Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 921

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 052
18. The Cult Leader vs The Shaman (1)
The Kim Kim Duo’s despair, the modeling department gathering… and so on.
Despite this unprecedented crisis, the Ghostu Busters advertisement was sailing along with its own unique flavor.
No, surprisingly, it was doing quite well.
[Current Viewers: 189,000]
Nearly 190,000 viewers were watching this game.
The fundamental requirement of ‘volume’ had been met.
It wasn’t just about having a large number of viewers.
The unique and peculiar gameplay was generating significant buzz in the community.
[Is this that Aghwi Rocket game??]
People might not know Ghostu Busters, but they knew about Aghwi Rocket.
I can’t translate this as it’s not a complete word or phrase in Korean. The characters “ㅇㅇ” are typically used as a placeholder or censoring symbol in Korean text, similar to “○○” or “XX” in English.
-Try searching “GotuBu”
Hungry ghost rocket lol
-Is this a comedy game? Worth playing?
└I just downloaded it and I’m playing now. It’s actually well-made. The game failed because the people advertising it are Busters
Suyeon’s “ugly as hell kick” also spread throughout the community.
[What game is that where you see the ugly as hell kick in the screenshot? I want to get kicked too…]
-That’s Ghostu Busters
Why are you like that lol
-It’s an overhead kick though.
└Why? Because Kkeom’s head is big?
“No?? I mean no… just kidding lol”
Lol my head’s too big so it’s overheating hahahaha
The head’s going over, lol
That guy’s hilarious lol
Haha, that’s ridiculous
Though the manner of mentions was somewhat strange, what mattered in advertising was getting the name out there.
Making people aware came first.
Making them like it came second.
Isn’t that why noise marketing exists as a strategy?
From that perspective, the Ghostu Busters advertisement was showing signs of considerable success.
Even if they were going to clear an advertisement they expected to enjoy for at least a month in just two days.
If they could just smoothly clear the game this way, it seemed like the advertisement could be called successful.
Yes.
Manager Kim and Manager Kim had briefly harbored such dreams.
“Right. This is enough.”
“This much is already….”
Even as the situation spiraled into a muddy mess.
Their dreams were blossoming precariously.
Of course….
*Splat!*
Almond crushed it without hesitation.
After all, I had endured the humiliation of crawling through toilet pipes to reach this place.
After all, I was a flower blooming in the mud(?).
“Uh… what is this place.”
Almond stood up in bewilderment.
*Boom.*
[Final Stage – The Abyss of the Mastermind]
‘Huh?’
I realized I had reached the final stage of this game.

* * *
“No, no, no, no, no!!”
Surprisingly, this scream did not belong to the Kim Kim Duo.
It was from a different duo.
“Big brother, brother, brother!!”
The Priest and the Monk.
Suyeon and Balloon Gum.
These two were the ones screaming.
“Oh, oh no! Almond oppa! The, the toilet!!”
“Mond, Mond!!”
The two were calling out to Almond at the innocent toilet.
But there was no way an answer would come back.
Hahahahaha lol hahahaha
The situation is hilarious lolol
What is this, haha
Hahahahaha
Unlike the two who were desperately searching, the chat window was filled with ‘ㅋㅋㅋ’.
A stark contrast in reactions.
And among them, there was someone like this.
*Ding.*
[Newbie donated 5,000 won.]
[Um… I just arrived. What’s happening? Did Almond turn into a toilet?]
hahahaha for real
I’m dying laughing haha
-I guess so
-ed
-That’s what happened…
Hahahahaha lol
How am I supposed to explain this? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
These were viewers who had just caught wind of the Ghost Busters king incident and rushed in.
For them to properly understand the situation was as difficult as comprehending a Picasso painting at a glance.
But was it a blessing in disguise?
This situation wasn’t only confusing for the viewers who had just arrived.
Sang-gi Oh was in the same boat.
He too had glitched.
“What… are you?”
He kept questioning the toilet about its identity, barely paying attention to Suyeon and Balloon Gum.
It seemed he had been far too absorbed in his battle with Almond.
Ding.
[Seoul Arts High School donated 10,000 won.]
[Artwork Title: Fountain – Marcel Duchamp]
Haha, that’s it.
-Modern art piece!
Wow, this is seriously top-tier lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So that’s why Duchamp…
-Marcel Achard lol
Some viewers were even comparing Sang-gi Oh’s contemplation of the toilet’s identity to a work of art.
The current situation was that bizarre.
‘Wait.’
It was here that Balloon Gum discovered something even more bizarre and unsettling.
His eyes filled with betrayal.
“You….”
The gaze was directed at Suyeon.
“…Why are you normal?”
-?
-Huh?
-??
-Wait
-lol so much lol
“What? I fought Sang-gi Oh too, didn’t I? I’m only fine because Almond oppa took over halfway through.”
“No, no… that’s not what I mean….”
That wasn’t what Balloon Gum was trying to say.
“When I got hit by Aghwi, I miscalculated my coordinates and threw the ugliest kick ever! So why are you understanding the situation perfectly right now?!”
That’s right. Even though Sang-gi Oh had glitched, Suyeon hadn’t glitched at all and was searching for Almond.
She had even perfectly grasped that Almond’s coordinates had shifted to the toilet, and she seemed to know that he was caught in an abnormal phenomenon.
Balloon Gum couldn’t help but feel betrayed.
hahahahahaha
Haha, seriously though lol
-Don’t be salty lol
-Wait, is this really something to argue about??
-Even something working fine would break at this rate lol
At those words, Suyeon’s eyes wavered uncontrollably.
She couldn’t understand what he meant.
“Hmm… that’s about right.”
She seemed to mumble some meme that was loaded into her mind carelessly, but to Balloon Gum, it was far too perfectly timed.
“You, you’re not an NPC, right!? Huh?”
-Ugly lol the preservation level is about this much lol
ㅠㅠ (crying/sad emoticon)
-Stop it lol
-Hmm that’s about right lol
-The Matrix lol
-And then he gets hit with a triple axel kick again
-What’s up with Suyeon lol

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[Final Stage – The Abyss of the Mastermind]
Boom.
The moment this text appeared on the monitor.
Manager Kim instinctively realized that his corporate life had also reached its final chapter.
“This is… this is…”
This is truly the end.
I’ve tried to fuel my hope circuits with whatever justification I could find until now.
“This is the end, isn’t it?”
It really is the end.
Because I’ve literally arrived at the final boss stage.
“Huh?”
Pfft.
It wasn’t laughter.
It was the sound of air escaping from Manager Kim’s weakened vocal cords.
I’d been cheering so hard for Balloon Gum and Sang-gi Oh with clenched fists until just now.
And suddenly this conclusion comes about.
Just moments ago, I was delighted thinking they’d fallen into a trap.
I even thought they’d achieved a perfect victory by falling into a toilet through spatial warping.
I thought I’d finally reached the summit. I thought I’d defeated the highest mountain, Almond Lord.
But ahead was a cliff.
The pain from falling from such a height was indescribable.
Thump.
Manager Kim collapsed onto the floor instead of a chair.
“M-Manager!?”
“This… what is this? Huh? From what I can see, our company is finished. Because I took on that Almond advertisement…”
Gulp.
Manager Kim swallowed hard.
Is this the end?
‘No.’
Actually, Manager Kim didn’t think so. I understood that Almond had reached the final boss stage.
But—
“No, sir.”
“…What?”
Manager Kim lifted his head weakly, as if asking what I meant.
“It’s not the end.”
“Ha…?”
His eyes were speaking for him.
Don’t give me hope anymore… it only makes the despair deeper…
Still, Manager Kim had to speak.
Because it was the truth!
“Almond fell alone! The boss can’t be defeated without cooperation!”
At the hopeful cry spoken with vigor, Manager Kim’s expression twisted.
“What!?”
Well, Manager Kim’s words looked to him like little children shouting, ‘Our dad is Superman! We’ll win everything!’ It was that kind of thing.
Far too naive a thought.
“Hey, you… Manager Kim! Throughout this entire game progression! Hasn’t this game been saying ‘Cooperate! You can’t defeat it without cooperation!’!?”
Manager Kim had experienced far too much to maintain such naivety.
“Th… that’s why we defeated Aghwi through cooperation, right?”
“!?”
What? Aghwi…?
How dare you speak that name in the same breath!?
Manager Kim’s eyes nearly rolled back before he lost all strength and lowered his head.
“That’s enough. That’s enough.”
“No, I’m serious! Even Sang-gi Oh tried to defeat him alone and fought evenly, but in the end Almond lost, didn’t he?”
“…?”
At the mention of the battle with Sang-gi Oh, Manager Kim lifted his head.
‘Now that I think about it.’
That Almond Lord couldn’t defeat Sang-gi Oh alone either.
Of course, that was because he fell into a toilet during the fight, but regardless, he did struggle against Sang-gi Oh.
The final boss would naturally be stronger than Sang-gi Oh.
By simple calculation, there’s no way Almond, who couldn’t defeat Sang-gi Oh, could defeat the boss alone.
“Even Sang-gi Oh is the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings!”
“…Really?”
A fleeting glimmer of hope flickered across Manager Kim’s eyes.
Manager Kim didn’t miss that.
“M-moreover! If you die here, do you know where the save point is?”
“!”
Save point.
The moment he mentioned it, Manager Kim’s instincts kicked in.
He realized he might pay the price all at once for playing the game however he pleased up until now.
“From what I can tell, these people would have to go back to at least when they were chosen by Sang-gi Oh at the Model Club. But even that might not have been saved because they played so recklessly. In the worst case, Act 2 beginning.”
“Act 2 beginning?”
Where was that again?
“Yes. When you killed Aghwi and interviewed the children at the hospital. You’d have to go back to then.”
“!”
Manager Kim sat back down in his chair.
“There’s still one last reversal left.”
Chuckle.
He gritted his teeth again, consumed by the thirst for revenge.
“Yes. Since it’s a training camp meta, right? The one who laughs last is the victor. Because they played the game however they wanted, the saves got messed up too. There’s one chance. One absolutely massive chance.”
This had truly become a proper roguelike game—the kind where you start from the beginning once you die.
No matter how much they called themselves game busters, if the save point reverted that far, they’d be in serious trouble.
“Rather, they went to the boss unprepared, and now the opportunity has come!”
I see.
Perhaps that old saying about fortune and misfortune was referring to this.
Skipping the process all at once, it’s coming back around like this.
They hadn’t cleared the game quickly—they’d simply missed the opportunity to grow.
The manager finally smiled and sat back down in his chair.
“That’s…worth looking forward to, isn’t it?”
Pop.
He cracked open a fresh beer can and steeled his resolve.
Just then, on the monitor, the cutscene with the boss had ended and the real battle was about to begin.
[Evil Cult Leader – Jinmyeongsu]
Roooaaarrr!
Black lightning surged around the boss, and wings unfurled.
Just at a glance, the design was reassuring, overwhelmingly powerful-looking.
Even by Almond’s physiognomy deduction theory, it was certain this creature was the strongest entity.
“That’s right. People shouldn’t carelessly abandon hope!”
“Exactly. It’s not over yet, is it?”
“But….”
Gulp, gulp.
Manager Kim gulped down his beer before turning to Manager Kim with a question.
“Sang-gi Oh was the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings, right?”
“Yes.”
“There were Four Heavenly Kings?”
“….”
“Where did the other three go?”
“Well, it’s not exactly four—more like two or three heavenly kings, roughly….”
“So where did those two or three go?”
“….”
Manager Kim simply closed his mouth.
“Let’s just watch the game for now.”

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