Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 363

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 83
30. What?! (2)
Dozens of heavily armored soldiers suddenly appeared atop the castle wall.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
They had all come bearing a single command from their Commander.
[Annihilate the enemy archers!]
Bright red pings began marking locations across the battlefield.
Ping!
All forty heavily armored soldiers split into two groups, charging east and west. The enemy archers all fled.
All except two archers.
‘What is this.’
‘What are those bastards doing?’
The soldiers hesitated in confusion. There were only two of them, yet twenty here.
They wondered if the two archers’ audacious stance meant they had something prepared.
It looked that reckless.
But no matter how I looked at it, I couldn’t sense any real preparation. Then someone shouted.
“They just came here to die! Don’t be scared, charge!”
There were soldiers who just wanted to die quickly and switch to a different unit.
Or soldiers who wanted to go to a different battlefield.
Those two were probably that type.
“Charge!”
The soldiers charged again with that thought.
But then──
Whoosh!
An arrow flew. It pierced through one heavily armored soldier’s eye.
──Thunk!
“Ugh!”
The soldier suddenly flinched.
“Ah, my eye!”
When an eye is damaged, vision disappears. But no one was particularly worried.
It was just one eye, and heavily armored soldiers specialized in ranged defense—they wouldn’t die unless hit quite severely. Besides, they had shields.
“Shields!”
“Raise your shields!”
From now on, they just needed to stay alert and block properly.
Even the soldier who lost one eye thought the same until that moment.
“Ah. I was careless──”
──Thunk!
Before I could even process it, my vision went dark.
“Wha…?!”
Stagger.
My vision vanished in an instant.
My footsteps tangled.
The soldiers running behind me became entangled as well.
Like a merging lane during rush hour, they twisted around each other, and three or four of them fell behind.
“What?! Why?! Move!”
“Uh, ah, I can’t see!”
“What?!”
“Ah… this is ridiculous.”
At this moment, I hadn’t yet grasped the severity.
This much traffic congestion was nothing to worry about.
After all, it was twenty against two.
I was simply annoyed that our charge had been halted when we should have been charging forward with momentum.
That was all.
“Gack!”
“Damn! Wh──”
Thud!
When the two soldiers ahead fell.
When I saw arrows lodged precisely in their vital points.
‘What….’
That’s when I began to sense something was wrong.
Yet it was only a faint question I couldn’t act upon. Why are they falling? Why is there such chaos? These dazed questions merely circled my mind.
Thwack!
In the meantime, a third soldier falls.
Almond’s bowstring never rested.
“What are you doing! Raise your shields!”
“We did!”
Clearly only one person was shooting. Yet arrows flew from left and right, up and down.
Thwack-thwack-thwack!
A fourth falls.
Now a different question emerged.
‘How… how is this possible?’
What was happening.
Why were four men falling.
Could it really be because of that one archer ahead?
Was one person really shooting all of them?
Whistle! Whistle!
How could a heavily armored soldier fall to an archer?
Even emptying an entire quiver often couldn’t kill them.
──Thud!
Before my confusion could even fade, another falls.
The sixth one.
Now the question wasn’t ‘how’ anymore.
‘What do I do?!’
I couldn’t comprehend how the enemy had felled my colleagues before me.
Creak.
Even as I stood frozen, Almond drew his bowstring with the exact same unwavering stance as before.
With eyes as calm and focused as a hunter stalking prey, he held back twenty men.
Meeting those eyes felt like hearing these very words.
‘Don’t move. Don’t come.’
Twang!
The bowstring released once more.
“Ugh.”
Now the seventh colleague fell.
My feet wouldn’t move forward.
‘Fifty… fifty meters.’
The distance between Almond and the soldiers.
50 meters.
The optimal range where the Korean bow unleashed its maximum power.
Within this distance, there were only corpses.
‘If I advance beyond this point, I die.’
Anyone who stepped forward died instantly.
The deadly zone wasn’t shrinking at all.
“Move! Charge!”
Even the colleague who charged forward with courage fell instantly, arrows piercing vital points across his body.
Clang!
The deafening sound of metal crashing down.
The next soldier’s eyes widened in shock.
‘Insane. The arrows are curving.’
Only after watching my comrade fall did I understand why raising a shield forward was useless.
The arrows came from the side.
They seemed to fly straight ahead, but curved deceptively, embedding themselves in completely different directions.
They appeared aimed at the soldier beside me, then suddenly came at me instead!
‘What?!’
──Thud!
[Health 67%]
The side of my neck. An arrow had pierced precisely through the seam between my ear and the nape of my neck.
With the Korean bow’s tremendous draw strength, the thin layered armor I wore tore without mercy, exposing the flesh beneath.
Blood gushed out…
Blood poured from the wound.
Being a heavy-armored soldier, I wouldn’t die from just one hit.
However—
‘What the hell is this?!’
Whoosh! Whoosh!
From the right, from the left—two more arrows flew in rapid succession, tearing through the same vital points.
[Death]
They were dead.
In an instant, nine of the twenty soldiers vanished.
[Commander: Stop]
At that moment, the Commander’s order came down.
[Commander: Enemy reinforcements are coming soon. Withdraw.]

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Twenty armed soldiers charged forward with fierce momentum.
They rushed in fearlessly, as if they had nothing to dread, but—
one by one they began to fall, then two, then three, then four, until nine had fallen.
So nearly half of them collapsed before even reaching Almond, and—
not a single soldier had yet closed within fifty meters.
Snap!
Remarkably, the armed soldiers halted their charge.
It seemed to be because of the Commander’s order.
-He stopped them?
-Wow
-He blocked them all alone???
Though I hadn’t killed all my opponents, I had managed to halt the enemy’s charge once.
The enemies no longer advanced.
It seemed they had learned that if they entered within fifty meters, the firepower of the Korean bow might even pierce through their own armor.
-Insane
-Is, is this a Korean bow?
-The damage is insane
That’s right. The armed soldiers’ formidable ranged defense and stamina were useless against the Korean bow’s tremendous draw strength and my precise shots targeting vital points.
Now the tide had turned.
Reinforcement soldiers rushed in from behind.
“Waaaaaah!”
“Charge!”
Thanks to me halting half the enemy forces, the reinforcements had arrived in time.
In just three rounds, Aamond finally swept away the soldiers cleanly, and the viewers erupted in excitement.
-Insane
-This is definitely clip-worthy
-Aamond! Aamond!
-Mom, when I grow up I want to be Aamond! Aamond is stronger than Almond!
-Let’s go clear this false accusation!
The chat surged with a mixture of cheers and gasps.
This reaction wasn’t limited to the chat alone.
Whiskey, the Japanese player watching the entire sequence unfold beside him, felt the same way.
“…!”
He was astounded. So shocked that he accidentally spoke with his interpreter turned OFF.
“I….”

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“Nice!”
Juhyeok clenched his fist and shot to his feet.
It was the third game, and I’d been anxious about whether this one would fail too.
But this time, the feeling was good.
Though that last play alone wouldn’t be enough to immediately clear the hacker accusation.
“This is just the beginning.”
This game was still far from over.
The comeback was only just starting.
Which meant Almond’s performance was essentially just beginning as well.
The false hacker accusation would definitely be cleared.
Perhaps that’s why the community’s reaction began to shift.
[???: Wait, what do you mean Almond is different?]
When you entered posts like this, a photo appeared showing a portly North Korean leader clutching a telephone receiver and ranting to someone.
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“I don’t care about warheads or whatever. You’re saying Almond is the real nuclear weapon? Bring that here!”
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That’s the kind of post written there.
This meme’s been a while lol
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
Even the upper-class neighborhood is jealous of Almond’s actual skills lol
-???: They’re saying those South Korean bastards made a nuclear weapon!!?
-Almond should load missiles on his bowstring next
It was a roundabout way of expressing that Almond’s very existence was a nuclear weapon.
Looking at another trending post….
[But isn’t Almond actually a hacker?]
That was the title. But when you actually opened it, the content was as follows.
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Nuclear-level handsome
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It’s funny how there’s no face blur, damn it.
-Seriously, damn…
-Stop it.
The most terrifying hatred is hatred without reason.
Love is the same way.
“Mindless praise comments appearing means… I’m really doing well.”
When baseless praise comments about a streamer start flooding in, it’s a very good sign.
Of course, these days some people deliberately post indiscriminate praise to create antis. But Juhyeok knows how to distinguish such things.
You can tell by reading the atmosphere roughly.
hahahaha for real
ㅠㅠ (or -ㅠㅠ) represents crying or tears in Korean text/emoticons.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 210]
A natural English equivalent would be:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 212]
T_T
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 214]
or simply: crying / in tears
-Ah, he actually laughed…
I had a feeling it would be this one lol
The comment atmosphere where everyone agrees.
Of course, there are still bad comments mixed in.
-Sigh… Nut fans are starting to cause trouble again
If you’re upset, why don’t you do a hacker verification broadcast too lol ah, you won’t do that kind of thing, right!?
└Nut! Nut! Nut!
└Did you know? Almond is actually not a nut fan but a hacker fan!
└Hacker! Hacker!
Below that are countless comments criticizing the critic, and the “hacker fan” meme that was created to mock Almond is now being used by Almond’s fans.
The fact that they’re even using memes created by antis means the situation is relaxed enough.
Juhyeok decided to add a bit of firepower himself.
[Juhyeok: Jia, just make one short clip of this]
[Jia: Wait, got it]
Juhyeok asking Jia for something.
He smiled meaningfully.
‘Time to pump up the viewers a bit.’
After the reel, Almond had been playing minor games one after another.
His viewer count had already secured a concrete foundation in the mid-ten thousands, so there was a limit to how much he could grow with minor games.
Mid-ten thousands isn’t a small number, but it fell far short of satisfying someone like Juhyeok.
Unlike before, in an era of million-viewer broadcasts, mid-ten thousand viewers couldn’t really be called a top-tier streamer.
‘Let’s make a push.’
The awards ceremony was nearby anyway, and Almond needed growth.
To grow to the level of Dotorimuk, if not Balloon Gum, something more had to happen here.
‘Civil Empire is good for archery gameplay, but it’s minor so I was a bit worried about how to boost it.’
Juhyeok thought Civil Empire was the perfect game for Almond.
But he hadn’t come up with many ideas on how to increase viewers.
And then, just one thing.
‘I hope this one idea I’ve been thinking about works out….’
He had an element in mind that could aim for a sharp rise in Civil Empire. In Juhyeok’s view, this was the only breakthrough, and he was certain it would be effective.
That’s right. Because they had planned ahead, Jia and Juhyeok could move this quickly.
Ding.
[Jia: I made the shorts.]
A message arrived from Jia.
I received the file and quickly tapped away at the keyboard.
‘Instant national pride…!’
The only scenario I had envisioned.
A post containing it was now being uploaded to ReelPro.
Tap tap tap…!
[Japan in shock, the world falls from the impact… (literally)]
A post with this title was completed.
Inside was the shorts video that Jia had sent.
It was a video of Almond sweeping away half the soldiers on the castle wall in an instant.
But that wasn’t the point.
It was the scene of the Japanese person next to him in shock.
Whiskey watched Almond sweep away the enemy forces where they stood for a long moment.
Then his jaw dropped as he cried out.
「W-what the…?!」
Recommendations and comments surged up instantly.
-wtf how is this real lolol
-wait if that title is real what do we do lololol
-they didn’t fall from shock, they fell from gunfire?
[Big +3]

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