Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 87

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 87
31. Almond Trained (1)
“I’ll reach Diamond within two weeks.”
It had been one week since that fateful statement was made.
Today was that day.
Posts like this began appearing in the community today.
[Yo, this bastard Almond was totally full of shit about reaching Diamond in two weeks]
When you clicked on them, they mostly looked like this.
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He’s gonna make it in one week lol
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Hahahaha lol
-Almond you bastard! You tricked us!
-Fucking shit
lol
Haha, he really lied. That bastard.
-He deserves to get called out. Almond.
Quite favorable reactions toward Sanghyeon.
The other posts seemed to share similar sentiment.
[Who’s the guy who got to Diamond’s doorstep in just one week~!]
[This is actually possible]
[Was the game already over the moment he got Plat 3 from placements….]
[I believed in Almond from the start!!! Should’ve even bet money on this!]
[Who~! The idiots who shorted Almond and are now getting wrecked~~~!]
Of course, there weren’t only favorable opinions. As always.
Yo lol, does Dia’s journey get super hard from here on out?
“lol Play 2 and 3 are easy mode, but 1 onwards is seriously brutal. And these clueless guys lol”
[From here on, even a week minimum wouldn’t be strange]
“Why are you acting like you’ve already reached Diamond when you’ll just get rolled back anyway if you lose, you nut jobs.”
I’m planning to go to ‘That Nutty’ Place 3 tomorrow lol
These were mostly fans of Jeon-ja-pa, those jealous of Almond, or simply people dissatisfied with the world.
Regardless of public opinion, one thing was certain.
Almond’s journey to Diamond was receiving intense attention.
After all, dozens of posts tagged with Almond were being uploaded to the community.
“Wow….”
Upon waking and checking the community situation, I let out a soft exclamation.
Because of the countless posts mentioning me.
‘It’s only 7 AM.’
Wondering if I was seeing things in my drowsy state, I brushed my forehead briefly and shook off the remaining sleep.
My blurred vision returned to normal.
[It wouldn’t be strange to spend at least a week here]
[They’re acting like they’ve already reached Diamond when they’ll just get rolled back anyway, these nut fanatics lol]
[Tomorrow ‘that nut guy’ is going to Plat 3 lmaooo]
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.
.
It wasn’t an illusion after all.
People’s interest was blazing hot.
Insanely hot.
‘Was the content really that good?’
That couldn’t be it. I shook my head.
Even though I’d grandly called it a journey toward Diamond, it was really no different from any ordinary broadcast.
Who wouldn’t aim for Diamond?
It would just be a series of typical gaming broadcasts where people play to win.
So why could the interest be this intense?
‘Ah, it’s because of this.’
There was a hint in one of the posts.
[Did you see the Almond Disassembly Analyzer edited version today? lol I personally think the live stream was better]
When I checked the Fantasia Channel on Oltube, new videos had been uploaded.
[Almond Disassembly Analyzer EP.1 – Yes! It’s Almond!]
[Almond Disassembly Analyzer EP.2 – Records? What’s that?]
Edited videos wielded an influence incomparable to live streams, and first of all, the view counts were on a completely different scale.
[View Count: 241,000]
A whopping 240,000 views.
It was such tremendous firepower that it was hard to believe the video had been uploaded just this morning.
This was probably why mentions of Almond had increased noticeably in the communities since morning.
Almond had been introduced to the Fantasia Channel’s 6 million subscribers.
-Wow. I didn’t know about Almond, but he’s seriously no joke
-Almond? He was the best archer I’ve ever seen….
I got beaten up…
-Hayeon is so cute~
Wow, he’s so handsome ㅠㅠ
I saw Almond for the first time and he’s really handsome. But the interview was way too short ㅠ
I came back to watch the archery footage because the edited version looked so cool.
└2222 Whoa me too
└333 Lmaooo me neither
Among Fantasia’s subscribers, there were still many people seeing Almond for the first time.
Actually, most of them were.
Almond was still just a streamer liked by “gaming-loving people in their 20s,” and Fantasia’s subscribers ranged from their teens to their 50s.
In other words, to them, Almond was a new face.
It was a fresh shock.
[I discovered Almond today after watching Fantasia lol]
[First time seeing Almond on Fantasia, but the videos were fun lol he’s more famous than I thought?]
Oh. I’m so happy there are so many almond ducks now ㅠㅠ
[So now he doesn’t have to promote himself anymore lol]
Thanks to this, posts expressing new interest in Almond began to multiply across various communities.
[Is Almond really challenging Jeon-ja-pa’s record again?]
[He’s going for Diamond in 2 weeks?]
[He made it in 1 week. Almond lol]
The timing was uncanny.
Just as Almond was receiving massive attention from his record battle with Jeon-ja-pa, I was undertaking quite an important challenge in my career.
So naturally, all the attention flowed toward my ranking.
The sudden surge of interest was certainly a burden.
‘Without this much pressure, it wouldn’t be fun.’
I remained unfazed by such pressure.
I already knew that the greater the burden, the greater the cheers that come in return.
Isn’t it thrilling to imagine?
Think about how all the doubt, suspicion, jealousy, and envy will eventually transform into awe and cheers.
A thrill runs through my entire body.
This exhilaration was why I loved sports.
Sports only offered such opportunities once or twice a year, but since starting streaming, I could feel it every time.
‘Am I made for broadcasting?’
I seriously wondered if I was suited for broadcasting rather than sports.
‘Am I an attention seeker?’
I probably was.
Truly, ‘attention’ is a drug.
That drug woke my body naturally this morning.
Still 8 AM. A time when I should normally be drowsy after just waking up. Yet fresh blood coursed through every corner of my body.
My mind was sharp from the moment I woke.
I walked straight toward somewhere.
The Capsule.
“Huh…? Hey. Right now?”
Juhyeok, who had woken earlier, asked in surprise, but I didn’t answer.
I couldn’t see or hear anything else.
I walked toward the Capsule as if possessed.
‘Today I’m going to Diamond.’
The moment I made this resolve, the cheers of an imaginary crowd echoed in my ears like an auditory hallucination.
Hisssss—
The Capsule lid opened, and I squeezed my body inside with practiced movements.
[Training Tutorial]
[Virtual Free Training]
What ran instead of the broadcast was a training tutorial.
The stream would turn on at 3 PM as usual.
‘I have enough time.’
It was currently 8 AM.
About five hours remained until lunch.
That was quite a substantial window.
I intended to use every moment of it to hone my senses to peak condition for today’s game.
The doctor’s words about not being able to play games for extended periods flickered through my mind.
Because of that doctor’s warning, I had set aside practice to focus on streaming longer sessions.
But──
‘Today is….’
Today was different.
I could feel it.
Today my body felt like it could run in the capsule all day long.
Even if I kept the earlier training light, I was confident I could handle the schedule afterward.
The driving force was probably the countless spectators.
Especially the newly arrived ones.
Those just discovering Almond, curious about my abilities.
If I pull this off, how will they cheer for me?
That imagined moment sent my engine roaring.
Thump. Thump.
With my heart pounding, I began the training.

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[Connecting to Ollytube.]
Virtual free training could be conducted in conjunction with other applications.
The most frequently used was an expansion program called ‘Weapon Master’ that provided weapon samples, followed by Ollytube.
I planned to watch someone’s video and imitate it.
[Archery Techniques Used in Real Warfare]
An old video with such a title began playing.
It was that video I had seen long ago and fallen in love with.
If I had previously played by adding variations to standard archery techniques, now I intended to seriously master this form of archery.
‘There are limits to sport archery techniques.’
I felt it clearly.
Warfare required archery suited to warfare.
Though the posture and form I had learned from archery over many years would gradually change, as long as I drew the bow, it didn’t matter. Whether it was warfare archery or sport archery.
What mattered was choosing what suited the situation and shooting it—I didn’t attach meaning to the posture itself.
Whoosh! Thwack!
The man in the video leaps over a stone wall and embeds arrows in rapid succession.
I carefully adjusted my hand position one detail at a time to match his technique.
The details were certainly quite different from sport archery.
Rather than accuracy precise enough to intercept a lens, the strategy was to quickly and swiftly aim near the enemy’s vital points.
Once an arrow lodges in, they can’t move properly anyway.
Whoosh! Thwack!
I too leaped over an imaginary wall and fired my bow following his example.
All four arrows fly away within the airtime.
The rate of fire is overwhelmingly better than before.
However, my expression darkens as I check the target.
Each arrow is embedded a hand’s breadth off-center.
Only one arrow hit the dead center properly. The rest lodged nearby.
To call it a loss of accuracy when the difference is merely a hand’s breadth seems harsh.
This is a level one must sacrifice for rapid-fire shooting.
But I didn’t want to easily abandon accuracy. Though it’s partly occupational habit.
Unlike reality, in Battle Rage, arrows are meaningless if they don’t precisely strike the head or other vital points.
So I cannot afford to sacrifice accuracy.
How can I make rapid-fire easier while also maintaining high accuracy?
I pondered for a moment.
‘What if I did it this way….’
I intuitively adjusted the grip technique of the man in the video slightly.
I combined sport archery with warfare archery.
Combining things at opposite extremes doesn’t naturally bring out both advantages.
Coffee that was both hot and cold couldn’t exist.
“Huh.”
Sanghyeon took a deep breath for a moment.
Then he leaped toward the imaginary wall.
His body soared upward, and his now well-practiced rapid-fire technique manifested.
Whisp! Whish! Ping!
The resonance transmitted through the bowstring carried a subtly different sensation.
“!”
After landing, Sanghyeon checked the target and let out a satisfied smirk.
“Nice.”
Whether heat and cold could coexist was another matter, but speed and accuracy clearly could.
“Next is the curve shot, then.”
Satisfied, he wasted no time and immediately started the next video.

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After training ended.
Hisssss──
The capsule lid opened.
“Hey. You can’t push yourself this hard already.”
Juhyeok’s expression turned puzzled as he watched the sweat-drenched Sanghyeon.
Sanghyeon checked his watch. It was 1 PM. He’d been training since morning without even eating breakfast.
“Let’s grab some food.”
He first went to the bathroom for a shower, then devoured his meal voraciously.
“Wow. You’re really eating a lot today?”
Almond was usually someone who ate sparingly.
But today felt completely different.
‘What’s this? Somehow he doesn’t look tired at all.’
He’d essentially already spent an entire day’s worth of streaming schedule on training.
Yet Almond showed no signs of fatigue.
Was this really the same guy who’d collapse and sleep after just a few hours of gaming?
“Phew. Let me digest this for a bit before we start.”
Almond began stretching.
And soon, when 3 PM arrived.
[Stream is starting!]
The broadcast turned on precisely on schedule.
-Wow. Stream’s on!!!!
-Are we going for it today!? Diamond!?
-Let’s go Diamond Almond!
-Diamond… that too is Almond, yes.
-Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond! Almond!
-We love you, Almond!
-Wow! This is my first live stream haha if we hit Diamond today it’ll be legendary
Ugh… It’s 3 PM again. Still at work ㅠㅠ
-Knowing this would happen, I’ve been preparing for a life of unemployment since twenty years ago…
The chat window scrolled upward in an instant.
I could feel that an enormous crowd had rushed in just from looking at it.
I waited patiently for the intro music to finish.
Boom…
Moments later, after the final drum sound echoed.
“Finally, it’s been a week.”
I dove straight into the main topic.
“Let me give it a proper shot today.”
[Current Viewers: 9.3K]
I was now streaming with nine thousand viewers.

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