Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1285

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 170
52. Group B (3)
A few days ago.
Choi Sa-rang asked from beyond the monitor.
“Did you understand the real advantage of the dispatch strategy?”
“You can execute the split more stably, right? Three and three.”
“….”
That was the extent of the advantages I had recognized in the dispatch strategy.
But was this coincidence or inevitability?
“It’s more than that.”
Hidden within this strategy I had casually devised lay countless advantages.
“Information.”
I had transformed five teams into four teams.
Yet the information output increased.
You see, the dispatch split formation I had created wasn’t actually four teams.
It was eight teams.
“We’re operating eight teams. Each composed of a minimum of three members.”
“That’s how splits normally work.”
Up to this point, it was the conventional advantage of splitting.
Spreading your wings to increase contact with the map, thereby increasing information flow.
However, the risk also increases.
“Look, the Platform Championship is essentially twenty-five versus twenty-five. So a twenty-five-person team would theoretically be the best strategy. But there’s a critical blind spot here.”
“?”
“You can’t communicate with each other. Can that even be called a team?”
“!”
Exactly.
Even if you team up, the game system treats you as separate teams.
Shots don’t register as hits, experience can’t be shared, and communication breaks down when you’re far apart.
Experience distribution and teamkills can be managed with care, but the last issue is truly difficult to solve.
“The method Paprika’s side could probably think of would be something like exchanging signals through flashy skills. But with our dispatch strategy, everything has changed completely.”
Whoosh.
Sa-rang connected each team with a line.
Writing names one by one along that line.
[Jello, Balloon Gum, Mosol, Dotorimuk, Chocosong]
The name of the Motmotmot team.
“This team becomes our communication backbone. They can talk to each other.”
Through that line, all twenty-five members become intertwined as one.
Within a single circle.
“Now we’ve finally become a true team.”
The completion of a perfect twenty-five-person team.
This was the system Sanghyeon had created.
“One army. Eight squads.”
A system capable of executing any strategy as a single team.

* * *
Airship before descent.
Almond designated the landing points.
“As you’ve all heard, the enemy’s strategy is to roll forward based on the advantages they gain from their early aggression.”
Tap.
He pointed to the area where Paprika’s team would be dropping.
“They’ll establish their territory and move like a snake—head, body, tail. Then they’ll grow the head as much as possible to develop the rest.”
Everyone from Cheese nodded in agreement.
“We’ll pierce through their body and sever it.”
Miho raised her hand and asked.
“All of us?”
“No.”
Almond pointed to the Agricultural Cooperative and the Knight Order.
“Only the two teams with the highest win rates will enter.”
!
-Kyaa
-Keu
-What’s noblesse oblige
-So cool
-Wow
-For real??
-Is this actually happening?
-Wait, is the foolish youth really being listened to by all of Cheese like this?
-What on earth happened during the secret scrim…?
The viewers were shocked at how much authority Almond had gained after the private scrim.
But Cheese’s members accepted it naturally.
They all nodded and prepared for descent.
“Magical Girl, Hamburgies—feel free to maximize your monster hunting speed in Cheese’s territory. You can split if you want.”
“Roger!”
“Let’s go!”
After Hamburgies and Magical Girl descended first.
The airship was driven toward the most dangerous zone, and the Knight Order and Agricultural Cooperative dropped.
“Agricultural Cooperative!”
“Roger!”
Whoosh!
At Almond’s call, Dotorimuk leading the charge, all of the Agricultural Cooperative leaped out.
“It’s our turn now.”
“Yes!”
Mosol and Jello leaped down first.
Followed by five Knights from the Knight Order jumping down in succession.
Then an enormous roar erupted.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Streaks of faint yellow and countless red lights swept past with the wind.
Were they cheering because the match had officially begun? Or were they cheering for Cheese’s strategy?
It was impossible to tell yet.
‘Soon they will be.’
Almond believed that once the results came in, everyone would be cheering for this strategy regardless.

* * *
Thud!
Omelette landed and immediately issued orders.
“Alright, we’re the head! We need to kill the Cursor first, got it?”
“Yes!”
The players of Omelette’s team, Brunch, responded in unison.
Led by Omelette, they moved busily.
They had to monopolize the monsters in this area and level up immediately.
“If enemies appear, we’ll use Fireball to… huh?”
Boom!
A Fireball shot toward the nearby area.
“…What? Did it land near us?”
“It didn’t happen before.”
Group A had divided the territory equally as promised.
“Looks like they tried to add some variation.”
Omelette smirked.
“They’re trying something we haven’t even trained for?”
He signaled to his staff-wielding teammate with a gesture.
“We’re going too—send the signal and charge! This is a golden opportunity for explosive growth!”
In Paprika’s strategy, the primitive war was far too attractive.
Since it was premised on 25-person teaming, they would always have the numerical advantage, and they had even trained to concentrate all those rewards on a single team.
It was the perfect chance to nurture a single monster.
But Omelette didn’t know.
Kidnappers always offer sweet candy to children first.

* * *
King Gul, watching from above, naturally understood what was happening.
“Wait! Is that Paprika!? They shouldn’t go in there!?”
Even as King Gul spoke, he realized this wouldn’t work.
“Ah….”
“Why, why are you doing that!?”
“It looks like they’re going to go in?”
“What!?”
Paprika was programmed to unconditionally devour any Cheese team member that appeared in their territory.
“Their only means of communication is shooting Fireballs, Frost Magic, and things like that upward! Dislike! Like! Enemy! That’s all they have!”
“Ah!? So it’s basically just pinging!?”
“Yes! You can think of it as communicating only through pings! So when Cheese appears! They’ll just go in! There’s no way to convey detailed situations…!”
“Aaaah…!”
The Caster lets out an exclamation while watching the players already doing exactly that.
“Paprika’s method isn’t necessarily bad! It’s just so different from this cutting-edge human internet system! Right now, Cheese can execute far more sophisticated strategies!”
Cheese was moving dynamically—hiding one team while luring out another.
“Just at a glance, their movements already look incredibly smooth!?”
It was the kind of fluidity that even someone who didn’t understand the game could see with their own eyes.
“Meanwhile, Paprika only has go and stop! Fireballs only work within the visible field of view! So only the two teams flanking the Agricultural Cooperative will arrive first!? I don’t even know if this was the intended strategy or what!”
“Ah, compared to Cheese, Paprika’s movements are stuttering!”
They move while firing Fireballs in succession.
These Fireballs are definitely a go signal.
But there’s a problem.
If they move outside the field of view, there’s a high chance these signals won’t be visible at all.
“And the other two teams are just hunting…! This isn’t them knowingly ignoring it! They’re just hunting because they don’t know!?”
One team became completely unable to communicate.
“Of course, at minimum two teams can still communicate? In Group A, this worked fine!?”
“Right! Group A worked because Cheese fought naively!”
“Ah, is that not the case now!?”
“It’s different now! Right now, Cheese is like an ancient serpent! They’re digging traps and waiting! From the positioning of their units! They already know only two teams will come!!”

* * *
“D… Daegam….”
Jello, clutching his shield while hiding, asked anxiously.
“There are so many enemies everywhere. Will this work?”
“It will.”
“H… or, what if 15 of them swarm us like this?”
Almond’s strategy was this.
When 10 enemies swarm in, we win by leading with the number 13.
So right after dropping, everyone except 5 hid as much as possible.
Those 5 were Dotorimuk, the Agricultural Cooperative uncles, and Baeksuk.
Greentea, the ADC, was hiding in the back.
The enemies would probably figure that one team dropped on our side.
“15 people can’t come easily. Their communication is terrible.”
“H… really? Then what if they don’t catch on?”
Jello was now worried about what would happen if the enemies showed no reaction at all.
“Then we’re just wasting time here.”
Then all this waiting time would be meaningless.
“The servant talks too much.”
Twang—
Almond drew his bowstring, putting an end to the unnecessary worries.
“…S-sorry.”
-Kekekekekekekek
-Kekekekek
-No kekekek
-Right, he could’ve shot kekek
-Kkk kekekek
“Tsk. Know your place, Jello-servant.”
This was something Mosol said.
“Y-yes… ah, wait, you’re a servant too! Mosol, you bastard! Why are you acting like you’re from the Knight Order—”
That was when it happened.
A Fireball shot up into the sky.
Boom…!
“!”
The Knight Order members all fell silent, holding their breath.
A voice breaks through that silence.
Crackle crackle.
[Dotorimuk: Knight Order. Did you guys see that Fireball just now?]
Jello quickly responded.
[Jello: Y-yes. Yes. This is Knight Order. We saw it. Are you coming?]
Gulp.
Everyone waited for Dotorimuk’s words.
[Dotorimuk: What’s there to worry about! Perfect timing! The enemies are 2 teams! About 10 people! Both flanks are exposed!]
[Jello: Let’s goooo!]
Having heard Jello’s call, all the Knight Order members rose to their feet and began running.
Goguma and Jello, both wielding shields, took the lead, followed by Mosol with his sword and Danmuji with his spear.
The ADC Hong-cha and Almond, along with Lemon wielding a staff, brought up the rear.
Thud-thud-thud-thud!
The undergrowth parted as countless footprints stamped into the dirt below.
This was likely the largest group movement in the history of survival matches.
“Th-that’s Greentea!”
Greentea, coming from behind, joined their ranks.
“Ah, Hong-cha!”
“Chorok! Over here!”
“Coming!”
She too held a rifle like Hong-cha.
-Wow
-This is literally a massive army kkk
-Insane kkk
-Is this Civil M or Ril
-Wow kkk
Three ADCs and one staff user.
Two tanks and two damage-dealers.
It was an overwhelming force.
Ril’s survival match mode had never accounted for such massive group clashes.
That meant variables could erupt at an absurd pace.
Just like in actual warfare, despite so many people gathered together, the battle felt eerily quiet with minimal commotion.
“There!”
The moment enemies were spotted, this cry rang out.
Goguma and Jello rushed forward and cast the same skill.
[Shield Slam]
Boom!
The opponent received a 2-second stun.
“Wh-what…?”
The opponent panicked.
They hadn’t expected two shields to come at them simultaneously.
In that moment, Mosol’s blade slashed through.
Slash!
Almost simultaneously, Almond’s arrow struck home.
Thwack!
“Fire!”
Rat-a-tat-tat!!
Rat-tat!
Hong-cha and Greentea’s gunfire turned the enemy into a honeycomb.
[First Blood!]
[Hong-cha → Bread]
Poof!
In an instant, he became a Rune Spirit.
This was the first kill.
Until now, all I’d heard were position confirmations, firing orders, and a few dying words of despair from the enemy.
That was all.
In near silence, one player vanished in an instant.
[Omelette: What? What’s happening!? Wasn’t it just the Agricultural Cooperative that fell!?]
Paprika couldn’t even comprehend what had just occurred.
Then the notification rang out once more.
[Ally has been eliminated!]
[Foolish Youth → Fresso]
Boom!
Another Rune Spirit was born.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
The entire stadium erupted in brilliant yellow light as an enormous roar of cheers exploded forth.
Only then did Omelette realize.
[Omelette: We’re done for…!]
This was the enemy’s trap.
-?
-What is this??
-Huh??
-Eh?
-Why are there so many of them???
-Did they really send down 3 teams???
-Huh?
-This is crazy
-Two in an instant??
Paprika had left both the players and viewers in complete shock.

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