Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 540

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 10
4. Surrender (1)
Kim Mango was flustered.
He hadn’t anticipated that something like this would happen.
“Hey. Mango! Are these guys really NPCs?? What the hell is this rebellion?!”
“…I don’t know.”
If he had known that a Player was mixed among the 3rd Class Students they’d captured as prisoners, he might have predicted a situation like this.
But they didn’t know, and the situation had already unfolded.
“Ugh! Die! You bastards! Hey Kim Mango! These aren’t NPCs?!”
“I don’t know. I’m thinking.”
Since they had never encountered a Player before, they couldn’t even entertain the assumption that one existed.
Thanks to that, they had grown smoothly without any real crises.
But now, that very fact had become their fatal flaw.
‘Is it that person?’
Balloon Gum and Kim Mango’s eyes met.
“Are you a Player?”
“Yeah.”
Balloon Gum responded as if to say, so what?
“How… did the kids become this aggressive?”
“You’ve been tormenting us like that. The justification is clear, right? I just kept encouraging them that they’d eventually rebel someday.”
“Ha… I see.”
External enemies strengthen internal solidarity.
It was a fundamental flaw of rule through fear.
No matter how much you demoralize them in the short term, their unity only grows stronger.
And when an opportunity comes in that state, raising morale becomes far too easy.
‘I should have stopped Jinhyeok Kim.’
If they had treated the 3rd Class NPCs reasonably well, a rebellion wouldn’t have occurred with such unity.
Even if there had been only three or four collaborators wanting to join Class 5….
“The game is well-designed. But you miscalculated from the start.”
“What?”
“Doing this can damage us. But you can’t win. And if you rebel and fail to win….”
As if Kim Mango’s words were a signal, Class 5 rushed forward, swinging desk leg clubs.
“You die.”
Crash…!
Balloon Gum blocked with a desk top.
“Ugh!?”
Thud!
He was pushed back and fell over.
“You’ve got at most twenty people surrounding us from both sides. We have over thirty. Plus, the equipment gap is too big.”
Pow!
Clang…!
I survey the bloody battles erupting across the classroom.
Class 5, which had seemed at a disadvantage initially, gradually pushes back the rebels(?).
“What kind of world is this! You pathetic loser!”
“Gaaahhh…!”
Jihun Oh, who had been at the vanguard, gets knocked down.
The NPCs from Almond’s team, who had started from the staircase, faced an even worse situation.
The equipment disparity was far too great.
Their attacks were pathetically blocked by armor made from textbooks, and they had no means to defend against the enemies’ attacks.
Above all, they were utterly exhausted.
“We couldn’t even assess our full strength before attempting something this massive.”
His words were accurate.
It was like they had charged in without even doing basic calculations.
Class 3 was completely on the ground, and everyone still standing belonged to Class 5.
“Anyway, it was a good attempt.”
Kim Mango smiled mockingly.
His clothes were crisp and unwrinkled.
He had never once been caught up in combat.
Class 3 had never even properly breached Class 5’s formation.
“Ah. It hurts. Damn it. You Class 3 bastards. Just kill them all!”
“Ugh….”
Only those on the outer edges had taken any real hits.
Kim Mango looked around at Class 3 and asked.
“So, shall we decide? Will you all transfer to our class? Or….”
“Transfer?! Kill them! Should we keep raising a dog that bites its master?!”
His thumb points at Jinhyeok Kim.
“As this friend says, will you accept the consequences for what you’ve done here?”
A brief, heavy silence falls.
“…Ah. I’m dizzy.”
Then, Balloon Gum stretches his head side to side and stands back up.
“Hey! You! Who said that?!”
“What are you suddenly saying?”
“Who said I couldn’t assess my full strength?!”
“What have you been listening to this whole time? Are you perhaps the type who broadcasts with a stupid character concept?”
-Correct!
Lol, that’s hilarious/creepy.
Lol, Kim Mango is totally likeable.
“Hey, is headcount your full strength?! Is wrapping yourself in some textbooks your full strength?”
“So?”
What? You don’t consider headcount in a fight? You don’t consider items?
What kind of recklessness is this?
“Then what’s our full strength?”
Snap!
Balloon Gum pointed confidently at something and shouted.
It was toward the basement stairs.
“That’s it.”
Someone was coming up from the basement stairs.
The area in front of the window was bright, but the basement stairs were pitch black without a single light, so I could barely make out the figure.
“Hey! Mond! What are you doing waking up now! I had a pleasant rebellion because of you, but it’s not pleasant at all!”
-Interpretation) Why won’t you give me a ride on the bus!
-The unpleasantness is your own physical condition lol
-But where is Almond? Come on, seriously?
“…Mond?”
Kim Mango turned around.
He was holding something like a long hammer. An oh-hammer.
Thud…!
From the sound of it hitting the ground, I could feel its tremendous weight.
[The one who appeared is Almond!]
[Almond wasn’t participating in the battle? I wondered why!]
[Wow! Player entrance! This is a real selected player entrance!?]
-Kyaa!
-Brutal resurrection!
-Selected entrance lol lol lol
-He came to end this war.
-(Archery) Player entrance lol lol
Kim Mango’s eyes twitched.
Crunch. Crunch.
What was he eating?
‘What are you eating?’
Based on its shape and size, it looked like a chocolate bar.
Whoosh.
My opponent tossed the last remaining piece of chocolate bar into his mouth, and only then did he speak.
“I was so hungry I was nearly passing out.”
-Daehyeok had thrown it backward and it rolled away
-How did you not pass out while taking a dump, hyung-nim.
-But where did the chocolate bar even come from??
It was the chocolate bar that brought Almond back to consciousness.
When he had rolled all the way to the basement fire door.
Someone threw this chocolate bar through the door’s mail slot. Along with a vitamin drink, no less.
A combination of a chocolate bar packed with sugar and salt, and a vitamin drink.
Of course, my recovery was instantaneous.
[Status Alleviation]
[Exhaustion → Fatigue]
[Starvation → Hunger]
[Self-Regeneration Activated]
[Dizziness → Clarity]
Like a soldier temporarily administered a psychoactive substance.
Every bodily function felt like it was operating properly again.
Whoosh.
Almond tossed the chocolate bar wrapper to the ground, then gripped his hammer once more.
Gulp.
The sound of dry swallows echoed from multiple places.
‘Damn, a chocolate bar…’
‘What is that? Almond’s chocolate bar?’
‘Snickers? Where did that come from?’
Not a single person here wasn’t hungry.
Right. The chocolate bar was definitely enviable.
Even Kim Mango, a Player, licked his lips.
‘But…’
He glanced back at the 3rd Class Students.
Their eyes had come alive again.
‘Just because one person showed up. Why is the atmosphere changing like this?’
Even if morale had risen, the numbers were still overwhelmingly against them.
With half of Class 3 lying on the ground, the situation was far worse than when the initial rebellion started.
Yet Balloon Gum spouted such nonsense.
“Jinhyeok Kim! Sangho Lee! Jiyeon Park! Mond! Listen up! Jinhyeok Kim! Sangho Lee! Jiyeon Park!”
Was he really calling out a death list in the middle of all this?
“These bastards won’t get away cleanly!”
“?”
-Is he crazy lolololol
-So Almond does the actual work while he just memorizes names lolol
-???: What nonsense are you spouting, hyung…
-Lmaooo I love this lol
Why was he so certain of victory?
Kim Mango found it incomprehensible.
It was even unpleasant. How much was he underestimating them?
That’s when it happened.
“Hey. Mango. Doesn’t that guy look like Almond?”
Another Player whispered to Kim Mango.
“Huh?”
“That’s right. The name ‘Mond’ itself, and the way he looks—unnecessarily handsome, with a completely different art style from everyone else…”
“Ah… Almond?”
“Yeah. You don’t know him?”
“I know the name.”
Almond.
A streamer whose stock price had been soaring recently.
Kim Mango, working in the same industry, couldn’t possibly be unfamiliar with him.
“There is a resemblance.”
Now that I think about it, there did seem to be something similar.
But at least Kim Mango hadn’t seen Almond in the challenge queue.
“Almond wasn’t on the list—”
——CRASH!
Without any warning, a Class 5 student suddenly flew down the corridor into the distance.
“Oh… so this is the level.”
It was merely from being struck by Almond’s hammer, which he’d swung as a ‘test.’
I couldn’t even tell when he’d entered combat stance.
In an instant, one of their forces was eliminated.
“…It must be him. Almond.”
“Damn it.”
WAAAAAAAA!
The moment Kim Mango’s team’s expressions twisted, all of Class 3 roared again and rushed forward.
“What, what is this! Why is everyone scared! Damn it, he’s just one person!”
Jinhyeok Kim shouted in disbelief.
WHOOOOSH!
Soon after, he and his friends were laid out in the corridor, forced to understand the situation.
[Wow! Three people fly away with just one swing!?]
[My goodness!!!]
-3 people at once lolol
-Wow lol
-That’s a bug fr
Kim Mango shouted urgently.
“The hammer has slow attack speed! Surround him and pressure him!”
It was certainly textbook strategy.
But if such a simple tactic worked, would Almond have his current reputation?
[Class 5! Defensive pressure!]
[But Almond…! Breaking through with a dribble!]
Whoosh.
The desk legs being swung somehow all just cut through empty air.
Almond didn’t bother swinging his hammer; he simply beat down those who got too close with his bare hands.
CRACK!
The sound of his fist connecting with a jaw shatters through the air, and his foot instantly sweeps toward the next student’s solar plexus.
Thwack!
“Ugh…!”
Class 5 students fly backward, spitting saliva.
“D… Don’t push!”
“Ah, I’m not going!”
Then, to the students stumbling backward from the impact, I swing the hammer once more, gifting them a comfortable rest.
──Crash!
Class 5 flies away again.
[Almond! How many is this now!?]
[Eight students from Class 5 are already down!]
[Is Class 5 just going to take this? The combat class needs to step in!]
[It looks like they’re going out now!]
“Ah, no. Damn… I’ll go!”
Class 5’s combat specialist.
Aeple Park tied up her long hair and rushed forward.
The way she wielded the mop handle with nimble movements was clearly on a different level from the other students.
A motion that seemed to transcend dimensions.
Whoosh─
[Ah…!]
[This, this is dangerous─]
──Thwack!
She rolled into the bathroom interior from the counter strike of my hammer.
Transcending dimensions wasn’t enough.
[This is insane!]
[Even a combat class player can’t match up!?]
[A perfect counter! Like a professional fighting game player!]
Kim Mango mutters in disbelief.
“…Every strike lands precisely on the vital point, with maximum force. Minimum spacing.”
That thing swinging the hammer in front of me isn’t human. It’s a machine.
A machine created solely for combat.
Meanwhile, this place had become a factory.
Class 5 students were rushing forward as if placed on a conveyor belt.
And that cold-hearted machine processed them one by one, as if assembling simple products.
Crash!
Crash!
[Almond! Aamond!! Knocking them down again!]
[Again! Almond! Keep going! Never stopping! Throwing them back again!]
[Dodge and counter!]
[Thwaaaaaack!!!]
Crash!
Class 5, already depleted in numbers, tumbled across the floor once more.
‘Ah…’
I could sense defeat creeping in.
And with it came psychological damage as well.
“Wahahahaha! Did you see!? This is what a delightful rebellion looks like! Huh? Did you see, Jihun Oh!?”
From behind, Balloon Gum thrust out his belly and laughed boisterously.
‘He’s quite pleased with himself.’
And rightfully so.
In an instant, all of Class 5 lay on the ground, with only Kim Mango still standing.
“I surrender.”
Kim Mango raised his hand, conceding defeat.
-Wow, that’s crazy
-They actually won
-This isn’t even fun anymore lol
-Did you see? Balloon Gum landed that mental damage at the end and made them surrender?
-Lol Balloon Gum makes this game so entertaining
-Honestly, we owe him beef now.

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[Beginner’s Tip: The more trials you endure in Zombie School, the stronger you become. Provided you survive, of course.]

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