Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 89

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 89
31. The Practiced Almond (3)
A player who obtained a legendary-grade weapon from the Treasure Vault.
His name is Rodae.
He didn’t want to die holding a legendary weapon.
He gritted his teeth and unleashed a barrage of gunfire.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!
‘I absolutely won’t die!’
He was Diamond Tier 4.
Befitting that prestigious rank, his aim was quite exceptional.
Enemies fell like autumn leaves.
It was the result of excellent aim combined with an excellent weapon.
Two shots to the torso were enough to kill them all.
“Gasp!”
“Ugh!”
Two enemies were eliminated in an instant.
Rodae continued to dominate the battlefield.
Rat-a-tat-boom!
The vibration reverberating from the stock through his shoulder felt exhilarating.
Each trigger pull sent a thrill through him.
So this is what a legendary weapon feels like?!
“Hehehehe…”
Even for Diamond players, legendary weapons are incredibly rare. Getting one in thirty matches is considered fortunate.
So the laughter came naturally.
If things continued like this and he cleared the Treasure Vault to monopolize the items, first place seemed within reach.
‘I’m going to be first!’
That’s when it happened.
Whoooosh—
The sound of air being torn grazed his ear.
Thud!
‘What?’
Something hot and unpleasant dripped stickily across his forehead.
Blood.
Crimson blood slowly tinted his vision.
[Too bad!]
[79th Place]
A devastating result displayed in text.
79th place with a legendary weapon?
It made no sense.
“What, what?! I didn’t see that coming at all!”
Rodae screamed at the top of his lungs.
It was infuriating.
He’d checked everything thoroughly.
There was no way an attack could come from anywhere except the front and left side.
He pulled up the kill cam.
“…What is this?”
An arrow curved around the pillar and flew toward him?
As if the arrow possessed a will of its own.
“A bug?”
Rodae wasn’t just venting—he genuinely believed this was a bug.
If the arrow had simply flown straight, it wouldn’t make sense, right?
In a survival game based on realistic physics, curved arrows shouldn’t exist.
Did the player have a Power Bow instead of a Power Suit?
Rodae, who rarely paid attention to social media or Ollytube, had no way of knowing this arrow came from Almond.
‘This bastard’s dead.’
He switched to Almond’s screen and began spectating.
If it happened one more time, he’d file a report. The first time could’ve been a freak bug glitch, after all.
“There it is again. Again!”
Pwoosh!
Far from a mistake, Almond was firing arrows rapidly with the pillar between them.
All four arrows released curved perfectly inward.
“What the—?!”
The arrows curved around the pillar and headed straight for the enemies’ heads behind it.
Thunk! Splat-splat-splat!
The accuracy was 100%.
Not a single shot missed.
[Almond → Nominomi]
[Eliminated!]
[77/100]
[Almond → Abura98]
[Eliminated!]
[76/100]
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.
.
The kill log streamed continuously.
‘….’
Rodae was speechless.
He wanted to call this blatant bug exploitation.
But no anger came.
Because I had come to realize it.
‘W-wait, this isn’t a bug?’
It wasn’t a bug at all.
Rodae was also a skilled Diamond-rank player.
When you actually see it, you can distinguish between bugs and non-bugs.
When bugs occur, frame drops and noise usually happen simultaneously.
Almond’s arrows were clean. There were no abnormalities whatsoever, and shooting in a straight line was actually much faster and more accurate.
In other words, it was pure skill.
‘Real skill…?’
I couldn’t believe it even seeing it with my own eyes, but that was skill.
My anger vanished, replaced by creeping dread. The kind of chilling fear a herbivore would feel standing before a predator.
‘Almond… if we meet next time…’
Rodae committed the name Almond to memory.
‘I’m running away at full speed!’

* * *
Curved shot.
It was the most striking technique from my training results.
The speed and accuracy of this curved shot had increased by 2-3 times or more.
The enemies couldn’t counter the arrows that flew like guided missiles from behind cover.
-Wow….
-This isn’t a treasure vault, it’s a tomb lol
-Is this like Pharaoh’s tomb or something? lolol
-For real came to find treasure and just cleared it all out.
-The curved shot for real shoots well now lol
-Never misses….
There was no way Battle Rage players would know how to counter arrows that curved and flew from places you couldn’t even see.
Maybe if it were LIL, but who in Battle Rage would even consider such a technique?
Even Pungsna, who was skilled in minor techniques, would probably gasp in admiration seeing this curved shot.
Bang!
After the final arrow lodged itself in the head of the last survivor.
The warehouse was now completely empty.
It was cleared in an instant.
[Rubisword donated ‘10,000 won’!]
[So that’s what you were practicing!]
“Thank you for the donation, Rubisword. Yes, I practiced the curved shot, and I also experimented with changing my bow form.”
Now that I was alone in this entire armory, I answered the chat with leisure.
-Wow, I knew something about your form had changed.
-Insane. This level of skill after changing it in just one day?
-This is true genius lol
“I’ve been practicing quite a bit.”
Thanks to my skillful curve shots, the donations came pouring in even more.
[Yi Sun-sin donated ‘20,000 won’!]
[If you had been at the Imjin War… *cough*!]
[Archery Association donated ‘50,000 won’!]
[I’ll just give you the gold medal!]
“Yi Sun-sin, Archery Association… surely you’re not the real ones? Thank you so much for the 50,000 won donation.”
I reacted to the donations while taking another look around the Treasure Vault to see if there was anything else worth picking up.
‘Explosives….’
Flares, grenades, and smoke bombs.
I picked up these three types of explosives and discovered something a bit special.
“Huh?”
[Arrow – Rare]
Arrows had grades too?
This was completely new to me.
“Arrows come in rare grade?”
-Didn’t know?
Wow, you didn’t know that? Haha
lol that’s funny
A newbie is a newbie~~
-Well, you’d only know if there was a streamer who uses a bow….
-lololol
What? Was I the only one who didn’t know? I scratched my head.
What additional function did it have to be rare?
I picked up the arrow.
[Arrow – Rare]
[Slightly thinner and more durable than regular arrows, it flies faster and farther.]
Rather than having any special function, it was simply a lighter yet more durable arrow.
In a way, it was the most faithful to the basics. I liked that simplicity.
“Nice.”
[The Blue Zone will shrink in 30 seconds!]
Now the second shrinkage was beginning.
“The Armory survives this time too. But I’ll burn it down and move to a new location.”
The Armory area was safe in the next Blue Zone as well. However, I had no intention of staying here.
Burning down the Armory to render the remaining weapons unusable was far more advantageous for me.
Whoosh!
The Underground Warehouse went up in flames along with countless explosives, clutching numerous treasures to itself.

* * *
Behind the Armory lay a dense forest—a location found only on the Jungle map.
It was called the Swampland Forest.
[Swampland Forest]
Squelch.
As I stepped onto the sticky ground, a text notification flashed across the screen.
“I have a good feeling about this place. Let me hide here and scout around.”
I concealed myself among the dense undergrowth as I spoke.
It was a strategy to abandon farming for the time being.
Though medical supplies were running low, I felt no pressing need to farm. The Blue Zone’s location was simply too favorable.
That’s right. For once, the Blue Zone was actually helping me. I, who had always struggled against terrible luck, was finally catching a break.
However, some viewers were dissatisfied.
-What?! This is ridiculous!
-Isn’t Fantasia supposed to be doing something?!
-Almond! Get out there and fight right now! Almond! Get out there and fight right now! Almond! Get out there and fight right now! Almond! Get out there and fight right now!
-No no please stay there
-Real talk this game is already decided, if you go out now that’s total trolling lol
-Someone set a kill bounty mission!
-Would you go out? Diamond is right there lol
Of course, I had no intention of leaving.
If I went out and died, that would earn me the most criticism.
[Shy Yeopo has registered a mission.]
[1,000 won per kill!]
Pfft.
I covered my mouth without thinking.
“Ah. My apologies. Thank you for the mission.”
-Hey! Did you just laugh at that price?!
-Lol hahaha lol
-Real talk I’m laughing too lol
-How is he holding back
-Where did your initial determination go!!!!
-Shy Yeopo really is something lol
-1,000 won per kill lol who’s gonna do that?
-The mission to reach Diamond today is worth 500,000 won!
[Shy Yeopo donated 10,000 won!]
[Honestly if it’s 10,000 won per kill, everyone’s gonna get wiped out. There are only 60 people left right now…]
That was true.
Previously, Shy Yeopo had set a 10,000 won per kill mission and ended up losing up to 1 million won.
-That person’s a named streamer though lol
-Kingdom ‘that incident’ lol
Ah, it’s that guy who got his money stolen back then lol
lol
Lolol shy Lu Bu is so cute ㅠ
“I don’t need a Mission Living Room. The Diamond mission is already sufficient.”
I resolved firmly to reach Diamond today. Financially, it was worth it.
[Mission: Achieve Diamond by today]
[530,000 won]
The mission completion rewards that started at 100,000 won had accumulated and now totaled 530,000 won.
-Honestly, just getting that money alone is insane….
Lol but a thousand won per kill is too much ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
If Dia goes today, the whole world will really be shocked by K-Almonds. Even if we put 50,000 won per kilo right now, it won’t budge, damn it ㅋㅋㅋ
Meanwhile, the 60 survivors continued to dwindle.
55 players, then 50….
As time passed, the next Blue Zone shift began.
[The Blue Zone will shrink in 30 seconds.]
I checked the map.
‘Oh.’
Once again, the Blue Zone favored me.
Today really was my day.
In fact, this forest was so forgotten that barely anyone passed through it.
Survivors continued to decrease while the kill log grew.
[Monday through Friday → wooni12]
[49/100]
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. The notation appears to be a mix of romanization and Korean characters that doesn’t form coherent words in either language.
[48/100]
[Fast and Accurate Proxy Burger → yong 93]
[47/100]
.
.
.
Fast and accurate proxy burger → wnsvyrnt
[30/100]
30 survivors remained.
I stayed in the same spot.
-That’s too much, Almond!
-You deceived me! This isn’t Almond at all!? It’s Gandhi!
-Move, you nutty bastard!
Haha, we need plays like this too!
-Those Fantasia bastards….
The viewers watching the frozen screen continued to voice their complaints.
[Shy Yeopo registers a mission.]
[10,000 won per kill!]
Shy Yeopo gathers her courage once more.
-Oh…!
-Finally making a move!?
-Yeopo’s got guts lol
-Yeopo’s got guts lolololol
-Yeopo’s got guts, that phrase hits different
-Let’s gooooo!
-Nope, back off~ From now on even if I kill everyone it’s only 300k~~
A per-kill mission arrives when roughly thirty players remain.
“Thanks for the mission. So combined with the previous one, that’s 11,000 won per kill, right?”
Almond still hadn’t moved.
-11,000 won lololol
-Seriously, this guy shows no sign of moving lolol
-Ugh what! Not going to play!?
-You tricked me! This is Gandhi! You tricked me! This is Gandhi! You tricked me! This is Gandhi! You tricked me! This is Gandhi!
-Gandmond, what a disappointment….
-lololololol these trolls are insane lol
-Ah Fantasia finally picked him, just let it be lolol
Regardless, victory was what mattered.
As long as the rules were followed, victory came first.
That’s what sport is.
‘Hold on, hold on. This is strategy, pure strategy.’
Of course, I preferred flashy gameplay.
But right now I had to think rationally. I couldn’t win by going all-out on every single round.
If Fantasia had chosen me, then utilizing that choice was also a matter of operational skill—in other words, ‘true ability’.
Yet Fantasia seemed to have been right to abandon me.
Whiiiiing──
A strange sound echoed from the sky.
‘Huh?’
A massive shadow fell across Almond’s upturned face.
An air drop.
Like a gift box falling from the heavens.
These contained various items of Hero grade and above.
‘This is bad.’
One might ask if I shouldn’t be happy about this.
But there was a high probability these items meant little to me.
Moreover….
Boom! Bang!
Whoooosh!
These airdrop boxes trigger all sorts of flashy fireworks and signal flares.
It broadcasts the airdrop’s location to every player across the entire map.
Vrrrroooom──
I can already hear car engines roaring in the distance.
Thud! Thud!
Countless footsteps echoed across the terrain.
Gulp.
I swallowed hard.
“…Should we take the kill-per-mission challenge?”
-Lmaooooo
-This is insane!!!!
-Classic Fantasia!
-Now we’re talking!
Hahaha, never give me a mission per kill!
-Here they come!!!

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