Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1130

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 15
5. Avatar Contract (3)
Baegi.
He was a purely novice Player.
He simply wanted to play the game diligently and improve faster.
‘I need to catch up to my friends’ ranks.’
He was young, currently in his university years.
He started playing Ril to fit in with his friends.
Fortunately, most of his friends played survival matches instead of the difficult siege battles.
‘Still, I have some experience from before. I should reach Gold quickly, right?’
Baegi had primarily played FPS games, so he had no prior connection to Ril.
But he possessed nearly all the qualities needed for virtual reality gaming.
Starting from the tutorial, he steadily progressed through the beginner courses.
Now, after his tenth and final normal game, he was about to advance to ranked.
It was merely a normal game, after all.
But Baegi wanted to boast about it in his youthful heart.
‘If I win this one, that’s seven consecutive top-four finishes.’
Excluding the first three games, he’d been placing top-four in everything.
Top-four placement meant finishing in the top four out of ten teams.
It was essentially the concept of ‘victory.’
In other words, Baegi was aiming for a seven-game winning streak.
He wanted to tell his friends this:
Me? I’m talented.
I’ll keep going.
Doesn’t everyone feel that way?
Isn’t it thrilling when you’re young and suddenly excel at something compared to your friends?
The best record among his friends for their first ten games was six consecutive wins.
If he won this match, he’d have seven consecutive wins.
Baegi couldn’t help but feel ambitious.
There were some unreliable people on his team.
But Baegi tried to lead them through, even taking on the awkward role of Leader.
‘That Reckless Warrior is the problem, but I have to handle it.’
By any measure, he should be the most skilled one.
He thought it was unavoidable.
[Reckless Warrior Triple Kill!]
When his team fortunately got a major victory, he felt like the heavens were helping him.
Perhaps that Reckless one… no, that Hero.
Could that Hero actually be skilled?
Did such naive faith become his downfall?
At some point, what unfolded before Baegi’s eyes was a hellscape.
Kaboom!
Mana bullets and arrows flew in.
[Ally has fallen!]
[Tucho → Yoyoyo]
Boom!
In an instant, my ally ADC became a Rune Spirit.
‘Why… why on earth!?’
Meanwhile, that shield thug deliberately—if I could even call it that—abandoned the ADC.
No, it actually seemed like he pushed the ADC from behind with his shield, trying to get him killed.
I really didn’t want to think this way.
‘Is that… is that bastard a Troll?’
A Troll.
Those who deliberately throw games.
Could someone really be trolling at this rating, and in a normal game no less? I thought.
‘I’ve heard countless stories from my friends.’
Since the term originated in Ril, all the infamous Trolls are in Ril.
‘About those legendary figures.’
As my friends recounted the exploits of legendary Trolls, they even shed tears.
‘There could easily be Trolls here too.’
Crying in games, laughing in games.
There was a time when I thought Baegi was pathetic for caring so much about games.
Not anymore.
Now I found myself pathetic for ever judging Baegi that way.
Boom!
[Ally has fallen!]
[Amadornan → Hampunch]
Another ally falls.
With the Assassin and ADC gone, the team fight begins.
Baegi’s eyes reddened.
‘Ah.’
A tear falls…
Like the throats of my comrades, a single tear drops from Baegi’s eyes.
Before it touches the ground.
I’ll probably die, won’t I?
I’ll be eliminated, won’t I?
‘Ah…’
This is so unfair!
‘Damn that shield bastard!’
Now I understood.
Why my friends spoke of Troll legends and shed tears.
Now I understand.
Baegi is the only Contractor here.
I had to do something.
Swinging the spear in a wide arc, I cry out with all my might.
“You insane reckless bastard!”
Shield guy, get over here now!
Protect the Rune Box!
Kwakwang!
[Spearmanship – First Form]
Thwack!
I advance, swinging wildly at the enemies closing in without even knowing who they are.
The Rune Box. The Rune Box…!
I had to protect the Rune Box.
It came from the monster we killed with such difficulty.
If I just hold this position, they can’t open it.
If another team is in the Rune Box area, it can’t be opened.
If I hold this ground, there’s still hope.
I’ll hold it!
[Spearmanship – Second Form]
Kwakwang!
I drive the enemies back with fear.
“T-Tajoal! Hurry!”
Tajoal, wielding his staff, had to consume this Rune Box.
“I-I’m going!”
Tajoal runs forward.
The enemies shout and all reach out their hands at once.
In Ril, sometimes a single second feels like an eternity.
In a game where every team fight is decided in three seconds.
This is one of those moments.
Everything appeared in slow motion to me right now.
“Uuuaahhh!”
Tajoal’s cheeks puff out as he reaches forward.
Whoosh… whoooosh!
Countless projectiles from the enemies fly at us.
Everyone is desperate.
Because we’re risking this entire battle for one Rune Box.
“Guuuhhh…”
[Spearmanship – Third Form]
Third Form.
If I use it, the cooldown becomes too long, so I should stop at the Second Form.
I had no choice.
“…Ugh!”
Whoosh!
Thrusting the spear forward in a single point, dealing heavy linear damage and stunning.
Kwakwang!
“Huh?!”
One Enemy closest to the Rune box collapsed and stopped.
But it was only ‘one’.
Another Enemy swung his sword.
Swoooosh!
It struck Baegi’s body.
On top of that, the projectiles flying from before hit in an instant.
Puff-boom!
[Health 32%]
No matter how much of a Contractor I am, taking all these attacks is difficult.
‘Just… just a little more time…!’
My eyes turned toward the gauge at the bottom.
[Geargalop Transformation 63%]
[Converting the armor back to Geargalop to mount. Movement speed increases greatly, and the spear’s length and damage increase.]
Geargalop, the horse that Spearman – Sardine rides.
When hitting an Enemy, getting hit by an Enemy, or participating in an Enemy’s defeat, I can convert the armor back to Geargalop and mount it.
The moment I mount the horse, a shield appears, and I can also function as a dealer.
Then if I use [Magical War Chariot Collision] again to switch to Tank mode?
I gain a shield again while my defense rises once more.
Utilizing this shield mechanic well is the tanking know-how of ‘Spearman – Sardine’.
‘But it’s still far away….’
[Geargalop Transformation 77%]
Boom!
Thud!
Still far.
I need to hit or get hit a few more times before I can mount.
[Health 18%]
If I take much more, I’ll die.
Will I make it in time?
“Hurry! Come here quickly… huh?”
Tajoal needs to get here.
Almost there.
But—
“!?”
A massive shadow descended upon Tajoal from behind.
[Greatsword Hook]
Whoosh!
Gigantmachine’s greatsword came flying in.
“Ah….”
Tajoal let out an involuntary sigh.
Baegi screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Shield, what are you doing?!”
The shield had to take that hit instead.
No question about it!
But?
‘Huh?’
What?
There’s no shield.
No, it wasn’t just that I couldn’t see it on the field.
It wasn’t showing up on the team UI either.
The shield’s existence was as if it had never been there from the start.
There was no shield.
‘What the….’
Boom!
“Gack!”
In that instant, Tajoal’s back of the neck was already struck by the hook-like greatsword.
Whoooosh!
He was dragged backward and met Gigantmachine halfway.
The trembling fingers stretched out as he was dragged showed his despair perfectly.
And Baegi’s despair too.
“No, no, no, no, no!”
What happened to the shield?!
I found out shortly after.
Tap-tap-tap-tap!
An ally rushing in right behind where Tajoal had disappeared.
[Reckless Warrior]
Because he appeared.
But there was no shield.
Did he drop it?
No, that couldn’t be.
He wouldn’t drop it before dying.
‘Huh?’
Baegi lost his words seeing the weapon in his hands.
[Bow]
Grin.
The Thug laughs.
“Are you insane?”
Baegi’s eyes went wide.
In this critical moment, he swaps to a bow!?
And it’s an ally’s bow!?
‘What’s so funny about this!’
Would this be the level of shock if your closest friend underwent a sex change?
My head is spinning.
“Hey you bas─”
Before I could finish speaking.
Kaboom!
[Health 0%]
“Bug out!”
All the enemies’ projectiles hit simultaneously, and he transformed into a Rune Spirit.
Pop.
Baegi, trapped in a round, white light with only his large eyes blinking.
A message flashes across his vision.
[Dead]
[BiltjoiLovesTrolls → Baegi]
Trapped within the Rune Spirit, he lets out a scream no one could hear.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
The game is over.
This is a disaster.
The Assassin and ADC are dead, the Tank who should have been reliable suddenly fell to ADC, and I, the only Contractor, died pathetically.
The dream of a seven-win streak is finished.
I’ve lost something to brag about to my friends.
“Wow, their Contractor is such a troll, right?”
Biltjoi, the Player who killed me, chuckles and walks toward the Rune Box.
“Got the Rune Box~”
That’s when it happened.
Thunk!
An arrow embeds itself precisely in the back of his head.
“?”
[Headshot!]
The bow’s passive skill activates.
Boom!
1.5x damage.
He was still alive up to this point.
“Finish him quick─”
Before I could tell my ally to finish him off.
Poof!
“!?”
[Rogue Warrior → Biltjoi]
Boing?!
He became a Rune Spirit.
‘What… this is way too fast?’
The speed at which arrows were fired consecutively was absurd.
A speed I’d never experienced before.
Only then did he check the name of the one who killed him.
‘Rogue… Warrior…?’
Where have I seen this before?
What was it?
‘Ah…!’
He remembered.
“Almond?”
His voice echoed from within the Rune Spirit.
Whoosh!
Almond rushed past the Rune Spirit toward the Rune Box.
“Hup!”
Almond slid and touched the Rune Box.
[Equip all?]
In an instant, the Runes came rushing and embedded themselves into his arrows.
There was no time to check which Runes they were.
Even if I looked, I wouldn’t understand anyway.
Uuuung!
His bow gleamed with light.
-Whoa
This is creepy/scary.
-Finally the bow
Haha, it flies away as soon as I catch it.
-Bot massacre incoming~!
[3 Avatars have answered your call.]
Shwooosh!
3 cards unfolded before Almond.

* * *
[Beginner Tip]
[Is there a guaranteed way to meet the Avatar you want? Guaranteed? There’s no such thing in the Abyss. Everything in the Abyss is probability. But the Abyss resident ‘Luna’ once said this: Love connects even through odds of tens of millions to one!]

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————