Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 954

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 085
29. Paprika vs Almond (1)
Approximately 50 Streamers decided to transfer from Tribby to Paprika.
Among them, 28 committed to participating in the Cheese Village content.
The rest were either Streamers unrelated to gaming, or declined due to concerns about negative effects from being associated with Cheese’s content.
Still, the recruitment was a success. Twenty-eight out of fifty is a substantial number.
[The Cheese Village opening ceremony is tomorrow. Please enter the server beforehand to prepare.]
About a day before the server launch.
The Paprika residents who had signed contracts were able to enter this server early.
The reason their village had numerous buildings and superior equipment wasn’t solely because the Production Team gifted them.
It was because they already had time to prepare.
Instead, they were given these rules.
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1. You cannot activate live broadcasts until the Production Team orders it.
2. There is an embargo on AllTube uploads. Please coordinate with the Production Team and upload all at once.
3. Do not reveal your identity until it is discovered.
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For a while, they couldn’t generate revenue from this content.
Live streaming was blocked, and AllTube uploads were restricted.
Instead, they would share in the main broadcast revenue.
Additionally, they would collectively receive a portion of all donations occurring in Cheese Village.
For some, these conditions would have been difficult to accept.
But the Streamers who moved to Paprika were mostly excited upon seeing these terms.
“So we’re basically the hidden masterminds?”
“Hey, this is going to be fun. If we do it right.”
“We’re totally giving off villain energy~”
A Streamer’s greatest resource isn’t immediate money or broadcasts.
It’s ‘attention.’
In the current setting, they appeared as the village’s antagonists.
And remarkably noteworthy ones at that.
The Akatsuki rogue ninja clan from the manga Naruto. The Joker from the film The Dark Knight. Zhang Chen from Crime City.
This role granted them an overwhelming presence that surpassed any other Streamers.
Because structurally, such antagonists inevitably commanded far more screen time than ambiguous heroes.
So despite the harsh condition of being unable to broadcast for a while, it became an intriguing proposition.
[Your goal is freedom. You can cooperate with anyone or reject anyone. Survive as you see fit.]
That was the Production Team’s message, but none of them had joined this content with any intention of cooperating with Cheese.
“Hehehehe….”
“Krkrkr.”
They all entered this village harboring ambitions to become truly formidable villains.
“Hey, look at all this iron ore scattered around? Huh? This is perfect for boosting our combat power, right?”
“Literally, you’ve set up the perfect stage for us.”
“Hehehehe? Set up the stage! Really?”
“Krkrkr.”
“Hehehehe!”
The aspiring villains gathered in the center of Paprika Village laughed uncontrollably at the sight of each other.
Then one pragmatic person raised his hand.
He was Shrimp, a streamer specializing in Serq.
“But what are we supposed to do for economic activity…? Everything here is iron ore, so we can’t even farm…”
The Production Team had left the door open regarding their combat strength, but they’d created an environment where normal economic activity was difficult.
The land was too barren for farming with iron ore embedded everywhere, and surrounded by massive mountains on all sides, making it hard to hear anything from outside.
“What farming! We just capture people!”
“C, capture people?”
“Don’t we know Goguryeo-style farming!?”
The other residents agreed with the mention of Goguryeo-style farming.

“Hehe! Yeah, people farming!”
“Let the slaves work hard on the fields!”
“That’s right! Wasn’t it set up that way from the beginning!?”
The terrain’s characteristics certainly supported this.
A village hidden so it couldn’t be seen from outside.
The distance was far enough to be good for scheming.
Shrimp acknowledged this as well.
“I see. If you really want to do production work, mining looks like a good option.”
Even if the land wasn’t good for farming, mining would be a different story.
Mining was an excellent profession for farming iron and various item materials, and it directly connected to combat strength.
No matter what they did, their thinking naturally flowed toward combat.
So they were certain.
“At least in combat, we won’t lose to Cheese.”
“They’re telling us to become raiders. That’s what this is.”
“We’re becoming bandits. Bandits.”
“Wow, that’s so cool. Like those guys in western movies?”
Considering the numerical gap with Cheese Village residents, resources, economic activity, and potential.
The field they had to pursue seemed predetermined.
Becoming outlaws of the wasteland.
So they never imagined it.
“N, no! That guy’s here! That bastard showed up!”
That a real outlaw would appear in their outlaw village.
“What?”
“That guy! An unselected personnel!”
“!”
A wanted criminal from the bulletin board dared to show up directly in Paprika Village.
And to think he possessed such tremendous power.
[Aquatic Respiration]
[Critical Damage +30%]
[Defense +50%]
[Defense +10%]
[Dark Vision]
[Weapon Attribute Granted: Lightning]
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An unselected player suddenly appeared in the village.
Crackle!
He wielded a sword wreathed in azure lightning.
“There’s already a combat class like that?”
“Damn, that’s not fair!?”
“Y-yeah, definitely an unselected player…”
Every resident could confirm with their own eyes that Huchoo and Salt’s exaggerated rumors were anything but exaggerated.
Magical classes could only be obtained once the server reached its mid-to-late stages.
Yet this man was already wielding a magic sword.
Even Orange, the first resident to block his path, took a step back and hesitated.
‘What is that.’
A magic swordsman suddenly appeared?
It felt like a machine gun had suddenly appeared in what was still a cold-weapon battlefield.
‘Still…’
But I had to do what needed to be done.
Gulp.
Orange swallowed hard and shouted.
“Are you the unselected player!?”
At these words, not just Almond but all of Almond’s viewers tilted their heads in confusion.
What in the world was an unselected player anyway.
-?
-What are you saying
-What’s that supposed to mean lol
-Unselected player lol
-??Seems like they’re seriously confused lol
-Who even are these people anyway??
“You killed our village people, didn’t you?”
Almond shook his head.
“I didn’t kill them—I just took some of their equipment.”
-Hahahahahaha
-Hahahaha
-??
-Hahahaha so they killed it
“…Ju, you killed it! That thing!”
“Who’s dead? It’s right there.”
Almond pointed at Salt and Huchoo standing behind Orange.
-Hahahahahahahahahaha lol
-That’s a fair point
-???: I didn’t kill it. I just sent it back to the village.
-Hahahahahaha
-“I just sent it back to where it belonged.”
“That… well anyway! You’ve got some nerve!? Charging into our village alone? And you think you can beat all of us with just that?”
Orange bluffed while pointing at the sword wreathed in crackling lightning.
In truth, with the overwhelming pressure he was exuding right now, it looked like one person could easily kill twenty of them.
‘But we still have the advantage.’
Orange quickly calculated.
The scales were indeed tipped in their favor.
‘In the Cirque, the biggest risk is dropping equipment when you die. But in a village, we can pick it up right away.’
This was their home ground.
Even if they died, they’d respawn here, and if they dropped equipment, they could just pick it up again.
Unless that guy killed all twenty of them in one blow and farmed all their equipment before escaping alive, dying here wasn’t really dying.
They’d just come back and rejoin the fight.
Meanwhile, if he died here, he’d respawn in his own village, and all the equipment he left behind would become the village people’s assets.
Almond was thinking roughly the same thing.
‘This is bad.’
He checked his buff duration and began scanning their openings.
‘I can’t kill them all.’
Even with buffs, he didn’t think it was possible to kill all twenty.
Buffs were merely supplementary; they didn’t fundamentally increase his strength.
Almond’s eyes scanned the surroundings faster and faster.
There had to be an opening.
‘Are they scared?’
They were slowly tightening their encirclement, but they were also hesitating.
That created an opening.
‘Now.’
Almond’s eyes flashed.
Whoosh—
He suddenly burst forward.
“!”
The residents of Paprika never expected me to strike first, and their eyes bulged wide with shock.
My target was Orange, standing at the very front.
‘This bastard!?’
Orange quickly drew his sword and responded.
Clang!
My blade clashed against his.
[Chain Lightning]
I blocked the sword strike, but—
Crackle crackle crackle!
Elemental attacks cannot be blocked by weapons.
The electricity surged through his blade, striking Orange, and even electrocuting Salt and Huchoo beside him.
[Stun]
The damage wasn’t tremendous, but the stun landed.
I had a brief opening to swing my blade again.
Slash!
My sword carved away a portion of Orange’s massive head.
Crackle!
With a two-head-tall body, his head was too large to fully protect.
[Health 73%]
His health plummeted in an instant.
“Block, block it! Block it!”
“Kill him!”
“Take back all our gear!”
All the townspeople began rushing at me.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
-lmao
-gasp lol
-what do we do lol
-20 vs 1 brawl lolol
-why are they suddenly rushing him lol
-Charge the energy sphere!!!
The viewers panicked and began sending me more and more buffs.
[Glass Marble donated 10,000 won!]
[Small Villain donated 10,000 won!]
[Luryan donated 10,000 won!]
[Ojin donated 10,000 won!]
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Crackle crackle crackle!!
[Chain Lightning]
Every swing of Almond’s blade unleashed a torrent of electricity, and in some places, wind pushed the enemies back.
[Storm]
Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash!!
“Ugh!”
“What, what is this!?”
“This is insane…”
Yet the townspeople still rushed forward.
Among them were several who were extremely experienced in Serque combat.
“I, I don’t have stamina!”
“Fall back!”
Orange was pushed backward, and those experienced in Serque filled the front lines.
Parsley and Olive.
They were the two best at combat among Serque specialists.
Working together, they unleashed sword strikes.
Clang!
Clang!
As the clashes continued, I should have been pushed back bit by bit.
[All Speed Increased by 50%]
Whoooosh!!
The speed buff was applied even stronger than before, so I was responding to every attack.
“How is this bastard stacked with buffs like this!?”
“What? When did this happen?”
True to their Serque expertise, they realized my current combat power was entirely constructed from buffs.
But they had no idea where these buffs were continuously coming from.
They knew nothing about the broadcast sponsorship system.
So they simply believed that when this buff ended, their opportunity would come.
“Stall for time! Time! This is a buff!”
“Just buy time! Send those with nothing to lose forward!”
The strategy changed.
Those with lower combat ability moved forward to buy time.
Slash! Slash! Slash!!
I swung my blade like a rioter in response.
Casualties mounted.
“Argh! I’m dying!”
“It’s fine! You have nothing anyway!”
[pep731 has been slain!]
Huchoo died again.
Already stripped of all items, she sacrificed herself to buy time.
“No, no, where are you going! You can’t escape! Ahhhhh!”
Salt, clad only in underwear, charged forward.
Almond, who had been responding flawlessly until now, faltered for a moment at his appearance.
“A stagnant player?”
“!?”
He had mistaken the half-naked figure for a low-level player.
‘Insane. You don’t remember me?’
Salt was even more flustered that I didn’t recognize him.
──Shhwaaaack!
In that instant, a blade slash cleaved him in half.
“Gasp!”
[sa474 has been slain!]
Salt fell too.
Almond trampled over Salt’s corpse and surged forward.
But other players quickly blocked the path ahead.
“Kill me and go!”
Shhwack!
“Ugh!”
Almond killed them just as they asked.
-Damn
-Wow lol
-Haha lol
-There’s so many though??
-Wait, they respawn and come back again??
-No way
Twenty players swarmed forward to block the path. Even when killed, they respawned and blocked again with bare bodies.
Since they were still within the town anyway.
It took less than a minute to reach the plaza.
In other words, killing them only temporarily eliminated them, while if Almond died, it was permanent elimination.
Overwhelmingly unfavorable conditions.
‘Just a bit more…!’
All I could rely on were countless buffs and extreme control.
But then─
“I’m… being pushed back?”
“Huh!?”
“Ugh, argh!”
With just those two things, I was carving out an almost miraculous path.
Boom…!
My feet began to move forward.
-Real talk, this madman is actually getting through?
-Wow
-Is this the international tournament MVP? Is this the international tournament MVP? Is this the international tournament MVP?
-Can this even work?
-How many people are dying lol
Parsley and Olive grew desperate.
“Mi, we’re losing ground!”
“No way!”
“Equipment! Fight while picking up equipment!! Even after reviving, grab the loot and fight!”
Bit by bit, inch by inch.
Almond breaks through the encirclement.
“Mi… this is insane. What is this guy doing!?”
“Why won’t the buffs disappear!?”
“They seem to be stacking even more!?”
“Is he some kind of buff master!?”
Parsley cries out in disbelief.
“Here! Fill this position! Grab the loot and fill in!!!”
The revived players equip their gear again before returning to battle.
It takes several more seconds to gather their equipment.
Boom…!
Almond advances one more step in that brief moment.
The viewers cheer even more intensely.
-Please!
I can’t translate this as it doesn’t appear to be text in any language—it looks like ASCII art or keyboard characters rather than words or sentences in Korean or English.
Infinite loop lol
-What is this lol
We need to help too ㅠㅠ
I can’t translate this as it doesn’t appear to be text in any language—it looks like ASCII art or symbolic characters rather than words or sentences.
I can’t translate this as it’s not text in any language – it appears to be a text-based emoticon or symbol rather than words to translate.
Ding! Ding!
[Eye donated 10,000 won!]
[Susuke donated 10,000 won!]
[Uphill donated 10,000 won!]
[Beggar’s Stir-fry donated 10,000 won!]
Buffs began pouring in again.
Almond advances once more.
Then gets surrounded again.
He pushes forward a bit more and cuts through, but gets surrounded again, and advances again.
The pattern repeats.
Meanwhile, the server chat window filled with brutal notifications.
[sa474 has been slain!]
[pep731 has been slain!]
[38837 has been slain!]
[9993hj has been slain!]
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It was as if a massacre was being broadcast live.
Even repeated deaths were appearing on screen.
[pep731 has been slain!]
[sa474 has been slain!]
[pep731 has been slain!]
[sa474 has been slain!]
[sa474 has been slain!]
For those unaware of the situation, it was nothing short of terrifying.
[Balloon Gum: What the… what is this?]
[Cutie Pie: Everyone~? This is a bug, right? haha]
Miho: It’s totally a horror game ㅠㅠㅠ

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