Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 254

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 254
89. We Were Not Wrong (3)
“Almond! Are you level 6!? Are you!?”
“I am!”
The Casters had been singing about level 6, level 6 for a reason—it meant I could escape faster.
With five enemies rushing mid to kill me alone, a single blink blade made escape impossible.
But with two blades?
There was a chance.
“I have to run now!”
If I survived, it would be a massive advantage for my team.
Five enemies had invested their time trying to kill me. That time wouldn’t be wasted.
Meanwhile, Balloon Stars could destroy towers elsewhere or eliminate enemy vision wards.
That’s why they sang level 6, level 6—not to tell me to blink through five enemies.
“First, Danmuji, Goguma, and Baeksuk are joining from mid to kill Almond… Wait! Almond! Are you going in with that!?”
King Gul jumps up in shock.
“Both blades into enemy territory!?”
Because I had thrown both blades toward the enemy lines. One at Goguma, one at Danmuji.
The three who were rushing toward me.
Goguma, Baeksuk, and Danmuji froze for an instant.
‘Is he really going in?’
‘Is this real?’
‘Is it a fake?’
Two of the three thought both blades were fakes.
A pretend blink, throwing in a completely different direction while turning to run away.
Only Danmuji reacted properly.
‘…He’s coming!’
His eyes widened as he saw the golden lightning crackling past his side.
Crackle!
A flash of golden electricity passing in an instant.
[Blink]
Whoosh!
My figure materialized from the air, casting a shadow over Danmuji.
I had truly charged into enemy territory.
Currently three versus one.
I had thrown myself into a battlefield that would soon become five versus one.
“He’s really going in! Could it be he doesn’t want to give up the mid tower!? But the situation is too bad for that!”
“Fortunately, Goguma and Baeksuk are running toward where Almond was! They didn’t expect him to charge at them!”
A one-versus-one with Danmuji created in that instant.
Gulp.
Danmuji swallowed hard.
My body suspended in mid-air spun in an instant.
Three consecutive slashes carved through space as if grinding everything away.
A vicious blade trajectory descended from above, sweeping downward with terrible force.
Clang clang clang!
“Blade clash! I’ve got it blocked!”
Danmuji managed to defend against it.
And just as he was about to counterattack, I threw my blade and vanished.
[Blink]
Crackle!
I didn’t disappear toward the thrown blade.
That blade was still on cooldown.
“Ah! Almond! Blinking while throwing another blade?! But not the one you just threw! The one from before?!”
I had teleported to the other one of the two blades I’d thrown initially.
It was where Goguma stood.
Whoosh!
Goguma took the blade strike in an instant.
[What, what is this!?]
He was completely disoriented.
“Wow! A perfect spinning strike! And throwing again!?”
Goguma countered with the Beast’s claws and slashed, but he was only cutting through empty air.
I had already thrown my next blade.
[Blink]
Crackle!
I vanished again.
“Ah! Where is it this time!?”
“This one’s the blade you threw when fighting Danmuji earlier!”
Rather than moving to the blade I’d just thrown, I continued the pattern of teleporting to the one thrown before that.
Intellectually they understood it, but responding in this urgent situation was far too difficult for them.
From the perspective of those being attacked, the assaults felt like they were coming in syncopated rhythm.
Crackle!
Whoosh!
Crackle crackle!
Whoosh!
Despite unleashing consecutive blinks and attacks, I hadn’t landed a single solid hit.
“Ah! This is taking too long!?”
“I can’t land even one hit!”
“Now Dotorimuk and the Supporter, along with Daechou, are joining in!”
Then, in that moment…
Crackle!
‘?’
‘What?’
‘Ah….’
A sense of futility washed over the faces of Godanbaek’s three contractors.
Almond had already returned to his own turret as if this entire skirmish had never happened.
Almond gazed at the three gathered before him—no, now five.
‘Next time….’
Whisk.
He spun both blades as if loosening his wrists, seemingly deciding on his next target.
“…!”
King Gul was momentarily at a loss for words.
Originally, all five of Godanbaek had come to hunt Almond, but now it looked as though Almond was the one deliberating which of the five to kill.
“Who exactly came to hunt whom!?”
All five stood momentarily dazed, staring at Almond.
It made clear who truly owned this mid lane.
“Godanbaek! We’re wasting time!”
Time had been lost.
[Pour it all out!]
Danmuji, sensing urgency, suddenly activated his divine technique and swung his blade.
Crash!
“That’s a divine technique right now!!”
Crack!
Almond hurled his blade and vanished again.
“Dotorimuk and the Supporter, Daechou too—they’re jumping in! This is a true five-man gank!”
All five formed ranks and charged at Almond.
“Ah! Finally! The Balloon Stars members have arrived!”
However, time had already been lost.
Naturally, Balloon Stars had a response ready. They chose to protect Almond.
“Miho and Strawberry Shooter arriving! Engaging Baeksuk!”
The bottom duo who arrived first unleashed projectiles from the south against the enemies.
Facing them were the opposing bottom duo, Baeksuk and Daechou.
Bang bang!
They exchanged projectiles while advancing toward mid as much as possible.
“The positioning is intense!”
“Jecheon is charging! But where did Almond go again!?”
“Balloon Gum is rushing in too!? He’s appearing from completely unexpected angles!”
“Takoyaki!? Pushing back the Beast!”
Now Takoyaki had joined as well.
A 4v5 skirmish erupted in mid lane.
Skills flew everywhere as both sides’ health bars began depleting rapidly.
Blinking about in all directions, ravaging the battlefield—
In a team fight where countless skills are unleashed, you get hit by stray projectiles regardless.
[Reckless Warrior]
[Health 35%]
My health had dropped to 35% before I knew it.
“Huh!? Almond’s health is at 35%—if we’re not careful, we’ll trigger his divine technique condition!”
Danmuji shouts with wide eyes.
[Now! We have to kill him in one shot!]
[Focus fire on Almond!]
If my health drops just 5-10% more from 35%, we’d only be satisfying the divine technique activation condition.
At this moment, they need to finish me with one perfect burst of damage.
That’s why Godanbaek concentrates all firepower.
“Godanbaek! Activating almost every divine technique! Firing at Almond right now!?”
“I just need to kill you! Focus!”
But that’s the beauty of a 5v5 team fight—things don’t always go as planned.
“However, Balloon Stars only needs to protect him, so this doesn’t work as intended!?”
Whoosh!
A massive figure bursts from an unexpected angle.
He was the variable.
“Huh!? Balloon Gum joining late! His positioning! His positioning is too good!”
[Headbutt]
Crash!
A headbutt delivered without much hesitation.
[Status Abnormality: Airborne]
[Status Abnormality: Airborne]
.
.
.
Three people are sent flying into the air by this headbutt.
“C-crazy giant! What a headbutt!”
“This is why you play the giant! Even when you’re getting pounded every day, if you just charge in, something happens!”
-Insane lol
-This is Balloon Gum for you!
-Lol how would you guys ever predict Bronze’s strategy lol
A brief gap in damage output.
In that moment, a chilling sound echoes that makes Godanbaek’s spine tingle.
〔You remember the contract sealed in blood, don’t you.〕
My health bar had stopped at exactly 30%.
Whoosh!
My hair whips in crimson mana, burning white as it flutters.
Windslash Blade Technique activates.
All the weapons of the enemies around me became temporarily useless.
Crack—!
My divine form scattered in all directions.

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After my divine technique activated.
All the casters could manage to say was this:
“Almond!? Almond!?”
“Woooow!”
“This is insane!”
It couldn’t be helped.
With the Blade Against Blade technique, I appeared as though I were flying across the battlefield with four blades at once.
[The Reckless Warrior is going berserk!]
[Reckless Warrior → Baeksuk]
Enemies collapsed wherever I passed like a flash of light.
[Master of the Battlefield! The Reckless Warrior!]
[Reckless Warrior → Goguma]
-Wow.
-Insane…
-This is crazy
-Wow;;;
“Did you put an ex-girlfriend’s soul into the blade too!? It’s cutting with insane persistence!”
“This is already nerfed down to 10 seconds! If it was still 15 seconds before the nerf, we’d be in trouble!”
It took exactly 10 seconds to cut down the last Danmuji.
[Reckless Warrior Triple Kill!]
[The Reckless Warrior is legendary!]
[Reckless Warrior → Danmuji]
The result of the 5v5 teamfight was decided in 10 seconds.
[Finished!]
It shouldn’t have been one-sided.
But the result was completely one-sided.
“Balloon Stars survived completely! Godanbaek is all dead!?”
“How is this possible? It’s not like we dove the tower!!”
Naturally, the game was turned around at this moment.
It felt exactly like watching a déjà vu of the first set.
About 10 minutes later.
Bang!
The caster struck the table and shouted loudly.
“Victory~~~!”
The game was over.
The scoreboard that the caster pointed to displayed a score that no one had anticipated.
[Balloon Stars 2 : Godanbaek 0]
-This is insane lol
-Wow the underdog wins!
-I’m losing it lol
-Crazy lol
The casters reviewed the highlight of Almond’s blink blade while discussing various points.
At the end, King Gul chuckled and made this prediction.
“I think this might end up being 3 to 0?”
-Thinking about leaving early hehe lol
-No way King Gul!
-Crazy lol he’s cursing himself
-Why would you say that!
-lol ‘that statement’

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Godanbaek’s waiting room.
Danmuji spoke to his teammates.
“We were wrong. Or more precisely, I was….”
He admitted that he had been mistaken.
It wasn’t an easy thing for a professional gamer to do.
“It wasn’t what I thought it would be.”
He had harbored a certain bias about the blink blade all this time.
Since it was his main pick, he had formed a kind of data-based belief through his accumulated experience.
“I always thought the blink blade was heavily dependent on team composition.”
First of all, the blink blade is heavily dependent on team composition. Not just the enemy’s composition, but our team’s as well.
The entire team had to sacrifice the early game for him. It was natural since mid lane had no impact on the game before level 6.
It wasn’t for nothing that picking it in solo rank earned you flame.
Because of this, the blink blade actually didn’t need any special counters.
You could render it completely helpless just by poking it slightly during the early stages.
“I was wrong about this. It turned out to be something that could be overcome.”
However, this was only the case when the opposing contractor was using a blink blade in a human-like manner.
Danmuji had no choice but to acknowledge it.
“It exceeded imagination.”
As he watched the replay of Almond’s blink blade, he realized something. This guy was definitely playing from some other dimension.
“Blade Force and Spinning Strike—if you push these two skills to their absolute limits, you can generate enough damage to change a teamfight even without much items. I know it theoretically. And I’ve even tried it occasionally. But to actually make this happen every single time….”
Danmuji trailed off.
There was nothing left to say.
The enemy is strong. He couldn’t keep repeating this over and over again.
It would demoralize his teammates.
“Does that mean we can’t win?”
He asked to boost his teammates’ morale.
“Not at all. Actually, we’re ahead in skill. That secret weapon variable was the only problem. Now….”
Swish.
“I’m going to adjust the ban like this.”
Danmuji modified the ban list written on the whiteboard.
[Ban List]
#1. Blink Blade
#2. Reina
#3. Sana
Blink Blade took the place of Iron Ball.
It was Almond’s three bans.

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