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“Now, now, returning to the game talk. Seo-jun-nim. How on earth did you do it?”
Alpaca turned his head toward Seo-jun with a serious expression.
“I absolutely must know. What and how Seo-jun-nim saw. Honestly, you viewers agree too, right?”
- Yep
- Isn't it a hack?
- It would be disappointing if it turned out there was a system where you could see it through some other trick.
- I told you he's an alien lol
Seo-jun shook his head and denied the contents of the chat window.
“Everyone, I am not an alien. Nor is it a hack. Honestly speaking, I do not see Gyeol.”
“Then what is it?”
Alpaca asked with a genuinely curious face.
Seo-jun wore an expression that was serious to the point of being slightly comical.
“I just know it. Because I'm a genius.”
And Alpaca, on the contrary, could not manage his expression and looked at him with dumbfounded eyes.
- lolololololololol
- F*cking obnoxious lolololol
- Honestly, if he was at that level, he was indeed a genius
- Alpaca's expression lolololol
Alpaca parted his lips, let out a dry laugh, and wore a playful smile.
“If one wasn't a genius, they would be too sorrowful to live. Don't be like that and tell me properly. Otherwise, I will think of it as a hack too, okay?”
The very first thing that disappeared after virtual reality was popularized was hacks.
The reason for that came precisely from the difference in technology.
Surface, the giant corporation that practically monopolized the virtual reality market.
They were a company that introduced and popularized virtual reality to the world with a super-gap technology that no one could match.
That difference was enough to make even other large corporations find it overwhelming to hack the capsule, which was the terminal, so that said it all.
Furthermore, if a problem occurred in virtual reality, one's life could be in danger.
Therefore, external programs were in a situation where they were strictly managed, especially by Surface.
Therefore, the word 'hack' that Alpaca spoke was completely absurd nonsense.
Seo-jun also knew Surface very well.
“But wouldn't making a hack be more amazing than seeing Gyeol? It seems like Surface would scout them.”
Seo-jun proudly squared his shoulders.
- Come to think of it, that was true
- Real, if they were at the level of making hacks, why would they broadcast? I heard Surface's greed for talent and their treatment were really immense.
- Wouldn't other companies aiming for virtual reality also try to scout them?
“Huh? That was true, though? Why didn't I know that?”
Alpaca, who was convinced in one go, unconsciously nodded and burst into laughter.
“Well, what I just said was a joke.”
“Which one? Surface? Or genius?”
“The 'just knowing' part. But that was half a joke and half the truth.”
“What does that mean?”
“Because there was really no explanation more suitable than 'just knowing'.”
Question marks and comments saying he was deceiving them shot up in the chat window.
Seo-jun waved his hand and said.
“Haha, everyone calm down. It's not like I know because I have some special ability. I just thought about where the creator would have put it if it were them.”
In fact, if it was special, it was special.
For it would be an intuition that only Seo-jun, who had accumulated experiences of past lives, could obtain.
But there was no need to explain even this.
‘In the first place, there wouldn't be anyone who would believe the story of past lives anyway.’
So he thought it was fine to reveal his past lives.
However,
‘I think adaptation would be necessary...’
At that moment, Alpaca shouted as if he had realized something, and Seo-jun broke out of his thoughts.
“Wow! Amazing. So, um... you read the creator's moves? Just by looking at two cases?”
Seo-jun nodded for him.
Alpaca had pointed it out accurately.
“Wow, you were truly an unbelievable genius! Of course, hearing it made it even more suspicious, though. Hmm.”
Alpaca sent a suspicious gaze while stroking his chin.
- Real lolololololol
- Were there no other people who could see that?
- If he could just know it, was he a real genius? Was that it?
- In the first place, how did he even know up to that? Wasn't it a scam?
“Exactly. It seemed like you were living in a completely different world. Then you would find other things easily too, right?”
“Yes. But...”
“Why?”
“Originally, parrying was a system that helped catch minor mobs easily, right?”
“Right. It was a system the creator had put in to let you go musou.”
“But this system called Gyeol was harder than parrying, and even if you actually succeeded, it only destroyed the weapon, meaning there was no effect like damage increase.”
- Oh, sharp
- But so what? Only you could use it and we couldn't lol
- Yeah, but parrying was hard for us too~
Alpaca clapped his hands.
“Oh? That was true. As expected! The man who pioneered Drake's new route. You also had a talent for the game.”
“Thank you for the compliment. Anyway, this Gyeol thing seemed to be some kind of boss-only system.”
“That could be. Certainly, the difficulty of the bosses was too high. Especially Drake... Ah. Right.”
Anxiety cast over Alpaca's face.
He pressed the bridge of his nose and let out a sigh.
- lololololol
- Worrying about Kyeon-wang
- PTSD was triggered even before Kyeon-wang started lolololol
Seo-jun patted the Alpaca on the shoulder and said.
“I thought this Gyeol was a system for boss battles. So I planned to challenge the remaining two with the ruler's equipment.”
- ????
- The underdog bettors suddenly crying out loud
- You shouldn't do that.
- Let's safely find something else first and then go catch the ruler.
“Uh-uh. It was obvious that this was a system for the ruler, I tell you? Just trust me.”
Seo-jun thumped his chest, and
['IPlacedABetTrustingYou' made a generous donation of 10,000 won!]
[No, I got it, so first destroy the weapons of those underlings over there and resolve the point prediction first before challenging lol]
- Honestly, if the odds were a hundredfold, your eyes would spin
- Fact) The majority who bet on 1% didn't bet trusting the Professor.
- Since it had come to this, was there hope for me who had bet on 'will find two' too???
Seo-jun's eyes gleamed as he looked at the chat window.
“Hmm. Everyone seemed to not trust me in words, so I had to go check the facts once. Alpaca-nim?”
Seo-jun is called Alpaca.
“Yes?”
“Should we open one more point prediction?”
Betting didn't lie.
Alpaca immediately caught what Seo-jun wanted and began to fiddle with the prediction system.
[Prediction]
[Seo-jun-nim could destroy the ruler's equipment within today's broadcast~]
[Yes]
vs
[No]
- Kya! He was trying to take care of us again.
- It was a good thing I didn't bet everything earlier
- I lost everything, but I bet even the 150 points I gathered while watching until just now haha
Alpaca and Seo-jun waited for people to bet their points.
And
As time passed, the result came out.
“Ah! The safe bet and the underdog bet had swapped. While you were talking in chat as if Seo-jun-nim wouldn't be able to find it, what was this result?”
Alpaca began to tease the viewers, making a fuss.
[Yes 80%]
[No 20%]
- Ah lol when points were on the line, people were honest.
- Even if you won that, you could only get a quarter. While someone got a hundredfold
- Wow, I was seriously so f*cking envious of the people who bet on 1% at the very beginning
- I was the person who bet that Seo-jun-nim wouldn't be able to find even a single one. This time I bet on 'Yes,' but if it failed, I would pay you a visit.
As expected.
“I knew it would be like this.”
Alpaca nodded next to him.
[Did you bet on 'No' to make up for the fact that only I lost?]
- You, seriously, should not even touch stocks
A heartfelt chat came up.
Seo-jun and Alpaca deeply sympathized and prayed that the viewer who made the donation would not do stocks.
Anyway,
‘This collaborative broadcast seemed to be successful.’
It seemed like his skills had been clearly imprinted on the viewers.
“Now, Seo-jun-nim. Then, should we go catch the ruler?”
<><><>
Richard Neville.
He was the leader of the Noble Faction and the ruler of the Northeastern End, meditating in heavy armor at the center of a wide gray training ground that was like a grand hall.
His alias was the Knight King.
He used a massive greatsword, and his body was also tall, reaching two meters.
If catching Drake required finding and killing Drake while avoiding the eyes of dozens of gang members, Richard Neville was the exact opposite.
For he was simply meditating quietly in the same spot.
The methods to catch him included obtaining a special weapon to snipe him, or finishing off his son, Louis Neville, and targeting the single moment when Richard's senses collapsed upon hearing the news to strike an opening.
Of course, both were difficult.
The former was due to the acquisition difficulty of the item.
The latter was because if one could not target that timing accurately, they would be immediately countered by the Knight King.
In that case, what if one chose musou?
Due to his seamless defense utilizing heavy armor, they were highly likely to be split in half by the greatsword without dealing even a single point of damage.
Of course, this was a story that did not apply to the one currently fighting in front of Alpaca.
‘Um, by any chance, was there anything you know about Richard Neville?’
‘No?’
Alpaca recalled the conversations they had shared while coming here until a moment ago.
‘I thought so. Well, when fighting Richard, you had to be careful of the greatsword. Even if the attack speed was slower than other weapons, there were combos, so watching it once...’
‘Ah, it was fine.’
‘Yes?’
‘I said it was fine. I would just watch and dodge. Well.’
Tsk.
Who was worrying about whom.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Richard's greatsword cleaved through the air from left to right, and again from right to left, creating a wind.
However, Seo-jun was leisurely searching for the Gyeol, placing his own sword against the swinging trajectory as if brushing paint onto the greatsword.
Looking at that relaxed appearance, it seemed like he would absolutely never be hit by the greatsword.
“Did you think I wouldn't be able to find it?”
Alpaca spoke in a loud voice at Seo-jun's successive failures.
This was because it was at a slightly far distance.
“Yes.”
“A viewer let me know that Richard's weapon was cast from a somewhat special material according to the lore. Perhaps it was not that you couldn't find it, but that it didn't exist.”
“Ah, was that so?”
Look at that. Just look.
Look at him lightly dodging the greatsword by twisting his body slightly.
Seo-jun was clearly looking at him while conversing.
Yet despite not having eyes on the back of his head, he simply twisted his body and ducked his head to dodge the attack coming from behind.
And then even had the leisure to check the chat window floating in the air.
- Oh yeah lolololol was the angle of failure sharply set?
- This is why you shouldn't be arrogant.
- Ah sh*t, looks like I'm going to lose everything. Mu-myeong-jwa, watch your step at night.
“Ah. What should we do? It seemed the ruler had no Gyeol.”
Seo-jun was laughing.
With a face that had no worries at all.
It was only the viewers whose insides were burning up.
Specifically, those who had bet on the extreme underdog bet at the very beginning.
- My hundredfold return, sob sob sob
- Let's go teach the underdog bettors a lesson!
- I didn't mind losing a second time, so please fail!
The rest were in a festive mood.
Because in the second point prediction match, significantly lower points were bet than the first.
Most of them simply thought that they didn't mind not getting that small amount, as long as others didn't win a hundredfold.
Because they were so jealous.
But
Seo-jun's sword began to move like a dance.
He drove his sword into Richard's wrist and traced along the Gyeol he had found.
Next to the upper body, and then to the lower body as the sword came down.
Slash!
Slash!
The heavy armor that Richard Neville boasted of began to split completely.
Only the weapon was special.
Seo-jun already knew it through the slight difference in texture from clashing several times.
“Oh my. I must have made a mistake. Only the sword had no Gyeol, and the other parts did.”
Richard's heavy armor was destroyed as if threads were unraveling.
[Unlock Condition: Destroy weapons 10 times through Gyeol (4/10)]
[Unlock Condition: Destroy weapons 10 times through Gyeol (5/10)]
[Unlock Condition: Destroy weapons 10 times through Gyeol (6/10)]
.
.
.
[The skill 'Weakness Detection' had been unlocked.]
What remained was a two-meter-tall middle-aged man holding a greatsword, wearing stockings and a garter belt.
- Yeah, I didn't believe it
- Ah! My eyes!
- Wow! A hundredfold hit!!!
- That actually hit, crazy lolol
- Congrats
<><><>
*Psssssh.*
Seo-jun came out of the capsule.
“Hyung-nim, you were indeed amazing.”
Alpaca's editor, Lee Su-han, welcomed him.
He told him it was burdensome, though.
“Thank you for lending me the capsule.”
“No. Rather, I am thankful that Hyung-nim used my capsule. My capsule must have learned a lot from this opportunity.”
What kind of b*llshit was this again.
And why were you there?
Seo-jun's head turned to the side.
This was because Tae-woo was next to Su-han.
“Did you not do your broadcast?”
“Yeah, I just declared a day off. I couldn't miss a collaborative broadcast.”
So that was it.
“Since you posted a notice that you were coming out here, they would probably look you up?”
Kim Tae-woo scratched his head, and Seo-jun, accepting it as such, walked out to the living room and turned on Alpaca's broadcast on his phone.
- Call him quickly. Call him quickly. Call him quickly. Call him quickly.
- His face better be handsome. His face better be handsome. His face better be handsome.
- Get Alpaca out of here! Get Alpaca out of here! Get Alpaca out of here! Get Alpaca out of here!
- Go set up the food quickly! Go set up the food quickly! Go set up the food quickly!
"[Oh my, everyone, please calm down first. Ah, shut up? Yes, sir.]"
The remaining broadcast schedule was a dinner gathering.
While setting the table, Alpaca asked Seo-jun to briefly introduce himself and buy some time.
"[Now! Then please come out...]"
When Seo-jun heard the sound calling him from the phone, he opened the door to Alpaca's room.
*Click.*
“Hello. Nice to meet you in reality for the first time. I am Travel streamer Jin Seo-jun.”