Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1154

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 39
13. Four-Tank Insurance (1)
[Everyone… will remember you, Balloon Gum.]
Balloon Gum, tumbling backward, cried out.
“What, what do you mean remember!?”
Countless shadows descended upon him.
Kwakwang!
A total of ten incarnations collided.
Those who had initially targeted Balloon Gum instantly shifted their focus elsewhere and began fighting each other.
“Kill them!”
“Divine Descent Technique!”
Kwaaaang!
All manner of divine descent techniques erupted in chaos.
“Ugh, uaaaah!?”
Balloon Gum rolled left and right across the battlefield, swinging his iron club.
Fwooosh!
Boom!
Perhaps because he was half-water, half-fish?
The impacts landed surprisingly well.
-lmaooo
-doing a dempsey roll while lying down lol
-what even is this lolol
-if you’re gonna fall anyway, might as well fight lying down lol
“Hack! What, what is this on the ground!?”
“The ground! Bart on the ground!”
His survival when the teams suddenly turned against each other was purely a matter of luck.
But such luck could not last long.
Kwakwang!
The firepower concentrated on Balloon Gum once again.
[Health 67%]
Despite being a tank, nearly half his health had vanished.
Here, Balloon Gum instinctively raised his guard.
“Uuugh, hold firm!”
-lololololol
-hold on lololol
-harden up!
-lmaooo
I’m crying. ㅠ
[Iron Body]
[For 3 seconds, you cannot move as you gather your strength, reducing damage taken by 50%. Upon skill end, you dash forward by the amount of damage received.]
For a set duration, the damage he received was greatly reduced, and he could dash a distance proportional to the damage taken—such was the skill.
Normally, Balloon Gum would have activated this skill only to find no one striking him, leaving him standing uselessly in place.
But this time was different.
Ten players had rushed in, turning the entire arena into complete chaos.
Moreover, at least four of those ten were actively trying to strike Balloon Gum.
-It’s going to activate, isn’t it?
-Wow, people are actually hitting him for the first time
-Still, he’s holding up pretty well
Thud-thud-thud!
Bullets from the ADCs began embedding themselves into Balloon Gum’s guard.
Added to that, slashes from Assassins passing by also lodged into his guard.
And area-of-effect spells from the Mages dealt damage to him as well.
Pow-pow-bang!
[Health 41%]
Despite the damage reduction and high defense, his health had plummeted below half.
“That’s it! I’ve got it all!!”
In those three seconds, he had accumulated massive damage.
“You’re all dead! I’m going to reflect all of this!”
He dropped his guard and swung his fist, intending to return every bit of damage he’d received.
‘If I reflect this and immediately use Possession… I’ll be the hero of the teamfight.’
He wanted to prove it.
That even if his teammates abandoned him, he could still perform.
That when his moment came, he could show something.
But—
“!?”
He had misunderstood.
The ability of Iron Body.
[Dash]
Iron Body was a type of survival escape skill where the dash distance increased proportionally to damage received.
It wasn’t the kind of skill you’d see in manga—one that accumulated damage and reflected it back.
‘Huh?’
Whoosh!
Balloon Gum’s body shot upward.
‘What?’
The dash activated in the forward direction.
Except Balloon Gum’s forward direction was straight up into the sky.
Because he had been lying on his back.
“…?”
-?
-…?
-Why are they dashing into the sky lol
-What are they doing
-“Airborne”
Splash~ Thud!
He bounced skyward like a caught fish.
-Self-inflicted airborne, that’s insane
-Creating their own CC effect lol
-A live fish? lol
-The revenge of the Stratosphere Aghwi who won unfairly!
“!?”
“…?”
If he had just stayed down, he might have lasted a bit longer.
Balloon Gum suddenly rocketed skyward.
Could there be any stronger aggro than this?
All ten eyes instantly locked onto him.
“A prize catch!”
“What the hell is that guy!?”
All ten players’ firepower inevitably turned toward the sky.
“Now!”
And this was the moment.
Almond’s team burst forward.
* * *
Team 5 and Team 6.
They had both come to hunt the Abyss Shark.
And they witnessed Balloon Gum recklessly attempting the Abyss Shark.
‘Huh?’
‘What is that?’
Without hesitation, they charged forward.
‘Enemies. There are more behind.’
‘There were indeed more behind.’
When they first encountered each other.
They thought they were on Balloon Gum’s side.
Of course the numbers didn’t add up, but Ril is a first-person game.
In such urgency, they couldn’t possibly see all the avatars.
So they never considered.
“Now!”
That another team would intervene.
“Another one!”
“There’s more?”
“What… what is this!?”
“Damn it… three teams gathered here?”
In survival matches, the more teams that gather to fight, the more disadvantageous it becomes.
If we were going to fight over the Abyss Shark, it would’ve been cleaner with just two teams clashing, and our survival odds would’ve been higher.
Three teams?
One team is definitely going to be wiped out.
The firepower that gets unleashed is simply different.
Truly a fight with no way out.
“Damn it, there’s more!”
“Kill that one first!”
“How much of our divine descent do we have left?!”
“We’ve used almost all of it!”
Team 5, who had already thought there were only two teams and consumed all but one of their divine descents.
“How many divine descents do we have left!?”
“Three!”
Team 6, who still had three remaining.
The reason they’d preserved these divine descents wasn’t actually to anticipate such an intrusion.
“All the assassins are still available!”
This team had a high proportion of assassin incarnations.
Assassins generally enter late in engagements.
They often don’t use their divine descents until nearly the very end of a teamfight.
[Fisherman – Doji]
[Mad Jester – Reckord]
[Pursuer – Emilia]
The team was composed of three assassin-type incarnations like this.
Thanks to this unique situation, Team 6 instantly seized the advantage in the current formation.
Team 5 naturally fell back.
“Fall back for now!”
“Shouldn’t we finish off the Rune Spirit?”
“Fall back!”
They were too busy retreating to even finish off Balloon Gum’s Rune Spirit.
Finishing off a Rune Spirit was a task that took considerable time anyway.
“Hey! You guys!”
At this moment, Team 6 made a proposal.
“Let’s target the newcomers first!”
“!”
They were suggesting to deal with the newly arrived ones first.
“There’s four of them!”
“….”
It was a proposal Team 5 couldn’t refuse.
“O, okay!”
Kang Shin-gi needed to buy time for Cha-o to arrive.
All their gun barrels and blade tips were pointed directly at my team.
“…Huh?”
“What?”
Both teams were equally shocked.
“What are these massive guys?”
“How many insane tanks are there?”
Gigantmachine Colossus, Hammer Paladin Ulte, the Great Monolith Kutan….
They were all incarnations of immense stature.
No, even calling them “massive” fell short.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Hammer Paladin was at least human-sized, but the rest were nearly three-meter-tall monsters.
A combination with so many tanks alone couldn’t normally be considered frightening.
“How are we supposed to kill all of them?”
But in the current situation, it was a terrifying combination for Team 5 and Team 6.
They didn’t have perfect trust in each other, after all.
‘Damn. Something’s going to go wrong while we’re killing them.’
‘This… is going to get messy.’
Tanks take forever to kill.
Was there any guarantee that Team 5 and Team 6’s intentions wouldn’t change during that time?
Moreover, hidden behind these massive figures, they couldn’t even see Almond’s face.
In other words, they didn’t know the identity of the enemy dealer.
“We’re doing this, right?”
“Of course. Fire!”
Bang!
The battle began with Team 6’s sniper opening fire.
But they were oddly holding back on skills, relying mostly on basic attacks.
Team 5 was also being cautious, attacking half-heartedly.
Especially Team 5’s ADC, the Terrorist Boni.
Even though her damage wouldn’t come out without using skills together, she was being remarkably conservative.
But then—
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!
In an instant, four arrows flew in, and flames erupted from Team 5’s position.
[Flaming Arrow]
It was my Flaming Arrow.
“What, what!?”
“What kind of skill is that, damn it.”
Sori was relatively new as an incarnation, so the confusion was understandable.
But more than that, they couldn’t have guessed it was Sori based on the speed of the arrows that had just been fired.
“Damn it, I can’t even see them!?”
Sori was nowhere to be seen.
It wasn’t because she was using some invisibility skill.
“Is she behind those shoulders!?”
She was simply firing arrows from the gaps behind the Bulky players, making her invisible to sight.
The enemy tanks raised their shields, and the mages resisted fiercely.
[Nail Barrage]
Nangpunch, the hammer Paladin’s nails came flying in.
Dozens of nails scattered forward.
Thunk!
Several of them embedded themselves in Team 5’s Shield Warrior Crave’s upper body.
“D-Dammit!”
“D-Don’t panic! If it doesn’t embed, that’s it!”
The terrifying part about nails was only when the embedded nail was struck again and driven in.
Actually, hitting that nail from this distance was supposed to be impossible….
“!?”
An arrow flew in in an instant, driving the nail in perfectly.
Boom!
“Ugh!?”
Along with additional damage, the hammer Paladin’s health that I’d worked so hard to deplete refilled.
[Paladin’s Nail]
[When an ally strikes the nail to embed it in the enemy’s body, the enemy takes additional damage and Ulte and allies recover health. If Ulte directly strikes to embed the nail in the enemy’s body, knockback and proportional damage based on lost health is additionally applied.]
The hammer Paladin’s passive.
It was because of ‘Paladin’s Nail.’
In theory, if the nails were embedded properly, the Paladin would never die.
The enemy Paladin, knowing this, came forward even more aggressively.
He’d become an enormous target.
Kwakwang!
Both the enemy’s magic and bullets all aimed at him.
[Health 33%]
“Got it! Kill him! As long as we dodge the nails, there’s nothing… huh?”
Whoosh!
Bang!
The ADC’s support continuously driving nails in.
[Health 62%]
The health refilled once again.
And as a bonus, elemental arrows were gifted as well.
[Flame Arrow]
Whoooosh!
The flames spread across the area once more.
And the Paladin’s health rose again.
[Health 73%]
“What the hell is this!?”
“What?”
Honestly, this level of aiming skill was almost cruel for Players at this rank.
“Wait, isn’t this guy a Manager!?”
Team 5 panicked.
The opponent’s aiming skill was one thing.
But with that skill, he was only targeting them.
“Crazy, more than that—why do you keep hitting only us!?”
There was no particular reason.
‘They look weak.’
Almond instinctively sensed that Team 5 had shrunk back, and he simply targeted them relentlessly.
This instinct was accurate, and the split happened in an instant.
Team 6, who had been allied with them, abandoned Team 5 and quietly retreated backward.
“Hey! What are you guys doing!?”
So Team 5 had no choice but to protest.
“No, we’re Assassins! We’re supposed to flank!”
They also had their reasoning…or so they claimed.
“Stop spouting nonsense about flanking!”
Team 5 wasn’t about to accept that excuse.
You’re not even on the same team—why should one person take hits first while another gets a flanking angle?
It just meant all the Runes and experience dropping as rewards went straight to the enemy.
“You go first! You guys have more cooldowns anyway!?”
“If you use that, you’ll have even more!?”
“If you’re going to measure things like that, why—”
That’s when it happened.
“Charge~!”
Almond’s team, who had only been taking hits, began pushing forward aggressively.
Or rather, precisely speaking, Almond pushed forward aggressively.
-?
-??
-Now?
No lol
-Timing legend
-Like some reckless young master riding a human palanquin and commanding ;
I can’t translate this as it’s not a coherent Korean phrase. It appears to be keyboard characters (ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅁㅊ) that don’t form meaningful words. “ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ” typically represents laughter in Korean text, but the addition of “ㅁㅊ” doesn’t create a standard expression.
“A, a charge!?”
All ten players were still in conflict.
Wouldn’t it be better to wait for them to fight each other?
“If you wish to live, you will die, and if you wish to die?”
“…Won’t they die?”
No time for discussion.
[Rope Movement]
Almond fired a rope forward.
“Insane!”
The tanks had no choice but to follow him.
[Hook Sword]
Whoosh!
Gigant Machine also hurled a hook forward.
“What, what is this!?”
[Stone Shield]
The great stone giant Kutan activated a skill that became a stone shield for his allies.
It was an unusual skill where stone scattered and clung to allies to protect them.
The advantage was that when allies moved, it moved with them.
Almond, wrapped in the stone shield, fired flaming arrows relentlessly and charged straight at Team 5.
Crash!
‘!’
‘…!?’
‘Are they seriously just taking this head-on?’
To Team 5’s eyes, covered in nails like hedgehogs, it looked like a chariot of hell was charging toward them.
‘We’re… doomed.’
Surprisingly, this was perfect timing.
-They had no choice but to follow along lolol
-Basakbasakk lol aren’t tanks their calling?
-This is done if they win this is seriously their strong point
-They said they didn’t want to tank why are they so in sync?
-Because he’s the only dealer lol
-Wow when they stack runes the damage is insane lol
Ah, I failed the mission ㅠㅠ Fighting, bubble gum!
-What about the charge? Smart young man.

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