Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 344

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 64
24. I Became a Spearman in the Game (1)
Fortunately, in the world of mercenaries, the death of a single person seemed to be a common occurrence.
Or perhaps they hadn’t actually died.
Either way, the tavern’s reaction was scorching hot.
“Rookie! Rookie!”
“What a bold one!”
“Waaaah!”
It was surreal.
Not that the graphics weren’t realistic.
But the oppressively vivid sense of reality that Zombie School possessed was absent here.
It must have been designed so players could enjoy the game comfortably.
hahaha, this is crazy
-Total chaos
-This is it. This is what a game should be, damn it! So refreshing!
Perhaps because of that, the viewers also enjoyed it, saying it felt refreshing.
[Frustrating has donated 3,000 won.]
Phew. I was scared at first, worried I’d mess up like Kim Joo-hyuk did early on, but it turned out great lol.
It seemed to be in stark contrast to the early days of Zombie School.
[CM Cheo-dol-i has donated 10,000 won!]
[Civil Empire doesn’t have many restrictions. It brings out the player’s maximum potential. That’s what I’m saying.]
CM Cheo-dol-i.
The first donor to appear after I started Civil Empire.
I have a feeling I’ll be seeing them often from now on.
From their nickname to the way they speak, they’re quite a veteran of this game.
[CM Cheo-dol-i has donated 10,000 won!]
Wow, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone one-shot kill all three troll brothers like that lol. I’ve seen plenty of people killing them, but not like this.
Even they had never seen the Troll Triplets killed in a single strike before.
“You can’t normally kill them in one hit?”
[CM Cheo-dol-i has donated 10,000 won!]
[Nope, you can. This game has vital point detection. But I’ve never seen someone pull off a vital hit right from the start like that.]
It seemed Almond’s dagger throw to the center of the forehead had registered as a critical hit.
It would certainly be difficult for someone playing this game for the first time to accomplish such a feat.
Almond was simply lucky.
“Does everything die if you hit a vital point?”
Almond was genuinely asking to understand this game better.
Inducing sponsorship lol
-The face of capitalism…
Haha, look at you keep asking questions.
Since every answer came with a 10,000 won donation, Almond was actually being misunderstood.
[CM Cheo-dol-i has donated 10,000 won!]
Only vital points like the neck or head result in instant death if properly cut or pierced. Other critical spots take massive damage when hit!
He’s making a comment for just a few thousand won lol
-Sir… please calm down.
Wow wow lol
“Ah… understood. Thank you so much for the four consecutive donations.”
A veteran’s consecutive donations, the first I’d seen.
It meant my gameplay had stirred the blood of the veterans that much.
With that level of performance, rewards were naturally forthcoming.
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[C Rank]
Aamond
Kimchi Stew Demon King
hotshotgg
sourcrautz97
Dorumuk
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Despite being a newcomer, I received an immediate special promotion to C Rank.
I had earned the honor of starting at the highest rank among wandering mercenaries.
‘That makes things easier.’
Flutter flutter.
Tangkong, the fairy, flapped her wings excitedly and cried out.
[Aamond! That’s amazing! We’ve hardly ever had anyone like this!!]
She performed aerial somersaults with such delight, as if she received a performance bonus whenever her mercenary did well.
[In terms of percentages, you’re in the top 3%! Personnel who receive C Rank right from the start!]
The condition for C Rank was to subdue one of the Troll Triplets without taking a single hit.
I had gone beyond not taking a single hit—I subdued them with just one strike, so a special C Rank promotion was only natural.
-Almond truly has class
-Honestly, that’s practically pro-level play.
One and Only nuts lol
I’ve tasted this before too lol
I’m also scared that kids who talk big will show up in the community ㅋㅋㅋ
The viewers engaged in back-and-forth debate about whether this was truly impressive or not.
It seemed they were trying some kind of self-regulation—if they praised Almond too much, attacks would come from the community.
The funny part was that all this was happening before the game had even started.
Tangkong approached and changed the subject for me.
[Ah! Mond! Now that you’ve received your mercenary rank, shall we try something called basic training?]
“Basic training?”
[Yes. It’s about experiencing how the battlefield operates from a commander’s perspective! Soldiers naturally find it difficult to understand a commander’s position, so this special system was created for that reason!]
How fascinating.
They have you become a commander before you become a soldier. Usually it’s the opposite, isn’t it?
[Let me send you in!]
Zing!
As Tangkong waved her staff once, a portal suddenly materialized.
Even though such a portal appeared in the middle of a tavern, no one looked at it strangely.
It must be commonplace here.
With that thought, Almond stepped through the portal.

* * *
What spread before me was the sky.
I was flying bare-handed beneath a high, blue expanse.
[Look down there! Aamond!]
A fairy flew over and hovered beside me, speaking. Looking in that direction, I saw people as tiny as ants.
[Those people are workers. When you first start the game, a commander receives 10 workers!]
Counting them, there were indeed exactly 10.
[And the first building you’re given is the ‘Town Hall’. You can produce workers there! I’ll create one for you!]
The moment she said that, a resident—a worker—was automatically generated from the town hall.
Each one cost 10 food.
[Aamond, try giving orders to the workers. Drag with your hand! By the way, commander mode also allows keyboard and mouse controls! Except for international wars!]
Almond reached out and manipulated them like an old-fashioned mouse game.
They actually moved.
[How is it? You can also give orders by voice here. Then they’ll autonomously follow your commands as best they can! Try telling them to chop wood!]
“Chop wood.”
The workers rushed toward the trees and began swinging their axes.
Chop. Chop.
The workers quickly felled the trees and brought them over.
[Look at the upper right. You can see your current resources there.]
Just as Tangkong said, the current resource values were displayed.
The wood count was increasing.
The resources include wood, gold, food, stone, and iron.
Each probably has different uses.
[Gold and food are mostly used to summon soldiers, wood and stone are for buildings! Iron is used to create siege weapons! Let me build an infantry training outpost here!]
The fairy said she would build a structure once about 100 wood had been gathered.
[Call over one worker and say ‘build a structure’ or press the UI in the lower right!]
Almond called over one worker and had them build the ‘Infantry Training Barracks’.
[Basic Infantry Training Barracks]
[Construction in progress….]
[5%]
It felt like it would take about twenty seconds.
In reality, twenty seconds to construct a building would be absurd, but in a game like this, twenty seconds is actually quite a long time.
[If it seems slow, please assign additional workers!]
I assigned a few more workers, and the construction speed accelerated dramatically.
[62%]
In the blink of an eye, more than half was already built.
Before long, it was complete.
[Infantry Barracks]
The fairy laughed with delight.
-Wow, what is this? It reminds me of the old Work Star days
-This is a real RTS?? Can Almond even… handle this?
-Almond’s terrible at games like this lol
Viewers were taken aback by how strategically demanding the gameplay was. They were worried whether Almond, who only seemed to use his brain for advertising, could actually pull this off.
But the true essence of this game was just beginning.
[Now! Let me summon some infantry!]
I tapped on the barracks and checked the infantry roster.
[Spearman]
There was only one unit I could recruit right now.
Spearman.
[Food: 10]
[Gold: ?]
[Population: 1]
The food cost was fixed at ten, but the gold price wasn’t set.
I tapped it anyway.
[Recruiting mercenaries.]
[Please set the compensation.]
I was the one setting the price.
-Free market economy spearmen? lol
-The “invisible hand” of spearmen
-What is this even lol
This was an interesting mechanic, I had to admit.
The problem was that Almond had neither gold nor food.
“Tangkong. I don’t have any gold at all? And no food either.”
[Ah! That’s… look carefully!]
She waved her wand.
Then the workers moved in perfect unison.
[You distribute workers to the resources you want! For food, you hunt sheep or animals in the surrounding area!]
A few of them started swinging pickaxes at the gold mine, while a couple walked toward the sheep wandering nearby and suddenly slaughtered them.
-That’s brutal
-Ahhhhh!
I’m sorry/That’s sad ㅠㅠ
The sheep transformed into meat in an instant.
When the sheep’s meat was moved to the village hall, the food supply, which had remained at 0, rose to 10.
-Ah, so that’s food
-I thought it was just decoration lol
-There are deer and wild boar too lol
The workers began transporting the mutton several more times, and the food supply increased to around 100.
Gold continued to be brought from the gold mine, and about 30 gold accumulated.
[Now then, you have food and gold! Try recruiting some Spearmen!]
I nodded and tapped the Infantry Barracks again.
I could set how much gold to use per person, how many to recruit, and what rank I wanted.
[10 people]
[Gold 1]
[Rank doesn’t matter]
On top of that, I could even write a battle summary—information about the current situation.
[Battle Summary: First Infantry Recruitment]
This was auto-generated.
[Recruiting Spearmen…]
A recruitment message appeared.
Boom!
I heard a drum sound, and several people appeared.
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[Recruitment Application List]
Lemonpie
Undipiti
Orefu
Lia
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“These… are they real people?”
[No! Not yet! This is training!]
They were bots.
No wonder all the IDs were in full Korean—they were auto-generated.
[But when you engage in real combat, actual mercenaries will come! Remember the names written on the blackboard at the Wandering Mercenary Tavern earlier?]
I remembered.
The IDs listed by their respective ranks.
They were all mercenaries waiting for contracts.
The commander seems to be taking them this way.
[Oh! Enemy forces have arrived!]
Boom boom!
The sound of drums echoed across the battlefield.
Our Workers mining gold came under attack.
Thwack! Thwack!
As the enemies gathered and thrust their spears several times, the fragile Workers fell easily.
That’s right. The enemy forces are Spearmen too.
[Well, we should deploy our Spearmen as well, shouldn’t we?]
Following Tangkong’s words, I looked toward the training grounds and saw ten Spearmen standing at attention, looking around nervously.
[Drag as many as you want, then I’ll relay your commands! You can use voice or text! You can even use the Ping system!]
She raised her wand high.
[But…!]
Just as I was about to follow her instructions.
[The Commander Mode experience ends here! Now become a Spearman and fulfill your original role!]
“A Spearman? One of those down there?”
[Yes!]
“Then who’s commanding?”
[I will be! Come on! Go ahead!]
Zing!
As her wand burst with light, the world went dark.

* * *
After a moment, I opened my eyes, and my entire field of vision had transformed.
‘Oh….’
The verdant meadow I’d been gazing down upon from above was now a tangle of weeds reaching up to my knees, a dense forest surrounding me.
Looking down, I found myself clad in worn leather armor, gripping an old spear in my hand.
-So it wasn’t about commanding at all, it was about being commanded lolol
-With this setup, even Almond and Hodu could pull it off
-Basically you just handed the manager role to Hodu, isn’t that totally broken??? lololol
Oh, so that’s what it’s like.
The viewers were relieved that Almond wasn’t the one commanding, and simultaneously thrilled by this novel structure.
It truly gave the sensation of being inside the game itself. This was the kind of setup that made every gamer’s heart race.
‘Right. I need to go help the workers.’
Almond recalled the fact that the workers had been under attack just moments ago and looked around uncertainly.
‘Where are they?’
When I was the commander, it was crystal clear. But from this height, I couldn’t see anything. It was difficult to even determine direction.
So this was the difference between commander and soldier. I was realizing this when—
Ping! Ping—!
A loud sound echoed out.
‘What is that?’
Whoosh!
A brilliant yellow light materialized in the sky.
Then it struck down like a bolt of lightning.
Written across that golden beam of light were these words:
[Defense]
‘It’s a ping.’
This was the ping the fairy had mentioned.
Immediately after, a separate command from the commander came through.
[Commander’s Order]
[The workers at the gold mine are under attack. Go defend them.]
Now my defense battle as a spearman was beginning.

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