Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 362

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 82
30. What?!(1)
Siege weapons.
These are considerably valuable assets in the Civil Empire.
Well, swords and bows alone could never destroy castle walls, even if one came back from the dead trying.
[Protect the siege weapons]
That’s why the Commanders continuously emphasized to the Players that they must protect the siege weapons, and the Players fought desperately to hold the line.
“There’s a catapult! Run!”
“Stoooone!”
Of course, the enemy team also charged forward with eyes blazing whenever they spotted siege weapons.
However, since siege weapons were structures themselves, they were difficult to neutralize with swords and bows alone.
“Switch to torches!”
The easiest way to disable siege weapons was to set them on fire.
Due to the game’s mechanics, before upgrading to fire arrows, Soldiers had to run in directly and set the flames themselves.
This tactic had a major flaw. The moment someone picked up a torch, I was essentially advertising that I was going to destroy the siege weapon, making it very easy for the defending side to stop me.
“It’s a torch!”
“Block it!”
Besides, torches were extremely visible even in the dead of night, weren’t they?
The defending forces only had to thrust their spears toward wherever the torch was.
“Pierceeeee!”
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Almond’s Knights and Soldiers carrying torches fell mercilessly.
“Gaaaah!”
“Ugh!”
They all collapsed. The torches fell, either igniting something random or extinguishing without starting any fire as they died.
Almond’s Soldiers barely managed to push through and advance.
But they had lost the torch in the process.
Then he shouted.
“The rope! Cut the rope at least!”
Here comes the second method to neutralize siege weapons.
The crude catapults of the Middle Ages generated their elastic energy by unwinding ropes wound tightly around the mechanism.
So if one cut through this, the weapon would essentially become unable to attack.
“Cuuuut!”
One Soldier was now attempting to sever the rope.
Whoosh!
He swung his sword with all his might and struck down.
Crack…!
However, the rope of a catapult that hurled boulders weighing several tons would not snap so easily.
Without a saw, it was far too difficult to sever in a single slash.
“Damn… this is frustrating!”
There would be no opportunity to strike down again. The defenders were not fools, after all.
Thwack!
Spears pierced my entire body as I was driven backward.
“In the end, I couldn’t break it….”
Crack!
I collapsed to the ground and died.
Then I became a spirit.
‘Ah….’
I had tried to sever the trebuchet before it could attack the Castle Wall one more time, but I failed.
Was there any hope left in this Battlefield?
‘I’m going to lose.’
The game’s victory or defeat often hinged on whether the trebuchet struck the Castle Wall three times or four.
This game was already disadvantageous, and now it looked like it would get one more strike—there seemed to be no hope.
I was contemplating whether to renegotiate my contract.
──Whoosh!
A sharp cutting sound rang out, and something grazed past my ear.
Thunk!
“!”
An arrow. The arrow had struck the rope precisely.
Quiver, quiver, quiver….
The rope hadn’t snapped, but about a third of it had been gouged out and was trembling.
“What the—!”
“An, an arrow!”
The Enemies also panicked, looking around in confusion.
It was probably just a coincidence. That’s what I thought at first.
“What rotten luck.”
“Anyway, load the stone quickly!”
“Yes! Hurry! Hurry and load the stone! Fire it quickly!”
Rumble.
Engineers rolling a massive boulder to load it onto the trebuchet.
Since the game’s victory or defeat often depended on whether the trebuchet could strike one more time or not.
We had to fire it at every opportunity.
But then──
Whoosh!
“!?”
“!”
Again.
The arrow struck the rope once more.
This time it was gouged halfway through.
Was it a coincidence? Two times could still be coincidence.
“Wh…? This, this is….”
But what captured their attention was the type of arrow.
“Look at this. An, an Axe Crash. The one that flew earlier was an Axe Crash too.”
“Insane… surely… they’re aiming for this?”
It was an arrow with an axe blade attached.
The perfect arrow for tearing through soft materials.
Could it really be a coincidence that such an arrow hit the rope twice in a row?
If this rope snapped, the catapult would need considerable repairs.
“Pull it back!”
So they pushed forward anyway. Even if half of it had been torn away, this was still a game. As long as it was attached, it would work.
Creeeeak!
The launch platform holding the massive stone was pulled back, and the rope stretched taut.
“We can still withstand two more shots!”
“Fire it now…!”
There was no time to aim. They had to fire before the enemy could intercept again.
Just as the catapult was about to activate.
──Whoosh!
Before it could even properly launch, another arrow came flying.
This time too, the arrow struck exactly at that same spot as before.
Snap!
They were certain it could withstand two more shots.
“!”
“!?”
“No, no way!”
This time the rope snapped completely.
Perhaps because it had been pulled so taut, it tore far more easily.
“Damn, damn it, scatter!”
“Ugh!”
The stone, losing its force awkwardly mid-launch, tilted toward the side where the rope had snapped.
Rumble rumble rumble──
And rolled on, crushing itself.
──Crash!

* * *
“Alright. That’ll do.”
I muttered with satisfaction.
‘But why did it break?’
Theoretically, the catapult shouldn’t have been destroyed. I’d gotten lucky with the timing, delivering an incredible impact.
I pretended not to know and messaged the Observer through chat.
Something still felt incomplete, but I was hoping I might have passed anyway.
[Almond: Is this enough?]
[Observer: I apologize, but I can’t make that judgment unilaterally. We need to review the full footage together. It’s difficult for me to say anything definitive.]
The Observer dodged the question.
I understood. Someone just doing their job for the Company couldn’t make independent calls on whether something worked or not.
‘At least he didn’t call it ambiguous this time.’
Still, it was better than the last two rounds. Back then, he’d outright judged it as ambiguous. That probably meant it wouldn’t pass without discussion. This time, he deferred judgment.
‘Good.’
The Observer probably thought it worked, but as an employee, he couldn’t give a definitive answer.
‘Disabling one catapult shouldn’t make me look like a hacker.’
Besides, I held myself to high standards, so his deferred judgment didn’t bother me at all.
Of course, that was just my own assessment.
The Japanese Archer who’d been watching from the side stumbled over in shock.
“W-wait. You really did that?!”
I glanced at him for a moment, then nodded.
“Yeah.”
The Japanese Archer’s jaw dropped.
“How the hell did you do that?!”
“I cut the rope.”
“…?”
The Archer looked bewildered.
“F-from that distance?”
He gestured with his fingers, indicating the distance, and asked.
I wasn’t in the mood to elaborate further.
“Yeah.”
I said that and continued shooting arrows at the next targets.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Soldiers fell with each arrow I released.
“I-insane…!”
-He’s a reaction master lol
-lol this is the bow of Joseon
-lol impressive
The Japanese Archer became convinced of my genuine skill and pressed me with even more questions.
“W-wait, but that rope doesn’t break in one hit. Did you keep hitting the same spot? With that X-crash? Is it because it’s a Joseon composite bow? Because of the draw weight? Huh? What rank are you? S-class? What country are you from? This is Korean, right?”
‘What in the world is this guy doing?’
Almond furrowed his brow and finally checked the ID floating above the man’s head.
[ウイスキー]
It was Japanese. The name read Whiskey, but since Almond didn’t understand Japanese, he had no idea what it meant. It didn’t matter anyway. He didn’t have the luxury of engaging in pleasant conversation with this person.
“No, I’m Chinese. I’ve got videos up on Ollytube proving I’m Chinese.”
Hahahahaha Chinese people are crazy hahahaha
That’s so funny lolol
lol
“W-Chinese? Then why did you make your ID in Korean?”
“To look good.”
Lies just rolling off your tongue lol
-Did you prepare your lines while shooting arrows?
-Classic Asung deflection!
Almond continued to maintain an iron wall of defense. Yet the Japanese Archer seemed eager to continue the conversation.
“Actually, aren’t you Korean? You look Korean….”
Unfortunately, that voice was drowned out by an even louder roar.
Boom-boom-boom!
It was the deafening sound of the enemy’s siege tower.
The siege tower was charging toward the castle wall roughly a hundred meters away.
“Siege weapon!”
“Stop it!”

* * *
Siege Tower.
Actually, the term “tower cart” is more intuitive. A siege tower is a structure that matches the height of castle walls and is mobile.
Once soldiers board this tower and charge toward the enemy’s castle wall, the siege tower functions as a makeshift elevator.
It’s an elevator-type siege weapon that allows soldiers to scale the enemy’s castle wall far more safely than using ladders.
BOOM…!
The enemy’s siege tower slammed its entire body against the wall.
SCREECH!
The door opened.
Dozens of soldiers emerged through the gap. They charged forward with roaring battle cries.
“CHARGE!”
RUMBLE!!!
Dozens of soldiers leaped onto the castle wall.
Heavy-armored soldiers wielding shields as well.
By appearance alone, they looked like poison to archers. This was exactly what the enemy commander intended.
“D-Damn it! There’s nothing but archers on the castle wall!”
“Insane… How many of them are there!”
On the castle wall with nowhere to escape. It was like a pack of cats dropping into a box full of mice.
DING!
The order from our commander came down.
[RETREAT]
We were ordered to retreat from the castle wall.
But where could we escape in this cramped space? Through a staircase barely wide enough for two people to pass?
CRASH!
One of our soldiers flew backward and collapsed. He’d been struck by the enemy’s mace.
“ATTACK!”
The assault had begun.
THWACK!
Our soldiers unleashed a barrage of arrows in response, but they all bounced off shields and armor.
And we couldn’t flee either—the castle wall had become chaos. Our own soldiers were pushing each other aside to escape.
“Damn it!”
“No!”
“Hey! Didn’t you hear the retreat order!? Move!”
Archers cursing and stumbling about in confusion.
RUMBLE!
Seeing them, the enemy soldiers grew bolder and charged forward.
“They’re already routed! Finish them all!”
“Yes!”
Dozens of soldiers split into two groups, east and west, charging to seize the entire castle wall.
Our archers also split in both directions and began fleeing in panic.
The east had already transformed into a Tom and Jerry dynamic. But the west was different.
Thwack.
Far ahead, two Archers were blocking the path.
One of them was Almond.
“Is… is this really happening?”
The other was a Japanese named Whiskey, who had stumbled into this situation alongside him.
He’d been following Almond for no particular reason and suddenly found himself in a twenty-versus-two fight.
Almond simply told him this and drew his bowstring.
“Shoot too. If you want to live.”
-(I need to make an impact)
-Japanese guy lol so flustered
-Why’d you even follow him lol

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