Chapter 81

-12 consecutive wins, this is seriously insane lmao

-This is the Heavenly Demon!

-How does he pull this off lol

-Please become the cult leader! Please become the cult leader! Please become the cult leader!

-Ah lol if you’re gonna be this good with that nickname, then really take responsibility for the demonic cult!!!!

-Today’s stream was legendary too.

“It’s over.”

The clock hands pointed to 10:10.

Seo-jun stretched and returned to his original position.

Then Navigator, who had been waiting while watching the situation, approached.

“You really worked hard!”

“Thank you. You worked hard too, Navigator-nim.”

“All I did was just watch. But Seo-jun-nim achieved a whole 12 consecutive wins! 12 consecutive wins!”

Navigator continued.

“You didn’t lose once, not even a single round, right?”

“Right.”

-Damn

-A true master

-Probably a lot of people saw this differently today. Didn’t know he was this good

Navigator and Seo-jun simultaneously turned their eyes to their respective chat windows before returning their gazes to meet each other.

Both smiled inwardly.

“People in our stream are saying that if Seo-jun-nim fought a pro, he’d win. Have you ever fought a pro before?”

He had fought them in reality before.

“Unfortunately, no.”

“Ah, really? I’d love to see that once.”

“Maybe we’ll meet someday.”

“Right! These days there are many former pros who became streamers, and basically pros also stream when they game to do dual work, so there are many opportunities to meet!”

Seo-jun nodded.

While being busy was the biggest problem, most pros were already somewhat familiar with Travel and its culture, so there wasn’t no interaction.

You could meet them while gaming.

“If I ever meet one, I’ll do my best.”

“Ah, so you’ll do your best to make them unemployed?”

-LOLL gonna make them jobless!

-If you lose to a streamer, it’s straight to unemployment

-You become on the same level as viewers lol

-Wonder what would really happen

-If it’s a new game, totally possible to win

“Well, that was a joke. Anyway, today we had so much to see with your battles against rankers, Heavenly Demon Divine Art, 12 consecutive wins, and more.”

Navigator began his closing remarks.

Time to end the stream.

Seo-jun subtly turned his head and opened the Travel window.

[Navigator- 140,000 viewers]

[Jin Seo-jun- 18,000 viewers]

The results were amazing.

Viewer numbers approaching those of major corporate collaborations.

This meant that most Travel viewers interested in battlefield were watching this stream.

Navigator’s highest numbers for battlefield content was around 150,000, he’d said.

While slightly less than that, this didn’t include Seo-jun’s viewer count.

Including his viewers, it was fair to say they’d achieved a record high.

“Plus, Seo-jun-nim earned a total bonus of 66,650 from consecutive win fame points today alone. Considering the roughly 6,000 fame points you had before, Seo-jun-nim is currently a walking equivalent of 14 rankers!”

Navigator raised his voice as he spoke.

-That’s kinda scary though?

-Imagining a zombie horde

-1st place is guaranteed. From now on, he only needs to win once while others need to win 14 times lol

“Hehe. Right now the orthodox and unorthodox factions are in complete panic mode. Because now the demonic cult has the most rankers! While rankers fighting each other might lose, these 14 will absolutely never lose! Thanks to Seo-jun-nim becoming such a huge variable, things will get more interesting going forward.”

While saying this, Navigator offered condolences to Heavenly Killing Star.

“I pray that Heavenly Killing Star-nim survives well. Well then, this concludes today’s stream.”

Is it over?

Seo-jun also spoke while watching Navigator point his finger at empty air.

“I’ll also end my stream following you, bye bye.”

-Demonic cult totally struck it rich

-Ah

-Going for the win?

-Bye

-See you later

* * *

“You worked hard on today’s collaboration. Next time, instead of just commentary like this, I hope we get a chance to properly invite you to my studio for a collaboration.”

“If there’s an interesting concept, I have no reason to refuse.”

Though by then he’ll need to figure out what capsule to use.

“Haha. When that time comes, I’ll give you the best treatment I can as a fan.”

“As a fan?”

“Yes.”

“You watch my streams?”

“Of course. I think I’ve watched most of them live. I even donated before.”

Navigator wasn’t a streamer who turned on streams very often.

And he thought of himself as a commentator and analyst.

So he had plenty of time to watch Seo-jun’s streams.

“I remember.”

“Really?”

“Yes. But I thought you only watched that once. You know, catching the Tower Master was a pretty noisy event where anyone could flow in.”

“I did get introduced then, but I kept watching after that too. Your skills are really good and the streams are fun.”

“Thank you.”

No need to look up the donation ID for background checks, right?

With so many weird people around him, whenever he heard someone was a viewer, he felt the urge to check what they might have done.

Truly deplorable.

“Anyway, today’s collaboration was a complete success. It’s usually hard to exceed 100,000. But 150,000 means almost everyone interested watched. At this rate, I wonder if you’ll really can be compared to major corporation streamers.”

Major corporation streamer.

This referred to the small number of streamers who casually commanded tens of thousands in live broadcasts or had over 1 million iTube subscribers.

They were literally walking small-to-medium enterprises.

Moreover, even though the streaming market had grown tremendously, Travel was still treated as minor culture, but major corporation streamers had recognition and popularity higher than most celebrities, so they couldn’t be treated as minor.

Even past Seo-jun, who had completely cut off interest in capsules, knew their names.

“What major corporation. I still feel far from mid-tier streamer status.”

“Hehe. Well, it might not happen immediately, but who knows what the future holds. And aren’t you already a mid-tier streamer?”

“Huh?”

“Surely you’ll break 10,000.”

“My recent regular viewers were 5,000.”

“You hit almost 20,000 today.”

“Today was an exception.”

“That’s true, but Seo-jun-nim.”

“Yes.”

“People here are crazy about masters.”

“……”

“Really.”

Navigator made a serious expression.

“I see.”

“Yeah. Anyway, I’ll send you half of today’s donations from my stream later.”

“Yes.”

Navigator getting half the donations was something they’d negotiated the day before.

Incidentally, Seo-jun was on the side that thought they should split it half and half including his own.

“Don’t be surprised when you see the amount later. People here really go crazy for masters.”

* * *

Navigator was right.

Today’s broadcast dominated most topics and public opinion was good too.

[Looking at today, seems like there won’t be any more debates about who’s the best under heaven lol]

[Streamer Seo-jun giving advice on old martial arts posts based on what he actually tried, and his skill really went up. The Grand Master title isn’t for nothing]

[Getting hit by dull sword itself shows a big skill gap]

[Seo-jun <– Why is this guy so entertaining???]

[Battle Analysis. NamgungFamilyWaitress Edition]

There were posts seriously analyzing too.

[The situation where orthodox and unorthodox faction leadership has to abandon strategies they’ve built up until now and rack their brains because of one person from the demonic cult! “How can such a person emerge from the demonic cult?” “What have our masters been doing all this time!”]

Nickname: Fanatic. Looks familiar.

The post was like that too.

Seo-jun chuckled and checked the comments.

-It’s seriously hilarious how everything he said came true lmao

-Why is this guy’s name Fanatic? No matter how you look at it, he only said things that were right. Isn’t he a truthful reporter?

-This guy’s posts during the fights are even more amazing.

└ [Breaking News] To compete with the Heavenly Demon, orthodox faction’s 2nd place resorts to drugs. “Impossible to face him without drugs.” “The demonic cult’s ginseng more powerful than Great Return Pills.”

└ Demonic cult’s ginseng LMAO

└ Not even Korea’s red ginseng lol

-This person writes articles with no fabrication whatsoever, only the truth.

[If you won, can you talk nonsense?]

-Yes

-Yep

-Mh-hm

-Why ask something so obvious?

-The moment you win, it stops being nonsense, kid

-If you don’t like it, what do you do?

[Demonic cult guys are really riding high. You haven’t won yet lol]

[If we haven’t won, then what, when the other sides rankers got completely cleaned out]

[Honestly, if Heavenly Demon-nim came to the orthodox faction, I’d bow my head like a dog and welcome him.]

[Only upvote if you’d trade your faction’s 14 rankers for Heavenly Demon lol]

Seo-jun thought as he walked forward.

“The reaction is definitely good.”

8 out of 10 posts in real-time TOP10 were filled with posts related to him.

Since No-Honor was currently the most active community.

“But why did they call me?”

The place he was currently heading to was a hall on the demonic cult’s map.

Right after the stream ended, Tangso had called him to come here, and normally Seo-jun would have ignored Tangso’s words, but since Lee Dong-soo and Heavenly First Swordsman also called him, Seo-jun was leisurely heading to the hall.

When he reached the door, he could hear voices.

“I trust Stone Wall Theft King and the boss. Who do these two IDs belong to?”

“I don’t know, they don’t seem to be among us here.”

“So those two unidentified people just happened to have similar thoughts to us and joined in the downvoting?”

“Seems like it.”

“I see. Well, it doesn’t matter! Anyway, we successfully shot them down!”

What shooting down are they talking about?

Why is he getting an uneasy feeling?

“No, I was just called here for this kind of thing. Do they know who I am? If they knew my main account, huh? Everyone would be surprised.”

“Shut up, BanditKing.”

It was a festival of all kinds of nonsense.

Maybe he shouldn’t go in.

Seo-jun opened the door with a reluctant expression.

When he entered, he found not only Lee Dong-soo with his large avatar, Tangso, and Heavenly First Swordsman who had messaged him, but several other people gathered.

Their common point was probably that they’d all chosen the demonic cult as their faction?

Tangso, who seemed to be leading this gathering, approached him first.

“Finally here? I told you so much before but you never came, then other people call and you come right away. Well, my plan to make the demonic cult win would have no problems even without you.”

Starting with nonsense from the beginning, that Tangso guy.

Demonic cult winning, what.

Seo-jun looked at him with half-open eyes as if telling him to say more.

“Still, I can’t ignore you, so I’m personally going to give you an important role. Will you take it?”

Translated, this means please cooperate.

Really.

“Can the demonic cult actually win?”

“Of course. But thanks to you earning fame points, if you just follow our instructions, we can win more easily.”

“Really?”

He was planning to cooperate anyway.

Just not with this guy.

“That’s right. And half of the fame points you earned belong to us, so don’t think about backing out.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Your 12 consecutive wins didn’t just happen by chance, you know?”

“Then?”

“It’s all thanks to us cracking down on posts creating unfavorable public opinion for consecutive wins from behind!”

So they were gathered here doing vote manipulation.

Ah.

Now he understand why BanditKing looked so aggrieved.

Dragging a busy pro to gather here and make them do downvoting must have been frustrating.

“We didn’t directly write posts or give upvotes to manipulate things. We just responded a bit since there were forces trying to systematically undermine you.”

I see. But isn’t that still called manipulation?

He probably said it wasn’t manipulation because he felt guilty too. Seo-jun hoped they hadn’t done anything weird.

He would need to hear more details from Lee Dong-soo or Heavenly First Swordsman later.

“Anyway, that’s that. Can we actually win?”