Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 355

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 75
27. The Counterattack (3)
In an instant, the tide of battle reversed.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud…!
Jesse, who had joined up with our cavalry, wheeled her horse completely around and charged straight at the enemy.
The six or so enemy cavalry pursuing Jesse were caught off guard.
They should have turned their horses immediately.
But they lost their reason. Especially the Veteran Knight seemed to.
“Kill that bastard at least!”
Almond must have gotten under their skin quite a bit.
They charged at him, determined to kill Almond no matter what.
Yet Jesse didn’t flinch and instead drove her horse forward to meet them head-on.
“Hold on tight.”
She tapped my waist as she spoke. It seemed she was preparing to ride properly now.
“But how did you know I was streaming?”
Since we were now close, I asked what had been bothering me.
“It’s obvious if you watch. You’re muttering to the empty air.”
I must have switched the microphone channel.
She must have read my lips.
“Now really hold on tight.”
Clunk!
Like a car shifting gears, the horse lurched once.
!
Whoooosh!
We launched into the air as if flying.
“Yeehaw!”
Jesse let out an exhilarated cry. The enemy’s horse leaped forward as if for the last time, charging toward us.
A Veteran Knight. One who seemed to harbor considerable resentment toward Almond.
Clang—
“Hyah! Please just die!”
Our horses crossed paths with his.
Blade met blade in midair.
Screeeech!
The sword edges slid past each other, and Jesse’s blade flowed smoothly to his throat.
—Splooosh!
Hot blood sprayed forth in a refreshing arc.
The Bandit Leader’s neck appeared above the blazing sunlight.
The neck, backlit by the harsh sun, burned pitch black. As if foreshadowing their dark future.
‘Oh…’
For just this moment, time seemed to flow slowly. A beat late, a roar erupted.
“WAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
A sound that made my heart plummet, ringing sharply in my ears.
Not NPCs—these were the roars of actual people. Real shouts brimming with their excitement and exhilaration.
Thump-thump!
My heart raced faster.
‘So this is what war feels like.’
The exhilaration of large-scale team combat that I could never experience in other games.
It was a grandeur that could only be felt here, where hundreds of users clashed and tangled together in battle.
-Sister I’m literally dying!
That’s so cool.
-Wow I lost it
-Wowww!!
-Is this a one-on-one duel!?
The viewers shared my sentiment, sparing no words of admiration.
Tap!
Jesse’s horse landed and came to a halt.
“Haa.”
Jesse brushed back her disheveled crimson hair and turned around.
With enemy blood splattered across her face, she grinned and pointed with her finger to the side.
“Grab the horse. It’s yours.”
There stood the Veteran Knight’s horse, now masterless, staring blankly ahead.
That’s so cool.
My heart is breaking ㅠㅠ
-Sister!!!!
I quickly mounted the horse before it could turn away again.
“Whoa…”
At first the horse resisted, and I gradually adapted to it, but honestly, there wasn’t much time.
The enemy surrendered not long after.
[The Enemy Commander has surrendered!]

* * *
Haven’t you seen it happen in soccer matches?
You dominate your opponent with relentless attacks for about ten minutes, then lose the ball once and get caught on the counterattack, turning the game around.
You win in performance, but lose in the final result.
That’s exactly what Commander 2_many_moms’s match felt like.
‘How is this even possible?’
I had won the match. My commanding ability had clearly overwhelmed theirs.
Yet I lost. Lost because of a single mistake.
I couldn’t help but feel furious.
Clack clack clack.
That rage went straight to the keyboard.
[2_many_moms: Cant f**king believe it. This one single cheater destroy whole game??]
(I can’t believe it. One hacker destroyed the entire game.)
[2_many_moms: im gonna report this chinese and commander also. RIP]
(I’m reporting this Chinese player and the commander too. See you.)
[Department Manager: Me?? why?]
(Why me??)
[2_many_moms: cuz you made very good use of that cheater?? your basically the same cheater to me]
(Because you made excellent use of that hacker?? That’s the same as winning with cheats.)

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“What?”
Ibamman laughed in disbelief.
Just because one of my soldiers was a hacker, now I’m a hacker too?
What kind of logic was this?
“Wow, the undefeated logic king has arrived.”
Since there was no stopping the opponent from reporting anyway, he unleashed whatever words he could in broken English to make them even more upset.
Clack clack clack clack.
[Department Manager: Report me?? its not gonna work kid lol. ]
(Report me? Like that’s going to work, kid? lol)
[Department Manager: why dont you go report to your moms? maybe they can solve your problems cuz you got so many.]
(Why don’t you go tell your moms instead? Maybe with so many of them, they can solve your problems.)
The opponent fell silent for a moment, then responded with this message instead.
[Opponent has left the game.]
Ibamman trembled with satisfaction.
“Heh, hehehehehehe!”
It felt incredibly refreshing to put that guy in his place—the one who’d been making racist remarks and starting fights from the beginning just because he thought he was good.
“I’ll report you instead. Face judgment. You racist bastard.”
He decided to report both the earlier comments about Kimchi Man and the remarks about Chinese players.
“The parent company here is Chinese anyway. You’re done for.”
Tsk.
As I clicked my tongue, I suddenly paused, remembering something.
“Oh. Right. Before that….”
I recalled that there was something I needed to do before wasting time on this meaningless task.
“That spearman from earlier!”
I was going to pull up the replay and re-record that spearman’s performance from before.
And I was thinking of uploading it to the group chat I shared with the commander hyungs.
I was curious whether this was actually a hack or something, just like Ibamman was.

* * *
The moment my opponent surrendered.
Pababam!
Along with a fanfare sound, this message appeared.
[Victory!]
[Victory Bonus: All gold rewards increased by 20%!]
[Comeback Bonus: All gold rewards increased by 50%!]
Whoooosh!
Golden coins began raining down from the sky in torrents, and soon the entire screen was covered in gold.
Before I knew it, I was back on the streets of an unfamiliar medieval city.
Then came the message.
[Obtained 56 Gold!]
“…Oh.”
A whopping 56 gold.
Considering the amount I had initially contracted for, this was quite a substantial gold reward.
Of course, since the system deducted equipment costs every time I died during a match, this amount of gold would be spent quickly.
But it was too early to be disappointed. The rewards didn’t end with gold.
[Rank Points: +15]
[MVP Bonus: Rank points doubled!]
My rank points toward advancing from C-rank to B-rank had increased.
With the MVP bonus applied, this amount also doubled.
[Rank Points: +30]
My rank points had risen considerably.
Once I accumulated 100 points, I would advance to the next rank. I had already surpassed 30 on my first match.
And the rewards didn’t end there.
The most important one hadn’t come through yet.
Pababam!
[Mission ‘Victory Without Dying Once’ Success!]
[Shy Yeopo has sponsored 500,000 won!]
“Thank you, Shy Yeopo. I’ll use it well.”
I’m crying / T_T / Boo hoo
-Yeopo’s a coward lol lol
-This is because of Jesse
-And she pulled it off
I’d now collected all the rewards, including the 500,000 won mission bounty that Shy Yeopo had wagered.
At that moment, a fairy suddenly popped out from nowhere, as if she’d been waiting.
“Wow! Wandering Mercenary! That was an amazing performance!”
It was Tangkong.
Whether it was just my imagination or not, it felt like I hadn’t seen her in a while.
-Where did this nut shake disappear to and now she’s popping out? lol
-She hid the moment we met the cavalry lol
-Such a coward
When Almond stared at her quietly, Tangkong seemed to feel guilty and made a fuss.
“W-Why are you looking at me like that?! I’m just a delicate fairy~~~! I can’t participate in wars!”
“I didn’t say anything.”
Letting it slide, Tangkong naturally changed the subject.
“Anyway, you’ve earned quite a bit of money! How about doing some shopping?”
“Hmm. That sounds good too.”
“Really? Then…”
Tangkong rummaged through her pocket to pull out a prepared shopping list, but it was pointless.
“Ah. Civil Empire. This was my first time today. It was really fun.”
I was about to end the stream.
-Wow
-Nut Shake streamer ended in one hit
The world is ending ㅠㅠ
-He ended it lol
I’d launched a new game, completed the tutorial, and even played ranked matches—I’d done everything there was to do.
Most importantly, I was exhausted right now.
‘Did I overdo it earlier?’
It seemed my body had taken a toll since fighting the knights in the field.
This game…
It seemed to drain my stamina as much as Reel did.
‘It’s probably because I’m not used to it yet.’
Of course, it could also be because I still didn’t know how to move efficiently within this game.
“Well then, I’m off. See you~!”
Showing viewers an unhealthy appearance would be the worst.
With that thought, I quickly turned off the stream and left.
Dad ㅠㅠ
Bye bye ㅠㅠ
-Civil Empire was so fun though, what a shame
-Bye bye bye
-Ugh.
Perhaps he left too quickly.
Ding!
[Jessi’s Sister donated 10,000 won!]
[Won’t you add Jessi as a friend!?]
A lonely donation echoed through the stream.
-HAHAHAHAHAHA
-After today’s loss, this guy’s the most pitiful one lol
-What a donation lol
-So pathetic lol
He lost ten thousand won and didn’t even get an answer to his question, but at least the donation entertained the viewers.

* * *
Whoosh.
I climbed out of the capsule and twisted my body around like I was stretching.
My muscles ached as if I’d been beaten all over.
This was a phenomenon I was experiencing for the first time.
‘…So it’s not all fixed after all.’
No matter how good a customized capsule I obtained, it seemed it wasn’t an absolute solution.
It only prevented sweating, but couldn’t eliminate the fatigue accumulating in my body.
The doctor’s words came back to me—that it would inevitably worsen over time.
‘So it’s just another limit.’
If this fatigue accumulated, then no matter how many times I switched to better capsules, I’d eventually hit another wall after a certain amount of time.
“Well.”
I looked down at my right hand, which trembled with resignation.
With it shaking like this.
Just switching capsules wouldn’t make this disappear as if nothing happened, right?
“This game is more complicated than I thought.”
Why was the fatigue level higher than Reel?
Thinking about it carefully, it was likely due to ‘interaction.’
Simply put, it meant I had to deal with other players frequently.
Civil Empire required me to face more users than any game I’d played before.
Reel looked complicated, but hunting minions was essentially about half the game.
This game looked simple, but actually about 80% of it was fighting against people.
The collision of human thoughts layered in complex ways caused enormous mental strain in itself.
It was similar to how professional Go players collapse after exhausting matches.
Predicting the opponent’s thoughts and movements, engaging in psychological warfare, reading their psychology—this exhausting mental battle.
In Civil Empire, this happened at the scale of armies.
‘Will I be able to continue tomorrow?’
I was worried about tomorrow.
I had been finding Civil Empire quite entertaining. I wanted to do more, but what if my body felt like this again tomorrow? Should I still push forward?
“I have no idea~”
Too lazy to think it through, I flopped onto the bed. Then, out of habit, I turned on OlTube.
I was planning to search for more videos about Civil Empire. There was still so much I didn’t know about this game, so I wanted to study a bit more through videos at least.
‘There really aren’t any Korean-language contents.’
Most of the content was in English, Spanish, and other European languages. Korean-language content rarely exceeded ten thousand views. Still, while I was searching for any watchable videos I could find.
I discovered something.
‘This is….’
[Chinese cheater just crossed the line]
It was a video titled about a Chinese hacker crossing the line.
‘That’s me, isn’t it?’
The problem was that the avatar’s face plastered across the thumbnail was identical to Almond’s.

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