Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 920

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 051
17. The Glitch Demon (3)
“What, what!? Just now. How did you do that!?”
Moving behind Sang-gi Oh, Almond’s blade flashes out in an instant.
In a sense, it’s just a spatial shift followed by a single strike.
But it’s as if several frames were skipped—the intermediate motion is entirely omitted.
The moment he appeared, the sword was already embedded in his back.
“…?”
Manager Kim’s eyes widened in stunned silence.
‘Insane.’
Almond’s combat ability, properly unleashed.
Though this is merely the first stage, it’s terrifying.
‘This isn’t some PC game era input buffering. How is this even possible?’
Almond was employing an input buffering technique that had been considered nearly impossible to utilize since games transitioned into virtual reality.
“Is this how he’s supposed to fight?”
Hardly.
“Ah… Yes. This is the first climax, after all.”
Manager Kim brushes past it casually.
The fight with Sang-gi Oh is indeed the climax.
The problem is, judging by Sang-gi Oh’s reaction speed and combat power, he shouldn’t be allowing attacks to land so easily.
‘Let him enjoy it….’
But Manager Kim decides not to inform Kim Gwajang.
He’s already delighted that a proper combat scene is finally unfolding.
There’s no reason to ruin it.
“This looks pretty good, doesn’t it? Huh?”
The combat certainly delivers more than what the developers envisioned.
Almond’s fighting is so fast-paced that it’s even more thrilling than the concept footage.
“Wow… This is no joke?”
Kim Gwajang was immersed in the game for perhaps the first time.
Rather than caring who wins or loses, his eyes are captivated by the combat itself.
‘Damn….’
Yet cold sweat was trickling down Manager Kim’s forehead.
‘Could it be… that he defeats Sang-gi Oh this easily?’
Watching the current fight, even phase two seems slightly precarious.
Of course, even if Sang-gi Oh dies here, they won’t find the mastermind, so they’ll definitely return to the save point and retry.
From Manager Kim’s perspective, this could be a favorable development.
But that’s too one-dimensional a way of thinking.
‘This is the game’s first climax.’
Think about the game’s advertising.
If the development suddenly shows Sang-gi Oh being beaten down in a bathroom like this, it fundamentally undermines the game’s promotional direction.
‘That’s right… I can’t kill it. No, even if I kill it, I can’t break it.’
I cast the spell upon myself.
For some reason, Manager Kim felt uneasy.
Looking at that attitude charging toward me now, anyone could see there was no intention of returning to a save point.

* * *
[Spatial Stride]
Whoosh!
My new form appeared, targeting Sang-gi Oh’s back.
The moment I materialized, my blade flashed as I slashed across Sang-gi Oh’s back.
Screech!
A massive wound appeared across his crimson skin.
Boom!
Sang-gi Oh swung his wings again, blasting me backward with the wind pressure.
“Your spiritual power is far too low. How is this possible?”
Sang-gi Oh looked quite shocked.
“What… are you.”
“I am Almond Lord.”
“….”
Hahahahaha
Ugh, haha
Your naming sense is hilarious lol
-Haha
“Is the berserker warrior okay?”
-Kek
-Ah… I’m Almond Lord.
Sang-gi Oh began to recognize Almond—no, Almond Lord—as a proper opponent.
“Not an ordinary shaman, then.”
At first, he hadn’t gone all out because of the low spiritual power.
But now that we were engaged, he seemed to have judged that he couldn’t win without fighting seriously.
“I’ll face you properly.”
Kuoooooh…!
Fierce winds wrapped around him.
I too was burning with the resolve to end this here.
In my eyes, only my blade and Sang-gi Oh existed.
Flash.
‘Head-on first.’
Shing!
The Rubisword tore through the wind current and forced its way in.
Sang-gi Oh swung his arm.
A powerful gust of wind collided with my blade.
Crash!
The sword vibrated as if it might be torn from my grip, and my balance wavered.
But the moment my blade moved—
[Spatial Shift]
—Whoosh!
I instantly changed position and unleashed a flurry of strikes.
Directly behind Sang-gi Oh.
Slash!
The blade came down again, but Sang-gi Oh refused to fall for the same trick twice.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
Sang-gi Oh moved preemptively as well.
He spun backward and unleashed a wind pressure that drove me back.
Boom!
I was pushed back, but immediately kicked off the wall and charged forward again.
Another blade strike flew toward him.
“Interesting?”
Sang-gi Oh’s eyes gleamed as he burst forth wind to repel me.
Crash!
[Spatial Shift]
I vanished once more.
Pop!
This time I appeared from below in a low stance.
“From below?”
Sang-gi Oh’s eyes twitched.
Whoosh!
My blade thrust upward from below.
An angle that couldn’t be blocked easily.
However—
“Begone.”
His eyes blazed crimson, and wind spiraled across his entire body.
He unleashed everything outward in all directions.
——Boom-crash-crash-crash!!!
The bathroom stall dividers, tiles, and pipes all exploded from the erupting wind pressure.
I was sent flying backward, and my hat was torn from my head.
“Haa… haa…”
He wouldn’t yield as easily as before.
I discarded my hat hanging from my neck and paused to catch my breath.
Sang-gi Oh circled slowly around me without pressing his attack.
A brief reconnaissance exchange.
Whoooosh…
Water surged up from various points throughout the bathroom, its pipes now completely ruptured.
-Yikes
-Was this game like this??
-Almond Lord’s style is insane!
-Suddenly got serious
-I’m scared, Almond…
-Damn
-The impact oof
The viewers’ chat slowed as everyone focused intently on the clash between these two.
This was essentially the greatest obstacle since I started playing Ghost Busters.
‘Again.’
Splash!
I kicked off the water’s surface and charged forward once more.
Sang-gi Oh dragged his foot across the lower area.
Whoooosh!
Water erupted like a fountain, obscuring my vision.
Crash!
My blade cut through the white foam, but—
Sang-gi Oh was gone.
In that instant, my eyes slowly tracked downward.
‘Below?’
Sang-gi Oh crouched low, his fist clenched.
An uppercut.
Whoooosh!
Tremendous wind pressure exploded outward as a massive spray of water shot upward.
“…?”
If it had connected, the destructive force would’ve embedded me in the ceiling instantly.
But—
[Spatial Stride]
—Whoosh!
I repositioned behind Sang-gi Oh. Simultaneously, my body rotated as I slashed horizontally.
Crash!
“!”
The blade found its mark.
Another horizontal wound carved across his crimson back.
Sang-gi Oh’s own water spray had obscured his vision, leaving him vulnerable to my counterattack.
-Yikes
-Who unlocked Almond’s Rubisword
-Damn
-The Man Who Defeated Jeon-ja-pa’s AI
“Wow….”
Suyeon sat crouched in a corner of the bathroom, marveling at the scene.
I needed to find some way to intervene, but I couldn’t see any opening whatsoever.
Boom!
The ceiling collapsed, and the shockwave shattered every window.
Whoosh!
Evading it, I seized another gap with my spatial stride technique.
There was absolutely no room for anyone else to slip into their battle.
Yet sometimes, even when there’s no opening, someone finds a way to squeeze in anyway.
You know the type—that oblivious person who always shows up in every group, right?
Like this person entering now.
Bang—
The bathroom door burst open, and a familiar voice rang out.
“──Mond, you idiot!”
It was Balloon Gum.
He’d fled from the café, unable to endure the relentless assault from the demons any longer.
“!?”
My eyes widened in shock.
‘Why are you here?’
There were two major problems with this situation.
First, he’d brought a trail of demons with him.
Second, the bathroom floor was slippery.
For some reason I couldn’t fathom, Balloon Gum was casting his wind pressure blast.
Slip—
“Mond… ugh!?”
He skidded across the bathroom floor helplessly.
[Wind Pressure Blast]
Bang.
The wind pressure blast fired off.
Boom!
The projectile curved at a bizarre angle.
A wind pressure curve shot that clearly wasn’t intended by the developers.
‘Huh?’
Even I couldn’t react—it followed a trajectory that defied all physics.
And here was one more problem.
I was using my spatial stride technique at that moment.
‘What?’
Boom!
The wind pressure blast struck me directly.
The Spatial Shift technique was incredibly dangerous depending on the angle and direction of its application.
Think about it—what if I suddenly teleported and materialized inside a concrete wall?
Instant death.
That’s why the Spatial Shift required meticulous control.
Even for someone like me, facing an unexpected variable that appeared so suddenly.
Once the Spatial Shift was already cast in that split second, there was nothing I could do about it.
Poof!
I simply vanished.
That’s right.
I literally disappeared somewhere.
-?
-??
-What?
-Huh
-Huh???
-Balloon Gum is trolling lololol
-Ah
“Oppa!?”
Suyeon’s eyes widened first as she jumped to her feet.
“M… Mond?”
At first, no one knew where I had disappeared to with the Spatial Shift.
“L-look! Isn’t it over there!?”
Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle…!
One of the toilet stalls in the bathroom.
Water and foam were bubbling up unusually violently from that location.
Balloon Gum’s chat exploded.
-OMG lololololol
-Lmaooooo
-Did Almond actually fall into a toilet???
-Hahahaha
-This is insanelol
-The second Zombie School incident lol
The broadcast demon bubblegum lol
“…Huh?”
Even Sang-gi Oh tilted his head as he stared at the toilet.
He had suddenly lost his target after fighting so intensely, which was bewildering.
Of course, since he was an AI, he could only express this situation with predetermined phrases.
“You… what is your identity?”
Asking the toilet for its identity was the best he could manage.
-Me? I’m a toilet
-Hahahahahaha
-We have to ask
-The god of broadcasting
-Seriously, what’s your real identity, Kkeom? Hahahaha
-I’m going crazy hahahaha

* * *
“No way!?”
The Kim Kim Duo.
They would probably remember this moment for the rest of their lives.
Perhaps it was the greatest moment of their corporate careers.
That demonic Streamer Almond, who with such low spiritual power was pushing Sang-gi Oh around as if to pummel him senseless.
The moment he didn’t just land a hit on him, but completely took him down.
Glug, glug, glug…!
Almond’s screen suddenly filled with white ceramic, then engulfed in foam before plunging into darkness.
The demon of broadcasting defeating the demon of interviews.
This moment of annihilation!
How could they ever forget this?!
“I believed in you! Kkeom, yeeeeeah!!”
Manager Kim nearly wailed as he roared at the top of his lungs.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
Manager Kim, who had been worried the entire time, let out a victorious roar.
Their spirits were at an all-time high.
“Kyahahahahaha! Choosing Balloon Gum was truly the right call! Manager Kim!”
“Of course! Absolutely! That’s right!”
However, they did not know.
How much it hurts to fall from a great height.
Thud.
With a sound like that, Almond fell somewhere.
Vision began to return to Almond’s broadcast.
[What. I survived?]
Soaked to the bone, he was somehow still alive.
[Where am I?]
This wasn’t inside the toilet or anywhere like that.
“…?”
The expressions of the Kim Kim Duo, who had been embracing each other in joy, slowly hardened.
As if trying to accept this situation as late as possible, neither of them opened their mouths.
They simply lowered their arms back down slowly and walked toward the monitor with vacant expressions.
Boom.
On that monitor screen, a message appeared along with the sound of a drum.
[Final Chapter – The Abyss of the Mastermind]
A man seated in an enormous chair slowly lifts his head.
Kuoooooh…
A design that, to anyone’s eyes, appeared far more formidable than any entity witnessed before.
His crimson eyes gleamed as he spoke in a low murmur.
[To think you’ve come this far… Almond.]
It was precisely what the Kim Kim Duo wanted to say.
“What… what is this? To come this far. This is a dream right now, isn’t it? Right?”
“Did we… perhaps fall asleep for a moment?”
I couldn’t believe it.
Almond had gone straight to the final boss of this game.
-??
-What?
-Is this the boss stage??
-Lolol is this real??? Lolol
-Connected through a toilet??
-Insane lolol
-Wow Balloon Gum lololol
-The god of broadcasting lololol
The mastermind asks.
[Who are you.]
The answer to this came instead from one of the donations pouring in.
*Ding!*
[BigSon has donated 1,000,000 won.]
[Glitch Demon.]

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