Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 506

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 226
78. Chicken Game (3)
The encirclement system.
Simply put, if you enter this encirclement, you die.
Not immediately, but you can’t stay here indefinitely.
Inside this zone, constables and soldiers with stats that players can’t possibly overcome are stationed.
In other words, it’s a system designed to guarantee the player’s death within this territory.
Systems like this are practically standard in battle royales. Without it, the game would drag on endlessly or never end at all.
So in a sense, what Almond just did doesn’t entirely deviate from the purpose of the encirclement system.
The game didn’t become loose—it became more exciting.
Boom!
Almond’s body suddenly rushes toward the two being chased by the encirclement.
Normally, Almond would have stayed put while the remaining two charged at him.
But the encirclement system exists to create combat, so either way, the objective is achieved.
“Almond!? You could’ve just waited, but you just charged in!”
The Casters’ eyes widen in shock—not because the two being chased by the encirclement rushed out, but because it was Almond.
“Wait, no—Almond! What are you doing!?”
“…Is this some kind of trolling!?”
“Did you get tired of giving them a chance at the end!?”
Comments about trolling and not wanting to give them a chance were inevitable.
It was that reckless of a move.
I’m crying / I’m so sad
-Bibi-kun~! Don’t go~!
-Worst streamer, Nut Fans!
While the viewers were venting their frustration.
Crash!
Almond’s body kicked off the rooftop and launched upward.
“He’s risen to an almost flying height!”
“Won’t that just make him more of a target!?”
The two remaining players came into Almond’s view.
Which meant the two remaining players could also see Almond.
“This isn’t a 1v1v1—he’s declaring he’ll do a 2v1!?”
“Yes! But those two also can’t attack Almond right now! The encirclement keeps chasing right behind them!”
The Casters were right. The two Ninjas were too busy running forward to have time to deal with Almond.
But then, someone takes action just as reckless as Almond.
Upon spotting Almond, he stops dead and pulls something from his pocket.
“Ah! Pungsna! It seems he’s realized who Almond is!? Even now, he’s pulling out a weapon to attack!”
It was Pungsna.
“Firing now!”
As the word “firing” suggests, surprisingly, he fired a bow at Almond. Whether this held symbolic meaning or whether the bow was simply the only strike he could land at this distance, I couldn’t say.
Twang!
The arrow left his bowstring and flew toward Almond, who still hovered in the sky.
“Even for someone like Almond, evading something in midair is incredibly difficult!”
That was true.
Almond had no intention of evading.
He intended to catch it.
[Phantom Clone Technique]
Whoosh!
Almond split into four copies mid-air.
Clang!
One of the Almonds drew a short blade and struck the arrow away.
“Wha—?!”
“He—he batted it away?!”
The Casters barely had time to cry out at this brief moment.
But it didn’t end with just batting it away.
Another Almond actually caught the flying arrow.
“He—he caught it?!”
Then the real Almond received the arrow, formed a seal briefly,
and nocked it onto his bowstring, drawing it taut.
Naturally, his target was Pungsna’s head.
“!?”
The Commentators’ jaws dropped, nearly touching the ground,
when the bowstring was released.
Twang!
The arrow shot back toward its original wielder.
Pungsna’s eyes bulged wide open.
‘He caught the arrow and sent it back?’
—Rip!
His right ear was torn clean off.
Only because he’d reacted in time and turned his head did he avoid the catastrophe of losing his eye.
All of this happened before Almond even landed from his leap into the air.
“I—I can barely follow it with my eyes!”
“Pungsna barely avoided a fatal blow!”
Having narrowly escaped death, Pungsna immediately counterattacked.
He kicked up the fallen leaves scattered on the ground, sending them flying.
Rustle!
He formed a seal.
[Leaf Shuriken]
The leaves stood rigid and transformed into shuriken, hurtling toward Almond.
Rata-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Dozens of shuriken, as numerous as the leaves on the tree, tore through Almond and his clones.
Boom!
The clones exploded mid-air before even landing.
But—
“?”
The real Almond was nowhere to be seen either.
They’d all scattered into white clouds and vanished like clones.
‘No way?!’
Whoooosh—
Almond appeared behind Pungsna and slashed his throat.
and lol
-Swapping with the arrow is insane
-Damn
-King swap lol
Anyone who’d been watching Almond’s matches would catch it immediately.
He’d placed a swap technique on the arrow he’d fired earlier.
“So you cast the swap technique on Pungsna’s arrow and fired it!?”
“In that brief moment!? That’s truly incredible!”
“It appears he utilized his clones—while they distracted, his real body cast the swap technique and fired the arrow. Extraordinary reflexes. He’d planned all of this before revealing himself!”
“Truly an intelligent player! Almond!”
Smart player Amond lol
Hahaha, that’s hilarious!
-Nah, that’s not it…
Are these guys doing this on purpose?ㅋㅋㅋ
-But like, he definitely planned this from the start right? The moment the arrow dropped he did this
lol
I’d forgotten something in the shock of Almond’s brilliant play.
“Wait, but did Pungsna really get caught that easily!?”
Pungsna, who’d been sharpening his blade solely to kill Almond, had met an anticlimactic end.
“Ah. And he didn’t even place second… Wha!?”
Mid-sentence, the caster’s eyes widened in shock.
“P-Pungsna is alive!?”
Almond and Pungsna were engaged in close-quarters combat.
Where Pungsna had been moments before, a wooden log lay severed and scattered.
“Ah! The swap technique!!”
Pungsna had barely survived using the swap technique himself.
“Exactly! This technique is fundamentally an evasion skill!”
“Truly formidable!”
“Of course! I must avenge my parents’ deaths!? I can’t die so easily!”
-??
-LMAO
-Why the parents…lol
-RIP…
I’d said I couldn’t die easily, but reality didn’t cooperate with my wishes.
Clang!
Clang!
With each blade exchange against Almond, Pungsna found himself at an increasing disadvantage.
‘W-what the hell. When did this bastard get so good with a sword?’
Pungsna, who’d watched Almond’s stream a few times before, was bewildered. He’d never once thought Almond wielded a blade with such proficiency.
“Pungsna! You’re being pushed back even in close-quarters combat against Almond! It looks like you’re about to die!?”
“And you can’t use your swap technique for a while now! What do we do!?”
Then, another variable entered the stage.
[The encirclement will tighten in 30 seconds.]
[This is the final encirclement shift.]
[After this, areas outside the encirclement will disappear.]
The encirclement began tightening one last time.
And soon, Player 31 had no choice but to join this battle zone.
That meant Almond would likely have to fight a 2-versus-1.
“Player 31! Charging in!”
Boom!
Player 31 rushed forward without hesitation and unleashed a blade strike toward Almond.
Whoosh!
Almond retreated and evaded, but—
‘I missed.’
I had to release Pungsna, whom I’d almost caught.
Click.
A brief standoff.
Almond’s eyes darted about rapidly.
For now, this place was a courtyard in front of an elegant tiled-roof mansion.
‘Completely open space.’
Based on the encirclement’s shape, this was the final stage.
A narrow, exposed space with nowhere to hide.
And it was 2-versus-1.
‘Both of them are targeting me. In a situation like this, one-versus-many is disadvantageous.’
Almond, whose sense of awareness was at level 100 in virtual reality, had long since realized both were aiming for him.
Besides, they didn’t seem to be hiding their intentions at all.
After all, it was natural to deal with the strongest opponent first.
‘Here they come.’
Whoosh!
Player 31 moved first.
As if that were a signal, Pungsna moved as well.
Crash!
True to their ninja nature, they charged toward Almond at considerable speed.
“Ah! A charge! Are they going for close combat!?”
“Yes! Since both sides have already exhausted most of their consumable weapons like shuriken, close combat is highly likely!”
“Ah, I see!?”
Clang!
Almond drew a short blade in his left hand and a long curved sword in his right, blocking both their attacks.
“Almond! It’s truly a 2-on-1 standoff!”
No. 31 and Pungsna gripped their sword hilts again, closing in on him.
Almond’s eyes darted rapidly left and right.
Clang!
He knocked Pungsna’s blade upward.
Clang!
He deflected No. 31’s blade to the left.
“G-goodness! They’re engaging in a raw 2-on-1 sword duel just like that!?”
“This isn’t even a martial arts novel!”
-For real
-His physicality is insane
-My eyes are getting dizzy just watching
-Terrifying
It wasn’t merely sword strikes being exchanged.
Poof!
[Phantom Clone Technique]
No. 31 deployed a clone technique, effectively turning it into a 6-on-1 situation.
Almond responded by forming the hand seals for his own clone technique.
Poof!
Four Almonds burst from the white smoke, holding back six enemies.
What was suddenly a 3-way duel had become a 10-way duel, leaving the commentators speechless.
“W-what’s happening!? This!? My eyes can’t keep up!!!”
Poof!
Bang!
Poof!
The clones burst away one by one.
The strange thing was that none of Almond’s clones disappeared.
But No. 31’s clones vanished one after another.
“What!? Only one side’s clones are disappearing! I don’t know what’s happening, but Almond is overwhelmingly dominating against both of them!”
“Now Almond has the numerical advantage! His clones seem to be moving with real intent!”
With such precise control that it truly seemed like four Almonds were fighting, No. 31’s expression turned to shock.
Clang!
A barrage of sword strikes rained down on Player 31.
I blocked once, then twice.
Clang!
But I was growing weaker with each passing moment.
The two clones pressed in tighter, unleashing relentless blade attacks.
Both clones wielded dual swords with perfect precision.
Not a single opening, and their strikes never tangled with one another.
They tightened their encirclement like humans born solely for this coordinated assault.
Whoosh!
Finally, a long gash opened across my left shoulder.
“Ahhh!? This is insane!? Almond drew blood!”
“Oh, Almond!! Almond is actually overwhelming him! How is this possible!?”
Then one of Almond’s clones swept across his neck.
Shhwack!
[1 → 31]
[Instant Kill]
[2/60]
-Insane
-Crazy
-2v1 domination lol
As if celebrating the kill, Pungsna’s ninja technique came flying in.
[Leaf Shuriken]
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
The falling leaves transformed into shuriken in unison, flying toward Almond’s clones and piercing through them.
Boom! Boom!
Finally, all of Almond’s clones burst apart.
But it was already too late.
“Ahhh! Pungsna, you’re too slow! You should have used it earlier!”
“Well… if I had used it sooner, Player 31 would have died along with them!”
“Ah, so that’s the problem? Coordinated attacks aren’t easy either, are they?”
Just then, thirty seconds had passed.
[The encirclement will tighten shortly.]
At the same moment, Pungsna rushed toward Almond.
Clang!
I thought I’d deflect his attack easily with my sword.
“!?”
Crack!
My sword shattered.
“Ah! The durability! The durability is gone!?”
“It must have been consumed much faster from using the clone technique!”
My equipment’s durability had been exhausted, crumbling to dust.
The same went for my other blades.
Whoosh!
I hastily drew another to block, but it shattered immediately.
[Shy Yeopo donated 10,000 won.]
[Die, you demon]
-lol for real
Three cheers for the water droplet left-wing lol lol lol
Lol, Pooh’s Shack is so good, I’m dying
How far do I have to go?
That guy’s totally screwed, for real ㅠㅠ
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text as it appears to be corrupted characters or gibberish rather than coherent Korean text.
‘Ah.’
Almond’s eyes darted rapidly.
‘What do I do?’
Pungsna, wearing a mocking smile, opened his mouth as if he’d already won.
“Finally, I’m going to kill you, Almond.”
“You know me?”
Almond tilted his head as if he had no idea who Pungsna was.
“I… I don’t know who you are…”
Just as Pungsna was about to rip off his hood.
‘I know. Pungsna.’
Almond’s body burst forward at high speed, as if unleashing all his chakra at once.
Boom──!
Almond’s palm struck Pungsna’s jaw.
“Ugh…!”
After that, Almond grabbed his collar and quickly formed a seal.
“W-what…?”
Pungsna gasped and quickly separated from Almond.
But it was too late.
Heh.
Almond smiled once and bid farewell.
“Chiki-cha!”
Almond’s sudden death sentence.
But the viewers couldn’t understand. Why did it seem to end with just one punch to the jaw? What kind of seal did he just place?
-??
-what?
-why?
At the end of Popeyes, he couldn’t let go of the attention-seeking habit lol
“Chicken? lol”
-What the heck is Chiki-cha doing?
The commentators shared the same bewilderment.
Perhaps because of this, they were taken aback by Almond’s next move.
“Almond!? Why are you charging directly into the encirclement!?”
“Has he given up because he has no weapon!?”
Almond began rushing directly into the encirclement himself.

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