Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1299

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 184
57. Enemy Counterattack (2)
Before the match began.
Tottia had made a declaration to the Coaches.
“We’ll be using radios as well.”
All the Coaches nodded slowly, as if they’d been expecting this to some degree.
“Very well.”
“Right. Let’s embrace some modern technology.”
Murmurs of agreement rippled through the group.
True strategic warfare always begins with acknowledging the enemy’s strength.
Without that foundation, a Coach merely ends up trusting in their players’ abilities and acting recklessly.
“Yes. We had no choice but to acknowledge it. The enemies’ strategies are overwhelming us. In both Team A matches, we were completely read and suffered total defeats.”
Because of this, Tottia quickly accepted the enemies’ strength and was able to devise a counter-strategy.
“We will….”
Scratch, scratch, scratch.
He began drawing out a strategy on the provided whiteboard.
“We won’t consolidate into four teams. We’ll keep all five teams and use radios.”
Upon hearing that they would adopt radio strategy, the Coaches who had remained silent all expressed confusion.
“…Pardon?”
“Huh?”
When a dispatch was sent, one team would inevitably disappear.
Consolidating five teams into four was the basic logic of the dispatch system.
Since he was breaking that rule, everyone naturally found it strange.
However, upon seeing the whiteboard, they all had no choice but to understand.
“The weakness of the dispatch system is that there’s no clear countermeasure when dispatched members die one by one. But if we do it this way, that disadvantage disappears, and….”
Here came the first trick Tottia had prepared.
“The enemies won’t even know we’re using the dispatch system.”
“…?”
Everyone wore confused expressions.
“Are they idiots? How wouldn’t they know? The players have changed.”
“Ah. Yes. That’s from our perspective.”
Ding.
Tottia displayed a piece of footage on screen.
It was a scene of survival combat from a first-person perspective.
The video itself contained nothing special.
Just a typical first-person view of jumping into a chaotic team fight, intercepting enemies, and then getting eliminated.
“This is just ordinary survival combat footage from a typical player. Can you tell how many teams were involved in this?”
Numerous players were visible on screen, but it was impossible to tell how many teams were actually involved.
“…Two teams?”
“Three teams?”
“Hmm….”
All the Coaches were confused.
“It’s unknowable.”
Not knowing was the correct answer.
Especially in this chaotic platform inter-team battle where 25 fought against 25.
“It’s difficult to grasp unless you count the total number of heads. Confirming nicknames in a situation like this is far too challenging.”
As I slowly rotated the footage and counted the heads, there were fifteen.
“I see fifteen. Then it appears to be a teamfight involving three teams entangled together.”
In the video, three teams were indeed tangled up, initiating a teamfight.
“There’s no other way besides grasping it through the total headcount like this. If a team with six total heads moves, the Enemies will notice we have radios. But if it’s five?”
“…!”
Everyone’s eyes widened in surprise.
“It’s five, and only one person from there is swapped with the radio team. Unlike Cheese, the Enemies don’t even know which team will be the radio team. But could they still figure it out?”
Then there was a high possibility they truly wouldn’t know.
Because all the Players were viewing from a first-person perspective.
“Y, yes, that’s right.”
“Wow….”
Seeing that everyone understood, Tottia quickly wiped the whiteboard clean.
“Good. Why it’s important to keep the Enemies from knowing will become clear when you see what we do with this radio system.”
Tottia turned to the next slide with a solemn expression.
This was the second kick.
“We will eliminate all of the Enemy’s radios.”
Destroy the Enemy’s radios.
But the Enemy cannot respond.
Because they won’t even know if we have radios.

* * *
King Gul’s scream echoed throughout the entire stadium.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!? Paprika Team had a radio!!”
“Huh…?”
The Caster turned around as if asking what he meant.
It was that confusing.
It was a trick that even made the Commentators watching from above make a mistake.
“There are members from different teams mixed in! One out of every five is from a different team…!”
“What!?”
“Hm?”
Both the Caster and Analyst were startled and looked at the minimap again.
However, they couldn’t tell.
‘What is this. I can’t see it.’
That’s because on the current minimap, Cheese Team was displayed in yellow and Paprika Team in red—a unified color scheme.
“Look carefully at the player names!”
You had to look at the names to understand.
You even had to match these names with their team affiliations.
“!”
Players from different teams were mixed in one by one.
As if they were one team, all five of them were paired and separated.
“So! One radio team sent out four members! No wait! This isn’t a dispatch strategy!”
That was right. It couldn’t be called a dispatch strategy.
To begin with, Tottia had never once called this a dispatch strategy.
He said it like this.
“This is… an exchange strategy!”
“!”
-Whoa whoa whoa
-Huh?
-What?
-What are you talking about??
Wow lol, seriously?
That’s crazy lol
-Gasp
“They exchanged members with each other! Paprika Team’s 4th team has one radio user! And one team from Paprika—that is, the radio team—all five members are from different teams! It’s an allied force!”
An application of the dispatch strategy—the exchange strategy.
The theory was simple.
Instead of the radio team sending out a dispatch, they exchanged one member with each other team.
In Cheese Team’s case, it would be like exchanging Jello and Lemon to give the Knight Order a radio user.
This way, the original Motmotmot would all gather members from different teams.
Any ordinary person would think like this.
“Wh… why would you go this far!?”
Why were they doing this?
The Caster clicked his tongue at this complex composition.
“There are several reasons! But if you look at the experience points right now, you’d understand!”
King Gul brought up the experience points first.
“The experience points are being split among four instead of five, aren’t they?”
“Ahhh!?”
That was it.
Fundamentally, Paprika Team splits experience points between four and one.
A sort of automatic split.
“It’s a small difference, but it’s continuously widening!”
Already, due to Cheese’s early time waste, the experience points had fallen behind once.
Even hunting at the same pace, the gap keeps growing.
This was a difference that came from numbers.
Even if both sides didn’t feed experience to their dispatched members, one side had four while the other had five.
-Ah
-Wow
-That’s how it is
-So that’s why it’s faster
-Is that difference that big?
“There is a difference, but they’re still both level 2 right now…. We’ll have to see how this plays out….”
The moment the Caster spoke, a signal came through.
[Level Up!]
[Lv. 2 → Lv. 3]
Paprika Team’s first level 3 appeared.
“Wha!?”
In that instant, the red dots all began moving at once.
“Woaaaaa!?”
“You can clearly see they’re communicating via radio!?”
It was completely different from the previous Paprika.
and lol
Exchange strategy is a scam for real lol
-Whoa
-Are they going after the turtle again this time?
-Wow what’s this?
“Once they reach level 3, hunting the Red Turtle becomes easier. Both Paprika and Cheese have shown obsession with this turtle before, right? We were somewhat anticipating they’d do it again, so Paprika is pairing up systematically…. Huh?”
“Huh?”
But they were moving simultaneously.
Yet not in the same direction.
“Why do they all seem to be scattering!?”
“They’re scattering… they’re scattering!?”
“It doesn’t seem like their target is the Red Turtle?”
They’re not coming after the Red Turtle. Instead, this looks like….
“They’re positioning themselves to devour the opponents who come hunting for the Red Turtle!!”
-Gasp
-No way
-Scary
-Ah
-So that’s it
“They’re leveraging the fact that they’re level 3 to conduct a primitive battle right now!”
A tempo faster than the expected level.
They’re maximizing this advantage to gain every possible benefit.
But not through hunting the Red Turtle—through hunting players.
“Meanwhile, Cheese! Are they all going for the Red Turtle!?”
Cheese was naturally preparing their entire team to contest the Red Turtle.
It’s a naive approach compared to Paprika.
“Ahhh…! M-most of them are heading toward the Red Turtle! But their levels are all 2! Or even level 1!”
They’re falling behind in levels too.
That’s when King Gul points out one particular detail.
“Wait!? H-hold on just a moment!?”
Just one team had roughly comparable levels.
“Why is this one level 3?”

* * *
“What the hell? Where are they?”
Danmuji was bewildered from the start.
The enemies were nowhere to be found where they should have been.
“Did these guys not divide the map? They seem completely scattered.”
The thugs who normally landed after clearly dividing the territory north and south showed no sign of doing so this time.
Even when I searched, they were hard to spot, and when I found them, they fled.
“Ugh… damn it. Not there either? Over?”
Jello was now losing his temper at the other radio operators.
“You damn fools! If they’re not there, they’re not there! If they are, they are! What do you mean you don’t know!”
-Kekekekekekekekekekekek
Hahaha that’s hilarious haha
A slave catching a slave lol
-Yeah, Jello’s best at catching slaves
Slaves are even harsher to slaves.
It was true that Jello had a naturally volatile temperament.
But if Danmuji could do this, he wanted to scream at someone.
‘We’re wasting too much time. Something… something has changed.’
Almond spoke from beside me.
“At this rate, we won’t get all the experience. Should we split?”
-That’s hilarious lol
No lol, starting now?
Damn, hahahahaha
The only way to split it is with the Knight’s Order, for real.
What was programmed into his mind was just two things.
Split and Turtle.
“We need to hit level 3 before the Red Turtle, right? The fact that the enemies are running away means they’re just hunting….”
Since the Knight Order hadn’t landed on the vault route either, they couldn’t help but feel anxious.
‘Split….’
Almond’s suggestion wasn’t something I could just brush off.
Danmuji nodded and issued orders to the entire team.
“Mosol.”
“Yes.”
“Tell the team near the vault to hit the vault first on their own. The situation has changed. We need to take bigger returns even if we take risks. The enemies are playing defensively.”
“Yes.”
As Mosol relayed the orders to all the radio operators, the Knight Order split up.
Almond, Lemon, Mosol—those three, and the rest.
“Wow….”
Mosol seemed delighted to join Almond’s team.
“F, finally I’m part of the in-crowd too. You guys.”
-No way
-And they’re a three-person team…
What the heck lol
-So they’re isolated here too…
The reason I simply paired Mosol with Almond was straightforward.
‘Someone needs to be there who can think rationally instead of Almond.’
I couldn’t possibly pair him with Jello!

* * *
Through the Split, the Knight Order was able to at least balance out their experience points.
It was when they reached level 3.
[Foolish Youth: Shouldn’t we be catching the Turtle? We need to make our contract too.]
Almond brings up the Turtle again.
[Danmuji: But I think we’re already falling behind a bit. I think it would be better for us to just settle for the Octopus.]
Danmuji grasped the situation quickly.
He had already noticed that the Enemies’ levels were ahead.
So he thought it would be better to secure the Octopus quickly for later.
[Hong-cha: Still, we did Split, so our levels should be fine…?]
Hong-cha lends support to Almond’s opinion.
[Goguma: Yeah! Let’s just try to compete rather than give it up!]
Goguma backs him up too.
Danmuji explains the reality.
[Danmuji: No, Cheese, only we are level 3. The Enemies will all be level 3.]
[Hong-cha: Really…?]
[Danmuji: Yeah.]
Surprisingly accurate prediction.
[Foolish Youth: Then shouldn’t we go and at least contest it? The Turtle? Just giving it up feels….]
Still, Almond wouldn’t let go of his obsession with the Turtle.
Then─
“Ahhhhh!?”
Jello suddenly screamed.
“?”
Danmuji didn’t know why.
He couldn’t hear it.
[Balloon Gum: Ahhhhhhh! What are these bastards!?]
Balloon Gum’s scream.
“Oh no, Kkeom!!”
Along with Jello’s lament, the alarm sounds.
[An Ally has been defeated!]
[Omelette → Balloon Gum]
Balloon Gum suddenly transformed into a Rune Spirit.
Fortunately, it seemed the situation ended with just Balloon Gum, as the alarm didn’t sound again.
‘So only Balloon Gum died… and that’s it…?’
Danmuji found something odd about it.
That’s when Jello asked Danmuji.
“Danmuji. Should we go revive him?”
Motmotmot couldn’t be revived by their own team, so a nearby team had to do it.
“Hmm… Jello. But what happened? Why did he die?”
Danmuji was cautious.
“Does there need to be a reason for Balloon Gum to die?”
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekekekekekekelol
-Lolkekekekekeke
-Hahakekeke
Danmuji was almost convinced for a moment, but asked again, and Jello relayed the reason.
“Well… he said Balloon Gum just got caught and pulled out. Apparently three guys with guns suddenly jumped out and intercepted him.”
“…!”
Danmuji’s eyes widened.
‘Could it be…’
Were the enemies deliberately targeting only Motmotmot to kill?
That frightening thought was immediately confirmed by news from the opposite side.
[An ally has been defeated!]
[Gamtwe → Dotorimuk]

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