Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 647

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 117
40. Tres vs Almond (4)
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
The sound of drums echoed across the arena.
Those dressed in red were roaring at the top of their lungs.
The heat from the spectators’ stands had reached a fever pitch.
Win this match and advance to the main tournament.
This thought was driving them into a frenzy.
And on top of that, the clash of each team’s ace players.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Did we win!? Did we kill him!?”
To the untrained eye, it was merely a fleeting instant.
“What happened? Huh? We won, right!?”
“That’s right! He’s falling! Right now!”
Almond chased after Tres, and Tres spun backward as they both charged toward each other, passing by in a blur.
That was all their eyes could follow.
Those with slightly better focus might have caught the sharp angle at which the arrow was fired, or Tres’s bestial bayonet parry.
But even that wasn’t the full extent of this duel.
Only the analysts’ eyes would have seen it all.
“Wait, King Gul! What… what was that at the end!?”
King Gul answered in a voice hoarse from shouting so much.
“It looked like he anticipated the bayonet swing!?”
At the last moment, Almond fell backward with his bowstring already drawn.
“Almond usually watches and evades, but this time he dodged based on prediction! That’s why Tres was caught off guard!”
Almond watches his opponent’s movements to the very end and evades. That’s why predictive shots from a distance are meaningless against him.
That’s why Tres closes in and uses feint movements.
“Now we’re showing the replay in slow motion!”
In slow motion, the intent to deceive became crystal clear.
“Tres, who had been continuously ‘firing’ his gun, suddenly ‘swung’ it as if to shoot!? There’s no time to watch and dodge that, right!?”
If he had been focused on the muzzle or trigger, he would have been defenseless against the bayonet swing.
The attack angle and method were completely different.
“Even if he could dodge, he couldn’t counterattack!”
Even with ghostly reaction speed, it would have been impossible to land an immediate counterattack like that.
“Exactly. Almond seemed to judge that he needed to force an arrow into a counterattack at that moment. And Tres really doesn’t let things go easily!”
Guns have bayonet techniques, but bows have only one method—firing arrows.
Yet his opponent rarely falls to ranged attacks.
So what should he do?
Almond’s conclusion was a counter.
Not a counter where he watches and evades while counterattacking, but a preemptive counter.
One that occurs almost simultaneously with his opponent’s movement.
“This prediction-based counterattack? How should I put it? Thanks to this move, the opponent had no way to respond at all!”
-Insane
-Looking at the replay, it seems real
-Crazy
-Santa Grandpa, please turn me into Almond! Santa Grandpa, please turn me into Almond! Santa Grandpa, please turn me into Almond!
-Now prediction too… Just a nut…
-Is that a Sharingan? How is he even doing this lol
The Caster clicked his tongue in admiration.
“This is encouraging? Actually, if it were other players, I would have said it’s more encouraging to see and dodge! But because it’s Almond! The fact that Almond can dodge through prediction! That carries significant implications!?”
Hahahahaha, for real
-So he finally got the built-in Hodu installed…
-Almond, you gotta check if someone plugged a USB into his capsule
Haha, that’s right.
-Did his game understanding improve?
King Gul agreed with him.
“Exactly! That’s a sharp observation! Almond dodged through prediction? That means! He has a certain level of confidence in the game right now!”
In a typical scenario, if any player stopped reacting to what they could see and started dodging through prediction instead, King Gul might have said something like “he’s hit the aging curve” or “his condition isn’t good.”
But this time, praise came out instead.
Because it’s Almond?
No, that wasn’t it.
Almond could have poor condition too, and the aging curve could have already arrived at his age.
“Ah. Confidence in the game!? To that extent!?”
“He predicted and dodged exactly what needed to be dodged through prediction, and reacted to everything else!? This shows dramatically improved understanding! At least when it comes to combat!”
The reason Almond’s prediction-based response was evaluated differently was precisely because he used it when it was necessary.
What about prediction-based responses that receive negative evaluations?
They react prematurely even if the opponent just feints a throw, or they fail to dodge properly when the opponent uses a different type of attack. Because they memorize combat patterns like a script, they can’t adapt when variations appear.
Almond’s prediction-based response was definitely not that kind.
Of course, if Almond’s prediction had been wrong, he could have ended up in that same situation as a result.
But the world of competition is always about results.
In the end, Almond succeeded in his prediction and achieved a complete victory in the one-on-one duel.
Hmm, is that so…? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
“It’s legendary that he only used it when prediction was necessary”
-His combat ability is just GOAT. What more is there to say
Wow, that’s insane! ㅠㅠㅠㅠ
The battle earlier was seriously insane – 0.8 electromagnetic waves worked, no joke.
The stress was good too lol this meme is going viral
After Tres fell, the situation naturally tilted heavily in Joseon’s favor.
The Spanish camp was in complete chaos.
“Ah. Spain! They’re shaken severely! The death of an Assistant Commander is a different matter entirely!?”
When a regular soldier falls, resurrection is possible. So the weight of death isn’t heavy. It’s merely a matter of resource loss.
Even if that soldier who died was an ace, it wouldn’t cause morale to drop.
Most of the time, the other soldiers don’t even know about it.
Only those who fought alongside that soldier would know.
But the Assistant Commander was different.
“Right. First, they don’t revive. The population count drops by one.”
They couldn’t bring them back to life, and the combat personnel population limit shrinks to 199.
“Since the Assistant Commander changes, almost all soldiers find out. How could they not notice when the person giving them orders changes?”
Due to the nature of command authority, all soldiers become aware that something has gone wrong.
“Even in a game! Morale drops in situations like this! Does this have an impact!?”
“Of course! Because people are doing it after all! It has an impact! Thank goodness it’s a game—if it were a real war, it would just be total chaos and devastation!”
“Yes! General Yi Sun-sin didn’t say those things for nothing!?”
That was true.
Even in a game where lives aren’t on the line, defeat and victory are at stake.
Especially for Espana—a loss now means their chances of advancing to the main tournament practically vanish.
That desperate situation must be looming before their eyes right now. The news of the Assistant Commander’s death is truly a bolt from the blue.
“Mounted Archers! We’re completely suppressing the Conquistadors!”
“Ahhh! You can literally see the morale difference! We didn’t expect to be beaten down this badly!?”
“Originally! Most people thought Cookie was pushing a bit too hard!?”
Cookie’s decision to press the attack while momentum was high proved correct in the end.
The morale of the Cavalry Archer Unit was reaching its absolute peak.
Superhuman focus and organization poured forth, and their arrows pierced precisely through the foreheads of their enemies.
Meanwhile, Espana, witnessing this spectacle, began to crumble.
From the smallest details to the largest.
“Ah… the Conquistadors don’t know where to go right now?”
“The Workers too—for some reason! They’re not coming out!? The resource gathering rate! Even though we took the highlands, it’s become similar to Joseon now!”
In the meantime, Joseon had secured more multi-tasking, and Espana’s highland resource line hadn’t been functioning properly for a while now.
Eventually, the resource supply reverses.
“Joseon! The Trebuchets have appeared now!”
“The Main Force is charging in!”
The Joseon Main Force, which had been safely retreating thanks to the Mounted Archers’ sweeping attacks.
They begin to advance forward, leading siege weapons.
Buuuuuuuu──!
The trumpet call of the battlefield rings out, and all of Joseon’s soldiers launch a total assault.
“They could just use Trebuchets from the back to destroy the castle and march in! But they’re all going in!?”
“Cookie! Knows how to have fun! Riding the momentum! Knows how to ride the beat!!!”
Hahaha what the heck haha
-Turn the volume to max~!
Kusio lol
-Hwaseong let’s goooooo!
The certain and safe method would be to destroy the castle using only Trebuchets, those ultra-long-range catapults.
If I did that, time would be wasted and the momentum could become disrupted.
“This is ultimately a game played by people! When the flow comes, you have to push forward like a madman and strike!”
“Exactly! If we drag this out trying to be too careful, things get weird again! Civil M is notorious for comebacks anyway!”
It was something that happened frequently.
During a slow siege, enemy soldiers would gradually gather and attempt a counterattack.
Or these soldiers would sneak back to our main base and cause chaos.
There were many ways a reversal could occur.
Cookie had decided to eliminate all those ambiguous variables.
“The fortress is collapsing!”
Crash!
Espana’s fortress crumbles to the ground.
It took so long to build, but it collapsed in an instant.
The camera captures the expressions of the Espana spectators.
They all look like their souls have left their bodies.
Some spectators stand frozen, forgetting to sit down, staring blankly below.
-Soul left the building lol
-Ahhhh lol they got destroyed lol
-Mental breakdown lol
-Their hearts shattered like a mansion~
The sight of the fortress collapsing was truly shocking.
Boom!
Massive bricks pour down like rain, and thick black dust blankets the high ground.
The scene was absolute chaos.
Whoosh!
Then soldiers pour in and set fires with torches.
Now the high ground was no longer a functional position.
“Ahhh! In the end! In the end! Espana abandons the high ground!”
The Missionaries and Gunners they were so proud of fought back, but against the hit-and-run tactics of the Mounted Archers, the Missionaries’ conversion proved useless.
While the Missionaries were being eliminated, Swordsmen rushed in and slaughtered the Gunners.
No matter how much healing the Missionaries provided, it was impossible against the blade cutting them down directly.
Slash!
“Soldiers! We need to retreat!? Nacho, you’re losing soldiers right now!?”
These soldiers being attacked should have already retreated.
They didn’t receive proper orders in the confusion.
“No. It’s not that Nacho failed to give orders…”
“Ah. He didn’t see them!?”
“Right! With a battle defeat of this scale, the entire retreat order would be issued!”
“Ah… this does happen often!? When the battle is too chaotic or the players’ mentality breaks, they might not even see the command messages!”
Espana’s soldiers began failing to receive orders properly.
Their concentration had hit rock bottom.
“They’re pushing forward relentlessly! The speed is absolutely unstoppable!!”
“Is this the power of going all-in on military units!? Espana is getting absolutely demolished!?”
-They’re pushing all the way to the main base lol
I cannot provide a translation for this text as it does not appear to be valid Korean or any recognizable language. The characters seem to be randomly arranged Korean consonants and vowels that don’t form meaningful words.
-So satisfying
-Wait, are they attacking our main base!?
On the minimap, the blue dots began steadily pushing back the red dots.
The high ground was already filled with only blue dots, and now they had infiltrated all the way to the red dots’ starting point.
“Ahhh! All the way to the main base! Medieval Vultures are tearing through the main base!!”
The Cavalry Archer Unit was completely ravaging even the main base itself.

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“Hyaaaa!”
I galloped wildly, shooting down every Worker I could see.
Any Worker that caught my eye became a pincushion within seconds.
‘I need to… kill more…’
It was obvious enough that even I could recognize this was the moment I’d seized victory.
Moreover, it was equally obvious that in this game, if you fail to finish when you have the advantage, you’ll face an even greater backlash afterward.
Civil M was far more forgiving of comebacks than Ril.
Because of that, I didn’t let my guard down and maintained peak concentration.
No, I pushed it even higher.
“More! Find more!”
“Yeah, got it!”
Thanks to my reckless charge and slaughter, the Cavalry Archer Unit members following behind were also swept up in the momentum and couldn’t stop.
Even if some command had been issued midway, most of them didn’t hear it.
They couldn’t see it.
A state of no-self.
My mind completely blanked to white, no—blazed with light.
Not just my vision, but even my hearing was completely severed and blocked out.
Only the sensation of drawing the bowstring and the sixth sense of arrows piercing enemies could be felt.
Whoosh…
Thunk!
Whoosh…
Thunk!
I even forgot the fact that I was riding on a horse.
The up-and-down vibrations of the horse’s body meant nothing in this state.
Such obstacles in aiming and shooting were no different from air—not even perceived.
‘I have to completely sweep them away.’
This thought alone echoed endlessly through my mind.
Pangeo had said something.
This Cavalry Archer Unit was the last resource Cookie could muster.
I had no choice but to kill more enemies with fierce determination.
More… more….
Several more Workers fell.
After that, I couldn’t even remember what I was thinking as I killed them.
‘Just.’
I just had to shoot.
Almond had probably become addicted.
Nothing held any meaning anymore.
The act itself of riding a horse and drawing a bow became imbued with purpose.
That was when it happened.
The rhythm suddenly shattered.
‘Huh?’
Like a broken tape, all my senses tangled together and produced a strange sound.
Syuuuung….
‘Ah. The horse…?’
The horse was slowing down.
Only then did I realize I was riding a horse.
Was the horse exhausted?
But the other players’ horses were all slowing down too.
The targets stopped as well.
As if they weren’t alive, all the Workers froze in place.
And the horse that had been slowing down eventually began to walk, then came to a complete stop.
“…Ah.”
Only then did it enter Almond’s vision.
[Victory]
The message that had been floating since earlier—the match had ended.

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