Chapter 79
Normally, when a broadcast is in progress, there aren't many related posts on the community.
Except for a few relaying it, most are focused on the broadcast.
But now it's different.
A live broadcast watched by over a hundred thousand people.
Even if only 1% of them momentarily turn their attention to the community, that's 1,000 people.
Therefore, Nohyeop was currently overflowing with countless posts about Seojun, and those posts were getting recommended.
Content about their collaboration dominated Nohyeop.
If the broadcast ended, it was obvious that several times more posts would flood in.
[Rankers are surprisingly trash? lolololololol]
[Among the crushed rankers, the post one wrote yesterday is hilariously funny lol]
[Is he really that good? Or have we just been stagnant and made no progress?]
[Only the demonic cult is having fun]
Strangely enough, there were few pros who enjoyed For the Sake of Hyeop.
There are definitely those who log in with alt accounts, but that's the same for other games, so usually, you roughly infer how many pros play the game based on the number of main accounts—that is, the visible count.
And on the surface, only two pros played For the Sake of Hyeop.
The reason only so few pros played was probably the entry barrier.
To properly enjoy it, you needed to know too many martial arts and techniques, so it wasn't a game that busy pros could simply pick up and play.
But.
[Entry barrier? Stale game? What expert lol]
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No matter how you look at it, we're just idiots who only know a ton of martial arts made by this game company, with no real swordsmanship.
We didn't even realize that, and while we were deluded into thinking we were good in our own little pond, a true master came and wiped us out with a slow sword, regardless of martial arts or whatever, and then we realized.
The sea is vast!
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-Are League of Legend trolls here?
└Seems like players from other games are jumping at the chance to bash us
-I was pretty confident in my swordsmanship alone, but after seeing today, I'm not so sure. Are those the experts I knew, getting crushed like that? My heart swells...
└Don't let it swell here lolololol
-We were frogs in a well!
[Martial arts my ass]
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Guys who get wrecked by such a slow sword really wouldn't be able to do a thing in other games.
Game level lololol
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-For real lol
-Their skill was an illusion
-No? A master from another game also ranks within the top 100 here. The skilled ones are good at everything.
└Nah lol, because the rankings here are based on martial arts types. If you consider pure physical prowess without martial arts, that master would probably be much higher.
└What do you even mean by physical prowess?
└Let's use the training ground. Honestly, talking about 'mu' or 'hyeop' with martial arts made by the game company was always laughable.
What is the reason for this kind of reaction?
Indeed, there are some users from other games mixed in.
[Ah lol If Hyeopwi rankers went to other games, they'd be around Diamond level <-- upvote lol]
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Starting with me
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-This guy's ID tells he's a League of Legend user, why's he acting up here
└Still, it's science lololol
-Hey, are you Diamond in League of Legend?
└Looking at his posts lolololol, he is indeed Diamond lolololol
-This settles it. Let's just say that streamer is good.
└Yeah, that way Hyeopwi's reputation doesn't drop lololol
There were users from other games caught like this, but most of the posts were indeed written by people who enjoy and love For the Sake of Hyeop.
The reason they were acting so self-deprecatingly was because they didn't want to acknowledge Seojun, who kept defeating them one after another.
[Someone please beat him for real]
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Does it make sense that we're getting wrecked by a streamer who will leave without any regrets once the battlefield is over?
And that too, with the Heavenly Demonic Arts.
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-What if the Heavenly Demonic Arts were actually super broken?
-Why are the demonic cult guys losing when they have something that good
└Because they don't use the Heavenly Demonic Arts lolololol
└Let me let you in on a secret. They say it's blasphemous to use that trait unless you're a demon, so they left such a great thing unused. For real.
└Seriously, that's not good lol
The fact that they were easily losing to a slow sword also played a part.
Heavenly Demonic Arts.
Isn't it a trait that forced even those who came to this game for the martial arts concept to restrain themselves, despite it having a name they absolutely couldn't tolerate?
If those Heavenly Demonic Arts had been even slightly good, it was an acknowledged fact that the demonic cult would immediately have the highest number of users and devour all battlefields.
Yet the rankers, the pride of the game, were losing to a streamer who hadn't played For the Sake of Hyeop for long and who used that very trait that shunned the demonic cult.
Out of sheer spite, they couldn't bring themselves to acknowledge the streamer.
But as they kept getting helplessly defeated, and just as they were starting to think, 'Were we really frogs in a well?', a donation rang out on Bangju's broadcast.
[Just now, broadcast host's room donation.]
[Seems like a loser's pitiful excuse lololol]
[From the opponent's perspective, does the sword speed change?]
[So ugly, old-timer lololol Let's just accept our skill is crap, what opponent's perspective are you on about]
At first, they mocked ThisIsn'tMartialArts.
But when they actually spectated from the perspective of the users Bangju was facing,
public opinion flipped 180 degrees.
[Crazy, gives me chills lololololol]
[Looking from the opponent's perspective, the sword speed is... different?]
[It was worth losing.]
[How do you even get out of that?]
He's just that good.
They had no choice but to acknowledge his skill.
Still, some doubts remained.
[Looking from the opponent's perspective, the sword speed is... different?]
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How is that even possible? No matter how much the sensation can differ, this is way too extreme lololololol
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Getting defeated helplessly suddenly seemed understandable.
Seeing it firsthand, they couldn't even think of a way to counter.
Originally, giving advice is only possible when you can see something.
If you can't see anything, it means their level is higher than yours, so you can't even give advice.
Yet, questions can still be raised.
And to resolve those questions, ThisIsn'tMartialArts stepped up again.
[Regarding the Dull Sword that Demonic 14 first mentioned.]
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There are many types of swordsmanship.
Swift Sword, Illusion Sword, Flowing Sword, Crushing Sword, Heavy Sword, Flying Sword.
You've probably heard of these at least once.
But some of you may be hearing about the Dull Sword for the first time.
So, to first explain what it is, the Dull Sword is a blunt sword.
A blunt sword does not have any particular advantages.
It is also a sword that should not be aspired to.
However, this Dull Sword is the most fascinating of all swords.
Because it is a sword that has reached the pinnacle of martial arts, something only absolute masters can wield.
Have you ever pondered how to defeat an opponent with a slow sword?
You cannot succeed in attacking just by knowing the opponent's movements. Because the speed is slow.
Therefore, to win, you must be able to control the opponent's movements at will.
But to control the opponent's movements at will. Isn't that too difficult?
Still, it's not without a method.
Sacrificing flesh to take bone.
It's a strategy of giving up flesh to gain bone.
Martial artists like me who use greatswords and have sturdy bodies often use this method.
And the Dull Sword takes this even further.
The Dull Sword literally controls the opponent.
Neutralizes their sword.
Makes their instincts send false warnings.
Causes their feet to tangle.
Concentrates their gaze.
Makes them lose the rhythm.
Makes them lose their center.
A slow sword that toys with the opponent, coercing them to move as you wish, that you know but cannot block.
That is the Dull Sword, and the realm Seojun-gong has reached.
From now on, I will show you an analysis of how his design worked on me.
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Seojun opened the community and read this post together with 17,000 viewers.
He was currently paused after defeating the Heavenly Slaughter Star and achieving a 7-win streak.
He had no choice because people wouldn't match with him anymore.
He had read Bangju's message, watched a replay from the opponent's perspective, and was browsing the community.
Even while spending time like that, matches wouldn't connect.
Perhaps today might end here.
"What do you guys think?"
-A sword you know but cannot block, keuk! Heavenly Demon ecstasy! Landlady! lololol
-Is that really true????
-Old-timer sir, how can you use words like 'rhythm' and 'word' in your post!
-Bring out the pickles, landlady!
-Landlady! Please roll me a hamburger!
Seojun burst out laughing.
What on earth did that person do that keeps making them act like that.
-Let's just say the host is the number one under heaven.
-Seems like a legendary realm dundun
-But looking at the analysis, it seems right?
-They said they'll analyze other matches later lololol
-So is it correct? The person himself should explain.
A Dull Sword that controls the opponent and succeeds in attacking with a slow sword.
To conclude, there was nothing wrong with the content of that post.
Perhaps because they wrote what they personally experienced and felt.
"As for what's correct, I'll leave it to your imaginations."
Though even if I told them, they probably wouldn't believe it.
['TellMeNow' donated 1,000,000 won!]
[.]
A donation message so urgent they couldn't even write the content came up.
"Wow, thank you for the one million won donation. The content of that post is..."
In that case, I should tell them.
Maybe because there are many viewers, there were people who shot one million won at once.
-lolololol Dull Sword, pinnacle of martial arts, whatever, can't resist one million won
-The speed of his attitude flip is insane
"That's right. Yes. You have to control the enemy and make it impossible for them to dodge to win. Otherwise, how can you win."
Seojun readily agreed.
There was no alternative explanation.
"You can consider it the same principle as the 'give flesh to take bone' that was mentioned there. It's just more complex and difficult. But the fundamental part is the same. It's guiding the opponent's movements to go as I want."
-When you say it like it's no big deal, it somehow starts to sound plausible
-So you're saying you toyed with them? dundun dundun
-So you basically gaslighted them lolololol
-Gaslighting swordsmanship, Dull Sword lololololololololololololololololol
-If you think of ankle breaker, it makes sense
Ankle breaker.
A term used in basketball when you break the defender's balance with fancy dribbling.
"Yes. It's similar to an ankle breaker."
It's just more difficult.
Seojun didn't add any further explanation.
No one was unaware that what he did was more difficult than making them lose balance.
"For the details, check out the analysis. I'll point out any incorrect parts."
Since even if he told them how it was done, they wouldn't understand, he skipped it.
Naturally, people found it hard to believe.
It was only natural, as Seojun's words essentially meant he toyed with the rankers freely.
The new posts appearing on the community right now generally had that tone as well.
So Seojun smiled and added a remark.
"If it seems like a cheat, come and fight me."
8-win streak.
He was getting greedy.
-lolololol He's peddling drugs
-Do you think they'll let you win one more? lolololol
-Even without the 8-win streak, it seems like he's already confirmed first place
Fame points could be obtained at a value multiplied by 4 for each 2 consecutive wins.
For a 2-win streak, you get 50; for a 4-win streak, 200.
For a 6-win streak, 800; and for an 8-win streak, you can get 3200.
That is why the number of rankers who have successfully achieved an 8-win streak so far can be counted on one hand.
No matter how overwhelming your skill is, if you get blocked in matchmaking like Seojun is now, you cannot get an 8-win streak.
And every user who luckily achieved an 8-win streak, without exception, took first place on the battlefield at that time.