Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 454

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 174
61. Rules (1)
Luna.
What on earth is this girl’s true identity?
“Whether in games or reality, women remain a mystery.”
Sigh.
Juhyeok, who had been watching the game with vacant eyes, muttered something meaningful.
He too was curious about Luna’s identity.
He figured he might as well capture community reactions to share with Jia as reference material.
So he decided to enter Rilpro and investigate Luna.
Almond would be in trouble if spoiled, but he himself didn’t care, right?
“Huh?”
But there was no need to search in the first place.
A post had already appeared at the very top of the Big Pro section like this.
[Big!] Why surviving without choosing Luna is legendary
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Surviving Luna isn’t just a matter of being glad to be alive.
To understand why, you need to know this first.
Luna is aware of the Player.
Do you remember this line from Luna?
“I’ve never had an enemy like this. Did a picky one come in this time?” This one.
Luna understands that Players keep entering the body of some Person A who is currently that avatar, and they’re going through Story Mode.
Here’s the question.
Huh? So why has Luna never refused her own request even once?
How many people has she refused so far?
This is what you’d be curious about.
I’ll tell you straight.
Why?
Because if you refuse, you die and restart! lol
The Player goes back to the past and starts over, and when they return, they eventually accept her proposal.
Luna doesn’t realize that the Player dies and returns to the past.
So to Luna, every Player who’s ever come has accepted her proposal.
There’s more complex stuff after this, but I’ll skip it since it’s a spoiler.
The important thing is that Almond might be remembered as possibly the first person to refuse Luna’s request.
Got it?
2-line summary
1. You’re the first person to refuse me
2. Luna lip thief title acquired
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-Already spoiled so much lol
-Ril zoomed in because of the long text
└National pride
-How does an NPC distinguish something like that???
└Isn’t it just like an Easter egg?
└No, you’ll know if you watch
└If you don’t clear with 3 stars, it’s just an Easter egg lol
-Luna knew Korean too, national pride vibes
└Oh, Ben said that lol
└lololol that’s hilarious
└The dialogue changes by country, but they shamelessly threw in Korean national pride lol
-The summary feels weird though? lol
After reading this far, Juhyeok felt exasperated.
“Huh. Luna is aware of the player coming and going? Who would play a game like this these days—it’s creepy.”
An NPC aware that she’s living a repetitive life, and that the player keeps changing. It felt oddly unsettling.
“It’s kind of pitiful, isn’t it?”
If the world repeated infinitely, how tedious would that be? If the author was right, then Luna’s primary objective would naturally be to escape from here.
She would do anything to break free from this cycle.
‘A cycle…’
Jia had said something similar once.
「The hamster wheel isn’t the problem. The problem was realizing I was the hamster wheel.」
Those words had slipped out while we were talking about her and the company.
Could an intelligent being endure discovering that the world surrounding them was a massive hamster wheel?
Her answer had been ‘no’.

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“Everything is repeating itself?”
“Yes. Like a hamster wheel.”
Luna nodded as she walked ahead.
Squelch. Squelch.
She walked across the damp, waterlogged marshland without the slightest hesitation.
“The problem is that among everyone participating here, only I’m aware of it.”
“Why only you?”
“I can’t tell you that. I haven’t completely trusted you yet.”
“….”
I had nothing to say.
After all, I hadn’t completely trusted Luna either.
Instead, I asked a different question.
“So you’ve repeated this over and over—is that how you know the future?”
“Yes. But it doesn’t repeat exactly the same way every time. There are always variables.”
Variables?
So it seemed she only knew the broad strokes of the future.
But then there was something odd about this.
“But you always reach the sanctuary in the end, don’t you?”
“…Yes.”
Luna averted her gaze as if something had struck a nerve.
“How is that even possible? You don’t seem that capable. And you said there are always variables.”
“What?! What do you think you know about me to say something like that! I’ve done this so many times—of course it’s natural that I reach the end every single time?!”
Luna bristled at the suggestion that her abilities were lacking.
Fair enough, I suppose.
“But—”
That’s when I asked the crucial question abruptly.
“Why are you telling me all this? That you’re the only one aware of the regression. That’s dangerous information.”
This was a question that Juhyeok, had he read the community post, might have been able to answer.
But Almond didn’t know about it yet, so I asked.
“….”
Luna walked across the stepping stones in the marsh as if she hadn’t heard the question at all.
It was a question she found difficult to answer for now.
Then.
Boom──!
A heavy rumble echoed through the air.
“Uh….”
Luna, who had been walking on the stepping stones, staggered.
No—the entire world itself was staggering.
Flut──ter.
A massive bird passed overhead across the sky.
‘A bird…?’
It was so enormous it was nearly the size of a person.
Or was it a person?
Ping!
Suddenly the screen went black.
It wasn’t just my vision that vanished.
My hearing, touch, sense of smell.
Everything disappeared.
There was nothing. Nothing remained.
Even the sound of my heartbeat was erased.
Complete darkness.
Then, brightly glowing letters materialized.
Screeeech….
It was the only stimulus amid the deprivation of all senses. My eyes were drawn to it involuntarily.
The letters were driven into my mind.
[The entrance to the next floor has been generated within the body of one random individual.]
Whoosh.
Those letters soon vanished.
And the next sentence appeared.
[Exactly twenty people can enter.]
The second sentence also disappeared, and then.
The next sentence appeared.
This was the crucial part.
[If you kill the one who possesses the entrance, you can reclaim it.]
It was etched clearly into my mind.
Moments later─
“Gasp…!”
With a sharp intake of breath, all my senses returned at once.
“What in the….”
ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Is this a horror game??
-Terrifying as hell
Almond looked around in bewilderment. Luna explained.
“It’s the rules of the Abyss.”
“Rules…?”
“Yeah. Each floor has its own unique rules. But we never know which rules will appear on which floor.”
The rules were generated randomly.
‘So that’s why the past never repeats itself completely.’
No matter how many times Luna had repeated this Abyss, there were always these variables.
-Even if it were Juhyeok, there’s nothing he could do about this.
There’s a random element to it, wow.
“Isn’t it more like a test-taker who’s retaking exams, not a returnee or something lol”
The viewers’ assessment was accurate.
Even if I had returned, I didn’t know the future precisely, so I was essentially an Abyss test-taker.
Luna, the Abyss test-taker, pointed downward.
“This rule is actually one of the better ones. At least we can find the entrance quickly. If you look at the ground, you’ll see the path created by the light.”
It was indeed so.
Just like how an RPG game shows you a quest route, a path was drawn on the ground.
“If you follow it, you’ll find the person who has the entrance. This way, even if our concealment breaks, we won’t be tracked.”
She smirked and pointed upward.
The barrier that the concealment rune had been providing had already vanished.
Now there was no reason for Almond to travel with Luna.
“So, what will you do?”
*Tap.*
Luna stopped walking and asked.
“You’ve heard everything I had to say. Now that the concealment rune is gone, there’s no need for you to stay with me.”
She was giving me a choice.
“Do you feel even a little like coming with me?”
Luna licked her dry lips anxiously, wondering what answer would come.
‘What should I do.’
Almond asked the viewers.
“I suppose I have to go with her this time, right?”
If I refuse Luna’s request, I die.
Almond had survived in the end, but the game company had designed it that way.
That meant nothing would progress unless I went with her.
Even if I get betrayed later, there wasn’t much choice here.
-Yeah let’s go
-Let’s go to hell for crying out loud!
“Salty guy, I’m praying that you reject it right now lol”
I can’t translate this. The characters “ㄱㄱㄱㄱ” are Korean consonants repeated without forming actual words or meaningful content in Korean.
“Alright. Fine. Let’s go together for now.”
Luna’s expression brightened.
“You made the right choice.”
She took the lead down the path with an excited stride.
Almond momentarily forgot the question I had been asking.

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Finding the entrance and walking toward it was naturally not difficult at all.
It was marked far too clearly by the light on the ground.
Besides, Luna was practically an expert in Abyss exploration.
“Some creatures use the fact that they’re an entrance to set traps, so you can’t just follow the ground blindly.”
Possibilities spilled out effortlessly.
-Haha, truly a repeat test-taker’s Abyss masterclass
Haha, you’ve got the 4-point problems down by year, right?
As expected, you’re a theory expert lol
-A veteran of cram school
Stop making fun of repeat test-takers ㅠㅠ
While the viewers were having a good laugh at Luna with the repeat test-taker meme.
Luna casually asked Almond a question.
“By the way, what’s your exact level right now?”
“Not telling you.”
-???
Is it a state secret or something? lol
This turned out pretty well lol
-Stingy Mond
“Tch. I’m trying to hunt monsters that match our level….”
“You know all the monster locations? They change every time, you said.”
“Each monster has its habits. If I look at the terrain’s shape, I can tell who’ll appear.”
“Then we’ll just hunt whatever comes out.”
“What if a level 10 monster appears?”
Level 10 would be several levels above me.
I probably couldn’t hunt it.
“Then we run away.”
“What if it’s too fast?”
“It’s fine. I just need to run faster than you.”
“….”
Hahahahaha
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-A talented med student’s problem-solving skills
Luna’s upset lol
“You’re the most annoying one I’ve ever met.”
The most annoying one I’ve ever met.
Hearing that expression, something came to mind.
“Now that I think about it….”
I was about to ask something.
“Yeah. A monster. It’s coming.”
Almost simultaneously with those words, the trees in the jungle forest across the way snapped and cracked.
Crash!
And a massive shadow burst forth.
[Wood Slasher Lv. 7]
Whirrrrring…!
A colossal troll wielding a chainsaw. It was the Wood Slasher, a level 7 monster.
“Keeehehehehehaha!”
The creature let out an eerie laugh, rolled its eyes back, and began hacking away at the trees indiscriminately.
Thud. Thud.
It didn’t seem to have noticed there were people here yet.
The Magma Bear had been level 6, and considering I’d hunted that with Swift’s entire party of ten members, the two of us taking on a level 7 monster could prove difficult.
I made the decision to flee.
“Right. A Wood Slasher. The two of us aren’t ready for this yet. It’s loud, sure, but as long as we don’t strike first, we can just slip past──”
──Twang!
I’d already released the bowstring.
“Hey!”
Luna burst out in protest.
Hahahaha what the heck hahahaha
“Barack is so cute lol”
-how does a repeat student understand a med school prodigy
-that’s why you can’t solve problems if you just skip them Luna~
Among all the NPCs throughout the series, this one has the worst temper lol
But by the time Luna could get angry, an arrow had already lodged itself in the Wood Slasher’s solar plexus.
Thunk!
“You idiot…!”
Luna was furious nonetheless.
Well, hitting the Wood Slasher in a spot like that was pointless.
All I’d done was provoke it.
“Keeehehehehe!?”
The Wood Slasher twisted its neck and turned toward us.
Behind a mask like something from a B-grade horror slasher film, the creature’s single eye gleamed with madness.
The troll’s massive frame. And that chainsaw.
Whirrrrring!
A sound that tore at the eardrums.
It was the very embodiment of terror.
“Keeehehehehaha!”
With a horrible shriek, the creature began charging toward us.
Thwack! Thwack!
Arrows continued to strike its neck in rapid succession, but to no avail.
Only then did Almond ask Luna a question.
“What the hell. How am I supposed to kill this thing?”
Luna’s jaw drops so wide it looks like it might unhinge.
“You’re asking that NOW!? I told you not to shoot!”
-Upper tier) Just shot it anyway lol
-lmao
-Barbarian-style damage negotiation lol
-???: Troll? In Kingdom it was a one-shot…
“Tell me its weakness, quick.”
“The eyes! The eyes!”
Luna screamed as she ran for her life.
-Luna running away lol
-Pantsless run lol
-Wait is she really a returner lol
-Mock exam pantsless run
She continued while moving out of the way.
“But to hit something at that height, you’d need a flight rune──”
──Thwip!
A blue arrow pierces straight through the Wood Slasher’s eye.
The arrow had gone through the single hole that existed in the mask.
Gluck.
Blood dripped down.
“Screeeeeeeeeee!”
The Slasher spun around three or four times in place, writhing in agony.
Crunch!
As a result, every tree around it turned into firewood.
-Wow, the archer and the woodcutter
-omg
-That accuracy though, crazy
“!?”
Luna froze in shock.
“How… how did he…?”
She looked up at the Wood Slasher again.
The Wood Slasher’s head hung at a height that required her to crane her neck far back to see. Hidden beneath the mask that covered it were small eyes.
To hit something like that on the first try.
“How did he hit it on the first shot…?”
Luna muttered, turning to look at Almond.
“He’s completely different from the ones I’ve seen before.”
-Ah, that look in his eyes…
-Luna 1 second ago
-???: These are all developments I already know.
-Luna waiting for helicopter
-Luna~ How about we meet when you go to college, huh~?

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[Beginner’s Tip: Where does the mysterious power of the Sanctuary come from? Nobody knows… but could it be your burning passion!?]

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