Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1216

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 101
32. Rise Up (2)
‘Wh-what…?’
Danmuji’s eyes went wide.
‘He picked the Honryeongsa…!’
I had commanded it myself, yet I was still shocked.
By how swiftly he executed my orders.
‘Why does he follow instructions so well!?’
In truth, Almond had never particularly favored playing the Honryeongsa.
It was the same in the Nant match.
He seemed to handle it quite well, but whether it was a team issue or something else, he simply didn’t bring it out often.
Yet now, to suddenly accept so readily and pick it so quickly here.
Without even giving me a chance to speak!
In any case, I revised my strategy.
“Gobong!”
“What!?”
Gobong, who had gone to protect Hong-cha.
“Protect your brother!”
“What? You bastard! You said to protect Hong-cha!”
-kkkkkkkkk Gobong’s using casual speech kkk
I’m getting excited just thinking about it lol
hahahaha lol
-What you bastard kkkkk
“Just hold out against five Thought Entities as much as you can…! Hong-cha’s in Minion form anyway! Almond contracted with me!”
“Yeah, yeah, I’ll just try to survive on my own!”
Hong-cha lowered his gun and shouted as he lay down behind a rock.
“Damn!”
Gobong picked up his shield again and changed direction.
However, the enemies’ target was never Gobong in the first place.
It was Danmuji, who had charged deep into enemy territory.
Kwakwang!
“Ah…!”
I had thrown myself forward with the intention of dying anyway.
But I died far faster than I expected.
‘Why is the damage ratio like this?’
They even created an assassination-type Mage, ‘Rift Chaser – Riksia’.
And there are two more ranged dealers, plus another staff user on top of that.
‘These guys are completely insane.’
No wonder the damage output is overwhelming.
Boom!
[Health 0%]
In an instant, I became a Rune Spirit.
From here, I could have rushed back to my allies and rubbed against them to attempt resurrection.
But looking at the situation, that wasn’t going to work.
‘This is actually better.’
As a Rune Spirit, I recklessly charged toward the enemies and rubbed myself all over them.
“Hey! Kill me! Go ahead!”
-?kkkkkkk
-Ahhhkkk
That’s provocative lol
-Insanekkkkk
Wiggle-wiggle.
I swayed my hips—though as a Rune Spirit there wasn’t much I could actually move—to provoke them.
“Ugh~ This bastard’s really getting on my nerves.”
My opponent had no choice but to finish off the Rune Spirit version of me.
Boom!
[Execution]
Rune Spirit execution.
The animation for this was surprisingly large, which accumulated damage in such a critical moment.
‘Nice.’
Either way, I had wanted to become a spirit, so I’d just wasted their time.
What’s the point of becoming a spirit?
Team Rank had differences from regular matches.
[Team Voice]
In survival Team Rank, you could issue orders when you became a spirit.
As a Rune Spirit, communication didn’t work, but once you were fully dead and became a spirit, you could communicate.
‘And I can give orders while looking down from above.’
Whoosh~
I immediately flew up and surveyed the entire situation from above.
Of course, anything outside my team’s vision was obscured by darkness and invisible.
‘Still better than first-person.’
Just being able to see the entire situation of my allies from above was an enormous advantage.
If I was going to waste time being dead anyway, this was the best way to do it.
[Bro! Let’s stack at least 5 Thought stacks! Even if Gobong dies, it’s fine, right? Your position is a bit high right now… Huh?]
I was about to focus on Almond first.
Pwoosh!
Pweng!
Almond, now a Specter, was firing [Spirit Wave] very skillfully and had already broken through 5 stacks.
“What the. Insane.”
I muttered it out loud, not through voice chat.
-Trembling…
-This is insane kkk
-Wow
-So the Specter is good too?
I knew she was skilled.
‘Was it just this much?’
Why didn’t she use it until now?

* * *
‘The Specter…’
Choi Sa-rang’s expression became somewhat complicated as the Specter appeared.
‘Right. She was unusually skilled with that avatar.’
Almond doesn’t prefer the Specter.
As far as she knew, Almond had barely played that avatar a few times.
So his understanding of the avatar was quite limited.
However, the reason he excels with the Specter is because he perfectly executes one difficult condition that no one else could ever accomplish.
[Spirit Wave]
Whoooosh!
That violet cloud, the very symbol of Meli the Specter.
This was an attack projectile.
You could only build ‘Thought’ stacks by landing it.
And by summoning and commanding Thought Entities with those stacks, you could fight like a true Specter.
The problem was that it moved about twice as fast as a person running?
It was a genuinely awkward skill.
Compared to projectiles like arrows or bullets, it was practically snail-paced.
But there was one advantage.
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
You could freely change its direction however you wanted as it traveled.
The problem was how to control it.
This too was extremely ambiguous for ordinary people.
‘Like moving a phantom limb… wasn’t that how they described it?’
That’s what everyone said.
It felt like moving a limb that didn’t exist.
Perhaps because of that?
Almond moved it as if it were his own arm.
The projectile moved as well as the effort he put into moving that non-existent limb.
This was what complicated Choi Sa-rang’s feelings.
The more freely his projectile moved, the more she saw herself overlapping with him.
As if she were moving her own arm.
Crunch…
She unconsciously gripped the hem of her skirt near her legs.
Intellectually, she already knew.
That man must have endured the same suffering—theoretically, she understood this.
But humans tend to be insensitive to others’ pain.
Truly feeling it is another matter entirely.
‘I’m… good at it too. As a Specter.’
Since her proficiency as a Specter stemmed from that pain, watching Almond execute it with such ease made her realize.
‘We’re the same.’
It becomes tangibly clear.
What his ten years must have been like.
How similar he is to me.
‘Perhaps that’s why he didn’t?’
She senses he may have avoided being a Specter for the same reason she did.

* * *
Almond thinks to himself.
‘Ah. There was someone like this too.’
He honestly hadn’t given Melly much thought.
Simply because she wasn’t an incarnation of the bow itself, he hadn’t properly remembered her.
‘She was pretty good though.’
But now that he recalls it, this [Spirit Wave] technique.
It’s perfect for me.
‘There’s almost no skill this freely controllable.’
Whoosh…!
From his perspective, it’s like playing around with children, twisting their arms.
Moving arbitrarily up and down, firing away—the enemies grow confused and instinctively try to dodge.
Whoosh!
If Almond doesn’t take his eyes off them, there’s no way they can evade.
His arrows move at roughly twice their running speed.
“Hey! Stop letting us get hit!”
The only contracted one among the enemies, the Rift Chaser – Riksia, shouts back.
She’s essentially the one who should be facing her Contractor, Almond.
But since the other thugs keep stacking thought stacks for her.
“No, keep chasing me!”
“Insane…! How is this even possible!? They’re not even actual spirits!”
“Then you should be the one hitting the laser cannon!”
She wasn’t in a position to have much to say either.
Crackle-crackle-crackle!
[Slaughter Cannon]
The Slaughter Cannon is an extremely simple technique that travels in a straight line, with a very narrow impact radius.
A technique that was literally like a laser.
So all Almond had to do was duck his head slightly and he could avoid the damage.
Whoosh—
“Again…!?”
This wasn’t supposed to be like this.
‘What the hell is this guy?’
Dodging it so easily like that should only be theoretically possible.
It didn’t match the actual design intent at all.
Especially with this added on top, it should be impossible to avoid.
[Wormhole]
A laser execution weapon that passes through a wormhole and shoots back out from another wormhole.
Crackle-crackle-crackle!
“Oh…?”
Almond marveled at the wormhole while dodging once more with Melly’s sluggish body.
Whoosh~
-kkkkkkk what is this
-Oh…wtf
-Daoist movement lol
-Dodged it again lol
-The elder is using Daoist arts~
-First time seeing it so it’s interesting
-wtf dodges so well
Meanwhile, the spirit’s wave was being controlled precisely.
Boom!
Riksia took the hit as well.
“Ahhh!”
Even while dodging those attacks, his own assault continued unabated.
To Almond, it was like the logic of driving while looking straight ahead without looking at the steering wheel in his hands.
But to his opponent, it was a monster.
“Damn, damn it!? What’s going on!? This isn’t a hack, is it!?”
-Everything’s a hack lol
-Hack wtf lol
-It’s definitely a hack~
-lol hack lol
The viewers laughed at such an extreme statement.
But from the perspective of the one experiencing it, it felt unfair.
There was a reason it felt like a bug or a hack.
“I definitely wasn’t looking anywhere else!?”
She also knew how to face Melly. If you could discern where your opponent was concentrating and how intensely, you could avoid the spirit’s wave however you wanted.
Or rather, it wasn’t even a matter of dodging.
The opponent slipped on their own feet, so I didn’t even hit them.
Boom!
“Gack?!”
The Specter’s wave doesn’t deal much damage, but the knockback is quite severe each time it connects.
That’s the only way I can protect the slow Melly.
The problem is that this skill’s design didn’t really account for getting hit by it consecutively.
Boom!
Boom!
“Argh?!”
Riksia created a wormhole but couldn’t even enter it.
“What are you doing?! Damn it! Can’t you kill him?!”
Riksia’s allies screamed in frustration.
Well, they were finally starting to see results.
[Enemy eliminated!]
[Toke → Goguma]
Goguma, who had been the tank, fell.
[Double Kill!]
[Toke → Hong-cha]
Hong-cha collapsed as well.
Riksia still couldn’t land a hit on Almond.
Rather, she was the one getting beaten.
Boom! Boom!
‘This… damn…’
Fury burned through her entire being.
This was an unacceptable level of accuracy.
“You damn hacker! Foolish Youth!? Even your nickname is perfectly chosen! You’re so stupid because you use hacks!”
-kkk
-Foolish Youthkkk
-Ahhhkkkk
-Shout out to the first nickname
-The nickname sounds brutally violent lol
-High praise
Almond simply didn’t respond.
It was something I dealt with all the time.
[Hyung, hyung-nim! Isn’t the stack getting too high?! Let’s summon now! Everyone’s already dead!]
Danmuji’s order came through, and I simply followed it.
“Yeah. Summoning~”
This was my response to Danmuji.
“!?”
To the opponent, it sounded like I was mocking them.
-Yeah~ disappear~ summon~kkk
-Waaah~ summon~kkkkkk
-Die you bastard kkk
-Huh? Just die~
-Ahhhkkkkkkkkkk
The thought entity stacks that Danmuji said only needed 6 stacks had ballooned to over four times that amount.
[Thought Entity × 28]
Kuoooooo──
A massive darkness surged upward, and a platoon of thought entities appeared.
-Kyah
-Awaken…
-Kuh
-Wow that’s insane kkk
-Game over bind them all~
“….”
“Insane.”
“W-we’re….”
Fear settled into the enemies’ eyes.
‘Insane.’
Even Danmuji passed out seeing the number of thought entities that had awakened.
‘Thought entities summoned in survival matches are twice as strong.’
Due to the nature of survival matches without minions, this type of skill gained an advantage.
[Blessing of the Abyss]
[Due to shadow influence, all stats of the thought entities are doubled.]
The number of thought entities wasn’t actually 28.
It was actually 56.
[C-can we actually do this? Con?]
Danmuji asked carefully, and Almond nodded.
“Yeah.”
[Then you go handle Hong-cha and Gobong on the rune spirit side while the thought entities fight instead. Make it as chaotic as possible!]
“Okey~”
At that moment, the thought entities suddenly spread in all directions and began tearing through the enemies.
As if each one possessed its own will.
‘This is insane.’
Danmuji was shocked despite having given the command himself.
‘Could we actually… win this?’
The enemies were five, and Almond was one.
The thought entities numbered 28.
Could they actually just win like this?

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