Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 88

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 88
31. The Practiced Almond (2)
Platinum Tier 1, 55 points.
This is my current rank.
Once I reach 100 points from 55, I can attempt the next promotion match.
However, crossing from Platinum to Diamond isn’t a promotion match—it’s a promotion series.
Instead of three matches, I must compete in five total matches, and even if I place first, I must defend my rank in one additional match. It’s quite a grueling journey.
Yet the 9,000 viewers accompanying me on this journey showed no signs of worry.
Rather, they seemed brimming with anticipation and excitement.
-Can Almond really hit Diamond today?
-Totally possible.
-This is a real record. Only using the bow, Diamond in just one week lol
-For real. He was doing the bow challenge in the Kingdom too… crazy
-Almond let’s goooo!
-This is gonna be boring.
-Is he getting Diamond today as a first-timer?!

* * *
Thump-thump-thump-thump-thump!
‘It sounds just like a heartbeat.’
I listened to the loud noise of the transport helicopter’s propellers as I thought.
‘Is that the spot?’
I gazed downward in a familiar stance, gauging where to drop.
Tap. Tap.
Meanwhile, I bounced around inside the helicopter, warming up my body.
“Alright! Let’s go down!!!”
“Jump!!!”
“Damn it! Stop dawdling and jump!!!”
The NPC Soldiers began shouting orders intensely.
In the past, I would have been startled and jumped out as if pushed by their voices.
But now I’m remarkably composed.
I checked every detail of my condition, even down to my fingertips, using their rough curses as background music while I stretched.
‘My condition is peak today.’
No matter how many times I checked, it remained peak.
Since this is a game that directly uses brainwaves, my condition affects performance significantly.
In that sense, even I myself was looking forward to my performance today.
‘It’s the Jungle.’
Glancing down, it wasn’t the Desert map that usually appeared.
This place had an Amazon-like jungle feel. Still, the basic structure was the same.
‘The Armory.’
There’s an armory here too. I’ve never changed my strategy just because the map is the jungle.
I’ve always played by targeting the armory first.
*Click.*
I finished preparing to drop.
“Jump! Jump, you bastard!!!”
An inevitable roar erupted from behind me.
Without a moment’s hesitation, I hurled myself into the air.
*Whiiiiiing──*
A biting wind lashed fiercely against my ears.
Even so, I scanned both sides.
‘…As expected.’
Not just one or two.
The number of people who jumped at the exact same moment as me.
“Yah!”
“When I grow up, I wanna be Almond!!!”
“Oooooomen!”
Probably snipers.
Even I, leading 9,000 viewers, should be getting used to this kind of targeting by now.
No, perhaps I already was.
‘Alright. Let’s die then.’
I tilted my center of gravity to the right mid-air. My body flew toward the right side.
Toward where the sniper I’d greeted earlier was.
“Uh… Huh?! H-hyung! Why are you doing this!”
“What do you mean hyung.”
The moment I started engaging, the sniper panicked.
“Who told you to reveal that you were a sniper?”
I laughed and threw out a quip, then pressed harder toward the right.
And I grabbed the thug’s parachute pack strap.
I bent my body fluidly and kicked my opponent’s face with my foot.
*Pow!*
“Ugh, ughhhh! Hyung! Why are you doing this!?”
A scream erupted from the distorted face.
-Hahahahahaha
What’s this trick? Lol
That’s crazy lolololol
I can’t provide a meaningful translation of this text as it appears to contain slang, internet speak, and potentially offensive Korean language that doesn’t translate cleanly to standard English.
*Thwack! Thwack!*
Successive kicks following one after another.
Eventually, the sniper’s parachute pack came off.
*Whoosh.*
In the meantime, my parachute and those of the other players deployed automatically.
“Ugh, ahhhhhhh!? Brother, I’m dying, dying, dying──”
The thug plummeted straight to the ground and became ketchup.
-Brother, I’m dying lol maintaining the sniper’s dignity to the very end….
-Kyaa! Next!
-Wow man lol
-Oh yeah! Ketchup ending!
-lololololol
[Heinz donated ‘5,000 won’.]
[Ottogi come out!!! This is real ketchup!]
It was truly the sniper’s final moment.
‘Wow, damn…. That’s intense.’
‘W-what was that just now?’
‘…I should just shut up.’
Those who had tried to get some attention by revealing themselves as snipers to me all fell silent.
The descent under parachute became considerably quieter.

* * *
Tap.
I landed in the Armory with the same familiar motion as always.
By now, I knew exactly where to land to seal off the Underground Warehouse in the shortest time possible.
And I also knew where to go to get a bow first.
This was the advantage of repeating the same strategy over and over.
You master it.
“Since there are plenty of people this time anyway. I’ll grab the bow first.”
When it’s best to grab the bow first, and when it’s better to grab even a sword and rush to the Underground Warehouse.
I can make the optimal decision for every situation in a short time.
Because I’ve done it so many times.
I headed straight to the 2nd Floor of the Armory.
The 1st Floor has too much competition.
[Recurve Bow]
Bows appear frequently on the 2nd Floor. This time too, I picked up the Recurve Bow.
Without a Power Suit, it’s hard to shoot far.
‘But I’ve practiced for this.’
To properly utilize the rapid-fire technique I’d honed, a more traditional bow like the Recurve Bow was better.
“As expected, the entrance to the Underground Warehouse is crowded today too.”
I say that and grab hold of a rope.
And I didn’t go down to the 1st Floor.
“From what I saw last time, there’s no need to go into that Abyss.”
I’m going to use a more advanced strategy.
It’s the same method I used when I caught the Foolish Five Brothers before—firing arrows in rapid succession from the 2nd Floor railing to kill them all.
This too is knowledge I’ve gained from repeatedly rushing the Armory.
The viewers called this tactic the Hill Tank.
-Kyaa! Hill Tank lol
-The Underground Warehouse Zerglings got PTSD, right? lol
-Weeb Tank lololol
-lol What’s Weeb Tank lol
I leaned my body out over the railing. My field of view was greatly expanded, but my posture was far too precarious for shooting a bow.
That would be the case if I used proper archery form.
Creak.
But today I shoot in a new stance.
Freer, faster, more suited to a bloody war.
That kind of archery.
-Hmm… the stance looks different today?
-Did something change?
-This stance is risky
-If we clip this, a chain accident is possible!
The bowstring I drew with my new stance trembled slightly as I pushed the bow forward.
Twang!
A single arrow cutting through the air pierced the head of a Player entering the Underground Warehouse.
“Gack!”
[Almond → Moonlight Axe]
[Eliminated!]
[99/100]
My first kill.
“What!? An archer on the hill!”
“Damn. It’s Almond!?”
Everyone else was the kind of person who aimed only for the Underground Warehouse jackpot in the sacred Armory—only I pulled off something like this.
My fingers moved with fluid grace.
Twang! Twang! Twang!
Three shots fired in an instant.
Three arrows stretched out in three different directions.
[Almond → Smurf]
[Eliminated!]
[97/100]
[Almond → Dotoribusu]
[Eliminated!]
[96/100]
[Almond → Lemonbi]
[Eliminated!]
[95/100]
Almond’s name climbed the kill log in an instant.
-Wow. His fire rate got even faster?
-And without the power suit. What’s going on?
-This is insane.
-Headshots on each of them…. It’s not even surprising anymore.
Why are you doing even better than yesterday? That’s crazy.
His archery was truly ghostly in its precision.
“…Insane.”
“Hey, what is that? Is that a bow?”
“Ah! Just go somewhere else! This guy’s ruining the game!”
-High praise lol
-lololol high praise has arrived
-lol the game’s already over
[Gaming Terminology Organizer donated 10,000 won!]
[Ruining the game = You’re clearly a master. Please go easy on us.]
Almond chuckled upon hearing their words.
“You all go somewhere else.”
And with a grin, the bowstring drew back once more.
Twang!!
Four more players dropped instantly.
There were people throwing axes and swords in resistance.
But he deflected every single one with arrows—a display of absurd skill.
After that, no one wasted any more time.
‘This won’t work.’
‘He’s a monster. Insane.’
‘Just rush the warehouse.’
Praying that Almond wouldn’t target them, they risked their lives and broke through toward the Underground Warehouse.
Some fled entirely outside the Armory.
“You, just wait and see!”
Better to plan for another day than die here.
-Just wait and see lololol
-Just wait and see has arrived lololol
-High praise continues!
-King wait and see lol
After those who fled left and those who entered went inside.
The entrance to the Underground Warehouse emptied.
-Oh! The Underground Warehouse!
-So he’s taking the Underground Warehouse in the end?
-He needs to head down quickly!
-But there are already quite a few people who’ve gone in.
I tied the rope to the railing.
Gripping the rope, I dropped straight down to the 1st floor.
Whoosh!
Tracing a wide arc, I landed safely on the 1st floor.
While I descended the stairs, several players who had been attempting to break through crumpled their faces and simply fled.
-He even calculated that.
-Rope usage is solid. This guy’s a true veteran now lol
-Those thugs trying to attack with staggered timing got destroyed lol
-That was insanely cool
The pitch-black darkness of the Underground Armory entered my vision.
The entrance to the Underground Armory, which was always crowded with players, stood wide open right before my eyes.
‘Should I go in?’
I was debating whether to enter here, or instead bring a vehicle like a motorcycle and blow it up to start a fire, just like before.
[The Blue Zone will shrink in 30 seconds!]
Damn.
I’d wasted a lot of time.
Just as I was about to leave the Armory, I noticed something on the map and flinched.
“…It’s shrinking toward my location this time.”
-Whoa! That’s incredible!
-Wow! How is this possible!
-Unbelievable!
-Lol everyone’s shocked reactions are hilarious
-This is quite unusual….
-Impossible. Almond having good luck! This has to be a bug!
It was truly a rare occurrence.
My gaze turned back toward the dim entrance of the Underground Warehouse.
‘I have time to go in.’

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Inside the Underground Warehouse.
As I descended the stairs, I encountered a wall of countless corpses stacked upon one another.
It seemed that five out of every ten players who died early met their end here.
“…This is brutal.”
Almond, entering the Underground Warehouse for the first time, flinched and muttered under his breath.
[Curious donated 1,000 won.]
[But why did you go into the warehouse this time? You usually just set it on fire and leave.]
-Oh, right?
I didn’t even notice because it came in so naturally lol
-Why’d you go in?
Yeah, that’s right lol. Originally you’d bring stuff like motorcycles from outside and just set the armory on fire!
That was true.
I don’t typically utilize the Underground Warehouse, which others call the “Treasure Vault” within the Armory.
I simply burn everything to prevent others from claiming those treasures.
“Ah, yes. I thought there was nothing worth using. But I found some decent weapons in here. Something I could actually use.”
-Could it be the Power Suit?
Have you gotten a taste of the power suit? lol
-That thing only appears once in a blue moon….
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Combat was already unfolding deeper within the Basement.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
Gunfire erupted in succession.
“…It doesn’t seem like the Power Suit is here.”
Only the sound of gunfire reached my ears.
The distinctive heavy boom unique to the Power Suit never came.
-Of course….
That thing really comes out by pure chance, lol.
-Almond, you baby… you want the Power Suit so badly…
I knew it only appeared rarely.
But if there was even a one-in-a-thousand chance it was here, first place was practically guaranteed—I couldn’t pass up the attempt.
‘Then I’ll just grab grenades or flares and other weapons.’
The Armory didn’t contain only firearms.
It also held vast quantities of grenades, flares, smoke grenades, and more.
I was quite skilled at utilizing such items.
Even if I just collected those types of weapons, they would prove invaluable later.
[Pathetic Thug donated 10,000 won!]
[But… it’s pretty brutal in there. Will you be okay?]
There was a problem.
The Treasure Vault inside would be hell by now. Players armed with Hero-grade weapons and above were likely locked in a blood-soaked battle.
Even for Almond, it was questionable whether he could win by entering with just a single bow.
“It should be fine. I’ve practiced.”
-Oh…!
-Practiced?!
-What? What’s this?
“Practice? I’ve never heard such a thing?! lol”
[Hyeopgaek donated ‘5,000 won’.]
[Are you going to infuse your arrows with inner energy?]
“That’s not it, but I’ve trained hard, so it should be better.”
Everyone could tell what Almond meant by practicing the moment the first arrow left the bowstring upon entering.

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