Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 22

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 22
8. Assassination Mission (4)
All the soldiers guarding the castle had vanished.
Now I was moving inside.
“Entering now.”
As I opened the corridor door and stepped through, the castle lord was waiting there, like a scene straight out of a movie.
“…We definitely launched a surprise attack. Yet you were waiting for us.”
Almond muttered without much thought.
hahahahaha
lol lol lol lol
That’s a director’s style lol lol lol
Equipment software lolololol
hahahaha
But apparently, this scratched an itch for the gamers. Having never played a game like this before actually helped me provide an objective assessment.
‘So is that castle lord the boss?’
I’d expected the castle lord to be some portly gentleman like a corrupt nobleman with a protruding belly.
He was clad entirely in black armor, looking far more like a knight than a castle lord.
There was an atmosphere suggesting he might attack at any moment.
And indeed, he did.
Clang!
A massive sword planted itself in front of Almond.
A brutally enormous blade that could shatter bone with just a graze—or rather, a blunt weapon masquerading as a sword.
“Are you alone?”
The castle lord asked while still seated in his chair.
He showed no sign of strain despite hurling that colossal sword.
‘This must be the boss.’
Without bothering to answer, I drew my bowstring.
“!”
But only then did I realize the problem.
‘…Where do I even aim?’
There was nowhere to place an arrow.
The black armor the castle lord wore.
It was an enormous mass of iron.
A pitch-black protective shell that covered his entire body thoroughly.
No matter how masterful an archer I was, arrows couldn’t pierce through steel.
-Why aren’t you shooting?
-Seems like there’s nowhere to shoot.
-????
-Oh…
-Shouldn’t you be using a crossbow instead?
-The bow won’t penetrate that armor.
Gulp.
Almond’s Adam’s apple bobbed.
Another wave of tension coursed through my nerves.
‘It doesn’t seem like it’ll work.’
I felt it too.
There was currently no way to pierce through that black armor standing before me.
I rolled my eyes around.
In a situation like this, shouldn’t I find some other method? Could there be some trick?
“Huh….”
Clang. Clang.
But instead of a trick, an unpleasant metallic sound rang out, and three more knights appeared.
They were knights armed the same as the lord. Their armor was certainly different, but from Almond’s perspective, there was nowhere vulnerable to shoot.
-Wow….
-What do we do?
-Is Almond finally going to die!
-This is going to be tough.
-Looks like a place where you need to use blunt force.
Blunt force?
I hesitated for a moment. Now that I thought about it, the lord had thrown me that massive sword earlier, which was practically a blunt weapon.
But I quickly shook my head.
Using an unfamiliar weapon in this situation didn’t seem like it would improve things.
For now, I’d test my luck with the bow, my familiar weapon. If I died, I’d think about it then.
‘Let me observe.’
Every game has a solution.
I haven’t played many games, but isn’t that a basic rule? Kingdom should be the same.
If I couldn’t progress through the game just because my weapon was a bow, they shouldn’t have given me the option to choose weapons in the first place.
I carefully scanned back and forth between the lord and the three knights.
They were slowly but steadily approaching me.
Thud. Thud.
The sight of the black-armored figures walking toward me with massive swords raised was terrifying.
-Ugh…
-Trembling trembling trembling
-So scary.
-I think we need to dodge first?
-Just dying once might be good.
-Just shoot anywhere!
The viewers seemed even more tense than I was.
I was tense too, but in perfect focus mode, I felt no tension or fear.
My eyes were rapidly observing the armor of all four figures….
“!”
I discover something.
The difference between Seongjoo’s helmet and the knights’ helmets.
‘A ring.’
Twang.
I finally nock the bowstring.
In that instant.
“Haaaah!”
One of the knights, who had been approaching with relatively gentlemanly steps, charges forward with a battle cry.
Almond pulls back the bowstring and throws his body to the side.
“!?”
Boom!
The knight’s sword shatters the innocent marble floor instead, and Almond’s arrow flies from the right.
The arrow strikes the helmet—precisely the ring at the crown’s edge where the decorative plume is inserted.
Clang!!
A loud metallic sound rings out, and something remarkable happens.
“…What?”
The arrow catches on the ring and pushes forward, dragging the helmet up and off.
-?
-WTF?
-…?
-???
The chat floods with question marks.
Understanding dawns a beat too late.
-He knocked the helmet off!?
-It actually came off?
Hahahahahaha
No lol
-That’s actually possible?
-A powerful bow shot definitely has enough force for that
Clatter!
The knight’s helmet tumbles loudly across the ground. Ripped off roughly and scraping his face in the process, the exposed knight’s face is swollen and red.
-???: This game sucks.
It’s not like that thing you only see in comics where the sword just slices off your clothes lol
-It actually happened;;
“Nice.”
Proving it was no accident.
Almond quickly rolls again and knocks the helmets off the remaining two knights as well.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Like a basketball player launching a shot while falling backward, he throws his body around and fires arrows.
-Fade away, dammit…
-Have you completely lost it, Almond…?
-Hey! You’re not human, are you!?
Clang!
Both arrows stripped the helmets clean off the remaining knights.
-But what about Seongjoo? He’s different somehow?
I can’t translate this as it doesn’t represent actual Korean words or meaningful text. “ㄷㄷㄷㄷ” is just the consonant “ㄷ” repeated four times, which has no semantic meaning in Korean.
-What’s next?
-No idea.
I couldn’t use the same method on Seongjoo.
Besides, these knights weren’t just standing there taking it either.
“Die!”
Whoosh!
A massive blade swept through where my head had been.
I rolled across the ground again and fired an arrow.
Thwack!
The arrow lodged in the knight’s head, and he collapsed.
Thud.
Two more knights rushed at me simultaneously, but the distance between us was already considerable.
Zip! Zip!
Two rapid shots followed in succession.
Screeeech…
Unable to stop their momentum, the two corpses slid all the way to my feet.
Both had arrows embedded in exactly the same spot on their heads.
-Looking at it like this, archery is just cheating lol lol lol
-Now that’s real archery!
-Kyaaaa!
-What about Seongjoo now!?
Only then did Seongjoo rise from his position.
“Impressive.”
I didn’t answer.
‘I’m running out of time.’
I needed to confirm whether my drawing was correct. For that, I had only ten seconds.
Whiiiing!
A flash of blue light crossed my vision.
[Skill. Rapid Fire. Activated!]
Those three knights from before were meant to activate this skill.
It was only possible because I’d taken them all out with headshots.
-Oh?
-Right! This was it!
-But how…?
Thwack!
I drove every arrow from my quiver straight into the ground.
“You can’t kill me with arrows.”
With those words, Seongjoo rose to his feet and began walking forward with a heavy, thunderous sound.
-He straight up said arrows won’t work lmao
-Why even do the bow challenge! lmao
-Turns out it’s trash lmaooo
-Official: Don’t attempt the bow challenge.
-This shitty game ugh
At this moment, few believed in Almond’s victory.
Even with rapid-fire capability, how could one possibly win against an opponent with no openings for arrows to penetrate?
No one could see the “path” to victory.
‘I can do this.’
I repeated it to myself, nocking an arrow and carefully steadying my breathing.
Inhale.
The moment my breath stopped.
The first arrow was released.
Whoosh!
The arrow struck Seongjoo as he slowly approached.
However…
Clang!
It bounced away with a resounding crash.
“Don’t you understand words? I told you something like that won’t work.”
The impact of the arrow did cause him to pause momentarily.
But Seongjoo took another step forward.
“When I reach you, I’ll grind you to dust. You’ve made my castle such a mess…”
Clang!!
Yet before his next foot could even touch the ground, another arrow flew and struck him.
“?!”
It was the same spot as before.
Not just the same general area.
I had struck the exact same one-dimensional coordinate point without even a millimeter of deviation.
This impossible accuracy continued relentlessly.
Whoosh!
Clang!
Clang!
“This… what kind of brute force…!”
I had placed approximately fifty arrows on the ground. Thirty percent of them were consumed in an instant, and every single one had struck Seongjoo’s heart, dead center.
“You think this will change anything?!”
Seongjoo charged forward with a roar, but Almond remained unmoved.
Just as with the first shot, he nocked the next arrow with identical focus, drew, and released in one fluid motion.
The arrow cleaved through the air.
Clang!
It struck the exact same point.
Now it became a rhythm.
Nocking arrows, drawing the bowstring, releasing—the process repeated in rapid succession, leaving afterimages in its wake.
Twang! Snap!
Again and again.
Countless arrows tore through the air.
Every single one flew toward the same point and struck true.
Clang-clang-clang-clang!!!
As if welded by arrowheads, sparks of steel erupted from the armor.
-Insane…
-What kind of accuracy…
-??
Screech…
When the final arrow was nocked, Almond sensed it instinctively.
‘It’s over.’
Clang!!!
Seongjoo’s armor shattered with a deafening crash.
“!”
Shock flooded Seongjoo’s expression, but it didn’t last long.
Thud!
The arrow that followed pierced cleanly through his heart.
-Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond!
-Mom, when I grow up I want to be Almond! Mom, when I grow up I want to be Almond! Mom, when I grow up…
-Seongjoo heart attack lol
-Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut!
“Mom, when I grow up, I want to be an almond! Mom, when I grow up, I want to be an almond! Mom, when I grow up…”
Seongju’s heart-fluttering moment is crazy.
Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut! Bug cut!
Hahahahaha this is insane, seriously
Literally a heart attack ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
The chat exploded so wildly that several users needed to be banned, and donations flooded in like waves.
[Arrowtip donated ‘1,000 won’.]
[I only lost to one person]
The chat was in such chaos that several people had to be banned, and donations came flooding in like waves right after.
[Arrowhead has donated 1,000 won.]
I only lose to one person.
[Gaogaigar donated 5,000 won.]
[My drill will! Pierce the heavens… Wait, is that not it?]
[Like this one donated 10,000 won.]
[How many times do you need to hit the same spot before the armor breaks…?]
Watching the flood of donations and chat messages, I steadied my breathing.
‘I pulled it off again.’
The morning Capsule training session, and the afternoon castle infiltration Quest.
It was a schedule that could easily exhaust anyone.
Yet the exhilaration of successfully completing the Quest coursed through my veins, and fresh energy surged through me.
I responded to the viewers who had sent donations with an energetic voice.
“Thank you, Arrowhead. Thank you, Gaogaigar. Like This One, I didn’t count exactly, but it looks like it breaks after about 40 hits. Thank you all.”
The donation reaction comments flowed out quite smoothly. Still a beginner, but I was already showing the bearing of a broadcaster.
-Ooooh.
-Almond’s improved lolol
-He’s not gonna shoot an arrow at his head again, right?
-Is that really the same Almond who couldn’t even make a broadcast room?
-Almond is no longer a newbie.
Almond had definitely become more skilled. At least when it came to smaller donation amounts.
“Now, let’s go see the surprised expression on Lady Emilia’s face… Huh?”
Pababam! Pam~!
At the sight of the donation that appeared with a loud trumpet fanfare, I was completely stunned.
[Seojia donated a whopping 300,000 won.]
[Wow, that’s amazing!]
Excluding the joint broadcast with Dotorimuk, this was the first donation over 100,000 won to appear.
Even that 100,000 won had been from Dotorimuk… so this was essentially my first major donation.
-Oh. Please shut up, Malfoy.
-Tsk.
-Even 100,000 won makes the broadcast crazy. What happens with 300,000 won? lolol
-Whoa
-What now? Is he gonna do a somersault while broadcasting? lolol
-Isn’t Seojia the person who appeared in Dotorimuk’s broadcast last time? Said Almond was handsome when he saw his face.
-The life of the wealthy…
-What kind of crazy reaction will 300,000 won get…
-Why is a crazy broadcast already confirmed? lolol
-Don’t do anything crazy! Don’t do anything crazy!
The viewers were already worried about what kind of outrageous reaction I would show.

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