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Yves Faimaux was behind Movie Soft's decision to develop this work, on which the company's fate rested, in Korea rather than at the headquarters that used to make the previous series.
He was a famous game developer scouted from the outside by the company, which had been walking the path of decline after failing to adapt to the transition into the capsule era.
Having taken the position of the company's CCO and the president of the Korean branch, he made the bold decision to come directly to Korea—which had previously only undergone localization—to develop, based on the fact that Korea's capsule penetration rate was the highest in the world and its consumers were sensitive to trends.
Although there was a lot of talk from the start, as he proceeded with the work, he felt confident in the success of this series and was even preparing for the next sequel to expand afterward.
And as the success of Shadows in the City was confirmed on the first day of release, the next sequel project was started swiftly.
Literally, a smooth road lay ahead, but.
There was one problem.
Namely, the picture he was painting was in danger of being disrupted from the start.
By a certain streamer, that was.
Kim Yun-chan, who was summoned to the president's office from early morning, cautiously opened his mouth.
“See, I told you I had a bad feeling about this...”
“Quiet. Explain quickly. Why was Weakness Detection already unlocked!”
Yves Faimaux...
“Hahaha. I know, right. Even I didn't know I would be read.”
Kim Yun-chan put on a bright smile, and Yves Faimaux felt curiosity rise.
“What do you mean you were read?”
“Boss. We set the period for users to unlock Weakness Detection to at least one month, didn't we?”
“Honestly, it wouldn't be strange if it took half a year instead of a month. How was it an easy thing for someone to accidentally touch the lines of weakness, destroy a weapon, have that recorded, and then shared with people?”
“That's right. Even if someone took the lead to find the lines of weakness, it would seriously, at least, take a minimum of a month.”
“There was also the point that our game had too many other things to do to spend time on Weakness Detection.”
Yves Faimaux had pride in the assassination system of Shadows in the City that he made.
“That's also true. With so many other things to do, who would needlessly look for the lines of weakness to destroy weapons? Especially when they had to rely on luck.”
It was content that only hard-core veteran users, who would get thorns in their mouths if they finished all the achievements and left something untried in this game, would target.
And indeed, Musou and the lines of weakness were designed for them.
“Right. But why was Weakness Detection unlocked only a week after release?”
The unlocking of Weakness Detection itself was not the problem.
The problem was the fact that by obtaining Weakness Detection, one became able to pierce the heavy armor of Richard Neville, one of the Rulers, and defeat him with Musou play.
The reason lay in the Fragment of Order given when defeating a Ruler with Musou play.
They had hidden easter eggs about the next sequel here and there, and the Fragment of Order was one of them.
A short quest associated with the next sequel that could be proceeded with once all the fragments were collected.
And the release of an attention-grabbing teaser video to be launched right when eyes were drawn to it.
It was the natural and effective promotion method for the next sequel that he was painting.
The problem was that the possibility of collecting all the Fragments of Order opened up while the teaser video was not yet ready.
“Well, as for the reason it was unlocked, as I just said, it was because it was read.”
Yves Faimaux struggled to suppress the urge to give that calm and bright Kim Yun-chan a good smack.
“Don't beat around the bush and explain it properly.”
“Yes, sir.”
Kim Yun-chan sent a clip to Yves Faimaux.
It was a video that came out during the collaborative broadcast with Alpaca.
“Hmm? Clean.”
“Right? This was a reenactment by that streamer named Seo-jun of what someone else discovered.”
“I see. He was quite skilled?”
“And the next video was that streamer finding the lines of weakness and breaking them.”
“What?”
Yves Faimaux asked back, assuming he had misheard.
“Found the lines of weakness? That streamer?”
“Yes.”
After watching the second video of breaking the shield and sword, Yves Faimaux looked at Kim Yun-chan with wide eyes.
“No, how... did this make sense? Wasn't it just that a bug occurred only for him, so he simply had the Weakness Detection skill?”
It was a video so absurd that Yves Faimaux, who used to guarantee that there were no bugs in his game, even brought up a bug.
“No. We checked that long ago.”
“Then...”
“As someone who had watched the entire collaborative broadcast video and became a fan of streamer Seo-jun-nim, if I were to explain, I thought he read the regularity. I wondered if it made sense to read the sword path created while the AI and teammates were ground to dust based on seeing only two examples at most, but since he said so himself, what could we do?”
I didn't ask about you becoming his fan.
“Then what did we do?”
“About what?”
“How much time did we set to make our next sequel's teaser video?”
“It was one month.”
“What if we worked overtime starting today and did it as quickly as possible?”
“One... week?”
“Then, what was the probability that that streamer would collect all the Fragments of Order within that time?”
“It was a relief that I could say this with certainty, it was 100%.”
It was not a relief, you bastard.
“Well, it wasn't like we absolutely had to release the teaser video right away, either.”
“Then the picture wouldn't look right, the picture!”
Yves Faimaux habitually pressed his temples, searching for a solution to the matter.
Although they said not everything in the world goes according to plan, this was truly unexpected.
It could be minor if considered minor, but he did not want the next sequel project to go awry from the start.
“Oh? He just started broadcasting. Did you want to watch together?”
For a moment, Yves Faimaux suppressed almost throwing the document folder on his desk and spoke politely.
“Get out! And I told you not to watch broadcasts during working hours!”
“Yes, sir!”
“Sigh...”
He should not have made the Fragment of Order in the first place.
If only someone hadn't said that it would be good to allocate at least one easter egg to Musou-related content, even if for the sake of Musou users.
Come to think of it, the person who made that remark was also Kim Yun-chan?
With a frustrated heart, Yves Faimaux kept rewatching Seo-jun's videos.
How on earth did he do it?
And he contacted Kim Yun-chan through the company messenger to receive another video.
Namely, the video that neutralized Richard Neville's heavy armor in one go.
‘He caught a Ruler in a state without Weakness Detection?’
This was somewhat... cool.
It was a feast for the eyes, so to speak.
Even after that, a lot of videos related to Seo-jun were uploaded.
Particularly when searching for Drake's location, Yves Faimaux could not erase a pleased smile from his face.
This was because the route Seo-jun found was precisely one of Yves Faimaux's ideas.
‘It ended up being revealed like this.’
He felt a sense of reward.
Enjoying the game into which they poured their souls in his own way.
And the user having been surprised, saying, ‘This worked too?’
It was entirely the sight he had hoped for while creating the open world.
Yves Faimaux watched it a few times in admiration, and then stealthily pressed follow.
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“Hello, everyone.”
Seo-jun greeted while waving his hand lightly.
- Seo-hi
- Seo-hi
- Why was the broadcast title like this?
- Seo-hi!
[Viewers: 1,700]
The rapidly rising chat window.
The fire power close to 2,000 was definitely on a different level.
He had heard that originally, his room had a relatively high amount of chats compared to the number of viewers.
As the number of viewers increased, the speed at which the chat came up became much faster, incomparably so compared to before.
Therefore.
“Now, Joseon Assassin-nim, Big Yellowtail-nim, and Patient on a White Horse-nim, you had all entered, right?”
At those words of Seo-jun, chats with a sword mark displayed next to the nicknames came up.
- Yes!
- Yes, sir. I would do my best.
- Just leave it to me. I, Jo-Am, the owner of those 25 million points, would manage it thoroughly.
- Only toxic nicknames gathered here
- How were the managers' names Big Yellowtail, Patient, and Assassin hahaha
They were people who had watched Seo-jun's broadcast since the first day.
Looking at the past chat logs, because they had not caused any problems contrary to their nicknames and had enjoyed watching his broadcast without exception, Seo-jun asked them to be chat managers, and they willingly said they would do so.
For reference, Brick Extortion King had not answered yet.
“Those people decided to cut out chats that violate the chat rules as managers in the future. Thank you.”
In the meantime, Joseon Assassin used points to add special effects to his chat.
Was this the dignity of the rich.
“And since chat rules had been established in my room, please read through them briefly.”
- Wow, I was jealous of the managers.
- Let me get an armband too.
- I wanted to wear a sword too.
- !rules
- !rules
- !rules
Chats to check the rules came up.
1. Please only talk about things related to the broadcast.
2. If you see an annoying chat, do not fight in the chat window; please send a whisper to the managers.
3. You knew what you shouldn't do, right?
In Travel, chat rules had no standardized criteria and differed for each streamer.
Some people wrote them down strictly, while others only wrote, ‘Just don't speak casually.’
To the extent that some even wrote down greetings and well wishes to have fun before leaving.
And the chat rules that Seo-jun made were concise.
This was because Seo-jun preferred a free communication atmosphere.
- Summary) Do it wisely and properly
- Confirmed
- What was it that we shouldn't do?
“What shouldn't you do? You knew roughly. Still, unless it was quite severe, you wouldn't even get a warning.”
He had already finished the conversation with the managers.
- So true lol
- If you wrote that in detail, people always avoided the rules to troll, and when they got banned, they got angry asking why they had been banned when they had kept the rules
['OO' donated 10,000 won!]
[Were you not hiring an assistant for broadcast setups?]
If they had just chatted, he would have skipped it, but since they donated, he had no choice but to react.
“...Thank you. I was not hiring anyone like that.”
Although it would have been nice to have someone help with the broadcast setup, the intention of deliberately putting 'setup' in the sentence was suspicious.
- hahaha
- He grit his teeth hahaha
- Thnk yoo.
- The world's first tech-illiterate streamer. But his skills were insane.
- So what was the stream title?
- You were doing Assassin's Dawn today too, right?
- Please do normal assassinations too.
- Let's go Musou!
- Show us more Weakness Detection. I also wanted to get the skill.
Because they had not started properly yet, the chat content was all over the place.
Seo-jun slowly built up for the progression.
“Ah, the stream title? As for that. There were quite a few people who had suspicions about the part where I found the lines of weakness. So, because it seemed like it was also my fault for not explaining it properly, first of all, I was sorry.”
- He didn't look sorry at all.
- Jeez. At least bow your head hahaha
“But I was not a hacker. Nor was I a game development associate.”
- Why were they even talking about hacks.
- Actually, he used a god-tier skill hack (cackle cackle)
- But was there anyone who seriously believed the nonsense that a university student was a developer for Movie Soft?
- So how did you really find the lines of weakness? I was curious
Seo-jun nodded as if empathizing while looking at the chat.
“To get straight to the point, the rule of the lines of weakness that I grasped was that they connected the parts that wore out the most when using that equipment in various trajectories to make them easy to split.”
Although it was far from real-life weaknesses, he thought this was the rule the creator had in mind, and this hit the mark.
- ??? Even if I heard it, I didn't understand?
- Were you some kind of blacksmith? To know such things?
- Just how smart was he *shivers*
“Well, I tried to prove this properly today, but since I had already obtained Weakness Detection, and whatever I did, if they just said it was because I hacked the capsule, that was that, right?”
['TravelHistorian' donated 10,000 won!]
[Hacking controversy was a long-standing tradition of our broadcast.]
- So true lol
- He was suspected because his skills were just so good
- Long-standing tradition (4th day of broadcasting)
He expressed his gratitude for the donation.
“So, I reported it.”
Seo-jun's expression suddenly turned serious.
- ?????
- What?
- What kind of report did you make all of a sudden.
“Myself.”
Seo-jun brought up the inquiry history window of Assassin's Dawn that he had prepared.
[Hack Report] [I thought I used a hack without even knowing it. Could you check it for me?]
- hahaha Was he a nutcase?
- So that's why it was 'I confessed' hahaha
- Ah lol The game company would prove it instead!
“Now then, since the explanation was finished, let's go straight into the game.”
Seo-jun returned to an innocent expression again as if he had never been serious and stretched.
- hahaha Was this the attitude of someone doing an apology broadcast?
- Seriously, he was a calm lunatic
- He was a streaming genius hahaha
“Now, today's broadcast... Let's see, a mission had come in? Thank you, Assassin's Dawn Creator-nim.”
Seo-jun accepted the mission while skillfully handling the broadcast settings.
Then, a window came up on the top left of the broadcast transmission screen.
[Clear without using Weakness Detection when facing the Magic Tower Master — Mission Reward: 1,000,000 won]
It was support money that could be received if the mission was successful.
- Wow, one million won *shivers*
- Ooh
- But was there anything to use Weakness Detection on for the Magic Tower Master? He didn't have equipment
- Wasn't it talking about magic?
- Then was magic also split? Seeing that he knew this, was he really the creator? By any chance?
It was an enormous amount from the very first mission.
He had planned to go to the Magic Tower anyway.
“I know, right. Was it really the creator?”
- No way it was real
- Why was the streamer so innocent hahaha