Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 924

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 055
19. Act of God (1)
Balloon Gum truly cannot play games.
Truly, he cannot.
Someone once said:
“Kkeom is the best among those who are bad at games!”
That is not the case.
Because he is genuinely incompetent.
Even among incompetent players, he is incompetent.
Then why do people say such things?
“But he’s never failed to clear a game he’s attempted?”
It was because Balloon Gum had never encountered a game he couldn’t beat.
Generally, people attribute this to abstract qualities like perseverance, courage, and so forth.
It wasn’t that I failed to understand.
It was simply difficult to explain his complete clearance of every game from a rational perspective.
This matter required a certain kind of research.
Fortunately, such talent existed.
A scholar who could be called a doctor of Balloon Gum studies—one who constantly targeted only Balloon Gum, dissected and analyzed him, and perpetually made a fool of him.
[Pungsna]
It was Pungsna.
He had once left behind a famous saying.
“Balloon Gum is the best at being bad at things.”
Later, the industry interpreted this statement in two ways.
Either that he was genuinely, truly, very incompetent.
Or that he understood precisely how an incompetent player should perform.

* * *
Euk, euk, euk.
The demons slowly closed in around the bathroom entrance.
There was no longer any gap through which to escape.
“W-what are we going to do!?”
Suyeon shrieked, and she had every right to blame Balloon Gum.
“You dragged them all here! And now there’s no way out!?”
Balloon Gum was the one who had created this disaster. He’d been unable to handle the demons in the café hall and fled here, resulting in the worst possible situation.
-He’s got a point! Suka Cola!
You’re only harsh to Gum-hyung… lol
Right before getting kicked again lol
Balloon Gum knew it too.
‘It would’ve been better if we’d fought in the hall.’
The demons moved slowly, and each possessed a unique teleportation ability that let them suddenly appear from nowhere.
In a cramped space like this bathroom, there was no way to dodge such attacks.
And on top of that, there was Sang-gi Oh with those massive wings spread out….
‘Oh? Now that I think about it.’
Balloon Gum’s gaze turned toward Sang-gi Oh.
Sang-gi Oh.
I’d have to deal with him too. There’s no telling when he’ll regain consciousness.
The situation was more serious than I’d thought.
If we died here, it would be a complete massacre.
Balloon Gum racked his brain.
‘What should I do….’
“H-here they come!”
Meanwhile, the demons began their full assault.
“I’ll hold them off!”
Suyeon stepped forward, raising her shield.
The demons began swinging their long scythes.
Crash!
Crash!
A one-sided barrage continued.
“Ugh!”
Suyeon blocked with her shield as best she could, but she had no opening for a counterattack.
Their scythes were far longer and larger than her cross spear.
‘If I could just overcome the reach difference….’
It all came down to range.
If I could overcome that, I’d have a chance.
So Balloon Gum shouted.
“I’ll knock those demons toward you somehow! When I do, sweep them all away!”
“Should I shoot it?”
That was the plan.
If I utilized the wind pressure bullets well, I could not only push enemies back but also pull them forward.
As long as I could make the judgment land mysteriously behind them.
-That’s possible??
-Huh?
-How?
Isn’t that a lie? lol
Balloon Gum’s eyes glanced at the chat window. As expected, public opinion was cold.
‘It won’t be easy, but….’
Shooting a projectile with a judgment that flew directly in front of Suyeon wasn’t such a simple task.
Especially in a virtual reality game where everything was first-person, it wasn’t easy to calculate exactly where and what kind of judgment it was.
‘I can do it.’
Still, Balloon Gum had a plan.
‘This bounces once, doesn’t it?’
He knew from several wind pressure bullet shooting experiences.
That this wind pressure bullet wasn’t one-time use—it bounced once and blew away other places too.
‘If it’s over there….’
In other words, what if I shot the ceiling like playing billiards?
It would bounce once and land behind the demons.
‘I’m not good at billiards.’
Of course, whenever Balloon Gum played billiards, his wallet had to be donated to his friends that day.
But this wasn’t the time to worry about such things.
‘I have to do it. I need to show them.’
It was time to show something to those people in the chat who had been mocking me all along.
Whiiiiing….
Wind gathered as the staff pointed precariously toward the ceiling.
“If I bounce it and deliver it forward, you attack, okay?”
“…Yes, Mister! But do you know what my special ability is?”
Special ability? Balloon Gum’s eyes twitched as he was aiming.
“Huh? You have something like that?”
You have a special ability too?
Balloon Gum’s eyes trembled.
But why are you talking to me? I’m in the middle of aiming.
“Yes. Full Counter.”
“Counter? Counterattack?”
“For 3 seconds, I can reflect all omnidirectional attacks coming at me!”
Kwaboom!
Crash!
Even now, countless scythe strikes were being delivered to Suyeon’s shield.
There was something like that?
Maybe it can’t be used unless the player reports it to me in advance?
‘Wait.’
Balloon Gum thought he needed to revise his plan and lowered his staff again.
If something like that exists, there might be a better strategy…
‘Huh.’
[Wind Pressure Bullet]
Kwaaang!
“!”
Everything suddenly appeared in slow motion before Balloon Gum’s eyes.
‘Why did that go off?’
I have no idea why that activated.
It’s probably because of my stance and unconscious behavior. I took that posture without thinking.
The problem is the direction it went.
‘Damn it.’
It was aimed at Suyeon’s back.
It looked like it would hit her.
Instead of bringing the demon in front of her, I ended up bringing her in front of the demon.
But then another problem arose.
‘Huh?’
[Full Counter]
Suyeon suddenly cast a skill.
She must have thought this moment—right when I fired the Wind Pressure Bullet—was the perfect timing.
But sorry, she was wrong.
This is the worst.
Ting~!
The Wind Pressure Bullet reflected and came straight back.
‘Damn it.’
Balloon Gum’s eyes went wide.
In them, I could see it.
The Wind Pressure Bullet growing larger as it approached.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
The world turned white in an instant, and the scenery flipped upside down.
But it didn’t end there.
‘Again?’
Is this déjà vu?
The Wind Pressure Bullet comes once more.
That’s right.
Full Counter’s judgment window lasts three seconds.
Every attack that enters that space is reflected back.
But the speed at which the wind pressure bullets fly—isn’t that supersonic?
And it bounces once.
‘It bounced and got reflected again!?’
The wind pressure bullet hits Balloon Gum and bounces back toward Suyeon, then gets reflected again.
This entire sequence happens in roughly 0.1 to 2 seconds.
Boom!
In an instant, Balloon Gum took a double hit from the wind pressure bullets.
In fact, to a third party’s eyes, this process wasn’t even clearly visible.
It just looked like he got hit by the wind pressure bullet and flew much farther than expected.
-?
-??
Where are you shooting at? ~~
-What is this?
The problem was that it didn’t end there.
Boom, crash, boom!
Balloon Gum, already bouncing backward at an impossibly fast speed, slammed into the bathroom wall and bounced forward again.
Another wind pressure bullet appeared in his vision.
‘Wait, hold on. Again!?’
He couldn’t believe it.
How was this possible?
The wind pressure bullet should only bounce once.
‘Once it bounces and gets reflected, that should be it. Why again?’
He didn’t know.
No one knew.
Full Counter doesn’t actually reflect attacks—it absorbs them instead.
Then it duplicates that attack and fires it back.
In other words, the wind pressure bullet that came out from being reflected by Full Counter was a newly copied one.
This new wind pressure bullet could still bounce once more.
And the time it takes to fly in, get hit, and bounce back is 0.1 seconds.
Full Counter duration: 3 seconds.
Balloon Gum instinctively realized it.
‘I’m done for.’
He was about to take a minimum of 30 wind pressure bullets.
Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!!!
Caught in the madly swirling winds, Balloon Gum’s body could no longer bounce away—instead, he danced helplessly in mid-air.
-??
-??????
-What’s happening?
-Huh?
Well, reflected projectiles fly back like homing missiles to whoever threw them in the first place.
Fwooooosh—
No matter where Balloon Gum positioned himself, the projectile kept returning, and whenever it bounced, it went right back to Suyeon.
It was physically baffling why the projectile kept returning to Suyeon every time it bounced.
It seemed like the mechanism from that initial bounce was being continuously replicated.
In other words—
‘This is a bug!?’
-What?
lol
-A bug lolololol
-?
-Huh? lol
-What is this lol
-For real?
-???
──Fwooooooosh!
Even from a single hit, the wind pressure projectile flew chaotically.
In just a brief moment, it struck thirty times.
Compressed and bouncing in this cramped space.
Balloon Gum’s position kept changing in mid-air as if he were touring around the bathroom like a traveling performance.
He couldn’t even die.
Because allied attacks didn’t deal damage.
Fwooooosh!
Even Suyeon was startled by this bizarre combo.
“Ah, Mister…!?”
Once Full Counter was activated, it couldn’t be stopped before three seconds passed.
Fwooooosh!
The wind pressure projectile chased after Balloon Gum flying around the bathroom and struck him like a madman.
“Ugh—!?”
“Ahhhhh!?”
Bam bam bam bam bam!
The demons were shredded to pieces by the wind.
It was registered as damage from the wind Suyeon fired, not from the Monk’s attack.
“Ugh… uhhhhh…”
The viewers were dying of laughter watching Balloon Gum get ravaged and tossed around by the wind pressure projectile.
-Hahahahahaha
-What is this lololololol
-A bug lololol
-Haha my sides hurt lol
-What even is this lololol
Pababababababababat!
Regardless, the pressure bullets continued to pummel him, and Balloon Gum flew at an incredible velocity.
Most importantly, nothing remained in his wake.
-Lolol
-Skill: Balloon Gum becomes a god.
-Insane
-Vanishing with the wind…
That’s insane/crazy
He was literally pulverized and shredded.
That included Sang-gi Oh as well.
Kwakwakwakwang!!
A tremendous gust of wind tore through him.
“Ugh, gaahhh… W-what are you!?”
His health plummeted to zero in an instant.
[Health 0%]
Pwoosh!
Sang-gi Oh vanished in a burst of crimson flames.
Doodung.
[Quest “The Weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings” Complete!]
‘Huh?’
At that moment, the Full Counter duration ended.
But Balloon Gum happened to be flying toward Suyeon’s vicinity.
“!?”
Pwoosh!!!
Both Balloon Gum and Suyeon were struck by the pressure bullets simultaneously, launching them back with tremendous force.
“Kyaaah!”
“Ugh!”
They shot forward like rockets, their forms barely visible, and crashed into something.
It was a collision that should have produced an enormous sound.
Yet the sound effect was surprisingly subdued.
Pludunk…!
-??
-?
-Huh?
-What?
-Lololol
-Hahahahalol

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Thud.
When Balloon Gum finally stopped flying about in a daze.
Only then could I see clearly. When I was bouncing around wildly in the wind, the screen had turned pitch black due to some bug or something, and I couldn’t see anything at all.
‘The ground?’
It seemed I was lying on the ground.
Thinking it was finally over, I tried to stand up.
“W-what…?”
When Balloon Gum lifted his head.
There was nothing left around him.
The bathroom was gone, replaced only by a dark crimson background. I had no idea where this was.
“…W-what is this?”
Balloon Gum looked around in bewilderment, asking in a dumbfounded expression.
“Did everything fly away? Could it be the game that crashed?”
Hahahahahahaha
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
That’s a reasonable way to think about it lol
lol that’s funny
-ed
The demon of broadcasting lol
With all the surrounding background vanished like this, Balloon Gum thought the game’s graphics had crashed.
From his perspective of being blown around chaotically by the wind, it was understandable.
[Beginner Tip donated 10,000 won.]
[Is this cooperation!?]
A viewer who came from Almond’s room donated in shock to see what on earth was happening.
-Real legendary passing combo
Hahaha lol
-This is real cooperation check out the combo
Cooperation lol
What’s with that? lol
Boom!
[ㄷㄷ donated 100,000 won.]
Real game busters lol
Threw the game away lol
Haha, seriously
Everything flies away.
It looks like a corrupted assignment file that won’t save lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
“Ah, what if the save really crashed…”
Balloon Gum looked around in confusion, then turned to look behind him.
“!?”
A massive demonic Yokai stood facing off against Almond.
‘Almond?!’
That’s right.
Doodung.
[Final Stage – The Abyss of the Mastermind]
He had arrived as well.
At the final stage.

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