Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1018

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 149
48. Knight Order vs Paprika Village (2)
In Seok, you can mine everything visible around you and convert it into square blocks to carry in your inventory.
For example, if you strike the ground dirt with a pickaxe several times, it becomes a block that you can put in your inventory.
As long as the target isn’t a liquid or gas, you can mine anything.
That’s exactly how this works.
The trap the Knight Order created.
The Knight Order had excavated the ground beneath where the enemies would stand.
And they’d installed bombs beneath that foundation.
And then─
“Die.”
Click.
Danbong pressed the button, sending them plummeting into a deep chasm at his command.
BOOM!
“!?”
An attack using terrain they’d never anticipated.
Everyone in Paprika Village descended helplessly into the depths below.
“What?”
“Huh?”
“Eh?”
Even Shrimp, the leader, fell without realizing he was descending.
“Iiiiiinsaaaaaane?!”
Whoooosh…!
They’d dug so devastatingly deep that the descent felt like it lasted several minutes.
The sudden free fall, despite being a game, was terror enough to turn a human’s mind completely white.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
“Aaahhhhhhhhh!”
The other Paprika Residents screamed in panic, completely losing their composure.
They felt utterly defeated.
However─
‘No.’
Shrimp’s voice cut through their screams.
“Stay calm!”
He was a Streamer who specialized in survival crafting.
He understood that this situation wasn’t actually as hopeless as it seemed.
“This won’t kill us!”
Estimating the depth roughly, it wasn’t high enough to drain a full HP bar in one hit.
For that to happen, you’d need to jump from something like a high-rise building.
No matter how malicious those Knights were, they couldn’t dig that deep.
“Once we land, we’ll─”
Just as Shrimp was about to say something.
──A heavy thud echoed.
[Health 49%]
Upon hitting the ground, my health plummeted.
“Ugh!”
“Argh!”
“Damn it….”
Just as he’d said, the Paprika Residents were still alive.
The problem was everything else that fell with us.
Monsters.
“Grrrrr….”
It wasn’t just humans who survived the fall.
They were all alive too.
Clang!
The Auwulves charged straight at us.
There was barely any space to escape in this place.
Unexpectedly, I found myself fighting monsters instead of heading to Cheese Village.
“Damn, damn it!”
“What the hell is this!”
That was when.
“Don’t panic!!”
A tremendous explosion erupted!
With Shrimp’s shout, a brilliant crimson beam shot from her palm.
[Magma Beam]
A stream of red lava pierced through the monster with perfect precision.
“Screeeeeech!”
“Kyaaaagh!”
The Auwulves were obliterated in an instant—the destructive power was incredible.
“Excellent! Lava Mage!”
But then something strange happened.
“Huh?”
Whoooosh—flames erupted everywhere!
After firing the lava a few times, fire suddenly ignited all around us.
“?”
Shrimp looked down at the ground.
Something slick was scattered across it.
A lot of it.
‘Candle wax…?’
Candle wax to sustain the flames, along with dry leaves and cloth scraps that burned easily.
‘These bastards… they planned this from the start?’
Whoooooosh!!!
The flames spread with the force of consuming the entire pit in an instant.
I thought the plan was to trap them with the monster and kill them.
But they were trying to kill us by pushing us into a fiery abyss.
The Paprika Residents fell into panic again.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“Fire! Fuuuire!”
“S-Status abnormality! Status abnormality!”
The damage from the fire wasn’t as severe as I expected. Thanks to Obsidian.
But that wasn’t the real problem.
[Smoke Inhalation]
[Oxygen Deficiency]
Abnormal status notifications were already appearing at the edge of my vision.
This wasn’t an open space like before—it was completely enclosed on all sides.
The smoke was bound to be overwhelming.
The only way to survive was to go up.
“Stack blocks! Blocks!”
“Stack the blocks!”
Parsley, a fellow Seok Streamer, echoed Shrimp’s command.
After repeating it a few times, all the residents began stacking blocks beneath their feet and climbing upward.
Jumping while filling in blocks below—an essential trick technique you had to master while playing Seok.
“Remember what we practiced!?”
Paprika had taught all the Paprika Residents who were new to Seok every trick technique used in the game.
“Ah, ah! That, that one!?”
“Yes!”
I had believed that everyone needed to become elite combatants to defeat the Non-selected Personnel.
Thanks to that, they had grown stronger.
Thump, thump, thump.
Everyone instantly began installing blocks beneath their feet and climbing upward.
Thump, thump, thump.
“It works, it works!”
“Let’s go! Back up!!”
They were all skilled gamers with good dexterity.
Thump, thump, thump….
Stacking blocks below and jumping again.
Then blocks again.
Then another jump.
Everyone began climbing upward in an instant.
They quickly escaped the flames and headed back to the surface.
Especially Shrimp, a Seok veteran, moved so fast that she looked almost like she was flying.
Whoooosh!
Almost at the top now.
“C-crazy, they’re already climbing up!”
“What!?”
Gobong and Danbong, who had been looking down, wore expressions of panic.
At this, Shrimp burst into laughter.
“Ahahaha! Did you really think you could kill us with something like this!?”
Now it was time for blood vengeance against Cheese’s Knight Order thugs.
Click!
Stacking blocks all the way up, now we were completely level with them.
“I’ll melt every last one of you.”
Rumble rumble rumble…!
The lava orb floating in his hand vibrated.
“Damn it…”
“Cursed invaders.”
No matter if they buried them underground, burned them with fire, or ambushed them, Paprika Village remained unscathed.
The more they tried, the more the purple-gleaming obsidian armor they wore stood out.
-Scary
-So persistent lol
-Wow lol
-They still have almost full health??
-Show us the stats
[Volcano]
The lava mage’s ultimate skill.
It continuously erupts volcanoes in a specific area, turning it into a sea of lava.
‘Our fall into this pit actually turned out to be a blessing.’
Since the ground here had collapsed, the lava wouldn’t flow toward our side. Even if lava did flow, it would all fall into this pit.
The Paprika team all stood on towers made of blocks, so they wouldn’t take damage from the lava.
No matter how much lava he poured out, it wouldn’t hit us.
Most importantly.
‘The channeling won’t be interrupted.’
Volcano is a channeling skill that requires the caster to maintain continuous casting.
If the enemy attacks us, it breaks immediately.
At least 5 seconds of channeling is needed for Volcano to reach its full power.
5 seconds is an incredibly long time.
The enemies would rush over and start attacking him right away.
But what’s this?
‘They can’t touch me.’
The enemies couldn’t reach us because they’d collapsed the ground.
And it seemed they had no ranged attack options either.
That means they can’t hit this side.
To hit us, they’d need to get close.
They’d have to build bridges with blocks to approach.
At that pace, they can’t interrupt the channeling.
They’ve fallen right into their own trap.
Shrimp breaks into a broad grin.
[Select target area.]
She casts the skill toward Danmuzip’s position.
“I’ll kill every last one of you.”
Boom—
A heavy roar echoed as the ground trembled violently.
‘Trigger the volcano eruption and turn on the broadcast.’
Thinking she should turn on the broadcast once this skill successfully activates, Shrimp grinned widely.
But Danbong was smiling just the same.
Hehehehe.

* * *
About two hours earlier.
The Knights’ tactical meeting was in full swing.
“If we dig a pit here and blow it up with the bomb the Agricultural Cooperative left behind—boom! Everything gets dumped into the pit.”
“Mm.”
Almond nodded at Danbong’s explanation, and Hongsong, Resong, and Gobong all agreed as well.
“Then the monsters and us all get mixed together in chaos, and everything just burns up in flames….”
Danbong’s plan was brilliant.
A strategy to eliminate enemies without lifting a finger.
“Wait a moment!”
However, this plan had one critical flaw that any Seok expert would spot immediately.
Since many of the newly recruited Knights were Seok experts, there was no way they’d miss it.
“That won’t work!”
Cherry, a Seok specialist Streamer, was the first to raise her hand.
“Huh?”
“Even if we bury her, she’ll probably climb back out soon!”
“Who?”
When Almond asked her, Cherry answered urgently.
“Ch… No, Bungbungi!”
Cherry was Bungbungi’s partner.
Among the selected ones, she was among the finest.
-Bungbungi lol lol lol lol
-Thought it was Cherry lol
-Lmao lol lol
-Bungbungi has a nice ring to it
“Cherry, how exactly are they supposed to climb up?”
“Like this.”
*Thump.*
Cherry simply and swiftly stepped on the blocks and ascended in an instant.
It was truly the blink of an eye.
“Oh.”
Almond exclaimed with admiration.
“Skilled players are incredibly fast. Almost like they’re flying.”
In Seok, it was a common trick to ascend by placing blocks beneath your feet and moving through the air like you were walking.
“Aren’t they skilled though?”
“…W-well, maybe one or two of them could be considered skilled?”
hahahahaha lol
I just swept it all up, what kind of expert~ㅋㅋ
-From Almond’s perspective they were trash
“Hmm, right. So there’s a chance they could fail, is what you’re saying?”
“Yes, I think there’s a high probability they’ll climb up.”
“Then, is dropping them inside completely pointless?”
Cherry shook her head in denial.
“Not at all! Once they fall, the characters will panic, and we can deal significant fall damage!”
“Really? But they could still climb up, right?”
“Yes, so we need to prepare for that. I recommend attacking from range while they’re climbing. There’s only one block’s worth of space to dodge.”
It was certainly a good idea.
However, the Knight Order had no viable ranged attack methods.
“But they’re not even skilled….”
“….”
Is this a repeat sign? lol
Be prepared just in case lol
Haha, seriously
“And we don’t have ranged weapons.”
That was true.
The Knight Order still didn’t have ranged weapons.
In fact, not just the Knight Order—no group had secured ranged weapons anywhere.
Ranged weapons weren’t particularly efficient in Seok, and the Cheese Village system made acquiring ranged weapons extremely difficult.
At least, that was the case until someone stepped forward.
“I…I’m actually a Blacksmith….”
He introduced himself as a Blacksmith.
“Your name first.”
“I’m Bungeo.”
“Bungeo? Who told you to put that character there?”
“Ah, so… I’m Bungbungi!”
-So Bungeo was his real name lol
-Bungbungi lololol
-lmaooo
-lololololol rofl
-pfft lol
He too was of the Bung lineage. Unfortunately.
“Bungbungi, you’re the Blacksmith?”
“Yes… the Commander heard about my profession and immediately recruited me…”
“Is that so?”
I didn’t remember that.
But I did remember something else important.
“So the Bungs really are exceptional?”
Back in my Aseng days, I remembered the CEOs occasionally pitting departments against each other for competition.
The CEOs probably didn’t even know who each of them were individually.
But they knew exactly how to set them ablaze with ambition.
This place was no different.
The Euk faction responded immediately.
“Ugh…”
“Euk.”
“Someone step up.”
“Why don’t you try?”
Murmur murmur.
It grew briefly chaotic, but Bungbungi pressed on undeterred.
“As long as I have materials, I can craft anything—weapons, armor, you name it.”
“But anyone without a class can do that too, right?”
“When I craft, the durability is significantly higher. Material efficiency is excellent, and… I can even make ranged weapons that ordinary people cannot produce.”
“…Oh.”
It was that good?
My expression showed I was hearing this for the first time.
-He recruited him and is surprised lol
-Why did you recruit him if you didn’t know lmao
-There’s a Cheese Village manual in the menu, Almond~
-lololol Nut Shake lol
A Blacksmith was certainly useful.
Seok had significant restrictions on ranged weapon crafting.
But a Blacksmith could do it with ease, couldn’t they?
“Just provide the materials and I’ll craft some examples for you.”
“Ranged weapons, for instance?”
“That would be…”

* * *
[Volcano]
Boom—
A portion of the ground beneath Danmuzip rose and trembled violently.
“!”
Magic on an enormous scale.
Uuuuoooong…!
Shrimp’s both hands blazed with crimson mana.
His eyes too burned a fierce scarlet with rage.
“I’ll slaughter you all.”
With his mad declaration, the volcano erupted.
An overwhelming disparity in firepower.
The Knight Order could do nothing.
But then—
‘Commander… now’s the moment!’
Danbong remained unshaken.
I had anticipated all of this.
This was merely the prepared sequence.
Rustle.
Distant brush quivered in the distance.
“Huff.”
Creak.
A blind spot completely invisible.
From somewhere, the sound of a bowstring being drawn echoed.

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