Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 447

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 167
58. Swift (3)
Among countless tattoos, right in the center of my chest.
One of the most prominent tattoos clearly displays “Swift.”
What could this mean?
Surely it wasn’t simply meant to convey the word “fast.”
In English-speaking regions, Swift is actually used far less frequently than fast or quick to mean speed.
Rather, it’s more commonly known as a proper noun—like a developer’s app or a famous singer’s surname.
Most importantly, I’m currently inside the “Rubisword – Swift” story mode.
Naturally, Swift refers to the Avatar who wields the Rubisword.
“Does ‘Swift’ refer to that man over there?”
I gaze at the man standing at a distance.
The one who introduced himself as Swift.
-Who knows
-King, what do you think
-Right~
Could this tattoo be referring to that man?
Even if it were, questions remain.
Actually, even more questions arise.
“But I just met him? People don’t usually tattoo their girlfriend’s name on themselves, so it’s hard to believe I’d tattoo a man I just met…”
[Seon-a donated 10,000 won.]
[Looks like you fall in love too fast lol]
-Lmao
-Getting a tattoo of someone you just met~
-That’s some serious speed lol
-At that rate you could probably travel to space lol
So I got a tattoo because I fall in love too fast.
Does it even make sense to dismiss falling in love before meeting someone as merely “fast”?
“No. Even if I fall in love too fast, how could I before even meeting him…”
[Sanghyeon became a fan. Donated 10,000 won.]
[It’s a predictive cupid arrow for movement~]
-Lol so you predict movement for skill shots but also predict love~~
-Wow, predicting shots and getting tattoos. That’s a real man
-He’ll probably predict marriage too lol
-Wow, his romance game is insane
All sorts of ridiculous comments flood in.
They’re clearly teasing me.
“Thank you for the input, Seon-a. That could be it.”
-Lol Seon-a
-Lmao
-He totally aimed for that lol
-Insane lol
-Lmao
Almond finally tears his gaze away from the chat window.
‘I’ll have to figure this out on my own anyway.’
He thinks through it carefully.
He had just met Swift for the first time. If it weren’t for that absurd theory about losing predictive love or whatever, it would be impossible to have Swift’s tattoo engraved on his body in such a situation.
“It’s probably a case like Damian.”
Damian in Reina’s Story Mode kept losing his memories every time he died.
“The original owner of this body seems to have known Swift. Perhaps….”
-Insane deduction
-Oh yeah, that makes sense
Damian ㅠㅠ
This body must have previous memories as well.
The original owner of this body might have already known Swift.
“But Swift seemed like he didn’t know.”
The problem here is that Swift also seemed not to know me.
He seemed to be meeting me for the first time too.
Did they both lose their memories?
“It seems like both of them lost their memories… Wait. Is this a Minion?”
-Whoa!
-Is that so??
-Who knows~
Perhaps Swift and Almond’s body were both resurrected with their memories erased.
Such anomalies don’t happen to anyone except Minions. At least, not from what Almond knows.
“Now that I think about it, it was strange that they were all children.”
Most of the exploration team’s faces looked young. They had the feel of teenagers before adulthood.
If I think of them all as Minions, things start to make sense.
Minions were strangely all children.
“But what are the Minions doing here? Not even knowing they’re Minions….”
There are so many differences from the previous Story Mode that it’s embarrassing to point them out one by one.
But first, the Minions don’t know they’re Minions.
“That doesn’t make sense in a Siege War.”
In a Siege War, the current situation wouldn’t be explained.
The Minions would simply charge forward under the Contractor’s command and their objective would be to destroy the enemy’s Sanctum.
“A different mode….”
Ril has several modes.
Escort War, Survival War.
Could I be playing one of these two right now?
By the feel of it, Almond seemed like he could figure out which one it was.
“Is this a survival battle map?”
Ding.
Another notification chimed.
[You’ve taken one step closer to Memory (★★).]
I didn’t need to check the viewers’ reactions. This message confirmed that Almond’s speculation had been correct.
-Ooh nice
Haha, if you had played survival mode, you would know right away.
-Whoa so Hodu came instead today???
-Hodu Machine129
-Wow
-Hodu: Ah… I was just away for a moment.
Since I hadn’t played survival battle before, it took me a while to figure it out.
Someone sent a congratulatory donation for successfully guessing.
[Conan donated 30,000 won.]
[Ah. I suffered because the pillow fit so badly]
Hahaha
Was that what Conan was talking about? lol
Famous detective vibes lol
Detective Yu Sang-hyun lolololol
-Ah, that explains it
“Thank you for the 30,000 won, Conan.”
Either praise me or I’ll grit my teeth and cut back on it lol
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
Hahahahaha
I’m dying laughing at “nose” haha
At least my reasoning seemed correct, which felt good.
“If it’s a survival battle, from what I understand, I need to keep descending to the lowest floor here and become the last person standing to win. Is that right?”
I can’t translate “-ㅇㅇ” as it’s not a complete word or meaningful phrase in Korean. It appears to be placeholder characters or an incomplete text fragment.
-That’s right
This isn’t a spoiler, right? haha
-It’s like a battle royale they do in Ril
-ed
There was no guarantee that the battlefield in story mode followed the exact same rules as the actual game.
But at least the concept would be shared, so it was useful to know.
“I see. For now, I understand. But there’s still a mystery I can’t solve.”
Almond remained frustrated, still unable to figure out why Swift’s name was written there.
“If I gather more Runes, I should be able to figure it out.”
I needed to collect more Rune character samples.
The only way was to obtain Runes from chests.
“Ah. It’s moving.”
Swift’s party had just picked up their weapons again and started moving forward.
Almond continued to shadow them.
After all, I now had even more reason to join that party.

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Following Swift’s party proved effortless.
They weren’t particularly cautious about being tailed.
They must have severely underestimated Almond.
After walking for a while, they came to a halt.
Swift had pointed at something.
“Here it is.”
A massive fruit emanating an otherworldly glow.
It wasn’t hanging from a tree—it lay on the ground.
“This fruit is the entrance. It leads to the next floor.”
So that enormous fruit was the gateway to the next level.
The structure didn’t make sense to me.
But I decided to wait and observe—I’d understand soon enough.
However, things didn’t unfold so simply.
Boom.
A heavy thunderous sound erupted.
The fruit shattered.
[Gatekeeper Golem]
[Lv.5]
Crash!
A monster of a level I’d never encountered before emerged, trampling the fruit beneath it.
Dozens of massive boulders fused together into a crude form—I wouldn’t have recognized it as a golem if not for the luminous core gleaming at its center.
I couldn’t fathom where something so enormous had suddenly materialized from. It simply appeared out of thin air.
‘Does this mean the entrance is gone?’
Swift had said the large fruit was the gateway to the dungeon’s next floor. Now it was reduced to pink pulp. I doubted it could still function as an entrance. Though truthfully, it never really looked like one to begin with.
“The Gatekeeper Golem. Just as expected! Spread out in formation!”
Swift issued commands to the children without a hint of panic.
Whether they’d practiced or not, the children swiftly formed an encirclement around the golem.
Yet the massive golem, undeterred, lowered its stance and swept both arms across the ground.
Crash!!
“Ugh!”
“Gahhh…!”
Several children flew backward without even managing a breath, collapsing in the distance.
Blood trickled from some of their mouths.
“Ahhhhh! We’re dying!”
The surviving children charged at the golem, thrusting their spears forward.
Clang! Clang…!
It was like thrusting a spear into rock. As expected, it was useless.
‘This is frustrating.’
Even Almond, watching from the sidelines, looked disappointed.
“Arghhhh!”
“Die!”
Crash! Bang!
The children continued stabbing their spears at the Golem.
But it was futile.
The Golem didn’t stop attacking.
Boom──!
Another strike swept across the ground.
“Cough!”
“Ugh!”
A couple more flew backward.
“Damn it! Attack the core! The core!”
Swift stepped forward and shouted.
The core he mentioned was near the Golem’s chest. But it was too high to simply walk up and stab—it was about the height of a two-story apartment building.
Whoosh.
“Throw it…”
Swift repositioned his spear above his shoulder.
He bent his waist like drawing a bowstring, then planted his feet and generated momentum.
Thwack!
“Hit it, damn it!!!”
Swift’s spear flew directly toward the Golem’s core.
Whoooosh──
Was this the talent of someone destined to become an Avatar in the future?
Whoosh!
White flames ignited on the spear blade, as if some mana-based effect had been applied.
But the Golem wasn’t foolish either. It immediately deflected it with its arm.
──Clang!
The attack failed. But something was gained.
“The core really is the weak point!”
“It blocked the core!”
With this, it was confirmed that the core was indeed the weak point.
“That shining thing in the middle!”
They charged toward the Golem.
The Golem was terrifying, but as participants, they seemed prepared for this much.
When thrown from a distance, it deflects them.
So they climbed up the Golem’s body instead. They were trying to stab it directly.
However—
The Golem suddenly trembled violently.
——Crack, crack, crack! Boom!
The boulders that composed the Golem suddenly exploded.
Rocks scattered in all directions. Naturally, all the children riding on top of it went flying with them.
Seeing this, the other children threw their hands up in the air.
“W-we won!”
“It’s dead!”
They thought the Golem had died.
But—
“Huh?”
Whirrrrr!
The Golem’s core, floating in midair, called the boulders back to itself.
The rocks shook off the children and reassembled with one another.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The boulders reformed into a colossal Golem once more.
“Ah….”
The shadow of the Golem’s fist fell over the child.
Whoooosh!
The child, standing there with mouth agape, turned to dust and vanished from this world.
As if the real battle was just beginning, the Golem’s core gleamed and the boulders hovered in the air.
Those rocks scattered and rained down on their respective enemies.
The Golem itself became a meteor spell.
Boom!
Crash!
Booooom!!
“Ahhhhh!”
“This is insane!”
It dealt damage far faster and more powerfully than when it swept them up with its massive body one by one.
That was when—
“Move out of the way!”
Swift rushed forward and hurled a spear he’d found somewhere with all his might.
Whoooosh!
The spear flew straight toward the core floating in midair, just like before.
The Golem had already sent a boulder toward its core to block the spear.
“Again, it blocked it again…?”
But—
〔Winferestin〕
A shadow slipped in alongside the incantation.
——Slash!
The flying spear comes to a halt.
“…!?”
A new figure bursts in, soaring through the air.
Whoosh.
He snatches Swift’s spear and lands.
On the floating boulders of the Golem!
Swift’s pupils trembled violently.
Because he possessed absurd athletic ability.
Jumping to that height, catching a flying spear, and landing on a boulder?
It was beyond human limits.
“Wh… what… who are you!?”
He didn’t answer this question.
He simply kicked off the floating boulders at incredible speed, approaching the core.
Slash. Slash!
He was so fast that afterimages trailed behind him.
So the Golem couldn’t react.
The endpoint of those afterimages was the Golem’s core.
A long spear was thrust forward.
Shwiiing──
It pierced perfectly through the center of the core.
──Thud!
The core turned crimson red and began to convulse.
Boom!
It exploded with a deafening roar.
The destructive force was so great that even the spear snapped in two.
Crash.
Despite the loud explosion and shockwave, the one who pierced the core landed successfully.
“Phew.”
As he exhales and lifts his face, it looks familiar.
Swift’s eyes wavered.
“You… you are….”
Whoooong…!
His body still faintly glowed with the power of the Rune.
“I told you Runes were useful too.”
It was Almond.
This was the opportunity Almond had been waiting for.
A chance to prove his strength to join the party.
-He’s doing it like this;
and lol time──won
-Info) Originally you just need to throw the weapon you’re given well
-Using the Acceleration Rune to that extent?
-This is way too fast, can’t control it
-He’s actually doing this???
-Damn, solo killed the Golem
-Great control

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[Beginner Tip: The Gatekeeper Golem is an ancient guardian protecting the Sanctum. Of course, it’s not as powerful as it was in ancient times. However, in the deepest abyss where the Sanctum’s influence grows thick, it may yet display that former strength.]

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