Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

-Haha, hahahaha
-He’s attacking from here? But it might actually work?
-Is he seriously just charging in like that? Lmaooooooo
-The Heavenly Demon doesn’t know how to retreat hahahaha

The Jungpa’s forces were already depleted from blocking the Sapha, and they would only bleed further.
Yet if Seo Jun attacked, they could divert enough forces to mount a defense.
From the Jungpa’s perspective, they couldn’t afford to let a blade reach their throat.
That’s why he’d waited as long as possible.
‘I wonder just how bold a choice they’ll make.’
Seo Jun glanced at the viewer count.
Today’s broadcast had run longer than yesterday, and with the incident unfolding, viewership had climbed considerably.

[16,000 Viewers]

For the Gorge streamers were decent in number overall.
There were no professional streamers in the very top tier, but among the rankers you’d occasionally see ones pulling thousands of viewers.
A viewer pool in the range of 100,000 to 200,000.
‘If Bang Ju jumps in, the scale jumps to 300,000 all at once, but.’
In any case, he’d gathered a substantial audience here.
Before Seo Jun started For the Gorge, his fixed viewers numbered just 2,300.
‘Thinking about it fresh like this, it’s actually massive.’
The Battlefield had driven countless new viewers in.
So what sort of people were these newcomers?

-Guys, but where’s Shanxi that the Streamer’s saying to attack? No marker on the map?
-Streamer, to your right!
-Please, for once look at the internet instead of just living in reality!
-Hahahaha

That’s how it was.
‘Not all of them are like that.’
In any case, there were plenty of heavy users.
He could prove it if needed. Just turn off the stream.
If the community forums filled up with about thirty pages of curses directed at him for suddenly going offline, what clearer proof could there be?
Of course, he was just estimating based on rough reactions—he had no concrete numbers.
So he decided to roll the dice once.
“You’ve all been waiting, right? Now let’s start the game. Come with me.”
On the Battlefield, streamers and viewers allegedly moved together fairly often.
He wondered how it would play out for him, and how many people the Jungpa would think were coming.

-Ah haha I really was waiting!
-The way he laid the groundwork, I had a feeling it’d be like this lololol
-So hilarious hahahahahaha
-Don’t come you bastards…
-Manager! Wipe out the Jungpa!

* * *

Nameless and ItsNotRealMartialArts were among the Sapha’s personnel who’d finished the game first and were waiting for the outcome.
“What do you think will happen?”
“No idea. What about you?”
“I don’t know either… the Demonic Cult could betray us tomorrow and it wouldn’t even be surprising.”
They’d assessed the Demonic Cult’s actions and decided that for today at least, their word could be trusted.
‘Tomorrow’s a different story.’
That judgment resulted in them now fighting in two regions on the Battlefield.
“Do you think the Demonic Cult’s real goal is what they told us?”
Nameless turned his head to look at ItsNotRealMartialArts.
ItsNotRealMartialArts.
With outstanding skill and commitment to an extreme concept, he was one of the Sapha’s top two most disliked users alongside Dangso.
Now that Dangso had quit, was he number one?
That was quite something.
“I don’t know.”
“Yeah. I shouldn’t have asked you that.”
“But there is one thing I know for certain.”
“What’s that?”
“The Heavenly Demon was someone without principles, and someone who understood the Gorge.”
“Ah. I see…”
Nameless wasn’t particularly angry.
How many times had this happened now?
He thought that Viewbio Software should create a title like “Ascension to Immortality” just from his experience dealing with people like this and grant it to him.
“Hm. They really aren’t doing anything.”
He hadn’t ruled out the possibility that the Demonic Cult might try to make up for how much the Sapha had taken by luring them in.
Just minutes ago, the Demonic Cult could’ve actually committed betrayal if they wanted to.
Of course, with that troublesome figure Seo Jun attacking the Jungpa again, it’s now almost certain they won’t.
“Anyway, it looks like they definitely took Gansu for themselves.”
Just as Shaanxi was surrounded by the Jungpa, Gansu was surrounded by the Demonic Cult.
“They’re not attacking us, and since Seo Jun is currently attacking Shanxi…”
Did they really become enemies with the Jungpa?
“It flows favorably for us, which is good.”
The regions they already controlled were vast, yet instead of checking them, they were actually helping push them forward.
Each faction’s objective in For the Gorge was unconditionally first place. Nothing else mattered.
Though the game got criticized for having no gorge, it was oddly full of romance when you really thought about it.
It wasn’t about not betraying.
It meant everyone strived as hard as possible toward their faction’s goal of first place.
Which is why the Demonic Cult’s movements right now were suspiciously strange.
……
There was something he could guess at.
Samjangro had even spoken as if begging him to understand.
“Sigh. If it just plays out like this tomorrow, that wouldn’t be the worst outcome.”
For now, they seemed to have taken both of the Jungpa’s regions.
Seo Jun had led the viewers to attack right in front of the Headquarters, and the Jungpa had pulled considerable forces to stop him.
They’d scraped together more than fifteen people and deployed them anyway.
“Yeah, that’d be the most pressing matter for them.”
From the Jungpa’s perspective, they were trying to buy time however they could.
And that streamer probably meant to tell them to focus on the Jungpa and not get any other ideas.
‘Very well.’
If he truly did take Shanxi, he could follow that opinion.
It might even be more advantageous.
He just had to make it beneficial for them.
He’d said it before.
“That we can’t win.”
Nameless murmured this, turning his head to the side again.
There was still something he was curious about.
“Brother, but why did your matching cancellation fail just now?”
“Quiet.”

* * *

After 10 PM, the Battlefield closed.
At first, people were taken aback by the unexpected developments, but gradually they began to enjoy it.
All except the Jungpa.

[What a disaster]
==
Will the Jungpa’s Headquarters fall next and get them eliminated from the Battlefield, second only to the Demonic Cult?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
.
.
==

A heaping bowl of a post, its character count stuffed completely full with laughter, earned roughly 600 upvotes and drew enthusiasm.
Over 100 downvotes from the Jungpa were a bonus.

[Why the Jungpa is in real danger tomorrow!]
==
If even one attack from the death squad trapped in Shaanxi succeeds, they absolutely have to block it lololol
But then the Sapha comes at them again?
Can they defend against two factions?
==

-Yeah they won’t break through
└Are you serious lololololol
└What about you?
-No need to worry lol
└So they probably gave up 2 territories to the Sapha?
└That’s fine to give up. They just need to block the Demonic Cult coming at them like they have a vendetta.

[Let’s pull it together! Getting kicked out of the Battlefield is too humiliating]

-The Demonic Cult and Sapha kids will milk this for life
└I like bone broth but you guys dug it all up lolololol
└They’ll be talking about this until the server shuts down lololololol because I’ll make sure of it hahahaha
└The Demonic Cult?
└Yeah why
└You guys got eliminated before and you’re acting all confident about it, it’s seriously annoying
└Sorry but the Demonic Cult before the Heavenly Demon arrived wasn’t the true Demonic Cult lolololololol

“Maybe I should switch to the Demonic Cult.”
Hanpoonman muttered before suddenly startling and correcting himself.
“No wait. I still like Gaebang.”
Hanpoonman.
He was a user who loved Gaebang down to his bones.
“No, not Gaebang—I mean, Gaebang is what I meant.”
He’d joined Gaebang because the intelligence-handling concept was cool, but people called it the Beggars so much that he’d briefly experienced an identity crisis, so Hanpoonman shook his head firmly.
“Why have you been talking nonsense to yourself this whole time?”
Jeomsoyi walked over and asked.
Her friend seemed to have lost it.
Had he snapped?
“Nonsense is this.”
Hanpoonman shared a link.

[Why did the Jungpa stake their lives on Shanxi? Are they scared of the Demonic Cult’s growth?]
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I mean, only the Heavenly Demon, a few rankers, and some users from Shaanxi could attack Shanxi, but does putting in 23 rankers make sense?
They should be blocking the Sapha.
Are they really that scared of the Demonic Cult’s growth?
==

-The Jungpa is making excuses about the Streamer lololol
└That Streamer is only the Streamer in the game, here he’s just a regular user you Demonic Cult bastards.
└Why are the Jungpa so upset today anyway???? Just watch the game lololol
└Right, you gotta look at the game as a game, why get emotional about it lololol
└Ugh!

Jeomsoyi clicked the link and read the post, giggling before suddenly stopping her laughter.
Then, with a serious expression, she spoke like a news anchor.
“Are you scared of the Demonic Cult’s growth?”
“…You agreed too that Shanxi had to be held no matter the cost.”
“That’s fair.”
It was impossible to gauge how many viewers would actually follow the streamer.
Based on Hanpoonman’s strong insistence that it would be a lot, they’d pulled rankers even from the fights against the Sapha and managed the game that way.
“So we defended well. You were the one who came up with Operation: Block the Heavenly Demon.”
Block the Heavenly Demon.
The fact that whether they actually stopped him this time shaped the game’s course in such an unexpected way was amusing.
Intuition.
Really good instincts, right?
“Still, I’m not sure.”
The situation kept shifting, and there weren’t zero ways to make the Sapha not need to ally with the Demonic Cult.
“I’m done thinking about it. There’s no point grinding on it any longer anyway.”
Jeomsoyi logged out of the virtual reality.
“That’s fair.”
Hanpoonman agreed.
So he logged out too and then checked the community on his phone.
It was an addiction.

* * *

[I was happy fighting alongside the Heavenly Demon today]
[If I can contribute like this…]
[The Jungpa’s meltdown moments today.jpg]
[It’s weird that streamer-followers actually exist]
[But does anyone actually believe Samjangro’s donations? It’s all to promote one streamer.]

There was one title that caught his eye intensely.
Hanpoonman couldn’t resist.

[But do you really believe Samjangro’s donations? It’s all to promote one streamer.]
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I mean, even Viewbio Software created a patriarch and abbots and whatnot to promote that streamer.
The Demonic Cult’s also pushing him forward now to promote one streamer.
Bang Ju’s joint stream and the rankers’ losses were all to promote the streamer Seo Jun.
What the Jungpa suffered?
It’s because they were sacrificed to promote the Streamer. You really don’t get it?
The Sapha cooperating with the Demonic Cult?
Same thing.
Exactly.
The Streamer is a god and the Demonic Cult is invincible.
==

-Fuckin lololololololololololololololololololololololol
-Last line lololololol
-Taking the mooching controversy and flipping it like this lololol
-The whole world is just streaming content hahahahahahaha

It was a sarcastic post.
“Haha.”
Normally he would’ve laughed it off without much thought, but now with crisis looming, he couldn’t laugh freely.
Hanpoonman eventually pondered for a moment before, whether to reverse the mood or to gather his spirit, logged into an alt account and wrote a post.

[I still think the Jungpa will show something!]

Just one more day to get through.
By the time today’s Battlefield ended, they’d grasped the enemy’s objectives and what scheme they were orchestrating.
He smirked.
“Facing two factions, as if.”
Of course, if the blade reached his throat tomorrow, the range of choices would narrow catastrophically.
But if they successfully defended today, they could find a way through somehow.
“Please!”
Yet contrary to Hanpoonman’s wish.
The next day, for the first time in Battlefield history, the Jungpa’s gates opened.

[Emergency!]
[We.Lost.]
[This is the power of ordinary users!!!]
[The incompetent Jungpa leadership that failed to defend three territories—the first in history—please raise your hands.]

-Why?
└They deserve a beating (Original poster)
└Hahahahahaha

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