The Fate-Seeing Genius Streamer - Chapter 33

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32. [Night Soul] Not Human…! (3)
For a streamer, viewer interest is nothing short of essential to establishing a foothold.
Most streamers build their foundation by garnering attention from their audience during personal broadcasts.
Therefore—a spike in real-time viewership above the usual numbers, or a sudden surge, was inevitably an ‘opportunity’.
A chance to expand the core audience and dramatically increase recognition.
But———
An increase in real-time viewership was simultaneously an opportunity and a breeding ground for chaos.
Events orchestrated by the streamer, or comparable trending topics.
Without such things, the factors that ‘draw attention’ are typically far from favorable.
In other words.
…Simply put, there was a high probability that the sudden surge in viewership stemmed from malicious interest rather than goodwill.
Exactly like now.
[Dustnet (=Category: {Game / Streamer}]
*Post Title: [Night Soul] Controversy Over Streamer’s First Entry into ‘Nightmare’ Mode Hidden Route…real
└Author: Anonymous (Original Poster)
━{ Video }
━[Night Soul] Speedrun Quest accepted, and he says he’ll clear it based on the Tower Master’s top record if you just pay him lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
━Says it doesn’t matter if it’s Heuk-wol or Kensin, he’ll just clear it?? What kind of audacity is this lol??
‘Attention-baiting’.
A video clip of Joo Seo-jin’s earlier statement that he would clear the dungeon if a reasonable mission fee accumulated based on current records.
By extracting only a single scene from the video clip while omitting the surrounding context, the spark ignited the kindling inevitably.
【Comment Section】
-〔Anonymous〕: I thought he was baiting, but it’s real?? What is this?????????????;
-〔Anonymous〕: The mission fees were piling up like crazy, so I was wondering what it was, but damn, that’s basically a savings account
-〔Anonymous〕: These crazy bastards lol lol lol lol lol Are you asking him to break the record that pro gamers packed down like the most miserable rice bowl? That’s ridiculous?
-〔Anonymous〕: These devils, how much do they want to mess with him, stacking mission fees like that lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol
And.
-〔Anonymous〕: Wait, are you asking him to do the Night Soul Tower Master speedrun based on Heuk-wol and Kensin’s standards..? That’s unreasonable..?;
└[Anonymous]: Watch the whole video lol lol The streamer himself said he’d clear it faster than Heuk-wol and Kensin lol lol
└[Anonymous]: Tsk, look at this guy… He says you gotta give him ‘money’ to wake him up, ‘money’! You gotta speak clearly…!
Why is this like this?
└[Anonymous]: Why are you treating pro gamers like some random guy who’s good at games? What kind of nonsense is this? I seriously don’t get it.
└[Anonymous]: Yeah, I did cross the line a bit. Pro gamers aren’t pushovers, and seriously… does he think he’s some kind of unparalleled genius or something?
While some dismissed the video clip as trivial, others were swept up in the controversy all at once.
-〔Anonymous〕: Chilling fact) Active pro gamer Crack was overwhelmed 2:0 by this streamer in [Infinite War] using pure martial arts
└[Anonymous]: ? What nonsense is this? Can you provide evidence?
“Just search for it and it comes up, are your fingers just for decoration?”
└[Anonymous]: Why are people spouting nonsense comparing Crack to someone over a casual 1:1 event match in [Infinite War]?
└[Anonymous]: Don’t you know that among all the talent broadcasts, the only ones that work properly are those of former pros?
Posts that successfully drew attention began proliferating everywhere, and all manner of people began flooding into the stream.
-[Anonymous]: This is crazy, seriously lol let’s see how fucking good you are lol
-[Anonymous]: They claim to be pro-gamer level on a skill stream, but if they’re trash I’m genuinely done, got it?
-[Anonymous]: If they’re a skill-stream attention seeker, they seriously need to get torn apart in an analysis video
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…
With the prejudiced lens of viewing them as just another streamer using pro-gamers as a benchmark, they approached with the preconceived notion: ‘Even if they’re good, aren’t they just amateur level?’
And then.
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The next instant.
-Huh?
-??????????????
-…!?
Most of the viewers flooding the stream simultaneously witnessed the same scene and gasped in shock.
-What the… insane..?
A spectacle so extraordinary that prejudice and bias naturally became completely forgotten.
The reason being—
Boom─crash───!
‘1 versus 17’
An insurmountable power gap created by numerical superiority in the early stages of [Night Soul]—an advantage that should be absolutely impossible to overcome.
A sight that could only exist with overwhelming skill difference: a single person crushing multiple enemies through sheer force alone.
-Is this real…?
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Marauders.
Hostile NPCs that represent the greatest entry barrier in [Night Soul]. Their first encounter required no special explanation.
As I walked down the path leading beyond the Great Cavern, I sensed movement, and shadows emerged into view.
Whoosh—.
“Hah. I thought I heard some rat scurrying around, so this was it? Looks like you’ve lost your way?”
As the cavern corridor gradually widened, menacing faces appeared from my peripheral vision.
A filthy appearance like vagrants. Added to that, leather armor caked with dried blood. Mismatched weapons hanging at their sides.
The largest man at the front, gaunt-faced, chuckled and placed his hand on the hilt of his weapon.
His upper body leaned forward as if ready to strike at any moment.
The gaunt-faced, large-bodied man exuding a leader-like presence opened his mouth.
“Now, if you don’t want to die, you know what to do, right? Hand over everything you’ve got….”
“You’re marauders, aren’t you?”
“…What? Ha. This is ridiculous, you bastard? Do we look like honorable knights to you? Stop spouting nonsense and hand over everything you have—”
“Then die.”
Before the marauder leader’s words could even finish, something changed.
In an instant, a cold beam of light shot forward with a ‘pa-ang—!’ sound that tore through the air.
A reaction speed difference so vast that even half a beat—no, even a full beat of delay meant ‘absolutely’ no response whatsoever.
The outcome was already decided.
Schwick───!
“Ah, aaagh, aagh───!”
First strike, certain victory.
Leaning the upper body forward meant, in other words, being vulnerable to attack at any moment.
The captain-class raider who had approached without knowing anything—the instant I severed one of his arms cleanly, the next blade strike followed immediately.
Tsuh-haack───!!
In a flash, faster than the blink of an eye, a long sword wound was carved across the upper body of the captain-class raider who had been in front, and he fell.
“!?”
“Damn it. Wh-what! The c-captain is d-dead—”
“Th-this bastard, he t-turned around───”
Chaos, panic, followed by rage. The instinctive excitement at seeing the captain-class raider fall was brief.
Tsuh───.
As I immediately lowered my center of gravity and tilted my body diagonally, something extraordinary occurred.
───.
The moment foresight activated, time’s flow became relatively slower, and my sixth sense was unleashed.
Kiiiing.
‘Reaction speed’.
The transmission speed of electrical signals within the nervous system, the action potential between nerve cells.
Within full-dive content, the reason innate reflexes are called an absolute wall and an inborn talent lies nowhere else.
In superhuman combat where offense and defense are decided in millisecond intervals, reaction speed dominates the initiative.
Just like now.
Shwaaang───.
A thunderous boom.
A rough, brief vibration that shook the earth itself. Simultaneously, my body, which had been tilted to the side, rebounded and shot forward—accelerating.
The dynamic maneuvering of Lacrantz Style, established as ‘observing then acting’ from Crack and ‘testing’ from Halkenburg.
That movement tore through the air with a deafening roar.
Piieee───!
Thunk-thunk, tuk-.
The next moment, my body came to an abrupt halt at a slightly distant location, and with a slight delay, a raider’s head fell to the ground.
My form had merely blurred for an instant and reappeared, yet one of them was already dead without resistance.
Unlike the initial confusion, panic, and subsequent rage, fear began to spread.
Given the numerical advantage, a reaction like this shouldn’t have emerged.
“Wh-what? Wh-wh-what?”
“W-wait. Th-this, what in the—”
“What! Th-this doesn’t make sense. H-how is he so f-fast—”
Well. Either way, it was meaningless. Regrettably so.
Swooosh───.
Acceleration, then perfect deceleration. Movement that defied the laws of ordinary physics. Staggering, rough charges continued in a zigzag pattern.
“Guh, guh-hack!? K-kuh-hck—?”
Vital points.
Or, inscribing blade marks perfectly near the head or heart, dispatching them with relentless efficiency.
In the application of force, control so flawless that not a single ounce was wasted.
Before such mastery, numerical advantage was nothing more than ‘the count of prey’.
Like a pack of rabbits before a lion.
“Gaaaaaahhhhh! Ugh, ugghhhhh—!”
“Don’t come, don’t come! Ugh, ugh, ugghhhhh! I said don’t, you insane monst—— Gack, hack—!”
“Im, impossible!! A, a real knight here…!? That’s a lie— Puh, cough hack!?”
Death cries. Yet despite the subsequent flood of plunderers choosing flight in terror, the outcome remained unchanged.
Whoosh.
Only in the instant of delivering death to enemies did I flicker in and out of existence, like a frozen frame from a paused video.
A pallid, bloodless expression. Mechanical eyes. Within them, not a trace of emotion could be felt.
As if I were something other than human.
“A, a knight? There’s no way something like that could be a knight!!”
“A monster. A monster, I tell you! That’s, that’s not human, is it!?”
“A ghost. A ghost, it’s a ghost— a ghost has appeared———…!”
Yet—.
That too was only momentary.
Splash—crack———!
A fountain of blood. In the midst of eerie sword light flickering and scattering like phantoms, the sound of air being torn rang out relentlessly.
The echoing sounds within the Great Cavern were consumed by the shriek of cleaving air, annihilated together, and silence descended.
In a silence so heavy that even breathing felt weighted, only one thing remained.
Drip, drop—.
Above the pool of blood, Joo Seo-jin raised his head slowly, his longsword hanging at his side, not a single drop of blood staining his clothes.
Emanating an atmosphere so alien it seemed divorced from the world itself, the moment I let most of the blood drip from the blade’s tip.
Joo Seo-jin furrowed his brow and let out a curt “Hmm.”
“Calling a living person a ghost… Typical plunderers, really. Their words are too harsh.”
-?
-??
-???;
As if I had suffered some emotional wound from what the plunderers said.
“Indeed. Plunderers are plunderers, after all—so crude. They’re quite skilled at putting people in a bad mood.”
-Huh?
-Wait, what… The person who was just gleefully slaughtering plunderers.. what did you say?
-??.. No, what is this? After massacring them like some horror boss.. you’re saying your feelings are hurt..?
Throughout the entire stream, even the chat had lagged momentarily—a line that seemed utterly out of place after such an overwhelmingly one-sided massacre.
At that sudden, sullen emotional outburst, the viewers were taken aback only briefly.
The provocative remarks showed no sign of stopping.
“Just because I moved a little fast, is calling me a ghost really necessary?”
The thing is—.
“I certainly hadn’t expected to hear that I wasn’t even human…”
I had just triggered a massive aggro.
“Hmm. Well, wasn’t it just… basic movements? Something like that?”
My expression was purely bewildered, as if to say, ‘Honestly, isn’t that right?’
In other words.
I had drawn aggro not once, but twice.
《 [Night Soul] : ‘Nightmare’ Mode, All Boss Speedrun Clear with Zero Deaths! (※with Joo Seo-jin) 》
━Myeong Bang-ul(wntjdbsdlqslek1231)
*Viewers: 11,927 (※SUPER HOT!!!)
-Uh.. I’m not sure if they’re a ghost, but they definitely don’t seem human..?
“Got hurt hearing I’m not human, so now I’m a non-human-tier physical genius lol”
Doesn’t he look like he could be called a demon? At least it’s clear he doesn’t have a human heart.
“They’re doing bit-tickling so shamelessly in real-time now that it’s just fucking hilarious lol”
-Great Joyful Mountain on hahahahahahahahahaha
‘11,927 viewers’.
Before the flood of new viewers drawn by the aggro, far exceeding the stream’s average viewership.
The calm tone of my remarks—showing no hint of boasting in my speech or actions, purely bewildered—had reversed the entire situation.
-…No, you really don’t seem human, do you?
I had succeeded in transforming the aggro from a crisis into an opportunity.
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At the same moment.
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[Dustnet(=Category: {Gaming / Streamers}]
*Post Title: [Night Soul] Skill Streamer Who Said They’d Set a New Speedrun Record Today Delivers an Epic Physical Feat…clip
[Darkside(※Official Gallery: Space Stream)]
“Yo, you bastards, this is a real skill broadcast, Joo Seo-jin is hyping it up, haha, he’s a martial arts expert from the start, lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol”
[Green Tea Cafe(※Daily: Gaming / Streamers)]
*Title: JSJ’s broadcast clip today seems to have set a record-breaking standard..? This is seriously no joke;;>
The massive backlash that had raged like a typhoon began to miraculously shift into a favorable wind.

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