Chapter 95

CHAPTER 95

Chapter 95

• LOLLLLL
• Attacking from here? Though it might actually work?
• Are they really lunatics? lol
• Heavenly Demon doesn't even know what retreat means lol.

The Orthodox Faction had little they could do besides stop the Demonic Cult and the Unorthodox Faction, so they had already spent a great deal of manpower and would continue to spend more.

Even so, if Seo Jun launched an attack, they would still be able to allocate forces to stop him.

After all, with a blade pressed against their throat, they couldn't simply ignore it.

That was why he waited until the very last moment.

I wonder how bold of a decision they'll make.

Seo Jun glanced at his viewer count.

Today's stream had gone on much longer than usual, and the situation had exploded into a major incident, so interest seemed especially high.

[Viewers: 16,000]

There were quite a few streamers for For the Sake of Chivalry.

Outside the absolute top tier, even rankers often streamed to audiences in the thousands.

The biggest streams attracted anywhere from one hundred thousand to two hundred thousand viewers.

Though if the Ark Master gets involved, the scale jumps straight to three hundred thousand.

Regardless, he had gathered quite a large audience.

Before he started playing For the Sake of Chivalry, his peak viewer count had been around 2,300.

Looking back on it, the growth really was ridiculous.

The battlefield had brought in a flood of new viewers.

And what kind of viewers were they?

• But what exactly is Shanxi? I don't even see a marker there on the map.
• Streamer, please...
• Go look at the internet instead of living only in real life!
• LOLLLLL

Exactly like that.

Not all of them are like that, of course.

There were plenty of heavy users as well.

There was a simple way to verify it.

He could just end the stream tomorrow.

If thirty pages of complaints flooded the forums afterward, would there be any clearer proof?

Of course, he was only guessing based on reactions.

He didn't know the actual numbers.

So he decided to roll the dice.

"Everyone's been waiting, right? Let's queue up. Join me."

Apparently, it was fairly common on the battlefield for streamers and viewers to move together.

He wondered how it would turn out in his case.

And how many people the Orthodox Faction would assume were coming.

• No joke, I've seriously been waiting for this!
• I had a feeling all that idle chatter was leading to this lol.
• This is going to be hilarious lol.
• Don't come over here, you bastards...
• Moderator! Stop the Orthodox Faction!

One of the Unorthodox Faction members waiting for his current match to end before queueing again was ThisIsNotMartialArts.

"How do you think this is going to turn out?"

"You don't know yourself?" he replied.

"Well..."

"Even if the Demonic Cult betrays us tomorrow, I wouldn't be surprised."

The Unorthodox players had decided that, at least for today, the Demonic Cult's actions were trustworthy.

Tomorrow is a different matter.

That trust was the reason they were currently fighting in two battlefield regions together.

"Do you really think the Demonic Cult's true objective is what they told us?"

Mumyeong turned to look at ThisIsNotMartialArts.

ThisIsNotMartialArts.

Along with Dang So, he was one of the most disliked members of the Unorthodox Faction, thanks to both his skill and his extreme dedication to roleplaying.

Now that Dang So had left, maybe he was the sole champion?

That thought alone was impressive.

"I don't know."

Yeah. Asking you was my mistake.

"But there is one thing I know for certain."

"What is it?"

"Heavenly Demon..."

"...is a man who understands martial arts. And understands chivalry."

"...Right..."

Mumyeong didn't get angry.

How many times had he heard something like this already?

At this point, he felt that the developers should personally reward people like this with bonus points for surviving such interactions.

Hah. They're really not doing anything.

"See?"

The possibility that the Demonic Cult had merely tricked them into helping recover from the territory imbalance wasn't entirely off the table.

Just a few minutes ago, the Demonic Cult had been in a position where betrayal was genuinely possible.

Of course, with Seo Jun attacking the Orthodox Faction again, it was now almost certain that wasn't the case.

"At the very least, it looks like they've definitely secured Gansu."

Just as Shaanxi was surrounded by Orthodox territory, Gansu was surrounded by Demonic Cult territory.

"They're not attacking us, and Seo Jun is attacking Shanxi right now."

Were they really targeting only the Orthodox Faction?

"This is definitely working out in our favor."

The Demonic Cult was practically handing them advantages despite the fact that they already held the most territory.

The goal of every faction in For the Sake of Chivalry was simple:

First place.

Nothing else mattered.

People mocked the game for being silly, but in some ways it was surprisingly romantic.

That didn't mean people never betrayed each other.

It meant everyone genuinely tried their hardest to secure victory for their own faction.

Which made the Demonic Cult's actions all the more suspicious.

It wasn't as if he had no guesses.

The Third Elder had practically begged them to notice.

"Sigh. Honestly, it wouldn't be the worst outcome if tomorrow came and everything just fizzled out."

At the very least, it looked like they had secured two territories.

Seo Jun had led his viewers to attack the region directly in front of the headquarters, and the Orthodox Faction had spent enormous resources trying to stop him.

Even pulling in more than fifteen people somehow.

Yeah. That's probably their top priority.

The Orthodox Faction was desperately trying to buy time.

And that streamer had basically told them:

"Stop overthinking things and just focus on fighting the Orthodox Faction."

Fine by me.

If they really managed to capture Shanxi—

Then perhaps following that advice would be worthwhile.

It might even be more profitable.

All they had to do was make sure helping the Demonic Cult benefited them.

He had said it before.

"The Demonic Cult isn't going to win."

Mumyeong muttered to himself and turned his head again.

There was still something he wanted to know.

"Yeol-nim, by the way, why did you fail that matchmaking cancellation earlier?"

"Shut up."

Ten o'clock arrived.

The battlefield was thrown into chaos.

At first, people were confused by the completely unexpected development.

But gradually, they began to enjoy it.

And then—

[This is a complete disaster.]

“If the Unorthodox faction loses its headquarters, will it become the second faction ever to be erased from the War Records after the Demonic Cult?”

==

The post quickly filled up with comments and recommendations.

It received around 600 upvotes.

There were also over 100 downvotes.

[If the Orthodox faction loses its headquarters, that's a real crisis!]

If the attack by the side force stationed in Shaanxi succeeds, we absolutely have to stop the Demonic Cult first.

But then won't the Unorthodox faction advance again?

Are we really going to play defense against two factions at once?

• No way.
• Are you serious? lololol
• Then what?
• We don't have any other choice lol.
• So you'll probably give up two regions to the Unorthodox faction?
• That's fine. As long as we stop the Demonic Cult from charging at us like they're trying to wipe out the Orthodox faction.

[Please pull yourselves together! Getting kicked out of the War Records is too humiliating.]

• The Demonic Cult and the Unorthodox faction guys are going to feast on this forever.
• I actually liked the Orthodoxy, but they're all dead lololol.
• People are going to keep talking about this until the server closes lololol. Because I'll make sure they do lol.
• Says the Demonic Cult guy?
• You people got eliminated before too, yet you're acting all smug.
• Sorry, but before the Heavenly Demon arrived, the Demonic Cult wasn't a real Demonic Cult lolololol.

"Should I just join the Demonic Cult too?"

Han Ponman muttered before shaking his head.

"No. I still like beggars."

Han Ponman.

He was a player who loved beggars to the core.

"Not beggars. The Beggars' Sect."

He had joined the Beggars' Sect because he thought gathering information looked cool, but everyone kept calling them beggars, to the point where he sometimes felt confused about his own identity.

He shook his head.

"Why are you talking nonsense to yourself again?"

Jeomsoi approached and asked.

His friend looked like he had gone crazy.

Had he finally lost his mind?

"It's not nonsense."

Han Ponman shared a link.

[Why is the Orthodox faction risking everything on Shanxi? Are they afraid of the Demonic Cult's growth?]

The only people who can attack Shanxi are the Heavenly Demon, a handful of bankers, and a small number of users who were in Xuexi anyway. Does it even make sense to commit twenty-three bankers there?

Shouldn't they be focusing on stopping the Unorthodox faction first?

Are they really that afraid of the Demonic Cult's expansion?

• The Orthodox faction is coping so hard lol.
• His growth only matters in Star Travel. Here he's just another player, you Demonic Cult guys.
• Why are the Orthodox faction people so excited today? lololol.
• It's a game. Why are people getting so angry? lololol.
• Exactly!

Jeomsoi clicked the link and chuckled while reading.

Then he stopped laughing.

Putting on a serious expression, like a news anchor, he said:

"Is the Orthodox faction afraid of the Demonic Cult's growth?"

"...You were saying Shanxi had to be defended at all costs too."

"That's true."

Nobody could even estimate how many viewers followed the streamers.

Because of Han Ponman's strong insistence that the number was probably huge, they even pulled bankers away from fights against the Unorthodox faction and shifted the game's focus there.

"And it worked, didn't it? You kept saying they had to stop the Heavenly Demon at all costs."

Stop the Heavenly Demon.

The fact that they had actually managed to do it, and that this unexpected outcome had ended up determining the entire direction of the game, was almost ridiculous.

Instinct.

He's really good at this, isn't he?

"Still, I don't know."

The balance of power kept changing, and there were still ways to make sure the Unorthodox faction no longer had any reason to cooperate with the Demonic Cult.

"I'm heading out. Thinking about it here won't change anything."

Jeomsoi left the room.

"That's true."

Han Ponman agreed.

After going outside, he started browsing community sites on his phone.

It was basically an addiction.

[I was happy fighting alongside the Heavenly Demon today.]

[If I can contribute even like this...]

[Today's Orthodox faction destruction moment.jpg]

[It's honestly amazing that people really follow streamers around.]

[But does anyone actually believe in the Three Rivers Road donation story? That was all just to promote one streamer.]

One title immediately caught his attention.

Han Ponman couldn't resist.

[Do people seriously believe the Three Rivers Road donation story? It was all just to promote one streamer.]

=:

Honor Movie Soft even created the entire event just to push that streamer.

The Demonic Cult is also supporting everything right now just to make one streamer famous.

The landlord's rebellion and the bankers' defeat?

That was all done to elevate streamer Seojun.

The Orthodox faction's current situation?

They lost on purpose to boost growth.

The Unorthodox faction cooperating with the Demonic Cult?

Same thing.

Growth is a god.

The Demonic Cult is invincible.

• Lmao.
• What nonsense lol.
• Bringing the growth controversy back like this lololol.
• The entire world is just streamer viewers now lol.

lololololol

It was a sarcastic post.

"Haha."

Normally he would have laughed and moved on, but now that a crisis had actually arrived, he couldn't laugh quite so easily.

After hesitating for a bit, whether to change the mood or simply strengthen his own resolve, Han Ponman logged into an alternate account and made a post.

[I think the Orthodox faction is going to show us something!]

They just had to survive today.

By the end of today's war, they would understand exactly what the enemy's objective was and what kind of plan they were drawing up.

He sneered.

"Fighting two factions at once? Yeah right."

When a knife is at your throat tomorrow, the number of choices available becomes incredibly small.

But if they succeeded today somehow, there would still be a way to survive.

"Please!"

But contrary to Han Ponman's wishes—

The next day, for the first time in the history of the War Records, the gates of the Orthodox faction were opened.

[Hooobisam!]

[We're screwed!]

[This is the limit of ordinary players!!!]

[Will the leaders of the most incompetent Orthodox faction in history, who failed to defend all three regions, please raise your hands?]

• Why?
• Because they deserve to get roasted. (Post author)
• lololololololololol.