Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1302

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 187
58. Foolish Solo Play (2)
Tottia and the Team B Coaches were in a festive mood.
“Excellent!”
“This is it! Two radio users already eliminated!”
“Radio strategy crushing it!”
-Kekeke
-Radio strategy lol
-Kekekekekeke wow
-So satisfying~
-This is seriously amazing
The Paprika Viewers gathered in the Coach’s room were naturally thrilled.
How excited had they been when Cheese performed well despite being at a disadvantage in Team A?
Paprika was experiencing the same thing.
Team B, where all of the opponent’s strongest members were positioned, was performing at this level.
The satisfaction was bound to be immense.
Tottia couldn’t hide his expression either.
‘As expected… it’s working perfectly.’
Even by his own assessment, this strategy’s execution was quite solid.
For something hastily put together, it was easy to implement, and the enemies had no idea what was hitting them.
“Wow, honestly, even the Commentators didn’t catch on to our strategy. I got chills for real.”
Odeng, the Rocket Squad’s Coach, approached with a satisfied grin.
“Right. The Commentators can’t help but miss it if they’re not paying close attention. Player names aren’t easy to read from a distance anyway… and since we’re not their original team and they’re unfamiliar with us.”
In Cheese’s case, they caught on immediately when six players separated.
But with Paprika at five players each, it’s harder to notice properly.
Most importantly, there was no clearly defined ‘Nobi’ team.
So it’s even harder to tell.
“Cheese probably still has no idea. Most likely.”
“Seems like it.”
Despite engaging in several skirmishes, Cheese hadn’t noticed the enemy composition had changed.
The skirmishes were just a few radio users getting picked off and fleeing.
There was no chance to observe properly.
They probably only grasped that there were five players.
“If they don’t figure this out… they can’t beat us.”
The real power of this radio communication strategy hadn’t even fully manifested yet.
“As long as we manage the allied team well.”
The true strength of this strategy came from the allied team composed of one member from each of the five teams.
They never engaged in combat, received all information, and farmed in the safest locations possible.
“The Commentators thought we were randomly scattered and separated.”
Even though Paprika appeared to be fighting individually across distant locations, they weren’t.
Broadly speaking, they were positioned in a formation that placed the Allied Team in the center for protection.
‘This is unknowable. As long as I’m viewing from a first-person perspective.’
Cheese would remain oblivious and suffer the consequences.
Tottia was now certain of victory.
‘The only variable is….’
He stared at the list of banned Avatars blocked by bans.
[Arcane Archer – Reina]
[Frost Archer – Leon]
[Cautious Hunter – Sori]
.
.
.
The rest were the usual overpowered Avatars that got banned.
What was peculiar were those three above.
They were snipe bans targeting specific players.
Specifically, bans designed to counter the Player Almond.
When I first drafted bans like this, there was considerable noise.
「While ADC-type characters are certainly important in Survival Mode, isn’t hitting three bans like that overkill?」
「Those Avatars are honestly meaningless unless it’s just one specific person using them.」
「We need to counter other players’ picks too. It’s not just about Almond.」
「If you’re going to do it, do it all. Why not Sana?」
We had to counter other overpowered Avatars as well.
It wasn’t just Almond who excelled—Mosol, Danmuji, and even the Agricultural Cooperative’s Valkyrie were troublesome picks.
And so on….
‘But there’s no helping it.’
However, after reviewing the Team B first match multiple times, Tottia had come to understand.
‘In Survival Mode, once you die, it’s over.’
Given this mode’s characteristic where the game ends if the entire team dies, a variable with combat abilities closer to a god than other intelligent Challengers was far more frightening.
Especially, look at the first match.
Their radio strategy certainly played a significant role, but in the crucial early engagement, Almond acted as far too great a variable.
Had it not been for him, that engagement would have been Paprika’s victory, and if that had happened, the radio strategy or whatever—Paprika might have seized the advantage for the entire game.
In other words, the greatest variable in the first match wasn’t the radio strategy but Almond’s combat prowess.
‘But everyone got so caught up in the radio strategy that they forgot about Almond’s combat ability.’
The radio strategy had been such a bizarre and outlandish tactic.
Bizarre enough to make people forget the ace of the most crucial engagement.
So even Tottia took some time to identify the real cause.
I had to review it multiple times.
And this was the decision I made.
‘Reina goes without saying—she’s banned. Sori, once she gets a kill, becomes utterly unable to stop Almond’s explosive combat power. And Frost Archer Leon displays far too exceptional performance in split engagements….’
All three bans had their reasons.
They’d eliminated every variable from the engagement.
They’d excluded from the ban picks like Sana, who was a healer by nature, the Rubisword that was too weak early on, and Ran, whose mobility was severely lacking.
Tottia thought to himself that it was a very appropriate choice.
The enemy was essentially crippled, all limbs severed.
In such a situation─
“Ohhh! I see what’s happening now—they’re catching the Turtle!”
“Go in! Go iiiiin!”
“Nice! The Knight Order is done for!?”
It was precisely the moment of engagement with the Knight Order.
“Ah! Mosol made a mistake! Wow!”
Mosol had failed to manage the Red Turtle’s aggro at a critical moment.
Boom!
All the Coaches jumped to their feet.
“Kill them! Kiiiill!”
If they ended the Knight Order here, Team B’s victory would truly belong to Paprika.
‘Let’s see what they do now.’
I’d created the optimal situation.
Now I had to see how the opponent would respond.

* * *
Meanwhile, Takoyaki, the Coach of Motmotmot.
“Oh no, Gichan…!”
He squeezed his eyes shut at Mosol’s mistake.
If someone who’d never made a mistake before made one here, that’s all people would remember.
Considering his personality, it might become a deep emotional wound.
But then─
[“…I will make up for it. Daegam.”]
“…H-he’s alive!”
All the Coaches from Cheese’s team jumped to their feet.
-Gasp
-No way
-Wow
-2% kekekeke
“Stamina is messed up lol, I’ll die if I even get grazed?”
-He was alive with that health
Everyone had thought he was dead.
“H-how did he survive!?”
After the Red Turtle’s grab, there’s a downward strike motion.
When striking down, he’d climbed onto a rock, so he didn’t take the next attack that was supposed to hit him inevitably.
In short, it was luck.
When fortune smiles upon you, you must seize it properly to climb to greater heights.
“Wha—!?”
“Hey!!”
Rather than turning and fleeing to regroup, Mosol charged directly at Red Turtle once more.
“…You’re going after the Turtle!?”
“This is the right call.”
Takoyaki said.
“This is all we have…!”
Goguma was being pummeled relentlessly by four enemy dealers, while Danmuji and Hong-cha were still far away.
Lemon was dead, and Almond had to fight the enemy’s Contractor, the ‘Great Stone Colossus – Kutan’.
But was the other team’s situation any better? No, it wasn’t.
‘Mosol knows this.’
He was a Challenger.
His judgment was equally sharp.
He seemed to have already sensed that Paprika held a far greater advantage.
Thud—
Mosol’s feet struck the ground, and he slashed at Red Turtle once more.
A fierce determination blazed in his eyes—he would not let even the smallest attack connect.
Whoooosh!

* * *
“Aaaah! Mosol!? He’s charging in again!?”
“His fighting spirit is insane!”
The Commentators were all shocked.
While charging in again might be strategically sound from a macro perspective, it was a decision nearly impossible for an individual to make.
When stamina is depleted like that, fleeing is human instinct.
“He’s a Challenger for a reason!”
lol
-Wow
-How is he—
-Whoa!
Whoooosh!
Mosol’s blade swept past the outer edge of Red Turtle.
“How is he not getting hit!?”
Red Turtle’s attacks were remarkably fast.
A Player in Minion state, not even a Contractor, had no business dodging.
Unless he got lucky like before and bounced off a rock to evade.
But then—
“Huh!?”
Red Turtle launched a ranged attack for some reason.
Roooaaarrr!
A torrent of flame erupted from his maw, transforming the entire path ahead into a sea of fire.
Powerful, certainly, but with considerable delay and entirely avoidable—a typical skill-pattern attack.
“This… this can be dodged!? Just like avoiding floor attacks in RPG games!”
As if Mosol had anticipated this pattern, he took a light step and slid gracefully to the side.
Then he struck the Turtle again.
Slash!
[Red Turtle]
[Health 3%]
The Turtle’s health had already plummeted to 3%.
Significant damage dealt, but Mosol alone needed a few more hits to finish it.
Even at 3%, the absolute amount of health remaining was considerable.
That’s when it happened.
Thunk!
Almond’s arrow, fired while he was being pummeled by Kutan, found its mark.
“Ahhh! Almond! The arrow…!”
The Commentators didn’t even have time to speak—a fleeting instant.
All sound stretched out muffled, as if time itself was slowly grinding to a halt.
“…This! This… is…!”
Slash!
Slash!
Mosol canceled the delay and unleashed a barrage of consecutive basic attacks.
‘Just one more hit.’
Almond nocked another arrow.
Kutan was pounding away beside him, the Turtle’s health already nearly depleted.
[Foolish Youth]
[Health 19%]
He had aimed solely at the Red Turtle’s head until the very end.
His bowstring remained perfectly steady as the arrow left the string.
The arrow flew true and struck its target without wavering.
“!”
Some of the Cheese faction’s audience members rose from their seats, shifting excitedly.
Thunk!
[Red Turtle]
[Health 0.2%]
Almond’s arrow had left the Turtle with barely a sliver of health remaining.
“Mo, Mosol…!”
Everything held its breath in that suspended moment.
The Red Turtle abandoned its skill pattern and switched to basic attacks, charging at Mosol with a headbutt.
“I… I can’t dodge this…!”
I can’t dodge it.
This wasn’t a pattern I could evade.
Not without a skill like a Contractor’s.
‘I have one.’
But Mosol had been waiting for exactly this moment to use it.
[Charge Slash]
The only skill embedded in my sword.
Whoosh, whoooosh!
Adding one more basic attack before it, my body shot forward in a straight line.
Just like I’d become one of Almond’s arrows.
“!”
I didn’t have eyes in the back of my head, yet I felt it.
No—I saw it.
Turtle collapsing.
“Yesssssssssss!!”
[Level Up!]
[Lv. 2 → Lv. 3]
With the level up, Mosol recovered some health.
Our eyes met with Almond’s for an instant.
Almond was far away.
I couldn’t separate myself from Kutan on my own.
Besides, all the core picks from the early game were banned.
‘I’ll… handle it.’
‘Right.’
Whooooom!
Mosol’s hand touched the Rune box, and I initiated the contract.
Three cards spread open.
“!”
Mosol was taken aback.
There was only one pick worth using here.
[Shadowless Swordsman – Yul]
It wasn’t planned.
But I chose the pick that could show the highest peak.
‘Yul? Am I insane? If I mess up here, it’s a troll. Gic…!’
‘Hmph. I know. Chan. Trust me and leave it to me.’
Uncertainty and confidence mixed within my heart.
Shing…!
Still, the blade was drawn.
‘Then I’ll have to cut through Mura too.’
Mosol’s eyes gleamed as he charged forward.

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