Chapter 224
-Seoha
-Hi-yo
-Seoha
-S.H
-Sword God’s Advent
-Teu-ha
Seojun sat in his chair, facing the camera straight ahead. His face appeared on the broadcast window open on the monitor.
“Hello, everyone.”
He greeted them and waited for people to gather.
Thanks to the so-called winner’s buff, the rate at which the viewer count climbed was on a whole other level.
[Viewers – 13,000]
Not even a minute had passed, and it already broke past 10,000.
-So today it’s a Last Chronicle thing, right?
-The paid ad indicator is showing!
-Of course it is lol
-He’s jumping straight into the ad. Open wide, viewers.
[Viewers – 30,000]
By the one-minute mark, it exceeded 30,000.
-It was an ad?
-Teu-ha
-Seoha
-O Sword God
-goat
“It is an ad. But you all know For the Sake of the Alliance started as an ad too, right?”
Among the broadcast settings, there’s a paid ad inclusion option.
When this is turned on, viewers can naturally tell whether it’s an ad broadcast or not.
Now, what the viewers were worried about was whether this game they would play together, as Seojun’s announcement promised, was only going to be this one time.
So Seojun took the initiative and struck first.
-If he pulls a Last Chronicle ditch after this?
-There’s a high chance he won’t ditch because of the raid update.
-But it’s way too hard for a streamer to get the first clear.
-So which server, host!
Well.
Who knows what’ll happen.
He might actually just do the ad today and never play again?
The game might not click with him.
“Alright, looks like everyone’s here now.”
[Viewers – 50,000]
It was a near-major-company-level viewer count, enough to put him at the top of the entire Travel category.
-Our host is world-class!
-Even without a collab, 50k ㄷㄷㄷ
-Yep, now it’s going to drop.
-I wonder if the Last Chronicle influx here is like 10% of the total viewers hahaha
-It’s all The League influx, you know.
-But the broadcast title really makes you unable to resist.
-So which server is it! Let me come too!
While viewers kept surging, Seojun moved his mouse pointer.
“Then, let’s get to work now.”
He opened an internet browser and went straight to the Last Chronicle official website.
“Huh? What’s this game? How can an event be this generous?”
Note that he had only just entered the main page; he hadn’t even opened the event page yet.
Seojun awkwardly stopped talking for a moment and stared blankly at the screen.
“Guys. How do I get to the event page? Is it under Update Info? Is this it?”
-??? Starting the ad right off the bat lol This is so ridiculous lol hahaha
-This is goddamn absurd progression lol
-Everyone came prepared, right?
-Yeah, to get an edge over the host, you gotta at least study up on the info.
Luckily, as he searched and waited, the banner on the main page rotated sideways and showed the event news, so Seojun managed to find the relevant page.
Seojun grinned and said.
“It’s a skip pass, everyone. But can anyone tell me what this skip pass actually is?”
-Don’t you do ad reads lol
-Even so, the Last Chronicle users who believed the host would bring in new players are sobbing in real time lol
“Yes, that was all acting. What, did I just get a message from the advertiser? To those who typed ‘Sword God, walk your own path with conviction’ in chat, I ask that you ban them for ten seconds please.”
If I had gotten a message, I would’ve either turned my head or it would’ve popped up on the screen, one or the other.
After clarifying this explicitly, Seojun continued.
“Now now, let’s move on. I did take the ad, but everyone already admits the event is generous. Well then, let me explain.”
The skip pass.
Last Chronicle is an RPG.
And RPGs typically have a playstyle of leveling up and entering dungeons appropriate for that level.
But as new updates accumulate, more and more—
As updates pile up and existing users’ average levels rise, it becomes harder for new players to enjoy new content.
At times like that, what gets introduced are events that let you skip growth phases in one go, soft resets, hard resets, and so on.
This skip pass is precisely that kind of event to skip the growth phases.
“After finishing the story and raising your character level to max, you then have to raise your gear level to 300 to meet the minimum requirement for entering the upcoming Four Heavenly Kings raid, correct?”
-Yes, that’s right!
-Any actual Last Chronicle users here raising hands?
-None! Looks like everyone crammed beforehand.
-There are more RPG fans than you’d think. Don’t ignore ’em.
“But I heard that by using this skip pass, you can instantly reach max character level and gear level 250.”
For character level, you naturally hit max while progressing through the story anyway.
The problem is the gear level after that.
Once you max out your character level in Last Chronicle,
it follows the classic RPG growth structure: you enhance gear, craft the next tier of gear, enhance that, and raise your item level to grow.
And since raising gear level to 300 takes a huge amount of time—
“They’re saying they’ll skip the story and gear up to level 250, which would otherwise be entry barriers for newbies. Everyone, hurry up and do it now.”
From 250 to 300, you can raise it with the help of event materials that aid further growth.
“Then, let’s grab this and give it a go.”
Seojun clicked the event and pressed apply.
-So what about the server, you jerk!
-Lol the way he won’t tell until he starts himself, it’s like he’s saying don’t go in early and prep lol
-Yeah, you trolls, just relax and take a sip~
-I’ve poured 300 into Lunaon so far, please come!
* * *
He entered the capsule.
Thanks to the Rios prize money, it was now his capsule, fully owned, not a rental.
Inside, Seojun fiddled with the broadcast settings and reconnected.
“Everyone, I’m launching Last Chronicle right now.”
Actually, he had already launched it and turned on the broadcast.
As soon as Seojun finished speaking, darkness covered the background, then began to shine brightly again.
“Everyone turned it on together, right?”
Watching a broadcast while playing a game is basic viewer etiquette, isn’t it?
-Yeah, I’ve been waiting on the standby screen since yesterday, so hurry up and go.
-You crazy bastard, since yesterday lol
-I turned it on too.
In an instant, his surroundings transformed into the sea.
And before he knew it, he was standing on the sandy beach of a deserted island.
The game had begun.
“Oh.”
He could freely move side to side and admire the sea, but going underwater was impossible. Since it was just a standby screen, it didn’t matter anyway.
Soon, a server selection window appeared before him.
[Lunaon]
[Solain]
“Where should we go?”
-Lunaon go go go go go go go go
-It’s gotta be Server 1.
-So Solain go.
-It’s Solain, you know.
In truth, Seojun had already half decided.
But he still had to do one last check.
“Alright, alright. First, if you’re a genuine existing Last Chronicle player and want me to come to your server, type 1 in chat. Let’s talk one-on-one.”
Seojun used a special chat feature.
It was a function that randomly selected one person among those typing a specific condition in chat, enabling a one-on-one conversation.
In a new window that popped up above the chat, viewer nicknames scrolled by as if in a random drawing.
“Ah. rugdktoe-nim? Which server do you want me to go to?”
One person was selected, and a mini chat room was created.
-Solain
“Then, why do you think I should go there?”
-There are a lot of oldbies there. When most Lunaon oldbies quit, Solain kept a lot. For the record, I’m one of them.
“Ah. Everyone, is what that person says correct?”
Cross-verification was necessary.
-Yep, it’s right.
-That’s one of the reasons Solain became the demon realm hahaha
-The ones who stayed are demons haha La-demons.
-Solain is fun because there are more veterans haha
“Then I should hear the Lunaon side’s opinion too. If you’re a Lunaon user, type 1 in chat.”
Seojun randomly picked a viewer again.
“Okay. Please tell me.”
The viewer selected was—
-The blood lords gathered on Lunaon lol. For the record, sending items through gold mail isn’t server-integrated; you have to be on the same server. gg, do whatever.
A very chic viewer.
“Uh….”
-Ack lol
-This bastard’s tempting with money lol
-If even one of those blood lords is a host viewer, it’s just a huge windfall lol
“I’ll go to Lunaon.”
Chats like money-grubbing capitalist demons kept popping up.
He had originally planned to go to Lunaon anyway.
Its population was a tiny bit lower than Solain’s, but the reason was simple: Solain had more incidents and accidents.
It was absolutely not because of the blood lords.
‘Solain is called the demon realm because it has so many oldbies? So that’s why there are so many incidents.’
The viewers’ debate ultimately could not sway Seojun’s decision.
“Alright, let’s go.”
Seojun selected Lunaon.
Then—
The sky suddenly turned to night, and looking ahead, the moon was drawing closer.
Shooooow.
Just as the moon grew gigantic, about to cover the entire sky and collide,
the background changed, and Seojun found himself bodiless within pitch-black darkness.
It wasn’t a special state. Simply the sensation of standing and watching a narration unfold.
Soon, six pedestals appeared before him.
“Looks like the character selection screen.”
When he focused on the first pedestal, a window popped up.
[Please set your nickname.]
“I guess you don’t pick a class first?”
-Yeah.
-Nope.
-Let’s just make it and go in!
-Now, Lunaon sortie!!!!
-Solain sobbing ㅠㅠㅠ Should I switch even now?
“A nickname, huh.”
The goal of today’s broadcast was to get to know the game.
In that sense, the nickname could be glossed over, but—
-Sword God! Sword God! Sword God! Sword God! Sword God!
-O Heavenly Demon, please return!!
-Yep, the Alliance got abandoned~~
-Those Alliance dogs hahaha
-What about our Assassin Squad? What about our Assassin Squad? What about our Assassin Squad? What about our Assassin Squad? What about our Assassin Squad?
-Then let’s go with Nameless!
-Lol and it had to be today’s broadcast title lol it brings back memories.
-Super Rich goat Travel’s Rothschild Goldman Sachs Morgan Joam-nim, what do you mean by that?
A nickname was as serious a matter as Server 1.
“Hmm.”
While watching the chat, Seojun pondered for a while and exchanged opinions, then shrugged and said.
“Let’s just go with Sword God first and change it later.”
Collective intelligence didn’t work properly today.
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God’?]
Of course it wouldn’t work. Someone would’ve taken that nickname already.
“This time, let’s see how far we can get.”
[This nickname is already in use.]
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God2’?]
-You viewers didn’t buy any nicknames? Slacking off.
-You buy one lol
-If you think about it, everyone’s a newbie, but they’re already trading nicknames lol
-Is Sword God14 making a comeback!
-I already snagged that one lol
From there, Seojun’s race began again.
The problem was.
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God3’?]
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God4’?]
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God5’?]
.
.
.
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God37’?]
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God38’?]
-?????????
-What’s this?
-What’s going on hahahahahaha
-Sword God is multiplying?
-I’m pretty sure I took Sword God5 on Solain and Sword God6 on Lunaon yesterday lol why is it going past 40?
Seojun also paused the race for a moment.
“Um, something seems wrong, everyone? What on earth did you all do.”
Next try, he wrote a higher number.
[Would you like to set it as ‘Sword God103’?]
[This nickname is already in use.]
“No, what the hell.”
-Ack lol
-Well, at least a hundred Sword Gods secured lol
-The host’s viewers have this strong a desire to participate? lol
-Host’s inner thoughts right now: I’m screwed.
* * *
Meanwhile.
A screenshot taken from a site that handles Last Chronicle statistics was uploaded to Laben.
[Great Lunaon]
==
5 minutes ago, number of characters on activated accounts (accounts that have logged in at least once in the past month).
Lunaon → 173,153
Solain → 175,539
Currently.
Lunaon → 184,756
Solain → 175,546
In just 5 minutes, with an influx of 10,000 new characters, Lunaon has risen to Server 1.
I don’t know how high it’ll go.
==
-??? Is this user count for real?
-What’s this?
-That streamer chose Lunaon so that’s why lol legend
└Is this really a streamer snowball effect? No, does that make any sense????
└Right lol
-The scary thing is this happened less than 10 minutes after the stream started and he turned on Last Chronicle.
-No lol so that means 10,000 people are waiting right now. How many server channels are gonna spawn in the new region, damn scary lol
-He’s not a top-tier streamer for nothing.
-No!!!!
└Solain users sobbing lol
└Koitz www the server getting wrecked by just one streamer www
In reality, it probably wasn’t 10,000 people.
The statistic showed character numbers, so many likely created multiple at once.
And not all of them would be waiting at this very moment to meet him.
However.
The snowball that Seojun, who had inadvertently solidified Server 1 in just 5 minutes, would roll in Last Chronicle was only just the beginning.