Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1148

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 33
11. Perfect Death (1)
Rilpro’s small and precious survival battle forum, SurvivalPro.
Could there be anyone more attuned to every streamer’s broadcast than these people right now?
Finally becoming a major after survival show? ㅠㅠ
[This isn’t a dream, right? Why are all the streamers doing Survival Battle???]
[Lie! There’s no way this many streamers would play Survival Battle]
Survival Battle—the second fiddle, always treated as a minor mode compared to Siege.
That mode, forever dismissed by Siege players, was finally spreading among countless streamers.
Of course, it was forced upon them through the inter-platform tournament, but that didn’t matter to them.
Once you try Survival Mode, you’ll probably just keep playing that ㅋㅋ
lol that’s funny
-Right, once you taste it, you can’t escape
-Honestly, Siege is just exhausting. This is the true essence of a casual game
-For real for real
-It’s Pollis’s masterpiece—casual yet profound
The believers of Survival Battle were convinced that once anyone dipped even a toe into it, they’d never escape, so the circumstances of how streamers started playing didn’t really matter to them.
Most streamers were scratching their heads at the client screen saying things like this, but they pretended not to hear.
“Do you all have Survival Battle ranked?”
“Ah… there is a rank. But I only checked the placement before and didn’t do it….”
“No. I tried Normal mode. But my hands just wouldn’t move toward it. Honestly, when I open Rilpro, I just play Siege.”
“No, I did it, but the viewership was terrible….”
And so on.
The streamers couldn’t hide their confusion at suddenly having to play this unfamiliar(?) game.
In reality, even those who had completed their placement matches weren’t touching it after that.
Ding.
[Question donated 2,000 won.]
[Gichan. Are you saying Survival Battle is a trash game~?]
Hahahahaha
Haha, what are you doing killing here?
-They’re coming… they’re coming…!
Mosol shakes his head at the sudden loaded question.
“Trash game…? No. I just didn’t feel like playing more after seeing the placement matches. And look, there are plenty of people here who haven’t even seen the placement matches. Why are you coming at me too?!”
Mosol, as always, raising his voice loudly at his viewers.
Yet it wasn’t mere venting—his voice had every reason to rise.
The four people standing where he was pointing.
[Jello]
[Balloon Gum]
[Dotorimuk]
[Chocosong]
All the members of the cross-platform tournament who logged into this Disworld hadn’t even taken the placement exam.
“A survival match?”
Jello even said this.
“I’m still in my prime? Isn’t that kind of like… a urology clinic or something?”
Dude, this is crazy lol
Hahahahahahaha
Hahaha, I’m dying haha
Oh… haha
-Survival matches are fun too!
“No, I’ve played it too. Everyone. Is it fun? It’s fun. It’s fine. But why should I play it?”
He hadn’t found a reason to play survival matches until now.
“But shouldn’t our team members take the placement exam?”
The problem was that the same applied to everyone else.
“Yes.”
“Yes~”
“Yes!”
When Balloon Gum, Dotorimuk, and Chocosong all said they needed to take the placement exam, Jello pressed his forehead.
“Then who’s going to carry the log?”
lol wtf hahaha
Why are you doing that? lol
-It’s just the same as you?
-You won’t carry it either
The log theory.
It was one of the theories that represented Ril’s teamwork.
All five people carry the log, but someone is weaker, and someone just pretends to carry it.
However, the weight of the log doesn’t change.
Eventually, someone has to be bearing it with much stronger force.
The moment someone says it’s too hard and drops the log?
‘You got a kill and threw it.’
‘How do we win if you throw it?’
‘Then why did you go mid?’
That’s the kind of thing you hear.
In the end, the log appears to be carried by all five people, but it’s actually a structure where about two people carry it.
And these two end up bearing all the responsibility.
That’s the log theory.
Right now, Jello is trying to figure out who on his team is carrying the log.
The answer was somewhat obvious.
“Wouldn’t it be me…?”
Mosol, the Challenger, asks in a voice that’s slightly creeping in.
“Can one person do it? Balloon Gum usually… rides on top of the log, doesn’t he? We’re not in a normal situation! Everyone!”
Those who go beyond merely refusing to lift the log—those who actually climb atop it.
In other words, Trolls.
Hahahahahahaha
Hahaha
-Legendary beings…
Oh my god hahahaha
Balloon Gum bristles with indignation.
“No way. Jello. You’re unranked too, huh~!”
“!?”
Jello was once a skilled player in siege warfare.
His pride is wounded.
“I was once, you see….”
“Ugh! Survival mode and siege warfare are completely different, okay?!”
Balloon Gum countered, unable to accept being relegated to the log-climbers himself.
“Um….”
Mosol makes a suggestion.
“How about we all run the placement test instead?”
Hahahahahahaha
lol that’s funny
-Just play the game already
-Hey Jello. Stop talking about five years ago and come haul some bricks!
-Once we see the placement, we’ll know.
“Y-yes. Right. Then let’s run the placement test like Gichan said. All of us together!”
“…Together?”
Jello makes an unusual proposal.
“We run it simultaneously so our queues overlap. That way you’ll really feel it, won’t you? The difference in power.”
“…!”
A provocative statement from Jello.
“Wahaha! I like it! So if we face each other as enemies and I win, you’ll acknowledge it?”
“Of course that’s how it works?”
All eyes turned toward Dotorimuk and Chocosong.
“…Mm. I’m in.”
Dotorimuk nodded.
Chocosong agreed as well.
“I’ll do better than Gum anyway. Whatever.”
Hahahahahahaha
Hahahahaha
-You… you’re Silver…
-Everyone’s getting inexplicable confidence because of Balloon Gum
And so they all ran the first round of the placement test together.

* * *
In truth, they didn’t even need to queue up with Q simultaneously.
Meeting in the placement exam that Jello intended was already a phenomenon everyone was experiencing.
[Wow lol streamers’ Q queues are overlapping like crazy rn lol so fun lol]
-It’s nice that it’s an unpopular mode…
└Lol
-It’s pretty entertaining
-Interest is skyrocketing lol shorts will probably blow up!
It seems like catching 50 people at once is bound to happen, so it makes sense.
Was it simply because Survival Mode had fewer players compared to Siege Mode?
That was only half the answer.
Survival Mode had a total of 10 teams participating.
Meanwhile, Siege Mode only pitted 2 teams against each other, didn’t it?
The number of participants per match was fundamentally different.
And on top of that, the number of people taking the placement exam during this period?
The sample size shrunk even further.
And thus, a strange phenomenon occurred.
[This is literally a streamer placement exam lol]
Unintentionally, this season had become a placement exam for the streamers.

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Swoooosh!
[Jello → Omedetto]
[Enemy defeated!]
Relatively early in the game.
Jello’s blade cut down an enemy.
“Nice. Good luck from the first match. A straggler?”
After getting the kill, Jello glanced at the chat.
-@*$@(&*@(*
-)(#!*@*!
-#(#(#
Pixelated messages appeared in the chat.
The AI spam prevention system was erasing someone’s name.
“Looks like someone from our queue got matched here.”
With his extensive broadcasting experience, Jello quickly caught on.
Someone from his team was here, exactly as intended.
“I hope Balloon Gum is on the other team… but let me be careful with such bad words. I shouldn’t say things like that. They’re on the same team.”
-?
-Nobody even said anything though?
Hahahahaha, this is so funny hahaha
Hahahaha
Gum-shaped ㅠㅠㅠ
“Honestly, if it’s Balloon Gum, isn’t that just Kkeom? Of course I should win… right? Please refrain from saying things like that, everyone.”
Hahahahaha
Hahahahaha
-Other worldline chat window lol
Hahahahahahaha
-Who’s he talking to?
A fictional chat window lol
Jello had good instincts.
‘The viewers’ reaction… it looks like Balloon Gum got caught in this queue.’
He realized that Balloon Gum was caught in this Q.
Why?
Chocosong confirmed that Q was caught too quickly and entered the game first, and Mosol completed the placement exam so he didn’t queue.
What about Dotorimuk?
“Jello. It looks like Kkeom hyung got caught here.”
“Yes. I figured it out too.”
“Ah…”
They were on the same team now.
“Ahem. You’re my senior in the industry, but. A game is a game. I’m going into serious mode.”
acorn jelly lol
-Why are you whispering, Muk
-Kya
-Heh
-Storm Ninja Jello! Storm Ninja Jello! Storm Ninja Jello!
Even Hwashin was already in serious mode from the start lol
-Storm Nin Jel! Storm Nin Jel! Storm Nin Jel! Storm Nin Jel!
Jello had already contracted with his main avatar and secured one kill.
Honestly, at the level of a placement exam?
There was nothing to fear.
“Let’s go hunting~”
“Yes!”
Thump thump thump thump!
The entire team moved in perfect unison.
In the midst of this, something suddenly occurred to Jello.
“Wait. But who banned Iron Ball?”
-?
-…?
-Huh?
-**@$&$**
-Huh? Really?
Iron Ball had been banned.
This was purely a Balloon Gum snipe ban.
“…I was going to do that, but it didn’t feel right, so I passed.”
Hahahaha
I was trying to do that and it became legendary lol
lol so funny
How far are you planning to go? lol
Jello had also considered banning that card.
There was no guarantee he’d even face Balloon Gum, and he didn’t really want to go that far, so he passed on it.
But someone else went ahead and banned it instead.
“You’re not a Jello fan, right?”
It seemed like it was probably a viewer.
-King, you there
I can’t translate just “-ㅔ” as it’s a single Korean vowel/diacritic mark without context. Could you provide the full word or sentence?
-No~
-No clue
“Ugh. Yeah, that’s it. I told you not to do stuff like that! Hey!?”
Jello suddenly burst out shouting.
-?
-??
Hahahaha suddenly
“If I say I won by banning Iron Ball, I won’t get any credit!”
No lol, is it confirmed? lol
-Premature celebration legend
-Did you win
-You should win first, then talk
Hahahahaha
-Counting chickens before they hatch
That’s when it happened.
Ting! Ting!
A warning alarm echoed from one corner of the map.
“Uh… someone’s reviving?”
This was the sound of the Sanctuary of Resurrection activating.
“Should I go make a big play?”

* * *
“Now we just need to find the Sanctuary of Resurrection and the plan succeeds~”
Meanwhile, Almond and Balloon Gum were moving to resurrect their three fallen teammates.
-@*@&
-Please don’t miss the resurrection this time
-We’re resurrecting this time, right?
-But isn’t Almond actually a genius? His strategies are hitting perfectly every time?
-@*$*@!@#
Censored chat messages appeared on screen.
‘Someone’s here.’
Though he couldn’t be certain which teammate it was, Balloon Gum steeled his resolve.
‘This is my chance.’
This fortune of being on the same team as Almond.
I had to use it well.
If I could just beat someone on the team?
Then my standing in the team would improve significantly.
‘I can do this when I put my mind to it.’
Above all, I had some confidence in my own skills.
This was my chance to prove it.
‘Stay focused.’
When Almond pointed to something beside me, my gaze immediately followed.
“Ah, there it is.”
A forest densely carpeted with towering bamboo stalks.
A single tower rose among them.
[Sanctuary of Resurrection]
“We made it.”
Balloon Gum swallowed hard.
“Let’s move while staying hidden first.”
The two of us crouched in the undergrowth to scout the area.
Ting! Ting…!
“…Huh?”
“Yeah.”
[Someone is conducting a resurrection ritual.]
The Sanctuary of Resurrection was active.
Someone from another team was resurrecting their members.
“Perfect. Mond, just have them draw all the aggro while they’re resurrecting. We’ll resurrect on our next turn.”
Balloon Gum proposed a strategy, thinking it through.
It was certainly a solid approach.
When the Sanctuary of Resurrection activates, notifications spread to the surrounding area.
A battle would inevitably break out between them.
What if I intervene when that battle reaches a stalemate?
It would be far more advantageous.
But Almond shakes his head.
“That won’t work.”
“It won’t work?”
“Of course not. If they use it, we can’t use it.”
“…Really?”
So the Sanctuary of Resurrection was single-use.
Balloon Gum’s eyes went wide.
‘Was it?’
That was strange.
I’d never seen anything like that mentioned.
“How can you not know something like that?”
But those confident eyes.
Besides, hadn’t he just executed that split strategy brilliantly and stolen the Epic Monster without fail?
I couldn’t go against the words of such a sharp young man.
“D-damn it. It’s been so long since I’ve played….”
He scratches his head, muttering that he’d forgotten because he hadn’t played in ages.
“But wait. Then we have to go right now!?”
Almond nods.
“Let’s go.”
Whoosh!
The two of them bolted without hesitation.
-?
-…?
Who the heck tricked who here?ㅋㅋㅋ
Now you’re trapped in the matrix by yourself lol
Truman Show Season 2 lol
Aren’t you just making this up because you’re too lazy to actually convince the balloon gum? lol
-This streamer gets fooled for free!
-???
-The crazy thing is every time he starts with nonsense, he still wins…
I think bubble gum is weird but I can’t say anything because it’s peak timing lol

* * *
[Beginner’s Tip]
[The Sanctuary of Resurrection can be used multiple times as long as no shadow falls upon it. Please wait in an orderly line.]

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