Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 159

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 159
56. Preparations Begin (2)
15,000 viewers.
This was a record.
Considering it was only 5 PM—an awkward time of day—there was potential for the numbers to reach 20,000.
‘They’re probably curious about the tournament.’
Whenever an issue arose, viewers would flood in at the start of my broadcast like this, then leave en masse after getting the answers they wanted.
Sure enough, donations started pouring in from the very beginning.
[MaliciousDataCouncil donated 10,000 won!]
[Wait, your only real Achievement is stealing Reina’s first kiss—how are you even entering the tournament!?]
[Arrogance donated 5,000 won.]
[Are you really participating in the tournament??]
[Rubisword donated 10,000 won!]
[Wow, the tournament! This is huge!]
Every donation was related to the tournament announcement.
“MaliciousDataCouncil, thank you. Achievement… yeah, that’s pretty much the same thing. Rubisword, thank you as well.”
-Yeah that’s definitely an Achievement lol
-Almond: Kissing Reina is definitely an Achievement.
-Not an Achievement, but everyone’s enemy. DM~!
[Geurae donated 10,000 won!]
[What’s your goal for this tournament!?]
“Well, the goal is naturally to win the tournament.”
-Kyaa~!
-That’s Almond for you
-That’s a walnut.
-That’s a peanut.
[Geurae donated 10,000 won!]
[By the way, Dotorimuk is participating this time. Can you beat him?]
“…Who’s Dotorimuk?”
-Lmaooooooooooo
-Bruh lol
-Did Geurae ask that to provoke the Knight?
-You don’t know Dotorimuk?
Dotorimuk was the most formidable retired pro currently active in the scene.
Since he’d only retired five months ago, he was practically still in his prime.
During his professional career, he’d demonstrated monstrous capabilities, making his team the clear favorite to win this tournament.
[Geurae donated 10,000 won!]
[The team with Dotorimuk!]
“Ah… I see.”
-Almond showing no interest.
-???: I don’t know about Dotorimuk, but I’m craving black bean noodles
-What are you going to do about the hype!
-Trash the tabloid reporters!!
“I’m not sure how skilled Dotorimuk is, but regardless, I just need to focus on my own practice. Well. Right now, reaching level 30 is the most important thing.”
-Your goal is to win the tournament but you’re grinding to level 30 lol
-lololol going to level 30 and talking about winning lol that’s hilarious
Day 1 of the gym: What if I become a muscle monster? ㅠㅠ
-So cute lololol
I expected the mocking chat.
Almond laughed it off lightly and continued speaking.
“Today I’m going to practice a new Avatar. I heard you need to know how to use multiple ones in the tournament. Now that I have quite a few coins, I can afford to buy one.”
-Ooooh
-Finally!
-You’re abandoning Reina?!
At the mention of practicing a new Avatar, the chat erupted into chaos.
‘With so many people, the chaos is even worse.’
-You’re abandoning Reina?!
-Wow, you’re crazy…
-Weren’t you supposed to take responsibility for Reina for life!? I’m putting this on the Namu Wiki controversy list!
-Bad guy Almond…
-You nut-loving bastard, you’re destroying Walnut!! Pick Reina right now!!!
-Ugh there are so many obsessed fans lololol
Do you already miss only Raina? ㅠㅠ
Almond unconsciously touched his lips, but then shook his head.
‘There’s no helping it.’
Reina is one of those Avatars with performance ratings at the very bottom.
Unfortunately, many said she was difficult to use in tournaments.
Juhyeok’s opinion was similar.
「You need to practice at least three more Avatars besides Reina. Even if they ban you three times, one should remain.」
What he told me after researching the tournament was that there’s something called a ‘Ban’ in tournaments.
It’s a system that prevents you from using a specific Avatar, he said.
This system exists to prevent high-performance Avatars from being repeatedly exploited.
If this ban is applied to Reina, neither our team nor the opposing team can use her.
In other words, even if you practice only Reina for ten thousand years and build up skills worthy of being called a Demon Lord, in the tournament you might be completely helpless with just one ‘ban.’
So-called ‘specialists’ who practice only one Avatar endlessly can’t perform in tournaments.
That’s the situation Almond is in right now.
Because he only has experience with Reina.
“I have to practice other Avatars. Otherwise my teammates will curse me out.”
Destroy everything with Reyna ㅠㅠ
-Was her first moment truly nothing to you?
-Golden Sun Shek….
-I need to practice. But Reina will remember this.
“So I’ll head to the shop now.”
The shop took the form of a library.
The owner managing it was a massive cat.
“Welcome! Contractor!”
“I came to look at some Avatars.”
“The Avatars are this way!”
As I entered where the cat pointed with its front paw, countless books were displayed.
They were all biographies inscribed with the legends of Avatars.
I just needed to open a book of an Avatar that caught my fancy.
However, checking each dust-covered book cover one by one made it impossible to identify what each book was.
Whoosh…!
As I drew closer, text conveniently materialized before me.
[Axe Berserker – Murat]
[Necromancer – Kuipan]
[Lightning Mage – Keizad]
I spotted several familiar names.
Reading a few lines of the legends related to them proved quite fascinating.
However, I already had a specific Avatar in mind to purchase.
“Where is Sana?”
I wanted to buy Sana.
‘There it is.’
[Sana – Melody of Light]
On the first page of the book was an illustration depicting Sana, and it was incomparably beautiful.
If Reina embodied human beauty, then Sana seemed like a being from an entirely different world.
Pristine white skin, silver hair, and mysterious crimson eyes. Instead of armor, she wore flowing white ceremonial robes that resembled an angel descended from the heavens.
It was no wonder she was called the Saint.
-Sana’s definitely the superior one
-Reina! Cut!
lol
Those shameless bastards lol, check out that sudden change in stance
-I prefer Reina! I prefer Reina!
The moment Sana’s illustration appeared on the broadcast screen, the chat erupted into chaos once more.
The Reina faction and the Sana faction split and began bickering.
Of course, no one was taking it seriously—they were just playfully squabbling for fun, so Almond didn’t pay it much mind.
“I’ll go with this one.”
“Oho? Sana?”
The cat’s expression became peculiar.
“Melody of Light. Sana. An excellent Avatar indeed. Truly excellent….”
A cat whose face was flushing red.
-What’s so great about that bastard?
-Performance? The performance?
Hahaha, the cat’s done for
-He was male? Seriously… My, my feelings are ruined!!!
“But do you have coins? Sana’s legend is quite expensive.”
[8,900 Coins Required]
[Current Coins: 20,000]
I had enough money.
“Yes. Please give it to me.”
“Hoo? A low-rank Contractor with that many coins? Well then─”
The cat held up a plump index finger.
“Sana is not some avatar who chases only coins. She loves peace.”
Suddenly confused by what this meant, Almond remained silent.
“Sana doesn’t want discord with other avatars. She’ll probably look at whether you have good relations with other avatars.”
The cat spoke while pushing its enormous face uncomfortably close.
“In other words! Your average intimacy level with the avatars must be high! Well….”
“?”
“For a low-rank Contractor like you, there’s nothing much to see. You’d be better off keeping another avatar in mind.”
The cat snickered and tapped one of its claws right on Almond’s head.
Whooom!
A blue light began to envelop him.
The amazing thing is done by the husband, but the cat is the one bragging about it lol
-Humans earn it and cats eat it.
Why is that bastard acting so full of himself?
-???: If it were the Kingdom, he couldn’t have said that….
“Your intimacy needs to be at least 50 for Sana to… huh?”
What he was looking at was obvious to Almond.
I had only one avatar─Reina.
Reina had long surpassed an intimacy of 50, crossing 100 and entering a new category called Trust.
“Y-you… you’re the first Contractor to achieve an Achievement!!”
Thud.
The cat jumped back in surprise.
Hahahahaha reaction king
-Finally figured it out, you bastard
-The cat finally realized Almond was Reina’s first kiss partner
-Be careful of assassination, Almond. That bastard might be a traitor too.
Looking at how Sana is his type, it doesn’t seem like he likes Reina lol
“Why didn’t you say so earlier?”
“What’s the point of saying it?”
“A Contractor with as close a relationship to the Divine Being as you? Sana will proceed with the contract without any compensation!”
In that instant, Sana’s book began to glow.
“Ohhh….”
-Ohhh….
-Omen….
-Lolol
-An omen after so long.
-Wow, Sana for free
That’s so cool/awesome.
-Wait, does this make sense? Sana’s free just because he kissed Reina?
Boom!
A thunderous sound echoed across the sky.
White light rippled above the heavens.
Crackle──
Soon, the form of the Divine Being Sana began to take shape.
Her figure, with hair dancing in the white gale, was truly like a goddess from mythology itself.
And she was unmistakably a goddess of virtue.
〔Pleased to meet you, Contractor.〕
Sana extended a white hand and smiled warmly.
Almond grasped her hand in return.
[You have successfully contracted with the Divine Being, Sana.]
[You can converse with her in the Exchange Hall.]
[You can select her on the Battlefield.]
[New costume restrictions have been unlocked.]
[Quest ‘First Purchase’ has been completed.]
.
.
.
Various unlocked items appeared, and Sana vanished from the space.
“Is there anything else you wish to purchase?”
Almond still had plenty of money remaining, so he considered browsing a few more Divine Beings.
“I’ll come back next time.”
For now, his desire to actually play as Sana was far greater.

* * *
The standard practice when first purchasing any avatar is to run through the tutorial.
However, Almond’s viewers wouldn’t even allow that.
You gotta drop the tutorial first.
If you tutor, honestly peanuts are the only ones that disappear from the mixed nuts.
Those bastards lol, doing tutorial 10 times and then grinding ranked like idiots.
-Just pay money and do something worthwhile
They didn’t want to watch the tedium of a tutorial—they wanted to proceed straight to Normal matches.
It seemed they were hoping to see Almond use an inexperienced avatar and get utterly demolished, earning a barrage of insults.
[Hand Big Colony has registered a mission.]
[Mission: 1 win with Sana on first match without tutorial]
[Reward: 200,000 won]
-Are you really burning 200k won on a single Normal win?
-First match 1 win for 200k wow
-Hand Big Colony is still around?
-A Constellation! A Constellation!
“Hand Big Colony. So you know how to make proposals. Understood.”
Almond playfully winked at the other viewers and proceeded with the Normal match.
-The walnut corrupted by capital.
-Delete the peanut bastard
-Money-mond….
-If you love money that much, you’ll get a target on your scalp
The viewer who sent that last message was banned.
Ding.
[Takoyaki donated 10,000 won!]
[I appreciate the moderation. Please don’t use hair loss as a joke topic!]
-Wait, is Taco legit?
-Wow Takoyaki
-Why is such a noble person in this humble place?
[Takoyaki donated 10,000 won!]
[I came to watch Almond’s practice. Or rather, his ‘passion…’? Anyway, Sana… She’s a weak avatar in solo play at that rank. Let’s see how this goes.]
That octopus shack concept is still going strong lol
Taco Shack…
If it’s about -ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ’s scalp heat, well… that’s worth discussing passion.
-The passion of baldness wow
“Taco says he’ll give feedback on that. Since we’re streaming it as content, everyone who wants to can watch.”
Almond offered a brief explanation, and in the meantime, the Normal queue matched.
[All teammates found.]
[Moving to waiting room.]
After moving to the waiting room.
“….”
A brief silence flowed between the five of us.
‘Strange, nothing’s going wrong for once.’
Whenever I grabbed a normal queue, fights would break out. Today, I was lucky.
“Where are you going?”
“Bottom, ADC.”
Almond quickly claimed the ADC position.
The remaining positions were decided in rapid succession.
-Wow, it’s peaceful today
-This is Sana’s blessing.
Haha, it’s weird not having anyone to curse at.
“ADC. What are you picking?”
The support player who would be backing up Almond asked the question.
“I’m Sana.”
“Ah. Then I’ll need to play an aggressive support.”
“…Yes, yes.”
Almond didn’t understand what he meant, but pretended to know and selected Sana.
〔For the sake of peace, sometimes we must fight.〕
Sana descended upon Almond with her mechanical dialogue.
But then….
〔…Tsk.〕
A voice that wasn’t Sana’s echoed through.

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