Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 573

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 43
16. The Auction (2)
The strategy of the Demian Association Fundamentalists was as follows.
“Almond has plenty of points, so he must have developed some desire to purchase things. Once he wants something, there’s no reason to hesitate.”
First, they would recommend auction items that could capture Almond’s interest, encouraging him to participate in auctions beyond just the bow.
Of course, this recommendation might not work, but Almond possessed a full ten thousand points, and since these points would be meaningless after today, their assumption was that he would definitely try to buy something.
“Since he needs to burn through his points quickly, he’ll participate immediately even if he only wants something a little. Then we start participating systematically.”
Once Almond began bidding on products other than the bow, they would systematically drive up the prices.
“If we drain at least one thousand points per item, we have a chance of winning.”
“One thousand?”
“At minimum five hundred.”
The other members grew anxious.
Almond had eleven thousand points, so it was nothing to him, but the second-place member had only 2,600 points.
Considering even that was an enormous gap, one thousand points was not money one could spend easily.
It was essentially their entire fortune, and most didn’t even have five hundred points.
“What choice do we have?”
But there was no choice.
If David were to face Goliath, he couldn’t do so without risking his life.
“Once we get the bow, I’ll hang it in the association’s display case for everyone to share. Except for those damn secularist bastards.”
“…All in.”
With unnecessarily resolute expressions, they began the auction.
“W-we got a bite.”
Starting from the second item, bids began coming in.
They hadn’t even seen a shadow of the first item, so it was practically immediate.
“Go.”
The Dehaep members began raising the price.
“Ah! A hundred-point raise all at once!? It’s now 410! Do we have 410!?”
The Blast Maniac Statue was already at 410 points. Essentially a price no one would actually want to pay.
‘At minimum five hundred. Minimum.’
But they weren’t looking at the value of the items.
They were looking at how much they could drain from Almond. Even if they couldn’t reach a thousand points, they needed to extract at least five hundred to have a chance.
“Do we have 410?”
Almond needed to call 410 for the auction to continue.
‘Please bite.’
‘He’ll bite. He’s loaded.’
If he didn’t take this bait, another Dehaep member would extend the auction by adding three more rounds of breathing room.
‘If he wanted it even once, he’ll bite.’
They believed Almond would bite at least one more time.
“410! Bidder 14! Back in the game! Then do we have 420!?”
“!”
Done.
Bidder 14—that is, Almond—raised it to 410.
“Do we have 420!?”
One of the Dehaep members raised their hand.
Snap!
“Ah! Bidder 92! Going up to 420! Do we have 430?”
Snap!
A paddle shot up from the other side.
“Ah! Bidder 14! Once more at 430! No, wait—450!?”
They’d jumped straight to 450 over there.
Grin.
Smiles crept across the Dehaep members’ faces.
Just as I thought—that thug had so much money he’d completely lost his sense of value right now.
Just desperate to have whatever he wanted.
“Bidder 92! Going up to 460!?”
Another ten-point increase.
From here on, it was better to keep this between just the two of them.
When it became a clash of pride between two bidders rather than involving others, the spectacle became far more intense.
Snap!
The response came immediately.
“Bidder 14! 470! We’re at 470!”
A single Explosion Fanatic Statue soaring to a staggering 470 points.
At this moment, all the stakeholders were smiling.
Those who wanted Reina’s bow were pleased—they were properly dispersing the competition.
The materialists hoping for Reina’s bow price to rise were pleased too, thinking, “Wow, he’s really throwing money around. The bow price must be insane too, right?”
Snap! Juhyeok’s paddle shot up again.
“500!! Bidder 14! 500 has been called!”
By the time the price had soared to 500.
“Do we have 510!?”
Only silence flowed.
Broad grins rippled across the Dehaep members’ faces.
“5! 4! 3! 2….”
Even with the countdown accelerated, there was no response. From the start, spending over 300 points on that item made no sense.
“…1! Excellent! Bidder 14! Congratulations! Explosion Fanatic Statue! Exchange voucher! Sent!”
Ding!
The auction winner appears on the screen.
The exchange voucher is immediately sent to him as his points are settled.
Unlike a regular auction where you can win first and then arrange additional funds, this is an instant payment system.
If we’d run this 9:30 PM auction like a regular one, we might have to stay up all night here.
“Well, quite a heated start from the beginning!? Now, the next item is….”

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-Hodu’s going down like a dog lololol
-Is this even right???
-Get hit first strategy lololol
“…Huh?”
I bought the Blastlight Statue for 500 points.
The viewers were busy mocking me.
Sanghyeon was also staring at the exchange voucher sent to him with an incredulous expression.
A Blastlight Terry statue spinning round and round like some outdated NFT advertisement that briefly trended a decade ago.
‘Second place has 2,600 points.’
Sanghyeon wasn’t stupid, so he could do this basic math.
Second place—meaning first place excluding Sanghyeon—held 2,600 points.
To put it plainly, the strongest in the human realm had 2,600, while Sanghyeon was basically in the divine realm.
‘500 points is… 20% of that?’
I’d just burned 20% of the strongest human realm player’s points on this Blastlight statue.
The statue wasn’t entirely without value, but I personally wasn’t particularly fond of the character. Too loud and scattered, you could say.
“Ah. This is just a taste. Something I had to give out inevitably.”
Juhyeok noticed Sanghyeon’s gaze and explained.
“R, really…?”
Why did my earlier appearance saying “as planned” keep overlapping in my mind?
-Agent Hodu deployed lololol
-Agent? What plan number is this?
-“As planned” lololol
-Do all the Nut Fans do this? lololol
-Mirror therapy lololol
“Trust me. It’s necessary.”
“Yeah….”
Juhyeok had probably just taken the hit to gauge how far they would push me—pretending to know nothing.
But there was no need to do it this way.
“Ugh….”
I groaned again while looking at the photo that appeared on my phone.
-Why do you hate it so much lololol
-Get it together, Sang-hyun Yu!
-Trust the Manager
-He just hates Blastlight lololol
-Ah so damn cute lololol
As I groaned while looking at Blastlight, Juhyeok chuckled and patted my shoulder.
“Hey. We’ve got ten thousand points. Ten thousand. Why are you like this over just 500?”
“…Okay.”
-Okay lololol
-Reluctantly okay lololol
-Just trust Hodu~!
In truth, Sanghyeon wasn’t particularly concerned with how many points remained.
Since they came so easily, I didn’t regard them as especially precious.
My unease stemmed solely from the thought of one more useless item being added to my home.
“Alright. Next one. Pay close attention now.”
Juhyeok picks up the paddle again.
“100!”
“Wow, another 100 point raise!?”
Despite raising by 100, my opponent showed no hesitation.
“Bidder 51! 110!”
My opponent follows.
Juhyeok widens the gap again.
“Another raise! Bidder 14! Very competitive! Any others? Bidder 51! Coming in!”
“Bidder 14! 210!”
“Bidder 51! 220!”
“Bidder 14! 230!”
The bidding war continued as they kept raising the price.
To someone merely listening, it might be imperceptible, but standing right beside him, I could feel a certain intense heat. There was warmth radiating from Juhyeok’s body.
Before long, the price had surpassed the 400 mark again.
“Bidder 14! 460!”
“Bidder 51! 470!”
“Bidder 14! 480!”
After calling 480, Juhyeok spoke to me.
“Look.”
The host was now searching for a bidder to call 490.
Or more precisely, he was looking toward Juhyeok.
“490! 500! Do we have 500?”
This item was no different from the Blast Maniac statue.
It wasn’t a product I particularly wanted, and its actual value could never justify 500 points.
No one but Juhyeok would bid on it.
Yet Juhyeok simply sat still without raising his paddle.
The host began the countdown.
“5, 4, 3….”
Winning an item at auction should be a good thing.
Yet Bidder 51, who had been competing relentlessly, was clearly showing signs of tension.
As the numbers decreased, his complexion grew paler.
“…1! Bidder 51! Congratulations!”
The massive screen captured nothing but a disgruntled expression.
-Lololololol
-Hahahaha
-What a complete scam lol
Juhyeok lifted the camera up to the screen.
“Look at his expression.”
Click.
Juhyeok snapped the photo with a snicker.
On his phone was a Dehaep member with a constipated look on his face.
“I was just testing where their psychological limit was back then.”
-We believed in you! Hodu!
-Kyaa!
-Forbes’ Worst Doll of All Time: The Nutcracker
-Proof shot lololol
-Who would suspect Hodu!? Who would suspect Hodu!?
That’s right. When Juhyeok kept raising the bid at first, he was deliberately checking where their psychological threshold was set.
He needed to know roughly when they’d drop out so he could pull back right before their eyes like this.
It was a strategy that fully utilized the fact that he had tens of millions in capital.
“Next time, they probably won’t back down at 500. They’ll try to lower it. Because there’s a risk.”
Since he’d fled before 500 this time, they would also try to formulate their own plan. Juhyeok calculated even that and prepared for what came next.
“Watch this too.”
Juhyeok’s face broke into a confident smile. He looked just like a New York trader pulling leverage smoothly.
His actual personality was like that too. If something needed to be done, he’d invest boldly and reap even greater profits.
The fact that he was currently managing Sanghyeon with such specs was definitely part of that judgment. What others couldn’t easily attempt or handle, Juhyeok did as naturally as breathing.
It was different from how Sanghyeon could remain composed in any situation through repeated training—it was something innate.
‘It’s fascinating, really.’
Sanghyeon had always found Juhyeok’s abilities or temperament fascinating.
It was a type he’d never encountered in his own circle.
It was probably due to their different upbringings.
‘Probably because our backgrounds are different.’
Though Sanghyeon had quite a cool personality, his childhood was shadowed by deep poverty. He was escaping that shadow now, but once a stain had seeped in, it didn’t wash away easily.
Poverty always lurked in the shadows. As if ready to consume its master again at any moment.
‘Juhyeok is different.’
It was something he’d always felt, but he felt it anew now.
Juhyeok possessed a special light. That light dwelled deep within him.
No matter how much his outer shell decayed, it never went out.
Rather, the more his exterior crumbled, the brighter that radiance became.
Sanghyeon didn’t know what this was.
He could only speculate. That it was something at the opposite end of the shadow he carried.
Though Juhyeok himself seemed to regard his own background as a shadow of a different hue.
There could be no shadow that shone like this.
‘Rich kid bastard….’
Sanghyeon chuckled softly, watching Juhyeok eagerly raise his paddle.
At the next item, Juhyeok stopped at 450 instead of 490.
The opponent seemed completely caught off guard.
“460! Does anyone have 460!? If not, it goes to Bidder 92!”
As the host began the final countdown, Bidder 92’s expression became as if he were hearing a death sentence being read.
“…2, 1! Congratulations! Bidder 92!”
Boom.
The expression displayed on the screen was perfectly ripe with frustration.
-Both of them are done for lololol
-Haha lololol
-I’m dying lololol
From that point on, Juhyeok completely dominated the flow of the auction.
No matter how many Dehaep members challenged him or what timing they tried to withdraw.
For the Dehaep members, only two outcomes existed.
Either they’d lose their nerve and back out without taking any damage, or they’d suffer significant losses and drop out.
That’s right.
Juhyeok had toyed with all of them, walking a precarious tightrope while avoiding the winning bid.
“Ah! Congratulations, Bidder 92! Another win!”
“Congratulations! No. 31! Sold!”
“Wow! You’re on a roll! No. 31 wins again!”
-Lololol this is insane
-Everyone’s ruined
-Items worth 100 million going for 400-500 million lololol
How nice is that ㅠㅠ ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Is this Aseong!? Is this Aseong!? Is this Aseong!?
-Hodu hodu hodu hodu!(machine gun firing sound)
-Haha true education lololol
-This is an auction, not a love beating~
Eventually, the Dehaep members stood up with serious expressions.
It seemed they needed a strategy meeting.

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