Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 961

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 092
31. The Great Merchant (2)
“People have been searching for fertile soil.”
The production staff passing through the village—Camembert and Mozzarella.
“Yes. It seems Hodu mentioned it to them.”
“Hmm. They won’t find it anywhere even if they search.”
“Right. They’ll need to create it themselves. But there are people who think they can find it. Especially Balloon Gum and Dotorimuk.”
Pfft.
Camembert let out a scoff.
“How predictable. Those two are the laziest of the bunch.”
Mozzarella laughed brightly.
“Right? They’re too lazy to make it, so they’re thinking of finding it somewhere. Sigh. Even if we start preparing fertile soil now, it won’t appear until day 5 of the server.”
“That’s even being optimistic. I actually adjusted the balance because it would be too overpowered if it appeared from the start. Besides, a single tile of soil won’t do anything.”
“Ah, right. You’d need at least 40 to 50 tiles to call it a proper farm.”
“Even that much would practically guarantee them the title of richest farmer in the village.”
40 to 50 tiles of fertile soil was effectively equivalent to 500 tiles of regular soil in efficiency.
On top of that, they’d save on land costs, so the economic advantage was immeasurable.
There was no way the developers would have placed such an item available from day 1 of the server. To the two staff members, Balloon Gum and Dotorimuk seemed far too reckless.
“I think they’re doing it to entertain the viewers.”
Or perhaps it seemed like a kind of performance for the viewers.
Setting off on a journey with the theme of searching for fertile soil.
“Yeah. Just a fun joke, really─”
But then, at that moment.
“──I told you soooooo!”
Dotorimuk’s voice rang out.
What?
The two staff members quickened their pace.
Did a fight break out?
“There IS fertile soil!! Perfect Farm exists!!!!”
What? Fertile soil exists?
The two administrators’ eyes met.
“W-what are you talking about…”
“Right? Maybe they just got heated arguing…”
Perhaps they’d been debating the existence of fertile soil and their voices had risen?
But that wasn’t it.
Ding.
[Balloon Gum: Almond has fertile soil!!]
A server-wide announcement echoed through the chat.
“!?”
The production staff rushed urgently toward the source of the commotion.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
There it was.
People had gathered there, chattering and bustling about.
Like some kind of accident scene.
“W-what do you mean! Everyone! That there’s fertile soil!?”
“How could you say something so absurd…!”
Whoosh!
That’s when Dotorimuk turned around, his expression blazing with intensity.
“No. Absurd? Production team members?”
“Why… why?”
“That’s exactly why children can’t have dreams. Not in our country. Not in our Cheese Village!!”
-Where are the children in Cheese Village lol
-Are there even children?
-Fact) Dotorimuk’s mental age is that of a child
-lolololol this is actual madness
-His shoulders are so tense again lol
“I knew it, you see?”
Dotorimuk leaned his face close to the production team, speaking with conviction.
“S-scary… you’re scary… Dotorimuk.”
Mozzarella flinched backward.
“I trusted you, didn’t I? You, the production team! And pure-hearted Balloon Gum here! You deceived us, didn’t you?”
“?”
-Pure-hearted lol
-Balloon Gum lollol his expression lol
-Huh? lolol
-Ahahaha lol
“W-what are you talking about!?”
Camembert stepped forward, bewildered.
“What did we deceive you about?”
“That’s it!!!”
Boom!
Lightning crackled around Dotorimuk.
Just how angry was he?
“Uh, uh what’s this. Ah! Thanks for the donation. The buff is insane.”
It was just a donation that happened to come in at perfect timing.
-lololololololololol
-Ahahaha lol
-Insane lol
-He really is like that guy, electricity flowing and all.
“Anyway! We saw it, right? Almond held up a pitch-black soil cube in one hand and showed us! Even so! Even so there’s no fertile soil!?”
“Almond was carrying that?”
“Yes.”
“…That doesn’t make sense.”
Camembert shook his head.
“There’s no way something like that could be made so easily.”
“But we saw it. All of us.”
“Me too, me too!”
The other streamers raised their hands in rapid succession.
The two operators were bewildered.
How could that even exist?
I couldn’t believe it without seeing it with my own eyes.
“Where is Almond right now?”
Everyone fell silent at that question.
“…Camembert. He really did log out?”
Mozzarella, the operator in the back, checked the login list and spoke up.
“He logged out?”
“He disconnected. Just now.”
He brought the fertile soil just to show it off and then simply logged out?
“Then where did he install the soil?”
“No, he didn’t install it. He just held the soil in one hand and a sword in the other, telling us not to come near….”
Dotorimuk mimicked Almond.
Hahahahahaha
Hahaha picking up a knife hahaha
-That’s actually legendary
“He told us to check from a distance. When we actually checked, I mean, one tile was yielding 300% harvest!!”
“Right. Right.”
Everyone nodded at Dotorimuk’s words.
“….”
The operators were at a loss for words.
‘It checks out, doesn’t it?’
The specifications of the fertile soil were correct.
“But he just showed us that and left. Suddenly.”
“Without even using something so valuable?”
“Yes.”

* * *
“What on earth is this!?”
Thump.
Jia threw herself onto the bed in frustration.
She’d gone through all the trouble of creating and uploading a short video, only for him to log out.
She gazed at the chat window with a look of regret.
[Current Viewers: 149,000]
If the influx had continued from the shorts, she could have aimed for around 170,000.
But it wasn’t all bad.
Because showing the fertile soil before logging out had turned the Cheese Village upside down.
[Dotorimuk: He’s somewhere… Perfect Farm!! Owlblack!!]
-Owlblack lmaooo
-Dotorimuk might actually be a flat-earther
That guy’s a legend at dodging responsibility lol
The streamers were desperate to discover the source of the fertile soil Almond had brought.
If not for the capsule’s broadcast-prevention program, they might have even used broadcast-following to track him down.
[Middle-aged Detective: Anyone logging out right now to follow that guy is a criminal! Everyone sit down!]
The Middle-aged Detective was preemptively cracking down on streamers who were trying to log out and rewatch Almond’s broadcast.
Hahahahaha
-Everyone’s eyes are spinning lol
-They won’t be rude about it
-Middle-aged Detective lmao
With the entire Cheese Village in chaos, the community was no different.
1st Place) Fertile soil? Look carefully—I left this entire world there.
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(Photo)
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The attached photo showed Almond fighting against twenty opponents alone.
Hahaha the meme is so cool lol
-My childhood by chance~ where are you going?
-Photo lmaooo
-Is he the Pirate King lmaooo
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with what looks like internet slang or corrupted text that doesn’t form coherent words or phrases in Korean.
In the end, Almond didn’t exist on the Cheese Village server, yet everyone couldn’t help but talk about him.
“Was what Almond was holding real?”
“Yeah. Apparently one plot produces three times the crops.”
“Wow… isn’t that insane?”
“Three times? I heard it was five times.”
“Huh? Isn’t it ten times? I heard it was ten times better?”
The rumors grew wilder and wilder, and eventually even reached Jello and Chocosong, who had gone to dig up land.
Well, that’s because Balloon Gum blurted it out in the chat.
“What? Fertile soil? Almond?”
At first, they didn’t believe it.
“He’s probably just talking nonsense again.”
“Right?”
But then an Herbalist passing near the mine confirmed it.
“No, it’s real, I’m telling you! I saw it too. It was pitch-black and gleaming….”
“Seriously?”
Jello and Chocosong looked at each other, deflated.
After all, weren’t they the ones who had met Almond first?
“Ugh. Let’s just dig up some dirt.”
“Yes.”
Clang!
The mournful sound of Jello and Chocosong’s pickaxes echoed across the landscape.
Hahahahaha
-What is this
Wow, I saw it first though ㅠㅠ
-But don’t worry, Almond’s fine
-So fertile soil really exists??
-Where did Almond even get that?
-So he was bringing it in?
“We don’t care about soil anymore. We’re miners, folks. We just need to dig!”
Jello deliberately turned his attention away from the soil and swung his pickaxe with renewed vigor.
Had the heavens not completely abandoned them after all?
Clang!
“Wow. Iron ore! It’s an iron vein, Jello!”
A dark metallic ore appeared on Chocosong’s side.
Digging further, a continuous black line stretched downward.
It was an iron vein.
“Yes!”
“W-we’re not going to be rich, are we!?”
“Heaven helps those who help themselves! This is our all-black for us!”
“That’s right!”
-Awesome
-Wow
-Jackpot
hahahaha
-This much should be enough to live on?
“Hehe! Let’s dig faster!”
“We’re not ending the stream today~”
“Let’s go~!”
Even this dark mine would see the light of day. The pickaxe strikes, filled with hope, rang out even more cheerfully than before.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
But they didn’t know.
That Almond hadn’t brought only fertile soil.

* * *
Whoosh.
As the capsule opened, I lifted my upper body.
“Phew.”
I’d thought it was a relaxing game, but there was far more intense activity than expected.
‘It’s not easy.’
I stepped out of the capsule and opened the refrigerator.
It was packed full of Monster beverages.
Originally a sports drink, so I shouldn’t drink it before bed.
But there was also a refreshing carbonated water version.
After the international tournament, its popularity skyrocketed, so they released new versions constantly.
Among them was an Almond edition.
[Honey Almond Flavor]
My face aiming a bow was printed on the can’s label.
Pop!
I grabbed one, cracked it open, and took a sip.
“Ahhh.”
It tasted refreshing, sweet, and nutty.
Holding the drink, I sat down at the computer where Juhyeok usually sat.
‘Hm?’
Checking today’s donation amount, my eyes widened.
I wasn’t easily surprised by large sums anymore.
But the Cheese Village revenue was extraordinary.
“Wow….”
I let out a brief exclamation, then hid that window for now.
Click.
Instead, I opened the calculator app.
“Fertile soil yields triple harvest.”
Tap tap tap. Tap.
I was trying to calculate the value of fertile soil.
“Let’s set basic soil as t, and fertile soil as nt.”
Since market prices fluctuate, I shouldn’t convert it to absolute value.
It’s more stable to set it as a ratio—’how many times a certain soil’—which already exists.
Tap tap tap.
“The harvest is three times… 0.3?”
I check the soil quality frequently used in the village now while referencing community posts.
Rough soil.
“There’s a tenfold difference in harvest.”
A tenfold difference compared to fertile soil.
Of course, I wasn’t satisfied with that.
“It saves on land costs too. Reduces labor hours…”
Tap tap tap.
I was determined to perfectly convert every value that fertile soil possessed into numbers and claim it all.
For the first time in a while, the corners of my mouth lifted as I calculated.
‘Cheese Village is worth buying.’
The price I calculated seemed to please me.

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