Chapter 70
CHAPTER 70
29,179.
That was the contribution gap between first and second place.
It was an unprecedented number, and Bangju was momentarily speechless.
“Hahaha. I was a little startled there. This was a bit outside my expectations. You’re asking if ‘a bit’ is really the right word? Hmm.”
It definitely wasn’t “a bit.”
Laughing awkwardly, Bangju changed the topic.
“Come to think of it, Hanppunman-nim’s prediction was technically wrong too.”
“Still better than this guy going around talking about ‘concepts’ and stuff. Khup.”
“Shut up.”
—What “World’s Greatest Under Heaven” lolllll
—Embarrassed now?
—Guess he had good reason to be wary lol
—But seriously, how did the gap become this huge?
Bangju read the chat and stopped Hanppunman.
“Alright, alright, Hanppunman-nim. Stop teasing him. The viewers are curious about how such a score difference happened, so let’s address that first. You probably have some guesses already, right?”
“Yes.”
Instead of explaining directly, they entered No-Hyeop.
They assumed someone had already summarized it.
Bangju brought up a post on the screen.
“This person organized it really well.”
Despite only being uploaded moments ago, it was already a clean summary of the situation.
[Current Situation Summary]
==
Seems like lots of people are curious, so I’ll write this roughly.
The Reputation Points and contribution gained from win streaks are meaningless here, but let’s calculate them anyway.
If you get a 4-win streak on the first day, you receive 250 Reputation Points at the start of Day 2, and if you win all your matches on Day 2, you gain 1,000 contribution.
Then at the start of Day 3, your total Reputation gained from streaks becomes 500, and your contribution for that day reaches 2,000.
If you keep calculating separately like this, the total contribution obtainable from win streaks is 36,000.
This is meaningless because every Ranker on a win streak earned it.
And they also didn’t create huge differences every match. Second place already revealed on stream that he was earning around 500~600.
So this means there must’ve been one moment where an absurd gap opened up.
And it had to be early in the battlefield.
That leaves only the raid.
If second place earned 100 points from the raid while first place earned 500—
Then even if they gained identical Reputation Points in every game afterward starting from Day 3, the difference would continue widening by that amount.
400 each match, four matches a day.
1600 multiplied by 7 days.
That becomes 11,200, which still doesn’t reach 29,000, meaning the actual difference must’ve been more than 400.
Assuming the two earned roughly the same in other matches, calculate the rest yourselves.
He hadn’t even managed to finish the post properly, likely because he uploaded it in a hurry.
At that moment, a donation alert sounded.
['o o' donated 200,000 won!]
[Hyung. First place apparently earned 1,500 Reputation Points from the raid. Current Reputation is 6,600.]
Bangju returned to the previous screen and said:
“If you just divide the contribution difference by the number of matches played, which is 28... then yeah, I guess the gap was around 1,000? Maybe 1,100.”
His minimum donation amount was 200,000 won.
Since so many people had gathered, donations were flooding in and interfering with the broadcast.
That minimum amount existed to prevent exactly that situation.
Even so, thankfully, people still donated.
“Ah! Seo-jun-nim revealed it himself. Since Cheonsalseong-nim said his was 500, that means the gap was 1,000.”
If the difference was really 1,000, Seo-jun would still have been first place even if he and Cheonsalseong had earned the same Reputation Points from the raid.
Bangju didn’t say that part aloud for the sake of the mentally shaken Cheonsalseong, but inwardly he was astonished.
“Hmm, though...”
They were already starting the interference?
After refreshing the page, Bangju quickly grasped the overall direction of the newly appearing posts and sensed something strange.
One after another, posts nitpicking the situation began appearing.
[Isn’t this a balance issue?]
[What kind of calculation gives triple rewards?]
[At this point everyone’s just gonna all-in raids and gamble lol]
[This isn’t skill.]
—It is kinda excessive
Naturally, those were understandable questions.
The issue was that people posting with similar tones were all upvoting each other’s posts to push them upward.
Was it coincidence?
—It really is weird like those posts say
—Honestly, having such a huge gap from a single raid feels kinda wrong
—It is excessive
Naturally, those were understandable concerns.
The problem was that the same IDs kept mutually recommending each other’s posts.
Coincidence?
Even Bangju’s 70,000 viewers were beginning to agree.
At times like this, Bangju usually just said what he honestly thought.
“People are saying a threefold difference is strange, but personally, I think reducing a raid clear from four minutes thirty seconds to one minute thirty seconds is about three times harder.”
Bangju continued explaining.
“I think people are reacting like this because it was such a unique strategy that only worked due to his specific characteristics. But discovering that method itself is difficult and also a form of skill. Even Demonic Cult users who knew about it still didn’t attempt the same strategy, right? That alone shows the difficulty level was extremely high.”
Hanppunman nodded beside him.
“And honestly, now that we have our first-ever runaway leader situation, doesn’t it make things more exciting? Seeing how everyone tries to steal the World’s Greatest Under Heaven title from him?”
Many people agreed.
After all, even if the Reputation Point calculations were problematic, that would ultimately be the game company’s mistake.
Then, another donation alert rang out.
['o o' donated 200,000 won!]
[What do you think about this? (Link)]
Bangju clicked the link.
A freshly uploaded post from less than a minute ago.
He briefly wondered how the donor had even found the post that quickly, but moved on.
It already had over ten recommendations.
[Streamer’s History. Am I the Only One Suspicious??]
==
- Before playing For the Sake of Chivalry, he played another game from the same company called Dawn of the Assassination Squad.
- In Dawn of the Assassination Squad, there’s a system called “Knot,” and he found something “nobody else could find” instantly during a collab stream. Check the video for details. (People still don’t understand how he did it.)
- Not just the Knot system—he was also the first to reveal the “Ruler Musou” teaser, and Movie Soft even linked his clip in their official preview video.
- Then he started For the Sake of Chivalry as his next game and received sponsorships.
- He obtained the “Grandmaster” title that “nobody else could get.” (Similar to the results from Dawn of the Assassination Squad.)
- And now this contribution score is also historically high. The contribution itself is at least understandable, but what happens when coincidences pile up?
==
The recommended users looked familiar.
They were the same IDs that had been upvoting one another earlier.
After reading the post, Bangju thought:
People who directly watched the streams probably wouldn’t think much of it, but for those who hadn’t?
“Hmm. It does look suspicious.”
Cheonsalseong spoke with a strange expression.
“Yeah.”
—Honestly, it feels more unbelievable if all that isn’t suspicious
—So what do you think?
—Feels like he needs to explain himself
—Movie Soft’s beloved son lol
—Holy shit, I got chills
—There might actually be something there
—He’s definitely skilled, but lol, hearing it laid out like that does make it seem suspicious
—Honestly, it makes even less sense if it’s actually true
—So what do you think?
—Feels like an explanation is needed
—Movie Soft’s precious son lol
—Holy shit, chills
—There’s a real possibility here
—He’s definitely skilled, but lol, hearing it laid out like that does make it seem suspicious
Seo-jun’s stream now had 12,000 viewers gathered.
Didn’t people say the scale of a controversy was proven by viewer count?
There was no way people would simply ignore an event this big.
Of course, having more viewers didn’t really change anything.
“You’re asking how I got first place? Hmm. Guess I just got lucky.”
Even in front of 12,000 viewers, Seo-jun’s shameless response delighted his longtime viewers.
—I came to see first place
—The Time Wizard who somehow earned several days’ worth of contribution alone lol CC
—Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun!
—Lmaoooo newbies, do you really think our streamer would know?
—What incredible luck!
—I came to see first place
—The Time Wizard who somehow earned several days’ worth of contribution alone lol CC
—Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun! Become my cult leader, Seo-jun!
—Lmaoooo newbies, do you really think our streamer would know?
—What incredible luck!
What was this “become my cult leader” nonsense now?
After the rankings were revealed and too many people flooded in, Seo-jun stopped watching other streams.
He was currently browsing the community boards instead.
“You want me to stop scrolling? Hmm. I guess it is about time to end stream.”
He had already revealed everything people asked him to reveal, and there wasn’t much left to do.
As viewers complained, a donation alert rang out.
—Stop scrolling the community and keep streaming, streamer lol
['○ o' donated 10,000 won!]
[Did you see this? (Link)]
—Sneakily trying to end stream lol
—Who gave you permission?
—Absolutely not
Seo-jun clicked the link and read it together with his viewers.
It was a post claiming he had some sort of hidden relationship with Movie Soft.
The post never directly named him, but in a situation like this, figuring out who it referred to was as easy as him parrying attacks.
—If this is real, there’s no one left in the world you can trust lol
—They’re actually connecting things like this?
—I’ve watched the streamer since the early days and never noticed anything lol
—If all of this was acting until now, he should become an actor
—So basically this “veteran newbie” has been secretly working with the game company while taking every world first and streaming it? lol
The viewers seemed to laugh it off.
But other people might not.
Once an image like this spread, it became troublesome.
No matter how much he explained, not everyone would hear it, nor would everyone accept it.
The post had already surpassed thirty recommendations.
‘What should I do?’
He could ignore it, but there was no telling what kind of ripple effect it might create.
Even if it wasn’t the game company, people believed whatever they wanted to believe.
‘A better way would be....’
Just as Seo-jun was searching for another solution—
A donation delivering news appeared.
A duel request in front of 70,000 viewers?
['DuelInvitation' donated 10,000 won!]
[Travel clip video]
['BreakingNews' donated 10,000 won!]
[Cheonsalseong publicly challenged you to a duel in front of 70,000 viewers!]
A clip began playing before the confused Seo-jun.
[It does seem suspicious.]
Cheonsalseong faced the camera inside Bangju’s studio.
While Bangju and Hanppunman stayed quiet beside him, only Cheonsalseong spoke.
Maybe because he had never experienced something like this in his previous life?
A delighted smile spread across Seo-jun’s lips.
“This sounds fun.”
Then the clip ended with Cheonsalseong’s final short remark.
[So I’d like you to prove it. Against me directly. One-on-one.]
[If you truly achieved everything purely through your own skill, then you won’t avoid the duel, right?]
One-on-one.
It was literally a formal duel request.
Maybe because he had never experienced this in his previous life?
A delighted smile spread across Seo-jun’s lips.
“This sounds fun.”
Then the clip ended with Cheonsalseong’s final words.
[So I’d like you to prove it. Against me directly. One-on-one.]
[If you truly achieved everything purely through your own skill, then you won’t avoid the duel, right?]
One-on-one.
A genuine duel request.
People’s attention shifted away from the conspiracy theories and toward the duel.
Now, that suspicious post itself could only be pushed into the background in the face of a clash between rank one and rank two.
Had Cheonsalseong intended that?
“Ah.”
['LoadedDice' donated 600,000 won!]
[Go to Bangju’s stream and send a duel response ㄱㄱ]
—So it really was a duel invitation lmaooo
—How does a setup like this appear immediately after the rankings release? lmaooo
1T
—Loser deletes their character, let’s go!
—He’s not actually gonna dodge it, right?
—Second place challenged first place to a duel. How can anyone resist this?!
600,000 won.
Considering Bangju’s minimum donation amount, it was more than enough.
Naturally, since the donor gave money assuming he would respond, Seo-jun needed to meet that expectation.
“Thank you. Let’s go right away.”
But—
The duel itself was definitely beneficial for Seo-jun, yet it somehow felt lacking.
It felt like there was an even better picture he could paint.
“Ah.”
—Why’d the streamer hide the screen?
—Let us see the donation message too
—Feels ominous lol, he looks like he’s about to cause trouble again
—So who’s gonna win?
—Cheonsalseong is insanely good in one-on-one fights though
—Still, our streamer is basically pro-level
—Why’s he taking so long just to write a reply?
Ignoring the viewers’ complaints, Seo-jun took his time carefully writing the donation message.
Finally, the donation sound echoed through Bangju’s stream and a message appeared.
['Cheonma14' donated 200,000 won!]
[Tomorrow, from 7 PM to 10 PM, I’ll continuously queue games without resting for even a single moment. Anyone who finds my ranking suspicious, or anyone who believes they’re more skilled than me, just come at me. I’m confident I won’t lose even once. Haha.]