Chapter 356
Seojun briefly surveyed the 5th floor, now clear of smoke.
The walls he had just touched, the weapons he had stepped on, the frying pan he had set down, and countless bullet marks covered the entire floor.
Some of the bullets were surely from earlier battles, but Seojun could roughly distinguish the fresh marks from moments ago.
Running his hand along the wall, Seojun leisurely replayed the fight in his mind and savored the moment.
He intended to wait until Baek Doyul updated him on the situation.
And in the meantime, there was only one thing to do.
A playful smile tugged at the corner of Seojun’s lips as he brushed the wall with his hand.
“Hmm, does anyone here know when these gentlemen kicked the bucket? I was planning to fight once the smoke cleared, but they were all gone. What’s up with that?”
Right.
At times like this, you’ve just got to spout some nonsense.
- LOL, you’re the one who set off the smoke, streamer.
- The guy who was gonna fight after the smoke clears—why’s he standing on the 5th floor when it’s gone? LOL
- Ah, did unconscious Seojun drop by for a sec?
- Scary-jun! Scary-jun! Scary-jun! Scary-jun!
“Hmm, I really have no idea. Still, I think I know one thing for sure.”
Seojun knew the viewers would play along perfectly at times like this.
“What is it, you ask? It’s simply.”
Just then, with perfect timing, Baek Doyul’s voice crackled through the radio.
[Seojun-nim, Ryan-nim has raised the white flag! He says he’ll drop all resources and just leave!]
It was a victory report.
- Ah, lol, so every team that attacked is done for? Knowing the streamer’s personality, that’s one thing that’s for sure.
- For real, there’s no way that guy would hold back.
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The raid swung in Seojun’s favor.
[Keu! There’s no way we can give this up, lol]
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They got utterly wrecked!
Totally wrecked, and in an instant!
Lol, it’s chilling how all the special forces guys just revived and stood there in a daze.
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- For real, lol.
- What now? Karma’s coming back around, lol.
- It’s hilarious how they’re all saying they have no idea what hit them, then suddenly they seem to realize something and lock eyes, ready to surrender right away, lol.
└ Not knowing what hit you but fighting on is even creepier.
When Seojun climbed floor after floor at a blistering pace, his viewers had sensed victory was near.
[Streamer was gritting his teeth earlier, remember? Lol]
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But how could they ever win? Even if he let his guard down, and then again, and then again, it’d still be a toss-up.
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- He drew his sword? It’s over.
└ For real, if the unarmed streamer lets his guard down over and over and over and over, then maybe there’s a sliver of a chance, lol.
- Cut!
- So who’s the mediocre one now?
And now that the raid was over, no one could deny that the frying pan was a sword.
[The frying pan is indeed a sword! Quick, sign here!]
- The frying pan is indeed a sword!
- But did you guys even see properly how that sword was used?
└ You talking about the finale?
└ Yeah.
└ Must’ve been used like a god, lol.
└ For real, lol, so isn’t it a sword, you bastard?
Deny it, and you’d likely be stabbed by the enraged masses.
But aside from the frying pan being acknowledged as a sword, people were curious.
[So, wasn’t that last bit some kind of hack?]
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You’re telling me he blocked everything with a frying pan? And then took them all down?
It’s even more suspicious because it was hard to see clearly.
Is that actually possible?
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In the smoke, a player can only see the person right in front of them. Barely, at that.
Even looking down at your own hands, it’s not clear.
Still, the frying pan’s trajectory was captured on the broadcast screen, but the problem was that Seojun’s movements were just too fast.
[We should do a Moonshal, right?]
Referencing a famous lawyer’s content, viewers entrusting an incomprehensible video to a streamer with some credibility for analysis is called a Moonshal.
In the past, some people used it for betting, crossing the line into something akin to gambling.
It was a trend back then.
Anything taken to excess causes problems, and riding a trend means many people are exposed to it.
It was only natural for the behavior to go overboard.
Of course, it’s died down now.
But since Moonshal once swept through the gaming scene, most Korean users know it well, and its spread overseas was inevitable.
[Let’s do that Moonshal thing!]
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I hear the Koreans are already running the numbers.
Debating who to entrust it to.
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- What’s a Moonshal?
└ Look at the post below.
- Who on earth should we get to do it?
└ That is quite the dilemma.
└└ Wouldn’t there still be plenty of people who could explain it in detail?
└└└ But you can’t see it? You just can’t see it? Being an expert doesn’t mean they’d suddenly see what’s there.
└└└└ Still. That player even pulled off a play to take everyone down, so an expert might see *something*.
- It’s definitely a hack.
└ He can’t be a hacker. The history books proved it.
└└ Moonshal! We need a Moonshal!
The ever-present hack suspicion faded without becoming a real controversy, as Seojun’s fans simply brushed it off.
The remaining topic was: which streamer should be entrusted with the Korean traditional culture of Moonshal, which even the doubters had accepted!
That was the question.
[Won’t some streamer just volunteer to do it?]
But that wasn’t what mattered to Seojun right now.
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“Tell them to wait right there.”
Seojun firmly conveyed his decision to Baek Doyul.
His body was moving on its own.
Reviewing the 5th floor?
No need. He was taking the stairs down.
[Huh?]
“I don’t care if they leave the resources or not. Just tell them to wait right there. And if they say they won’t wait, let them know I can’t say what I might do next either.”
The voices of his team members, who had been quietly listening, burst out all at once.
[Ack, s-scary…]
[Scary!]
[I-I’m scared too.]
[Seojun is the best!]
It was too scary to just listen in silence.
[Ah, okay.]
After descending and passing the destroyed forts, Seojun headed toward the fourth outpost and met up with his team.
He gave them orders to gear up by looting the bodies at their main base, then start repairing the outer walls.
[They say they’ll wait.]
“Is that so?”
A very slight hint of satisfaction touched Seojun’s voice.
[What on earth did you do? How did you win with a frying pan?]
“Haha, I’m not sure myself. I couldn’t see. That’s why I’m going now, to figure out what happened.”
No, he isn’t.
- Lol, you alone know, you bastard.
- Please, you of all people should know, Seojun-ah, lol, how you did it.
- Couldn’t it be the visualization of hearing?
- It was way too noisy for that. If you focused on hearing, your eardrums would’ve burst.
He arrived at the outpost quickly.
He saw primitive people.
Without any gear, an avatar is basically running around in their underwear.
Since the game gives basic clothes at the start, such primitive people usually appear near a fortress that’s been reduced to the Stone Age.
It’s common knowledge in Last.
Even so, Ryan looked quite formidable.
Don’t they say bald people look like masters in any field?
In a primitive society, he’d probably have been elected leader thanks to that strong image.
Anyway.
“Nice to meet you. I see some of you raiders respawned here.”
The victor and the vanquished met.
Seojun smiled wickedly.
“Did you really pour all your resources into this raid?”
With three outposts destroyed, their stockpiled resources were gone.
There was no way many items remained at the fourth outpost either, since some people had already died there and rushed back into the fight.
And the resources accumulated through dying and killing—Seojun’s side had scooped them all up when everyone got wiped at the main base just now.
In other words?
“Well… we kept some, but there aren’t a lot.”
“I see. That’s a shame. Coming in like this, in the end, we all just lost something, didn’t we?”
“Yes, that’s right. So why did you call us here?”
“Hmm…”
As Seojun slowly scanned them, the standing people swallowed hard.
The reason they’d agreed to stay was this: if they were going to face revenge, they’d rather take it cleanly here and hope the grudge would dissolve.
If a full-scale war broke out?
Not a one-sided raid, but a war—then they’d have a much, much bigger advantage.
Same if it turned into a prolonged fight.
Yet they had a feeling they’d still lose.
So they’d dissolve the grudge and focus on their own goals.
They’d concluded they couldn’t beat Seojun in combat, so they’d target other areas intensively.
There were many teams within this.
If all those teams focused intensively on one survival field, Seojun’s team might fail to earn achievements outside of combat, meaning there was still a chance.
Thus, Seojun’s choice right now was crucial, and Seojun spoke.
“You’re hoping for a smooth finish, right?”
“Of course.”
The raiders’ leader wore a bitter expression.
“Naturally.”
Bear chuckled heartily.
“Ha ha ha, I’ve learned that fighting Seojun-nim is a fool’s errand.”
Ryan grinned.
The bald guy really was strong.
Laughing like that in this situation, as if he was genuinely enjoying it.
Seojun nodded and spoke.
The mood was good, after all.
“If you do just one thing for me, I’ll pay no further mind to what happened today.”
“What is it?”
“Don’t tell me you’re asking for help with some achievement run?”
Would he ever ask for an achievement run?
Seojun shook his head.
He’d planned this from the start.
“Right now, you’re all here trying to clean up the aftermath. Aren’t you annoyed by a certain team that slipped away all on its own?”
What he was doing now was securing justification for the broadcast.
Catching on perfectly, Ryan laughed loudly.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! Definitely! That’s very annoying! Yes!”
- Lol.
- Ah, we’re just beating up that one guy?
- That provocation really crossed the line, lol.
- Lloyd is screwed!
“The Raiders feel the same, right?”
“Do you know, Seojun-nim?”
“What?”
“The Hunter team were originally our sworn enemies.”
The raiders’ leader wore a bitter expression.
Since the backlash had very neatly passed him by.
“Good. I think there’s one team that needs to be sent back to the Stone Age. Do you agree?”
“Yes.”
“Shall we go raid them? The three of us? Or rather, with Hayunho-nim’s team, which is already in the middle of it, all four of us together?”
As soon as they armed themselves, they set out immediately.
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[The reason Hayunho says he raided the Hunter team]
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The streamer apparently threatened him, saying if he thought he was going to win, he had to ambush them, no matter what.
And the moment Hayunho left for the ambush = when he confirmed the two missing ones were gathering Tier 4 materials.
What is Hayunho? A genius?
He knew he was going to win back then?
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- You know what? If it wasn’t for that, the streamer would’ve led the raiders and special forces to raid Hayunho’s team in the finale. Lol.
└ That’s terrifying, lol.
[Hayunho cheers seeing the streamer arrive while being pushed back.]
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The Hunter team players, who had already died, were cursing with their eyes like, “Why didn’t you defend your own fortress?” Then they were moved to tears when the streamer showed up with three teams.
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- They’re about to break through the main base.
- Bear and the raiders are all smiles at a no-pressure raid, lol.
[But guys, why hasn’t a single person, domestic or international, shown up saying they’ll do a Moonshal? It drew real massive attention in the overseas communities. What’s going on? Seriously, what is this?]