Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 360

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 80
29. This is the Bow of Joseon (2)
Bubble, bubble.
The Observer poured boiling water into his cup ramen.
It seemed like Aamond’s second game had started right when he began boiling the water, but the second game ended before the ramen even finished cooking.
“Phew. This is ridiculous. Faster than spicy beef soup.”
Slurp.
Finally eating the cooked cup ramen, the Observer muttered to himself.
“Will this even work?”
If the first game was mediocre, the second game was simply a disaster.
There was nothing to show for it, and ultimately he lost as well.
Now there’s only one chance left to prove himself, and realistically he needs to deliver a performance worthy of a hacker in that single game.
Is that even possible? Not a chance.
‘I’d say it’s over.’
When people are cornered, their true abilities don’t shine through—quite the opposite.
Having squandered the previous two opportunities so pathetically, that streamer must be under tremendous psychological pressure right now.
Even if he were truly skilled, it’s unrealistic to display his full abilities in this final remaining game.
It’s a separate issue from actual skill.
A problem that arises because the Player is, after all, human.
Very few humans can succeed in such circumstances, and we call those people stars.
Beings who shine with light.
The Observer wore a bitter smile.
Such people couldn’t possibly be common.
“Lucky.”
The Observer says lucky, not unlucky.
From Aamond’s perspective it’s bad luck, but from his perspective it’s good.
“Either way, my record will improve.”
Though not publicly known, Observers actually prefer catching hacker users.
Doesn’t it make sense? Rather than report that you caught zero hackers, it looks much better to write down that you apprehended several. It’s that simple.
With this simplistic logic, Observers naturally prefer that users be using hacks.
“Come on, hurry up and enter. Why do you keep rejecting the requests?”
Slurp.
The Observer urges Aamond while taking another bite of ramen.
Until now Aamond had simply accepted whatever came his way, but this time he was carefully filtering through the requests.

* * *
‘I need to choose carefully.’
Almond was genuinely deliberating over something with unusual caution.
‘This is my last chance.’
With my final opportunity ahead, I couldn’t afford to make careless decisions based on whim.
‘Besides, I’ve already spent 50 Gold.’
With the investment I’d made this time, I absolutely wouldn’t settle for just anything.
“I’ll just select Archer for now.”
-Good call
-That’s the right thinking
I should have done this sooner.
Spearmen enter with spears in hand, while Archers enter with bows.
Until now, I’d approached it with the mindset of just going in and picking up whatever was available.
But this time, having brought a 50 Gold bow, I was determined to enter as an Archer.
After waiting a bit, quite a few requests for Archers arrived.
Ding.
Ding.
They were all recruitment requests for Archers, clearly.
But I rejected every single one.
-???
-Why reject?
-What’s going on
Among them were request notices mercenaries called “freebies”—the kind that guaranteed money and rank increases just by accepting.
The kind where simply choosing them would raise both earnings and rank.
“Whoa! Aamond? You’re passing on those!? What exactly are you looking for!?”
Beside me, Tangkong urged me to hurry up and proceed with the game.
She had a point.
From her perspective, it must have looked like I was staring at copy-paste buttons for money and rank points without pressing them.
But my current objective wasn’t simply “growth.”
To use stock market terminology, it wasn’t about making money through stocks.
I was waiting for the opportunity to draw the exact graph I envisioned.
How insane was that?
‘I need a stage where I can perform perfectly.’
When making money was already difficult, to also demand that the graph’s shape match my preferences…
Unfortunately, that was precisely my situation.
My allies couldn’t be in an advantageous position.
Perhaps even an equal footing wouldn’t work. The moment I stepped in with my composite bow, the advantage would shift to us.
Being “very disadvantaged” was problematic too. Often the game would collapse before I could even start.
The ideal scenario was “disadvantaged.”
Ding!
[Commander ‘Kimchi Warrior’ is requesting support!]
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Commission Fee: 3 Gold
Success Reward: 2 Gold per Worker
Unit Type: Archer
Battlefield Status: Defensive standoff against enemies. Seeking active defense from atop the Castle Wall (disadvantageous)
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-Oh, slightly disadvantageous!
-Finally!?
-Here it comes!
The battlefield situation I’d been waiting for had arrived.
Not extremely disadvantageous, just disadvantageous.
This was a gap I could definitely overturn.
‘Still….’
Yet Almond couldn’t bring himself to accept it immediately.
-It’s a defensive battle but only 1 Gold per Worker lol
-You can see the Commander’s character from this
-Lol trying to pull a fast one?
It was certainly the commission I’d been waiting for, but something felt off.
Specifically, the success reward listed as 2 Gold per Worker.
‘It’s a defensive battle, yet Workers get a success reward. I thought it seemed too high.’
In a defensive situation, you wouldn’t even see a Worker’s hair.
Look at how grandly the text was written—2 Gold per Worker.
It was far too transparent.
This definitely wasn’t a normal Commander.
‘The name is Kimchi Warrior. Are they Korean?’
The ID itself seemed abnormal.
‘Should I pass….’
I was conflicted.
If I declined, I had no idea how many minutes it would take to receive another commission.
It could take hours.
The Observer also had working hours, so they wouldn’t stay with me 24/7.
“I’ll just take it. I wasn’t choosing based on the success reward anyway.”
I decided to accept the commission that had just come in.

* * *
I finally entered the battlefield.
As expected, it began at a training ground.
However, this was an archery training ground, not an infantry barracks.
Of course, there was no actual training happening here—it was merely set dressing.
According to the lore, these soldiers were already fully trained and deployed directly into combat.
Ping!
The Commander’s ping dropped.
[Assemble]
The order issued to the Archers.
He had pinged atop the Castle Wall.
“So we’re really doing a siege defense.”
Aamond, experiencing a siege defense for the first time, spoke with intrigue as he dashed toward the wall.
Already, other Archers were rushing toward the Castle Wall one by one.
“!”
Over a dozen archery training grounds stretched across the vast plain, and dozens of Archers poured out from them, sprinting forward.
-Wow, that many?
-For real, this is an all-out war
-Crazy
It seemed the troops were ordered to charge toward the Castle Wall the moment they were produced.
The wall must be engaged in fierce combat with the enemy right now.
And indeed it was.
As I drew closer, war cries echoed.
“Uaaaaaaah…!”
Boom!
Mixed with the roars came the sound of explosions.
The noise of siege weapons battering the Castle Wall.
“Looks like we just need to climb up here and hold the line.”
Almond explained to the viewers as he ascended the Castle Wall’s stairs.
Ahead of him, Archers lined up in a queue climbing upward—it felt like waiting in line for an amusement park ride, and I felt a thrill.
But—
“Uh… Huh?!”
This was no amusement park. This was a battlefield.
Rumble rumble rumble!
A heavy tremor shook the ground, and boulders began raining down from the sky.
“Catapults!”
The enemy’s catapults had launched their stones.
Since bows and swords cannot destroy castle walls and buildings, siege warfare primarily employs ‘siege weapons.’
These siege weapons include massive catapults that hurl boulders, siege rams that swing like pendulums to shatter gates, and siege towers that transport allied troops en masse to the top of walls.
What I now faced was the enemy’s catapult.
It was a type called a “mangonel trebuchet” that hurled multiple stones at once. A siege weapon specialized not in destroying castle walls, but in decimating the troops positioned atop them.
Boom!
Boooom!
Cascades of boulders rained down upon the castle wall.
“Gahhhhh!”
“Damn it!”
The soldiers who had climbed onto the wall scattered like disturbed ants.
Almond, still on the stairs and not yet atop the wall, felt relief wash over him.
“Phew… I managed to avoid that.”
Had I climbed just a moment sooner, I would have died up there.
lol
-Seriously lucky lol
That’s hilarious lolol
But the problem didn’t end there.
“It’s rolling down!”
“Damn it all.”
Rumble rumble rumble!
An enormous boulder began rolling down from the upper reaches of the castle wall stairs.
One of the stones hurled by the mangonel trebuchet had remained, and now gravity pulled it downward.
The archers climbing in formation up the stairs screamed.
“Get down! Get down!”
“How the hell do we get down from here!”
The archers at the front convulsed and shoved those behind them.
Those in the rear were naturally crushed between the forward pressure and those still climbing—a human sandwich.
“Block it instead, you idiots!”
“How do you block a boulder!”
Complete chaos.
The line that had formed to ascend the castle wall became a queue for damnation.
Splat!
Two archers at the front were already crushed beneath the boulder and dead. The rock, now stained with blood, continued its relentless descent.
Far from stopping, it accelerated madly as gravity pulled it down the inclined stairs.
It seemed all the soldiers on the stairs would be annihilated.
“Drop it! Drop it!”
“Seriously!”
“My money…”
The more experienced archers suddenly threw their weapons down below, apparently planning to retrieve and use them again after respawning.
The situation was that hopeless.
Almond considered doing the same, but hesitated as he looked at his weapon.
‘This…?’
A Joseon composite bow worth fifty gold. His weapon was likely the most expensive among all the archers here. Someone would definitely pick it up before he could retrieve it.
‘Besides, I can’t die, right?’
This round was the last one on trial for me.
‘I absolutely cannot die!’
Regardless of my resolve, the boulder rolled forward mercilessly, flattening the archers.
Crash-boom-boom…!

* * *
The catapult’s boulder that greeted me the moment I climbed onto the castle wall. In such situations, there’s almost nothing a mere soldier can do.
Just as Aamond’s soldiers before me had done, hoping for the next life was the best option, and there was no reason not to.
The Observer couldn’t help but be astonished by Aamond’s actions.
“…Huh?”
He blinked his wide-open eyes.
First, it was because of Almond’s remarkable movements.
“How, how did he do that? But why go that far….”
Second was the question of why he would go to such lengths.
The answer came from Almond on the screen.
[Wow, I almost died right there.]
That’s when the Observer realized it.
That Aamond was seriously misunderstanding something.
“Does he think dying in the game counts as one round?”
In the game administrator’s statement of “prove yourself within 3 rounds,” the 3 rounds are from the Commander’s perspective.
In other words, as a soldier, Almond can die as many times as he wants once he enters the battlefield. As long as he demonstrates his abilities, that’s all that matters.
Since both previous battlefields ended so anticlimactically, it seems Almond hasn’t realized this yet.
‘Sigh. Really.’
The Observer found it absurd that he understood it that way.
“What does he take us for….”
In this game where dying is routine, he thought he was given exactly three lives.
Yet he didn’t complain once. Suddenly, this person called Aamond looked different.
‘Should I tell him.’
He was conflicted. Whether it was right to inform Aamond of this fact.
‘Let me watch for now.’
After deliberating, he decided to observe for the time being. If he died, it wouldn’t be too late to tell him then.

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