Chapter 301
The History Book is a global content watched by gamers all around the world.
Even the participants themselves are each nation's top star players.
It may not be the most intense or highest-level game in the world, but the History Book alone is on a completely different tier.
And this year's History Book was even being called the greatest of all time.
[War of the Stars! Why you absolutely must follow this History Book.]
[A content where no matter how it unfolds or who becomes the winner, nothing would be surprising!]
[50 participants you need to keep your eyes on!]
Not only game webzines but media outlets from every country rushed to fill entire pages of their papers.
Their main commentary went like this:
The best players have gathered. No matter how absurd the play, it won't be strange.
So pay attention.
And now.
Truly absurd things were happening.
Of course, in a different sense.
[Korea is sorry Korea is sorry Korea is sorry Korea is sorry Korea is sorry]
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lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
Releasing a guy like that into the world, Korea is sorry lololololololol
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-lolololololol For real, I'm sorry lolololololol
-Is he a psycho or what lolololol
-Really, is he nuts? lolololololol
-Hah lololololol It's really insane
What they were calling absurd wasn't the gameplay.
Not some particular scene.
Not the story of the History Book, nor the way it was unfolding.
[This bastard’s personality is seriously absurd lololololololololololololol]
No matter how you looked at it, from the viewers' and gamers' perspective worldwide, the only thing that didn't make sense was Seo Jun's personality.
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No lololol no lololol no, seriously lolololol
Did the streamer forget the whole world is watching?
Or else how can he extort someone and torment a person without a care for his image like this? lolololololol
Even for a mastermind, this is too much lololololololol Isn't he scared of the backlash? lolololol
His personality is seriously insane.
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-Boldness?
└No (OP)
└Then what?
└That his personality can be this filthy lololololol (OP)
└Doing that when everyone's watching is no big deal. It just means it's his real personality (OP)
└This is right lololololol
-Everyone knows the streamer's personality lololol That's not about the mastermind concept or anything.
└True. He's just that kind of guy lololol
└It's just that he's rampaging like that in the History Book that doesn't make sense...
Seo Jun's personality was appallingly filthy.
Vicious and meticulous.
What would be the way to inflict the greatest pain on the opponent in that situation?
The prevailing theory was that doing exactly what Seo Jun did inflicted the greatest pain.
[Chilling fact]
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Yamada Yasuo just got a hint that he was being suspected himself and immediately got extorted lolololololol
Anyway, the streamer can't kill them because of the kill restrictions, and they won't find that out till the end.
Why?
From Shin Sword's perspective: 'That bastard isn't killing me to torment me'
From Yamada's perspective: 'Seo Jun-nim isn't killing me to torment me'
That's what they think.
The plausibility making all this possible is his personality lolololololol
Using that, he extorted 100 points lolololololololol
What a psycho
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-Chilling fact more chilling
└What is it?
└If Shin Sword had gotten genuinely angry instead of being upset in a fun way, penalty or not, the streamer would have killed him while saying this one line.
└What's that one line?
└You, get out
└lololololololololol He'd really kill him after saying that
└You bastards... Shin Sword is getting genuinely angry even now...
└Ah... Shin Sword... lolololol
└Korea is... sorry lololololololol
└Stop pretending to mourn and then laughing behind the scenes, you bastards lolololol
[Seriously driving me crazy lolololol]
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Because of this streamer bastard, I can't stop laughing
It's just a total shitshow lolololololololololol
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[This is what a mastermind looks like lolololololol]
[How will future masterminds handle the pressure? Think they can perform better than this? lolololol]
-Impossible
-Impossible
-Impossible
-Tale of Geom Seoun) He hasn't even properly been active as a mastermind for a full 3 days yet.
└Chills ㄷㄷㄷㄷㄷ
└This streamer bastard is just scary lolololololol
└Korea is sorry!
[This isn't going to cause diplomatic issues, is it?]
[Is it really right to release him onto the world... Well, it's too late! Koreans, you deal with it! lolololol]
[It's just fun, right?]
[Zealot meta lololol]
[International reactions lolololololololololol]
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-I threw away the kimchi my dad enjoys from the fridge.
└Why?
└└Afraid I might end up with that Korean's personality.
└└└A wise choice.
└└└└I agree.
-China gives up on retaliation against that devil...
└A Chinese giving up on revenge. Amazing.
└└As a Chinese, I wish Shin Sword would just give up now too.
-As expected, the Japanese are wise. Uhyo~!
└You Korean bastard, stop pretending to be Japanese. You extorted 100 points and now you're even deceiving?
└└Koitsu www they figured out my identity www
└└└No Japanese thinks Yamada was smart. But it was the best judgment.
[lolololol these bastards are a piece of work]
Seo Jun made his name as the worst mastermind in history.
Almost every gamer in the world would agree.
Outstanding skill, good looks, filthy personality.
If, as they say, a star is someone who drives both fans and haters crazy, then Seo Jun might just be the most star-like person.
Because he drives not just fans and haters crazy, but opponents and allies alike.
The world's accepted theory is that it's because he himself is the most properly insane, but Seo Jun wouldn't agree.
[What happens now?]
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How do you catch that?
He'll succeed in the rest of the quests, his stats go up, his stamina increases.
More than anything, if he buys all those damn cheat items?
Who on earth can catch the streamer with that level of skill?
Dozens of pros? They'll never win.
A quick slash and it's a kill.
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-True
-Current streamer's point status. Killed three: 505 points, Yamada: 100 points. Previously had 230. Total 835 points.
└Just 65 more points and he can buy the remaining three items
└It's total cheat
-Won't his stats end up much lower than originally designed? Since the AI adjusts?
└Aish, AI-shichi!
-Wow, I just had a chilling thought.
└What is it?
└Imagining the streamer buying up all items from Kresit's shop and then bragging about them, making the pros suffer in vain trying to get in.
└He'll definitely do this lololol It's so damn effective
└For real lol
└We don't even need to tell him, he's the type to do even worse, so he'll do it 100%.
***
Seo Jun rose from his seat.
The settlement was over.
The points short for buying the remaining items: 65 points.
Since there's the shop tomorrow too, you could say he needed even more points, but—
'For some reason, the more items I buy, it seems like it'll get appropriately adjusted again.'
No matter how much the participants achieved, it prevented things from becoming too overpowered.
That was the AI's job.
"Should I just get the remaining 65 points donated by Yon, everyone? No. That would be too mean."
Of course, since he'd decided to keep Yon alive as long as possible, considering the price of that, it wasn't expensive at all.
Nothing is more precious than life.
Anyway.
What mattered right now wasn't that.
The problem was the AI, which had delayed the quest update last time but did it immediately as soon as he exited the underground this time.
Under the bright sunlight, Seo Jun read the newly updated quest window and pressed his fingers to his forehead.
[First Request]
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One of the passages being created by the otherworldly being is in Daran, and that passage is in danger of being destroyed.
The otherworldly being wants you to go to Daran and prevent the passage's destruction.
The price in return is power and a clue about Asius's dark side.
Also, the seed planted within you has fully bloomed, and smooth communication with the otherworldly being is now possible.
If you have questions, ask.
Goal: Solve the issue within Day 9 (View Details)
Reward: Stat increase, Clue about Asius's corruption
Upon Failure: Adjusts according to circumstances.
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At first glance, there was no big problem.
Daran is Asius's enemy nation, so it's not suitable for him to go there, but he has the mask, so once he gets in, he can move around easily.
And the unsettling task of preventing some unknown passage from being destroyed—since he'd chosen to be a mastermind anyway, that wasn't a problem either.
But.
"Hmm, this is really a bother."
The conditions in the detailed view were the problem.
From now until the quest ends, do not kill.
That was the condition imposed on Seo Jun.
If he kills even one person, the quest fails immediately.
This was definitely the AI's restriction.
"Because of the fourth point copy."
Is it telling him to stop hunting participants?
Or is it trying to suppress him from eliminating more participants before the final stage?
He'd become stronger now. And he could still get incredibly stronger.
'Not kill a single one? Then how do I subdue them?'
Tricky.
It wouldn't say to maintain non-lethality until the end, but when would that point be?
"Maybe when I can counterattack? When I need to be a bit more careful, meaning when the users gain a bit more power, I'll probably be able to kill again."
The story justification for the non-killing was that someone started watching, so he had to be careful.
He needed to pay attention to how this connected.
Other participants weren't just lazing around either.
He didn't know what was happening in Daran, but seemed like he'd have to be careful there too.
"Well, if you all say you're frustrated while I'm at it, I'll just kill them."
Seo Jun said calmly.
Anyway, if they say they're frustrated, it literally means they can't watch.
In other words, he'll do as he pleases.
"You're asking how I read chat? I can just tell. I'm serious, I know. Right now, 'crazy bastard' is popping up, right? While laughing?"
It was actually true. The stream chat room was like this.
-Psycho lolololololol
-That's right lolololol
-Viewers linguistics, minimum PhD lolololol
-He's just good at streaming. The god of streaming.
-Ah so frustrating, I'm frustrated!
-For real, I'm frustrated too lololol
Seo Jun let out a sigh.
"Some of you are already saying you're frustrated. Yes, I'm not killing right now."
Because the viewers' chat was so predictable.
-Tale of Geom Seoun on lolololololol
-lololololololol You guys are just too consistent.
-Is that bastard seriously stream-sniping?
-No wonder lololol It's not like he found the original mastermind for nothing.
-The original mastermind wasn't found through stream-sniping, you know lololololol
"Anyway, I am concerned about the failure penalty."
Since it says it adjusts according to circumstances, he now had to grasp the story properly.
Grab hold of the flow, predict the direction, and prepare.
That's probably why they opened communication.
Everything is connected.
"So I'll need to have a little chat. How do I communicate? Hey. Fragment. Show yourself right now."
There was no reply.
"Not coming out? 3, 2, 1."
[Why are you calling?]
"Oh, it works."
Seo Jun quietly admired to himself.
-lololololololol Are you a gangster or what lolololol
-Really, why hasn't he had a school bullying scandal yet? The gangster vibe just bursts out like breathing lololololol
-Ah lolol The streamer silenced them well lololololol
-Everyone, school bullying is bad! Really bad!
-The streamer most worried about causing controversy, #1 lolololol
-Just look at what he did to Shin Sword lolololol More worried about the future than the past