Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1022

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 153
49. Hidden Occupation (3)
Survival Craft had teams dedicated to creating custom servers, which meant far more players enjoyed tinkering with the game’s mechanics than playing it in its original form.
This type of game is called a sandbox game.
It’s named after how children build and destroy castles on a beach, freely modifying things as they please.
However, properly setting up a custom server required substantial investment.
To cover those costs, the server needed to generate its own revenue, which naturally led to streamers becoming heavily involved in these games.
These are called streamer-exclusive servers.
Cheese Village was one such streamer-exclusive server.
A game system tied to donations, countless entertainment options, high freedom, and 24-hour management by the production team….
All of these were important elements in a streamer server.
But surprisingly, the most crucial factor was the ‘rationality of rewards.’
I wasn’t talking about money.
When streamers made certain efforts within this server and displayed something different from others.
The game had to provide appropriate compensation in return.
For example, imagine someone abandoned farming entirely and thoroughly explored the vast world created by the developers, only to return as just another unemployed wanderer.
Viewers would find this extremely difficult to accept.
Viewers felt his exploration was enjoyable and clearly valuable, yet the server’s system simply classified all those results as unemployment.
In reality, people might say, “Well, who told you to travel abroad so much?” But if a game ignored that effort and freedom, viewers had no choice but to feel indignant.
This had actually happened several times before, and the Cheese Village production team naturally considered this during the design phase.
They wanted to respond with substantial rewards for deeds that required tremendous courage.
“Cheese will probably become a colony of Paprika and have to tribute food to them. Cheese can’t resist here. Paprika is incredibly strong.”
“Then it’s a colony forever?”
“No, despite that, a resistance movement will definitely emerge.”
“What? But you said they can’t resist?”
“They’ll emerge anyway. Like independence fighters.”
“Ah….”
“People with tremendous courage will appear. Then the rewards for that must be guaranteed.”
By design, Paprika Village and Cheese Village were incomparable in combat power.
Courageous individuals would resist such overwhelming forces?
Then this certainly deserved to be celebrated.
In reality, they might die without even leaving a name behind, but not in a game.
“So we prepared something like this….”
One of the production team members points to the screen and introduces it.
“Guardian.”

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CRASH!!!
[Vermillion Bird’s Runway]
The scarlet Vermillion Bird swept across the battlefield once.
Everything around became a sea of flames.
Whoooosh!!
-Trembling…
-What the heck is this lol
-Dude that’s totally broken lol
-Game over~
‘What the—’
Even Almond, who fired the arrow himself, was shocked.
Among the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black Tortoise, and Vermillion Bird, only the Vermillion Bird could be shot with a bow, so I fired that one.
But this level of destructive power…
“SCREEEEEECH!”
The Vermillion Bird launched alongside the arrow turned everything in its path into a hellscape of flame.
“I… I’m insane, what is this… cough…!”
Parsley, who had been mercilessly slaughtering the Knight Order, was incinerated without even managing a proper counterattack.
“AHHHHHHH!”
The flames dealt tremendous damage.
-Wow lol
-???
-Total bug balance trash game lol
-What the heck lol
-This is too much
-Wouldn’t that kill your own allies too???
With this level of damage, range, and speed, it would be strange if my own forces weren’t swept up in it as well.
“Hah… huff…”
Thud.
Mosol, startled by the overwhelming firepower, tumbled backward.
“W-what is this?”
Merang from Sungsja’s ship.
And so on.
They were all perfectly fine.
This was the tremendous privilege and constraint of being a Guardian.
[*Cheese Village Residents are unaffected.]
The Cheese Village residents took no damage whatsoever.
It was an option that perfectly matched the title of Guardian.
‘What is this?’
Danbong also understood only after looking around.
The Knight Order survives entirely while only Paprika burns to death.
‘What… what do I do?’
Yet Danbong was deeply flustered.
‘It would be better if they all burned to death!?’
Right now, Paprika Village was becoming fertile in real time.
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
“Ugh, uaaah! Uaaagh!”
“Fire! Fire!”
Thump.
One by one they collapsed, and the earth turned pitch black.
It would be catastrophic if the Knight Order members saw this.
Especially if Hongsong or Mobeong saw it?
‘There’s no turning back from this.’
I had to prevent that at all costs.
Danbong shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Knight Order! Retreat into Danmuzip!”
Since they’d just witnessed a massive vermillion bird turn the scene into a hellfire, everyone was already in complete panic.
‘R-retreat?’
‘Retreat?’
In the chaos, humans naturally hear loud voices calling out orders.
The knights quickly echoed the command.
“Retreat!”
“Retreat, sir!”
They all turned and ran.
Acrid smoke, chaotic battlefield, sudden retreat.
In all this, no one noticed the earth beneath the corpses turning pitch black.
Even if they had seen it, it would have been difficult to distinguish from scorched ground.
Danbong quickly searched for Gobong at that moment.
“G-Gobong!”
“Yes, sir!”
Now they moved like clockwork.
Gobong was already charging into the flames with a pickaxe in hand.
“I’ll be organizing the children at Danmuzip! You understand!?”
“Yes! I’ll handle the cleanup and head over!”
The corpse disposal team is creepy.
-Wow
I can’t translate this as it appears to be corrupted or garbled text with random Korean characters and keyboard symbols that don’t form coherent words.
Big things are up to Gobong ㅠㅠ
Thud, thud, thud!
Gobong kicked the corpses aside and dug up the earth beneath them, swiftly stuffing it into his inventory.
I shouted this to the panicked Knight Order.
“Everyone retreat~ Retreat~”
Chanting retreat like a work song, I instead moved backward, swinging my pickaxe.
Thwack! Thwack!

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Meanwhile, inside Danmuzip where the Knight Order had retreated.
“Gasp… Huff… What was that?”
Hongsong-i asked in shock about the vermillion bird that had just flown past.
From their perspective, they couldn’t clearly distinguish whether Almond had fired it or what it was.
That was only natural.
Even Almond himself didn’t know what the Guardian skill was until he fired it.
However, Danbong knew Almond’s exact location, so he was certain.
“The Chief fired it.”
“!”
Everyone in the Knight Order’s faces went pale with shock.
“Since skill damage from Seok hits our side too, we retreated here.”
“Then… was that just now the Guardian?”
Hongsong-i asked in astonishment.
The rumor that Almond had unlocked the route to becoming a Guardian had already spread far and wide throughout Cheese Village.
There were countless Streamers who witnessed that spectacle of NPCs rushing in.
“Yeah, check the chat log.”
[Almond has advanced to the legendary class ‘Guardian’!]
Everyone’s eyes went wide.
“Wow… insane.”
“Guardian?”
“That’s crazy.”
All the new recruits thought the same thing.
‘Thank goodness.’
‘If he were an enemy, it would be terrifying.’
‘The Knight Order is the best.’
They were truly glad they joined the Knight Order.
With this battle, sponsorships poured in, they received enormous attention, and their viewer count increased.
There was no way it could be bad, and now Chief Almond had obtained the one and only legendary class, Guardian.
With this, people’s attention could only continue to focus on the Knight Order.
Their loyalty grew endlessly higher.
Someone even asked viewers to add an Achievement entry.
“Someone add this to the NamuWiki Achievement. That I, Bungbungi… was in the Knight Order….”
-For real lol, it’s crazy
-The Knight Order’s Blacksmith Bungbungi…
-Hahahaha, Bungbungi did do something
-Made a bow, so he’s done his part~
Beyond that, new recruits were increasingly appealing their loyalty to the Knight Order to the viewers, spouting nonsense.
“When Almond was born, a tremendous light descended from the heavens and split the world into four continents…. Asia, America, Europe, Africa….”
-Lol where is this going
-Lmao
-Almondian creationism lol
-Lol what even is this
-Almond religion lol
Someone had deified Almond.
“Let me redesign the Knight Order’s banner. Make it bigger and really stylish.”
Someone else was trying to remake the Knight Order’s banner using their expertise.
“Everyone, I noticed my birthday was written incorrectly on my profile. My real birthday is today. I was reborn when I joined the Knight Order.”
One person tried to change their birthday.
But all their mere words of loyalty could never prove devotion equal to his.
Thud.
Suddenly, Danmuzip’s front door burst open, and someone barely clinging to life stumbled in.
“M-Mobeong!?”
Danbong rushed to support Mobunji in shock.
“M… Mobunji… return complete. Mission… accomplished.”
Collapse.
He collapsed right there in the entrance from massive blood loss.
[Dead]
Having poured all his strength into completing the mission, he ended his life as if it were a lie.
-Lol no way
-What’s with the direction lol
-The timing though lol
-Lol
-Mosol lol
All the new streamer recruits who had been appealing their loyalty fell silent.
‘That’s cheating.’
‘He actually died, the hardcore bastard.’
‘Wow… Bungbungi’s subordinates really are different.’
Danbong closed Mobunji’s eyes and spoke to those behind him.
“Hongsong, gather Mobunji’s belongings and put them in the communal storage for now.”
“Yes! Hey you lot, move!”
Smack!
Following the Knight Order’s long-standing tradition, Hongsong-i kicked some recruit’s rear end.
“Ow, ouch! Understood!”
-Knight Order dialect automatically triggers lol
-Why does everyone’s speech pattern change like that? lol
Oh my, I’m sorry ㅠㅠ
-Merang lol lol lol

* * *
Meanwhile, outside the Danmuzip.
Almond and Gobong met in the middle of the battlefield.
Thwack! Thwack!
Pickaxes swinging without pause.
Together they mined Bioyeokto while cleaning up the scattered battlefield.
I’d like to take the obsidian equipment right away, but that had to be left for the lower-ranking members.
That way, they’d farm diligently without thinking anyone had touched it first.
“Almost done~”
The cleanup of the upper area, aside from the pit, was nearly complete.
Gobong suddenly rushed toward Almond urgently.
“M-my lord…!”
He trembled as if he’d discovered something, his hands shaking.
“This… isn’t this option appearing for the first time?”
In his hand lay a square piece of Bioyeokto. On the surface, it looked just like any other Bioyeokto.
“Option?”
Even with the same Bioyeokto, the options differed depending on whether it came from human or monster fertilizer, and among those, there was a difference between those killed by dragon’s breath and those that weren’t.
So naturally, this thought arose.
What about human fertilizer killed by the Vermillion Bird’s breath?
“Oh….”
Almond’s lips curved upward as he read the option.
“This is worth protecting the village for, isn’t it?! Uh, uhahahahaha!”
“Ahahahahaha!”
They laughed loudly in the middle of the dark battlefield littered with corpses.
-Anyone can see they’re total villains lol
-These guys are protectors…?
-lol lol lol lol lol they’re like complete villains lol lol
-Almond matching the laugh is so cute lol lol
-lol lol lol lol the characters are so funny lol lol

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