The Fate-Seeing Genius Streamer - Chapter 69

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69. [Night Soul] Actually, This Is Rather Good? (5)
An insider.
If there existed a spy funneling classified information from the organization to the outside, the current situation became entirely comprehensible.
The mysterious enemies appearing the moment we entered Servalt Territory could not be dismissed as mere coincidence.
For both the infiltration squad and the operation team to reclaim Night Soul to have their plans exposed, every detail of our strategy must have been leaked beforehand.
From the instant we assembled the infiltration unit to retrieve the knight’s soul enshrined in Elern’s Seal Temple, there was no doubt the enemy had already devised their counter-strategy.
Unfortunately.
〈 GREAT ENEMY / BOSS 〉
【 Apostate Who Turned His Back on the Star Sect: Sgrurpen 】
Sgrurpen.
A tall man with an oddly hunched back tilted at an angle, twin daggers balanced precariously on his fingertips, released a sinister voice.
“Oho. So you’re the one who reclaims the light… the prophesied existence, are you?”
Sgrurpen twisted his head, stretching his lips into a grotesque grin.
“Hmm. You seem reasonably skilled, I’ll grant you that, but you understand it’s all meaningless, yes?”
Within his tone, laced with damp laughter, ominous footsteps echoed in rapid succession.
“From the moment you came here to reclaim the knight’s soul, you were already as good as dead.”
───.
Before his words even finished, priests clad in robes bearing the black sun insignia emerged from the undergrowth.
Archers with bowstrings drawn taut, perched upon branches, to assassins seeping through shadows like phantoms with daggers wedged between their fingers—over thirty combatants in total.
Surrounded by more than thirty fighters, and not mere rabble either, but seasoned warriors positioned in advance, anticipating combat in this very location.
-This is bad
-We’re completely screwed;
-I mean, everything else aside, bringing archers AND assassins is just overkill lol
-This is just… we’d barely escape with our lives if we ran right now..?;
There was no advantage whatsoever.
Overcoming numerical superiority was only possible when facing weak enemies swarming in numbers.
With archers, assassins, and an enemy classified as a Great Enemy all deployed, the odds of victory were decidedly grim.
Yet despite the seemingly hopeless situation, Joo Seo-jin displayed no particular reaction.
Rather than expressing despair at the current predicament, he simply surveyed his surroundings with composure.
Perhaps that’s why.
“Hmm.”
Joo Seo-jin released a contemplative hum, then uttered an unexpected sentiment.
“Actually, this is rather good?”
As if genuinely pleased, Joo Seo-jin descended from the carriage and landed upon the ground, continuing his thought.
“Truth be told, the game difficulty has been far too easy lately.”
-??;
-lmao
-Wait… the game difficulty… was easy…?
-When exactly was the difficulty ever easy??
A clear expression of delight crossed his face, as though he had been granted a welcome opportunity.
“…Recently, there’s been a mission I’ve wanted to attempt. If things are going this well, I suppose I should bring it up.”
*Whoosh.*
“───Is there anyone here willing to sponsor a kill mission?”
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A kill mission.
Within the game, it was a type of mission where the sponsorship amount scaled proportionally with how many mobs were slain.
Since the sponsorship amount increased based on kill score, the mission reward varied wildly depending on the streamer’s skill level executing it.
At the highest end, the mission payout could diverge dramatically from typical missions, but conversely, since the amount increased proportionally to kill score, there was no lower limit either.
As such, kill missions always emerged in situations where life and death hung in the balance.
The appeal lay in recklessly pushing for higher kill scores even in crisis situations where a single mistake meant instant defeat.
Therefore───.
The current situation, when I thought about it, was actually a section where a kill mission could emerge.
“Is there anyone here willing to sponsor a kill mission?”
-?;
Haha, seriously though lol
-Wait, asking for a kill mission out of nowhere..? Are you serious???????
-This guy’s insane;
-We’re literally one mistake away from a total wipe if we don’t run, and he’s asking for a kill mission..?;
The heart of a beast trembling with fear;;
Well.
…The only problem was that the crisis situation was far too absurd to warrant a kill mission.
But big bets always exploded at moments like this.
While the chat erupted in disbelief at the outrageous proposal, a donation came through.
*Ding.*
[【MapoDidItCollapse】 donated ‘100,000 won’.]
━10,000 won per kill? If you take down the boss mob too, kill score x2, you in??
-Lmao
-He’s done for;
I ask and go double, shivering shivering shivering…
-10,000 won per kill? Honestly pretty nice, but the situation’s kinda insane;
Forcing players to go for pentakills by putting a 2x kill score multiplier on boss monsters is absolutely ridiculous lol
Considering this was a no-death-clear stream, the base compensation per kill score wasn’t substantial for the game-over risk assumed, but the real leverage was the multiplier.
Sgrurpen.
If I completed the kill mission with the premise of defeating the Great Enemy—the field boss—the mission payout would be doubled.
It was practically a gamble of a kill mission, and one might hesitate, but Joo Seo-jin accepted without a moment’s doubt.
“Of course. I’ll execute the kill mission properly. …I guarantee you, you won’t be disappointed.”
*Metallic ring───.*
At the same moment, I drew the longsword from my waist and shifted my gaze.
I surveyed all the enemies arrayed nearby at once, including Sgrurpen.
“I’ll eliminate every last one of them.”
And then.
Whirr, whish—.
That was the moment.
Sgrurpen twirled his twin daggers between his fingers with practiced finesse, his eyes narrowing with a slow, contemptuous smirk.
“Heh. You seem rather confident… I’m not sure what you’re muttering about, but I’ll end this quickly. ───Die.”
The instant Sgrurpen ceased his spinning motion and gripped the twin daggers firmly, issuing his chilling command.
Peeee-ing, pee-ing———…!!
A barrage of arrows.
Arrows released from bowstrings above the forest tore through the air in an instant, embroidering the void with their deadly trajectory.
Whoosh.
Simultaneously, assassins wielding daggers in both hands rushed from either flank, launching coordinated attacks in an encircling formation.
Time itself seemed to fracture, and every sense sharpened to a razor’s edge.
Kiii-ing———….
Foresight’s function.
A surge of exhilaration flooded my entire being, honing my consciousness to an impossibly keen edge—and finally, I surged forward.
Soul force, that is, phantom energy enveloped my body and erupted in brilliant white light as the air shrieked, and my form shot forth.
Paa-ang———!
Rather than merely pushing off the ground, I kicked with shattering force, executing movements grotesque in their precision.
Dust erupted into the air as I mechanically twisted my body to evade and deflect the cascading arrows.
Suu-uck———!
Through maximum evasive maneuvers I let the arrows slip past, and the remainder I deflected with my longsword, angling the blade with decisive efficiency.
Clang, clang-clang-clang!! Screee-ack———…!!
Before even completing a single motion, I severed the wrist of the assassin charging from my left, bisecting him entirely.
Squelch-.
I immediately intercepted his remaining arm’s desperate strike with a deep kick, finishing him without hesitation.
The same.
As corpses sprayed blood and collapsed, the assassins rushing from either side met the same fate—bisected in a single strike.
Slashing, piercing, crushing. Occasionally disrupting balance and driving downward to finish, I methodically accumulated my kill count.
In the ultra-high-speed exchange of offense and defense, I executed mechanically efficient movements, systematically annihilating the attackers.
And then———.
Finally, having dispatched all the attackers swarming from every direction, I crouched and launched myself skyward.
Paa-ang———!!
With tremendous acceleration that sent a massive cloud of dust erupting from beneath my feet, I charged directly toward Sgrurpen.
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A thrust.
Accelerating in a pure straight line without wasting a shred of force, I drove my blade toward his heart.
“───~!?”
Screee-ang-.
Sgrurpen barely managed to cross his twin daggers before him in defense, but he couldn’t fully absorb the physical force.
The impact force carried by my acceleration far exceeded what a crossed-dagger defense could withstand.
My crossed arms were forcibly torn apart, and Sgrurpen’s entire body flew backward.
Crash—boom———!!
After rolling across the ground several times, he barely managed to flip himself over mid-air, and only after scraping the earth with both feet did Sgrurpen finally land—his face etched with shock.
As if unable to comprehend how such a thing was even possible, he could only stare at where I stood, his eyes wide and unblinking, unable to utter a single word.
Engulfed in an overwhelming terror from an unknown source.
It was only natural.
“Insane, this is insane!?”
“Good heavens. How is this even possible…? This, this doesn’t make sense!”
“This is impossible. How many have died in just this brief moment…?”
-Terrifying;
-??.. What did I just witness?? What is this???????
-Wow, his physical prowess alone is absolutely insane;
Damn, hahahahahahahahahahahaha
-No, how long has it been since they started fighting that they fall to their deaths so quickly?
-The ground around where Seo-jin’s standing is all cratered and torn up, that’s seriously violent;
The epicenter.
Centered on where I stood, the battlefield bore the scars of multiple explosions———.
Without a single proper resistance, eight attackers lay dead, and Sgrurpen himself had nearly joined them.
All of this in a result that seemed impossible to have occurred in less than a minute of combat.
Hah—breathing out slowly———…
I steadied my breath and slowly lifted my head, my cold gaze flickering with intensity.
“Next.”

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