Free Web NovelNo one questioned Seong’s plan or raised any doubts.
It was that perfect of a plan, and there was that little to pick apart.
It was a plan everyone could be satisfied with, but—
With everyone staying quiet,
Seong looked around like, Is that it?
But it was the same as before.
“Hmm.”
He was about to wrap up the meeting and move on to preparing the next content since no one had any opinions, when—
Kyou raised his hand first and asked.
“Then how is the matchup between the vassals and the backup team going to work?”
“Yeah. I’m curious about that too.”
“Mm... if someone like Helena is on the vassals’ side, I don’t think we can win...”
Seeing those comments come up, Seong nodded.
Well, the plan for dealing with the rankers was basically airtight, so—
He took that as a given.
And it looked like the backup team was more curious about the next content.
Understanding that, Seong looked at them and said—
Of course,
“Helena, Dracanos, and Belzarac won’t be part of the vassals’ team.”
Helena’s skill was overwhelmingly high, and Dracanos was the same.
And Belzarac, to be honest, wasn’t even in the same weight class.
So it made sense to exclude them.
Hearing Seong say that, everyone nodded like they felt relieved.
And—
“It’ll probably be one-on-one, not team versus team.”
At that, everyone’s eyes lit up.
If it wasn’t team-based, it would definitely be fun.
Kyou especially looked fired up.
Remembering how he’d lost to Fiora in the past, he was thinking that this time, he wanted his rematch.
Seong didn’t really know what was going through Kyou’s head, but—
Seeing everyone’s motivation flare up, he nodded.
‘It won’t be easy.’
Honestly, every one of Seong’s vassals was a monster.
But there were ones like Yudo who grew by sharing Seong’s experience, and there were types that got stronger in proportion to Seong’s level.
Depending on how you looked at it, the backup team had a chance too.
Not right now—but after they trained.
While Seong was thinking that—
Luna carefully raised her hand.
Seong looked at her, wondering what it was.
“Then... are you the one who’s going to train us, Seong?”
Luna looked a little hopeful.
But unfortunately, Seong shook his head.
“No. I need to get used to the powers of Despair, Destruction, and Abyss too, so I have to train separately. Someone else will handle your training.”
“Huh?”
“Then if it’s not the Demon King, who would...?”
As she said that—
Seong grinned and opened an Underworld portal.
From inside it came the sharp clicking of heels, and Helena appeared, walking forward as if showing off her lush crimson hair.
At Helena’s appearance, everyone stared at her like, No way.
And Seong nodded like, Yes way.
“Helena will be in charge of your training.”
“Mmm. If it’s a request from our Seong, of course I have to do it.”
Helena smiled seductively, like she was granting the request of an adorable disciple.
But why was it?
In that moment, every single member of the backup team felt chills run down their spine.
Training and getting stronger was definitely a good thing, but—
Why?
Except for Seong, everyone was frozen, unable to look away from Helena’s smile, their skin crawling.
Were they already sensing the hell that was about to unfold?
Either way, leaving the backup team like that, Seong thought quietly—
‘I need to train too.’
He figured he should train nearby with them.
They were three new lords he’d just obtained, but he already had a rough idea of how to handle them.
Still, there was something more urgent than that.
‘I need to learn the Fusion Technique.’
He could create a secret art, but using it freely and naturally was still a stretch.
He needed to work on that.
He figured this would be good training for it.
Watching the backup team tense up as they stared at Helena, Seong said,
“Ah, and like I said earlier, we’re going to broadcast the training process. Roughly. Paid.”
At that, everyone nodded.
Broadcasting the training process was, in practice, taking on a pretty big risk, but—
Everyone accepted.
They’d already heard the rough outline of the operation, so in a way, it was only natural.
Anyway, once the talk ended—
Seong, the backup team, and most of the people preparing Rapid Guild’s broadcast all got moving.
They planned to start the training broadcast tonight.
So it was right to hurry and get ready. freёwebnovel.com
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Rapid Guild had been riding a huge wave of success lately.
They’d climbed to second place in the guild rankings, yet on MeTube, they were recording an overwhelming number-one viewership.
There had been plenty of MeTubers you could call “world number one” up to now, but—
It wasn’t just among the Eternal World channels.
They’d hit the global number-one viewership spot, period.
And as a result, their paid ticket revenue had no choice but to skyrocket.
Of course, the problem was—
People wanted Yu Mina’s or Seong’s videos more than the other Rapid members’.
And naturally, they wanted the backup team’s videos too.
But since supply was nowhere near demand, it wasn’t just a shortage—it was almost reaching riot-level atmosphere.
That hollow frustration and anger you felt when you couldn’t get what you wanted.
That kind of thing was getting poured onto Rapid, but—
Rapid took a hard line and started blacklisting people, so that too had to die down right away.
Either way, that just meant viewers wanted something badly.
And there was no way Rapid—Rapid, the guild master and representative of Rapid Guild—didn’t know that.
But even so, you couldn’t squeeze out content that didn’t exist.
Then, right on time, Seong sent over a really good idea.
And that was how the paid ticket broadcast began.
[●『Rapid Guild』Live Broadcast 『Training with the Demon King and the Backup Team』]
A live broadcast with a title that was guaranteed to hook people.
It was only natural that people went crazy for it.
Even though it wasn’t free but paid, viewers poured in like crazy.
To be honest, a “training live” normally didn’t have that big of a demand.
There were always viewers who’d curse, saying, “You’re charging for this garbage?”
But the Demon King and his backup team almost never streamed.
So people were ready to welcome even this with both hands raised.
Sure, they liked the skill and flashiness they showed—
But in many cases, people piled in simply because they liked them as people.
More than anything, compared to the rankers, not much information about them was out there.
So curiosity had no choice but to spike from something like this.
And the moment viewers entered, what they saw was—
KWAHHHHH—!!!
Pure white heavenly weapons raining down from the sky.
Gigantic swords and spears poured down, and the backup team tried every method they could to survive while blocking the heavenly weapons.
But somehow, even when they blocked, simple defensive blocks were pierced through and hit directly.
“Keuk!”
“Kuheok!!!”
“Guh!”
They took grievous wounds and got torn up, but—
Helena smiled seductively and released heavenly power to heal the badly injured.
So the backup team all looked up at Helena with sickened expressions, and Helena looked down at them.
The viewers who had just arrived couldn’t help being confused.
Why were Helena, one of Seong’s vassals, and the backup team fighting?
Most people had suspected it, but—
They knew.
Right now, Helena’s power was overwhelming the backup team.
But why were they even fighting in the first place?
While people were watching with that question—
Helena spoke, casually spitting venom.
“I told you—you can only block it if you use the concept. Are you guys dumb? No, you’re not. If you were, you wouldn’t have done it earlier, right?”
The backup team looked at Helena like they were sick of her.
And someone muttered,
“...It’s been three hours... our focus is going to slip...”
When someone said that—
The viewers had no choice but to be horrified.
Even as the viewers were agreeing and talking like that—
Helena heard it and said,
“Then after three hours, are you going to go, ‘Ah, we lost~ Good work~’ like that?”
“......” “......”
At Helena’s words, everyone went silent like their mouths were stuffed with honey.
She was right.
And it wasn’t only the backup team that got stabbed by her words.
While everyone was shrinking back—
Helena said,
“Alright. Then let’s start again.”
With that, the training resumed, and every single member of the backup team had roughly the same thought.
‘They said they’d keep training reasonable for the broadcast... don’t tell me this is what they meant by reasonable?’
With those ominous thoughts, their faces were turning paler by the second.
