Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1257

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 142
44. The Knight Order Awakens (3)
The gathered Coaches burst into laughter.
“Jisuk Jin is out!”
Sardine’s team was eliminated right from the start, causing him to shriek.
“Kaaaaaaaaaagh!”
-What kind of crow sound is that kkk
-Lol kkk
-Getting his organs extracted kkk
-kkkkkkk vocal cords kkk
“Puhaha! That’s a complete washout!?”
Taco also laughed excitedly beside him.
But in the next moment, his expression hardened.
“Huh…?”
The Red Turtle’s position was peculiar.
“This?”
Mosol’s team and the Knight Order’s routes were beginning to overlap.
However, Mosol was a few steps ahead.
They had already begun attacking the Red Turtle.
“Oh, good. With Reina…!”
Reina.
An ADC difficult to deploy in actual matches, but Mosol had recognized Reina’s potential in survival mode and had been gradually using her.
Reina’s damage increases explosively when stacking many target combos.
While this is difficult to stack against actual players, it’s quite manageable against monsters.
But survival mode is a mode where monster hunting speed is most important.
So using Reina is to activate a boost to hunting speed.
That’s why they pre-contracted and tested her despite being an ADC.
‘Plus, this also prevents Almond from picking Reina.’
By securing Reina first, I won’t have to face Almond’s Reina—that natural disaster.
‘Well… anyway, there’s no way Reina would be shown in the scrim.’
Of course, the Knight Order wouldn’t use the Reina card here.
Otherwise, practice wouldn’t go properly.
‘Still, they’re pretty good.’
Pufferbubung!
Jello had practiced Reina quite a bit, as he strung together combos better than expected.
[Mana Burst]
Whoooosh!
Jello’s combos began to burn down the Red Turtle.
“Oh, the hunting speed really is…”
The other Coaches beside him also expressed admiration.
“Reina like this?”
“Jello… you’ve been practicing hard.”
Jello never missed a combo during monster hunts.
Even if his combo-building speed was only one-third of Almond’s.
Regardless, as long as he kept stacking, his damage output against monsters continued to increase.
[Mana Burst]
Boom!
The third mana burst.
Nine combo.
“Faster… faster…!”
The Knight Order’s two-person team is heading toward Red Turtle.
No Contractor, but both are level 3.
We’re all at the tail end of level 2.
At this, Sardine, the coach beside me, asks.
“Huh? Why are you taking the turtle at level 2 tail-end? Is this an off-beat strategy?”
Early level 2 or tail-end level 2 have the same combat power in reality, but the time invested differs, doesn’t it?
If you were going to do this, you should have completed level 3 first, or come at early level 2 altogether.
Taking such an important monster at level 2 tail-end is unusual.
“No. That can’t be it. It just got twisted.”
It wasn’t strategy—it just got twisted.
-Off-beat strategy kekekeke
-Off-beat has limits
There are no mobs nearby ㅠㅠ
-Ah
-Not off-beat, it’s forced kekeke
The route unfolded poorly.
Like all games, survival matches especially don’t go as planned.
The map itself has heavy randomness, and on top of that, the variable of not knowing where others will land covers it all.
The Knight Order landed in a spacious area specifically to avoid people, yet they encountered the magical girl team—it’s a similar context.
So our route got twisted too.
“Sigh. That’s why continuous scrims between the same teams aren’t good.”
Sardine brushes his hair back as heat rises to his head.
“You keep reading each other and strategies get twisted.”
Heat is rising in Taco as well.
Except he had no hair to brush back.
Instead, he clenches his fist and shouts.
“Still, as long as Jello’s combo doesn’t break! If we take it fast! Everything gets solved!”
Even if things got twisted, taking Red Turtle solves everything.
Runes, buffs, levels!
Red Turtle’s nickname is ‘Round-trip Turtle’.
It meant a monster that played a decisive role in defending their ranking.
“I think we can take it? The Knight Order—only two are close, and the third is still far away….”
“Just the combo… just the combo…!”
Taco was watching it the same way.
Without a combo mistake, they’d secure the kill.
The players seemed to share the same thought, and tension could be felt even from beyond the screen.
The voice gradually faded, and countless blue arrows flew over Jello’s black sunglasses.
At the same time, two members of the Knight Order were closing in.
“Ah. Those two coming won’t help anyway. Shouldn’t we aim for it after taking the monster instead?”
Sardine was skeptical.
That’s when it happened.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!? What, what are you doing!?”
Almond suddenly burst into a sprint.
Anyone could see he was attempting something.
“There’s nothing we can do?”
The other coaches chimed in as well.
“We’d need to break the combo with something?”
The combo couldn’t be broken by mere CC abilities—it only broke when Reina’s attempt failed.
Rushing in like that wouldn’t stop it.
Especially with only two of them.
But then─
“…!”
Tap.
Taco struck his gleaming head.
“No way!”
He understood Almond well enough to realize it beforehand.
What he was attempting.
What he could accomplish.
‘Could this actually work?’
Almond’s arrow flew.
It wasn’t aimed at Jello, nor at Mosol and Dotorimuk, whose health had dropped from taking Red Turtle’s attacks.
It cut through empty air.
“Huh?”
“Uh….”
The coaches didn’t understand what had just happened.
Taco jolted up in shock.
“This actually works!!!?”
─Thunk!
Something had caught in the empty air—he could see it.
Jello’s mouth on screen had fallen wide open.
The other coaches gradually realized what had happened, their jaws dropping one by one.
“Wait… just now…?”
“What? Did she just shoot an arrow?”
“And Reina’s arrow at that?”

* * *
“Eek!”
Lemon was the one who nearly fell over in shock.
‘Is he insane?’
She had played alongside Hong-cha, the Challenger ADC, for many years.
She herself possessed considerable physical prowess and could have pulled off the kind of superplay Almond had demonstrated earlier.
But this was something else entirely.
‘With a bow, it’s impossible.’
How was it that this person’s accuracy with a bow was far higher than with a gun?
The level had transcended imagination.
“Combo cut~”
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap.
He fired just one arrow and leisurely shouted that while charging forward.
-?
-?
-???
-Huh?
Neither Lemon nor her viewers understood what he meant at first.
Only after hearing the enemy team’s scream of “Why’d the combo break, you crazy bastard!” did the situation become clear.
‘Almond hit Jello’s arrow.’
It took Lemon just as long as the enemies to accept this premise in her mind.
About three seconds from the moment it happened.
That gap in awareness where no one could properly grasp what was occurring.
In that interval, Almond was already charging forward.
After all, since he was the one who initiated it, wouldn’t he be the most composed?
He closed the distance according to the plan he’d drawn in his mind, firing arrows even faster.
Boom!
Boom!
“Enemy!”
“Enemy! Enemy!”
“Damn it, why’d the combo break now of all times!?”
This was why being the one to ‘open’ first was advantageous.
The enemies still didn’t know why their combo had broken, but Almond entered with full knowledge of the situation.
‘Oops.’
Lemon realized she too had been momentarily stunned by the shock and quickly shouted.
[Lemon: Enemy Reina combo broken! Turtle’s HP at 15%! Joining in!!]
At the same moment, I swung my staff.
First, I needed to throw the enemy formation into chaos.
I cast a wind spell.
[Air Bomb]
Whoooosh!
A spell with minimal damage but that pushes enemies in all directions.
Casting it on the Turtle sent all the enemy team members standing around it flying in every direction.
However, there was one exception.
[Rolling]
Reina, wearing sunglasses.
Since she was the one who’d been hit directly, she’d already grasped the situation.
“Ah. So that arrow really was….”
Click.
She aimed directly at me and asked.
“It’s yours, isn’t it, Daegam?”
From the moment I chose Reina, I’d sensed this fate.
“An arrow of that caliber. There’s no one but Daegam who could pull it off. Kyokyokyo!”
-What’s she saying?
-Enemies meet on a single log bridge lol
Hahaha lol so funny hahahaha
What kind of concept is this now lol
-Avenging my great-grandfather!
Knights? Not rice and side dishes? lol
-Wait, she just got hit by an arrow???
Don’t grab Reyna, go easy on her. Zelo’s really turned into a hedgehog lol
-But what arrow is she talking about?
Jello had caught on, but most of Jello’s viewers had no idea what ‘that arrow’ she was referring to.
However, I understood what Jello meant, and I spoke with genuine surprise.
“Ho. You saw it?”
That someone like Jello had seen that arrow.
Such an overbearing attitude seemed to seep through.
Hahahahahahahaha
Hahahaha
Hahahahaha
It’s so funny how Almond suddenly acts like this lol
-What about the broadcast? Almond Daegam~
“I saw it. Just because I’m wearing sunglasses doesn’t mean I’m blind, does it? Kyokyokyo?”
“Then witness this!”
Two martial artists (?) who’d finally found someone they could talk to
Twang—
The two of us drew our bowstrings toward each other, moving our feet rapidly.
-What’s Almond doing kekekeke
-What’s with that tone kekekeke
-Reina vs just some Archer for real?
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Arrows flew toward each other as Jello rolled back and forth.
However, our sacred duel didn’t last long.
This was the stage of a survival match.
Survival was the only priority.
Romance had no place here.
“Those two over there! Kill them all! Perfect chance!”
Dotorimuk shouted, Mosol charged with his spear, Chocosong fired a fireball, and Balloon Gum rushed forward with his shield raised.
My stamina had dropped somewhat from Red Turtle, but taking down just two of them shouldn’t be a problem at all.
“Hey there~ Mond! Weren’t you guys ranked 7th last season! Wahaha!”
Balloon Gum even threw in a psychological attack with his provocation.
-Huh kekeke
-kekekekeke
-Kkeom kekeke
-He knows that provoking himself is most effective…
-Damn kekekeke
-This one’s gonna sting kekeke
Balloon Gum seemed quite satisfied that he’d managed to get under my skin.
Then it happened.
Kiiiiiiing!
“?”
A very familiar sound reached me from far away.
“What was that again…?”
-Iron Ball!
-Doesn’t even know his main skill’s incarnation kekekeke
-It’s bouncing!
A child comes to kill their father ㅠㅠ
-How many years has he had a connection with Iron Ball kekekekeke
-It’s Abol?
-See you see you Father…

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