Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1103

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 234
74. War of the Gods (3)
The moment Hongsong landed on the dragon’s head.
The dead in the sky screamed in unison.
“Hongsong! Hongsong! Hongsong! Hongsong!”
“Hongsooooong!”
Everyone chanted her name.
Messages flooded Hongsong’s vision.
[Omija is cheering you on.]
[Toran is cheering you on.]
[Sarreu is cheering you on.]
The object of their cheers had shifted to her.
Donations poured in from the supporters.
[Attack Power Increased!]
[Attack Power Increased!]
[Attack Power Increased!]
[Attack Power Increased!]
.
.
.
Tremendous buffs stacked upon her.
Whoosh!
“Die!”
Her spear thrust forward, infused with immense chakra.
Kwakwang!
A massive explosion erupted at the back of Knight Terror’s head.
Knight Terror’s skull was pierced through in an instant.
Yet—
“This… this insolence…!”
Knight Terror still lived.
His arrogant, cold eyes blazed with fury.
“How dare a mere insect climb upon this body?”
Knight Terror’s rage exploded.
Black energy erupted from his form.
Kwakwang!
A spell that pushed everything outward from his center.
A devastating magic that incinerated all surroundings with electricity.
“Ugh…!”
Yet Hongsong-i endured.
She held firm without being thrown back.
Thud.
She hung suspended with her spear lodged in place.
It was thanks to the additional shield sent as support.
“Waaaaaaaah!”
A support rod glimmered in the sky.
Hongsong-i felt her energy surge.
“Graaaaaaah!”
A massive head and stubby limbs.
Even in this cumbersome system, she twisted her entire body and climbed back onto Knight Terror’s neck.
Thinking this would be the last time, she thrust her spear wildly.
Kwang!
Crash!
Kwakwang!
The impact was enough to shake Knight Terror’s head.
“…Kugh!”
He was genuinely panicked.
Then—
“Kiiieeeek!”
Beneath Knight Terror’s jaw.
Triana’s Mega Hawk dove in from that direction.
Almond drew the bowstring while leaning against his back.
Creak—
‘That’s it.’
The reverse scale.
Among countless scales, a single one protruding in the opposite direction.
That was the dragon’s weakness.
The production team had indeed included this traditional element.
But it was far too small.
Compared to Knight Terror’s massive size, it was impossibly faint.
Aimee wavered.
Mega Hawk thrashed through the air, and Almond’s time limit was steadily approaching.
“Hah.”
Still, he released the bowstring with a faint exhale.
Everything shook and trembled around him.
But his aim remained steady.
The result was a direct hit.
Fwooooosh!
“Graaaaaaah!”
Knight Terror’s wings went limp.
“Waaaaaaaaaaah!!”
An enormous roar engulfed Cheese Village.

* * *
Meanwhile, Gobong.
He was facing off against two dragons alone.
Though “facing off” was generous—he was really just drawing aggro and running for his life.
“Die!”
“You… I will kill you…”
Two dragons, each the size of a fortress, chased after Gobong.
Fortunately, the Ancient Golem was faster than expected.
And they understood each other.
“Run! Run!”
Squeeee?
Of course, this “communication” wasn’t exactly mutual.
The Golem only made strange sounds in response.
It was Gobong’s one-sided barking.
“Left!”
Regardless, the Golem moved exactly as Gobong commanded.
It sharply cut left, dodging Saint Kaiser’s meteor attack.
Boom!
A meteor crashed beside them, scattering rough debris that obscured the view.
lol
-Is this dribbling?
-Lol
-Gobong’s done for honestly lmao
-Wow lmao
In this manner, Gobong held out far longer than the dragons’ overwhelming power should have allowed.
“Right, right! Straight! Right!”
This was because his position in the original game often required him to tank aggro.
Running wasn’t the only strategy—the key was throwing a stone or something when aggro was about to drop, pulling it back.
“Here! Come on!”
Poof.
The aggro locked back onto him.
‘Just as expected from Seok’s design—the AI is simpler than I thought.’
It seemed these dragons had a tendency not to stray far from where they were born.
Monsters like this would suddenly try to return if lured too far away.
But if you attacked again to pull aggro and repeated the cycle of running, they’d suddenly become stupid.
‘This is actually possible.’
When the Mang-sa-yong-ryong first split into three dragons.
They looked so powerful that I didn’t think of them as mere monsters.
‘The Sealed Saint told me to do it, so I did. It works, doesn’t it?’
Seeing Triana’s strategy work with perfect precision.
These creatures were ultimately nothing more than monsters created by Seok’s crude AI.
Compared to enemies in modern games, they were easy to deceive.
‘Good. This is manageable.’
Gobong’s confidence began to swell.
However, there was one thing Gobong had miscalculated.
These three dragons were not assigned the same level of AI.
Saint Kaiser.
He was different.
At some point, he realized he was being toyed with and muttered.
“3G.”
Suddenly, the speed accelerated.
The dragon that had been flying sluggishly suddenly overtook Gobong.
“!?”
A massive tail whipped across the golem’s waist.
Kwuuung!
“Ugh, uaaaaaaah!”
Gobong barely held on atop the golem as it swayed and threatened to collapse.
But then—
“Insane….”
Before Gobong’s eyes, Saint Kaiser’s gaping maw was already waiting.
From within it, a crimson beam of light bloomed.
It consumed his vision as it fired forth.
Kwaaaaaaaaaah!
“Euk!”
Gobong thought it was over and squeezed his eyes shut.
“…?”
He was alive.
Only the Ancient Golem’s arm had crumbled mercilessly into sand and vanished.
It had protected him.
“D… Dammit! Bung!”
Piiiii….
As the golem’s core shut down, he never even got to throw a proper punch at the dragon before falling to his knees.
“No, noooooo!”
Screaming in despair, Gobong lost his reason and charged at Saint Kaiser with his staff.
“You, you’re gonna—”
Then, Lady Grudge’s poison cloud approached from behind and dispersed.
Pwoooosh!
[Goguma’s data has been deleted.]
Gobong, melted away by poison so potent, met his end.
For all his endurance, his death came far too swiftly and simply.
-Chills
-Gasp
-No way
Oh my god, I’m so upset
-Oh…
The viewers were struck with profound shock.
Gobong’s spirit ascended to the heavens, becoming a spectator at last.
“Welcome to the National Gaming Novices Club, Gobong.”
A familiar face greeted me there.
“Club president. Balloon Gum.”
It was Balloon Gum.
‘What is this place.’
hahahahahaha
No, hahahaha
-?
-Ghost meetup lol
Ding.
[Story donated 10,000 won.]
[There’s a saying that when you die from being bad at games and go to heaven, Balloon Gum is already there to greet you. I really like this story.]

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“Knight Terror… Cut!”
Tap.
Hongsong-i shouted thus and climbed back onto the dragon that Resong-i was piloting.
-Kyaa
lol
-Wow
-Bug(?) Cut!
As Hongsong-i declared, Knight Terror plummeted to the ground and vanished completely.
It was a glorious victory.
Yet as with all wars, victory demands its sacrifices.
“S-Sealed Saint!? G… Gobong has fallen!”
Danbong cried out with eyes wide as saucers.
She had witnessed Gobong’s golem crumble to dust.
“I know.”
Triana nodded as if it were of little consequence.
“I sent him to die.”
“…Yes!?”
Haha, that’s hilarious!
That was supposed to be the mission in the first place ㅠㅠ
Dammit, loyal retainer Gobong ㅠㅠ
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
Indeed.
Gobong’s death had been predetermined from the start.
“I sacrificed one pawn and captured a Knight—a favorable exchange.”
She likened the situation to chess.
Phone lol
My phone is broken ㅠㅠ
Phoneguma lol
Hahahahaha
Danbong found herself speechless at those words.
‘She’s right.’
Too right, in fact!
They had given up Gobong and slain one of the three dragons.
A hunt that would have been absolutely impossible while facing all three dragons together.
They had defeated Knight Terror.
There was no avoiding the cost.
Someone had to be sacrificed.
“So what’s our next move?”
“We’ll target the weakest one next.”
“If we must, then?”
Uncertain targeting.
“Those two have barely separated since earlier. We’ll likely have to fight them two-on-one.”
That’s precisely why I tackled Knight Terror first.
-Gasp
-Right?
lol
-What observation skills
Is it because she’s the emperor’s daughter?ㅋㅋ
“First, we’ll create distance.”
Following Triana’s order, Resong-i also retreated backward.
The two dragons watched them withdraw, but they didn’t actually pursue.
Instead, they used that time to further devastate Cheese Village.
Kwakwang!
Cheese Village became a complete inferno, or the blocks melted away into nothing.
Triana looked toward Almond.
“Almond.”
“?”
“Are you alright?”
“….”
She had noticed the change in him.
When I drew the bowstring for the last shot, I took quite a while to aim.
If it were the usual me, the arrow would have gone out a beat faster.
Triana had caught that subtle difference.
Probably because we’re in the same situation.
“I can do a little more.”
A little?
Danbong was flustered hearing those words.
‘Now that I think about it… Daegam can’t play for too long, right?’
A fact I hadn’t realized while rushing through the game so frantically.
[04:33:17]
Nearly twenty hours of continuous connection.
It happens occasionally for streamers, but for Almond, it was an exhaustingly long push.
Fortunately, the actual combat time was relatively short, so I managed to endure.
“Shooting the reverse scale is the key. Only you can do it. If you shoot one and collapse from exhaustion, that would be disastrous. They will attack together. It’s better not to start from the beginning. Are you truly capable?”
Almond was puzzled.
It was strange enough that she knew my aim had wavered for just a moment.
I said I could do it, yet she was asking again—that was even stranger.
Was Gobong someone who would cruelly let others die?
Our eyes met.
I sense that she knows the condition of my arm far too well.
But Almond nods again.
“I can do it.”
“That’s a lie.”
Triana answers unexpectedly.
“Pardon?”
“I can sense lies.”
“…Pardon?”
This question came not from Almond, but from Danbong.
‘Wait, are you suddenly staying in character in this situation?’
This woman isn’t even a real Sealed Saint—she’s just an actress.
And now she claims she can detect lies.
What is she talking about?
When Cheese Village is on the brink of catastrophe!
But then Almond suddenly steps back and asks.
“What? A real Sealed Saint? You have that ability too?”
His eyes were trembling wildly.
Danbong was at a loss for words.
‘Is that acting… or… what is it?’
It was too sincere to be acting, yet too foolish to be genuine.
But Triana laughed softly as if she understood he was foolish, then nodded.
“You didn’t know? I’m a Sealed Saint. So don’t lie to me.”
“Hmm… truthfully, I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to.”
Almond confesses honestly.
Danbong’s eyes wavered.
‘So it really was a lie!?’
I couldn’t tell where the acting ended and reality began.
“Hmm.”
Triana crossed her arms and surveyed the situation for a moment.
Gobong had disappeared, and the two dragons stayed together.
‘It would be nice to have at least one person to draw aggro.’
She gazes downward.
The villagers are visible.
Her eyes gleam with the need for another sacrifice.
‘…Is there none?’
There was no law saying only the Knight Order had to fight.
Even without a vessel, one could participate in battle.
But if they died in combat, their data would disappear.
So she had to give them courage.
Triana nudges Danbong and speaks.
“Tell them this.”
“Yes.”
“Fighting brings in a lot of money.”
“…Yes?”
“Tell them that donations pour in when you fight.”
“….”
Danbong’s expression was one of utter bewilderment—why was I abandoning my character concept this time?
Hahahahaha, that’s right.
-Ah, religious sects run on donations~
Haha, yeah that’s true.
-So it’s advertising
Recruiting soldiers lol
“We’re short one person right now. Hurry.”
“Yes, yes.”
Danbong nodded and shouted down below.
“If you participate in battle, donations will pour in massively aaaaah…!”
His voice echoed through the cavern.
One by one, people began emerging from the tunnels.
“That’s right. I’ll dedicate this body for Cheese Village.”
“For Cheese Village!”
“My life for Cheese!”
Each of them proclaimed their noble cause, their resolve burning bright.

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