Chapter 384
For the Sake of Chivalry is one of Mubi Soft’s flagship titles, considered the most successful among wuxia-style games.
With many game modes including duels, territory battles, and large-scale warfare, For the Sake of Chivalry was featured as this booth’s content.
The person in charge, Producer Kim, was taking stomach medicine with every meal due to stress.
“Sigh.”
His job was to make the booth a success. But with the sudden drop in visitors because of Seojun, there was no way he could avoid stress.
Of course, from Eve Paimon’s perspective, she knew Producer Kim was holding up well enough.
When an unavoidable natural disaster strikes, she wasn’t the kind of boss who would say someone is bad at their job simply because they failed to prepare for it.
Nor was she foolish enough to think it wasn’t a natural disaster.
But for Producer Kim, it was a huge crisis.
That’s why when streamer Jay, who kept asking if there was any news about Seojun during the evening, called again at 3 a.m., rather than irritation—
“I just wish the higher-ups would do something about it. Ah.”
—only thoughts that would make Jay jump in fright floated around in his head.
“As far as I know, other teams held multiple meetings about whether to sponsor that streamer for the new release.”
Even if that sponsorship were to proceed now, there was no chance his booth would recover.
“If only I’d rushed to that streamer’s waiting room the moment I heard about it... Bah, what nonsense.”
Imagining unlikely what-ifs and regretting, Producer Kim lay down on his bed.
To get even a little more shut-eye.
He hadn’t realized Seojun’s influence would be this enormous.
Forget buzz—just to keep up the pretense that they were still going strong with a line waiting, he had to keep running tomorrow.
He had to find a way.
Regret and regret again.
‘Ah, Seojun, true streamer among streamers.’
The sin of ignorance: when a golden opportunity arrived, he failed to recognize it as an opportunity and sneered.
The sin of ugly scheming and slander: after belatedly realizing, instead of rushing to the waiting room or the boss’s office.
The bed felt uncomfortable and his stomach burned.
His body was dead tired but his mind was wide awake.
An email arrived.
“Ah...”
In busy times like this, even an early-morning email had to be checked immediately, and Producer Kim praised himself the moment he saw the contents for making that decision well.
“A blessing... a blessing! Even just a single day!”
His stomach settled.
* * *
Day 3.
Seojun greeted those who came early in the morning just like the day before.
Since people had learned that coming early in the morning meant a very high chance of seeing Seojun, traffic was worse than the day before, but fortunately there were no accidents.
And in the morning hours,
No challengers came to Seojun’s booth.
Meaning challengers who were said to have surpassed human limits, not ordinary viewers.
Most other viewers were stopped at the first stage by Rize’s clear eyes.
Meanwhile, the debate between Kael and the Heavenly Demon progressed steadily.
Seojun found it fascinating that cosplayers kept appearing nonstop.
People did, too.
- lololol seriously hardcore, so hardcore
- Are there really this many people doing cosplay?
- Famous cosers are all coming out on stream one after another.
Cosers is a term for people who do cosplay, short for costume players.
And at this T-Star, a stream of people cosplaying Seojun kept visiting his booth without end.
All to write their names down so Seojun would wear the outfit they supported.
It’s a festival enjoyed in each person’s own way.
Whatever you see, wherever you go, it’s all good.
“So you didn’t see the streamer today?”
“At the merch booth, they say the commercial just ended.”
“Guess he hasn’t disappeared today.”
They were talking about the Amyeongbo event.
“What’s he planning to do in the afternoon?”
“He’ll do something. Anyway, should we go check out the big company booths now?”
The weakness of indie game booths is the story.
Without a shared experience or knowledge about the content that booth is running, it’s hard for empathy to arise.
Without empathy, the fun drops off and people leave.
As people leave, that booth becomes even more niche.
A vicious cycle.
Seojun’s actions had broken this cycle by lowering the entry barrier and created a virtuous cycle, but large game companies still had the powerful weapon of brand awareness.
“Do you know what Mubi Soft is doing?”
“For the Sake of Chivalry, I think?”
“Ah, that one? The game where you play with martial arts? What are they doing there?”
Even just a bit of information lets people grasp the context and feel interested.
That is the true strength they’ve built, and it’s why indie game companies can never dare to match their buzz.
And the one who simply crushed that buzz overwhelmingly and toyed with it as he pleased was none other than the true Heavenly Demon—Seojun.
“Oh, let’s see who the For the Sake of Chivalry streamer is. Jay? I think he plays it sometimes. Dokkaebi is a Challenger streamer but I wonder if he knows martial arts well too.”
At the Mubi Soft booth, four people were together.
Jay, Dokkaebi, another streamer on par with big names, and a guest who wasn’t a streamer but invited—Cheonsalseong.
“So what are they doing? If I go, what can I do there?”
For the Sake of Chivalry booth.
There, streamers and viewers were running various content together.
First, duels.
People who came in groups each enjoyed 2v2v2 or 2v2 best-of-three duel modes with a streamer.
“Oh, wanna fight me?”
“I hear that if your tier is low, you get an automatic stat adjustment for the booth? Even between streamers, too.”
“That’s why I’m saying let’s fight.”
Even if you’re not in a party, you could enjoy duels with other participants if you wanted to.
Because they had set up a queue system so everyone could enjoy the content they wanted.
There were also other modes besides duels.
Raids.
“Who are we raiding? Don’t tell me the streamer? The true Heavenly Demon? Whoa. Then I’m definitely going.”
“It’s not him. If it were him, he wouldn’t have set up his own booth in the first place.”
“Hmm.”
“They say it’s the Former Grandmaster. Do you know who that is?”
“Ah, I know the Grandmaster title from that broadcast, but the Former Grandmaster?”
Grandmaster.
When you choose the Demonic Cult as your faction, it’s a title you can earn by demonstrating martial arts before the NPC Baek Wi-gang—only one person can ever hold it.
“Does Former Grandmaster mean the user who got Grandmaster before the streamer?”
“Yeah. That user couldn’t participate directly, so they participated as an AI.”
“Did they reveal who it is?”
“They say if you beat that Former Grandmaster without taking a single hit, their identity will be revealed? Haha.”
“Call the streamer!”
“The streamer isn’t here, you brat.”
That’s right.
People who visited the For the Sake of Chivalry booth could fight the Former Grandmaster’s AI instead of dueling other parties.
Also.
While waiting for their turn, people who logged into the dozens of capsules set up could gather together and challenge Baek Wi-gang and chat.
On the server connected to the booth’s capsules, the standard for the Grandmaster title was said to be set just before Seojun earned it.
People buzzed that the game company had likely judged Seojun to be the most perfect martial arts demonstrator.
As two viewers approached the For the Sake of Chivalry booth chatting like that, a loud voice rang out just then.
[Ohhh! A participant has appeared to challenge the Former Grandmaster!]
“Does that mean someone applied for the raid?”
“Yeah, looks like it.”
“They’re having fun.”
“Wanna do it too?”
“No, let’s go see the streamer. No, seriously, what is he planning to do in the afternoon to go on strike?!”
“Right.”
And so the morning of T-Star Day 3 drew to a close.
* * *
“No one cleared it today either.”
Baek Doyul, who had just finished training hard and briefly come out of his capsule, happily checked the For the Sake of Chivalry community.
The For the Sake of Chivalry community was continuously abuzz with talk about the events happening at T-Star.
[The streamer really is the Heavenly Demon]
[Currently Day 3 lunch break starting. No one has cleared the raid!]
[There is only one true Heavenly Demon... Ah... The Heavenly Demon returns, ten thousand demons bow!]
[天魔再臨 萬魔仰伏! 天魔再臨 萬魔仰伏! 天魔再臨 萬魔仰伏!] (Tianmo Zailin, Wanmo Yangfu!)
[Who are the bastards calling the Former Grandmaster the Heavenly Demon? The true Heavenly Demon is only the current Grandmaster]
[Demonic Cult bastards having their periodic seizures is really damn funny, upvote for hilarious ㅋㅋㅋ]
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These bastards always cause a seizure and flood the board
But since it’s the streamer, everyone just lets it slide ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Argh!
How the hell did the Sword Community turn into thisㅋㅋㅋ
Where did chivalry go!!!!
Ah well, it never had any from the start though
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Baek Doyul corrected himself.
Honestly, while posts about the T-Star events hadn’t stopped, the majority of the board was still just talk about Seojun.
That couldn’t be helped.
“Still, the buzz keeps going, I see.”
Meaningless Seojun-praising posts filled the 30-recommend list, but now this was everyday life in the Sword Community.
The users had long since installed a mental filter that auto-blocked those out.
That was what Baek Doyul figured.
“I won’t give in. Even if my attention is being stolen even here!”
Baek Doyul.
He used the nickname Heavenly Demon and was the only human other than Seojun to have earned the Grandmaster title.
As such, the For the Sake of Chivalry booth had tried to recruit him for this event.
At first, he had considered going out himself and fighting Seojun, but his schedule became packed because of the Man vs. Gamer event.
And since he was sick of being defeated by Seojun over and over, he decided it wasn’t time to challenge him yet—so the contract ended with only granting permission to use his AI data.
The First Grandmaster.
And the true Heavenly Demon (nickname only).
“For the Sake of Chivalry is a game I have deep affection for.”
[So who the hell is this Former Grandmaster? He’s f*cking good. Nickname is Heavenly Demon too.]
[Isn’t it just the streamer from the past?]
[How do we reveal his identity? ㅋㅋ Looking at the condition to reveal it, it’s definitely a famous person]
“I wish someone would reveal my identity.”
Baek Doyul said something he didn’t mean at all.
If he really wanted his identity revealed, he wouldn’t have asked the game company to set the condition of beating his AI without taking a single hit.
This was a kind of trolling.
Yes.
The kind of trolling Seojun often did.
[Call the streamer!]
[Please come!]
[Ah, I must worship the true Heavenly Demon again!]
[Another worship starting? Arghㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Just when the topic starts turning a little ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[So where did the streamer go?]
“The talk is drifting again... Anyway, I should go back to training. Didn’t they say that starting this lunch, since there’s been no progress, they’ll let ranked users join the booth server too?”
Even so, Baek Doyul figured there’d be no chance of his identity being revealed, and got back into the capsule to train.
If Baek Doyul had paid just a little more attention and read the posts about Seojun then, the creeping anxiety would have kept him from training properly—but luckily he didn’t see them.
And during lunchtime,
Just slightly ahead of the countless ranked players selected through morning applications,
A masked Seojun entered the For the Sake of Chivalry booth server.
Even without the cultists knowing, it was the moment the true Heavenly Demon returned.