Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 591

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 61
22. The Hidden Strategy (1)
“Breaching the defensive tower will make our early rush significantly stronger. There’s even a chance we could collapse the entire game with the right probability.”
Commander Cookie gathered the ace archers, including Almond, and explained the strategy.
Giri-lik.
He drew back the bowstring with his short bow.
Wait a moment—a faint light ignited at the arrow’s tip as [Concentration] deployed.
Uuuung…!
The light that had been growing steadily brighter reached its peak in an instant, emitting a resonant hum.
Kiiiiing!
“The problem is that even if we fully utilize the maximum 3-second duration of this concentration, the short bow’s range is only comparable to England’s longbow.”
Paang!
The arrow Cookie shot flew toward the defensive tower but soon fell short.
It didn’t have the range.
“If we’re going to breach the defensive tower with a short bow, there’s only one way.”
Cookie demonstrated by drawing his bow and charging forward.
Tada-da-dak.
He entered within the tower’s range.
The archer on the defensive tower shot at Cookie, but—
The tower’s projectile speed increases with each shot, so the first attack was easy to dodge.
Whiiik.
An arrow grazed past Cookie’s shoulder.
Cookie immediately charged further and drew his bowstring.
Paang──
The arrow flew straight toward the soldier’s head atop the tower.
──Thunk!
It struck the center of his forehead, and the soldier fell.
Though not actual combat, his archery skill was extraordinary.
Especially considering he was a commander.
Regardless, all of Joseon’s archer aces had mastered the defensive tower breach technique by then.
Almond had even succeeded with it several times in actual matches.
The problem was that only Almond had done it, and only in a preliminary match using Joseon’s composite bow.
‘This is my first time too.’
Almond was attempting it with a short bow for the first time in an actual match.
Piyuung….
Two arrows shot from the field cut through the sky.
Everything felt like slow motion.
Painfully slow.
「I’ve never been confident about hitting heads precisely… I’d just be happy if I could hit roughly in the general area, you know?」
Pangeo had never been confident about intercepting heads.
While my accuracy in hitting or missing targets is excellent—even world-class—my precision leaves something to be desired.
That’s why I rarely give orders to aim for the head.
But he just changed his order to shoot for the head.
The situation was unfolding with such urgency.
We had to clear this immediately and move forward.
‘Will it work?’
I watched two arrows flying slowly toward us.
Almond on the left, Pangeo on the right.
The left one arrived first.
Almond had already begun drawing his bowstring again from this point.
If either shot missed, I had to respond immediately.
──Thunk!
“!”
One soldier fell.
‘Did it hit?’
The moment one soldier began to collapse, time seemed to return to normal, and everything rushed forward in an instant.
Whoosh!
In the blink of an eye, it was all over.
Both soldiers, arrows lodged neatly in their foreheads, slid away and vanished.
That’s right.
Both shots had hit.
[They hit! They hit! They hit!]
King Gul’s roar echoed through the arena.
The players couldn’t hear it, but the crowd’s roar was different.
“Waaaaaaaaa!”
It rang out clearly.
Thump. Thump.
My heart pounded.
[They hit! Both of them! Both in the head! One shot, one pass! There’s nobody left on the defense tower!]
[Is this really happening!? Is Joseon pulling off an upset right from the first match!?]
[Actually, in sports, upsets happen most often in the first match, you know!? When bodies aren’t warmed up yet!]
That’s right. Perhaps the beginning of a major upset.
Almond glanced to the side.
Pangeo’s eyes were wide open. His expression was more focused than ever.
A shout erupted from his throat, veins bulging.
“Let’s goooo!!!”
Almond and Pangeo began running straight across the defense tower.
Whoooosh!
The sound of the field brushing against the wind tickled my ears loudly.
But there was no obstruction. There was no one to obstruct us.
[How is France supposed to deal with this!?]
[At least the Assistant Commander is riding out to chase them down, though it’s a bit late….]
For the enemy to even be chased, the only option is for the Assistant Commander to ride out after them.
[The Assistant Commander is gradually abandoning his position!]
[Ah! But now! More Archers are getting through again! France! You’re starting to break through now!]
Beyond Almond and Pangeo, more Archers keep attempting to push through.
If the Assistant Commander abandons his post in this situation, there’s no one left to command the base in real-time.
Naturally, it would leak like a bottomless bucket.
[Ah! The Assistant Commander is dealing with the Archers that got through, while Almond and Pangeo remain completely unmarked!]
Whoever those Archers were, through their sacrifice, Pangeo and Almond managed to reach the point where the gold mine was clearly visible.
‘I can see it…!’
I can see the gold mine.
“That’s it! A real catch! A real catch! Aamond!”
“It’s better to stay calm.”
“Ah, right. Ahem.”
Ping! Ping!
Commander Cookie’s pings light up loudly in that location.
[Attack]
The enemy’s gold mine.
And….
Ping!
[Caution]
The caution ping marks the Town Hall.
Workers spawn there, and before the [Castle] is built after the 3rd Age, it’s the Civilization’s best defensive system.
It’s incomparable to defense towers.
I need to fight as far outside the Town Hall’s range as possible.
It’s certainly annoying.
[Ah! There’s a Town Hall! What do we do!? France always builds it right near the gold mine!]
[That only becomes a problem when Barbarian Soldiers or melee Soldiers come to harass!]
For Archers, it’s not much of a problem.
In the game system, you can’t build the Town Hall right next to the gold mine.
It has to be built at some distance away.
So when Archers with long range start harassing, the Town Hall isn’t much of a threat.
[Ahhh! So, that’s why advancing to the 2nd Age first and then going with Archers is so devastating!?]
The fact that Archers reach this point at this timing is already a disaster in itself.
[Yes! And Joseon’s Archers have that special ability!]
-“That” ability?
-What is that lol
-Isn’t it Focus?
What King Gul was about to mention was the Focus faction.
The Workers suffer mission-crippling injuries even when struck in the torso if the Archers draw their short bows to maximum concentration faction and release.
Since the range extends further, they can shoot from even greater distances away from the town hall as a bonus.
[We’re almost there now! The finish line is in sight! We’re reaching range!]
[Ah! The Workers aren’t evacuating! They have to extract every last bit of gold to pin down even one more Knight!?]
Almond and Pangeo steadily closed the distance to the gold mine.
“This should be good enough!”
Pangeo, with his excellent sense of distance, positioned himself first.
“Hey, hey! Where are you going!?”
Almond advances further forward.
The distance he had secured was only achievable when using concentration faction at maximum power.
“Tell me the town hall’s range.”
“Uh… ah, got it! Go slow! Slowly!”
Continuing to sprint forward.
“There! Stop!!!”
A precarious position, nearly touching the town hall’s attack range.
“Yes.”
Almond positions himself on a rock and pulls out a bundle of arrows, planting them in the ground.
Thunk!
‘Concentration is certainly a good faction, but….’
He draws the bowstring rapidly.
Creak…!
‘Too slow.’
Twang!
His arrow flies.
The commentators had no chance to speak.
Twang!
Another arrow is released.
Thwack!
“Gasp!”
A Worker carrying gold collapses. Blood erupts from the arrow embedded in his head.
Immediately after, the Worker beside him falls as well.
Then the next one, and the next one beside that.
It was as if witnessing a relentless plague.
“Waaaaaaaa!!!”
The roar of the supporters grew increasingly fierce.
“Ooooh~! Ooooooh~!”
They even begin to sing.
A frenzy of madness.
The damage was equally catastrophic.
[Aaaaaaah! They’re all dying!]
[Sweeping them all without using Concentration Faction, just headshots!!]
Following suit, Pangeo neutralizes the Workers from a distance.
Thwack!
A Worker takes an arrow packed with maximum Concentration Faction to the abdomen and collapses, foaming at the mouth.
“Grrr…Ugh.”
France’s gold generation per minute noticeably slows down.
[What do we do!? What’s France’s decision!?]
If they avoid the Workers, they prevent immediate damage, but fall behind in gold generation.
If they don’t avoid the Workers, they can mine some gold, but…
[At this death rate, they have to avoid the Workers!]
The damage dealt by two Archers was almost unthinkable.
Literally a plague.
The mortality rate of the Black Plague.
-This plague Mond is insane
-Holy shit
-From the edge of attack range!?
Please nerf the short bow a bit~lol
Pang! Bang!
Almond and Pangeo continued firing arrows like madmen.
About 10 seconds had passed?
[Ahhh! We’re retreating!]
The Workers all stopped mining and started running.
Almond didn’t miss those fleeing either.
Whoooosh…!
[Concentration]
From this point on, I began using Concentration Faction.
[Ah, Almond! Now he’s using Concentration! This battle sense! Absolutely excellent!]
[Right! At first he just shoots with good rapid-fire! Now if he takes just one step forward, he’s already in Town Hall range!? He’s using Concentration perfectly!]
Pang!
An arrow glowing with Concentration Faction flies and strikes a Worker’s back of the head.
Boom!
“Hack!”
Whoooosh…!
Gathering Concentration once more.
Pang!
Another fleeing Worker falls.
[Relentless! The Black Plague!!]
These days people just call it the Black Death lol
That’s literally the Black Death level lol
Almond pesto lol
[Are you saying they’ve been pushed to the point where gg should be called!?]
[Ah, just a little more pressure and they might break! I’m not sure! But it’s a tournament, so they won’t give up easily! And the Knight hasn’t appeared yet!?]
[Ah! That’s right! In fact, France has decided to build a gold mine in a completely different location!?]
[Yes. It’s very far away and inefficient, but it’s a place that Joseon’s vision can’t see! They’re trying to continue the game this way… huh!?]
But then, it happened.
──Thunk!
A scream echoes from behind.
“Damn it…!”
Pangeo was hit by an arrow.
“!?”
Almond spun around quickly.
Two more arrows were already flying toward him.
Thwack!
Pangeo collapsed in an instant.
“Ah… I guess the headshots were landing well!”
Thud.
Pang-cheom-ji ㅠㅠㅠ
-Good shot day…
-He landed a headshot but why can’t he win!
[Huh!? When did they arrive!?]
[Those are the Archers they were producing! There are two of them!]
Two France Archers.
It was a route the commentators had missed while focused on the action. They had deliberately returned for an ambush.
They were slowly drawing their bowstrings toward Almond.
Gulp.
Almond swallowed hard.
It wasn’t because he was afraid of two Archers.
‘Time has already….’
What these Archers implied was far more terrifying.
Enough time had passed for two Archers to be produced.
As expected.
[Royal Knight – Complete]
Blaaare──!
With the resounding trumpet fanfare, the Royal Knight appears on a white horse, radiating majestic authority.

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“Calm down, calm down! We knew this was coming anyway!?”
The commentators’ voices grew urgent as the Royal Knight appeared.
I knew it would come out, but I was so focused on hunting workers that I missed it.
“But the archers can’t push in as much as expected! Should we stop the harassment here!?”
“How many archers are still running toward Almond right now!?”
“About four? Three, I’d say! The problem is the defense tower! It’s been reactivated, so we need to fall back!”
“It looks like Almond should retreat!”
To continue the harassment, I had to retreat first.
Indeed, a retreat order came from Cookie.
A temporary withdrawal toward the forest.
This was the orthodox method of harassment against archers—the trickiest to deal with.
Going back and forth in the forest to keep applying pressure.
“The forest! Good route, right!? It’s awkward for them to charge in on horseback! And if needed, we can even disrupt their lumber harvesting!”
It wasn’t as efficient as disrupting the gold mine, but disrupting lumber was possible.
“Yes, that’s right. And we’ll probably reunite with reinforcements coming through the forest path.”
Right on cue, the reinforcements were coming down the forest road.
“But now that the Knight has appeared… will the harassment continue?”
Fighting a Knight without Spearmen was impossible. Especially with a bow—that was madness.
“Hmm…”
King Gul checked Joseon’s upgrade list at this point.
‘The Age 3 upgrade is falling behind. More than I expected.’
Compared to the quick Age 2 transition, the progression to Age 3 was lagging.
There had to be a reason for it.
Resources were being spent elsewhere. A different tech tree than usual.
King Gul had a suspicion.
‘As I thought…!’
They were pursuing some upgrade that wasn’t commonly prioritized.
Gulp.
King Gul swallowed hard.
‘It’s a gamble. They’re really trying to end it in Age 2.’
Was this what it took to beat France?
Joseon had essentially abandoned the Age 3 crossbow.

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