Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 124

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 124
44. Normal Battle (1)
Meanwhile, a post appeared on Lil Pro, the largest community for Lil.
[New Archer Almond’s Reina Tutorial.jpg]
It was a careless post that merely listed simple screenshots rather than animated gifs.
But photographs were sufficient for explaining the situation anyway.
In the photo, dozens of targets created by Reina were floating.
-How many targets are there?
-What is that…? A bug?
-Big Pro~
-Big Pro!
-This is a tutorial, right?
└Looking at the soldiers’ uniforms, it’s definitely a tutorial
-Did they create a lot to train in the tutorial? There’s no actual limit, right?
└It depends on the intimacy with the Deity
└To manifest that many, even maxing out intimacy would be pretty difficult.
-Ah, it’s Almond. Is this the guy? The one who beat Jeon-ja-pa?
└Beat? What did he beat lol
└Winning one VNS stat? Lol does holding your breath longer make you a good swimmer?
└But he broke the Diamond fastest record too?
└Stop it, Jeon-ja-pa just did it half-heartedly
└Even if I die, I won’t admit it? Even if I die, I won’t admit it? Even if I die, I won’t admit it? Even if I die, I won’t admit it?
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The comments were all reactions of amazement. Of course, as always happened at some point, a fight with Jeon-ja-pa’s fanbase had started.
Regardless, the results were good.
[Big 195] [Lil 6]
The post received 195 Big recommendations in an instant and was exposed on the bulletin board called “Big Pro”.
Juhyeok tilted his head at the unfamiliar expressions.
“Big…? Lil?”
It seemed like a term derived from “Lil” being slang shorthand for “Little”.
Lil meant mediocre, and Big meant good.
Posts that received many Bigs were moved to a bulletin board called “Big Pro”. You could think of it as an issues chart where rankings weren’t assigned.
“It’s complicated.”
Game communities each had their own terminology and strong characteristics, making initial adaptation difficult every time.
“Anyway, since it went to Big Pro, that’s what matters.”
In any case, Juhyeok’s plan seemed to be succeeding.
[Currently Almond is being mentioned on the Lil Pro bulletin board lol]
In fact, it was Juhyeok who had made that post go to Big Pro.
The moment he discovered that post on the Lil Pro bulletin board, he immediately shared the link with Baera31 and Kingchiman, communities that already had a large fanbase for Almond.
After that, Almond’s fans flooded in, rushed to Lil Pro, and thanks to them spamming the ‘Like’ button, posts related to Almond were exposed on the Big Pro bulletin board.
“Good. Still got some firepower left.”
Juhyeok smiled, satisfied that Almond’s fanbase remained intact.
Someone might say otherwise.
Isn’t this fabricated? Isn’t this manipulating public opinion?
None of that mattered to him. After all, this community world was a jungle.
Juhyeok understood that all too well now.
The ones who survive are the strong ones.
The posts that survive become the issues!
And right now, Almond was being thrown into yet another jungle.

* * *
“Damn, you’re level 1?”
That was the first thing Almond heard upon entering the waiting room.
It was clearly a jab at his account being level 1.
‘Wow.’
I’d expected it, but the hostility from the start was no joke.
-Lol what a poser
-Such an aura, you Darth Vader or something?
-Lmao acting all tough in normal mode
-Just straight up cringe….
-Everyone shout it together! “Stop.”
The teammate beside me chimed in as well.
“Right? Bad luck attached itself to us. Damn.”
“Seriously. Even for normal mode, why are you picking such a weird character?”
In Lil, you can’t actually see people’s real faces.
Only you can properly see your own body, while others see you either as the avatar form you chose or as the character you set.
Even if they knew about Almond, they wouldn’t recognize me.
Besides, my nickname right now was ‘Reckless Warrior’.
“Hey, Reckless. Just go support.”
The tone was shamelessly blunt.
Almond felt surprise more than displeasure.
‘Is this really Lil?’
Cursing from the start, commanding tone, casual speech as the default.
What was more surprising was that in Lil, this wasn’t even considered particularly rude.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do, as they say.
I had no choice but to follow that rule as well.
So I needed to say something that sounded tough….
「Sanghyeon, you bastard. You’re supposed to do sports but your mouth’s too damn polite. Huh? Usually you’re polite, but in games that doesn’t matter! Come on, repeat after me ‘───!’ ‘──!’」
In truth, it was advice from an old national team soccer senior who had become a working adult almost immediately and rarely had use for it.
Now that I thought about it, soccer and Lil—both team games—shared some similarities.
Sanghyeon decided to put that senior’s tip to use for the first time in nearly a decade.
“───! ──!”
Thud!
Almond shut his eyes tight and recklessly locked in Reina as his first pick.
The feeling was strange, but his chest felt relieved.
The viewers seemed to feel the same way.
-Hahahaha
-So relieving~
-Lol Almond cursing for the first time
-School days activated!
-Wow
-This is what a true insider looks like lol
-Ahhh so satisfying! This is what an insider does!
-Wow it feels like full-diving back to school days, bro.
-“Stop.”
Perhaps thinking that at level 1 there was nothing he could say, a sudden silence fell over the waiting room.
“….”
Only Reina’s cold voice echoed through the space.
〔Choosing me again. How bold of you.〕
A blue bow, Demian, materialized in Almond’s hands, and a blue cloak draped across his shoulders.
‘Reina?’
‘Is that Reina right now?’
Knowing that Reina had been selected, some players’ fingers itched to speak, but….
Perhaps thanks to that senior’s teaching?
They simply said nothing.
Instead, those who had cursed earlier were the ones getting cursed at.
“You idiots. Just keep your mouths shut. Why’d you have to provoke him into picking Reina? It’s just a normal game anyway.”
“Right. I’ll just support then. But Reina’s a tough pick though. Did you pick based on looks?”
Somehow, everyone’s positions were falling into place.
The game had begun to roll.
Almond was irritated by that rude duo from earlier too, but decided to focus solely on the game for now.
‘Right. Just focus on my own play.’
This was just a normal game anyway.
I was playing to practice my own mechanics, not because winning or losing was what mattered.
With that thought, my mind felt much lighter.
“Everyone set on their lanes?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s go.”
Everyone had finished their preparations.
Boom. Thud.
Tense, dramatic music began to blare through the speakers.
[Entering the Battlefield in 5 seconds!]
[5]
Darkness enveloped everything.
[4]
[3]
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[1]
Whoooosh!
A blinding white light suddenly assaulted my eyes.
Towering mountain ranges and sheer cliffs spread out before me.
Roooaaarrr!
The mighty roar of an epic monster—a dragon—echoed powerfully across the landscape.
‘It’s beginning.’
[Welcome to the Battlefield!]
The first Battlefield had commenced.

* * *
Once we entered the Battlefield, the Players fell mostly silent.
They immediately scattered to their respective lanes—Top, Mid, and Jungle.
Almond headed to the Bottom lane.
He would move to the southern section of the map and fulfill the role of a ranged damage dealer there.
These ADCs dealt explosive damage, but they were typically too fragile in the early game, so they moved together with a Supporter who protected them.
That’s why the Supporter also moved to the Bottom lane alongside them.
“Newbie.”
The Supporter caught up to Almond as he rushed toward the Bottom lane and spoke to him.
“Yes?”
“Newbie. You know how to do jungle leash, right?”
Jungle leash?
To be honest, I didn’t know.
I only knew from watching videos.
The Supporter probably wasn’t really asking if I could do it. They were just asking if I knew what it was.
Almond simply nodded silently.
Sensing that Almond didn’t fully understand, the Supporter added an explanation.
“Just follow me. A leash is when we help the Jungler kill monsters faster so they can go ganking or counter-jungle sooner.”
“Ah….”
Sentences jumbled with countless technical terms.
‘It’s like when I first got hired.’
It felt like the time I first started working and heard all sorts of foreign words and trade-related jargon.
It was like listening to an alien language.
The fortunate part is that Sanghyeon has watched Lil Pro’s broadcasts several times over. (The problem is that it’s Balloon Gum’s broadcast!)
Still, he knows what position a Jungler plays.
It’s a position that doesn’t belong to any of the three lanes—Top, Mid, or Bottom—and roams through the Forest hunting monsters.
By leveling up that way, he ambushes enemy laners together with his own laners. That’s called Ganking.
A Leash is when the Supporter hits the first monster together so that this ganking happens quickly and smoothly.
That was the action this Supporter was explaining right now.
“Alright. Wait here, and when the monster appears, I’ll tank the damage, and you just attack it.”
Lol, hero
It’s Nick, haha!
Why is the person’s name like that lol
Lol, hero~
-Open your eyes, Hero!
“Ah… Yes.”
Almond waited for the monster to appear, doing as instructed.
“How much should I attack?”
“Just enough so it doesn’t die. The Jungler needs to get the gold and experience, and we need to get our lane too. Just keep that balance.”
The kind explanation continued.
Almond liked this Supporter.
“Understood.”
Even though that Jungler thug was a Colleague of the Top laner who was disrespecting him earlier as a noob.
He resolved to execute the Leash properly, at least for this Supporter’s sake.
[Sumin has registered a mission!]
[Let’s get 1 win! Fighting!]
[First Victory] [100,000 Won]
Almond pressed his right temple to mute his game microphone and responded.
“Oh. Thanks for the mission, Sumin. We’ll win this.”
The Supporter looked at his mumbling mouth oddly, but it was normal to assume he’d received a whisper.
“Alright. Here it comes.”
Crumble, crumble, crumble…!
The ground trembled, crumbled, and turned to earth. Suddenly, three wolves the size of houses burst out from there.
[Gray Wolf]
It was the monster the Jungler had to catch.
The Jungler stepped back slightly, as if telling the Supporter to tank the damage.
The Supporter, who had chosen a tank-type Avatar, rushed forward with a gleaming shield.
Growwwl!!
The wolves’ eyes flashed as their fangs, each the size of a human forearm, crashed down on the Supporter’s shield.
Boom——
In that instant.
“Go! Degaz!”
The Jungler swung his savage double-bladed axe and severed the wolf’s neck.
Slash!
“Hey! You too, newbie!”
The Jungler shouted, swinging his axe as if possessed.
〔Targeting〕
Then, Reina’s voice rang out, and small targets formed across the wolf’s body.
〔I implemented it in a way that suits you.〕
‘Why are they so small?’
I tilted my head, wondering if it was because the wolf was large.
In reality, they were about the size of a human thumb.
It seemed the size adjustment disappeared once the tutorial ended.
But the quantity was generous.
About fifteen or so.
Each time I struck those spots, my attack power would amplify, dealing explosive damage.
‘Good. She said until it’s nearly dead.’
I decided to hit about half of them and drew my bowstring.
Crackle…!
An arrow imbued with blue mana materialized in my hand.
Twang!
The first shot fired.
Boom!
The thumb-sized target exploded. Dead center at that.
“…What?”
The Supporter, who had been desperately blocking with his shield, dropped his jaw in shock.
‘Hit the target in one shot?’
A level one hitting Reina’s notorious targets in a single shot.
And such a small one at that.
‘Reina’s targets get smaller the more numerous they are… Fifteen of them, so exactly….’
The fact that Reina gave him fifteen targets was strange in itself.
Reina absolutely never gives contractors with low skill more than two targets.
This is because the targets shrink exponentially with each additional one.
Every Lil Pro user had heard her say at least once: ‘Be grateful you even got two, you idiot.’
But just how small were these things?
The Jungler wanted to measure the size properly, but such an opportunity never came.
Boom!
Another target burst in the meantime.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom boom boom!
In an instant, four targets burst apart in rapid succession.
“Wh—what?!”
The targets continued to explode.
Bang! Boom boom boom!
Three more, then five more.
“W-wait. If this keeps up….”
The wolf’s health was draining away like a glitch.
The Jungler suddenly remembered something and swung his axe frantically.
Whoosh!
But all his blade touched was the wolf’s gray fur.
Screech….
The wolf was already collapsing.
“Grraaahhh…!”
A death cry pierced the air.
The wolf was dead.
“…huh?”
Even Almond tilted his head in confusion.
This wasn’t right.
Hadn’t he told him to attack until it was nearly dead?
[Level Up!]
Almond’s level rose instead of the Jungler’s.
Almond had killed the monster instead of the Jungler.
Everything happened so fast there was no way to recover from it.
The Jungler should have been angry about losing his kill.
But he was too shocked to react normally.
“H-how did you do that…?”
-using formal speech lolololol so funny
-lmaooooo
-wait did he really one-shot the wolf?
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