Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 38

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 38
14. Game Transition (3)
Thump—
The moment I touched that bow, my heart raced.
‘It’s been forever.’
Compound Bow.
Not a name familiar to the general public, but it has appeared in various media and is recognized as one of the archery disciplines.
It simply doesn’t appear as an event in the Olympics.
Almond, who had always been passionate about bows themselves, naturally had experience handling compound bows as well.
‘Never thought I’d use it here.’
That bow I used to shoot at stationary targets—now I’m using it in this survival game.
Excitement and thrill surge through me.
-What are you doing! Grab it quick!
-Maybe we should just look for a shotgun instead?
-No no they’re coming right now, we have no choice
Lost in old memories for a moment, I hear footsteps ascending the external staircase.
Thud, thud, thud!
The enemies are coming up from the 2nd floor, intent on killing me.
-These cowards lol ganging up on a beginner
-For real, let’s teach them a lesson
-Can’t we report this?
-Seriously
It’s quite an unfair situation, but it’s my own fault for being underestimated after that strange parachute landing. There’s nothing I can do about it.
Click—
Without hesitation, I grabbed the compound bow and positioned myself in front of the doorway where the staircase was visible.
My gaze turns cold and sharp, my breathing steadies.
Tap… tap…
I hear careful footsteps descending the stairs.
Do the enemies have weapons?
If they even had pistols, I could be at a disadvantage. There are three of them, after all.
Tap… tap…
The footsteps grow louder as they approach. Finally, I see one foot coming down the stairs.
Shring—
The sharp metallic ring of honed steel.
‘A blade.’
I feel relieved.
The first enemy coming down was carrying a hunting knife.
‘If that’s the case…’
With firearms, I’d need to make quick decisions, but with a blade, I’m fine.
I don’t need to act until the second person comes down. Maybe those three will even fight among themselves…
Tap. Tap.
Then, a second figure emerged from the staircase.
“!”
He was holding a pistol.
Click──
Almond felt there was no need to wait any longer.
The moment the third person’s feet came into view and the second person’s head was fully exposed.
Whoosh!
The sound of wind being split tore through the air.
Thunk!
An arrow lodged perfectly in the center of his head.
The arrow flew with such force that he crashed into the opposite wall after being struck, creating a thunderous noise.
Boom──
[Almond → Keanu Rivers]
[Eliminated!]
[99/100]
-Kyaaaaa!!!
-Joomooo!
-This is the power of Korean archery, you bastards!
-His aim is insane
-Wow….
-One-shot headshot lolol
-Don’t show your face to Almond without armor!
-Jumo! Give us a spicy clay pot here!!
It was such a clean headshot that one wouldn’t believe it was my first shot since entering Battle Rage.
“Huh!? What!!”
“Insane… an arrow!”
The remaining two finally realized what happened.
They belatedly assumed proper combat stances.
One of them pointed in a direction—toward where I was. He had traced the arrow’s trajectory to track my location.
“Over there─”
─Thwack.
He collapsed in the exact same pose as his fallen comrade before he could finish speaking.
Thud─
[Almond → Taste Cow]
[Double Kill!]
[98/100]
Now only the man wielding the sword remained… but he had vanished somewhere.
Patter-patter-patter.
Hurried footsteps echoing urgently.
My opponent had fled.
With only a sword as their weapon, they must have judged the odds unwinnable.
“Fled…? Should I chase them?”
Almond was momentarily flustered.
He’d briefly forgotten that the true essence of this game wasn’t combat—it was survival.
-Lmaooooo
-It’s a survival game~
-You don’t have to kill everyone
-Chase them! Definitely!
-Chase them even if you die!
-These kids are insane lol
The viewers naturally wanted him to give chase.
Those bastards had tried to kill a beginner through malicious teaming—they deserved retribution.
“Then let’s go. They couldn’t have gotten far.”
Almond muttered this to himself and quietly slipped out of the room.
Boom!
That’s when it happened. The door across the way burst wide open. My opponent emerged wielding the exact same compound bow as Almond.
‘They were waiting?’
The escape had been a feint.
Creak—
Both bowstrings drew taut simultaneously.
Whoosh!
Almond’s arrow was released first.
Thunk!
[Almond → Taste Cow]
[Triple Kill!]
[92/100]
A clean hole punched straight through the player’s skull.
Thud—
Almond passed over the corpse with a satisfied smirk.
“Did you really think copying my technique would work?”
-Lololololol
-Guess they thought it looked good lol
-That guy’s a beginner too it seems lol
-Destroying teamers is so satisfying
-Why were they even teaming in the first place lol
-Probably guys like Rhythm Power… if they’d just scattered they’d still be alive…
Almond sensed his opponent was a beginner too. Of course, not someone who’d played only a few rounds like Almond himself, but rather something more pitiful.
‘Just someone who can’t play well…’
People who’d played plenty but still couldn’t improve.
That was the level of players appearing in Almond’s current matchmaking MMR.
So even when teaming up against a complete beginner like Almond, they were handing over triple kills like this.
Having grasped the situation, Almond nodded.
“Somehow I’m feeling a bit more confident now.”
My body had warmed up.
It felt like my true skill would start showing from here on out.
“Should we try some farming now?”

* * *
A house I’d claimed after killing three players.
I could search through every nook and cranny to gather items.
But since it was a small house, there wasn’t much worth picking up.
All I found were a few bandages and an energy drink.
“I guess I should just head out, right?”
I need to go out and farm.
-need to find armor at least
There didn’t seem to be anything else to gain from this house.
I needed to move on.
‘The blue zone should be closing soon.’
If I kept hiding in one spot and waited for people to die, it would be advantageous.
But there’s a system preventing that kind of play.
The blue zone.
[The blue zone will shrink in 30 seconds!]
The blue zone enveloped the entire map, and it gradually shrank as time passed.
Kiiiiing─
A strange siren wailed across the landscape.
Almond checked the minimap that appeared at the corner of his vision.
Stepping outside the blue zone would deal continuous damage and eventually kill you, so I had to move in the direction the zone was shrinking.
‘The position isn’t very favorable.’
Looking at the minimap, the blue zone’s shrinking direction was disadvantageous for me.
I needed to relocate immediately.
From outside the window, I could already hear the sound of someone who’d found a motorcycle moving away.
“I need to hurry.”
Hearing that sound made me anxious, so I quickly rushed outside.

* * *
Stepping outside, Almond was greeted by a desolate desert.
It was a map where there seemed to be few places to hide one’s body.
Since Almond had only his compound bow and nothing else, being discovered by enemies would be far too dangerous.
I had to move carefully.
I crept along, pressing my body against the scattered ruins of walls.
Vrrrroooom─
An engine sound echoed from the distance.
The engine sound grew louder and louder.
Vrrrroooooom──
‘Just pass by…’
There was no way to defeat an opponent riding in a vehicle. I pressed myself flat against the ground, praying the car would pass.
But─
“!”
──Ting! Ping!
Sparks began erupting against the wall near me.
“Eek.”
Those riding in the car had fired at me.
I desperately rolled my body away.
Ting-ting-ting!
Bullets rained down along my rolling trajectory.
Hahahaha
The almond-shaped expression is seriously so funny lol
Ah, this is so noob-ish lol
-Oh, so there’s a spicy flavor added too?
Almond had rolled to the side in quite an ungraceful manner. Since this was my first time in a gunfight, I couldn’t afford to stay composed.
“I was just startled because it’s my first time.”
I muttered an excuse while surveying my surroundings.
‘Where is it?’
──Vrrrroooooom!!
The car engine sound returned. From behind.
“!”
A jeep was barreling straight toward me.
Rat-a-tat-tat! Tat!
Now I could hear the gunfire clearly—it was close range.
I quickly hid my body behind the wall.
A deafening sound of tearing air erupted as the wall crumbled.
Boom──
‘The wall is collapsing from bullets?!’
They seemed to be using a rifle that fired quite large ammunition.
Almond, unfamiliar with firearms, hadn’t anticipated this.
“Damn.”
Without even a moment to complain, Almond had to quickly vault over the next wall.
Tap-tap-tap.
It was a remarkably swift motion, lightly stepping off the wall as he cleared it.
-Ohhh….
-Parkour master?
-Classic Almond.
-Nothing like this in Kingdom.
While the game had basic mechanics that made wall-climbing easier, Almond’s movements were exceptionally fast even by those standards.
Perhaps because of that.
Ting-ting-ting!
The next volley of shots ricocheted loudly off the wall, leaving Almond unharmed.
This wall was considerably more solid.
“Damn it, why can’t I hit him!?”
Rat-a-tat-tat!
The enemy, growing more frustrated, began firing wildly.
“Stop messing around and come out!”
“Kahahaha!”
Screech.
The jeep stopped, and several figures jumped out, laughing mockingly.
“More of them…?”
Glancing at the enemies, Almond let out an exasperated sigh.
hahahaha
-What, why is teaming so rampant at this rating?!
-Report them all
-Literally just bad luck, terrible game
About three figures were slowly approaching Almond.
Their footsteps grew progressively louder.
Almond leaned his back against the wall, bowstring already drawn.
“─Hah.”
After exhaling briefly once.
He tilted his body slightly to the side to spot the enemy’s position, then released the string.
Whoosh!
“Huh…?”
Thunk!
Before the opponent could even react, an arrow lodged itself in his head.
Since it was still early in the game, he lacked the helmet-type armor commonly called “pot heads,” so he collapsed immediately.
Thud.
[Almond → Ralopan]
[Eliminated!]
[88/100]
-Wow!
-The precision to pull it off.
lol
-This is it. This is Kingdom, you bastards!
Kingdom lolololol
-This is Battle Rage though.
“What the hell!? Why did it take one shot?”
“It was a headshot.”
“Damn it!”
Arrows deal considerable damage whenever they connect. That’s why a successful headshot is a one-hit kill.
The problem is how difficult it is to land one. The hit detection is strict. Bullets register on a graze, but arrows only count if they strike precisely.
Of course, this was no handicap for Almond. He didn’t just hit the head—he hit dead center every time.
To him, Battle Rage’s hit detection felt almost too generous.
‘One more.’
Thwip—
Another arrow embedded itself in the head of his stunned colleague beside him.
“Gack!”
The player collapsed with a final gasp.
[Almond → Pakapan]
[Eliminated!]
[85/100]
“Th-this is insane….”
The last one threw himself flat against the ground. Only now did he grasp the gap in their abilities.
“Wh-who are you! Did you rig this match to bully us?!”
From Almond’s perspective, his opponent had simply vanished. All he could hear was his voice.
‘Roughly around here….’
There was no need to see him.
Knowing his general location was enough.
It was just an estimate.
But Almond’s estimates were death sentences.
Creak—
Almond drew his bowstring taut at an elevated angle into empty air.
‘Hmm.’
He nodded once, then released the string.
Twang—
The arrow soared high into the sky.
Moments later, the arrow descending from above found its mark in the invisible opponent’s shoulder.
Thwip!
“Gaaahhhhh!”
Boom boom boom!
In a reflexive spasm of pain, I pulled the trigger, and gunfire erupted with a deafening roar.
-What the hell???
-Hit them without seeing them?
-No-look shot for real?
-Seriously
-Nah~~ what good are obstacles when you can just shoot upward~~
Almond nocked another arrow at a similar angle and fired it upward. Again, I didn’t see the enemy.
‘But I heard the scream.’
Thwack!
The arrow found its mark again.
Thwack!
One final hit.
“Ugh…!”
The enemy finally collapsed.
[Almond → Dopapan]
[Knocked out!]
The opponent had fallen.
“Huh…?”
But the message seemed odd.
“Knocked out?”
It should say eliminated. Why knocked out instead?
The knocked out verdict only appeared in team matches.
-Insane. Could it be….
-I knew there was way too much teaming.
The headshot didn’t kill instantly, so they just got knocked out… ㄷㄷ This was a squad match.
So you were fighting squads solo from the first match? That’s legendary…
Reggae lolololol
The cause was Almond’s mistake.
I had accidentally entered a four-person team match alone.
‘This can’t be happening.’
I was shocked at my own ridiculous blunder.
Everyone else was in a team match, but I was in solo.
And on the very first game at that!
[Solo Labor Union Party donated ‘10,000 won’.]
[The Solo Labor Union Party highly commends your p-aradoxical loyalty to the party and has decided to award 100,000 won upon achieving 1st place!]
A message read in the voice of a North Korean announcer.
Thanks to starting solo, a mission had arrived.
“Ahaha… Thank you.”
It was good that a mission had come in.
Yet Almond felt something was off.
‘What is it?’
Even in squad matching, if there’s no one left to revive you, you don’t get knocked down.
You simply die outright.
Besides, a squad is originally four people. Only three died earlier──
‘Wait. Then there’s one more…?’
──Ping.
A silenced gunshot rang out, and Almond’s body flew backward, crashing to the ground.

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