Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1260

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 145
45. Preemptive Extermination (1)
Like all sports, you can only know the outcome once you see it through to the end.
No matter how many exceptional players you gather in one place, that team won’t necessarily win every tournament that year.
In fact, sometimes they produce the worst possible results.
Team performance and individual performance are entirely different matters.
Ultimately, the synergy between teammates is what matters most.
And this isn’t just about gaming ability—it’s influenced by personality and social dynamics as well.
So until a team is formed and actually plays a match, you truly can’t guarantee what will happen.
This is why upsets occur in sports.
The Cheese Scrim was no exception.
There were several major surprises.
First, the Knight Order’s performance was surprisingly poor.
This was one of the most notable upsets in the current scrim.
But there was an upset drawing even more attention.
It concerned the Agricultural Cooperative.
The precise name is ‘Agricultural Cooperative & Partners’.
As the name suggests, it consists of the original Agricultural Cooperative members—Ppulranem, the Middle-aged Detective, and Doughnutz.
And Greentea and Baeksuk were added to the roster.
That’s how Agricultural Cooperative & Partners came to be.
People didn’t think they would perform well in the survival match at all.
They only felt sorry for Baeksuk and Greentea, the ‘Partners’.
Their future looked like they’d just be ordered around by middle-aged men.
“Oof~ my back!”
“Greentea! Fetch some water! Green tea would be even better!”
“Greentea. Did you stand out like that? Ah, ahahaha!”
Doughnutz, Ppulranem, and the Middle-aged Detective, the original Agricultural Cooperative members, were all in their forties.
Their gaming ability was naturally far inferior to the streamers in their prime.
-…it’s not easy
-I mean…
-that’s rough
The broadcast would do well since they were such prominent figures anyway.
But as far as game performance went, it seemed impossible to expect anything from this team.
Greentea and Baeksuk initially just wanted the broadcast to be fun and entertaining.
But then─
[Overall Rankings]
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1st Place: Agricultural Cooperative & Partners
2nd Place: Pub Hunter
3rd Place: Magical Girl
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Surprisingly, the Agricultural Cooperative was showing remarkable performance in the Scrim.
In fact, they were currently Cheese’s strongest team.
The community’s reaction to this unexpected result was intense.
3rd) Agricultural Cooperative is 1st place Cheese’s current status. jpg
5th place) How is Nonghyup in 1st place lololol
10th) How did Agricultural Cooperative become a strong team?
Posts like this had already been circulating in the Streamer Garden for quite some time.
Even the discussion had reached reactions on Rilpro’s Survival Game bulletin board.
Big) The strategy this Agricultural Cooperative team is using right now is seriously hip?
Big: Nonghyup team strategy analysis – Sas is Ivy League level impressive.
Big) Nonghyup is doing something really weird lol
This was a place where the veterans of Rilpro’s Survival Game gathered.
They were paying attention to the gameplay the Agricultural Cooperative was displaying.
The middle-aged men of the Agricultural Cooperative weren’t particularly skilled at Ril.
So how did this happen?
The answer lay unexpectedly in their age.
Big) But uncles are naturally good at survival games lol
-For real
Living like a cockroach lol
Haha, it does seem like that.
-Info) Actually, Doughnutz is a huge fan of survival games…
└For real?
└Yeah
-Survival games themselves are something people who retired from siege warfare play anyway…
That’s right lol
That was it.
The Survival Game mode was originally created as a sanctuary for people exhausted by the extreme physical competition of siege warfare.
If someone like Doughnutz were to face off against Almond in a siege warfare matchup, he’d retire without even catching his breath, but Survival Game was different.
As long as you hid somewhere and stayed alive, your ranking would improve, wouldn’t it?
Profiting from inaction was possible.
So if you just made good judgments in the broader context, you could even place first, and luck played a huge role.
Above all, Doughnutz, Ppulranem, and the Middle-aged Detective had long careers in Survival Games.
Because they had aged early, they gave up on siege warfare and switched to Survival Games.
They’re called the first generation of survival immigrants.
Since these first-generation immigrants essentially established the current meta of Survival Games,
their understanding couldn’t help but be high.
What drew the most attention was the Agricultural Cooperative’s self-awareness of their limitations.
“We lose when we fight.”
They fundamentally drilled this into their minds before starting the game.
“We absolutely must control the hills, gather information through wards first, avoid fights until we’re certain, and only push forward!”
They never fought unless they were certain, and only occasionally participated in fights where they held an overwhelming advantage.
Under Doughnutz’s orders, the younger team ‘Partners’ executed the strategies, creating considerable synergy.
And except for their first adaptation match, they consistently placed second.
Thanks to that, the Agricultural Cooperative now ranked first in overall evaluation.
“We’ve only gotten second place so far, but we’re first in the overall standings.”
However, Doughnutz didn’t feel reassured.
“Right now they’re just evaluating by average ranking. But I heard that in the finals, first place points are worth several times more. If we fall behind in the number of first places, we’ll fall behind in ranking anyway.”
Ultimately, without securing first place, they couldn’t perform in the finals.
“So we need to get first place once and drive the nail in.”
Doughnutz believed they had to achieve first place.
But of course, it wasn’t as simple as it sounded.
As Baeksuk said.
“But to get first place, we eventually have to fight and win in the end… and we lose when we fight, don’t we?”
They lose when they fight.
That’s why they always get second.
When only two teams remain, they eventually have to fight to win.
“That’s… if we occupy positions much earlier! And place way more wards! And much more….”
Basically, the more prepared they were, the more they’d win.
The game had already started.
“Let’s go!”
Since things had come to this, Doughnutz naturally wanted to finish with first place.
He poured tremendous effort into the final one-on-one battle, something he hadn’t particularly cared about before.
“Place all the wards here in advance.”
“Huh? What if they don’t come?”
“Then we get second.”
“Ah.”
He even made a gamble-like decision he normally wouldn’t prefer.
Either way, they’d only get second if they lost.
It was a calculated risk.
‘Got them…!’
And it worked again.
[Doughnutz: Hey, got them. They’re coming.]
He activated the Valkyrie’s awakening ability and began flying in advance.
It was a distance the enemies couldn’t see, and technically he shouldn’t be able to see either.
But through the minimap and ward vision, he could see everything.
Doughnutz observed the enemies’ composition and was certain of victory.
[Doughnutz: This one’s going first place. Look at their Incarnation composition.]
[Greentea: Generally it’s a convergence-type build, right? Why use that in a survival match?]
[Doughnutz: Who knows. Anyway, the advantage of good convergence is useless now.]
On the minimap, I couldn’t tell who the Contractor was, but I could see what Incarnation they were using.
[Doughnutz: We suppress them all at once with 3 Kang-sin abilities from the start.]
Just 3 seconds.
I calculated that this much time would tip the teamfight decisively.
[Doughnutz: Greentea, snipe first. With Kang-sin ability.]
[Greentea: Snipe hit! If I shoot more, one person’s out!]
Kwaaang!
Along with Greentea’s snipe, all the Kang-sin abilities poured out and everything proceeded exactly as I had envisioned.
[Doughnutz: Ppulranem! Igtan! Kang-sin ability!]
[Ppulranem: Okay!]
[Doughnutz: Going down!]
And just like that, Hong-cha died.
[Enemy eliminated!]
[Greentea → Hong-cha]
Thud!
Finally, Doughnutz descended and split the enemy formation in half.

* * *
Danmuji had to watch Hong-cha dissolve into a Rune Spirit right before his eyes.
‘What the hell. Are they insane?’
The enemies were reading everything with wards.
In truth, I hadn’t expected them to place wards this thoroughly even after reaching a 1v1 situation.
“Chahahaha! How does an old veteran’s power feel? The Knight Order…!”
When Doughnutz appeared, that’s when I realized.
‘The Agricultural Cooperative…’
I thought that if it was them, they could certainly place wards this thoroughly.
‘Current overall ranking 1st place. So we finally meet here.’
The Agricultural Cooperative used a strategy of avoiding enemies until the very end, and the Knight Order always got eliminated midway, so there was no chance to meet.
But we finally faced off.
In the worst possible situation.
‘How many of them are positioned here? The formation’s split so it’s hard to tell.’
The formation was divided in half, and with Hong-cha dead, the Knight Order was overwhelmingly disadvantaged.
The only teammate left for Danmuji was Goguma.
“Ha. W-well, I guess I have to show the power of the Twin Peaks now?”
Kiiiiing…!
Goguma mutters while preparing the Iron Ball Kang-sin ability.
At that moment, the rest of the Agricultural Cooperative appears.
[Raging Flames – Igtan]
[Ppulranem]
“Hey~ you can’t leave Igtan out of a fire game, right~?”
[The Great Monolith – Kutan]
[Middle-aged Detective]
“When five people gather, one of them is always the culprit.”
-What’s Jungtam saying kkk
-Agri! Coop! Kekekeke
-Were they Agricultural Cooperative uncles?
-They were looking good just now, where did they get this know-how
-Wow Agricultural Cooperative kkkkk
-This concept kkk
Watching them get excited and even commit to the bit, Danmuji asked.
“What’s so exciting about it? Does one Hong-cha dying really change anything?”
This was mere bluster.
How significant could one Hong-cha be.
“Hahahaha! Danmuji, my boy! Your mind’s gotten rusty, hasn’t it? Look at the shadow’s position!”
“….”
The shadow hanging directly behind Danmuji was unmistakable.
No matter how high one’s level or how good one’s equipment, this shadow could not be overcome.
“Take this!”
With those words, Doughnutz soared into the air once more, unleashing a torrent of blade strikes.
Ratatatat!
“Wh-what do I do!?”
Goguma, who had been brimming with confidence just moments ago.
He found himself seeking out Danmuji after just one volley of blade strikes.
“What do you mean what do you do!? Get in there and clash with me!”
“What can just the two of us do!? Where’s Daegam!? We don’t even have Lemon!”
Even as he spoke, Goguma charged forward as Danmuji instructed and collided with the enemy.
Boom!
[Spinning Spinning Bang Bang!]
Iron Ball unleashed his Kang-sin technique.
Transformed into a metal sphere, Iron Ball spun like a pinwheel, bouncing off everything in all directions.
But Doughnutz was airborne, and the Middle-aged Detective became a [Stone Shield], clinging to Ppulranem.
Thud thud thud thunk!
With the stone shield protecting Ppulranem, he took almost no damage and wasn’t pushed back much at all.
“Hiyah!”
That’s when Danmuji suddenly charged forward.
The Lancer’s iron steed, ‘Gear Galop’, galloped forward, carving a path through.
“Oof~!”
Thud-thud-thud-thud…!
[Blade Rain]
Doughnutz’s Blade Rain blocks my path forward.
If I just take the hit and push through, I’d die in an instant considering the coordinated attack following from behind. My health pool couldn’t handle it.
‘Then it has to be Ppulranem!’
Making a split-second decision, I charge toward Ppulranem instead.
No matter how much [Stone Shield] protects him, he’s the dealer with the lowest health pool.
[Mana Chariot Collision]
I self-destruct my horse and dismount.
“Huh?”
Crash!
Ppulranem takes massive damage and gets knocked back hard.
‘I couldn’t dodge it after all.’
Mana Chariot Collision is a skill with powerful damage but relatively easy to evade.
But not for them.
‘Because they’re old!’
Age is age, after all.
But—
“The rock’s going down~!”
I’m not just dealing with Igtan. There’s also the ‘Great Stone—Kutan’.
[Divine Skill – Earthen Upheaval]
[Kutan becomes one with the earth momentarily, rapidly advancing forward while causing the ground to surge upward. Enemies in a straight line are launched high into the air and take massive damage.]
Crash!
Hit by Kutan’s Divine Skill Earthen Upheaval, I’m launched skyward.
‘Damn it.’
I’m sent flying upward, while Gobong gets pummeled by the falling Doughnutz.
Boom!
Boom!
“Ugh, argh! Where’s Daegam!?”
‘Just look at the map.’
With his skill level, he doesn’t have the capacity to check the minimap while fighting.
Well, even if he did look, it wouldn’t help much anyway.
Almond’s positioning is just too strange.
‘Why is Almond taking such a weird route?’
In the past, I would’ve been confused by Almond’s eccentric behavior too.
‘Well, he must have a reason.’
But now, strangely, I wasn’t.
Is this what it means to get used to something?
Or perhaps…
‘That’s just how Split operates anyway.’
Was it thanks to the Split strategy?
Regardless, my head didn’t heat up.
Even suspended in the air, I found myself with mental composure.
Then I saw it.
‘Ah.’
On the minimap, Almond had already tangled with the enemy dealers.
‘That’s it!’
Thud!
I crashed back to the ground, grabbed my spear, and stood up while speaking.
“Gobong. Daegam is coming. Hold on even with the Rune Spirit!”
“Ah, got it, I’ll hold on—”
Goguma steeled himself but forgot the location of the Abyss’s shadow.
Sssssss…!
Black wraiths surged up and dealt massive damage to him.
“Ugh, ugghhhhh!?”
[Doughnutz → Goguma]
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
Donuts cocktail, damn it.
No, haha
This doesn’t make sense.
-Doughnutz was pushing him on his own from the start anyway
Ppulranem shouted excitedly.
“Who’s coming!? Danmuji! Are your eyes too small to see? Hahahaha!”
“He’s already here.”
“What?”
That’s when it happened.
[Foolish Youth Double Kill!]
[Foolish Youth → Greentea]
[Foolish Youth → Baeksuk]
He eliminated Partners from the Agricultural Cooperative & Partners.
“Since Sori’s mobility resets when she gets a kill, she deliberately took the long way around to target the weaker dealer first and execute a counter-hunt.”
“…What, what!?”
Ppulranem realized and turned around.
“You’re done!!”
Given Sori’s nature, her joining speed from this point onward was on a different level.
[Rope Movement]
Whoosh!
“Wha… ra?”
A rope hook caught on Ppulranem’s head.
The hook also caught on his chat window.
-?
-??
-?
-…?
[Wind’s Descent]
Something invisible shot forward at tremendous speed.
Whoooosh!
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Lmao he died so cleanly kkk
-Insane
-His expression kkkkk
-Lol kkk
-Wow
-So fast kkk
-Danmuji’s screen shows nothing, probably because his eyes are too small
What the heck lol
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