Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1254

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 139
43. Demonstrating True Skill (3)
Choi Sa-rang knew many ways to make people listen.
In truth, this wasn’t something she’d learned during her professional career, but rather through years of upbringing and family education.
Because of this, I had some confidence that I could control people in my own way. Yet it was only after stepping into society that I truly understood.
‘It doesn’t work.’
Knowing something intellectually and actually applying it were vastly different matters.
Of the countless methods I knew, only a handful were truly mine to wield—the rest had simply been my father’s abilities all along.
The world of professional gaming was like that.
It didn’t ask where you came from, how much money you had, or what parents you were born to.
There was only one question here.
‘Can you win?’
Can you win, or can’t you?
There were only these two paths.
No other variables existed.
Those who couldn’t win had no place to stand.
There were no excuses for defeat.
The defeated held no value.
One might call it harsh, but I actually preferred it precisely because of that.
‘Perhaps… this might be right for me.’
Some worlds appear warm on the surface, yet their depths are utterly sordid.
Wasn’t it Father who always said the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
Then what if the opposite were true—if the path itself were a harsh hell?
Perhaps at its end lies a magnificent light.
Who becomes that light?
It all begins with a single question.
‘Can you win?’

* * *
Pausing to reflect on the past, Sarang turned the thought over in her mind.
‘Still… I’m in a similar position.’
The rules from back then still governed her life now.
‘In the end, I have to answer again.’
Can the Coach actually lead the team to victory?
Can you lead the team to victory?
I had to demonstrate this.
That’s why I proceeded through all four matches without feedback, then delivered an extreme shift at the end.
To make the difference between Coach’s involvement and its absence crystal clear.
This is an extremely dangerous approach.
Even she, who had reigned supreme for so long, couldn’t help but feel her flesh tremble at such a method.
She crossed her arms, quietly gripping her trembling hands.
Trembling, yes, but she knew the answer she had to deliver.
‘We can win this.’
In her focused eyes, the screens of five fiercely moving players were reflected.

* * *
“They’re nearby. Hide.”
Rustle—
The brush moved.
It was Almond and Lemon.
They crouched down as low as they could.
Almond remained perfectly still, quietly observing the enemies’ movements.
Not even a breath escaped, and her eyes didn’t blink.
But Lemon realized something.
‘Oh… what do I do?’
Her knees were trembling, shaking her upper body with each quiver.
In short, she was shaking.
‘…what?’
This made no sense.
Even this must have game compensation applied to it.
‘I’m going crazy. What if I shake like this in the actual scrim?’
This was just a scrim, not real combat.
Of course, she hadn’t been shaking like this from the first match of the scrim.
「I’ll take first place starting this round」
Wouldn’t anyone tremble hearing words like that?
At least the human Gyu-ri Kim did.
‘You’re not even Choi Sa-rang. Why are you shaking?!’
The Coach had volunteered to be the target, so shouldn’t her heart feel a bit lighter? That’s what one might think.
Her personality wouldn’t allow her to do otherwise.
If she made even a single mistake among this two-person team, Almond—their strongest combat asset—would be compromised, and that damage would fall directly on the Coach.
As a streamer, she knew all too well the criticism the Coach would face in such a scenario.
‘It’ll be flooded. Absolutely flooded.’
The impact would ripple beyond the Streamer Garden and reach all the way to Rilpro.
Dormant malevolent spirits would awaken at the sight of such warm bait and come rushing in.
“They’re gone. Lemon. Lemon?”
“…Yes?”
“The enemy’s gone. Let’s move.”
“Oh, yes!”
Tap, tap.
Almond tapped Lemon’s forehead.
“Focus. We’re in the middle of a split.”
Almond’s expression grew deadly serious as he emphasized the need for concentration.
To Lemon, it sounded almost like a threat.
She could feel his obsession with successfully executing the split.
-in the middle of a split kekekeke
-kekekekekekekekek
-so scary kekekeke
-not even “during the game” but “during the split” kekekekeke
-or else the next split happens on your head? hahaha
-let’s focus gyu-ri…
-this child isn’t playing a game right now. she’s executing a split.
The nobleman’s dignity is amazing.
-kekekeke he really wants to succeed at this split
Gulp.
Lemon swore to herself that she would focus no matter what.
“…Yes! I, I’ll focus!”
“Did you close the chat?”
“What?”
“Close the chat. Just for this round.”
“….”
-???
-?
-?
-turn off your stream. you have no talent
-kekekekeke what?
-???: i’m a streamer…
“Yes…? Oh, yes… I, I should do that.”
Lemon answered that she would close it.
I was trembling so badly that I couldn’t do anything properly.
Boom!
[Ani donated 10,000 won!]
[Wasn’t the broadcast supposed to be saved? Daegam?]
Ting.
[Chat closed]
That was the last donation message.
-?
-No way!
Wow, that’s hilarious lol
-He really closed it
-Wow
-What is this
-But this is a scrim???
No, haha
-You’re the streamer! You’re the streamer! You’re the streamer!
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.
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* * *
Meanwhile, Hong-cha walked near the brush.
She glanced at the chat and received shocking news.
-Gyu-ri closed her chat!
-Wow finally starting
-Hong-cha that’s a staff
-Lemon chat off serious mode on
“Gyu-ri closed her chat?”
Lemon closed her chat.
“That nobleman is crying.”
“Closing chat during a scrim… Wait, did Daegam tell her to close it?”
Hahahaha
Hahahaha
-Gasp
I cannot provide a translation for “-ㄴㅇㄱ” as it does not form a meaningful word or phrase in Korean. These appear to be random consonants without vowels, which is not a valid Korean word.
-Wow
crazy game lolol
-We’re done
Danmuji, listening from the side, spoke in a tense tone.
“Hm… Based on my long experience serving Daegam as Bong-ja Bae, if we lose, we’re in serious trouble…”
“That’s exactly what I was thinking!”
“Shut up! Didn’t you mess up the last round?”
“Ugh!”
Smack!
The trio joked around as they moved with relative ease.
Of course, they still felt some tension.
The fundamental rule remained—they couldn’t encounter enemies.
Most importantly, our team didn’t have a staff.
A staff was useless for hunting, but it was quite effective in team fights.
It could create many variables with spells like Fireball and Air Bomb.
Without it, if we encountered enemies, we’d lose by a significant margin.
‘There’s no helping it.’
Danmuji resigned himself to the situation.
There was no one who could pick it up.
Once again, Gobong had the shield, Danmuji had the spear, and Hong-cha had the gun…
“Hong-cha. What’s that you’re holding?”
“Huh?”
“That thing in your hand.”
“It’s a gun.”
“…?”
“?”
Danmuji finally grabbed Hongsong-i by the collar.
“Hongsong-i! Get your head in the game! That’s a staff!!”
“!”
It was a staff.
This game was detailed in unnecessary ways—weapon designs varied considerably. Even the same weapon type felt slightly different in handling and size each time you picked one up.
Staffs came in wand forms and staff forms, and some staffs were made from wood bent like a rifle in staff form.
Just like this one.
“What the—?!”
Hong-cha threw the staff away as if she’d picked up a bug.
“Puhahahaha!”
Gobong finally pointed at the Challenger with a laugh, as if he’d found a troll instead of himself.
Haha, damn it.
-It was a staff?
His/her expression lol
-What do we do now
Ding!
[Choi Sa-rang donated 10,000 won!]
[Hong-cha. Do you have a grudge against me?]
The cold beauty’s TTS voice echoed through the stream.
Hong-cha felt goosebumps erupt across her skin.
‘I thought it was the Coach!’
Immediately after, a flood of donations poured in, teasing her relentlessly.
[Cucumber donated 20,000 won!]
[From now on, I’ll get first place~]
[Eoran donated 10,000 won!]
[Already showing signs of aging…?]
[Wine donated 30,000 won.]
[Chayeong will be using a cane soon too lol]
And so on.
A torrent of ridiculous comments flooded the chat.
-Kekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekeke wait
-To someone in their mid-twenties lol
-Premature aging lol
-A cane really?
-How did we not know this?
In truth, Hong-cha wasn’t the only one who didn’t know this.
“Wait, these idiots didn’t even know themselves, but I’ve been watching chat the whole time and there was nothing about canes or whatever!”
…is what Hong-cha wanted to think.
But there actually was.
[Here donated 10,000 won!]
[(Video) Your order of “cane-whatever” is ready. Enjoy while it’s warm]
Hong-cha was immediately refuted by a clip donation.
-Kekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekeke it’s literally there
-The chat even caught fire over the cane thing, what are you talking about Hong-cha…
-“Cane-whatever” sounds like some fancy dish
“Ugh….”
Hong-cha had no choice but to blame herself.
‘Was I too nervous?’
Despite her denials, she had been quite tense.
Though it was called a scrim, countless viewers were watching with high expectations, and the Coach kept dropping bombshell statements.
‘Getting first place from now on, huh.’
The pressure was inevitable.
Above all, she was deeply worried about Lemon, who was separated from her team.
Perhaps that’s why she only noticed the cane comments and missed the Lemon ones.
Then─
“Hong-cha. Duck!”
Danmuji pressed down on Hong-cha’s head, covering her body beneath him.
“Now is not the time to broadcast.”
“Cough, cough….”
“Our route is blocked.”
“…What?”
The trio had a route they needed to advance through.
But another team was crossing through it right now.
From Danmuji’s assessment, this was a route overlap situation.
Which meant that the pair team was also being surrounded in the bigger picture.
“We need to adjust immediately or….”
Danmuji’s eyes darted back and forth. Of course, no one noticed, but he looked around thoroughly enough.
But Hong-cha reached the conclusion instead.
“We have to break through?”
A conclusion Danmuji would never reach.
“What?”
“We have to break through. Our routes completely overlap with theirs. And the objects here are so sparse. If we split resources here, we’re done for. Oppa.”
Danmuji knew it too.
But there was no option for three to break through five.
“Are you confident with a staff?”
Especially since Hong-cha wasn’t the ADC.
“Wait. I just remembered what Coach said.”
“Out of nowhere? What is it?”
“She said to coordinate with Lemon and decide on weapons.”
Hong-cha mimics Choi Sa-rang as she speaks.
“Coordinate with Lemon, and a pure mage is also fine. You’ll already have an ADC anyway. Balance it according to our team’s final composition. You’re Challengers after all… You can make that kind of judgment, right?”
-She’s being overly eloquent just because she’s doing it…kkk
-kkkkkkkk it’s nothing alike
-Ugh it doesn’t suit her kkk
It wasn’t an accurate impression, but the content was the same.
Danmuji remembered too.
‘Right, she said it like that.’
Coach had considered Hong-cha switching to a pure mage depending on the situation of that match.
Hong-cha picking up a staff wasn’t necessarily bad news.
As long as she coordinated with the pair team.
Bzzt.
A message arrives at just the right moment.
[Lemon: Unnie. Should I support with a staff? Or go mage? But looking at Daegam’s status, even supporting is overwhelming, it’s too fast~]
[Hong-cha: Hey. Gyu-ri. Perfect timing. You support, I’ll go staff.]
[Lemon: Huh? Oh….]
‘Ah.’
At that moment, Danmuji’s eyes suddenly widened. Of course, no one knew, but he had clearly realized something.
While studying the map, I suddenly had an epiphany.
“I… I figured it out too.”
“…Huh? What?”
Danmuji suddenly mimicked Choi Sa-rang’s voice.
“Danmuji. Open your eyes wider. Your route is still a bit constrained. We’re doing a Split, remember? Think in a way that suits Split. You bug.”
-Kekekekekekekeke you bug keke
-What is this kekekeke
-What’s with “you bug” keke
-Did he memorize all of this keke
-Lol kekekeke
-They’re Challengers, their memory is insane
And so it was.
Danmuji finally opened his eyes.
Not the eyes that see the outside world, but the eyes within.
‘This might actually be in our favor.’
He sent a voice message.
[Danmuji: Lemon. Can you see the enemies too?]
[Lemon: We already passed them.]
[Danmuji: Chase them down again.]
[Lemon: Huh? B-but it’s a Split… can we fight?]
[Danmuji: Both sides have staves and we’ve secured both angles. We win this for sure.]
If magic from two staves on both sides connected, the enemies would scatter in panic.
[Danmuji: With Split, if we just secure both angles, we’re actually favored in the early skirmish.]
Danmuji had finally learned to think in the Split methodology.

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