Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97

-Haha
-And kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
-Cheon Ma is just a genius. A broadcasting genius kkkkkk
-So cool
-Oh, my demonic spirit’s rising
-Cheon Ma is really insane kkkkkkkkkkk

Chat began flooding into Bangjoo’s room with tremendous firepower as he watched Seo Jun’s stream.
‘So that’s why he asked me to stream along.’
The day before, Seo Jun had asked him to please broadcast with him if he ended up going live today.
‘Crazy!’
Had he anticipated a moment like this?
He tried to view things objectively, but he couldn’t suppress the surge of excitement rising from deep within his chest.
He wasn’t even part of the Demonic Cult!
More than anything, his good looks played no small role.
Streamers usually position their camera to face viewers when interacting, and so Seo Jun’s handsome face and his calm, downward gaze—almost arrogant in its composure—were captured perfectly by the angle.
The result?

-Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my! Oh my!
-Jeongpa’s totally done for real kk
-Demonic Cult, rise up!
-I really have no confidence I’ll lose ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Heading straight to take out Jeongpa
-So handsome. Swordwork so good. Usually speaks so carefully but only lets loose at times like this. Has Christina. Just amazing.

A brilliant moment of this battlefield was born.
Was he really about to become a major corporation already!
Seo Jun’s channel had twenty thousand viewers.
If Bangjoo hadn’t turned on his stream, it might have exceeded thirty thousand.
He would have brushed against corporate status.
Unfortunately, because he’d broadcast, it topped out at twenty thousand.
But thanks to his stream, over a hundred thousand people watched Seo Jun’s broadcast, so there was gain in it.
Seo Jun had said it himself.
That the Demonic Cult’s victory mattered more than his own peak viewership numbers.
To push through Jeongpa in a war of strength, they needed not just Rankers but also heavy users, light users who’d only played one round—help from absolutely everyone.
“Ah! Seo Jun has made a declaration! The Demonic Cult and Jeongpa users who hear this will need to rush over quickly! The pattern is completely set now! All that remains is the test of strength!”
It was unclear which users from Jeongpa or the Demonic Cult would participate more.
Or was it really unclear?
After seeing a scene like that, it would be obvious to anyone, not just Bangjoo, whose morale would be higher, whose participation rate would be greater.
“The Demonic Cult has slightly more Rankers! And what’s more…….”
General users might lean toward Jeongpa, but would today really be the same?
And.
“Even if everyone except Seo Jun has a fifty-percent win rate or Jeongpa’s slightly higher, if Seo Jun wins everything anyway, it doesn’t matter!”
It had come back to this.
The conclusion of this battlefield.
Jeongpa had said it themselves.
“We must stop Cheon Ma! Jeongpa users, to protect our Main Base, we must defeat Cheon Ma in this game! We must! He’s not even the final boss—what is this!”
Strictly speaking, Cheon Ma’s side was the invading hero and Jeongpa was the Demon King who’d won every time before.
The Demonic Cult was the underdog.
The weak—those who’d never won a championship, always finishing near last.
Even their chat room title had been “Second Place At Best.”
But.
Anyone who’d watched Seo Jun’s streams, anyone who saw him today looking down calmly with that composed gaze, wouldn’t be able to tell who was the Demon King.

-Final boss aura for real kkkk
-His name is Cheon Ma itself kkkkk The Demon King incarnate
-Yeah! This is Cheon Ma! This is the Demonic Cult!
-This is what I wanted
-Jeongpa, you’re really done kkkkkkk And tomorrow it’s Sa Pa’s turn, just wait!

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[Han Jimin: Wow. Did you just see that?]
[Lee Geonyeong: Yes.]
[Han Jimin: The boss really enjoys the game kkkkk This looks so fun.]
[Han Jimin: At this rate, was he really Cheon Ma in his past life? kkkkkkkk]

Han Jimin said something that would have given Seo Jun Inner Demons if he’d heard it.
Fortunately, this was a chatroom where Seo Jun was present, but they were planning to keep talking anyway.
That remark would be pushed up and buried; unless Seo Jun specifically checked for something unusual, he wouldn’t see it.

[Lee Geonyeong: Really.]
[Lee Geonyeong: Wow, if we win the battlefield like this, that’s legendary.]
[Han Jimin: Then shall we do what we can do?]
[Lee Geonyeong: Cheering?]

Hmm.
Han Jimin’s expression turned sour for a moment.
Her gaze on the monitor seemed to have spotted something absurd.

[Han Jimin: That’s something the viewer “public toilet wall brick extortion king” should do.]
[Lee Geonyeong: …]
[Lee Geonyeong: Can we not mention the nickname…]
[Han Jimin: He was chatting just fine in yesterday’s stream]
[Han Jimin: You know your nickname really stands out, right?]

Especially since Seo Jun kept saying he disliked it, yet even gave him VIP status, making it even more visible.

[Han Jimin: Anyway, let’s just make some shorts right now]

Shorts don’t make money.
Monetizing such short videos under a minute with ads is awkward.
If they filmed direct advertisements as shorts, that would be different, but setting that aside.
Shorts are mostly used for promotion.
They have the advantage of generating substantial traffic.

[Han Jimin: So we need to let more people know. How the battlefield is progressing right now. The fact that the Demonic Cult has a chance at the championship.]

They weren’t just looking at today.
Beyond that, after eliminating Jeongpa.
As Seo Jun watched the Demonic Cult secure the championship, his editors began to move.

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How had the Demonic Cult lost their Main Base again?
Right.
The memory surfaced.
Back when Jeongpa was at their peak.
Back when Sa Pa was also at their peak.
Back when, truthfully, only the Demonic Cult was in their worst period, making those two relatively at their peak—when Mubi Soft was hearing complaints from all the Demonic Cult players.
The Demonic Cult was suffering from a serious shortage of players.
The reason: the worst balance patch ever.
The Demonic Cult, whose performance was abysmal, couldn’t stem the exodus of users.

-Thanks to you, I’ve escaped the evil demonic arts!
-I’ve been playing this game with my eyes closed until now. Now that I finally see, I’m leaving for Jeongpa.
-Never playing Demonic Cult again! This trashy, vulgar faction!

Only about twenty truly skilled players remained.
The other factions were certain the remaining people must have been fanatics in a past life—such were the dire conditions.
How many years ago was that?
And why had it happened?
Ah.
Cheon Ma.
Not Cheon Ma 2 or Cheon Ma 3—the actual nickname Cheon Ma.
That player was the main culprit behind the Demonic Cult’s nerf.
Ranked first, stomping ranked matches so overwhelmingly that people said he was Shin Hayeon.
Of course, he wasn’t Shin Hayeon.
She mostly played on her main account only, and Cheon Ma’s avatar was male, not female, with a completely different physique.
With control skill like Shin Hayeon’s, she could show excellent play even on an avatar with a different build.
It was so difficult that occasionally players with enormously buffed-up bandit avatars got called crazy, but pros could do it.
Still, experts analyzed that the style was different.
The people involved denied it.
Because of these various opinions, it was confirmed he wasn’t Shin Hayeon—that user called Cheon Ma had existed in the past.
There are many hidden masters in the world.
But few as overwhelmingly dominant as Cheon Ma.
That’s why Mubi Soft nerfed the Demonic Cult in response to Cheon Ma’s unparalleled performance back then.
But it was excessive enough to have a fatal impact on regular users.
On top of that, whether because of the excessive nerf or his pro gaming career, Cheon Ma quit the game around the time that battlefield started.
The Demonic Cult became a laughingstock, gradually ceding territory to Sa Pa and Jeongpa.

-Hey kk Jeongpa. Want to try eliminating Demonic Cult? Curious?
-Just for today, we’re allies! Sa Pa!

As a result of this blatant collusion, they were driven from the battlefield.
How much did Mubi Soft get cursed at?
The Demonic Cult players flooded the community for over a month saying they didn’t understand why the company had nerfed them so hard because of Cheon Ma.
But now, Cheon Salseong thinks differently.
‘You were wrong, Mubi Soft.’
People in the know initially suspected whether Cheon Ma 14 now was that original Cheon Ma.
But the old Cheon Ma’s ID was still searchable, and Seo Jun couldn’t be a pro gamer with a sub-account, so they dropped the suspicion.
Up to that point, it was fine.
‘You were wrong, Mubi Soft!’
Only until they didn’t know that the 14th Cheon Ma was even worse.
After taking heavy criticism, Mubi Soft adjusted the Demonic Cult so it could at least function somewhat, but they left the Cheon Ma Divine Art, which Cheon Ma had mainly used, alone.
The performance was too good, they said.
The Demonic Cult players, united as one, protested that it was unusable unless you were a top-tier pro gamer, but Mubi Soft stuck to their guns.
Now Cheon Salseong thinks again.
‘They should have nerfed it even more instead of stubbornly refusing!’
Mubi Soft was wrong.
The Cheon Ma Divine Art should be nerfed further, not buffed.
“Stop him! Please!”
Someone worse had appeared.
The original Cheon Ma who’d shined for only a few months and never joined a battlefield before disappearing?
I’ll grant you the quick reflexes and preparation that came from securing the Rare Nickname!
As for skill, Cheon Salseong had been young at the time and wasn’t a Ranker, so he’d never fought him directly, but he probably did well enough.
But compared to the true Cheon Ma born from the 14th generation beneath him?
“Please, can someone just win once.”
Cheon Salseong prayed, looking at the map.
He didn’t know who could match Cheon Ma.
Roughly sixty Rankers in the Demonic Cult.
Roughly eighty Rankers in Jeongpa.
These two were currently clashing with full force.
The Demonic Cult players, as if they’d all been injected with adrenaline, poured in at once, forcing Jeongpa to throw everyone in to respond.
Now backing off and not fighting head-on, then later choosing to play against general users and secure victories—that option wasn’t available.
When considering that all Rankers would simply secure victories, the Demonic Cult was slightly higher.
In other words, they had to fight, but satisfy one of two conditions.
Either secure overwhelmingly more victories in the fight excluding Cheon Ma, or defeat Cheon Ma.
Currently, most Rankers had finished their third match.
And Seo Jun was on a three-win streak.
Of course, you can only know if he loses once it happens.
“Five days left. If we can just hold out today and tomorrow, the Demonic Cult can’t catch us and won’t be able to catch Sa Pa either.”
The Demonic Cult was definitely crazy enough that if the championship slipped away, they might spend the remaining time trying to eliminate Jeongpa out of spite.
But if that happens, neither Demonic Cult nor Jeongpa will have won the championship anyway.
In the end, if he just blocks them for these two days, Jeongpa, having dealt a heavy blow to the Demonic Cult, could achieve psychological victory.

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