Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1228

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 113
35. The Second Lesson Here (3)
All of Ril’s avatars have their own positions.
Of course, this varies depending on how the Contractors handle them, but fundamentally they’re divided into Mage, Assassin, ADC, Tank, and Bruiser.
Naturally, there exists a rock-paper-scissors-like matchup dynamic where they counter each other.
“Insane… an early Assassin?!”
That’s why King Gul, who chose Bruiser, is quite shocked.
The enemy is an Assassin avatar, and this side is a Bruiser avatar.
In theory, it should be an easy matchup to dominate.
“Wait, this is…”
Multiple scenarios flowed through King Gul’s mind.
“Isn’t this a disadvantage?”
Bontovi asks from the side.
“Why? Isn’t this favorable for us?”
By common sense, Tanks and Bruisers are strong against the instant burst damage from Assassins and Mages’ skill-based attacks.
In exchange, they’re vulnerable to sustained damage dealt continuously through basic attacks, like from an ADC.
In other words, Tanks are strong against Assassins.
This is basic knowledge.
However—
“That only applies once you reach level 4.”
This only applies when there’s some level scaling in place.
The very early game of levels 1-3 is a different story entirely.
“I… I have no way to deal with that Assassin right now!”
This is what makes Ril interesting.
There’s no such thing as eternal matchups.
They change depending on time or tactics.
Right now, the time variable is dominant in this ‘very early game’ phase.
If the Tank or Bruiser lacks appropriate items and skills, they can’t restrict the Assassin.
They don’t die to the Assassin, but they can’t hinder them either.
Meanwhile, the Assassin position is literally ‘weak-weak-strong-strong’.
Eliminating Players in the Minion state without even a contract is far too easy.
And they infiltrated the backline without any restrictions?
Whoooosh!
“Aaaahhh!”
The result was predetermined.
[An ally has fallen!]
[Ogilte → Lemon]
The enemy Assassin targets the Mage first—the one most capable of creating variables.
[Rune Spirit]
Boom!
Lemon instantly transforms into a Rune Spirit and begins.
“Ah… damn it! Front?! That’s not it!”
King Gul needs to charge forward to attack.
But doing so leaves the rear completely exposed.
“And if I go back, there’s no one to initiate from the front!”
Balloon Gum, as the Tank, must go either forward or back.
But his condition isn’t good.
“Uaaaaaaah! Aaaaah!”
Whoosh! Boom!
He swings his shield wildly trying to catch the nimble enemy Assassin, but nothing connects.
“Damn it! Actually, if you handle an Assassin well, it shouldn’t be this bad!?”
There’s a reason why the Assassin avatar isn’t utilized well as the first contract in the current meta.
If you just pick up the right artifacts and respond properly, it becomes a joke.
But since Balloon Gum, who wields the shield with the crucial crowd control skill, has lost his edge…
This can’t possibly work.
“W-what do we do!?”
Bontovi asks.
King Gul makes a decision.
“Forget it, just break through!”
The enemies are all uncontracted except for the Assassin.
He charges forward, attempting something with his Spear Knight’s controls.
“I-it’s working!? This is!?”
“Look! There’s nothing hopeless about this. I’m a Spear Knight right now. Spear Knight’s specialty? Breaking through is our forte. Break through, ping-pong the aggro, and then Gallop perfectly! Just one Gallop ping-pong and it’s a total teamfight victory! Watch!”
Clatter! Clatter!
He charges forward on horseback.
“Spear Technique! First Form!!”
Whoooosh!
“Spear Technique Second Formmmmm!!!”
Boom!
He swings his spear wildly.
-Kekekekeke so loud kekeke
-Ahahahahaha
-Audio damage kekekeke
-Enemies confused kekeke
When the official Ril Champs analyst’s voice suddenly charged in, everyone was a bit taken aback.
But the response remained the same.
Everyone unleashed a barrage of attacks on him.
“Arcane War Chariot Collisiooooon!”
King Gul seizes the moment and casts his skill.
[Arcane War Chariot Collision]
The Spear Knight Sardine’s mechanical war horse, “Gear Galop,” charges forward alone, dealing massive damage to enemies before transforming into Sardine’s armor—a devastating technique.
Whoosh!
Both King Gul and his opponent took damage.
But armored, King Gul continued casting his skill without interruption.
“Spear Arts! Third Striiiiiike!!!”
Boom!
His spear tip touches the enemy Mage’s neck.
[Stunned]
Spear Arts Third Strike connects—the opponent is stunned.
“Got one stunned! Since it’s a Mage, we’re basically done, right!? Kill this bas─”
But his own health was critically low.
‘Huh?’
[Health 13%]
I couldn’t see the forest for the trees.
“Doesn’t matter, right!? Who am I!? The Spear Knight! Time to mount Gear Galop again… cooldown?”
Whenever the Spear Knight participates in eliminating an opponent or deals sufficient damage, he remounts Gear Galop and regains his shield and attack power.
So the target King Gul marked had to die.
“That bastard! Kill him! Kill him! Finish him off now!”
He thrusts his spear at the Mage while screaming desperately.
“Move!”
Crash—
The enemy Shield User charges in and shoves King Gul back.
The Mage flees backward.
“Grab that guy! Nooooow!”
He swings his spear and shouts, but behind him stands only Almond.
“Almond! Shoot that bastard!”
What kind of combat order is this, damn it! Shoot! Emergency! Is this all?ㅋㅋㅋ
Haha, fuck
Haha, that’s hilarious!
Ugh, so noisy lol
“That one?”
Almond fires his bow the moment he asks.
The arrow flies straight toward its target.
“Too predictable~!”
Boom!
[Parry]
The enemy Tank deflects it with his shield.
It was far too obvious that Almond would always shoot the player the Spear Knight had stunned.
[Stunned]
This time, the parry stuns Almond instead.
“!?”
King Gul’s eyes went wide.
And that was the end of it.
Boom!
[An ally has fallen!]
He became a Rune Spirit.
Only Almond remained.
“One left! Kill him!”
No matter how talented Almond was in combat, without being a Contractor, there was no way he could face an enemy Assassin Contractor and three others alone.
The distance to the Assassin had already closed far too much.
He was nothing more than a Minion with a bow.
Slash!
[Well, better luck next time….]
[9th Place]
They were annihilated.
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Ahahahahahahaha
-Screaming the 1st and 2nd forms of the spear technique but none of them hit, only the 3rd form connected lololol
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Physical issues lol
-Lmao
-And Almond lasted the longest out of everyone lol
-Tsk tsk, worthless in the actual field?
-Sounded good from up there, didn’t it? lololol

* * *
Whoosh!
I was summoned back to the waiting room.
Since Lemon was a chance encounter, only four of us returned, excluding her.
Thud…!
King Gul’s knees hit the ground the moment he arrived.
His legs had given out.
“Damn it….”
Bang!
He slammed his fist against the floor.
He looked furious.
“Arrrgh!”
-Kekekekekeke lololol
-That’s all you got? Kekekeke
-Lololol
-Why so over the top
-Probably overdoing it to avoid getting cursed out kekekeke
Still in a 1v1 with Ddokchung ㅠㅠ Please hang in there! King Tangerine Exorcist!
-Damn it lololol
At King Gul’s exaggerated display of anger, Balloon Gum and Bontovi’s eyes met.
‘What do we do?’
‘I have no idea.’
Someone had to say something.
“Ahem… This, this wasn’t supposed to go this far.”
Balloon Gum, who had decent instincts, spoke in a way that conveyed ‘we didn’t intend this.’
“Really. That’s why I said not to bring office workers who just push pens around!?”
Bontovi chose to stay true to his role.
Why?
Because he was a Mixnuts employee.
He was just doing what he was ordered to do.
I didn’t know how King Gul felt, but the viewers loved it.
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Lololololololol
-Till the end kekekekeke
-Lol mad? What’re you gonna do about it~!?
-No field experience so what~
-Bontovi lololololol
-Ah so funny kekekeke
Then Almond approached.
“King Gul?”
His kind smile seemed almost like he was trying to comfort me.
But that was merely an illusion born from his handsome face.
He spread two fingers and spoke.
“Here’s the second lesson.”
It was definitely a “quiz” before.
Now the word had changed to “lesson.”
“Always contract with the skilled ones first.”
-Lmao
-Giving unsolicited advice here?
-Lesson lololololololol
-Kekeke what a follow-up lmao
-The student surpasses the master oof
-Lmao
-Wait, has the teacher and student switched roles? kekeke
King Gul lifted his head in bewilderment and asked.
“W-what was the first lesson then?”
“Check your parachute before jumping from the airship.”
-Kekekeke that’s the one
-But that was a quiz earlier kekeke
-Now it’s become a lesson kekeke
Ah… Ddukcheongi, who was almost sealed away, has burst out again ㅠㅠㅠ
Foolish Youth.
Just as Almond seemed to regain momentum, a donation came in.
Ding!
[Factos donated 10,000 won.]
[King Gul… you take responsibility and perish together with him]
-Kekekekeke lol
-Are you releasing the Clever Youth again??
-Injuryeok Almond oof
-Lmao kekekeke
-You let out the Clever Youth and can’t seal it again? You must atone with your life
-There’s something dangerous inside… you can’t let it out!!
The aura of the “Clever Youth” that Coach Choi Sa-rang had sealed away through renaming him the Foolish Youth was beginning to seep through.
‘Damn it. What am I supposed to do about this?’
In contrast, King Gul began to feel the weight of despair settling over him.
‘Of all places, I had to run into those crazy pre-contracted assassin avatars.’
Was that common at this rank?
I had no idea.
In truth, there was almost no information about such low ranks.
Besides, this rank bracket wasn’t even King Gul’s area of interest.
You don’t need to understand all that to climb by winning, right? That’s what this rank is all about.
‘The problem is our team also has these locals….’
No, more accurately, people who came from even lower ranks.
King Gul examined the faces of those surrounding him.
“Krkrkr…”
“Hehehehe!”
(*This is King Gul’s imagination)
Trolls with sinister grins on their faces.
Balloon Gum and Bontovi.
‘Damn it… damn it!’
King Gul frowned.
Their existence was nullifying all his plans and common sense….
‘And that’s not all.’
The worst of them.
That handsome man looking down from on high, manipulating everything, the axis of evil….
Almond.
“When exactly did you start thinking you knew Ril?”
(*Entirely King Gul’s imagination)
That bastard had gone beyond not acknowledging him as a teacher—now he was claiming he didn’t even know Ril.
How was he supposed to win with these people on his team?
King Gul clutched his head and cried out in anguish.
“Uuuuh… e-emergency siiiituatiooon!”
No chill energy lol
What are you talking about lol
Is that all? lol
He suddenly threw himself down in an emergency lol
My head’s gonna be in emergency mode~lol
Damn, haha
As King Gul’s anguish echoed through the live stream.
Whoosh.
A new member was added to the waiting room.
“Ah~ you’re all here~ thanks for the invite, Daegam~”
It was Lemon.
She had originally been asked by the Coach to practice alone.
“King Gul~ I wanted to learn from you too~”
She’d heard that King Gul was teaching Almond and those two trolls, so she reached out and came to find them.
‘Learn from me?’
King Gul lifted his head at words he hadn’t heard in quite some time(?).
“Learn from me? Really?”
There was still someone who recognized him… as a teacher?
“Yes. You’re completely top-tier, aren’t you?”
Hehe.
Lemon laughed innocently and spoke as if it were obvious.
‘Not anymore….’
King Gul tried to deny it.
“B-but I just placed 10th.”
Yet Lemon tilted her head and asked as if it were only natural.
“Huh? That’s just bad luck. Survival matches are all about RNG anyway, right? And it wasn’t 10th, it was 9th.”
“…!”
King Gul recalled his memory.
‘That’s right.’
This game did have some luck involved originally.
It was different from siege warfare.
“Skilled players naturally climb to their average rank after playing a few times, right? Hong-cha always says that too.”
Snap!
King Gul stood up from his seat again.
“Almond.”
“…Yes?”
Thud!
He placed his hand on Almond’s shoulder and glared at him.
“I’ll prove it! That I can be a teacher!!”
“…But, you’re already a teacher?”
“THAT’S A LIEEEEEEEE!!!”
Boom!
Almond turned his head away, thinking his eardrums might burst.
Hahahaha
-The sound’s blown out lol
Damn it, haha
-The speaker’s crackling lol
“But why are you giving me lessons!?”
‘That was just a joke.’
Almond had only said it for the broadcast.
“But why! Why did you tell me you didn’t know Ril, you foolish girlllll!!”
“???”
I never said that.
Haha, seriously though lol
-When did that happen lol
Haha, that’s hilarious!
-Are you hearing things? lol
-That’s something he said to himself~
Almond was bewildered, but.
‘He’s gotten fired up.’
King Gul had become this serious.
There was no reason not to accept.
“Well, it’s still 1v1. Let’s just go straight to the next match.”
-1v1 lolololol
-Was it a match? lolol
-lololol
-Almond won the first match and lost the second, right? lolol
“Excellent! Perfect timing for a 5-man queue….”
King Gul nodded and clicked the find game button.
Boom!
“I’ll give you the third lesson.”
[Opponent found!]
Perhaps it was because the game started with such bold words?
“Oh. Q, why are you caught so fast? This is completely telling me to prove it again, right?”
Q was caught in an instant.
King Gul was trying to read meaning into it.
“That’s because it’s a 5-man queue~”
Lemon told him the truth.
“…Huh?”
A 5-man queue.
Wait, that’s a completely different game!?
‘Insane.’
Only then did he look at Almond.
Smirk.
He was smiling.
“!”
King Gul felt his spine tingle with chills, and he couldn’t help but acknowledge it internally.
‘That clever youth….’

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