Chapter 15

Seo-jun closed his eyes, stepped forward to dominate the space, and slowly brought his sword down.

Among those watching, no one could discern what technique was contained in that single step.

Scritch.

The tip of Seo-jun’s sword touched the shield and began scraping across its surface.

It certainly wasn’t slow, but it seemed like a speed the AI could react to.

Yet somehow, the AI failed to respond properly.

Scritch scritch scritch.

The sword drew lines across the shield’s surface, then suddenly accelerated.

Slash!

Seo-jun opened his eyes as he withdrew the sword that had served its purpose.

And then.

Crack!

The shield shattered, sending fragments flying in all directions.

It had all happened in just 2 seconds.

“Whoa! Insane!”

Alpaca shouted.

-??????

-That actually works?

-Did he get it in one try?

-What the hell did I just see

“He found it! And with his eyes closed! What is this? Is he really an alien?”

Alpaca reflexively clapped his hands as he spoke.

His mouth was already stretched as wide as it could possibly go.

-What is this LOL

-No seriously, what can he see?

-This is what a genius looks like!

-Now he really seems like a master lol

-Stop acting. Didn’t you check this yesterday?

“What do you mean acting! Absolutely not. Even I thought Seo-jun was just showing off until a moment ago. But I was wrong. Wow. Did you guys see anything? I really can’t tell at all.”

-Lmao the favorite bettors are pissed

-Why’d you bet on favorites? Why’d you bet on favorites? Why’d you bet on favorites?

-Coming to your senses now? Coming to your senses now? Coming to your senses now?

The moment Seo-jun essentially destroyed the shield, the 55% who had bet on “won’t find any” were confirmed to lose all their points.

The chat window began descending into chaos.

-Give me back my life savings! Give me back my life savings! Give me back my life savings!

-This is fraud! This is fraud! This is fraud! This is fraud!

-Streamer! That’s my college tuition! Please just once……

-Our shared memories are being deleted!!!!!!!!!

From viewers who had lost their minds.

-Serves the favorite bettors right lol

-Favorite bettors = cowards

-Should’ve believed in Nameless!

Mixed with viewers mocking the favorites, it was a cauldron of chaos.

A common sight. Part of the fun of channel point predictions.

Before long, Seo-jun had approached Alpaca.

Alpaca saw the stunned guards visible beyond Seo-jun and understood the situation.

For communication purposes, Seo-jun had temporarily incapacitated them and come over.

But the moment Seo-jun arrived, he unleashed an area-of-effect taunt.

“Ahem. I mean, everyone, why did you bet on favorites? Wow, someone bet 250,000 points. The username is King Safe Assets? Not living up to your name, huh.”

For reference, the channel point prediction system reveals the username and amount of whoever bet the most in each betting option.

And 250,000 points was the maximum amount you could bet at once.

-LMAO

-Lost 250,000 points in one go lol

-How is the guy who got completely screwed named Safe Assets lol

“And this is strange. Why are so many people happy? This shouldn’t just be dangerous for the favorites, right?”

Seo-jun recited the betting statistics.

“Let me see. Only 1% of people bet that I’d find 4 or more, but are all of you chatting right now part of that 1%?”

This is what Seo-jun was asking.

Are you guys safe?

-Ah!

-That’s right?

-Lol honestly, seeing him succeed in one try, he obviously knows something, right? 99% are going to lose lol

-Fortunately, it seems like we’re all screwed together.

At Seo-jun’s comment, the favorites who had been going crazy regained their vitality.

It became a festival atmosphere since the people who had been mocking them would also be ruined.

Oh, those guys are screwed too? Even better!

That kind of mindset.

“That’s why I told you to trust me and bet on it.”

-You said that too late T_T

[‘Hope Circuit’ made a big 10,000 won donation!]

[Honestly, couldn’t it be a fluke? Maybe he’ll only find one more from now on.]

-Yeah, I’m already confirmed to lose anyway

-Does that look like a fluke to you lol

-He destroyed it with his eyes closed, if he opens them he’ll probably find a hundred of them, seriously

Seo-jun looked at the donation, laughed, picked up his sword, and headed back toward the guards.

“Haha. It could be a fluke. Sure. Of course.”

Alpaca let out a small gasp of admiration at the sequence.

He had teased the viewers while avoiding becoming unlikable and naturally progressed the show.

“Wow.”

He seemed to have talent not just for games but for broadcasting too.

Honestly, Alpaca had thought he would need to lead this collaboration.

But that wasn’t the case.

[30,000 viewers]

Many people had come to watch.

Seo-jun would probably make a definitive impression with this opportunity.

“You scoundrel! Not only did you dare invade the estate, but you destroyed my shield, a soldier of House Neville!”

The guard who had been stunned got up and pointed his sword at Seo-jun.

The guard who had been lying beside him also got up and stood next to him.

They seemed to want to help each other with coordinated attacks.

This was one of the characteristics of the soldiers encountered in the tutorial.

‘Come to think of it, when I killed Drake, the guys didn’t coordinate.’

Probably the difference between gang organization members who were a hot mess and elite soldiers.

The more Seo-jun played, the more he felt drawn to the game’s charm.

‘The attention to detail is amazing.’

He could feel the developers’ care in implementing systems like parrying and weak points so that players skilled at combat like Seo-jun could also enjoy it.

Moreover, the extraordinary assassination methods he’d seen in the community seemed to show what the ultimate level of freedom looked like.

The soldier who lost his shield positioned himself behind the soldier who still had a shield.

‘Using parrying would make this really easy.’

But what the viewers wanted was to destroy both the shield and the soldier’s sword together.

Honestly, he’d been lucky earlier.

He hadn’t been able to narrow down the shield’s weak point candidates to just one.

So he had chosen 1 out of 3 and drawn it first, and it had worked out to make a good picture.

The sword was the same.

In his mind.

Four curves were drawn across the guard’s longsword blade.

One of those curves, if he just followed it, could destroy the weapon.

Seo-jun’s intuition told him so.

Intuition is another sense people simply unaware of. It’s a signal sent by the unconscious as it processes information.

Therefore, the more experience accumulates, the higher the accuracy of intuition becomes.

For example, people often fall into a state of selflessness.

When studying, gaming, or playing instruments, in moments of extreme concentration where they forget even themselves, people transcend their usual limits.

And this state of selflessness is precisely the phenomenon that appears when the unconscious takes control of the body beyond conscious awareness.

Therefore, the unconscious isn’t something lacking, but rather something to be utilized.

Especially in chaotic combat situations.

‘Right now it’s just facing two soldiers.’

Seo-jun focused as much as possible on the tip of his sword.

And he stepped forward.

“Block and attack…!”

The moment the shield-bearing soldier who had gotten closer to Seo-jun shouted, exploiting a slight opening, he followed the shield’s weak point he had identified earlier.

A clean cut.

Crack!

The wooden shield split and was destroyed, with wooden fragments floating in the air.

This part was easy.

The soldier whose shield was destroyed panicked, and the soldier one step behind exploited Seo-jun’s opening to bring his sword down.

‘No.’

Seo-jun intended to target all four curves at once.

And the soldier’s sword now falling toward his forehead wasn’t at an easy angle to finish in one stroke.

So Seo-jun deflected the soldier’s sword.

No parrying judgment occurred.

This was intentional.

And as the rebound force sent Seo-jun’s sword flying back, the soldier whose shield had been destroyed thrust his sword at Seo-jun’s waist from the right.

‘Now.’

Seo-jun momentarily displayed tremendous concentration as he raised his sword and pressed his blade against the enemy’s sword blade as it thrust straight forward.

“Ssshh.”

Then he pressed his blade tight against the enemy’s sword blade and drew the curves like connecting constellations.

Since he couldn’t rely on luck again, this was a trick only Seo-jun could pull to destroy the sword in one strike.

First line. Not it.

Second line. Same.

Third line. Bad luck.

The soldier’s sword tip had almost reached Seo-jun.

However, Seo-jun, who had calculated even this timing, didn’t panic and continued moving.

Finally, just before touching his waist, Seo-jun’s sword barely traced the last curve.

Clang!

The soldier’s sword was destroyed.

He had found the weak point.

Clatter.

Fragments of the destroyed blade shattered like glass and fell to the grass below.

‘Last one, huh. Luck was a bit bad.’

Whooo.

Seo-jun exhaled deeply. No matter what, such delicate and inefficient movements required tremendous concentration.

-Holy shit

-?????

-Is this real???

-Ridiculous. How the hell did he do that???

Hooks rapidly rising.

-Again, cut in one try!

-It was like a scene from a movie lol

-This one looked really difficult though?

-So fucking cool, oppa I fell for you. (swooning)

Seo-jun swatted at the second soldier’s descending sword like catching a flying fly and succeeded at parrying.

Then he finished off both soldiers.

-His control skills are really insane lol

-Right now Alpaca’s expression = my expression

-No no, OUR expression

“Wow! Seo-jun! I fell for you too.”

Alpaca ran up to Seo-jun, who was catching his breath, and said.

“No, how exactly do you see and move like that?”

Alpaca was in a thoroughly excited state. It was because he’d seen such an amazing scene.

Tremendous difficulty and dramatic presentation.

‘You have to be this good to beat Shin Ha-yeon!’

Alpaca almost let his thoughts slip out and reveal the secret.

“That’s a trade secret, you know?”

Seo-jun gave a cheeky smile.

-I’m really curious though lol

-No, seeing weak points is one thing since he’s an alien, but I’m curious how he built up those skills

-Lol

Then he chuckled while looking at the chat window.

Why exactly could being an alien explain that?

-By the way, he’s been gaming for 3 days

-What does he do in real life exactly

-I’m really curious what his actual job is lol

“Real life is, um. An ordinary guy in his twenties…”

“No! Not ordinary.”

Alpaca cut off Seo-jun’s words from the side and objected.

“Huh? Why?”

“No, saying you’re ordinary with that face is deception.”

-?

-Is Seo-jun handsome?

-Probably just the usual thing streamers say to each other lol

-For real lol

-Can’t exactly call a fellow streamer ugly

“Everyone, the avatar Seo-jun is using right now, this is exactly his real face.”

-????

-??

-Yeah sure lol

-Ah, having those skills and being handsome is really OP;;;

-Isn’t there a balance patch?

-What are the Earth developers doing…

-Still, he probably touched it up a little……

“He didn’t touch up the avatar. I saw him in person.”

-Ah, I don’t believe it.

-I’ll just believe he touched it up

-Bullshit no

“We’re having an offline afterparty dinner at the studio with Seo-jun later, so why would I lie? Check it out then.”

-Oh?

-I guess it’s really true lol

-The afterparty should be fun

Seo-jun was impressed by the broadcasting skills that naturally dropped a reason to watch until the end.

Then a donation rang out.

[‘That Thing’ made a big 10,000 won donation!]

[It’ll be small! I saw it!]

“Tsk.”

When Alpaca clicked his tongue and put his hand over the chat window, another donation immediately came up.

[‘That Thing’ made a big 100,000 won donation!]

[Height! I meant his height.]

Alpaca looked back at Seo-jun, and when Seo-jun shrugged to indicate they should just let it slide, Alpaca nodded and said.

“I’ll let it slide just this once.”

-The manager just walked by with a knife lol

-Almost got banned

-Look at that quick reflexes paying bail money

-You should become a master too lol