I Couldn’t Afford to Buy Mana, so I Started Streaming

Most countries had regulations during the National Exchange Tournament that prohibited drinking under the guise of “maintaining dignity.”

Moreover, there are only a handful of nations in the world that would allow a 10-year-old to drink alcohol.

That being said, Na-me holding a beer came as a shocking surprise to the public.

[Controversy Over NoName Drinking During Break]

Illegal entertainment outlets on the Internet released photos of Na-me drinking ㄷㄷ

(Photos of NoName bringing a can of beer to her mouth on the balcony.jpg)

From the look of it, she doesn’t seem like a newbie at this, right?

Does it even make sense to be drinking just before the National Exchange Tournament match?

[Comments]

– No defamation, please.

– Wow, NoName-sensei is just wild, lmaoㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– Isn’t one sip okay?

└ Chill with the negativity, please.

– Even in countries where drinking is legal, players are still criticized for drinking during the National Exchange Tournament.

– Last year, Germany ruined their training because of drinking.

└ But why this year…

└ Let’s not bring that up this yearㅠㅠ

– At this rate, if Na-me loses even one match, the haters are gonna swarm her;;

└ I think criticism is fair, though.

└ She’s not even 16, she’s 10. Who the heck bought her the alcohol?

However, public opinion quickly turned around.

[@NoName]

[I didn’t drink.]

(‘Diagnosis Magic – Blood Alcohol Level: 0%’.jpg)

I was just curious and sniffed while having lunch with my sister~

Na-me immediately proved her innocence with diagnosis magic.

While there were some comments doubting the photo’s authenticity, they were swiftly silenced by Na-me’s fans.

– Of course, fake news will be fake newsㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– These types would still demand explanations even if a video was made.

– Why would someone as self-disciplined as Na-me drink?

– They’re just desperate to slander our Na-me.

– Smelling alcohol out of curiosity? That’s such a childlike action, it’s cuteㅎㅎ

– Did NoName have a sister?

– Isn’t that the person Dispatch mentioned before?

– Wow~ So the adopted sibling is NoName?

– I’m really jealous of Na-me’s sister for having a hotel stay with herㅠㅠㅠ

Shortly after, security issues at the accommodation became a new hot topic.

To prepare for drones filming from dozens of kilometers away, the Korea National Team hastily installed optical disruptors in their accommodation and training area.

[Isn’t it concerning that we’ve never used the optical disruptors even once during outdoor training?]

Aren’t security measures the top priority when setting up a base camp in a foreign country?

I mean, it’s an era where satellite cameras can capture everything, and it’s frustrating that they didn’t even think to install optical disruptors.

What if all tactical information gets leaked?

[Comments]

– How can Ma-hyeop bring such great players and still operate like this?

– It’s infuriating, seriously.

– We need to abandon the hope that others will act fairly just because we do.

– Last year, Russia stole our combat data, remember? They’ll do anything to win.

– To be honest, isn’t this grounds for punishment?

Meanwhile, other countries were hoping for someone courageous to leak sensitive information.

Love Kim, relying on Unique Magic Roseus Panthera, and NoName, who relies on Imperial Palace Swordsmanship, had straightforward victory patterns.

What some hoped for and others worried about eventually came to pass.

[530824 NoName Training]

The content of a video uploaded anonymously on V-tube was indeed shocking.

[AI Summary]

-(00:01): The screen brightens.
-(00:03): 1000x zoom on the camera.
-(00:06): A girl enters the training arena (please enter name).
-(00:10): The girl looks around.
-(00:18): The girl puts down her wand and starts stretching (00:18~03:34).
-(00:23): Fingers interlaced, stretching out.
(…)

-(03:09): Vertical jumps in place.
-(03:20): Jumping jacks.
-(03:35): The girl wipes her forehead with her right arm and flutters her clothes with her left hand.
-(03:42): The girl picks up the wand she left on the floor.
-(03:46): The girl drinks a beverage (please enter product name) and exits the training arena.

[Comments]

– What? NoName’s training video is leaked? This is serious ㄷㄷ

– What? The video just ends after stretching, though?

– That vertical jump was shockingly cuteㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– Shuuuuuuuup-

– If it was just stretching, why bring the wand, though?ㅋㅋㅋ

– I could summarize it better than AI: NoName stretches for 3 minutes.

– Ah, Na-me can’t handle the heat eitherㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– The sun’s bright now.

Average temperatures surpassing 30 degrees make it a challenge for Na-me to use the outdoor training arena.

Na-me’s stretching video rode the algorithm to phenomenal popularity and eventually even got mentioned by the official National Exchange Tournament channel.

[@France National Exchange Tournament Committee]

(video) A participant’s shockingly (cute) stretching routine

└ Is this NoName’s secret to strength? I need to try this with my 5-year-old daughter right now.

└ Such a rigorous training… You might get charged with child abuse, lol.

└ Na-me is just too cute~~~!!!

└ A lovely yet deadly creature.

└ Gatorade is undoubtedly the best beverage.

The video racked up over 100 million views in a single day.

The National Exchange Tournament Committee generated substantial marketing revenue for its official sponsor, PepsiCo.

Seeing the possibility of product placement, sponsors from various countries rushed towards their national teams.

Starting with Italy’s Monica Ricci, participants began uploading training videos voluntarily, providing a wealth of entertainment during the National Exchange Tournament.

However, controversies have a habit of erupting unexpectedly.

The day before the start of the top 32 in the National Exchange Tournament, a volcanic event ignited the Korean community.

[Isn’t that the Imperial Palace Swordsmanship made by Na-me?]

(Lu Ruowan – 72 Moves of Yozido Youjian demonstration video)

(Comparison of Yozido Youjian and Imperial Palace Swordsmanship.gif)

And I thought the Mudang Sect never practiced Yozido Youjian in real combat?

What on earth are these guys up to?

[Comments]

– Other than bending the tip of the sword, isn’t it almost identical?

– Even someone who doesn’t know much about swordsmanship can see it’s the same ㅇㅇ

– Did they finally get a conscience?

– No matter how similar sword techniques are, isn’t this a bit too blatant?

– What’s this “everything originates from China” theory?

– With such antics, it’s hard to look at them.

– They set everything on fire and now claim it all belongs to them, lol.

Despite numerous complaints in the comment section, China refused to budge on claiming it as theirs.

[ Yozido Youjian is the swordsmanship steeped in the history and tradition of the Mudang Sect. Through the genuine value of embracing the ever-changing, may your eyes be filled with splendid experiences.]

└ This reverse logic, though? Why’s the tone so annoying?

└ You better be ready to get stomped by NoName tomorrow.

In an atmosphere filled with extreme anti-China and anti-Korea sentiments,

Na-me’s broadcast suddenly began.

[NoName]

[Just Chatting – Can’t Sleep]

[Broadcasting Time – 0:01:31]

[Number of Viewers – 5,819]

*

The human brain can’t comprehend negation.

Right now, when told to not think of an elephant, our brains activate the framework that is an elephant.

Even the aura that controls the overall activities of the body can’t forcibly induce sleep to cease consciousness activities.

“Is there a good way to fall asleep quickly? I want to be in peak condition and wake up by 8 AM at the latest.”

I lay in bed, seeking advice from my viewers.

The current time was 11 PM.

As long as I could fall asleep before midnight, that was fine.

“I accidentally drank a caffeinated beverage…”

– Bijiaaaaaang!

– Na-me can’t sleepㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

– If you try too hard to sleep, you’ll end up more awake.

– A warm bath?

– Imagining lying on a hammock could help.

– How about classical music?

Desperate for victory, viewers began throwing suggestions left and right.

[‘belleamie’ has donated 100,000 won!]

– I think it’s best to not focus on sleeping, teacher. How about taking a light walk?

“Sounds good. Please wait here a moment while I change.”

I had a quiet hummingbird drone equipped with a camera follow me around.

I always carried my wand to not forget the feel of wielding a sword.

I passed through the quiet hotel hallway, took the elevator down to the 1st floor.

The small auditorium, being used as a tactical conference room, was bustling with the coaching staff preparing for the competition.

They seemed set on pulling an all-nighter.

I strolled past a deserted restaurant and in front of the swimming pool to avoid the clamor.

– Tup tup~

– Na-me is going thud thud again today.

– The hotel atmosphere really suits ghosts. My child loves it~

The chat was exceptionally tame compared to other days.

There wasn’t a single chat that irritated my mood.

It would have been nice if things were always this way.

In that moment, I decided to check out the outdoor training area.

Perhaps because it was night, the temperature remained pleasantly cool.

– Is this where that legendary Na-me stretch was born?!

– Wow, the plants are beautifully arranged.

– Did you see Na-me do the Na-me stretch?

The chat was flooded with talk about that stretch.

It wasn’t particularly special stretching.

Just a flexibility-focused routine, but I couldn’t understand why people were so fixated on it.

[‘개지키는집’ has donated 50,000 won!]

– Did you know that they stole Na-me’s Imperial Palace Swordsmanship in China? Please punish them tomorrow…!

– Let’s not talk about that.

– Shhh, please!

– Na-me must not be stressedㅠ

– The Imperial Palace Swordsmanship is much stronger than Yozido, so no worries.

– Don’t say that kind of thing!

– Ah, I feel like I’ve already stirred up a lot of drama, lol.

This was the first time I heard such a thing.

Unless they had taught the Imperial Palace Swordsmanship, what on earth did they mean by stealing it?

With a quick internet search, I was able to piece together the story.

I settled on a cool rock and dangled my legs.

“Everyone, please don’t fight too much in the chat. Allow me to share my thoughts. What is the essence of a sword? The ideal of the sword, the truth of the sword. What do we wield a sword for? First of all, I don’t think it’s to become absolutely strong, right? If a tiny grain of sand in the universe were to be shot at 99% the speed of light, the sand grain would have a mass larger than a continent. It’s hard to call the sword the best choice to achieve such destructive strength, loosely speaking.”

In other words, the essence of a sword cannot simply be confined to physical strength or destructive power.

Since the universe has been set up this way since its inception, strength equates to mass and speed.

There’s no room for swordsmanship to intervene.

So how do we determine what kind of swordsmanship is better?

To answer the question of whether a swordsman exists at all, one must further clarify the essence.

“I believe, and this is just my personal opinion, that the essence of a sword is much closer to being a tool that expands human capability and provides the ability to realize human will. Something that sounds like a cliché response from an amateur, right?”

Once, my master shared with me such insights.

When asked what a sword is, novices would simply say, “It’s just a sword.”

When I asked those with a bit of experience, they’d state notions like the will to change the world, courage, and so on while expressing their own values.

Yet, if I asked someone who had trained for a long time, they’d confess that a sword is just a sword.

But that’s distinctly different from the novices’ reply.

“We’re tugging at the world with our swords. Among these are perspectives like that: it’s not simply about cutting the enemy and winning—instead, it’s finding harmony and balance between ‘myself’ and ‘the world’. This understanding and growth is beyond physical strength, encompassing the dynamics between the individual and their environment.”

I stepped down from the rock and infused mana into my wand.

The crude magic engraved on the wand manifested the form of Skiabona, which I’ve shared my past life with.

I flowed golden aura into the sword.

This was the unique color of my aura, which is like my very identity.

Simultaneously, I overlapped my left hand over the hilt.

If I have opposed the world until now, then I establish a completely opposite mindset where the world opposes me.

The approaching dark blue multi-aura seeped into the sword.

“This is a complete balance beyond victory and defeat.”

As if sketching a circle with a magic circle, I slowly moved the Cheonghwa Sword in a curve with my wrist.

The contrasting auras harmoniously mixed within the circle, forming the Taeguk.

Slowly, oh so slowly, I withdrew the sword.

When the soothing waves of Skiabona had completely vanished, leaving only a smooth surface behind.

I swung the sword toward a massive rock in a single strike.

[Imperial Palace Swordsmanship 20th Form – Half-Moon Slice]

Swish-

It was the kind of tranquility I had never encountered in battle before.

– ???????

– Woah…

– ????

– What is this!!!

– Woah, NoName…

– Wait, is this really possible?????

The upper portion of the giant rock slid off at a 45-degree angle.

Boom-!

As soon as the heavy mass of rock hit the ground, it caused a noise that woke everyone up.

“Is this the Imperial Palace Swordsmanship 20th Form Half-Moon Slice, or…”

Rubbing my finger along the smooth cut, I smiled in satisfaction.

“Was this the Taeguk Hye Sword used by player Lu Ruowan last week?”

I gathered all the aura I had infused into the Cheonghwa Sword.

If my intention was to embody balance and harmony, then I needed to prepare for the opposite—subjugation.

Having tried it once, I found it not difficult to perform this sword technique.

I smirked as if it were too easy and headed towards the training arena’s exit.

“By the way, I don’t really endorse this philosophy. I always prefer victory.”

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