Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 348

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 68
25. Special Mission (2)
“This game is absolutely ridiculous!”
The Knight fighting me collapsed with high praise. Ten spears lodged in his body.
-Ten spears ending lmao
-lol that praise lmao
-Hahaha
My opponent seemed frustrated by the dishonorable fight.
But I didn’t take it seriously.
“I have no idea what kind of amazing praise that was to get translated like this.”
Muttering to myself like this, I simply moved toward where Jesse was fighting.
-Is this also the translator’s fault? lmao
-Almond now has the perfect excuse lmao the translator is dead lmao
-lmaooo so that’s how praise gets translated!?
I resumed my spear-throwing stance.
Toward the spot where Jesse and the Knight were fighting fiercely.
“Huu.”
I slowly drew in a breath and steadied my breathing. I had to be careful—Jesse could get hit if I wasn’t precise.
“Hah!”
As I exhaled, the spear flew straight and true.
Whoooosh──
My spear flew with the precision of a trained hawk.
──Thunk!
It tore through the Knight’s neck.
The Knight staggered and finally fell from his horse.
Dead.
“Wow, I survived!”
Jesse cried out in joy at her own survival.
She waved her arms at me.
But I was busy calculating.
“That’s 4 Gold.”
Now that I’d dealt with 4 mounted knights, that made 4 Gold.
“I’ve earned quite a bit.”
My mercenary salary is 3 Gold, but the bounty has exceeded my wages. I don’t know the exact value of Gold, but since the bonus is more than my original salary, it’s naturally a good situation.
However, there’s something troubling me.
‘The enemy cavalry has completely disappeared.’
While I was fighting two mounted knights.
The enemy cavalry’s main force had already devastated all the outposts and was advancing toward our main camp.
From what I could see, this game was disadvantageous for us. Very much so.
“Our team is losing, right?”
However, since I’m unfamiliar with this game, I decide to ask the viewers for clarification.
-Is that how it works?
-You can see it if you look at the chart above
-Top right corner!
“Ah, I see.”
Looking at the top right, there’s a window displaying metrics.
When I open it, this appears.
[Resource Score: -162]
[Military Score: -93]
[Territory Score: -102]
‘As expected….’
It’s exactly as I predicted. Every metric is unfavorable.
And at the very end, there’s even a summary written like this.
[Current Battle Status: Extremely Disadvantageous]
-???
-What?
-An assassin! The broadcast is getting shut down lolol
-Is this American?!
-#*%(@
“…?”
The chat suddenly becomes chaotic.
I glance over at Jesse, wondering what’s happening.
She’s in the middle of removing her top.
I’m momentarily flustered, but of course, her reason for undressing isn’t to sabotage my broadcast.
“Let’s put these on.”
Whoosh.
Jesse holds up the armor that the Knights had been wearing.
‘So we’re putting on enemy armor.’
It seems like quite a good idea.
[Commander]
[You guys are solid. Let’s infiltrate the enemy lines]
An order just came down like that.

* * *
There is a saying in the Civil Empire.
A commander with superior tactics wins battles, but a commander with superior wisdom wins wars.
What is the difference between tactics and wisdom?
Tactics refer to numerical games confined to strategy and battle formations.
Certainly, a wise person may not play strategy better than one with superior tactics.
However, a wise person can persuade the one who plays strategy well and make them work for their benefit.
Thus, those who handle people well, those who understand how to build society beneficially, can be called wise.
Applying this to the Civil Empire means having the discernment to distinguish the abilities of soldiers.
But this is not an easy task.
It’s not as if I interview and recruit each person individually—people of all kinds from around the world can enter, up to 200 at a time.
Observing their skills and characteristics, examining each one, and assigning them to the right positions is difficult.
It’s not just difficult; executing this perfectly is beyond what a single human can accomplish.
I can only practice, hoping to approach perfection.
“But…”
Yet sometimes, there are moments like this.
Situations where failing to recognize talent is foolish.
Even among so many personnel, even among those common spearmen, even in cavalry defense operations where everyone’s sacrifice goes unnoticed, geniuses always stand out.
“Luck strikes like this sometimes.”
People call this luck.
Yes. The current Commander Ibamman feels as if I’ve hit the jackpot.
Two cheap basic 1-gold spearmen have taken down four fully armored knights that clearly cost around 15 gold each.
If this isn’t a jackpot, what is?
“This is it.”
Crunch!
I bit down on the candy in my mouth and swallowed it.
“Full doping mode.”
From now on, I’m flooding my system with sugar to maximize concentration.
“This is a chance for a reversal, that’s what this is.”
To me, this was a reversal opportunity sent by the heavens.
It was the only strategy to overturn the current situation where every indicator was unfavorable.
[Resource Score: -182]
[Military Score: -103]
[Territory Score: -132]
There wasn’t a single indicator where I was winning.
Currently, the enemy’s cavalry was even breaking through toward my main base.
Even if I devoted all resources and workers to defense, I couldn’t tell if I could hold them back.
And even if I did hold them back, I couldn’t know if there would be any hope.
There is only one way to break through this situation.
Reducing the enemy’s worker count.
If that happens, the enemy’s resource supply dwindles, and consequently, they can’t replenish their troops.
Then there’s a future in holding the line.
“Please… let this work!”
Ibamman clasps his hands together in prayer.
That the two spearmen he assigned to the ‘special mission’ would successfully slaughter the enemy workers!
That he had truly recognized talent!
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[Special Mission]
Objective: Infiltrate enemy territory and annihilate the workers!
Advance: 3 Gold
Reward: 1 Gold per worker
Completion Bonus: 7 Gold
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That’s right.
Ibamman didn’t merely issue orders—he also offered quite substantial rewards alongside them.
This wasn’t a common occurrence.
Typically, games only offer such bonus gold for missions that seem to determine the course of the entire match.
The Commander had judged that the game’s outcome now rested on Almond and Jesse’s shoulders.
“Oh. Does the commander know how to have fun? Lol”
-He recognizes talent.
-The Commander’s got some rank.
Some viewers, noticing the Commander’s orders becoming more aggressive, looked up his ranking.
“There’s a ranking?”
-ed
-Within the top 1,000 domestically
-Ooooh
-Is that impressive?
-CM Cheo-dol-i come out and explain
[CM Cheo-dol-i donated 10,000 won!]
[There aren’t many domestic Commanders… so top 1,000 isn’t necessarily high. If we compare it to Reel, it’s like Diamond?]
“Thank you, Cheo-dol-i.”
I’m dying laughing at Sedol
She’s not even my sister-in-law, she’s my brother-in-law lol
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol/hahaha)
In-laws’ house seasoned chicken lol
Damn, haha
While the viewers continued their wordplay.
‘This fits better than I expected.’
Clink. Clink.
Almond stripped the opponent’s armor just as Jesse had done and equipped it.
The armor was surprisingly flexible, almost like a t-shirt, making it easy to slip on. This was probably a game’s allowance.
‘It’s heavy, though.’
But the game showed no mercy regarding that weight.
Thud…
The weight pressing down on the plate armor’s shoulders transferred directly to the player as well.
Even a single step sank differently into the earth.
“I’ve got it on.”
Almond, fully equipped in armor, spoke to Jesse.
She was waving her hand toward the sky.
“…What are you doing?”
“Just take a good look at me.”
She was waving at the Commander.
“They’re probably not looking right now.”
“They might be, though?”
She really did seem to have a clingy personality.
-She’s so charming;
-So different from that stiff Nut Fans guy!
-I’m totally into her lol
Ping!
As if hearing her words, a ping marks somewhere.
A beam of light descends from far away.
[This is the final destination.]
[Grab a shield and as many spears as you can. It’ll be better to fight while throwing spears.]
Having assigned a special mission, the Commander seemed intent on directing this operation personally.
“Oh. Our Commander is really going all out. I had to greet them all myself for this.”
Jesse’s lighthearted joke.
Almond chuckled and brushed it off, then gathered as many spears as he could in his arms according to the orders.
After that, he walked following the path the Commander had marked.
During the walk, he asked Jesse something he was curious about.
“What if enemies don’t realize we’re enemies once I put on this armor?”
“No. That won’t happen.”
Jesse pointed to her own head as if asking why he was being so naive.
“Don’t you see that red marker glowing above your head?”
Right. His head clearly displayed the enemy marker.
“Ah… Then why wear this….”
“This is just to boost defense.”
I see.
Moving past that thought, I continued walking.
Another ping marks.
Ping. Piiing.
[This way.]
‘The forest?’
She was pointing toward a forest path.
With so many trees, it was a place where enemies couldn’t see well.
Cavalry couldn’t traverse it, and only a very small number of infantry could move through.
[We’ll move while keeping our visibility as dim as possible to avoid detection.]
‘What is she trying to do….’
Almond lacked gaming experience, so I couldn’t grasp what the Commander was planning.
My first experience hadn’t been particularly good either.
Seeing Almond’s suspicious expression, Jesse elaborated from beside me.
“The Commander just assigned us a special mission. She won’t sacrifice us recklessly. She’s watching from above, so she’ll see everything better. Just do as you’re told.”
That made sense. Almond diligently followed her instructions.
At least it didn’t seem like she intended to let me die while wasting time.

* * *
How long had we been walking through the forest path?
Just as it was starting to feel a bit tedious.
Ping!
A crimson beam of light descended.
It was clearly an ominous ping.
[Warning!]
Both Almond and Jesse startled and stopped in their tracks.
[There’s a wooden defense tower ahead. There’s no way to avoid it. You’ll have to shield yourselves and pass through.]
Now I understood why the Commander had told us to bring shields.
Looking closely, I could see a wooden tower cleverly camouflaged to look like an ordinary tree.
[Wooden Defense Tower]
The name only appeared once I recognized it.
I could roughly infer its function from the name, but Almond asked to be certain.
“A wooden defense tower? What is that?”
“Just what it sounds like—a defense tower. Archers go inside and shoot arrows down from above….”
At the word “archers,” Almond paused.
“Archers?”
“Yeah. Don’t be scared. They’re not very good shots. Usually they just staff it with regular Worker NPCs.”
Since archers were the counter to spearmen, Jesse thought Almond was frightened.
But the reality was entirely different.
“Then… there would be bows inside, right?”
“Of course there would be?”
“Oh….”
After a moment of admiration.
Almond made a suggestion.
“Let’s head inside the defensive tower.”

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