time.”
“Why?”
“Cheon Ma’s grinding levels hard right now. We need to stop him, but can we actually win if we respawn and charge back to Central right now?”
He’d come to the stronghold quickly, clarified the situation as he analyzed it aloud.
Han Pun Man was a veteran player too, but a step below the other two in skill.
“Probably better to hit Level 6 first before jumping in.”
“Doesn’t look like we can win.”
Han Pun Man said without hesitation, as he’d expected.
“Then there’s no choice. We narrow the gap as much as we can and hit Level 6 before we fight. We split up: Jeom Soi, you go Alpha. Me and Cheon Sal Seong take the Beta stronghold.”
They scattered the moment they respawned.
And they didn’t notice it yet.
From the moment they respawned, the rate at which the stronghold’s health was being depleted noticeably slowed down—visibly, unmistakably.

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