Chapter 257
-Sword God! Sword God! Sword God! Sword God!
-First clear!
-Crazy bastard, crazy bastard, crazy bastard, crazy bastard
-Guy just does it all by himself lolololololol highest difficulty or whatever, he just wipes it all lololol seriously a madman when it comes to skill, now I see why people watch him lolololol
-Smart and skilled
-I knew this would happen
-My team lead at work just cheered out loud, is he watching by any chance? lolololol
-Who's the ball...
-He's the department head
-lololololololol even the boss can't resist this stream lolololol
Cutscenes and countless achievements scrolled by, and items fell into their arms.
The map, which had narrowed, returned to normal, and all the party members came back to life.
"It's a bus! This is a bus! Insane! Nice! We're getting immortalized!!!"
"Thanks to us being quiet at the end!"
"Dangso-nim, that's a bit much."
"Hohoho. Youth truly is remarkable. My younger brothers still haven't even reached 40 lines."
"Father, it's not youth, it's just that Seojun-nim is literally on another level."
-lololol
-Um... Father, your younger brothers seem way more impressive than us young folks? lolololololol
-Really, only a tiny fraction have made it past 10 lines, 40 lines is top-tier vanguard too
-lol telling my story of being stuck at Stage 1 lolololol
-The streamer is a god!
-Soloing 10 lines on his first try?
-God of brawling?
-It just makes no sense lolololololol
-He's literally a master from the murim, so of course he's different lolololol
What? That's sharp.
Surprised inwardly, Seojun spoke.
"Seems there are quite a few salary thieves around. Haha."
Viewer count: 120,000.
They had flocked in after hearing the news that he might clear it soon.
The number was higher than last night, meaning not only yesterday's viewers but more had gathered.
-I'm not a salary thief, I don't even have a salary?
-Think someone was thieving lolololololol
-Home protector! Residential guard! That's what a viewer is
-But plenty of viewers work properly while trolling the real ones
-Right at lunchtime, the streamer's talk deletes an entire hour! lolololololol
-All my coworkers next to me are on their phones lolololololololololol
Watching this at night might be understandable, but right now?
"Alright, alright. Whatever about that, everyone stretch a bit for your health. Whew, I'm feeling stiff too."
There's no such thing in virtual reality, but Seojun said it with a straight face.
"Team leaders? Take a close look at the subordinates who just stretched."
-lolololololol he tried to assassinate them
-Streamer, you evil man lololololololol I just made eye contact with my team lead
-Screwed lololololololol
-I only sneakily read chat since my company blocks headphones, so I wasn't caught lololololololol
-This requires both the boss and the subordinate to be watching lolololol and that was me lolololol
"Alright. Anyway, praise me. Who am I?"
Seojun spread his arms.
The conversation had briefly derailed, but they had just achieved a first clear.
-Ahh...... I've already given up, damn it, it's the streamer again.
-I knew it would be like this!
-If he just dumps Last Chronicle like a dog after this, thumbs up lololololololololololololololololololololol
-No way...
-Yep, it's getting dumped. Every game so far has been abandoned~
-Just secures the insane achievements and dumps the game like trash, this terrible guy lololololololololololololololol
"I'm terrible? And I'll play the ones I've done again someday."
"Which game?"
Taewoo, watching Seojun's stream from the side, asked.
"I dunno."
"Knew you'd say that."
"Hohoho. Seojun-nim. Let me say it again: how about joining our blood alliance?"
"That place is too barbaric, I think it'd be hard for me."
In that instant, countless gazes flew his way, and Poppi Appa nodded as if it was possible before attempting to persuade him again.
"Not only full VIP treatment, but if Seojun-nim wishes, we can harass any person or group you dislike without limit. Keheheh. We'll also provide funds. Hunting grounds, bosses—no, with Seojun-nim alone, controlling the server is possible!"
"..."
For a moment, he felt a slight temptation.
"Well, someday maybe."
"Is that so. A shame."
"119-nim and Siksikoneo-nim, good work to you both as well."
"Just being in the same first-clear party is an honor, Streamer! I shall now return to being a viewer."
[MartSiksikoneoForLife: Did work hard lol]
[MartSiksikoneoForLife: But you worked harder, I think! Good work!]
For a keyboard warrior, that's a pretty heartwarming ending.
"But when we go to Pangyo to make the skins, won't we see each other again?"
Taewoo said.
"That's true. But about the skin... do you have something in mind?"
"What about you, Poppi's father?"
"Kehel. Heavy armor, of course."
-Consistent taste lololololololol
-But since he's a warrior, heavy armor does fit
-What about something completely weird?
-You should do something worthy of a first clear
"Hmm..."
"Why, Seojun-nim? Worried about something? At times like this, just go for simple and cool heavy armor like me."
"No, that's not it..."
"Yes?"
"I'm wondering if it's really a good idea for only me to use the skin."
"...?"
-I think I know what he means! lolololololololololololol
-Does this mean he's about to quit the game, so he feels bad about getting a skin only he can use?
-Knew it, it's getting dumped! lololol
-There's no way that's what he means? He probably just wants to share nice things with everyone, something like that
* * *
Seojun chatted for about three more hours, fooled around in Last Chronicle, and then wrapped up the stream.
For reference, the wrap-up was supposed to include a disbanding ceremony for the Sword God Corps, but the users who would remain said they'd handle it themselves, so he didn't blow up the guild.
[Sword God Corps without the Sword God lololololololol]
-Fact) There is a Sword God. A shit ton of them.
└Fact) Only Sword Gods even join
-The streamer isn't the Sword God, he's Sword God 1 lololololololol
[So anyway, seeing him try to blow up the guild, it's a dumping ending after all, tsk]
-You thought it wouldn't be?
-After sucking up all the good achievements and viewers, now he's saying he's got no ties left lololololololololololololololololol
└For real lol If you're salty, then release a new raid by tomorrow lolololol
-So what new game is he playing?
└This time he might actually play something he's already done
[Right now, something more important than that streamer's next move]
==
Second clear.
Honestly, this is the real first clear.
You can't put a god in the competition, after all.
==
-I acknowledge this
-Twitch first-clear super emergency!!!! Party members are still asleep lololololololol
-So when is the monster doing Copy Ninja?
└Can you even do it? lololololololololololololololol
-???: Go ahead and copy lol if you can
└Ah lol he's just saying dodge everything and clear it
└Pain-nim! Please, if you're the boss, at least act like one! lololol
Seojun ended the stream at 3 PM.
And for a while afterward, people chattered about Seojun before shifting the topic.
It was about who would take the second clear.
People, especially Last Chronicle users, were still heatedly interested in this. They had come to a consensus: the first clear was simply the realm of gods, so the now-approaching second clear would be declared the number one in the human world.
Of course, it was all just talk.
As always.
But gradually, people began to seriously champion this idea.
They weren't trying to disparage Seojun.
Nor completely exclude him.
[At this point, is the second-clear party really the strongest in the human world?]
==
Time elapsed since the first clear: 12 hours.
And yet, no clear party has appeared?
Is this real?
How slow can you be, you turtle!
==
-The rabbit slept and put on all kinds of restrictions, yet still cleared solo faster because of it lolololololol the turtle sees every single pattern and is still 12 hours late lololololololol
-At this rate, the gap in skill is genuinely...
-Isn't Sword God that kid just beyond reason?
-No, seriously, is there any 'human' who can surpass this guy?
And as time passed...
The number of people who believed in the human-world-first-clear theory began to surpass the majority.
[24 hours have passed since the first clear!]
==
Still!
Still!
Still, after sleeping another night!
One person does it with zero hits, others can't clear it!
==
-The Twitch first-clear party probably burned all their mental energy on the first day and kept making mistakes lololololol
└They probably used up all their potential that first day
-I'm telling you, the difficulty is truly, truly, stupidly hellish. Try it yourselves.
[Alright. God has taken the first clear, so now please lower the difficulty, Director Im Gangsan!]
-For real lol
-Hurry up and patch it to a human-level difficulty lolololol
-You're asking for a nerf already? lololololol
└Well, you've gotta be able to clear it at some point, right?
And in the afternoon of Saturday, the day after the first clear...
Not in-game, but on the homepage, a notice was posted.
Obviously, it wasn't about a difficulty nerf.
At this point, the strategy was advancing enough that a second-clear party was about to emerge.
[Hello, this is Im Gangsan, director of Last Chronicle.]
==
Hello.
The timing lined up, and I was able to meet with the first-clear party this morning, which is Saturday, to discuss the rewards.
It was a good opportunity to listen to the opinions of the first-clear party members, and since we've decided to accept those opinions, we are posting this notice.
To get straight to the point, everyone will be able to obtain the skins that were originally being made to honor the first and greatest party.
Following the party members' words that joy doubles when shared, we plan to distribute a box through an event that allows you to obtain one desired skin among the six.
For those who want additional skins, they will be sold, and all proceeds from those sales will be donated to society's underprivileged.
Thank you.
==
-Wow!
-A streamer who is a GOD! Just a streamer! Bloodlord! The Twitch viewer keyboard warrior form is insane!!!!
-If that's the case, you've gotta buy it lolololol
└But what if they're ugly?
-And amid all that, they're giving away one skin lololololololololololololololol
└If they didn't give at least one free, it wouldn't be our Last Chronicle
└For real lol You've gotta try a little of everything for free, right?
-So anyway, when's the second clear coming out?
This was Seojun's opinion, all the party members agreed, and it was a matter quickly decided by the director's resolve.
The second clear was posted as a verification notice by a regular party at 7 PM the day after their first clear.
Approximately 32 hours later.
There was even a joke that if Seojun hadn't been there, the game company would've been cursed out endlessly by users due to the brutal raid difficulty—that's how hard the raid was for ordinary people.
Seojun's Saturday stream was a break day.
His Sunday stream was also off, so it just passed by.
And at midnight on Monday.
On The League's official homepage, a photo—no, a page of a book—appeared showing shadow-draped heroes.
[Huh? Does this theme include the Order of Light???]
[Crazy, is Kael appearing in this history book? lolololololololololololololololol]
==
There's that one lunatic, so Kael is definitely confirmed lololololololololololololololololololololololololol
==
This was heralding one of The League's large-scale content events.