Chapter 95

-Wow lol

-Going on the attack here? But it might actually work?

-For real going full charge? Lmao

-The Heavenly Demon doesn’t know retreat lol

The Orthodox faction’s forces, which could only focus on blocking the Unorthodox faction aside from immediate threats, had been heavily depleted and would continue to be depleted.

Still, if Seo-jun attacked, they’d have no choice but to pull forces to block him.

From the Orthodox faction’s perspective, they couldn’t bear to watch a blade reach their throat.

That’s why he had waited as long as possible.

‘I’m curious to see just how bold their decision will be.’

Seo-jun glanced at his viewer count.

Today he’d been streaming longer than yesterday, and with the incident that broke out, interest seemed quite high.

[Viewers: 16,000]

For the Murim had a decent number of streamers.

There just weren’t any professional streamers in the very top tier, but among rankers, you could often see streamers with several thousand viewers.

A viewer pool of 100,000 to 200,000.

‘Though when Navigator gets involved, the scale jumps to 300,000.’

Anyway, he’d gathered quite a lot of viewers here.

Before Seo-jun started For the Murim, his regular viewer count was 2,300.

‘Now that I think about it like this, it really has grown tremendously.’

The power of the battlefield had brought in countless new viewers.

So what kind of people were those new viewers?

-Hey guys, where’s Shanxi that the streamer wants to attack? It’s not marked on the map

-To the streamer’s right!

-Please look at the internet instead of just reality!

-Lol

Like that.

‘Not everyone’s like that, though.’

Anyway, there were many heavy users.

He could prove it if he wanted to. Just turn off the stream right now.

If No-Honor suddenly got flooded with about 30 pages of complaints about him ending his stream abruptly, could there be clearer proof than that?

Of course, he was just roughly guessing based on reactions that there would be many, without knowing any specific numbers.

So he threw the dice once.

“You’ve all been waiting, haven’t you? Now I’ll start the game. Let’s do this together.”

Originally in battlefields, streamers and viewers often went together.

He was curious how it would work in his case, and how many people the Orthodox faction would think he had.

-Ah lol I really was waiting for this!

-I secretly had a feeling it would be like this lol

-This is gonna be epic lmao

-Don’t come here, you bastards…

-Mods! Kick out the Orthodox faction guys!

* * *

Nameless and This Isn’t Murim were among the Unorthodox faction members who had finished their games first and were waiting for the end.

“What do you think will happen?”

“I don’t know. What about you?”

“I don’t know either… The Demonic Cult betraying us tomorrow wouldn’t be strange.”

They had judged from the Demonic Cult’s actions that they could trust their words for today at least.

‘Tomorrow is a different story.’

The result of that was them fighting in these two regions on the battlefield right now.

“Do you think the Demonic Cult’s real objective is what they told us?”

Nameless turned his head to look at This Isn’t Murim.

This Isn’t Murim.

A user who was one of the Unorthodox faction’s most disliked duo alongside Tangso, with excellent skills combined with extreme role-playing.

Now that Tangso was gone, was he the sole leader?

That’s pretty impressive.

“I don’t know.”

“Right. It was wrong of me to ask you, hyungnim.”

“However, there is one thing I know for certain.”

“What?”

“The Heavenly Demon was a man who knew both martial arts and honor.”

“Ah. Yes…”

Nameless didn’t get particularly angry.

How many times had this happened now?

Just with the experience points from dealing with these types of people, MovieSoft should create and gift him a title like “Ascension to Enlightenment.”

“Hmm. They’re really not doing anything.”

He hadn’t completely ruled out the possibility that they had lured them in to recover what the Unorthodox faction had taken too much of.

Just a few minutes ago, the Demonic Cult had been in a position where they could really betray them if they wanted to.

Of course, with the suspicious character Seo-jun attacking the Orthodox faction again, it was almost certain that wasn’t the case.

“Anyway, it looks like they definitely took Gansu.”

Gansu was surrounded by the Demonic Cult, just as Shaanxi was surrounded by the Orthodox faction.

“They’re not attacking us, and Seo-jun-nim is attacking Shanxi right now.”

Did he really hold a grudge against the Orthodox faction?

“It’s good that things are flowing in our favor.”

Even though they had already captured many regions, they weren’t being checked but rather pushed forward.

The goal of each faction in For the Murim was unconditionally first place. Nothing else mattered.

It was a game criticized for having no honor, but when you thought about it carefully, it was surprisingly full of romance.

That didn’t mean they wouldn’t betray each other.

It meant everyone tried their hardest for their faction’s goal of first place.

That’s why the Demonic Cult’s current movements were all the more suspicious.

“…”

It wasn’t that he had no guesses.

ThirdElder had spoken as if begging them to figure it out.

“Sigh. It wouldn’t be bad if things just fizzled out tomorrow like this.”

They seemed to have taken both Orthodox faction regions.

Seo-jun had led his viewers to attack right in front of the stronghold, and to block this, the Orthodox faction had pulled out many forces.

More than 15 people, somehow managing to extract and deploy them.

“Right, that would be their priority.”

From the Orthodox faction’s perspective, they were trying to buy time for a day somehow.

That streamer was probably telling them not to think about anything else and focus on catching the Orthodox faction.

‘Sounds good.’

If they really did capture Shanxi, he wouldn’t mind following that opinion.

Maybe that would be more profitable.

Just make it beneficial for them.

He had said it before.

“We won’t be able to win.”

Nameless muttered this while turning his head to the side again.

He still had something he was curious about.

“Hyungnim. But why couldn’t you cancel the matching earlier?”

“Shut up.”

* * *

Past 10 o’clock, the battlefield closed.

People were initially flustered by the completely unexpected developments, but gradually began to enjoy them.

Except for the Orthodox faction.

[Total disaster]

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Is the Orthodox faction about to become the second faction eliminated from the battlefield after the Demonic Cult if their stronghold gets taken?

LOL

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This post, packed with nothing but ‘lol’s like a bowl heaped with rice, received about 600 upvotes and was well-received.

Over 100 downvotes from the Orthodox faction were a bonus.

[Why the Orthodox faction will be in real danger tomorrow!]

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If the suicide squad trapped in Shaanxi succeeds in their attack, they absolutely have to block it no matter what lol

But then the Unorthodox faction comes at them again?

Can they defend against two factions?

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-Nope, won’t break through

└Are you serious? Lol

└Are you?

-No need to worry lol

└That’s why you gave up 2 regions to the Unorthodox faction?

└It’s fine to give up those. Just block the Demonic Cult that’s charging at us like they have a death grudge against the Orthodox faction.

[Please, let’s pull it together! Being eliminated from the battlefield is too humiliating]

-The Demonic Cult and Unorthodox faction bastards will milk this forever

└I like beef bone soup but I’m screwed lol

└They’ll keep talking about it until the server shuts down lmao. Because I’m gonna do it lol

└Are you Demonic Cult?

└Yeah, why?

└You guys also got eliminated once before, so why are you being so cocky?

└Sorry, but the Demonic Cult before the Heavenly Demon came wasn’t the real Demonic Cult lol

“Should I go to the Demonic Cult too?”

OnlyOneWon muttered, then startled and spoke again.

“No. I still love the beggars.”

OnlyOneWon.

He was a user who loved beggars to his bones.

“No, not beggars. Beggar’s Sect.”

OnlyOneWon, who had joined Beggar’s Sect because he thought the concept of dealing with information was cool but had been called a beggar so much by others that he momentarily had an identity crisis, shook his head vigorously.

“Why have you been talking nonsense to yourself?”

Waitress approached and asked.

His friend seemed to have lost his mind.

Had he gone crazy?

“This is what nonsense sounds like.”

OnlyOneWon shared a link.

[Why did the Orthodox faction bet their lives on Shanxi? Are you afraid of the Demonic Cult’s growth?]

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No, it’s just the Heavenly Demon and a few rankers plus some users from Shaanxi who can attack Shanxi, yet they’re deploying 23 rankers? That makes no sense.

Go block the Unorthodox faction instead.

Are you that afraid of the Demonic Cult’s growth?

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-The Orthodox faction is suppressing the streamer lol

└That damn streamer is only a streamer on Travel, here he’s just a regular user, you Demonic Cult bastards.

└No, why are the Orthodox faction guys so pissed off today???? Just watch the game as a game lol

└For real, games should be viewed as games, why are you getting angry lol

└Ugh!

Waitress clicked the link, read the post while giggling, then suddenly stopped laughing.

And with a serious expression like a news anchor, he said,

“Are you afraid of the Demonic Cult’s growth?”

“…You also agreed that Shanxi had to be blocked with overinvestment.”

“That’s right.”

It was a situation where they couldn’t get a feel for how many viewers following the streamer there would be.

Due to OnlyOneWon’s strong insistence that the number would be large, they had somehow pulled out even rankers who were fighting the Unorthodox faction to match games there.

“So we blocked it well. You called the operation ‘Stop the Heavenly Demon.'”

Stop the Heavenly Demon.

It was funny how stopping him had decided the game’s direction in such an unexpected way.

Intuition.

He really was good at his job, wasn’t he?

“Still, I don’t know.”

The situation kept changing, and there were ways to make the Unorthodox faction not need to join hands with the Demonic Cult.

“I’m heading out. There’s nothing more to gain from worrying about it here.”

Waitress left virtual reality.

“That’s right.”

OnlyOneWon agreed.

So after going outside, he used his phone to browse the community.

It was an addiction.

* * *

[I was happy to fight alongside the Heavenly Demon today]

[If I can contribute even like this…]

[Today’s Orthodox faction meltdown moments.jpg]

[It’s really amazing that there are actually people who follow streamers]

[But does anyone really believe ThirdElder’s donation? That’s all just to promote one streamer.]

There was one title that strongly caught his attention.

OnlyOneWon couldn’t resist.

[But does anyone really believe ThirdElder’s donation? That’s all just to promote one streamer.]

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No, MovieSoft also made all those titles like Grand Master to promote that streamer.

The Demonic Cult guys are also pushing to promote one streamer right now.

Navigator doing joint streams and rankers losing was also to promote streamer Seo-jun.

What the Orthodox faction suffered?

The Orthodox faction also got beaten up to promote the streamer. Don’t you really get it?

The Unorthodox faction cooperating with the Demonic Cult?

Same thing.

Yeah.

The streamer is a god and the Demonic Cult is invincible.

==

-LMAOO

-Last line LOL I CAN’T

-Taking the suppression controversy and flipping it like this lmao

-The whole world is just viewers LOL

It was a sarcastic post.

“Haha.”

Normally he would have laughed it off without much thought, but now that a crisis had actually hit, he couldn’t laugh freely.

OnlyOneWon ended up hesitating a bit, then entered with an alt account to write a post, whether to reverse the mood or steel his resolve.

[Still, the Orthodox faction seems like they’ll show something!]

Just get through today.

By the time today’s battlefield ended, they had figured out the enemy’s objectives and what kind of picture they were drawing.

He scoffed.

“Fighting two factions? What nonsense.”

Of course, if a blade really came to their throat tomorrow, their options would be extremely limited.

But if they succeeded in defending just today, they could somehow find a way to get through.

“Please!”

However, contrary to OnlyOneWon’s hopes.

The next day, for the first time in battlefield history, the Orthodox faction’s gates opened.

[EMERGENCY!]

[We’re. Screwed.]

[This is the power of regular users!!!]

[The leadership of the most incompetent Orthodox faction in history that failed to defend all 3 regions, please raise your hands.]

-Why?

└Those guys need to get beaten up (OP)

└LOL