Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 694

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 164
54. Overtechnology (3)
Xmaster, the Viking Commander.
He had just doubted his own eyes.
‘What?’
Around a hundred Joseon soldiers were charging toward the hunting outposts.
One of the hunting outposts had already burned to ash.
‘An attack right now?’
It was an unexpected struggle.
‘Such desperation?’
Joseon should naturally have chosen to catch up to the second age as quickly as possible.
Yet they chose to attack instead.
‘Cookie… he’s even more insane than I heard.’
Whoosh.
Another outpost began to burn.
The Joseon forces showed no signs of stopping.
‘If this continues…’
[Assemble]
Xmaster paused production briefly and issued an assembly command along the predicted path of the Joseon advance.
The number was one hundred.
He had gathered the same force as Joseon, even reducing hunting personnel.
‘If I can just block this attack, victory is automatic. Thanks to this.’
Cookie had made a reckless gamble.
So Xmaster intended to end the battle here.
The Vikings only needed to hold out until second age equipment arrived—then Joseon couldn’t possibly win.
[Round Shield – 19%]
[Viking Sword – 19%]
Once the elite units received these weapons, the Joseon forces would be completely eliminated.
And the Vikings would fight Joseon while in the second age versus the first age.
[Defense]
Therefore, the Vikings only needed to prevent additional damage to the hunting outposts until then.
A significantly advantageous battle.

* * *
The Joseon forces were rushing toward the next hunting outpost.
“Oh, here they come! Vikings!”
The Vikings quickly rallied their troops and swarmed the area.
“How do we get around them!?”
Joseon’s objective was to destroy the hunting outpost, so they didn’t necessarily have to fight.
However—
[Battle Maniacs]
Boom!
The Viking formation scattered in an instant.
“Ah. Right—”
—Splurt!
The head of one Joseon Soldier at the very front flew off.
Crimson blood scattered in the wind.
A Viking standing behind the spray of blood raised his axe and roared.
“Crush them all!”
The Vikings, their momentum fully ignited, all kicked off the ground and charged forward in unison.
“Waaaaaaaa!”
“Horooooo!”
The Viking Age 2 faction: Battle Maniacs.
A faction that unleashes a momentary burst of incredible speed when charging toward enemies.
“Damn it, we can’t escape!”
“Fight! Fight! We can’t run!”
This wasn’t mountainous terrain.
The Joseon Soldiers had no way to escape.
That was what made the Vikings so terrifying.
Once they closed into melee range, the initiative belonged to them.
They fought when they wanted to fight.
“Kill them!”
“Argh!”
Splurt!
Crunch!
Over a hundred soldiers on each side collided.
The battlefield quickly descended into chaos.
Naturally, Joseon was at a disadvantage.
Joseon had only clubs, while the Vikings—even those with Age 1 equipment—had some armed with axes.
If these soldiers took the front, the Vikings would win this melee.
And time itself favored the Vikings.
“When a team with Age 2 equipment arrives, we’ll win!”
It was Joseon who needed to feel the pressure here.
They couldn’t inflict sufficient damage, and the moment the situation seemed evenly matched, surrender wouldn’t have been surprising.
“D-damn it! What are we supposed to do with clubs!?”
“Is this even right? Are we just grinding each other down?”
Anxiety flickered across the faces of the Joseon soldiers. It was only natural.
At first glance, this was an overwhelmingly disadvantageous battle.
The blue dots on the minimap were gradually being pushed back by the red dots.
The soldiers in the first line had already fallen completely.
The second line, witnessing their fate, fought even more poorly.
Joseon’s momentum crumbled like dominoes.
That’s when it happened.
[Archers protecting while fighting]
Whoosh!
A beam of light fell from above into the center of the Joseon forces.
Archers?
The Joseon soldiers were momentarily bewildered.
“Wait, we have archers?”
“In the first era?”
“Ah…!”
It wasn’t a planned strategy, nor something they’d practiced.
An improvised tactic born from falling into the Vikings’ trap.
But this command about having archers in the first era—
I’d experienced something like this before somewhere.
“Wait, that’s it! It’s from the defense tower! There! Almond! Almond has a bow!”
It was the strategy Joseon had used when ending France with a defense tower rush in the first era.
Utilizing even the bow from the defense tower to create a makeshift archer unit in the first era.
“Protect him!”
“Guard the ranged unit!”
A circle formed around Almond, and the Joseon soldiers raised their clubs high.
Crack!
“If we hold the line, we win!”

* * *
Watching the resolute eyes of the Joseon soldiers, the Vikings grew bewildered.
“What are those bastards doing?”
“What are they trying to defend?”
It was only natural they’d say such things—they’d invaded, yet the enemy was forming a defensive formation.
“Form a wedge formation!”
One Viking wielding an axe shouted thus, raising it high.
Rather than simply breaking through the circular phalanx, he judged it more efficient to form a wedge suited for charging assault.
Kiiing…!
He scraped his axe blade as he bellowed.
“I can take down five of them from the front! Follow behind me!”
The Vikings formed a wedge in perfect unison and began their charge.
“Waaaaaaah! Kill them! Kill them!”
“Sweep them away!”
The axe-wielder cleared the path at the very front, while the rest descended into melee combat.
It was a perfectly rational strategy—the strongest person facing the most opponents.
However, the moment the Vikings’ arrow-like wedge formation collided with the circular phalanx.
Thwip!
An arrow’s whistle pierced the air from somewhere, and all that rationality crumbled to dust.
The Viking at the front wielding his axe.
“Chaaaarge…wait?”
Two horns sprouted from his forehead. Arrows.
──Thud!
A double headshot.
“?”
Without understanding what happened, he slowly toppled backward, disappearing into the dust of the battlefield.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud!
The Vikings charging behind didn’t see what happened and simply trampled over him as they rushed forward.
“Wh-what!? What just happened!”
Lost in the chaos, a Viking directly behind him spun around in shock, looking about frantically.
An arrow had definitely flown through the melee.
But Joseon was in the first age!
“Damn it! They have bows! Bows!”
“What!?”
But his voice couldn’t carry across the entire battlefield.
The Vikings were already surging forward, swinging their clubs wildly at the Joseon soldiers.
Unaware of what lay hidden within the formation that Joseon had encircled.

* * *
Inside the circular formation that the Joseon soldiers were defending.
Danggeun and Almond stood with their bowstrings drawn, aiming at their next target.
Danggeun shouted.
“The one with the axe. There. Three o’clock.”
“Three o’clock. Confirmed.”
The arrow damage from the early game couldn’t kill a Viking with a single headshot.
There was no focused faction bonus, and the archers had no bonus damage either.
That’s why they fired at the same target simultaneously.
“Firing.”
Whoosh!
The piercing sound of arrows filled the air as two arrows struck the Viking’s head in rapid succession, the one wielding the axe at three o’clock.
Danggeun immediately scanned for the next target and shouted.
“Next, seven o’clock!”
“Seven o’clock, confirmed.”
Danggeun drew first, and Almond released in sync.
Thunk!
One arrow pierced the head, another the chest, filling the damage threshold as he fell dead.
“Grab the axe!!”
Shouts erupted among the Joseon soldiers to pick up the axe.
It was Maratang.
He pulled the axe from the dead Viking’s hand and swung it.
“Heyaaah!”
Crack!
A Viking staggered and fell.
“Forward!!”
“Raaaah!”
The Joseon forces’ momentum surged.
“One o’clock!”
“We’re out of arrows.”
“Arrows! Ah… Mister Pangeo!”
Danggeun shouted urgently toward the back.

* * *
About forty to fifty meters away from the battlefield.
Pangeo draws back his bowstring.
Two arrows were nocked on his string.
Multi-shots weren’t something I was accustomed to, but since I wasn’t trying to hit the enemies directly anyway, it didn’t matter.
I just needed to get close to the area.
“Mister! Hurry!!”
Danggeun’s voice rings out.
Since female voices aren’t that common in this game, it carries well—an advantage.
But for Pangeo right now, shooting at maximum speed, that’s actually a disadvantage.
“Wait a second, you brat!”
Whoosh~
The arrow I shot traced a deep arc and lodged into the ground near where Danggeun and Almond were positioned.
Thud-thud-thud.
Then, several arrows also landed near Pangeo.
Arrows shot from the defense tower far away.
“Okay. Now they’re really shooting a lot.”
From atop the defense tower, Spam and Ratte continuously shoot arrows at Pangeo, and he redirects them toward the combat zone.
This way, Danggeun and Almond can keep shooting while being resupplied with arrows.
“Let’s go!!”

* * *
The commentators’ eyes widened at this sight.
“Oh, wait! So that’s how they’re getting the defense tower arrows through!”
“Aaah! This is so clever! They used this strategy before! But this time it goes through one more relay!!”
and lol
It’s not even water skiing, lol
-Kyaa
-Insane
-Only Joseon can pull off this strategy fr
“Actually, if you use the defense tower arrows, the arrows are limited! That’s the problem! But they’re sending them from the defense tower to Pangeo! And Pangeo keeps spreading them out with multi-shots!”
“But aren’t Almond and Danggeun surrounded by allies like this? Is that okay!?”
“Even if allies get hit, they don’t take damage! The arrows just bounce off! You can use that to your advantage too!”
“Aaah! Cookie is pulling off this strategy right now! Improvised on the spot! Incredible!”
“Yes. And since the map is a granary with soft terrain! It’s perfect for this situation! If there were lots of trees, the arrows would get blocked, and if there were lots of rocks, the arrows would break and become unusable!”
The details are crazy.
-That’s right wow
-Does this actually work?
Protecting the marine ㅋㅋㅋ
But the Caster had doubts.
On a battlefield where nearly a hundred soldiers clashed, what role could two archers possibly play?
“King Gul! Is it really that helpful to the battlefield when just Danggeun and Almond fight from range like this!?”
“Of course! Absolutely! The efficiency is completely different! Right now the melee soldiers can only fight in the front row, right!? But ranged is different! We can kill those in the back! Even the Vikings just standing in line waiting to fight aren’t safe anymore! That’s why in famous RTS games, you see scenes all the time where one ranged unit gets protected by just a few workers while they toy with the opponent!?”
Rapper King Gul is crazy/insane
-Take a breath
Cheese rush was that from the beginning lol
-The efficiency is completely different
-ly
“Most importantly, right now!”
King Gul pointed at something for emphasis.
“They’re picking off only the soldiers with axes and dropping them!! This is the terror of ranged combat! Only the necessary enemies!!!”
It was true.
All the Vikings carrying axes had already fallen.
“Almond! Almond, your shooting speed is getting faster! Pangeo’s shooting speed has gotten faster!”
-The power of repetitive work
-Is this that division of labor thing?
-ly
and lol that’s fast as hell
Automated factory lol
Twang!
Twang!
As they grew accustomed to exchanging arrows, Almond and Danggeun’s archery accelerated.
“Ahhh! They keep falling! Danggeun! Almond! You’re practically shooting until your bowstrings snap!”
Almond didn’t even watch where the arrows fell—he simply picked them up, nocked them, and fired at the Vikings before him.
Thunk!
An arrow lodged in a Viking’s eye socket as he staggered back.
He fired another arrow at him.
The Viking fell.
Another arrow was embedded in the ground.
He picked it up and nocked it again.
He fired at a Viking trying to push through.
Crack!
An arrow buried itself in the center of the Viking’s head. Already battered from club strikes, he collapsed immediately.
“The Vikings! Their numbers are dropping noticeably! Noticeably!!!”
Danggeun and Almond no longer targeted the same enemies—they fired wildly to hit as many as possible.
Back-to-back, they unleashed arrows in all directions.
Pangeo’s arrows flew in increasing numbers and speed.
The Vikings pressed forward with mounting ferocity.
Enemies still surrounded them on all sides.
There wasn’t even time to bend down and pick up arrows.
Almond quickly nocked an arrow and fired again.
Another Viking fell.
“This is Joseon…! They don’t die here after all!? Do they get another chance!?”
“More! More! Just a bit…!”
A Viking broke through the formation and charged at him with a club raised high.
Pangeo’s arrow flew toward them.
Snap.
Almond snatched the arrow out of the air.
“!?”
“Aaaah! Almond! What was that just now!?”
In that same motion, he nocked the string immediately.
A draw and release so fast it was barely more than dipping the arrow into the bow.
Yet the accuracy remained flawless as always.
──Thunk!
The arrow embedded itself in the charging Viking’s head.
With his health still robust, the Viking didn’t fall and kept charging forward.
Almond stomped the ground with his foot.
Tap!
The club lying on the ground bounced up.
He caught it mid-air and swung it lightly in one fluid motion.
──Boom!
The charging Viking’s body flew to the right and crashed to the ground.
“Aaaaah! Joseon!!!”
The commentators’ voices rose higher and higher.
‘Huh…’
Almond looked behind the Viking who had been sent flying.
There were no more Vikings left.
Whoosh…!
Only Pangeo’s arrow reached the battlefield late.
Neither Danggeun nor Almond pulled it out.
There was nothing left to shoot.

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