Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 159
53. Insight (1)
“Heo-eok… Heo-eok…”
Jessie almost falls down the mountain path, her red hair flying.
“…Huh….”
She gasped and ran to her death.
Since I didn’t know the situation, I calculated that there was still a chance of victory.
Is that why?
[Surrender]
“…What?”
Quadang.
As soon as I saw the words “surrender,” I fell down the mountain path.
After rolling around excitedly for a while, she stretched out and looked up at the sky blankly.
It is clearly written in the middle of the blue sky.
[Defeat]
Now the text has changed, but the meaning is the same.
“Huh… hah…”
She was still out of breath, but she couldn’t run. The only thing that is beating is the heart.
Cheeeeeeeeeek…!
The blue sky split and rose into view.
Before you know it, you can see the ceiling of the dome stadium.
“under.”
Jesse sat up and shook his head.
I looked at other players’ capsules.
Everyone was sitting blankly with only their upper bodies raised.
On the other side, there were already a lot of people running around.
“Waaaaaa!!”
“I won!”
“Aaaah!”
Even the think tank team in the coach’s seat is jumping out and putting their arms around each other.
Jesse shakes his head hesitantly and shrugs his shoulders.
“Well… it’s a map choice.”
Eat.
Being the girl she is, she decided to just laugh it off.
“ruler. “Let’s prepare for the next game!”
The Vikings’ assistant commanders stood up and comforted the players.
“It’s real from now on!”
* * *
Cheeeeeeeek.
After the sky opened, Almond was able to truly feel it.
‘You won. really.’
The stadium where the Joseon team was located was literally deafening with cheers.
“Waaaaaaaaaa!!!”
As he stood up, louder cheers erupted and fans chanted his name.
“almond! almond! almond!!”
The giant screen in the stadium showed Balloon Stars members shouting “almonds” at the top of their lungs.
As Miho smiled and waved at the camera, louder cheers filled the hall.
“brother! Tongue! “Aaaah!”
But a much louder noise was coming.
“Aaaah!”
This is a think tank team.
“I won! completely! perfectly!!”
“brother! Come out! come out!”
“Ana. sweat. sweat. Do not touch.”
“hurry!”
“okay.”
When Almond walked out of the capsule with a smile, all the players rushed in at that moment.
They all stood shoulder to shoulder and shouted slogans as they had practiced.
“Shipbuilding! Shipbuilding!”
When coffee sings like this, we all shout together.
“Whiteyeeeeee!”
Of course, it doesn’t end here.
Bread took the next dock.
“Monster! Monster!”
Then everyone loosens their shoulders and raises their hands.
“Kaaaaaa!”
Boisterous laughter passes by as they cheer for their biggest sponsor.
Nevertheless, the players’ excitement seemed to have not subsided and they shook each other’s hands and talked about the game for a while.
“Brother Pang’er. I was really tired earlier. uh? “You are a practical person!”
“It’s only when it is actually fought that it doesn’t die from a fang-shaped arrow, but from an enemy’s axe!”
“Where are the almonds? almond! “Almond just grabbed me by the collar!”
“Oh no goth, no nut…!”
Sanghyun seemed a bit of an outsider among the excited people.
Perhaps this is a professional habit that has become deeply ingrained in him.
Professionals usually don’t get excited until the game is completely over.
“almond! There it is! I’m tired! uh!?”
“Shiba! Almond type! How long are you going to carry it!”
Even the panga is running towards him, calling him brother.
In times like this, they were clearly not professionals.
These are people who ended up here just because they liked the game.
If I had been Sanghyun in the past, I might have said something to the players who behaved like this.
Otherwise, the coach would have already yelled at me.
But here, the think tank team, which is supposed to be the coaches, rushes in first and causes an uproar.
Surprisingly, Sanghyeon didn’t hate it.
I even thought that maybe this was a natural thing.
He likes games, likes archery….
His original, untrained form.
I miss you somewhere.
“Sanghyun, what is your goal?”
Why?
At this time, I heard the coach’s voice.
“Winning the Olympics.”
“Is that really the end?”
“That’s the end? “Is there anything more than that?”
The coach would be happy if his student won an Olympic gold medal, but his expression looked bitter when he heard that that was his goal.
“okay. Now is the time. But man. Have you ever thought about why you want to win an Olympic gold medal?
Why ?
Because I decided to do archery.
“Because that’s the best.”
“Then you like being the best.”
“Uh…”
Is that so?
As a child, Sanghyun never thought in that way.
“Even if I’m not the best at archery. “You like being the best, right?”
“Hmm…”
Can I become the best in something other than archery?
I couldn’t imagine it.
That was the only thing I was born to be good at.
“Then next time. Why is it good to be the best? Think about it.”
Why?
Sanghyun was already closer to winning an Olympic gold medal than anyone else back then.
The coach seemed to be trying to prepare me for life after archery.
Maybe it was because he knew that Sanghyun would get there too quickly.
I hope he doesn’t get lost after that.
“I just like shooting a bow.”
“Really? haha. Well then that’s a good thing. Even if I win a gold medal, I will continue to shoot a bow.”
But unfortunately or fortunately, Sang-hyeon was not a person who liked gold medals.
He just loved archery.
I just hoped it would end with a gold medal.
I liked the pleasure of pulling the strings, holding my breath, and aiming at the target, hitting the exact center of the target.
Perhaps he would have continued shooting a bow even if he had not won the Olympics.
“You are truly blessed.”
What the coach said was evident in his talent.
The blessing of truly liking something.
It is definitely the most shining blessing.
However, this soon returns as a curse.
The moment when his desire for archery, which could not be stopped even with a gold medal, had to stop.
This blessing was like a deeply engraved curse.
After the accident, Sanghyun was unable to shoot an arrow again.
A big, deep hole has formed in my heart.
Even if he were to reach any other top position, would this huge hole in his heart be filled?
No matter how well-made virtual reality is, will it be enough to keep shooting an arrow?
I do not know.
To find out, Sang-hyeon just keeps doing something similar to archery.
“Waaaaaa!”
“almond! almond! almond!”
As I was being dragged into the waiting room, hugged by my colleagues, a person came into view as if in passing.
Everyone in the coach seat ran out and there was only one person left.
A person sitting in a wheelchair quietly looking at the monitor.
Is that person the same?
Is there a big hole in the middle of my chest?
* * *
Even after the players dispersed to their respective waiting rooms for the meeting, the excitement did not stop in the broadcast box.
This is because there was a lot to do, including watching replays and analyzing how they won.
“like this! Taking your time here! Joseon! lightly! I take it as a victory!”
“Yes~! lightly! Because this is important!? All strategies brought by Joseon. And the skills gained through training! This all worked. Everything worked fine! Is this inspiring!?”
-K
-I’m tired of watching the replay again
-Kya
-???: Kaaaaaa!
-From now on, exclamations will be unified as ‘keaaaa’.
-ㄹㅇ You did so well ㅠㅠㅠ
-I’m proud of the national teams.
Numerous viewers hit the chat room sympathizing with the victory.
That alone caused the chat window to stutter.
The current number of viewers is a whopping 400,000.
It was the largest viewership ever for a domestic national competition.
The number was similar to the largest number of viewers for the popular Reel Nant match.
In a little while, the viewership of Reel Champions may turn around.
Maybe that’s why the broadcasters also put more pressure on their necks.
I feel energized because there are many viewers who respond positively.
“yes! Inspiring, right? Map selection! And the results of the training so far are clearly showing! Against those Vikings! We were surrendered in the 2nd era! It’s not the 3rd era! “Isn’t this also unique?”
“you’re right. Joseon didn’t even move into the 3rd era until the end? This is almost a disgrace to the Vikings. Shameful death. “It’s not like the rugged mountain valleys are that unfavorable to Vikings in the original map, right?!”
“I think Viking decided that if they tried to do anything more than this, their strategy would only be exposed further and they might lose.”
“That’s how dark the situation was! Ah, the data came out….”
On the screen, the win rate for each civilization appeared on the map.
Rather, Joseon’s win rate was about 4-5% lower than Viking’s.
In these statistics, a 5% difference is a huge difference.
“Look at this. This is a map where the original bow civilization is weak. Moreover, it is difficult to use words. “Vikings have a huge advantage.”
“yes. It’s not at the level of maps called Viking-only maps, but the win rate is decent, right? “If you look here, Mongolia’s winning percentage stands out, right?”
-Even Mongolia can’t use indigo hereㄷㄷ
-Even Godgol hahaha
– Cookies can do this!
-Hey
-Oh please, I want to win and see the interview ㅠㅠㅠ Not
only Joseon but also Mongolia, a representative horse archer civilization, did not have a good win rate on this map.
“Mongolia is the civilization with the most wins. “If it’s like this… the Vikings might be embarrassed.”
“Yes. “They deliberately chose this map and caused complete chaos.”
“Hey….”
“Cookie. What I want to praise. In the past, it was called the so-called safe bread, right? Even back then, my evaluation as a commander was good. “There was a strong image that we only made safe bread.”
“Oh yeah!?”
As a caster who was only looking at this year’s cookies, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
Instead of being a safe bread, the current cookie looks like a crazy gambler.
“however! This year, Cookie is interpreting and presenting the current Joseon civilization with a completely different concept. You can’t win with rules! We will completely transform ourselves through past failures! It’s like this will! And it’s working!”
“Hey. great? He’s a commander who is also good at regularity. “Haven’t they completely changed their style and are causing an underdog sensation?!”
“Yes! Cookie player! How hard it must have been! Everyone knows! The youngest days! Joseon achieved the legend of being the first to advance to the finals!?”
“ah. Yes! I heard that you only went to the finals once. Even back then, the finals started from the quarterfinals, so it’s the quarterfinals, right?”
-Really??
-It seems like it was a long time ago
-From the beginning of the finals to the quarterfinals haha
-Oh, this is what it means to go to the quarterfinals
-I guess it was when there weren’t many teams.
“That’s right. At that time, it was not long after Civil M came out. Since Korea is an e-sports powerhouse, it was advantageous to be first in the early stages. Everyone is evaluating the results that came out of that. Cookie probably didn’t think that way, right? As I often mentioned in interviews! “He probably thought he was the problem!”
“Ah….”
Korea, where e-sports culture was already widespread.
In a game that just started, I always had no choice but to stand out.
Gradually, countries with a strong civilization, such as Mongolia, China, Japan, and Italy, were pushed out as the e-sports industry system took root.
From this point on, Cookie took over as general commander.
“At that time, Cookie, who was attracting attention as the best rookie, plummeted when he led the team. Maybe that wasn’t actually the commander’s problem? But you wouldn’t have thought of it that way!”
“ah. still! Now, after 5 years of renovation! cookie! We’re back! A new artist receiving the most attention right now! With the recruitment of Almond! “This is total déjà vu!?”
– Wow
– Cooberji ㅠㅠ
– You’re back, Ku Taesik
– ㄹㅇ It’s similar to 5 years ago
– ㅠㅠㅠ
– I saw it back then… ㅠㅠㅠ
– That kind of story
shows a man on the screen at that time.
It was a man who looked to be around forty.
[Joseon’s general commander 5 years ago]
[Lee Tae-yong]
He smiles and waves at the camera.
Next to him are his wife and children.
-Oh oh
-Wow, I came to see you
-ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
-Wow
“Ah. That’s the commander from back then! ah. Thank you so much for coming. And…”
While other explanations were being given, the operation time ended.
“ah! While we’re talking! “The players will be back soon!”
Players began to come out of the waiting room one by one.
The players each shake hands and split into two halves.
This time in a different direction.
“Kuki, who was a rookie on the team 5 years ago, led the team to the finals again for the first time in 5 years! He’s not the youngest anymore! He is the commander of this team!”
Caster shouted one after another in a solemn voice.
“The new talents who will take up his baton are also with him! Even if it doesn’t happen this time! Even if it doesn’t happen next time! This match will forever go down in history! It will light a spark! Just like Joseon did before that!!”
A challenge that could possibly be Cookie’s last.
The second round begins.
[Joseon 1: Viking 0]
“That’s right. Just because you’ve already made it to the finals! Cookie left another spark behind! but! Looking at today’s performance! You can’t help but be greedy!? You don’t want to end up with just a small spark! You will really want to become a slash-and-burn farmer! “You want to leave behind fertile soil!”
“Players! “Everyone has entered the capsule!”
Wow.
With cheers from both sides’ cheering squads, holograms once again filled the stadium and began to create the terrain of the map.
“The game is about to start! This map is…!”
