Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 467

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 187
65. Icarus (1)
An unprecedented catastrophe in Swift’s Story Mode—Swift had died.
“Did… did he die?”
Behind my frameless glasses, my eyes blink rapidly.
“Can this even happen?”
I’ve witnessed how events within Story Mode affect the actual Ril. Of course I’m flustered. If Swift dies like that, what becomes of the real Swift who exists?
However, judging by the community’s reaction, it seems inconsequential.
No, rather, it seems this is how it’s supposed to be.
[Driftshock finally kicked the bucket lol]
[Ah my heart feels so light~~~ swelling with emotion!]
[Kyaa this is what gaming’s all about]
[Politician lol!]
[Breaking News) Jungler Swift from Yeouido confirmed dead]
They were actually celebrating Swift’s death.
The comments reflected the same sentiment.
-Killing Swift is actually pretty rare, right?
└Yeah it’s genuinely rare among streamers
└The real problem is what comes next, that’s just hell difficulty
The return of electromagnetic waves lol
-Jungler from Yeouido lmao
hahahaha
-How dare a mere politician mouth off to a combatant~~
└Back in my day they held the World Martial Arts Tournament at the National Assembly Building, kids these days don’t know
hahahaha for real hahahaha
The place where we used to farm Filibuster (physics) lolol but these days the young kids don’t know about it
From this, I could roughly understand that Swift’s death was the intended progression.
“Then is Swift someone else?”
That would mean the one currently active as the incarnate Swift in Ril is someone different.
Almond’s true self being Swift would be the highest probability.
Luna’s chances of being Swift are low due to gender considerations.
Of course, if this were a world with an extremely liberal worldview regarding such matters, it might be possible.
Considering Ran’s Story Mode, it doesn’t seem to be that kind of world, so Luna probably isn’t Swift.
“Then what exactly is Luna?”
Could Luna be an existence like Damian is to Reina?
Or perhaps another hidden mastermind?
The community was also discussing Luna.
[Why does Luna take the sword hit instead??]
[Hul Luna’s sacrifice what’s that about]
[Luna! You didn’t do that to me!]
Most of the comments were reactions to Luna taking the blade for Almond’s sake.
Apparently, this wasn’t something that happened often.
In fact, it seemed the opposite situation was more typical.
-Wait, that guy actually saves people?!
└lol first time hearing this
└It’s academic consensus that Luna can see the face of the entity dwelling within her
-So you were cold to me, but burning with hot love over there. Fine, that works…
└lmaooo
I’ll whip out about 3 ballads lol
-The rejection from before seems to have snowballed
└More like she rejected it and lived on.
└Yeah that’s what I meant
According to the Rilpro users, rejecting Luna’s proposal earlier seemed to have played a significant role. Perhaps Luna took the blade for Almond to restore her trust, or maybe Almond felt special to her.
Either way, Almond had definitely chosen quite an interesting branch among the countless branching possibilities that lay before him.
Now all that remained was to watch the flowers bloom from that branch.
[Here comes the big one]
[Is it Almond vs Jeon-ja-pa?]
[If Nut Fans win this, expect at least a week of dominance]
The community users were now anticipating the final remaining match.
For Juhyeok, all he could predict was that this was the indirect confrontation with Jeon-ja-pa that they’d always been talking about. But he had no way of knowing how it would unfold.
‘The final boss.’
He could tell the next match would be the last one.
This was probably where the most all-tube angles would come from.

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Thud.
Swift collapsed.
[Health 0%]
My health bar clearly displayed zero.
I was dead.
Ding ding ding!
[Rubisword has donated 30,000 won!]
Wow! That’s amazing ㅠㅠ Congratulations!
Donations began pouring in now that I’d defeated the boss monster(?).
[Luna Sword has donated 10,000 won.]
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve seen someone catch Swift ㅠㅠ
[Gaji-bokkeun has donated 3,000 won.]
[Wait, then who was the Swift that appeared on Ril?! Almond’s true self???]
-???
-Luna Sword lol
-Fake Rubisword lmao
-We definitely caught it thanks to Luna Sword~
I can’t translate this as it doesn’t contain meaningful Korean text – it’s just the consonant “ㅊ” repeated four times, which doesn’t form words or convey meaning in Korean.
-Damn, when was the last time Swift was actually defeated
-Even with 3-star engravings, this is crazy
“Thank you for the donations. Rubisword, Luna Sword, and Gaji-bokkeun.”
It seemed defeating Swift was something very few people had managed to accomplish in a long time.
And for good reason—the difficulty was quite substantial. If I hadn’t leveled up extensively beforehand and properly enhanced my weapons, it wouldn’t have been easy.
“Swift wasn’t easy at all.”
-For real lol
-The concept is an infinite repeat dungeon so they designed it to make you struggle before you catch it
-Enemies Almond acknowledges: Swift
Even I had to admit that defeating Swift wasn’t easy.
If Luna hadn’t charged in at the end, it would have taken considerably longer to defeat.
Just then, I heard Luna’s voice.
“Haa… I’m fine. Thanks for worrying about me.”
“….”
Luna seemed upset that I hadn’t thanked her, speaking sarcastically as she struggled to her feet.
Pat. Pat.
She brushed the dust off her clothes, then pulled out a Potion she’d hidden in her pocket and gulped it down.
The wounds from the blade cuts healed cleanly.
But something felt off.
‘!’
I realized something and cried out.
“…Wait. Didn’t you just say you had no potions!”
-Huh?
-For real lol
What’s up lol
Just before reaching the final floor.
Luna had clearly told Almond she had no potions. At that time, Almond’s health had dropped below 20%.
Time passed and it got replenished, but if it hadn’t, I probably would’ve died fighting Swift.
She didn’t give me any then either. Yet she had some for herself.
“Yeah. I don’t have any for you.”
Luna chuckled and replied shamelessly.
-This is hilarious lol
-She’s so charming lol
-Should we take her out too, bro?
“I’m joking.”
Luna said that and tossed over her last remaining potion.
Toss.
“Oh.”
Almond quickly caught it and drank it down.
Since one of my arms was nearly unusable right now, encountering an enemy in this state would be fatal.
[Health 89%]
My health was substantially restored, and my arm was completely fine again.
“Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.”
Luna waved her hand with a pleased expression.
A brief silence blanketed the sanctuary.
Now it was unclear how things would develop further.
“But everyone. What do we do now? Why isn’t the 3-star clear showing up….”
-Who knows?
-Yeah
-You said Ben would get banned if you talked about it, so why ask lol
-It’s a trap investigation, bow down!
I couldn’t get answers from the viewers.
“Could it be that some mystery related to Luna hasn’t been resolved?”
Almond made his own guess while approaching Luna.
“Luna.”
“…Yeah?”
“About what Swift said earlier. You have nothing to say about that?”
When I brought this up, Luna’s expression became bewildered.
“What… You don’t mean that thing about me writing letters on your body?!”
“Yeah.”
“You actually believe that nonsense!?”
Luna flares up.
“It does make some sense though.”
“This is insane… damn….”
Luna spews out crude language and strides toward where Swift’s corpse lies.
Thwack!
She kicks his face.
“This wretched bastard won’t stop his bullshit even in death!”
“….”
-Wow wow wow
-Lmaooooo
-Nah this is hilarious lol
“What do you mean that makes sense!? I’m not some archaeologist! Any idiot can be a guide!”
“Then why are you?”
Luna’s face flushes crimson.
“B, because… I was the most useful as a guide.”
It seems Swift wouldn’t let her join the party unless she was serving as a guide.
After all, she didn’t have any real combat ability.
“That’s a pretty convenient excuse.”
“What!?”
That’s when it happened.
“Um… guys.”
Rustle.
A voice emerges from where the corpses are piled.
“…Ben?”
The voice belongs to Ben, whom we had spoken with by the campfire.
He crawls out from among his friends’ bodies and positions himself between Luna and Almond.
“D, don’t fight… this is playing right into what he wants….”
“Ben. This is my matter. Don’t interfere.”
Almond warns Ben to back away.
But Ben doesn’t retreat.
“Almond. Luna isn’t that kind of person.”
-??
-Didn’t you say Luna was weird
-Ben breaking down for his friend lol
Almond responds in disbelief.
“You were the one who said Luna was acting strange first.”
“No. That, that was my mistake. You know, right? Luna is exactly as I first thought. She has an angelic nature.”
What kind of angel kicks a corpse’s face while cursing up a storm?
-Lmaooooo
-Real stance-switching experts lol
-How many floors deep did this bastard get bitten to manipulate memories like that
-No, Ben lmao
Ben, snap out of it ㅠㅠ
-An angel lmaooo
“It does seem like Ben really does like Luna. Haha…”
-For real lol
-Ah, if he likes her, what can you do~
Oh no ㅠㅠ
Ben had harbored feelings for Luna even while suspecting her.
Now that it was all revealed that Luna wasn’t the culprit, he would naturally side with her.
Ben defended her earnestly.
“Almond. You, you saw it too, right? Luna taking down Swift.”
“What? Who said anyone took down Swift…”
-??
-He only got the last hit lol
-Almond’s the one who took him down, you bastard
-Going crazy over a woman…tsk tsk
-Almond even lost an arm…
Almond was utterly bewildered.
He was the one who killed Swift, sacrificing an arm to do it.
Yet Ben insisted that Luna had killed him.
But that wasn’t entirely wrong either. Luna had delivered the final blow, after all.
It was adding insult to injury.
Luna smirked and added her remark.
“You heard? Almond. Stop with the strange misunderstandings.”
-Lmaooo
-So damn annoying
-Luna’s so likable lol
I couldn’t continue the conversation any further.
No matter what I said, she just kept repeating, “Stop with the strange misunderstandings.”
It was the phenomenon NPCs displayed when they couldn’t progress dialogue any further.
‘Then what about the three-star clear…”
My head began to ache.
How was I supposed to achieve a three-star clear then?
“Anyway, you all. We don’t have time for this. We need to figure out how to get out of here.”
Ben pointed upward.
The sanctuary’s location was completely open all the way through the root, stem, and leaf layers above.
Like a deep well, in other words.
“We have to escape through there.”
“But how?”
Luna’s voice carried a note of frustration.
“Are you telling me to fly through the sky?”
Fly through the sky?
Almond suddenly recalled the name of the three-star clear condition.
‘Icarus.’
Icarus.
The mythological figure who crafted wings to escape the labyrinth.
How did he make the wings, you ask?
He killed a bird and fashioned them from its remains.
That was when it happened.
Kiiiiiiiii!
A bone-chilling, piercing high-frequency shriek tore through the air.
The sound descended from above, echoing downward.
From the upper edge of the well above the sanctuary, a black shadow descended upon them.
──Kuuuung!!!
“What in the world is this.”
Wings unfurled across massive shoulders.
Shwaaak!
A monstrous creature with feathers honed sharp as blades.
“Not only summoning my true form….”
It was a bird.
The administrator of this place.
This time, no illusion—the real thing.
“Did you kill my sole contractor?”
His eyebrows rose sharply with anger.
Having slain Swift, the chosen contractor, his fury was understandable.
At least Luna and Ben froze with that assumption.
Yet the bird spoke something entirely unexpected.
“Good. Fight until only one of the three remains.”
He commanded the survivors to kill one another.
“The final one standing shall claim this sanctuary.”
That was it.
The bird had already stated the rules before.
「If no contractors remain, one non-contracted individual wins. Allies of the non-contracted are not considered.」
If one was not a contractor, only they alone could leave this place.
Grrrick.
I drew back my bowstring.
“Ah… Almond? Are you serious?”
Luna turned to me in shock, her voice trembling with disbelief.
“Me? You’re going to kill me?”
Tears welled up in Luna’s eyes, glistening. She seemed to think she had been betrayed.
“No.”
Almond shook his head and released the bowstring.
Whoosh!
The arrow that shot forth rapidly seemed aimed at Luna, but it curved sharply and pierced the Bird instead.
Clang!
The Bird swiftly folded its blade-like wings and deflected the arrow.
“An intriguing choice.”
The Bird’s eyes twitched.
Luna and Ben’s faces went pale.
But Almond had already confirmed this was the only path.
“Luna. Ben. Kill this creature. Let’s get out of here.”
The way to obtain the third star was to kill this creature—this Bird.
And to fly away.
Like Icarus from mythology.

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[Beginner’s Tip: There’s a saying that if you stay still, you’ll at least survive. But don’t carelessly apply your ancestors’ teachings in the Abyss. Everyone who stayed still died anyway. Haha!]

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