Episode 358
“You want me to analyze it?”
Bangju, who had thoroughly enjoyed—no, narrated—Seojun’s raid, said incredulously.
It was something people had been saying for hours already.
Even while watching Seojun play right now.
It was certainly something people would be curious about.
The fact that no one had analyzed it had only made it an even bigger topic.
Was it really possible for analysis not to appear on a video that had attracted this much attention?
-This is getting even more frustrating because nobody’s showing upㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I want to know about that guy
-I seriously just want to know what the hell happened
As expected, it was Seojun.
[This is how you do it! I’ve shown you already, so stop asking now.]
This was also exactly like Seojun.
He was just a vicious bastard. Seriously.
“Ha-ha-ha-ha! Ah, Host. This is killing me. Instead of analyzing it, he just showed it one more time! Yes!”
How many people were in a difficult position right now?
For Bangju, an amateur commentator who called himself a “j-expert” rather than an actual expert, it was enough to simply say that he didn’t know.
It wasn’t as though he knew all that much about Seojun.
Professional analysts, however, were different.
They must have been under tremendous pressure.
Why else would they suddenly take a break from streaming?
Because they knew their broadcasts would be completely plastered with that topic.
Rather than turning on their streams only to be seen avoiding the issue, they had chosen to take a break for some other reason, pretending to look elsewhere even while everyone knew what was happening.
From the professional analysts’ perspective, this was the better option.
No professional could afford to give up on this kind of attention.
Did they not know how many viewers would gather if they did an analysis stream?
They simply couldn’t do it.
Yes, they were unable to. So they gave up.
“Just give up! Unless the game company uploads a version with the smoke removed, there’s no way to know! Or, if you wait about a week, someone will eventually run movement simulations, infer what happened somehow, and upload an analysis video. You can wait for that!”
At least, it was impossible today.
Bangju snickered, while Seojun continued brutally taking down the hunter team.
And it was about twenty minutes later.
“Huh? It’s been uploaded? Really? Why? Under what pretext?”
-Pretextㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ There isn’t one
-It just went up saying, “The video all you gamers have been curious about right now!”ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wow, they actually did itㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“Let’s watch it!”
* * *
This was Bangju’s impression after watching the entire video.
“Wow……. No……. Wow.”
Bangju seriously closed his mouth and stared blankly at the camera.
He wasn’t exaggerating as usual. He was left with nothing but pure amazement.
“No……. H-How did he do that……?”
It was the same question that always came up.
Seojun kept showing plays that made people ask how he had done them.
Even so, they had no choice but to say the exact same thing again.
-What a crazy bastardㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-No, how is he that accurate inside the smoke?
-Seeing this is going to make every other player feel like they’ve hit an insurmountable wall.
-Actually, the best players in History Book have already felt that wall beforeㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Is he just the Sword God or somethingㅋㅋㅋ
It was even more horrifying when viewed with the smoke removed.
Even while coming up the stairs, Seojun used the frying pan to defend the exact areas that were being struck.
It seemed that he had figured out the enemies’ positions from the bullets raining down after he threw the smoke grenade.
After that, he simply dealt with them one by one.
He defended himself while approaching, fired whenever he could make out their silhouettes, and repeated the process.
Of course, he couldn’t dodge every bullet perfectly.
But that was only natural. What was truly chilling was that there wasn’t the slightest hesitation in Seojun’s movements.
As if he could see.
“If you move with your eyes closed, anyone would have no choice but to hesitate! Because if you walk around with your eyes shut and bang your shin against something, it hurts like hell!”
-For real, it hurts like hellㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Ahㅋㅋㅋ It’s a game, so the pain would probably be weaker, but it’s still scary
-But how the hell does the host do it??
“But he doesn’t hesitate! No, he simply has no hesitation at all! Every movement is perfect. Is his stride, the distance his arms swing, the terrain—has all of it been entered perfectly into his mind? Does he picture everything perfectly in his head every time he moves?”
It was impossible to understand.
Even people called prodigies or superhumans probably couldn’t reach this level.
“No, seriously, is he a Sword God who remembers his past life? Otherwise, this makes no sense.”
-For realㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-It really wouldn’t make sense unless he was a martial arts master
-Ahㅋㅋ The host was saying it so blatantly on purpose to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, we would’ve seriously suspected him ages ago.
-The true identity of the cheat he’s been using alone has finally been revealed. The host is screwed.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You lunatics are seriously going on about murim people now
“It wouldn’t make sense if he weren’t a murim person!”
He played the video again.
Seojun really was moving as though he could see what was ahead. He changed direction precisely in front of obstacles.
He didn’t touch them with his hands or grope around.
He simply avoided anything in front of him as though it were only natural, blocked his vital points when the special forces members blindly attacked empty air and the places where sounds came from, briefly retreated behind cover, and then moved again.
‘Can anyone else analyze this? This?’
Was it really just that?
Was Seojun a murim person in his past life, so it didn’t matter whether he could see or not, while his enemies were merely ordinary men?
* * *
As Bangju had expected, the experts gave up on analyzing it.
They didn’t know how Seojun had done it either, and now that the smoke had disappeared, there was no need to analyze his movements anyway.
The streamers who had taken breaks, however, began turning their broadcasts back on.
[My cousin’s older sister’s friend’s mother’s son really did get married and then cancel the wedding, okay? No, seriously!]
It was questionable whether a wedding could be arranged and canceled so easily, but people let it slide.
In any case, they had turned their broadcasts back on, and now they had no choice but to talk about the newly uploaded play.
And their unanimous reactions were:
[???: Don’t try to understand that person.]
[He does everything with his eyes closed, so what’s a little smoke to him?]
[Analysts be like: unable to analyze]
[They’ve become reaction bots that just repeat “Amazing”ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
Naturally, remarks suspecting that Seojun was using hacks became more frequent because of his incomprehensible movements. But the game company itself must have checked and handled the data, so such suspicions could never become the prevailing opinion.
And so the day came to an end.
The next day.
Just as his actions had foretold, Seojun began running wild.
By saying that his actions had foretold it, they meant:
[I knew this would happenㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[The host told his teammates to do whatever they wanted, grabbed his frying pan, and headed outㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
Even though he hadn’t announced it in words, it meant that everyone had known this was coming.
[Aren’t the other teams doing raids?]
That was why the other teams didn’t raid. Each other, that was.
The threat known as Seojun could appear at any time now.
What if Seojun appeared during a raid?
Judging from his previous actions, he would help the attacking team first.
He would help the attacking team completely destroy the side defending.
Then he would attack the attacking team.
[Because that’s what the host does.]
It was obvious.
So everyone was careful.
Some ordinary teams might not even have logged in.
They were avoiding his time slot.
No matter how strong Seojun was, a solo raid was impossible.
It would take far too much time.
But once Seojun’s login period passed, people faced another problem.
It was good that they had made it through safely without suffering major damage from Seojun.
But what would happen if all those teams that had avoided him by not logging in at all ended up gathering in the same time slot?
The map was large, but high-tier farming grounds were limited.
It turned into a situation where the remaining teams had to compete with one another over the remaining resources.
Seojun’s team, meanwhile, had simply done what they needed to do without there being any real competition.
A bizarre situation had unfolded.
[Why the current situation happened]
==
The teams are supposed to keep each other in check while raiding, but the team that needs to be checked is so strong that nobody wants to challenge them.
Because even if second, third, and fourth place tear each other apart, nothing will come of it. They’d only be doing first place a favor.
But going on like this is also only doing first place a favor.
Have you seen the competition?
Six teams competing over two Tier 3 farming grounds in the same time slotㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
==
-It’s an inescapable bind
-How are we supposed to break through this?
-Could we win if everyone raided together?
[Is it just me, or do you seriously think the host would win even if everyone raided him together?]
-Not just youㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-They really need to conduct a proper raid, but for now it’s Tier 4—
└Why Tier 4?
└It’s true that Tier 4 isn’t efficient compared to the resources required to enter, but you can expand your house much more. The turrets get slightly stronger too, and you can install more of them because the house is larger.
└Then isn’t Tier 4 better?
└The resources required are no joke, though. Tier 3 is enough. Of course, if you made it to Tier 4, you’d still have an advantage over everyone else. The level of weapons and the strength of the walls don’t change, though. Except for the frying pan.
└The mighty King Frying Panㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
It was the fifth day since three teams had raided Seojun’s house.
And the sixth day passed by in a vague, uneventful fashion.
Only four days remained—the period when they needed to compete fiercely with one another.
Yet the teams did not gather.
Nor did they properly appear during Seojun’s login hours.
[It’s seriously terrifying when the host walks around carrying that frying pan.]
-It looks like he’s shouting, “Come at me!”
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Just a really fucking scary bastard
-He’s definitely preparing something big! It doesn’t look like he’s cooperating with anyone, though!
The seventh day ended the same way.
The eighth day was no different.
Of course, it wasn’t as if nothing happened at all.
Seojun was still running wild with his frying pan, and he got into fights several times.
No team had openly stepped forward to hunt Seojun, but whenever they ended up fighting him, they counterattacked desperately.
Naturally, Seojun had never lost even once.
More precisely, he had never died.
In the end.
The server remained peaceful whenever Seojun was present.
The rebellion against the host that viewers had wanted never appeared again, and even the ninth day came to an end.
The so-called engagements only appeared after Seojun disappeared, and battles without Seojun could hardly be called entertaining.
It was like trying to rule as king in a den without a tiger.
This was an impressive feat in its own right.
No, not merely impressive.
There were four teams on the same level as the Marauders, and every one of them had avoided him.
Even though it was time for them to band together and turn the tables once.
[Could that video really have been that shocking?]
[These bastardsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Could they seriously be avoiding gathering because they’re afraid they’d lose even if they did?]
-No way
-Seriously, it can’t be that
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (A composite image of Jin Seojun wearing an apron and frying an egg with a frying pan)
└(A picture of Viking Yorn about to bring down an ax) Which one is scarier?
└The first one
└The first one
└Obviously the first one
└Looks like they really can’t gather because they’re afraid of losing to the hostㅋㅋㅋㅋ