Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 30

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 1 Episode 30
11. War (4)
The grassland where I stood.
On this plain to the left of the enemy encampment, only the whistle of arrows and screams echoed.
Whoosh─ Thwack!
“Ugh!”
“Argh!”
Well-trained soldiers fell like a disorganized rabble. Of the forty enemies who had rushed in, only three remained.
This meant I had already slain nearly a hundred men alone.
-How many is that now….
-He’s insane
I can’t translate this. The characters “-ㄷㄷㄷㄷ” are Korean consonants repeated and don’t form meaningful words or expressions in Korean.
-Bro I’m dead!
-Is a 100-kill headshot streak even possible?
The legendary 100-kill headshot streak record in Kingdom Age.
I was now on the verge of breaking this record. Truly a tense moment.
“That’s 770,000 won now.”
Yet I simply explained the amount I had earned without any sign of agitation. My composure remained unshaken.
My eyes saw nothing but the heads of my targets, and my ears heard nothing but the wind that guided my aim.
Whiiing─
The wind touching my skin tells me the direction.
Where to shoot.
Creak….
I aim at one of the three remaining soldiers.
“Damn it!”
He chooses to die fighting rather than flee. He charges at me with his sword drawn in grim determination, but─
─Thud!
My arrow has already pierced through his skull.
“Damn! Just run!”
“I’m already running!”
The remaining two fled in terror. If they had charged together with the resolve to die when there were still forty of them alive─
Perhaps they might have caught me then?
Who knows.
I cannot even be certain of that.
It was already far too late to consider such things.
“Aaaagh….”
With a final death cry, one of the remaining two falls.
The soldier running alongside him lets out a shriek and runs harder in panic.
Because I still had my bow trained on him.
But then, I lower my bow.
“…Ah. I’m out of arrows.”
From the enemy’s perspective, they were fortunate. I had been given eighty arrows.
One of them I’d used to intercept an arrow fired by another soldier.
-Ah, damn
Haha, that bastard barely made it alive.
-Bazoo!
Look at how you did me a favor lol
With arrows depleted, an archer has nothing to do for now. Not until I gather more arrows.
Because of this, the viewers believed my slaughter would stop here.
Shy Yeopo, who had placed the mission, exhaled in relief.
Phew, haha.
But that wasn’t relief—it was complacency.
I had no intention of stopping here.
Tap—
I suddenly began sprinting forward.
-???
-He’s chasing after him?!
lol
-Relentless, absolutely relentless!
I had decided to pursue the last remaining soldier directly into enemy lines to finish him off.
The fleeing soldier glanced back over his shoulder and—
“Hyiieeek!”
He shrieked in terror and ran even faster. He ran for his life. The saying about wanting to run on all fours—this was exactly when it applied. His movements were utterly desperate.
“Uaaaah! Argh! Argh!”
Grotesque screams poured from his mouth, accompanied by long strands of drool.
Hahahahahaha
-Wow, check out that AI implementation.
-This is why you play Kingdom Age!
-It looks so alive!
lol
The viewers erupted in enthusiasm at the NPC’s realistic reaction.
Kingdom’s enemies truly behaved like people—vicious when they held the advantage, yet despicably cowardly the moment circumstances turned against them.
That realism added immersion to the gameplay.
Anyone would run like that if Almond was chasing them from behind with fire, lol.
That’s scary lolol
-He already killed all his comrades, give the guy a break!
hahaha
The viewers had begun to empathize with the fleeing soldier. Given the ferocity with which I was pursuing him, I was practically a ghost.
Running like a relay sprinter, I suddenly shifted my posture. I lowered my body.
‘Found it.’
Where he reached, a stray arrow was embedded in the ground.
Thunk.
His hand swiftly retrieved the arrow.
It was immediately nocked onto the bowstring. Even while sprinting, Almond’s aim remained perfectly steady, not wavering an inch.
Creeeeak—
The bowstring drew back slowly. Running at the same pace as his opponent, the taut string vibrated faintly at his fingertips. The tension was drawn taut and rigid.
Almond steadied his breathing, closed his eyes for a moment, then released that immense tension.
—Twaaang!
-!!
-Whoa!
-OMG
-Shot!
-YOOO!
The arrow struck precisely through the center of the enemy’s skull.
“…Gasp!”
The eightieth enemy didn’t even manage a proper final scream before his breath ceased. The momentum from his running stride carried him forward as he tumbled, becoming just another corpse scattered across the field.
Only then did Almond stop running and speak.
“That’s 800,000 won.”

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After shooting down approximately twenty more enemies, Almond reached 1 million won.
[Shy Yeopo has donated a whopping ‘1,000,000 won’!]
[Evan… ㅠ]
Hahahahahahaha
-Shy Yeopo lolololol
-Yeopo’s the best!
Hahahahahaha
That’s not even a million won, dude! lol
Naturally, the war was won.
A single soldier had shot down one hundred enemies alone—there was no way the enemy could mount a proper battle under such circumstances.
Our forces’ roar echoed across the grassland.
“Uaaaaaaaaaaa!”
No one particularly chanted Almond’s name. None of them knew that Almond had single-handedly killed over a hundred enemies.
“Robern! Robern!”
Instead, the soldiers chanted the name of the knight Robern, who had led this war.
Since he was the commander, it was only natural.
-Tsk….
-Ha. These clueless bastards lol
-Almond did everything lol
-Ugh!
-That’s why they don’t pursue independence lol
The viewers were disappointed. Sanghyeon couldn’t help but feel the same way.
‘What is this? I captured a hundred enemies, and no one even knows.’
I understood their sentiment.
Having experienced this war firsthand, my mind was in complete chaos. With everyone tangled together, swordplay and technique became meaningless—bludgeoning enemies with crude weapons was the most efficient approach.
That’s how utterly chaotic war truly is.
I had no time to track how the situation was unfolding or even whether I was striking down allies or enemies.
There’s no way to know if Almond killed a hundred enemies or a thousand.
“Sigh. Even so, being treated like a mere mercenary group is infuriating.”
Roman chimed in from beside me.
He had approached Almond at some point and placed a hand on his shoulder, exhaling heavily.
“Treated like a mercenary group? What do you mean?”
“We’ve accomplished quite a bit, haven’t we? Yet they speak as though we should simply accept the base payment and leave.”
Roman clearly believed the Mercenary Group hadn’t received proper compensation for their contributions.
“What have they even done themselves…”
While Roman was venting his frustrations.
“Is that a complaint?”
Another Knight who served as aide to Commander Robern approached.
The look in his eyes as he gazed down at them from horseback was far from pleasant.
“Why would you complain about receiving the agreed-upon amount?”
“There was clearly a clause stipulating additional compensation for exceptional performance.”
Roman responded without backing down, speaking directly.
“Exceptional performance? What exceptional performance did your mercenary group display on a battlefield where Knights fight? Do you think we’re unaware that you mercenaries hold back in combat?!”
The Knight remained unyielding as expected.
Mercenaries typically hold back during combat. Their bodies are their assets, and since they’re hired to fight others’ battles, they naturally exercise caution. This makes them generally difficult to trust.
“If you distrust us so greatly, how did you entrust the war to us? To trust us during battle and then distrust us once it’s over—that’s hardly honorable conduct.”
“…What did you just say?”
But that’s merely prejudice. There are plenty of mercenaries who fight properly. Otherwise, how would the mercenary system even survive?
“This man alone eliminated a hundred enemies. Do you still believe we held back? Do you claim there was no exceptional performance?”
“He eliminated a hundred alone?”
Kahahaha. The Knight laughed loudly for all to hear, then mocked his own companions, saying, “This fellow claims he wiped out a hundred by himself?!”
His companions naturally joined in the laughter.
-Yo, recommend me a route to kill that bastard lol
-Can’t we just shoot him now? lol
-Over-immersion
Roman appeared just as heated as the viewers.
However, Roman couldn’t respond further. The difference in social standing meant any further argument would only bring disadvantage.
It was dirty and cowardly, but at least they’d received the base payment.
“I understand the gist…”
Just as he was beginning to reluctantly accept the situation.
“Move aside! Let go!”
Screeeeech….
The Bandit Leader wearing the Golden Helmet was dragged across the ground.
“Release me!”
Thud.
He shoved away the mercenary who had been dragging him and rose to his feet.
“I shall go myself.”
“….”
The mercenaries flinched at his aristocratic arrogance. The difference in rank was a brand seared into the brain itself.
In this era, even enemies could not be killed carelessly if they were nobility.
Because their ransom was astronomical.
Tap, tap.
The Golden Helmet brushed the dirt from his armor and approached Robern, who had been the commander.
“Are you the commander here?”
“I am.”
His manner of speech was as elegant as the vanity-laden helmet itself. He appeared to be nobility of even higher rank than Robern.
“So you’ve won after all. Shamelessly, without any justification, you seized my family’s castle, and in the end, you’ve slaughtered all my soldiers….”
The Golden Helmet rambled on as though his life meant nothing, yet his bold and dignified tone left no room for anyone to refute him.
“…and after killing them all, are you satisfied now?!”
The Knight tried belatedly to offer a few words in return.
“Tallorant has treated the Vassals here….”
“Enough. I simply wish to speak with Zannet, so bring her.”
The Golden Helmet cut him off and abruptly demanded that Zannet be brought.
“That is not possible.”
Almond spoke without thinking. In truth, it was likely a scene that would appear regardless of Sanghyeon’s will.
The Golden Helmet turned with eyes that seemed to ask ‘Who are you?’ and was astounded.
“!?”
His eyes widened as though they might burst from their sockets. He seemed to have recognized who Almond was.
“You…?”
The Knights did not understand why their opponent’s leader was so shocked to see Almond.
He was merely a mercenary. Moreover, one who wielded a bow.
Knights tended to look down on archers. With decent armor, bows were useless anyway.
And they lacked honor besides.
Yet the Bandit Leader’s thoughts seemed different.
“Are you also a Knight?”
“I am not.”
“Then how do you presume to say what can and cannot be done?”
“….”
“No, more importantly, if you are not a Knight, then what are you?”
Roman answered in his stead.
“I’m a mercenary belonging to our Mercenary Group.”
“…Hmm?”
At the word “mercenary,” rather than disdain, there was a sense of welcome.
After all, one couldn’t recruit a Knight, but a mercenary was simply a matter of payment, wasn’t it?
Meanwhile, the Knights regarded the Golden Helmet with suspicion for showing such remarkable interest in merely a single mercenary.
“A man who slays a hundred soldiers alone, and yet you call him merely a mercenary?”
“!?”
At this point, not only the Knights but Almond was shocked as well.
‘You knew?’
The enemy commander knew of his exploits. Perhaps that was only natural—they were the ones who had suffered the direct losses.
-Only the victims remember lol
-Ah, so satisfying lol
-Maybe those Knights will finally show some respect haha
-Kyaa! An honorable enemy acknowledged by the Bandit Leader!
-Worthy opponent lol
The viewers welcomed the Golden Helmet’s testimony.
“Surely… you jest, sir.”
“How could a mercenary possibly slay a hundred….”
“Ha, indeed.”
The Knights all believed the Golden Helmet was joking.
“None of you believe me. Tell me, do you truly wish to work with such people?”
The Golden Helmet smiled wryly and removed her helmet.
Long hair that had been bound cascaded down. Tresses that shimmered in deep indigo.
It resembled the faint early evening when stars first emerge, and her features were carved with such flawless balance that none could find fault.
Her eyes, bold yet profound, showed no wavering even in defeat.
Rather, she exuded composure, and from her entire being emanated a presence that even thick armor could not conceal.
-It was Rosenitta!
-As expected!
-Hahahaha
-She was part of the Taloran Faction after all
-Wow
A character the viewers had mentioned before.
The young lady of a noble family standing at the opposite end from Emilia, and the second heroine.
“How about working with me?”
Rosenitta.
[1. I am honored that you would recognize my worth.]
[2. Though I am but a mercenary, I have already sworn my loyalty to another.]

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