Chapter 89 of "The Genius Archer's Streaming Season 1"

31. The Practiced Almond (3)

A player who obtained a legendary weapon from the treasure room.

His name is 'Roda'.

He didn't want to die with a legendary weapon in hand.

He gritted his teeth and fired the gun wildly.

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

'I will not die, no matter what!'

He is at the Diamond 4 tier.

His aim was quite good, befitting his impressive rank.

Enemies fell one after another.

It was due to his excellent aim and the powerful weapon.

Even a few hits to the body were enough to take them down.

“Gasp!”

“Ugh!”

In an instant, two players were out.

Roda continued to devastate the enemies.

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

The recoil from the stock and the vibration against his shoulder gave him a sense of pleasure.

Each pull of the trigger was thrilling.

Is this what a legendary weapon is like?!

“Haha...”

Even at the Diamond rank, obtaining a legendary weapon is extremely rare. Getting one in 30 matches is considered a lot.

So, a smile naturally spread across his face.

If he could clear the treasure room and monopolize the items, he could see himself in first place.

'I'm in first place!'

At that moment.

Whoosh──

The sound of the wind splitting passed by his ear.

Thud!

'Huh?'

Something hot and unpleasant trickled down his forehead.

It was blood.

The dark red blood slowly stained his vision.

A terrible result was displayed in text.

79th place with a legendary weapon?

It's absurd.

"What, what is this!? I had no chance at all!"

Roda shouted loudly.

He felt wronged.

He had checked everything.

There was no way an attack could come from anywhere except the front and left.

He checked the kill cam.

“What is this?”

A single arrow flew around a pillar.

As if the arrow had a will of its own.

“Is this a bug?”

It wasn't just for venting; Roda genuinely thought it was a bug.

If the arrow had just stuck straight into his head, it would be obvious, right?

In a survival game based on real-world physics, a curved arrow shouldn't exist.

Is there a power bow or something?

Roda, who usually paid no attention to SNS or AllTube, had no idea this was Almond's arrow.

'This guy is finished.'

He switched to Almond's screen to watch.

He planned to report him if it happened again. The first time could have been a bug.

“Again. Again!”

Bang!

It wasn't a mistake; Almond was shooting arrows around the pillar.

All four arrows curved and hit their targets.

“What the...?!”

The arrows circled the pillar and aimed for the heads of the enemies behind it.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The accuracy was 100%.

Not a single arrow missed.

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.

.

A continuous stream of kill logs.

‘...’

Roda was speechless.

He wanted to say, "What kind of blatant bug user is this?"

But no anger arose.

He realized.

‘It’s not a bug, is it?’

It wasn't any kind of bug phenomenon.

Roda was also a skilled player at the Diamond rank.

He could distinguish between a bug and not a bug when he saw it.

When a bug occurs, there are usually frame drops, noise, and other issues.

Almond's arrows were clean. There were no strange phenomena, and they were even faster and more accurate than straight shots.

In other words, it was skill.

‘Is this really skill...?’

Even though he saw it with his own eyes, he couldn't believe it, but it was skill.

The anger disappeared, and a creeping fear began to rise. A chilling fear, like a herbivore facing a predator.

‘Almond... next time I meet you...’

Roda remembered Almond's name.

‘I’ll run for my life!’

* * *

Curve shot.

The most noticeable skill from Almond's training.

The speed and accuracy of this curve shot had increased by 2-3 times.

The enemies couldn't react to the arrows that curved around cover.

- Wow...

- The treasure room is more like a tomb lol

- Is this the tomb of Pharaoh or something? lol

- People came to find treasure but ended up dying.

- The curve shot is really good now.

- It never misses...

There was no way the players of Battle Royale knew how to deal with arrows that curved from unseen places.

Unless it was LIL, who would consider such a skill in Battle Royale?

Even someone as skilled as Fengs would be amazed by this curve shot.

Bang!

The last arrow embedded itself in the head of the final survivor.

The warehouse was now empty.

It was cleared in an instant.

“Thank you for the support, RubySword. Yes, I practiced the curve shot and also tried changing my archery form.”

Now that he was the only one left in the entire warehouse, he could leisurely respond to the chat.

- Wow, I noticed your form changed.

- Amazing. You changed it in one day and reached this level?

- This is what a genius looks like.

“I practiced a lot.”

Thanks to his skilled curve shots, more support poured in.

“Thank you, Admiral Yi, Archery Association... No, it's not real. Thank you for the 50,000 won support.”

While reacting to the support, Almond checked if there was anything else to pick up in the treasure room.

‘Explosives...’

Flare, grenade, and smoke bombs.

He collected these three types of explosives and found something special.

“Huh?”

Arrows also have ranks.

It was the first he heard of it.

“Arrows can be rare?”

- I didn’t know.

- Wow, not knowing this lol

- Newbie is a newbie lol

- Well, you’d only know if there was a streamer who uses a bow...

- lol

What? Was I the only one who didn’t know? Almond scratched his head.

What special function could make an arrow rare?

He picked up an arrow.

It wasn’t so much a special function as it was a lighter and stronger arrow.

In a way, it was the most basic and reliable. Almond liked its simplicity.

“Good.”

Now the second shrink began.

“This time, the warehouse survived. But I will burn it and move on.”

The warehouse area was safe in the next blue zone, but he didn’t plan to stay.

Burning the warehouse to prevent others from using the weapons was more advantageous for Almond.

Whoosh!

The underground warehouse burned fiercely with numerous explosives, embracing many treasures.

* * *

Behind the warehouse was a dense forest, a place only found in the jungle map.

It’s called the swamp forest.

Splat.

When he stepped on the sticky ground, this text appeared.

“This place feels good. I’ll hide and watch for a bit.”

Almond said, hiding his body among the dense foliage.

His strategy was to give up farming for now.

He was currently short on medical supplies, but he didn’t feel the need to farm. The blue zone’s position was too good.

Indeed, the blue zone was helping Almond. After always fighting against bad luck, Almond finally saw the light.

However, some viewers were dissatisfied.

- Ah! What is this!

- Not doing Fantasia work?!

- Almond! Go out and fight! Almond! Go out and fight! Almond! Go out and fight! Almond! Go out and fight!

- No, please stay here.

- This is a guaranteed win; leaving would be trolling lol

- Someone put a kill mission on him!

- Would you go out if you were in his position? He’s so close to Diamond lol

Of course, Almond had no intention of going out.

If he went out and died, he would be the one to get the most hate.

Puff.

Almond covered his mouth without realizing it.

“Ah. Sorry. Thank you for the mission.”

- Hey! Did you just mock the price!?

- Haha lol

- It’s funny lol

- How did you hold back?

- Where did the初心 go!!!!

- Really, such a shy Yuefu lol

- 1,000 won per kill lol Who would do it?

- The mission to reach Diamond today is 500,000 won!

That was true.

In the past, the shy Yuefu had set a mission of 1,000 won per kill and ended up losing 1,000,000 won.

- He’s a named player, after all lol

- Kingdom ‘That Incident’ lol

- Ah, that’s the guy who lost money before lol

- lol

- Wow, the shy Yuefu is cute lol

“No need for more missions. The Diamond mission is enough.”

Almond firmly decided to reach Diamond today. It was also more profitable in terms of money.

The mission rewards, which started at 100,000 won, had now accumulated to 530,000 won.

- Well, just taking that money is sweet lol

- But 1,000 won per kill was too much lol

- If he reaches Diamond today, the whole world will be amazed by KAlmond. Even 50,000 won per kill wouldn’t make him move lol

Meanwhile, the number of survivors gradually decreased.

55, then 50...

As time passed, the next blue zone movement began.

Almond checked the map.

‘Oh.’

Once again, he was favored by the blue zone.

It seemed to be his lucky day.

Moreover, this forest seemed to be forgotten by everyone, with no one passing by.

The number of survivors continued to decrease, and the kill logs increased.

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.

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30 survivors remained.

Almond was still in the same spot.

- Isn’t this too much, Almond!

- You tricked me! This isn’t Almond! It’s Gandhi!

- Move, you nut!

- lol This is a game, after all!

- Those Fantasia guys...

The viewers, watching the frozen screen, continued to express their dissatisfaction.

The shy Yuefu tried to muster some courage.

- Oh...

- Finally moving!?

- Shy Yuefu lol

- Shy Yuefu lol

- The term sounds weird

- Go, go, go!

- Well, you’re going to die now and get 300,000 won~

A kill mission came in when there were about 30 survivors left.

“Thank you for the mission. So, it’s 10,000 won per kill now?”

Almond still didn’t move.

- 10,000 won lol

- But this guy doesn’t seem to be moving lol

- What! No Yuefu!?

- You tricked me! This is Gandhi! You tricked me! This is Gandhi! You tricked me! This is Gandhi!

- GandhiAlmond, no children...

- lol The trolls are crazy lol

- Well, Fantasia finally chose him, so let him be lol

Ultimately, winning was the most important thing.

As long as the rules were followed, winning was the top priority.

That’s what sports are about.

‘Hold on, hold on. This is strategy, strategy.’

Of course, Almond preferred exciting games.

But now, he needed to think rationally. He couldn’t win every match by being exciting.

If Fantasia chose him, using that to his advantage was also a strategy, a skill.

However, it seemed that Fantasia had indeed abandoned Almond.

Whoosh──

A strange sound came from the sky.

‘Huh?’

A massive shadow loomed over Almond’s face as he looked up.

It was an air drop.

A gift box falling from the sky.

It contained various items of Hero grade or higher.

‘This is bad.’

One might ask, shouldn’t this be a good thing?

But for Almond, it was likely to be meaningless items.

Moreover...

Boom! Bang!

Whoosh!

This air drop box, as it fell, set off all kinds of loud fireworks and flares.

To make sure all players on the map could see where the air drop was.

Vroom──

The sound of car engines could already be heard from far away.

Splat! Splat!

Footsteps echoed endlessly.

Swallow.

Almond swallowed hard.

“...More kill missions, anyone?”

- Haha lol

- Sweet! lol

- Fantasia!

- This is it!

- lol Absolutely don’t give him a kill mission!

- They are coming now!!!