Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 521

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 241
83. Mecha Leg (2)
The expiration date on Jet was six months.
Iseok Kim knew this well enough. There was no way he wouldn’t know what every player already understood.
-Trash knows and still does this lol
-That’s how it sells
-Tsk tsk money-obsessed bastard…
Because of this, he received even more criticism.
Everyone was convinced he was deliberately letting Jets become obsolete.
They intentionally made old Jets unusable. That way, players would keep buying the new ones that came out.
The newly released Jets were stronger.
This was an undeniable fact.
However, there were exceptions. Occasionally, old Jets were used properly.
-When was that Winter Sword from
-Wow! It was a romantic item because you could only match it with game money
-Could that be a counter?
-?? Winter Sword is real?
-Is it a counter wtf??
With such variety in Jet types, even developers or high-rank players sometimes failed to anticipate matchup relationships that emerged.
For instance, a Jet that had just launched yesterday and was skyrocketing in stock price turned out to have a counter that was a Jet released two years prior.
These were matchups even veteran players found difficult to discover.
It was simply that with so many players and countless games being played, such matchups were eventually uncovered.
Yes, that’s what everyone believed.
Numerous players just happened to discover matchup relationships by chance.
The developers pulled Jets randomly without considering matchups at all.
“That’s ridiculous.”
Iseok Kim drew a blade emanating an icy blue chill as he spoke.
“It’s all going according to plan.”
Roooooaaarrrrr──!
Before his eyes, Almond came flying with a high-displacement engine roaring.
[Engine Thrust 40%]
[Engine Thrust 56%]
[Engine Thrust 78%]
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.
.
The thrust building up in an instant across the long distance.
‘Come on.’
Iseok Kim drew his blade as if he’d been waiting, the pale frost trailing from its edge.
He murmured to himself, watching Almond approach at terrifying speed.
‘Now’s the moment!’
As Iseok Kim swung his sword.
Almond, as if he’d been waiting for this, reversed his engine thrust.
Kwaaang!
Almond’s body, which had been flying at high speed, suddenly came to a halt.
[Reverse thrust!? He stopped!!]
Whoosh!
Iseok Kim’s blade passed through empty air.
‘He dodged?’
After that, Almond shot upward again.
Kwakwang!!
[He’s moving like a UFO! Incredible control!!]
[And he’s already built up nearly full thrust!]
Text appeared in Almond’s field of vision as he soared.
[Engine Thrust 99%]
Nearly at full charge.
‘Perfect.’
Almond aimed for Kiseoseu Kim’s crown below.
Shiiing!
With one final burst, he raised his right foot high and brought it crashing down from above.
A devastating stomp attack accompanied by tremendous force.
“Insane…!”
Kwaaaaaang──!
Kiseoseu Kim raised his sword to block.
But due to the nature of the Mecha series, even when blocking, the immense pressure dealt significant damage.
“Ugh!”
[Kiseoseu Kim]
[Health 89%]
Despite blocking, Kiseoseu Kim lost over 10% of his health.
[The control is insane!!!]
[Full charge attack with 100 thrust from the very first strike!!!]
[How many times did he change the engine thrust direction?!]
The moment the first attack landed, deafening cheers erupted throughout the arena.
“Waaaaaaaaaaa!”
“Really! Is he actually winning?!?”
“Damn! Almond! I knew you could do it!!”
Like human footprints marking eternal snow for the first time.
The audience felt that same exhilaration.
[Current Viewers: 51,000]
Thanks to this, the viewer count surpassed 50,000, and naturally the chat scrolled at a speed impossible to read.
-Kyaa!
-Gutted!
-Crown strike, damn!
-What was that movement just now??
-A UFO?
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.
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[Kiseoseu Kim! Counterattacking!]
Whiiiiing!
Iseok Kim’s ice blade swung toward Almond.
The frigid air froze the water vapor white and sent it cascading down—
[Useless! He’s leaping upward again to evade!]
I couldn’t bring Almond down.
Suspended in mid-air, Almond fired his engines again, shifting direction.
Boom-crack!
With a tremendous explosion, Almond’s form instantly repositioned behind Iseok Kim.
[Engine thrust 57%]
The travel distance was so great that the thrust surged past 50% in an instant.
[Engine control is completely free-form!?]
[For those seeing this for the first time, you wouldn’t believe how difficult that is….]
[A spinning heel kick while I’m talking!!]
Boom—!
After spinning a couple more rotations, Almond appeared. His entire body whirled around as he struck Iseok Kim.
Iseok Kim swung his blade to block, but it wasn’t enough. This time, the blow connected cleanly.
[Engine thrust 100%]
Once again, it was maximum thrust damage.
“—Gack!”
His body was sucked away, flying backward and tumbling.
-Damn!
-Direct hit!
-Wow wow wow
-Gutted~! Hahahaha
-Kyaa!
[Kiseoseu Kim]
[Health 72%]
Waaaaaaaa!
Another tremendous roar erupted.
[Ahhh! Nearly twenty percent gone!!]
[He couldn’t block that one!?]
[That’s right! And please finish the explanation you were giving earlier! How difficult is it to handle this mecha leg like that!?]
[Yes! To put it in perspective, it’s like playing billiards underwater while sinking a three-cushion shot every single time! Right now!]
[No! That level of precision!?]
[Yes! He’s displaying that precision with such explosive speed!]
-Insane
-Just hearing about it makes me dizzy
-For real
-First timers get motion sickness
-Info) Almond is using the Jetpumped for the first time today, not the mecha leg lol
Even as the explanation continued, Almond flitted around Iseok Kim like an annoying fly, unleashing only fully-charged attacks.
[Kiseoseu Kim! He’s swinging his sword desperately, but he’s only managing to block the attacks!]
Iseok Kim swung his blade wildly like a fly swatter, determined to catch the fly.
But he never managed to land a hit on Almond.
-What a noob lol
-Bring back Maehwa Geomjeon instead, Iseok lol
-Ah this is so good lol I want to watch this every day lol
No matter how hard the Winter Sword wielder swung, not a single strike connected with Almond.
If Iseok Kim weren’t such a universally disliked Developer, the sight would have been pitiful enough for Almond to take criticism instead.
-It’s so one-sided
-Honestly it looks kinda sad, upvote if you agree lol
-Is this the Developer?? Stomp him!
[Ahhh! Kiseoseu Kim!? Didn’t you have some kind of plan!?]
[What good is a plan against such raw power!? Yes!?]
[This time it’s a back kick kick kick kick!!!]
Almond, who had been flitting around Iseok Kim from all sides like a fly, launches a surprise attack.
[Engine thrust 100%]
Once again, it’s a strike delivered at 100% thrust.
Boom crash!!!
A thunderous roar, brilliant sparks erupting like a rocket launch, and massive chunks of health vanish.
[Kiseoseu Kim]
[Health 55%]
The arena erupts in festival atmosphere.
“Ooooo~~~ Oooooo~~!”
“For vic~~~tory~!”
Some spectators even linked arms and sang cheers.
They were already convinced victory had shifted.
However—
‘It’s time.’
The eyes of Iseok Kim, brushing dust from the rooftop floor as he rose, told a different story.
‘Now it begins. Watch.’
Crack.
His grip tightens around the Winter Blade.
In fact, the top-tier experts of JetPumped had already mentioned this premonition before.
-The Winter Blade gets colder with each swing, so it might be good against mechas with longer battle durations….
-Could this be intentional…??
-With frost effects and high-compression pumping combined… it wouldn’t disappear, right??
Whiiiiing…!
The Winter Blade emits an ominous sound.
Like a distant typhoon approaching.
[Huh?]
One of the Casters notices.
[Could this be….]
The rooftop has turned white.
The frost spreading across the rooftop is responsible.
It was dispersed when I swung the blade during my battle with Almond earlier.
The Winter Blade’s frost continues to accumulate, consuming that space.
Screeeech… screech!
Almond’s engine begins making strange noises as he flies.
[What? Why is the mecha leg doing that!? Did it run out of fuel already!?]
[The… the frost seems to be interfering with the engine heat!]
[What!?]
[The frost has a dulling effect to begin with! But it also has a function that neutralizes heat-related pumps!]
Almond was feeling it too.
‘What?’
The engine thrust hadn’t been building to full capacity since earlier.
‘Why is this happening.’
Almond, who couldn’t possibly know about type matchups, couldn’t land hits until reaching 100 and could only circle around.
‘Is this a bug.’
-Did a bug happen??
-What, do I need to fly faster??
-This is the frost effect!!
-Ah damn, so it’s like this???
A type matchup even the Players didn’t know about.
There was no way to handle it properly.
The mecha leg’s engine gradually began failing to perform its role.
Pshhh… pwoooosh…!
With a deflating sound, Almond plummeted.
Yet with incredible reflexes, I landed properly.
Whoooosh!
“Now it’s my turn!”
The moment I descended, I was greeted by the mangled wreckage of the Mecha Leg and Iseok Kim’s razor-sharp blade strike.
[Almond]
[Health 94%]
Not as grotesque damage as the Mecha series, but the initial strikes came in as a combo, dealing consecutive damage.
-Trembling
-I’ve been waiting for this moment
Oh no ㅠㅠㅠ this is crazy ㅠㅠㅠ
-Is he actually losing???
Almond’s health began draining at a terrifying pace.
‘There’s nothing I can do.’
There was no way to block the blade strikes.
I needed to counter jets with jets. But the Mecha Leg was too slow without engine acceleration to block Iseok Kim’s blade strikes.
Whoosh!
The Mecha Leg flailed uselessly through the air, and Kiseoseu Kim’s blade slipped through the gap.
“Die!”
Thud!
Freezing cold pierced deep into my body.
My vision turned white as misty vapor rose up.
‘The cold…’
It was the freezing cold.
This chill was accumulating in one spot, growing thicker and thicker.
‘I need to get out of here.’
[C-continuing to take blade strikes!]
[Aaah…! This hurts so much!?]
Crash! Crash!
Even as this happened, my health kept dropping until it was already half gone.
[Almond]
[Health 48%]
Almond gave up on moving with the engine and simply ran.
[Running like a Mecha Leg with depleted fuel! Almond!]
When the Mecha series runs out of fuel, their jet performance effectively drops to 30% or below.
Of course, Almond hadn’t actually run out of fuel—the engine just couldn’t function properly. But the result was the same either way.
Rumble…! Screech!
Almond tried to escape while coaxing the engine to work bit by bit.
But there was no way Iseok Kim would let that happen.
“Where are you going!”
Ping…!
The Winter Blade’s ultimate technique activates.
A technique that freezes everything in a straight line by swinging the blade.
Crack crack crack crack!
Ice materialized with a sinister sound, striking past Almond.
At least he wasn’t trapped inside that iceberg or frozen solid—being grazed by it was a small mercy.
That’s right. Almond had rolled his body just barely dodging that killing blow.
[He dodged it!?]
[He’s evading even that!]
However, his escape was delayed.
Thud—
Iseok Kim caught up directly in front of Almond, cutting off his path.
‘This is my one chance.’
Almond’s eyes sharpened as he reminded himself.
‘The chill is weaker here.’
Now that he’d escaped the region saturated with that vicious cold, he could finally expel some engine thrust.
‘He doesn’t seem to know.’
But he wouldn’t reveal it yet.
When Iseok Kim let his guard down and committed to a major attack, he would counter preemptively.
Landing a counter with a body dulled by the rusted Mecha Series was no simple task.
It wasn’t about reaction time—it required prediction.
Could someone with little experience in this game predict an opponent’s attack?
Impossible.
Almond had abandoned that notion long ago.
But—
‘If I concentrate, I can do it.’
Almond decided to trust his transcendent reaction speed.
He would watch the opponent’s shoulders and waist instead of the blade.
That’s where all movement begins.
‘It’s coming.’
The sword strike was approaching.
Kiseoseu Kim’s avatar grinned widely with mouth agape, already savoring victory.
This was the moment.
[Engine Thrust 28%]
Whiiiiiiiing!
The engine roared to life with the sound of rapid spinning.
[Engine Thrust 55%]
Over 20% thrust gained in an instant.
‘More.’
To extract maximum thrust in a single motion, a simple spinning kick wouldn’t suffice.
Almond’s body spun in a complete rotation.
Whoosh!
The sword strike grazed past his back.
[He dodged it, he dodged it!?]
Combined with the sudden rotational force, my leg whips upward in a sharp arc.
‘If this is a spinning back kick…’
A spinning back kick—a devastating reversal technique.
‘The damage should be substantial.’
[Engine Thrust 84%]
Though not a full 100%, it’s the best I can manage with the momentum I’ve built up spinning in place.
Whoooosh!
My foot launches forward with the rotational force.
[Spinning back kick incoming!]
Boom!
Crimson flames erupt as the engine roars with heat, threatening to explode.
“!?”
Kiseoseu Kim’s avatar notices the engine discharge and widens his eyes, but it’s too late.
Whooom—!
The heel of the mecha leg is already striking past that ridiculous face.
[Enemy hit!]
[Almond, who’s been taking hits this whole time, suddenly lands a counter!]
[A spinning back kick counter! This is massive!?]

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