Chapter 70

29,179.

That was the contribution gap between 1st and 2nd place.

It was an unprecedented figure, and Navigator was momentarily speechless.

“Haha. I was taken aback for a moment. It was a bit beyond expectations. Wait, a bit? Hmm.”

Well, not exactly a bit.

Navigator laughed and changed the subject.

“Come to think of it, OnlyOneWon-nim’s prediction was essentially wrong as well.”

“Still, my situation is better than this guy who was going on about role play concepts and whatnot. Kheup.”

“Quiet.”

-LMAO

-What master of the world lol

-Embarrassed?

-Was pretty good at keeping him in check though lol

-So how did such a gap even happen

Navigator read the chat and stopped OnlyOneWon’s teasing.

“Now, now. OnlyOneWon-nim, stop the mockery. The viewers are curious about how such a score difference occurred, so let’s address that first. You probably have some idea, right?”

“Yes.”

Instead of explaining directly, they entered No-Honor.

They figured there would be organized posts about it.

Navigator displayed a post on screen.

“This person summarized it well.”

It was a post that had quickly organized the situation despite being uploaded recently.

[Current Situation Summary]

==

Seems like many people are curious, so I’ll write something quick.

The fame and contribution gained from consecutive wins is meaningless, but I’ll calculate it anyway.

If you get 4 consecutive wins on the first day, you start the second day with 250 fame and get 1,000 contribution if you win everything that day.

Then starting the third day, your total fame from consecutive wins is 500 and you accumulate 2,000 contribution that day.

You can calculate separately, so doing it this way, the total contribution you can get from consecutive wins is 36,000.

This is what all rankers who went on winning streaks got, so it’s meaningless.

And it’s not like there was a huge gap in each individual match either. The stream revealed that 2nd place got 500-600 per match.

So that means there was a moment where a massive gap opened up.

And early in the battlefield at that.

The only possibility is raids.

If let’s say 2nd place got 100 from raids and 1st place got 500 from raids.

Then even if they get the same fame from all other games from day 3 onward, the gap would keep widening by that much.

400 each, 4 matches per day.

1,600 times 7 days.

That’s 11,200, which doesn’t reach 29,000, so the difference must be over 400.

Based on the assumption that their other matches were similar, calculate it yourself.

==

It was hastily posted, so they couldn’t even write a proper conclusion.

Navigator returned the screen to the previous view and said,

“Just dividing the contribution difference by 28 matches gives us around 1,000 to 1,100 difference.”

Just then, a donation rang out.

[‘Yes’ donated 200,000 won!]

[Hyung, 1st place got 1,500 fame from raids. Current fame is 6,600.]

Navigator’s minimum donation amount was 200,000 won.

With so many people gathered, donations were coming in, which interfered with broadcast flow.

He’d raised that amount to prevent such situations.

Still, there were people kind enough to donate.

“Ah! Seo-jun-nim revealed his numbers. Since Heavenly Killing Star-nim said 500, that’s a 1,000 difference.”

With a 1,000 difference, even if Heavenly Killing Star and Seo-jun had earned the same fame from raids, Seo-jun would have taken 1st place.

For Heavenly Killing Star’s mental state, Navigator didn’t add that comment, but he was secretly amazed.

“Hmm, by the way.”

Are they already starting the interference?

Navigator refreshed and felt something strange about the overall tone of posts being uploaded.

Posts nitpicking began appearing one by one.

[Isn’t there a balance problem?]

[How did they calculate it to give 3 times as much?]

[Won’t everyone just dump everything into raids for gambling-like plays now? lol]

[This isn’t skill.]

These were naturally expected doubts.

The problem was that people writing similar posts were giving each other recommendations to boost them up.

Could it be a coincidence?

-Those posts are weird like that

-For real, getting that much difference from one raid seems a bit much

-It is excessive

The 70,000 viewers seemed to be agreeing as well.

In times like this, Navigator simply stated his thoughts.

“The posts here say a 3x difference is strange, but I think reducing 4 minutes 30 seconds to 1 minute 30 seconds is appropriately 3 times as difficult.”

Navigator continued his explanation.

“I think because it was cleared using such a unique method that only that particular trait made possible, this kind of talk is coming up, but finding that method is also part of the difficulty and skill. Even the players who belong to demonic cult knew about it but didn’t attempt that approach. The difficulty was high enough.”

OnlyOneWon nodded beside him.

“And since this is the first time we’ve seen a runaway situation, won’t it be more interesting to see how people try to compete for the master of the world position going forward?”

Many people agreed.

Anyway, even if such fame was problematic, it was ultimately the game company’s mistake.

Then, a donation rang out once more.

[‘Yes’ donated 200,000 won!]

[What do you think about this? (link)]

He followed the link.

A fresh post uploaded less than a minute ago.

He wondered how the person sending the donation saw this post and sent a donation in such a short moment, but he let it slide.

The recommendation count was already over 10.

[Streamer Background. Am I the only one who finds this suspicious??]

==

1. The game before For the Murim was Assassin’s Dawn from the same company.

2. Assassin’s Dawn has a system called weak points, and he found something ‘no one could find’ in one try during a collaboration. See video for details. (Still don’t know how he did it)

3. Not just weak points, but he was first to solve the Rulers Hack and Slash clue and MovieSoft officially linked to him in a preview video.

4. Then started For the Murim as his next game while receiving advertisements.

5. Got Grand Master that ‘no one could obtain.’ (Similar to Assassin’s Dawn Knots)

6. Finally, this contribution is also historically high. At least the contribution is somewhat understandable, but when coincidences pile up, what does that mean?

==

Looking at the recommenders, they looked familiar.

The same IDs who had been pressing each other’s posts earlier.

Navigator read the post content and thought.

People who watched the broadcasts directly wouldn’t think much of it, but what if they hadn’t?

“Hmm. It is suspicious.”

Heavenly Killing Star made a subtle expression and spoke.

-MovieSoft’s son lol

-Damn, that gave me chills

-It’s possible

-His skill is real though lol But following that logic, it is suspicious

-That being real would be even more unbelievable, right?

-So what do you think?

-Seems like clarification is needed

* * *

Seo-jun’s room had 12,000 viewers gathered.

They say the degree of interest is proven by viewer numbers?

These people wouldn’t just let such a big event pass by.

Of course, nothing changed just because more people came.

“How did I get 1st place? Hmm. I guess I was lucky.”

Even in front of 12,000 people, Seo-jun’s shameless reaction delighted his existing viewers.

-Lol. Do you think our streamer would know that, newcomers!

-Just lucky!

-Came to see 1st place

-The time mage who earned several days’ worth of contribution by himself

-Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun!

What’s with “become my cult leader” now?

Seo-jun stopped thief-streaming after too many people flooded in once rankings were revealed.

He’d been browsing the community since then.

“Stop watching? Well, it is about time to end.”

He’d revealed everything he was supposed to and had nothing more to do.

-Not the broadcast, stop browsing the community, streamer lol

-Sneakily eyeing the end-stream button

-Who said you could?

-Not a chance

While he was being scolded by viewers, a donation rang out.

[‘Yes’ donated 10,000 won!]

[Have you seen this? (link)]

Seo-jun followed the link and read the content together with his viewers.

It was a post claiming he had some sort of relationship with MovieSoft.

It didn’t name him specifically, but in the current situation, it was as easy as parrying to know who the post was about.

-They’re really connecting it like this?

-I’ve been watching since the early days and never noticed lol

-If everything up to now was acting, he should become an actor, right?

-So he’s saying a secondhand newbie is collaborating behind the scenes with a game company while doing all sorts of first achievements for streaming? Lmao

-Lol for real

-If this were true, there’d be no one left to trust in the world lol

The viewers laughed it off.

But others might not.

This kind of image becomes troublesome once it spreads.

No matter how much you explain, not everyone will hear or accept it.

The post had already received over 30 recommendations.

‘What should I do.’

Ignoring it would be fine, but he wasn’t sure what kind of impact this might have.

Even if it’s not the game company, people believe what they want to believe.

‘A good method…’

Just as Seo-jun was looking for another approach.

[‘Breaking News’ donated 10,000 won!]

[Heavenly Killing Star challenges you to public duel in front of 70,000 people!]

A donation bringing news came up.

Public duel in front of 70,000 people?

[‘Duel Invitation’ donated 10,000 won!]

[Travel clip video]

A video played in front of the puzzled Seo-jun.

[It is suspicious.]

Navigator’s studio. Heavenly Killing Star faces the camera.

While Navigator and OnlyOneWon remain quiet beside him, only Heavenly Killing Star opens his mouth.

[So I want to say prove it. Against me directly. One-on-one.]

One-on-one.

It was literally a duel challenge.

Was it because he had no experience with this in his previous life?

A pleasant smile crossed Seo-jun’s lips.

“Sounds fun.”

And the clip ended with Heavenly Killing Star’s brief added words.

[If he really did this with his own pure skill, he wouldn’t avoid a confrontation, right?]

People’s attention shifted from the conspiracy theory to the duel.

Now that post itself had no choice but to retreat to the background in front of the confrontation between 1st and 2nd place.

Had he intended this when he spoke?

-That really was a duel invitation lol

-How did this angle come up right after rankings were revealed lol

-Loser deletes character, let’s go!

-You wouldn’t run away, right?

-2nd place challenging 1st place for a duel, how can you refuse!

[‘Rigged Dice’ donated 600,000 won!]

[Go to Navigator’s room and respond to the duel invitation]

600,000 won.

Considering Navigator’s room minimum amount, it was generously given.

Since they donated believing he would respond, he had to meet those expectations.

“Thank you. Let’s go right away.”

But.

While the duel itself was definitely beneficial for Seo-jun, it felt somewhat lacking.

It seemed like there could be a better picture.

“Ah.”

* * *

-Host, why are you covering the screen?

-Let us see the donation content too

-Something feels fishy lol Looks like he’s about to cause trouble again

-So who’s going to win?

-Heavenly Killing Star is really good at one-on-one

-Still, our host is pro-level

-No, how long does it take to write a response

Despite the viewers’ complaints, Seo-jun took his time writing the donation content.

And finally, fanfare rang out in Navigator’s room and a donation message appeared.

[‘Heavenly Demon14’ donated 200,000 won!]

[Tomorrow from 7 to 10 o’clock, I’ll keep playing games non-stop without resting even for a moment. If anyone finds my ranking suspicious or thinks they’re better than me, just come at me. I’m confident I won’t lose even once. Hehe]