Chapter 41
The Dawn of the Assassins community.
Amben.
This was a place not only for interacting with streamers in real time, but also where viewers gathered to share entertaining things they had seen with others.
[Horror, Bizarre] Yooje disappears from midair in real time]
Just where exactly did this user go?
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-(Raccoon photo) The streamer handled it, so don't worry!
L Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk
-Mumyeong-nim sent him to ascension kkkkk
L Sending people to ascension whenever he wants, Mumyeong-nim really is the GOAT.
L But what's "ascension"?
L It's the name of a new skill.
[Looking at the timing, isn't the god of streaming protecting him?]
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Broadcasting genius Jin Seojun! Broadcasting genius Jin Seojun! Broadcasting genius Jin Seojun!
-Or maybe he colluded with MovieSoft. The timing can't be that perfect otherwise kkkkkkkkk
L Streamer trait) Loves dramatic production.
-He saw a game company ban notice instead of his life flashing before his eyes.
-Kkkkkkkk=
Kkkkk
[But if you want to smurf, couldn't you just be good at a new game like the streamer and legally smurf?]
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Why act cowardly like Baekho, stay in the beginner zone, then get banned? I seriously don't get it.
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-As if that's possible?
-You mean you don't know how to become good like the streamer, right? Right? Yeah?
L Ah, so that's what the poster meant kkkkk I almost got mad for a second.
L Fr kkk I thought they were asking why people don't just play like the streamer. Like, what idiot thinks people don't do it because they don't know? They just can't.
[I just checked, and it's true Baekho's account got deleted kkkkkkkkkk someone else already took the nickname.]
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I don't play For the Sake of Chivalry, but I'm jealous!
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-Someone already snatched the Baekho nickname? As expected of that streamer's viewers.
-Is Baekho famous or something?
L Yeah, kinda famous.
L But why the hell are you asking here? And everyone should chill a bit with the Mumyeong talk. Aren't we supposed to be For the Sake of Chivalry players?
Eventually, as posts related to Seojun kept appearing, people began asking why they kept talking about Seojun when he didn't even play Dawn of the Assassins.
Wasn't the story about a smurf getting suspended in For the Sake of Chivalry unrelated to the community's topic?
The reactions varied.
[??? Why are people asking why we're talking about Seojun?]
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The Chivalry board is scary. I like our comfy Amben better.
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-Kkkkkkkkkkk agreed.
-Honestly, at Mumyeong-nim's level, he's basically everyone's streamer.
-But if we went to the Chivalry board, we'd probably get instantly banned lol.
-Posts like this getting 30 upvotes and comments like these becoming top comments. This place is doomed.
[The one who brought Viola here while playing Dawn of the Assassins just moments ago was our streamer, so can't we at least talk about it a little?]
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-Seriously, if it weren't for the streamer, we wouldn't have met Viola noona until several chapters later at minimum.
-I admit Viola is top-tier!
-I think there's something evil mixed in there? We should do an ideological inspection. Are you Assassins or Death Cultists?
-It's the Demonic Cult!
L Demonic Cult is accurate kkk since Mumyeong's nickname is Heavenly Demon.
L He only played For the Sake of Chivalry for one day and already joined the Demonic Cult kkkkkkkkk
[Honestly, from the moment Mumyeong became a Stage 10 AI, isn't he Amben's greatest output?]
At this point, we should be begging the streamer not to abandon us, no?
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-All that aside, why is the streamer our output?
-I don't really know either, but just roll with it. (Original poster)
L Historical revisionism ON.
-Fr kkk Mumyeong was the weakest among us.
L A world where Mumyeong is the weakest is pretty terrifying though??
L Kkkkkkk that's nightmare fuel.
There were many reasons people gave for why it was okay to talk about Seojun.
And most of them had absolutely no logic behind them.
Still, aside from a few exceptions, everyone quickly joined in and started having fun together.
At least within the Dawn of the Assassins community, Seojun's recognition was extremely high.
When people talk about something only you don't know, you feel left out. But Seojun had become too famous to be something anyone didn't know about.
Gradually, Seojun began getting mentioned in the For the Sake of Chivalry community as well, and news about him even spread to small group chats of the game's rankers.
[JustOneCoin]: Guys, the Season 14 Heavenly Demon has appeared kkkkkkk
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: Lmao another Heavenly Demon?
[JustOneCoin]: I looked into it, and this Heavenly Demon at least beat Shin Hayeon. He's different from the start.
ThirdElder: Silence! The Heavenly Demon already exists. How dare you claim there can be more than one Heavenly Demon beneath the heavens!
[JustOneCoin]: There isn't even a Heavenly Demon. What kind of roleplay is this?
These users were all ranked within the top 100 in For the Sake of Chivalry and were the most active chatters in the room.
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: Oh? That streamer named Jin Seojun or whatever? Did he come to play For the Sake of Chivalry? I should go watch.
[JustOneCoin]: Yeah, but he ran ads the moment he arrived kkkkk what a legend.
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: A capitalist Heavenly Demon is peak authenticity kkkk
ThirdElder: ~~ @@ .. Kids these days ... there's nothing they won't say!! @@
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: Is talking nonsense a racial trait of people who choose the Demonic Cult?
[JustOneCoin]: The Demonic Cult's performance is such trash that you have to understand if they go crazy kkkkkkk
[BanditKing]: γ γ kkkk
ThirdElder: Honestly, ... kids these days!!! ... damn brats@@
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: You're literally the youngest one here kkkkk
Since this was a chatroom made by a small number of rankers who had verified their accounts to socialize, they had never met offline, but they still knew a fair bit about each other.
[JustOneCoin]: Can't help it, middle school syndrome and all that kkk the storm-and-stress years.
[NamgungFamilyErrandBoy]: Must be tough forcing that awkward boomer speech style.
Watching this, pro player Lee Dongsu chuckled and started talking about Seojun.
Professional players registered on Surface received secondary accounts in addition to their public main accounts, and the nickname of Lee Dongsu's alternate account for playing For the Sake of Chivalry was BanditKing.
Because he lacked playtime, his ranking was only 183rd, but that was still an impressively high placement.
BanditKing: Baekho got banned too kkk
JustOneCoin: Ah, I intentionally left that part out.
[ThirdElder]: Wasn't Baekho the guy who beat Namgung-hyung back then? You must be feeling pretty good right now.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: Damn right.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: But why'd he get banned?
BanditKing: He got caught smurfing during Seojun-nim's MovieSoft sponsored stream. What's even funnier is that he got wrecked by Seojun-nim before getting punished.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: That bastard Baekho really was good when it came to beginner-loadout fights though.
[ThirdElder]: That's because your honorable self... got wrecked...
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: Elder, shut up. Want me to raid your middle school?
The chatroom flooded with "kkkkk."
BanditKing: Anyway, it's not Baekho anymore. Some other guy took the ID.
Laughter filled the room again.
In real life, Lee Dongsu grinned as he started bringing Seojun's old videos into the chatroom.
Even though he got beaten up every time they met at the gym, for some reason he still felt proud to know Seojun personally.
JustOneCoin: Wow. He's seriously good. No wonder he beat Baekho.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: Dawn of the Assassins looks fun. Should I try it too?
JustOneCoin: Wanna queue together?
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: After the battlefield ends.
JustOneCoin: Ah right, the battlefield event was happening.
In For the Sake of Chivalry, a game mode called Battlefield opened twice a year for three weeks each quarter.
Battlefield was a mode where factions fought over the Central Plains, and every victory in battle granted contribution points to your faction.
The sixteen players with the highest contribution scores received special rewards and invitations to a tournament hosted by the game company.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: But seriously, if Seojun-nim had started our game just a little earlier, couldn't he have gotten a really high ranking in this battlefield too?
JustOneCoin: What's the point? Battlefield starts tomorrow kkk
Battlefield started tomorrow.
For a newbie who had only just left the beginner zone, aiming for a high ranking was unrealistic.
Even if that streamer perfectly adapted to the game and faction system in a single day, that one-day gap was massive in Battlefield.
That was why the other rankers felt disappointed.
But BanditKing, Lee Dongsu, thought differently from them.
"From what I can tell, I think he actually could do it."
The reason was simple.
Because Seojun was even better at games than him, a professional gamer!
Lee Dongsu had barely managed to defeat the Tower Master yesterday and was only starting the hidden quest today.
Seojun hadn't spent all day playing Dawn of the Assassins either, but hadn't he succeeded on his very first try?
"Though with that hyung's personality, he'd probably ignore the rewards and just do whatever he wants anyway."
In any case.
BanditKing: One thing's for sure. If he'd come just a little earlier, Seojun-nim would've definitely gotten Rank 1 in the individual standings kkk
JustOneCoin: That's a bit much ;; This bandit bastard's never done Battlefield before, so he clearly has no sense for how contribution points work kkk
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: Since he beat Shin Hayeon, I feel like Top 16 might actually be possible though?
[ThirdElder]: Who knows if he could even make 16th? Just because he's good at the sparring arena doesn't mean he'll be good at For the Sake of Chivalry. There are lots of other factors too.
JustOneCoin: This guy's getting defensive just because Seojun-nim uses the Heavenly Demon nickname kkkkk
[ThirdElder]: A newbie who hasn't even chosen a faction yet making Top 16? Kkkkk what nonsense.
[ThirdElder]: That's impossible.
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: But there's one thing we know for sure kkkkk
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: The Demonic Cult is getting last place again this battlefield.
[ThirdElder]: Ha... just wait until tomorrow! This battlefield will be different!
NamgungFamilyErrandBoy: Reminds me of a certain baseball team from Busan kkkkkkk
JustOneCoin: That team that's been saying "this year is different" for thirty years? Kkkkkkk
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Seojun stepped out of the capsule and lightly stretched his body.
It was his morning routine.
"Hm. Today I'll choose a faction... then what else should I do?"
Aside from Baekho showing up at the end, yesterday's final game had ended rather uneventfully.
He had reached the level required to choose a faction before ending the stream, and today he planned to explore things together with his viewers.
"Should I go with the Demonic Cult?"
Considering his nickname, it wasn't a bad choice, but honestly, he didn't care that much.
As long as the stream was entertaining, he was fine with anything.
"By the way, there were six thousand viewers by the end yesterday..."
An enormous number of people had watched.
Apparently the aftereffects of the sparring arena would continue today as well.
It really did seem like a good thing that he had clarified things properly.
He had gotten a much better grasp on streaming itself.
Toward the second half of the stream, the viewer count had dropped compared to the beginning, but that couldn't be helped.
"There were a lot of foreigners, after all."
And there were probably quite a few people who left after seeing the ending of Dawn of the Assassins.
Still.
"The first step into a new game went really well."
Thinking that, Seojun sat at his desk, turned on his computer, and opened the donation history.
The moment he saw the report card for the past week, his mouth naturally fell open.
"Oh."
[Total Donations This Month]
[4.37 million won]
Including the 700,000 won he earned from the collaboration stream with Alpaca, his total earnings over the past week exceeded 5 million won.
'The editors' base salaries are 1.5 million won each.'
That meant he had already surpassed this month's break-even point through donations alone in just one week.
'This is insane. At first, I thought we'd be running at a loss...'
And on top of thatβ
There was advertisement revenue too.
According to editor Han Jimin, his iTube channel already seemed to have caught the algorithm.
His subscriber count had surpassed twenty thousand.
'At this rate, I might really be able to buy a capsule without even entering tournaments.'
That didn't mean he planned to give up on Rios, of course.
As Seojun mentally organized how he should move forward while reviewing everything that had happened step by stepβ
His phone rang.
[Han Jimin]: Boss, I think you need to see this.