Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 642

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 112
39. Destroy (2)
After falling victim to an ambush conversion and losing eight siege weapons and seven soldiers.
“Ah….”
“….”
Complete silence blanketed the commentary booth.
Gulp….
The silence was so profound you could hear the sound of dry swallowing.
Clearly, countless Spanish supporters were roaring on the field.
Yet their cheers reached here like distant echoes, muffled and hollow against the oppressive quiet.
“…Ah… This, this is….”
Eight siege weapons and over fifty soldiers in a timing rush.
Annihilated by a single move.
Ambush conversion missionary.
Only about half the soldiers survived this catastrophe. And even they were nothing but routed remnants fleeing in panic.
-Yikes
-What
-GG
-What is this;
-Wow….
The viewers seemed shocked as well.
Being shocked would actually be preferable.
The real disaster was that quite a few people didn’t even understand what had just happened.
-???
-Why what?
-Why did they suddenly lose???
-What
The commentators had to provide an explanation regardless.
King Gul swallowed once and shouted.
“Spain! Ambush missionary! Sudden counterattaaaaaack! Jackpoooooot!”
Caster picked up on his words and injected fresh energy back into the broadcast.
“Ah. Spain! They had prepared such a move!? I was wondering why they were pushing so hard while even building walls!”
“Yes. It was all part of the plan!”
“One ambush missionary and it’s over! Plus they got eight free siege weapons!? They could literally become a used vehicle dealer right now!?”
-They lost all of that??
-Wow lol
Really??? Oh my gosh ㅠㅠ
Elantra N 8th generation stolen ㅠㅠ
-Used car dealer lolol
What is this ㅠㅠ
Even after hearing this explanation, quite a few viewers still couldn’t fully grasp what had happened.
It had all unfolded far too quickly.
There existed a feature precisely for people like them.
“Ah, we’re getting the replay now. Let’s take a look.”
The replay began from the moment the Spanish Soldiers had positioned themselves in ambush.
“Ah. So they were waiting there in advance? It seems they predicted this route would be taken? Though Cookie could have circled back through the mountain path.”
“By constructing the fortress, they deliberately forced Cookie to rush forward. There were no other options.”
With a complete view, replaying it slowly revealed things that weren’t apparent before.
This situation wasn’t about luck.
It wasn’t Cookie’s mistake. He had been deliberately lured into this.
“Once the fortress was built and the resource system kept running, Cookie couldn’t catch up anymore, so he had no choice but to take the shortcut?”
“Exactly.”
Everything had unfolded precisely according to Spain’s intentions.
“It even seems they knew the exact timing of his arrival.”
“Yes. They positioned Missionaries in ambush on that route. And what was brilliant was that they didn’t reveal the Missionaries first.”
On screen, the Musket Soldiers rose first, pulling their triggers.
Bang! Bang!
“By sending out the Musket Soldiers first, they prevented Joseon from even considering the Missionaries.”
“Right. And since there were so few Musket Soldiers, it made Joseon think they could actually fight them?”
“Exactly. It was completely intentional! Without a melee, it’s hard to trigger the conversion mechanic!”
The moment when soldiers began to tangle together.
The Missionaries began to move.
Missionaries deployed on eight siege weapons, Missionaries deployed among the soldiers.
It was completely compartmentalized and meticulously planned.
“Ah… they completely fell for it.”
The soldiers panicked and retreated, while the siege weapons, being slow, couldn’t escape.
“At least the troops managed to evacuate from the siege weapons? Did everyone get out?”
“We can’t confirm right now. But it looks like most of them got out. Quite a lot came pouring out?”
Troops scrambled out of the siege weapons, and after that, the battle situation was hardly worth watching.
A siege was impossible without the siege weapons.
Ultimately, Cookie ordered a retreat and regrouping, and the replay ended.
“If they had prepared Gakgung from the start, I wonder how different it would have been! They could have kited while getting on and off the siege weapons…”
King Gul expressed his regrets about this battle.
“If they had done that, the highland’s resource system would already be running, so the wealth gap would have widened too much?”
There was a reason they couldn’t deploy Gakgung. It was a matter of timing.
“That’s true. We have to say Spain’s design was excellent from the start.”
No matter what hypotheticals were considered, Spain’s design was flawless.
When it’s time to acknowledge, one must acknowledge.
“Spain. Is this an awakening after losing to Rome? They’re really reaping the benefits of adopting heretical strategies like conversion Missionaries!”
“Yes. The resource gap is beginning to widen. The highland multi is running smoothly now?”
The resource gap will widen dramatically from here on. The game has already tilted significantly.
Still, the commentators refrained from making any particularly pessimistic remarks.
Even if Joseon loses today’s match, they’ll have several more opportunities ahead.
“The players need to maintain their mental fortitude first and foremost. Espana is desperate, but we’re not, right?”
“That’s true. But King Gul.”
“Yes?”
“Since there’s a lull right now, I’m curious about something. Earlier, didn’t Cookie miss seeing all those missionaries? Almond managed to survive until the very end and scout them out….”
“!?”
King Gul flinched at those words.
‘That’s right.’
I’d forgotten, but now that he mentioned it, that was indeed the case.
Because Almond survived, Cookie ultimately never saw them, did he?
The large number of missionaries.
“If Cookie had only seen the number of missionaries and understood the conversion… he would have likely realized it. If he’d seen them, that is.”
There’s a possibility Almond saw them but Cookie didn’t.
King Gul thought he probably didn’t see them.
It wouldn’t make sense for Cookie to see that and not consider conversion.
“He probably didn’t see them. Siege weapons aren’t a good choice for converted missionaries at all, yet he produced them like this….”
“Ah. So Cookie might not have seen them? That’s unfortunate….”
“Wait! The moment you mention it?!”
At that instant, the observer switched the viewpoint again. This time to the Spanish Commander’s perspective.
“Another viewpoint change?”
Espana was carefully ushering the captured siege weapons into the interior of the highland fortress walls.
They were being stored to deploy all at once during the next attack.
“Ah… those are Joseon’s!”
As the Caster lamented over the siege weapons, King Gul added his own comment.
“Ah, what a shame. Even though siege weapons are the cheapest among siege equipment… losing eight of them really hurts. And they were just produced! They haven’t even depreciated yet!?”
-lmaooo
-depreciation lol
It’s in mint condition but ㅠㅠㅠ (expressing disappointment/sadness)
“But why would they obscure the viewpoint again?”
Obscuring the viewpoint meant the observer judged that not seeing Joseon’s situation might actually be more entertaining.
In other words, there was something more to come.
“Could Joseon show us something more here?”
Here… ugh.
-is that even possible??
-they can show something? lol
Then, near the darkened viewpoint, Joseon cavalry soldiers began to faintly appear.
“Huh? What’s that!?”
“From what I can see, they look like mounted archers!?”
The Spanish scout drew closer.
Once more, the silhouettes of Joseon soldiers flickered into view from the darkness ahead.
[Mounted Archers]
They were definitely mounted archers.
Twang!
In that instant, the sound of an arrow shot by someone plunged my vision into darkness once more.
“Wait, the scout just died? They killed him instantly!?”
“Wow… they were in the forest. The Joseon archers’ bow skills! Experiencing it from the enemy’s perspective is absolutely brutal!?”
“No, we can’t see it either since we’re viewing from Spain’s perspective! How many of them are there exactly!?”
-Scary
-Oh so they became mounted archers
-Insane, wasn’t that Almond just now??
The mounted archers’ senses were so sharp that scouts were picked off one after another as they approached.
With scouts in this state, if an ambush missionary dared approach, they’d become a porcupine instantly.
“Mounted archers are definitely a unit that rarely gets caught in a frontal assault. But the real problem is the siege! You can’t conduct a siege with just archers!?”
“Exactly! Mounted archers are meant to infiltrate inside the fortress walls and selectively eliminate workers while wreaking havoc. But advancing this straightforwardly doesn’t make sense….”
The fortress walls and defenses of the highland position were currently impenetrable by arrows.
It was physically impossible.
“What could they be thinking?”
Yet still, they charged forward.
Clatter! Clatter!
Threatening clouds of dust billowed into view intermittently.
“If Spain just retreats inside the fortress, that’s it!? Then this force has nothing it can do!?”
Despite their menacing momentum, there was realistically little they could accomplish.
The Spanish soldiers just needed to climb atop the fortress walls and shoot, as King Gul said.
The defense would never be breached.
Yet the mounted archers continued charging at full speed.

* * *
Meanwhile, at Spain’s outpost on the highland.
“We won without any excitement.”
Tres spat out an arrogant remark.
“Keep the excitement to yourself. Losing this time would have been truly boring.”
As expected, Uno chimed in from beside him with a sharp retort.
However, he too agreed with Tres’s sentiment.
‘To think a single Missionary could break the entire game.’
This match had unfolded far too easily.
It wasn’t that he underestimated Nacho, nor did he underestimate Cookie either.
He never expected them to be defeated so thoroughly.
Nacho probably hadn’t intended to win in just one round like this.
“Why did they mass-produce so many siege towers anyway? Was it a timing issue? Joseon has the Onager, which is so good.”
“Probably. And the Onager isn’t great for sieges anyway. It’s better against soldiers.”
“But if they bring siege towers, they’ll just lose them all. Damn it….”
Tres tilted his head in complete bewilderment.
“Why are you regretting that? Do you still have the luxury to be arrogant?”
“No. I’m saying… even if I don’t understand strategy and tactics well. I have instinct, you know? Something feels off. Something.”
“What?”
“They gave in too easily. Well, if I say too easily, it could just be an obvious mistake. But this feels… subtly like they let us win just barely, on the edge of whether we’d notice or not.”
“…?”
Uno flinched for a moment.
‘Yeah, this guy has animal instincts.’
Uno furrowed his brow, acknowledging Tres’s ability.
‘Let us win?’
Tres had likely just used a casual expression, but the words stuck in his throat like a bone.
Let us win.
Deliberately throw a game that could determine the entire match?
That wouldn’t be possible unless there was a purpose—like wanting a rematch.
But that certainly wasn’t the purpose.
Then—
“──Gaaah!”
A scream suddenly erupted from somewhere.
Pshhhhh…!
A spray of red blood shot upward.
Beyond the siege towers.
“What?”
What could possibly cause blood to spurt here?
“Enemies!”
Twang!
The sound of gunfire erupted, and the battlefield descended into chaos.
‘What!?’
Uno’s eyes went wide.
What appeared before his gaze.
Joseon Soldiers stood there.
How in the world did they get here?
This was beyond the castle walls, right in front of the fortress courtyard.
The very pinnacle of Spain’s defensive position.
How were enemies wandering around such a place?
“Damn it! I told you something felt off!”
Screech!
As Tres opened the siege tower’s door, the secret was revealed.
“Uaaaaaaah!”
Joseon Soldiers came pouring out of the siege tower in droves.
With eight siege towers in total, their numbers were staggering.
Spain, already lacking in armed soldiers, saw their front lines collapse in an instant.
Even the cannons firing from the fortress failed to be effective.
If they fired with their own soldiers mixed in, everyone would die.
It seemed the enemy had deliberately composed their forces with close-combat weapons in mind.
A Spanish Soldier collapsed.
“Wait, didn’t those bastards all escape from the siege tower!?”
They had definitely all fled from the siege tower.
Every soldier present had witnessed it.
How could they still be inside?
“No! If they were inside, they should have been converted!”
“Y-you’re right!”
That was true.
Even if they were inside, they should have been converted.
Then how…?
After a moment of contemplation, Uno understood the reason.
‘The 200 population limit!’
He couldn’t convert soldiers beyond the 200 population limit.
Cookie had deliberately given up a few soldiers and then allowed this siege tower to be captured.
It was all calculated perfectly.
That wasn’t all.
‘Only some of the soldiers left the siege tower. We thought we saw them all.’
Watching soldiers desperately pour out of the siege tower, it was hard to imagine there were more remaining inside.
It had looked like quite a lot had exited.
‘The transport capacity upgrade was already applied.’
On top of that, there was even the expansion upgrade.
These siege vehicles were fundamentally carrying more soldiers than expected.
If only four or five soldiers exited, there should be no one left inside.
Yet there were another four or five soldiers remaining within.
Who upgrades transport capacity these days… This is flawless design.
「Narrowly and ingeniously, we fell for it.」
Tres’s assessment was accurate.
We had been ingeniously outmaneuvered.
And now, it was our turn to face the same fate.
“Slaughter them all!”
The Joseon army’s war cry engulfed the Spanish encampment.

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