Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1307

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 192
59. Floating Danmuji (2)
Like all sports and competitions, the more you play, the more you feel your own limitations.
Those who refuse to believe that’s their ceiling push themselves harder.
But the more they strive, the more acutely they feel that very limit.
The time invested increases, yet the results remain the same.
Some say that if you can still push forward despite this, you reach a certain singularity.
‘Does such a thing even exist?’
Danmuji had never experienced it.
Among his peers, he was what they called a “natural talent.”
He was phenomenally good at the game from the start.
He didn’t know why.
After all, no one asks “why?” when one person is taller than another.
Danmuji was simply born that way.
Just like countless other professional gamers.
Remarkably, he possessed considerable talent even within the professional gaming scene.
He started as a trainee but quickly climbed to the first division.
In the first division, he rapidly entered the upper ranks and steadily climbed toward second place.
But that’s where the problem lay.
‘I can’t do it… Why? Why?’
He couldn’t reach first place.
At first, he thought it was because his opponent was better.
But something was odd.
When they met in unimportant matches, he’d easily win against them.
Yet in crucial matches, the opponent became completely different.
No, wait…
‘It’s me who can’t do it.’
Perhaps he was the one who changed.
This distinction was difficult to make.
Since the opponent in the finals was always strong, how could he not assume they were simply the better player?
During his active period, it wasn’t the era of Jeon-ja-pa, so the championship teams and players varied.
He acknowledged this limitation when his own candidate player surpassed him and won the championship.
‘I… I’m shaking.’
Only then could he admit it.
That when big matches came or crises arose, he couldn’t respond well.
‘I was a coward. I never thought it would be like this.’
And those who reached first place all either didn’t flinch in such situations or actually enjoyed them.
Danmuji was not like that.
He was the type who designed and redesigned games to prevent such crises from ever occurring.
But even reaching the quarterfinals of the main tournament, let alone the finals, rendered such tactics ineffective.

* * *
‘That’s right….’
Danmuji’s mind drifted to memories of the past for a moment.
The pressure of the current platform championship would be nothing compared to back then.
Still, the world had improved, and even the Streamers’ tournament felt incredibly immersive with the all-dive system.
“Wooooooow!”
“Cheese! Cheese! Cheese!”
“Knight Order, fighting!”
The cheers of the viewers reached my ears.
It felt almost like a professional tournament.
Of course, it was impossible for someone like Danmuji, a former pro, to feel any real pressure from this.
Danmuji was no longer that dreamy late-teenage boy from back then.
I had grown older.
Growing older meant learning to accept things quickly.
‘I’m the kind of guy who trembles in important matches… pathetically.’
Practice.
To survive, there was only practice.
By practicing and preparing for every possible situation, things always worked out somehow.
At least to second place.
But─
“If a Rune Box drops, give it to me. Then we’ll be first.”
This kind of thing had never happened in practice.
-?
-??
-Kekekekeke confident
-Wow
-Mond Ham, really?
-Isn’t Reina banned?
-Almond is 3-banned, can this work??
Even Danmuji’s viewers were skeptical.
It made sense to contract one more damage-tank position to enter with Mosol’s Yul and Goguma’s Iron Ball.
But Danmuji simply nodded.
“I’ll do as you say, older sister.”
Because I trusted Almond?
Half of it was that.
But there was another reason.
‘It’s better than trusting myself in a moment like this.’
I trusted myself less.

* * *
After that, the Knight Order continued their lonely battle.
Without any information, it was nothing but desperate survival.
“Hey, watch your footsteps.”
“Ah, yes….”
“If we’re discovered, we’re dead.”
They always crouched beneath the brush as they moved, and hunted monsters by dragging them to the safest possible locations.
“Huff… gasp….”
Lemon and Goguma mostly handled the task of dragging monsters over.
This was harder than expected.
They were exhausted after every single monster hunt.
“Finally level 4!”
Danmuji exclaimed.
“Now that we’re level 4, let’s go for the sea anemone! A Rune Box will drop here! Let’s go!”
They headed out to hunt the Abyss Sea Anemone, a level 5 monster.
[Abyss Sea Anemone Lv. 5]
The sea anemone didn’t move—it was fixed in place.
Normally, this was an advantage that made hunting easier.
‘But right now, this is a bit dangerous.’
For the Knight Order’s current situation of secretly hunting prey by dragging it toward the brush, it wasn’t ideal.
We had to finish it as quickly as possible.
“Alright, burst damage, fast!”
Boom boom boom!
Though we were only level 4, with two Contractors and seven members total, we could eliminate them one by one in no time.
‘Ah.’
Danmuji glanced toward a certain direction.
Rustle—
When looking at distant places, didn’t furrowing your brow help you see better?
Danmuji always saw well.
“Enemies!”
So it was Danmuji who spotted the enemies appearing.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Whether it was the roar of the audience or the sheer number of enemies reverberating through the air, I couldn’t tell.
Most of the Knight Order members were seized with terror.
“S-should we fall back!? We don’t even know how many are coming.”
Especially Goguma, who had been tanking at the front, was instinctively desperate to retreat.
“Just shoot them dead!”
Almond shouted with conviction.
If we just took this down, the Rune Box would drop, and then we’d be first place.
This was fixed firmly in my mind.
“Then… I’ll sacrifice myself, Daegam.”
Jello stepped forward.
‘I’ll go collect the loot.’
But Almond shouted even louder.
“No way! You need to save Mosol, Jello!”
“?”
Only then did Jello understand.
‘This is servitude.’
A servant didn’t get to choose whether to die first or rush forward first.
It was entirely up to the master’s whim.
-He has to die and collect loot kekekeke
-kekekeke Mosol’s substitute kekeke
-Can’t even die when he wants to keke
This is the life of a slave ㅜㅜ
-How’s a servant supposed to clock out early~
That’s when it happened.
Boom!
The sea anemone exploded, sending fragments scattering in all directions.
“Ju, it’s dead!”
Where the sea anemone’s corpse lay, a glittering Rune Box emerged.
Almond sprinted forward without hesitation.
‘Come on. Come on.’
Survival matches involved considerable luck.
When you obtained a Rune Box, exactly three cards appeared, and you had to choose from them.
Once you opened these three cards and then opened another Rune Box, those three cards didn’t change.
No take-backs.
The fate of this round depended on these three cards.
“Kill that thing!”
“Contract Almond! Kill it!”
Those trying to prevent that fate.
“Protect it!”
Those trying to defend it.
“Damn it, I’ll block with my body, sir!”
Jello, desperate to end his own fate.
-He keeps trying to die whenever he gets a chance kekekekeke
-kekekekekekekeke
-You’re supposed to stay alive and save Mosol lmao kekeke
-kekekeke lol kekeke
As they tangled together, fate swirled like a whirlwind.
Whoooosh!
Three cards materialized before Almond.
‘It will come.’
Of course, this was purely a matter of luck.
But I was certain the card I wanted would appear.
Why?
Because all the cards with higher affinity had already been banned.
[Pure White Sniper – Ran]
The first card was Ran. A familiar one.
But I couldn’t use it here.
If I could chain stable team fights like in siege warfare, Ran would be a good card, but in survival matches, formations crumble more often than not.
Because enemies surround you from all sides.
A card that can only perform in the rear like this is difficult to utilize.
The next card was unfamiliar.
[Poison Fang Bunny – Jackie]
Perhaps if I handled it well, it could be suitable for survival matches.
Hiding in bushes, setting traps, and launching tiny poison darts that are hard for enemies to detect—a despicable incarnation for ranged assassination.
The problem was my proficiency with it.
I had barely ever played Poison Fang Bunny.
Though I once did shop picks in tournaments, the current situation wasn’t so forgiving.
Shop picks required me to use incarnations wielding bows, not ones like this.
And—
‘There it is.’
My eyes gleamed.
[Light’s Melody – Sana]
It appeared.
The pick I wanted.
-Gasp
-Oh
-Is it really this??
-Huh?
-The legendary Shiba combo kkk
-We’re done for
-Wow
-Scary
-Sayul combo kekekeke

* * *
Danmuji desperately protected Almond.
“Defend! I don’t know what’s happening, but just defend!”
-Kekekekekekeke
-Have you given up now, Teacher Dan…
-Kekekek I don’t know what it is kekekek
-If Almond wins, then he wins~
The positioning of the fight wasn’t favorable.
Weren’t the enemies rushing in while we were still dealing with the anemone?
I had no choice but to block them with my body, and in the process, there was bleeding.
Naturally, Goguma died again.
[Ally has been defeated!]
[Gamtwe → Goguma]
“Ahahaha! I finally found you! Knight Order!”
It was Gamtwe.
He was famous as a fighting game streamer, and Ril was quite skilled too.
Danmuji also had some acquaintance with the streamer.
But Gamtwe had no interest in Danmuji whatsoever.
“Almond! You’re mine!!”
-?
-??
-Lol is Gamtwe that guy?
-Revenge from when…
-Why does Almond have so many enemies? lol
He seemed to have a personal grudge against Almond.
Danmuji’s gaze naturally turned toward Almond.
‘What contract did Mond use…… huh?’
Whoooosh!
Almond had contracted.
‘Sana?’
It was Sana.
Sana guarantees first place?
Did that even make sense?
Sana wasn’t that kind of extreme carry pick.
Not like Reina or Sori.
‘Why on earth?’
Danmuji’s eyes rolled for a moment.
‘…Wait?’
And then I saw a swordsman tearing through the enemy lines ahead.
“For the Daegam!!”
It was Yul.
‘Ah. The Sayul combination…!?’
That was it.
Almond had drawn up the Sayul combination.
Originally, the Sayul combination had been shelved due to Sana’s light arrow nerf.
But as shown in the Nant match, if it were Almond, he could resurrect the overpowered Sayul from those bygone days.
Especially since Mosol excelled so well at agile incarnations like Yul, it might shine even brighter than when he coordinated with Taco.
But….
‘We never practiced it at all, did we?’
Wasn’t the Sayul combination all about their synergy with each other?
This was a pairing that hadn’t been discussed even once until the match started today, let alone practiced.
To begin with, the Knight Order hadn’t even considered Yul as a card option.
Mosol had hastily pulled it out on a whim.
Seeing that, Almond seemed to have thought of Sayul.
‘Will this… even work?’
Danmuji couldn’t easily believe this plan would function.
There was a very critical problem before even considering practice.
They’d been together so much that even Danmuji had almost forgotten.
‘Huh?!’
Mosol and Almond were on different teams.
“W-wait, Older Sister! You can’t shoot!!”

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