Episode 350
[Can’t they just not go to Tier 4?]
==
Honestly, it’s kind of infuriating that the host has the ability to send all the camps back to the Stone Age and keep watch over them, yet doesn’t do it.
==
-It is a shame
-That would probably be the most fun
-Stone Age wild men versus the true mediator wearing a gas mask, the hostㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Yeah, you’re too late~
└For real, half of Day 4 has already passed, and every team has successfully cleared a Tier 3 raid.
[I wish he’d just give up even now and totally wipe them out]
==
Isn’t that how it is?
==
-I told you, it’s too late?
-The three teams are definitely teaming up
-I do want to see the Slayer Team start over bare-handed againㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ But yeah, it’s too late. It can’t happen now.
[Why it’s obvious the three teams are teaming up]
==
They’re running the Tier 3 raids over and over, cramming them full with absurdly efficient farming.
Since they’re the only ones who’ve reached Tier 3, it’s completely their world.
Maybe the other teams are tacitly allowing it, too. Either way, they’ve farmed an insane amount.
==
-Anyone can see they’re teaming upㅋㅋㅋ
-They’re trying to get revenge
-The karma’s coming back around!
-If they just hold out for tomorrow and mine resources, they’ll reach Tier 4.
└Will they?
└It’s pretty outrageous that three top-tier players are coming at them with a plan.
└They won’t be able to spread their resources around if they’re trying to reach Tier 4, so if they get robbed, it’s over.
Seojun nodded as he looked over the posts that had gone up while he was playing today.
“There certainly were a lot of negative comments. But what can we do? Today has already passed.”
Day 4 came to an end.
Very uneventfully.
And with many people becoming dissatisfied.
-For realㅋㅋ
-They’re only saying that because it’s a shame, because it’s a shame.
-It’s because we’re in a crisis more than anything.
“Why are we in a crisis?”
Seojun looked at the camera as though he genuinely didn’t know.
-Oh, come on, host.
-The three strongest teams have teamed up, remember?
-He really is hopelessㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-You just wasted an entire day.
Of course, Seojun knew that perfectly well.
They were in a crisis. And not merely an ordinary crisis.
They couldn’t afford the war of attrition the chat was talking about.
Nor could Seojun simply sweep them all away.
He acknowledged that much, too.
‘I won’t lose, though.’
But then.
Perhaps because of that?
A donation arrived, completely unexpected.
[‘Hunter’ donated 300,000 won!]
[Will you be able to handle it?]
-???
-Wow, are they provoking the host with a donation?
-That’s the host’s signature moveㅋㅋㅋ
-That guy is screwed. This is for sure.
The corners of Seojun’s mouth rose.
He had a feeling it might really be them.
Low-grade trolls generally didn’t spend as much as 300,000 won just to provoke someone.
“Are you actually from the Hunter Team? How about we have a call? You must be short on money.”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ He immediately hits back.
-Now they have no choice but to donate again.
-The capitalist host gets paid, so he’s already entered the fight with a winㅋㅋㅋ
[‘Hunter’ donated 300,000 won!]
[It’s fineㅎㅎ. Anyway, even if you reach Tier 4, you’ll win, but we thought it would be more fun to stop you, so we joined forces. Will you be able to handle it?]
-Nice! One more provocation!
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Has the Hunter Team gone crazy?
-They’re each taking one swing at the otherㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It’d be hilarious if this wasn’t the leader, but just one of the team members acting upㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The people’s reaction was good.
Not merely good—it was about to explode.
They were provoking Seojun in Seojun’s own style.
Wouldn’t everyone be dying to see how Seojun reacted?
And Seojun, having been provoked like that, let out a hearty laugh.
“Heh heh heh.”
Things were bad enough without having to put up with provocations like this.
“Heh heh heh.”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The host is pissed as hell.
But it was fine.
Seojun himself provoked people all the time. Who was he to tell others not to do it?
So Seojun smiled and said,
“If we defend our base tomorrow, the Hunter Team will become the second team to enter the Stone Age. So do your best to attack us.”
* * *
The next morning.
“It looks like today’s going to be a rather long day.”
Seojun gathered with his teammates with the stream turned off.
[You’re right.]
[Yesterday was so peaceful and nice, hehe.]
[Wow, though, Rich Guy and Let’s Shut Up and Game, how did you mine so much?]
[Once I tried it, I realized it wasn’t much different from what I used to do as a viewer.]
[Oh? You too, Rich Guy? Me too!]
Once he had recruited them, it turned out the two were simply geniuses at manual labor.
The amount of resources they brought back was impressive enough to amaze even Seojun.
They were efficient at grinding, but more than anything else—
[I acknowledge your perseverance. How can you spend most of your game time mining?]
[I told you, that’s what I did when I was just a viewer.]
[I salute you.]
Their ability to endure boredom was impressive enough to inspire respect.
Perhaps it was because labor songs occasionally rang out?
“Anyway, you all know that the situation is pretty bad right now.”
Those provocations hadn’t come for no reason.
Seojun’s teammates surely all knew that, but he made it clear once again.
“We’re at a disadvantage. A very serious one.”
They had used every method available to build up their defensive walls, but losing an entire day to reach Tier 4 was a major setback.
They had built up a snowball beforehand and only needed to hold out for today. If they hadn’t, things could have become far more troublesome.
“It seems the other teams aren’t coming out because they don’t really see us as a threat even if we reach Tier 4. But there’s one thing I can promise you.”
Regardless, there was only one thing a leader had to do in this situation.
“Tier 4. If we get there, we win. And we can get there.”
Boost morale.
[Nice!]
[We believe you.]
[That’s right, Seojun. You were always someone who never lied.]
Give his teammates faith.
Seojun had built a relationship of trust with them using only a few words. That was why he could raise their spirits so quickly.
“All right, then. Let’s do this.”
His teammates opened their ears and began listening to Seojun’s plan.
A plan for survival—for surviving to the very end.
* * *
“Aaah! Hello, everyone! I’m greeting you while all four teams are fully logged in and playing busily, starting from 8 a.m. Korean time! This is Bangju, your live broadcast streamer!”
This time, Bangju had been permitted to broadcast in real time, with a freely chosen point of view.
Of course, only after the fighting began.
And sensing that the fighting would begin soon, Bangju turned on his stream.
“You’re asking when I think the fight will start? Why haven’t they fought yet? Well, let’s think from the attacking teams’ perspective. They only need to successfully complete a raid once, and it’s over. Just over.”
In Last, even if everything was stolen and you returned to being bare-handed, the reset times at each farming location gradually grew shorter, while crafting stations that had already been built and blueprints that had been obtained did not disappear. So, it was possible to recover as long as you mined resources.
However—
“The team of streamer Seojun, presumed to be in an overwhelming first place, will be dragged down to the same position as the other teams! Tier 4 again! Seojun won’t be able to dream of the frying pan!”
Once everything was reset, Seojun couldn’t choose to go for Tier 4 again.
He would have to keep the other teams in check.
He would have to keep running around desperately to obtain achievements.
Above all, if the Slayer Team charged at him in revenge after he was reduced to being bare-handed, first place could slip permanently out of his reach.
“So let’s think from the attacking teams’ point of view. When is the optimal time to attack? They only need to succeed once.”
-Hmm?
-Please stop asking us and just spoon-feed us everythingㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-For real, lazy viewers don’t want to think.
“Hahaha, raids are wars of attrition. Endless wars of attrition. So?”
The answer was simple.
They would attack when their resources had reached their maximum.
“You’re asking if the other side won’t have their resources maxed out as well?”
The other side was gathering the resources needed to reach Tier 4. They weren’t gathering resources to become stronger right away, were they?
So the attacking teams would gather items right up until the moment before Seojun’s team acquired the materials needed for a Tier 4 crafting station, then attack.
“That’s my prediction! That’s why no fight has broken out until now!”
-Aha!
-He is pretty smart.
-And logical.
-So that’s why the host’s team has been mining resources like their lives depended on it.
Seojun’s team knew that their opponents would stall for time, so until now, everyone except one sentry had been mining resources like mad.
The three-team alliance kept crafting weapon items while conducting raids.
They crafted them again and again.
They even stocked up on weapons that could be made by investing all their resources.
And so time passed.
“By now, you can calculate that they’ve nearly gathered enough materials to advance to Tier 4, right? In my opinion, the raid that will decide this server’s fate will begin soon! Very soon!”
If Seojun’s team hadn’t posted a sentry, they would have reached Tier 4. If that had happened, they would have been wiped out immediately.
Tier 4 was called the ultimate in inefficiency, end content, for a reason. Even after focusing solely on resources for two straight days, they still hadn’t completed it.
-Is it really soon?
-But why are they stopping them?
-That’s what I’m saying.
“Now, why would they interfere with Seojun’s team reaching Tier 4? The simplest reason is that they’ll become vulnerable!”
A predator naturally had to seize any moment advantageous for hunting.
“But! There’s no need to stop them from making Tier 4! Tier 4 is, after all, useless.”
The Tier 4 crafting station was end content.
And the true essence of end content in every game was pointlessness.
The kind of pointlessness where you jump around town in an RPG or ride a mount back and forth for no reason.
“But what does it mean that they’re attacking right before stopping them?”
Bangju snickered and asked the viewers.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The frying pan really is scary.
-This is a bulletproof frying pan!
-Hmm...?
“That’s right. Oh, you’re saying there’s more to yesterday’s provocation? The Hunter Team said it would cause more despair to stop them? Hahaha. That’s what they said, but…”
Bangju drew out his words for a moment.
Then he took a brief, deep breath before shouting with a grin,
“They’re afraid! Pointless? Maybe. But the frying pan is scary! They’re afraid that what Seojun showed us with the frying pan before might work on them, too. That’s what they’re afraid of!”
-No way, that can’t be it.
-No, he’s rightㅋㅋㅋ It is scary.
-They’re probably just trying to make them despair when they’re almost done. You think they’re really scared it might work on them, too?
“The heroes have banded together because they’re afraid! Veterans! Special forces! Professional hunters! They’re all afraid of giving the Demon King known as Seojun overwhelming power! Now, then.”
Bangju looked over the chat.
Comments like, Here he goes again, began appearing.
Of course, half the chat was shouting, We believe!
-This is the kind of channel this is, so leave if you’re not going to play alongㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-These crazy fanaticsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-You’re telling me viewers still haven’t become fanatics for the host? How stubborn can they be?
-For real, they’re stubborn.
-You crazy bastards, who was saying yesterday that the host shouldn’t go to Tier 4?
-You think those guys were fans of the host?
-Come on, I vote it’ll be over in ten minutes.
-The teams aren’t that different in strength, but the difference in supplies and numbers is huge.
-But if it’s the host!
-There’s no Judge Sword here.
-Considering that love-shot they pulled last time, it’ll be tough.
-I suddenly want to binge a week’s worth of the host’s gameplay as a Last newbie.
The two sides were evenly matched.
Both arguments had merit.
“Whew. Then let’s put it this way. If he wins, he’s the Demon King! If he loses, he’s just an ordinary nobody!”
And at that moment, news reached Bangju.
“Ah! It’s starting! They’re building the forward base!”
Bangju turned on the spectator broadcast.
The raid had begun.
And the moment he switched on the broadcast—
Bang!
“Ah! One person has already died! The attacker is Jin Seojun! Seojun, who was hiding in one of several sniper towers, has cleanly succeeded in a first strike!”
-The Demon King is coming!
-He let his guard down for a momentㅋㅋ It happens.
-Hitting that shot was a display of skill, too, right?
-Jin Seojun is about to become just an ordinary nobody who simply never played Last.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What happened to Last?