Chapter 126

Windstorm Sword hadn’t played Kael at first. He just wasn’t interested.

But one day, a video with poor quality randomly appeared on his algorithm.

When he checked, the upload date of the video was before he had started playing the game. Out of mild curiosity, he played the video.

However, due to the poor quality, he skipped through it casually, and then through another coincidence, he was able to see Kael swinging his sword in a very brief appearance.

Kael slashing rapidly as if there was no delay time for confirming weak points.

Was that even possible?

Even with pre-rework Kael, where you didn’t need to slash quickly and could cut leisurely enough just to maintain buffs, wouldn’t weak points be generated the same way?

Of course, since no one knew the patterns, there was no way to know if then and now were the same. When asked, the only response was that it was different, so they did it that way.

So he investigated it himself.

If the weak points were the same, he was curious about how exactly that person had done it.

That’s how he found other videos.

While playing and researching Kael, he had become an expert before he knew it. It was completely unintentional.

Before he knew it, he was the first to achieve a 2-person ult in-game, or something like that.

After becoming a Kael expert, whenever he picked Kael his tier would drop from Challenger to Master, but he wasn’t sad about it.

Anyway, since he had met the owner of that old video, he was excited thinking there would be a lot to talk about as a fan.

Windstorm Sword brought up the Travel window. Seo-jun’s stream was playing as a viewer.

-If you don’t understand it, I’ll flip both of them

-Not acting, right? lol

-He learned it in advance, and he was the only one who got proper lessons

-Gasp, so scary

It wasn’t like that.

Windstorm Sword, he genuinely didn’t understand.

He seemed to understand what was being said, but then how exactly would he figure out the middle?

He could have revealed the Travel message conversation from just the day before.

[Jin Seo-jun: Ah. And tomorrow, just say you understand.]

[Windstorm Sword: Huh?]

[Jin Seo-jun: Just say you understand when I ask you something. Don’t worry.]

[Windstorm Sword: Yes.]

Seo-jun asked again.

“You understood, right?”

Full of mischief.

Windstorm Sword had no choice but to answer.

“Yes……”

Whatever happens, happens.

“So he says. My lecture isn’t a scam, everyone.”

-Then prove it

-But seriously, is that all there is to it?

-Tell us more

-Otherwise it’s a scam

“That’s all there is. What reason would I have to hide anything? And I said that’s enough. Now, take a look.”

Seo-jun adjusted the settings.

Then Seo-jun and Windstorm Sword’s relationship was set to hostile, and Windstorm Sword looked despairingly at the weak points drawn on Seo-jun’s body.

“Can’t we do this on a training dummy?”

Because somehow he had a feeling he knew what would happen next.

“No. Just fight me. It’s better to do it like actual combat.”

Like actual combat.

It was originally an intense word, but why did it sound so unsettling when he heard it face to face now?

Windstorm Sword looked at Seo-jun with displeasure.

Hmm.

Weren’t they still not close enough for him to hit him?

-As expected, he was planning to beat him up lol

-The streamer never changes

-Don’t know? Then I’ll beat you until you know

-Ah. So he’s going to educate him!

The viewers seemed to think the same thing.

Seeing this, Seo-jun shook his head disapprovingly.

“Everyone, I’m only going to defend. What are you thinking?”

-Huh?

-??

-You’re just going to take it?

-The best defense is offense lol, isn’t that right, hyung?

The viewers didn’t believe it, and Windstorm Sword also looked straight ahead with distrustful eyes, but Seo-jun was simply waiting for him to attack while holding his sword vertically in front of him with composure.

‘Sigh.’

Right, he must have some plan.

Surely he’s not planning to parry and toy with him.

He walked slowly toward Seo-jun, then suddenly increased his speed.

Swoosh!

Aiming for carelessness from the start.

But there was no way Seo-jun would be careless.

Clang!

Nevertheless, he was able to cut through Seo-jun’s defense and slash the horizontal weak point.

He definitely didn’t block properly on purpose.

He realized that he really did have some plan.

“Why didn’t you immediately follow up?”

“Well……”

-Because he doesn’t know lol

-He really doesn’t know after all

-Stop being stubborn by yourself

The viewers answered for him.

“Let’s try again. Think carefully about the middle.”

“I understand.”

Seo-jun’s defense was similarly easily broken, and right before the next weak point was generated with a popping sound.

Windstorm Sword squeezed his brain to the limit, trying to predict where the weak point would appear next.

His forehead felt like it was hardening like stone.

‘Middle difficulty. Middle difficulty. Middle difficulty.’

It was too late to predict and slash this time. No chance at all.

But at least he had to rack his brains somehow to get some feeling.

This anxiety stemmed from wanting to grasp even the slightest clue.

It wasn’t because of Seo-jun’s broadcast or public opinion.

He just wanted to know.

If this was his chance, if there was some method, he didn’t want to miss it.

But naturally, he couldn’t catch even the tail end of a clue, let alone predict.

But then.

‘Huh?’

At the position where his sword tip had naturally stopped after his mind had frozen and he had naturally paused after slashing the weak point.

A new weak point was generated.

‘What?’

A coincidence?

No way.

He made the next attack and Seo-jun blocked it.

But he could easily break through the defense and slash the weak point.

And.

‘Again?’

This time too, a new weak point was generated at the sword tip where he had naturally stopped.

The viewers also sensed the change.

-What’s that?

-Why is his sword positioned over the weak point? Did he get the feel?

-Just looking at Windstorm Sword’s expression, it seems like the streamer is doing something lol

-Anyone remember dull sword lol

Seo-jun spoke.

“There’s a funnel with a hole that only one marble can pass through. Do you know what happens when you try to push marbles in all at once?”

Suddenly, marbles?

“Probably they’d get stuck. If you’re lucky, they’d fall through.”

“Then can you force marbles through the funnel when they’re stuck?”

“Hmm, no. You’d have to shake it gently, or scoop them out and let them flow down little by little. So the marbles don’t block each other from falling into the hole.”

He pictured marbles balanced above the hole, blocking each other and not falling.

“That’s right. Enlightenment is the same way. The more you obsess, the more blocked you become, and if you let it flow, it opens up.”

“Enlightenment?”

“Relax.”

Seo-jun’s mischievous eyes suddenly changed.

It was such a brief moment that he wondered if he’d imagined it when they immediately returned to normal, but he felt an unknowable depth through his skin.

“I understand. I’ll go again.”

-Seeing him talk about enlightenment makes it seem like he’s seriously teaching

-He just can’t teach it any other way

-Well, how would a mere streamer know any formulas or whatever

-If Windstorm Sword really gets the feel for this, I’ll acknowledge it

-Will he really? Lol

He emptied his mind. He tried to. He moved according to where the opponent’s sword led.

The more they exchanged swords, the more he realized that what he had thought was Seo-jun lightly blocking was actually controlling everything from his attacks to every step he took.

But he didn’t try to escape from that control.

And he comfortably attacked the weak points that continued to appear.

Anyway, no matter how many times he got hit, his health stopped at 1 and he wouldn’t die.

He still couldn’t predict.

But gradually, the more he slashed weak points, the more his sword was placed where Seo-jun intended and his movements were controlled.

The more he saw those results.

He felt like what was blocked was being released.

All his previous experiences and the experiences he was building now combined with intention and were newly established in his mind.

He couldn’t explain it in words, but he felt like he understood something.

Then at some point.

Seo-jun stopped and spread his arms.

And his concentration, pushed to the limit, didn’t stop his sword even though Seo-jun’s help was gone. And for the first time, he moved before a weak point was generated.

First weak point.

He slashed a diagonal line with a gentle slope falling from left to right.

Second weak point.

He immediately pulled back his sword and thrust one span above the end of the diagonal.

Third weak point.

“Line.”

The words came out naturally. It wasn’t a conscious utterance.

After that.

Clang!

The moment a weak point was generated, Windstorm Sword’s concentration snapped as he slashed it with his sword.

-???

-Crazy

-What was that just now?

-?

-He predicted before the line appeared, right?

-Is this actually possible?

“Huh? Huh?”

Seo-jun, who had been quietly spreading his arms, smiled with satisfaction.

‘Lucky.’

He knew he could get the feel for it, but to enter a trance-like moment and understand.

‘If this didn’t work, I was just going to keep beating him until it did, but he seems to have quite high potential?’

What beating meant here probably didn’t need explanation.

“Congratulations. You’ve grasped the feel.”

“That thing just now… was it?”

“Yes.”

“If you told me to do it again, I definitely couldn’t.”

“Well, you’ve caught at least a thread. Congratulations. Don’t let it slip away.”

Windstorm Sword flinched at those words that seemed to read his mind, then looked at Seo-jun with moved eyes.

To think this was possible!

-What did the streamer do again!!!

-Proper lessons require one-on-one tutoring lol

-A professor strong in practice, not theory lmao

-Wow, I’d acknowledge this even if they rehearsed it

-Like some martial arts master leading him to enlightenment through realization? Is this possible? LOL

Now even the viewers had no choice but to acknowledge it.

Even if Seo-jun’s explanations were unconvincing, they understood it couldn’t be helped. But if no one could understand, wouldn’t it ultimately be meaningless?

There might have been some people who had lingering doubts about whether it was a scam.

But Seo-jun had directly shown this while teaching someone else.

-Streamer lol, if you start a Kael tutoring business now, you’ll make crazy money

-This is it

-This was his real plan!

Naturally, the Kael board went wild.

“Then now let’s really do it like actual combat. Windstorm Sword-nim.”

Seo-jun smiled wickedly while rolling his shoulders and neck. He stretched his body thoroughly as if he was about to move in earnest.

Now that it was almost over, Seo-jun was doing warm-up exercises.

“What are you going to do…?”

“After-service.”

That didn’t seem right.

“Wasn’t it over earlier?”

“It’s still lacking.”

But it seemed like something else was lacking.

Windstorm Sword’s face, which had been moved, changed to bewildered.

His intuition was probably right.

Seo-jun had a personality of always paying back what he received. Even if he had made himself do it.

* * *

“You’re calling this a B after seeing this?”

The LOS management team was in an unexpected meeting.

“Now he’s not only predicting weak points but even teaching others, and you still say B? Come on.”

The meeting topic was about the streamer who had once again done something unimaginable for ordinary people.

“Looking at him teaching Challenger shows the answer.”

The woman spoke harshly to the man sitting across from her in the conference room.

“It’s a current Master, not Challenger.”

And the man responded without batting an eye.

“That’s because he’s playing Kael. That Windstorm Sword expert is originally Challenger level.”

“Even so, Jin Seo-jun streamer doesn’t have a rank. No rank. And you want to put him in A group with Challengers and Grand Masters? That’s too unreasonable.”

“He was the best in For the Murim too. What guarantee is there that he won’t be the best in the league?”

“Those are different games, and what if they ban Kael? What other hero can he play?”

“He’ll play anything.”

“B is appropriate for Master to Diamond.”

“It’s A. No room for discussion.”

LOS rates participants based on their skill level.

The reason for rating isn’t to discriminate, but to prevent teams from picking more than two participants of the same grade in auctions, ensuring team members’ skill levels are evenly distributed.

In the past, they used to divide groups by position, but the current method settled in because it brought more confusion and fun to auctions.

Currently, they were in a meeting to determine the grades of streamers who had accepted recruitment.

This had to be done first before they could select and place applicants for the remaining spots.

But it got stuck from the start.