Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 415

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 135
46. Veteran vs Newbie (3)
King Gul was bewildered.
Running away from the Veteran Knight who had frustrated me all this time?
But a moment later.
“No!! What is this!?”
Someone suddenly jumped up and shouted like that.
[Mom! I’m growing up! I want to be Almond!]
They were throwing down the bow and arrows without hesitation.
“This, this can’t be! Is it the Nut Clan!? That crazy loyal subject Howdoo!! But what on earth are you saying!?”
The analysts were watching from a distant vantage point, so they couldn’t hear his words clearly.
-Lol that’s insane
-Hodu… I’ll remember that!
-What did he say??
Some viewers seemed to have heard it, but others didn’t.
“Can’t we get a replay!?”
King Gul requested a replay, but there was no time for that.
Creak…!
Because I immediately turned around and drew the bowstring.
The time the string remained taut wasn’t very long.
After an almost instantaneous aim.
Twang!
The arrow flew straight through the air.
“Firing! Almond! You shot from horseback!”
Clang…!
But it was blocked anticlimactically.
Still, King Gul gave high praise for the accuracy of the shot.
If it hadn’t been blocked, it would have lodged in his throat.
“No, shooting backwards like that! It went perfectly accurate!?”
Kim Chi Warrior also gave high praise.
“Yes! Since he’s a Veteran Knight, it’s unavoidable that it was blocked! But considering he’s on horseback! The accuracy was incredible!”
“Right! And… according to reports just now, that Veteran Knight is Salamanca, and he’s ranked within the top 200!?”
“Oh. He’s quite skilled then.”
“If he’s ranked within the top 200, couldn’t we face him in international tournaments!?”
“That’s highly likely.”
My opponent was a skilled player ranked within the top 200.
Yet I didn’t mind and continued riding the horse, drawing the bow again.
Twang!
“!?”
King Gul was at a loss for words.
Shiiiiik──
The arrow sang like a serpent, bending sharply through the air.
The Veteran Knight blocked from the front, but the arrow curved around to his left side.
──Thwack!
It embedded itself in his arm joint.
“W-wait, he hit him!? He fired a curve shot while riding and struck the Knight!!”
Thud.
The Veteran Knight’s arm went limp, and his shield fell away.
“N-no, the shield!”
With the shield gone, defending against arrows would naturally become far more difficult.
“Veteran Knight! This won’t do—I’m pushing the horse faster!”
The Veteran Knight drove his horse harder, desperate to close the gap. Just a little more and his blade would reach. If he could manage that, there was nothing to fear from an archer.
Whoosh…!
The moment he nearly closed the distance, he raised his sword high.
Thwack!
An arrow pierced the horse’s eye.
The only unarmored spot on the horse’s helm.
“This time the horse! He hit the horse!”
Neeeeiiiigh!!!
The horse didn’t die, but it reared up, throwing the Knight’s balance into chaos.
Whoosh!
The sword strike went wide, and the distance opened up dramatically.
“Distance increasing!”
The gap widened in a straight line.
Then, I turned the horse sharply to the left.
Twang!
And fired an arrow simultaneously.
Ting!
The Knight deflected it with his gauntlet.
I didn’t care.
I kept the horse galloping and fired again.
Ting!
Another arrow was blocked.
But….
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Arrows kept flying.
“Almond! What is this!? He’s circling and shaving him down!”
At some point, I began orbiting the Knight counterclockwise as my axis, unleashing arrows in a barrage, while the Knight found himself solely focused on defense.
“The arrows aren’t sticking!? Then I’ll shave him down!!!”
-Spinning slash doll;
That’s insane driving force.
-The Knight seems completely flustered
From some point on, the Knight had been stammering, merely deflecting arrows.
Once distance opened between us, blocking all arrows while pursuing him was nonsensical.
Moreover, my opponent drew circles while moving, firing arrows from all directions.
──Thwack!
“Finally! One hit landed! On the flank!”
The moment a gap appeared, arrows continued embedding themselves.
“Arrows are raining down from everywhere!”
Since I kept moving while shooting, the trajectory of incoming arrows constantly shifted.
This alone was a difficult obstacle for the Knight to react to.
But it didn’t end there.
“Some of them even curve in!”
Whiiissh──!
Certain arrows curved through the air as they flew.
Not only did the shooting position change, but the incoming direction shifted moment by moment.
Which arrow came from where, when it was fired, where it would strike.
The Knight had far too much to process.
Thud!
Thunk!
More and more arrows embedded themselves in his body.
“He continues to allow attacks!”
Neigh!
The Knight’s horse collapsed, exhausted.
The Knight dismounted.
Even with the horse, he couldn’t close the distance, but now any possibility of catching up had vanished entirely.
[Health 35%]
Health dropped below half.
Arrows showed no mercy and continued flying in.
The Knight desperately guarded his neck, his only true vital point.
“Again! Again! More hits!”
Thwack!
Thud!
From the start, I had been targeting everywhere except his neck.
[Health 14%]
Health continued plummeting.
No matter how high his ranged defense, taking this many hits meant death.
“Pathetic! Is this a Veteran Knight or a Veteran Punching Bag!”
lol
-Hedgehog tactics, that’s insane
-???: You know that? When an arrow pierces a person, they die.
-Please… just kill me…
The Knight no longer saw any point in protecting his neck. One more hit anywhere and he’d be dead anyway.
“The only variable is the number of arrows.”
“Exactly. He didn’t come out as a mounted archer, so his arrows aren’t infinite.”
“We can’t see from here how many arrows are left. Will the Knight hold out until the arrows run out? Or…”
The Knight doesn’t choose to wait for his arrows to run out.
He gripped his sword tightly.
Whoosh!
And hurled it at me.
“Argh! I can’t take this anymore! I can’t live as a punching bag! Wrathful sword throw! My final struggle!”
“Ah. So he couldn’t hold back after all.”
The sword flew with remarkable accuracy along the path of my mounted charge.
But I was ready, firing three arrows in rapid succession.
Clang!
Two arrows struck the sword consecutively.
With a shower of sparks and a thunderous boom, the sword fell away.
Blocked by the arrows.
And the remaining arrow—
“Shwooooosh!!!”
Flew straight toward the Knight’s neck as his eyes went hollow.
—Thud!
King Gul sprang to his feet and threw an uppercut.
“Goooooal!!!”
The Veteran Knight crumpled slowly to the ground.
-Wooooow
-Kkkkk
-Why do I feel bad for Salamanca…
-That was insane
-He finally caught him wow

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Thud…!
Watching the Veteran Knight’s shadow slowly collapse, I gasped for breath.
“Haa… haa….”
Finally, I could let out a sigh of relief.
-Insane
-He’s actually doing it
-So dizzy (spinning round and round, literally dizzy lolol)
-Spinning slash and lololol
-Crazy guy. Crazy guy.
Shooting arrows while riding in circles demanded incredible concentration.
It felt similar to when I played Ril’s Blink Blade. The Civil Empire didn’t have the same stat bonuses that Ril did.
I needed a moment to catch my breath.
But this was a battlefield. It was far from a place where I could rest easy.
Clop! Clop!
Taking advantage of my exhaustion, someone rode a horse straight at me.
“Die!!”
Whether he was seeking revenge for the Veteran Knight or if Sharr had given him another mission, he charged forward with brute force.
I reflexively reached for my quiver, but—
‘Nothing?’
I had no arrows left.
Since I wasn’t an Archer, my arrow count was limited.
I had used up all my arrows finishing off the Veteran Knight just now.
‘I wasn’t keeping count.’
Only now did I realize.
Defeating the Veteran Knight just now was purely due to luck.
I had been shooting recklessly without even counting my arrows.
‘Damn it.’
Slash!
A sword’s shadow loomed over me.
I thought I had to dodge. But then—
Whoosh!
A spear flew at me from behind.
——Thunk!
It pierced deep into the Cavalry’s heart like a stake, and he flew backward, dead.
“Howwwww ── doo!”
The man who killed him was shouting wildly from behind.
[Howdoo]
It was Howdoo.
-Crazy Howdoo lolol
-Is it Jansen? lol
-I remember you!!!
-Sniper fan’s hope
-I believed in you! Howdoo!!!
He threw the spear he’d been holding at a distance, protecting me.
And with his battle cry, all of Bontovi’s forces began charging forward.
“Charge forward!!!”
Countless spearmen rushed past me toward the enemy cavalry.
I watched the scene in a daze.
‘This is….’
The momentum had shifted.
With the Veteran Knight’s death just now, the enemy had completely lost their fighting spirit.
Meanwhile, our forces were fully energized.
“Kill them!”
“Tremble in fear, you bastards! Ahahaha!!!”
The cavalry collapsed like waves washing away sand.
‘I too….’
I felt the urge to charge forward as well. I had no weapon.
So I dismounted, grabbed a spear, and rushed ahead without hesitation.
Countless soldiers ran alongside me, shoulder to shoulder.
“Waaaaah!!!”
Bontovi’s war cry engulfed the entire battlefield.
Bontovi’s army’s morale soared without limit.
The fact that high morale translated directly into actual combat efficiency was what made Civil Empire most different from typical RTS games.
Here, all units were individual players.
In other words, since it involved people, there existed unmeasurable variables.
And right now, all those variables were on Bontovi’s side.
This momentum of victory continued, and Sharr’s army was annihilated repeatedly as if it were a lie.
In the end….
[The enemy commander has surrendered!]
In the end, Sharr surrendered.

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As the enemy forces subsequently surrendered, King Gul let out a triumphant cry.
“Ahhhhh! Victory! Victory!”
“That was truly a magnificent match.”
Kim Chi Warrior also added his thoughts, seemingly moved by this particular game.
“Right?! If even Kim Chi himself acknowledges it! Then this match was genuinely excellent! Everyone!
-Amazing
-Compared to that easy win earlier, this was something special
-The sniper got sliced to pieces lol
-Almond! Almond! Almond!
-Dr. Oh: It’s been revealed that Aamond is an evolved form of Almond!
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The viewers’ chat flooded in endlessly, and Almond and his fans were in a festive mood.
But there was one place that had taken on the atmosphere of a funeral.
‘Let me check the group chat.’
The sniper’s group chat.
Kim Chi Warrior smiled faintly and glanced at that group chat. He was already curious about what they might be saying.
Chiseung had begun to enjoy this process at some point.

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