Chapter 41

• Published: 2 days ago •

The Assassin’s Dawn community.

ADCommunity.

This place attracted not only viewers who wanted to communicate with streamers in real time, but also those who wanted to share interesting things they’d seen with others.

[Horror, Bizarre) User who disappeared from mid-air in real time]

Just where on earth did this user go?

-(Raccoon photo) The streamer handled it, so don’t worry!

└ LMAOOOOOOOOO

-Nameless sent him ascending to immortality lol

└ Sending people to ascension at will, Nameless is truly the goat.

└ But what’s ascending to immortality?

└ It’s a new skill name

└ Bullshit

[Looking at the timing, isn’t the streaming god blessing this?]

Broadcasting genius Jin Seo-jun! Broadcasting genius Jin Seo-jun! Broadcasting genius Jin Seo-jun!

-Or maybe he worked it out with MovieSoft. The timing has to be that perfect lol

└ Streamer specialty) Loves dramatic direction

-That guy saw the game company penalty message instead of his life flashing before his eyes

└ LOL

[But if you want to farm noobs, can’t you just be good at games you’re trying for the first time like the streamer and farm them legally?]

Why be a coward like Baekho and get banned for staying in the beginner zone? Really don’t get it.

-Would that even work?

-You don’t know how to be as good as the streamer, right? Right? Huh?

└ Ah, the poster was saying this lol almost got mad for a second

└ For real lol I thought they were asking why we don’t do what the streamer does. What idiot doesn’t know we don’t do it. It’s because we can’t.

[Just confirmed Baekho’s account was deleted LOL Someone else took the nickname]

I don’t play For the Murim, but I’m jealous!

-There was already someone who grabbed the Baekho nickname? The reaction speed truly fits “that streamer’s viewers”

└ For real lol

-Is that Baekho guy famous?

└ Yeah, pretty famous

└ But why the hell are you asking here? And everyone tone down the Nameless talk. You said you play For the Murim, damn it

Eventually, with the continued posts about Seo-jun, people started asking why they kept talking about Seo-jun when he didn’t even play Assassin’s Dawn.

Wasn’t content about a smurfer getting banned in a game called For the Murim unrelated to the community’s topic?

The reactions to this were varied.

[??? Why are we talking about Seo-jun?]

FtMCommunity is scary. I like our cozy ADCommunity.

-Lmao agreed

-Honestly, someone like Nameless is all of our streamer

-But if we go to FtMCommunity, we’ll probably get chat-banned lol

└ This kind of post gets 30 upvotes and this kind of comment becomes top comment. This place is doomed.

[Wasn’t it our streamer who brought this person over while playing Assassin’s Dawn just a moment ago? Can’t we talk about that a bit?]

(Viola photo)

(Christina photo)

(Viola photo)

-Hard agree

-For real, without the streamer we would’ve met Viola-noona at least several months later

└ Viola is the number 1!

-There seems to be something evil mixed in there? Need to do an ideological inspection. Are you team Assassins or Order?

└ Demonic cult!

└ Had to agree with the Demonic cult knai Nameless’s nickname is Heavenly Demon.

└ Already joined the demonic cult after one day of For the Murim lmao

[Honestly, hasn’t Nameless been ADCommunity’s best output since announcing he’s the Level 10 AI?]

We should be begging the streamer not to abandon us, agreed?

-For real lol

-It’s all good but why is the streamer our output?

└ I don’t really know either but just roll with it (poster)

└ LOL

└ Historical revisionism on

-For real lol that Nameless bastard was the weakest among us

└ A worldview where Nameless is the weakest is pretty scary though??

└ Lmao fucking terrifying

People had various reasons for why they were allowed to mention Seo-jun.

And most of them had absolutely no logic.

However, except for a few, they quickly joined in and started having fun together.

Because Seo-jun’s recognition was very high, at least limited to the Assassin’s Dawn community.

If people talked about something only they didn’t know, they’d feel left out, but Seo-jun’s recognition was too high to become that unknown topic.

And gradually, Seo-jun started being mentioned in the For the Murim community too, and news of Seo-jun reached even the small chat rooms of For the Murim rankers.

[OnlyOneWon]: Guys, Season 14 Heavenly Demon appeared lol

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Oh lol another Heavenly Demon?

[OnlyOneWon]: Looking into it, this Heavenly Demon beat Shin Ha-yeon first. The fundamentals are different.

[ThirdElder]: Gah! There’s already Heavenly Demon everywhere. How can there be two or more of the heavenly Heavenly Demon!

[OnlyOneWon]: There’s no Heavenly Demon, are you doing a role play right now?

These were users who each ranked within the top 100 of For the Murim, and they were the most talkative users in this room.

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Oh? Is that Jin Seo-jun or something, that streamer? Did he come to play For the Murim? I should go watch

[OnlyOneWon]: Yeah but he turned on ads as soon as he arrived lol no joke

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Capitalist Heavenly Demon has the right fundamentals lol

[ThirdElder]: Gah!

[ThirdElder]: ~~@@ ..Young ones…can’t say anything they can’t!!@@

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Is saying pointless things a characteristic of people who chose demonic cult?

[OnlyOneWon]: Demonic cult’s performance is so trash, we have to understand even if they’re crazy lol

[BanditKing]: For real lol

[ThirdElder]: Anyway,,,, these days’ kids!!! ,,,Damn@@

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: The youngest one is the most childish lol

Since it was a chat room created for a small number of verified rankers to socialize, they’d never met in person, but they knew each other to some extent.

[OnlyOneWon]: Middle school can’t be helped lol It’s the age of storm and stress

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Working hard to use that awkward old-timer speak

[ThirdElder]: …

Pro player Lee Dong-soo, who was watching this, giggled and started talking about Seo-jun.

Pro players registered on Surface received sub-accounts besides their official main accounts, and Lee Dong-soo’s sub-account nickname for enjoying For the Murim was BanditKing.

His ranking was 183rd due to insufficient playtime, but it was still a sufficiently high rank.

[BanditKing]: Baekho got banned too lol

[OnlyOneWon]: Ah, I deliberately didn’t mention that.

[ThirdElder]: Wasn’t Baekho the one who used to beat Namgung-hyung in the old days? You must be feeling good now

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Shut up

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: But why did he get banned?

[BanditKing]: He got caught smurfing during Seo-jun-nim’s MovieSoft ad broadcast. But the funny thing is he got destroyed by Seo-jun-nim and then got penalized

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: For real?

[BanditKing]: Yeah

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: That Baekho bastard really fights well, limited to beginner settings.

[ThirdElder]: That’s because you got…destroyed…

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Elder, shut up. Want me to raid your middle school?

‘Lol’s came up in the chat room.

[BanditKing]: Anyway, it’s not Baekho anymore. Someone else took the ID

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: LOL

[OnlyOneWon]: LMAO

More laughter came up.

Lee Dong-soo laughed in real life as he started bringing Seo-jun’s previous videos to share in the chat room.

Even though he got beaten up every time they met at the gym, he was somehow proud that he knew Seo-jun.

[OnlyOneWon]: Wow. He really plays well? No wonder he beat Baekho

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Assassin’s Dawn looks fun. Should I play it too?

[OnlyOneWon]: Want to go together?

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: After the battlefield ends, let’s go.

[OnlyOneWon]: Ah, there was the battlefield.

For the Murim opened a game mode called battlefield for three weeks twice a year, quarterly.

The battlefield was a game mode where factions fought over the central plains, and every time people won battles, they earned contribution points for their faction.

And the 16 people with the highest contribution points received special rewards and were invited to a tournament hosted by the game company.

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: But about Seo-jun-nim, couldn’t he have gotten good results in this battlefield too if he’d come to our game a bit earlier and adapted?

[OnlyOneWon]: What would that matter? The battlefield starts tomorrow lol

The battlefield started tomorrow.

It would be difficult for a newbie who just started playing in the beginner zone to aim for high rankings.

Even if that streamer perfectly adapted to the game and faction in one day tomorrow, that one day gap would be significant in the battlefield.

So the other rankers felt regretful.

But BanditKing, Lee Dong-soo, thought differently from them.

“I think it might be possible though?”

The reason was simple.

Because Seo-jun played games better than him, a pro gamer!

Lee Dong-soo barely finished hunting the Tower Master yesterday and was doing hidden quests today.

He hadn’t been stuck on Assassin’s Dawn all day, but Seo-jun had succeeded in one try, hadn’t he?

“Of course, with his personality, he probably wouldn’t care about rewards or anything and would just do whatever he wanted to do.”

Anyway.

[BanditKing]: What’s certain is if he’d come just a bit earlier, Seo-jun-nim would’ve secured 1st place in individual rankings lol

[OnlyOneWon]: That’s a bit;; This bandit doesn’t know anything about battlefield since he’s never done it lol He has no sense for contribution points at all

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Since he beat Shin Ha-yeon, maybe 16th place would be possible?

[ThirdElder]: Even 16th place is uncertain? Just because you’re good at Training Hall doesn’t mean you’ll be good at For the Murim? There are many other factors

[OnlyOneWon]: That guy is being defensive because Seo-jun-nim uses the Heavenly Demon nickname lol

[ThirdElder]: A newbie who hasn’t even chosen a faction getting 16th place is ridiculous lol

[ThirdElder]: That’s nonsense

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Maybe, maybe not.

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: But there’s one thing that’s certain lol

[OnlyOneWon]: What?

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Demonic cult will be last place in this battlefield too.

[OnlyOneWon]: For real lol

[ThirdElder]: Hah,,. Just wait and see starting tomorrow! This battlefield is different!

[NamgungFamilyWaitress]: Reminds me of a certain baseball team in Busan lol

[OnlyOneWon]: That team that’s been saying “this year is different” for 30 years? LOL

* * *

Seo-jun emerged from the capsule after doing some light stretching.

It was his morning routine.

“Hmm. Today I’ll choose a faction and do whatever else.”

The last game the previous day could be considered to have ended anticlimactically, except for the incident with Baekho appearing.

He’d reached the level where he could choose a faction and turned off the stream, planning to look around with viewers today.

“Should I go with demonic cult?”

Considering his nickname, it wasn’t a bad choice, but actually he hadn’t given it much thought.

As long as the broadcast was entertaining, it didn’t matter what he did.

“Speaking of which, there were 6,000 viewers when I ended yesterday…”

An incredibly large number of people had watched.

The aftermath from Training Hall would probably continue today too.

It definitely seemed like a good choice to reveal his identity.

He’d gotten a feel for broadcasting to some extent.

In the later part of the stream, people did leave compared to the beginning, but that was unavoidable.

“There were a lot of foreigners, so it couldn’t be helped.”

And there were probably quite a few people who left after seeing the ending of Assassin’s Dawn.

Still.

“I threaded the needle well for the first step of a new game.”

Seo-jun thought this as he sat at his desk, turned on his computer, and opened his donation history.

Soon, looking at the past week’s report card, his mouth automatically dropped open.

“Oh.”

[This Month’s Total Donations]

[4.37 million won]

Adding the 700,000 won he received during the collaboration broadcast with Alpaca, his income for the past week exceeded 5 million won.

‘The basic salary for editors is 1.5 million per person.’

In one week, with donations alone, he’d exceeded this month’s break-even point.

‘This is crazy. At first I was thinking about operating at a loss…’

And on top of that.

There was also advertising revenue.

iTube was also doing well according to editor Han Ji-min, who said it seemed to have caught the algorithm already.

She said subscribers had exceeded 20,000.

‘I might really be able to buy a capsule without winning tournaments.’

That didn’t mean he was giving up on LOS.

Seo-jun went through the gradually progressing events step by step, organizing in his head how to proceed from now on.

And just then, Seo-jun’s phone rang.

[Han Ji-min]: Boss, I think you need to see this?