Chapter 72 : Survival Rank
Chapter 72: Survival Rank
‘Huh, this might be better than I thought…?’
Watching the enemy player who got blown up after saying they learned well, Jeong Nayeon blinked.
She thought that the content of Baek Woohyun taking on and teaching a disciple might do much better than her expectations.
Even though it wasn’t the same ability build, he gave teachings through actual combat to this degree, so if he properly taught them, wouldn’t he do even better?
At minimum, just doing practical training like now would definitely have huge effects.
Cha Seongcheol, whom she glanced at, seemed to have thought the same as her, making a similar expression.
She judged that before long, they might rack their brains selecting a person among broadcasters worthy of being taken as a disciple.
Since choosing someone with some enthusiasm, talent, and no controversies would require examining many aspects.
[Final record — Baek Woohyun 2:0 (Anonymous)]
[Final Winner: Baek Woohyun]
[Final Loser: (Anonymous)]
“Another victory, adding 15 consecutive wins in an instant—Hackphysical! The only words that come out are ‘this is insane’!”
“With this, it’s 45 consecutive wins in just ‘Duel’ alone. The total record of 100 consecutive wins isn’t far off, right?”
-100 consecutive wins is really insane lol
-Perfect hundred victories
-31 consecutive wins left until breaking Battler’s record
-In the end, today proved Bronze=Silver=Gold=Plat=Diamond=Master lol
Even after the battle with the Master tier mine build user, Baek Woohyun’s consecutive wins continued.
Now Master tier users were popping up like mushrooms as opponents, but nothing changed. He just won, won, and won again.
It was also the moment when the community claimed that the consecutive win record Baek Woohyun built was just smurfing in low tier brackets lost its power.
When even users in the Master bracket, which could be called the start of high tiers, were being crushed miserably, who could put it down?
However, it wasn’t completely without change upon entering the Master tier bracket. There were actually two noteworthy points.
First, the time consumed per match increased more than in lower tier brackets.
Unlike Bronze-Silver-Gold-Plat-Diamond times when matches ended because they couldn’t even block Baek Woohyun’s single strike, around Master tier it became possible to exchange ‘blows’ to some degree. Though the result was the same anyway.
Second was that though rare, they’d meet people viewers recognized.
True to Master tier being full of amateur experts and pro trainees, there were quite a few whose names were known, and they’d occasionally match with these people.
Once, they even matched with someone who was broadcasting. Naturally, the opponent was crushed miserably at Baek Woohyun’s hands.
-“Whew…”
Thus, when the ‘Duel’ consecutive win record reached 55 wins, Baek Woohyun stopped matching after nearly two hours.
Not because he was tired and needed rest. He simply followed what Jeong Nayeon had requested of him beforehand.
She had asked him not to break Battler’s 76 consecutive win record in one go today, but to stop when the peak started coming into view.
She said that according to her, there wasn’t enough buzz yet to break the record Battler set now.
She rambled that if they drew more aggro on the community about whether the record would be achieved, they could increase viewer count much more.
For Baek Woohyun, whether he broke it now or later made no real difference, so he agreed that if she wanted, he’d cut it off as she wished.
[Will you start PVP ‘Survival’ mode game matching?]
[Yes/No]
The PVP mode Baek Woohyun chose instead of ‘Duel’ was none other than ‘Survival.’
Among the three modes, only ‘Survival’ hadn’t played a single ranked game yet, so it was to roll more this opportunity.
Having modified his build like when he played with Jeong Nayeon before, he immediately queued for matching. Naturally it was ranked matching. He’d already met the requirements before.
[PVP ‘Survival’ mode game matching successful]
[Please select starting point]
Though not as fast as ‘Duel’ where matching took just a few seconds, ‘Survival’ matching was caught fairly quickly too.
He thought it might take longer since it was the first placement match despite high MMR from the 21 consecutive wins in normal games, but it was unexpectedly fast.
Of course, Baek Woohyun himself was indifferent, not originally knowing matching speeds. Even if he had known, it would have been the same.
Those in the studio brought up the topic of the faster-than-expected matching speed.
“Looking at this matching speed, there seem to be an awful lot of snipers.”
“You think so too, Seongcheol-nim? I also thought there’s no way it would match this quickly coming from 21 consecutive wins in normal games.”
-100% snipers are swarming
-Stream snipers always swarm Survival
-They only don’t know how boring they are lol
-When they camp and stream snipe to find you, you really want to smash their skull
Cha Seongcheol, Jeong Nayeon, and the viewers predicted that judging from the abnormal matching speed, quite many stream snipers had mixed into this matching.
This wasn’t simple speculation but a guess based on what numerous broadcasters showed while playing ‘Survival’ mode in the past.
After all, ‘Survival’ where 100 people matched per game was several times simpler to snipe than ‘Duel’ which was 1v1 or 2v2, or ‘Struggle’ which was 5v5, and because of that, it was famous for being infested with stream snipers.
In fact, even broadcasters who didn’t particularly care about sniping would often delay matching when it came to ‘Survival,’ if not other modes. It meant it was that serious.
“It looks like vicious snipers who were waiting somehow wanting to inflict one loss on Hackphysical all came out. It’s quite a worrying situation.”
“How many out of a hundred do you expect are snipers?”
“I think there are at least ten. Maybe even more than that. The problem is… since they’re scum who even snipe, I think they’ll team too.”
-Those types play together so they team frequently
-Sniping plus teaming? Really disgusting lol
-But teaming gets banned immediately though;
-Let’s go with reports
The fortunate thing among misfortunes was that Baek Woohyun had shown winning even 1v5 in ‘Struggle.’
If the stream snipers also watched the broadcast, they’d know that fact, so they wouldn’t rashly charge in. At minimum, time to farm equipment would be guaranteed.
Just that as Cha Seongcheol said, the problem was that vicious snipers seemed likely to team (the act of forming temporary alliances in games where teaming isn’t systemically allowed) as well.
“Hey, even if they team, surely not ten or fifteen people would gather and come?”
‘Suspiciously_Suspicious’ donated ₩1,000!
[Screwed, raised a flag]
-‘Surely they won’t come’ special) They definitely come
-Saying that while they’re watching the broadcast lol
-Hackphysical’s greatest enemy, Jeong Nayeon
-From ‘did I get them’ to ‘surely’ today, flags are in full bloom
“Oops.”
While Jeong Nayeon, who had blatantly planted a flag, was getting beaten from all sides—even Cha Seongcheol sneakily joined in to scold her!—Baek Woohyun selected a starting point.
His action had no hesitation, because he had heard about the first match starting point meta from Jeong Nayeon when playing ‘Survival.’
[Starting point determined as Zone 1: Military Base]
“The first match starting point Hackphysical chose is Military Base.”
“The meta, right?”
-First match Military Base is the meta for real lol
-Brain off, gotta go beat up Lu Bu once to feel like playing
-Farm items fast and escape then Military Base isn’t bad
-? You have to fight until death, what are you saying
Viewers giggling that the first match meta was indeed Military Base.
Of course, most of them had a high probability of being immediately ejected on that first match they started that way.
Zone 1: Military Base was a place only those confident in their skills and full of will to fight from the start would come.
[Please enter the starting point teleporter]
[*If you do not enter the teleporter within the remaining time, game participation will be automatically canceled]
[Time remaining until game start: 60 seconds]
-“……”
[Time remaining until game start: 0 seconds]
[-Game starting]
Whiiing-
The moment the countdown displayed as a system message ended in silence, the door of the cylindrical capsule Baek Woohyun had entered closed firmly.
The teleporter, which began moving with a faint floating sensation, stopped about five seconds later and disassembled with a clunk.
-“……”
Thus, what greeted Baek Woohyun upon reaching Zone 1: Military Base was a scene similar to when he first did PVP with Jeong Nayeon.
Cracked ceiling and walls from age, broken and abandoned glass windows, equipment scattered randomly on the floor.
However, this time he didn’t run into another player immediately after appearing—but that was only natural. It was rare to encounter an enemy right at the start.
-“Mm.”
Since the top priority was farming, Baek Woohyun was searching for equipment when he let out a contemplative sound.
Because despite already searching three rooms, he couldn’t find a single close combat weapon. All there were was only firearms.
And even those weren’t assault rifles but types with insufficient power like submachine guns or pistols.
“Wow- the farming failed so badly I wonder if this is really a Military Base?”
“Getting only firearms like this is crossing the line.”
-Is this a bug?
-Farming really failed badly;;
-Stream snipers are probably swarming over right now
-At least he picked up some bombs so he can hold out
Unlike the chat window reacting that it failed, Baek Woohyun only let out one contemplative sound, then without complaining, picked up and equipped one submachine gun.
While his preferred weapons were close combat weapons like Soul Eater, that absolutely didn’t mean he couldn’t handle guns.
You could tell just by watching him naturally finish gun inspection and loading without any assistance.
To begin with, he was the type who had preferences but didn’t discriminate in weapon choice.
He who handled close combat weapons, ranged weapons, and even explosives evenly would take out and hold the most effective weapon depending on the opponent.
Firearms were the same. When facing armed guards belonging to research facilities, the weapon he used most was firearms—how could he not handle them?
Thanks to continuing farming with such a calm attitude.
“Oh?”
“Orange!”
-Wtf; an orange here
-This is why you go Military Base lol
-So what dropped?
Baek Woohyun was able to discover a weapon glowing brilliantly in orange light.
In ‘Survival’ mode, equipment had grades and colors as ‘Common (White)’-‘Rare (Blue)’-‘Epic (Purple)’-‘Legendary (Orange)’, meaning he discovered a Legendary weapon.
The studio got excited at the appearance of a Legendary weapon found at extremely rare probability even at Zone 1: Military Base, famous for good equipment drops, but only briefly.
As the light faded and revealed the weapon’s form, Jeong Nayeon and Cha Seongcheol’s expressions became awkward.
“…It just had to be a gun.”
“…A Legendary pistol.”
-Yep~ Even Legendary weapons are guns~
-Of all the many weapons, it just had to be lol
-First match and hitting legendary? lol
-That’s even a revolver lmao
Because even that was a firearm.