Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 390

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 110
39. The Three-Era Battle (1)
To win this game, I needed to inflict significant damage right now.
[Commander: Roop]
[Workers: 56]
[Commander: Bontovi]
[Workers: 19]
The gap in worker count had grown so vast that if more time passed, it would translate into an insurmountable resource deficit.
However, the problem was that only one person had entered within striking range to deal damage right now.
That was Almond.
Almond was sprinting madly toward the enemy’s defensive tower line.
Even Almond, who appeared to charge in recklessly, harbored this thought.
‘There’s no one else who can do this.’
The thought that Almond was the only player in Roop’s faction capable of dealing damage.
This wasn’t some obsession with carrying—it was the truth.
〔It’s going to take a while before siege weapons appear….〕
Bontovi delivered the grim news with a whimpering tone.
He desperately wanted to produce siege weapons capable of breaching walls, but since he’d already abandoned economic and civilization development, it wasn’t easy.
The resource gap was already widening by over 150 points.
The only thing I was currently ahead in was troop count.
Roop didn’t have a single soldier yet.
This was a common sight in Cibil M when advancing through eras at different speeds.
In this game, even without soldiers, workers alone could mount quite respectable defense.
The town hall’s combat power went without saying, and workers could enter defensive towers to increase their firepower.
The efficiency was entirely different.
Workers shooting arrows from inside buildings were better than roughly twenty soldiers.
It was extremely difficult for soldiers to destroy buildings.
The same applied to Almond.
Therefore, he had no intention of engaging buildings from the start.
‘They’re coming.’
Whoosh!
Arrows from the defensive towers shot toward Almond.
At first only one was fired, but as he ran, the number of arrows began to increase.
Thwack-thwack-thwack!
There were currently four defensive towers capable of attacking Almond.
Four arrows were simultaneously fired from four different directions.
‘Fortunately, nothing from behind.’
Almond glanced left and right once.
Comparing it with the workers’ positions, I traced the optimal breakthrough path.
‘There!’
Whoosh!
Pushing off with my feet, I traverse the breakthrough path I’ve drawn with perfect precision—not a single inch off.
Whistle!
An arrow grazes past my ribs.
‘Perfect.’
No damage registered.
Precise hit detection calculation. Evading like this—letting attacks barely miss—was the goal from the start. If I dodge with too wide a margin, I won’t have room to avoid the next attack.
‘Next.’
Whistle!
Two arrows simultaneously graze both my shoulders.
No damage from these either.
‘Now for the last one.’
Swish!
The final arrow passes between my legs.
Ignoring the slight chill running down my spine, I take another step forward.
I’ve now evaded all arrows from the four defense towers. But they don’t attack just once.
Boom boom boom!
They fire again.
This time, three arrows.
Unlike before, I’ve now left the range of the first defense tower.
I begin to pick up speed.
‘This is similar to Survive and Escape.’
The Survive and Escape challenge where I’d set an unofficial world record.
Compared to that hell, dodging three or four defense towers simultaneously is nothing.
Besides, the workers have only deployed one tower each, so the attack speed is slow.
I sprint forward at a pace that’s neither too fast nor too slow.
Even so, the defense towers continue firing arrows at me.
Every single one misses.
Weaving through by the narrowest of margins, it looks as though the towers don’t even exist.
-Wow wow wow
-He’s like a martial arts master
-This is a bug, why aren’t they hitting
-The academic consensus is that the arrows are made of Reina wood
-Isn’t he gonna get reported again? lol
Once I focus entirely on evasion, stopping me with defense tower arrows becomes fundamentally impossible.
Passing through countless defense towers.
‘Now… I can see them.’
The distance between me and the workers continues to shrink.
‘The angular bow’s maximum range is around 330 meters.’
Considering the angular bow’s range, I’m now nearly within striking distance of the workers.
Despite this, the workers are not evacuating. Either the Commander isn’t paying attention, or there’s another scheme at play.
‘I don’t have time to figure out what he’s thinking.’
But I didn’t know this game well.
After all, the Commander is the one who devises the strategy.
‘If I can just close the distance by about 30 more meters….’
I focused solely on moving forward.
Boom-boom!
More arrows fly from the defensive tower.
Actually, there are fewer of them than before.

* * *
“No way, is the defense tower even hitting while covering its face!? Why can’t it land a single shot!”
King Gul complained as if the game itself was broken.
“When I played, I just got hit and turned into a beehive! How is it so different! Did it get patched? Send more workers in! Roop!”
Your face lol
-nim’s physical sensation is all concentrated on the tongue lol
Why are you getting mad for?
Hahaha, that’s you…
-They’re arrows made of Reina wood~ What can you do~
While King Gul complained, I had nearly reached the workers.
“Dodging again! Almond advances again! Getting closer and closer to the workers! But it’s a bit slow!?”
“Yes. He can’t run at full speed while focusing on dodging. The defense tower’s arrows are quite skilled with prediction shots, so running mindlessly would get him hit every time.”
“But what is Roop doing!? Surely he’s not doing something else right now!?”
“Who knows. He must have seen Almond enter the base….”
The moment he spoke.
Boom-boom-boom.
[Knight School]
The Knight School was fully constructed.
Torches around the Knight School ignite.
“He was paying attention to that! Knight creation has started! The creation time is….”
“40 seconds.”
“40 seconds! Adding the time for the Knights to arrive, probably 50 seconds! Can Almond get there in that time and catch even one or two workers!?”
That’s when it happened.
Twang!
I drew my bowstring.
“Huh!? Almond, that’s too far!? You’re shooting from here!?”
Regardless of King Gul’s doubt, the arrow was released.
Whoosh──
It traced a subtle arc, and like a predetermined fate, it struck precisely into the worker’s head.
──Thud!
A scream pierces the air.
Not from a Worker, but from King Gul.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!”
hahahaha
-When did they even implement pain feedback for the Analysts?
-Is that a sniper rifle or what?
-And he actually hit it lol
-Wow that’s so satisfying
“From nearly 300 meters away! Perfectly! Perfectly striking the vital point! Even for a composite bow, can the range really be this long!?”
“Well… but very few people actually utilize this entire range when shooting….”
Twang!
The sound of the bowstring echoes once more.
Thud!
Moments later, another Worker collapses in succession.
“One more! He’s already killed two Workers! But the Defense Tower! There’s still one Defense Tower within range!?”
Twang!
An arrow flies toward Almond. It was shot from the Defense Tower.
Almond simply tilted his head lightly.
Whoosh!
It grazed past his earlobe.
No damage was taken.
“Almond says it, doesn’t he? ‘Too slow’!!!”
Almond drew his bowstring once more.
“Wait! Almond!? Are you shooting again from that position!? Danger─”
Twang!
As if answering King Gul’s question, his arrow pierced through another Worker’s neck.
“─Instant death!”
The Worker dropped instantly.
“That accuracy is insane!”
-Kyaa~
-So refreshing!
-It never gets old watching this
Each arrow punches straight through a vital point.
Just watching it was exhilarating.
“But the Defense Tower again!”
The Defense Tower fired another arrow.
Slip!
Like déjà vu, Almond dodged it effortlessly once more.
With just a single step.
“Dodged it!”
Yet King Gul remained uneasy.
‘Can this actually work?’
Almond’s health was still at 100%, but he was an exceptionally fragile Age 2 Archer.
Could he continue attacking workers while dodging the defensive tower’s attacks?
“No, right now! Even with just one defensive tower! You can’t focus only on dodging! You have to keep attacking! Keep shooting from here!? Wouldn’t it be better to hide in the forest for a moment and break aggro instead!?”
“Hmm. I suppose that’s saying there’s no time for that? Still, if we keep dodging like you said, King Gul, continuously shooting seems a bit…”
The Analysts believed Almond couldn’t keep dodging the defensive tower’s arrows.
Unlike before when he focused solely on dodging while advancing, now he had to shoot workers while evading arrows simultaneously.
Yet Almond’s bowstring speed only grew faster. He remained perfectly still in place.
Twang!
Twang!
“Almond! Shooting faster and faster!? Not moving from that spot at all!? He’s really going to try this!!”
“Y-yes, it seems so.”
As if to say ‘try if you dare,’ Almond stood motionless in place like an archer in competition, shooting steadily.
He only shifted his body slightly when arrows flew toward him, yet they all missed with uncanny precision.
“No, he’s dodging again! It’s like he’s memorized the rhythm!?”
As King Gul said, the defensive tower had a rhythm. Of course it did. The AI had a fixed attack speed, and it shot at maximum speed toward a stationary target.
It fired in a perfectly set rhythm.
Tick, tack. Tick, tack.
Arrows shot like a metronome.
Humans are creatures of adaptation.
Regular patterns are quickly learned.
Even if that pattern meant dodging incoming arrows.
Tick, tack. Tick, tack.
Almond dodged those arrows with increasing skill, as if dancing to a predetermined beat.
Between dodges, his own arrows found their marks.
Tick, tack. Tick, tack.
After the metronome between Almond and the defensive tower beat several times, a considerable number of workers had already fallen.
“No! When I came to my senses, ten workers are already dead!”
It was certainly not negligible damage.
It was clearly damage that required attention.
“Won’t Commander Roop pull back until the end!? Is this a battle of wills!?”
“It could be… but once you upgrade eras, there’s so much to manage that you might not notice. There’s no warning sound if you get one-shot kills. You also have to consider that the opponent is a B-rank Earth-bound Spirit. In Ril terms… they’d be around Silver tier 4. When you actually try it, it’s genuinely difficult to pay attention to everything individually.”
“Ah…”
-Suddenly solemn lol
-The moment everything makes sense lol
-Lol
-King Gul left speechless
Thud! Thud!
Workers continued dying, yet no evacuation order had been issued.
Whether it was psychological warfare or simply a lack of attention, I couldn’t say for certain, but either way, the damage was accumulating relentlessly.
“Forget B-rank and all that—I’m going to slaughter these workers! Almond! That’s ruthless! Fifteen already!! It’s practically a barrage of arrows at this point!!!”
Fifteen workers had been massacred.
Compared to the effort of building defense towers and surrounding everything with walls, it was an enormous loss.
“The workers are saying, right!? Sure~ shoot your arrows! If you hit and die, that’s the end~~~!”
-??
-Well, that would be the end, wouldn’t it;
I can’t translate this as it doesn’t form meaningful Korean words or sentences. It appears to be random consonants without vowels, which doesn’t correspond to any recognizable Korean text.
That’s hilarious lolol
That’s right lol
King Gul’s sarcasm was so biting that the workers were dying off pathetically.
“Roop! Why aren’t you responding! At this rate, everyone’s going to dieeeee!”
Only when he called out almost desperately did Roop finally begin to react.
[Evacuation]
He hastily issued an evacuation order to the workers.
Pabam!
A mounted knight burst forth with the sound of a trumpet.
[Veteran Knight]
A Veteran Knight.
A high-rank, high-spec unit from the Knight Academy—different from ordinary cavalry.
A single Veteran Knight held value equivalent to an entire castle.
No matter how much Almond flew and struggled, he was still a second-era archer.
Meeting a Veteran Knight could change the entire situation.
“A Veteran Knight appeared! This might actually turn things around!”
But the situation wasn’t changing for Roop alone.
Pababam!
Another trumpet blast.
This time from the opposite side.
[Era 3 – Seongjoo Era]
Bontovi had also entered Era 3.
King Gul had to reverse his assessment.
“Now I really don’t know again! RTS is truly incomprehensible!”
-You just don’t understand the game, do you?
-Breaking news) King Gul says “I have no idea” during commentary
Hahaha the words change every 0.2 seconds haha

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