Chapter 124

Seo-jun played three more games in a row using only Kael.

During that time, there were people who wanted him to play other heroes and people who wanted 3-person ultimates, but neither worked out.

The former was simply because Seo-jun didn’t want to play other heroes.

The latter was because the games ended before several people could even gather.

The enemy mid would quit or the jungle would quit, leading to quick surrenders.

Internal fighting broke out too.

It seemed like newbies these days lacked persistence, Seo-jun thought.

Of course, he didn’t say this out loud.

“Today was fun too. Good night, everyone.”

After finishing his Travel stream, Seo-jun got out of the capsule.

* * *

Since it was bedtime anyway, Seo-jun washed up first then sat at his desk.

Seo Labor Department meeting time.

[Han Ji-min: Boss! “I Became the Best Under Heaven in a Game” finally hit 1 million!]

[Jin Seo-jun: Wow!]

The one-on-one video with rankers that had climbed to 3rd place in trending videos had reached 1 million views and become the highest-viewed video on Seo-jun’s channel.

It took two weeks, but there was something moving about reaching that milestone of 1 million.

[Lee Geon-yeong: As expected! It was worth uploading it right away!]

[Han Ji-min: Agreed.]

For the past few days, they had been constantly refreshing, waiting for it to hit 1 million, and the video had finally reached that milestone today.

[Lee Geon-yeong: How much money did just that one video make, damn]

[Han Ji-min: Probably around 7-800, right?]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Wow… crazy.]

[Han Ji-min: Congratulations, boss!]

[Han Ji-min: (Character doing a half-hearted celebration emoticon)]

Actually, it was probably more about the significance of reaching a different scale than the money itself.

‘Anyway, the money I get from that video is in the 3.5-4 million won range?’

For Seo-jun, who had lived independently, frugally through college, and lived a modest life in his past existence, it was big money to earn from a single video.

Looking back on his past, Seo-jun nodded his head.

‘I was definitely modest.’

Corrupt officials take money from bad people to cover for them and steal money from good people or condone harm to them.

Seo-jun had acted in exactly the opposite way.

That didn’t mean he forcibly extorted money from bad people or anything like that.

When you take them to the Room of Truth, they offer it up themselves, so why would you need to extort it?

[Jin Seo-jun: I’ll treat everyone to coffee to celebrate our first 1 million views!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Wow! You’re telling us to work harder!]

[Han Ji-min: Hurry up and drink this, then focus and churn out videos, you slaves!]

[Han Ji-min: That’s not what you meant, right?]

[Jin Seo-jun: Right, haha. I’ll treat you to cake too.]

[Han Ji-min: Cake? That sounds delicious. Thank you!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Me too!]

[Jin Seo-jun: And lastly, I know a good gym, so I’ll get you memberships too!]

Silence immediately fell over the chat.

‘Hmm.’

The “1” next to the conversation had clearly disappeared, so why weren’t they responding?

Taking care of their health would be good too.

No matter how strong a warrior you are, you can’t win against time.

Of course, Seo-jun, whose aging hadn’t progressed properly and who had departed young after not living that long, wasn’t really one to talk.

Anyway, managing your health in advance is obviously good.

While having such useless thoughts, Seo-jun typed in chat again.

[Jin Seo-jun: How about the memberships?]

As soon as the message went up, the number disappeared. They didn’t seem to leave though.

[Han Ji-min: Oh right! Boss, did you see the email?]

[Jin Seo-jun: What about the memberships?]

[Han Ji-min: Not that, but an LOS recruitment email came!]

[Jin Seo-jun: Oh?]

Seo-jun’s eyes widened at the unexpected news.

Tournament organizers have two ways of gathering streamers.

One is accepting applications, and the other is direct recruitment.

Usually they recruit first, then screen and draw lots from applicants to match that, with recruitment making up about 10-20%.

Originally, this ratio used to be much higher.

But now that the streaming market has grown and the number of streamers has increased tremendously, the situation has changed.

The options have become so varied that except for the minimum core streamers needed for success, there’s no need to secure tournament spots through recruitment in advance.

Simply put, when the overall streamer pool was small in the old days, the organizers were in the weaker position.

-Would you perhaps be interested in participating in the tournament? We’re doomed if you don’t come.

That’s how it used to be.

But now.

-Whoever wants to come, come! The prizes are amazing too!

That’s how it changed.

That’s why Seo-jun thought it would be even more difficult for him to be recruited.

Oh Ji-hye had also said it wouldn’t work out.

But to receive recruitment like this was surprising.

[Jin Seo-jun: I guess I fortunately managed to draw a little attention.]

[Han Ji-min: Boss, you said you wanted to participate in LOS, right? This worked out well!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: I don’t think it’s just “a little” attention though……]

Looking at Seo-jun’s chat, Lee Geon-yeong thought from far away.

‘Please gain some self-awareness, boss.’

Regardless, Seo-jun remained consistent.

[Jin Seo-jun: I thought this level of attention would be a bit insufficient, but they recruited me anyway.]

[Han Ji-min: Well, boss, you have been holding back your strength. Even so, it shows in their eyes too. You’re totally a hidden gem.]

[Jin Seo-jun: Oh, you’re smart.]

[Han Ji-min: Hehehe]

[Lee Geon-yeong: …]

[Jin Seo-jun: Well then, I’m going to sleep now.]

[Han Ji-min: Yes!]

[Lee Geon-yeong: Yes!]

[Han Ji-min: Oh, right. Check your trash folder once!]

Trash folder?

Is this about the LOS recruitment?

[Jin Seo-jun: Got it.]

Seo-jun closed the chat room, accessed the site, opened his email, and went to the trash folder.

Then he realized that Han Ji-min had been quite diligent about organizing the inbox and that the issue wasn’t related to LOS.

It was about The League, not LOS.

The League, specifically emails related to Kael.

[I want the vision you possess]

[Please share the pattern]

[It’ll probably get nerfed or changed, but I want to know just once]

[How much would it cost? No matter how much we crowdfund, it’ll come out! Trust us Kael one-tricks!]

There were hundreds of emails like this piled up.

Han Ji-min deserved credit for moving all these to the trash folder.

“The content is mostly similar.”

That was about all Seo-jun had to say after looking at the emails.

They’re serious about Kael.

Seo-jun went to the community to understand the situation better and found The League’s Kael board.

Once he entered, he could understand the circumstances.

[Can’t chat?]

==

You have to wait 3 hours after following

==

They had initially tried to ask Seo-jun directly.

But they were blocked by the chat restrictions.

-Damn, we can’t cause chaos. Can’t even threaten him.

└Then he’d just ban us for a week to establish order with viewers. Be careful

└Whoa, shit, we really need to be careful then

-Can’t you existing viewers chat for us?

└Requests to share it keep coming up in chat but the streamer doesn’t even glance at them

└Should we spam to get his attention?

└That would probably get us disciplined too lol

└Then should we spam with donations?

-Guys, let’s just use email. That’s cleaner. Everything else is just causing trouble

That’s how the emails had come.

Since he had opened the email for viewer feedback anyway, the Kael users’ choice was appropriate.

Seo-jun thought about it briefly.

There was no reason to hide it, so telling them wouldn’t matter.

“But it wouldn’t mean anything even if I told them.”

He could explain it. But just knowing the principle doesn’t mean you’d be able to see it. If it worked that way, someone other than Seo-jun would have discovered it long ago.

“Still, seeing their sincerity…”

Seo-jun got into Travel while still sitting at his computer.

Then he started streaming.

The stream title was Kael, and the screen showed only a black, empty background.

He waited a moment while keeping an eye on the Kael board.

[That streamer started streaming!]

-Suddenly? Why?

-Has he ever done this before?

└Never

-This is because of us, isn’t it?

-The stream title is Kael to begin with

-Whoa, is he going to tell us right away? Insane

-Communicative streamers are so great, I’m running over right now

After confirming the expected reaction, Seo-jun shifted his gaze to his chat window, where viewers were confused by his sudden stream.

-What?

-Oh??

-Seo-ha?

-Did you make a mistake, hyung?

-Say something

-If it’s hyung, it’s fine. Just pretend you didn’t accidentally turn it on and stream again

-Is this that routine where you don’t know the stream is on and accidentally say something controversial?

-So many have fallen that way, hehe

They were saying scary things.

While it’s an annual event for streamers to have accidents not knowing their stream is on, Seo-jun wasn’t destined to become one of those protagonists.

“No. Everyone, you know my personality is a bit bad on streams, right?”

-Seo-ha

-He spoke

-You knew you had a bad personality? Surprising

“That personality is actually a stream concept. My real personality is a bit different. I’m nice. So even if my stream accidentally stays on for 24 hours, I’m safe.”

-More bullshit

-Hyung, nobody believes that

-The academic consensus is that you’re suppressing your personality for the stream lol

-So why did you turn it on?

-Computer games?

“Ah. The reason I turned it on is to tell you how to see Kael’s weak point patterns next time.”

The Kael users can’t chat right now, but if they could, they’d probably be spamming excited nonsense.

“I’ll get straight to the point. Kael patterns are visible if you use your head a little.”

The roughly 3,000 viewers who had gathered were momentarily stunned.

“An announcement will be posted soon, so please check it out. Good night.”

Regardless, the stream ended.

-?

-What

-Crazy bastard lmao

-Everyone who’s curious, go check The League Kael board

-Fucking evil bastard lol

-Kael one-tricks crying lol

A lot of laughter filled the chat window for a while after the stream ended.

They were probably people who had gone to the Kael board for the pattern rather than entertainment, then came to mess around.

Those viewers continued spamming with lols.

They’d probably head to that board soon.

Just like Seo-jun was doing now.

[??]

[Is this provocation?]

[Are we being mocked?]

[LOL]

[‘Use your head a little.’ Fucking outrageous, if he’s wrong give this an upvote lol]

[That bastard is probably scamming because he doesn’t know either]

[Yeah, the scam routine was already exposed ages ago lol]

Seo-jun smiled with satisfaction, then began writing an announcement on iTube.

A post that caught his eye had also appeared.

[Check the announcement before getting angry, guys!]

==

But damn, it is pretty infuriating.

You better write that announcement well, streamer ^^

==

It wasn’t the content that mattered.

Anyway, if he left it like this, they might be laughing now but serious people would emerge later, so he needed to post the announcement quickly.

Seo-jun typed rapidly, then pressed enter, and the announcement went up on Seo-jun’s iTube community.

[I’ll explain Kael’s patterns directly in tomorrow’s stream!]

The reaction was good.

Comments from non-subscribers poured in instantly.

-Oh!

-Nice!

-Kael one-tricks, we won! The power of email!

-This streamer is going to make it big! He’s a good person! His face looks kind too!

-Now we can use 2-person ultimates too hehe

-Simple bastards lol

-His viewer manipulation and training skills have reached an artistic level, hyungnim…

He didn’t explain it in advance through the announcement.

If he had, they definitely would have stayed up all night trying to verify what Seo-jun said, which would have been unfortunate.

‘Kael’s next weak point is at roughly medium difficulty, positioned right between the previous weak point and the follow-up combo. But if I wrote this without other explanations.’

They’d spend the night not having healthy discussions and research, but just producing insults about Seo-jun.

It can’t be helped.

Medium.

Moderate.

Reasonably.

Intuition can only be explained like this.

Someone who designed it directly could just post the formula, but even then, there probably wouldn’t be anyone who could predict it just by reading the formula. Not even the creator.

Still, it wasn’t like there was nothing Seo-jun could do.

‘I could teach them how to develop that intuition, or directly help them understand even a little.’

There happened to be an email with an interesting subject line too.

[Is the Kael in this old video you, Seo-jun-nim? I’m a fan!]

The sender was a skilled player from the highest tier, Challenger.

Since the main content was a simple self-introduction and request for teaching, he found out, and Seo-jun thought he’d found the perfect email as he cracked his knuckles.

And with a quite serious expression, he muttered.

“As expected of a Challenger.”

The viewers who had been watching Seo-jun so far would hate it beyond dislike if he offered to teach them.

Most were Bronze and Silver, which seemed to have just been proven.