Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 90

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 90
31. Almond Trained (4)
There was an old saying.
Chaos five minutes before it happens.
Boom…! Bang…!
Brilliant fireworks launching from the airdrop box.
Vroooooom!
An engine roar that conveyed urgency itself.
Thud, thud!
Hurried footsteps rushing through the swamp.
‘Everything’s gone to hell.’
All of this signaled that chaos had erupted.
An airdrop that landed in such a remote forest, far from any popular location, was worth investigating at least once.
And if I obtained a legendary-grade weapon from the airdrop, victory would come very easily.
‘I can’t use guns.’
Almond didn’t use guns so much as he chose not to.
Either way, guns ultimately held no meaning for me.
Still, I rushed toward the airdrop anyway.
Even if it wasn’t a gun, there might be something else valuable inside, and I needed to prevent some thug from claiming a legendary weapon.
Click!
I opened the airdrop box with swift movements.
[Medical Kit]
[Ghillie Suit – Legendary]
[Bulletproof Vest – Epic]
Three items were inside.
One of them gleamed with golden light.
“Oh….”
Wasn’t this practically my first time acquiring an item of epic grade or higher?
I quickly equipped the bulletproof vest and ghillie suit in succession.
Rustle.
The legendary ghillie suit was truly an excellent item on this jungle map.
‘It really is hard to see.’
When hidden in the brush, even my own arms became nearly invisible thanks to its camouflage capability.
The bulletproof vest went without saying—it would be excellent. Epic grade spoke for itself.
Vroooooom──!
The jeep’s engine sound drew closer.
I quickly selected one of the many bushes and assumed a firing stance.
Slip.
Thanks to the ghillie suit, I melded into the background as if wearing an invisibility cloak.

* * *
The Player who thought he’d arrived first slammed his car door shut and let out an exclamation.
“Whoa!”
Using his vehicle as cover, he carefully approached the supply box. His excitement was evident, but he didn’t rush recklessly.
“…Wait.”
He’d spotted footprints.
There were always Players waiting for the moment someone opened a box.
I’d fallen for it more than once before.
“Hmph.”
He climbed back into his vehicle. Then he slowly drove it right up next to the supply box.
“They can’t shoot from there.”
His strategy worked perfectly. From Almond’s position, there was no firing angle. The only angle that would work was the path he’d already traveled, so the probability of safety was extremely high.
Almond, watching from his vantage point, nodded to himself.
‘Smart.’
The Opponent was clever. Quite experienced with cover tactics.
“Ehehehe.”
But that was precisely his weakness.
Or rather, his fatal flaw.
He’d placed too much faith in cover.
Shhhhiiiing!
A whistling sound like a serpent’s tongue cut through the air.
An arrow embedded itself directly in the center of his forehead.
Thunk!
“Gack! What—what is this!?”
He was wearing a quality ballistic helmet.
One shot wasn’t enough to kill him.
“Where the hell──”
Another arrow came flying in succession.
Thud!
He reacted quickly. The arrow struck his shoulder instead of his head.
Thanks to that, his life was extended once more.
But there was no solution to this.
“Where is it coming from!?”
He couldn’t determine the angle at all. Bewildered, he turned to look behind him.
Shhhhiiiing…!
Another arrow came flying.
“Huh!?”
It curved around the front of the parked vehicle.
Not just a 45-degree bend—it curved nearly 90 degrees.
A massive arrowhead suddenly filled his vision.
‘Does this even make sense?’
There was no time to react.
Thwack!
This time the arrow lodged perfectly between his eyebrows, and he convulsed in place as if paralyzed before collapsing.
[Almond → Clever One]
[Eliminated!]
[29/100]
“Phew. That one had quick reflexes.”
My opponent had reacted faster than expected. It was fortunate I hadn’t fired a volley all at once, just in case.
If I had fired multiple arrows, two would have hit his torso.
“Anyway, I’ve taken care of one.”
The kill count on my mission tracker increased by one.
[Current: 1 Kill]
Since kills are counted from the moment the mission activates, I’m only at one kill now.
-Yo. This curved shot is totally broken, right?
-LMAO
Is this really okay? lol
It feels like I’m committing a crime. It feels like I’m cheating on my own ㅠㅠㅠ
“Shy Yeopo, that’s enough now lolololol”
My curved shot had become far more refined.
The viewers were already worried about Shy Yeopo’s wallet.
“I expect about three or four more will come.”
Hunting players targeting the Airdrop was just beginning.
Airdrops could attract anywhere from a minimum of three or four players to as many as ten.
[Shy Yeopo donated 1,000 won!]
[Almond… save me, please save me!]
“Thank you for the donation, Yeopo.”
-LMAOOO
-Why are you ignoring what comes after!
-Almond: No way! Turn back!
Hahahahaha
I’m so broke ㅠㅠㅠ
‘They’re coming.’
I fell silent, having just been chatting with the viewers.
Squelch…!
The footsteps I’d been hearing for a while now had grown quite loud. I had to be careful even with quiet muttering for the broadcast at this distance.
Squelch. Squelch.
The opponent approaching through the sticky swamp suddenly stopped advancing.
‘…?’
Why did they stop coming?
There was no way for me to notice it just by listening to the sound.
Looking back toward the airdrop, I realized why.
A vehicle was parked right in front of the airdrop.
It was far too obvious. Someone had already looted the airdrop box or died trying.
Anyone with a brain wouldn’t approach it.
They’d either abandon the airdrop and retreat, or wait to hunt whoever came close.
No matter which they chose, I was safe for now.
But then──
Thud! Thud!
My opponent was rushing toward me even faster instead.
‘What?’
I hadn’t anticipated this scenario.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
They were sprinting like a madman.
Now I could see the opponent clearly with my eyes. The brush was moving over there.
It was such a reckless troll play that the words ‘Are they insane?’ practically burst out on their own.
Whoosh!
The opponent burst out of the brush and rushed desperately to grab the airdrop box. Their form looked incredibly urgent.
‘Ah!’
Now I understood why they’d sprinted over so frantically.
It wasn’t a troll play.
My opponent was wounded. They were actively bleeding. With things as they were, they’d be eliminated anyway, so they’d taken a gamble while observing the situation.
But….
“That’s unfortunate.”
Twang!
The answer to that gamble came from my arrow.
“!”
The moment my opponent confirmed there was nothing in the box.
Thwack!
An arrow that had curved around from behind the vehicle pierced through their head.
Their ballistic helmet was already completely shattered.
So it took just one shot.
Splurt!
The swamp mud sprayed up as the kill log appeared.
[Almond → Banana Shooter]
[Eliminated!]
[27/100]
A clean shot.
I looked down at my arrow again with renewed appreciation.
‘The flight speed and everything… it’s definitely better now.’
A rare-grade arrow.
Just one tier higher, but it was definitely superior to common ones.
It flew far cleaner than I’d expected.
The speed was faster, and naturally the destructive power increased proportionally.
A single tier difference made this much of an impact. This is why Battle Rage is a farming game.
I newly recognized the importance of farming.
And I hoped a legendary-grade arrow would drop. Or at least a legendary bow.
While thinking such thoughts.
Boom, boom, boom…
An ominous tremor shook the ground.
“…!”
Several jeeps were heading toward me. Whether it was because of the airdrop or the Blue Zone, I couldn’t tell.
In any case, there were multiple vehicles.
It was possible because players inside vehicles rarely fought each other. It’s hard to shoot while driving.
Vroooom──
Now it wasn’t just tremors; I could hear the engine roar directly in my ears.
I could see them with my eyes too.
Three jeeps were coming all at once from far away.
Screeeech!
Tires tearing through the swamp. Powerful four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Boom! Boom!
The vehicles collided with each other.
They were jockeying for position. Yet all three were fiercely racing toward the airdrop.
Screeeech!
The vehicle in the lead must have already spotted another parked vehicle, so it slammed on the brakes.
“Huh? There!”
That wasn’t it.
It wasn’t because they saw a parked vehicle.
They’d spotted me in my ghillie suit.
‘How did they see me from that far away?’
The ghillie suit was hard to see, but how did they spot it?
-They must have a thermal imaging camera
-Is that thing on his head thermal imaging? How the hell did they see it lol
-Seriously, his luck is insane…
-That’s Almond for you.
Ah. So they must have looted a thermal imaging camera.
“There! That bastard got the airdrop!!!”
The cameraman deliberately shouted loudly.
He was asking them to shoot together.
I wanted to report teaming, but something like this wouldn’t even count as teaming.
It wasn’t deliberate collusion—it was a compromise born from circumstance.
Battle Rage actually encouraged exploiting situations where interests aligned.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
Three figures leaped from the Jeep and unleashed a torrent of gunfire in unison.
They used the windows and doors as shields, their bullets streaming toward me.
The trees blocking my path exploded into splinters.
Crash!
As the tree toppled, muddy earth erupted upward.
Thud!
“Ugh….”
One of the barrage of bullets grazed my abdomen.
Fortunately, my Epic-grade bulletproof vest absorbed the impact—my health remained intact. I only felt the shock.
I rolled my body and ducked behind a Rock.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
The gunfire continued relentlessly, but none of their shots connected. They couldn’t see me.
Even thermal imaging couldn’t penetrate solid Rock. That was the stuff of movies.
I carefully drew my bow and pulled back the string.
‘The Rock and the Jeep….’
The Rock was in front of me, and my enemies had positioned the Jeep to block every angle I could shoot from.
Double cover. But that posed no problem.
If I could simply trace the right trajectory in my mind, cover meant nothing to me.
I could curve my shots from nearly any angle now.
‘I need to curve around the passenger seat and strike the driver’s side.’
Shooting from the front while threading an arrow through the side window—even I knew it sounded absurd.
Yet as I thought it through, I felt no doubt.
Creak….
My right hand pulling the bowstring was brimming with confidence.
The bow was drawn taut—I needed to pierce glass.
‘This arrow will do it.’
I had to unleash three shots in rapid succession before they could react.
“Where… where is he?! Hey! Don’t shoot each other! Get the Ghillie Suit first….”
They were engaged in some crude negotiation to avoid shooting one another, believing the vehicle’s interior was safe.
‘The one with the thermal imaging camera first.’
In that moment of hesitation, my bowstring released.
An arrow flew toward the blind spot of their carelessness.
Whissssssh──
Like a serpent’s tongue flicking outward, the sound was followed by the violent shattering of the vehicle’s window.
Crash!!!
“What?!”
The sudden, unexpected destruction of the side window left them no choice but to panic.
It was an arrow that shattered the glass and pierced through.
Fortunately, the arrow lost its momentum the instant it broke the glass and fell away. However──
Whiiiiish.
A second arrow came hurtling in with a serpentine whistle, embedding itself in his head.
Thunk!
“Ugh!”
The ballistic helmet shattered.
Then came another.
Thunk!
The third arrow pierced his head like a skewer.
[Almond → Hailhydra]
[Eliminated!]
[26/100]
‘Done.’
The most troublesome one was dead.
“…Insane?”
The eyes of my so-called Colleagues beside me went wide.
In that moment──
Crash!
The glass shattered again.
The Enemy realized it was his turn and flinched in panic.
“Damn it, here… Gack!”
There was no time to react.
Thunk!
Another arrow came flying in succession, lodging in the back of his head.
Unfortunately for him, he had no ballistic helmet.
[Almond → Yellow Vanilla]
[Eliminated!]
[25/100]
The last remaining one grabbed the steering wheel instead of returning fire.
“Ugh, damn it!”
Since there was no angle to shoot from anyway, it was quite a sensible decision.
However, he also had no ballistic helmet, and he had left the car window open.
And my arrow was faster than his driving.
Thunk!
The swift arrow pierced through his head.
Crimson blood splattered sticky against the windshield.
“Gack…!”
Blaaaaaaaam!!!
His face slumped against the horn, creating a deafening noise.
-He got hit;;;
-What’s with that six-curve shot
-Wait, is it real that he’s scoring everything through the window?
-Almond: Korean soccer can’t score goals like I do
-What a madman…
“Three more kills.”
Almond spoke those words without a shred of concern, then immediately concealed myself once more within the dense vegetation. My eyes gleamed as I surveyed the surroundings, like a predator preparing for the next hunt.
The horn had blared loudly—someone else would surely arrive.

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