Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 101

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 101
35. Reaction (3)
I drew my bow toward the front.
All the viewers gasped at the sight of me.
-Almond, no matter how insane you are, is this really happening?
-Suicide reaction in a Diamond promotion match lol
-I acknowledge you as a true man
-Throwing away the match here?! lol
-Lol you’re crazy…
-But why not shoot over your head?
-Almond you madman, you might not get promoted!!
I grinned and released the bowstring.
The arrow curved sharply to the right from the start.
The arrow bent so violently to the right, curving again and again, until it completed an entire loop.
-!?
-Whoa whoa whoa
-What
-Wow
-Insane lol
Thunk!
And it lodged perfectly in the back of my head.
-You’re insane lol
-Absolutely! Genius! Archer!
-What lol
-This actually works!?
-Lol I’m losing it lol
[Rank 10]
Those words appeared, and the screen went dark in an instant.
[Streaming has ended.]
-???
-Wait, so did Almond actually make Diamond or not?
-Crazy, showing Diamond promotion and then leaving you nut lol
-Wow he just left lol
-He actually did it

* * *
“…Oh. It’s actually working.”
I murmured with satisfaction from inside the Capsule.
The button I’d prepared for the reckless reaction had worked. It was a virtual button designed to end the broadcast.
Capsule games fundamentally prevent interference between apps, but since this was a hardware function, it didn’t matter.
“Phew. Let me check the results.”
I left the field and entered the waiting room.
Since only the broadcast had ended, I was still in the game itself.
The waiting room in virtual space.
As soon as I emerged, a brilliant light greeted me.
The text inscribed there.
[Diamond Ⅴ]
Diamond tier five.
I had successfully promoted.
I clenched my fist in the air.
“Done.”
I’d achieved my goal.
I’d kept my promise to the viewers too. And at the end, I’d even completed a spectacular(?) reaction.
In short, I’d fulfilled my duty to the viewers as a streamer.
Truly professional and flawless.
Thud. Thud.
I heard Juhyeok pounding on the Capsule lid.
He was shouting at the top of his lungs. He was excited. His voice was brimming with enthusiasm.
Hissssss──
As I opened the lid and stood up, his shout grew even louder.
“KYAAAAAAAA!”
He was straining his neck like a dragon roaring.
“You hit Diamond, right?! Huh? I checked the stats site! Dude!”
Juhyeok must have rushed to the stats website to verify my rank while I was still in the game.
Since the broadcast had cut off, he hadn’t been able to check my rank either.
The fact that Juhyeok had seen it meant that by now, any viewers with quick fingers would’ve already confirmed it too.
“Wow! Even that reckless ending was perfect! You’re just a broadcasting genius! Kyaaaah!”
This was the most excited I’d ever seen Juhyeok.
Sanghyeon was taken aback seeing Juhyeok more excited than he was.
He was even praising the reckless part. Wasn’t that just a bit of trolling?
“W-wait, the reckless part? That was just a joke.”
“A joke?”
Juhyeok, who had been bouncing around, suddenly grew calm and flashed his glasses.
“Huh? That was a joke?”
“…Why are you upset?”
“That’s not a joke. Almond, a meteoric newcomer, crushed Diamond in just one week and cut Jeon-ja-pa’s record by a staggering 25%. It’s the perfect punctuation mark to this entire journey. Have you ever heard of narrative circularity?”
“Even someone from a sports background knows that.”
“Right. That’s exactly it. It has meaning, real meaning!”
“Seems like you’re really stretching it.”
Pfft.
When Sanghyeon laughed and answered that way, Juhyeok shot back as if he’d expected nothing less.
“Yeah, exactly. I knew you’d say that. Now let me show you why you’re a genius. Just look at this.”
Tap.
The website Juhyeok confidently held up was Javer, the nation’s number one portal site.
It displayed the real-time search rankings.
7th) Diamond
Diamond was ranked 7th.
‘Diamond?’
Until now, Sanghyeon had been thinking, ‘What’s the point of this?’
But when he saw 6th place.
6th) Almond Rank
And when he even saw 5th place.
5th) Almond
He couldn’t help but realize who that Diamond search was targeting.
‘This can’t be real.’
Now Sanghyeon finally understood what Juhyeok was getting at.
“See? Now you understand why your reckless reaction was a masterstroke? Real-time search rankings are something other advertising companies have to throw money at—hiring part-timers, running events, doing all sorts of ridiculous things just to climb. But us?”
Juhyeok continued with a satisfied grin.
“We just happened to go reckless at the right moment, making it unclear whether we actually beat Diamond or not! And just like that, we got 13,000 part-timers working for free!”
Thirteen thousand unpaid workers. The way Juhyeok put it made it feel like we’d pulled off some incredible marketing campaign.
Actually, even though I hadn’t intended it, we really had executed brilliant marketing.
Everything Juhyeok said was pure fact without a shred of exaggeration.
I’m well aware of how much effort marketing departments at various companies pour into climbing Javer’s real-time search rankings.
And we’d just done it for free.
Or rather, since we did it through sponsor reactions, it was basically getting paid for it.
“Wow.”
I let out a quiet exclamation of amazement.
I was impressed by Juhyeok’s brilliant explanation, but even more so by my own incredible luck.
‘Can things really go this smoothly?’
The reckless reaction was content with absolutely no such intention behind it. It was pure luck.
Of course, if I said that, Juhyeok would inevitably respond with ‘That’s why you’re a genius,’ so I just nodded.
A marketing genius? I’m nowhere near that.
Archery is my domain.
Watching Juhyeok still excitedly rambling on, spitting in his enthusiasm, I thought to myself.
Isn’t it Juhyeok who’s actually the genius at marketing?
There are those who delve deeply into phenomena that others might dismiss as mere luck, analyzing every causal thread until the complete picture emerges.

* * *
That evening, the article dropped immediately.
[Emerging Streamer Almond Shatters Diamond Rank in Just One Week!]
It was an official article from Battle Large’s website.
-Wow, even the official site is running the story?
└Of course, Almond’s world-class lol
└Lol world-class Almond
And is this real? I’ve been watching since you had 100 viewers, and my heart feels so full man.
-He was always different from the start.
-His archery was exceptionally skilled, makes me wonder how he’d do in other games. Anyway, nice work
└How would this guy do in Reel?
-Wow official site article lol nice
Official game website articles are extremely rare. They only appear when someone breaks a specific record like this.
In other words, the game company itself was officially acknowledging that Almond had set a new record.
With things developing this way, naturally the Bera 31 community erupted into chaos.
[Almond Shatters in One Week! Shaving Off a Quarter of the Time!]
[Wow Almond’s Overwhelming Record!]
[Where did all those bastards who said Almond couldn’t do it go~~~~? lol]
[Insane for real lol Almond!]
[He did this in one week? This guy’s a monster]
Eighty percent of the posts were about Almond.
Bera 31 was originally a system where posts not about Battle Large were deleted immediately.
[Mom, when I grow up I want to be Almond!]
[Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond!]
“Wow, I believed in me and almonds. I should’ve just done Toto with this instead, damn it.”
[Ralo: If there was an Almond coin, I would’ve bought it.]
Posts endlessly cheering for Almond without any Battle Large content, along with praise for him, remained undeleted.
More precisely, there were so many posts flooding in that they couldn’t delete them one by one.
It was like watching crowds of supporters pouring into the streets during World Cup season.
Bera 31 had never been particularly favorable toward Almond, but now it had completely transformed into a pro-Almond community.
At this point, I was curious about the Kingdom Age community and Kingchiman, who had shown infinite affection toward Almond.
[Kingchiman’s Pride! Almond! Crushed Battle Large’s Head!]
[Show the whole world that Kingdom Age is the strongest game, Almond!!!]
Wow, this is seriously amazing. I watched it back when there were only like 10 viewers, and honestly it gives me chills. I’m so moved.
[Wow how did one streamer achieve such success in just a month…. This is insane.]
Since Kingchiman was a relatively minor community, there was a sense of belonging among its members.
Thanks to that, they even took pride in Almond being part of Kingchiman.
Can you just drop Battle Rage and do the Rosenita route instead? ㅠㅠ
[Could it be… returning to Kingdom now…? lol]
[That’s probably not it, but Almond, honestly you should clear Kingdom at least on a second playthrough, right? haha]
Some of them even imagined that since I had achieved my goal, I might return to Kingdom again.
In fact, I had made statements before about replaying the Rosenitta route, so it wasn’t entirely impossible.
However, according to my manager Juhyeok’s analysis, returning to the minor game Kingdom at this point would be the worst move.
Either way, I’m a partner streamer who needs to capitalize on major achievements. He believed my next game also needed to be quite major.
Once I succeeded once more with that major title, then I’d have the luxury to revisit Kingdom from before. Then perhaps I could attempt various solo package games as well.
Zzzzring—
Juhyeok’s phone rang.
Thinking it was probably another congratulatory message, he glanced at it briefly before turning his gaze back to the monitor.
‘Ah. Right.’
Realizing who the message was from, he immediately picked up his phone.
[Balloon Gum Manager Seong-tae Park: I watched the broadcast. You even trended in the search rankings. It’s become incredibly easy for us to set the stage. Thank you.]
It wasn’t simply a congratulatory message. That arrogant manager from Balloon Gum had even sent words of gratitude.
Zzzzring?
Another message arrived right after.
This one also wasn’t easy to simply ignore.
[Department Manager Punk Oh: Wow. That was insane, right? The search ranking thing—our director confirmed it too. The Korean archery thing really seems like it’s going to happen. Oh, I also heard from Seong-tae Park—you two are doing a collaboration broadcast?]
So news about me had reached the director in real time.
Juhyeok smiled.
Among numerous partner streamers, having my news reach the director directly was something that naturally brought a smile to his face.
He opened the notepad for a moment, checked the sentences several times, then sent replies to both of them.
“Phew.”
After finishing, Juhyeok leaned back in his chair as if lying down.
He wiped away a bead of sweat forming on his forehead and thought.
‘It feels like a dream.’
Everything was going well.
Seeing the last message made him feel it even more.
[Department Manager Punk Oh: Oh, right. Tomorrow’s the ad revenue settlement day—check it out! Tribee’s tomorrow too, right? Treat us to something!]
I had forgotten about it because the diamond climb was so important.
Tomorrow was settlement day.
“Now that I think about it… Tribee too?”
Punk and Tribee’s settlement dates were the same. End of every month.
The broadcast journey of the past month was being converted into money.

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