Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1284

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 169
52. Group B (2)
“Ah, yes. The match has started. No teams have landed yet.”
It was the very beginning of the match.
While each team was boarding the airship and deciding on their landing points.
At this stage, the game hadn’t truly begun yet.
That’s why King Gul took the time to briefly explain the group composition.
“In any other match, this wouldn’t matter at all, but in the Platform Championship right now, I can’t help but discuss the group composition, you see?”
The group composition was also an event included in the strategy, and it appeared quite significant.
“Ah, yes. What do you make of it?”
“If Paprika employed a balanced strategy by dividing teams into upper-middle and lower-middle tiers, then Cheese is clearly going all-in to dominate Group B. This intention is very strongly evident!”
-Kekekekekekekeke dominate
-For real
-Group B all-in lol
-Looks like they’re planning to crush Group B after watching the other group
-Completely different for real
“Ah, right, they’ve positioned all the top-ranked teams here, and only brought one last-place team.”
“Yes. But that last-place team isn’t actually that weak either. Except for ‘a certain someone’ on the team, everyone else is quite competent, you see?”
-Gasp
-Gasp
-Yikes
-A certain someone yikes
-Kekekekekeke
-Balloon Gum nooo
-Pollis’ official designated troll
-Lmao
The implication was that Incompetent Team Member wasn’t actually a last-place level team.
This was true.
“Right! After seeing the rankings, people really said this must be rigged. That Incompetent Team Member and Agricultural Cooperative switched places! We got so many of those comments!”
The Caster agreed and nodded along.
And King Gul moved into the main topic.
“So if Cheese doesn’t cleanly take 1st through 5th place with all five members here! Then there’s truly no hope! But! What did I say earlier at the analysis desk?”
“What did you say!?”
“If Cheese brings some major change! If Group A and Group B employ different strategies! Isn’t there a possibility!?”
“Ah, yes. But that’s almost impossible….”
“Yes! But!”
“!?”
“I’ve heard some interesting information?”
There was a reason King Gul suddenly spoke with a slightly more positive tone, despite not rating Cheese’s hopes very highly.
“Cheese apparently has different strategies for Group A and Group B!”
“!”
Everyone at the broadcast desk was startled by those words.
-lol
-yeah
-then that means
-probably gonna be like that
-ooooh
Please… and ㅠㅠ
-no way it’s because of Boni?
“Oh, no, what do you mean differently?”
“Doesn’t this Group B have a serf system?”
“…?”
Both the Caster and Analyst doubted their own ears.
‘A serf system?’
‘A serf? No serf? What are they talking about?’
-kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-serf system lmaooo
-is this real???
-is this official?kekekeke
-they’re really doing that?kekekekeke
The viewers’ reactions weren’t much different.
However, they had already heard about it during Cheese’s scream, so their reaction was more like ‘are they really doing that?’
Of course, those who hadn’t heard of it thought they’d misheard or found it absurd.
That was the case with Paprika’s viewers.
-?
-??
-they’re doing all kinds of crazy stuff lol
-what’s a serf system?
-are they talking about slavery?
-what is that you nerds
-what’s a serf???
-serf? slave???
While the innocent questions from viewers bearing the Paprika tag flooded in.
“No, that’s some kind of nonsense─”
It was the moment the Analyst was about to ask something.
The Caster shouted.
“Ah, right now! Each team! They’ve started dropping!!”
The first drop had begun.
“Paprika and Cheese landed in completely different areas!”
“Ah, yes. The lower-ranked team dropped first. This is the same as before. In Cheese’s case, the incompetent lower-ranked team dropped first… huh?”
King Gul notices something while providing commentary.
“Wait a moment. Balloon Gum just fell, but… after that, Tomato, Pickle, and Black Cow fell…!? Isn’t this the Hamburgers team? Why did Balloon Gum fall just now!?”
“Ah… isn’t this a falling accident!?”
Since Balloon Gum fell first, I naturally assumed the Incompetent Team Member would fall first to assess the situation.
But then other teams fell in succession after that.
-?
-Balloon Gum falling accident lol
-Ah…
-Disaster has struck
Haha what are you talking about from the beginning ㅠㅠㅠ
-That’s a total setup lol
“No matter how much they’re on the same team as Cheese, if there’s this much of a setup! They could literally kill Balloon Gum and start fresh!?”
No matter how much teaming existed, this was a ruthless world of competition.
No one knows what might happen.
Betrayals run rampant even within the same nation, so there’s no reason betrayal couldn’t happen in this trivial game.
“Right? Especially since it’s Balloon Gum? You can just kill him! There’s barely any damage!”
-No kekekekekekekekekeke
-Yo kekekeke
-King Gul lol
-Insane lol
You’re too much ㅠㅠ
-Ahahaha kekekekekekeke
-That’s actually true though
-That’s too harsh lol
-Apologize, King Gul!
King Gul responds to the viewers’ complaints.
“No, I mean, this isn’t killing him, it’s sending him back home, right? It’s just a delivery accident.”
He explained that killing Balloon Gum would actually be a faster way for him to return.
If they even stomp on the Rune Spirit and kill it, they can just resurrect it at the resurrection shrine anyway.
The Analyst agreed.
“It does look like a falling accident. If anything, it wouldn’t be bad for the Hamburgers team to eat and start, I think.”
“Ah, is that so!? Analyst? But wait! Another one is falling now…!? Again!?”
But such advice had to be completely retracted upon seeing the very next falling team.
In the next turn, Chocosong fell.
“This time it’s not the Incompetent Team Member either!?”
What fell after that wasn’t the Incompetent Team Member.
The Magical Girl team began falling in succession.
“Chocosong and the Magical Girl!?”
“Ah, the camera isn’t even catching Paprika’s side right now! It seems like something strange has happened on Cheese’s side!?”
Paprika’s strategy of twenty-five people cooperating seemed to be proceeding smoothly.
Shock itself.
Even King Gul, who spoke so rapidly and abundantly, momentarily fell silent with his mouth agape.
‘What is this? An accident? Again?’
King Gul watched the airship’s interior camera.
They were already positioned separately, one by one.
Standing before the map, Almond and Danmuji were each allocating landing points.
It didn’t look like a mistake.
‘It’s completely systematic. There’s nothing surprising about it at all.’
Not a single person seemed flustered.
Everyone was either smiling or wearing a tense expression.
Normally when accidents happen, people either laugh excessively or become serious.
But he couldn’t find any such expression.
“This looks like a strategy, doesn’t it?”
King Gul had no choice but to acknowledge it.
“Ah, yes, really!? The next team now is! Dotorimuk and! Agricultural Cooperative & Partners!”
“!”
The Analyst was startled as well.
“These crazy people.”
He understood what the Incompetent Team Member was doing now.
“That’s a slave strategy.”
“!”
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekeke
-It really was a slave strategy?Kekekeke
-Red Glasses’ mask finally comes off lol
-That’s a real troll strategy lol
-Isn’t this what Almond said? They’re really doing it???
-Wow lol
-King Mon D
Haha, seriously
-These guys are insane lol
The Caster asks the Analyst.
“A slave strategy!?”
“Yes. Right now, they’re dropping one at a time with each team as a slave. Didn’t they mention having a slave strategy?”
“Ah… well, that’s true, but… they’re actually using a slave strategy!?”
The Caster was flustered.
She hadn’t expected the slave strategy to be used so literally.
“These aren’t people….”
King Gul shook his head, dazed by the shock.
-Not a person, lol
-Hahaha
-Yeah, not a person~ A slave~
-This is Cheese zzz
-Welcome to the Kingdom of Royal Authority
-Is this Chunsik?
“Did you realize something, King Gul?”
Caster gives King Gul a chance as well.
“Yes. So this Cheese is actually moving in 4 teams of 6 people each!”
But King Gul was wrong again.
The very next team had 7 members, as if to prove him wrong.
That’s the only way the numbers would add up.
“Jello! Mosol! Almond! Lemon! Hong-cha! Dropping ahhhhh! Everyone else is dropping!? There are seven of them!”
“Ah, right! That does make the numbers work, but…”
King Gul was flustered.
Sweat began to form on his back.
‘What… what are these people?’
Shouldn’t they have come with a strategy that allows for decent commentary?
Still, I grab the microphone and try again.
“So anyway, they’re compressing 5 teams into 4 teams to proceed. But if they do this, the experience gain will be a bit… um…”
When people were already splitting 5-person teams just to farm experience faster, I couldn’t understand what advantage there could be in compressing it into larger groups like this.
Here, Red Glasses offered a textbook analysis.
“Looking at their scattered positions first, Cheese is dispersed throughout as they identify Paprika’s location. They’re planning to create friction from the start.”
The two teams that landed separately had essentially dropped in what could be called Paprika’s territory.
The Knight Order and the Agricultural Cooperative.
“Ah, I see. They’re using superior numbers to push from the beginning in a primitive battle! Is that it!? What do you think, King Gul?”
“That seems right. They do seem to be overwhelming with sheer numbers first?”
“Is the Cheese team that landed in Paprika’s territory okay? It looks dangerous?”
“Yes. It does feel like a risky strategy at first…”
At that moment, King Gul’s eyes widened.
‘Huh?’
I thought the landing point was too dangerous.
‘Wait, that’s not it.’
Looking at the numbers, it wasn’t.
Now that it’s laid out, I see it.
It’s—
‘The Knight Order is in ambush…?’
Only the Agricultural Cooperative moves, while the Knight Order lies in wait.
King Gul explains urgently.
“Paprika is in danger here?”
“Huh?”
“No, it’s not two five-person teams that fell—it’s seven and six people. That’s thirteen total. Basically three teams’ worth, but the way they fell… it’s exactly at Paprika’s waist!”
“The waist!?”
“Yes! Paprika moves with the head leading and the body and tail following, right? They grow the head first, and once the head destroys Cheese’s side completely, the rest share the spoils, correct?”
“Ah, that’s right!”
“But if we cut at the waist! It becomes much harder for Paprika’s twenty-five members to move as one body! It’s not easy to grow the head from the start!”
“Ah, I see!?”
“But!”
Still, this wasn’t as simple as it sounded.
“This isn’t guaranteed to work! It only works if the coordination is absolutely perfect!? We need to lure and consume exactly about ten members of Paprika’s team! It still looks like a bit of a gamble, honestly. Paprika will definitely respond!”
Before his words even finished.
Boom!
A fireball shot out from Paprika’s side.
“Just as King Gul said! They must have spotted Cheese’s Agricultural Cooperative and fired!? Ten people from both sides are approaching! Meanwhile, the Knight Order remains hidden!”
“Will this actually be proper coordination!? If it goes wrong…”
The strategy itself was sound.
Penetrate the enemy formation and cut at the waist.
The problem was their teamwork.
One side stays hidden while the other lures enemies and consumes the bait.
Was this even possible for teams that couldn’t communicate?
And they couldn’t fire fireballs upward either.
The ambush would be exposed.
But then—
“The Knight Order! They’re moving!”
The Knight Order members suddenly began rushing forward.
‘What? There was no signal at all?’
The Agricultural Cooperative did the same.
Both charged toward the same point simultaneously.
Perfect direction and timing.
“Ah, wait, right now the Knight Order and Agricultural Cooperative are moving almost like one body! At the exact same time!”
How was this possible without any fireballs?
“Insane.”
King Gul smacked his forehead.
Now he finally grasped the true power of this strategy.
“A biological radio.”
-?
-??
-Gasp
-wtf
-Insane kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Lolololol
-Right????Kekekeke
-No kekeke
-Big big sense
-Damnit kekeke
-Why use Fireball~ when there’s a Biological Radio~
-That’s what it was???Kekekeke
That was it.
The Incompetent Team Members scattered across each team.
They were essentially the radios connecting all the teams together.
Since they could communicate with each other, the briefing worked.
“With this, Cheese has a perfect 25-person team.”
An even more perfect 25-person team than Paprika’s 25.

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