Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 640

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 110
38. The Rugged Mountains (3)
A lone soldier wielding nothing but a club sprints across the open field.
“Huff. Huff….”
He is Aamond.
‘Why me?’
Even for Aamond, accustomed to executing orders without much thought, I couldn’t help but feel a bit bewildered.
When Cookie first singled me out.
[Standby Reconnaissance]
All the Joseon Soldiers were returning to the main camp, yet I alone had to wait and then scout.
This was what happened when commanders had to control vast numbers of troops in a short time.
While commanders sometimes issued differentiated orders to individual soldiers, in reality that was far less common.
Cookie had simply executed the strategy of leaving one soldier behind while pulling back two hundred, without specifically deciding who that would be.
There was no real need to deliberate so carefully about it anyway.
The single soldier left behind only needed to follow a very simple order.
If enemies didn’t come here, I would hold my position quietly. If they did come, I would scout and then die.
That was what the [Standby Reconnaissance] order meant.
Aamond understood the meaning of that order well.
If Cookie needed me, he would simply recruit me again quickly even if I died.
Dying wasn’t a problem.
But….
‘I have to scout until the moment I die.’
Embedded in the Standby Reconnaissance order was also the meaning to relay information about the enemies right up until that final moment.
Left alone with enemies swarming in, my fate was sealed—I would die. It was only natural to scout until that happened.
So Aamond simply resolved to do exactly that.
[No! Why! Are you still alive!?]
That resolve was now drawing out this very scream from the Analysts.
[Not only are you alive! You’re actually charging into enemy territory right now!]
Whoosh!
Arrows continue raining down from the defense tower behind me.
Normally running this fast would mean getting hit along the path.
“Hup!”
With exquisite footwork, I narrowly evade each one.
“Crazy! What is that! Catch it!”
The Spanish Soldiers shout.
Haha, dodging all of this
-me? “Survive the Challenge Champion” Aamond
The guy shooting it seems a bit weird too lol
Even if they wanted to catch me, as soldiers it wasn’t easy to do so.
Since neither Spain nor Joseon had produced any weapons up through Era 3, they only had clubs.
At least in Spain’s main base, soldiers wielding muskets were beginning to appear one by one.
But they hadn’t been deployed all the way up to this highland yet.
[Right now the only thing that can stop Almond is the defensive tower!? But something feels off about the tower!]
The only thing that could possibly stop him was Spain’s defensive tower built on the highland.
There were three towers built in total.
Not the crude wooden defensive towers of the first era, but rather quite powerful and advanced ‘stone sniper towers’ equipped with crossbows.
Given that they were called ‘sniper towers,’ one could easily imagine the performance of the crossbows mounted inside them.
The problem was that Spanish soldiers had absolutely no talent for shooting bow-like weapons.
“Shoot properly!”
“I am shooting properly!”
Whoosh!
The arrows that flew forth so confidently either cut through empty air or at best grazed Almond’s shadow—barely qualifying as decent shots.
Almond was already slippery as an eel.
Even skilled archers would struggle to hit him, so there was no way he’d fall to blind arrows so easily.
“Doesn’t Nacho know about this!?”
The bigger problem was that Nacho was currently unaware of this single eel that had infiltrated their position.
If Nacho had known, he would have deployed troops to herd Almond like sheep and eliminate him.
But such command was impossible in this situation.
[Spanish soldiers are just so bad with bows!? They don’t even have archers to begin with!!]
[Exactly! If the musket soldiers had been deployed up here on the highland instead, things would be different!?]
Almond continued to burrow deeper into enemy territory.
The enemies gave chase to apply pressure, but they could only follow from behind.
They were already beyond the tower’s firing range, so their options to capture him were rapidly disappearing.
He’d already passed through the highland plains, and now mountain paths were beginning to appear instead of flat ground.
[He’s climbing into the mountainous terrain! And! The mountain dweller faction bonus activates!]
[There’s no way they can catch up now!?]
[The speed difference is huge, right!? To catch him now, you’d need Nerdking himself!]
lol
-Mountain clan appears lol
-Nerdking lmao
As expected, the distance kept widening.
‘I’m alive.’
The enemies seemed to have given up entirely.
They were no longer visible.
But the problem wasn’t solved.
‘I’m completely alone.’
The forest path was dark and dense, with poor visibility.
This was the first time I’d ever been this alone in the Civil Empire.
Finding enemy positions alone in this forest was impossible.
In a forest like this, I couldn’t read directions properly.
Pangeo and a few veterans could navigate on their own, but for a novice like me, it was impossible.
That’s when it happened.
Beep!
[Scout]
A blue beam of light struck down from far away.
The Commander’s order came down.
‘Oh. Cookie.’
Cookie had grasped my situation.
Whoooosh!
A route was drawn following the beam of light.
It was the path leading to the Spanish main base.
I began to run.
[Ah! Cookie noticed that Almond’s scout survived! If this continues…!]
I charged recklessly into the Spanish main base. The high ground and defensive structures here were nothing special.
But that was only temporary.
[The Musket Soldiers are starting to come out!]
Click!
Soldiers who had just picked up their muskets began emerging one by one.
‘I need to see as much as possible before I die.’
To illuminate as much of my vision as possible before my death, I instead charged straight toward those musketeers.
The musketeers’ gun barrels wavered for a moment as they saw someone suddenly rushing at them to their deaths.
[Did you see!? In the end, Almond saw a lot of them!?]
Though I wasn’t consciously aware of it, the Missionaries had definitely entered my field of view.
[Almond! Superplay! This is what a superplay is, not anything else!?]
[Will Cookie be able to figure it out from the number of Missionaries!]
[He has to be able to!]
I ventured deeper and deeper, revealing almost all of the Missionaries’ numbers.
Bang!
Gunfire began to ring out.
There was no way I was getting out of this alive anyway.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Having already transmitted more than enough information, I died with a smile on my face.
Boom~!
[Joseon – Age 3]
At that moment, Joseon also advanced to Age 3.

* * *
Whoosh.
When a soldier died, their spirit would float upward and they could observe the battlefield from a perspective similar to that of a friendly commander.
For soldiers, the moment of death became quite helpful in understanding the flow of the battlefield.
‘…Hmm.’
This didn’t particularly apply to me.
‘Is it going according to plan?’
Watching Cookie pull out siege vehicles, I simply assumed he intended to execute the Destroy operation that had been discussed.
-Almond looking confused~
Haha, even if you become a ghost, it won’t help, right? Haha
-But that dribbling was insane
I never thought I’d live this long lol
[Reinforcement – 3%]
I began being summoned back to the field.
Cookie had pressed the soldier recruitment button.
‘Now we’re attacking.’
It seemed Joseon was preparing for a full-scale assault.
[Reinforcement – 99%]
My vision blazed white and I descended in an instant.
I found myself summoned inside the barracks.
As I exited by rolling up the tent flap, I saw familiar faces.
“Hey there. Private Ryan. So you finally bit the dust?”
It was Pangeo.
With his arms crossed, he gazed at the siege vehicles pouring out endlessly from the ‘Siege Weapon Factory’.
When one hears “siege vehicle,” one might imagine tanks, but the siege vehicles in Civil M are vehicles designed to transport ‘siege hammers.’
This primitive siege weapon works by using the massive hammer contained within to strike enemy structures and deal damage.
Among siege weapons, it’s nearly the cheapest option available.
“Wow. They’re producing quite a lot.”
Pangeo marveled at the sight.
Currently, four siege vehicles had been produced.
Ratte interjected with a question.
“Pangeo. Are we going with Destroy then?”
“Since we’re producing siege vehicles like this. That’s what it is.”
Siege weapons have slight stat differences depending on each civilization.
Joseon’s greatest strength lies in the ‘Another Trebuchet,’ which hurls numerous stones from a distance.
Siege vehicles were not a strength of Joseon at all.
But producing siege vehicles like this must be for executing the Destroy operation that was discussed beforehand.
“But why aren’t we practicing? We should test this in-game first.”
“Huh? That’s true.”
At Pangeo’s words, I also felt puzzled.
When it comes to the Destroy operation, there’s one impression deeply etched in my mind.
「Mount! Dismount! Mount! Dismount!」
This chant repeated in succession.
It’s a chant used because the timing of mounting and dismounting must be perfectly synchronized.
「The moment the chant drops! Move immediately with acknowledgment and confirmation! Otherwise the siege tower glitches and you can’t do anything! You all get turned into honeycomb!」
The siege tower has a function that allows soldiers to board it.
Since it’s such an unused function, some beginners don’t even know it exists.
What’s the point of boarding a siege tower? It’s slower than soldiers walking… that’s what they think.
Of course, that’s true. That’s why it’s barely used.
「Dismount! Mount! Dismount! Mount!」
The Destroy operation… no, this function was quite important in this tactic alone.
This was a tactic designed to counter Spain’s Era 3, which consisted entirely of ranged units.
The principle was simple.
Since the siege tower is classified as a ‘building,’ it takes almost no damage from ranged anti-personnel attacks like arrows and bullets—we exploit this characteristic.
When enemies shoot arrows or bullets, soldiers instantly board this siege tower, and the siege tower takes damage instead of the soldiers.
In other words, we use it like a mobile barricade.
And this mobile barricade even has siege capabilities.
Like the Trojan Horse with people inside, but with siege performance—that’s why it’s called the Destroy tactic.
“Since we’ve coordinated our movements well so far, we probably don’t need to practice, right?”
Ratte chimes in from the side. As if it’s no big deal.
But Pangeo is quite particular about these things.
“We absolutely have to practice because of in-game ping. Look, you think we don’t use this in ranked games for nothing? If the timing’s off, the siege tower just breaks down!”
“Then, should I ask Coffee or Bread about it?”
The assistant commanders are the ones with command authority.
Ratte was about to move to go ask, but.
Smack!
“No need.”
Danggeun grabbed the back of his head and put him back in his original spot.
“I don’t think we’ll be using that tactic.”
She said this while pointing at something with her hand.
“…Huh?”
The soldiers. More precisely, the weapons the soldiers were carrying.
Swords.
To be specific, Joseon hwandos.
“Why hwandos…?”
“Not just the sword units—basically everyone’s equipped with hwandos or yuldos. There are no gakgungs.”
“Is it urgent?”
No matter how mountainous the terrain is, equipping everyone with melee weapons was unreasonable.
“It seems to be because of production efficiency. The timing is now.”
“In other words, it is urgent, isn’t it?”
“….”
Danggeun didn’t necessarily acknowledge Ratte’s words, but he was right.
The Gakgung was powerful, but it required extensive production time and cost, along with a specialized workshop.
Meanwhile, Joseon’s melee weapons had relatively short production times.
For a timing rush, melee weapons were perfect.
She turned her head toward Almond.
“Almond. Did you see anything when you were scouting?”
“Ah. When I was scouting… I was on the high ground….”
Almond explained the full story.
“They came back? To the high ground?”
“Yeah.”
“So that’s it. Spain got greedy. Joseon is trying to seize that timing.”
They selected mostly fast and cheap weapons for the timing rush?
Pangeo still didn’t understand.
“No, even if the enemy is outnumbered, Spain’s third era would still be all guns. What are they planning to do with just swords?!”
Just then, someone appeared and slapped Pangeo on the back.
Thwack!
“Whoa. Pangeo! Looks like we’re the starters this time. Hahaha! Still unemployed here too?”
With his broad frame and wide mouth laughing heartily, he was a man who wore his massive halberd well, giving off a cheerful impression.
“Hey there. Maratang.”
He was the leader of the inspection unit, ‘Maratang’.
Since he was around the same age as Pangeo, he often came by to tease him like this.
“You’re also a red ca~rd! Ahahaha!”
“….”
Pangeo tilted his head for a moment, then suddenly asked the people around him.
“Do you guys know what his real name is?”
His real name?
Are you talking about Maratang’s actual name?
“It’s Ian-yong. Ian-yong.”
A sudden silence fell over the room.
Did I hear that right?
“Not Wan-yong, but An-yong. Like a traitor…almost! Same name.”
-lmaooooooooooooo
-ahahaIan-yongahahaha
-Wan-yongahahaha
-How is someone’s name Ian-yongahahahahaha
-How is Ian-yong a Joseon starter lol
The soldiers who had been snickering all burst out laughing.
Maratang’s face turned red.
“Hey, you bastard! Why did you say that?!”
“You should get some airtime too~ and promote your maratang shop while you’re at it.”
“…Really?”
*Ahem.*
He questioned that for a moment, then spun around and walked off.
Apparently, the maratang shop promotion had caught his interest.
“Anyway. Just take it easy this time. Hahaha!”
Oh my god, that’s hilarious ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Looks like you’re the owner of a malatang restaurant lol
Aren’t you going to make a treaty or something? lol
-Name is Japanese. Nationality is Korean. Username is Chinese…
-A name that requires proving loyalty during the Korean-Japanese War…
Is that so? What is it? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s hilarious.

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