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 doing so.

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 defend your position again even if you finish first in the next match.

Is that why?

[Ah, Almond can't be sent to Diamond for sure lol]

[Yeah, I'm going to snipe him too.]

[As a 5-year Diamond gatekeeper, it's absolutely not happening.]

[Sniping team 'Dia - Almond' recruiting new members!!!]

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

While some envy and hate Almond, others are determined to stop his record.

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

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

A number of snipers far greater than before will join in.

Among them, there will naturally be skilled players.

To snipe, you need to be in the upper ranks of Platinum or the lower ranks of Diamond.

-Will there be enough for a challenge with so many Almond snipers?

└Yeah...

└Even Electron Wave had more than this. It's just that all streamers have to deal with it.

-Feeling sorry for Almond :(

-There's nothing we can do... :(((

└We're just casual players... lol

└Yeah lol

└If you want to help Almond, get to Platinum Diamond! lol

The community users were so numerous that they even worried about Almond.

This much difficulty was expected.

* * *

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

The dense, dark green forests visible through the clouds. This map was indeed 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 significant amount of energy today. No matter how good his condition, it would eventually run out.

It was important to finish quickly.

'This is the time to throw a curveball.'

Almond had only thrown fastballs until now.

The enemies would probably expect him to throw 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?

The viewers, who had confirmed the landing point, were all puzzled.

[Someone donated 1,000 won.]

[Bro, this isn't an armory.]

Someone even asked through a donation.

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, and no matter how crowded it got, he never stopped advancing to the armory.

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

Click.

A smile formed at the corners of Almond's mouth.

Sure enough, many 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.

* * *

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

At the sound of these words, 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 he hadn't expected it.

Because the man had implemented a strategy that even he hadn't anticipated.

'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 only thrown 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, but he held back?

Is that possible?

No, that man is now...

'Was he that confident?'

Is the Diamond challenge not that difficult?

[Today, I start from here.]

Snap.

Almond's parachute folded.

He landed at a ruined hospital building.

* * *

"Finally, he's doing it."

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

It was as planned.

This was the perfect timing to throw the prepared curveball.

"There's no one following."

There were no snipers who always followed and caused trouble.

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

Juhyeok and Almond already knew this.

This was the most dangerous time.

And the most important time.

So they had only practiced management for a while.

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

He trained physically in real matches and studied management theories every night.

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

The management method Almond chose now.

'Starting at the ruined hospital' is a typical method for management players.

-What? Hospital start?

-Wow

-Suddenly doing management?

-He's losing ㄹㅇ Is this all for the curveball!?

-ㄷㄷㄷ

-Bro, you're scary.

-If you die in one go, it'll be sweet lol

-If you lose like this, what will you do ㅠㅠ

As a physical player, Almond starting with management play naturally surprised the viewers.

Some even worried about his defeat.

But Juhyeok was not worried.

'He practiced.'

He believed in Almond, who had practiced every night.

The hardworking genius.

* * *

Management methods learned from famous battle royale players like Electron Wave and Doodoo.

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

He had done a lot of image training with Juhyeok.

Sufficient imagination and practice pay off in real matches.

At least, Almond believed so.

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

-He must have practiced.

-ㄹㅇ Who would have thought Almond would bring management play...

-So cool... ㅠㅠ

-Brainy guy

-Brainy and sexy Almond.

[Forbes selected! Donated a whopping 100,000 won!]

[The coolest management play!]

[Brainy donated 50,000 won!]

[My brainy selection, the coolest play!]

The viewers, moved by his transformation, continued to make high donations.

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 a mess.

'Next...'

He put his ear to the ground to listen for sounds.

He checked below through the window with the widest field of view.

He looked down the stairwell 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.

The hospital, with its many medicines, often attracted visitors.

Even if medicines weren't useful in the early stages, it was better to have them.

"No one is here."

The reason no one was at the hospital in 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.

As a result, the hospital was Almond's exclusive territory.

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

-kek, this is perfect

-Almond: Got it? Kill each other

-A model of Ijei.

-Oh, that's why no one is here ㅅㅂ lol So funny

-Even if the hospital isn't popular in the early stages, it's too much. They all went to the armory lol

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

No, he didn't even need to go to the roof.

'He can farm slowly on the 3rd floor.'

Almond started farming slowly as he walked around the corridor.

By then, 16 players were already dead.

* * *

At that moment.

The armory was overflowing with snipers and 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? You guys are crazy."

The snipers gathered in the armory.

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

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

Thud!

Thump!

As some snipers died.

Eventually, the snipers also entered a free-for-all.

"Damn it!"

"Die, you!"

Clang! Clang!

A spectacular knife fight unfolded in front of the underground storage of the armory, with more people than ever before.

"Where did Almond go!?"

How many times did such cries erupt? It was impossible to count.