Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 107

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 107
38. Educational Broadcast (1)
[Balloon Gum and Almond’s collaboration is~~~~starting!]
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text as it appears to contain corrupted or nonsensical characters that don’t form coherent Korean words.
Gaming Genius VS Broadcasting Genius, the clash begins lol
[Wow! Collaboration! Wow! Almond! Wow! Balloon Gum!]
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The moment Almond and Balloon Gum’s collaboration began, the Community erupted into chaos as expected.
It was an unprecedented collaboration, and their chemistry was highly anticipated.
But what truly drove the viewers’ interest was this.
[Finally getting to see Almond suffer?]
[The only villain capable of tormenting Almond—Balloon Gum, engage!]
Everyone was desperately curious to see how Almond, who had never experienced suffering before, would finally break.
From the start, this coaching-concept broadcast wasn’t actual coaching at all.
It was essentially a program where viewers watched the coach suffer.
Let’s be honest—coaching Balloon Gum wouldn’t improve him one bit.
Almond would have to grab him by the collar and hard-carry him anyway.
That insane carrying ability while shouldering a troll, and the anguish that came with it.
These two things were the main content of this collaboration.
[Oh, it’s starting!]
The viewers, having intuited this roughly from the start, entered the broadcast eagerly anticipating Almond’s face twisted in agony.

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Regardless of what the viewers expected, there was only one objective in Almond’s mind.
‘Win with Balloon Gum!’
Balloon Gum.
In some respects, his skill was legendary.
The legendary triple fall-off, six-magazine no-kill, suicide shotgun—the list went on.
He was the architect behind countless legendary moments.
‘I’ll win no matter what…!’
The thought of duoing with this legendary player right now filled Almond with fierce determination.
This was going to be even more intense than playing solo.
‘How should we start?’
How could he help Balloon Gum improve while also securing a victory?
As he pondered this, he recalled the method that had raised his rating fastest during his beginner days.
It was the Armory rush, naturally.
In this tier, everyone lacked experience and physical skill, so landing the first strike almost guaranteed victory.
‘We’re going to the Armory.’
So Almond decided on the Armory.
But that was purely by his own standards.
“T-The Armory? Almond? Are you serious?”
Balloon Gum trembled like a balloon itself, his voice shaking with alarm.
To Balloon Gum, the Armory felt like a one-way ticket to the afterlife.
He absolutely did not want to choose that as a starting point.
His preferred playstyle was pure endurance.
Absolute, relentless survival.
Just praying the Blue Zone favored him while he hid somewhere and held on for dear life.
One could call it cowardly, but considering Balloon Gum’s skill—the kind that produced six-magazine no-kills—it was actually a wise strategy.
Hahahaha bubble gum arsenal hahahaha
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with internet slang/onomatopoeia (ㄹㅇㅋㅋㅋㅋ) that doesn’t form standard Korean words, making it unclear or potentially corrupted.
Lol, Almond’s dissing the broadcast ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Almonds are a pain in the ass lol
The chat wasn’t much different from Balloon Gum’s reaction. They laughed excitedly while Balloon Gum whimpered—the only difference was their emotional response, but the cause was the same.
Balloon Gum and the Armory were a terrible match.
“Um, um, Almond?”
As they drew closer to the Armory, Balloon Gum asked more anxiously.
But Almond gave no particular response.
He seemed to be only timing when to drop from the helicopter.
Or perhaps the noise from the helicopter was too loud for him to hear clearly.
“You said you watched my stream all the time! You were lying!”
Balloon Gum finally shouted at Almond.
I can’t laugh that hard lol
-Hahahaha, this is insane
-For real, this feels like a lie. If you knew Balloon Gum’s skill level, there’d be no reason to rush into the Armory
-For real lol
-Lmao chill out, Gum bro haha
-This is hilarious as hell lol
The chat exploded with laughter as Balloon Gum let out a desperate wail as if I didn’t understand my own skill level, flooding the screen with “haha” spam.
“Let’s go!”
Whether Almond understood the sentiment or not, he simply leaped down the moment we reached the Armory.
“Ugh, uhhh! I, I’m coming too! What? Everyone! This isn’t my fault!”
Balloon Gum pleaded with the viewers not to blame him if he lost, then jumped down after Almond.
It looked like a giant balloon crashing down, which was absurd enough on its own.

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Thud.
Almond landed in the Armory first.
Thump, thump, thump…
Balloon Gum followed, rolling across the ground as he landed (?).
“Huff… huff… Ah, no, it’s not that I can’t land properly, it’s just that I jumped suddenly to follow along.”
Balloon Gum immediately started making excuses the moment he got up.
“…I didn’t say anything.”
Almond replied with a surprisingly serious expression.
-Hahahahahaha
-For real lol
-What’s with that expression lmao so funny
‘I already know his skill level.’
I didn’t have high expectations for Balloon Gum’s abilities.
Since I’d come on as his Coach, I simply intended to help him grow in my own way.
“You don’t have to win. Just try doing things my way. And you need to keep fighting to improve. If you keep avoiding battles, you won’t be able to fight when it really matters.”
“Ah. So, so you had a plan all along? Teacher.”
-Almond, you had a plan?
-Oh, so it wasn’t just a random drop into the Armory?
-For real lol
Almond did have a plan of sorts.
But the viewers didn’t seem to believe him.
[Fried Eggplant donated ‘3,000 won’]
[It’s actually just Almond randomly dropping into the Armory and making excuses]
[Almond’s Plan donated ‘1,000 won’]
[The real plan is to kill Balloon Gum first, then get 1st place and hard carry]
“Thank you for the donations, Fried Eggplant and Almond’s Plan. But that’s not it, I’m telling you? I’m really trying to teach…”
“What, what is it? What isn’t it? Explain it to me too.”
Balloon Gum’s eyes betrayed his anxiety.
-Lmaooo Balloon Gum’s such a coward
How can an old guy be that cute lol
Why are you so anxious? lol
-Like he’s heading to an actual war zone
‘As expected, he’s nervous.’
I hadn’t brought Balloon Gum to the Armory underestimating his skills.
The Armory was the perfect place to develop the close-quarters combat abilities he lacked.
Since I was a devoted viewer of Balloon Gum’s streams, I understood exactly why he struggled in direct engagements.
It wasn’t simply because his aim was poor.
His aim couldn’t be that bad—he was actually famous for handling sniper rifles quite well.
The real reason he struggled was because he was a coward.
Whenever enemies closed in, panic seized him, his aim would shake wildly, and his judgment would fall apart.
There was no better place than the Armory to cure him of this.
Because here, you had to fight enemies almost face-to-face.
“Alright. In the Armory, we only use swords or bows. The first floor has nothing else.”
“Huh? N-now?”
“It’s already late. Come on!”
Thud-thud-thud.
I sprinted ahead while Balloon Gum’s avatar waddled along behind me.
Just watching him run is hilarious lol
Insane talent lol
Haha, that’s talent right there.

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In full-dive games, timid players often struggled with gameplay more than one might expect.
Even VR games with far less realism had horror titles filtered out by content review.
So what of full-dive?
But Balloon Gum was particularly severe.
“Ugh, aaahhh!”
Clang!
As a blade flew toward him, he screamed without hesitation.
His characteristic over-immersive playstyle had kicked in again.
In fact, this over-immersion was also what made his stream appealing, so there was no need to eliminate it entirely.
However, he needed to reach a level where he could play at his actual skill.
“I’m fine!”
Clang!
Almond shouted as he deflected an incoming blade.
In the Stones Area, fierce combat erupted starting from the Armory 1st Floor.
In truth, it would be advantageous to pass through without fighting, but they weren’t playing with that future in mind.
Crash!
Almond deflected another incoming blade and charged at the enemies.
“Follow me!”
“Huh, yes!?”
That command sounded to Balloon Gum like an invitation to dive into a crashing bitcoin.
‘Damn it!’
But there was no choice. If he didn’t follow, he’d receive no protection and would obviously die here.
He squeezed his eyes shut, gripped a blade, and charged in after Almond.
Whoosh!
A refreshingly clean cutting sound rang out.
He cracked his eyes open.
Crimson blood sprayed as one thug collapsed.
As Almond moved fluidly and swung his blade again, several more fell.
[Almond → AlioMolio]
[Eliminated!]
[98/100]
[Almond → AguAgu]
[Double Kill!]
[97/100]
A double kill in an instant.
One thug lost an arm and was immediately neutralized.
Almond kicked him and simply flipped him backward. The half-dead user rolled toward Balloon Gum.
“Finish him!”
Almond glanced back at Balloon Gum and shouted.
He was already engaged in close combat with another player.
“!”
Balloon Gum reacted immediately. If I can’t get a kill when it’s handed to me like this, I’m not human!
Thud!
“Ugh!”
But he wasn’t human.
His blade only grazed the shoulder blade—it wasn’t a vital spot.
-Ohhh…
-Even his sword aim lolol
-See! This is Balloon Gum for you!
-Hah… is he seriously doing this? lol
This couldn’t be happening.
Even Balloon Gum was shocked.
Didn’t the blade just go where you wanted it to when you swung it?
He didn’t know it could be this unresponsive to his intentions.
You’d only know that if you’d done plenty of close-quarters sword combat.
Crack!
At that moment, the thug lying on the ground grabbed Balloon Gum’s face with his intact arm.
“Damn it.”
Balloon Gum quickly drew his blade again and drove it precisely into the thug’s forehead.
[Balloon Gum → Ryu Dae-hyeops]
[Eliminated!]
[96/100]
He’d gotten the kill.
It was nearly his first sword combat kill in his entire gaming career. Remarkably, it was his first despite all those matches.
He’d always feared getting close to enemies, so naturally he’d avoided close-quarters combat.
“Whoa! Wow, that wasn’t so bad!”
Meanwhile, Almond had already cut down five or six enemies.
Naturally, the Stones players couldn’t stand up to Almond in close combat. He was a monster who’d killed all the snipers with his blade in the Armory during the Diamond Rank Promotion Match.
Watching Almond massacre enemies with a single blade in the Stones Area created the illusion that Battle Rage had transformed into a martial arts action game.
“But everyone… isn’t Almond’s specialty the bow?”
Balloon Gum asked, bewildered.
While he’d barely managed to eliminate one enemy, Almond had already burned through half of the poor moths drawn to the Armory 1st Floor.
Opening the team window, he already had 11 kills.
Yet his supposed specialty—the bow—hadn’t even been found yet.
-He’s just good at the game lol
-The bow is his specialty. Like a restaurant that specializes in beef but serves everything well?
-He’s tied with Jeon-ja-pa on the ‘Survive’ challenge, so that says it all
-Wow this is insane, first time seeing this lolol
That’s when it happened.
Whoosh!
A blade flew toward Balloon Gum.
Almond was far away, and the sword was charging straight at my head.
“Wha—!?”
Clang!
Something flashed before my eyes, and the blade was deflected away.
“Are you alright?”
I heard Almond’s voice.
“Eek….”
Balloon Gum’s eyes went wide.
Almond had thrown a blade to knock the incoming sword away.
‘Is this really the same person?’
Now that we were actually on the same team, it hit me twice as hard.
Almond’s overwhelming skill.
-Dude that’s insane lol
-I’m dying
-Eye candy on Balloon Gum’s channel? What is this even lol
-So good
-I came to watch Almond suffer but all I see is pure brilliance….
-Absolutely dominant fr

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