Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 688

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 158
52. Bow Within Bow (5)
King Gul practically half-leaned out of his desk toward the arena, shouting quite loudly.
“Eeeek!? Almond! He’s, he’s jumping down!?”
-Isn’t that him jumping down lol
-lmao
-Breaking News) Korean Caster Invades Japanese Arena
-What the heck???
-He actually jumped lmao
-Full-body commentary! King. Gul.
There was a reason King Gul had struck such a pose that he nearly jumped from his desk.
Almond had leaped off the cliff.
Of course, it wasn’t a cliff high enough to be fatal from the fall.
“O, onto the Vikings!”
──Boom!
He landed directly on top of the Vikings.
“W, what is this!? I’ve never seen an intervention like this before!?”
After that, Almond began swiftly dispatching the surrounding Vikings.
“Steal the sword! Slash! That’s it! Swing it! Grab the axe! Throw it!”
While King Gul shadowboxed in the air, enthusiastically spewing commentary, nearly five Vikings fell into combat incapacity.
“This is it! Nothing left to lose! That’s the point, right!? No arrows anyway! All or nothing!”
“Ah! When someone skilled goes all or nothing! It’s this terrifying!”
-Scary
-Just a god…
-Insane
-Can you do this against Vikings?
-They’re totally panicked
Winning in close combat against Vikings is an extraordinarily difficult feat.
It would have been impossible if Almond hadn’t executed this sudden ambush, dropping from the sky.
“Almond! He’s holding back the enemies! Only those stronger than me get through! That’s what he’s saying! I heard it!”
-Fabrication what lol
-Huh
-lmaooo
-Dope
-So cool
After the Vikings fell in rapid succession, Almond faced off against a Viking who had recovered from the chaos of the ambush, their blades properly crossed.
“Oh, by the way, the Viking in front right now! Wekjesi, the Viking who almost got selected as Best Dressed! Swinging his sword!”
Clang!
His blade and Jessi’s blade collided, sending sparks flying.
“Yes. A player quite popular for his stunning appearance! And there’s a connection with Almond!?”
“Ah, is that so!?”
The commentators always mention it if there’s a story between players.
This kind of element draws tremendous interest from the audience.
“Wekjesi helped Almond back when Civil M was just a beginner! They met in-game and he assisted her!”
-for real??
-that’s crazy lolol
-???: should’ve killed him back then…
-lol
-didn’t know that lololol
“And the reason was! ‘Because she looked cute!’ He said it outright on broadcast, and it became a huge topic!?”
-??
-die almond
-smh smh
-please just die
-this is why popular people are…
-good-looking guys get passive romance even in games lol
“Now channeling the desires of all solo players! Jessi swings her blade!? Die! Almond!”
Clang!
The two blades meet. Jessi’s sword slides up along Almond’s blade and flies toward his neck.
Whoosh.
A chilling sound rings out as Almond’s hair is sliced away.
Slash!
“Woah! The desires of solo players must have been incredibly strong!?”
“At this rate, she’s practically drawn blood!”
-stop it…
-lololol this is even more infuriating
-wait, King Gul’s married so what’s this about?
-lmao
Almond rolls to the ground and grabs at Jessi’s back.
However, that’s where the other Vikings are waiting.
“Oh Almond! You’ve positioned yourself poorly!?”
“It would’ve been better to keep facing Jessi head-on and buy time!”
The Vikings’ axes and swords came crashing down.
Crash!
Almond swung desperately to deflect them, but he couldn’t block everything with a single blade.
Thud!
“Almond! Nooooo!”
-oh
-ah no 🙁
One player getting injured causing this much noise is crazy.
-I thought it was an emergency lol
A deep wound formed near Almond’s leg. It was struck by an axe.
With his supporting leg compromised, his sword technique couldn’t flow properly.
Even after rising to his feet, he was pushed backward by countless sword strikes.
Clang!
Clang!
A single blade pierced through the barrage of sword techniques and stabbed into his abdomen.
Squelch!
“Aaaaagh! Almond! Critical wound!”
-Critical wound lol
-No way lol
-“Joseon is collapsing”
~T
-Did he really buy time like this?
Almond hadn’t simply exposed his abdomen.
In that moment, another Viking’s shoulder was slashed.
Whoosh—
“!?”
As the Viking stumbled backward, Almond regained his stance.
“This is… buying time, isn’t it!? Acting like he’s about to die while making it impossible to ignore him!”
That was it.
Almond’s true purpose from the start was to buy time.
He wasn’t trying to hold back all the Vikings alone.
“The Vikings farther away! They’re just starting to run toward their objective!?”
So not all the Vikings could rush to kill him. Those out of sword range simply ignored him and ran toward their objective.
But then—
“Huh!?”
—Whoosh!
Almond instantly drew his bow and fired an arrow that struck the runner’s back of the neck.
“D-did he die!?”
Simultaneously, two more arrows struck.
Arrows fired with minimal concentration, yet both hit vital points.
“Dead center on the vital point!!”
Dead center on the vital point.
With the damage multiplier magic applied, the Viking collapsed.
“He can’t let them through! Almond is making a stand! This is truly a famous scene—”
—Splurt!
Just as King Gul was about to lavish praise on Almond, his head flew off.
Having drawn his bow in the midst of so many Vikings, he had created far too many openings.
“Aaaaah…!”
“Now we need to switch the camera! Let’s see how Almond is using the time he’s earned!?”
The Observer switched the screen the moment Almond fell.
Viking hunting outposts scattered across the map.
Joseon soldiers were stripping food from those locations.
“Ah! Already five of them!?”
What had started with one or two outposts had now become five completely ransacked.
-lmao
Can we even get that off?ㅋㅋ
-wow
-damn
-they could just go straight to age 3 at this rate??
“King Gul? They’re using swordsmen right now, aren’t they!?”
The ones raiding the outposts were Joseon swordsmen. They exploited their superior mobility in the mountainous terrain to quietly and swiftly strip the food supplies.
“Yes. The swordsmen. But this… this is…”
Their movement patterns and tactics clearly weren’t something created on the fly.
“It seems Cookie didn’t just practice with archers!? They came with a complete strategy!”
Among all resources, Vikings depend most on food.
It’s also what they gather best.
The counter-strategy against Vikings that exploits both of these is to strip away the food supplies they’ve accumulated.
“Joseon swordsmen are already fast among close-range infantry!? And with the entire terrain being mountainous! They can raid effectively!? Plus, look at the route they’re taking!”
The swordsmen had just finished raiding the fifth outpost and were moving to find another.
“The Assistant Commander is using flares to illuminate the field of view! Once they spot an outpost, they just charge straight toward it! Through this treacherous mountain valley!”
That was it.
They weren’t following established paths.
“They’re moving along the shortest route the map allows!”
Even if it meant practically climbing the mountains, if that was the shortest distance, they traversed it that way.
“Civil M allows some freedom of movement on the map, so if you can reach it, there’s nowhere you can’t go!? But the way they’re scaling these mountains so quickly, like professional climbers! It’s insane! They’re literally a bandit gang!”
-for real
Even the great ones are scared of malatang.
-classic ian-yong
That country’s government is selling out to bandits lol
-ian-yong “i raise them to sell”
Led by Maratang, the swordsmen unit was rapidly scaling the mountainous terrain and plundering outposts at incredible speed.
While the archer unit memorized and executed curved shots from fixed positions, these soldiers were trained to break through any terrain they encountered.
“Th-they’re reaching the sixth outpost now!? The Viking main force can’t keep up with this speed!? How much of a disadvantage are the Vikings in right now!?”
At this point, the Caster couldn’t help but wonder just how far the Vikings could hold out.
“Yes. To explain that, I first need to describe the Vikings’ victory pattern! Vikings win through mass rushes—200 fully-armed soldiers fighting from Age 2 onward!?”
The Vikings’ best victory pattern.
It’s destroying the enemy base with 200 units the moment they advance to Age 3.
“Ah yes. There’s even a meme like ‘The moment the Age 3 bell rings, the Vikings will end you.’ I saw it on overseas communities!”
The Age of 2 represents the Vikings’ golden era, so when resources accumulated during their peak are unleashed at the end of that peak, tremendous power emerges.
Late Age 2 to early Age 3—this timing is their trump card.
“We call this timing ‘2-late 3-early’ in our country, you see?”
-lol so it’s like 1-late 3-early?
-that’s the timing soldiers break up with their girlfriends in the military though…?
-2-late 3-early lmaooo
-of all timings lol
-it’s the timing for a shot of soju
-the timing when the mistress faction appears
Right after transitioning to the next age, every civilization becomes vulnerable.
Once civilizations cross into Age 3, most cannot withstand this kind of all-in rush from the Vikings, who are strongest in Age 2.
However—
“But! That’s only possible if sufficient food is secured in Age 2! And if land and resources are stockpiled abundantly!”
“Right! If they could always do that, it’d be completely broken, wouldn’t it? Are the Vikings in a bit of a tight spot right now?”
If the Vikings squander their golden Age 2, such trump cards become progressively harder to execute.
“Yes! Joseon has completely ruined the Vikings’ Age 2! Even before Almond’s contributions, filling out 200 fully-armed warriors was impossible—maybe around 150 at best? That was the situation! But then Almond went and made his move!!”
“Right! So now! With Almond’s contributions, what happens now!?”
“The Vikings won’t even manage 100 now! They might not even gather 70 or 80! If that’s the case! It’s just a lost Age 3 beginning! They don’t even get to taste the Age 2 bubble economy! They’re losing right from the start! The Vikings born now! They’re the lost generation, the no-job generation, the no-marriage generation, the no-children generation!”
-the lost Age 3 lmaooo
-they don’t even get to see bubble combat power
That’s unbelievable lol
-the worst generation
Viking, no ㅠㅠㅠ
-lol
-lmaooooooo
-lmaooo the analogy is insane
-why are they beating up Japan in a Vikings match
70 to 80 warriors.
With that number, they cannot breach Joseon’s defensive line, anchored by defensive towers and fortress walls.
This means Joseon will endure the Vikings’ offensive even after entering Age 3.
In other words, this game will transition into Age 3 combat dynamics, and then the Vikings’ path to victory becomes extremely difficult.
“At minimum! At the very least! 120 warriors are needed to break through Joseon! Despite appearances, Joseon’s defensive capabilities are quite formidable, you know!? Especially in Age 3! It’s genuinely hard to breach!”
“Right! Because they’re an archer civilization!”
“Yes! A rugged mountain valley! No matter how unfavorable the forest terrain is for arrows! There are no trees inside the main base, right!? The archers can simply climb onto defensive towers or anywhere else and shoot to defend! The problem is they can’t attack! Defense is easy! But how on earth! How on earth! Can a mere 70 barbarians possibly breach the defenses of the royal state of Joseon!? This is absurd!!”
-is this a historical drama lmaooo
-insane lol
-why are you so passionate lmaooo
-lmaooo
-this is driving me crazy lmaooooo
Whether King Gul’s passionate appeal reached the Vikings or not.
Or perhaps the Swordsman unit led by Maratang had simply worn down the Vikings with their relentless terror tactics.
The moment seventy percent of the outposts erupted in flames, a massive horn blast pierced through the air.
Baaaaaaaam…!
[Surrender]
The Viking Main Force declared their surrender.
“T-The Vikings!? Surrender!? They’re surrendering!”
“Y-Yes! Joseon! Joseon! They won the first match! They won the first match──”
The Caster’s voice could barely be heard.
“──Yeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!”
An overwhelming roar from the spectators surged forward, drowning out everything else.

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