Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1227

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 112
35. The Second Lesson Here (2)
Truth be told, eighty percent of gaming comes down to talent.
There’s a ceiling to how far effort alone can take you.
Generally, that ceiling is Diamond rank.
But for some, it’s Platinum. For others, it’s Gold.
In Ril, we call this the “Bronze-Silver-Gold” phenomenon.
“Bronze = Silver = Gold”
Meaning these three tiers are essentially the same.
It’s fundamentally a term of mockery.
Gold itself becomes the target of ridicule.
Yet someone bleeds themselves dry just to barely reach Gold.
Some call it unfair.
Why can’t I play games well?
Why does the world revolve around talent?
But honestly, there’s nothing unfair about it at all.
Nobody complains it’s unfair they can’t dunk a basketball, right?
Gaming is the same.
Do people feel wronged they can’t become professional gamers?
It’s simply that everyone has certain things they can and cannot do—that’s just how it is.
The truly wronged one right now is someone like King Gul.
“What is this… Why… who exactly are these people?”
He believed he could play Ril.
He’d believed that for over a decade, ever since the Fish Game era.
But now, he’s starting to wonder if that might not be true.
[Ally defeated.]
[Ground → Balloon Gum]
[Ally defeated.]
[Ground → Bontovi]
He stares blankly at the names displayed on the screen.
Are these really the same species as him?
Do they possess intelligence?
Why are they dying to Ground?
“Is this… Ril?”
Is this the Ril I knew?
These questions swirled through King Gul’s mind.
-Kekekekekekeke after watching only pros, seeing this makes you dizzy, right?
-King Gul’s expression kekekeke
-Like the expression of someone transferred from the Military Police to the Survey Corps
-Kekekekekekekekeke so funny
“Hey, King Gul. You’re a hothouse flower.”
A professional gamer.
Those who were so skilled at games that they made it their profession.
Naturally, their talent was top-tier.
Even the trainees in Ril’s Championship divisions two and three were mostly people who had never gone a day without playing games.
So what does “Bronze to Gold” mean to them?
It’s practically non-existent.
They start from Gold rank and immediately advance to Platinum.
A Gold rank that some dedicate their entire lives to reaching is merely their starting point.
Because they were good at games from the very beginning.
They were simply cut from different cloth.
Yet this very talent had made them weak in certain ways.
“King Gul! Save the Rune Spirit! What are you doing!?”
Lemon screams right beside him, but King Gul’s legs have gone rigid.
He lacked immunity to these mindless entities.
It was like someone who always wore suits and sipped whiskey while playing chess had suddenly been dragged onto a battlefield where live ammunition was flying.
-???: Frrrrreeze!
-Kekekeke “Real talent” freezes him up kekekeke
-Hey, first time in the Survey Corps?
-What? Kekeke Lag?
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
I let out a soft chuckle.
I watch King Gul’s reaction and laugh.
‘Cookie was right.’
During the Civil Empire international tournament, Cookie had said something.
「Why do we train? If you ask me that… I always answer this way.」
The reason we must train.
「So that when the opponent thrusts their spear to the right, we dodge to the left.」
It was such an obvious statement.
That was it.
To do the obvious.
「Training is what allows us to execute this obvious action. Looking at famous operations in actual military history, there really aren’t grand psychological warfare or complex maneuvers.」
Actual wars weren’t won by grand strategies as often as one might think.
「When the enemy comes, the ambushed forces circle around and strike from behind. This simple tactic achieves overwhelming victory. Why?」
In real combat situations, everyone’s body freezes and their mind goes blank, making it impossible to execute even slightly complex operations.
That’s why training is necessary.
‘King Gul was trained, that’s true….’
King Gul was originally a trained warrior.
No matter how flustered he was by the Bronze to Gold world, he was someone who could move as his body remembered.
But now?
‘Not anymore.’
All his body remembers now is this.
“Beep, beep aaaaaaaang!”
Hahahahahahaha (laughing)
Hahahahahaha
Damn, haha
In the end, is this really all we’re doing? lol
Switching right to commentary lol
While he became a human emergency siren.
Poof!
I had already revived all the Rune Spirits.
“Beep, beep aaaaaaaang!”
King Gul was simply shouting emergency alerts.
I approached and grabbed his shoulder, shaking it.
“Teacher!”
“Uh… yes?”
“Please give me orders!”
I asked even though I knew King Gul was in a panic state.
Did you come to scratch? lol
“It’s an emergency order? You’re telling me to take off?”
Hahaha emergency situation and what kind of order are you giving haha
Haha, I’m so excited!
The viewers seemed to think I was simply asking to mess with him.
But I was being serious.
‘I need to verify this.’
I needed to test King Gul’s theory.
Could the ‘textbook approach’ that King Gul proposed actually work even in a situation like this? I was curious.
“Didn’t you already map out the route from above?”
“Y-yes, that’s right.”
King Gul quickly shut his eyes.
He felt like his concentration would only return once he removed those two trolls from his sight.
‘Ugh… my brain circuits feel like they’re breaking.’
The brains of seasoned professionals imagine multiple branches of ‘what-ifs’ even while following a single path.
What benefits could be gained, what accidents could happen, whether it’s still beneficial even if an accident occurs, and so on…
‘Damn it.’
King Gul’s eyes snapped open.
“There isn’t one.”
“Pardon?”
King Gul’s eyes were trembling.
The eyes of someone who had traversed hundreds of parallel universes.
Within the route he had drawn, there was only defeat.
“No matter what I do… no matter what! Those two are going to die!!”
King Gul pointed at Bontovi and Balloon Gum, shouting frantically.
“Those… those two exist only to die. They’re not living beings! Ghosts… they’re ghosts, I tell you!”
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekek
-He’s been through several universes kkk
-Is this Doctor Strange kkk
-Lmao he looks like he just watched a horror movie
-This is hilarious kkk
-Well, they die without doing anything from the start anyway
-They die to the ground, so how well would they die to a player…
Bontovi and Balloon Gum.
According to their concept, they should have been giggling and laughing while teasing him.
‘That… that’s all?’
‘Damn… this sucks.’
They were hurt by the realization that they truly couldn’t perform at that level.

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A moment later.
King Gul, having regained his composure, led his teammates well once again.
“We’ve cleared out all the Abyss creatures in this area. Now we’re methodically catching up with the smaller ones.”
He proceeded along the standard route, steadily raising their levels.
“We’ll try to avoid encountering other teams as much as possible.”
He adopted the most defensive type among the standard approaches.
He strongly believed he couldn’t win in combat with these members.
If combat breaks out here and we lose again?
‘Two of us have already died. I can’t afford to waste more time.’
If they encountered another team and were driven out of that area, all the time already invested would be lost and he’d have to devise a new route—it was no small loss.
He concentrated intensely, searching for traces of opponents.
“Someone passed through here.”
Footprints, bent grass, dust marks swept across ruins—
He mobilized all his senses.
“This way for us.”
King Gul identified the path with no opponent traces and constructed a low-risk defensive route.
He naturally abandoned the Red Turtle route cleanly, and had given up on Shark long ago.
“Then what are we doing? Aren’t we just barely surviving?”
-Real talk kkk
-What even is this
-Gandhi meta kkk
“Yes? If you survive with just your life intact, that’s winning in a survival match, Almond.”
“Ah….”
I gained a new realization.
“I see?”
-Kekekeke you didn’t know?
Now do you get it? haha
It’s originally a cheap bastard guy game lol
Yeah, that’s right lol I’m finally getting it now too
Haven’t you ever tried Gandhi meta? Do you just not know about it? lol
Haha, that’s hilarious!
Even in Battle Large, a typical survival game, I always cleared it in the “Lü Bu” style—killing opponents to end the game quickly.
So it was the same in Ril.
Actually, it would be more accurate to say I was even more aggressive.
With these amazing superpowers that Ril provides, I was just hiding away barely clinging to life?
That was something I couldn’t even imagine.
But it turned out that was the core of this game!
‘There was a reason Danmuji played so defensively.’
If you stay alive, you win.
That’s the fundamental premise of survival mode.
The reason Danmuji looked much more passive than what I saw in siege warfare was because of this mode’s unique nature.
“So, instead of Shark, we’ll eat the Abyss Squid as quickly as possible and aim to engage the team eating Shark around mid-game first.”
King Gul’s big picture was coming together to some extent.
But what put him to the test was an unexpected aspect.
The first contract, specifically.
[Rune Box]
By standard rules, we should pick a Tank or Bruiser here.
‘Wait.’
The early Tank’s role is quite important.
Someone skilled needs to do it.
But I can’t do it.
Then….
“Lemon? Can you Tank?”
“Ah, I….”
Lemon hesitated.
“I specialize in utility Support… hmm….”
“Then I’ll do it!”
Balloon Gum raises his hand.
He’s definitely a Tank specialist.
But Balloon Gum for the first Tank contract?
“No, I’ll go Reina. That’s safer. Otherwise we can’t do anything in fights.”
The moment I join in.
King Gul made his decision.
Whoosh!
[Spearman – Sardine]
He had chosen a damage dealer tank.
-Kekekeke right away kekeke
-No, answer first then pick kekeke
-Damn kekekeke
-Just instant pick kekeke
There was no particular explanation.
“Let’s go.”
King Gul said that and advanced toward the next route.
Then I spoke up.
“Here’s the second quiz. Which position should you contract from?”
-?
-??
-Kekekekeke what is this
-Second lesson here~
-Death quiz show kekeke
-Sulking again because I didn’t do it for you?
-I can see the end coming…
I spoke through the channel where not just the viewer mic, but King Gul and everyone could hear.
King Gul had no choice but to object.
“No! The ADC doesn’t have efficiency in the early game! The standard is to transition later! Nothing’s happened right now! Why are you suddenly talking about ADC!!”
“No, Teacher. I was just asking as a review.”
“…Really?”
There’s no way that’s true.
-Is it?
-No way kekekeke
-Bullshit damn kekekekeke
-Haha kekekeke
That’s when it happened.
Whoooosh!
A fireball came flying in.
“Whoa whoa whoa!”
Enemies.
The enemies who went ahead on the path could be avoided, but the enemies following from behind could not.
Boom!
A fireball crashed into the center of our formation.
“Ahhhhh!? Nooooo!”
It wasn’t King Gul who screamed.
It was Balloon Gum.
He had nothing but a shield in his hands, and there was nothing he could do.
Why?
Because his opponent was far too fast.
“Whoa!? It’s an assassination! An Assassin incarnate!!!”
Shhwiiiiing!
Someone took a massive blow.
Of all things lol
-Ouch
That serial killer is crazy
-It’s over

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[Beginner’s Tip: There are countless ways to survive. There is no single answer. Only those who survive are the answer.]

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