Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 520

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 240
83. Mega Leg (1)
“Ah. A bow!”
Gookgeon-i nods his enormous head.
“Of course! It would suit you perfectly, Almond!”
Indeed, when you think of Almond, you think of a bow.
Absolutely.
“However!”
Gookgeon-i raises his hands—which are comically small compared to his head—and begins his explanation.
“Jetpumped has no bow-related jets! And! There are almost no ranged jets at all!”
“Ah….”
“It’s to preserve the fundamental nature of a fighting game genre!”
“So when you say there are almost no ranged jets… does that mean there are some?”
“Ah, yes! There are some! They work very well up to intermediate level! However….”
Gookgeon-i scratches his massive head.
“The efficiency is absolutely terrible! The higher you go in the rankings, the worse it gets! And from my experience, Iseok Kim is a top-tier player and the designer of this game! Of course the efficiency suffers!”
-Yikes
-I see
-Listening to him talk, it’s basically like fighting a ‘god’ lmao
-Jetpump ranged efficiency is pretty bad tbh
-But what if Almond uses it?
Even if the efficiency is poor, wouldn’t it be different if Almond wielded it?
Such doubts could have arisen.
But after hearing the next explanation, such fantasies had to be abandoned.
“Most importantly! Neutralizing ranged attacks is so easy that you don’t even need Iseok Kim to do it!”
“?”
“It’s the ranged immunity pump! Add this pump and you gain ranged immunity!”
-Lmao what
-???
-Not defense, just straight up immunity??
-This is why Jetpump is a broken game~
“Probably. Once Iseok Kim sees what jet you pick, he’ll switch to a jet with this function built in!”
Ranged immunity. So ranged attacks simply won’t work at all.
At that point, it’s not a matter of skill or lack thereof.
“That’s why I have a different recommendation! The ‘Mecha’ pump that’s currently trending the most!”
Mecha pump?
I tilt my head in confusion.
The chat is going wild.
It must be famous.
-Yikes
-This is the root cause of the balance being broken lmao
-Yesss~ Finally we can take down Iseok Kim???
Tears are blocking my view ㅠㅠ
Ah. So this Mecha Pumping is apparently what led to this challenge in the first place.
‘A lot of viewers who know about Jetpumped have shown up.’
Most of my existing viewers didn’t know much about Jetpumped.
But the chat atmosphere now seems mostly knowledgeable, at least fifty-fifty.
‘Huh?’
I check the viewer count just to be sure, and I’m startled.
[Current Viewers: 48,000]
We were already heading toward 50,000—a personal record.
With the previous Battleraze Ninja Mode challenge cleared and the Demon King Iseok Kim subjugation challenge—the collective wish of all Jetpumped players—right before us, this viewer count was inevitable.
“Yes. You can see the reaction in chat right now? This Mecha Pumping is precisely the culprit behind the balance destruction!”
Is it because Gookgeon-i himself is such a passionate Jetpumped fan?
He shouts with an excited voice.
“If we beat that bird… no, Iseok Kim with this, then we can say this challenge has a truly beautiful ending!”
Gookgeon-i trembles with his fist raised high.
-So cute lmao
-Legit looks hilarious
-Info) Gookgeon-i, who used to draft us all, ended up doing public service because no bulletproof vest fits his massive head.
-Gookgeon-i’s the best lmao
I nod without realizing it.
“Ah…”
“A picture is worth a thousand words! Let me show you the Mecha series!”
Click!
He equips a jet in an instant.
“First, the familiar Taekwondo jet! After Mecha Pumping, followed by Iron, Engine, and High-Density Pumping—the ‘Mach Mecha Leg Engine’ jet!”
-Why is the name so long lmao
-Mach Mecha Leg Engine lmao
-This is ‘fighting game’~^^
Ziiiiing…! Ching!
A sound that could only come from a sci-fi movie bursts out.
A robot leg worthy of an Iron Man from the underground world is equipped.
“Depending on how you use the engines attached to all sides of this leg, high-speed control is possible too, so I think it’ll be perfect for you, Almond!”
Gookgeon-i activates the jet as a demonstration.
“Scarecrow!”
Ting!
A scarecrow appears in the distance at Gookgeon-i’s call.
“First, a dash attack!”
Kuuuuuuung!
Crimson flames shot out like a rocket launch.
A moment later—
‘Huh?’
My body dispersed in an instant.
——Kwaaaaaang!
A sonic boom erupted, the kind that only occurs when breaking the sound barrier.
“!?”
Even Almond was startled by the speed, and the scarecrow far in the distance shattered into pieces.
Kwang!
“There! That’s the ‘Wing Kick’!”
-???
-A wing kick? Not a K-9 self-propelled gun firing?
-One more wing kick and it’d destroy buildings
-So this is what the game was lmaooo
-Is, is this taekwondo???
-Taekwondo (100 years later) lmaooo
It was a scene that made it instantly clear why the players had complaints.
“Not all attacks are this powerful! Mechas gain power through engine thrust! When you keep the engine running until you reach 100% thrust and then strike, you get this kind of power! We call this thrust control!”
-So you hit with acceleration
-That seems pretty difficult then
-Ah, I see…
“Engine thrust depends on how long you’ve been firing the engine!”
In other words, rapid consecutive strikes wouldn’t produce this kind of damage.
The Mecha Leg’s combat style would be to build up maximum thrust and then strike once at a time.
“Of course, even hitting at less than 100% engine thrust is far more powerful than a normal attack! Still, it’s best to maximize the thrust before striking! However!”
“?”
“As the thrust increases, the speed becomes incredibly fast!”
Isn’t that a good thing then?
“You won’t be able to control it! The key is how well you can manage that extreme speed to actually land a hit on your opponent!”
“Ah…”
“This Mecha Leg is the most difficult in the Mecha series. The engines fire from the legs, so maintaining balance can’t possibly be easy, right? Besides this, let me show you some other Mecha series.”
Gookgeon-i pulled out a guided jet-based Mecha Grab, a kendo jet-based Mecha Sword, and so on.
“Which one would you prefer?”
“Hmm…”
“For beginners, nothing beats the Mecha Glove! The thrust builds up quickly and punching is intuitive, you know!?”
Almond nods in agreement.
‘That’s certainly true.’
He nods as if agreeing with Gookgeon-i’s words…
“Mecha Leg.”
But ultimately chooses the Mecha Leg.
“Oh…”
Gookgeon-i’s expression grew troubled.
“Really…? May I ask why you chose it?”
“It looked the most promising.”
“Ah…”
True. Jetter with the highest potential might indeed be the one with engines on its legs—it covered speed, power, and even the utility of flight. But I was only saying that because I had no idea what it felt like to have engines on the legs alone.
Mecha Legs weren’t something you could just run around naturally with, let alone avoid motion sickness from the start.
It was a difficult piece of equipment to master initially.
“Understood.”
Why bother explaining all these drawbacks?
‘Once I equip it, my thoughts might change.’
Experiencing something firsthand and merely observing it were worlds apart.
“Let’s build it.”
Gookgeon-i proceeded to craft the Mecha Legs without further complaint.

* * *
That’s how modern games were.
Game design took a backseat, but the business design was shockingly meticulous, wasn’t it?
Jetpumped wasn’t an extreme pay-to-win style game.
But it was a game that paid tremendous attention to its business model.
What did that mean?
They wouldn’t have made spending money difficult.
“Oh. That was quick.”
“Indeed! The world has improved so much!”
Pumping up a Jetter wasn’t easy in the game’s early days.
Now, with proper funds and blueprints, it happened in an instant.
[Mecha Legs]
I obtained the basic Mecha Legs in a flash.
After applying additional pumping enhancements,
[Maha Mecha Legs Engine]
Boom!
As hundreds of thousands of won evaporated in an instant, the Jetter I’d seen earlier was finally born.
-Money-burning game lmao
-Money’s melting away lmao
Black taxi meter-grade wallet dealing crazy
-Jetmille~ Jetmille~
So what would be the performance of this Jetter born from melted money, the ‘Maha Mecha Legs Engine’?
I decided to equip it myself and test it out briefly.
The fighting style involved spraying high-density engines in eight directions.
It boasted tremendous speed and damage by overwhelming opponents through acceleration, but the downside was that control remained quite difficult.
“Now, this might be a bit difficult to control at first….”
Gookgeon-i tried to say something to Almond, who was already equipping the gear and about to begin practice.
WHOOOOSH!!!
But Almond had already launched forward.
“!?”
Gookgeon-i’s eyes nearly bulged out of his head as he had to grab and stop himself from rolling across the floor.
-Gookgeon-i’s expression lmao
-Wait, is that a Mach Mecha Eyes engine? lol
-Wow~
-He’s doing great though??
-Damn, he really is a natural talent

* * *
A moment later.
The match finally resumed.
“Alright! Thank you all for your patience!”
The commentators shouted with excitement, and the crowd roared intensely.
Woooooo!
“Almond has finally created a new Jet and is ready to go!”
“That’s right! He brought Mecha Legs? This is the first time using it today. Do you think it’s possible?”
“I’m not sure about Almond, but personally, I don’t think it’s possible.”
-Lmao so Almond might be able to but he himself can’t lol
-Isn’t he pretty good at Jetpumping though?
-To that extent?
“I see. Actually, I have that Jet too. You know, a license gathering dust? I couldn’t adapt to it, so I just wasted money and it’s been rotting away!”
“Right. It’s that difficult to handle. The fact that Almond chose to bring that… well, it’s not entirely unexpected.”
-Lol he knows what’s up
-True… if it’s Almond, he could pick it… lol
-Probably just chose it because it looked cool anyway
“There will definitely be challenges in handling it! That’s a fact! The transmission is starting now!”
[Transmitting….]
The two Jetters who had finished their preparations began transmitting to the map.
“What map will it be? If it’s a narrow map like a subway, Mecha Legs would be really disadvantaged!?”
As the performance of the Jets improved, the map that appeared became increasingly important.
In Almond’s case, I needed to fly around and harass my opponent while using the map as widely as possible.
If a confined map like a subway appeared, it would be extremely disadvantageous.
[Rooftop]
“Ooooh!”
The commentators let out exclamations of amazement.
The Rooftop map had an open sky above and was a map where players could fly around and battle across four rooftop buildings.
In other words, a map extraordinarily favorable to Mecha Leg.
“No, at least they didn’t rig the map, right?!”
“Right! That’s surprising!”
Hahaha so funny
It’s surprising that you didn’t make it up lol
My credibility is rock bottom lol
Are you surprised I didn’t cheat?ㅋㅋ
“But they must have countered, right? They probably watched everything shamelessly through Almond’s stream!”
“Yes! Of course! Now, it looks like they’ve been transported to the same building?”
Unlike with Jihota, Almond and Iseok Kim were transported to the rooftop of the same building.
[Iseok Kim]
Almond spotted Iseok Kim appearing at the far end and thought to myself.
‘What kind of Jetter is this.’
Even if I learned his name, it wouldn’t tell me what kind of Jetter he was. But I at least wanted to grasp how he fought.
Couldn’t I make some educated guess just from his appearance?
‘A sword?’
Looking from a distance, Iseok Kim held a sword in his hand.
A sword with white energy seeping out slowly.
It seemed like it would emit tremendously cold freezing air.
“Iseok Kim! He’s brought quite a niche Jetter!?”
“Yes! It’s a Jetter with the nickname ‘Winter Blade’ that was popular for a while, right?”
“The actual model name is ‘Ultra High-Pressure Cryogenic Magitech Sword’!”
“That’s right. But like most Jetters, after about a year passes, you basically can’t use it anymore, right?”
“Has it been a year already?”
“No. About eight months! Still, we should consider it past its prime!”
After just six months, a Jetter becomes unusable in Ladder. After a year, it drops to casual gaming status.
“In that case, Almond might have the advantage?”
Meanwhile, Mecha Leg was the latest Jetter.
Even at worst, it would be in peak condition for at least five more months, so in simple comparison, it was far more advantageous than Iseok Kim’s Jetter.
“Really? Iseok Kim wouldn’t have brought it without thinking, would he?”
Iseok Kim was the designer of this game.
There was no way he didn’t know about such expiration-date characteristics of Jetters.
He must have something prepared.
“Ahhh! Right now Almond! He’s charging forward without even a scouting phase!”
Regardless, the fight between Almond and Iseok Kim had begun.
“He’s not running—he’s flying!? Wow, the control is incredible! Mecha Leg is absolutely not an easy Jetter to handle!”

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