Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 251

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 251
88. Blade Against Blade (3)
The Windslash’s divine technique can only be activated when my health drops to 30% or below.
Not exactly an appealing condition.
But perhaps that’s why.
Unlike other divine techniques, there’s an immediate benefit upon learning it.
[Passive Effect: I can use one additional Windslash blade.]
I gain an extra blade capable of using the blink ability.
At this point, each blade’s cooldown is applied separately.
At level 6, the blink skill cooldown is 2 seconds, but with 2 Windslash blades, theoretically I can blink once every second.
Moreover, I can place the blades in different locations and choose between 2 positions to blink to.
It becomes an entirely different existence from the Windslash up to level 5. The playstyle itself transforms completely.
That’s why Jecheon Daeseong and Dotorimuk’s faces went pale.
‘Level 6?!’
The Windslash, now at level 6, had already burrowed into the center of their allied base.
[Hey! That guy’s level──]
He tried to alert his allies to this horrifying situation.
But it was already too late.
Crack!
Almond appeared from the empty space behind him.
With a perfect motion, I caught the blade and swung it.
──Shing!
A crimson line of blood traced across Jecheon’s neck.
[Blade Force]
Boom.
Blue flames erupted, delivering a shockwave.
Dotorimuk gasped and tumbled forward.
It wasn’t over yet.
Whoosh.
Almond’s body spun rapidly, and another blade strike cut through.
I was utilizing the Windslash’s passive ‘Rotational Strike,’ which increases damage with each rotation.
[Rotational Strike]
[Passive. When spinning and delivering a blade strike, damage increases by 12%. Stacks for each rotation. Maximum 3 stacks.]
A line of blood traced as I completed one rotation.
Slash!
[Damage Increased 12%]
Shing!
Each time Almond spun and delivered a blade strike, the damage increased progressively.
[Damage Increased 24%]
The final third rotation.
Shhwaaack!!
[Damage Increased 36%]
With the critical hit effect, Dotorimuk’s health is severed cleanly like hemp.
[Dotorimuk]
[Health 51%]
Even in the final moment of landing after three rotations, I drive my blade into his back, dealing damage.
Thunk!
[Dotorimuk]
[Health 33%]
A damage style that squeezes out every last 0.1 second of opportunity.
By the time my feet touched ground, Dotorimuk’s health was already shattered.
A perfect application of the spinning strike.
Dotorimuk had no choice but to swing his staff at me with desperate force.
[Staff Sweep]
Whoosh!
The staff swings powerfully, striking me precisely.
Clang…!
But the sound is strange.
What he struck wasn’t me, but the blade I had left behind.
‘What…?’
I’m already gone.
[Blink]
Crack!
An eerie presence is felt from behind Dotorimuk.
‘I never threw the blade!?’
Shhwaaack!
A blade slash cuts across Dotorimuk’s face as he turns around with an aggrieved expression.
[Dotorimuk]
[Health 23%]
‘That blade I planted in his back!?’
I had moved to the blade I’d embedded in his back and slashed with it.
Dotorimuk, panicked, swings his staff backward and activates an evasion skill.
He felt certain death was approaching.
[Phantom Clone Technique]
[Creates multiple non-attacking clones. These clones disappear when struck by enemy attacks, and reflect melee attacks.]
Poof!
Multiple clones suddenly appear, creating confusion for the opponent.
But it’s useless.
[Sword Technique]
I activate the sword technique toward the blade I had left behind.
Crash!
All my clones caught in the sword’s trajectory and shattered.
Since it was a ranged attack rather than close combat, the clones were useless and disappeared entirely.
Click.
The sword that swept away the clones returned to my hand.
Now wielding two blades, I hurled both simultaneously at Dotorimuk.
Clang!
Dotorimuk swung his staff to deflect one, but the other sailed past his shoulder.
I’d deliberately thrown it to miss.
A mind game.
‘Insane.’
Right now I was posing a riddle.
Which blade will I blink to?
The one you knocked to the ground, or the one that flew behind you?
Dotorimuk was confused, and I made my decision instantly.
[Blink]
Whoosh!
I moved to the blade that had sailed past his shoulder.
I’d caught him from behind.
Before Dotorimuk could even react, I seized the blade from mid-air and thrust it forward.
Thud!
The blade pierced straight through Dotorimuk’s back.
Only then did he spin around and extend his staff like a spear, stretching it to enormous length.
Whoooosh!
But it only cut through empty air.
[Blink]
Crack!
This time I moved to the blade Dotorimuk had deflected earlier.
Once again, he’d left his back exposed.
‘It was impossible from the start…!’
From the moment those two blades were thrown simultaneously, Dotorimuk never had a choice—there was no way to avoid having his back caught.
Now it’s over.
Having created distance and returned, the blade force damage had accumulated as well.
[Blade Force]
Whoooosh!
Blue flames rippled across the blade.
My body spun in a wide arc, cleaving Dotorimuk in two.
Crash!
Damage proportional to lost health combined with the spinning strike bonus damage.
The maximum damage a blink blade could deliver was realized.
[Enemy defeated!]
[Reckless Warrior → Dotorimuk]
Dotorimuk collapses.
All of this unfolded in mere seconds after Almond entered the melee.
“…Uuuaaahhh!”
King Gul was still screaming.

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King Gul offered his commentary.
“That’s insane!”
He accelerated his speech even further.
“An incredible spinning strike combo followed by that psychological warfare just now!!! So much happened in an instant!”
“What, what is this! What’s happening right now! Flash flash whoooosh! And then!”
“That’s truly relentless damage output, right!? After entry, blade surge! Spinning strike! Spinning strike! Spinning strike! Blink! Then sword technique to burst all the clones and blink again! Blade surge! A complete full combo without a moment to breathe!!!”
As King Gul explained with breathless intensity, the viewers finally began to react properly.
-King Gul’s gonna run out of breath lol
-Whoa is this Jeon-ja-pa’s return?!
-Dude that was insane
-What, what did I just watch?
-I don’t even know why he died lol
-Why did all the clones suddenly burst at once??
But the situation didn’t wait for their reactions.
Danmuji wasn’t idle either.
“Wait, hold on! Takoyaki is dead!?”
[Enemy defeated!]
[Danmuji → Takoyaki]
Danmuji had caught Takoyaki with a coordinated attack from the Beast.
Now he turned his blade toward Almond.
“Almond! It’s a 2 versus 1 situation! Are you fighting!?”
The answer came in 0.1 seconds.
Whoosh!
Almond threw his dagger without a moment’s hesitation.
One dagger flew in a straight line, tearing through the air.
Whoosh!
Another dagger traced a parabolic arc high into the distance.
“He threw two daggers, right!? Another psychological play!”
Danmuji responded with ‘Gust’.
[Gust]
Whiiiine!
His Windslash swept fiercely, shooting a gust of wind in a straight line.
Whoosh!
Almond’s blade, flying in a straight line, gets caught in the whirlwind and swept upward.
“Danmuji deflected the short sword with that whirlwind!”
Danmuji saw this moment—with the short sword flying far away—as his opportunity.
[Turn and bite.]
[Roger!]
The Beast charges forward, and Danmuji slices his own palm with wind.
Shing!
〔I invoke the contract sealed in blood.〕
Crimson droplets scatter, and red text appears in that exact color.
[Divine Descent Technique – Crimson Wind]
“A Divine Descent Technique!”
“He reached Level 6 after defeating Taco!”
“This means he’s going for the kill!”
Whiiiing!
A scarlet wind of light converges upon his blade.
His sword swells to three or four times the size of his body.
[Range increased]
[Attack power increased]
Not only do range and attack power increase.
[Every third attack launches enemies into the air]
[Windslash form can be shaped freely]
[All attacks penetrate enemies]
An enhanced Divine Descent Technique with these additional options.
[Time remaining 00:10]
The duration is ten seconds.
Danmuji swings his blade lightly.
Boom-crack-crash!!!
The crimson wind sweeps across a distance that should have been unreachable. Almond could have been caught in that wind as well, but.
[Blink]
Crack!
Almond’s figure vanishes naturally with a flash of electricity.
This was something Danmuji had anticipated.
‘I knew it would come to this.’
Danmuji knows how to counter a blink swordsman. No matter how flashy the blink appears, the destination is always predetermined.
‘He’ll go for the short sword I knocked away earlier.’
He had memorized the location of that short sword he’d deflected, and now he swings his blade toward that exact spot.
Boom-crash-bang!
The crimson wind engulfs that area.
‘?!’
But suddenly, a massive impact struck the top of my head.
Whoooosh!
A blade slash descending from my crown.
It was Almond.
Almond had appeared from above my head.
The blade strike, enhanced with a spinning motion, claimed nearly 20% of my health.
‘What the…’
Danmuji tilted my head in confusion.
But the broadcast commentators watching in third-person perspective knew the answer.
“When Almond threw his blade initially, he threw one forward and one upward! The one thrown upward is only now falling down!”
“He threw it incredibly high to exploit the time delay—a feint! That’s the mark of a player who truly masters archery mechanics!?”
“Is this really the sense of someone using Blink Blade in actual combat for the first time!?”
That was it.
Anticipating that I would deflect it with a gust, he had thrown an additional blade high into the sky beforehand.
Danmuji’s vision had been focused on the dagger flying forward, missing the other one entirely.
‘It doesn’t matter.’
It was a rather cute feint, but from the kill angle I was calculating, such a variable made little difference.
I calmly spun backward and countered with a sweeping strike of my crimson Windslash.
[Blink]
Crack!
Almond vanished once more, as expected.
‘Now I’ve truly got him.’
Danmuji laughed.
This time, there was only one possible location where Almond could have blinked to. Because of the cooldown.
Boom-crack-crash!
Almond was swept up in the crimson wind.
“Ahhh! Almond got hit!”
“That blink was just too predictable!?”
[Reckless Warrior]
[Health 80%]
20% of health vanished in an instant.
‘This is the third hit. It’s over.’
Moreover, this was the third attack.
“Ahhh! He’s airborne!?”
Due to the Windslash’s ascension effect, my opponent was launched into the air.
[Status Abnormality: Airborne]
In this state, no skills could be used.
This is where the Beast and Windslash combination comes in.
[Heavenly Slash]
Heavenly Slash cuts through Almond with the Windslash.
[Pounce]
The Beast pins me to the ground with Pounce.
What they call a CC chain.
Chaining together abilities that inflict status abnormalities, leaving the opponent helpless until death.
“Aaah! I can’t do anything!?”
“What good is Blink if I’m locked down by CC!? That’s why Windslash is so difficult!”
Boom! Boom!
My health crumbles under the combined assault of the Beast and Windslash.
[Reckless Warrior]
[Health 22%]
My health has already dropped to 20% under the relentless crowd control.
“Ah. This chain is absolutely insane!”
[Reckless Warrior]
[Health 12%]
Just as Windslash raises his blade to deliver the finishing blow.
[Divine Descent Technique – Tidal Wave]
Splash—!
A wave crashes down from nowhere, knocking him back.
Glub…!
Both Windslash and the Beast suddenly find themselves floating in the water.
“Aaah! Miho finally arrived! She’s been on her way this whole time!”
It was Miho.
As a Supporter, she was poor and lacked movement speed items, so she arrived considerably late.
[Oh! Am I too late!?]
I respond while getting to my feet.
[No.]
The condition to use Divine Descent Technique was met—health below 30%.
[Perfect timing.]
Screech!
I immediately draw my blade across my palm.
〔You remember the contract sealed in blood, don’t you?〕
With Windslash’s voice, two crimson streams of mana surge forth.
My hair turns white as snow.
Crimson light flashes in my eyes, now burning red-hot.
[All enemies within a 10-meter radius are disarmed for 2 seconds.]
Tremble…!
All metal around me shudders.
The Windslash technique that allows perfect control of weapons.
In the moment this ability erupts, even the enemies’ weapons fall under my control.
And beyond that, two additional Windslashes manifest.
[Two Flashing Blades have been temporarily added.]
Two swords summoned as if bestowed from the heavens themselves.
A total of four blades now.
This was the Flashing Blade’s divine technique.
[Divine Technique (降神技) – Sword Dance of Four Spirits]
The Sword Dance of Four Spirits.
Whoooosh.
Four blades stood in a line before me as if possessed by their own consciousness.
[Remaining Duration]
[00:09]
For merely ten seconds, I could move the blades as I wished.
Remaining health: 12%.
For some, it might be insufficient health, insufficient time, but….
Crack—!
Slash—!
“N-No!? What, what is this!?”
“Insane!”
For me, it was more than enough.
“Not a single hit! Not even one hit connecting!?”
“All the blades are moving on their own!”
“The camera can’t keep up! The camera can’t keep up!”
“Crazy! This insane Sword Dance and Flashing Blades collaboration is maddening!”
“The enemy team must be absolutely losing their minds!”
Light flashed from all directions, and four blades relentlessly ravaged the Beast and Windslash.
They desperately tried to respond, but it was as if they were swinging wildly at invisible ghosts.
And moments later.
[Reckless Warrior! Double Kill!]
Goguma and Danmuji collapsed nearly simultaneously.
From this moment on, the game had slipped away to Balloon Stars….
[Victory]
The result was victory.

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