Chapter 98
"Tie down the Orthodox Faction using the Demonic Cult and overwhelmingly widen the regional gap!"
Bangju was spectating with the game as his background, commentating on the overall situation.
He was brimming with excitement.
How long had it been since the battlefield showed such a clear picture?
Originally, the battlefield was content where situational judgment shined moment by moment due to constant mind games and betrayals, causing the battlefield to keep shifting.
But this battlefield was different.
The Orthodox Faction had been complacent, but the Demonic Cult and the Unorthodox Faction had set up the board with a grand strategy.
And that board had been precisely arranged, and now the two were clashing for their objectives.
It couldn't be anything but entertaining.
"By widening the regional gap, no matter how the fight between the Demonic Cult and Orthodox Faction ended, the Unorthodox Faction would ensure the result of their victory couldn't be overturned. That was the Unorthodox Faction's grand strategy!"
The Demonic Cult simply pushed through.
Within that, there were meticulous preparations that I had already explained earlier.
That was why Bangju was talking about the Unorthodox Faction now.
"So, even if the Orthodox Faction succeeded in defending today, they planned to leave regions so that the Demonic Cult would still have a chance. Look at how the Unorthodox Faction kept leaving these regions alone."
Bangju pointed at a part of the map with his hand and drew a line.
The route from the Demonic Cult to the Unorthodox Faction's headquarters.
-Why there?
-What is it?
-Unorthodox! What have you done!
Why suddenly say they left that place alone?
The viewers were curious, and Bangju continued his detailed commentary.
"For example, suppose the Demonic Cult knocks the Orthodox Faction out of the battle and then turns its eyes toward the Unorthodox Faction."
Bangju's voice quickened again.
"If they have to capture 4 regions including the headquarters to make them drop out, and there are 3 days left in the battlefield, then the Demonic Cult would have no way. Right?"
-Yes
-That's right
-In that case, the Demonic Cult wouldn't have attacked in the first place.
"Wouldn't have attacked in the first place? That's right."
If such a situation seemed likely, they would have shifted their strategy direction earlier.
And the Unorthodox Faction knew that too.
"Therefore, the fact that there are 3 regions from the Demonic Cult to the headquarters is no coincidence! The Unorthodox Faction left them there on purpose!"
If, to attack the Unorthodox Faction's headquarters immediately, they needed to capture 5 regions.
With 5 days left starting tomorrow, the Demonic Cult wouldn't have attacked the Orthodox today.
If the Unorthodox Faction increased that path to 6 during today's Demonic Cult attack on the Orthodox, then even if the Demonic Cult defeated the Orthodox, they couldn't win.
Then why 3?
"The Unorthodox Faction expected that the Orthodox would absolutely hold out at least today, and hoped the fight between the two would continue tomorrow."
If it was 4, the Demonic Cult wouldn't fight tomorrow.
As each day passes, the Unorthodox Faction's territory grows enormously, and the day that the Demonic Cult and Orthodox can take back decreases by one.
And after exactly two days, a board is created that even if the two joined forces, they couldn't overturn.
"If the Orthodox Faction defends for about two days, the Unorthodox Faction's victory is certain! So they set up their strategy on the premise that the Orthodox would at least hold out for two days!"
The Demonic Cult and Unorthodox Faction, each holding the other's objective hostage and deliberately leaving possibilities open, drew each other onto the same board instead of uncertainty.
"The two collaborated to set this board. But at the final moment's judgment, they split and it became a contest of victory."
Who will be right?
-Unorthodox idiots.
-Oh, you think the Orthodox will be pushed? You Demonic Cult blockheads.
-Honestly, they'll probably push.
-Eouma! Eouma! Eouma! Eouma!
-Let's make a bet, Demonic Cult bastards! You're especially annoying today.
"But, you know, if I were the Unorthodox Faction, I'd be really terrified."
-Be objective in your commentary!
-Bangju is Orthodox anyway. Is there any reason to favor Unorthodox or Demonic Cult more?
-Bangju Orthodox? Bangju is definitely a Demonic Cultist!
-He even merged rooms to boost the Heavenly Demon lol he's definitely a pawn.
Bangju made a meaningful expression.
Will the Unorthodox Faction really be able to be so bold?
"Ah, just in time, Seojun-nim's last game has ended. The result is victory! Can the final boss Heavenly Demon truly not be stopped? And, ah! The Unorthodox Faction has made a decision!"
A red mark appeared on the route to the Unorthodox Faction's headquarters I mentioned earlier.
The Unorthodox Faction attempted to attack.
The reason is obvious.
-Euk lol the Unorthodox sensed something serious and started a pants-run.
-If they were going to do this, they should have made it 4 regions instead of 3 lol.
"Now, if the Orthodox Faction succeeds in defending, the Demonic Cult can't hit the Orthodox tomorrow due to time constraints."
In the end, the Unorthodox Faction judged that the Demonic Cult would succeed in today's attack and revised their strategy.
"From the Orthodox Faction's perspective, a rope from heaven has descended. Because they just need to hold today!"
Will we see a one-on-one between the Unorthodox and the Demonic Cult?
Or will we see a chaotic battlefield again?
We'll find out all this tomorrow.
* * *
Seojun looked at the deactivated map and spoke.
It was 10 o'clock, and the content closed.
"It's over. The Unorthodox Faction ended up extending the path. It seems like they have about a day of leeway."
The Unorthodox Faction's choice was, of course, not an unexpected move for Seojun and his viewers who believed the Demonic Cult would win.
-Yeah
-Ah lol you don't even need a day lol.
-You're going to get pushed anyway, so just die quickly, why are you uselessly extending the path lol.
-Unorthodox. Scared?
The result hasn't come out. You have to see it to know.
The rankers have more numbers. It seemed like they had more victories.
However, the Orthodox had more ordinary users.
So Seojun also knows that nothing is certain.
Still, usually if you believe you'll win, the probability of winning increases.
Truly.
In reality, the Orthodox Faction was in an atmosphere of almost half defeated.
"Ah, and by the way, is it true that 'ThisIsNotMurim'-nim threw the game on the Orthodox side?"
-Yes, yeah
-lololololol I laughed so hard lol.
-A guy overflowing with romance lol.
-Really, there are so many trolls in the For the Alliance.
-The Demonic Cult's Dang So, the Orthodox's Star of Heavenly Slaughter, the Unorthodox's Old Fart. My heart swells with grandeur!
Seojun also laughed along.
He probably did it even knowing.
An act that, put nicely, is romance, and put badly, is trolling.
He threw the game according to his goal of wanting to eliminate the Orthodox Faction.
But.
Surely, did only 'ThisIsNotMurim' do that?
Among the Unorthodox Faction users, did not even one participate?
That, too, we'll have to see to know.
Anyway.
That's not what's important. Seojun thinks that they would have won one-on-one even without the Unorthodox Faction's help.
Because he believes that.
That's all.
Hmm!
Since the viewers often used that kind of speech, Seojun tried it once as well.
"See you tomorrow!"
With that, Seojun ended the broadcast.
* * *
The next day.
"Are we doing the right thing?"
Mumyeong nodded at his colleague's question.
"Yeah."
"How do you know?"
"Intuition."
All of Mumyeong's instincts were speaking.
The enemy, the Demonic Cult, had gained momentum.
Streamer Jin Seojun, who since the martial arts contest, had won game after game after game and captured For the Alliance.
Truly, overwhelming irregulars have always existed.
Most of them had left for the world of players called the heavens above, and competed there.
But in his feeling, the irregular that appeared this time felt like something one dimension higher than them.
He doesn't show mistakes that any human would show at least once.
It's as if he's breathing through the peak moments of players who have entered a state of extreme focus.
And that while looking at chat and chattering idly.
Or while trash-talking the opponent.
It seemed impossible, but since he actually did it, no one could argue with him.
'If he's at that level, he probably hasn't lost even once.'
The problem is that people go crazy over such a ridiculous path he has walked.
Right from after the martial contest, not a single page has been missing the words Seojun, or Heavenly Demon, or Bangju at least once.
Even if the broadcast ended short, even if people got fired up by other bait.
Though it's attention that will eventually die down, Mumyeong worried that this attention might be acting too greatly right now.
The short video uploaded on the streamer's channel yesterday.
[Heavenly Demon seen 14,000,605 futures and found the one-in-a-million chance for the Demonic Cult to win!]
It was a video put together with the clip Seojun had talked about at the start yesterday and a summary of the battlefield situation.
-What is For the Alliance doing???
-Ah I used to be Demonic Cult.
└Winning is possible now! Come quickly.
-Should I try once too? Is the winning angle really set?
└Yeah, the angle is properly set. Come right from tomorrow. Watch streamer Seojun.
-The Demonic Cult has found the one and only path to victory!
If the number of people doing it for the first time, or those who rarely did it, increases, it's a gain, not a loss.
And that gain will start to show from now on.
"Wow. He's mobilizing even his editor to gather users down to their souls."
Yesterday Bangju even did joint broadcasts.
No matter how I think about it, that person.
He really plays the game dirty.
* * *
Day 17.
People's interest had reached its peak.
The battlefield layout was revealed.
Also from when the Unorthodox and the Demonic Cult had been using each other.
The Demonic Cult and the Orthodox clashed.
The Unorthodox Faction showed themselves reversing their strategy in just one day.
It couldn't be anything but entertaining.
Finally.
The streamer Heavenly Demon, or rather Seojun, at the center of all this, was a streamer that, from the Demonic Cult's perspective, they couldn't help but like.
[The fact that all of this became possible because of just one person is spine-chilling. ㅜㅡ]
==
First of all, the Demonic Cult being able to contend in power at all is thanks to the Heavenly Demon.
And also, the strategy of setting up the board with the Unorthodox in the middle was also thought of by the Heavenly Demon. (For details, ask the Third Elder) Basically, all strategies came from the Heavenly Demon, and it was established because the Heavenly Demon was there.
The Demonic Cult, that's all.
==
-A single user with good physicals exists in every faction. But a true leader who can lead a faction to victory? Only the Heavenly Demon.
└You say there's a Heavenly Demon-level physical in another faction? Seriously?
└I'm Orthodox lol there isn't.
└I'm ~~ but note: not ~~.
└So you can't beat the Heavenly Demon and so you had a 4-game losing streak? lol.
└So does your faction have a Heavenly Demon-level physical?
└For real lmao.
-You haven't won yet. Why are you acting all cocky.
What about the other factions?
[Heavenly Demon's skill acknowledged. But acting like you've already won is annoying.]
[For real, in 10 minutes it'll be revealed that the Demonic Cult bastards are just bubbles, probably?]
[Honestly, the numbers are with the Orthodox.]
[Don't ignore the power of a prestigious faction.]
[Two days, three days, come at us all!]
[We'll show that the Unorthodox chose wrong.]
People cursed the Demonic Cult, but at least almost no one cursed the Heavenly Demon.
Extremely few.
It was a surprising fact that despite Seojun going around being a bit slyly provocative, this was the reaction.
[It goes up in 1 minute!]
It became 7 o'clock.
The map of the battlefield.
Three-colored soldiers spring up from the ground in numerous regions and engage in battle.
Yet the place where everyone's attention was focused was just one.
On Hebei, red soldiers and blue soldier miniatures began to fight.
They cross swords and wound each other once.
The moment that decides the future course.
[Demonic Cult bastards lol, just from now on let's reconcile and keep the Unorthodox in check together.]
[Orthodox, are you feeling pushed? Why so many words!]
In the end.
Clang!
The one who fell!
[?]
[Really?]
[Get out!!!!]
[lololololol]
[......Is this real?]
[This actually works...]
The blue soldier's neck is cut.
And Hebei is dyed red.
At the same time, the blue regions that remained, albeit few, across the map lose their light to gray.
At the point with 5 days left, the Orthodox Faction, having their headquarters captured, finally dropped out of the battlefield.