Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 150

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 150
52. A Long Story (1)
Her entire body was bound.
Grrrriiiiick….
Binding rope tightening fiercely around her neck.
“Gack…! Hack!”
Yuria’s eyes gradually turned white.
She was losing consciousness.
“She’s being eaten! She’s being devoured!”
Reina screamed.
Though the Divine Avatar’s protection dwelled within her, this absolutely did not mean immortality.
A Contractor dies without the Sanctum’s blessing.
The Divine Avatar’s protection and the Sanctum’s blessing—these two combined created an immortal demigod Contractor.
“If even one is absent….”
This time, Reina grabbed the rope directly and pulled with even greater force.
“You all die too!”
Crrrack…!
Her rope pulled taut, and Yuria’s thrashing became even more frantic.
No matter how much she’d endured, Yuria was an archer. Her arm strength could crush a single Minion.
She bared her beautiful lips in a snarl.
“These… things….”
Crackle!
White light gathered once more into her hands.
Whoosh!
Her hand, bound by the rope, slipped free.
The binding had been positioned too far down on her lower body.
“The hands! Bind the hands! Her feet are loose!”
“Damn it, it won’t come undone!”
The binding rope, interlocked with hooks and tied tight, would never come loose on its own.
Yuria’s hand grasped the rope choking her neck.
“You all… are dead… no, you won’t even die cleanly──”
That was the moment.
Whoosh!
With the sound of wind splitting, Yuria’s left hand was flicked away.
Thud!
It was Almond’s arrow.
“I won’t let you do as you please.”
With those words, two more arrows flew. One straight at her forehead, one at her right hand.
Thwack!
Her right hand was flicked backward. Then the rope tightened around Yuria’s neck once more.
“Cough…! You… you…!”
Yuria strained her eyes desperately, but the halo around her dimmed significantly. The divine protection of the incarnation was fading.
‘I’ve seized victory.’
I drove every arrow from my quiver into the ground.
Now that I had the upper hand, I needed to pour everything into this until the end.
“Ah, Almond! Here!”
The other Minions, Holly and Julia, planted their arrows before me as well.
Normally they would shoot themselves, but having witnessed my skill firsthand, they judged this to be more effective.
My right hand answered their gratitude instead.
Click.
Four arrows were already nocked in my fingers, and they immediately transferred to the bowstring.
“Hgh…ack! Hik!”
Yuria made sounds like a cornered beast, trying to loosen the rope strangling her neck, but the arrows had already been released.
My arrows struck with perfect precision, knocking both of Yuria’s hands away again.
Thwack!
Yuria’s arms drooped limply once more.
“Grrgh…!”
Yet again Yuria tried to grasp the rope, and I continued to knock her hands away.
The speed at which I fired in rapid succession to separate her hands from the rope exceeded the speed at which she moved them toward it.
As this predictable exchange repeated, Yuria’s complexion turned blue.
Oxygen would soon become scarce.
After all, they were humans who breathed.
Even while firing in rapid succession, I didn’t forget to plant arrows one by one into vital points—her face, her solar plexus.
Thwack-thwack-thwack!
Thwang!
The halo faded further still.
“Hiiik… hgh…!”
Sensing something, Yuria twisted her body, radiating light from every pore as if this were her last moment.
“K-kill! I’ll kill you all!!!!”
Yuria’s eyes glared at me as if she could devour me whole.
However──
My arrows simply flew straight into those beautiful eyes.
Boom!
A blue explosion erupted in one eye.
Thud!
“!”
An arrow pierced the other.
Bright red blood sprayed stickily from Yuria’s left eye.
“Grrr, grraaaaaahhhhh!!!”
A horrific scream echoed through the air.
“Wh—!?”
“D-did it pierce through?”
“The divine blessing…!”
“E-even the Contractor… is b-bleeding!”
The children murmured in bewilderment, yet their hands never loosened their grip on the rope they were pulling with all their strength.
Even if they let their guard down, the terror of the Contractor carved into their very bodies would not.
“Don’t let go!!”
“Pull harder! She’s almost dead!”
“Cut down any that aren’t restrained! Or use shuriken!”
The excited shouts of the children echoed from all directions.
Julia and Holly, who weren’t assigned to restraint duty, rushed forward swiftly.
This was their task.
“Y-Yuria… die!”
“You deceived us!”
From their eyes filled with resentment flowed sorrow rather than rage.
Yet their blades were suffused with more than enough killing intent.
Squelch!
Thud!
Two blades crossed and tore through Yuria’s abdomen.
A torrent of blood sprayed across their faces. The pale skin of the children became smeared with crimson.
It drove them into greater frenzy.
“How many times have we died!? What are you!?”
“You killed me so many times! Yuria!!!”
They screamed as if they themselves were being pierced, driving blade after blade into her body.
They lacked the strength to pull out the blades already embedded, so they simply kept driving new ones in.
Like creating some grotesque work of art.
Squelch! Thud!
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Every piece of metal they carried was driven into Yuria’s pale, soft flesh.
Now there was not a single spot on her body that wasn’t red.
Yet Yuria’s stubborn breath still clung to life.
Her eyes still blazed with that characteristic white light.
But that too would not last.
Whoosh—
My form flashed past, and Yuria’s head flew from her shoulders.
I grasped both children by their shoulders without even glancing at her severed neck.
“Stop.”
The children, who had continued driving their blades even after her head was severed, froze.
“…Hah… hah… huff.”
“Ha… ha…”
Covered in tears and blood, I couldn’t contain my excitement as my body trembled.
It was impossible to tell whether I was crying or simply exhausted.
“Yuria is dead.”
According to Reina, the Contractors always stationed only one of themselves to guard that door.
She said they seemed to dislike remaining here during times when there was no battlefield.
‘Without the Sanctum’s light, that would make sense.’
When there was no battlefield, the Sanctum lost its radiance. Then the Contractors were no longer immortal.
Accustomed to immortality for so long, even with their tremendous power, they feared even the slightest danger, which is why only one of them ever guarded this place.
“It’s over. Let’s go now.”
With that single guardian eliminated, our escape was as good as successful.
“Hngh… hic…”
“Waaaahhh! Waaaaahhh!”
It was over. Time to leave.
At those words, the children began to cry.
“We don’t know for sure until we’re out. We can cry later.”
I lifted each of them up one by one. My main mission was to get Reina out, but somehow I’d grown attached to these kids too.
The children sniffled as they took my hand and stood up.
Pitter-patter.
I heard the sound of a blonde girl running toward me from a distance.
“Almond!”
She immediately embraced me.
Reina’s face was also streaked with tears.
“I… I never thought it would actually work…”
The moment I felt Reina’s warmth, I understood what that strange sound brushing past my mind had been.
“Reina.”
“…Yes?”
When I met her glistening eyes, I understood it more completely.
“Damian.”
That was my surname.
“That’s my last name. I just remembered it now.”
Reina repeated the name once more, savoring it.
“Damian.”
She smiled brightly.
“It’s a good name.”
“Let’s go now.”
Reina nodded vigorously.
Both of our gazes turned toward the door at the same time. There was no one guarding it.
Only white light welcomed us.
[Rubisword donated 100,000 won!]
[I-Is this really the end!? Congratulations!]
[Dobi has donated 10,000 won!]
[Wow!! Almond!! You absolute madman!]
[Daehyeop has donated 10,000 won!]
[Even though I hate Almond for taking Reina away as a Contractor, I watched this with tears streaming down my face… sniff…]
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.
.
Donations poured in relentlessly.
I hadn’t been watching the chat, but unlike messages, donations display on screen regardless.
Most of them were congratulations for clearing the stage.
However, contrary to their expectations, the story didn’t end like this.
Boom…!
A heavy thunderous sound erupted from the direction of the door.
A massive, imposing black silhouette let out a roar.
“Quite the commotion you’ve caused here, my friends!”
It was Bart, the iron giant.
A sickly pallor of terror spread across the Minions’ faces.
We’d already used up all the binding ropes. There was no time to untie what was bound to Yuria.
“Why don’t you play with me now? Huh?”
He spoke in a playful tone, but everyone could sense it.
The rage seething beneath his voice.
I pushed Reina’s back.
“Go now!!!”
I had made my decision.
“Run! I’ll buy us time!”
Reina stared at me with wide eyes in disbelief.
“What… what?!”
She seemed about to cry out that this made no sense…
But the moment Reina saw what I was holding, she fell silent.
“Go. Don’t waste my life.”
I was holding Yuria’s bow.
No one but a Contractor could even touch it.
Crackle crackle crackle…!
White light began gathering in my hands, impossibly.
[Mana: 300]
[Something feels like it’s about to happen.]
After killing Yuria.
An enormous amount of mana had accumulated within me.
‘Killing a Contractor is the fastest path to becoming one.’
Killing a Minion only raised it by one, but…
Killing a Contractor nets 300 points.
And by the feel of it, the Incarnation was responding.
It seemed I had become something akin to a Contractor myself.
“Go! Reina! Please! Are you going to let them kill all the children!? Mott is dead too!”
Reina and I locked eyes once more.
Reina’s beautiful face contorted completely as she wept. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she dragged the fallen children toward her.
One by one, they began running toward the door, following Reina.
“Huh? You think that’ll work? Minion──!”
Bart snarled and charged forward.
Crash!!
The ground beneath his feet shattered into soil. He was moving at such tremendous speed.
I drew back my bowstring.
‘I have to land this in one shot.’
Almost simultaneously with the draw, my hand released the string with ghostly silence.
Whoosh──
My arrow flew.
The arrow that once belonged to Yuria.
It intercepted Bart as he rushed toward the children, driving directly into him.
Boom!!
Bart’s body was sent flying far back.
White light engulfed everything.
[Loading…]
At that moment, the game ended.
-???
-Did we make it?
-What about Almond?
-Whoa! Did we actually do it!?
-But he died, so how did we clear it?
-Wow… what is this? A retry?
My fate remained unknown.
But the objective had been achieved.
[Escape Reina from this Battlefield!-Complete]
The goal was to get Reina out of here.
I was not included in that.
[Achievement ★★★]
The brilliant white light gradually faded, revealing the figure of a blonde woman sitting on a tree stump.
It was Reina, now grown into an adult.
“Talking about it all, it took quite a while.”
As she gazed down at the blue bow Damian with a sad smile, the image of young Reina overlapped with her face.
[Story Mode Complete]

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[Beginner’s Tip: The battlefield where you operate follows ‘sound regulations,’ so please use it with confidence.]

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