Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 223

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 223
76. A New Card (3)
The enemy fell.
He died from nothing but the Spirit Wave.
‘So they do die eventually.’
I glanced at the enemy’s fading corpse before refocusing on minion farming.
-Wooooooow!
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
-So cool!
The audience erupted at how I’d taken down the enemy without sparing them a glance, using only the wave.
I would’ve loved to respond to their enthusiasm, but having chosen the Honryeongsa, I didn’t have that luxury.
I was carefully cataloging everything I’d learned while using the Honryeongsa.
‘Weak at level one.’
It was certain—this character was weak at level one.
Comparing the Spirit Wave to Reina’s arrows, the base damage wasn’t drastically different.
But didn’t Reina’s damage increase with each combo she landed (despite her low rating)?
The Spirit Wave wasn’t a basic attack, so it had a 1.5-second cooldown with no damage scaling.
‘How many times did I actually hit them?’
It felt like I’d landed fifteen to twenty shots.
Given that I could fire every 1.5 seconds, it meant I’d been attacking for roughly thirty seconds straight.
In Ril, thirty seconds was enough time for all five Contractors to die without issue.
This meant the damage required constant pummeling for the entire duration.
That’s what it took to kill them.
Thank goodness the opponent was Gold-ranked; if it had been someone skilled like Mosol, I would’ve struggled.
‘This skill does have advantages though.’
There was one irreplaceable advantage.
I could control the projectile.
‘It feels like I get two or three chances.’
With arrows, one miss and it’s over. But with this, there’s another opportunity.
I can keep adjusting the Spirit Wave’s direction until it disappears.
In theory, if I master the control, I could use it like a homing missile.
Of course, only a handful of people could pull off such control.
That’s probably why Melly reacted this way.
〔Wow! You’re actually good at this!?〕
Melly’s spirit clung to me.
Most Contractors rarely let their spirits manifest outside like this.
Whether it was because of the Honryeongsa concept or her personality, Melly popped out quite frequently.
〔Why did you only come play with me now!? Let’s hang out together from now on, okay!?〕
Melly didn’t cling to just anyone like this.
Despite her childlike personality, she didn’t hold back from speaking bluntly because of it.
Not a few Contractors had given up after being wounded by her sharp tongue.
The reason Melly was acting like this now was because Almond had overcome the entry barrier of multitasking far too easily.
Melly recognized such people as ‘spirit-affinity’ Contractors.
〔From what I can see, you have talent for Honryeongsa!〕
In other words, someone with talent for Honryeongsa.
‘The spirit’s personality is a bit of a drawback….’
Meanwhile, Almond was counting Melly’s pestering as a disadvantage of the Honryeongsa pick.
Melly, oblivious to this, suggested the next skill with an excited expression.
〔Come on, summon the spirit entities! You’ve got plenty stacked up, right?〕
“Now? There are no enemies.”
〔What do you mean there are no enemies?〕
Melly giggled and darted forward. Her small finger pointed to where an enemy Watchtower stood.
〔That one’s there.〕
A Watchtower?
Almond tilted my head in confusion.
‘Destroy a Watchtower at level 2?’
With level 2 damage, it would take forever to destroy a Watchtower.
In Ril, Watchtowers are typically destroyed at level 4 minimum, usually in level 5-6 fights.
It might be possible in the Bottom lane where two Contractors go together, but destroying a Watchtower at level 2 in the Mid Lane was hard to imagine.
‘Spirits rarely make incorrect judgments.’
Almond pondered for a moment.
‘Besides, the opponent is just Gold anyway.’
With a hint of Gold contempt, I decided to attempt the summoning.
“Alright. Let me try.”
〔While taking the motion, bring the corpses around into your field of view one by one.〕
I decided to follow her instructions and try it.
After creating the cognitive motion to activate the spirit entity summoning, I swept across the spots where the Minions had fallen.
Ting! Ting! Ting!
A clear sound rang out as the Minion corpses began glowing with a faint violet light one by one.
〔The corpses glowing purple are the ones you can raise!〕
The design was intuitive enough that I could understand it without needing this explanation.
However….
‘There aren’t enough corpses.’
There were fewer corpses than the number of spirit entities I had accumulated.
‘Let me just work with what I have.’
More corpses would appear once the Minions came anyway.
Without worrying too much, I created the cognitive motion to begin the summoning.
[Spirit Entity Summoning]
Kuuung──
A heavy sound echoed as violet mist spread low across the ground.
From within the mist, shadowy figures rose to their feet one by one.
[Thought Form]
[Thought Form]
[Thought Form]
.
.
.
A total of 41 Thought Forms had materialized.
They wielded swords and bows blazing with violet light, their eyes gleaming as they awaited only the Honryeongsa’s command.
‘The lane is completely packed.’
Almond was inwardly astonished at the scale, far larger than he’d anticipated.
The 41 Thought Forms were more than enough to fill the entire Mid Lane.
At this scale, it actually seemed possible to destroy the Watchtower.
〔Now move those adorable Thought Forms for me! That’s the only way we can have real fun!〕
Following Melly’s suggestion, Almond focused his consciousness.
It required a level of concentration entirely different from controlling a single spirit’s wave.
After all, he’d summoned a full 41 of them at once.
〔There are too many, so one at a time…〕
Crack…!
Sparks ignited simultaneously in the eyes of all 41 Thought Forms.
〔Huh! All at once!? Wooow!〕
Almond let Melly’s excitement go in one ear and out the other, focusing on his commands.
‘Forward.’
The Thought Forms at the front, wielding swords blazing with violet light, glided smoothly forward in flight.
Being in a semi-spectral state, their feet didn’t touch the ground—they drifted weightlessly.
Whoooosh…!
Thanks to this, despite such a large force moving, not a single footstep echoed.
──Boom!
One of the Thought Forms at the very front was scattered into smoke by the Watchtower’s attack.
It died in a single hit.
‘One, one is weak. But….’
However, the Watchtower’s attack speed was quite slow.
While the Thought Form at the front was destroyed, the others surrounded the Watchtower.
‘Attack.’
Slash!
Nearly twenty violet mana swords raised in unison.
Crash-boom-boom-boom!!!
With nearly twenty blades striking the Watchtower simultaneously, a sound like an explosion erupted.
The Watchtower fought back desperately to eliminate the Thought Forms, but due to the limitations of its attack speed, clearing all the ones that clung to it would take an eternity.
And the Thought Forms were far from finished.
“Hahaha! This is fun! Destroy everything! Now try drawing the bow!”
I concentrated my consciousness on the thought-form archers now holding bows.
‘Draw.’
Giiiiing──
Nearly twenty bowstrings were drawn taut.
Every single one of them had an extraordinary drawing posture.
‘Hold.’
Nocking, drawing, holding….
Then, the release—without any apparent intention to shoot.
──Fwooooosh!!!
Countless arrows imbued with violet mana soared up like a swarm of bees.
And they all struck the center of the watchtower simultaneously.
Boom-boom-boom!
The watchtower’s health was instantly reduced by over 30%.
“Whoa?! You’re so good at shooting! What the—!”
Melly bounced around, praising me.

* * *
“Huff… Huff… No, this can’t be!”
Yangpa, who had just respawned.
He was rushing forward with lightning magic cast and ready in both hands.
Now the watchtower came into view.
‘What the hell is this….’
It was practically a scene from hell itself.
Violet mist pouring from countless thought-forms, and the watchtower burning fiercely.
Its health was nearly half gone.
‘The watchtower’s health is almost completely halved?’
How could this even happen?
Yangpa harbored complaints internally, but in truth, he was lucky.
Because I, being new to Honryeongsa, had hesitated and fumbled with the summoning instead of acting immediately, the watchtower still had half its health remaining. If I had judged correctly and attacked right away, there would be nothing but ruins left by now.
[Hey! Jungler! Where are you!]
Yangpa called for the Jungler.
It seemed the loss of defending alone would be greater.
[Sigh. Mid lane is insane. I’m coming. How did you even let him get 40 stacks!?]
[Ha….]
The Jungler sent a signal that he was on his way, and Yangpa immediately unleashed area magic on the thought-forms.
Crackle!
Boom!
Three or four of them vanishing with each blast.
Perhaps matchups truly were matchups after all.
‘These things disappear with just one hit, yet their numbers have grown so much…’
Thought-forms die the moment a Contractor lands even a single attack on them. The concept being that Contractors possess powerful souls.
Simply put, they have extremely fragile health.
They die from a single basic attack, so area-of-effect magic sweeps through them in an instant.
‘They’re clearing up quickly.’
Just as I was finishing off most of the thought-forms clinging to the Watchtower.
“Huh…?”
Almond’s thought-forms suddenly turned around and began fleeing.
In truth, Yangpa should have been satisfied with just preventing the Watchtower’s destruction.
“If I leave those behind, it’ll be annoying later.”
Seeing the thought-forms running away, I wanted to chase them down and kill a few more.
It wasn’t a difficult task.
The enemy was running with their back turned, and our Jungler was coming too.
Yangpa dashed forward without much thought, and that was a mistake.
“Where do you think you’re running… huh?”
I had forgotten where I should have been positioned.
Step.
The moment I stepped into the Mid Lane.
‘What?’
A chilling sensation swept across my back.
Whoosh!
Purple flames erupted and blazed upward.
Behind me, new thought-forms were rising up. The ones Almond hadn’t been able to summon yet due to insufficient corpses.
‘No.’
Yangpa turned back toward Almond in shock.
Indeed, Almond was in the middle of casting a summoning.
When our eyes met, he smiled wickedly.
I’d been had.
‘It was a trap…?’
He’d deliberately lured me in to surround me.
But something was strange.
Summoning thought-forms requires thoughts.
‘How does he still have thoughts? And this many?’
Anyone seeing 40 thought-forms would assume that was all of them.
Yangpa was no exception.
There was no way for me to have predicted it.
That Almond had gathered 63 thoughts.
‘How many hits did I actually take!?’
It seemed too late to assess the situation now.
The close-range thought-forms that had caught me from behind began flying at me one by one.
Whoosh!
A violet sword aura swept across my field of vision.
Yangpa unleashed a lightning spell without hesitation.
[Burst]
A magic that engulfs the area around one’s body in an electrical storm.
Crack!
The specter nearby vanished into smoke.
With good luck, it had enough firepower to blow away up to ten of them at once.
But only one had disappeared.
‘They’re deliberately sending them one at a time, spaced out.’
Boom! Boom!
No matter how many spells I threw, it was difficult to catch more than two at once.
The specters never clustered together and refused to give me angles to sweep them with magic.
They only harassed me enough to obstruct my path.
‘What are they trying to do?’
Yet this way, the specters couldn’t deal much damage to me either.
Well, it was just misdirection anyway. That was fine.
“!?”
Only then did I notice.
Screech──
Countless ranged specters aiming at me from far away.
They’d clearly looked like they were retreating.
‘When did they come back?’
Their hit-and-run tactics felt like a truly living army.
They released their bowstrings in unison.
Whoooosh──!
Over twenty arrows pierced into my head as if being pulled in.
──Splatter!
“Ugh…!”
[Health 50%]
Half my health was gone.
The damage from a single specter was negligible, but taking arrows from twenty of them was a different story.
‘This is ridiculous….’
The damage wasn’t designed with the assumption of taking all twenty arrows in the first place. Of course the damage output was absurd.
The truly ridiculous part was actually Almond’s control in landing all twenty arrows.
‘How is he hitting all of them!?’
I was starting to think I might die again at this rate.
“I’m here!”
The Jungler appeared.
“Oh, you’re──!”
Almond’s reaction was even faster than Yangpa’s.
Whoosh!
In that instant, every ranged spirit entity drew their bowstrings toward the Jungler.
The arrows that would have gone to Yangpa flew at the Jungler in unison.
A honeycomb pattern formed across the Jungler’s face as he charged forward with momentum.
Splat splat splat splat!
“Damn it!”
The Jungler shielded his face with both arms and shouted.
“Argh!”
“Should we… retreat?”
Yangpa asked back with all his confidence drained. Then the Jungler bellowed.
“What crazy talk! We can’t control all of them anyway! Just charge! We’ve come this far!”
It seemed he wanted to push forward just to make the time invested in getting here worthwhile.
Honestly, Yangpa had no confidence.
‘Can’t control them all…? Really?’
The Jungler hadn’t witnessed Almond’s spirit entity control firsthand, so that’s why he said it.
Clang.
The Jungler gripped his hand axe firmly and shouted.
“Target the main body!”
Whoosh! Whoom!
The axe flew with a vicious sound, heading straight toward Almond.
It seemed Almond could have dodged, but he didn’t move an inch.
Clang!
A spirit entity intercepted it, deflecting the axe with its sword.
Of course, that spirit entity scattered into smoke from the impact of the Contractor’s attack.
But he didn’t need to counterattack himself.
Thud!
A spirit entity behind the Jungler leaped in and drove its sword into his back.
“What!?”
The Jungler spun around and swung his axe.
Whoosh!
The spirit entity nimbly arched its waist and dodged.
At the absurd sight, the Jungler’s jaw dropped.
Then he turned to Yangpa and spoke.
“These… these bastards are alive?”
Those were his last words.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
Countless arrows pierced his side. Not a single one missed, as expected.
“Aahhh…!”
From that moment on, Yangpa desperately ran backward, but arrows rained down on his back as he collapsed.
[Reckless Warrior Double Kill!]

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