Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 383

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 103
36. Almond User Manual (2)
The Community, Embul.
As the average skill level of the Community was exceptional, it was an insular place.
Most of them had heard Almond’s name only once or twice, or simply didn’t care.
I couldn’t blame them.
In truth, even if people lived on the same land, or even under the same roof, they inhabited different worlds these days.
Especially these people had a particularly closed-off nature.
Embul was a place where you couldn’t even write posts without logging in.
In their exclusive league, Almond first made his name known through the hacking controversy incident.
Since hacking controversies didn’t happen easily domestically, Almond’s name had appeared in issue threads a time or two.
But as always, the shelf life was just a day or two.
It was quickly buried beneath their main concern—the national team competition.
[This Canada national team lineup is insane]
[Those Chinese bastards getting 3 seeds again?]
Please, just go to the main line and smash that Chinese bastard’s head in once ㅠ
But now Embul was finally starting to take genuine interest in Almond.
[Breaking News)) B-Rank Selected for National Team]
This sensational wording was the reason.
Already sensitive about national team selections, and now hearing that a B-Rank had been chosen.
How could anyone not be interested?
All sorts of malicious comments began pouring in.
Especially on Kim Chi Warrior’s Embul account profile, the comments were flooded with hate.
Did you catch a cold? haha
This ain’t it lol
-Was this rigged?
“…Please.”
Kim Chi Warrior clasped his hands together in prayer.
Please let Almond prove himself.
“If these guys cause a commotion, all hell breaks loose….”
Embul was different from other game communities. It possessed routes through which it could exercise real influence.
In other words, if public opinion about Almond’s selection became too negative, they could end up meddling in the international tournament.
Almond had to perform well.
But then came news like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
“Ha. Of all things, they prepared for this!?”
The Enemy Commander had prepared a counter to the fast Archer rush.
“Does this even make sense!? Who prepares for this these days… Ha.”
Well, such complaints were meaningless.
My opponent was B-Rank.
How could I know what he was thinking?
And even if the Enemy was prepared, I would break through.
That’s what Kim Chi Warrior’s calculations showed.
Yet the reason I’m this anxious is….
“No. It’ll work. This will work! Please, Bontovi, don’t do anything!”
There’s a high probability that Bontovi will panic and issue a different command.
Was it divine intervention?
Contrary to my worries, fortunately Bontovi followed my maxim of ‘don’t think, just act’.
The judgment was Almond’s to make.
Almond on screen immediately drew his bow.
Three arrows fired in rapid succession flew through the air, striking three foreheads in perfect alignment.
Thwack!
“Gasp!”
Despite having already witnessed his skill once, Kim Chi Warrior startled and stumbled backward.
Then, quickly regaining composure, I headed toward the Embul Community.
“Public opinion. Public opinion.”
Had the sentiment improved?
“…!”
The post I saw upon entering.
[What is this guy. Killing three at once???]
Public opinion about Almond in Embul was stirring.
“Nice.”
Kim Chi Warrior grins widely.
-What is that;
-??
-Looks like they pulled a pure physical one-trick pony?
-Isn’t that the guy… who was involved in that hacking scandal not long ago….
When Almond was first selected for the national team, public opinion was nine parts opposed and one part uncertain….
[Isn’t a pure physical one-trick Player the best when the Commander is giving orders anyway??]
[The national team isn’t solo ranked~~]
[The national team is still different]
[I main Archer and I just creamed myself seeing that arrow…]
[Wow Almond is handsome haha hope he hits S+ rank]
[Honestly can’t tell from just a few matches]
Thanks to his primary weapon—his bow skills—and his secondary weapon—his appearance—the sentiment gradually shifted from seven parts opposed to three parts in favor.
Clap clap!
Kim Chi Warrior clapped excitedly.
“Excellent! Good! Just a bit more!”
I worked myself up further.
The real challenge starts from now on.
“Let’s win. With this momentum!”
Killing three enemies in a single moment was certainly a remarkable feat.
But the real battle was only just beginning.
This was where everything would be decided.

* * *
Meanwhile, I lowered my bow after successfully eliminating three enemies simultaneously.
‘Was bringing the composite bow the right call?’
The enemies hadn’t even reacted before falling. Normally, even with ordinary arrows, they’d flail about wildly and fire in random directions. But they died without any resistance whatsoever.
It was because of the bow’s superiority.
The enemies’ range couldn’t reach me, but mine reached them first.
The enemies had walked forward without anticipating that I would fire at this precise moment, and they paid the price.
As a result, three figures collapsed helplessly.
“This… this can’t be real.”
“So easily?”
“Is he a sorcerer?!”
As one soldier said, it had become a feat barely distinguishable from magic itself.
-Sorcerer lmaooo
Now our morale is skyrocketing, right?ㅋㅋ
-How could anyone hold back after seeing that!
-This is impossible to hold back fr
Naturally, when such a magical feat occurred, our forces’ morale soared.
In fact, the four archers who had come with me immediately became energized and began charging forward.
“We’ve won! We have a sorcerer on our side!”
“Uaaaaaaah!”
Not that archers charging forward instead of spearmen or cavalry would accomplish much.
But in war, momentum in the moment mattered more than minor tactical advantages.
“Fire away!”
They began shooting while running.
The enemies, caught off guard, retreated and returned fire.
Thanks to this, our forces claimed the better positions first.
“Take cover and fire!”
“Kill them all!”
Arrows crisscrossed through the sky, weaving patterns of death.
Arrowheads pierced through brush and flesh, their sounds echoing across the battlefield.
Thwack!
Thud!
Crack!
“Keep firing! Don’t stop!”
“The game ends here!”
With very high probability, whichever side was pushed back now would lose the game.
Perhaps this was my first and last battle.
Because of that, the battle was incredibly fierce.
A moment later.
“….”
Silence descended upon one side of the battlefield.
Meanwhile, cheers erupted from the other.
“Waaaaah!”
It was Almond’s forces.
We had won.
The enemy was annihilated, and only two of us fell.

* * *
“What in the….”
Enemy Commander Letgo.
His pupils trembled as he stood on the verge of A-Rank promotion.
It was absurd.
“I knew the fast archer rush was coming.”
Fast archer rushes weren’t even popular these days. Honestly, if he hadn’t been paying attention, he might have missed it entirely.
But being the meticulous scout he was, he had been certain the enemy would execute a fast archer rush, and he had mobilized his forces accordingly.
He had even deployed far more troops than the enemy.
Yet just five archers had killed ten of his archers.
Only two of the enemy forces had fallen.
“This ridiculous luck-based game!”
Crash!
He slammed his keyboard in fury.
He had every right to be angry. Strategically, he had clearly been one step ahead, yet he still lost.
It was like predicting the opponent would throw rock, playing paper, only to have them suddenly throw a punch that knocked him out, and then claim victory. It was absurd.
He blamed his soldiers. Since a commander couldn’t see every single battle, he hadn’t witnessed Almond taking down three enemies in a single moment.
“These useless bastards. I was just unlucky to face them.”
After rating all the archers who had fought before at the absolute lowest.
“This time, send me some competent ones….”
[Archer Recruitment]
He began recruiting archers again. The damage was already severe, but the workers hadn’t died yet.
If he fought while anchored to the defensive tower and town hall, he could manage some form of final defense.

* * *
While the enemy Commander fumed with indignation.
Our Commander Bontovi let out a cheer.
〔Wow! Damn… we crushed them!〕
Our forces, despite being numerically inferior, had overwhelmed the enemy with sheer combat power alone, without any elaborate strategy. There was no way not to be thrilled.
No matter how much of a lifetime B-Rank Bontovi was, he wasn’t fool enough to let slip an opportunity like this.
〔Aamond! It looks like we’ve basically won already, doesn’t it?!〕
He wanted to solidify this victory.
〔We have way more Archers now! I’ll keep sending them, so please preserve them and redirect them toward the Workers!〕
Bontovi had already gone all-in with an Archer rush, so there were roughly a dozen or so additional Archers coming in succession.
The numerical difference was now overwhelming.
One by one, the reinforcements began joining Almond’s unit.
“What? Is it already over?”
“Guess they didn’t expect a fast Archer rush!”
The Archers who arrived late spoke upon seeing the enemy position with only two or three freshly spawned Archers.
At that, the comrades who had fought alongside Almond bristled with indignation.
“What?! You clueless bastards! There weren’t none from the start—there were ten of them, and this Aamond here sliced through every single one!”
“That’s right! Sliced them all!”
Everyone united in their reproach toward the arrogant newcomers.
“Uh, hey… got it… calm down.”
The newly arrived Soldiers felt intimidated without understanding what was happening.
I’m dying laughing
Man, those foreign duo are hilarious lolol
Why are you asking why we’re annoyed lol
-Almond holding back laughter
Almond didn’t particularly comment and simply ordered them to head toward where the Workers were laboring.
“Let’s go catch the Workers.”
“Workers? What about those Archers over there? Fighting them with their defense tower will be a pain.”
The newly arrived Soldier asked.
“Those guys… I think we can lure them out.”
〔…?〕

* * *
As long as I have gold, Soldiers keep coming.
Therefore, the core strategy in this game is to cut off the resource flow.
I must prevent them from earning that gold in the first place.
The most effective method is to kill the Workers.
“Oh, they’re coming.”
Enemy Commander Letgo confirms that the enemy has finally come to kill the Workers.
They’re coming to cut off his lifeline.
He immediately pulled the wood-gathering Workers back.
But then─
“What? They came alone?”
After all that movement, only a single Archer appeared.
“…What’s this.”
It’s hard to judge whether I need to evacuate because of just one unit.
That’s when it happened.
Thump!
Two Workers suddenly collapsed.
“!?”
Unless I’m mistaken, they fired two arrows simultaneously.
“…What?”
This doesn’t feel good.
[Evacuate]
He quickly resumed the evacuation he’d been hesitating about.
The Workers began running toward the defense tower.
However, the Enemy Archer seemed skilled at shooting while running.
Charging forward, they unleashed another volley of arrows, killing two more Workers.
Four dead in total.
“Shooting while running… and hitting every shot? Is that a 300 gold unit? No, wait….”
The Archer didn’t stop running and charged in again, killing three more Workers.
Seven dead in total.
Nearly half of the wood-gathering Workers were dead during the escape.
This isn’t a matter of skill, Letgo concluded.
“This guy’s cheating. Black hair means they’re Chinese.”
They seemed like a hacker. Still, there was an opening.
That Archer came too far forward in their greed to kill Workers.
And that was within the defense tower’s range.
“Ugh, annoying bastard. Now you’re dead….”
But then the Archer dodged all the tower’s arrows?
“You can dodge that?”
Letgo tilts his head, recalling his days playing as a Mercenary.
By then, he had already vanished beyond the defense tower’s range.
Letgo sent the Workers back to their posts.
[Work Resumed]
Then, like a ghost, Almond would return and skewer the Workers on his arrows.
Hit and run.
Except the hit was rather devastating.
“Sigh….”
His movement was like a summer mosquito—maddening, relentless.
Letgo, trembling with rage, sent out his allied Archers.
‘I should have built up a larger force first.’
Without sufficient numbers, sending them out now was just lining them up for execution.
But with the fire at his feet, such foolish decisions came naturally.
‘Just catch that one bastard. He’s separated from the others anyway.’
The moment his Archers approached.
Whoosh!
As if waiting for this, ambushers burst from the forest behind.
There had to be at least a dozen of them.
“Ah….”
He’d fallen for the bait.
“It was a trap!?”
It wasn’t about catching Workers at all—it was a provocation designed to draw out the forces Letgo had hidden.
Twang!
Twang!
Arrows flew as Letgo’s Archers fell one by one.
They shot so fast and aimed so precisely at vital points.
His soldiers disappeared like they were being ground through a blender.
And on top of that, the opposing Commander’s mockery.
[Born to B: E──Z]
(*EZ: Easy, an abbreviation meaning it was easy. Usually used to belittle an opponent after victory.)
Letgo’s patience was running dry.
“This… this….”
This game was his final promotion match to enter A-Rank.
He had failed to advance.
“I knew everything beforehand! So why did I lose!?”
He screamed, a cry no one could hear.
Crash!
[Surrender]
He slammed the keyboard violently and declared his surrender.
Letgo hurled every curse imaginable at the opposing Commander before rushing to the report window.
[Unauthorized Program Usage]
He submitted a report claiming I was a hacker, attaching video evidence.
The response from the administrators came back just minutes later.

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