Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 198

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 198
67. The Challenger’s Wall (2)
Usually, the Reel Pro community swells with traffic during major tournaments like the Reel Championship.
Otherwise, even as the largest Reel-related community, the average view count on the ‘Big Pro’ bulletin board rarely exceeds thirty thousand.
But now, with the Nant match underway.
Reel Pro was heating up as intensely as it did during the Reel Championship.
The average view count on the Big Pro bulletin board was climbing toward fifty thousand.
[No games to watch in winter season, but this Nant match is pure gold lol]
[Godanbaek’s team swept scrimmages. Is it possible for them to win?]
[Today’s the day Almond gets a proper lesson]
[Is it because of Almond lately that Silver’s guys are getting cocky? Ugh… why am I…?]
[I don’t care about anything else, I’m just so happy Miho came back to Reel. Hit that like button]
This showed just how much attention the Nant match was receiving.
It was unprecedented for a streamer tournament—not even an official competition—to garner interest comparable to the Reel Championship.
The phenomenon was being driven by the convergence of major streamers making their grand comeback, Danmuji’s first streamer tournament debut after retiring as the king of no-man’s-land, and the growth of the current hottest rising star Almond.
Thus, the new streamers participating in this tournament had seized a rare opportunity.
Almond was one of those streamers.
This was the chance to firmly establish the recognition he lacked in Reel.
As they say, row when the tide comes in.
Whether or not I knew how to row, the tide was certainly coming in.
You could feel it clearly looking at Reel Pro’s bulletin board right now.
[Almond is crazy… I can’t stand that he’s good at Reel too. I believe Balloon Gum will handle it.]
Don’t mention that nobody-knows-who bastard.
-Go promote your master somewhere else.
└What are you talking about? Isn’t this about Reel? Everyone’s watching the Nant match right now, so he can’t keep up, right?
└For real lol he probably can’t fit in at school either and just complains all day
└Looks like he’d fit right in at the school cafeteria entrance though.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (dying of laughter)
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text as it appears to contain corrupted characters, typos, and internet slang that don’t form coherent Korean words or phrases.
Damn, so many dogs came flooding in. Go talk about it on your fan cafe ^^
“Wait, is Gyeongyeon actually a nut dog? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ”
Haha, so true lol
Not even Gyeonhwon, just Gyeongyeon lolololol
Please don’t ruin the mood with intestines, just leave. ㅠㅠ Please, just look at it once, Coolchin! ㅠㅠㅠ
That’s crazy lol
Almond, whose fanbase had primarily formed around Battle Large and Kingdom.
Now had many fans openly supporting him on Reel Pro as well.
It meant he wasn’t falling behind in firepower.
Then 6 PM arrived.
[It’s starting!]
[Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick]
[Godanbaek’s stream, let’s go lol]
[Greentea is back! Today’s different!]
[I’m Red Carpets]
[Wait, isn’t today the execution day for the nut allergy team? Is that right!?]
The public scrimmage for all teams was beginning.
[Current viewers: 22,000]
Viewers flocked to their preferred streams, and approximately 22,000 had gathered on my broadcast.
“Phew.”
I exhaled a shallow breath.
[The game is starting!]
The game had begun.

* * *
The opening was an uneventful game.
The enemies didn’t attempt any particularly special tactics, and neither did my team.
[Minions are spawning.]
As minions poured in and the laning phase began, the flow remained smooth.
Thunk! Thunk!
I reacquainted myself with Reina after a while, cleanly eliminating enemy minions one by one.
The enemy did the same. Hong-cha, the enemy ADC, was handling minions perfectly without letting a single one slip through, using Ran with its charging cooldown.
If things continued peacefully like this, my team would be at a disadvantage.
Reina is an ADC that needs to accomplish something, whereas Ran is actually an ADC that benefits from simply scaling.
“I’ll create an opening. Since we have Reina and a fisherman, we’ll have the advantage if we engage first.”
Taco, understanding the situation, stepped forward cautiously.
It wasn’t only Taco who understood the situation. The enemy also recognized they needed to maintain the peaceful structure.
Hong-cha’s Ran immediately responded toward Taco.
Crack! Boom!
Taco managed to dodge to the side, but couldn’t close in.
‘Without even fully charging?’
Hong-cha’s play of firing without completing the full charge.
I was somewhat impressed.
Her moment-to-moment decision-making looked excellent.
“Sigh. Ran is really tricky.”
Ptui.
Taco spat, as if acknowledging his opponent. Eventually, he returned to my side.
“Let’s look for the next opening.”
“Next time, let’s go in together.”
“Got it.”
[You’ve leveled up!]
[Level 4]
When I reached level 4.
This was precisely the timing when Reina’s damage output would burst forth overwhelmingly higher than Ran’s.
I slipped into the brush and concealed myself.
The opponent, knowing this was Reina’s strong window, hesitated and retreated backward.
Simultaneously, they began suppressive fire against Reina. Hong-cha fired a pristine crystal projectile into the brush.
Boom!!
[Rolling]
As if I’d been waiting for this exact moment, I tumbled forward in an instant.
Hong-cha’s attack detonated in empty air. I entered the next patch of brush.
There was a dangerous gap in the middle where no brush existed.
Only the brush rustled. My figure remained invisible to the enemy.
It was because of the stealth that activates when rolling.
Hong-cha certainly couldn’t see me either.
“Lemon! He must’ve crossed into the next brush!”
“Yay~!”
However, even without seeing, a Challenger’s instincts were razor-sharp.
Hong-cha ordered the Supporter to control the brush, then retreated backward herself.
The enemy’s Supporter was a control-type Necromancer—Kuipan.
A combination that paired well with the long-ranged Ran.
[Swamp Toad]
Croak!
As a toad burst forth beneath Reina’s feet, I was ultimately forced to fire.
My position was exposed.
Splurt!
The toad burst apart, scattering its unpleasant innards in all directions.
Pitter-patter…!
〔Ugh… I really hate this.〕
Reina always scowled and complained whenever Kuipan appeared.
As if Kuipan knew this, she always said something like this.
“Ahahaha! How’s that!? Makes you crave instant rice, doesn’t it!? Huh?”
-Why are all Kuipan players like this lolololol
-Does your soul transform into Kuipan!?
-Koreans love rice!
Laughing hard, Haetban promotional ambassador
The viewers laughed and chattered at Kuipan’s cheerful play, but I was aiming at my target with deadly focus.
“!”
Kuipan’s grinning face hardened.
Crash!
Reina suddenly charged straight at her.
“Wh—what!?”
Bleeegh!
Kuipan used a skill to vomit and retreat, but—
Whoosh!
Reina’s left foot kicked off the ground, and—
“!?”
For some reason, her attack simply passed through him.
‘Insane… she’s dodging between frames while attacking?’
Kuipan’s eyes went wide.
Using that technique so naturally. She moves even smoother than Hong-cha.
〔Will twenty be enough?〕
Reina’s question sounded like a death sentence to Kuipan.
Whoooom…!
Blue targets appeared all over his body.
‘Why are there so many targets!?’
Kuipan felt extreme terror at the sight of all those bluish things floating around his body, and he turned to run.
“Hong-cha! Sister Hong-cha!”
Lemon calling for help.
As expected, Ran’s mana crystal was already flying toward them.
Boom——
‘That’s it!’
Taking that hit would push him back a bit.
He could escape in that gap.
‘I’m alive—’
But that was naive thinking.
A blue flash of lightning grazed past, and—
Thwack-thwack-thwack-thwack!
In an instant, four consecutive hits struck Kuipan’s back.
“Ugh!”
She had fired four arrows in that brief moment while Ran’s mana crystal was flying.
Monstrous rapid-fire.
[Health 60%]
Forty percent of his health was gone.
Kuipan, whose health was already weak, against level-4 Reina, whose damage output was at its peak.
Just three more hits and he’d be dead.
‘If only Ran’s crystal hits…’
His last hope was Ran’s mana crystal striking Reina hard.
Boom!!!
Bright light engulfed and blazed around Reina.
“Yay~ I’m alive! Thanks, sis~!!”
Kuipan rushed excitedly toward Hong-cha.
“Hey! Behind you!”
Whoosh!
Reina slipped free from the billowing smoke and drew her bow to completion.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Three consecutive shots—for me, it was as natural as breathing.
Thwack-thwack-thwack!
[7 Combo!]
The arrows fired by level 4 Reina, who had just achieved a 7-combo streak, were each infused with lethal intent.
Thud…!
[First Blood!]

* * *
Hong-cha’s eyes wavered as she had been aiming down her sights.
‘That bastard… what kind of gold player is that?’
She knew it well enough.
Not an ordinary gold player—one who had beaten Greentea back in the Silver days and had played evenly against Baeksuk, a former famous amateur.
‘Even so… there’s such a thing as common sense.’
What chilled Hong-cha more than the fact that I was gold was that I was a newbie who had only started Reel less than a month ago.
‘Damn it.’
Hong-cha’s hands trembled slightly.
This wouldn’t do. Since Ran was a long-range artillery unit, even the slightest tremor would cause massive deviation—fatal for precision.
〔Your hands are shaking, Contractor. Are you feeling alright?〕
Ran, who dwelled within Hong-cha, asked with such concern.
“I’m fine. Just got a little tense for a moment…”
Almonds that make black tea nervous!
-Even Greentea can’t make Hong-cha tremble, but Almond is!? Ah… this, this is…!
-The academic consensus is that she’s actually trembling because she wants to stomp Lemon~
-You got nervous just looking at Almond’s face, didn’t you?
-Almond’s Reina is insane. Is that a kill angle?
“Shut up, all of you. Before I actually ban everyone.”
-Yes!
-Roger!
Our cat at home is a keyboard warrior, so sorry about that lol
-Let’s go with a sword dance aaaaah!
Hong-cha irritably brushed her hair back, then repositioned her hands.
“Wow! That was insane! Almond! You’re seriously crazy!?”
Her eyes were directed toward me, receiving praise from Taco.
‘But how did that happen just now? Why didn’t I get pushed back?’
She was trying to analyze what had occurred moments earlier.
Clearly, Ran’s Pure White Decision has a slight knockback effect when hit at full charge.
This becomes stronger as the level increases, and at level 4, Ran would deliver enough knockback to completely shut down pursuit.
‘Could it be…’
Judging by how she cleanly dodged Kuipan’s ‘Vomit and Roll’ earlier.
It seemed her suspicion was correct.
She had caused a sudden acceleration, skipping frames to evade the attack.
‘But Ran’s attack is area damage, so you can’t dodge it that way.’
Ran isn’t a beloved pick in high ranks for nothing.
When his attack is sufficiently charged, the attack range becomes quite large, making it impossible to dodge with such tricks.
Often, you remain within the attack range even after dodging.
‘So she did take damage.’
She checked Almond’s health again.
[Health 80%]
25% had been depleted earlier, and now after drinking a potion, only 20% was missing.
She definitely got hit by the attack.
‘She only dodged the knockback? That’s the only explanation.’
The conclusion was that among the damage and knockback effects, she had only dodged the knockback.
She endured the moment the damage hit, then dodged the instant when Ran’s Pure White mana explosion pushed the opponent back.
If that were the case, it might be possible by skipping frames with precision.
Of course, that’s only in theory.
Because damage and knockback occur with only about a 0.01 second difference.
It was truly just a single frame’s difference.
She had distinguished between them and deliberately chose to take the hit.
‘How is something like that even possible?’
She had heard talk of excellent physical capabilities, but wasn’t this far beyond expectations?
Hong-cha bit her lip.
[An ally has been defeated!]
[An ally has been defeated!]
[Miho Double Kill!]
‘This is bad.’
Mid lane is struggling.
Well, in a game where the bottom lane needs to carry, the supporter dying first was a disaster.
The other lanes breaking down was the natural consequence.
‘I need to stay focused.’
Hong-cha thought she might be able to test her limits in this game.
She spoke to the viewers as if making a vow.
“I’ll play as if my opponent is a Challenger.”

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