Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 458

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 178
62. Records and Memories (2)
The rune characters glowed brightly, and the recollection began.
I first participated in this Abyss as an archaeologist.
A voice reaches my ears.
‘That voice….’
It wasn’t a normal voice.
Like a corrupted audio file being played back.
Crackle.
Noise mixed in, but the meaning came through clearly.
This place was filled with elements that captivated me—the characters used by incarnations, the rune characters of ancient mages, and more. As someone who specialized in linguistic interpretation within archaeology, I found myself drawn to these wonders.
My darkened vision gradually recovered. Something began to take shape.
The topmost layer of the Abyss. In other words, before entering the Abyss. That place guarded by the gatekeeper Golem.
Several other people were ahead. Among them, I spotted a familiar back.
‘Swift.’
It was Swift. This body had been with Swift from the beginning.
Most of the participants were combatants rather than scholars. The Abyss held countless dangers, after all.
This body’s owner was a non-combatant archaeologist, and Swift appeared to be the combatant.
The Abyss was far worse than I’d imagined. Here, eating, sleeping, breathing—all were agony. Merely being alive felt like a sin.
The owner of Almond’s body, being a scholar, seemed to struggle with activity in this place. Despair echoed in his voice.
Yet what kept me alive was these fascinating ancient rune characters.
The power they possessed.
Mere scraps of Logos’s power, but they drew me in like magic.
A scene appeared where runes were used to defeat monsters.
These rune characters were what kept this archaeologist alive.
Soon I grasped the rune characters myself and could even imitate them to some degree.
Compared to ancient magic, it was nothing.
As a scholar, I was able to preserve my memories more properly.
Screech.
A scene of inscribing rune characters onto the body flowed forth.
The method of inscription wasn’t ordinary tattooing either. Some magical force was being employed.
Was this a unique power of archaeologists?
This is a recording technique passed down through our family for generations.
We could inscribe characters anywhere.
However, I discovered something strange.
While inscribing the tattoo, the body’s owner’s fingers paused.
A character nearly identical to the one he was trying to inscribe was already carved into his body.
When did I inscribe this?
I have no memory of carving something like this.
A character I only learned after entering here is already inscribed on my body.
Despite sensing something strange, the archaeologist continued the exploration.
She discovered the Sanctum.
Upon seeing the brilliant radiance of the Sanctum, I understood.
That what was ‘already recorded’ in my body was the truth.
It wasn’t someone’s prank, nor my delusion.
Then….
Before the vast light, Swift and the other party members shielded their eyes.
Silhouetted by the backlight, nothing could be distinguished.
Yet I could tell they were rejoicing.
Perhaps only the archaeologist wore a displeased expression.
While the others rushed toward the Sanctum.
Crackle.
I had to record this phenomenon.
Even if my memories fade, my records will remain.
She recorded something more onto her skin.
In the most visible place.
The phrase ‘Memories Keep Fading’ that Almond had just deciphered.
The next scene returned to the beginning.
Outside the Abyss. Once again, investigators led by Swift set out on their investigation.
As an archaeologist, I participated in this Abyss for the first time….
Pop.
The flashback magic ended here.
-lol
-crazy
-Lucky she recorded it
-wtf
-chills
The chat window was in chaos.
Well, Luna was under an enormously critical misunderstanding.
“I hadn’t regressed to the past.”
Hadn’t Luna said she was regressing to the past?
Hadn’t she said she alone was aware of it?
The reality was slightly different.
“Only Luna’s memories were preserved.”
Time hadn’t rewound.
Otherwise, how could records be stored in this body?
Time continued flowing forward; only memories disappeared.
Perhaps that’s why the Swift in the flashback and the current Swift looked slightly different.
The Swift I’d just seen appeared somewhat older.
A very subtle difference, but during the teenage years, even one or two years made a significant change.
It was obvious.
Just like the creature standing right in front of me now.
“…?”
“!?”
Almond was startled as Swift burst out from the thicket and collided with him.
“You….”
Swift glared with wide eyes and flinched.
He clearly hadn’t known Almond was here either.
Almond had just snapped out of his memories, so he hadn’t even drawn his bowstring.
Swift, for his part, hadn’t taken any attacking stance either.
“….”
Swift stood there awkwardly, saying nothing.
-What’s with this atmosphere
-This is awkward between them lol
-Lmaooo
-They stab each other with swords and shoot arrows at each other, but when they actually meet alone they can’t do it? lol
-???: W-we should… form an alliance!
He stared at me for a while before offering a jab.
“What are you doing, crouching like that?”
“None of your business.”
Good grief.
Swift let out a hollow laugh.
Even after that, he didn’t attack me or head off anywhere.
“You… why did you send me up to the next floor with you?”
“Because there weren’t enough humans.”
That wasn’t true. The reality was that Swift was the protagonist, so I had no choice but to advance him along with me.
“Ah. Is that so? There were over thirty humans charging at me from my direction.”
“So you’re complaining?”
Swift shook his head vigorously.
“Of course not.”
-Sharp turn
-His concept is solid lol
-Is his name Swift because he switches positions so quickly?
Then Swift added this as well.
“Since I owe you one, I’m sparing you for now.”
My expression hardened stiffly.
Who was sparing whom exactly?
“I’m joking. Why are you glaring so fiercely?”
Swift averted his gaze once more.
-Lololol
-No way, just drifting lol
-Straight to Rubisword! lol
[Uduru donated 1,000 won.]
[Isn’t Swift’s original name Drift? lol]
-For real lol
-Sharp turn master
-Lmao
-Drifting lol
Because he kept changing his route so much, the viewers teased him by calling him Drift.
Almond couldn’t kill Swift, so he stepped aside and told him to hurry past.
Unaware that his name was being changed in another dimension, Swift scratched his head and asked.
“You… want to form an alliance with me just for this floor?”
-Huh?
-Lol seriously
-“Rubisword – Drift”
-That’s pathetic lol
-This guy’s the protagonist?!
-Nova snake lol
Swift changed his route again.
Almond found it a bit absurd, but he decided to hear him out anyway.
After all, wasn’t he the protagonist of this game?
“We’ve been coming together from above anyway. Of course, my party members don’t have any ill feelings toward you.”
They’d tried to stab and kill me several times, yet they claim to have no ill feelings? I couldn’t understand these guys’ values.
Almond saw an opportunity and wanted to get to the bottom of what had happened.
“But why did you try to kill me?”
“What?”
“When I was sleeping. You came to kill me, didn’t you? Why did you do that? If it wasn’t for that, I’d still be part of your party.”
Gulp.
Swift swallowed hard.
“It was because of Luna.”
So he did remember that incident after all.
This cunning bastard. He’d been pretending to have lost his memory.
And now he was using Luna as an excuse.
“You kill people just because Luna said a word?”
“No. Luna didn’t tell me to kill you.”
“?”
“Trying to kill you was my own choice.”
-?
-This bastard’s got a death wish, CEO.
-???
-Chikichaa 1 second before
“That was your choice?”
Swift eventually told me the truth.
“Because you were in contact with Luna.”
“!?”
“I already knew Luna was trying to interfere with our party.”
But why did you keep her around? I couldn’t help but look bewildered.
Swift answered immediately.
“I didn’t think Luna was acting alone. There had to be accomplices. I was trying to find and kill all of them.”
-Shudder
-Ah, trying to string them together like sausages
-So Ben’s friend died too
-Wow
I see.
That makes sense.
Using Luna as bait, he was trying to root out all the spies embedded in his party.
“So now you don’t need to deal with me?”
Swift shrugged his shoulders.
“I realized it later. That in the end, Luna was the only one acting strange. I could only figure it out after hearing opinions from several party members.”
That was true.
Luna was the only one acting strange.
“But it’s still strange. Why is Luna so determined to interfere with me…”
Swift scratched his chin, still unable to understand Luna’s existence.
“What could she possibly do alone? A girl with almost no combat ability… Anyway. Will you cooperate with me for a while?”
I thought for a moment.
Since I had no idea when I could find Luna here.
Ding.
[Almond donated 10,000 won.]
[Convenient amnesia, or whatever, lane drift… This guy isn’t a combatant, he’s a politician?]
“Ah. Almond. Thank you for the donation.”
hahaha for real
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
-That’s Ril ^^
Here’s the real deal lol
Even if the viewers seemed unenthusiastic about Swift, it would be better to travel with him for now.
‘If I stick with him, there will be benefits.’
Even if this guy is an enemy, it could be an opportunity to gain more information.
His combat power is considerable too. When I was with Luna, I had to handle all the hunting alone.
That carried significant risk.
‘It’s not like I can’t trust him at all.’
Even Swift’s current explanation had points that fit together as precisely as Luna’s words.
‘But he’s not mentioning anything about this repeating, or bringing up such matters at all.’
Still, Swift seemed to be hiding quite a lot.
Well, until just moments ago we were trying to kill each other—how much would he really tell me anyway?
I could learn more gradually.
“Fine. Alliance until the next floor.”
“Yeah. Until the next floor.”
Clap.
Our hands met in a handshake.

* * *
Luna would feel disappointed if I said this, but my party with Swift was far more powerful.
“Let’s go!”
Swift disrupted enemies from the front, playing a pseudo-tank role. I handled ranged damage from behind.
Boom! Bang!
With that, most monsters could be eliminated in an instant.
“Grraaahhhhh…!”
Monsters fell like dominoes.
I could gather Rune Boxes in no time.
Other participants we encountered along the way avoided us. And whenever a fight broke out, victory naturally belonged to Swift and me.
Whoosh!
As Swift dispatched participants while scattering crimson blood, there were certainly aspects that resembled the incarnation of Swift I knew.
“Haa. Haa….”
Swift muttered while wiping away blood.
“Worthless thug. Didn’t drop anything.”
It seemed the participant I’d just killed didn’t have any special skills or anything like that.
“At this rate, when the next rule appears, we’ll definitely be able to advance to the next floor.”
“Should we rest for a bit?”
“That sounds good.”
Having obtained quite a few Runes, I could now decipher almost all the characters on my body.
“Everyone. While Swift sleeps for a moment, I’ll go decipher them in secret.”
I said that and then.
volunteered to take the first watch.
“I’ll take the first watch.”
“Okay.”
Swift nodded without any particular suspicion and then.
entered the tent and fell asleep.
Or perhaps he was just pretending to sleep.
Either way, he couldn’t see what I was doing.
I examined the tattoos with my upper body bare.
The tattoos were all written in a direction that made sense when Almond looked down at them.
It had been designed with this viewing angle in mind.
Almond pulled out the ‘Rune of Duplication – Lika’ he’d obtained last time.
“Hmm. Oh, there are similar characters here.”
■I■■ SWIFT
The characters from Lika appeared in this location.
“It’s not just one… they’re all here?”
Almond muttered this while his eyes widened in shock.
‘Could it be…’
He frantically tried to match the spelling.
Swift would be the surname, and the front would be the given name.
‘K… L….’
That’s what he’d thought.
KILL SWIFT
But the completed sentence was entirely different.
‘Kill Swift.’

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