Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 604

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 74
26. WANTED (4)
When the game began.
All of Espana’s forces received this command.
[Monitor all Joseon troop movements]
It wasn’t mere reconnaissance—they were to track every movement of the Joseon forces.
If even a handful of Joseon soldiers infiltrated Espana’s base, they could construct defensive towers and hold their ground.
“Contact here! Moving!”
“Flanking!”
Leveraging their superior vision stat by one point, they spotted the Joseon soldiers first and carefully circumvented their patrol routes while documenting every movement.
Watching the reconnaissance teams rotate seamlessly like flowing water, Commander Nacho reflected.
‘Their training is exceptional.’
Like the gears of a finely calibrated timepiece, Espana’s forces interlocked perfectly, moving only beyond the enemy’s line of sight.
Impressive coordination.
This level of performance was impossible unless they were elite professionals—the caliber of an all-pro team.
‘There’s no way to breach this tight defense and simply walk through.’
Espana’s forces were distributed far more evenly in pairs, and with their superior vision stat, there were no gaps for infiltration.
There was no way to slip past them undetected.
‘Nearly all of them have been spotted.’
Nacho had nearly identified all of Joseon’s five-person reconnaissance teams this way.
’35 out of 40…’
35 teams out of 40 had been discovered.
They were all approaching Espana’s base, but every movement was being tracked.
‘If they try to build defensive towers, I can respond immediately.’
With enemy forces so thoroughly exposed, there was no need to worry about timing rushes.
What if Joseon massed their forces and tried to push through with raw strength?
‘They’ll regroup into five-person teams again. I’ve already accounted for that.’
Though they appeared as pairs now, the moment Joseon showed signs of a force push, they would converge as planned.
‘If we maintain this pace into the 3 o’clock era, we’ll be completely dominant.’
Nacho checked the gold and production zones.
Resources were accumulating for the transition to the 2 o’clock era.
Just a bit more and the upgrade could commence.
Probably several steps faster than Joseon.
The result of channeling all resources toward the 2 o’clock era without wasting them on unnecessary defensive towers.
But then—
[Under attack]
—Ting! Ting!
A portion of his vision flashed red as a message appeared.
His soldiers were under attack.
“What?!”
If I had followed the plan, there shouldn’t have been any attacks?

* * *
Whoosh.
“Is everyone here?”
Pangeo, crouching in the very center of the brush, checks the headcount.
“…Almond?”
“Yes.”
“Ah. That’s everyone. Done.”
“…?”
“Once you’re here, everyone’s here.”
-Do we not need the others? lol
-Guess we don’t need to check if Almond’s here lololol
-Usually Almond’s the one who falls behind lol
-lmao
Soldier of interest ㅠ
Among the ten gathered were Almond, Spam, Ratte, Danggeun, and others—the original five-person squad that always assembled, plus five other elite soldiers.
“So, according to what Cookie said earlier, those Spanish thugs are circling around outside our line of sight, messing with us, right?”
Pangeo moves to the edge of the brush to check on the enemies, muttering with irritation.
“We need to bait them properly.”
“But where are they? Isn’t this a waste of time?”
Ratte squeezes in beside Pangeo, rolling his eyes.
The enemies aren’t visible yet, after all.
Danggeun shoots back dismissively.
“Waste of time or not, what can we do? This is our team’s strategy anyway. And from what I’ve seen, there’s a high probability they’re around here. Footprints have been appearing constantly.”
“But then wouldn’t they have seen us coming in here?”
“Unlikely. Watching us constantly while exploiting a one-tile vision difference is too risky, so they usually check every few seconds.”
“What if they checked during one of those few seconds?”
“Then our squad comes up empty, and another squad handles it.”
Besides this ten-person unit, there were three or four other ambush squads in different sectors.
The soldiers didn’t know the full situation, but that’s how it was supposed to work.
“Shh.”
Almond, who had his ear to the ground, silenced them.
“Yeah?”
Almond nods.
All ten soldiers, except the five-person squad, fell completely silent.
-Is it real?
-Oh, I see them
-Wow, they really were nearby. They came looking when we disappeared
The enemies were approaching.
A reconnaissance unit composed of three-person teams.
They scan the ground, searching for traces of the Joseon Soldiers.
From their perspective, the Joseon Soldiers who seemed to be advancing gradually had suddenly stopped.
“Damn… they’re really here.”
Joseon finally saw the Spanish Soldiers’ true forms for the first time.
“Your vision play is really excellent. To be pushed to such an extreme.”
Ratte shook his head, and Pangeo tapped his shoulder.
“He’s an all-pro, right? Look. But? We’ve caught them. That’s what I mean.”
Tap.
He picked up his bat and prepared to burst forward at any moment.
“Those guys will be shocked seeing us and try to run, right? Ratte and I will circle around and block their escape route. You all start one beat later.”
“Yes.”
“Count five seconds and then go.”
Before he could finish speaking, the order came from Cookie.
[Attack]
Ting!
At that moment, Pangeo and Ratte began running in a wide arc.
Danggeun started folding down her fingers one by one.
When the last finger folded.
Everyone began to run.
This had to be handled quietly and in an instant, so no one shouted.
Swish, swish, swish…!
Only the sound of rustling vegetation created a small crack in the faint silence.
Moments later.
Pop!
A Joseon Soldier suddenly burst out of the vegetation.
“!”
The Spanish Soldiers were startled.
“Whoa!”
Huh?
But then they were surprised once more.
“Wh-what!?”
They pointed at the face of the one who burst from the vegetation in shock.
That face belonged to Almond.
He sensed something was wrong.
If they were startled by his emergence, they should flee.
Yet they continued pointing at his face and screaming.
“That, that bastard—”
—Boom!
Almond’s bat and his bat collided head-on.
After several exchanges of blows, Almond’s club traced a mysterious arc and struck the thug’s head.
Crack!
[Stunned]
The thug collapsed, unconscious.
All of this unfolded in mere seconds.
Almond quickly turned his head and shouted.
“Catch them… huh?”
I was about to say they needed to catch the fleeing thugs.
After all, a team of three had encountered five or six of them, so naturally they would have run.
But it was the opposite.
“Bastard!”
One thug was already fighting with the other soldiers, while another cursed and recklessly charged at Almond.
“?”
Almond was confused.
‘Why aren’t they running?’
It was hard to understand why they weren’t fleeing. Weren’t these bastards ordered to run the moment they even made eye contact with Joseon forces?
Was Danggeun’s prediction wrong?
Various thoughts flashed through my mind.
Whoosh!
The club whistled past his head.
“Huh.”
Even while momentarily dazed, Almond dodged it.
“This… bastard’s got some skill!?”
The opponent paid no mind and swung the club again.
However—
We had ten people on our side.
Danggeun, who had already appeared behind him, struck him down.
——Pow!
[Stunned]
The thug received the stun judgment and collapsed flat.
“What the…”
She also looked down at him with a puzzled expression.
“Why did he charge at us like that.”
The contemplation didn’t last long.
Thanks to that, the work became much easier.
“Thanks to that, we cleaned up incredibly fast. Catching the ones who run away would’ve been tough.”
-What’s going on lol
-Almond’s aggro lol
-Is it because there’s a bounty on them??
-Spanish guys are fierce lol
-A star so insane it drives even enemies mad!
“Let’s finish this.”
Danggeun picked up a club and began striking the unconscious soldiers.
“Indians~ food!”
“Those Spanish bastards. We should really feed them to the actual Indians.”
The other soldiers gathered around, cracking jokes as they began the beating.
Thwack thwack thwack!
[Death]
[Death]
[Death]
With that, I’d eliminated all three of them.
-It’s not even easy to kill with a club lol
-They really beat them to death lol
-Indians food lololol
-Historically, Indians were actually Spain’s food~
“Huh? What? We actually caught them all? I thought Cookie gave the wrong order.”
Pangeo and Ratte, who had returned late, gazed at the fallen thugs with amazement.
“They fought back, so we managed to catch them cleanly in place.”
“Heh… we got fooled.”
Pangeo scratched his head and gestured toward the next advance point.
“Now then. The enemy has an opening.”
The recent ambush had created a gap in Spanish reconnaissance personnel.

* * *
Nacho had clearly confirmed the message that he was under attack.
[Under Attack]
But it didn’t make sense.
According to the plan, there was no reason to be attacked.
Moreover, all the Soldiers were following the plan perfectly.
‘Did Tres overextend himself trying to catch a wild boar or something?’
Nacho assumed it was something that happened during the hunt, and after adjusting the production-related coordination a bit more, he turned his attention to the screen.
He zoomed in on the red area on the map.
“!”
There was nothing.
“…What?”
There was no vision.
Because all the Soldiers in that location had disappeared.
He couldn’t even see what had hit them.
‘They were wiped out that quickly?’
Nacho found it absurd.
In the first era, catching fleeing Soldiers wasn’t an easy task.
Yet an entire scout team had vanished in an instant like this.
‘There’s a gap in our defenses.’
Regardless of what happened, it had created a hole in his scout personnel.
When pushing reconnaissance efficiency to the limit, even losing one or two people created a gap that was difficult to manage.

* * *
The ten-man squad concealed themselves once more in the undergrowth.
A new order descended upon them.
[STAND BY FOR ENTRY]
Before infiltrating Spanish territory, they were to wait for something.
Then, the sound of hoofbeats echoed from behind.
“Hyah!”
Clop clop! Clop clop!
[COFFEE]
It was Assistant Commander Coffee.
The Assistant Commander was accompanying this operation as well.
He began issuing orders directly.
“Individual infiltration begins shortly! Prepare yourselves!”
Simultaneously, he released the hawk perched upon his shoulder into the sky.
[HAWK RELEASE]
Wheeeeeee──!
With its peculiar cry, the field of vision expanded dramatically.
Of course, this was the Commander-in-Chief’s perspective.
Now Cookie would determine how to exploit the gaps in Spanish reconnaissance forces.
Cookie could find routes invisible to the soldiers’ eyes.
Ping!
[INFILTRATION ROUTE]
Moments later, the order came from Cookie.
Uuuuung…!
A faintly glowing path materialized before my eyes.
All ten soldiers received different routes.
That was it.
This operation would have each person infiltrate separately. True individual combat.
It was to maximize survival probability.
I recalled what Cookie had said.
「If even two Joseon soldiers enter enemy territory in the first era, we gain the advantage.」
Cookie’s objective was to get at least two through alive.
“Well then. See you on the other side!”
Pangeo said this and began running, and I followed the path as well.
Thud thud thud thud──!
Among the ten of us, someone would be caught by other scouts, and someone would slip through.
Who that would be.
No one knew the answer.
It was purely a matter of luck.
I simply ran along the route, again and again.
“Haah… haah…”
I didn’t know how much time had passed, but at least I still hadn’t been discovered.
The moment I thought, was luck finally on my side in this operation?
“!”
Neigh—!
The sound of a horse’s hooves reached my ears.
It was clearly not Coffee’s.
In the distance, I spotted the Enemy’s Assistant Commander.
-Oh no
-Wait, what’s that over there?
-Seriously?
If I saw him, then he saw me too.
Their vantage point was higher than mine.
-This is bad
-Why an Assistant Commander??
-We’re doomed
Ugh, I’m so sad…
Was I really not destined to be the one infiltrating enemy lines?
“Looks like I’m the one who needs to buy time.”
-This is real…
I’m crying so hard
-Almond needs to get in
The Assistant Commander noticed and began slowly driving his horse toward me.
‘Huh.’
But that face…
It looked familiar.
Don’t come ㅠㅠ
-Isn’t that the guy we interviewed?
-He’s got quite the intimidating look
That kid was always trying to get attention/start drama lol
-Wow, physiognomy is scientific…
It was Tres.
“You… you bastard!!!”
Fury blazed across his eyes.

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