Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 279

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Spinoff Episode 15
4. The Witch (4)
When Almond first conceived of this strategy, his initial thought was this.
‘But shouldn’t I hear Lete’s opinion on this too?’
After all, this body’s owner is Lete. If I employ this strategy I’ve chosen, it won’t be good for Lete’s body at all.
In the worst case scenario, perhaps….
‘Thank you for answering.’
Almond gazed down at his own forearm, repeating those words to himself.
「Protect Ran…」
Letters drawn in blood.
I didn’t know when they were carved, but it was clear this was a message Lete was sending to me.

* * *
“Where are you going!? Huh!? Where are you going?!”
Nemesis charged forward with a voice drenched in madness.
Crackle!
A crimson bolt of lightning seemed to rush toward me.
Ran spoke in a voice that trembled faintly, yet remained resolute.
“…Ha!”
Whoooosh!
His shield blazed with brighter light, as if heeding his cry.
‘Twice. I only need to hold out twice.’
Almond had asked him to endure just twice. Ran gritted his teeth and stood before Almond.
‘He must have found some way.’
The rushing crimson lightning rotated at the waist and drove a kick forward.
──Boom.
An impact of a different nature than before was delivered.
“Ugh…!”
Ran’s body was pushed backward in a long slide.
“Ahahaha! Ahahaha! So it can be broken like this too! You didn’t know, did you?!”
Crackle…!
Crimson mana began gathering into the tightly clenched fist.
Boom!
The moment it was unleashed, tremendous pressure crushed against the shield.
“Gasp…!”
A wheezing sound burst from Ran’s mouth as he endured.
Twice was already over. Yet the shield remained intact.
‘…?’
The impact striking the shield was far less than before.
Instead….
“Cough!”
Splatter.
Blood splatters onto the floor.
Witnessing this, Nemesis bursts into maniacal laughter.
‘He’s inflicting internal injuries?’
Rather than destroying the shield, he’s decided to destroy Ran, who holds it.
“…How foolish.”
Ran twists his lips into a bloody smile.
“On the contrary, it makes enduring easier.”
A shield’s durability is fixed by its mana capacity.
But this body—if I grit my teeth and endure through sheer will, I can still create a different outcome.
Ran clenched his teeth, thinking this was actually better.
His eyes looked directly up at Nemesis.
“Come at me harder.”
Flames ignited in both Nemesis’s eyes and Ran’s eyes.

* * *
Boom…!
Crash!
Boom!
Almond sat before the Potion box, ignoring the sounds echoing from the back as much as possible, chugging Potions like a madman.
“Huff. Huff…”
Gulp. Gulp.
By the time he’d emptied one entire box.
Crash—!
A corpse-like figure rolled and tumbled toward him.
“…?”
It was Ran.
“R-Ran?”
“…I… Almond… I… lasted… long…”
Almond immediately checked Ran’s pulse.
He’s alive. For now.
Without hesitation, he poured an entire bottle of Potion down Ran’s throat.
‘Now we’re truly all in.’
Side effects mean nothing when death is imminent.
“Just drink this one bottle for now. Wait.”
Almond stood up and checked the time.
[Time Remaining]
[00:02:03]
Two minutes and three seconds.
It was a short amount of time. If someone had given me that duration and asked me to solve a four-point math problem from the college entrance exam, I would have felt the same way.
‘…It’s long.’
But for Almond right now, it was an eternity.
‘If I can just figure out the wide-area attack pattern, I think I’ll be fine.’
Tap. Tap.
Almond brushed the shards of glass from his knees while circling around Nemesis.
Strangely, he hadn’t launched a hasty attack.
“You….”
He had noticed something had changed.
“Who are you?”
“Almond.”
Satisfied with his own answer, Almond glanced at the chat window.
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text. It appears to be Korean characters that don’t form coherent words – just repeated laughter characters (ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ) followed by random consonants (ㅁㅊ).
She’s casually throwing out a name nobody knows lol
-My name is Almond. I’m an advertiser.
Heh.
Nemesis wore a smile different from before. His reptilian, sallow yellow eyes followed Almond as he spun in circles.
“…An unfamiliar name. Are you an avatar?”
“I read about it in a paper.”
“A paper?”
“When someone in a trance state consumes Potion—the Blue Hole—explosively in excess….”
The paper on trance states contained this passage.
「When entering a state of explosive overdose, a ‘gate’ opens wide enough to allow not merely spirit possession but divine descent, according to certain texts. While I could not accept this outright, multiple cases suggest one certainly reaches a trance state of an entirely different dimension…」
“A state of an entirely different dimension, they say.”
Screech!
Almond slashed across his own palm.
‘And I know exactly what that is.’
It was none other than a state where divine descent was possible.
In other words, reaching level 6 in the game where I could use divine descent skills.
How it would manifest here, I wasn’t sure.
Crackling…!
Red lightning blazed, wrapping around Almond’s form.
[Divine Descent – Reckless Warrior]
I underwent divine descent.
Without a divine descent skill, I became an actual divine descent where the avatar manifested itself.
“…?”
But the name….
Hahahahaha lol
Foam grabbed everything ㅋㅋㅋ ^crazy warrior^
I’m going crazy lolololol
-Hahaha!
-Is it the Reckless Warrior?
-Reckless Warrior! I choose you!
The name doesn’t quite fit the tone, though.
Boom!
Regardless, the possession proceeded.
Nemesis, of course, and even Ran, who had been sipping Potion from behind, watched with startled eyes.
The other surviving mercenaries also took a step back, looking at me with fear.
The storm of crimson lightning subsided.
“Oh.”
I looked down at my body.
Not Lete’s small, thin frame, but now my own appearance as Almond.
-Possession complete
-Ahhh~
-The possession skill is a face buff, huh
-Lete’s possession skill is so broken, it changes your whole life
The viewers were thrilled when Almond’s appearance showed up in the story mode.
[Remaining Time]
[00:01:31]
I’d wasted quite a bit of time. Surprisingly, Nemesis had stopped attacking.
But it seemed he was conserving his strength for the fierce assault to come.
“Huh? Then──”
Whoosh.
His form scattered in an instant, and a fist flew right at my face.
“──What’s changed!?”
Whoooosh!
The fist cut through empty air.
‘It’s different.’
I evaded lightly by bending my waist.
“…?!”
Moving with Lete’s completely different physical condition versus moving with my own body—Almond’s physical profile—was entirely different.
Moreover, since this was a situation manifested through possession, I still had the skills I possessed when playing as Ran.
No, they were actually stronger.
Without Ran’s sluggish movements.
[Charge]
Crackle.
Lightning gathers at my fingertips.
In the meantime, Nemesis’s foot came crashing down from above. He’d moved upward without me noticing.
Boom──!
His heel shattered the floor.
In other words, a complete miss.
Almond had simply dodged it again with ease.
-Insane speed;
-How is he evading that.
-Wow, now he’s going to use an area attack.
“Let’s see you dodge this one too, you bastard!”
Nemesis’s expression twisted.
Crackle, crackle…!
He gathered crimson lightning to unleash that area attack from before.
Whoosh!
The moment his hand swept out, it became an omnidirectional assault.
Boom, boom, boom──
Murky dust enveloped everything in all directions.
“…!?”
As the dust cleared, countless crimson shields came into view.
“…What, what is this.”
Crimson shields that Almond had created. But he hadn’t just protected himself—he’d shielded Ran, the Mercenary Group Leader, and all the surviving members with maximum efficiency.
He’d scattered them here and there as if executing some kind of sword technique.
Almond chuckled and muttered.
“Looks like this works too.”
“H-how are you manipulating mana like this?”
This was a feat only possible for Almond, who was exceptionally skilled at multitasking.
-Nemesis is such a noob lol
-This is Korean-style Ran! You foreign bastard!
-Lmao the satisfaction is insane
-He’s crazy lol
-Wow…
-Dorat lol could just kill him? Though the system won’t let him lol
-Nemesis should be grateful Almond hasn’t turned off all his abilities today, leaving him with no missions lol
Almond extended the pure white crystal he’d charged earlier. With one hand he could charge while simultaneously creating shields with the other.
It was as if he were playing Ran enhanced to theoretically maximum strength.
A being that couldn’t exist in the actual game due to balance—only possible in Story Mode.
Almond found this quite entertaining.
[Release]
He unleashed the release and spoke.
“Boom.”
-Lmaooo
-Boom lol wtf
-Haha lol
“Uh, you need to tell me what kind of bread it is, Sanghyun…ㅠㅠ”
Whoooosh──
A crimson bolt of lightning struck Nemesis’s forehead directly.
──Crash!
Nemesis’s waist bent backward sharply as the impact connected. It seemed he hadn’t anticipated the attack coming simultaneously while using his shield, so he simply took the hit.
Of course, like a rubber doll, he snapped his upper body back up and flew into a rage.
“You filthy worm!!!!!!”
Nemesis went completely berserk, unleashing a barrage of wide-area attacks.
Crash!
Boom!
Of course, every attack was blocked by the shields.
But the next round wouldn’t be so easy.
‘Splitting the shields reduces efficiency….’
I could protect multiple people once or twice this way, but this approach was inefficient.
I quickly implemented the most efficient method.
“Will this work too?”
Whoosh.
While Nemesis charged for a moment, I recalled the shields and recombined them.
And….
I pointed my index finger precisely at Nemesis.
Boom! Thud!
The densely interlocked shields surrounded Nemesis completely.
And I even sealed the final lid on top.
Thud!
“…!”
Nemesis’s expression became utterly bewildered.
He was trapped inside a cage of shields.
-??
-How many is he controlling simultaneously?
That works lol
Haha, finally breaking it down physically, haha so good, haha
This is the first time I’ve ever seen Nemesis look this pathetic lol
-Nemesis’s expression right now = my expression right now.
[Time Remaining]
[00:00:52]
“There’s barely any time left anyway.”
Nemesis won’t be able to launch any attacks for the next fifty seconds.
Boom! Thud!
Inside, he’s already having a fit, doing everything imaginable.
“Let go! Let me out! Let me out!”
I’m not sure what he’s asking me to release, but he’s screaming regardless. Nothing changed.
‘It seems like my attacks aren’t landing anyway.’
Nemesis had some sort of setting I didn’t understand, but I felt absolutely no damage being dealt.
If I just waited like this, it would be fine.
For Laurent.
“…Almond?”
Just then, someone called out to Almond from behind.
It was the Leader of the Mercenary Group, who had only just managed to get to her feet.
“…?”
Almond turned around to see what she wanted, but then froze in shock.
The Leader had torn off her helmet.
And she was covered in tears.
“…Reina.”
Though disheveled, her long golden hair still gleamed brilliantly, and her clear blue eyes with their beautifully upturned corners were unmistakably hers.
‘Is this really happening?’
Just as I was stunned, Reina too walked toward me slowly, as if she couldn’t believe it.
In that moment, I couldn’t count how many times her eyes wavered.
She approached and lifted her blood-stained white hand, gently touching my jaw.
“I… I… Almond… is it, is it really you? Did you become an incarnation? Almond Damian. Is it really you?”
Why was it?
Even though he was just a game character, something deep within my chest burned intensely.
As Almond’s attention wavered for a moment, the distance between the shields widened.
Nemesis began to glow.
“Die! Die! I’ll kill you all!”
Boom!
Reina stumbled backward in alarm.
“It’s fine. It’s over.”
Just as Almond said, there was no need to be afraid.
The time had run out now.
[Remaining Time Expired]
[Survival Successful]
The moment this message appeared.
Poof!
Nemesis was suddenly engulfed in white smoke.
“Baaaa….”
And turned into a sheep.

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