Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 543

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 13
5. A Matter of Necessity (2)
On the first day of sword instruction, Bread demonstrated something to me.
“Watch carefully. This is Lichtenauer swordsmanship.”
Whoosh!
Bringing the blade upward above the head—once.
The sword fixed at the upper position near the head.
From that stance, we advance.
“There are three fundamental sword positions.”
Whoosh! Whish!
With each step, the body naturally rotates, and the blade sweeps left and right twice more.
Three strikes executed in rapid succession.
“The deployment of these three positions is both the attack and defense—the most basic technique of Lichtenauer swordsmanship.”
A sword style where attack and defense occur simultaneously through simple stance transitions.
This is the true swordsmanship of Lichtenauer, who earned the title of actual Sword Master.
Of course, this applies only to long-bladed swords like longswords that extend on both sides.
“If Joseon civilization had been able to use longswords with double edges, I would have insisted they use Lichtenauer swordsmanship.”
Shlick.
She was already holding a hwandao.
“But we use single-edged blades. We also call it the ‘do.'”
She assumes a completely different stance than before.
If Lichtenauer was like a war chariot sweeping and defending against everything from all directions while advancing forward—
This was like a starving beast staking everything on a hunt.
“If Lichtenauer-style swordsmanship continuously creates gaps in Western plate armor by calculating toward the next strike…”
Skreeeee…!
Bread presses her front foot firmly while moving the blade.
“This style stakes everything on a single opening.”
Was it just my imagination?
Or does our DNA truly remember such things?
“The 9th of the 33 native sword forms. The Fierce Tiger Silver Forest Stance.”
Lichtenauer was certainly far more efficient and safer swordsmanship.
──Shhhhaaaack!
Moving with the fluid grace and sharpness of a hunting leopard.
I found it even more magnificent than Lichtenauer.
“Now. Try to follow along.”

* * *
──A bloodcurdling scream!
Almond’s blade flashed once.
“Hahahaha! You didn’t know the system worked like this, did you?! You’re all finished….”
A crimson line was drawn across the arrogant Kkakddugi’s neck.
“Uh. Brother. I’m still standing?”
-???
That’s crazy lolololol
-What?
I’m standing here, you know.
Seeing that sight, Balloon Gum lost his words and stumbled backward.
“That guy… he doesn’t seem like he’ll be able to stand?”
At his words─
Pssshhhhh!!
A fountain of blood erupted from the cross-section of Kkakddugi’s neck.
──Thud!
His head fell to the ground.
Even as he rolled across the floor, he was still laughing.
“…Huh? Hahahaha!?”
It wasn’t that he was alive—it was a kind of bug caused by the ping difference.
[Ah…! He’s laughing! Kkakddugi!]
[Is this… really dead?]
Wow, that’s hilarious!
“You didn’t know it was this kind of system, right?” → “I didn’t know either lol”
Haha you’re laughing so hard it’s killing me lol
“Haha….”
Like a speaker that had reached the end of its life, the sound withered and died.
The other special Zombies who witnessed that sight.
Kolttugi and Mettugi.
“Th-this is… what….”
“Insane.”
They retreated backward in a manner unbefitting Zombies.
[Why are the Zombies backing away?]
[Is this playing in reverse??]
Reverse playback lololol
Forcibly injecting intelligence into zombies lol
“It’s so funny how the zombie is running away backwards lol”
Zombies feeling fear.
The 3rd Class Students who had panicked at the appearance of the special Zombies began to recover from their abnormal states.
“…What is this. Are they trying to run away?”
“Could it be that we’re actually just cowards?
The Class 3 students, their courage restored, launched their counterattack.
“Those pathetic bastards are running! Kill the rest!!”
“Waaaaaaah!”
Class 3 began mercilessly striking down zombies with desk tops and golf clubs they’d obtained from the infirmary.
Whoosh!
Crack!
The ordinary zombies, lacking the intelligence to flee in panic, began to be annihilated.
“I’ll handle those guys.”
Almond muttered words that sounded like a death sentence to the zombies as he stepped forward.
“Shit, h-he’s coming….”
Kolttugi and Mettugi froze with tense expressions on their faces.
-Isn’t the situation flipped now lol
-Why are they scared lol
-The zombie duo is hilarious lolololol
So-called Challenger hunters and so-called special zombies.
“Hey, hey. Use a skill. Use a skill!”
“What am I supposed to use!?”
“That thing! That thing! You’ve got ranged attacks!”
They attacked desperately, unable to do anything else.
“Ugh… Raaaaah!”
Shwiiing!
The zombie extended its tongue long to snatch up a survivor.
[Catcher]
It was a Catcher.
Its tongue whipped through the air with tremendous force before shooting straight toward Almond.
The speed exceeded the sound barrier, creating a sonic boom.
Crack!
In normal circumstances, it would be too fast to respond to.
But my opponent was no ordinary person.
‘There it is.’
The faster the speed, the easier it was for me to cut—it was like the attack was delivering itself into my blade.
──Slash!
Simply placing my sword in its path was enough to shave the tongue clean off.
[Waaaaaaah!?]
[Y-you cut it!?]
[The difficulty of cutting a flying whip!]
“Gaaaah…! Screech! Kyaaaak!”
“Hey. Hey. What’s wrong?”
“Blurgh! Brrrrgh screech screech!”
The Catcher, his tongue severed, seemed to lose control of his body entirely, unable to regain his senses.
Haha, damn it
I’m dying laughing hahahaha so funny hahahaha
Hahaha, that’s so funny!
[Why is the Catcher like that?]
[Special Zombies fall into these abnormal states under specific circumstances. It’s a kind of weakness, you see?]
[Ah. It’s a weakness they created so Players wouldn’t find them too difficult to handle…! Unfortunately for them, the opponent is Almond!]
[Almond is closing in!]
“This… damn it….”
The other special zombie beside him realized he had to do something.
[Shaker]
He was a Shaker that ran on all fours, tearing across the battlefield.
A particularly annoying special zombie capable of freely running on all fours across ceilings and walls without restriction.
[Shaker. Charging in!]
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
Sure enough, he charged forward, leaping between walls and ceiling.
[But no matter how much chaos he causes, he’s still heading straight for Almond, isn’t he?!]
But no matter how much he tries to disrupt, when the destination is so obvious, countering becomes easy.
Boom!
The Shaker kicked off one wall with tremendous force, launching himself forward.
[Almond! Swinging the sword!]
A blade that had even severed a tongue moving at supersonic speed—there was no way he couldn’t respond to this.
Almond’s eyes flashed once.
‘Precisely.’
A concise and intense sword strike.
Shhhhwaaaaaack──!!
The Shaker’s body is ground to pieces.
“!”
The Shaker’s body, having passed through Almond, fell to the ground.
Thud!
He was split perfectly in half, left and right.
The Caster shouted at the top of his lungs.
[Zombies emergency broadcast!]
Why are the zombies in an emergency? lol
-Almond apocalypse
“A”pocalypse lololol
[A, a zombie was cut vertically! It’s not even sashimi!]
[And with bones intact! It became zombie sashimi?!]
Zombie sashimi lol that’s crazy
-Kyaa~ appetite killer
-Gag
[The Catcher just watched his friend transform into a zombie right before his eyes!?]
[Even for a zombie, this causes PTSD!?]
[Ah… In the end!]
The Catcher stood frozen in shock before Almond, who had closed the distance rapidly, cut him down.
[The Catcher falls!]
With this, Class 1’s revenge bloodbath ended as a test run for Almond’s new weapon.
[Wait a moment? Does this mean only Class 3 is left alive in the main building?]
[Yes. Now all that’s left is to go up! Class 3!]
With this, Class 3 was the only group left alive in the entire main building.

* * *
“Huff, huff…! These crazy bastards!”
Balloon Gum kicked the head of the fallen Charger for no particular reason.
“Gave me quite a scare. Nothing special about these guys.”
-???
-Info) If Balloon Gum had drawn his blade, everyone would’ve been wiped out here
The male character from Hanam only shows up after the fight is completely over and mutters a word or two ㅋㅋ
-Zombie: ???
“Are they all dead now? By the way, who were those guys earlier? They seemed to have a grudge against you.”
Taco asks while finishing off the remaining zombies.
“Ah… Just, you know, a fleeting connection.”
Haha.
Almond laughs it off.
-Info) Almond can’t remember their names right now.
I don’t know the other person’s nickname lol
-It wasn’t a connection, it was blades that grazed past??
Taco moves on as if used to this and asks again.
“Right. Can’t remember the name. But it seems like when Players become zombies, they become special zombies, right?”
“Yes.”
Class 1’s Players deliberately transformed into special zombies and rushed at Almond for revenge.
If special zombies could have purpose and hunt down Players, the next time could be dangerous.
“We need to be careful.”
Taco nods and gives the next order.
“Let’s farm everything here. Strip all the leather from the sofas and have Suhyeon take it.”
Leather was surprisingly an important resource. It had good wearability and excellent durability.
“Got it. You kids with kitchen knives. Come here!”
Following the Class Representative’s instructions, the children gathered and began stripping the sofa leather.
Skreeeee.
Skreee.
“Mond. Brother. Wait a moment.”
Taco suggested that the Players gather discreetly among themselves.
“Why?”
“Right now. We’re over 25 of us.”
I knew this topic would come up.
“…Ah.”
“It’s 30 slots. We need to cut five people.”
“…Can’t we just go to the rooftop and decide there?”
“We can’t. Look at this.”
Taco showed me the disaster alert message that had been sent again.
[…Warning. Rescue operations cannot proceed without confirming the helicopter rescue personnel.]
Everything above was identical, but only the bottom part had changed.
“It looks like we need to thin ourselves out before going.”
“…Sigh. This game is really brutal, huh?”
Balloon Gum lamented.
“I guess I should have trolled harder.”
I can’t translate this as it’s not coherent Korean text. It appears to be random characters and keyboard mashing rather than actual words or sentences.
The bubble gum messed up lol
Almond trolls lol are you buying all of these?
“Are we deciding now?”
Taco shook his head.
“We can’t decide this early and demoralize everyone. Anyway, once we encounter Zombies, about five people might naturally be eliminated….”
To receive helicopter rescue, we’d have to go through the 3rd and 4th floors, up to the 5th floor, and even the rooftop above that.
Without deliberately filtering anyone out, there was a high probability that five would die easily.
But then why did he call us over?
“…This is just speculation, but I think there’s a way to rescue additional personnel.”
He believed there was a route to save more than 25 people.
“Huh? That’s possible?”
“Don’t you remember back then, brother? We could only get rescued if we had an Immune Player.”
That’s right. Immune Players.
In early access and solo mode, the shelter would only accept us if we brought an Immune Player.
One Immune Player per ten people… that’s how it worked.
But in this multi-mode, the concept of Immune Players hasn’t appeared yet.
“Oh….”
It made sense.
“Right. Honestly, the game probably wouldn’t stress players by forcing them to abandon NPCs they’ve been following. Since it’s a game.”
There was a high likelihood that Immune Players existed.
“But it’s all just suspicion.”
There was no concrete evidence. It was just a plausible hypothesis.
Taco then explained the reason he’d started thinking about this in the first place.
“Something is showing up on my map right now. There’s something on the 5th floor.”
“!”
“What else could it be? In a situation like this.”
If that were the case, it certainly had persuasive power.

* * *
Is it human nature to climb whenever there’s a mountain?
Even in this world overrun with zombies, a group of students scales the wall.
They’re climbing along the gas pipes installed on the main building.
“Hey. Jessi. Are we doing this right? I don’t think we can make it.”
A male student climbing the valve grunts with effort.
“Oh. Want me to let you back down? Want to experience 9.8㎨(*gravitational acceleration)?”
The red-haired female student at the very front threatens with a retort.
In this game where appearance automatically adjusted to seventeen or eighteen years old, red hair was an extremely rare type.
That’s because they were a foreign team.
“Damn it… I should’ve just stayed at the Civil EM booth.”
They were members of Denmark’s team competing in the Civil EM international tournament.
“You said it was fun a moment ago? We just need to reach the second floor. Bear with it a little.”
“Winning is fun. Not climbing walls.”
“We’re going to win~”
Another foreigner following from behind grumbles.
“There was a person named Ma Su in China. He climbed a mountain wrong once and got his head cut off by his superior. They made it into a saying—’Yip Cham Ma Su.'”
“Is that your story?”
“….”
She, who had been climbing smoothly, suddenly stopped.
Smack!
As a result, her foot struck the face of the man following right behind her.
“Ugh! What, what are you doing?”
“Damn it. Jessi’s trying to pull an ‘Yip Cham Ma Su’ on us. Idiot. Why’d you say something like that?”
“No. That means──”
“Shh! Shut up!”
Jessi kicked a few more times and silenced them.
With only her head peeking out, she was staring at the second-floor window.
“There’s someone inside.”

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[Beginner’s Tip: Nietzsche once said. One must be careful not to become a monster oneself when fighting monsters.]

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