Chapter 34 : I can control the indicators

For some reason, the viewers’ complaints are severe.

I just told them the truth, so why?

[What do you mean, memorize the coordinates?]

[It’s all about talent~ Cheers~]

[Ah, haha, AI is good at calculations, haha. It can be covered by computational power, haha.]

[It’s really bragging.]

No matter how much I say it’s the truth, they just don’t believe me.

It’s a bit annoying.

“No, honestly, I do have talent. But it’s not like other people can’t do this.”

[That’s what she says.]

[Streamer: I have talent.]

[Translation) You’re not human if you can’t do this.]

[The streamer is an AI, hahaha.]

I guess there’s no other way.

I turned on Soul Frame. Then, I went into practice mode and was about to choose Minder… but I stopped.

‘Come to think of it, if I turn on Cognitive Acceleration, the viewers won’t be able to see.’

I had no choice but to pick a slightly similar but different hero.

‘Blinker.’

An assassin hero with the concept of a teleportation ability.

This was one of the heroes I wanted to try.

“Okay, I’ll use Blinker as an example, so watch carefully.”

[Sitting.]

[She said to take a seat.]

[Let’s see, are you there?]

After entering the game, I strolled through the ruined streets of Neo City and slowly opened my mouth.

“You know that when you use ‘Warp,’ you don’t see the skill coordinates, right?”

Blinker’s core, and the instant teleportation skill that I can confidently say is the reason people play this hero, ‘Warp.’

This skill has no casting motion. It just teleports you instantly and disappears the moment you use it.

If ‘Warp’’s cooldown wasn’t so ambiguously long, Blinker would definitely have the potential to be insanely overpowered.

[Yeah, but that flies in the direction you’re looking.]

[Doesn’t it recognize your gaze and move? Most of Blinker’s skills do that, so there’s a field of view limit.]

“No. This also flies to coordinate values.”

As I said that, I was about to close my eyes, but then I realized I was wearing a bear suit and turned my head to the left.

Showing myself closing my eyes would have been a bit more impactful, but… well… this should be enough to prove it.

Then, to the coordinate values I memorized earlier.

‘Warp.’

Then I arrived on top of the utility pole on the right.

[????]

[What? How does this work?]

[Damn it, hahaha, what is this?]

To the bewildered viewers, I leaned back like someone taking a bow after a play.

“It seems like all the ranged skills in Soul Frame fly to coordinate values, right? Blinker’s ‘Warp’ is also classified as a ranged skill. It seems like this guy’s default coordinate setting is set to the focal point of your vision.”

It’s true. It was something I realized when I tried out a few heroes in practice mode before I first played Soul Frame.

“But in the end, it’s still coordinate-based. So when I played Minder, I just memorized everything and used it.”

[No, I don’t understand what you mean by memorizing.]

[? Isn’t this saying? That Minder’s coordinates are calculated by sight?]

[???? Really?]

“That’s not it. Honestly, I just memorized everything, but if you want to use it, wouldn’t it be easier to think of it as using another hero to designate skill coordinates and then turning on Cognitive Acceleration with Minder? Honestly, you don’t even need to memorize everything, right? Just memorize a few important points and put the enemy in that position.”

[Huh?]

[No, I don’t understand what you mean by just memorizing the coordinates, hahaha.]

[This person is really bad at explaining.]

[It’s because she’s an AI that doesn’t understand human emotions, really.]

[Ah, I don’t know, so are you playing Blinker today?]

Even after my detailed explanation, the viewers still didn’t seem to understand. Is this the difference in talent between them and me?

With a feeling of pity, I shook my head.

“Well, shall we play Blinker today as a commemoration?”

[Blinker is good, haha.]

[Let’s go, The Hundred~]

[Where is the streamer’s rating in the high ranks right now?]

[Roughly in the middle. Soon near the Hundred.]

[She’ll hit Top 100 soon, wow.]

“Okay, then, before we start…”

Before ending practice mode, I sent the viewers a bear thumbs-up emoticon and said my usual line.

“I’m live streaming on Sno.1 Pachichik. Please subscribe, like, and turn on notifications.”

[I already pressed it to watch;;;]

[Ah, haha, she said to press it twice.]

[?? If you press it twice, it cancels, hahaha.]

[If you press it every day, it alternates on and off, yeah. Press it every day.]

***

“This, it really works?”

Seosung Games, SSG pro gamer Yoon Jae-min wiped his sweaty face with a towel and gulped down a cool 500ml bottle of water.

As he put down the water, the strategy coach quickly asked.

“…It really works?”

Even with the coach’s urgent question, Yoon Jae-min remained calm. His face, fluttering the sweat-soaked T-shirt, was full of confidence.

“Phew, I’m sweating.”

“Don’t stall and tell me quickly.”

“Yes. It really works?”

Yoon Jae-min mumbled, slightly furrowing his brow.

“That, the first thing about memorizing all the coordinates is a bit ridiculous. I still don’t know what that means. But memorizing specific coordinates and placing skills there isn’t as difficult as I thought.”

Then the strategy coach narrowed his brow.

“I thought it was just bullshit.”

“Actually, Minder’s range isn’t that long anyway. The skill range, including the ultimate, is all generous.”

“Well, I wouldn’t know unless I played that hero…”

“Find the coordinates based on your vision, get close, and just roughly adjust the angle, so it’s not difficult. If you repeat stopping time with Cognitive Acceleration, it’s easy to adjust to the coordinates…”

The strategy coach raised his hand to stop Yoon Jae-min’s mumbling. This guy talks too much once he starts.

“First, tell me this. Is it usable?”

At that question, Yoon Jae-min nodded.

“I think we need to refine the build and stuff. But to summarize the conclusion, yes. This can definitely be used in the tournament.”

A firm declaration.

One that, you can’t just laugh it off.

Because this guy is a player who gives weight to such declarations.

In the end, the strategy coach let out a hollow laugh.

“Wow… So the world where Minder also appears in tournaments is finally coming. It’s really dizzying.”

Yoon Jae-min frowned at the coach’s appearance, as if he was taking it lightly, as just an absurd incident.

“Coach. Minder is a scam. It hasn’t been nerfed once since its initial release. It’s been buffed a couple of times.”

“Hmm, is that so…?”

The strategy coach tilted his head.

“Yes. I think it’s because they’ve been balancing with nerfs for a while… This guy’s stats are ridiculous right now. Right now, it’s practically beyond Tier 1, it’s one of the OPs, this.”

“That much…”

“So let’s use it right away this spring and throw it away.”

The strategy coach tilted his head at the somewhat contradictory statement.

“Huh? Use it only for spring and throw it away? You said it’s OP?”

At that, Yoon Jae-min shook his head.

“It’ll probably be nerfed with a hotfix in the middle of spring anyway.”

“…”

“That’s how it is right now, this.”

At those words, the strategy coach closed his mouth.

Well, if this guy says so, it’s probably true.

If you were to pick just three of the world’s top Soul Frame pro players, Yoon Jae-min, ‘Ready2Die,’ would always be mentioned.

Yoon Jae-min grumbled with a worried face.

“More than that, I’m worried that it’ll get hotfixed before we can even use it. Seong-won, she revealed this too openly… Well, because of the physical burden of using Cognitive Acceleration, not everyone can use it.”

Only after hearing those words did the strategy coach remember that his whole body was soaked in sweat. Even though he only tested it for a few tens of minutes.

‘…Then how did that Seong-won kid use Minder so recklessly?’

I heard that at the time, she was chatting with psychic powers while turning on Cognitive Acceleration. Is she really an AI?

Well, that’s not what’s important right now.

“Okay, I got it. I’ll report this to the higher-ups.”

“Yes.”

Yoon Jae-min waved his hand, then suddenly shouted as if he remembered something.

“Ah, Coach!”

“What?”

“By any chance, can we also collaborate with Seong-won and broadcast like APK? I have a lot of questions.”

The coach shook his head at those words.

“That won’t work. It’s better to just pray to be matched in the same team. Seoseong is strict about that kind of thing. And, if she’s really a person, a female streamer wouldn’t want to get involved with a man, right? You shouldn’t get involved in the first place.”

“Aw, why.”

“Shut up and refine the build.”

“Yes, sir.”

Yoon Jae-min answered like that, and as soon as he confirmed that the coach was gone, he turned on the Pachichik broadcast on his smartphone.

It was Sno.1’s broadcast.

***

In fact, Yoon Jae-min’s prediction was correct.

[What the hell is going on today?]

Why is Minder suddenly appearing so much in ranked games?

These damn bastards ruined my win rate.

─Seong-won released some tips on today’s broadcast.

└Really?

└Yeah, at first I thought it was bullshit, but it’s doable.

─Damn it, are you sure it’s a tip? Everyone who does it seems like an idiot.

└That’s just your tier…

└‘Mineral’

[It’s! Crazy! Minder!!!]

Minder’s pick rate shows a miraculous increase…

It increased to a whopping 2.8%…

But the win rate didn’t go up much…

─Fact) Seong-won raised all of that win rate. Rather, it dropped as the pick rate rose this time.

└Hahahahahaha.

─If there are 100,000 Minder users in the world, only Seong-won raises the win rate.

└If there are 100,000 Minder users in the world, I’ll delete Soul Frame, damn it.

└Seong-won’s 100,000 Minder army theory, lol.

─No, she clearly released tips, so why isn’t the win rate going up, hahaha.

└It’s a tip, it’s a tip, but the Cognitive Acceleration problem isn’t solved.

└Didn’t she give a tip about the coordinate bug?

└The physical burden when using Cognitive Acceleration…

[I found a way to solve the physical burden of Cognitive Acceleration.JPG]

[A poster of the classic movie Terminator. Seong-won’s bear suit is photoshopped onto the robot’s face.]

Join us.

─The second evolution of mankind… Cyborg…

└But that robot is a Soviet robot.

└When the singularity comes, we’re supposed to go to a communist society.

└Got you, commie.

─With Us.

└Hahahahaha.

─Ah, why is this no-name streamer called Seong-won or whatever getting so much viral marketing? There’s a limit to how much viral marketing you can do before people just go with it;;;;

└A streamer with 5,000 average viewers is a no-name? What kind of world do you live in? Are you a South China spy? Hahahahahaha.

└A world where a streamer with 5,000 average viewers is a no-name streamer… It’s terrifying;;;

└You guys are the reason she got 5,000, it’ll burst soon and crash, hahaha, just wait and see.

└Your snake heart is really crazy, hahaha.

└Ugh, it stinks, hahaha, it smells rotten, go back to Scouter Gallery, hahaha.

─I’m live streaming on Sno.1 Pachichik~ Please subscribe, like, and turn on notifications~

└I’m live streaming on Sno.1 Pachichik~ Please subscribe, like, and be sure to turn on notifications~

└If you press it twice, it cancels, hahaha.

As Yoon Jae-min predicted, many people learned Seong-won’s tips and challenged the currently popular hero, Minder.

It was only natural that ranked games were in a state of emergency.

“You’re saying that Minder trolls have increased in ranked games because of me? But I don’t think that’s my fault. I didn’t force anyone to do it, right? One person did badly.”

The cause of the situation, she didn’t really reflect on it, though.