Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 448

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 168
59. Luna (1)
I had been waiting for an opportunity just like this.
‘The acceleration rune’s effect is more incredible than I expected.’
Was it because using it on myself burned through a one-time effect that would normally grant permanent buffs to a weapon?
The explosive power I felt when activating the rune on myself was tremendous.
I thought an acceleration rune would just make me slightly faster, but once I started running, it was nothing like that.
I had become three times my previous speed.
I could reach speeds comparable to a simple scooter, and with that acceleration, naturally my jumping power and the destructive force of my subsequent thrusts increased as well.
However, not everything improved.
-Is he really using the acceleration rune like that?
-This is too fast, can’t control it
-Insane control
The speed made it difficult to control properly.
It was obvious. Think about the cornering ability of a car traveling at 100 kilometers per hour versus one traveling at 30 kilometers per hour. Naturally, the latter is far easier.
The acceleration rune was the same. The key to utilizing this rune was whether I could control movement at three times my normal speed.
That’s why Swift had dismissed it as trash.
It was a rune that couldn’t be properly handled when used alone.
“Did you… use an acceleration rune?”
In an instant, the man who had shattered the golem and landed gracefully before his eyes was me, and I was clearly using the acceleration rune.
Swift stared at me as if he wanted to devour me.
“This can’t be… something’s strange…”
He even muttered to himself.
Why was that?
Surprise? Or jealousy?
I couldn’t know as Almond.
I only had this curiosity lingering in the corner of my mind. Why Swift’s name was written there. Right in the center of his chest, directly above his heart.
I couldn’t understand the psychology of people who get tattoos, but a tattoo placed in such a location clearly wouldn’t be for showing off—it would be something with very significant meaning to him.
“Hey. You. I asked if you used the acceleration rune.”
Why was this guy
so important to him?
“Yeah. That’s right.”
“How did you control it?”
“How? Well.”
-Elementary school Almond lol
-Swift, stop hating him!
-It’s so different from when Reina was here. Am I mistaken?
“…Heh.”
“I’ve leveled up now.”
“What?”
“We took that down. My level went up. To level 3.”
That was true.
[Level increased!]
My level had risen along with that message.
I didn’t know what leveling up would actually do, but given Ril’s nature, I’d definitely become far stronger.
“So it’s definitely going to be useful.”
“And?”
Almond gestured toward several children lying collapsed around him. They looked incapable of continuing combat any further.
Some of them were already unrecognizable as bodies.
“You’re short on numbers anyway. How about coming with us?”
“You really do seem desperate to find the Sanctuary, don’t you?”
Swift twisted the corners of her mouth upward as she asked.
Almond merely shrugged his shoulders.
At that, Swift turned away and spoke.
“Give this guy your weapon. Luna.”
It seemed she’d been convinced by Almond’s words.
Ding.
[You have joined the party!]
I’d been registered to the party.
“But Swift?”
A girl looked back and forth between Almond and Swift with concern, fidgeting with her spear as if it were quite precious to her.
“His combat ability surpasses yours. Your spear is too good for you in comparison. Hand it over.”
“Understood…”
The girl called Luna handed her weapon to Almond with a slightly paled face.
And she picked up a different weapon.
Once Swift confirmed that, she spoke to Almond.
“Now that you’ve joined my party, you follow my orders. That’ll be the optimal path for your survival too. Almond.”
“Got it.”
And so Almond had somehow ended up joining Swift’s party.
“We’re heading to the next floor. Follow me.”
Swift said this and approached where the ruptured Golem’s core had been.
In that spot, a crimson magic circle now floated, bobbing gently.
As a person approached, it began to glow and transformed into the shape of a door.
It seemed that when the Gatekeeper Golem died, a door appeared in its place.
Swift entered without any hesitation.
Whoosh.
She vanished in an instant.
The children murmured briefly among themselves before following her inside.
“So this is the door Swift mentioned.”
“Wow…”
Swift had apparently already mentioned this entrance to the children before.
‘How does she know so much about it?’
It seemed Swift had prior experience exploring dungeons.
‘I should ask these kids about it later.’
Whoosh.
As I stepped through the doorway, my form vanished.

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In Story Mode, information is just as crucial as combat. There are conditions that can be cleared simply by acquiring knowledge.
For example, the ‘Memory (★★)’ condition would be cleared just by recovering what memory was held.
This memory was likely deeply connected to the tattoo etched upon my body.
To decipher this tattoo, I needed to obtain more Runes.
Runes appeared more frequently as the Sanctuary’s influence grew stronger, or so I’d been told.
[Abyss – Basement Level 1]
Now that I’d descended to the first basement level.
The probability of finding a Rune had increased slightly.
[The Sanctuary’s aura is felt]
As expected, this message appeared as well.
From here on, I was under the Sanctuary’s sphere of influence.
“From here on, this is real exploration.”
Swift spoke with a solemn voice.
“There are no more convenient doors leading to the next level.”
No doors? Then how does this work?
I listened carefully to what Swift had to say.
“When the time comes, the Abyss will show us what becomes a door. Until then, we must keep hunting monsters and opening Rune boxes to grow stronger and prepare ourselves.”
I see.
It sounded like this would be quite grueling work.
“The quality and quantity of monsters are different here. If you fall behind, there’s nothing we can do. Keep your wits about you.”
“Got it!”
“Yes!”
The children followed Swift quite faithfully.
“Alright. Luna. You decide.”
Rather than choosing the path herself, Swift called upon a child named Luna.
She stood with Swift at the fork in the road.
“Either way, from here on no one knows anything. This place called the Abyss constantly changes its form. Don’t burden yourself with doubt. Your ability is real.”
“…Y-yes.”
“Try choosing. Feel where the Sanctuary’s aura is stronger.”
Luna closed her eyes for a moment.
I watched her silently, then decided to try sensing it myself.
‘Between these two paths, which one feels stronger…?’
Almond had his eyes closed for a moment.
‘What is this.’
With his eyes shut, the aura of the sanctuary materialized before him, spreading like mist. One location had to have a slightly higher density of aura than the other.
Almond stared intently at the aura, weighing the two against each other.
Then he shouted into the broadcast microphone channel.
“Right─”
“Left.”
Luna chose left.
“Left!”
Almond chose left too. In the end.
hahahaha
-Swift: Get out
Where the heck is left and right? lol
Are you changing it right away? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Did you already react and change it? lol
-Dragon Ball style rock-paper-scissors
[Unknown Craftsman donated 10,000 won.]
[You… can’t solve everything with just physicality like that! Hodu has to use his skills more to improve!]
“Unknown Craftsman, thank you for the 10,000 won donation. I’ll take it to heart.”
-???
I can’t provide a meaningful translation of this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with keyboard symbols that don’t form coherent words or standard Korean text.
I can’t see it, but I should at least listen carefully haha
“the unknown blind”
“It’s the left.”
Swift listened to Luna’s words and nodded.
“Feels right.”
He patted Luna’s head once and walked toward the left.
‘Does he treat the children well.’
Almond thought that while Swift had been harsh with him, he could be kind to the children. Reina had been the same way.
If that were the case, if Swift was like Reina…
Then this irritating feeling he currently harbored would subside somewhat.
Walking along with such thoughts.
Swift’s voice rang out from ahead.
“Monsters.”
Growl.
Creatures shaped like wolves peered at us from between the trees in the forest.
[Blue Wolf]
[Lv. 4]
Level four, no less.
Considering the struggle we’d endured defeating the gatekeeper golem earlier, this was a considerable level.
There were even quite a lot of them.
The way they cautiously circled around suggested they possessed intelligence as well.
Could Luna’s choice of the left path have been wrong? One might think so.
“Looks like I made the right call after all.”
Swift said this.
“The stronger the sanctuary’s aura, the higher the monster’s rank. This is a good sign. It means there’s a Rune Box nearby.”
With that, he gripped his spear and stepped forward.
“Kill them all!”

* * *
The corpses of wolves scattered messily across the ground.
Huff. Huff.
The exhausted breathing of the children filled the air all around.
Only Almond stood without showing any signs of fatigue.
[Level 5]
Almond’s level was now 5.
It had risen by a full two levels again.
Well, he had defeated most of the wolves after all.
“…What’s this?”
“What’s going on? Why isn’t our level…?”
Most of the children remained at levels 2-3, and those who had suffered serious injuries earlier were barely keeping up, so they were even stuck at level 1.
-What do we have to do to level up lol
-Got robbed blind lol
-Bewildered lol
-Level 5 at this timing, wow
Was it fortunate, perhaps?
In this place, they couldn’t see each other’s information.
So no one knew that Almond alone had reached level 5.
Unless someone had been watching only Almond during that urgent battle.
[TopSoller donated 3,000 won.]
[Wait. You nut! Why are you denying your own teammates?]
Deny.
In Ril’s siege warfare, it’s when the opposing side prevents minion kills to obstruct experience and gold acquisition from the enemy team.
The viewer was asking why he was doing this to his own teammates.
“Thanks for the donation, TopSoller. It’s not denying—they just couldn’t kill them fast enough, so I finished them quickly.”
-That’s too much lol
-Minion discrimination
-Tsk tsk, a Nut Fan through and through
-Now even psychological denial…wow that’s ruthless! Nut Fans!
-Lmao ranked solo queue speak
Almond said this, but.
‘I think my level needs to be higher.’
In truth, he was deliberately paying attention to leveling up faster.
He needed a Rune.
In other words, he wanted a Rune Box.
What would happen if these party members discovered a Rune Box?
Swift would probably claim it first.
I’ll admit that much.
Then what comes next?
‘Me.’
He had to claim it.
For that to happen, having a higher level would strengthen his argument.
After all, he had joined this party quite late.
“Everyone, tell me your levels.”
Once the battle ended, Swift asked for everyone’s levels.
“I’m… 2.”
“3.”
“…1.”
Swift’s expression as he listened wasn’t pleasant.
Still, he listened.
The children stated their levels in turn, and his gaze reached Almond.
“You. What’s yours.”
“I’m 3. Same as before.”
“Guess you just got lucky back then. Do better.”
Swift said that and set off down the path again.
-Clever move lol
-He just straight up lied to Swift haha
-Got away with it lol
The viewers thought Almond had hidden his level because Swift scolded him.
But Almond had something nagging at him.
“For now, I’m not going to say. Besides, in the survival match, you said it’d be the last person standing anyway.”
-Well, that’s true
-But there’s no guarantee that applies here either
-Facts lol
“Even if it’s not identical, the basic structure should be similar… In the end, I can’t trust it.”
It wasn’t just because of the survival match concept.
‘Something’s really off.’
There’s genuinely something suspicious.
Not just Swift, but everything here.
‘Especially this window.’
I examined the note I had received once more.
「When the owl’s cry sounds three times, head to the campfire」
Words carved into the wooden shaft.
A message summoning someone in secret.
But why?
If I thought about it simply, it could be a secret rendezvous born of affection. But given the current situation unfolding, that seemed unlikely.
Who was calling whom?
Me?
The odds were against it.
No one even knew I would arrive here in the first place. There’s no way they would have prepared a message like this.
Luna had handed me this note on Swift’s orders.
‘This definitely wasn’t meant for me.’
I was confident this message wasn’t intended for me.
The words carved into the shaft were scratched with a blade.
As I mentioned, I had rejoined them instantly through the Rune of Acceleration.
They had no idea I would rejoin them.
‘So it seems I’ve intercepted a message meant for someone else.’
The most rational conclusion was that this message had been exchanged between certain children.
There were other possibilities to consider, of course.
But as my mind began to strain from the overload, I reached this conclusion.
‘Something is happening here.’
No one could be trusted.
They wouldn’t trust each other either.

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[Beginner’s Tip: Contractors are always searching for sanctuaries to achieve incarnation. However, there’s a rumor that it’s not the Contractors themselves who actually find the sanctuaries.]

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