Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 339

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 59
21. An Insurmountable Wall (3)
Mutant.
The word “monster” would have suited them far better.
Yet considering how commonplace that term had become, it would be difficult to explain the stark disparity of this horrifying subspecies.
Covered in jet-black fur, arms as long as its legs stretched upward and dangled from the tree, its snout protruded grotesquely.
In appearance, it resembled a primate.
But there was one crucial difference—its tongue.
It fired a long, dark tongue like a tentacle, piercing through a human body as easily as a sponge.
Moreover, it seemed to drain the very life force from its target. One glance at Gilsu sprawled across the floor like a deflated balloon confirmed this.
Shhhhk.
As Gilsu collapsed, the tongue retracted as if its task were complete.
Without a sound, just as when it had been fired, it was slurped back into the creature’s snout.
But what retracted wasn’t only the tongue.
──Thunk!
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
The Mutant shrieked, clutching at the arrow embedded in its eye.
I had fired it.
When did you ever get it right???
Damn, that’s fast.
-Is it because of the stat increase??
The creature was feeling the arrow’s damage.
‘It can feel pain.’
The Mutant I’d encountered on the 2nd Floor had also tried to flee when at a disadvantage. Had it gained intelligence at the cost of inevitably developing pain sensation?
Yes.
This thug definitely possessed intelligence.
Even while shrieking in agony, when it attacked, it made no sound—just opened its maw wide and extended its tongue.
Just like now.
Shwooooosh!
The long, black tongue shot forward.
‘Fast, but linear.’
Deceptively quiet and swift, yet its attack path was straightforward, and its range wasn’t extensive. I only needed to move away from where its snout was aiming.
‘Here.’
Boom!
A circular hole tore through where my left foot had been.
I’d evaded it.
That was the enemy’s attack, and my counterattack was already in flight.
Whistle──
“KYAAAAAAAAAAH!!!”
──Thunk!
As expected, the arrow struck its eye.
Both of the enemy’s eyes were neutralized.
I’m not sure if it relies solely on sight.
“Kyaaaack! Kyaa!”
It shrieked again.
One thing was certain—it hated this.
Its snout puffed up once more.
‘An attack is coming.’
I now understood this was the signal before it attacked.
I should be able to dodge far more easily than before.
However──
This time, its tongue lashed out in an S-curve. Like a whip.
‘What…?’
──Shwiiik!
Far rougher, indiscriminate, and harder to predict.
I couldn’t dodge by anticipating the impact point—I had to rely purely on dynamic vision. Was that even possible?
Even if I avoided the vital spots, one of my limbs would likely be severed.
But I didn’t move this time.
Instead, I was drawing my bowstring.
I aimed at a specific point with terrifying precision. As my right hand released the taut string.
Twang!
The arrow flew.
Toward the point where the tongue curved. Where the tongue overlapped itself.
Thwunk!
It finally pierced through the tongue’s flesh.
Like threading a long fish cake onto a skewer in coils.
The arrow skewered the elongated tongue like a kebab.
The path of the lashing tongue changed.
What had been rushing forward now weakly scraped the ground.
Gugugugung…
Dragging across the floor in a zigzag of dark marks, it collapsed at my feet.
lol
-What
“Damn it, you’re not moving an inch?”
-Zombie tongue fish cake lol
-Wow it became a skewer;
The viewers couldn’t help but marvel at the precision of skewering a flying whip without moving.
Shliiip!
It retracted its tongue.
The arrow lodged in its tongue snapped in the process.
Given the power of that tongue, it was only natural.
I remained still until the creature fully retracted its tongue.
-Why aren’t you shooting?
-Stopped?
-What’s going on?
As I didn’t move, the viewers grew puzzled. Considering my usual abilities, I should have fired 2-3 more arrows while the tongue was retracting.
Either I should flee quickly, or shoot the enemy.
It seemed like I had to do one or the other.
Yet I remained motionless.
What was strange was that my opponent wasn’t attacking either.
“Kyaaaaaaah…!”
The creature hung upside down from a branch, continuing to shriek while looking around frantically.
Not at where I was, but somewhere completely different.
That’s right. Arrows were embedded in both of its eyes. It couldn’t see.
‘So it relies on vision.’
I could confirm that the creature depended on sight. Now it would have to use its other senses.
Hearing? Smell?
Or both?
Currently, I wasn’t making any sound, and the wind was blowing from behind the creature’s back.
I was a being without scent or sound.
I had to be careful.
Unlike in Ril, my arrow count was limited here.
If I used them all, even I had no way to win.
What I was curious about was soon revealed.
Rustle…!
Jido-hun, a student hiding in the thicket, moved and made a loud noise.
“Uh, uh-ah!”
Thud.
He was trying to slip away quietly when his legs tangled and he fell.
Whoooosh!
Almost simultaneously, the Mutant Zombie shot its tongue.
“Uh, uh-aaaah!”
Do-hun braced himself, thinking he was dead.
“…Huh?”
But the tongue didn’t fly toward him.
Thud thud thud…!
It was skewered in the air like a kebab once more.
“Huh… This, this can’t… be….”
Do-hun’s eyes nearly bulged out of his head at the unbelievable circus unfolding before him.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
The Mutant Zombie shrieked in agony and retracted its tongue once more.
‘That’s it.’
I had finally figured it out.
Where to shoot.
Without moving a single step, I reached into my quiver and drew out something with a distinctly heavier weight than the others.
Shhk.
The very sound of its extraction was different—this was an iron arrow.
With a shaft made entirely of iron, it would be equivalent to an anti-tank rifle if it were a gun.
Hm.
I held my breath and nocked the arrow to the bowstring.
“Kyaaaaaaa!”
The creature still hadn’t located my position.
Grrk.
The sound of the compound bow’s pulleys turning echoed out.
Creak. Creak.
The Mutant Zombie still looked around. Could it not detect such a sound?
But──
“!”
──Whoooosh!
Its tongue shot straight toward my face in an instant.
It was practically at the tip of my nose.
‘Deceived?’
My head tilted and leaned to the left.
Screeeech──!
Its tongue grazed my right ear and gouged the floor behind me.
It was almost simultaneous with releasing the bowstring.
Twang!
The heavy iron arrow that had flown through the air embedded itself at the base of the creature’s tongue.
Thud!
-Holy shit he got it
-No way
-In the middle of all that??
“KYAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
This time, the creature’s reaction was starkly different from its previous attacks.
“KYAAA! KAAAAA!”
It thrashed its head violently enough to shake the tree, unable to retract its already extended tongue.
A wooden arrow would have snapped instantly from the force of retracting the tongue, but this one was different.
It would bend, but not break.
Moreover, embedded at the very origin of the tongue’s power, it couldn’t exert that much force in the first place.
The creature eventually tried to pull the arrow out with both arms and finally fell from the tree.
It was inevitable, hanging from both arms as I was.
Thud.
Even after slamming my head directly into the floor, the thug writhed solely to extract the arrow.
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
I shrieked with both hands gripping the arrow.
Crunch, crunch…
The arrow, embedded deep in soft flesh, was torn out roughly. Arrows are designed to be easy to insert but difficult to remove.
Carelessly extracting an embedded arrow could touch all manner of blood vessels nearby, potentially maximizing the injury instead.
“There’s another one of these? Wasn’t the 2nd Floor supposed to be the boss?”
A shadow fell over the thrashing zombie, and I muttered to myself.
I was holding the hammer the children had used. It seemed I’d brought the dead Gilsu’s belongings with me.
The hammer was swung toward the embedded arrow.
Whoosh…!
“KYAAAAAAAAAAH!”
Like driving a nail with a hammer, I pounded the iron arrow deeper with the hammer.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
“KYAAAAAAAH!”
The zombie’s eyes rolled back in agony as it thrashed its limbs.
But I could easily dodge all of its attacks by alternating my leg positions.
Click.
Finally, I pinned both its arms down with my feet.
It seemed its muscle strength was quite poor everywhere except its tongue—it couldn’t even push back against my weight.
The hammer rose high.
“Will this finish it?”
Whoosh!
The thug lost all strength with the final blow and went limp.
The arrow must have pierced through the roof of its mouth and lodged in its brain.
“It’s dead.”
Ding.
[Jesus donated 10,000 won!]
[Then it wouldn’t be dead?]
hahahahahaha
-LMAO, even he acknowledged his death…
I can’t translate this as it appears to be corrupted or garbled text rather than coherent Korean. The characters don’t form meaningful words.
“Jesus, thanks for the donation. But since it’s a zombie, I had to be sure.”
Bite down and sizzle, that’s how you read it lol
-Why force three syllables into two?
My lips curled up slightly at the viewers’ reactions. I shifted the topic.
“Anyway, what is this thing? Why does it exist here… and it doesn’t even give an Achievement.”
This creature was far stronger and more troublesome than the white one I’d encountered on the 2nd Floor. Without my bow, I have no idea how I would have caught it.
Yet there was still no Achievement.
-Right? What even are these guys??
-2nd floor was the boss though…lol
It’s early access so it’s a mess lol
[ㅇㅇ donated 1,000 won.]
The game seems a bit off even outside the school? Did you make it hastily or something?ㅋㅋㅋ The background mapping also seems weird.
It was around the time a perceptive viewer was sensing something suspicious.
“Uh…?”
I had a bad feeling about this.
Vrrrroooom…!
That’s definitely an engine sound. It’s the vehicle that passed by earlier.
“P-please save us!”
“Insane! What are these things!?”
Screams added to the chaos.
Splurch!
One of the people riding on the truck’s body was pierced through.
“Ah, Almond… that thing….”
Only now did Jido-hun and the other two children crawl out from the thicket, trembling violently.
There was another Mutant Zombie just like before.
And there were three of them.
Vrrrroooom!
The driver was desperately speeding away.
But ultimately….
Screeeeeech!!
The tongue that pierced through the truck’s metal plate penetrated the driver’s neck.
Boom!
The truck flipped spectacularly and burst into flames.
“Kyaaaah!”
One of the Mutant Zombies riding on the truck crawled out engulfed in fire.
Whoooosh…!
After it emerged, the truck’s flames grew fiercer, consuming all three lanes of the road before exploding.
Kaboom!
-There’s more??
-This is seriously too much
-Isn’t that basically telling us not to go???
-Why did the difficulty suddenly spike like this
-Is this a zombie game or a raid game lol
The viewers’ complaints exploded.
While they did enjoy watching Almond struggle, quite a few were thinking “I’ll have to try this game someday,” so they were frustrated.
The way and timing of the difficulty increase seemed irrational.
Yet Almond, who should have been the most dissatisfied, simply clasped his hands behind his back without complaint.
“…Three of them.”
Muttering this, he drew out an iron arrow.
Shing.
“One shot short.”

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