Chapter 246
[So now I’m taking over both the actual game and the community? No complaints, right?]
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(A picture of Jin Seojun looking down arrogantly)
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- We were already devoured the moment we showed up, O goat
└Fact) It’s a fact
- Just take everything
- To a Racle user, this guy is a whole new world. He just wipes the floor with everyone!
└Another plate of facts, the guild master was a whole new world in every game he played.
└Ha... That parry was insane
[Upvote if you’re a Demonic Cult member who wants to show them what a true Blunt Sword is, lol]
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If you don’t even know this, you shouldn’t be part of the guild master’s following, kekㅋㅋㅋ
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- For realㅋㅋ The root of the roots of swordsmanship
- Because it’s the most inefficient, it’s a sword technique only the greatest masters can use
└What’s that supposed to mean? Sounds hype, lol
└Technically, what he showed today wasn’t that, but it was still Blunt Sword anyway
└The Sword God said it was, so it is, yeah
- A master’s sword is a Blunt Sword. Bang, bang, bang.
[Upvote if you’re a Kael stan who wants to show them the flavor of the five-person Judgment Sword, lolㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
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Why bother with Blunt Sword?
Dropping five Judgment Swords with the Sword of Extreme Speed is the best.
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- For realㅋㅋ
- As a Kael fan, I genuinely got chills during the five-person Judgment Sword. If it weren’t for the school bullying, I would’ve covered for him no matter what.
└School bullying is important, lolㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[The old viewers are once again excitedly talking about things only they know among themselves]
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I’m so jealous! ㅜㅜ
He was pure physical ability today, and I’m only seeing this now.
I’ve lost half my life.
I’m seriously jealous!
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- For realㅋㅋ
- For realㅋㅋ
- Half your life lost!
[He didn’t even need to prove it, but he went out of his way to make the difference in physical ability crystal clear to the RPG mediocrities...]
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Blood Uncle!
Seeing how the guild master completely thrashed Blood Uncle without even showing him any respect for his age, I’m impressed all over again.
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- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ P h y s i c a l w o r s h i p
- U-turn worship!
- But we’re not old enough for senior privileges, student ^^ Take that post down
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ We’re not students either, you know? We’re unemployed people in our twenties and thirties.
[A picture of the monster on top of the monster fortress biting down hard on his lips after taking ten counters in a row]
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(A picture exactly matching the title)
(A picture of him rushing in after getting momentarily enraged, only to be deflected and toppled over)
(A picture of the monster attacking from behind while Jin Seojun was looking down and asking whether a support player who could heal the monster might come up, only for the monster to be deflected and fall from the fortress wall)
(A picture of its health being cut in half even from the weak fall damage after it landed)
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- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- An absolute legendㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- That guy must be feeling so damn humiliatedㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└The kids and the guild master deliberately rubbed it in his face too, so of courseㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└No wonder he ran away at the endㅋㅋ
└Getting publicly humiliated is really that hard. Humans are social animals, after allㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└That bad-mannered bastard had it comingㅋㅋ
[Monster <-- What the hell are these guys?]
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Their situational awareness seems insanely good. Even giving up at the end because he knew he’d lose.
Is what I would say if I were an idiot.
Even if he was getting destroyed, he should’ve kept going, you bastard!!!!
Getting that pathetic at the end makes all the humiliation he endured while surviving ten consecutive counters completely meaningless! ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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- Gulp. Ah, that’s refreshing. I love it.
- So Soline really got pushed around by people like that?
└Lunaon gets another win!
- You call that a monster?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Now he’s probably going to be a laughingstock
- Breaking news! Mion has risen to first place! He fought the Supreme Monarch and the monster, then won with the Sword God’s group involved, so he received a lot of points from that!
└Ah, we worship the true goat who makes not only himself but also the fellow guilds who fought alongside him prosper...
└We must worship him!
The community continued to churn out memes that had spread after a legendary pro gamer won his fourth championship.
And there was someone looking at that community with a pleased smile.
“So, how many Lunaon users are there right now?”
“Three hundred and ten thousand.”
“I remember there being one hundred and seventy thousand before that streamer came. Am I right?”
“Just a moment. I’ll check. Let’s see, the date is... Yes. That’s right.”
Hearing that, Im Gangsang exclaimed in admiration.
“That’s almost an increase equal to the number of accounts we originally had.”
“Yes. Twenty percent came from deactivated accounts, seventy percent are new users, and about ten percent created new characters on Soline.”
“Regardless of which category they fall into, it’s safe to say all three are thanks to that streamer, isn’t it?”
“I believe so. There’s no other reason.”
The event had already been running for some time.
The same went for the promotions.
The only thing that had changed was whether one streamer had come or not.
“That influence... Ha.”
Im Gangsang quietly muttered as he wondered how much a game company would be willing to pay if it could increase its player count by fifty percent.
“We really got this for free.”
An increase of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand users might not seem like much.
Some might say that the number was only this high because the game had been small to begin with.
But they had to consider that this was an RPG genre that was no longer mainstream.
In an age overflowing with entertaining games, how much would they have had to spend on advertising to gather this many users?
Unless a massive flood of refugees came pouring in while RPGs were at the height of their popularity, it was a number they could only dream of.
Of course, if a massive flood of refugees did come, the scale would be even greater, but that was beside the point.
“Then the water has finally come in completely, enough to fill the pool to the extent the director wanted.”
“That’s one way to put it.”
The head of content and the general director both smiled pleasantly.
“But his average viewership wasn’t even one hundred thousand. For that many people to come over, doesn’t that practically mean one hundred percent of his viewers followed him?”
“Those one hundred thousand people don’t all watch every time. Back in the PC days, there was a streamer with over a million followers, but his live broadcasts usually had around fifteen to twenty thousand viewers. Of course, he broke new records every time he did major content.”
He said this to point out that a streamer’s live viewership shouldn’t be taken as the number of viewers they could influence.
To properly calculate that streamer’s influence, one had to multiply it several times over.
Even if twenty thousand people were watching, were the same twenty thousand really going to keep watching for several hours?
And with replays, iTube, and so on, the number of people a streamer could influence was greater than what was immediately visible.
Even so, streamers who reached viewership in the tens of thousands...
Streamers who could bring over one hundred thousand people into a game...
‘There aren’t many.’
He was an extraordinary person.
Despite holding such a position at such a young age, he didn’t seem to feel pressured by it or anything.
If anything, he seemed to be enjoying himself.
‘It couldn’t possibly be anything other than enjoyment...’
Im Gangsang shook off the pointless thoughts and turned to the department head.
“Then let’s finish this properly. This is the beginning of the game’s revival.”
“Yes. Though I don’t think we exactly got it for free.”
“Why not?”
“When you consider how busy we’ve been revising the difficulty over the past few days...”
“Ah.”
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The guild war was held the day before the update.
That was when users would have had the most time to adapt to minor balance patches and other changes.
And what that meant was that now the siege battle had ended, in two hours, once the date changed, they would be able to see the new update announcement.
The actual patch would take place between five and six in the morning, but the update banner changed as soon as the date rolled over.
“So we’re waiting now?”
“Looks that way!”
“Dangso.”
“What is it!”
“What did you do today?”
“......”
“Do you really have the right to speak?”
“Listen here, Heavenly Demon! Your character is absolutely rotten right now! I am not some monster of a bad-mannered user! Free yourself from your excessive immersion in the siege battle!”
Seojun could very easily point out everything Dangso had said that was wrong.
First.
His character was not rotten. He was merely a little special when dealing with Dangso. So he was not excessively immersed, either.
Second.
Dangso really was a monster of a bad-mannered user.
He truly was.
Of course, since there was no point explaining that to him—he wouldn’t understand anyway—Seojun let it pass.
“I’m kidding. So what are you going to do for two hours?”
- Just don’t end the stream
- All the viewers hereby declare our support for Dangso’s words!
- Don’t end the broadcast
- Don’t. Just don’t.
As Seojun read the viewers’ chat, who were uniformly opposed to ending the broadcast despite being free to leave whenever they wanted, someone approached him.
“If you’ve got nothing to do, want to hang out with these old men?”
They were users from the Supreme Monarch guild.
The Black Moon Sword Emperor entered first and spoke.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ That line is dangerous, isn’t it?
- Old menㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Are you going to keep talking back?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- They’re just such likable older brothersㅋㅋㅋ
- They’re the bosses, lolㅋㅋ
“That young fellow Dangso fought very well. I’d say he’s earned the right to speak, wouldn’t you? Ho ho ho.”
“Good work.”
“You did well too, Sword God. But you fought so well—why don’t you go pro?”
“Hmm, just because. I don’t want to?”
- He means he likes us, right?
- That’s how I understood it
- Seems right?
- Yeah, yeah
“I see, haha.”
“It didn’t seem like it would suit me.”
“So, are you going to turn off the stream now? Or are you going to wait and watch the update too?”
“What are you doing, Taewoo?”
“I... Hmm. Should we wait?”
The update banner they were waiting for was the preview of the Four Heavenly Kings raid.
With one week remaining, they would release bits of information in advance.
“Yeah, let’s just wait together.”
It would be better to see what they were going to say right away.
- Kya
- Wow!
- Two-hour waiting room onㅋㅋㅋㅋ
For two hours, Seojun and the old men from the Supreme Monarch guild chatted and made small talk.
For example, when viewers asked whether the old man’s occupation really was being a company president:
“Heh heh heh. One of our guild members said he needed a job, so I even hired him at my company. He’s a good kid, too, which was part of the reason.”
Pacheon Dohwang said it proudly.
“Do you happen to work in the food service industry? A franchise? Something with good value?”
Taewoo asked.
“No? Construction.”
“Ah, yes. I understand.”
They continued making small talk like this, and then midnight arrived.
- Is the update video out yet!
- Official site! Official site! Official site! Official site!
- Let’s go, preview! Let’s go, preview! Let’s go, preview! Let’s go, preview!
“Yep. It’s ready.”
Seojun opened the window and refreshed the page.
The people beside him seemed to have planned to check it through Seojun’s broadcast anyway, calmly switching over to the stream window.
“Then I’ll play it right away.”
Seojun clicked the first page of the official site, scrolled down, and played the video.
[River Mountain! Discussing the first of the Four Heavenly Kings.]
[Hello, Racle users. This is Im Gangsang.]
- How can someone’s name be River Mountainㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- River and mountain—what a pleasing ring to it!
- Hmm!
[First of all, there’s a lot I’d really like to say, but I believe we covered enough during the showcase, so I’ll get straight to discussing the Four Heavenly Kings raid.]
[First! I’d like to apologize.]
[Regarding the sufficiently high difficulty I mentioned in the previous showcase, our development team held a meeting and determined that merely making it sufficiently difficult would not be enough, considering how many people are aiming for the world first clear. Therefore.]
[We’re going with an unprecedented level of difficulty.]
- Oh?
- Kyaㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- The director himself just said “unprecedented difficulty”? There’s no stopping this now.
[Whether the difficulty is eased later or not, we’ve decided to make it so that no one can comfortably clear the raid and claim the glory until the best party achieves the world first clear.]
[Instead, there should be rewards to match, right?]
- Why is that guy taking a shot at the guild master?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ “No one can comfortably claim the glory” <-- Isn’t that a shot at him?
- Isn’t that a little too self-absorbed?
- Exactlyㅋㅋ Why would he see the guild master making a free meal out of the raid by deflecting everything, then hurriedly raise the difficulty and the rewards and dress it up like this?ㅋㅋㅋ
- I’m Im Gangsang, and I upvoted this.
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