Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 645

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 115
40. Tres vs Almond (2)
Defensive towers firing crossbows, massive fortresses launching cannons, and countless arrows pouring down from every direction.
All of these defensive systems proved utterly useless.
“They’re absolutely tearing the whole fortress apart! The Joseon Cavalry Archers!!”
Perhaps the fundamental strategy was flawed from the start.
Trying to catch them with sluggish cannons was never going to work.
Light armor, mounted on horses, carrying nothing but gakgung bows and arrows—that was the essence of the Joseon Cavalry Archers.
Compared to European knights, they were featherweight.
If European knights were medieval tanks, these warriors were medieval motorcycles.
As long as they maintained their focus, they could evade weapons with massive firing delays like cannons without much difficulty.
And Almond especially so.
“He’s not taking any hits! The player drawing all the aggression right now—Almond—he’s particularly untouchable!”
“You’d need to land a prediction shot to hit him, but it’s completely useless right now! If anything, only Spanish workers are dying!”
The only way to land a cannon shot was to predict their movements in advance and fire accordingly.
“Can a prediction shot even work!?”
“But looking at how Almond is dominating right now! It feels like he’s watching and dodging!”
“That’s Almond’s specialty, right? Watching until the last moment and then dodging!”
Prediction shots were meaningless against someone who watched the shot and then evaded.
It only made dodging easier.
Boom—!
Another miss.
“Ah! It didn’t hit! The prediction shot didn’t work either!”
“This reminds me of the legendary Messi dribbling! Right now!”
“He’s dribbling while shooting arrows at the same time!?”
Whoosh—!
Every time they drew their bowstrings, the worker population decreased without fail.
Corpses of workers lined every path the cavalry archers passed through.
-This is insane
Even one almond is a handful, but 15 of them running around is crazy lol
Joseon mutual is crazy
-The soldiers can’t even keep up
The Cavalry Archer Unit moved with incredible mobility.
The Spanish soldiers could only watch as destruction swept across the field. There was no way to counter it.
“Ah…! Should Spain have prepared cavalry as well!?”
That wasn’t possible.
Spain had its reasons for not preparing mounted forces.
After all, cavalry are essentially useless in siege warfare.
“That’s right! These cavalry archers would have been useless too if the gates hadn’t opened! That’s the thing!?”
“Ah… yes, that’s true! Passing through the gates without any damage was huge. It was an ambush Spain never could have anticipated!”
The soldiers who had entered the siege weapons never imagined the gates would open so easily.
Criticizing why cavalry units weren’t deployed here would be far too result-oriented in hindsight.
“Ah. Espana! The resource income has clearly decreased, hasn’t it?”
However, war is inherently result-oriented.
As a result, Espana’s resource supply per minute began plummeting drastically.
They had been ahead of Joseon by a factor of two on the resource chart.
Now it had dropped to 1.5 times.
“Even so, Joseon needs to inflict more damage, right!? We poured everything—all the multi-resource cuts and everything—into this!”
Of course, even with this drop, they were still ahead of Joseon.
Only if they inflicted more damage here would Joseon gain a net advantage.
The Cavalry Archer Unit rush was such a resource-intensive gamble that if it failed, immediate surrender wouldn’t have been surprising.
“From Espana’s perspective! They have to go in and kill! They can’t kill from a distance! They need to create chaos and disrupt their focus!”
“Ah! I was just explaining that!”
The screen shifts.
Sure enough, several of Espana’s soldiers are charging forward on horseback.
A hastily assembled cavalry unit.
[Conquistador]
Literally translated, it was a troop type called “Conqueror.”
“It’s the troop type that Espana prides itself on—the ‘Conquistador’!?”
A troop type with technology so rare you’d seldom see it in the 3rd era—soldiers firing muskets while riding horses.
That’s why the upgrade costs and operational expenses consume enormous amounts of money and time.
“Ah… Espana’s cavalry is expensive, but they’ve managed to assemble cavalry units after all!? They’re betting everything on this!”
“Every last resource! Resources they don’t have! They’re investing it all in muskets and horses! Ten units have been assembled right now!?”
-Even doing this, they only got ten units out
-When the hell did they come out?
-The resources are insane, gotta burst the highland multi faster
-Kill more workers!!
Joseon had squeezed out eighteen Cavalry Archer Units through buildup throughout the entire game.
Yet Espana suddenly produced ten Conquistadors—a makeshift emergency measure.
This moment exemplified the resource disparity.
“The two forces are still at a distance from each other!? Joseon must continue accumulating damage!”
If Joseon fails to inflict more damage here, or if they take damage in return, the situation becomes very dire.
King Gul recommends Joseon inflict only resource damage and retreat.
“However! That damage doesn’t have to be achieved in just this single battle! They can replenish and return later!”
If they maintain their forces, they can return properly equipped with siege weapons and conduct a proper siege.
Joseon also gains time to secure more resource income.
“If they take a moment to breathe! Even if they can’t push immediately! It would be more stable!? There’s still distance between them and the Conquistadors!”
“Ah… but! That Tres! Tres is charging really fast!? It doesn’t seem like they’ll just let this go!”
“That’s why if they quickly disengage now and turn their horses around…”
The commentators were extremely anxious.
With the main tournament advancement hanging in the balance and the game turning in his favor despite what seemed like an inevitable loss, the thinking was to minimize even the smallest mistakes.
It wasn’t a wrong opinion, but Cookie’s thoughts diverged.
‘This moment cannot be missed.’
An opportunity to open the gates so easily wouldn’t come around often—that was his calculation.
Above all, momentum and flow existed on the battlefield.
Army morale.
This was the most powerful weapon that even the game itself could not overcome.
Invisible, yet undeniably real.
It existed as a chemical reality imprinted upon the human hormonal system.
That was army morale.
Right now, that metric was reaching its peak.
Once an army’s morale surged to its zenith, any descent became a negative.
Even if the absolute value remained higher than zero initially, if people perceived it as ‘falling,’ then it was negative.
That was the nature of human hormones.
The absolute quantity wasn’t what mattered—what mattered was how much it rose or fell.
That’s why momentum existed.
When you pressed the advantage, you had to press it all at once to maintain a continuous positive state.
Once this relentless momentum stopped, it wasn’t a weakened positive—it became a negative flow instead.
‘If the momentum shifts here, it’s over.’
So now was the opportune moment.
I could feel it. Victory was flowing like a waterfall with fierce intensity.
This upstream current would soon spread into a wide river, becoming calm and placid.
When that happened, the volume of water might be greater, but it would have no force whatsoever.
This crushing, downward power existed only now.
Ting!
[Conquistadors approaching]
[Attack]
Cookie ordered the Cavalry Archer Unit to hunt the approaching Conquistadors instead.
“Cookie! You’re ordering them to kill the Conquistadors approaching right now?!”
“Ah… A bold decision!”
“It’s not an all-in, is it? The Cavalry Archer Unit is sending 10 of the remaining 15 mounted archers! They’re keeping 5 to continue harassing the Workers, right?! This might be too greedy!”
“Yes. This way we can continue accumulating damage to the Workers! But if the Cavalry Archers take heavy casualties, it’s all for nothing! Right now, the Cavalry Archer Unit is Joseon itself!”
If the Cavalry Archer Unit currently present were to be completely annihilated, Joseon might lose all the momentum they had gained.
If the mounted archer units currently in place are completely wiped out, Joseon may lose all the advantage it has gained.

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“Hyah!”
Clop, clop!
Tres surged forward at the very front of the charge.
His speed was so ferocious that moving together with ten others became meaningless.
Yet rather than matching pace with them, he accelerated further.
‘What?’
His eyes fixed on the Cavalry Archer Unit approaching from ahead.
‘Are they counterattacking? Of course they are…’
He sensed it instinctively.
They would not flee.
Retreat was undoubtedly the wise decision, yet wisdom and victory were not the same thing.
Wise decisions and winning decisions differed.
That was war.
“Your commander understands romance, does he!?”
Click!
He spat the provocative words while deftly loading a round.
His voice growled fiercely, but his mind remained ice-cold, reading the situation.
‘Their rate of fire is slower.’
No matter how superior his stats were, he had no intention of fighting fairly.
Stats were merely numbers; reality proved different once blades clashed.
When the enemy fired their Gakgung multiple times, he quickly fell into disadvantage.
‘We retreat, and they pursue. That’s the scene we need.’
In ranged combat, the pursuer was always at a disadvantage.
Especially with bows—shooting against the wind was inherently unfavorable.
‘They’re coming.’
The enemy drew within effective range.
He shouldered his musket.
Clop, clop!
The horse’s movement sent his aim wavering up and down.
No hesitation.
──Bang!
The trigger pulled.
“Ugh!”
One enemy crumpled, knocked backward.
Whether dead or not remained unknown, but combat ineffective regardless.
The musket’s range still held superiority.
At this point, he should have turned his horse’s head, but Tres pressed deeper.
Click!
He expertly reloaded and pulled the trigger.
Twang!
“Damn!?”
Another soldier falls.
‘Now… they come.’
Within the enemy’s range.
Whiiiiine──
Sure enough, arrows fly in immediately.
They aim straight for the head with brutal precision.
──Click!
He dodges.
Bullets are nearly invisible, but arrows can be seen.
Of course, their rate of fire is faster.
Whiiiing!
Whine!
Arrows continue to rain down.
Evasion alone had its limits.
He grips the rifle and swings it.
Clang…!
The bayonet at the end deflects the arrows.
“!?”
Shock flashes across the faces of the Joseon soldiers charging from the front.
Smirk.
Tres pulls the trigger with a grin.
──Twang!

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“No, no, no!? What!? Just now!?”
“…Deflecting arrows while charging forward!”
-Insane
-He’s lost it
-Just showing off with that bayonet
It’s the beast itself.
The sight of deflecting arrows with nothing but a bayonet while charging was shocking to the viewers as well.
“This is literally what I mean by a game! It’s the pinnacle of technique made possible only in virtual reality!”
“Exactly! And he’s taken down three already!? Two of them are just dead!”
-Wow…
-Insane
-Is it because he’s an Assistant Commander?
-That’s Tres!??
“Ah, the Cavalry Archer Unit is firing to kill Tres…! Tres is changing direction!?”
The Cavalry Archer Unit naturally wanted to punish him.
But Tres immediately swerved to the side and changed direction, while other Spanish Soldiers behind him began opening fire with their muskets.
Bang! Bang!
The Mounted Archers grow confused by musket fire from beyond the range of their bows.
Some even twisted their paths trying to evade and became entangled.
“The, the Joseon side’s concentration is also! Wavering!”
If combat continues for just two minutes, heartbeats begin to change.
Right now the Mounted Archers have been fighting continuously for nearly seven minutes.
Moreover, the extreme situation where a single moment of carelessness meant death continued relentlessly.
“Still, he dodged that last shot well──”
──Boom!
A cannon fired from the castle sends one of King Gul’s Mounted Archers flying far away in a terrifying arc.
Seven Mounted Archers remain now.
“Ahhhhh! This, this shouldn’t have been hit!”
-??
-Oh no
-Shouldn’t they just dodge and fight again?
-Crazy
-How many do they need to dodge
-Is this right??
“It’s not easy to dodge with tricks like before! Because they’re not in peak condition right now!?”
“It’s total chaos! But it’s only chaos for the Joseon side! The Spanish side is just starting combat, so! Their concentration is excellent!?”
“It seems Tres is inducing this chaos! He keeps drawing aggro from the Joseon Soldiers! That’s why it becomes a melee!”
That was it.
Tres was painting the picture of the battlefield.
The initiative of the battlefield’s flow rests entirely in his hands.
“Wait, does a single Assistant Commander’s direct participation in combat have this much impact!?”
Because he’s an Assistant Commander, he can relay orders whenever the opportunity arises, and with his inherent stamina bonus, he can fight with remarkable boldness.
“We can’t let ourselves be swept along by Tres right now! If we follow him, we’ll be caught too easily in covering fire and artillery barrages!? This is the Spanish main camp!!!”
“But if we don’t follow, he shoots too well and moves too fast! This is absolutely maddening!”
When those factors combined with Tres’s transcendent combat ability, they produced an enormous tactical effect.
However, the opposing side also had someone like that.
“A single Mounted Archer! Just ignore everything else! Following Tres!?”
The artillery’s range, the defensive towers’ interference, the bullets from the forces protecting Tres—everything.
Disregarding all factors, a single figure could be seen pursuing Tres.
“Wait, didn’t you say we shouldn’t let ourselves be swept along!?”
“Well, that’s true, but….”
King Gul trailed off.
This opponent was also someone whose combat power he couldn’t judge carelessly.
[Aamond]
“The opponent is me! Isn’t that what this saying is for!? If it’s Aamond, I really don’t know!?”
Almond began charging recklessly toward Tres, weaving through the hail of bullets.

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