Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 512

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 232
80. The Developer’s Combat Power (2)
Almond entered the capsule and booted up the game, only to find his expression turning hollow.
‘Ah. What is this.’
Unless one used a special account on a special server, any newly created account was mandatorily required to complete the tutorial.
[Tutorial]
[Loading…]
Mandatory tutorials. In truth, this was a universal feature of all capsule games.
Depending on a person’s physical constitution or unique characteristics, the game’s brainwave interference method could prove uncomfortable or even cause errors, so preliminary testing was absolutely necessary.
‘Ah. Right. I can do a tutorial? Thank goodness.’
For Almond, this was fortunate. Completing the tutorial was far better than jumping straight into a challenge after merely watching some footage.
Especially given Almond’s tendency to let people’s words go in one ear and out the other, direct experience would be far more advantageous.
However, only Almond saw this as fortunate.
“Ah. What tutorial?! Are you messing with us?!”
“Seriously? A complete beginner?”
“Ugh… what kind of attention-seeker is this.”
The JetPumped users were absolutely furious.
The time available to challenge Iseok Kim was limited.
Of course it was. Iseok Kim wasn’t exactly a man of leisure.
“Sigh… this is insane. We’re wasting time. We need to get Iseok Kim on stage once and see his patterns quickly….”
The fact that they hadn’t managed to call Iseok Kim to the challenge stage even once so far was driving them absolutely mad.
“Wait, is this real? Who does this person think they are? A Nut Fan? They’re going to do a tutorial here? And then beat the developers?!”
Anyone would be furious if the challenger had to wait through a tutorial.
But it was equally absurd to expect someone to beat the game’s developers on their very first try.
And not just any developer—the notoriously ruthless Iseok Kim.
“Ahahaha! What should we do, everyone~?”
Iseok Kim seized the moment and grabbed the microphone, launching into another provocation.
“This person is playing the game for the first time today! Since they need to complete the tutorial, it will take quite a while, won’t it? But they are still a legitimate challenger, so I should naturally face them, right? Isn’t that so?”
The users wanted to shout out their protests.
That’s what they felt in their hearts.
“Ugh….”
In reality, they could only groan without saying anything.
Because Iseok Kim’s words were flawless.
“The longest tutorial I know of, where someone demonstrated their ultimate skill, took nearly 7 hours. Is that right?”
The secretary beside him nods and responds.
“Yes. Among the streamers, Balloon Gum holds the record at 5 hours, and there are many others who took considerable time as well.”
Sigh.
Countless users’ sighs escape into the air.
“Could the ultimate skill really take an hour?”
“No way. It’s Almond we’re talking about. He’ll definitely do it in under 20 minutes.”
“Even twenty minutes feels like an eternity….”
JetPumped’s tutorial ends quickly if you’re fast—under twenty minutes. The game’s structure is just that simple.
The only genuinely difficult part is executing the special move.
For those who can’t pull it off, it really does take half a day.
Of course, the average time wasn’t actually half a day. If it were, the game wouldn’t function properly at all.
“The average time required for the special move demonstration is approximately 31 minutes.”
Thirty minutes.
It’s a bit long for a tutorial, but not so brutal that you’d call it unreasonable.
However, in this precious challenge time right now, thirty minutes feels genuinely long.
In that span, two or three more challengers could already have completed their attempts.
“Everyone! Why don’t you grab a bite to eat? Hm? You must be hungry!”

* * *
Inside a white, rectangular space.
Almond stood there with a remarkably calm expression, unaware of what was happening outside.
[Tutorial Mode]
After a moment, the NPC instructor assigned to teach him appeared.
Whoosh.
“Hey there?”
“…?”
Deeply tanned skin.
A muscular, imposing physique.
Pink hair and long eyelashes.
An aerobics leggings outfit that was aggressively bold.
A man who possessed all of this introduced himself.
“I’m Andre, Boy~!”
The very aura he radiated visually was far from ordinary.
“I’m gonna pump your jet, Girl~!”
(I’m gonna pump your jet for you.)
-What kind of concept is this lol
-Ugh, seriously
-I totally misheard “jet” as something else lmao
-Pooooow~ lololol
-Lmaooo
“Ah… yes.”
Almond answered as briefly as possible. I needed to finish the tutorial quickly.
“First, welcome to the world of Jetters, handsome Boy~!”
“Jetters?”
“Yeah. Jetters. It means beings who use jets. More precisely, we’re virtual entities that can influence reality, boy~?! You following?”
“Ah….”
“Don’t worry if you don’t understand—I, Andre, am here to explain! We Jetters are combat-capable virtual avatars sent into the real dimension, boy~! We call that transmission.”
Snap!
As Andre snapped his fingers, his body suddenly transformed into ridiculous low-polygon graphics.
“When a Jetter transmits into reality, our appearance changes like this because reality can’t properly interpret our data.”
“I see….”
“Funny, right? But here’s the thing—we can immediately integrate these Jet data fragments directly into our bodies, boy~!”
So basically, virtual avatars are sent into reality to fight, and those avatars are Jetters.
In other words, the Player is the Jetter.
“Ah, I should probably understand what a Jet is first, right?”
Almond nods.
“A Jet? It’s a combat technique module we equip onto our bodies, boy~!”
“I see.”
“For example, even though we’re virtual avatars, delicate girls~ like us couldn’t suddenly fight using Muay Thai, right? That’s when you equip a Muay Thai Jet~”
-I see…
-Is it like a memory chip?
-But where are these delicate girls~??
-So that’s the setting lol
-The “girl” here means tough girl~
Ding.
[Try equipping a Jet]
As Andre finished his explanation, a guidance message appeared.
But where exactly is the Jet so I can equip it?
Screeeech.
The floor split open.
Several metal capsules popped out.
“Go ahead and choose, boy~!”
[You can choose one of these five Jets for your first selection. You can purchase additional ones through the shop later.]
Along with this message, five Jets lined up before my eyes.
[Muay Thai Jet]
[Boxing Jet]
[Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Jet]
[Judo Jet]
[Taekwondo Jet]
Familiar martial arts-based Jets.
‘This feels different.’
But these Jets felt different from the JetPumped I’d seen in the video.
‘There were all sorts of bizarre things.’
In the JetPumped I’d watched, there was barely any sense of using martial arts. It was more accurate to call it a battle between superhumans.
Yet the initial options are these realistic martial arts.
I was told I’d be embodied into a Marvel movie, so I naturally thought I’d become Iron Man, but instead I feel like I’ve become Hawkeye.
“Later on, there are all sorts of unusual fighting techniques from Earth and beyond. But with your current skills, Boy, this is as far as you can go~”
Wink.
Andre closes one eye in a flirtatious gesture.
I ignore his advances deliberately and select Jet.
‘Judo looks fun too….’
At first, I’d thought about trying something different.
「You’re good at gauging distance. Let’s focus on that.」
The earlier instruction(?) comes to mind.
If I measure distance and strike from long range, it’s definitely that.
‘It has to be Taekwondo.’
I select Taekwondo.
[Taekwondo Jet]
Whoooosh!
The box trembles with bright light before shattering with a bang!
“Ooh! Taekwondo? Nice, boy~ Give it a try.”
Andre twists his body enthusiastically as he encourages me.
‘…Shoes?’
The Taekwondo Jet that emerged from the capsule was in the form of shoes.
Perhaps it takes the shape of whichever part is used most in that martial art?
The shoes automatically equipped themselves the moment my feet came near them.
Click!
“So you chose the Taekwondo Jet~, boy~? Then your kicks will become special from now on.”
[Try performing kicks however you like]
However I like?
Unsure what he meant, I just swung my leg around completely haphazardly.
At best, it was barely worthy of being called a kick.
But then─
“!?”
Whoosh!
Boom!
Swish!
Perfect kicks fly out as if by magic.
‘Oh.’
Even better, my attacking leg becomes incredibly enlarged, extending my reach significantly.
-Lmaooooo
-Why is the foot getting bigger lol
-Kyaa~ now that’s what I call Jet form
“Ohohoho! It’s working perfectly? Even with such sloppy kicks, the Jet~ understands them flawlessly—that’s the power of the Jet~?”
[The kick just demonstrated is a basic 3-combo kick of the Taekwondo Jet]
I see. In fighting game terms, I’d just performed a small kick 3-hit combo or something like ‘small kick → big kick → small kick’.
[Taekwondo Jet has two additional techniques.]
[Please refer to the skill table in the upper right.]
Swinging randomly produces a basic three-hit combo, and everything else is created through specific stances or timing to build combos and techniques.
‘Only two, then.’
Unlike fighting games, the skill commands weren’t overwhelmingly numerous.
It was designed so combos could be chained with the simplest possible movements.
“Alright! Basic combos are done. Now it’s time to learn Jet’s special move, boy~”
Now it was time to master the special move.
“Like most Jets! The special move is, ah~ super simple, you see? Because you need to be able to use it even in extreme situations?”
Snap.
Andre takes a stance as if demonstrating.
“The most fundamental movement of taekwondo is the special move. But!”
He emphasizes by extending his index finger dramatically upward.
“A~ perfect roundhouse kick! You have to show a~ perfect roundhouse kick, boy~”
Andre demonstrates a perfect roundhouse kick like an instructor.
His foot advances with sharp, distinct segmented movements, and at the end, he cuts through the air as if severing his opponent’s breath.
Whoosh!
‘That’s it.’
Almond tilts his head.
‘Seeing it once doesn’t make it easy to….’
It seems difficult to simply copy Andre’s demonstration after seeing it once.
So I recall the past.
I had learned this before.
I remember a senior asked me to spar under the guise of teaching me, and I got completely toyed with.
So next time, I asked the senior to be my archery target, but I almost got hit with a flying kick.
What goes around comes around, I suppose.
Anyway, I had the memory ingrained in my body back then, and there was no need to reference Andre’s stance.
‘It was like this.’
I pull my right foot back, then lift it slightly while twisting the left leg supporting me. As that rotation flows through my waist and shoulders, my right foot naturally becomes the front foot. The moment I extend my knee….
Whoosh!
My foot tears through the air.
Boom!
Thanks to the VNS stat, it was implemented in a far more perfect form than what I’d done in reality.
‘Oh.’
For a moment, a taekwondo dobok overlapped above me.
This is the special move’s effect. In other words, proof that the special move had activated properly.
“Booooooy!? Where did you learn that!?”
Andre shouts with an expression of utter astonishment.
“Activating the special move on the first try! Amazing!”
-As expected of Almond from the Capsule!?
-Is Andre going too??
-Reina, Luna… Next is Andre?
When Andre made a motion as if he’d been hit, the viewers cheered. Almond certainly hadn’t intended that.
“Ahem. Let’s move on.”
“Then as a finale, hit me with that special move. boy~!”
“Understood.”
Actually striking Andre directly.
Almond tilted his head as if asking whether he really could hit him.
‘The moment I’d been waiting for.’
I’d actually been anticipating this.
“Of course, I’m not just going to take it—I’ll dodge, so it won’t be easy──”
A spinning kick unleashed in an instant.
──Crack!
An optical illusion as if dressed in a taekwondo uniform materialized, and my foot struck Andre’s jaw with tremendous force.
Andre, mid-sentence, trembled with his eyes rolled back.
“Grrrrgh…!?”
-??
I can’t translate this as it’s not a coherent Korean phrase – it appears to be random consonants without vowels, which doesn’t form meaningful words in Korean.
-Nut Fans technique! Interrupted speech!
“I got caught/exposed” lol
Did you bug it again? lol
“???”
I wondered if something had lagged.
Fortunately, it resolved quickly.
Ting!
A clear, crystalline sound rang out.
[Special Move Activated!]
Suddenly my body moved of its own accord. And at a speed barely perceptible to the eye, I began kicking Andre relentlessly.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud!
I didn’t need to do anything.
Whoosh!
Thud!
Wham!!!
After taking the final kick, Andre soared through the air, spinning about thirty times before crashing back down to the ground with a tremendous impact.
I can’t laugh that hard lol
Flying away Team Rocket style lol
That’s hilarious, this is crazy lolol
With his head buried in the ground, Andre spoke.
“Whoa whoa~ boy~? I went straight to the other side and came back, didn’t I? Ohohoho! There’s nothing left to teach you! Get out there and go to the real fights!”
-Hey Andre. That place is where Hades lives.
-That’s literally the underworld, dude. They got thrown into the depths of hell.
-Lmao, that’s insane.
With that, the tutorial came to an end.
The tutorial typically takes an average of thirty minutes.
Those who are decent at it finish in twenty minutes.
In exceptionally rare cases, actual professionals who worked in various combat sports manage a ten-minute clear.
But….
[00:07:12]
Almond had completed the tutorial in seven minutes and twelve seconds.

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