Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 190

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 190
64. New Challenger (4)
The Analyst marveled as Almond dodged the Sniper’s bullets and drove his pure white crystals forward.
“Huh? That’s quite something!”
King Gul let out a roar.
“Waaaaaaah! What was that just now!?”
-Ow my ears lol
-He got excited again lol
-It’s Red Gul, Red Gul!
-Wow, he lost it. What was that Almond just did.
-Almost bug-level gameplay;
-Is Almond operating on a different frame rate?
“Wow!!! That’s genuinely incredible physicality! Dodging bullets!? How is that even possible!? It’s not that he missed, right? Baeksuk clearly shot well!?”
“Yes, he shot well. So he must have at least grazed him. Almond displayed extraordinary reaction speed. This was Almond dodging skillfully. That’s why the damage exchange got disrupted here.”
“Now I finally understand what VNS beyond Jeon-ja-pa’s level really means!”
“Indeed. It’s almost like watching something inhuman.”
-Inhuman lol
-Inhuman right, except he’s a nut?
-Kk transcendent human nut!!!
-Wow Red Glasses official) Almond is inhuman
“But why did Almond bother faking the attack?”
“It’s probably because of the recoil that occurs when Ran attacks. If they attack simultaneously, it’s difficult for Ran to dodge the opponent’s attack.”
If Ran had used Release beforehand, he wouldn’t have been able to dodge the Sniper’s bullets.
“Ah, so he pretended to attack to bait the opponent’s attack, then dodged and fired immediately!”
“Yes! The Sniper also slows down momentarily due to recoil, right? He broke it down frame by frame and squeezed his attack in. Meanwhile, the Sniper missed his counterattack timing due to the impact from Ran’s attack.”
“He’s a real damage machine!”
Almond’s damage timing—breaking down time and drilling into those fleeting frames.
There was no way to explain it other than saying his VNS was exceptionally high.
“Baeksuk must feel a bit frustrated. The Sniper can shoot much faster and more frequently. Why can’t he land a hit… he probably can’t understand it.”
“Now Almond is retreating outside Baeksuk’s range again, and Baeksuk seems to be thinking it over?”
“But he shouldn’t fight.”
“Baeksuk should regain his composure and back away.”
“Ah, the moment he says that! Almond comes forward again!”
Almond was fidgeting near Baeksuk’s effective range again.
“Right now you can’t hit me anyway. This is pure provocation!?”
“This is… how will Baeksuk respond.”
“Ah! Baeksuk! He fell for the provocation!? He’s raising his gun again!”
Baeksuk’s expression showed he was determined to kill Almond.
“Ah! Baeksuk’s determination to kill Almond!”
Meanwhile, Almond also seemed intent on killing Baeksuk.
[Killshot angle….]
“Almond says it’s a killshot angle too!”
“A killshot angle? Is there another angle I’m not seeing!?”
“Ah, maybe I thought the Supporter just went far away for a moment!?”
King Penguin, who was a former pro, looked bewildered lol
-A killshot angle even King Gul doesn’t know
-Wow, a killshot angle comes from there?!

* * *
Taco asks back in confusion.
“A killshot angle?!”
Before those words even finished, Almond dashed forward.
Taco rushes after him in surprise.
“Hey! What do I do if you go first!”
“Give me support!”
Since I asked for support, he ran accordingly.
“Crazy, you can’t go that far ahead!”
Whoosh!
The enemy Supporter, who had been out of sight for a moment, burst out and hurled a ring of light.
He had been hiding.
“!?”
Screech!
The ring of light that flew viciously only grazed Almond’s shoulder, dealing no significant damage.
Bewilderment flashes across the eyes of ‘Ring of Light – Rea’.
‘Dodged again?’
Ran is not particularly agile as an avatar.
But he’s not clumsy either. His physique is relatively slender, after all.
‘I’m grazing the edge of the hitbox.’
I’m utilizing Ran’s slender frame to its absolute limit, dodging attacks with minimal movement.
Bang!!
The Sniper pulled the trigger again. This time, it was a strike aimed at the heart, not the head. The Sniper deals significant bonus damage when hitting vital points.
But──
-Again?!
-What is this
It’s bug-tier lol
-Insane
Splurt!
Blood sprays from my shoulder.
[Reckless Warrior – Health 79%]
In this situation, I can’t avoid the bullet entirely, but I managed to evade the vital point. The damage that came through was naturally minimal.
In the midst of it all, the Pure White Crystal reached completion.
Crack!
[Pure White Crystal]
My right hand slipped into my pocket while my left index finger pointed toward the Sniper’s torso.
Whoooosh…!
A pistol formed from light blazed with brilliant radiance.
Just before the discharge, the Sniper pulled the trigger once more.
Bang──!
[Reckless Warrior – Health 72%]
Almond twisted his body at an odd angle once again, evading the fatal blow.
Now it was Ran’s turn.
[Discharge]
Pure white mana erupted in brilliant light, streaking forward.
The Sniper threw himself aside to dodge, but—
Kaboom!!!
“Ugh!”
He still took considerable damage.
[Baeksuk – Health 59%]
Baeksuk’s remaining health was nearly halved.
The Sniper gripped his rifle again and pulled the lever.
This time, he had realized something.
‘He dodges almost everything aimed at his upper body?’
Baeksuk now accepted that his opponent could evade bullets.
Since vital points clustered in the upper body, he’d been focusing fire there—but against Almond, that was practically useless.
‘Then…’
Click.
He pulled the trigger in rapid succession.
Bang! Bang!
Blood sprayed from Almond’s lower body.
It was effective.
Ran, with his slow footwork, was defenseless against lower body attacks.
[Reckless Warrior – Health 65%]
Almond’s health dropped significantly.
Meanwhile, Taco and Rea were rolling across the ground in a mud pit brawl.
“Graaahhh!”
“Let go! Let go!”
“I won’t!”
Almond realized he couldn’t expect help.
‘Has he figured it out?’
The opponent was clearly targeting his lower body.
Almond desperately weaved left and right, but….
Twang!
Baeksuk had found her rhythm.
Another bullet struck my lower body.
That was when it happened.
“Why am I even fighting you!”
Taco’s net, shaken free from Rea, came flying.
Taco had ignored Rea and aimed for Baeksuk instead.
“Ugh!”
[Caught in the net! Movement is restricted!]
Baeksuk tumbled heavily and was dragged across the mud.
But the ambush wasn’t only Taco’s doing.
“I’ve got one too, you bastard!”
Rea also landed her skill on Almond. Having learned from watching how to target Almond’s Ran’s lower body, she threw a low-flying ring.
[Caught in the ring! Movement is restricted!]
Thud!
I crashed to the ground as well.
Sticky mud splattered across my face.
“Ugh.”
Ptui.
I spat out the dirt that had gotten into my mouth roughly.
‘I still have to shoot.’
The plan had fallen apart. Shooting was my only way to survive.
Even as I lay face-down, I raised my left hand with fully charged mana.
The Sniper, too, was being dragged through the mud by the net, but her gun barrel remained trained on me.
[Release]
Boom!
My hand kicked back from the recoil, and Baeksuk’s gun also erupted with fire.
It was simultaneous.
Bang!
Twang!
A white burst of light exploded on Baeksuk’s right shoulder.

* * *
The casters went absolutely wild with excitement at this chaotic skirmish.
“Ahhhhh! Is this the kill angle Almond was talking about!?”
“B-but calculating in such a messy brawl doesn’t make sense, does it?”
The two of them rolled through the mud pit, firing frantically at each other.
[Reckless Warrior – Health 32%]
[Baeksuk – Health 29%]
Their health bars were steadily approaching the bottom.
Yet the exchange of fire did not cease.
Tat-tat! Boom! Tat-tat-tat!!
Some shots missed, but since this had become a fight where only one person could survive, neither cared about the misses.
[Reckless Warrior – Health 5%]
[Baeksuk – Health 11%]
When their health bars had dropped to what could only be called a one-hit fight.
Whoosh!
[Restraint Released]
Both of them broke free from the movement restriction almost simultaneously.
The Sniper aimed at me, and I quickly hid my body behind the Minion.
Ting!
The bullet ricocheted off the Minion’s shield.
‘That was close.’
I exhaled in relief and pressed my back against the Minion’s.
I summoned white mana once more on my index finger.
[Charging]
This would probably be my last charge.
‘They’re better than I expected?’
For the first time, I felt that my opponent was skilled.
It felt completely different from the Master’s level. There was a certain wall I could sense.
‘It was supposed to be a kill angle…’
The Supporter hiding was one thing, but the opponent pushing forward too aggressively was clearly a mistake. Yet their response afterward was exceptional.
We ended up in a chaotic brawl, and the situation became completely different from what I’d anticipated.
When I started dodging with my upper body, their quick reflexes in switching targets to my lower body were impressive.
‘Regardless, now it’s a one-hit fight.’
Thanks to that, we’re now in a one-hit duel.
Both Supporters are still bound to each other.
It seems only Almond and Baeksuk’s fight will decide the outcome.
‘Where is Baeksuk?’
I have no vision right now. If I poke my head out, I’ll get sniped immediately.
“Taco! Where is Baeksuk!?”
“Right side in the brush!!!”
There was no other way to figure it out.
‘The right thicket… they’re aiming at me.’
If I poke my head out and shoot, the bullet will be faster, so I lose.
But I can’t dodge the bullet while poking my head out either. The enemy is already waiting.
What should I do?

* * *
“Almond! Right now he’s hiding behind the shield Minion and recharging!”
“Both Baeksuk and Almond have less than 10% health!?”
“This is the first time I’ve seen Almond struggle like this?”
“It seems to be because the structure of forcing the fight open is happening.”
“Baeksuk is currently hiding in the thicket and loading ammunition. How will this turn out in the next engagement?”
“Wouldn’t it be like a duel in the Old West—whoever shoots first wins?”
“Ah! That’s right! A one-shot fight!”
“Yes. It seems to have come down to that.”
“Since both are low level and don’t really have any special skills, the variable is probably just who shoots faster.”
“In that case, the Sniper has a huge advantage. Bullets are faster than Ran’s mana crystals flying anyway?”
That was when it happened.
Crack!
From behind the shield Minion, only Almond’s hand shot out.
With his back against the Minion, he twisted his arm backward and raised it.
The commentators didn’t even have time to explain anything.
Almond fired without even looking at his opponent.
And he fired backward.
“Aah──”
The moment King Gul opened his mouth to say something.
Bang!
Baeksuk, who had been loading ammunition in the thicket, died from the sudden attack with no warning whatsoever.
[Enemy defeated!]
[Reckless Warrior → Baeksuk]
So they had been fiercely clashing with each other.
But the end was truly anticlimactic.
At least from Baeksuk’s perspective.
[Dead]
[Revive in 23 seconds]

* * *
It might have felt anticlimactic for Baeksuk.
“What—what is this!?”
“A no-look shot! He fired backward from behind the minion before the enemy could even react!?”
Yet the viewers were left speechless by the audacious spectacle.
-????
-What just happened lmaooo
-That’s actually possible?
-Pure luck garbage game lololol
“Ran can pull off something like this! There’s actually an advantage to shooting with one hand like that!!!”
Both commentators couldn’t contain their excitement, spraying saliva across the camera.
It was that shocking of a moment.
‘Wow. Got lucky there.’
I felt relief wash over me as the reckless no-look shot actually connected.
I hadn’t fired it with any real confidence either.
Since a speed battle wouldn’t work anyway, I figured I’d just try something like this.
And it hit perfectly.
-Save our world! Almond! Save our world! Almond! Save our world! Almond! Save our world! Almond!
-Dude’s absolutely insane
-That actually worked!?
-What guts lololol
One-handed play is crazy, the shooting freedom has increased!
It was nearly circus-level acrobatics.
A play only possible because luck was on my side.
But luck ran out there.
That day, BalloonStars’ castle fell in twenty minutes.
I fought valiantly, taking down three more enemies before the game ended.
But the difference in skill was inevitable.
“Juu juu~~~!”
“That was fun! Still, class is class in the end, right?”
“Yes. Almond and Taco fought hard in the bottom lane, but we couldn’t salvage the other lanes completely falling apart.”
“I think the High-Protein team showed what proper teamplay really looks like….”
The commentators’ final remarks faded like a dissolve as my avatar transferred to the Disworld.

* * *
“Sigh.”
I exhaled deeply and sank to the ground.
“…Almond.”
Taco approached and massaged my shoulders.
“You did really well.”
“…”
But what does that matter? I lost.
The words rose to the tip of my tongue.
Yet I swallowed them down and nodded.
“Hey. This is just a practice match, right? Huh? Don’t get too caught up in it. Learn well during the feedback session later.”
“Yes.”
“You really played amazingly today. I’ll mention it again during feedback, but you’re flawless.”
“Yes.”
I simply responded mechanically, yes after yes.
The feedback session that day lasted about an hour.
But after an hour and a half, then two hours passed, and my Capsule still hadn’t opened.
And I wasn’t even streaming.
[Juhyeok Kim: Hey. Why aren’t you coming out? What are you doing?]
Juhyeok, finding it strange, sent a message.
The reply that came back was only two letters.
[Sang-hyun Yu: Solo ranked]

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