Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 142

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 142
49. Minions (3)
Thunk!
My arrow struck the enemy minion’s head.
Unlike the actual Ril, there didn’t seem to be a “health bar” here.
Thud.
When an arrow hit the head, it simply died.
A thrill ran through my fingertips as I released the bowstring.
It was a sense of reality I hadn’t felt in a while.
-Whoa! A headshot right from the first shot!
-It’s been a while since we’ve seen such a clean headshot. Why don’t you return to Battle Rage right now?
-But wait, it has a story, it’s a solo game, and you’re drawing a bow—what’s different from Kingdom?! Come back to Kingdom.
-WHO’s List of Class 1 Deadly Toxic Substances: Almond’s arrows.
The viewers were delighted to see a headshot after so long.
However, the children running alongside me had their eyes wide open.
“…!”
“What, what is it?”
“Did we just… shoot that?”
The fact that a single shot killed a minion so far away was remarkable to them.
‘Huh…?’
Meanwhile, I was fascinated for a different reason.
Whoooosh…!
As I killed the enemy minion, something like a blue aura settled within me.
‘Mana?’
It certainly felt like mana.
Sure enough, this text appeared.
[Mana 1 Acquired]
[A mysterious power is felt.]
[It seems insufficient to perform any magical acts yet.]
Here, killing minions granted mana instead of gold.
If I accumulated it, I could grow stronger. Based on the description, gathering mana one by one might allow me to obtain enough mana to use magic.
Or perhaps become a contractor.
‘It seems like becoming a contractor.’
Magic aside, accumulating a lot of this mana seemed to lead to becoming a contractor.
That was the atmosphere.
These young children were eager to kill their opponents, shouting “I’m going to become a contractor!” and Reina had rushed forward to the front line.
They all seemed to want to become contractors.
By killing as many enemy minions as possible.
“Our archer is better!”
“Kill them all!”
“Charge!!!”
“Roooaaarrr!”
Despite killing only a single opponent—whether it was the headshot that pierced through their helmet, or the enemy’s arrows falling uselessly elsewhere—my allies’ morale surged dramatically.
Thump-thump-thump-thump…!
Every child belonging to the eighth row began charging forward.
The enemy minions charged as well.
A number so vast the earth trembled collided at the center of the lane.
Boom!
Clang!
Thwack!
Fists pummeled, spears thrust, and there were even cases where allies accidentally slashed each other’s heads with blades.
It was absolute chaos.
Allies and enemies tangled together, rolling about indiscriminately.
“Gahhhhh!”
“Ugh!”
“Roooaaarrr!”
The only way to distinguish friend from foe was the color of the cloaks draped over their shoulders.
The enemy wore red, while my allies wore blue.
Though even those were torn to shreds in an instant.
Regardless, I had to draw my bow based on that.
I held four arrows in my hand grip.
In a flash, one arrow nocked onto the bowstring, and with a snap!
The sound of air being torn echoed as the arrow flew.
Thunk!
“Ugh!”
The arrow, flying through the midst of countless allies, pierced through an enemy’s forehead.
Mana flowed in once more.
I immediately drew my bow again.
Thunk!
Another minion fell as expected.
Then the next arrow.
Thunk! Thunk!
They struck precisely into the minions’ foreheads as they collapsed.
“Hah…”
As if venting my frustration from the filming location where I couldn’t shoot properly, I continued firing arrows in succession.
As if it were their destined fate, the arrows began sweeping through the minions.
“Wow…”
The other archer beside me gazed over with envy.
“Hey, who are you? I haven’t seen you before today.”
Focused on my shooting, I answered casually.
“Almond.”
-Crisp… straightforward!
-“Bow”
-Brother, these people don’t know what Almond is!
-What is that!
The archer’s eyes gleamed, unbothered by Almond’s terse reply.
“So your name is Almond. Impressive.”
-Almond, his name is impressive!
-His name is impressive lol
-It is pretty impressive that Almond is his name lol
The boy hadn’t meant to say his name was impressive, but the viewers deliberately misinterpreted it that way and teased him relentlessly.
“I’m Theo.”
The boy introduced himself as Theo, but Almond didn’t hear him. My entire focus was consumed by shooting arrows.
The bowstring thrummed frantically, and the arrows in my quiver dwindled steadily. Then, when the quiver finally emptied.
The enemy stronghold had become nearly devoid of minions.
[Current Mana: 20]
[Still too meager a number to accomplish anything.]
Out of thirty minions, I had slaughtered twenty in an instant. The accuracy was astounding. My allies gasped in amazement.
“Did… did they all die?”
“An entire wave… wiped out…!”
Even amid the commotion, I calmly collected the fallen arrows.
If this were like Ril’s siege, the next wave of minions would inevitably arrive. I needed to replenish my arrows before then.
‘Not many left.’
But among the fallen arrows, not a single one was intact.
“Hey. You. Was it Theo?”
“Uh… huh? Yeah. That’s right. I’m Theo.”
“Give me some of your arrows.”
“What? But I barely have any left… if I give you these…”
“You can’t even shoot properly anyway. It’s better if I do it.”
-Lmao that’s harsh
-That’s too much lol
-But he’s not wrong lol
Theo hesitated for a moment, then seeming convinced, handed over his entire quiver.
“Make them count.”
I didn’t respond, simply strapping the quiver to my back. The next wave of minions was approaching.
I drew my bow again and aimed at the enemy minions, then began plucking the bowstring. In moments, the arrows vanished from the quiver, and the enemy forces vanished with them.
“Wow… wow…”
While Theo stood slack-jawed in amazement, a resonant voice struck the back of my head like a physical blow.
“Hey!!! That minion over there!!! Incredible!!!”
Perhaps this was what it felt like to be struck by sound itself.
When I turned around, a figure far larger than an ordinary person appeared. The soft, luminous aura surrounding him marked him as a Contractor. It was the same one I’d seen during the earlier march.
“…A Contractor?”
Smack.
This time, it wasn’t a sound—I actually felt a hand strike the back of my head.
“Haha!! As arrogant as you are skilled! It’s Contractor ‘sir’, sir!”
“C-Contractor sir.”
“That’s right! Minion. Good work. Now destroy that Watchtower!!! I’m charging in too!!!”
Boom──
The Contractor kicked off the ground and launched forward. Transformed into blazing light, he hurled his entire body at the enemy Watchtower.
Crash!!!
His technique was as loud and spectacular as his voice.
-It’s Bart!
-Iron Bart lol
-Such a manly character lol same as always lol
So this Contractor’s legend is a fellow called Iron Bart.
“What are you doing!!! Charge! Destroy that Watchtower!!!”
Bart grappled with the Watchtower with his entire body while barking orders at the Minions.
In the game, Minions take the Watchtower’s hits instead, but here it seems Contractors do the same.
Zzzzzzzt!
The magical energy blasts from the Watchtower hammered Bart’s body like a welding torch, yet he remained unscathed. Whatever technique he was using, it was working perfectly.
“Let’s go too!”
“Charge!”
“Destroy it!”
When it came to Watchtowers, they were the sworn enemies of Minions. How many of our Colleagues had fallen to this tower? Our Minions roared and surged forward.
Spears and swords stabbed and slashed at the Watchtower. Normally, such attacks couldn’t possibly topple a building, but this Watchtower in this game world began to crack and crumble.
Finally, with a deafening sound, it collapsed into rubble.
Rumble rumble rumble…!
“Excellent!!!”
Bart shouted and planted a flag where the enemy Watchtower had been.
“Waaaaaaaa!!!”
All the Minions screamed.
As if it were over.
“We made it! We survived!”
In a real siege, the battle would continue until we destroyed the second Watchtower and brought down the Sanctum, but on this Battlefield, combat seemed to end here. It appeared they’d designed it with realism in mind.
“…Almond! Almond! Almond!”
Suddenly, a young boy began chanting his name. It was the same one who’d told me earlier.
“Almond?”
“What’s that?”
As the other Minions murmured in confusion, the boy shouted again.
“That’s this guy’s name! Almond!”
Only then did all the minions cry out.
“That archer just wiped out almost all the enemies! With a bow!”
“Ah! So that was you?”
“Wooow!”
“Almond! Almond! Almond!”
“Almond! Almond!”
The viewers caught the fever and flooded the chat.
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
Hahaha those minions are no different from us hahaha
Lol the troops on the battlefield
-Mom, when I grow up I wanna be Almond! Mom, when I grow up I wanna be Almond! Mom, when I grow up I wanna be Almond!
-Nut Association’s Strongest Nut: Almond Nut Association’s Strongest Nut: Almond Nut Association’s Strongest Nut: Almond
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Receiving embarrassingly enthusiastic cheers from both sides, the first battle wrapped up. Faster than expected.
[Time passes.]
The scene shifted in an instant, and before I knew it, I was sitting in that warehouse-like place again.
“Oh. What? You were alive?”
I heard Reina’s voice. Sure enough, she was alive. Despite being in the front line.
“You were in the front line too. How did you survive? I couldn’t even see you.”
“I went to the top lane. You were in the eighth position, so you probably went mid.”
It seemed they didn’t all advance down the same lane, but alternated their attacks. That’s why I couldn’t see Reina.
“Even if you went to the top lane, the situation was the same. How did you survive?”
“Just well.”
That kid is really a kid, lol
Look at you talking ㅋㅋㅋ
Haha, that’s hilarious!
-This little brat needs some old-fashioned discipline, hyung.
“And how did you survive? You couldn’t even move bodies properly.”
“I did well too.”
To Reina, who was acting like a child, I responded in kind. After all, in this game I was a boy. Playing the part faithfully gave the viewers entertainment value.
Hahahaha
-Almond, peak child acting!
-Why is ??? a kid?
-Goo goo! I’m baby Almond!
-Almond. When did you become a peanut?
A snort.
Reina’s lips curved into a sneer.
“Obviously you just hid in the back and did nothing?”
“Do you really think I’d tell you just because you provoked me like that?”
“….”
When Almond didn’t take the bait, Reina furrowed her brow.
“Of course you won’t tell me. You were probably hiding in the back, shooting arrows everywhere, just trying to save your own skin.”
“Yeah. I’m not telling you.”
Hahahahahaha
No, is that kid’s acting real? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Almond! This is acting, right!? I can’t tell the difference!
-Immersion level 200%
-His avatar looks like a middle schooler at least. Why is he acting like an elementary schooler!
“I….”
Reina’s cheeks flushed red. I couldn’t tell if it was from anger or embarrassment at being caught in her own scheme.
“Anyway, I can just ask the other kids and find out soon enough.”
With that, Reina spun around and walked away.
Ask the other kids? That was exactly what I wanted.
I already knew exactly what each of the children in the eighth row would say when Reina questioned them.
“Oh, Almond? He was the greatest archer I’ve ever seen in my entire life….”
“Almond today was totally like Yuria!”
“Almond? Today was insane! He cleared two entire waves of enemy minions all by himself!?”
When Reina didn’t get the answer she wanted, her shoulders trembled.
“You… liar!”
Whether young or grown, she asked questions with a predetermined answer in mind—some things never change. Reina turned back around and strode toward me with determination.
“Tomorrow, you stand in the same row as me.
“Why?”
“Because we need to settle who’s better.”
She’s quite the stubborn one.
When I remained silent, Reina pressed on.
“Promise me.”
She held out her pinky finger. I thought it was a bit much, but I linked my pinky with hers and accepted. Only then did Reina turn away and disappear back toward the campfire.
-Does it usually progress like this?
It seems like it’s a route that only opens if you shoot the bow better than Reyna lol
-Wow, a pinky promise with Reina…! I’m jealous!
This kind of development doesn’t usually happen. I felt good about making that promise. New routes and developments always make the broadcast more exciting.
‘If I just clear the three-star difficulty well, it’ll be a success.’
The story mode’s flow was good for broadcasting. Now if I just focused on clearing three stars, the Ollytube video should turn out properly. While I was thinking that.
[Time passes.]
The scene changed.
“Minions!!! Charge forward!!”
Battle commenced again.
As promised, I rushed onto the battlefield right beside Reina. This time, we were both in the front row. And the enemy’s watchtower didn’t have much health left.
How did Reina survive in the front lines in the first place? What was her reason? Why does this story mode even exist?
It seemed like several mysteries would be resolved this time.

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[Beginner’s Tip: In siege warfare, victory is achieved by destroying all enemy watchtowers and the sanctum.]

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