Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 960

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 091
31. The Tycoon (1)
During the time of Almond’s attack on Paprika Village.
Jia’s eyes widened in disbelief.
“…How much is that even?”
Ten thousand won donations weren’t coming per second—they were arriving every 0.1 seconds.
Though she’d been editing Almond’s content for a long time, she’d never seen anything like this.
Donations and Won-gi-ok emoticons pouring in without a moment’s respite.
“Insane.”
Jia immediately thought this scene had to go up on OlTube.
She could always get the source later and upload it, but sometimes uploading immediately was the better move.
For instance, when she wanted to increase live viewers.
Just like with the Ghost Buster content, making shorts during the live stream and posting them had proven incredibly effective.
It drew plenty of viewers who only watched OlTube over to the live stream.
“How many live viewers are there right now…”
[Current Viewers: 137,000]
The numbers were hovering around 140,000.
Compared to when they’d filmed Balloon Gum and Ghost Busters, it was a lower figure.
For Cheese Village content, there was a main broadcast channel, so the casual viewers who normally watched Almond’s streams had migrated to the main channel.
‘So the real core fans are around 100,000, huh.’
From Jia’s perspective, the viewer base that would consistently watch Almond’s live streams was roughly 100,000.
It might even be less than that.
Compared to Jello, whose core audience was 200,000, there was quite a significant gap in weight class.
Jello was currently leading over 200,000 viewers while playing Cirque.
And this was despite Almond creating this level of buzz.
‘Hmm. That’s really something else.’
Jello was creating issues in his own way even within Cheese Village, entertaining viewers with his approach.
‘I need to boost the morale a bit.’
In truth, an editor working in real-time gained almost no direct benefit.
Increased live viewers had nothing to do with her OlTube revenue.
But she had started out as a fan of Almond in the first place.
Click.
She immediately grabbed her mouse and began editing.
This was no longer about revenue.
‘They keep making comparisons anyway.’
[Nut Clan is just loud and way behind Jello in viewers lol]
[Jello’s viewers are insane]
[lolololol Jello farming lol this is Gort’s true class]
[Jello grabbing NPCs by the collar in real-time lol pure entertainment]
Events like Cheese Village where multiple streamers gathered in one place seemed like a festival at first glance, but in reality, it was an invisible war happening behind the scenes.
[Jello, that washed-up loser’s boring acting? Still watching that?]
No, Almond should start with bubble gum first, lol. He’s not in the right weight class~
[What does Jello have besides numbers?]
Did you guys fight with the mad dogs and jellyfish? ㅋㅋㅋ Let’s go, EEJ~
A clash between the rising toxic fanbase Nut Clan and the reigning champions, the Jello fans.
The worldbuilding clash is insane lol
[These two would actually try to kill each other;]
Until now, they’d never had a chance to meet directly.
But this time was different.
All eyes were on who would receive more attention and who would claim the upper ranks in this jungle-like streamer collaboration content.
Even if the streamers themselves weren’t competing, the fans wanted their favorite streamer to receive the best treatment.
Jia was no exception.
‘All I need to do is compete with Jello’s live viewers, right?’
She desperately created content.
‘Done.’
In about an hour, she successfully captured and uploaded the video.
[shorts) The Constellations only like me (no face ID used)]
She even added a comment.
-Currently live! Want to see Almond, the troublemaker of Cheese Village? (link) <<<CLICK!
└Me, a troublemaker? What kind of content are you even doing?
└Sang-hyun Yu is a troublemaker? I'm going in right now
Lol what a playboy/womanizer, you perverts are all delinquents
Beyond Jia's comment, more comments trickled in.
-Since the Constellations are showing favoritism, are you from the same Yu clan as that Yoo Joong-hyuk?
Hahahahaha
Hahaha, now that I think about it, it's U.C.'s thing.
└Sorry, but in Nuts Punk it's Ryu Joong-hyuk;
Lol the constellations did something ㅋㅋㅋ
"- and lol I'm dying, that's crazy"
-I want to go collect Won-gi-ok too!!
After the short was posted.
Jia lay in bed watching Almond's broadcast again.
'I'm getting sleepy. How many more live viewers will we get?'
This method had worked well during the Ghost Busters days. She was curious how many would increase.
"Huh!?"
Jia, who was watching the broadcast, was so dumbfounded that she bounced up like a spring and sat up in bed again.
"What is this!?"

* * *
"What is this?!"
The cry echoed across Paprika Village.
"Are we really not going to be able to farm?"
The land was so saturated with iron ore that crops wouldn't grow properly.
"This is way too inefficient. We'd be better off just paying NPCs for food or hunting monsters instead."
Even if we went outside the village to gather soil, the efficiency was still terrible.
All the nearby land was similar, so we'd have to travel extremely far.
"Over here! Look here!"
That's when it happened.
Someone called out to the villagers.
[Parsley]
Parsley, a Cirque specialist streamer.
She stood in the "Square of Mourning," where countless people had lost their lives.
A name the villagers had given it—a place imbued with such meaning. Yet she was scooping up soil from the Square of Mourning.
Thump.
"Look at this soil."
What she held up was a pitch-black soil I'd never seen before.
[Fertile Soil]
Everyone who saw the information was startled.
"!"
"What… what is this…?"
"Now I understand why our farming was so pathetically inefficient."
"This existed? Insane."
For the Paprika Villagers who had never even seen ordinary soil, the existence of fertile soil was beyond mere curiosity—it was a sense of deprivation.
"Did this come from here? Let's dig more and farm crops together. For the village."
Parsley shook her head.
"We can't."
"Why? Because this is a meaningful place…?"
"No, that's not it. There's just too little left."
"Too little?"
"Only about twelve cubes worth remain."
"…What are you talking about? Isn't that how much you just dug up?"
Before Parsley lay a wide, deep excavation mark.
Evidence that soil had been taken.
"It was like this from the start."
"…?"
"That guy."
Parsley lowered her head and muttered.
"He took it all. The non-selective personnel."
"…!"
The eyes of the Paprika Villagers flipped upside down.
"This… this shameless bastard! Made from our blood! And he even took that land too!?"
"Wow… we became fertilizer?"
Parsley exhaled a sigh and spoke.
"Let's at least use this soil. This… is the soil created by our blood and sweat. Please handle it with care…."
"R, right. Literally, yeah."
Soil that was far too literal a metaphor.
The villagers bowed their heads for a moment.
As if mourning the dead.
Parsley looked around at them and made a proposal.
"Farming will be difficult with just these 12 plots of soil. The rest of us should become miners."
"…M, miners?"
"Yeah. That way we can probably equip ourselves better too. If we get the circuit right, miners will do way better than farmers. If we mine while avoiding monsters well, it's high risk, high return."
"B, but Parsley. All our equipment was stripped from us!?"
Huchoo interjected from the side, sounding wronged.
"If a miner dies while mining, they start over from zero as a miner!"
Without equipment, it's easy to die.
When you die, you start over from the beginning as a miner.
The solution is simple.
There isn't one.
"Then just don't die."
Insane.
Everyone's eyes wavered.
"Is there another way?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Was the future of Paprika Village really this dark? Like the end of a mine shaft?
"Damn it."
"All because of that one Dragon Knight…."
Then Orange came running from afar.
"Hey! Hey! Everyone pay attention!"
"?"
He was coming after hearing the story from Shrimp, the new leader of this village.
"The meeting results. Mining is definitely the way. Just the iron ore in the village right now is enough to restore our equipment. And according to the scouts, Cheese Village still only has wooden equipment? Mining is the only way to completely widen this gap."
It was already similar to the results of the conversation Parsley and Huchoo had shared earlier.
However, Orange and Shrimp's bigger picture was more concrete.
"We think we can't beat the Dragon Knight right away."
"Right."
"So we're going to attack Cheese Village first."
"All of a sudden?"
"That's right. We'll establish our base there…"
Orange explained the bigger picture to the villagers.
"Ohhh…"
"Huh?"
"Now that you mention it, you're right. We can't just beat the Dragon Knight outright."
Crush Cheese first, then the Dragon Knight.
This was becoming their plan.
"For that to work, we all need to become miners."
Thunk.
Orange set down the pickaxes he'd received from Shrimp.
"…This, this is."
"Did you guys make these?"
"Yeah."
"…Whoa."
[Iron Pickaxe]
A mining pickaxe crafted from iron ore.
In the early game, making these requires considerable effort.
Yet he was distributing them for free.
"We're a community of shared fate now."
Orange spoke with solemn resolve.
"Kuh… that's incredible."
"That's true honor!"
Clang!
They all raised their pickaxes together in unison.
Orange began the chant in an intensely serious tone.
"Though we were born on different days! We shall meet death as one!!"
"Meet death as one!!"
"Yeaaaaahhh!!"
Clang!
Countless pickaxes thrust skyward.
Paprika united against Almond as their common enemy.
Watching this unfold, PD Zhang scratched his head.
"Isn't this completely opposite to what we planned?"
"Right? The goal was for Cheese Village to unite under Paprika's attack."
"Hmm. Well, it flows naturally enough. Let's proceed."
"There's no helping it anyway."
The Production Team sets up Cheese Village, but the streamers create the story as they go.
We can't interfere with that.
If we did, both the viewers' and streamers' immersion would plummet significantly.
Even if necessary, we had to use only the most indirect methods.

* * *
Meanwhile, in Cheese Village.
Everyone there was shouting the same thing in unison.
"Fertile soil?"
"The fertile earth actually exists?"
"What!? The legendary soil?!"
"There's land blessed by the gods!?"
"He found the One Piece before Oda!?"
Though the story kept getting more distorted as it spread from the village entrance, it continued to propagate.
Well, that was because….
"Perfect Farm truly exists!"
Dotorimuk, thrilled that his theory had been proven right once again, was running around shouting at the top of his lungs.
It would have been strange not to know about it.
"Whoa. Where did you get that from?"
"Big brother. Is it real? Just show me once."
"Wow. Can I see the real thing?"
The other villagers were crowding around, begging to see the fertile soil.
Almond found himself backing away without realizing it.
'So this is how intense it is.'
Their desire for the soil was far more intense than what I'd seen in the chat.
"O… Big brother. Why are you backing away? Right now?"
-Miho's scared lol
-Farming's this serious? lol
-What are they even growing? Is this actually agriculture?
-Their eyes have gone wild lol
That's how people are.
Once they start doing something, they want to do it better rather than just doing it.
At least better than 'that guy next door.'
That's what farming in Cheese Village had become.
Like an entrance exam craze, a subtle competition had emerged over who could farm better.
-Hong-cha's already made almost 2 boxes. Miho's a bit slow~
-Balloon Gum is literally a potato himself, why doesn't he just bury himself in the ground?
-Danmuji's farming efficiency is insane lol 3 boxes of sweet potatoes came out
With comments like this constantly flowing in the chat, how could anyone ignore it?
"If… if only I had that fertile soil…!"
"Fer… tile… soooil…."
-Zombie vibes lol
-lol
Ugh, zombie ㅠㅠ hahaha
-This is insane lol everyone lol
A world of madness.
Anyone less crazy dies here.
That's what I thought.
"Just a moment. Let me take it out for you."
"Oh!"
Sling.
Instead of soil, I drew out a sword.
"!?"
"Eek!"
Everyone's eyes went wide at the appearance of an iron blade they'd never seen before, startled out of their wits.
"Step back. Back."
Whoa, whoa!
-lololololololololol
-He said soil lololol
-Everything out of his mouth is a lie lol
-I'm shocked too wtflol
After the people had retreated somewhat.
"Here it is."
Poof.
I placed a fertile soil cube in my palm.
Gasps erupted.
"Ooooh!"
"Wow! This is insane…."
"What. Isn't this basically like five times? Something around that level?"
The villagers checked the information window and were left speechless by the overwhelming stats.
"H-how much is this?"
"S-sell it to me! To me!"
Rumble!
Unfazed by the sword, everyone rushed toward me.
"Oppa! S-sell it to me! I almost passed out cheering during that national tournament back then…."
"Don't bring real life into this! Unnie!"
"No, let's do an auction! An auction!"
Everyone went wild.
'How much should I ask for?'
I had no idea what the current market price was in Cheese Village.
Above all, it was only day one of the server.
There was no way the value of money had been properly established yet.
"For now."
I put the soil back away.
And I raise my hand.
"It's time for a break."
"?"
Poof.
[LOGOUT]
I suddenly vanished from the village.
"What the—!!!"
"Nooooooo!!!"
"You're just leaving it like this!?"
"Where does Almond live!?"
"At least tell us where you used it!!"
-?
-I'm losing it lol
-Huh?
-What the heck
-We got fooled too lol
-He's ending stream here?
-No wonder it went so long
I just came in after watching shorts, is the broadcast over?

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