Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 349

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 69
25. Special Mission (3)
In Civil Empire, defensive structures are overwhelmingly superior to infantry.
Before siege weapons appeared, infantry had no way to destroy these defense towers.
That’s why the best they could do was hope to evade damage or pray the enemy’s arrows would miss by luck.
Fortunately, the wooden defense tower before us is the most basic type, and its only attack is from the archer standing sentry inside, firing arrows.
Of course, even that was lethal to a single infantryman. Having to endure one-sided attacks constantly.
But—
“…You want to go inside that?”
“Yeah.”
When we could barely avoid such a defense tower by sneaking around it, he suggests going inside.
-???: With just a bow and arrows, I can kill anyone!
-Player entrance~ Game Over!
-Game’s done lolol
The viewers immediately caught onto Almond’s intention and were delighted.
But Jesse found it absurd and questioned him.
“Can I ask why?”
“There should be a bow inside.”
“Just for that?”
Just for that…
From Jesse’s perspective, it was reasonable to think that way.
She didn’t know what Almond could accomplish with a bow.
‘Hmm.’
Almond considered how to explain this, but decided against it.
Instead, he conveyed his sincere conviction clearly and deliberately.
“If I get that, things will go well.”
She stared directly into Almond’s eyes.
Deep within his upright gaze, confidence was firmly rooted.
An expression speaking an obvious truth, like the sun rising tomorrow.
‘Since he showed something earlier, maybe I should trust him?’
He seemed like an unusual person, but he definitely had ability.
Earlier, he threw a spear and took down four Knights.
‘And…’
Most importantly.
‘He’s cute!’
He had a cute appearance.
“Fine… okay! I’ll figure it out. I’ll follow you.”
“Okay.”
Almond took the lead and Jesse followed behind.
They raised their shields and crawled toward the defense tower, hiding as much as possible in the vegetation to stay out of sight.
I crept forward as slowly and carefully as possible, terrified of being discovered. I crawled for quite some time.
Swish, swish, swish.
The sound of brushing through vegetation seemed unusually loud.
-oof
-Why aren’t they shooting?
-Can’t they see us?
Either the enemies hadn’t spotted me yet, or crawling through the brush was actually working—no arrows came flying my way.
No sound, no reaction at all.
Still, I kept crawling forward.
A moment later, Jesse spoke up from behind me with a meaningful tone.
“I know this might sound like racial stereotyping, but…”
“?”
“East Asians are usually smart, you know? All the top students at our school were Chinese or Korean.”
“Yeah, East Asians are sharp.”
I responded casually, as if I weren’t East Asian myself, and continued crawling.
But no matter how far I went, there was no response from the enemy.
Suspicious, I peeked upward between my shield.
‘Is anyone there?’
After spotting the defensive tower, I realized my mistake.
‘Oh no.’
Only then did I understand why Jesse had gone on about East Asian intelligence. When I turned around, she was already on her feet, shield lowered.
I felt utterly deflated.
“There was no one here.”
-lmao
-hilarious prank oof
-shadow boxing
The defensive tower was completely empty.
A defensive tower without archers stationed in it was just a watchtower for vision and illumination.
There had been no need to approach so cautiously at all.
Pffft!
She found my reaction absolutely hilarious and laughed.
“You crawl really well.”
-kkkkk serves you right
-that’s what you get Nut Shake kkkkk
-lmao
I stood up awkwardly, brushing dust from my knees.
No one in the enemy’s defensive tower meant there were no archers either.
I wasn’t sure whether to call this fortunate or not.
[Why did you go there? Hurry! Get back over here!]
The Commander’s urgent voice came through.
He seemed startled to see the two of us positioned so dangerously close to the defense tower.
He pinged us to take a different route.
‘There’s no bow inside anyway. We should go.’
Having already confirmed there was no bow in the defense tower, we two silently returned to the route the Commander was guiding us toward.

* * *
Whoosh.
After barely pushing through the dense trees, we finally reached the destination the Commander had marked.
“…This is the end point.”
“It’s so dark. I can’t see anything.”
Nothing was visible from that location.
The forest was dense, and with the sun already set, night was falling. The darkness was absolute.
It was already hard to see, but inside the forest it was pitch black.
“Sigh. I really can’t see anything.”
Jesse, seasoned as she was, continued complaining. It was that dark.
“Where are you?”
“Here.”
“Give me your hand. I can’t see.”
“Take it.”
We two had no choice but to abandon sight and rely on touch and hearing.
-Wait, what’s this situation?
-Holding hands in a dark place, just the two of them…?
-Whoa!
-Reina: Almond. Who is she?
-Hodu’s doing sword dances! Duck!
In fact, arriving on such a dark night was intentional on Commander Ibamman’s part.
That intention certainly wasn’t to ignite any romantic sparks between Jesse and Almond.
It was about what’s called ‘vision control.’
[The enemy Workers are cutting wood where the fire is lit. We can’t be seen, so use your vision well and throw your spears.]
The enemy Workers must work, so they’ll definitely have their fires lit.
In that situation, if we don’t light a fire and stay in the dark forest?
The enemy can’t see us while we can see them perfectly.
This is an example of vision control that Commanders frequently use.
-Vision control details are insane
-For real, it’s like actual warfare
-Ibamman. You’ve got everything planned out?
-The Commander’s pretty good?
To face many enemies with few numbers, these detailed tactics are essential.
However, no matter how well a Commander plans strategy, whether it has actual effectiveness in real operations is another matter.
What if the enemy Workers aren’t carrying torches? What if they’ve moved the lumber operation elsewhere?
Then everything falls apart.
But heaven wasn’t so cruel.
Jesse nudged me from beside and pointed somewhere.
“Over there, I think.”
Between the pitch-black darkness, a soft crimson firelight glowed gently.
[Lumber Camp]
It was a lumber camp where enemy workers extracted and stored timber.
As I carefully crawled closer, the workers began to come into view.
“…Hah!”
“…Ugh!…Hah!”
Thwack! Whoosh!
Countless workers were felling trees with shouts of exertion.
Creak…!
Thud!
The felled trees soon transformed into neatly trimmed lumber, all of which went to the lumber camp.
Jesse whispered from beside me.
“The lumber camp is pretty large, isn’t it? Looks like we came to the right place.”
There were cases of smaller camps too.
Ibamman’s reconnaissance was quite accurate, as we’d found our way to a large-scale harvesting camp.
Destroying this place would cause the enemy to lose a significant amount of timber production.
Timber was an essential resource for constructing buildings and siege weapons.
Even if it didn’t matter in the immediate battle, we’d fall behind in the bigger picture of the war.
“Let’s begin.”
“Got it.”
Almond and I set down all the spears we’d brought on the ground. We each picked one spear from the pile.
“Hup!”
Almond threw first, and Jesse immediately followed suit.
“Haaah!”
Thunk!
Splurch!
Unlike the knights, the workers were practically defenseless, so they simply collapsed if the spear struck a vital point cleanly.
The spear Almond threw cleanly severed one worker’s life.
He couldn’t even scream and fell, dropping the timber.
-Nice shot!
-Yes! 1 Gold!
-It works! It works!
However, hitting a vital point by throwing a spear at such a distance in this darkness was only possible for Almond.
“Oops.”
The spear Jesse threw vaguely struck the enemy’s leg area.
“Gahhhhh!”
The injured Worker screamed.
-That’s rough
-We’re done for
-Damn
-They keep working even when hurt lolol
-Is it a wipe?
If I’d killed them outright, this wouldn’t have happened. It’s too late to regret now.
The scream had already echoed out.
I wondered if I should hide back in the darkness.
“Keep throwing!”
Jesse shouted.
“Even if they scream, we won’t get caught immediately! The Commander has to notice it first! So one or two is fine! They’re NPCs anyway!”
“Ah.”
I nodded and immediately picked up another spear and threw it.
Whoosh!
‘One.’
Thud!
The spear flew straight through the Worker’s neck.
Before I could even see it with my eyes, I’d already picked up the next spear and thrown it.
‘Two.’
Thunk!
Another hit.
There was no aiming involved.
‘I’m just moving as planned.’
Though spear-throwing was said to be harder to land than archery, my VNS stat combined with the Workers’ predetermined patrol routes resulted in 100% accuracy.
Thunk!
‘Three.’
Another Worker fell.
The Workers continued hauling timber as if they couldn’t see their Colleagues falling around them.
Just as Jesse said, as long as the Commander didn’t react, the Workers simply moved according to their set patterns.
-Already three
-Not a single miss
-That’s insane
-But what’s Jesse doing lolol
-Jesse nooo
While I killed three Workers, Jesse only managed to finish off the one she’d wounded earlier.
“Ugh… this isn’t working well.”
She’d used three whole spears just to take down one Worker.
It was wasteful with spears.
She decided it was better to change tactics.
“Y-You throw all of them! I’ll protect you!”
Hahaha Jessica, nooo ㅠㅠ
-Jesse’s quick thinking
Should’ve done this from the start lol
Jesse took up her shield and spear, deciding to guard the area around Almond.

* * *
At that moment, Ibamman.
He couldn’t see Jesse and Almond.
Beep! Beeping!
Because he kept receiving these warning messages.
[Your allied base is under attack!]
Cavalry units were breaking through into my main base.
‘I just barely handled the archer harassment….’
The good news was that I’d eliminated all the enemy archers who were killing workers.
But this cavalry unit had firepower on an entirely different level from those archers.
Could I stop them?
Hard to say.
It was difficult to judge.
But there was hope.
Civil Empire was designed to heavily favor the defender.
If you put workers inside specific buildings, they all transform into archers and shoot their bows.
It protected the workers while allowing you to use them as combat units. So the defending side definitely had the advantage.
The problem was that you couldn’t harvest resources during that time.
To use an analogy, it’s like Asung Semiconductor researchers suddenly abandoning their labs and rushing into sales.
Sales numbers might spike immediately, but in the long term, the semiconductor quality would be overtaken by competitors.
Civil Empire worked the same way.
Even if I held off the attack, resource disparities would begin to widen, leading to differences in civilization advancement speed.
‘Then it’s over.’
If that happened, I couldn’t tell if there would be any hope even if I stopped the cavalry assault.
However, Ibamman wasn’t entirely without hope.
‘If that special mission goes well….’
In Civil Empire and almost every RTS game, the best way for the disadvantaged side to reverse the situation is to kill the opponent’s workers.
The performance of those two spearmen I sent earlier was crucial.
Based on the current battle situation, one or two wouldn’t be enough—if I was greedy, I needed to eliminate at least 10, or at minimum 7 workers.
‘It has to go well.’
If they succeeded, the battle situation would improve significantly.
But the odds were low.
‘Are they doing okay?’
When a brief opening appeared, I turned my gaze toward the two spearmen, hoping they’d at least eliminate a worker or two.
But the moment I witnessed the battle situation there.
Ibamman cried out in a voice filled with despair.
“This is insane. What the hell is this?”
They were already in the midst of slaughtering fifteen workers.

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