Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 558

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 28
11. It’s a Hit, It’s a Hit (2)
Acrid smoke obscured my vision.
Cough. Cough.
Was that my own coughing?
[Screeeeech….]
A strange noise reached my ears.
One hand covered my mouth while the other flailed through empty air.
Waving my hand wouldn’t clear the smoke enough to hear better, but I tried anyway.
[This place… screeeech… Ran… screeeech.]
I pressed forward.
The floor came into view—exposed rebar, completely shattered, with massive chunks of concrete scattered across it. Broken picture frames, glass cabinets, glass tables… and curtain walls that opened wide on all sides.
Was this an office?
Cough. Cough.
As I continued walking through the coughing haze, something appeared.
A business card that had been sitting on a table.
‘CEO Han Joong-gu’
This was an executive office.
Whatever had crashed through here had obliterated everything, making it hard to see clearly.
But mentally reconstructing the puzzle of what once was, I could piece together that this was an executive office in a high-rise building.
The furniture must have been quite expensive.
Then a voice cut through.
“There’s a living target.”
It was obviously referring to me.
The concrete dust swirling around made it impossible to see even an inch ahead. But that strange red light the thug was using was clearly visible.
If this was the executive office, he’d positioned himself around the executive office lobby.
“Capture or eliminate? Eliminate. Roger.”
Eliminate.
That was apparently an order from above.
I instinctively checked my waist.
‘One pistol.’
Since I didn’t know much about firearms, I couldn’t identify the exact type.
But I’d been given a single handgun.
Compared to the presumed enemy’s equipment, it was pathetically inadequate.
They likely had at least body armor, an assault rifle or sniper rifle, and were probably using thermal imaging too.
Meanwhile, I was just in ordinary businessman’s clothes with a single pistol.
[This is the operator… screeeech… agent….]
And the constant noise from the earpiece that had been irritating me since before.
This was all I had.
That was all the almond had.
But then—
[Shhhhk… Eliminate all witnesses immediately….]
Strangely enough, only this command came through clearly.
“So this is the first mission, huh.”
Almond muttered while hiding his body behind the executive’s luxurious desk.
He said it for the viewers to hear.
“Huh. What’s this.”
I can’t even see the chat window.
Whether it was a cinematic effect for this situation or something, the chat window wasn’t being rendered either.
-&%#&(@*(
-#$*(((**
-*#*%((@@)
‘It all looks like they’re cursing.’
Almond felt an odd sense of unease and focused on the current situation.
‘If it’s all witnesses, then that guy’s included for sure.’
There was someone who immediately knew of my existence and wanted to kill me.
I decided to kill him first.
‘But this… does it just go off if I pull the trigger?’
Almond looked at the handgun.
According to what military veterans said, something about trigger guards and stability and all that… it was complicated.
‘I did learn how to aim though.’
For Almond, it was fortunate that it was a handgun.
Pistol shooting is an Olympic sport.
Hadn’t I been forcibly dragged by a senior to learn shooting with a competition rifle?
The archery club seniors claimed he taught me to taint the club’s spirit.
But really, he just taught me for fun.
Was this the same thing?
Regardless, Almond gripped the handgun the way he’d learned back then.
I decided to try shooting with one hand.
That’s how I learned it.
‘This handgun will be different though.’
Of course, the power difference between the gun used in the Olympics and this one, designed solely for lethal force, would be night and day.
But judging by this gun’s design, it didn’t seem to rely on raw power so crudely.
It looked like the kind agents used—optimized purely for assassination.
“Entering. Entering.”
Tap-tap-tap….
Multiple footsteps echoed out, not just one.
‘There’s more than one.’
Almond considered his options.
Should I test fire this gun first, or not.
The moment I fire, my position will be exposed. But if I don’t test it, I’ll miss at a critical moment.
‘I need to know if it works or not.’
The enemies probably already know my location anyway. After organizing my thoughts, I aim at the chandelier-like lighting fixture.
Bang──!
As the gun erupts with fire, the light shatters.
The approaching enemies reflexively unleash a barrage of gunfire.
Bang! Boom!
The chandelier completely disintegrates, scattering electrical sparks everywhere with a deafening crash.
“Damn it. Stop shooting. It’s just the lighting.”
‘Oh.’
I learned quite a lot from that.
‘Their vision isn’t great either.’
First, the enemies also have difficulty securing their sight lines.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t have suddenly opened fire on the chandelier like that.
And this gun—it just fires whenever I pull the trigger.
[Crackle….]
Once I figure it all out myself, the in-ear voice finally comes through again. Now it feels almost irritating.
[This is Operator 03… crackle.]
Operator?
[Crackle… agent….]
“Ugh.”
Click.
I simply remove the in-ear and ignore it.
It’s distracting my concentration, and talking to them now won’t improve my survival odds anyway.
The enemies are already too close.
“I’m moving forward.”
I straighten my upper body that I’d been keeping hunched and step out of cover.
‘Just like I was taught.’
Whoosh.
My hand gripping the pistol extends forward, rigid and straight.
My stance aligns the pistol and my abdomen at less than thirty degrees.
Shoulders relaxed and natural.
In line with my arms.
Toward the target.
Click.
‘There.’
Through the hazy dust, I catch the movement of an enemy.
‘Breath.’
I hold my breath slightly and focus all my concentration.
A silence so profound that even my heartbeat slows.
It’s always like this.
When he releases an arrow.
Except this time, it wasn’t an arrow—just a bullet.
With no tension in any joint of my arm─
Click
─my finger gently squeezed the trigger.
A moment later.
Flames bloomed slowly from the muzzle.
The head of the rushing lead projectile revealed itself to the world like a birth.
Bang──
It was fired.
I exhaled the breath I’d been holding.
“Haah.”
As I breathed out.
──Ping!
The bullet vanished from sight in an instant, then burst the enemy’s head.
Splat!
-@&*$(@&*’0
-38#*@@&
-@(*(!!
I couldn’t tell what they were saying, but the chat accelerated rapidly. They must have been exclamations.
“Target spotted!”
The fallen man’s colleagues swiveled their gun barrels.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!!
Brilliant muzzle flashes erupted.
But it was too late.
The bullet grouping formed entirely over my shadow.
I was already hurling myself toward the next cover.
Bang!
A single gunshot rang out amid the chaos.
“!”
Splurt…!
Red blood erupted from one of the enemies’ heads.
A single shot I’d fired while diving through the air had found its mark.
“…!”
The man who appeared to be the Bandit Leader stared at his fallen subordinate for a moment, then spoke.
“The target is estimated to be agent-class.”
He made this judgment after witnessing the shooting skill.
It wasn’t the capability of an ordinary Soldier.
Click.
A faint scraping sound echoes from the cracks in the collapsed concrete wall.
“Eight o’clock.”
Whoosh!
I immediately shift direction and pull the trigger.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Three shots ring out amid the hail of gunfire.
──Clang! Clang!
One bullet ricochets off the rebar, but two of them drop instantly.
“Ugh…!”
In an instant, all my subordinates are gone.
The only combat-capable personnel remaining is the Leader.
“Haa… haa….”
I stare at the steel rebar structure directly in front of me with trembling eyes.
If it weren’t for that, I’d already be dead.
I take complete cover.
Then I correct my report.
“Correction. The target is not agent-class. The target is elite agent-class or higher. I request that the company prepare corresponding forces.”

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond, who has just been promoted to elite agent-class at lightning speed.
“This actually works better than I expected?”
I’m pleasantly surprised by how good the pistol’s accuracy is.
Haha, at least it’s better than a bow…
-Throw away the bow?! Throw away the bow?! Throw away the bow?! Throw away the bow?! Throw away the bow?! Throw away the bow?!
-Can’t you see the chat yet?
-The worst streamer on earth, Almond! The worst streamer on earth, Almond! The worst streamer on earth, Almond!
-Almond, corrupted by the fruits of civilization…
-Traitor Almond!
“Oh. I can see the chat.”
I say a word to the viewers who were spamming thinking I couldn’t see the chat.
“I can see the chat. Please stop spamming.”
-Oh…
-Really?
hahaha
Look at me, please ㅠ
“Let me take out the last thug and get out of this building. It looks like it’s about to collapse.”
I refocus on the game and steady my breathing.
I decide to try the most basic feint first.
I throw a metal storage cabinet lying nearby far away.
As it makes a loud noise, the Enemy responds.
Thwack!
“?”
I fired just a few shots in quick succession.
This wasn’t what I expected. The enemy’s attention wasn’t fully drawn.
“That’s not it….”
-lol that won’t work
-don’t you know it’s a zombie lol
-beginner tip: don’t assume the enemy’s Hodu is the same as you!
-lolol so simple
Like most games these days, the enemy’s artificial intelligence is quite sophisticated.
In that case, there’s only one method.
“I need to use this strategy.”
-?
-pretending to have another strategy again
-fact) he’s just shooting
-what strategy
-Almond’s strategy: dodge everything and hit everything
“I’m serious. Plan C2. Here we go.”
-lolol he’s serious lol
-no Plan C8?
-Almond’s a strategist~ he knows nothing~
-he’s serious I’m telling you lol
With that, I suddenly stood up and fired my gun toward where the enemy seemed to be.
Boom! Bang! Bang!
“?”
If the enemy reacted now, I was planning to immediately enter a reaction-speed battle and blow their head off.
The enemy didn’t react.
“….”
Even after watching for a while, there was nothing.
“Then….”
I picked up a glass bottle and threw it.
Crash!
The enemy still didn’t react.
I took cover and gradually closed the distance.
Shortly after, I saw the enemy’s corpse and realized.
“Ah. They were just already dead.”
They’d already been dead from my first volley.
I’d shot at the spot thinking “they should be around here,” and they actually were.
-shadow boxing lolololol
-lmao lololol
-Is C2 shadow boxing or something?
-Plan C2 is terrifying… deceiving even the only ally (himself)…
-Switch to Plan C8. It’ll come out naturally.
“Everything worked out in the end. I’m leaving.”
He walked leisurely toward the emergency stairwell.
-Operation codename ‘Everything Worked Out in the End’ was great~ Agent~
-Lmaooooo
-What even is this lol
-Can you really earn challenge points like this? I genuinely have no idea.

* * *
Meanwhile, a few employees watching this challenge.
“Wow, he’s clearing it on the first try?”
There were few challengers who escaped this first space, the executive office, in one go.
Since this challenge allowed multiple attempts anyway, setting it at this difficulty level made sense.
“But if he gets an elite agent rating, the enemies coming next won’t be a joke.”
“Almond is so good at games that he might… receive an elite agent rating.”
Almond had already received an elite agent rating.
This meant the enemy reinforcements would come at a corresponding difficulty level.
As the difficulty increased, so did the challenge points.
“The problem is he gets three times the challenge points.”
“Ah… haha… is that so?”
Challenge point limit exceeded.
It was a situation no one had been worried about.
Now everyone had expressions that said ‘surely not…’
“Ahem. Still, if he’s an elite agent, can he escape this building? If he dies inside the building, exceeding the limit is impossible. Even if he retries, already cleared sections don’t give points.”
“Well… that’s right.”
Retries were free, but sections already cleared once didn’t award points. You had to progress further to earn them.
But once recognized as an elite agent, he’d face that difficulty level continuously, making clearing even harder.
That was their point.
But then….
“Huh?”
“…Eh?”
Almond was descending through the building steadily.
[Bang!]
[Bang!]
Each time gunfire rang out on the screen, enemies fell.
They must have been enemies dispatched to face an elite agent.
Yet they fell as if facing normal difficulty.
“….”
No one said it aloud, but we were all thinking the same thing.
‘Is he really going to clear it in one attempt?’

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