Chapter 361
“Everyone! Just now! The server has closed! We were able to see the players who kept swinging their pickaxes fiercely and desperately right up until the very end!”
Bangju continued the broadcast, his energy rising.
The broadcasting station had said they would announce the achievements they had selected thirty minutes after the server closed, so they could spend that time looking through them.
For reference, Seojun had his stream on as well.
“Ah, can you hear me!”
The call had just connected.
[Yes, thank you for the commentary, Bangju.]
“Good to speak with you! My kkanbu, Seojun!”
Back during the History Book event, Bangju had received Seojun’s official endorsement and swept up all of Seojun’s viewers.
As a result, he had earned the nickname “kkanbu,” which—
“Yes! Being Seojun’s kkanbu is definitely the greatest achievement of my life! How many times do I have to say it? I admit it. I’m proud of it, if anything!”
Bangju sincerely regarded it as a true achievement that could not be compared to any of the achievements they were about to examine.
[Haha. Shall we take a look, then?]
“Good! We don’t know the criteria yet, but we can find out who earned the achievements!”
All they had to do was check the server’s statistical data.
Everything was listed on the relevant website.
“Shall we start with the most kills?”
[Hmm. Haha.]
Seojun laughed awkwardly.
“The achievement title for the most kills is Walking Disaster! Ah! Who could that player be? I’m so curious!”
[Wow, me too.]
-LOLㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-There’s no way this could be a mysteryㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I am curious how many kills he got, though
“Yes! As expected, it’s Seojun! Wow! The kill count is 317! Huh? 317? Um? Did something happen…?”
The number of kills Seojun had shown on-stream had been more than enough, but it was nowhere near this many.
Of course, people had been counting his kills, so some margin of error was understandable. But an error of more than one hundred could only mean one thing.
Statistics did not lie.
“Seojun, did you run around like a madman even after you turned off the stream? Did you torment them that much?”
[A little?]
-A little means 100 killsㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-That’s really scaryㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-He’s ruthless, absolutely ruthless
-How much did he torment them while running around?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“What? Haha, all right, I understand. Then, the achievement Bomb Maniac, awarded to the person who threw the most grenades!”
[I doubt that one is me.]
“Seojun! You took first place by throwing a total of thirty-seven grenades. When did you even throw that many? You must have been busy batting away bullets! You said on-stream that you’d only used eighteen.”
[Ah…? I have no idea.]
There were countless other combat achievements after that.
Seojun had also taken first place in Opener, awarded to the person with the most headshots, and Boxer, awarded to the person who dealt the most damage with his bare hands.
-He’s just taking everything, isn’t he? How does he even do this?
-How much fighting did he get into?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Wow, so he kept sneaking in and beating people up even when he wasn’t streaming. That’s seriously scaryㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“Um… Seojun, please be honest with me.”
[Yes.]
“Did you go in and kill people whenever you got bored, using it to relieve stress? It looks like you used a lot of bizarre weapons when you weren’t on-stream.”
That was true.
When the stream was live, Seojun had shown himself neatly taking down his enemies.
“He even has the Let There Be Light title.”
It was an achievement awarded to the person who used the most flash grenades.
How often would anyone have the chance to use flash grenades? Smoke grenades, perhaps, but flash grenades?
“Did you also threaten people into keeping quiet? Did you tell the people you hit that you’d kill them if they told everyone you went around doing this during the event?”
[Um…]
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What a crazy host
-Please act normal for onceㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Maybe he has to blow off steam like this in the game, at least
-He barely ever punched anyone with his bare hands on-stream, but he got the Boxer achievementㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Guys, people are exposing everything on the community boards now that it’s over
* * *
It started with ordinary users from ordinary teams.
They uploaded recorded footage.
The videos showed nothing but Seojun repeatedly taking them down.
Even a quick look was enough for people to understand the whole story.
Seojun had gone full Seojun.
“Everyone, do you know why I did this? It was all to make the stream more entertaining. You understand, right?”
-For realㅋㅋ
-We all know. If he didn’t relieve his stress somehow, he’d commit an actual crime. And then he’d have to quit streaming.
-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You interpret it like that? Chatters are so cleverㅋㅋㅋ
“What crime would I commit? I only did it because I thought you’d enjoy seeing it all in videos like this later. And I told them to keep quiet only until the server ended.”
Seojun desperately tried to justify himself.
And it was true.
Would he really have wandered around for a combat achievement like Boxer, which was obviously useless?
It wasn’t as if the broadcasting station would select Boxer as one of the achievements.
So it had all been for the stream.
But then Zebra released a video to the world, and when Seojun saw it, he slapped his forehead.
The video began with Zebra looking up at a gigantic tower.
-Isn’t this our server? Was there some monstrosity like that?
-Monstrosityㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-But why is the post titled, “Since it’s come to this, I, an old man, will expose something too”?
Zebra climbed the tower. Higher and higher.
In Last, there was no limit to how high one could build.
However, the higher one built, the wider the floors at the bottom had to be.
In other words, it required a great deal of resources. It was also vulnerable to attack.
When Zebra had climbed to around the tenth floor of the tower, whose front gate stood wide open, someone appeared.
Zebra hurriedly raised his weapon, but the other person fired first and made him drop it.
Then the other person turned around, and Zebra understood why the moment he spotted the flash grenade lying on the floor.
Fwoosh!
He turned around belatedly, but the screen turned blindingly white, like a snowfield under the sun.
Yet despite his vision being disabled, he did not die. No attack came.
However, when he opened his eyes, what he saw was—
Another flash grenade.
It had been dropped precisely in front of him, directly within his line of sight.
Fwoosh!
This continued several times.
Fwoosh!
No matter whether he turned his body or raised his head—
Fwoosh!
A flash grenade was always waiting in front of his eyes, as though his movements had been predicted.
Fwoosh!
Finally, when he threw himself facedown and covered his head, unable to see anything at all, he heard it.
Bang!
The video ended there.
-So he got the Let There Be Light title by doing this all over the server?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Looking at how insanely well he uses flash grenades, that really does seem like the hostㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ When did he even do all this?
“Is there any proof that’s me?”
Seojun ignored the countless yeses filling the chat and spoke to Bangju.
“Let’s look at the other achievements now.”
The chat continued to fill with messages calling him scary, but Seojun ignored them.
Bangju moved on to the combat team achievements.
They were the achievements awarded to the team with the most kills, such as Heinous Marauder.
Those belonged to Seojun’s team as well.
The other combat achievements were the same.
“Looks like the team fought quite a lot.”
[Yes…]
The chat began saying, “Not the team—you,” but Seojun ignored it.
That was not what mattered.
“Let’s move on to the next achievement.”
[Good! From here on, we’ll look at resource gathering. The Archenemy of the Environment achievement! Which team mined the most wood?]
Bangju pressed Ctrl+F in the statistics table and searched for Archenemy of the Environment.
-I honestly have no idea
-First of all, the host never worked
-The host’s team probably got the most wood itemsㅋㅋㅋㅋ Because they stole it allㅋㅋㅋ
-Actually, since they had to gather as much as they lost, it can’t be the host’s team
The viewers’ reasoning seemed sound.
There was no achievement for the team that obtained the most wooden item blocks, after all.
This achievement went to the player who had directly destroyed the in-game environment with items.
[Huh? It’s Seojun’s team! The Archenemy of the Environment is Seojun!]
The name of the achievement put him in a slightly bad mood, but Seojun was surprised that his team had earned it.
“Oh?”
[Oh? What’s this? Let’s check Miner right away! Oh, they got that one too! Even if they reached Tier 4, other ordinary teams also made it to Tier 4 in the latter half, so this one could have gone either way, but they got it too!]
-Hmm?
-The host absolutely never worked, so it should’ve been hard for him to take first place. What’s going on?
-For realㅋㅋ
[The team that placed the most construction blocks is Seojun’s team too! The team that cooked the most food is Seojun’s team! Huh? What’s going on? The team that hunted the most is Seojun’s team as well!]
“Hmm? You’re right.”
Naturally, he had not ordered them to perform those tasks, but he had assumed everyone would do them anyway.
Still, Seojun had not expected them to win.
The other teams would have been gathering resources like mad as well.
If they were simply outstanding in combat, their chances of winning would already have been very high. But to do this much?
-The host is also the person who stayed underwater the longestㅋㅋㅋㅋ Did you hide underwater or something?
-He seems to have done more when the host wasn’t streaming than when he was
-People are still posting exposés about the hostㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“Ah. Can we check the rankings for time spent logged in?”
Seojun was beginning to understand.
Could it be?
[Yep!]
How many hours had they spent logged in over the past ten days?
The realistic maximum was 160 hours.
“As I thought.”
[Huh? Wow! That’s insane! Who knew there was a hidden contender like this? The achievement goes to Buja!]
[Achievement: Wraith]
#1 Buja — 138 hours
#2 Shut Up and Play — 127 hours
#3 Lloyd — 98 hours
-Wraithㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-You should be proud, chatters!
-The chatters have finally salvaged their pride!!!
-Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋ There was a reason the scheming host chose this group from the start, wasn’t there?
Buja and Shut Up and Play stood side by side in first and second place.
At Seojun’s request, they had checked the top rankings for Immortal, the achievement awarded to the person who died the fewest times. Seojun was first, Shut Up and Play was second, and Buja was third.
What this meant was—
[Everyone was afraid of Seojun, so no one could stop the two chatters from going on a rampage. Shut Up and Play only died three times! Meanwhile, Lloyd, who was third among the Wraiths, died nine times!]
The results afterward were obvious.
There was no need for any “We don’t know yet.”
* * *
[Wow! Seven achievements! A total prize of one hundred thousand dollars!]
[Buja, when did you even—?]
[Player Baek Doyul, were you surprised too?]
[Yes… Actually, weren’t the two of you tired?]
[No!]
[Me neither! But what should we do with our prize money?]
[Let’s go camping! Camping!]
“Taeu. Camping that costs a hundred million won?”
[No! We’ll split it first, then cover the expenses out of your prize money and mine.]
“Well, sure. What does everyone else think?”
[What kind of scary story is about to come out this time…? See it firsthand? Even better?]
Joam and the other team members agreed to go camping.
What they had done until now had been no different from camping anyway, so they could think of it as an in-person fan meeting.
[Unfortunately, I don’t think I can go.]
Baek Doyul, however, announced that he would not be able to attend.
It could not be helped.
He had not stood watch during the past ten days, but attending every important moment had still been pushing himself too hard.
“Is it happening soon?”
[Yes, soon. It’ll probably be soon for Seojun too, won’t it?]
“Right?”
At that moment, a message arrived from Ha Yunho.