Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 366

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 86
31. Rock, Paper, Scissors (2)
Commander Kim Chi Warrior’s ambush operation was textbook perfection.
Given the terrain and circumstances, it was the most rational strategy possible.
Yet for that very reason, it was also easy for the enemy to predict.
The enemy commander didn’t merely anticipate this ambush—he pinpointed the exact location of the trap.
As a result, the enemy perfectly encircled Almond’s special unit from behind.
“What?! Is there a spy?!”
“There’s no way that’s possible!”
“Damn it! More equipment lost!”
Our forces descended into such chaos that they were spouting absurd theories about spies.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A chilling wind sound pierced through the air.
Thud! Thud!
Colleagues beside me collapsed.
Arrows rained down indiscriminately.
Naturally, arrows came flying at me as well.
But then—
“No, wait!”
Surprisingly, Whiskey tackled me and took the arrow instead.
‘What the hell?!’
I lost my balance and fell, bewildered.
Then Whiskey shouted:
“You have to survive! Without you, there’s no hope!”
-??
-Forbes Selection) Greatest Japanese Person Crowned
-Lol wtf
Whiskey’s solemn cry only confused me further.
‘Why does he sound more determined than I do?’
This game’s fate rested on my shoulders alone, yet Whiskey’s resolve was no less steadfast than mine.
He was burning his own body to protect me.
Though the arrow wasn’t even that threatening.
“You could have dodged it.”
“…R-really?”
Whiskey’s face turned crimson with embarrassment.
“Anyway, thanks. You’re not dead, right?”
“Um… the Commander upgraded my ranged defense too, so I have 70 percent left…”
Thud!
An arrow struck Whiskey’s flank mid-sentence.
“Ah. Now it’s 40 percent.”
Pfft.
Both Almond and the viewers burst into laughter at the sight.
hahahahahaha
Whiskey is expensive ㅠㅠ
The whiskey game is so fun lol
“Let’s hide for now.”
It wasn’t dignified, but we both crawled frantically and squeezed into a crevice between rocks.
We needed to catch our breath.
‘What do I do.’
I rolled my eyes to assess the situation for a moment.
First, our allied forces had suffered heavy casualties.
[Unit 17/28]
Out of twenty-eight soldiers, only seventeen remained.
Enemy arrows continued raining down. Hiding and waiting for the arrows to stop was impossible given the nature of this game.
The arrows I’d purchased were infinite. Hiding wouldn’t solve anything.
[Commander]
[It’s an ambush within an ambush. Furthermore, enemy Spearmen are approaching. Our Cavalry will provide support.]
The Commander laid out the situation for me.
“Wait, the Spearmen are coming too?”
“Damn it. We’re caught.”
“It’s a sandwich.”
The Spearmen we were supposed to ambush were instead closing in on us.
Our Cavalry was coming to help, but who knew when. They were much closer from the enemy’s side.
“Why isn’t the Commander giving us orders?!”
“He doesn’t know yet. Damn it!”
The Commander only relayed information. He gave no special orders to the Archers. He probably didn’t know how to break through this yet.
‘Or maybe he abandoned us.’
If not that, then he’d abandoned the special unit.
‘Maybe I have to do it….’
I had command authority over the special unit.
Even without the Commander, this unit could operate independently.
“Captain! Make a decision for us!”
Whiskey beside me pleaded with me.
‘A decision?’
I was troubled.
Truth be told, my strategic mind wasn’t particularly sharp. If I played card games five hundred times, I could maintain a win rate below thirty-eight percent.
Thud!
While I deliberated, another one of our soldiers fell from the opposite rock.
[Unit 15/28]
We were down to fifteen.
If the numbers get any worse, there won’t be anything I can attempt.
‘First, survival.’
I lacked the capacity to foresee victory in this war, so I resolved to think only of survival.
Then what was the only method to survive in this current situation?
Only one path revealed itself to Almond.
[Command]
He pressed the command button and shouted.
“Fire at the rear archers! Break through at a single point!”
His cry reached the ears of every member of the special unit.
Charging in reverse toward the enemies targeting the rear. Rushing forward at a single point and breaking through by any means necessary.
This was his strategy.
However──
“….”
His allies showed no response.
Only the sound of enemy arrows whistled through the hollow air.
No one stepped forward.
Whiskey, who had been crawling beneath Almond, offered an explanation.
“Th… they’re all scared.”
“Scared of what?”
“Many of our players have already died once or twice. If we lose again, the risk will be huge.”
I see.
Losing weapons in succession meant significant losses.
Moreover, since they hadn’t performed properly yet, the incoming gold would be meager.
‘I get bonus gold for killing spearmen. But the enemies are archers….’
The enemies at the rear were all archers. Yet the Commander’s bonus was tied to killing spearmen.
“So it’s about money?”
“That’s part of it. But we’re still human, after all. Even in a game, we don’t want to die pointlessly. We only charge in when it seems like we can win. But the operation you proposed doesn’t seem like we can win.”
“Doesn’t seem like we can win….”
Almond repeated his words and paused in thought for a moment.
‘They don’t think we can win.’
I understood the difference in perspective between them and me.
Almond seemed to have made a decision and shouted again.
“Fire at the rear archers! Break through at a single point!”
The same words.
But different action.
This time, it didn’t end with just a shout.
Thud!
In the same instant as his cry, Almond sprang forward from the rock like a tumbling stone.
He was this team’s leader. He had to advance. That was the position of one who leads.
‘I just need to show them that we can win.’
Twang!
The moment my roll ended, I drew the bowstring and immediately fired three arrows in rapid succession.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
“!”
Both allies and enemies stood frozen, unable to react to my sudden movements.
In that instant, the three arrows split through the air and pierced the throats of three enemies simultaneously.
Splurt!
-He’s insane
-Chills
-???
Three bodies collapsed almost at once.
Their throats pierced, they couldn’t even scream.
“What, what?”
“What the…!”
“Why are the arrows so fast?”
Due to the nature of the composite bow fired with tremendous draw strength, the arrows flew too quickly for anyone to react, leaving the enemies completely bewildered.
‘Make sure they all see this…!’
I rose to my feet completely.
Neither brush nor stone concealed my body.
As if I wanted everyone to witness it.
Twang…!
I began drawing the bowstring.
This was the perfect moment for them to turn me into a pincushion.
One enemy archer thought the same and drew his bowstring first.
But he hadn’t considered one thing.
While I was exposed to them, they were equally exposed to me.
‘There you are.’
Whoosh!
My aim shifted in an instant.
Twang!
Simultaneously, I released the bowstring.
Ping—
The enemy’s bowstring snapped.
“!?”
His arrow ricocheted upward.
“An arrow… cutting the bowstring?!”
As the enemy archer looked up in shock, my second arrow pierced the space between his eyes.
—Thud!
A hole opened in his forehead.
“!”
A brief silence fell over the battlefield.
Standing boldly upright despite the possibility of multiple archers taking aim, drawing and loosing arrows with such confidence—
It was more than enough to send a thrill through the hearts of my allies.
It was sufficient to reignite the dying embers of this battle.
At that moment, Almond drew his bowstring once more and shouted.
“Toward the rear archers! Break through at one point!”
The same command, repeated for the third time.
But this time, the response was different.
Swishhhhh…!
The sound of rustling vegetation echoed across the field.
The soldiers began to move.
The faint spark, my allies’ morale, flickered and wavered on the verge of ignition.
What was needed here was merely the gentlest breeze.
“Now…!”
Whiskey leaped to his feet and bolted forward.
“This is it!”
He grabbed a flag instead of a weapon.
Flap!
The banner billowed in the wind.
“Didn’t you hear the Commander!”
He scrambled atop a boulder, prepared to become a porcupine, and bellowed.
“Break through at one point, I said!!!”
Whoooosh!
His cry, reverberating across the battlefield, finally ignited the spirit of my allies. A blazing fervor spread outward.
Swishhhhhhh!!!
The vegetation trembled in countless places, then transformed into the sound of countless footsteps.
“Let’s goooooo!”
“Hyaaaaaaaa!”
“Charge!”
With a tremendous roar, my allies finally surged forward.
-So cool
-Chills
-Thrilling;
Almond, Whiskey, and all of the special unit felt the thrill transmitted through their very skin.
Thump! Thump!
Hearts thundered like war drums.
Everyone rose and charged forward.
“Hyaaaaaaaaa!”
They loosed arrows while running.
Countless bowstrings sang across the battlefield.
Twang! Twang!
The special unit was composed primarily of exceptional archers.
Despite firing while on the move—
Thwack!
Crack!
“Ugh!”
“Gasp!”
The enemy forces dwindled.
Our forces began gradually pushing the front line forward.
Once again, a reversal was beginning.

* * *
Ambush upon ambush.
Among Civil Empire players, the term for when a strategy is “enveloped” is how they describe it.
It stems from the idea that the enemy reads your thoughts and engulfs you in battle.
“Ah. We’re enveloped. Sigh.”
Kim Chi Warrior’s sigh spread across the battlefield.
“The wall at rank 50 is truly high….”
The enemy Commander was a ranker.
Not just some ranker in name with a ranking around 1,000th place, but 46th in the entire world.
Realistically, Kim Chi Warrior stood no chance of winning against this person.
“I barely seized an opportunity, and they’ve enveloped it.”
When a strategy becomes enveloped, it’s similar to being completely outdrafted in League of Legends.
No, actually it’s two to three times more devastating. League has variables from diverse skills, but this game lacks such fantastical techniques.
Once a strategy falls into a counter, it becomes nearly impossible to respond.
The Commander, Kim Chi Warrior, was therefore bewildered.
“But… why is morale rising?”
In this game, when a strategy is countered, the soldiers’ morale drops first.
As a result, they typically lose far more severely than they should have originally.
Yet this special unit he had dispatched possessed unbelievably high morale.
This momentum isn’t visible as numbers, but experienced commanders can tell just from their shouts, expressions, and movements.
“They’re acting as if they’ll actually win.”
The situation was clearly dire.
Behind them, the enemy Spearmen were pursuing, and ahead lay the enemy Archers who had been waiting in ambush before striking.
Our forces held a slight numerical advantage.
But the losses already sustained were so great that it no longer mattered.
Twang! Twang!
Still, our special unit drew their bowstrings with ferocity.
They burned with fighting spirit. They were like the army of Gyebaek.
Leading them was not Gyebaek, but the Black-Haired Archer.
‘Because of that person?’
There are moments when a single outstanding hero shifts the entire flow of an army.
It happens in history, and it happens in this game as well.
‘Not a single miss….’
The Black-Haired Archer leading the charge shoots arrows while running, yet
not a single arrow goes astray. Out of ten shots, perhaps one misses?
The problem is that the remaining nine all strike vital points.
Even while running at this level, the destructive power when standing still and firing would be catastrophic.
‘This is no joke.’
I did grant the Leader position based on that ability.
But seeing it again, it’s no laughing matter.
‘Working that hard. I can’t just sit idle.’
The soldiers are fighting desperately. As Commander Kim Chi Warrior, I cannot afford to do nothing.
Observing the situation from a third-person perspective, there must be something I can contribute.
‘I need to help. What are they trying to do?’
I attempted to understand the special unit’s intentions. After briefly surveying the screen, I nodded.
‘I see. A breakthrough at a single point.’
The special unit intends to survive by breaking through the Archer unit surrounding them at a single point.
[Breakthrough Point]
Ping!
I assessed the enemy’s situation roughly and marked where the breakthrough would be easiest.
And I also checked the locations with cover in between.
Ping! Ping! Ping!
[Cover]
[Cover]
[Cover]
Passing through these positions while breaking through would be far more manageable.
‘Even if we do this, will it work?’
Not only Enemy Archers were coming, but Spearmen as well. Our Cavalry was too far away and struggled to break through the forest terrain.
‘If only we could buy some time….’
Morale was high, but the situation looked grim.
As I was thinking this, something astonishing happened.

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