Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 516

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 236
81. Talent (3)
Perfect the stance of throwing a baseball.
This was the activation condition for the ultimate move.
Needless to say, activating an ultimate move on the first attempt is difficult.
“This is absolutely shocking! Jitaisan!”
“Almond?! How did you pull that off!!”
-lol for real
-how’d he do that crazy
-Taisan’s shocked lol
-fire baseball lolol
-???: When I lived at the Training Camp….
“The ultimate move aside, that throw angle was incredibly sharp, wasn’t it?”
“Exactly! I literally forced it into the dead space zone! If this were baseball, the player would be ejected from the game!”
“And the player who got hit would be ejected from life itself!”
-lololol
-player ejection sounds better?
-angle (physical) lolol
I succeeded in pushing Jihota back with the baseball.
I immediately sprinted and leaped, landing on the opposite rooftop.
Jihota sprang up as well, raising his guard to meet me.
“Finally landing on the rooftop!”
“Now a real brawl is about to unfold!”
Nimble feet moving across the green urethane floor.
Whoosh, swish!
Jihota approached me with boxing’s signature footwork.
“Here we go, Jitaisan!! Can he truly become the Taisan of Pangyo?”
I too advanced gradually with taekwondo footwork.
The first strike naturally came from taekwondo, which had the longer reach.
Whoosh!
A light opening kick from the basic combo flew out first.
“Weaving! Excellent!”
Whoosh!
My foot grazed over Jitaisan’s head.
He evaded it using weaving, boxing’s signature evasion technique.
“Boxing Jet can’t throw kicks! But instead, he has evasion techniques like that!”
Evasion techniques, true to their name, receive massive speed corrections that far exceed ordinary human velocity.
After all, it would be problematic if evasion techniques frequently failed to dodge attacks.
‘Huh.’
The evasion technique activated at a speed faster than I anticipated, causing me to stumble.
‘What was that just now? There was no angle to dodge.’
My center of gravity wavers as the kick I naturally expected to land or be blocked completely whiffs.
The combo I’d calculated falls apart.
Jihota wasn’t the type to miss such an opening.
Tap!
His footwork drives straight toward my groin.
“Is he going for a counter?!”
Whoosh!
In an instant, the red glove flies at me.
Pow!
The second hit came in a blink.
Boom-boom-boom!
Boxing Jet’s basic five-combo connects.
“Direct hit!”
Thud.
I tumble to the floor after taking the full five-combo.
“Whoa! At least we avoided a perfect game this time!?”
Most Jets in Jetpumped have no means to attack a downed opponent, so the combo ends at five hits.
[Health 73%]
Due to the game’s nature, basic combos don’t drain health significantly.
Here, I needed to reassess my strategy.
‘This opponent isn’t like the last one.’
I shouldn’t have charged in thinking of Wonmu Heo. Jitaisan was definitely a tier above him.
Most critically, my fatal disadvantage remains—I still don’t know this game well.
I took that evasion technique just now because I didn’t know it existed.
‘If I let time drag on, I’ll be at an even worse disadvantage.’
The longer this goes, the more unknown techniques and know-how will emerge.
I need to end this quickly at this stage.
He has evasion moves like boxing weaving, and they’re far faster than actual movement.
And he can throw counters too.
If I keep just these two things in mind while fighting, I have a chance to win.
If other elements emerge, the turning point will only be pushed further back.
Tap. Tap.
I dust myself off and rise, surveying my surroundings.
‘Is bungie really that good?’
The most efficient way to eliminate an opponent in Jetpumped is to bungie them.
To knock them off and kill them. Fortunately, Taekwondo has two techniques that push the opponent far away.
One is a special move, and the other is a back kick.
Both have large wind-ups, making them easy for the opponent to evade.
I couldn’t hear it, but the Casters were saying something similar.
“A back kick or taekwondo finishing move would be your best bet for a one-hit reversal.”
“Ah. Why is that?”
“Boxing’s weaving makes it far too easy to evade taekwondo kicks. Even with a delayed reaction, you can dodge them. But when a taekwondo kick misses, the risk is enormous. Because it’s a leg attack.”
Leg attacks deal high damage and have long reach, but they carry significant risk when they miss or get blocked.
Boxing, on the other hand, has the weaving skill that lets you easily evade your opponent’s attacks, and it’s simple to find the timing to land rapid punch combos.
“What makes Boxing Jetter so useful is that closing distance quickly is also excellent. The weaving skill doubles as a charging skill.”
“Ah. That’s incredible! Isn’t that overpowered?”
“Not at all. When Boxing Jetter faces Judo Jetter or Wrestling Jetter, they can’t even pick their bones up.”
“Ah, so they’re weak to grappling techniques!”
“Exactly. Their lower body is defenseless. If you rush in and grab them, they have no counter.”
“That’s similar to real combat sports, isn’t it?”
“It is.”
“Ah. Almond is approaching Jitaisan again now. Jitaisan is simply waiting with his guard raised?”
“There’s no need to approach first.”
“Good! Almond! Running forward quickly—is that a flying kick?!”
A flying kick.
A charging technique used in taekwondo. You rush forward in an instant and deliver two consecutive aerial strikes with your left and right feet.
When Jetter charges forward and kicks mid-air, it gets registered as a flying kick.
It’s quite fast, but the execution speed is slow enough to evade with boxing weaving. After all, you have to charge forward first.
So Jitaisan tries to lightly dodge with weaving again.
Whoosh—
“Wh—!? You’re jumping over me?”
Almond launches into a jump.
Jetters fundamentally have such incredible jumping power that they freely leap between rooftops.
Naturally, clearing Jitaisan’s height was effortless.
Then Almond spins around and executes a back kick.
“It was a jumping kick!”
“The infamous spot kick, right?!”
Defying physics at an absurd angle, Almond flies in and strikes Jitaisan’s back of the head.
Crack!
-Oh lol lol lol
-Taekwondo Jetter’s trick already lol lol
-Kyaa
Thud!
Jihota takes the hit to the back of his head, his eyes comically bulging forward.
Meanwhile, Almond spins and lands behind him.
This is the taekwondo Jetter’s jump plus kick command—the spot kick.
It’s an incredibly useful harassment move, but uniquely, the body charges in the direction of execution, so it tends to ignore physics quite significantly.
“But one spot kick doesn’t really change anything, does it? Of course, it hit the head so the damage was quite good. But it’s still just one hit, right?”
“Yes! But identifying a way to neutralize the weaving is what matters, isn’t it?!”
“Almond! I’m coming at you again!”
Almond rushed toward Jitaisan once more.
“!”
It was then that Jihota realized something.
He stood at a crossroads with two paths before him.
‘Is it a low kick or a wing kick….’
If it’s a low kick, I’d need to turn around and block, or delay my weaving by a beat.
But if it’s a wing kick, I need to block immediately or use weaving right away.
Whoosh—
Almond launches into the air.
‘A low kick!’
It’s definitely a low kick.
Jihota smirked and turned around to block. Aerial attacks like low kicks are easier to block than to weave through.
But then….
Crack!
A blow strikes the back of my head.
That’s right.
I wasn’t standing at a crossroads with two paths.
‘A frontal low kick?!’
There were three paths.
“Ah! This time it’s a low kick from the front!!”
“There was no need to flip all the way backward to kick!?”
“I got fooled by the shallow jump!”
This is a technique used by veterans, known as the shallow low kick.
It’s a command where you jump low and execute a kick, and it’s incredibly confusing—difficult to block or evade.
‘Insane.’
Wing kick, low kick, or shallow low kick.
Or perhaps….
Wing kick, low kick, flipping backward into a low kick, or shallow low kick.
‘Is he really a beginner?’
At this point, I can’t afford to play it safe and hunt for counters anymore.
Thud!
My fists collided with his once.
Then I charged toward Almond.
I need to be the one choosing the options, not the one responding to them. I can’t win by being reactive. I need to be the one dictating the choices.
‘A one-two combination.’
I’ll use a one-two jab to test the waters and give him options to choose from.
‘He’s coming.’
My opponent has closed the distance.
Huff! Huff!
My fist surged forward with speed.
My opponent evaded it.
The movement looked exactly like weaving.
‘?’
How was this non-boxing Jetter dodging my punch with a weaving stance?
“Ah?! Direct combat has begun! Jitaisan threw the first punch!”
“Won’t he regret it?! Almond’s evasion stance just now was extraordinary!”
Jihota was somewhat surprised.
But I didn’t care.
A jab was fundamentally a very light attack that didn’t matter much whether the opponent dodged or blocked it.
Besides, my opponent was already within the boxing Jetter’s range.
For taekwondo Jetter, whose advantage was range, this was fatal.
“But once you enter the boxing Jetter’s range! Isn’t it quite difficult for the taekwondo Jetter to win!?”
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Another one-two jab came in.
Was it coincidence?
My opponent evaded again.
‘That’s fine.’
It was still acceptable.
He’d already entered my range.
“But why did Almond give up the range so easily!?”
“Even if he kicks from a distance, he dodges with weaving… Huh!?”
I threw my most confident punch.
‘Die…!’
Boom!
Instead, I took a counterattack.
‘Huh?’
My mind went blank for a moment.
“Jitaisan just took a hit!? How did that happen at such close range?”
“P-Punches! Hand attacks are landing!”
Almond had abandoned kicks and closed in, beginning to fight with his hands.
Boom!
His hand attacks were landing perfectly as counters against my one-two combination.
Even if the taekwondo Jetter’s hand attacks were less efficient, if every single one landed as a counter like this, the story was different.
‘What… what is this…?’
Whoosh!
No matter how many punches I threw, my opponent didn’t get hit.
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, Jihota’s jaw snapped upward.
I’d allowed an uppercut.
A counter thrust through with impeccable timing.
There was no room to weave or dodge.
“Wait, the Taekwondo Jet is beating the Boxing Jet with hand attacks!?”
“Since kicks are easy to avoid with weaving, I’ve never seen someone overcome that with hand strikes before!”
-lmao
-no time to weave lol
-wtf is this even lol
-???: So who’s the boxer now?
-insane domination lol
Taekwondo beating Boxing in a fist fight.
This meant there was a skill gap between them that was almost impossible to put into words.
‘This can’t be real.’
[Stamina 62%]
Jihota had given up too much stamina. He finally makes a mistake.
Whoosh…!
“Jitaisan! You’re backing away!?”
“Th-this is a mistake!?”
He used weaving to retreat backward.
‘Ah. Without realizing it, I got scared.’
Jihota recognizes his own mistake.
He had created distance between himself and the Taekwondo Jet of his own accord.
And it wasn’t just any distance—he created it using weaving, so there was no way to avoid the next attack with weaving.
Almond wasn’t one to miss this opportunity.
Whoosh!
His stance shifts in an instant as a kick launches forward.
Simple, and perfect—a spinning roundhouse kick.
Ting—!
[Finishing Move]
With a clear metallic ring, his heel connects with the jaw.
Gahhh…!
Jihota’s body trembles and stiffens.
The casters jump from their seats in excitement.
“Finishing moveeeeeee!!! It landed ahhhhhhh!”
In the meantime, Almond’s kick combo barrage strikes the opponent at a speed the eye cannot follow.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
-Kyaa~!
-muda muda muda muda!!
-wow finishing move omg
-against a boxing jet too?
“Ahhhhh…! The mountain is crumbling! Not Jihota! It’s a landslide ahhhhh!”
Landslide lol
Hahahahaha lol
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
Boom!
After the final strike of the lethal combo connected, Jitaisan’s body flew backward in a long arc.
He vanished from view at the edge of the rooftop.
Iman disappeared from view at the edge of the rooftop.
“The bounce angle is absolutely perfect!”
“Pangyeo’s Taisan! Down!!”
[Victory]
Almond, playing Jetpumped for the first time today, had already swept through the second obstacle in an instant.
“This is talent, everyone! Look! This is someone playing the game for the first time today!? I can’t believe it!”
-Landslide… lol!
-Almond tears mountains! Almond tears mountains!
-Did you know? Pangyeo actually has no mountains! Did you know? Pangyeo actually has no mountains! Did you know? Pangyeo actually has no mountains!
-Taisan? To beat me, you’d need to bring a volcano, you fool!

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