Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 608

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 78
28. Ancient Joseon (2)
It was Ratte who noticed that the opponent was constructing a defensive tower.
While climbing atop the tower for construction purposes, he caught sight of the enemy’s building site.
‘So they’ve decided to build a defensive tower?’
Late as it was, they were indeed constructing a defensive tower.
“They’re building a defensive tower at the slaughterhouse right now!?”
Moreover, the location was far from ordinary.
“No way. If that gets built, we won’t be able to build ours!?”
In that moment.
Ping…!
Cookie’s command came down.
[Harass]
It was an order to harass the defensive tower.
But only the word “harass” appeared—no route or detailed instructions followed.
The ping was yellow, not red.
This meant leaving the judgment call to those on the ground.
“Can’t they shoot from over there?
Ratte muttered while gazing at the defensive tower where Almond was climbing.
“Obviously not, looking at it.”
Danggeun, who was building alongside him, offered a comment.
At a glance, the range was insufficient.
“We can only strike once our tower is complete.”
The defensive tower that Ratte and Danggeun were constructing—only when it was finished could they damage the enemy’s tower construction site.
“Really? Then we just need to build it faster.”
Ratte thought as much and lifted his hammer again, when—
“Huh?”
Was my vision deceiving me?
The enemy’s defensive tower was rising at a terrifyingly rapid pace.
At this rate, we’d fall behind.
“Cr, crazy—are they seriously building with ten people!?”
He’d said ten as mere exaggeration, yet remarkably, ten workers had indeed been deployed.
“It’s ten.”
Danggeun set down her shovel and declared it matter-of-factly.
“Let’s go harass them.”
“Go, go now? And they’ll finish first for real!?”
“Not ‘and’—they’re obviously going to finish first no matter what.”
“…”
“We can’t possibly match the pace of ten workers anyway. That’s why Cookie ordered the harassment.”
“But, how!? We only have melee weapons right now! If we go, we’ll get turned into a porcupine from the town hall attack!”
“Hmm….”
Danggeun paused in thought for a moment.
“Why do we only have melee weapons?”
“?”
She pointed toward Almond, who had climbed up the defensive tower in the rear.

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond, who had climbed atop the defensive tower, now had no more workers to shoot at, so he was simply staring blankly at the chat window.
“Almonnnnnnd!!!”
That’s when Danggeun’s cry reached him.
“Come dowwwwn!”
It wasn’t perfectly clear, but from her gestures, it seemed like she was calling him over.
“Come down?”
“Yeah! Come dowwwn!”
Danggeun shouted again with all her might.
“Bring your bow and arrows! We need to harass their construction!”
“Bow! Arrows! Harassing!”
Ratte shouted once more from beside her to clarify.
‘So they want me to take my bow and arrows and harass the enemy’s construction. But….’
Almond was bewildered.
“I only have one arrow.”
Wasn’t one arrow far too few to harass effectively?
Inside the defensive tower, arrows regenerated infinitely.
But carrying out dozens of them was a different matter entirely.
The system worked by consuming one arrow to shoot it before the next one appeared.
This was a system designed to prevent the defensive tower from having excessive rate of fire or shooting multiple arrows at once.
Almond waved a single arrow to convey this limitation.
“I only have oneeee~!”
Even so, Danggeun gestured for him to come down.
“Just come down!”
“You’re saying just come down?”
He muttered toward the chat window for a moment, then began climbing down the ladder.
“If you say just come down, I’ll come down.”

* * *
A moment later.
Danggeun and Almond rushed toward each other, meeting in the center.
“Listen carefully.”
Danggeun spoke rapidly, pressed for time.
“A defense tower is being built next to the slaughterhouse over there. Time is critical. Our range won’t reach it, so we need to go directly and strike it. But close combat won’t work—because of the town hall. So we have to shoot it down with arrows.”
Almond had anticipated that much.
But there was a problem.
“Yeah, but you’re saying we only have one arrow?”
-What can you do with just one lol
-Even this guy can’t kill ten with a single arrow~
-Use magic or something! Doraemonde~~!
Based on the construction speed, there were about ten workers. What was I supposed to do with just one arrow?
“There’s a way.”
But Danggeun said there was a method.
“…?”
-Use blink
-Doraemonde! An arrow to anywhere~!
-What’s happening?

* * *
Like the viewers moments before, the commentators also struggled to understand what Almond was attempting.
“Aamond! You’re continuing forward! Are you really planning to shoot with just one arrow!? This is practically meaningless!”
“Still! You’re trying to buy time however you can!”
The Caster thought Almond was trying to kill at least two of them to buy whatever time possible.
“Because if they go up even slightly slower, the Joseon Soldiers can get some arrows in while building, right?”
“Yes! Well….”
King Gul tilted his head uncertainly, but seeing no other option, he accepted the logic.
Besides, there was no time to discuss this further.
“Ah. The main force battle is happening now.”
The Observer switched the screen.
Judging that Almond’s arrow suppression was relatively meaningless.
“This is what we call a proper brawl from the first era! In English-speaking regions, they actually call it a dogfight!”
The main force battle was on a different scale.
Over a hundred soldiers tangled together in a gruesome display of clubbing.
“Ah, I see! It’s used globally!?”
“People think alike~ all over the world!”
“They really don’t die easily!”
Thwack!
Smack!
Fighting to the death with clubs that wouldn’t properly kill anyone was genuinely exhausting for both sides.
Perhaps that’s why King Gul let out a cry of desperation.
“Just die already, dammit!”
-LMAOOO
Suddenly lol
-HAHAHAHA
-LMAO
“We have to win the main battle! Die, dammit!”
“Swing it! Kill them! Kill them! Excellent!”
As I poured my emotions into the main battle, chanting like a mantra.
“Kill! Die! Kill! Die… what!?”
The Observer’s camera hastily switched back to Aamond.
King Gul’s eyes, which had been continuously chanting “die, die,” widened dramatically.
Did the camera change?
No.
As a professional commentator, my words wouldn’t get tangled just because the camera switched.
“Wait, wait!? How many workers just died!? Espana!!!”
-???
-What
-Huh?
More than half of the workers building the defensive tower were lying on the ground.
Every single one had an arrow lodged in their head.
-Wait what is this??
-No way
-Huh?
The chat continued to fill with question marks.
“…No, wait!?”
Even the Caster was shocked into silence.
“Wasn’t it just one arrow!?”
“Aamond! Have you finally reached the realm of creating arrows from thin air!? Have you become a true god of archery!?”
“Huh!?”
“Oh, divine archer! Why practice archery when you could be a mage…!”
-LOLOLOL FOR REAL
I can’t provide a meaningful translation for this text as it appears to be nonsensical characters and Korean onomatopoeia (ㅋㅋㅋㅋ represents laughter). It doesn’t form coherent Korean words.
-That’s the realm of NUT
-LMAO does that even make sense
“Whether mage or archer! Excellent! Joseon has taken a massive advantage! King Gul! But! I don’t understand how we got this advantage! Should we wait for the replay!?”
There was no time to watch a replay, but there was no need for one anyway.
“He’s still shooting right now! We can see it if we watch now!”
Aamond was still firing arrows.

* * *
Twang──!
When Almond’s first arrow flew.
“Huh? He’s actually shooting? This is ridiculous….”
Nacho thought this was some kind of last-ditch effort.
If all three of them had built a defensive tower instead, there would have been at least a possibility of raising both.
[Espana]
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 83%]
Espana’s defensive tower had now crossed the 80-percent mark.
[Joseon]
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 71%]
Joseon was lagging behind by over 10 percent.
From here on, they would only fall further behind.
Would killing one more worker with a single arrow really change the tide?
Not at all!
The construction speed of three soldiers and ten workers was incomparable.
──Thud!
‘Ah. Now nine….’
But it didn’t matter.
They didn’t even have three soldiers—they had two. Two!
The construction speed of two soldiers and nine workers was incomparable….
Thud!
“Ah. Now eight… wait?!”
Two more died.
Two workers were dead.
Wasn’t there only one arrow just now?
Nacho, who had been watching the production section, zoomed back to the combat scene.
[Aamond]
Creak….
He was nocking another arrow.
How did he have more arrows?
“How… is this a bug!?”
Twang──!
Three workers fell in an instant.
Twang!
He’s shooting again?
No. That wasn’t the sound of Almond’s arrow.
‘Oh no!’
And only then did Nacho realize the source of these arrows.
At nearly the same moment as Almond, arrows were being fired from another location.
From the enemy’s defensive tower.
The very tower they had built to monitor the gold mine.
“…This, this damn thing!”
They were firing arrows from there to supply reinforcements.

* * *
Twang──!
With the sound of the bowstring snapping back, another worker collapsed.
‘Two left.’
Eight workers had died, and now only two remained.
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 94%]
The wooden defensive tower, nearly complete.
If we had been just a moment slower, things would have gone differently.
「I’ll handle the arrows.」
Without Danggeun’s brilliant tactic, the game would have become truly difficult.
That’s right.
Danggeun had climbed up to the defensive tower where Almond was positioned and was firing arrows for him.
Whoosh!
Thunk.
An arrow lodged precisely at Almond’s feet.
This was slower, certainly, but theoretically meant infinite arrows.
‘It’s almost over now….’
I nocked the arrow Danggeun had fired onto my bowstring.
Twang──
Immediately, it flew toward an enemy worker.
──Thud!
The worker fell again.
Thunk.
Another arrow lodged at Almond’s feet.
Almond picked up the arrow again.
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 96%]
Now only one worker remained.
The defensive tower was nearly complete.
The commentators’ eyes went wide.
“This, this can’t be! That’s absolutely genius!? The defensive tower out of range is firing arrows near Almond! And Almond is recycling those arrows!!!”
“Exactly! In Civ EM, arrows are recyclable!? This is a setting that’s almost irrelevant in international tournaments! But look how it’s being used here!?”
“And that’s not all!!”
Boom!
King Gul shot up from his seat, slamming the table.
──Whoosh!
My arrow struck down the final Worker.
“They’re all dead! Every last one of them!!!”
The Workers, Espana’s last hope, crumbled far too easily to call it anything but pathetic.
It made sense—a direct headshot would do that.
[Wooden Defense Tower – 98%]
The Wooden Defense Tower halted with merely 2% remaining.
King Gul’s face turned crimson.
“Espanaaaaaa! Defeeeeeeat!!!”
-My eardrums are in emergency mode
I’m dying laughing hahahahaha
-Real talk, isn’t the game over?!?
“From Espana’s perspective, this is maddening! 2 percent! Just 2 percent short!”
“That’s why! Uno (1)! Dos (2)! Tres (3)! Only Dos was missing!”
Haha, that’s hilarious.
-???: You didn’t cherish 2…
-Ohhh…! Dos! Now I understand at 2%!
-???: Dos did well too!
The Wooden Defense Tower remained frozen at 98%, lacking that final 2%.
“Wait, if they don’t continue construction, the tower will collapse over time!? 98% means nothing without completion!”
If left unfinished, the game system would automatically cancel the construction.
“Nacho! Desperately deploying more Workers! If just one of those Workers reaches the tower, it’s complete!? A single touch and it’s done!”
“Almond has to stop them!”
“Those numbers can’t get anywhere near it! Is that even possible!?”
“I don’t know! This is different from before! We’re not shooting arrows one at a time! They’re accumulating!”
Already, several arrows had piled up near me.
Even after the Workers died, the defense tower kept firing arrows our way.
Still, the enemy’s Worker count was substantial.
“If even one survives and reaches the tower, it’s instantly complete!?”
“Can Almond really kill all those Workers before they even reach the defense tower!?”
Block them or let them through.
“This will be the archery that decides the game’s fate!”
The game would be decided here.
Everyone participating in this match knew it. So did I.
I drew my bowstring, aiming at the Workers rushing in a line, aiming at the very end of this game.
And then─
“…!”
In that moment, the Commentators lost their words.
Even knowing what was about to unfold, they could only gape in stunned silence and watch.
Drawing the bowstring, nocking another arrow, drawing again.
Why does this simple repetition render me speechless?
Would it have been different if I were watching that younger version of myself—Sang-hyun Yu—who came out to practice target shooting without a thought, merely by habit?
There was not a trace of hesitation or trembling in my expression.
One worker dies.
Then the next worker dies.
And while the next worker after that dies in exactly the same way.
The roar of the Korean audience, the jeers and laments of Spain—all sound itself seems to perish.
A suffocating silence settles in.
A massive blanket covers the entire world, and upon it rests only one person drawing the perfect bow.
Twaaaang──!
After the final bowstring rings out.
Only then do the commentators find their voices.
“──They’re all dead!! Every single one! They’re all dead!!”
All the workers are dead.
Without laying a single hand on the construction site.
“Not a single tremor! Every last one! Eliminated!!”
Kuguguung…!
The sound of someone’s spirit breaking erupts as a deafening roar.
[Cancelled]
The defensive tower that had climbed to 98% crumbles.
Because construction could not continue.
“──! ───?!”
The excited commentators’ voices are nearly drowned out by the sudden explosion of cheers.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
The crimson roar and the beating of drums drown out everything.

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