Chapter 94 of "The Genius Archer's Streaming Season 1"

33. Two Rabbits (1)

The first match of the promotion tournament.

This is the most crucial moment.

There is a significant difference between finishing first in the first match and not.

If you finish first in the first match, you can simply defend your position in the next match.

However, if you are pushed out of the top 90 in the first match and die, you will have to fight another ranking defense match even if you finish first in the next match.

Is that why?

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There are as many as 23 posts on the community when you search for "Almond sniping."

While some envy and resent Almond, others are determined to block Electromagnetic's record.

Most of them just want to disrupt this record for "fun."

In any case, Almond has attracted a lot of attention.

A large number of snipers will rush in, far more than before.

Among them, there will certainly be skilled players.

After all, to snipe, you need to be at least in the upper Platinum or lower Diamond tier.

- Will there be enough challenges with so many Almond snipers?

└ Indeed...

└ Electromagnetic had even more. It's just that streamers attract all the attention.

- Poor Almond 😢

- We can't do anything to help... 😢😢😢😢

└ We're just casual players... 😂😂😂😂

└ Indeed 😂

└ If you want to help Almond, aim for Platinum or Diamond! 😂

The number of community users worrying about Almond was significant.

This indicated a considerable challenge was expected.

* * *

Facing the cold wind in the atmosphere, Almond looked down.

The lush, dark green forests faintly visible through the clouds. This map was, as expected, a jungle.

'Let's do it in one go.'

He placed his foot on the parachute, determined.

He needed to finish quickly.

He had already consumed a lot of energy today. No matter how good his condition, it would eventually run out.

It was important to finish quickly.

'This is the moment to throw a curveball.'

Almond had been throwing fastballs all along.

The enemies would probably expect another fastball.

After all, he had insisted on fastballs no matter what difficulties he faced.

It wasn't because of any particular belief.

He had thrown countless fastballs to set up this one curveball.

It was just a setup to make the curveball harder to handle.

'Now.'

And this setup would now come into play.

At the most crucial match.

Thud!

When the landing point arrived, Seohyun jumped without hesitation.

Whoosh──

It wasn't an armory.

-???

- This isn't it?

- Huh?

- What?

- Did he get nervous and make a mistake?

Viewers who confirmed the landing point were all puzzled.

Some even asked in the chat.

It was understandable.

Since Almond had never failed to execute his strategy of raiding the armory, not even once.

No matter how many snipers came, or how the situation became hellish with more and more people.

He had never stopped advancing to the armory.

"Yes, I know. It's a curveball."

Click.

A smile formed on the corner of Almond's lips.

Sure enough, numerous parachutes were falling toward the armory.

It was a popular spot, but the number of parachutes was unusually high.

They were probably there to snipe Almond.

* * *

The moment he heard this, the hand on the wheelchair twitched.

His brows furrowed strangely.

'Curveball?'

He seemed a bit angry.

It wasn't that he disliked the strategy or found it strange.

It was because it was unexpected.

Because the man had implemented a strategy that even he couldn't predict.

'No way.'

It was hard to believe.

He thought Almond was only advancing straight to the armory, perhaps to show some noble image.

But it was a setup for this curveball?

Does that make sense?

If he had been throwing fastballs to hide the curveball, doesn't that mean he was more confident in the curveball than the fastball?

How could that be?

The fastballs Almond had shown were so destructive, even beautiful.

That's why it was even harder to believe.

If he had a better curveball than those fastballs, why didn't he use it earlier?

There were certainly critical moments before, yet he held back?

Is that possible?

No, that man is now...

'Was he that confident?'

Is the Diamond Challenge not that difficult?

Snap.

Almond's parachute folded.

He landed in a ruined hospital building.

* * *

"Finally, he's doing it."

Seeing Almond's avatar land in the hospital, Juhyeok smiled.

It was as planned.

Now was the perfect time to throw the prepared curveball.

"There's no one following."

The snipers who always stuck to him and caused trouble were not there.

In this Diamond promotion match, the most people would be in the sniper queue.

Juhyeok and Almond already knew this.

This was the most dangerous time.

And the most important time.

So they had been practicing operations for a while.

Juhyeok had selected famous streamers known for their operational skills and summarized their theories, while Almond diligently studied them.

He improved his physical skills in real matches and studied operational theories every night.

Now it was time to bring operational play into real matches.

The operational method Almond chose now.

'Starting from the ruined hospital' is a typical approach for operational players.

- What? Hospital start?

- Wow

- Suddenly switching to operations?

- Falling behind, really, was this all for the curveball!?

- 😱

- Bro, you're too scary.

- If you die now, it'll be hilarious 😂

- Bro, what if you lose? 😢

That Almond, a physical play specialist, was starting with operational play. Naturally, even the viewers were bewildered.

Some even worried about his defeat.

But Juhyeok was different. He wasn't worried.

'He practiced.'

He believed in Almond, who had practiced every night.

In the genius who worked hard.

* * *

The operational methods he had learned from watching famous battle royale players like Electromagnetic and Dudu.

Although he hadn't used them in real matches yet, Almond was familiar with them.

He and Juhyeok had done a lot of image training together.

Adequate imagination and practice pay off in real matches.

At least, Almond believed so.

- Oh, what? He's doing pretty well?

- He must have practiced.

- Really, who would have thought Almond would bring operational play?...

- Brainy guy...

- Almond, sexy even in his brain.

Seeing his transformation, the viewers were moved, and a few high donations followed.

Unfortunately, Almond couldn't properly respond to the donors.

He needed to focus intensely.

He was moving in an unfamiliar way.

He couldn't even read the chat. He could only explain one-sidedly.

His mind was in chaos.

'Next...'

He put his ear to the ground to listen.

He checked below from the window with the widest view.

He looked down the stairwells to see if he could spot any enemy hair.

'No one.'

No one was there.

Almond was alone in the entire hospital.

It was an unlikely situation.

Hospitals are often visited because of the medicines, even if they are not very useful early on.

"No one's here."

The reason no one was in the hospital this match was simple.

"They all went to the armory."

Half of the 100 players were there to snipe Almond, so they all went to the armory.

Thanks to this, the hospital was Almond's exclusive domain.

The dangerous situation with many snipers had turned into an opportunity.

- 😂😂😂😂 Really good

- Almond: Got it? Kill each other

- A perfect example of Iijae.

- Ah, that's why no one's here 😂😂😂 Hilarious

- Even if hospitals aren't popular early on, this is ridiculous. They all went to the armory 😂

If he just went to the roof and hid, at least 30 players would be dead by the time he waited.

Actually, he didn't even need to go to the roof.

'He can slowly farm on the third floor.'

Almond started farming slowly as he walked the corridors.

By then, 16 players were already dead.

* * *

At that moment.

The armory was swarming with half snipers and half regular players.

"Where the hell is Almond!?"

"Damn it! Stop throwing knives! Stop it!"

"Hey, you! This is a ranked match, are you just going to die?!"

"What's so special about Almond? Crazy people."

The snipers gathered in the armory.

They eventually started aiming their guns at each other. Or rather, they started aiming their knives at each other since they hadn't even entered the underground storage yet.

Players who didn't know who Almond was started throwing knives at anyone they saw.

Thud!

Smack!

As some snipers died.

The snipers eventually entered a free-for-all.

"Damn it!"

"Die, you!"

Clang! Clang!

A spectacular knife fight with more participants than ever before took place in front of the underground storage of the armory.

"Where did Almond go!?"

How many times this cry was heard, no one could count.