Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 893

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 024
8. The Dokkaebi (3)
“A Dokkaebi? Is that the Yokai you said would be difficult right here?”
The Manager asked the Manager Kim somewhat irritably.
From his perspective, these Dokkaebi that suddenly appeared didn’t seem very trustworthy.
For now, he was struggling because the talismans weren’t working, but once Balloon Gum awakened, he was an above-average Player, so it seemed like he would escape this section easily.
“No, sir. These are Grade 3.”
Fortunately, the difficult Yokai that had been mentioned didn’t seem to be these creatures.
“However… this section will consume quite a bit of time.”
Manager Kim still predicted it would eat up time.
“Really?”
“Yes. The Shaman needs to use her head here. These creatures have special abilities. Countering them is difficult.”
“Using her head, you say…”
Kim Gwajang chuckled.
“Neither of them uses their head anyway, right?”
The Manager chimed in with a hearty laugh.
“And one of them doesn’t even have hair.”
Puhahahaha.
The two laughed and clinked their glasses together.

* * *
“Die, human!”
Multiple Dokkaebi rushed at Almond simultaneously.
Whoooosh!
The Dokkaebi’s attacks kept grazing his collar.
‘Holding out until Balloon Gum wakes up doesn’t seem that difficult.’
So far, I’ve been managing to evade.
However, Almond couldn’t grasp what role the Shaman was supposed to play here.
He was thinking that once Balloon Gum woke up and started attacking again, that would be enough…
Crash!
One of the Dokkaebi struck a gong with a club and shouted like this.
“Gong! Drop the beat!”
“?”
What is this?
Almond’s expression went blank.
-???
lol so funny
Joseon hi-hat lol
What the heck lol
Haha, damn it lol
Crash! Bang!
Following the gong, all manner of instruments—drums, percussion—burst forth as music blared through the air.
One of the Dokkaebi striking the small gong began to wail loudly.
“Forty-seven lashes taken, my maternal grandmother departed!”
“Grandmother!”
“RIP! RIP! Blood for blood! We severed the magistrate’s neck!”
“Severed the neck!”
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
Gasp lol
North Korean AK47, crazy/insane
The Joseon Dynasty was actually trash, for real lol
What is this lolololol
Those damn developers are crazy lol
“Now you street thugs! When you see me, your tongue will stumble!”
Setting aside the mind-bending music, there was a more pressing problem.
‘They’re speeding up!?’
The Dokkaebi were accelerating in rhythm with the song’s tempo.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
They cackled with glee, swinging their clubs faster and faster.
“Shake it! Gold and silver treasures! Magnificent! What is this!”
“What is it!”
Haha, damn it lol
That guy’s form is insane!
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So cute
But wait, isn’t this getting way too hard??lol
Now when they swung their clubs, it didn’t end with just the swing itself.
Clink!
Metal coins scattered in all directions.
There was no reason to celebrate coins appearing.
They all dealt damage too.
‘Oh no.’
[Health 92%]
Almond took a direct hit.
I hadn’t anticipated something like this coming from the club.
I had to dodge not just the club’s trajectory, but also the coin fragments that bounced off from it.
‘What is this. Seriously.’
Multiple Dokkaebi swinging clubs in this cramped warehouse, with coin fragments scattering on top of it all.
Dodging everything was nearly impossible.
That was when it happened.
Ding.
[Rubisword donated 30,000 won.]
[Almond. I think you need to revive Balloon Gum?]
Revive him?
I looked at Balloon Gum.
He was still lying down.
But looking closer, I could see some kind of marker floating above him indicating a hand grab.
“So he’s actually dead.”
-Lololol
-That’s what it was??
-Yeah, he was down for a while for just being knocked out
-Ah…
It was a system that frequently appeared in typical two-player or multiplayer games.
When a colleague dies, they don’t actually die but enter an “incapacitated” state, and another colleague can approach and revive them.
True death only occurs when everyone is dead.
This game seemed to work the same way.
Right now Balloon Gum was in an incapacitated state, and I needed to get close and revive him.
‘But if I move over there now, I’ll draw all the aggro.’
The problem was that the dokkaebi here were currently only attacking me.
If I moved over there, they’d beat on Balloon Gum too.
If he took more hits while incapacitated, he’d suffer complete death.
But that’s when another colleague stepped up.
“Oh, oppa! I’ll block them!”
Crash!
Suyeon rushed over and shoved the dokkaebi with her shield.
The damage focused on me was momentarily dispersed.
-Scary
-So reliable! Jesus!
-Truly blessed
-Better than Balloon Gum lol
I seized the opportunity and rushed to Balloon Gum, extending my hand.
[Rescue]
This text appeared as a gauge began filling.
Moments later, Balloon Gum snapped out of unconsciousness.
“I’ll strike the wooden fish! I’ll cast protection!”
Striking the wooden fish would cast a protective barrier, enough to block coin fragments.
So Balloon Gum immediately grabbed the wooden fish urgently upon getting up.
“Don’t talk, just strike it.”
-Lololololololololol
-Hahahaha
-Almond about to get scratched in 1 second lol
-Damnit lol
-This is legit lol
Balloon Gum was determined to nail the rhythm this time, actually chanting a Buddhist scripture as he struck the wooden block.
“Ma~ ha~ ban-ya~”
But it wasn’t that easy.
“Ba~ ra-mil~?”
-Ugh, wooden block timing!!
-Cancer
-Useless for real
Please, I’m begging you. (or: Please, no…)
Thump… tap…
Balloon Gum’s wooden block rhythm was off.
Meanwhile, the Dokkaebi were riding the wooden plank properly.
“Taking over every hill in the neighborhood! Shwarat! King Yeonsan! Dokkaebi gang, absolutely tyrannical!”
“Hell yeah!”
Crash! Bang!
The sounds of the stick strikes, gongs, and cymbals meshed together perfectly like water and stone becoming one.
Tick…!?
“Ha, ha… this is way too hard?”
Meanwhile, another off-note from the wooden block.
Actually, this wasn’t a matter of Balloon Gum’s ability.
The Dokkaebi’s noise was intentionally designed to prevent him from striking the block.
“This doesn’t feel right!”
Balloon Gum threw down the wooden block and grabbed his wizard staff.
“I’ll stab them with this!”
“Don’t talk, just stab.”
Whoosh!
His attack shot toward the Dokkaebi.
But─
“Yalssu!”
Swish!
The Dokkaebi nimbly caught Balloon Gum’s staff and struck it backward as if guiding it.
Crash!
“Ugh…!”
“Strike away!”
Balloon Gum’s reckless attack attempt had turned him into the drum in the percussion performance.
Countless sticks were raised high.
“Wh-what?!”
I’m done for.
If I take the full brunt of that club, I’ll die in an instant.
My body will scatter and become rhythm.
Balloon Gum quickly rolled his body to dodge the club.
But—
“Drrruung, more sccreeeeech!”
A Dokkaebi waiting from behind swung a massive gong.
CRASH!
Balloon Gum thought he’d be knocked out again and flinched, but he took no damage at all.
“S-Suyeon!”
Suyeon had blocked it with her shield.
“Dodge! Mister! You’re our hope!”
CRASH!
The gong struck Suyeon’s shield repeatedly.
“Ugh…!”
Continuing to block was becoming impossible.
The Dokkaebi’s chorus grew fiercer, and the damage became increasingly severe.
“Kidnap and! Strip him! With the club! Earn money!”
“Earn money!”
The speed of swinging the gong grew faster and faster.
CRASH!
BANG!
It was becoming increasingly difficult for Suyeon to hold her ground with the shield.
“Ugh!”
Thud!
A club struck directly behind her.
The team was gradually falling apart.
‘What can I even do?’
Almond, unsure what to do, swung the sword he was holding at a Dokkaebi even though he knew it wouldn’t work.
Whoosh!
As expected, the sword simply passed through the air as if cutting nothing.
[*Your current spiritual power is too low to become the master of this weapon.]
My spiritual power was still too low to fully utilize the weapon.
Besides, a Shaman’s weapons had little effect against yokai power.
“I feel like I’m missing something. Let me check the description again.”
Almond thought I must have skipped over something. It was something that happened frequently.
I reread the weapon description.
‘No. There’s nothing specific.’
There didn’t seem to be any particularly helpful additional information.
But then it happened.
“Wh-what!?”
Crack!
Balloon Gum takes a direct hit from the bat and flies toward me.
“!?”
Almond was slow to react since he’d been reading the instructions.
Almond ducks, and Balloon Gum soars overhead.
‘That was close.’
Balloon Gum really is a formidable opponent.
I keep telling myself that and try to read the instructions again.
“S-save me!”
Balloon Gum doesn’t just fly past.
Flailing his hands to grab anything, he manages to snatch my collar.
“!?”
“?”
We both realize something’s gone wrong, but Balloon Gum reacts slowly, and I can’t do anything while my collar is being held.
“Ugh!”
The world spins in an instant.
I take the hardest fall since starting this game.
That troll lol
Looks like we’re all gonna die together lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
Hahaha you’re crazy haha
Pure fun goat lol
“Oof!”
Thud thud thud!
Balloon Gum and I tumble together in a chaotic roll.
At that moment, the bells and talismans in my pockets all scatter.
Ding! Ding!
The bell’s chime rings louder than expected.
“My bat’s awesome! Shake off the underlings! My underlings too, shake ’em… huh!?”
The Dokkaebi loses the beat for a moment at the sound of the bell.
‘Huh?’
I don’t miss this strange phenomenon.
I quickly reach out, grab the bell, and shake it.
Ding!
“Ah… th-that too! I, I lost the beat!?”
The beat breaks again.
-Ooh
-What’s this
The lyrics are so sad lol, I need to dig deeper into it, right?
-???: My mood’s been ruined. You’re responsible for this.
The Shaman’s bells ring out far louder to evil spirits.
In other words, this bell sound would be even louder than that noisy percussion ensemble.
That makes it quite difficult to keep the rhythm.
Ding!
‘That’s it!’
I realized it.
By ringing the bells in an off-beat pattern, I could ruin the song.
That was the strategy.
Ding!
But I couldn’t just keep ringing it randomly.
“Wait, wait! Let’s try again! Again! Okay! Okay! Dokkaebi! Drop that beat!”
The Dokkaebi quickly recreated the rhythm, and the song started again.
Boom-clap! Boom-clap!
The gaps created by the rhythm.
I had to aim for those moments.
“Shake it! Gold and silver treasures! Amazing! What is this…!”
Ding! Ding!
“What, what’s happening!?”
My eyes widened.
‘There’s a timing to this.’
I figured it out.
I lifted the bells and declared:
“The strategy? Almondology.”
hahahaha
Did bubble gum really push this?? ㅋㅋㅋ That’s crazy
No way, you figured this out? ㅋㅋㅋ
-Does this actually work?
Wow, my luck really turned around lol
“Look here.”
I couldn’t just ring the bells simply.
I had to ring them when the ad-libs came in to disrupt the flow.
“Forty lashes taken and returned…”
Ding! Ding!
“Returned and went mad, my grandmother!?”
As the rhythm broke, the lyrics became strange too. In other words, they became even stranger than the original lyrics.
Naturally, the Dokkaebi’s movements grew increasingly sluggish.
The coin fragments they’d been spewing out stopped appearing.
This actually works lol
-The strategy? Almondology! The strategy? Almondology! The strategy? Almondology!
-My grandmother’s lost her mind lol
-Haha lol
-This is bad, if he stops concentrating his mind will run loose for a month lol
-Almond’s strength period begins on
Ding!
Almond continued ringing the bell slightly out of sync with the Dokkaebi’s rhythm.
The Dokkaebi became even slower than before.
A perfect opening appeared.
Balloon Gum’s eyes gleamed.
I had been holding back all this time for this single leap.
“Now’s the moment!”
Whoooosh!
As he swung the staff with tremendous force, four Dokkaebi vanished at once.
After that, the staff he swung repeatedly swept through the Dokkaebi cleanly.
They were clearly completely vulnerable to Buddhist weapons.
Boom!
After the last Dokkaebi disappeared.
“Yaaaaaaaaaah!”
Balloon Gum screamed as if he’d just won a championship.
It was that exhilarating.
-Ooh
-Finally!
-Hehe
-Balloon Gum wins!
-Haha
Ding ding ding!
Donations poured into his stream.
[Gum Chanyoung donated 100,000 won.]
[The only man who can beat Almond in this game: Balloon Gum]
[King Gul donated 100,000 won.]
[No way, Player Balloon Gum! At a tournament with the world’s finest trolls participating! You take the gold medal!]
-Lololol
-Hahahahahaha
-Balloon Gum lol
-World’s finest trolls lol
-Best gamer among trolls
-Best among those who can’t play
-This is lol
-Wait, is King Gul actually serious? lol
Meanwhile, Manager Kim stared at the monitor with a look of despair.
‘This… this damn luck-based game.’

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