Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 927

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 058
20. Ghost Busters (1)
The playtime has surpassed eight hours.
It was already well past midnight.
For internet broadcasting, this was prime time, but for most people, it was not.
Most were preparing for tomorrow or collapsing from exhaustion into sleep. Especially for office workers at large corporations, this was even more true. Unless there was overtime, they would simply be sleeping at this hour.
Yet despite this, there were a few who kept their eyes wide open and stayed awake.
“See… I told you I’d break through the peak.”
“Y-you really did break through.”
Cheese, a newly launched domestic live streaming platform.
And Paprika, the established domestic live streaming platform.
“Hoo… I’m going to need to raise the valuation quite a bit, aren’t I?”
They were each watching Almond’s broadcast after work for different reasons, unable to fall asleep.
With the surging viewer count, they couldn’t sleep at all, their bloodshot eyes fixed on their phones.
Because his evaluation would shift moment by moment through this broadcast today.
“If this continues, he’ll truly be right after Jello….”
Cheese was assessing Almond’s growth potential, gauging how properly they could recruit him.
“He could essentially become Cheese’s keystone.”
Paprika was either trying to poach Almond from Cheese or raise his value as much as possible to inflict damage.
[Current Viewers: 203,000]
Doodung.
The joint broadcast of Balloon Gum and Almond, which broke through 200,000 viewers the moment they entered the boss stage.
From that moment on, they bolted upright from their beds and completely gave up on sleeping.
Clackclackclack.
Each frantically organizing something on their keyboards, they too spend the night awake alongside the streamer.

* * *
Crack!
Manager Kim, Manager Kim.
The two of them pressed their palms together.
“Please.”
“Spirit of the wind… have mercy upon us…”
Even the CEO watching them had already clasped his hands together.
“Oh… please.”
There was a reason they all performed the same action.
Because this was all they could do now.
The final stage, the final boss’s final phase.
There was nowhere left to retreat.
Whoosh…!
The last spark of hope ignited there.
[Suyeon! Full counter!]
An act of God.
Balloon Gum.
He was attempting something.
This was their only hope.
Only he could alter this world line.
If his act of God descended just once more, for our sake!
Then even that great demon Almond would be helpless.
Whiiiing…!
Balloon Gum rushed forward, wind energy gathering at his staff.
Manager Kim shouted urgently.
“That wind pressure bullet won’t work like the bathroom did! The spatial dimensions are completely different to begin with! Bouncing back for infinite duplication is absolutely impossible! It’ll only end up interfering with Almond!”
“A-are you certain!?”
“Of course! It won’t be like last time!”
But it could turn out differently.
Honestly, no one knew what kind of ripple effect striking the wind pressure bullet against the full counter would cause.
Not even the development team hastily summoned just now.
That’s why they were all praying.
That the unknown something they couldn’t comprehend would take their side.

* * *
Almond had no idea what had happened in the bathroom.
He didn’t know how Balloon Gum and Suyeon had managed to kill Sang-gi Oh and make it down here.
‘Did they just come through the toilet the same way?’
He simply assumed they had squeezed their way in through the toilet.
But the principle of a glitch wasn’t that simple.
The Patriarch wasn’t actually positioned in the septic tank beneath the toilet. It was somewhere entirely different. In fact, it had nothing to do with the toilet at all.
The toilet was merely like a door opening to another dimension, and how this place connected through the gaps of that dimension remained unknowable. It was an anomaly that could only occur because this was a game.
If Almond had known this, he would have found it far more suspicious when Balloon Gum and Suyeon appeared.
And he would have understood what they were trying to do now.
“Suyeon! Full Counter!!”
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud…!
Balloon Gum was charging forward, shouting at the top of his lungs.
‘Is he trying to attack?’
Almond knew Balloon Gum well.
He had been watching his streams for a long time.
So he understood his intentions.
‘He wants to show off.’
He wanted to show off.
That intention was actually quite noble.
Showing off meant wanting to contribute to defeating the boss, and that would lead to clearing the stage.
The timing was even good.
Since he had just become a Yokai type, it made sense for Balloon Gum to step up.
‘I should switch to support.’
The Shaman should help Balloon Gum by providing support with talismans and the like.
This was also a textbook-perfect judgment.
However, Almond had forgotten one crucial fact.
Balloon Gum’s intentions and the results he actually produced had no correlation whatsoever.
“Full Counter!”
Suyeon shouted and raised her shield.
A shimmering sphere flashed once around her.
‘Huh?’
That’s when Almond noticed something odd.
‘Why is he charging forward?’
Wind Pressure Bullet was a long-range bombardment skill.
It was the perfect skill for Balloon Gum, who feared stepping forward and engaging in close-range combat.
Yet he was charging forward while trying to use it.
It wasn’t as if he was using Wind Pressure Strike either. Using such a massive skill with that kind of motion against the Patriarch would be absurd.
It was definitely Wind Pressure Bullet. But he was using it while charging forward.
[Wind Pressure Bullet]
Crash!
Balloon Gum practically hurled himself at Suyeon as he fired a pressure blast.
‘Huh?’
Anyone could see he was aiming directly at Suyeon.
‘What is this. Exactly.’
It was no accident.
Just look at Balloon Gum’s expression.
“Ahahaha! I’ve become a god──”
He was laughing.
He even claimed he’d become a god.
‘What god?’
The answer came swiftly.
──Crash!
The pressure blast suddenly whirled violently.
That was it.
It was more accurate to say the pressure blast was whirling, not the wind itself.
Through some mechanism even Almond’s tracking vision struggled to follow, the pressure blast was moving and whirling multiple times in an instant.
‘What, what in the world is this.’
Almond’s imagination fell far short of grasping that mechanism at a glance.
-??
-Huh?
-What?
-?
Why are you like this, Suyeon? Haha
The viewers only now realized something was wrong.
All these events had unfolded in a single instant.
It happened in barely two or three seconds.
In this very moment, less than a second later, the pressure blast was striking Balloon Gum, then bouncing back to Suyeon, then striking Balloon Gum again.
The tremendous force of wind formed between Balloon Gum and Suyeon felt like nothing less than a blender made of wind itself.
“Ugh, ah-ah-ah, ah-ah! W-wait, move!?”
Balloon Gum flailed within it like swimming, gradually beginning to move the blender.
Crash!
The waves of that typhoon-like wind gradually shifted.
Only then did Almond understand why Balloon Gum claimed he’d become a god.
This was certainly tremendous power.
The problem was it wasn’t power that could be controlled at all.
Divine power dwelling in a child’s body—that was what it resembled.
Almond sensed the danger and ran in the opposite direction.
But to make matters worse.
In this absurd chaos, the enemy wasn’t staying still either.
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
The Patriarch, now transformed into a Yokai, scatters what appears to be spirit orbs everywhere.
It was a pattern I had never seen before.
Fwoomp!
They mixed into the wind that Balloon Gum had created, bouncing erratically in all directions. Completely unpredictable.
They flew this way, then that way; they went that way, then came this way.
A pattern already difficult to evade now closed in from all sides with UFO-like, nonsensical movements.
Almond had no choice but to use a skill here.
[Spatial Contraction]
Whoosh—
Where his form had vanished, countless spirit orbs pierced through and detonated.
——Kwa-boom-boom-boom-boom!
The ground cracked and shattered.
Swirling dust and clouds of spirit energy mixed with the wind, becoming a pitch-black storm.
My vision was progressively consumed.
-What the heck is this lol
-What even is this
-Seriously
-???
Suyeon’s Full Counter lasted only 3 seconds, but for Almond, this entire process felt like an eternity.
Kwa-boom-boom-boom…
There were still spirit orbs that hadn’t detonated yet.
They swirled around Almond like flower petals, shredding everything.
“Ugh.”
Swish.
Almond barely deflected the attack, his robe fluttering wildly.
But there existed angles from which escape was absolutely impossible.
“Kaaaaaagh!”
‘Huh?’
The Patriarch was also being shredded by the wind and flying about, and because of that, spirit orbs were fired from right in front of me.
Here too, Almond had no choice but to rely on a skill.
[Clone Technique]
Clone Technique.
The moment the Clone Technique is activated, when the body is copied into multiple forms, there is a brief moment of invincibility.
I use this instant to evade the attack.
But then, it happened.
Whiiiish!
“!?”
Somehow the wind had already consumed the space where Almond was.
‘Wait? When did I…’
Before I knew it, I was already flying without realizing it.
Regardless, the Clone Technique activated.
Boom.
Six clones of me appeared.
But because of the wind, all the clones were born scattered in chaotic positions.
One of them was born right next to Suyeon.
In other words, it had entered Suyeon’s Full Counter range.
‘?’
Pwoosh.
…Boom.
I, who was sensitive to numbers and had excellent dynamic vision, had a sudden realization here.
Another clone had been created.
‘What?’
Suyeon had essentially reflected the Clone Technique.
When the clone born from my Clone Technique was hit by Full Counter, the technique was reflected back, creating another clone.
‘Oh.’
That’s a nice gain.
I tried to control the clones roughly with that thought.
I had to deal with this yokai that had fallen right in front of me.
But then─
‘What?’
I couldn’t control it.
It wouldn’t move.
The problem started here.
The clone used the Clone Technique again.
Pwoosh-boom-boom-boom!
“What!?”
-??
-Huh?
-What?
-???
-Bug?
Suyeon’s Full Counter had ended, and Balloon Gum’s wind rampage had ended.
But the Clone Technique had not.
The newly born clone used the Clone Technique again, and the clone born that way used it too.
Six clones are created each time a clone is born.
It was the same for clones using the Clone Technique.
The newly created clones spawned six more, and those six spawned six more.
What the heck lol
The speed is insane lol
Ugh, that’s ridiculous lol
The frame drop is insane lol
Almonds are getting photocopied~ lol
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/haha)
-If we clear Civil M with this, do we win the championship?
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain non-standard characters or corrupted text that doesn’t form coherent Korean words.
Boom. Fwoom. Fwubwuboom.
The pace accelerates steadily.
Fwubwubwubwubwubwuboom!
It wasn’t just that Almond became uncontrollable—the entire world itself stuttered and froze.

* * *
Crash!
Balloon Gum slammed into the ground.
“Huff… huff…”
He caught his breath, lifted his head, and shouted to the viewers.
“How was that? Everyone. No joke, right? The Patriarch got shredded, didn’t he?”
In truth, the Patriarch hadn’t taken any damage at all. He’d simply been knocked around by so many crowd control effects.
Though the Patriarch was a Yokai-type, the wind bullet that Suyeon reflected was credited as Suyeon’s attack.
[Health 91%]
His health was perfectly intact.
In other words, Balloon Gum had accomplished nothing.
Unaware of this, he continued rambling.
“Balloon Gum becomes a god… I told you…”
If anything, it was a blessing in disguise.
The viewers weren’t interested in the fact that Balloon Gum had done nothing.
In fact, none of the viewers were paying attention to Balloon Gum anymore.
and hahahaha
Almond Legion lol
Haha, seriously lol
-That’s so dorky lolololol
-Wow
Gasp, almond lol
-???: I am legion
‘What?’
The reason became clear immediately.
Coming to his senses, Balloon Gum looked around.
“Ehhhhh?!”
Doodung.
Countless Almonds—too many to count—filled the entire space.
“W-what… is this, is this Matrix?”
Boom!
Pwoosh!
Pwoosh!
Even at this moment, Almond’s clones continued to multiply endlessly.

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