Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 498

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 218
76. One Versus Forty-Two (1)
Shortly after the tournament began.
The broadcast team had prepared explanations about the game.
“So the game just started. About this Ninja Mode—could you explain it for us? Commentary director?”
Since battle royale games typically have little action in the early stages, they were trying to explain the game in an easy-to-follow manner.
Besides, they had come here to promote this game—the tournament broadcast wasn’t really their primary purpose.
As their explanations began, Fantasia’s official channel stream started simultaneously.
-Oh, the Fantasia channel
-What’s Battle Large Ninja Mode?
-That’s pretty fresh…
-Is this a tournament?
-G-Star has started lol
-100 chickens? Haha
The broadcast team kept this in mind as they spoke.
“Ah, for those just joining us on the official Fantasia channel—you can start watching from here~ So, commentary director? What makes Ninja Mode different from the rest?”
“Yes! Ninja Mode! It’s a brand new mode from Battle Large. You could say it shares nothing with the existing game except for the battle royale concept.”
“Is it really that different?”
The caster and commentator diligently continued introducing the game according to their script.
The script was written to fill about five minutes of talking.
It was created with the assumption that nothing significant would happen during that time.
“Yes! A special item unique to Ninja Mode—the Ninja Art Scroll!”
“A Ninja Art Scroll?”
“That’s right.”
“Do you mean like in manga—Spiral Rasengan! Chidori! Lightning Blade!? Stuff like that?”
“No. That would literally be a lightning blade.”
Ahahaha.
Light laughter rippled through the audience.
It was a joke about a famous ninja manga.
-Kkkkk Naruto
-Lol
-Literally a lightning blade joke
-What’s a spiral rasengan
“The ninjas in Battle Large are real ninjas. Not agile mages—actual ninjas.”
“What do you mean by that?!”
“They compete using only ninja-like arts~ That’s what I mean.”
“Ninja-like arts would include disguise, concealment, substitution techniques, and clone jutsu, right?”
“Yes! Exactly! I believe these ninja arts will become the core of Ninja Mode combat.”
The murmuring in the audience grew louder at the explanation of the arts.
Clone jutsu? Substitution techniques? These things actually work in Battle Large?
It looked quite different from the battle royale format games I’d known until now.
-Oh, switching tricks???ㅋㅋㅋ
-Looks fun
“Isn’t clone magic semi-magic? lol”
Are you doing a battle royale while using clone jutsu?ㅋㅋㅋ
-Isn’t this basically similar to Ril’s survival match?
“Ah, so it’s focused on disorienting your opponent?”
“Yes. There’s nothing like magic where you burn someone to death just by making eye contact. That kind of thing doesn’t exist here.”
“Still, ninja arts in a battle royale genre. That’s refreshing. Is there anything else particularly different?”
The difference from existing battle royale genres wasn’t just the existence of ninja arts.
“That’s right. In this Ninja Mode, there’s no weapon hierarchy!”
In the existing Battle Large, weapons were divided into Rare, Heroic, and Legendary tiers.
Ninja Mode had no such class system.
A shuriken was a shuriken.
A curved sword was a curved sword.
A greatsword was a greatsword.
“So farming isn’t very important then?”
“Instead, farming for ninja art scrolls will be important.”
Normally in battle royale genres, differentiation comes from equipment obtained during farming. In this Ninja Mode, the gap between equipment narrows and farming for ninja art scrolls becomes more important.
“The combat style is also very special.”
“What is it?”
“To increase realism, if you properly sever someone’s neck with a blade, they die instantly! There’s even an instant death judgment system! This is the first time it’s been introduced in a battle royale. Real combat can end in an instant!”
“Instant death!?”
Instant death.
Of course, in the existing Battle Large, situations did occur where you’d die instantly from a headshot.
But that was because the headshot damage exceeded total health—the system never guaranteed instant death.
Instant death was a judgment that emerged when transitioning to sword combat.
Unlike shooting from a distance with guns, with close-range weapons like swords, if the place you cut doesn’t actually get severed, or if you slash someone’s neck but they just lose health numbers and stand there fine, it really breaks immersion.
Instant death lol
-This is gonna be broken if it gets abused
-Instant death?
-and dude lol
“Of course, it will be extremely difficult to pull off!”
“Ah yes! When headshots are already difficult, perfectly and forcefully severing an opponent’s neck is… very~~difficult!”
“Yes. Cutting might be easy, but instant death I’ve tried myself and it’s quite difficult… huh? Wait a moment. What’s that!?”
Five minutes into the game.
There was already a casualty.
“No way, barely after saying instant death is difficult! An instant death judgment just occurred!”
“And it happened on the game’s first kill!? What is this….”
The instant death judgment that was said to be so difficult became this game’s first kill.
“Ah… could this possibly be ‘that person’?”
“Yeah. Who is it?! Observer, could you show us that screen again?”
-That person?
-What is it.
-Who are they.
The murmurs rippled through the crowd.
Everyone was trying to figure out who the casters meant by ‘that person’.
The chat and audience erupted in speculation.
“Is it Player 42? That Gamtwe?”
“He’s a veteran at this ninja game, so it’s probably him.”
“An instant kill? This has to be Gamtwe, right?”
In the meantime.
The Observer pulled up the player’s screen.
“Ah, the Observer is showing us now! It’s a replay! Let’s see what the ninja action in Battle Large’s Ninja Mode looks like!”
The replay footage appeared on screen.
A third-person perspective looking down from above.
As a ninja swung his blade, the pedestrians on the street began fleeing in all directions.
-???
-What, pedestrians?
-Wait, this is Battle Large??
-Lmaooooo
-This is insane
The viewers who had just arrived couldn’t help but be shocked by the sight of pedestrians flooding the Battle Large landscape.
So they missed it.
Boom—!
The moment a ninja suddenly charged forward.
-What is that
-Is that a person?
-??
A dark silhouette weaved through the pedestrians at lightning speed, and the blade flashed brilliantly.
A moment later, crimson blood sprayed across the scene.
The pedestrians shrieked and scattered in every direction even faster.
-???
-Did he die?
-Wait, is this on fast forward?
-Scary
At normal speed, it was impossible to tell what had even happened.
[1 → 28]
[Instant Kill]
[59/60]
Only this text, appearing a moment too late, precisely explains what had just happened.
“Wow, the speed! Insane, right!? But, um, could we watch this in slow motion?”
At Caster’s request, the scene played again at approximately 0.3x speed.
“Now it actually looks like a normal screen.”
-LMAOOO
-Passersby would think this is normal
-Wow
-Why is this so fast?
“That said, it’s incredibly fast. Is this some kind of ninja art?”
“Let me take a look.”
Professional gamer Ji-ho Yu, invited as an analyst, began his breakdown.
He stared intently at the slow-motion footage before asking.
“Wait. Is this person from the Leaf Village?”
-AHAHAHAHAHA
-LMAO
He talked like he was going to analyze it, haha.
Is the analysis done? lol
“Well… he’s utilizing chakra release incredibly well at precisely the right moments. And between sprints, he’s using ninja running to continuously double his acceleration, reaching maximum speed in an instant.”
“Ah… so in car terms, that’s impressive zero-to-hundred acceleration?”
“Yes. And he navigated the corners perfectly, right? He pulled off this kind of play while there were pedestrians around.”
-Just a pure ninja
-So cool for real
-Who is this person? Even the silhouette looks handsome.
-Must be from the Leaf Village after all
-This looks like Almond? Just came from his stream
In the chat, viewers were gradually leaking that the player was Almond.
But it hadn’t been mentioned at the venue yet.
“Must be Gamtwe.”
“This ninja’s got style.”
Most people still believed he was the gamer Gamtwe.
Because of the ninja outfit’s nature, his face wasn’t properly visible.
“Moreover, the time it took to identify and confirm his opponent was remarkably short. It seems he figured it out just from the difference in movement from the pedestrians… even though this person’s appearance is barely different from the pedestrians right now?”
“Huh? Is that perhaps that ninja art?”
“Yes. It appears to be a disguise technique. But he got caught way too easily.”
“That’s right. Wait, huh? His head just flew off in an instant!”
While people still believed he was Gamtwe…
Caster casually remarked.
“So, that was Player 1’s screen up until now!”
The audience fell silent for a moment before murmuring erupted.
“…Player 1?”
“Not Player 42?”
“What? Who is that?”
“Not Gamtwe?”
They were utterly bewildered about who Player 1 actually was.
The viewers in Fantasia’s official broadcast account found the sight amusing.
-It’s Almond.
-No, Player 1 isn’t Almond. It’s Hodu.
-Player 1 is Almond???
-You social butterflies, stop your networking and get on the internet! If you watch Almond’s stream, you’d know right away!
-Did they really bet without knowing Almond exists? The odds on Player 1 are insane lolol
-Who’s going to turn this on and watch from all the way there when you can see it live on a massive screen right in front of you…
-Serves them right, you social climbers lolol
“Shall we check on the side that received the most bets?”
“Yes. That’s Player 42, right? This player is also in a similar location. It seems the marketplace is a hot spot.”
“Ah. This place is like the armory from the original mode…”

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond had just eliminated one opponent with an instant-kill judgment.
Afterward, I purchased several additional weapons with the money I stole from the marketplace and equipped myself well.
The encirclement was still avoiding the marketplace, so I could continue staying there.
In Battle Large terms, my zone luck had activated.
It meant I’d secured a good position.
[40 → 4]
[Shuriken]
[50/60]
[46 → 39]
[Excessive Bleeding]
[49/60]
Now the number of survivors was dwindling into the 40s. I had adequate weaponry equipped, but
there was still something I wanted to obtain.
‘…Are there any more ninja art scrolls?’
Specifically, ninja art scrolls.
They were books discovered in the possession of the ninja I’d killed instantly.
[Ninja Art Scroll – Disguise Technique]
[Disguise Technique is the ninja art that allows ninjas to perfectly disguise themselves as another person. If you possess this ninja art scroll, you can use the Disguise Technique.]
[*Collecting 3 of the same ninja art scroll allows evolution to the next level.]
It was a ninja art scroll inscribed with the character for disguise.
‘Disguise Technique…’
Now I understood why that ninja hadn’t been dressed like one.
He had been using the Disguise Technique to hide among the pedestrians.
That’s why even when Almond opened his eyes wide, he couldn’t see it.
He could only notice it when his actions completely diverged from the pedestrians around him.
‘If I collect three of them, it evolves, apparently….’
It was intuition.
This ninja art scroll seemed like it would play a very important role in this game.
“This disguise technique… where did he get it from earlier?”
-Yeah…
-Probably nearby??
-Around here, right? The game just started not long ago.
Right. It had to be nearby.
That’s what Almond thought, which is why he asked.
The game had only just started, so he couldn’t have brought it from somewhere far away all of a sudden.
‘Is there a ninja art scroll shop?’
Almond wandered through the marketplace a bit more, checking if there were any other shops.
However, the only usable shop in the marketplace was the general store.
If everything gathered here, the balance would be too off.
‘Then it’s not a shop….’
Almond entered one of the tile-roofed houses nearby.
“What, what!? Who’s climbing over the wall!?”
The NPCs shrieked as if having a fit, but no one stopped him.
Almond walked through the house, examining every book and scroll he could find.
“Y-you rascal! Can’t you see that an elder is studying for the civil service exam!?”
Snatch.
He even snatched the book that an NPC who looked like a yangban was reading to check it.
[Solve it again and again, correct it a hundred times and solve it again… -Yi Hwang]
It wasn’t a ninja art scroll. It was a problem set.
-Title lol
That past special lecture was crazy.
What’s up with that title that sounds like you’re gonna die from getting hit by a mace lol
Chung Shin-sik’s study method lol
“This isn’t the way….”
At this rate, he had no idea when he’d find a ninja art scroll.
Farmable items wouldn’t be described this vaguely.
They would have made it more noticeable.
‘Huh?’
Almond turned his gaze toward the bookshelf in this place.
Whoooosh….
Something was glowing faintly with a blue light.
It looked like a ninja art scroll.
The moment he tried to walk toward the bookshelf.
Boom──!
Something exploded in the courtyard of the tiled-roof house.
Shiiiiiek!
It was a smoke bomb, billowing clouds of gray haze.
‘An enemy?’
Player 42 had launched a surprise attack.

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