Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1134

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 19
7. The Abyss Showdown (1)
Four dead members from Almond’s team.
They were conversing in their own private chat.
[Tajoal: Can’t believe I’m missing this lol]
[Hampunch: Wait, isn’t he just trolling? Honestly, he’s more of a troll than I am]
[Yoyoyo: Nah, I literally got murdered by him. He’s been desperately trying to grab a bow since earlier]
[Tajoal: Lmao this is hilarious]
When they first died, they were all cursing Almond.
There was no way around it.
No matter how impressive his plays were, he just abandoned the Rune Spirit form and went solo!
[Baegi: Wow… this was totally intentional]
[Tajoal: Doesn’t seem intentional though]
[Baegi: You’re saying this wasn’t intentional? Why have you been defending him this whole time??]
Among them, only the player Tajoal didn’t show particular hostility toward Almond.
This made Baegi angry.
Your house is burning down, and if someone laughs beside you, of course you’d be furious!
[Tajoal: It’s not defending him, just looking at his playstyle, it doesn’t seem intentional. Besides, he killed everyone with the bow anyway.]
[Baegi: That’s just securing the last hits. Sure, Reina’s decent, but is it normal to abandon the entire Rune Spirit and go solo? He got all four of us killed!]
Baegi seemed quite angry.
[Yoyoyo: He just came in to kill us. I felt it from the start. He’s like a spy sent by the enemy]
Yoyoyo, who was holding the bow, had even more reason to feel that way.
Almond truly wanted him dead.
[Hampunch: He called me a bug cut.]
[Yoyoyo: That’s because you fell off a cliff right after you arrived.]
A brief silence fell.
[Hampunch: He’s charging at the Abyss Shark?]
Meanwhile, Almond was charging alone at the enemies hunting the Abyss Shark.
[Yoyoyo: This is insane, is he not inside the Sanctuary of Resurrection???]
[Baegi: This guy’s just committing suicide]
[Hampunch: Bug cut in 1 second]
Almond’s teammates, harboring ill will, each chimed in one by one.
Boom!
[The Reckless Warrior is legendary!]
The chat fell silent for a moment.
[Baegi: Even so, this is…]
Boom!
[The Reckless Warrior Triple Kill!]
More enemies falling.
[Hampunch: Bug cut~]
[Yoyoyo: …You? What are you?]
[Hampunch: Aren’t we winning this?]
Hampunch had already switched sides.
[Reckless Warrior Quadra Kill!]
When four enemies fell?
[Yoyoyo: Ooh~ Nice shot, Warrior!]
Yoyoyo had also switched sides.
[Baegi: What?]
And finally─
[Reckless Warrior Penta Kill!]
The moment he achieved a penta kill solo.
[Baegi: Damn it, bro! I knew you had it!]
Baegi let out a cheer.
[Tajoal: That guy is Almond.]
Only then did Almond’s viewer come out.
[Baegi: ?]
[Yoyoyo: Huh?]
[Hampunch: Almond? The one from the international tournament??]

* * *
Reina’s crimson lips murmured.
〔It really is you, Almond.〕
The chat was scrolling so fast that even Almond’s dynamic vision couldn’t keep up.
‘Insane.’
Juhyeok couldn’t even begin to follow it.
‘What’s going on?’
He adjusted his glasses and opened several monitors.
He could feel it coming.
It really is you, Almond.
This statement would have considerable impact.
[Why is she calling him Almond instead of Reckless Warrior? Is this a bug?]
[Reina knows Almond’s real name??? What is this?]
“Wait, is Reina actually alive? lol Why are they mentioning Almond going blind?”
It was incredibly strange for Reina to call him Almond.
His Ril ID was ‘Reckless Warrior’ after all.
All other Avatars recognized him as the Reckless Warrior.
That was only natural.
Since my real name, damn it, even almonds is just a nickname lol
Yeah, that’s right; naturally I thought it was a real name lol
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol lol lol lol)
-This is obviously fake footage lol
-For real?
People were calling it fake to that extent.
And for good reason.
An Avatar mentioning the Contractor’s real name(?)
This was originally impossible—no, it shouldn’t have been possible.
However, those who had been watching Almond from before didn’t feel that way at all.
-YouTube Reina 3-clear speedrun lol
└No no, it’s not Reina 3-clear, it’s Ran story mode
└??? For real?
└Yeah, you gotta clear Reina 3 and then Ran 3 for Reina to recognize things completely differently
└What’s the difficulty level?
That’s because they had seen Almond’s Ran story mode clear.
It was one of Almond’s most popular videos back then.
[Ran 3-star) Does Reina recognize Almond?]
That was the title of the video.
The thumbnail had the phrase ‘#Reina_is_alive’ plastered right on it.
This was a phrase the Dehaeps used to use frequently.
For some reason, they don’t use it much these days.
There are quite a few reasonable theories that they stopped using it after this video was uploaded.
But the truth, no one knows.
Clap!
“Nice!”
In any case, Juhyeok was in a good mood.
I had worried that Reina might stay upset with Almond.
That would have made for content too, I suppose.
“The best possible outcome happened.”
What I wanted was for her to cool off after being upset.
And she even mentioned the name Almond.
That was drawn out by Almond’s solo pentakill.
“How many clips is this anyway?”
I quickly captured the community posts and sent them to Jia.
[Juhyeok: Knock knock?]
First, checking if she was awake.
Seeing the read receipt disappear, she was already watching live.
[Juhyeok: I have something to cook up.]
[Jia: Hmm. Do you have the material?]
[Juhyeok: I put it in the usual place.]
What Juhyeok was referring to was the newly established cloud office for MixNuts.
Of course, it was hardly the “usual place.”
[Jia: You’re in great form. You’re a true pro.]
[Juhyeok: Heh.]
After the Nolchi content ended, Jia had rested well, and now she rolled up her sleeves at the sudden flood of work.
[Juhyeok: I’m expecting purity above 90.]
[Juhyeok: Supply’s been down for a while. Things are crazy.]
[Jia: It won’t take long.]
They’d recently watched a drug trafficking movie that left an impression, and they’d gotten into the habit of conversing this way.
[Gia: hahahahahaha]
Ju-hyuk: hahahahahaha

* * *
Boom!
Almond finished off the Abyss Shark with just 5% health remaining as a bonus.
[You have defeated the Abyss Shark.]
Where the Abyss Shark fell, a single high-grade Rune Box lay waiting.
Unlike the Rune Boxes I’d seen before, this one was wrapped in a luxurious purple packaging.
When I opened it, the contents were equally refined.
[Rune of Vitality – Heroic]
[Health Increase per Level: 11%]
[Rune of Magical Resistance – Heroic]
[Magical Resistance per Level: +10]
Heroic-grade Runes had appeared.
This was because the Abyss Shark was an Epic monster of level 7.
How quickly a team defeats the Abyss Shark determines the team’s growth trajectory.
The rewards are quite substantial.
“Oh…”
Ding.
[Tutorial Tip]
[You’ve obtained a Rune while in Contractor status? Of course, Contractors can strengthen themselves with Runes as well, but it’s more advantageous to transfer them to other teammates who aren’t yet Contractors.]
“Unfortunately for me… there’s no one left to give them to. I’ll take them all myself.”
-lol I’m dead ㅠㅠ
Hahaha, you killed them all.
-huh? he’s alone, what can he do?
Hahaha lol
-people before bots
-honestly, they’re bots anyway, so it’s better if Almond uses them.
Almond absorbed all the Heroic-grade Runes.
Whoosh!
Almond’s health and magical resistance increased unnecessarily.
And then the Abyss Shark’s buff manifested.
[Abyss Gills]
[You take no damage for 3 seconds while in the Shadow of the Abyss. Cooldown: 3 minutes.]
In a battle royale where the fighting terrain grew progressively narrower, this was quite a substantial buff.
Moreover, it was permanently applied.
Almond nodded with satisfaction and looted all the Runes from the fallen enemies.
From Sniper Sharil, he obtained a lifesteal Rune that converted a portion of damage dealt into health, along with an attack power Rune.
From Iron Mace Bart, he acquired a health regeneration Rune and a defense Rune.
-Reina the DPS tank lol
-A lifesteal Rune dropped?
Isn’t this basically just me going on a rampage by myself? lol
-Oh, isn’t the lifesteal Rune pretty decent?
Lol, it’s useless against Bloodstone Rune Reyna.
-Rune whale lol
-Not getting lucky with Runes
Reyna takes magic damage as her main weakness, but people keep saying lifesteal is good on her lol there are so many noobs
The viewers engaged in heated debate about the Runes.
But Almond himself didn’t pay much attention to it.
“Heading to the Sanctuary of Resurrection.”
This time, he made his way toward the Sanctuary to resurrect his teammates.

* * *
Moments later.
“How exactly do I get there?”
Almond hadn’t reached the Sanctuary of Resurrection.
-Just run straight through once
-It’s over there, over there.
No, this guy keeps getting lost even while walking ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-First-person perspective isn’t easy
It remained the same afterward.
“Huh, huh, huh?”
In a sense, he was simply unlucky at first.
Whenever he tried to head toward the Sanctuary of Resurrection, the Shadow of the Abyss kept closing in on that location.
[The Shadow of the Abyss descends.]
Crackle…!
The blue-glowing Sanctuary turned pitch black.
“It’s over.”
-lol
-Wow
-lol that’s so funny ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The Sanctuary of Resurrection became completely inoperable the moment the shadow touched it.
All meaning had vanished.
Evading the shadow, Almond headed toward another nearby Sanctuary of Resurrection.
“Huh? There are monsters here. They look pretty appetizing.”
Along the way, monsters that appeared far too tempting showed up.
Hunting them would waste more time.
[The Shadow of the Abyss descends.]
And the shadow descended once more.
The Sanctuary he’d been aiming for was swallowed by the shadow and disappeared.
-Damn it lol
-This is like watching Almond from Battleraze…
-Lol seriously
-Such a smart young man…
-What the hell is this shadow RNG???
-Reminds me of how terrible the Blue Zone RNG used to be
“This is a bot match, so there’s probably some handicap, right?”
Almond interpreted it optimistically.
“I’ll hunt a bit more instead.”
-Solo hunting is getting harder
We need to revive it quickly though ㅠㅠ
-The level gap is starting to show, so what good does reviving do??
-Revival is essential, how are we supposed to get through this
Hunting monsters alone until the late stages with an Avatar like Reina was an extremely difficult task.
Some of the monsters’ attacks were unavoidable targeting skills.
And Reina was an Avatar with particularly fragile stats.
That’s why team composition was essential.
[Abyss Sea Anemone]
[Lv. 10]
The tentacle attacks of the Abyss Sea Anemones were a prime example.
Crackle crackle crackle!
The damage persisted with a judgment that stuck to players, tormenting them.
[Health 87%]
But it was more manageable than expected.
Having claimed all the rewards from the Pentakill solo, I was in a surprisingly tanky state.
Boom boom boom!
Instead, my damage output remained explosive, making it possible to hunt monsters alone.
The tank-type Rune that had dropped was actually a blessing in disguise.
-This actually works
-Damage dealer tank Reina is insane lol
-Wow lol
-Is she actually winning this alone???
Positive posts began appearing in the community as well.
[Wow, but Almond sure can hold out for a long time lol]
[Why is Almond lasting so long by himself?]
[Is he actually going to win this?]
[Almond’s stream) Could he actually clear the mission like this? Five enemies left? lol]
The atmosphere was filling with posts suggesting that Almond might clear the mission entirely on his own.
[If this actually happens, it’ll be a legendary clip]
Even for a tutorial, a survival battle where he’s been sweeping through enemies solo from the very beginning was extraordinary.
This was certainly worth making a fuss about.
But then, someone raised an objection.
[Almond can’t solo clear. There’s ‘Omelette’ in that room lol]
Apparently, there was another streamer named Omelette in the same game as Almond.
The post included verification photos.
-Huh?
-Seriously? lol
-What’s going on?
-Whoa
-So he’s competing in the platform tournament too
[Is Omelette a grandmaster? lol]
-Ah… his whole team is still alive… well, obviously lol
Omelette’s team had all five members surviving.
Almond was alone.
-They’re going to run into each other soon? lol
-Wow, not many left lol
-Insane lol
-Wow lol
-Almond vs Omelette showdown
-Their routes are overlapping?
At this rate, they were bound to encounter each other soon.

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