Chapter 13
-Al-ha!
-Broadcast on!
-ㅎ2
-ㅇㅎ!
Alpaca stared at the rapidly scrolling chat window.
He couldn’t calculate an exact figure, but it seemed to be rising particularly faster than other days.
Normally, doing a collaboration stream draws more attention than usual and brings in a lot of people.
And while there was also the promotional video uploaded the previous day and the promotion from Seo-jun’s viewers led by “Joseon’s Assassin”...
More than anything, the 20,000 people watching Alpaca’s broadcast witnessing Seo-jun’s play live played a major role.
All those people became curious about Seo-jun, and the collaboration talk kept re-spreading on Alpaca’s cafe.
[Viewers: 4,327]
Within just a few seconds of turning on the stream, it hit 4,000.
And the number kept climbing without any sign of stopping.
Alpaca watched with a satisfied smile and then jumped into the virtual reality at the perfect timing.
“T-ha!”
As the dark broadcast screen brightened, Alpaca appeared in the lobby.
-Al-ha!
-ㅎㅇ
-Came to see the Unknown One
-T-ha
-ㅡㅅㅡ
[Viewers: 10,000]
The viewer count had already surpassed 10,000 and was heading toward 20,000.
“Nice to see you all. You know what day it is today, right?”
-Enough, you get out
-You think we came not knowing that?
-For real, hurry up and get Alpaca’s face off the screen
“Yes, yes. But hey, this is my broadcast, yet it feels like no one came to see me. Ha.”
Alpaca showed a slightly disappointed expression, but the viewers gave consistent reactions.
-Yeah
-Yes, that’s right.
-You suck, man.
-No? I came to see Alpaca, though?
“Oh? Daebangeo-nim, you came to see me?”
Having broadcast for a long time, Alpaca had developed the ability to quickly pick out a specific user’s chat among countless messages.
It was an essential skill for smoothly conversing with viewers through the rapidly rising chat window.
And then.
“The Best Defense is Winter Daebangeo” typed again.
-Gotta see the clearathon, lol
“The clearathon isn’t today, you bastard. You’re banned.”
-lolololololololol
-Scumbag move lolololol
-??? Why aren’t you doing it today?
“Why not today? Good question. It’s because I have to learn Musou today. From whom? Now! Let me introduce the professor who will teach me today!”
Alpaca naturally conversed with the viewers while running the broadcast, and signaled to Seo-jun, who was watching from outside, and shouted.
“It’s streamer Jin Seo-jun!”
-Tsk tsk tsk tsk
-Clap clap
-Woaaaah
-....
-Why isn’t he coming?
Alpaca waited, showing the lobby spawn point.
An awkward silence continued, and when that time exceeded the usual loading time, Alpaca, unable to leave the broadcast sound empty, just blurted out anything.
“Huh? Why isn’t he coming? If you’re watching the broadcast, Seo-jun-nim, please come in quickly. I’m feeling really awkward right now. Hey! Manager, what are you doing!”
-Phone collab? Lololol
-Maybe the collaboration isn’t today?
“It’s not a phone collab. We’ll even be doing an after-party offline later.”
At that moment.
An alarm popped up in Alpaca’s friend window. It was a whisper.
“Oh? A message came. Gasp. Did something happen?”
Worried that some trouble had occurred, Alpaca quickly opened the whisper.
And its content was something he hadn’t expected at all.
[Excuse me, I don’t know how to get to Alpaca-nim’s lobby, could you invite me? Hehe...]
This time, Alpaca showed a genuinely awkward expression.
Is it for real? Is it a broadcast concept? First, he handled the situation.
“Uh... Well, Seo-jun-nim started using the capsule less than a week ago, so please understand.”
-lolololololololololol
-ㅅㅍ lololololololol
-The “hehe” is so annoying lolol
-This guy’s the professor? Lolololololol
* * *
Ppuaeaeae! Ppuae!
The resident lobby Alpaca, Daebak-i, looked up at the sky and cried, signaling the appearance of a new person.
“Hello. Sorry for being late. I’m streamer Jin Seo-jun.”
The center of the lobby shone brightly and a character was generated as Seo-jun appeared.
Because things had gotten a bit twisted from the start, Seo-jun greeted them with an awkward expression.
“Hahaha! That can happen. If we’re being strict, you’re still a beginner.”
Seo-jun recalled the situation inside the capsule just a moment ago, which had bewildered him the most recently.
And seeing the chat’s reaction not really caring much, he thought it was fortunate.
-Still, not knowing how to get to the lobby is a bit lol
-<<<<<< The guy trying to learn from that beginner
-Alpaca not preparing beforehand was his fault lololol
The chat with nearly 20,000 people had a different level of firepower.
It rose so fast it was slightly dizzying.
And as he had felt before, this room’s chat content felt a bit spicy.
It seemed like teasing the streamer had become its own content.
Each room’s chat differs according to the streamer’s disposition.
Some streamers beat up their viewers (verbally) and those viewers actually like it, while others strive for a completely clean broadcast.
Among those, Seo-jun liked this free atmosphere.
‘I won’t get criticized for my skill... probably...’
That would be the case.
Alpaca began explaining the reason they started the collaboration.
“Now! As you all know, thanks to Seo-jun-nim catching Drake, I ended up having to do the clearathon.”
[‘Some Idiot’ donated a generous 1,000 won!]
[???: If that succeeds, I’ll take that person as my teacher, receive teachings, and keep playing till Drake is cleared with Musou!]
Just then, a donation sounded with perfect timing, and Seo-jun remembered the previous day’s scene and burst out laughing.
“Are you really banned? No, and Seo-jun-nim, you shouldn’t be laughing. No matter how much the fault is mine for saying it, if you hadn’t caught Drake, I wouldn’t have had to do the clearathon in the first place!”
“That’s right. I also feel a bit of responsibility toward Alpaca-nim.”
“Right?”
“It was only the second day of the game, and I carelessly caught it without thinking that there would be someone who boasted they couldn’t catch Drake with Musou. That was my mistake.”
-lololololololol
-Indirect diss on!
-Translation: Sorry. But it’s your fault.
-Translation: So what?
-Translation: Alpaca was stupid
“How far are these people going? They’re using his excuse to diss Alpaca.”
Seo-jun and Alpaca looked at each other and laughed.
And Alpaca couldn’t shake the thought that Seo-jun was generous. In front of many viewers, he didn’t show any sign of nervousness.
Rather, he seemed to enjoy it and dealt a blow.
“Yes. I was wrong. So please, save me, Professor.”
“I’ll do my best, Alpaca-nim.”
Seo-jun, Alpaca, and the viewers present all knew that he could not be saved.
“Alright, alright! Anyway. There are two things we’re doing today. One is you come into my game, Seo-jun-nim, and show us how you caught Drake...”
-???
-Don’t try to freeload
-You’re pulling tricks lolol
Hooks(?) being thrown in an instant.
Seo-jun witnessed Alpaca quickly changing the subject with a regretful expression.
“Yes, well. That was a joke. I plan to enter the Professor’s game and receive teaching by watching the play.”
In Dawn of the Assassins, there’s a feature called ‘Assassinate Together’.
It’s a multiplayer feature that invites another user into your own game, and the invited user could either help with the assassination mission or hinder the host.
“Ah! But I’m doing a bare-handed assassination, and I saw that Seo-jun-nim also plays bare-handed. Is there a special reason? And what basic skill did you take?”
“Hmm... There’s not really any skill or reason.”
“You haven’t been using skills at all until now? I mean, something like the basic passive skill that increases movement speed or damage boost.”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because I didn’t really need it?”
Actually, he hadn’t even known about it until during the play.
But revealing that fact would make him look lame, so Seo-jun chose to package it.
-Kyah!
-Oh crap!!! Is copying that possible?
-Now, that’s the real bare-handed
-If Alpaca wants to brag about bare-handed assassinations, this is the level you need, lolol
-Is it for real that he caught it without skills?
-Yeah
-Alpaca, reset your skill points right now and play!
Alpaca felt that ever since Seo-jun appeared, all situations were somehow turning disadvantageous for himself.
Still, seeing the viewer count that had already hit 25,000, his heart was relieved.
“And the skill window wasn’t even in the game interface, was it?”
That was the reason Seo-jun hadn’t known about the skill’s existence. After preparing for the collaboration, he had learned of its existence.
“That, when you go to the tavern to receive your first request, Christina noona unlocks the skill window for you.”
“Ah. I greeted after the tutorial ended, and I guess I haven’t visited the tavern since then, so that’s why.”
Now I see.
Suddenly, Alpaca felt a question while talking.
“No, wait. Then why on earth did you catch Drake? You didn’t even receive a request from the assassination squad.”
“I was pickpocketing at the market and was called by a gang member.”
“Ah...?”
Seo-jun said it casually, but Alpaca’s expression kept changing by the moment.
“Ah...”
They had a meeting yesterday, but they hadn’t known such detailed inside story.
-lololololololololol
-wwwww Because of this pickpocket he ended up doing a clearathon wwwww
-The root cause is a pickpocket lololololol
-Is he a master? lolololololol
“Haha. That can happen. You protected the peace of the market, huh ha ha ha... Tch. Now, the second thing is about that skill.”
That was the reason Alpaca had mentioned the skill just before.
Alpaca opened a window.
“This is a capture of my skill window.”
A picture enlarging the description of an ununlocked skill appeared.
[Weak Point Detection]
[Unlock Condition: Destroy weapons 10 times using gyeol (2/10)]
-lololol Do this?
-Ridiculous.
-What’s that?
Those interested in the game recognized what the picture was, while those casually enjoying it demanded an explanation.
“Now, let me explain. Have you all ever seen a video like this?”
The content of the video Alpaca newly played was this.
When the user in the video attacked a specific point of the rapier an enemy held, the rapier shattered into pieces.
Even with the same type of rapier held by another NPC, or even if attacking with a different weapon, if you attacked that specific point properly, the result was the same.
The notification that appeared afterwards.
[Unlock Condition: Destroy weapons 10 times using gyeol (2/10)]
The video ended there.
“Everyone, in fantasy novels, the concept of ‘gyeol’ appears, right? The weak point that lets you easily cut an object! If we just find 10 of those, we can get a skill called Weak Point Detection!”
The total number of ‘gyeol’ found so far is two.
One is the rapier that broke by accident in that video and spread among people.
The other is the ‘gyeol’ of the longsword found through an NPC that informs you about ‘gyeol’ when doing a side quest.
-So how do we find them lololol
-What’s the rule?
-No one knows.
-But what kind of skill is Weak Point Detection?
“We don’t know what skill it is. It’s the last remaining ununlocked skill. So yesterday, on the off chance, I asked Seo-jun-nim, since his skills are good, if he could find the ‘gyeol’.”
-Why are you filling your personal agenda during a joint broadcast?
“Why a personal agenda? Are you not bothered by having an ununlocked skill!”
-So why are you inviting the Professor to learn it, lololololol
“Because I lack skill!”
-Confident! Alpaca!
-lololololololol
-So what’s the conclusion?
“Yes. The conclusion is that after Seo-jun-nim saw the video, he said he seemed to know the rule of the ‘gyeol’. Right?”
“Yeah, well.”
Seo-jun shrugged his shoulders. As always, with a relaxed expression.
-??? Don’t overdo the bluff
-He’s overplaying it, lololol
-How would he know that?
-Is Alpaca-boss opening shop today? Lololol
“So! Let’s bet on whether we can find it within today’s broadcast or not!”
In fact, this was the main content of the broadcast.
Gyeol? Ruler? Teaching? It was all a build-up for this.
[Channel Point Prediction begins]
It’s channel point prediction. The thing that drives viewers crazy.
-Let’s go!
-Alpaca-boss! Quickly take my points!
-Betting today will be easy, huhhuh
People didn’t know at this time.
That the greatest upset in Alpaca, no, in Travel history, would occur.