Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 41

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 41
15. Standing Alone at First Place (3)
At the moment when sponsorships were pouring into Almond’s broadcast.
An unusual post appeared on the Battle Rage Community.
It was written by someone named Kanpungjeongeo from the team “Monday Lovers.”
[Met a skilled player in Stones Rating.gif]
A somewhat sensational title.
In contrast, the post’s content was almost entirely composed of animated clips of my gameplay.
At the end, there was only a single line added: “This person wiped out all four of us alone…”
-???
-That’s Stones?
└Note) The rating called Stones doesn’t actually exist.
-I’d believe it if you said they were Master tier…
└Fact) The opponent is also Stones, so it’s possible.
-Just a smurf + stomper, right?
“Isn’t it more ridiculous that I got hit with something like that? lol”
There are guys who get hit by compound bows too lolol
-Wait, but shooting upward and hitting the crown of the head—what is that?! Is that even possible?
└Theoretically possible.
It’s possible. Haven’t you seen movies like Three Kingdoms or something? ㅋㅋㅋ
The comment reactions themselves were negative.
Rather than acknowledging my skill, most opinions were criticizing Kanpungjeongeo and his team.
In fact, that was a natural reaction.
This place was the bottom rating called Stones, after all.
Where would acknowledge a complete beginner just because they happened to pull off one good play?
But what if the opponent wasn’t Stones?
-OP here, what do you mean Stones. Our whole team hit Diamond 1 last year.
Haha, oh, I’m a Grand Master too.
I can’t translate this as it appears to be corrupted or garbled text with random Korean characters and symbols that don’t form coherent words.
If the opponent was a player who had reached Diamond last year, public opinion might have shifted somewhat.
[I’m Kanpungjeongeo. Verifying now.]
After Kanpungjeongeo’s verification.
Signs of that began appearing gradually.
-Huh? This is actually legit?
-Kanpungjeongeo hyung! Why are you here!
-Did you make a comeback?
-Who is this unknown Kanpungjeongeo, you nerds.
└This unknown Kanpungjeongeo guy
└Caught a kid.
-Their team was pretty famous in the rating circuit. They even competed in amateur tournaments. Didn’t they scatter around last year saying they were busy with real life?
└Just got back. We all returned today.
└Why?
└We all failed the civil service exam en masse, damn it….
hahahahahahahahaha
Hahahaha, this is hilarious
The whole group got eliminated lol
└Me, an invincible Diamond 1 squad in another world, but a civil service exam candidate in real life?!
└Bastards….
Kanpungjeongeo had solid skills and had been quite active in the Community.
Thanks to his considerable reputation, his verification had immediate effect.
-Wait, then who is that Stones archer…?
-Yeah, even after taking a year off, they’re an elite squad.
└If it’s like Monday Lovers level, that’s totally possible
-That doesn’t make sense, right? They killed everyone with a compound bow?
-The world terrifies me now….
The next topic of interest immediately shifted to the mysterious archer.
The Stones archer wielding a compound bow, slaughtering Diamond players.
And they’d massacred an entire Diamond squad. Solo, no less!
-A returning player?
-What exactly is it
That’s creepy.
What do you mean? It’s all messed up lol
Many were curious, but everyone assumed they were either a returning player or someone who’d intentionally tanked their rating through smurfing to focus on bullying lower-ranked players.
[Found out who that Stones archer is! They’re streaming?]
-Definitely a smurf. They’re streaming, after all.
lol
-So they really are a smurf? Disappointing.
Report it, let’s go.
Learning that he streamed, people became even more convinced.
Almond was a streamer who smurfed to massacre beginners.

* * *
I was busy farming for items.
“Sigh. Nothing here either.”
But the results were disappointing.
-Looks like there were people who set up camp here from the start
Hahaha, how is there not even one?
-First aid supplies always get taken, so they’re usually gone….
I can’t even take care of the basics, lol, there’s nothing to look after anyway.
In truth, items weren’t completely absent.
There were quite a few weapons scattered about that were rated far superior to the compound bow.
Yet they were all useless to me.
[Mission: 230,000 won if 1st place with bow]
[Mission: 170,000 won if 1st place in solo squad]
It was precisely these missions.
‘When did it become 230,000 won?’
It started at 100,000 won, and apparently viewers considered it a safe bet—many had added extra funds to the mission pool.
‘Combined, that’s 400,000 won…? That’s substantial.’
It was considerably higher than the donations I’d been receiving. I’d never received an amount like this except from Seojia’s donations.
I checked the viewer count displayed at the bottom from the corner of my eye.
[Current viewers: 1,905]
The viewer count had suddenly swelled to the 1,900s.
I had to manage my expression carefully. If I showed too much enthusiasm, it would break the immersion for the viewers.
‘When did it grow this much?’
I distinctly remembered it dropping to the 1,100s when I switched disciplines. After that, it even went down to the 900s.
Now it was in the 1,900s.
Lol, there’s a bow mission on cooldown
-Wow, so this is Almond….
-Trash player… First time seeing you. Who are you?
Looking more carefully at the chat, there seemed to be many people seeing me for the first time.
‘But why trash player…?’
I understood what a trash player was.
But I couldn’t figure out why they’d call someone desperately trying to win that.
‘Where did this influx come from?’
Usually in cases like this, viewers flooded in from specific communities.
I didn’t have time to track down which community it was.
[The blue zone is shrinking.]
With only 15 players remaining, the blue zone began contracting again.
Whooooom──
With a heavy rumbling vibration, players hiding in various spots slowly began moving.
Soon the space would become so cramped that we’d have no choice but to fight each other.
Thump-thump…! Thump-thump-thump!
Gunfire erupted without warning.
Squads were clashing against each other.
I slowly opened the door and moved my feet toward the sound.
Thump-thump-thump! Bang!
The gunfire continued relentlessly, and five players were eliminated in an instant.
[10/100]
Ten players remained.
I had no way of knowing how many squads were left.
All ten could be from different teams, or perhaps only two squads survived.
“Let me just go and─”
I was about to turn the corner and advance.
Thud.
The moment I turned the corner, my head collided with someone.
“!”
An enemy.
Startled, the enemy pulled the trigger and unleashed a barrage of gunfire. I immediately threw myself back behind the corner.
Fortunately, the enemy’s reaction was slow enough that the shots missed.
But if I stayed still, they would advance and shoot me down—that much was certain. I quickly concealed myself and drew my bowstring taut.
Creak──
‘….’
In a state of extreme tension, I waited for the enemy to approach.
“Over there!!”
Bang!
Gunfire erupted from another direction.
“Ugh!”
Thud.
The enemy I had encountered was eliminated by a sniper from the other squad.
His teammates belatedly covered him, unleashing a torrent of rifle fire.
Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump!
The confrontation between the two squads intensified.
‘They’ve drawn aggro away from me.’
I had been completely forgotten. This was the advantage of solo squad play.
I poked my head through the doorway and fired my bow.
Whoosh!
From the enemies’ perspective, my arrow appeared and vanished from their sight in a fraction of a second.
“Huh…?”
In the moment they wondered what that was.
Thwack!
The arrow lodged itself in their forehead.
“Ah… Damn.”
The user Tangdangi cursed as he collapsed.
But he didn’t die.
By this point in the match, most players were wearing high-grade ballistic helmets.
Still, he’d lost roughly half his health.
“Hey. There’s someone shooting a bow.”
Tangdangi hid himself back in the trench and wrapped bandages around his wounds as he spoke.
His colleague Tungdungi beside him frowned.
“A bow…? At this timing?”
“Must be some lucky bastard who’s just been camping.”
Occasionally, there were those who didn’t farm at all and simply held their ground from the start, lucking their way through. They were the fortunate ones.
“Ugh… What a headache….”
Tangdangi voiced his frustration.
He’d thought he’d only need to deal with one team, but now some strange player had joined the mix.
──Thunk!
“Gack!”
Suddenly, an arrowhead fell from the sky and struck his crown.
The ballistic helmet shattered, and his health was completely depleted. He hadn’t even finished wrapping his bandages.
[Almond → Tangdangi]
[Incapacitated.]
“…What?!”
Tungdungi beside him wore an expression of utter disbelief. An arrow falling from the sky and killing someone—it was absurd.
“There’s no angle. How….”
The answer to that question came from the next arrow that fell.
Thunk!
“Aaaahhhhh!”
With an arrow lodged in his shoulder, Tungdungi screamed.
“You’re shooting from above?”
Before he could prepare any further defense, another arrow came flying.
Thunk!
This time it pierced his heart.
Thud.
[Almond → Tungdungi]
[Eliminated.]
[6/10]
[Almond → Tangdangi]
[Eliminated.]
[5/10]
The team of two was completely wiped out.
I aimed my bow toward the sky once more, then retrieved my arrow.
“Oh. Already dead.”
-Already dead lol
-Guns maybe, but arrows? Can’t dodge those~~lol
-This is the beauty of ballistic trajectories, folks!
-lololol bows are lowkey pretty good?
-Wow, this is actually legit good with a bow? lol
The compound bow was never truly considered a good weapon.
It was used because it was quiet and useful early on, but it was certain to become garbage once the mid-game arrived.
Yet when Almond wielded it, everything looked different.
-This is actually possible.
-I thought that was only theoretically feasible…
-This is seriously insane.
Almond could unleash 100%, no—150% of the bow’s true potential.
It made me wonder if the bow might actually be superior to guns.
“So five are left now….”
Bang—
The sniper rifle’s report echoed across the field.
[Tungdungi → thug956]
[Eliminated!]
[4/10]
Before I knew it, only four remained.
-Whoa 4 people lol
-The moment he said it, 4 people
-Getting nervous.
‘Four left now… three excluding me? First place might actually be possible?’
Current mission bounty total: 420,000 won. And the honor of first place in this solo squad match.
Those prizes glimmered tantalizingly within reach.
‘If the remaining three aren’t on the same team, there’s a real chance.’
If it’s not a 3v1 situation, but rather 2v1v1, or individual duels.
Then it would be worth attempting.

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