Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1259

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 144
44. The Knight Order Revives (5)
Tap… tap-tap… tap….
Her fingers on the wheelchair’s armrest moved in rhythm.
“Closed… opened….”
She murmured while staring not at the game screen but at the minimap.
“Again….”
She was observing the Knight Order’s movements right now.
Reading this flow—scattered through Split, then regrouping.
For her, this was like a rhythm.
Games have their own set rhythm.
What appears at what minute and second, or what needs to be eliminated.
Just as a song sounds beautiful when its melody flows comfortably with the drum’s beat.
Games are the same.
Tap…!
“Closed.”
Her fingers moved in perfect rhythm as the Knight Order converged at a single point.
Moments later.
[Team Meongcheong eliminated!]
Even Jello’s team was out.
A faint smile crossed her lips, which had remained stern throughout.
“So they finally learned how to Split.”

* * *
“…Huh?”
In the coach’s room where several coaches gathered to watch.
They all clicked their tongues.
“What are they doing? Why is their split so perfect?”
“I don’t know….”
The Knight Order seemed to have no expertise in split strategy whatsoever.
To begin with, it was conventional wisdom that split strategies were only possible at the professional level.
Yet their split was gradually taking shape.
“Wings folded… spread….”
Taco muttered blankly.
Spreading the wings.
This meant splitting up into separate positions.
Spreading wings while controlling the entire map.
“Then folding again.”
Folding the wings meant suddenly converging at a single point where all five players attacked something together.
“Completely natural, they’re flying.”
Only when this movement occurred like a living organism did the split truly demonstrate its value.
That was exactly what the Knight Order looked like now.
-Getting carried and boosted lol
-Your team’s out but why are you admiring them lolol
-Can’t can’t can’t! Out!
-That useless guy….
“Insane! Reina appeared against Almond!?”
Suddenly a scream came from somewhere.
It was from the coaches of the remaining teams.
Whether it was Taco from the Can’t team or Sardine from the Magical Girl team, they no longer cared what appeared against Almond.
But for them, it mattered.
‘Reina?’
Taco turned the screen to that side and examined it.
‘It’s real.’
It looked like Jello had died and Reina appeared.
‘But….’
Taco felt like something would be lacking if Almond faced Reina here.
‘We just completed the split. Reina is a completely different variable….’
If it were Almond, his nature would be to just pick Reina and destroy everything.
So I didn’t have high expectations.
Reina, who had even gotten a kill, would come out and destroy everything.
That’s what I was thinking.
‘Huh?’
Almond made a different choice.
[Cautious Hunter – Sori]
“…Wow, absolutely.”
Taco slapped his forehead.
“That’s a perfect Split-exclusive pick! Almond chose that?!”
This couldn’t be.
“How on earth did you train him?!”
-Kekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekekekekekekerl
-He was a Rogue Warrior though…
-Why are you surprised at that part lolol
-What’s going on
-Did he really pick it himself?
-Reina abandoned?!
-Isn’t he just throwing it away since it’s practice?

* * *
Reina was waving her hands enthusiastically.
But Almond said this and chose something else.
“It’s the sentiment of Nerdking.”
Ding.
[Cautious Hunter – Sori]
-?
-Don’t lie lolol
-Huh?
-Abandoned again???
-Reina ㅠㅠㅠ
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text as it appears to be random Korean consonants and syllables without coherent meaning.
-Is he saying he’ll kill Reina’s neck?
The viewers had often seen Almond dismiss Reina, so their reaction differed somewhat from Takoyaki’s.
But his teammates were different.
“…Huh? You didn’t pick Reina?”
“No.”
“Ah, you didn’t since it’s practice.”
Danmuji assumed he didn’t pick her because it was just practice.
“No.”
Almond shook his head.
“This is better for Split.”
“…!”
What on earth was Split to Almond?
Even his beloved “unmatched” playstyle had to be restrained.
“Sori has quite a few limitations though….”
“Split is even better for that. Fast convergence and great utility.”
“…Y-yes, I know that.”
Watching Almond, who could recite everything about Split, Danmuji was beginning to feel genuinely frightened.
‘Split must be maintained no matter what….’
Regardless of anything else, the conviction that they had to win this tournament with Split was being carved into his mind.

* * *
The Knight Order, having secured Red Turtle, advanced with unstoppable momentum.
With Almond now contracted to Sori, they had nothing to fear.
Crackle.
[Danmuji: Team spotted. Two teams.]
[Lemon: Should we group up?]
[Danmuji: These two are fighting each other. Wait a moment.]
[Danmuji: I’ll time it and move in. Ready….]
[Foolish Youth: Now!]
Though they weren’t perfectly aligned on when to converge and when not to.
[Lemon: H-hey, big bro!]
[Danmuji: Uh-uh… Now! Gobong! Hurry!]
Kiiiiing!
[Rolling crash]
“Here we go~!”
Following Coach Choi Sa-rang’s advice to pick champions that were easy to group with even from a distance, minor timing errors didn’t matter.
Boom!
With Almond and Lemon drawing enemy attention, and Gobong joining in last.
[Flaming Arrow]
Sori’s elemental arrows ravaged the enemies.
Whoooosh!
The enemies couldn’t recover their senses.
[Foolish Youth cannot be stopped!]
[Foolish Youth → Kenta]
Whoosh!
[Rope Movement]
Once the kills started flowing, Almond could literally soar across the battlefield.
[Foolish Youth Triple Kill!]
[Foolish Youth is legendary!]
Most teams couldn’t stop him.
Poof!
-Kya
-Damage dealer critting lol
-They’re just on another level now?
-My chest is bursting~
-Wow is this really going first place? Kekekeke
-Insane lol

* * *
The scrim was still ongoing, but the community couldn’t help but react this way.
[Are they actually going to take first?]
-For real…
-It’s actually happening;
-Choi Sun-sin unnie ahhh!
-This is actually working?
-Agricultural Cooperative will stop them
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Those who were cursing the Coach about to be annihilated in 5 minutes
└They don’t even know yet lol
Haha, made typos while trembling and typing lol
└Kekekeke did they really type while shaking lol
└No subject but they’re still trembling lol
Those who had been hurling insults at the Coach couldn’t help but tremble.
[Foolish Youth over 8 kills lol]
Almond’s kill count had surpassed eight.
The typical pattern of a rampaging Almond carry was unfolding.
Lemon selected Shield Warrior and faithfully fulfilled the support role completely.
Hong-cha, true to her Challenger status, handled the Mage quite well too.
She picked Solia to join up with Goguma’s Iron Ball.
They worked together surprisingly well.
Danmuji became a Spear Knight, rode the Gearaloph—a mechanical steed—and kept pace with them as well.
[Knight Order composition is insane]
Knights sure know how to move fast.
[Now they actually look like “Knights” lol]
The community users were delighted that a composition with such high mobility had emerged, just like knights riding horses.
From the moment all members had completed their contracts, the speed at which they deployed and regrouped was nearly impossible to keep up with.
[Wow, controlling the entire map…crazy]
[Lemon lighting up vision is insane]
[Are they really going first place?]
Those rooting for the Knight Order’s victory began to grow increasingly excited.
[Knight Order hype lol]
[Anyway Agricultural Cooperative is playing so well they can’t catch up rn]
[Even if Almond racks up several kills, one wrong step on a shadow and you’re done in the Abyss~]
Those who needed these players to lose eagerly rattled off the various scenarios of despair.

* * *
Thunk!
“Gaaahhhhh! Just you wait, you kniiiiight!!!”
Someone screaming as they were pierced through by Danmuji’s spear and died.
[Danmuji → Yangpa]
He was Yangpa.
With his death, Team Villain Heiress was now eliminated.
[Team Villain Heiress Out!]
Onion lol
-That’s rough
-Lmao
That’s a real villain lol
“Not a villain lady but a Japanese colonial police officer lol”
[Remaining Teams 2/10]
With that, only two teams remained.
“We’re splitting up.”
“Got it!”
Even at this crucial final moment, Almond and Lemon went off to hunt separately.
They were determined to squeeze out every last bit of prey remaining.
Thanks to this approach, Almond and Lemon were a full 2 levels ahead of their enemies.
A 2-level difference in Ril provided considerable advantage, 3 levels was nearly unbeatable, and a 4-level gap made the game practically unplayable.
In other words, maintaining a 2-level lead all the way to this late stage after both sides had farmed what they could meant they’d grown quite well.
Perhaps because of this, Goguma from the three-person team muttered with relief.
“Phew. We’re almost there.”
Up until now, this was practically the Knight Order’s best scrim performance ever, wasn’t it?
“Second place is still a good result!”
Though really, he was just saying this to calm his own trembling nerves.
Danmuji spoke firmly.
“Almost there is… don’t talk nonsense. Second place is the same as not placing at all.”
“…So you’ve never been a professional gamer before?”
Hahahaha
I’m laughing so hard at how high it is ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Hahahahaha
-Ouch…
lol
No professional career experience lol
“Were you never even born!?”
Thunk! Thunk!
Danmuji’s spear jabbed relentlessly at Goguma’s carapace.
“Ow, hey! Stop fidgeting around! We barely have anywhere left to move!”
Hong-cha said this while simultaneously pummeling both of them.
She was right.
The shadows of the Abyss had spread so densely that the remaining usable space was barely five hundred pyeong.
If a house were five hundred pyeong, it would be a sprawling mansion, but for ten superhumans fighting for their lives, it felt a bit cramped.
[The shadows of the Abyss are closing in!]
And this territory kept shrinking.
“At this point, splitting up doesn’t even make sense anymore…”
Danmuji muttered while looking at the map.
‘Damn. I haven’t come this far in scrims many times, so my sense of the area is a bit rusty.’
He realized he’d never attempted a split in conditions this cramped.
Rustle—
“Let’s just hide for now. Our position is good, right?”
“Roger.”
They spotted some brush and concealed themselves there.
“But which team is still alive?”
“Uh… I’m not sure.”
There was no way to know which team had survived.
They could only tell that one team remained.
Then it happened.
“?”
Rustle…!
Someone was coming from the opposite direction.
But they weren’t surprised.
The minimap showed them.
“…We have nowhere left to go.”
It was Almond and Lemon.
-Kekekekekekeke it’s too cramped keke
-Can’t go anywhere else kekeke
-Just group up now
It seemed the time for splitting had ended.
Of course, even Almond, the split specialist, had never progressed this far in scrims, so he wasn’t confident either.
Either way, the five-member Knight Order eventually regrouped.
‘If things go like this, what’s the point of a mobility composition…”
Danmuji felt an ominous sense of foreboding.
And then—
“Ran.”
Hong-cha shouted this and threw her body to the side.
──Crash!
“!”
Danmuji, Goguma, and Lemon took direct hits.
But it wasn’t over.
“Ugh?! There’s a ward here!”
Lemon cried out.
With her support-related items, she could illuminate the surrounding area to detect wards whenever she wanted.
Sure enough, a ward was planted here.
“What? Huh?”
Danmuji’s eyes widened.
Even the enemies couldn’t detect this with their wards.
‘They already passed through?’
The enemies had already swept through this area.
They could see everything clearly.
‘We completely misread their movements.’
The enemy’s route was completely different from what Danmuji had anticipated.
“We need to get out of─”
They had to escape from here.
〔Burn it all red like blood〕
Igtan’s voice echoed.
[Kang-sin’s Divine Skill – Volcanic Terrain]
Boom!
Lava erupted along their escape route.
“Igtan’s divine skill! Watch out!”
Despite the warning, Hong-cha, who had dodged first, took the direct hit instead.
“Ah…!”
Hong-cha realized it instantly.
What they called a speech-dependent teamfight.
A teamfight where words became reality had begun.
From the enemy’s perspective.
‘We’re done for.’
Crash!
Ran’s divine skill, followed by Igtan’s additional attack, and Valkyrie suddenly descending from above.
[An ally has fallen!]
[Greentea → Hong-cha]
Both Danmuji and Goguma were shocked.
‘Valkyrie?!’
They had been completely read from the start.
They hadn’t even known Valkyrie was positioned above.
Most of all, they were shocked seeing Valkyrie’s master.
[Steadfast Wings – Valkyrie]
[Doughnutz]
“Kekekeke! How do you like the power of an old veteran? Knight Order…!”
Doughnutz from the Agricultural Cooperative.
The man who had caused great conflict with the Knight Order in Seok.
-Gasp
-Wow
-Doughnutz kekeke
-Old means… he survived.
-Gotta hit ’em with one more illusion spell
-Ah… aren’t they the top-ranked team?
-That’s intense

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