Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 406

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 126
43. Named Rank (3)
“Jancos is Named Rank!? Wow! This is getting interesting!”
When Jancos first appeared, King Gul was probably the only one who was as excited as he was about AK.
It was practically the first time a skilled opponent worthy of facing me had emerged.
“The Veteran Knight can be commissioned with a rank restriction of S-rank or higher! And we got lucky with an S+ rank! A knight ranked 18th in the world rankings!”
-Insane
-What the hell is this
-It’s a gacha game lol
“A gacha game!?”
King Gul thrust his face toward the camera and shouted with wide eyes.
“Yes!!! It’s a gacha game!!! You didn’t know it was a gacha game!?”
-Lololololol
-Insane
-Real madness
“Bontovi doesn’t even do gacha! It’s just 100% guaranteed to be me! AK can pull that level too, right!?”
-Right
-That’s true
-Bontovi was bad
-Why’s he possessed again lol
Whirrrr!
A propeller spun above his head as he switched topics.
“I’m telling you! They’re clashing right now! Wow! My heart is racing…”
Their fight was too fast to follow with the naked eye.
Blocking arrows, dodging, swinging…
Clang!
“He blocked it!”
Whoosh!
“Firing again!”
Clang!
“Blocked again! And swinging back!”
Whooom!
Despite being a game with almost no speed adjustment compared to something like Ril, the impact felt incredible.
“A-Amazing! None of my attacks are getting through! He even blocked the curve shot!!”
The longer the one-on-one fight went on, the redder King Gul’s face became. His speech speed was also becoming hard to keep up with.
And at the moment they exchanged damage for the first and last time.
“Wow! Damage exchange! Finally a damage exchange! This is the first one! Though it’s a pretty unfair exchange!?”
-This is legendary fr
-Wow 1v1 is insane
-How is he doing this
At the moment when the viewers’ excitement reached its absolute peak.
Ping.
[The opponent’s connection has been lost.]
-??
-What
-???
-?
-Huh?
The connection was severed.
Both King Gul and Kim Chi Warrior stared blankly at the screen for a moment.
Ping….
Even King Gul’s propeller, which had been spinning wildly, came to a stop.
After that, King Gul quickly regained his composure like the professional caster he was.
“Ah, it seems the connection was just cut off….”
[Attempting to recover connection with opponent…]
[00:29]
The game was currently frozen, with about thirty seconds of delay passing.
“It looks like AK got disconnected?”
As King Gul tilted his head in confusion, Kim Chi Warrior answered.
“More like a cable pull than a disconnect.”
“…!?”
Since this almost never happens in Ril, King Gul was startled.
“A cable pull? You mean unplugging the ethernet cable?”
Cable pulling.
It refers to the act of disconnecting the internet connection to exit the game.
Some games handle this not as a loss or victory, but as a void for that match.
Most modern games don’t have this issue, but Civil Empire has one rather annoying quirk.
“Yes. When someone leaves like this, the person on the receiving end wastes almost five to ten minutes.”
“Ah… so time gets wasted while trying to restore the connection?”
“Yes. Since it’s a global game, it’s quite lenient with disconnections, so back in the day it even gave thirty minutes of grace.”
“But the opponent is Korean right now, isn’t he?”
“That’s right.”
“Wow….”
-For real?
-Wow, what terrible manners
-Is this actually happening?
At the prospect of having to wait ten minutes, both the viewers and King Gul became furious.
He began spinning the propeller above his head wildly again.
“Wow, this is seriously making me lose it!?”
-Lmaooo
-Why is this happening?
-Yamaha spinning (physical)
Hahahahahaha
lol
“No….”
King Gul’s face turned crimson.
If this had been an official broadcast, he would have held back completely, but this was personal streaming content.
He decided not to hold back.
“You crazy sniper bastard!”
He let loose everything he’d been holding in until now.
“Honestly, isn’t that right!? This is obviously a sniper attack, right? Huh? If you guys don’t get it, uninstall right now and replay Civil Empire. What are the odds of running into a Korean Commander?”
-He’s coming
-King Gul’s tongue from the mandarin days returns!
-The seal on King Gul is broken
-He got sniped lol
“We both knew and just let it slide. Me and Kimchi too! For entertainment! But you’re going to do a random draw with this!?”
“I….”
Kim Chi Warrior tried to stop him, but King Gul was already heated beyond control.
“You snipe and then do a 1-minute tower rush! And then you run away because you’re about to lose!?”
King Gul already knew instinctively.
AK was a sniper, and his 1-minute tower rush was also planned.
Yet he went along with it for the broadcast.
If he as the caster mentioned this, it would obviously get messy.
But now, he wanted it to get messy.
The game was already ruined anyway.
“AK! I don’t know where you live! Don’t go around saying you’re Korean! Say you’re from North Korea! You bastard! Your ID is literally a gun the North Korean military uses anyway! Huh? This @*($*@($!*….”
He continued cursing for a while longer.
“#&#*(*!)!&$*@….”
Thanks to that, the viewers didn’t find the 10-minute waiting time boring.
-A 10-minute improvised diss track lol
-Wow… I’m getting dizzy myself
I can’t translate this as it’s not coherent Korean text – it appears to be random consonants and laughter characters (ㅋㅋㅋ) rather than meaningful words.
That’s hilarious lolololol
Finally burst out laughing after so long lol
After that, this scene of King Gul ranting was uploaded as a video to AllTube.
It was also spread across MBull.

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Community Embul.
People here already knew that AK47 was a sniper.
There was some back-and-forth about it, but since there was only one match of sniping anyway, there hadn’t been any serious criticism.
However, that changed once ordinary people outside of Embul users learned about this sniping.
[Ril Champs Official Caster King Gul’s Massive Outrage]
After this video was posted on Embul.
Public opinion began to shift.
-Seriously, I’m so embarrassed lol
-Is that guy an Embul user???
-Wow, what will people think of this place…
-One year later… “Hey, that guy plays Embul!”
└Lol seriously
└That’s exactly what’ll happen…
Here’s a clean place, you know ㅠㅠ
While the people here had particular tastes and were somewhat closed-minded, they were quite clean compared to other communities.
Many pursued the game purely for its fun.
Many Embul users took pride in that.
Especially the older users.
[This is truly a cross-section of humanity… He sniped, countered with strategy, and when he lost, he just random-picked and left…]
[I’ve been playing since Embul first came out. This is really pathetic now.]
[These kids have no right to say anything to the national team]
With King Gul’s statement this time, strong self-correction began to take effect.
Because AK47’s sniping had crossed the line by far.
Especially that final random pick.
This was misconduct incomparable to day-building.
[He used day-build to kill day-build, then random-picked on top of it lol just execute him]
If Embul were an actual country and its rules were law, AK would have been executed.
That’s how poor public opinion was.
But what about Almond?
When one side of the scale goes down, the other side goes up.
[Almond and Bontovi probably knew it was sniping too. Respect for just keeping quiet and playing]
[If I were Almond, I would’ve thrown hands]
[If Almond had no attachment to the national team title, he would’ve just taken the mission reward and switched to another game long ago]
Posts like this began appearing with considerable frequency.
The ‘Almond National Team Recruitment’ that had always maintained a 50-50 balance began to show cracks.
It started tilting toward one side.
60 to 40? No, it felt almost 70 to 30.
60% is slightly more than half, but 70% is slightly less than a clear majority.
Then a post like this was uploaded and began receiving a flood of recommendations.
[Almond should just go straight for the national team roster—I’d recommend it with absolute certainty.]
When I clicked on the title, a superplay video of Almond was attached inside.
-Civil Empire national team, but why is there so much Reina?
└Lmao
└For real lol
└Now that you mention it, that’s true lol
└It’s impressive though haha
-It’s pretty solid. We need a general with pure military power too though
-Oh it was just Dehaep’s opinion lol
-The fact that he posted something completely unrelated so grandiosely is hilarious lmao
Despite the content being somewhat irrelevant, the post began receiving recommendations in droves.
1st) Almond should just go straight for the national team roster—I’d recommend it with absolute certainty.
It rose to the top of the trending posts.
Reaching the top of trending posts on Embul wasn’t particularly impressive.
‘Finally.’
Chiseung smiled quite brightly.
All I had wanted was recognition from Embul, support from public opinion… that was all.
‘Now I can enter national team practice with peace of mind.’
Almond had already achieved my goal even before officially obtaining the S+ rank.
I had been recognized by more than half the people as having the qualifications for the national team.
“Kim Chi Warrior? Why are you smiling like that?!”
“Ah… I just saw something funny. Haha.”
“What do you think about the matchup we just got?”
“Ah. Yes. The lumber positioning is probably slightly more in the opponent’s favor….”

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Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Tribi’s Korean branch.
“Executive, this is your final task for the day.”
“Ah, I see.”
A middle-aged man with a pleasant expression smiled as he answered his secretary.
He had just returned to the headquarters after completing his field work.
“Ah, yes. Right. The awards ceremony is important.”
Since it was the last task before leaving work, it wasn’t anything particularly significant.
It was just a simple matter of checking boxes on what looked like a survey email.
“Yes, then….”
The secretary collected his jacket, hung it on the coat rack, and returned to her position.
“Hmm.”
Alone in the office, the middle-aged man stroked his chin.
“I’m getting old—nothing but unfamiliar names.”
Back when I was actively involved, I used to know the faces and residences of streamers active on the platform. But not anymore.
Among the award candidates, there were a few I recognized who had been active for a long time, but….
“Sigh, the Rookie of the Year award….”
The Rookie of the Year candidates left me feeling breathless.
1. Mosol
2. Pepperoni
3. Goguma
4. Lemon
5. Almond
Following the principle that it’s better to get the difficult part done first, the Executive began voting starting with the rookies he knew nothing about.
First, I clicked on the attached video button.
[Video – Mosol]
The video was a summary of who the streamer was, what character they played, and how they had grown.
In short, it was a neatly edited biography of the newcomers.
Unfortunately, most executives tend to simply vote in order. But the staff below still put in the effort to prepare.
After all, there are occasionally executives like this one who actually watch carefully.
After a while, the video ended.
[…That concludes the explanation.]
The Executive moved to the next video without any change in expression.
[Video – Pepperoni]
[Video – Goguma]
.
.
.
They were all much the same.
What else would you expect from people nominated for Streamer Rookie of the Year? Their life stories were similar, their growth graphs were similar….
[Video – Almond]
As the Executive pulled up the final video, he thought to himself that he simply needed to mark number one.
‘This person….’
Among the rookie award nominees, he was the only one whose face looked familiar.
‘Wasn’t he that young man from the news?’
He didn’t know his name was Almond, but he remembered him.
[…Due to injury, he had to retire, and his background of pursuing his dreams anew as a streamer garnered considerable sympathy and interest….]
Watching the video, he was certain it was indeed that person.
‘That’s the young archer who used to compete in archery.’
He recalled that he did archery, that he attended Asung University, and that he was a streamer who began gaining popularity starting around the end of this year.
‘He made it onto this year’s rookie award list. I thought he’d move up next year.’
The Executive deliberated for a moment, then checked the final name on the list.

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