Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 201

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 201
68. The Sub Position (1)
Storm Ninja is an assassin-type character.
Assassin-type characters typically possess one defining trait: ‘speed’.
Flash Blade generates this speed through its teleportation function, while Rope Assassin achieves rapid movement by casting and pulling rope in an instant.
In other words, they all possess abilities designed to heighten their combat velocity.
What about Storm Ninja?
I have a unique passive skill—a skill that operates constantly without the user’s conscious activation.
[Ninja’s Intuition: When I can kill my opponent with a single strike, Haruky reveals the ‘path’ to me. Should I succeed in assassination by following this path, my chakra becomes more powerful.]
But that’s not the main one.
Storm Ninja possesses two passive skills.
The one above only holds meaning when clashing blades in direct combat.
My swift movements stem from the ability below.
[Storm’s Chakra: Dramatically elevates physical abilities. This chakra can be concentrated and released through the hands, feet, and other body parts, or it can be made to adhere.]
It’s quite a complex mechanism.
To summarize, it’s as if I have magnets with reversible poles embedded in my hands and feet that I can control freely.
When I place my hand against a wall in release mode, my hand bounces away. When my foot touches it, my foot bounces away, and my body gains propulsive force.
In other words, releasing the chakra allows my speed to skyrocket explosively.
Conversely, adhesion mode typically applies braking force. I can climb walls by applying adhesive chakra to my hands, and with practice, I can even walk up vertical castle walls or trees using just my feet.
The activation method relies entirely on conscious gestures.
Since I must activate it within extremely brief moments, the controls were set to simple actions like bending a finger or raising a pinky.
‘…This will take some time to adapt to.’
Once I master these conscious gestures perfectly and reach an advanced level of chakra control, I can achieve truly ninja-like gameplay.
Conversely, even the smallest mistake produces completely opposite results, leading to absurdly sudden deaths.
Because of this, the character doesn’t enjoy favorable public perception.
Especially when on my own team.
-Storm Science lol
-There’s even a saying: Cancer is always by my side…
-Science as a shop pick?
It’s also called ‘Science’.
Through countless experiments and verifications, players who pick Ninja have scientifically proven that they are trolls.
However, I had no time to concern myself with such public opinion.
‘First, the conscious gestures…’
I needed to master this incarnation quickly. As I mentioned, it’s quite a difficult one.
〔So Storm’s Chakra is new to you, boy.〕
Just then, the incarnation Haruky speaks to me.
〔If you don’t handle it properly, the chakra will consume you. Well… that wouldn’t be so bad either. Kekeke…〕
Unfortunately, unlike Reina, he wasn’t particularly helpful.
I ignore his words and practice hand gestures following the skill description.
‘Like this with my hand…’
I crossed my thumbs and index fingers together.
Zing!
A blue aura swept past with a sharp sound.
[Chakra Release Mode]
The chakra shifts into release mode.
If I push off with my feet at this moment….
Boom!
My body shot forward in an instant.
“Whoa!?”
Every layer of air around me seemed determined to push me forward, colliding against me.
When I pushed off with my feet, it didn’t feel like flying so much as being launched.
“Wow!”
Overwhelmed by the sensation of cutting through the wind, I let out an exclamation of wonder.
‘This fast?’
Most ADCs aren’t this quick. Reina has some assassin tendencies and is somewhat faster, but still.
‘I never expected this.’
I’d never experienced anything this fast before.
Even Flash Sword felt heavy in its avatar form despite having good mobility from the flash skill.
Flying in an airplane and having your body itself soar through the air are worlds apart.
The feeling Storm Ninja gives is that I’m the one flying.
Haha, so cute!
-Once you start Storm Ninja you can’t stop. It’s addictive
He’s running around like crazy lol
Intoxicated by the sensation of driving a sports car, I bounced around a bit more.
Apparently this was a common behavior among all players trying Storm Ninja for the first time.
Feeling like a country bumpkin, I scratched my head.
“Ahem. Now let me examine the adhesion mode.”
I clear my throat awkwardly and suddenly continue the broadcast.
The hand gesture for adhesion involves crossing all fingers and raising them at about a 45-degree angle.
It was simple as expected.
Since this character is designed for fast combat, it makes sense it’s set up this way.
Of course, players could customize these gestures individually, but I didn’t have time for that.
Zing…!
As I made the hand gesture, a sharp sound rang out and blue aura surged up.
[Chakra Adhesion Mode]
In this adhesion mode, the grip automatically releases when I lift my feet.
Not just my feet, but my hands also stuck firmly to surfaces, making it easy to climb.
‘Fascinating.’
I’m amazed by an algorithm that seems to read the user’s mind.
I simply walked up the massive tree behind the watchtower.
“Ohhh…!”
Hahaha why is he doing the tutorial alone?
-Yo, Minions are coming soon
-Ohhhhh…man.
-That’s the biggest one we’ve seen so far…
-Oh man…
Thud.
Coming down from the Tree, I didn’t need to deactivate any mode—I just dropped whenever I wanted. It seemed they’d adopted a design that prioritized instinct over mechanics.
‘I need to learn how to attack.’
Until now, I’d only figured out how to move.
The fundamentals meant weaving attacks into this movement pattern.
[Minions have been spawned!]
Both sides’ Minions were already rushing forward.
It looked like I’d have to learn this in actual combat without practice.

* * *
Almond’s Opponent was a Silver rank streamer.
It was Chocosong.
True to her name, she was a Player with hair that actually resembled chocolate sprinkles, which was quite striking.
After selecting her main character, “Explosion Maniac – Teri” (which nobody particularly bothered to ban),
she waddled toward the Mid Lane with bombs the size of her head tucked under each arm.
“What?”
Then she caught sight of an absurd chat message.
“Almond is practicing Storm Ninja running right now?”
Though she was Silver rank, Chocosong had over a thousand matches under her belt, so she’d played dozens of Avatars. Naturally, that included Storm Ninja, the iconic Troll character of the Bronze-Silver-Gold tier.
It was a flashy assassin Avatar that any Mid Laner tried at least once.
“He just bought it from the shop and is playing it for the first time!?”
But apparently, her Opponent had just purchased it from the shop for the first time.
“Wait. Then why did he come to Mid? He wasn’t even prepared for anything?”
-Because you’re easy prey?
-You’re Silver rank.
Hahaha, are you asking because you don’t know? It stands out because Hong-cha is the main character.
-Didn’t he just go Mid because everything else got banned?
Chocosong’s fists trembled with indignation.
“Ugh. This is too much. So I’m that easy to underestimate? The Explosion Artist of Silver rank. Chocosong, disrespected like this.”
Lol, explosion artist
I’m dying laughing lol
-Concept on point
This girl’s actual hairstyle is bomb too lol
“My hairstyle isn’t a bomb—it’s chocolate sprinkles, okay? Anyway… let me see. Is he really practicing?”
Chocosong walked past the Watchtower that protected her, moving to where she could see the enemy Watchtower.
In the distance, she spotted what appeared to be a new player using Almond.
He bounced around erratically, walked across a Tree, then descended from atop a Watchtower.
‘…No, seriously?’
Anyone watching would recognize this as the behavior of someone who had just picked Storm Ninja for the first time.
Chocosong herself had done exactly the same thing for quite a while.
In short, Almond had genuinely selected a character he’d never played before against her.
“Wow. That guy’s completely insane.”
Hahahahaha
-Didn’t Frost Archer also shop pick and play terribly? But you’re Silver lol
I’m really practicing with [name] right now lol
-Total humiliation
[Chocodan donated 10,000 won!]
[Songyi. Honestly, let’s teach him a lesson!]
“Thank you Chocodan! A lesson, of course. I’m Silver’s Explosion Maniac – Teri. Let me show you what I can do.”
After that.
The Minions arrived at the Mid Lane and clashed swords and shields against each other.
Chocosong measured the distance between herself and her opponent slowly, her expression tense.
Since Explosion Maniac – Teri’s primary attack method was throwing bombs from a distance, the key was maintaining maximum range.
The opponent showed no significant movement yet, focused entirely on killing Minions.
‘At level 1, I have a huge advantage.’
Explosion Maniac – Teri fights at range.
Storm Ninja fights close-quarters with a short blade.
From the Ninja’s perspective with only Chakra and no other skills at this point, even if Explosion Maniac – Teri just tossed bombs from afar, it would be incredibly frustrating.
“Alright. Starting Minion control~”
The key point of this lane phase would be continuously attacking the opponent so he couldn’t easily farm Minion Gold.
At least in that regard, Chocosong was confident.
Silver rank was flooded with all sorts of assassin picks, so she had quite a bit of experience facing them.
Whoosh!
The bomb she threw flew toward Almond.
Before it even touched the ground, it exploded in mid-air with a bang!
“!”
Almond couldn’t react to the bomb that suddenly detonated in the air and took damage.
Almond looked at Chocosong with an expression of apparent curiosity.
lol
-Oh, bomb control~~
The chocolate expert really knows their stuff lol
Lame tricks lol
It was a bomb infused with her own expertise.
She had calculated the detonation timing to make it difficult for the opponent to react.
“How’s that? Huh? I’m the Explosion Maniac──”
The moment I turned to address the chat.
Boom!
A deafening explosion thundered across the arena.
Chocosong flinched in surprise, her eyes darting back toward me.
But all that remained was a crater in the ground—I had vanished.
“Ah. So that’s how it works.”
With those words.
Slash!
A gleaming dagger raked across her throat.
[Critical Hit!]
[Health 77%]
An enormous chunk of her health evaporated.
“What, what!? When did you get there!? This is insane!”
Chocosong spun around desperately.
‘?’
But I wasn’t there either.
“Behind again!?”
She whirled around while shouting.
Only an afterimage brushed past—nothing more.
“!?”
A shadow fell over her.
Chocosong’s eyes slowly lifted upward.
In that instant.
Thud.
Both my feet slammed down on her shoulders.
Squelch!
Then a sharp, piercing sensation shot through the crown of her head.
A blade had been driven in.
[Critical Hit!]
[Health 49%]
“Aaaaagh!”
Chocosong thrashed wildly, trying to shake me off.
I formed a seal and shifted my chakra into adhesion mode.
[Chakra Adhesion Mode]
Now my feet locked firmly onto her shoulders.
I brought my blade down in a relentless flurry of strikes.
Slash! Slash!
[Health 31%]
“Gaahhh!”
Chocosong hurled all the bombs upward.
‘What?’
Boom! Boom!
The bombs began detonating one after another.
[Health 73%]
My health was draining rapidly.
But my hands crossed faster still.
[Chakra Release Mode]
Thud!
I kicked off from Chocosong’s body, launching myself sideways.
The remaining bombs detonated in the air like fireworks.
‘She’s used up all her bombs.’
Chocosong had no counterattack options for a while now.
As I soared through the air, I flipped my body and crossed my hands again to switch modes.
[Chakra Adhesion Mode]
Screeeech!
My feet dragged as if glued to the ground.
That’s when it happened.
Crack!
My vision shifted to black and white, and a vivid crimson ‘path’ materialized.
〔It is time to sever the prey’s lifeline. Contractor.〕
The ninja’s passive skill ‘Ninja’s Instinct’ had activated.
I gazed at the red path extending from beneath my feet.
‘Should I follow it?’
If I followed this path and eliminated my opponent, I would receive bonus growth points.
‘I can’t miss this.’
[Chakra Release Mode]
The ground caved in beneath me, and my body surged forward.
Like an arrow, my form traced the exact path painted by the crimson brushstroke.
Whoooooosh──
I caught up to Chocosong in an instant, then shot past her entirely.
Far ahead, I streaked by.
And then, a tree in the diagonal direction. The bright red point the ‘path’ revealed emphasized that tree.
‘I need to kick off and bounce away from it.’
I had to quickly decipher the path’s meaning.
I twisted my body violently to adjust my trajectory.
──Tap!
Both my feet made contact with the tree.
Creeeeak….
The weight combined with my speed caused the tree to bend momentarily.
Boom!
I burst forward, releasing chakra once more.
The dark grayscale landscape warps as if being sucked inward.
Tremendous speed born from successive chakra releases.
Amid it all, only one thing is visible clearly—a crimson ‘line’.
Between the lower jaw and neck, the carotid artery glows an unusually vivid red.
I must sever that point in a single strike, channeling this speed and force.
Considering that Ril’s melee weapon damage factors in velocity to some degree….
‘One hit will be fatal.’
Swoosh.
A sharp gleam flashed from my waist.
──Shhwaaaack!
[First Blood!]
[Ninja’s Instinct achieved!]
[Total Chakra output increases!]
Crack… Thud!
The tree I had pushed off from finally toppled.

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