Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 919

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 50
17. The Demon of the Glitch (2)
“Ugh!”
Almond tumbled across the floor of the MetaBucks Café.
-Gasp
-Yikes
-What?
-Nooooo
-That was a direct hit
Since starting Ghost Busters, this was the first time I’d taken such a direct blow.
[Health 72%]
The damage was absolutely devastating.
‘One hit and I’ve lost this much health.’
This game certainly had difficulty scaling, but with enemies firing from all directions like this,
if one hit took away this much health, a single mistake would mean instant death.
Now I understood why Balloon Gum was hiding behind a table unable to do anything.
Ding.
[Nyanyapunch donated 5,000 won.]
[Isn’t your stats lacking because you’re skipping through the game however you want?]
-What’s with this voice lol
-Lololol
-The gimmick sucks
-Nyanya is ridiculous
-But the content makes sense
A donation came through with an overly cute voice.
The comment seemed to have a point.
While my spiritual power had increased from clearing the main quests, I hadn’t handled any of the side quests, so I was naturally weaker than the original design intended.
But Almond wasn’t the type to go back and handle all those things one by one.
[Shortcut Technique]
Whoosh!
My body vanished, reappearing precisely beside the demon.
-Whoa
-Yikes
I feel dizzy/nauseous ㅠ
-Wow
Almost simultaneously with my appearance, the blade swept through the air.
Shing!
The demon’s energy scattered.
But it quickly reformed.
‘It passed through. Again?’
The Shaman’s attacks proved ineffective against the Demon.
The Demon’s face twisted grotesquely as it let out a piercing shriek and hurled its fist forward.
“Kiiiyaaaahahaha!”
Crash!
This time, Almond blocked it with his sword.
His body was still pushed back considerably, but his health remained intact.
[Health 70%]
Countless Demons rushed toward him.
Almond scattered talismans.
Whoosh!
Five or six talismans fluttered through the air and attached to the Demons.
Crackle!
Some Demons shot upward, while others froze in place as if trapped in a prison.
‘The talismans work.’
But it was only for an instant.
In less than 0.5 seconds, the Demons broke free and rushed toward Almond again.
A fist shrouded in dark energy came crashing down on Almond.
Since I’d bought myself that brief moment, I could throw my body to the side and evade.
Crash!
A massive handprint appeared where I had been standing, gouging the ground.
I tilted my head in confusion.
‘What is this.’
I couldn’t properly grasp the Demons’ attack patterns or their forms.
They were difficult enemies to overcome in every way.
‘Do I need something else?’
I rummaged through my bag while examining my items.
The Demons wouldn’t leave me alone.
“Kiiiyaaaaaaaa!”
They surged from the ground and descended from the sky to overwhelm me.
That was when it happened.
“Here too!”
[Wind Pressure Bomb]
Boom!
The Wind Pressure Bomb that Balloon Gum fired scattered the Demons in all directions.
The destructive force was so tremendous that even the surrounding ground was overturned.
-Wow
-Insane
-Dope
-Wind Pressure Bomb is crazy
-What is that!
Even this wind pressure blast merely sent the demons flying back.
‘The demons are fine.’
It didn’t deal any significant damage.
‘Then what about this.’
In that moment, Almond pulled out [Holy Water] from his bag.
It was something he’d grabbed from the warehouse where the Dokkaebi had been.
Whoosh!
He hurled the holy water toward the demons.
One of the thugs that had been reeling from the wind pressure blast took a direct hit from the holy water.
Sssssssss…!
It writhed in pain as if burned by acid.
“Screeeeeeeee…!”
-Ohhh
-That’s it, that’s the one
-Are we killing it with holy water
The massive black aura wavered and shrank, leaving the demon as small as a five-year-old child.
‘It’s not dead though?’
The problem was that it wasn’t dying.
Moreover, there were only three bottles of holy water.
Two left after using one just now.
This wasn’t a solution.
“You…you! I’ll kill you!”
The tiny demon stretched both its arms long, grabbed two citizens who hadn’t managed to escape, and began pulling them in.
“Kyaaaaa! P-please save us!”
“Let go! Let goooo!”
It began draining something from them.
The struggling citizens gradually lost their strength.
Slurp. Slurp.
The demon’s body grew large again.
Almond wanted to save the citizens, but the other demons rushed at him, swinging their fists wildly.
As if buying time for their fellow demon.
Coordinated movements.
[Meow Meow Punch donated 7,000 won.]
[If the demons are cooperating better, that deserves a thumbs up meow?]
-Meow lol
-Ugh what’s with that voice lol
-Thumbs up
-Almond just ignores Meow Meow Punch donations lol
-For real
The demons began a full-scale group assault.
“Die! Die!”
“Die, die, die, die!”
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!
Almond could block their attacks with his sword.
But the counterattacks I wove in had no effect whatsoever.
The pattern simply repeated—five demons unilaterally overwhelming Almond.
‘I’ll just have to evade and defend.’
The situation grew increasingly dire, but having abandoned all thoughts of counterattack, I deflected every assault.
It was thanks to focusing purely on defense.
“P-please! Please just one more hit!”
“Please!”
“How can we not land that!? Is this a bug!?”
Beyond the monitor, the Kim Kim Duo swung their fists just as frantically as the demons.
But Almond never got hit.
I didn’t use Spatial Compression either. If I did, the aggro would reset and they’d charge straight at Balloon Gum.
I had to keep the demons’ attention while I waited.
Demons are actually the type Suyeon should be handling.
According to Balloon Gum, she’d show up when the time came.
Why wasn’t she here?
I thought if I bought time, she’d appear.
Not even a trace of her.
“Brother! Let me go look for Suyeon!”
“What, what? She said she’d come when the time—”
Whoosh!
[Spatial Compression]
My body vanished in an instant.
I’d already repositioned toward the café entrance.
“W-wait, Mond! What about me!?”
The Monk couldn’t move that quickly.
“You… I’ll kill you!”
“Ehehehe!”
All the demons’ attention snapped toward Balloon Gum.
I’d anticipated this level of chaos.
‘I can just revive him.’
The Monk wasn’t much of a key asset right now anyway.
I needed to find Suyeon.
‘She might have run into Sang-gi Oh…’
Besides, Sang-gi Oh had also gone to the restroom.
It was possible Suyeon’s absence was because of him.

* * *
Almond rushed toward the restroom.
He headed straight for the men’s room.
Something felt off about Sang-gi Oh not returning—my instincts screamed that something was wrong.
CRASH!
I nearly tore the door off its hinges as I burst inside.
Water covered the entire floor.
“…!”
Slip!
I nearly lost my footing and skidded to an abrupt halt.
‘What’s with all this water?’
Something had clearly gone wrong in this restroom.
But then my gaze was stolen by something reflected in the water.
The silhouette of massive wings.
I lifted my head to look.
“!”
Enormous black wings filled the entire restroom.
The skin was a dark crimson, like dried blood caked on.
Massive horns like a water buffalo’s sprouted from its head.
[Unknown]
No name appeared, and with its back turned, I couldn’t see its face.
Yet I still knew exactly who it was.
“Sang-gi Oh….”
At the sound of his name, he slowly turned around.
His eyes were an abyss of darkness that seemed to pull you in.
Sickly yellow pupils pierced through that abyss and locked onto my gaze.
He spoke.
“Who are you? How much do you know? Why are you interfering with us?”
Us?
I scanned the area around Sang-gi Oh carefully.
Suyeon was pinned beneath his feet.
“O… Oppa!”
She spotted me and thrashed about wildly, shouting.
“I-I came because I knew something was suspicious here!? And look! I was right! Check this trash out! I found them! These scumbags!”
That’s so embarrassing.
“Are you a detective? lol”
-Wait, she infiltrated from the start??
Was that really the priority right now?
I was about to die.
Her next words would explain why she’d gone this far.
“If I catch this thug, people will definitely join the Exorcism Club, right!? Please help me out!”
You’re really committed to the club, huh? lol
Club enthusiast lol
Why are you so serious about the club? lol
-Is Sang-gi Oh too ugly to kill??
Suyeon, who seemed to have staked her entire life on the Exorcism Club.
Either way, I had to help her. She was the only one who could exorcise demons.
“Exorcism… club?”
Sang-gi Oh… no, something with wings and horns let out a bitter laugh.
“Club?”
He repeated it again, as if he couldn’t believe it.
“You dared to block the path of the Great One for such a trivial reason?”
Kugugugu…!
The air around Sang-gi Oh began to tremble. His sickly yellow eyes grew wider, and his wings spread out to both sides.
Whoosh!
Black demonic energy billowed forth, and an acrid sulfurous stench permeated the air.
‘This bastard is definitely on a different level.’
I sensed it instinctively.
This creature seemed to be at least at the level of the Four Heavenly Kings from the game.
“First, you die.”
He brought his heel down on Suyeon, who lay sprawled in the bathroom corridor.
Whoooosh─
With a sound like the air tearing, his heel struck down.
──CRASH!
An enormous shockwave erupted. The bathroom tiles peeled away and flew, and the door of a nearby stall fell helplessly off its hinges.
Truly superhuman destructive power, as if a typhoon had swept through.
Yet it was blocked by a blade.
[Shortcut Technique]
I stood between Suyeon and Sang-gi Oh, sword raised.
Tremble….
The blade trembled as if struggling to endure.
At that moment, Suyeon summoned a massive cross spear.
“Die!”
Her spear thrust forward.
It was a decent surprise attack, but.
Crack!
With a single flap of his wings, Sang-gi Oh deflected the spear away.
“Ugh!?”
I began to deduce the strategy from this exchange.
‘The wings.’
He drew a talisman in his hand that wasn’t gripping the sword.
‘I need to neutralize those wings.’
Sang-gi Oh blocked Suyeon’s attack with his wings. The Players probably needed to neutralize the wings to give Suyeon an opening to attack.
After all, the Christian faction should be the ones handling the demon type.
Whoosh!
Almond hurled the talisman toward the wings.
“You think something like that will work?”
He lifted his foot and spun around to kick it back.
──BOOM!
The talisman flew away helplessly under the tremendous wind pressure.
Every subsequent attempt followed the same pattern.
Whenever I threw the talisman, he’d generate wind with either his foot or hand, neutralizing it.
And Suyeon’s spear attacks were blocked by steel-like wings.
“Kyaa!?”
CRASH!
Suyeon was blown away by the wind beyond the blocked strike and hurled into a toilet stall.
‘Wait. Hold on.’
Almond realized something in that moment.
‘Could it be.’
He pulled incense from his pocket and lit it. It was a barrier fatal to ghost types.
“Pointless tricks.”
Poof!
Sang-gi Oh swung his arm and extinguished the flame.
The incense went out far too easily.
‘Oh….’
But Almond was actually pleased.
Tap!
At the same moment, he charged directly forward.
“Pathetic.”
Sang-gi Oh’s eyes gleamed as he unleashed a kick.
BOOM!
Tremendous wind pressure pushed me back.
Almond swung his sword.
Whoooosh!
The strange thing was that he swung the sword backward.
-Backwards?
-??
What is this lol
-Error?
“What are you doing? Swinging the sword backward─”
Just as Sang-gi Oh was about to mock me in confusion, Almond’s eyes gleamed with intensity.
[Spatial Shift]
Whoosh!
Almond appeared precisely behind Sang-gi Oh.
Now the blade’s trajectory was no longer aimed at his back.
It was aimed directly at Sang-gi Oh’s back.
“!?”
Sang-gi Oh couldn’t react at all.
The blade pierced straight through.
Between his wings, right through the gap.
Shhhhhhk!
[Health 84%]
‘It worked.’
I had a hunch it might.
The Shaman’s blade was effective against Sang-gi Oh too.
‘Shaman attacks land.’
That’s why he kept deflecting the talismans and quickly extinguishing the incense.
Apparently, this thug had tremendous attack power in exchange for a critical weakness—he takes damage from all attack types.
-Wow
-Sick
-Finally!
-Attacks actually land on this guy??
-Almond’s focus mode is unstoppable!
-Kyaa
-For once it feels like a proper strategy!?

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Novels. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————