Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 490

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 210
73. First Attempt (2)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
I had been watching Almond’s gameplay for quite a long time.
So I knew him well. How he handled different situations. What his strengths were and what his weaknesses were.
I rarely missed a single broadcast of his.
Why was that? Because I was a fan of his?
Not at all.
Quite the opposite, actually.
‘Honestly, I’m not sure if he’s even that good. Ril’s game isn’t just about physical skill.’
It was closer to jealousy than fandom.
‘If we’re measuring skill by game understanding, isn’t mine better?’
I was also a streamer. One with barely a hundred viewers.
A streamer who had been broadcasting far longer than Almond.
After Almond started gaining popularity, I began observing his broadcasts.
What was so special about him that everyone watched?
Would they watch me if I played better than him?
Such thoughts consumed me.
Then, the opportunity came.
I was just typing insults in chat as I usually did.
And he singled me out directly.
It was destiny.
I had always dreamed of a moment like this. To snipe Almond somehow and claim victory.
And for the viewers to realize his skill was all smoke and mirrors, then flock to my broadcast as the truly talented one.
It was literally a dream come true.
With such hopeful anticipation, I stood upon the Narag dueling arena.

* * *
Approximately two minutes after the game started.
My body was completely frozen solid.
“Chiki-cha!”
Almond leisurely shouted the chant from beside me.
‘Ah.’
I stared at my turret. My gaze was like that of someone gazing upon a lost homeland.
‘Is, is it really that far?’
Was the distance to that place truly this great?
No.
At this distance, I should be able to return quickly.
Why was the reality different from my calculations?
‘I won’t die from this exchange.’
I wouldn’t perish from this trade. Then there would be hope for the next turn.
Pop!
[Freeze Released]
The moment the freeze state was lifted, I desperately sprinted toward my turret.
‘Just survive for now!’
Behind me, I unleashed Meteor Shower relentlessly.
[Meteor Shower]
I even threw out the Meteor Shower that I’d been hiding and not showing—survival this turn was what mattered.
But it was futile.
‘They’re all missing…?’
Even the basic-attack-like Meteor Shower didn’t land a single hit.
Moreover, Almond dodged every attack while pressing forward, running right beside me.
Lol running together is so funny ㅋㅋ
Haha, that’s awful/terrible.
-Nut Fans… relentless!
Almond laughed brazenly and asked.
“Wow. What skill is that?”
He pointed to where the Meteor Shower had fallen.
“Is that some kind of hidden trump card?”
‘Damn it.’
By using Meteor Shower unnecessarily, I’d revealed the skill’s existence to my opponent.
‘Just survive. It’s not completely over yet.’
Regardless, I kept running and finally entered the range of my own turret.
Almond had to stop pursuing.
‘Did I survive?’
Surely once I entered the turret’s range, he would have to stop chasing.
“What, what?! Why are you still following!”
He charged forward without hesitation, willing to take hits from the turret.
Boom!
The turret began attacking Almond.
‘This is actually an opportunity!’
Snow White thought so and launched her counterattack—a tiny star—at that very moment.
Click!
An arrow loaded into Almond’s quiver.
Almost simultaneously, she felt the sensation of being struck by an arrow.
Thwack!
‘What…?’
She couldn’t even track it with her eyes.
Her vision just went white for a moment, then the second and third arrows came rushing in and pierced through.
Boom!
At least, that’s what it felt like from the receiving end.
‘This… what kind of speed is this?’
Watching it on broadcast every day, she’d never truly grasped it.
Just how fast Almond’s arrows were. How absurdly impossible his evasion ability was.
You can never know until you experience it yourself.
You can’t comprehend it.
Only by feeling it with my own heart, my own hands, my own eyes did I realize we were on completely different levels.
‘All of mine missed.’
Since the turret was hitting him, I launched my tiny star as fast as I could.
This time too, it missed.
Meanwhile, his arrows never seemed to miss.
Ril had a famous saying left behind by Jeon-ja-pa.
「Forget about strategy and whatever else. In this game, you just win by dodging everything and hitting everything.」
It was a statement that completely ignored the complex mechanics of AOS-genre games, but it was the core truth.
‘Damn it.’
And there’s actually someone who does that for real.
“Chiki-cha!”
Until the very moment the final arrow was released, Snow White couldn’t even properly read his attacks.
If she hadn’t heard him say “Chiki-cha,” she wouldn’t have even known this was the last one.
[Wind Arrow]
Boom──!
With a tearing roar, her entire body exploded outward.
‘Ah…’
She thought, burning white.
Still, that guy must be dead too.
He took so many hits from the turret. He has to be dead.
His health dropped below 30%, and if he made it this far, he’d have to take at least two more hits from the turret on his way out.
So I’ll die. Once I’m dead, it’s a draw. Then we’ll have to fight again.
However—
[Level Up!]
[Reckless Hero Lv.2]
Almond gained substantial experience points upon killing his opponent’s Contractor, advancing to Level 2.
[Rope Dash]
The rope shot far beyond the turret’s range, and the grappling hook caught hold.
Clang!
Whoooosh!
As the rope retracted, Sori’s shadow vanished from within the turret’s range in an instant.
‘….’
Snow White watched the scene unfold as a spirit.
‘A wall….’
It felt like touching a hard, unyielding wall.
Then, these words appeared in the center of her vision.
[Defeat]
True to the Narag duel mode, there was no resurrection.
There wasn’t even a sanctuary here.
-Got schooled lmaooooo
-Schooled!
-Did school start today already!? Why the harsh lesson!
-Can’t even last 3 minutes and you’re acting tough lmaooo
-ADC military academy has strict discipline lol
-Hey kid! In the Nut Fans Punk universe, school starts in December!? Hey kid! In the Nut Fans Punk universe, school starts in December!? Hey kid! In the Nut Fans Punk universe, school starts in December!?
-lmao getting cut down at level 1
-Why did it end so fast! Snow White!
-That was faster than my instant ramen lol

* * *
“Come on, come on~”
The chat window was flooded with relentless mockery directed at Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Almond thought he should calm them down for a moment.
“Everyone, please settle down a bit. They’re still viewers, after all. If you say anything too harsh….”
[Rubisword donated 100,000 won!]
Wow! That’s some real education!ㅋㅋㅋ But what exactly is the counter? I seriously don’t know…
“Thank you! Rubisword! The counter is….”
If you say something too harsh, I’d appreciate it? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Thanks for the harsh words lol
-This is capitalism!
-Harsh words or not, Ruby Princess can’t resist~
Almond tried to answer Rubisword’s question.
‘Counter?’
Hmm? Now that I think about it, I don’t know.
What exactly was the counter?
“Um… I’m not entirely sure what the counter was.”
I’m dying because I can’t show you anything lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
But seriously, what was actually the counter to it? lol
Since I’d already won, I didn’t necessarily need to understand how that counter worked.
But they’d donated 100,000 won and asked a question, so I wanted to give them an answer.
So I thought about asking the person directly.
“Should we try interviewing them?”
The interview wasn’t going to happen. Snow White had already disappeared from the broadcast.
“Oh. They left?”
Almond tilted his head at the message that came to Juhyeok.
That’s hilarious lolololol
-Felt the wall, right?
What’s up? lol
Usually, if a viewer were in that situation, they’d either laugh it off and move on, or stubbornly insist on playing a few more rounds.
‘What’s this. Was I too harsh?’
Almond felt oddly apologetic and scratched his head.
“I shouldn’t have done the Chiki-cha….”
He/She does mess with me a lot lol
Even ruining my main character with Chiki-cha~ lol
-The mental damage was significant
-I’d leave too if I were them
Because I’d toyed with them so much, the person ended up leaving, and I still didn’t know why it was a counter.
“Rubisword, I’ll look into why it was a counter and get back to you later.”
I’d given 100,000 won, yet in the end, I hadn’t gotten an answer.
Ding.
Just then, a message came through to Juhyeok.
[Juhyeok: What are we doing about these guys?]
The “guys” he was referring to were the viewers who’d posted malicious comments.
The list had been updated in the meantime.
These people had escaped a beating because Snow White had taken their punishment instead, but truthfully, they weren’t much different from the others.
Smirk.
A smile spread across Almond’s lips.
I was disappointed that Snow White had left so quickly.
But these bastards were still here.
“Ah, now that I think about it, I still have some viewers whose grievances I need to resolve.”
-???
-Oh…
hahahahaha
Almond displayed the message Juhyeok had sent so the viewers could see it.
Is this Death Note? lol
Execution list ㄷㄷ
That’s brutal/savage.
Upon seeing that list, the viewers made ominous comparisons, calling it a Death Note or a kill list.
That was only natural, considering the performance I’d shown Snow White.
Any ordinary person who dared to challenge me would obviously be preserved as a laughingstock for life.
“Alright, everyone on this list. Please say your usernames.”
In the chat window of the viewers whose names were on the separately displayed kill list, no messages were appearing at all.
Who’s gonna do it lol
-???: Next!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
-Next execution? Anyone?
The atmosphere was completely different from just moments before when the chat had been boldly active.
“Or I’ll just ban you?”
Almond went ahead and declared that he’d simply ban anyone who didn’t speak their username.
But then something unexpected happened.
Boom boom boom!
[RootBig has donated 100,000 won!]
[Hyung-nim. I’m sorry. Sori is the strongest in the universe. I didn’t realize this was all for the sake of the nation.]
Someone had raised the white flag first.
-National project lol
“Suddenly? Haha”
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“What? 100,000 won? ㅋㅋㅋ”
A donation of 100,000 won, no less.
Almond paused to look at the chat message he’d sent.
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[Rootkeum]
It does smell like bullshit, though.
-Honestly, it’s just an ad, right? It has to be, right?
-I’m Sori and I know the performance
-Honestly, if Almond doesn’t even bring Popcorn here and mentions Sori again, he can’t compete with Master
==== ====
“Rootkeum, I can feel your sincerity in that apology. I understand.”
With that, Rootkeum was struck from the kill list.
Bail money lolololol
-100,000 won is fair~
-Alright! Alright! Get in line! You want to donate 100,000 won, get in line!
And with that, donations came pouring in.
Ding ding ding!
Ding ding!
“Oh… that’s not what I meant to do.”
-Lower those corners of your mouth when you talk
-Fact) That’s exactly what you meant to do
Where did that skill you had for ordering bread delivery go? ㅉㅉ
-???: W-wait, Mond! Don’t hit me! I’ll pay you back the friendship debt!
Not all of them were 100,000 won.
Most were around 20,000 to 30,000 won, and some were as little as 5,000 won.
[Average High School Student donated 5,000 won.]
Brother, please just take a look once ㅠㅠ I’ll chat nicely. I’m really just a high school student so I don’t have any money…
“Ah. You’re a minor then. Let me take a look at your chat first.”
Upon inspection, this person’s chat messages showed plenty of youthful characteristics. And not in a good way.
‘This is a bit….’
The chat level was a bit too high to let slide.
-What kind of high school student is this
Look at the way he’s talking lol
“Your tone sounds like you’ve been marinated in some community forum, ugh tsk tsk”
-Shouldn’t we punish them severely? Brother?
-I want to smack them with the edge of a food tray
“What year of high school are you in?”
In response to Almond’s question, he answered that he was a first-year. In fact, he was just entering his first year of high school.
-Is he saying first-year just to seem younger?
Then you’re in 9th grade, you punk ㅋㅋㅋ
High school student (for real) lol
“Ah. A first-year student.”
Almond touched his ID and set the duration.
[36 months]
-???
-What is this, a car lease?
I can’t translate this as it’s not coherent Korean text. The characters shown (ㅁㅊㅋㅋㅋㅋ) are individual consonants without vowels, making them unpronounceable and meaningless in Korean.
“Since you’re a high school freshman, I’ll ban you until the college entrance exam so you can focus on studying~”
Oh man, seriously ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
This was his final message in chat.
(Unknown)
His ID was now processed this way.
Can’t even king ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ lol
-Got social studies for free
-Kyaa!
-If you’re broke! Then hide your chat! You bird!
-Feels so refreshing~
Thus, Almond succeeded in dealing with (?) all the toxic viewers.
Clap!
Almond clapped his hands.
“Now then, everyone.”
He spoke while pointing toward where the broadcast title was displayed.
[Ril) There Are No Evil Incarnates in This World]
“You saw it, right? There are no evil incarnates in this world~ And no evil chats either~”
-Loyalty! ^^7
That’s not a valid Korean phrase. The characters “-ㅇㅈ합네다” don’t form a recognizable word or expression in Korean.
-Is it because you killed all the bad ones?
You killed them all, didn’t you? lol
In this way, Almond perfectly resolved the controversy surrounding Sori.
Of course….
‘The talk will keep coming up anyway.’
Almond was aware of it too.
Since Sori wasn’t actually an incarnate with overwhelmingly superior abilities, there would definitely be continued chatter about it.
Still, at least he’d managed to extinguish the immediate fire while initial sales were peaking…or so it felt.

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