Chapter 97
-Kya
-Wow lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololol
-This Heavenly Demon bastard is just a genius. A broadcasting genius lololol
-Fucking awesome
-Ah, the demonic hype is rising
-Heavenly Demon is seriously a madman lolololololol
The chat in the room of the streamer who was hosting Seojun’s stream started pouring in with overwhelming firepower.
‘So that’s why he told me to host.’
The day before, Seojun had asked him to host if he happened to stream today.
‘Crazy!’
Had he anticipated this kind of angle?
He clearly tried to watch with an objective eye, but he couldn’t suppress the surging pride from deep within his heart.
He wasn’t even in the Demonic Cult!
Above all, his handsome looks played a solid part.
Streamers usually set an angle facing the viewers when communicating, so Seojun’s handsome face and his calm, downward gaze, which even seemed a little arrogant, were captured perfectly on that angle.
The result?
-Eouma! Eouma! Eouma! Eouma! Eouma! Eouma! Eouma!
-The Righteous Faction is completely screwed for real lol
-Arise, Demonic Cult!
-I really have no confidence, dammit lolololololololol I’m going to join the Righteous Faction right now
-This fucking handsome bastard. This bastard who’s godlike with a sword. This bastard who usually runs his mouth like a damn jewel but delivers at moments like this. This bastard with Christina. Just a cool bastard.
A legendary scene from this battlefield was born.
Was he really trying to hit the big leagues already!
Seojun’s room had 20,000 viewers flooding in.
If the host hadn’t turned on his stream, it could have exceeded 30,000.
It nearly brushed against the major leagues.
Regrettably, because he started his stream, it stopped at 20,000 in the end.
But thanks to his stream, more than 100,000 people ended up watching even more of Seojun’s stream, so it was still a gain.
Seojun had said.
That the victory of the Demonic Cult was more important than his highest viewer numbers.
To push the Righteous Faction with sheer force, they needed the help of not just the rankers, but the heavy users and the light users who’d only played one match, all of them.
“Ah! Seojun-nim has declared war! The users of the Demonic Cult and the Righteous Faction who heard this should all hurry over! The situation is now truly sorted! Only a battle of strength remains!”
Who between the Righteous Faction and Demonic Cult users will participate more was uncertain.
No, was it really uncertain?
After seeing a scene like that, it wasn’t just the host who could clearly see whose morale would be higher and whose participation rate would be greater.
“The Demonic Cult has slightly more rankers! On top of that….”
The Righteous Faction had a bit more in normal user numbers, but would that be the case today too?
And.
“In the end, even if the rest of them have a 50% win rate or the Righteous Faction is slightly higher, if Seojun-nim just wins them all, it’ll all be for nothing!”
Ultimately, it came back.
The conclusion of this battlefield.
The Righteous Faction had said.
“We must stop the Heavenly Demon! To defend our base, the Righteous Faction users must beat the Heavenly Demon in the game! At all costs! He’s not even the final boss, what is this!”
Strictly speaking, the Heavenly Demon side was the attacking hero and the Righteous Faction was the demon king who had won every time.
The Demonic Cult was the underdog.
A weakling that had never won, always finishing nearly last.
To the point where even the chat room’s title was ‘At Least Second Place,’ a minority.
But.
Those who had watched Seojun’s streams, and anyone who saw him calmly looking down today, wouldn’t be able to tell who the demon king was.
-That’s real final boss aura lol
-Even his name is Heavenly Demon lolol The demon king himself
-Yes! This is the Heavenly Demon! This is the Demonic Cult!
-This is what I wanted too
-Sigh, for real, you Righteous Faction bastards are screwed lololol And tomorrow it’s the Unorthodox Faction, just you wait!
* * *
[Han Jimin: Wow, did you just see that?]
[Lee Geonyeong: Yes.]
[Han Jimin: The boss really enjoys playing the game insanely well lololol Looks crazy fun.]
[Han Jimin: At this level, was he really a Heavenly Demon in his past life? lolololol]
Han Jimin said something that would cause qi deviation if Seojun heard it.
Fortunately, though it was a chat room Seojun was in, these two planned to keep chattering on anyway.
That comment was destined to be pushed up and buried unless Seojun specifically scrolled up to check for something.
[Lee Geonyeong: For real.]
[Lee Geonyeong: Wow, if we win the battlefield like this, it’s legendary.]
[Han Jimin: Then shall we do what we can?]
[Lee Geonyeong: Cheering?]
Hmm.
Han Jimin made a slightly awkward expression for a moment.
Her eyes, staring at the monitor, seemed to have discovered something absurd.
[Han Jimin: That’s something the viewer PublicRestroomBrickExtortionKing should do.]
[Lee Geonyeong: …]
[Lee Geonyeong: Mentioning the nickname is a bit…]
[Han Jimin: You were chatting perfectly fine on the stream yesterday too]
[Han Jimin: Do you know your nickname is really eye-catching?]
On top of that, because Seojun gave him VIP despite him repeatedly saying he didn’t want it, it stood out even more.
[Han Jimin: Anyway, let’s make shorts right away.]
Shorts don’t make money.
It’s ambiguous to attach ads and profit from short videos that are under a minute.
It’s a different story if you shoot ads directly as shorts, but setting that aside.
Shorts are mostly used for promotion in most cases.
Because they have the advantage of drawing in that much influx.
[Han Jimin: So we need to make more people know. How the battlefield is progressing right now. The fact that the Demonic Cult now has a chance to win.]
They weren’t just looking at today.
Beyond that, after making the Righteous Faction withdraw.
Watching the Demonic Cult’s victory, Seojun’s editors began to move.
* * *
How did the Demonic Cult end up losing their base?
Right.
The memory comes back.
Back in the days when they, the Righteous Faction, were running at their peak.
When the Unorthodox Faction was also running at their peak.
Actually, it was the worst time only for the Demonic Cult, so relatively the other two were at their peak; the era when Movie Soft heard all sorts of complaints from Demonic Cult users.
At that time, the Demonic Cult was suffering from a severe manpower shortage.
The reason was the worst balance patch.
The performance was so horribly bad that the Demonic Cult couldn’t stop users from leaving.
-I was able to escape from the evil demonic arts thanks to you!
-I was no different from having played the game with my eyes closed until now. Having finally opened my eyes, I now depart for the Righteous Faction.
-I’ll never play Demonic Cult again! This trashy, vulgar faction!
There were only about 20 proper skilled players left.
It was a time so destitute that other factions were certain the remaining ones had been cultists in their past lives.
How many years ago was that?
And why was that again?
Ah.
The Heavenly Demon.
The real nickname ‘Heavenly Demon,’ not Heavenly Demon2 or Heavenly Demon3.
That user was the main culprit of the Demonic Cult nerf.
The rank 1 who had so overwhelmingly stomped ranked games that people asked if it was Shin Hayeon.
Of course, it wasn’t Shin Hayeon.
She only played on her main account under normal circumstances, and the Heavenly Demon’s avatar was a man, not a woman, and the physique was completely different.
If someone had control on Shin Hayeon’s level, it would be possible to show outstanding skill even with an avatar of a different build.
It’s not something just anyone can do, so occasionally bandit users who massively increase their size get called crazy, but pros could pull it off.
Still, there were expert analyses saying the style was different.
The people involved denied it too.
Because of various opinions like that, it was confirmed that the user known as Heavenly Demon in the past was not her.
There are many hidden masters in the world.
However, there aren’t many as overwhelmingly dominant as the Heavenly Demon.
So Movie Soft had nerfed the Demonic Cult due to the unrivaled performance of the Heavenly Demon at the time.
But it was excessive, to the point of having a fatal impact on normal users.
Furthermore, around the time the battlefield of that period started, whether it was because of the excessive nerf or because of his pro gamer life, the Heavenly Demon quit the game.
The Demonic Cult became a laughingstock, gradually ceding territory to the Unorthodox and Righteous factions, and then.
-Hey lol, Righteous Faction, wanna try eliminating the Demonic Cult? Aren’t you curious?
-Alliance just for today! Unorthodox Faction!
As a result of such blatant collusion, they were driven out of the battlefield.
How much abuse did Movie Soft get back then?
The Demonic Cult kids spammed the community for over a month, saying they couldn’t understand why they nerfed them this much because of the Heavenly Demon.
But Cheonsalseong thinks about it now.
‘You were wrong, Movie Soft.’
Those in the know initially suspected that the current Heavenly Demon 14 might be the Heavenly Demon from that time.
But the Heavenly Demon’s ID still remained if you searched, and there was no way Seojun was a pro gamer with a sub-account, so they let go of the suspicion.
Up to here, it was fine.
‘You were wrong, I say, Movie Soft!’
Until here, when they didn’t know the 14th Heavenly Demon was an even worse bastard than the original Heavenly Demon.
After getting cussed out tremendously, Movie Soft had adjusted the Demonic Cult so they could at least function somewhat, but they left the Heavenly Demon Divine Art alone, the one the Heavenly Demon mainly used.
Saying its performance was too good.
The Demonic Cult bastards protested with one mind and one will that it was unusable unless you were a top-tier pro gamer, but Movie Soft stubbornly stuck to their guns.
And Cheonsalseong thinks again now.
‘Instead of stubbornly sticking to it, they should have nerfed it even more!’
Movie Soft was wrong.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art shouldn’t get a buff, but rather should be nerfed more.
“Block him! Please!”
A worse bastard appeared.
The first Heavenly Demon who flashed for a few months and disappeared without even doing the battlefield?
I’ll admit the quick thinking and preparation to snag a rare nickname!
As for skill, Cheonsalseong was young at the time and not a ranker, so he never fought him directly, but he probably did well enough.
But compared to the true Heavenly Demon born in the 14th generation beneath that?
“Please, let anyone win just once.”
Cheonsalseong prayed while looking at the map.
He didn’t know who would be matched up against the Heavenly Demon.
Roughly 60 rankers of the Demonic Cult.
Roughly 80 rankers of the Righteous Faction.
These two forces were currently clashing with all their might.
The Demonic Cult bastards all swarmed in at once as if they’d gotten an adrenaline rush, and the Righteous Faction also all jumped in to respond.
Right now, the option of stepping back, not clashing, and later playing against normal users to secure wins was not viable.
Because if purely all rankers were to take wins, the Demonic Cult was slightly higher.
In other words, they are fighting, but they must satisfy one of two things.
Either achieve overwhelmingly more wins in the fights excluding the Heavenly Demon, or defeat the Heavenly Demon.
Currently, most rankers had finished their third match.
And Seojun was on a 3-game winning streak.
Of course, you never know until you see the results of a match.
“There are 5 days left. We just have to hold out today and tomorrow. If the Demonic Cult can’t catch us in two days, they won’t be able to go for the Unorthodox Faction.”
Since the Demonic Cult was clearly full of madmen, if their championship slipped away, they might try to eliminate the Righteous Faction for the entire remaining period out of spite.
But anyway, if that happens, not winning the championship is the same for both the Demonic Cult and the Righteous Faction.
Ultimately, if they block them for exactly two days, the Righteous Faction, having given the Demonic Cult a big middle finger, could achieve a mental victory.