Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1232

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 117
36. A Righteous Snipe (4)
Though it had only been two matches so far.
King Gul was beginning to understand something from directly playing low-rank survival games.
‘Maybe Almond was right. Perhaps it really did become a game bound by convention.’
When a game ages, players naturally develop certain agreed-upon playstyles.
Agreed-upon playstyles.
That phrase was actually quite amusing.
In a game where the objective is to deceive, trick, and kill opponents, what did convention even mean?
It should have been called something different.
‘Playstyles that have become like convention.’
Accumulated over long periods of data, exchanged between players without much thought—playstyles that ultimately made no real difference.
For example, in survival games, the meta was early Tank contracts focused on leveling growth.
Contracting a Tank first significantly increased stability in monster hunting.
With higher levels, even difficult monsters could be defeated faster and more reliably—an evolved meta.
‘There was definitely an early Assassin meta before that.’
In the early days of survival games, there existed a method where players contracted Assassins first and grew by hunting enemies.
Teams that contracted Tanks first would struggle or even wipe when facing such teams.
But why did the Tank meta ultimately win?
‘It was the leveling speed difference.’
Hunting players was unstable and resulted in many eliminations, while the early Tank meta focusing on monsters frequently achieved first place.
And if you just survived the very early game?
You’d end up being hunted instead.
Ril is a game where level is king.
Even if an Assassin tried to hunt non-contracted players from the Tank’s team, it was difficult if they were higher level.
Naturally, the Assassin meta of hunting players died out, and with it, the vault meta ended too.
The concept that leveling through monster hunting was supreme became established.
After that, everyone just picked Tanks and hunted, with no fighting in the early game.
This further increased the sense of security that early Tanks provided.
‘But here?’
There was none of that.
They suddenly picked Assassins and rushed in.
They even abandoned their own leveling to charge forward.
Such fights couldn’t happen in higher ranks.
But here they happened, and if you got caught, you’d place 9th or 10th.
It was like a natural disaster.
‘But now I understand!’
King Gul now knew.
Anything could happen here.
“That might actually work!?”
Ptooey!
King Gul roared so loudly it was as if he were spitting directly in the enemy’s face.
His confidence pierced the heavens itself.
And his spear pierced the enemy Assassin with equal precision.
Thwack!
[Team 4 eliminated!]
The opposing team was annihilated.
Our side survived intact.
We barely lost any time.
“Niiiiiiice!!”
King Gul roared triumphantly.
All my teammates high-fived and embraced each other.
“Waaaaaaah!”
“We, we won!”
“Balloon Gum champions!”
What the heck lol
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
“Championship lol lol lol”
It’s almost championship-level tension lol
We’d only eliminated one team, yet anyone watching would think we’d won the entire tournament.
“Alright! Leaf Village Neighborhood Watch!”
King Gul raised his spear and bellowed once more at the top of his lungs.
hahahaha
Crazy tension lol
-Wow
Lol, it’s not like I’m a commentator for no reason.
Hahaha, that’s so funny!
Even for someone known as an enthusiastic caster, he seemed unusually elated.
And there was good reason.
[Defense Rune – Common]
[Health Rune – Common]
I’d obtained additional runes by eliminating the enemy Contractor.
Now we’d have a complete Level 3 team with two Contractors.
“Let’s go ahead and contract you, Balloon Gum.”
“…Huh? Me!?”
“Yes.”
These were just bonus trash runes anyway.
I’d contract Balloon Gum quickly.
It would be problematic if Iron Ball got stolen.
[Iron Ball – Dino]
Twang!
White light cascades down upon Balloon Gum.
“Wahaha! Here’s the second lesson~ Contracts go to the strongest~”
Hahahahahahaha
Do you have a conscience?
Isn’t it obvious that this isn’t just some half-assed job? lol
Hahahahaha, I’m dying of laughter
Haha, so cute lol
At the words “contracts go to the strongest,” King Gul issued battle orders without even cracking a smile.
“Anyway, from now on Balloon Gum will take the front lines, and I’ll protect Almond.”
“…Huh? Really?”
“Yes. Because of Iron Ball.”
“Ah…!”
This was because Iron Ball was an avatar specialized in ‘initiating’ to open combat.
Of course, this ability could also be used to protect a ranged dealer.
Balloon Gum was quite good at Iron Ball.
More than anything….
“Fundamentally, Ril fights by exchanging low-value entities for high-value ones.”
“…?”
Balloon Gum didn’t understand what he meant.
But essentially, he was saying that since Balloon Gum had no value, he was perfect to exchange for a high-value player.
Throwing it away because it’s low value lol
Balloon gum throwing technique is crazy.
But honestly, it does suit you well lol
Hahahahahahaha
-Real talk, even his runes are all garbage so honestly nothing’s wasted
You can’t even understand this… Gum hyung ㅠㅠㅠ
“Well, we’re out of time. Let’s go! Oh, and….”
King Gul looks at Almond.
“So, Foolish Youth?”
“Yes?”
“Tell me how we achieved victory in this battle as we walk.”
King Gul, now quite full of himself after the successful vault strategy at the start.
Now he’s trying to play teacher again.
Finally, is this the third lesson? lol
Hahahahaha lol
Why are you being so snobbish all of a sudden? lol
-I’m the teacher! You’re the student!
But you won the almond way, didn’t you? lol
“Hmm….”
Almond gave it some thought before answering.
“Because I successfully struck multiple enemies in succession?”
-Exactly kekekeke
-Lol kekekeke
-That’s so true;
“Hmm… that’s true too, but isn’t there something else?”
King Gul seemed to be expecting a different answer.
“Thanks to that, the Tank didn’t die.”
“That’s the same thing!?”
“Thanks to that, I got free damage in.”
“You’re just continuing on!?”
In truth, from Almond’s perspective, that was everything.
Every time I fired Ran’s Pure White Crystallization, I hit two or more enemies.
That turned the tide.
-Bulldozer-style Q&A kekekeke
-Almond just seems to be saying whatever he wants? kekekeke
Hahahaha
-But if that’s not it, what is it really?
-Just talking kekekeke
“Look here, Almond.”
King Gul gave a hint.
“We cracked the vault. What was our level during the fight?”
Level?
I paused for a moment, searching my memory.
“Oh…?”
Almond’s eyes gleamed.
“I’m not sure?”
-Ah kekekekekekekekekeke
-kekekekekekekeke
-No kekekeke
-Why does his expression look like he’s about to realize something
-Honestly it’s so obvious I’m not even surprised lol
I wasn’t thinking about anything during the fight.
One might expect such a disciple to be frustrating.
Surprisingly, King Gul accepted it easily.
“It makes sense you wouldn’t remember.”
“?”
“We were the same level.”
“Ah…!”
“That’s how it is when you fight. You don’t remember. Only when the level difference puts you at a disadvantage do you remember. So you can blame the level.”
-Ouch kekekekekeke
-Gasp
-Ouch
That was it.
Most people don’t remember cases where the enemy is at the same level.
“But do you know why I remember?”
“Because you’re smart?”
“No. I only fight enemies at the same level as me. I checked beforehand. That’s why I remember it. From now on, Almond, you should always keep this in mind before fighting.”
It seemed King Gul’s proper field training was beginning.
“Then there’s one more thing we should be curious about here.”
“…?”
“We just robbed the vault. So why were the levels the same?”
“!”
That was it.
Normally, robbing the vault causes your level to drop.
But the levels were the same?
Why was that?
“It’s because I robbed the vault on the ‘offbeat.'”
King Gul’s vault robbery wasn’t simply copying Almond’s strategy.
There was a slight variation to it.
“Even though this looks like a simple vault route, it’s actually a combination of three different conditions?”
“What….”
Almond lifted his fingers and tried to count them.
No matter how I looked at it, three conditions seemed like a stretch.
It seemed like I just wanted to say three.
“Three conditions are….”
King Gul started to speak but shook his head instead.
“Try running through it once after we’re done. See how it works.”
We were approaching a dangerous zone soon.
“Yes!”
Almond nodded quickly.
‘Thank goodness I didn’t explain now.’
In fact, blood was starting to come from my ears.
That’s when it happened.
“Is anyone there!”
Balloon Gum, who was heading forward, shouted.
We were pushing through the brush heading toward Red Turtle.
Whoosh!
They quickly crouched and hid their bodies in the brush.
In that position, they crawled forward.
“…There, there is one.”
“For real.”
Several enemies were already preparing to hunt Red Turtle.
They were checking their surroundings quite thoroughly.
“Shh.”
King Gul raised his index finger and carefully pulled his head back.
“It’s one team. We’re level 3 right now. They have level 4 too. But I can’t tell how many Contractors they have….”
King Gul was trying to analyze the enemies.
But he couldn’t see everything from here.
Then, Balloon Gum tugged at King Gul’s collar.
“But… I, I just… I think I just saw something?”
“Huh? What?”
“There’s a familiar face over there….”
“?”
Among the group preparing to hunt the turtle, Balloon Gum spotted a face he knew all too well.
[Pungsna]
“Pungsna?”
A notorious malicious sniper famous for sniping Balloon Gum and disrupting his games.
The problem was that this person’s skill was quite exceptional.

* * *
Meanwhile, Pungsna’s team.
They circled near Red Turtle, placing wards while chatting.
“Hey. Who’s on Kkeom’s team?”
“Ah, they’re all trash. Jello, Mosol, Dotorimuk, Chocosong.”
“Puh, puhahahaha! Except for Mosol, they’re all idiots anyway? Man, this is gonna be so fun.”
That was it.
They were mistaken.
“But we did successfully snipe them, right?”
“Yeah. Don’t you know this app?”
Click.
He pointed to the addon (*extension program).
The broadcast is blocked by hardware inside the capsule itself.
So sniping isn’t easy in the first place.
There’s a process needed because you start the game right after watching the broadcast.
Professional snipers don’t watch the broadcast from the start.
If you watch the broadcast and enter, you’ll be late.
Once you confirm the broadcast has started, you activate this addon in the game lobby next and wait.
“I entered right as soon as this ‘Goodsna’ addon alert went off.”
“Kuh~ you really are something else.”
“I have to do what needs to be done.”
Kekekeke!
They laughed, imagining the hell that awaited Balloon Gum ahead.

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