Chapter 75
CHAPTER 75
Chapter 75
Slash!
The enemy’s health dropped sharply from a single properly landed attack.
Seo Jun hadn’t drawn out sword aura, so the damage wasn’t massive.
Still, he had gained the advantage.
Seo Jun prepared to move and maintain the momentum.
But then—
The enemy suddenly leapt backward.
The flow of the battle was cut off.
Running away right when things were getting fun?
Did he panic after taking a hit?
No, probably not.
Seo Jun relaxed his grip and lowered his sword in confusion.
He hoped that wasn’t what the enemy was thinking, but for some reason, it felt exactly right.
The enemy widened the distance and suddenly vanished.
At a glance, it looked as though his body had naturally melted into the darkness the moment he touched the shadow of a nearby boulder.
Considering the gaps between the rocks and the uneven terrain, there were plenty of hiding spots. Finding him in such a short time would be difficult.
It was honestly a very smart move.
In front of over a hundred thousand viewers, no less.
Seo Jun let out a sigh.
“No, seriously… if you’re a ranker, shouldn’t you at least check the interface information?”
Once a round started, you could check what core trait your opponent had selected.
All the excitement instantly drained away.
-Ahh lolololol.
-Go full salt mode.
-If he had Absorption Arts, that strategy would’ve at least made sense lololololol.
-He really made him say it himself lololol.
-He doesn’t even have HP recovery!
Seo Jun truly hadn’t expected it.
So that was why the guy had seemed nervous from the start. No wonder he’d looked ready to run at any moment.
Seo Jun let out a deep sigh.
Even without confirming the trait composition directly, there should’ve been countless clues during the fight that his traits had changed.
“Let’s just rest a little. I’ll humor him too.”
The price of ruining the fun.
-But seriously, why couldn’t he dodge that attack earlier?
-Looked like the assassin’s mentality just collapsed.
-He was pressuring him really well too.
About two minutes passed.
Kwaaaaak!
The sound of wind being cut apart rang out from somewhere.
Seo Jun estimated the direction and turned his body, moving his arm simultaneously.
If he first spotted it and then reacted, his slowed body would obviously be too late.
A dagger was flying toward him.
He barely blocked it by a hair.
The follow-up attack never came.
Seo Jun chuckled softly.
“He’s probably panicking right now, isn’t he?”
-Hahahahaha.
: Wait, why did he give up searching for him?
-Why is he still not checking the interface?
-The greatest idiot in the Unorthodox Faction!
-Him: I am the early-rising worm itself!
That attack had obviously been thrown to check whether the combat judgment had reset.
“Should I try searching for him?”
Seo Jun started walking toward the opposite rocky area from where the dagger had come while loudly acting things out.
“Wheeeere. Did. That. Dag-ger. Come. From?”
He enunciated every word loudly and clearly.
-No way lololol who falls for that?
-With how obvious that was, anyone would notice immediately lolol.
-Thiiiis. Is. So. Fun-ny!
Normally, anyone would realize something strange was going on.
“Over here?”
Dignity of the Unorthodox emerged from behind a distant boulder and spoke.
“How are you doing this? Why aren’t you dead? Enough time should’ve passed already.”
“Because I am the Heavenly Demon.”
Since he had truly become a Heavenly Demon using Heavenly Demon Divine Art, it wasn’t entirely wrong.
“Don’t tell me you’re actually a bugged player?”
“That’s right.”
“Ha… so it was true. Then there’s no hope for us anymore.”
Seo Jun desperately held back his laughter while maintaining a serious expression.
-Why did that guy mentally break down?
-Was he always like this?
-He used to seem smart and hardworking, but now he’s just dumb lol.
“Hurry up and finish this already. I still have a lot of rankers left to fight.”
“So that’s how it is.”
…Why did he suddenly look relieved?
And why did he look at Seo Jun like he’d expected this all along?
In any case, there was no further conversation.
Seo Jun once again waited until the enemy attacked first, and though Dignity of the Unorthodox fought more desperately than before, he still didn’t recklessly force exchanges.
Seo Jun steadily chipped away at him whenever opportunities appeared while defending, and eventually Dignity of the Unorthodox exhausted all his stamina and collapsed.
[You have won the martial arts match.]
The best-of-three one-on-one duel ended.
-Banking5 cut down easily!
-But honestly, his mentality looked broken.
-He wasn’t just beaten either. He was winning early on.
-This is the Heavenly Demon!
-The Heavenly Killing Star is different. The Heavenly Killing Star is different. The Heavenly Killing Star is different.
-LMAO what’s with the self-hypnosis? Did you bet points or something? 777
After coming out, Seo Jun immediately queued for another game.
“Next!”
After about a minute, the third martial arts match was found.
Just like before, the opponent was another high-ranking player.
Was this the result of Dignity of the Unorthodox opening the floodgates, or had things always been like this?
The matchmaking system had definitely said four consecutive wins could be achieved without much trouble.
But this time, the opponent was completely different.
“Greetings.”
The moment he heard the greeting, Seo Jun could tell this person was sane.
The previous opponent had lacked a little intelligence stat-wise, but at least he hadn’t seemed insane.
“Not that I should talk. No, mine is for the viewers’ entertainment.”
His trolling came not from amusement or satisfaction, but from professional spirit. Completely different nature.
At least, that was how Seo Jun rationalized it.
He nodded to himself several times before looking at his opponent.
“Nice to meet you.”
The opponent’s nickname was:
[ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow]
He vaguely remembered seeing that ID somewhere before.
“Rank 6, right?”
“You remember me? I’m honored.”
Whoa, “honored” is a bit much.
“Ah, and I saw the post you wrote on the community too.”
“You saw that?”
Seo Jun grinned.
“Right. You said the volcano associated with Mount Hua was extinct, didn’t you?”
“….”
“But what if it’s actually an active volcano? Though if that were true, maybe they couldn’t establish a sect there. So I guess it really is extinct.”
-…
After briefly falling silent, ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow raised his head, eyes gleaming brightly.
“Prepare yourself.”
“Good. Then come at me once more. I shall face you with the Demonic Cult’s supreme technique, the Hundred-Step Divine Fist.”
“Or perhaps with the Heavenly Demon’s secret ultimate art, the Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword Technique…”
“Stoooop talking!”
Hahahahaha.
-This dude is seriously insane lol.
-“Mount Hua is an extinct volcano” memo…
-He’s directly countering everything lololol.
-By definition, the martial world is a place where they sell burgers in inns!
-LMAOOOO.
For some reason, he was strangely likable.
“Prepare yourself!”
The opponent’s chosen sect was the Green Forest Bandits, and his weapon was a gigantic greatsword.
It looked even larger than the ones Seo Jun had seen in For the Sake of the World.
At that size, perhaps even with the debuff applied, their attack speeds would feel similar.
Step. Step.
The enemy moved first.
The bandit slowly approached across the field illuminated red by the sunset, gradually increasing his speed.
His presence resembled an enraged rhinoceros.
Seo Jun slowly raised his sword directly before him.
The crimson glow reflecting from the blade suited perfectly to Seo Jun’s Demonic Cult-infused tastes.
“I shall show you what true martial arts and law truly are. Come.”
A cool breeze blew past him.
The atmosphere was nice.
“Good! Then try stopping me once again!”
The bandit stepped down heavily, controlling the momentum of his massive body as he arrived directly in front of Seo Jun.
Taking a deep breath, he lifted the enormous greatsword and glared at Seo Jun.
“They say every bandit’s eyes are terrifying.”
Seo Jun laughed and lowered his stance.
Receiving a Green Forest build’s attack head-on after investing into strength traits was a losing trade.
Fwoooooosh!
The sound of the air splitting felt unusually loud.
Perhaps because the blade had just passed over his head.
Seo Jun lowered his head and looked up at the enemy towering over him.
At that instant, ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow, who had been preparing his next attack, felt an inexplicable sensation—as though he’d encountered a ferocious beast right before death.
“My turn this time, yes?”
Seo Jun focused himself and poured internal energy into his sword.
The dark-red internal energy flowing into his blade caused a sensation as though the deep sea itself were surging.
Sword aura.
And now the inner power of Heavenly Demon Divine Art—said in lore to rival divine sword aura itself—began flowing through the blade.
“This is beautiful.”
Even while thinking it, he didn’t like how wonderfully the Demonic Cult martial art had been implemented.
Proper Demonic Cult techniques were supposed to have something fundamentally broken about them.
But right now, they were in the middle of battle.
“Let’s see you dodge this.”
Slaaaash!
Seo Jun swung his sword upward from below.
The sword aura soared toward the sky.
“It definitely has great range.”
It far exceeded the normal distance sword aura could travel.
It even seemed usable as a ranged attack.
Not that his internal energy was infinite—perhaps more as an occasional surprise tactic.
“Ohoho, dangerous!”
ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow shouted loudly.
Even if sword aura was drawn out, its speed did not increase.
That slowness was the price of the aura.
And so, ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow was able to dodge by leaning his head back.
“That’s unfortunate.”
They had merely exchanged blows once each.
“Then now it’s my turn! Buhahaha!”
He’s getting excited.
Slaaaash!
The greatsword drew a straight vertical line from above downward and smashed into the ground beside Seo Jun.
The tremor spread from the earth through Seo Jun’s feet and across his whole body.
Seo Jun slightly twisted his body to avoid the greatsword, then immediately swept upward at the blade embedded in the ground to regain his stance.
Gripping the sword with both hands, he raised it high.
“Oh. Then I’ll do the same.”
But he seemed excited too.
Emotions were contagious.
Seo Jun grinned broadly.
Fwoooosh!
Sword aura erupted from his blade like rising flames.
He drew a perfectly vertical line from above downward.
KWAaaaaaAAM!
The earth split open, and demonic energy surged outward, sweeping all the way to the edges of the grassy battlefield.
Like wildfire spreading through a wheat field.
“Again!”
Slaaaash!
“So it’s my turn now.”
Slaaaash!
The ground shook violently.
Seo Jun’s attack speed was slightly slower, but both of them still fundamentally belonged to the category of “extremely slow attack speed.”
And so their attacks never landed.
KWAaaaAAM!
No matter how grand or destructive the techniques were, if they were slow enough, you could simply see them coming and dodge.
If even movement speed itself had been slowed, things might’ve been different—but the bandit’s slow attacks were caused by his weapon.
Slaaaash!
Seo Jun simply possessed the skill to never get hit by obvious attacks like these.
A diagonal slash came flying.
Since ThisIsNotTheMartialWorldIKnow couldn’t counter in time, he simply slammed the huge greatsword straight into the ground instead.
Stopping midway probably would’ve been harder.
Very fitting for a brute bandit.
“Hahaha! Fighting like this… doesn’t it feel like true martial arts?”
Does it?
Dust and weeds floated through the air before falling and obscuring their vision.
KWAaaaAAM!
Rumble.
Seo Jun prepared his next stance and asked,
“So, you think you can keep dodging forever?”
“I can do this all day!”
“I see.”
Seo Jun accepted the answer and lowered his arm.
Slaaaash!
-Why are they both politely waiting until the other attacks first lololol?
-Slow idiots lolol.
-The chuunibyou energy is overflowing lol.
-Since when did this game become turn-based combat?
-Was THIS the martial world you wanted…? Thank you, my friend lol.
-Please don’t get emotionally moved by this fight lolololol.