Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 899

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 030
10. Aghwi Rocket (3)
“Just as I thought…!”
Manager Kim clenched his fists tightly.
It was unfolding exactly as expected.
The Deceptive Abyss was pushing Almond back quite aggressively.
“Push him! More! More!”
Kim Gwajang bellowed like someone watching a martial arts match, swinging his fists at the empty air.
He never would have dreamed that one day he’d find himself cheering for a yokai while working late at the office.
But that wasn’t what mattered right now.
All that occupied Kim Gwajang’s mind was one thing: knocking that creature down just once.
“Huh!”
“Is he falling?!”
The moment Almond stumbled, both of them shot to their feet.
Imagining him going straight into the aghwi’s mouth from that position.
But that wasn’t what happened.
“…Huh?”
Manager Kim, who worked in marketing but knew games quite well, sensed something here.
That feeling you get when playing games.
Today’s a good day, or today’s a bad day.
Today was a bad day for Manager Kim.
“A tumbling roll?”
As Almond tumbled to evade the aghwi’s mouth, something went wrong. The aghwi ended up chasing and climbing after him.
The aghwi is invincible as long as it touches water, but takes damage when separated from it.
Normally, if Almond throws the blue talisman he carries, the aghwi should leap upward.
Or when the aghwi climbs up, holy water should be poured into the water to make it leap.
Then a reverse field should be placed beneath the leaping aghwi to make it collide with it.
That’s the basic strategy for clearing this yokai.
But they didn’t execute a single one of these actions properly.
They simply fell backward, dodged the aghwi’s attack with a back tumble, and Balloon Gum, whose sense of timing was shattered, tried to protect Almond while only generating the reverse field far too late.
But that created magic.
Boom──
“!”
The aghwi couldn’t enter the water and was instead placed directly on the reverse field.
Like a live fish flopping about, asking to be sliced for sashimi.
“Cr… crazy!?”
Kim Gwajang leaped to his feet.
“What is this!? Why is this happening!?”
“It’s, it’s fine. The reverse field will break soon….”
Crash!
The Department Manager shattered in an instant.
So the Aghwi needed to be able to return to the water. That’s how it should be.
Almond, who had never used a talisman of a different color until now, threw a blue talisman at precisely this moment.
And as expected, it struck the exact location.
Crack!
“!”
From this point onward, something extraordinary unfolded.

* * *
Thrash, thrash…!
When the Aghwi emerged from the water.
Both Balloon Gum and Suyeon were startled.
Almond immediately hurled a talisman of a different color.
‘It was blue, wasn’t it.’
Whoosh!
The blue talisman shot forward in a perfectly straight line.
In an instant, it adhered to the very center of the Aghwi’s body.
It was a perfect hit by any measure—right in the middle of its torso.
Yet Almond had no certainty.
‘The vital point indicator didn’t appear.’
Unlike talismans capable of immediate exorcism, this one displayed no vital point indicator whatsoever.
I decided to observe this blue talisman’s ability first, then decide whether to throw another one later.
‘Hm?’
The blue talisman’s effect became apparent immediately.
Whooom!
The blue talisman attached to the Aghwi glowed brilliantly, suddenly launching it upward with tremendous force.
At the same moment, the Department Manager that Balloon Gum had set up shattered.
Crash!
In other words, the Aghwi was sent upward once more before Balloon Gum’s Department Manager could even break, before it could enter the water.
This was entirely unintended by Balloon Gum. Neither the Production Team nor anyone else intended this.

* * *
“Huh!?”
Meanwhile, Balloon Gum’s eyes widen as he watches the Aghwi bounce back up.
He knows the strategy perfectly.
This moment is truly critical.
When it bounces up, I need to make it collide with the Inverse Field.
‘No… well, the situation is a bit different, but anyway!’
Maha~ ban~ ya~
Balloon Gum begins striking the wooden fish.
Of course, this situation wasn’t the textbook approach.
‘Normally, you’d stick that talisman on the Aghwi’s head when it emerges from the water to make it bounce up, and then place the Inverse Field at that jumping position…’
When the Aghwi emerges from the water and gets hit by the blue talisman, it springs up sharply.
Then its entire body briefly rises above the water.
That’s when you need to attack.
But among the Monk’s weapons, there was nothing that could strike the Aghwi from a distance during that brief moment it rises.
That’s why the Inverse Field is used.
When the Aghwi gets hit by the talisman and bounces up, if the Monk creates an Inverse Field above it, the creature’s head collides with it, dealing massive damage.
By accumulating damage like this, one hit at a time, Phase 2 involves attacking the Aghwi.
“Mond!”
Balloon Gum quickly explains the strategy to Almond.
“I’ll create the Inverse Field to make it collide! You just focus on launching it!”
This explanation wasn’t wrong.
Balloon Gum simply couldn’t create the Inverse Field at the exact position and precise timing.
“Damn it!”
Tick~!?
The wooden fish’s rhythm goes off.
The creation is one beat too late.
The Inverse Field should be created right after the Aghwi bounces up, making its head collide with it.
But his Inverse Field was created after the Aghwi had already jumped.
Hahahahahaha
Hahaha
-The Aghwi’s up in the air again
Instead of the Aghwi’s head colliding with the Inverse Field, it got caught by the field again as it came back down.
‘Huh…?’
But this time, it wasn’t caught right above the water—it was suspended about 1 to 2 meters above the ground.
What is it? lol
-The Aghwi’s suffering era
Just go and give it to him, loser lol
-Can’t get free damage?
-Why does the Inverse Field break so fast
-How am I supposed to deal damage?
The Kim Kim Duo burst into uncontrollable laughter.
“Puhahahaha!”
“This is it! This is it! This is why Balloon Gum is the best!”
I needed to generate a Department Manager platform timed with the Aghwi’s ascent, then crash its head into it to deal damage.
But the platform I created one step too late was just a docile foothold.
It became a floor instead of a ceiling.
Just like my skill level.
Completely twisted.
Once the Department Manager platform disappears, the Aghwi will slip back underwater as if nothing happened. In the end, I’ve dealt no damage at all.
Crack, crack…!
Balloon Gum’s Department Manager platform was already fracturing, and it seemed the Aghwi would return to the water.
But—
Suddenly something flies in.
‘Keep lifting it, he said.’
It’s Almond’s talisman.
「I’ll create a Department Manager platform to crash it! You just keep lifting!」
Let me think about this from Almond’s perspective.
The Aghwi has now been created with a Department Manager platform and ‘crashed’ downward.
So Almond just needs to keep lifting.
From Almond’s perspective, there’s only one way to think about it.
‘Keep pushing it up!’
──Whoosh!
His talisman strikes the center of the Aghwi’s body once more.
“Kyaaaagh!?”
Boom!
With a blue flash, the Aghwi springs upward again.
Balloon Gum’s Department Manager platform crumbled, but the Aghwi was already rising again.
Before, it was 1 to 2 meters.
Now it’s roughly 2 to 3 meters.
-Again?
-??
-How high is this going lol
-What?
Already, the warning signs were appearing.
Since most school buildings have ceilings under 3 meters tall.
The Aghwi would inevitably hit the ceiling.
But—
‘Huh?’
-Is this an open-air building lol where’s the ceiling???
-Graphics flying off lmaooo
It’s ruined lolol Is this right?
The ceiling graphics shattered.
To show the Aghwi to the gamers, the upper section had been opened.
Of course, it wasn’t an intentional feature.
The fact that the graphics broke meant something had already gone wrong.
But─
‘Come on, hit it! This time for sure!’
Balloon Gum struck the wooden block again to hit the Aghwi’s head as it floated away once more.
But the timing was already off.
“Maha~ Prajna~”
The Department Manager was crushed beneath the Aghwi again.
Thud.
The Aghwi settled on top of that Department Manager once more.
Now the Aghwi was suspended 5 to 6 meters above the ground.
The ceiling graphics had completely vanished, revealing a blue sky.
“!”
It was around this moment.
That Manager Kim sensed something ominous.
‘Surely not.’
The surely became reality.
Here, Almond’s talisman stuck to it again.
Whoosh!
Even as the distance grew, the accuracy and speed didn’t diminish in the slightest.
Whooom!
The Aghwi began ascending into the blue sky.
“Wha—?!”
Balloon Gum was in the same predicament.
Even at this distance, the accuracy and speed hadn’t deteriorated at all.
He generated the Department Manager one timing too late again.
Thud.
The Aghwi was now 10 meters above the ground.
-More??
-Wait, it keeps going?
Is the strategy just to make them fall to their death?ㅋㅋ
-What are they even doing lmaooo
-How do you even damage it like this??
The Aghwi was stuttering helplessly 10 meters up—roughly three stories high—unable to do anything.
But Almond’s instinct to complete the mission never wavered.
‘They said to keep lifting it.’
Even though the Aghwi had risen quite high now, making it difficult to hit, the talisman struck true once more.
Whoosh!
“Ugh!”
Balloon Gum’s eyes went wide.
‘Again?’
There was no way to explain this away anymore.
Unless I struck the wooden fish and chanted the Avalokiteshvara mantra immediately, I couldn’t keep up with this pace.
It was already too late to turn back.
I had to land at least one hit.
‘Please, just once—hit the head just once!’
But this time too, the Department Manager was one beat too slow.
In truth, the rhythm was already thrown off, so no matter how hard he struck, this was inevitable. But Balloon Gum didn’t realize it.
He believed that if he struck faster, something would change.
And the more he did, the more Almond felt he was doing it right, throwing talismans faster and faster.
Crack!
“Namu Avalokiteshvara~~!”
Balloon Gum struck the wooden fish as if to shatter it.
The Aghwi climbs higher. Soon it’s beyond talisman range.
Ding.
[Aghwi donated 3,000 won.]
[Kill me…]
hahahahaha
What are you talking about? lol
-Sending it to the stratosphere to kill it~ Please scroll down
Hahaha, that’s hilarious!
-Is this a strategy?
-Is there even a point to doing it this way?
More, more!
The Aghwi didn’t die and kept climbing, and Balloon Gum could no longer stop either.
‘Damn it. I can’t say anything now. I just have to keep going until I hit it!’
Balloon Gum’s eyes blazed as he struck the wooden fish relentlessly.
“Maha~ Prajna~!”
Even viewers who enjoyed watching him fail had their limits.
If it was revealed that Balloon Gum had actually missed opportunities every time the Aghwi rose?
A flood of harsh comments comparable to the three-magazine zero-kill incident would pour in.
That would be terrible.
Balloon Gum had to hit the Aghwi’s head no matter what, and to do that, he had to strike the wooden fish without pause.
But the result remained the same.
Balloon Gum could never match Almond’s rhythm.
Boom!
The Aghwi continued climbing upward.
‘The talisman’s range won’t reach it now!?’
The Aghwi had ascended nearly four stories high. Due to the talisman’s range limitations, climbing any further was now impossible.
‘It won’t reach.’
Indeed, the talisman Almond threw failed to connect for the first time.
Would it finally descend now?
But then, the next moment─
“!”
“?!”
Both Almond and Balloon Gum’s eyes widened simultaneously.
──Whoooooosh!
The Aghwi was suddenly sucked straight up into the sky.
Like how villains become stars in the sky in childish cartoons when they’re sent flying.
Twinkle.
The Aghwi vanished as a single point.
It never came back down.
-??
-Huh?
-Is it a rocket? lol
-What the heck lol
-Breaking through gravity!
-wtf lololol
-It shot right up
-To Mars we go~
The Aghwi was dead.
To think I’d kill the Aghwi in such an outlandish way.
Even Balloon Gum, who prided himself on world-class trolling, never imagined this.
At this, Balloon Gum unconsciously murmured.
“The strategy is… all Almond.”

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