Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 40

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 40
15. Solo First Place (2)
The four-person squad “Monday Lovers” was a clan formed by players who had returned after a long hiatus.
In particular, Kanpungjeongeo, who handled sniping duties among them, was skilled enough to have reached Diamond rank.
However, he had taken a break for about a year due to real-world pressures before returning, and his rank had been reset.
Fortunately, the game hadn’t changed much. A few items were added, and several new maps appeared, that was all.
If he selected the classic map he originally played, his former skills would surely shine through.
‘This rating must be trash tier, whatever.’
But that was a miscalculation.
Two of his charging allies collapsed almost simultaneously.
After being struck by something that fell from the sky.
Meanwhile, the enemy on the rooftop wasn’t even showing his face at all.
‘What was that? What exactly did they get hit by and die?’
That’s when Kanpungjeongeo should have realized it.
That this game might no longer be the game he thought it was.

* * *
“Phew. Did I hit?”
Almond was still leaning his back against the rooftop wall.
I couldn’t even confirm whether my opponent was hit by my arrow or not.
Well, I shot it backwards after all.
I could tell from the kill log that one person had died.
[Almond → CEO]
[Eliminated!]
[47/100]
-Wow man.
-This is insane. Beyond human capability.
-Isn’t this just luck?
-and… shudder shudder shudder
This is seriously awesome ㅠㅠㅠ
Heh.
A smile formed at the corner of my mouth. It was because of what the chat was saying.
Their excessive enthusiasm was amusing.
‘This one is pretty interesting though.’
True. It would look a bit different from the archery I’d shown so far. After all, I hit the target without even looking at my opponent, shooting the arrow backwards and upward.
But from my perspective, it was merely an application of the kind of reckless reactions I’d been doing before.
‘I’m glad I did a lot of strange things when I was young.’
During my time as an archery athlete, I used to perform all sorts of circus-like tricks with friends who were preparing as athletes alongside me.
Like shooting arrows up into the sky and landing them in the desired direction, or shooting arrows up into the sky and hitting them again….
It was literally almost circus acts.
Back then, my Coach would always scold me whenever my bow got damaged.
Looking back now, I’m glad he did. I never thought such training would prove useful here.
Lost in nostalgia for a moment─
──Thud.
The sound of a door opening reached my ears.
One of the assault team members had only been wounded, not killed, and had successfully made it inside the home.
‘They’ll come through the rooftop entrance.’
There was only one way for the enemy to reach this rooftop.
I just needed to watch that single point.
Fortunately, from where I’d positioned myself, I could see it clearly. From here, I could guard the entrance without drawing suppressive fire.
But─
‘They have guns.’
I have a bow.
If we clashed head-on, the difference in projectile velocity would be incomparable.
Even a compound bow had decent power, but that was only impressive for a bow—it couldn’t compare to a firearm.
Tap, tap….
I heard the sound of someone slowly climbing toward the rooftop.
I drew an arrow regardless.
I had to face this enemy anyway. There was no other option. The moment I moved, I’d become the sniper’s target.
Dodging bullets by throwing my body was theoretically impossible. In the end, I could only hope they’d miss.
But I don’t like entrusting my fate to someone else’s ability.
‘I’ll overcome this myself.’
I would carve my own path with my own skills. After all, the thing I trust most in this world is my archery.
‘They’re coming.’
Thump….
The sound of the final step and the simultaneous sound of a hand grasping the rooftop entrance doorknob echoed out.
Click.
‘I need to focus.’
I drew upon a level of concentration incomparable to anything before.
It felt like severing my consciousness from the world itself.
My breathing grew loud.
My heartbeat became irritating.
I entered my own world.
And I drew the bowstring.
Creeeeak──
“!”
I released the string.
─Whoosh!
-???
-?
-It didn’t open….
The door still hadn’t opened. But I’d already nocked my arrow.
Creeeeak…
The door begins to open.
In that narrow gap as the door opens just slightly.
Whoosh─
A swift wind passes through that gap.
Thunk.
“Ugh…!”
Creeeeak….
The door opened.
Not by hand, but by collapsing and opening it with his body.
[Almond → Spongebob]
[Knocked out.]
An arrow I’d just fired was lodged in the opponent’s abdomen.
-Did you time the shot with the door opening!?
-He’s insane…
-Almond. Is he a god?
-Without the nickname, he’d be a total pro player.
-Shooting low in case he sat down was genius too.
-This is seriously what only the absolute elite can pull off….
-Wow… is this really his first time playing?
Timing the door’s opening and squeezing a shot through that window.
It’s an ultra-high-level sense play that only the most elite veterans could execute.
“I just timed it well, that’s all.”
I swallowed a painkiller and answered calmly.
But it wasn’t a technique to be spoken of so lightly. It required extraordinary instinct and concentration.
-Contempt──
-Isn’t that why we’re throwing money into stocks because we can’t match that timing?!
Hahaha… why am I tearing up…
-Oh, so you just need to match the timing!
The viewers interpreted his response as contempt or deception.
The play he’d just made was that precise.
The opponent probably couldn’t have anticipated such a play at all.
So Spongebob, who’d just died, felt wronged.
[Spongebob : Hey. That bastard’s insane, right? Doesn’t seem like this rank.]
[Kanpungjeongeo : What. Why’d you get hit. Isn’t it just one person?!]
[Spongebob : It is one person… I died the moment the door opened.]
[Kanpungjeongeo : Ah damn]
SpongeBob: No, I’m saying he shot the arrow right when the door opened! How am I supposed to dodge this?!
[Kanpungjeongeo: ?? At this rating level, where would a guy like that even come from? Stop spouting nonsense. He probably just didn’t open the door carelessly.]
[Spongebob: Ah, just come rescue me.]
[Kanpungjeongeo: How am I supposed to rescue you? He’s going to shoot you dead.]
[Spongebob: He’s not shooting me dead? I’m crawling down to the first floor right now.]
After reading Spongebob’s message, Kanpungjeongeo was dumbfounded.
“He didn’t kill him…? What kind of confidence is that bastard showing?”
The fact that Spongebob wasn’t killed meant he was letting him come so he could be rescued.
Despite there being two of them, he believed he could handle them if they came.
“No, just don’t go. Let’s abandon Spongebob. If he really pulled off a timing shot like that, he’s a total master.”
Byeolggattunji, who had been providing suppressing fire beside me, spoke in a frightened voice.
“What?”
“It’s obviously a trap. Let’s just abandon Spongebob.”
“…Hey. Do you have no pride? Huh? Do you know what rating this is? At a rating where even newbies get caught on their first day, and you want to run away?!”
‘Why is this guy being so serious about this.’
Byeolggattunji couldn’t understand Kanpungjeongeo’s mood. This was just a game.
“This is blatant provocation.”
“Exactly. Which is why we should just go.”
“What are you talking about? When we made our comeback, didn’t we say we’d get back to Diamond rank?!”
“Your rank won’t drop just because you retreat here… Jeongeo….”
“My pride will drop.”
Kanpungjeongeo said that and began detaching the sniper rifle’s stand.
Click. Click.
Preparations to move forward.
“No, are you really going? I’ll go instead. You provide cover. You’re the sniper.”
“If you go alone, how am I supposed to heal while you’re being treated?”
“Ah…”
This was the problem.
When one person gets injured, it’s not just one person missing from the team—you need someone to rescue them and someone to protect that person’s surroundings.
“Fine. Let’s go.”
Byeolggattunji and Kanpungjeongeo ultimately abandoned their advantageous high ground position and went to rescue Spongebob.
On the way, they saw CEO’s corpse.
“Poor CEO….”
“He’s fine. With a username like that, it was his destiny anyway.”
The two descended the hill and walked toward their still-living colleague.
Thud. Thud.
“Shouldn’t we be running?”
“Please shut up, Fatty. If I aim while moving, that bastard won’t be able to jump out recklessly.”
“Ah….”
Byeolggattunji followed Kanpungjeongeo, aiming at the third-floor rooftop of the building as they walked.
The aim wavered slightly, but it was still a decent tactic nonetheless.
“Yeah. There he is. Waiting in front of the first-floor door.”
“Tch… Disgusting bastard.”
The two exchanged words without taking their eyes off their scopes.
“We have to keep going like this until the rooftop loses its angle of fire.”
“Roger.”
Once they got right up against the building, the rooftop would lose its shooting angle.
Thud. Thud.
They slowly narrowed their approach, and soon reached a distance where the rooftop could barely shoot them.
That was when their vigilance slipped just a little.
A stray thought merely grazed their minds for an instant.
Whiiiing─
In that moment, the sound of air splitting rang out. An arrow soared across the sky.
‘Ah. The crown of the head!’
‘It’s the crown of the head!’
Chills ran simultaneously down both their spines.
They realized that the endpoint of that extreme parabolic arc was their own crowns.
They had seen how the two colleagues before them had been taken out.
Regret flashed through them.
They abandoned all thoughts of aiming and immediately threw their bodies to the side.
But they didn’t throw themselves forward.
That would be too predictable.
They had to choose between left, right, or back. Doing so would take them further from the path to rescue Spongebob. But there was no choice.
If they took that shot properly, their helmets would crumple and their health would drop below half.
“Hnngh!”
“Ugh!”
They tumbled and rolled, throwing themselves in their respective directions.
Boom…!
The arrow finally embedded itself in the sand.
They had successfully evaded.
“We dodged it──”
They didn’t know.
In that very moment when they felt relief.
That was actually the true opening Almond had been aiming for.
Thwack!
“─?”
As he finished his words, an arrow was embedded in Byeolggattunji’s eye.
[Almond → Byeolggattunji]
[Eliminated!]
[28 / 100]
“Insane?!”
Kanpungjeongeo was bewildered. What on earth had just happened in that brief moment?
‘There’s no way an arrow could come from that angle?!’
The answer came from the shadow looming overhead.
Almond’s shadow.
When Kanpungjeongeo looked up to find the source of that shadow, his eyes were wide enough to grace a horror movie poster.
‘This lunatic.’
The curse spilled from his gaping mouth.
The archer was falling from the sky.
Since the enemy had gotten too close to the building and I couldn’t get a proper angle, I’d thrown myself into a dive to create one.
The arrow I’d fired before was merely bait to hide the sight of me plummeting from the rooftop.
“F-fast──”
Even in his shock, Kanpungjeongeo tried to raise his gun upward.
But there was no time to hoist that heavy sniper rifle and adjust his aim.
──Thunk!
The arrow lodged perfectly between his eyes. He wore a ballistic helmet, but it was only a ‘Standard’ grade one that protected the forehead.
So the result was instant death.
[Almond → Kanpungjeongeo]
[Double Kill!]
[26 / 100]
──Boom.
The moment my opponent died, my body crashed into the ground.
“Ugh!”
It had been quite a height.
I felt a dizzying impact that made my head spin. I clutched my head and spoke.
“Phew… I’m glad I took that painkiller beforehand.”
If I hadn’t taken it, the crushing pain of broken bones might have followed.
[The blue zone will shrink in 30 seconds.]
Only 26 out of 100 remained now.
I rummaged through my opponent’s belongings, used a medical item, and moved on.
-Insane insane insane
-He’s lost it.
-How is this even possible!?
-Thought this was an action movie….
I’m thinking about shooting while falling from the rooftop…ㄷㄷ
-Absolutely cracked
Admiration flooded the chat while donations poured into the donation window.
[G&N Law Office donated a whopping ‘100,000 won’!]
[I’m suing you. You’ve ruined my underwear.]
[Ddeolreong donated ‘5,000 won’!]
[I literally lost it. Posting proof on the board.]
[Aimee has donated ‘10,000 won’.]
[Aimee! You’re here! I told you not to chase after bad people like Balloon Gum!?]
[JamMini has donated ‘50,000 won’!]
[Mom! I don’t think I’ll be able to become Almond when I grow up!]

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