Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1263

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 148
46. Patch Notes (1)
The next day.
The moment Juhyeok arrived at work, he tossed his briefcase onto the wide desk and sat down in front of his computer.
“Hmm….”
He was checking the reactions to yesterday’s scrim.
7th) Why the Knight Order kids are being so quiet right now
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The Coach drew aggro yesterday and summoned all those cockroach bastards then stomped every single one to death lolololololol
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“Nice!”
Juhyeok threw an uppercut into the air and quickly added a comment.
-Bug cut!
Writing it alone and grinning to himself, Juhyeok was pleased with it.
He waited a moment for reactions.
‘Hmm….’
No likes or replies came in.
He cautiously pressed the ‘edit’ button.
-Bug… cut!
He added a bit of detail.
He waited again for reactions.
Tap, tap….
With his arms crossed, he tapped the floor with his shoe.
“Ugh.”
Juhyeok closed the community window.
“What am I doing.”
A certain saying came to mind.
‘When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’
After reminding himself of that wisdom once more.
Juhyeok opened the community window again.
He couldn’t help it.
Work was work, after all.
‘I wonder how the other teams are doing…?’
Instead of the Knight Order incident, he looked through posts about the internal conflicts of other teams.
The Knight Order certainly seemed to be getting through this relatively incident-free.
At least there was no debate about the scrim.
There’s a saying about it, you know?
The Knight Order’s fans had already experienced the worst.
When they’d dropped all the way to 7th place, even Juhyeok couldn’t bear to look at the community and had put his phone away for a while.
But in the final match.
Choi Sa-rang declared first place, and the Knight Order finished beautifully in exactly that position.
Because they ended on a note of hope, the fans seemed extremely satisfied.
If the order had been reversed, it would have been incredibly difficult.
When fan sentiment turns negative, the players become shaken.
Ultimately, it affects performance.
I suspect Choi Sa-rang only revealed the form of her Split strategy that had been in her mind at the very end for this reason.
It was a measure that took the players’ mental state into account.
“Their level is truly different.”
Juhyeok crosses his arms and sighs.
“Do you think Sanghyeon could ever beat her even once?”
Defeating Jeon-ja-pa.
It was one of the goals Sanghyeon had subtly mentioned before.
When he surpassed the VNS score, or when he broke the Battle Large record.
Since he was such a confident guy, he’d said things like that, and Juhyeok had thought it was a vague but good goal at the time.
‘Now I’m not sure if that’s even possible.’
But from Juhyeok’s cold perspective, she was a being far beyond reach.
She couldn’t be defined simply by VNS scores or record-breaking.
She was a human who had mastered every requirement for victory.
I’m not sure if anyone could beat her—not just in Ril, but in the concept of ‘competition’ within the capsule that takes place over a certain period.
Her only constraint is her own body.
“…It’s similar.”
The image of Sanghyeon crying like a child inside the capsule flashes through his mind.
He didn’t know the details, but somehow it seemed like she must have experienced something like that too.
Just a very long time ago.
Those tears seemed to have already dried up completely.
Slap!
Juhyeok slaps his own cheek to snap back to attention.
Now is when it matters.
“Well, good. Good…”
It’s good that the Knight Order passed without major incident.
Very good indeed.
“Very good. Very!”
And this good thing will lead to something even better.
According to his plan, it had to.
From the start, checking public sentiment the moment he arrived wasn’t just for Almond’s management.
It was to gauge the mental state of the entire Knight Order.
“They should be in a very good state!”
Juhyeok places his phone on the desk and waves his hands as if chanting an incantation.
“Come on, you gotta come~ you gotta come~~~”
Juhyeok chants with all his might.
“Ora ora ora ora~~!”
And she arrived.
Thud—
“What are you doing, CEO?”
Team Leader Seojia.
“Ah… cough, cough. I called for you, Team Leader. Ora ora!”
“….”
Jia’s eyes drifted toward the phone awkwardly placed in the center of the desk.
Pfft.
It was painfully obvious what he was hoping for.
“Will they come just because you ask?”
Jia’s contemptuous gaze mocked him.
“Hey, hey…! I’m the CEO, you know? Show some respect! Give me an ‘ora’!”
Thunk!
What Juhyeok received was a stack of documents on his head.
The pile of papers she’d brought.
“Sigh. These are the contract drafts you mentioned.”
“…Con, contract drafts? I’m telling you they’re coming. Ora ora…!”
“Maybe just content creators will come. Do you really think an MCN will, CEO?”
What she’d prepared were standard contracts commonly used throughout the industry.
Juhyeok intended to use them as reference for creating his own contracts.
Since Almond was Mixnuts itself, there was almost nothing to mention contractually.
But if other streamers joined, that would be a different story.
“Macaron said it’ll be difficult for now since it still feels like Almond’s one-man company. We should give it some time….”
That’s when it happened.
Ding!
“!”
“!?”
Jia’s eyes, half-closed from exhaustion, widened in surprise.
[Danmuji: CEO, I’ve reviewed it.]
[Danmuji: Goguma says he’s in.]
[Danmuji: Of course, so am I.]
“…Oh!”
Juhyeok and Jia both grabbed the same phone and stared at it.
“So, this means you’re doing collaborative content, right?”
It seemed like they’d only be doing content.
Jia didn’t think they’d make an MCN decision like this.
In fact, Juhyeok felt the same way.
“Yeah. For now, it looks like that….”
Ding.
Messages kept arriving.
[Danmuji: Hong-cha and Lemon said they’d do joint content but not individual content.]
It seemed Danmuji had already convinced Hong-cha and Lemon as well.
So the joint content for the five Knight Order members was essentially settled.
[Danmuji: Oh, and they found out about the MCN offer we received.]
The MCN topic suddenly came up.
Juhyeok and Jia’s faces drew closer and closer together.
Not that getting closer actually revealed anything more.
Without realizing it, they both stared at the phone as if being pulled into it.
[Danmuji: I don’t think sneaking in would be right]
“!”
Thud!
Juhyeok and Jia’s cheeks collided.
Too afraid the ‘1’ on the message would disappear, they couldn’t even look at it properly, and they urgently questioned each other instead.
“Oh, oppa. Is this what you mean or not?”
“D-don’t jump to conclusions.”
“Who jumped to conclusions first!?”
“Be quiet, I can’t hear!”
“Mm…!”
It was a message anyway, so there was no sound to begin with.
Jia covered her own mouth.
They were that focused.
After all, since Mixnuts launched, it had carried the strong color of Almond’s one-man company for quite a long time.
Even though Pangeo and Bontovi were affiliated with it.
They were all newcomers who started streaming because of Almond.
Taken to extremes, it felt like a ‘family business.’
Who would want to meddle in someone else’s family affairs?
People hesitate to join a family business for the same reason.
But what if people who already had recognition and standing came in?
Danmuji was a former pro with established reputation and standing as a player, separate from streaming viewership numbers. Goguma had a distinct broadcasting style combined with her character and music, so she had a solid viewer base.
If they participated, Mixnuts’ color would change dramatically.
Both Jia and Juhyeok understood that perfectly well, which is why they were anticipating it.
Jia grew even more anxious now.
“Are they doing it or not!?”
The next message wasn’t coming.
But she couldn’t open it and ask, ‘So you’re doing it, right?’
Ding.
The final message arrived.
[Danmuji: Word got out a bit. But they said they’ll keep the embargo. When should Goguma and I come sign the contract?]
“!”
That meant they were going to do it.
At this point, even if you grabbed the most pessimistic person and asked them, they’d hear it as a yes.
“Waaaaaaah!”
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Without waiting to see who would go first, they both threw their arms up and embraced each other.
My eyes meet someone’s.
“I… I, I mean… I thought someone else had passed out…”
Macaron was standing awkwardly by the door—I wasn’t sure when it had opened.
Jia’s face turned bright red.
‘What do I do? I see her all the time…”
‘…I, I have a plan.’
Juhyeok cleared his throat.
“Good news, Macaron.”
“Yes?”

* * *
I told Macaron about Mixnuts’ victory.
“Oh! So, so that’s it!”
Macaron’s eyes widened at the company’s good news.
Then—
“Waaaaaaack!”
Juhyeok pulled Macaron into an embrace and bounced up and down.
“!?”
He just acted like this was how they always did it.
‘What are you doing! Come on!’
Juhyeok beckoned Jia over.
‘This is crazy…”
Jia threw caution to the wind and joined in, wrapping her arms around them all in a circle, bouncing up and down.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
“T, Team Leader!?”
Macaron didn’t know what to do.
Thud!
Someone else was coming.
“What, what is it!? What’s going on!”
Bontovi arrived late and asked frantically.
Juhyeok explained very quickly.
Bontovi let out a cheer.
“Waaaaaaah! Jackpot! Jaaaaaackpot!”
And so everyone from Mixnuts ended up in one big embrace, spinning around and around.
“?”
Sanghyeon arrived at the company last.
He stood in the CEO’s office with his mouth agape, watching the employees spinning in circles.
‘Wow. Juhyeok… I heard he runs it like an IT company without enforcing discipline. Is he making them do punishment drills?’
Macaron’s expression, glimpsed between the spinning, looked so agonized that it appeared to be some form of disciplinary action.
‘So he changes once he gets a title.’
He remembered Juhyeok from those drinking sessions back at Aseng, the one who used to curse out those old-fashioned bosses.
A moment later.
“Ahem… that’s not what this is about, I’m telling you?”
Juhyeok rambled on with excuses to Sanghyeon.
“Never mind. We have a lot to do today.”
Sanghyeon cut him off coldly and tried to start the broadcast.
“Right, yeah. There are ads and the assignments we fell behind on.”
“Assignments…?”

* * *
Almond’s broadcast went live.
-Hey there
-Aha~
-Ohhh
-He’s been on time lately lol
-Aha!
-Broadcasting on PC today?
“Today is an advertisement.”
He was going to play a unique mobile game.
“An ad for the puzzle game you all love. Bubble Pang~!”
It was a 3D puzzle mobile game that required serious brainpower.
-Lmaooooo
-He’ll Split this puzzle too?
-This is hilarious lolololol
-Whoa
-Balloon Gum turning into magic…
The game company had sent it expecting the typical ad effect—where viewers get angry at how badly the streamer plays and download it thinking they could do better.
After all, his performance in another 3D puzzle ad he’d done before had been absolutely terrible.
-?
-What
-??
-Why is he good?
-Awakened through Split lol
-Whoa
Yet unexpectedly, Almond solved this puzzle incredibly well.
Because this was a puzzle based on Sudoku.
“Oh, I’m actually pretty good at Sudoku.”
-?
-Is this Sudoku??
-Huh?
-Who made this guy’s brain? Why is it so scattered
-Wait, is this 3D Sudoku?
-Why is he good at Sudoku lol
-Kekekekekekekekekekekeke
Setting aside the fact that Sudoku is a math-related puzzle.
There was actually a reason why Almond was good at Sudoku.
“No, when I first went to the company… they didn’t give me anything to do, so I just played Minesweeper.”
-Gasp
-Wow
-Oof
-Ugh
-Aseng oof
-Seriously…
-Minesweeper guy oof
Everyone had a sympathetic atmosphere.
‘Oh? This isn’t good.’
Almond remembered this was an advertisement and tried to shift the mood back to something brighter.
He held his phone screen up to the camera and spoke.
“Did your desk disappear too? Then how about trying Bubble Pop in the bathroom?”
And just like that, Almond had become a professional streamer.
-?
-???
-Kekekeke crazy kekeke
-No lol
-Haha
-Bubble Pop for salary loot oof
-Salary loot right? Kekekeke
-Kekekekekekekekekekekeke
-For real lol
-Lol keke
“Yeah. Done.”
-Oof
-Clear? Kekekeke
-Why is he so good lol
-What is this
-This is false advertising
-Hell Mode gg
“I’ll leave Hell Mode to you all. We have a long way to go today….”
After finishing a few advertisements including Bubble Fang, Almond prepared something.
“Ah, I’ll be reading the patch notes today.”
He had come up with an interesting piece of content.
-Ooh
-Nice
-Split really changed this guy
-To this extent?
Most viewers assumed he was reading the patch notes for the Ril survival match.
[Jet-Pumped!]
[Version 14.8 Patch Notes]
-?
-???
-?
-?
What, is this an ad too? lol
-What is this?
Surprisingly, it was patch notes for an entirely different game.
Some viewers who had been watching him for a long time and had good instincts knew what was going on.
Boom!
[Rubisword donated 100,000 won!]
Gasp. Wait, are we seriously going through with this?ㅋㅋㅋ
-?
-What is this!
-What’s happening?
Ugh, the influx of national team players is ridiculous.
“Ah, I keep getting emails from the development team. They said I need to participate in the patch… So I decided to read the patch notes once and determine which pet I want and how to buff or nerf it.”
-?
-???
“Pet? lol you don’t know anything anyway”
It’ll be a jet ㅋㅋㅋ
I’m dying laughing hahahahaha
-And this guy is supposed to change the world line…?
-May the Jet-Pumped users who entrusted the world to a child’s hands find peace…
Damn, you’re just gonna do it like this?ㅋㅋㅋ
Boom!
[Development Team donated 10,000 won!]
[It’s Jet, not a pet… Jet.]
“Ah, yes. Jet… jetpumped. Let me check the patch first.”
Disaster was descending upon an innocent game.

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