Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 392

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 112
39. The Third Era Battle (3)
About five minutes earlier. The moment after the Veteran Knight fell from his horse.
That’s when I realized something.
‘This isn’t easy.’
I’d succeeded in knocking the knight off his horse, but killing him proved far more difficult than expected.
“He’s blocking too well. I mean, blocking is too easy for him.”
The compatibility is so bad ㅠㅠ
-Still, he can’t get close
-Wow, the rapid fire is insane
-The Veteran Knight is tough….
And for good reason.
Despite my arsenal of composite bows, I’m still a second-era archer. I don’t benefit from the numerous third-era upgrades.
Defeating a Veteran Knight—the premium unit from the third-era Knight Academy—should be impossible.
This game is fundamentally an RTS.
A mercenary’s skill matters, but which unit you’re summoned as matters equally.
The battle’s structure shifts based on matchups and stat differences.
No matter how precisely I aim for the armor seams with incredible focus and skill, if the knight notices and blocks slightly, that’s it.
Preventing arrows from hitting the seams is far easier than dodging them entirely.
For a Veteran Knight boasting S-rank or higher skill, this was trivial.
Clang!
Thunk!
Arrows continued to fall uselessly.
The viewers vented their frustration.
-If this were Reina, that bastard would already be sent to Valhalla.
The archers in the 2 o’clock era are way too weak.
-How is this happening
They were right. If this were Ril, the projectile speed would be too fast for such defensive responses.
But this isn’t a fantasy world—it’s a game emphasizing realistic mechanics.
No matter how skilled I am, arrow velocity couldn’t be increased arbitrarily.
Besides, Ril is a game that tries to balance avatars as much as possible, while this game emphasizes unit hierarchy and matchups.
That’s the stark difference.
So fundamentally, Civil Empire is a rock-paper-scissors game where cavalry, archers, and spearmen counter each other.
Javelin throwers, mounted archers, and chariot cavalry can be added on top.
But that’s the basic framework.
‘Then….’
I realize I can’t kill the Veteran Knight using conventional methods.
‘I’ll have to get close.’
Twang! Twang!
I continue firing my bow while actually closing the distance between myself and the knight.
The Knight approaches, and I’m right about this.
-If he closes the distance, doesn’t that mean he wins??
lol
-Oh but that actually makes sense.
Thwack!
Whoosh!
The Knight who easily blocked my arrows from a distance now struggles against my rapid-fire barrage as he closes in.
I can’t increase the arrow’s velocity, but I can narrow the distance.
And when the distance shrinks, the travel time decreases, requiring faster reaction speed to block.
Smack!
Thwack!
The enemy begins allowing attacks through.
His reaction speed simply can’t keep pace with my rapid fire.
But the real problem remains distance.
If he closes the gap too much, he gains the advantage. Once he starts wielding that longsword properly, I have no options as an archer.
The enemy maintains his health above 50% and successfully enters within longsword range.
‘Almost there.’
I could retreat and continue shooting.
‘But that gets me nowhere.’
This is enemy territory.
I can’t pin down this Knight and fight him all day in hostile ground.
I need to make a decisive move.
‘I’ll land a hit no matter what—even if I have to deceive him.’
The problem is the Knight reacts to my arrows and blocks them.
And he’s protecting his vital points thoroughly.
In other words, I win if I prevent his reaction. I win if I expose his vitals.
Creak.
I prepare two arrows to finish him perfectly.
“Die, you mosquito of an archer!”
The Knight finally raises his sword to pierce me.
Swoosh!
He thinks he’s won now that he’s closed the distance completely.
‘One is just a feint.’
Twang!
My bowstring snaps first.
One arrow flies forth.
‘The other one…’
Creak!
An arrow nocked not at the center of the string, but nearly at the very edge.
It leaves the string as is.
Twang!
My first arrow bounced off.
Clang!
The Knight blocked it as if he’d been waiting.
The second arrow went wide.
“Hmph.”
A sneer spread across the Knight’s lips.
Whoosh!
The Knight brought his sword down from its defensive position without hesitation.
Everything happened in an instant.
Having fired two arrows in that span, I had no time to evade the blade now.
The gleaming steel descended upon my shoulder.
—Crunch!
[Health 25%]
My health plummeted in a heartbeat.
lol
Oh my god, I’m crying
-argh!
The viewers gasped at the visceral impact, but I pressed forward instead.
“Just… a bit more…”
Click.
I grabbed the ornament atop the Knight’s helmet and yanked it.
‘Will it work? This is all I’ve got.’
I wasn’t without doubt. A 180-degree returning arrow was theoretically possible, but whether it would actually deal damage was questionable.
Still, it had enough destructive force to easily shatter a beer bottle…
‘As long as it connects, it should register damage. It’ll work.’
In the game, I should be able to get a damage judgment. That was my calculation.
Meanwhile, the Knight pressed harder with his blade.
“Let go, you bastard!”
The sword dug deeper into my shoulder until my arm was severed clean off.
Screeeech!
[Severed]
A judgment that allowed any body part to be cut away regardless of damage.
[Critical Injury]
I had lost my right arm.
But it was the Knight who collapsed.
Thud!
“…Ugh!”
He suddenly coughed up blood, staggered, and crumpled to the ground.
Thump.
Behind the head embedded in the ground.
The X-Crash was lodged there.
It was a direct hit.
I yanked his helmet back, exposing the nape of his neck perfectly, and the arrow struck true.
“This….”
Almond finally relaxed and released the tension from my hand.
“It works.”

* * *
“What the hell!”
King Gul and his viewers marveled as they watched the replay.
“What is this! Did the arrow come back like it had a mind of its own!? I can’t believe my eyes!”
-Comeback lol trick shot lol
-That’s insane
-I thought the 180-degree curve shot was just for show…
-It came back to Almond because of Reina’s blessing?
King Gul continues excitedly, asking.
“Wait! Kim Chi! Is this actually possible!?”
“I’ve seen something similar in the international tournament….”
Kim Chi Warrior recalls an archer he met in the international tournament before. It was from Arab civilization.
Though not well-known in our country, there were also many nations in the past that made their name with the bow.
In particular, many specialized in practical archery or trick archery, and they did demonstrate 180-degree curve shots.
However….
“I’ve never seen it actually succeed in practice.”
I’ve never seen it actually work effectively like this. It’s like the difference between a power dunk and a regular dunk in basketball—there really isn’t one in practice.
The 180-degree curve was merely a trick for entertainment or psychological advantage. This is the first time I’ve witnessed it actually deceiving an enemy and landing a real hit.
“Y-you’ve seen something similar? What kind of battles have they been fighting in the international tournament….”
-What kind of fights have they been having… this is insane…
-Wait what??
-There are more monsters like that out there;
While they continued discussing the replay for a while.
“Huh!?”
King Gul gasps in surprise watching the live screen.
Roop’s castle wall that had been standing firm all this time.
“The wall!”
That wall finally began to shake.
Crash…!
A massive stone flies in and smashes against the castle wall.
“Ah! Bontovi! Finally earning his keep!”
While Almond bought time, Bontovi had managed to reach the 3 o’clock position and brought siege weapons with him.
“A trebuchet! That’s one of the siege weapons that rarely shows up. They must have been in quite a hurry!”
The siege weapon that Bontovi brought was indeed a trebuchet—a catapult with an extraordinarily long range.
It could hurl boulders weighing 150 kilograms across five to six hundred meters, a truly terrifying destructive force when you imagined it.
Perhaps that’s why?
With just two throws, the wooden fortress walls crumbled to dust.
BOOM!
“Ahhh! The walls! They’re collapsing!!!”
King Gul shot to his feet.
The castle walls that had stood firm throughout the game were finally coming down.
“Our troops are stacked up right now! Bontovi! Everyone charge! Charrrge! Just sweep them all away!”
The army that had been pacing along the walls finally surged forward with a roar.
Waaaahhh!
-Bontovi, you… have so many units stacked up?
-King Gul lol his voice is general material lol
-So satisfying lol
“Right now! Bontovi is pouring in his forces like he’s finally releasing years of pent-up frustration!”
Nearly a hundred soldiers in total. They all flood into enemy territory, creating absolute chaos.
Torches in hand, they set homes and farmland ablaze, capping the enemy’s population and food supplies.
Whoosh!
Black smoke began billowing in all directions.
“Nooo! Everything’s burning! Everything’s on fire! Nooooo!!!”
The battlefield was complete pandemonium.
Soldiers were blocked by smoke, unable to distinguish friend from foe, forced to rely solely on their commanders’ pings to fight.
“Right now, Roop has ten cavalry units that just came out?”
“Yes! And the Veteran Knights that were produced earlier are joining in! But there are so many spearmen… we can’t just charge in recklessly! We have to be careful!”
“We can’t see anything right now! The commanders are marking with pings! We need them to tell us what’s happening! The field is complete chaos!”
Kim Chi Warrior shouted, raising his voice. But unfortunately, it was Roop who pinged first.
Ping! Ping!
[Attack]
As Roop’s pings marked multiple locations, his cavalry charged toward the archers.
“Roop is sending cavalry against the archers. He’s trying to maximize the matchup advantage.”
Ten cavalry units in total, with one Veteran Knight joining them.
“He’s changing formation!”
[Charge Formation]
The ten cavalry units form a wedge-shaped formation and charge forward.
Thundering hooves!
“Bontovi needs to respond, right!?”
Bontovi responds accordingly.
[Retreat]
The archers pull back.
[Regrouping]
I call the spearmen forward again in front of the archers.
Then, I deploy the pincer formation to swallow up the charge formation.
[Pincer Formation]
Snap!
The spearmen take their positions and encircle the cavalry in a surrounding formation.
My intention is to envelop the incoming wedge and strike it from all four sides to kill.
Then, Roop changes the formation.
[Linear Formation]
Clatter! Clatter!
The cavalry moves with perfect unity, spreading the wedge horizontally once more.
Bontovi responds as well.
[Triangular Formation]
The spearmen who were deploying the pincer formation break their long line and shift into a formation capable of individual annihilation.
“Wow! Bontovi! Excellent judgment!”
Amid the fierce formation battle between us.
There was no longer any room to retreat.
“Ah! The formation changes between the two commanders were so intense!!”
Boom…!
The two formations collide.
Roaaaaaar!
Shouts and thunderous sounds.
Between the swirling black ash, sparks burst forth as steel clashes against steel.
A fierce battle erupts.
“Perfectly! Perfectly! They advance! The triangle completely shatters the enemy’s linear formation!”
“Moreover, the spearmen properly mark the cavalry, and the archers support from the rear! It’s flawless!?”
“A beautiful team fight! The only thing we can rely on is the Veteran Knight!?”
As if hearing these words.
[Volley Fire]
Numerous archers unleash a volley of arrows at the enemy’s Veteran Knight.
“Archers! Volley fire incoming!”
Whoooosh!!!
Countless arrows are fired simultaneously, triggered by the senior archer’s bowstring.
Thud thud thud!
No matter how veteran a knight is, taking this countless barrage of arrows is fatal.
Shrieeeek…!
In an instant, the Veteran Knight becomes a porcupine, staggering about in confusion.
“He’s dismounting! He’s really tough! He doesn’t die even after taking all that!?”
The Veteran Knight continues fighting after being thrown from his horse.
It seems dozens of spearmen fall to his blade alone.
However, there was no winning against sheer numbers.
“We’re being pushed back! Roop! We’re losing ground! The unit difference is this massive!? Just moments ago, we were thirty workers short and had no hope, but now—!”
“Bontovi kept producing soldiers while Roop focused on tech advancement. But because Almond blocked that advancement and bought time, now we’re short on both tech AND soldiers!”
While I stalled for time, the tide of war had shifted without anyone noticing.
“And the trebuchet! Launching now!”
——BOOM!
A massive stone hurled by the trebuchet came crashing down upon the veteran knights and cavalry.
“The finishing touch!”
King Gul was right—it was the perfect finishing blow.
The momentum of battle shifted completely.
The cavalry and veteran knights, exhausted to their limits, collapsed.
“The stone speaks! It says this war is over!”
From that point on, it was pure slaughter.
The cavalry at the front began falling, impaled by spears from all directions, while those attempting to flee became pincushions of arrows.
Thud!
[Surrender]
Roop surrendered.
“Noooooo! I loooose!”
“We actually won this….”
“That’s right! We did! We reversed it! Almond! Bontovi! And you, Roop the Sniper! That was truly an incredible match!”
This was my first victory in the promotion tournament.
-Sniper lmaooo
-Finally saying it now lol
-He really wanted to say it lol
-Wow that was actually fun
“So if I win the next two matches, I get promoted?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“Ah. And everyone, while we wait for the queue to pop, a video just went up on Almond’s channel.”
King Gul was also invested in Ollytube revenue, so he was eager to promote it.
-??
-Is he doing Ollytube commentary now?? lol
-Already? lol
“Yes. The title is….”
King Gul hesitated for a moment before reading it.
“…Why the World Bows Flat Before the Korean Archer?”
-lmaooooo
-Isn’t this the wall-climbing scene? lol
-He stole it lol

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