Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 715

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 185
61. Three Bows (2)
“Almond! He’s practically running like a Persian Archer!?”
“If you’re not careful, you’d think he was on their side!”
-Hahahaha
-For real
-What is this lol
-Lmao
Somehow, Almond and the Persian Archers had begun running almost in parallel formation.
“With all these trees in the way, they can’t hit each other…!?”
“That’s right. Shooting while running must be difficult!? How far are they going to run!?”
Shooting while running itself wasn’t the problem.
Persia was a prime example.
“Persia! They’re starting to unleash volleys!”
They were strong enough in moving shots to fire volleys while sprinting.
In English-speaking regions, they even call shooting backward while riding on horseback a “Parthian Shot.”
But shooting while running wasn’t the issue.
“Trees! All the arrows are hitting the trees!!”
When running through a forest like this, trees block the path over 90% of the time.
Since Almond had to dodge every tree between himself and them, that probability kept diminishing.
Right now, they were firing wildly as if demanding he enter between the trees and get hit.
“Ah, they’re all missing!?”
“The environment makes it difficult for both sides to land hits!? It’s just suppressive fire at this point… Huh!?”
That was when it happened.
Almond, who had been merely running, suddenly drew his bowstring taut.
──Thwack!
An arrow pierced through a head.
-???
-What
-Huh?
From a third-party perspective, it all happened in an instant.
“D-Did Almond just land that with a single shot!?”
The arrow Almond fired had penetrated his opponent’s head.
“I-Insane! Almond! You landed that from here!? With just one shot!!”
-Wow crazy
-Sick
-Wow
-???: Frog in a well or whatever, blah blah blah…
-Terrifying
“Now the Persian Archers are outnumbered!! Only three remain!!”
Joseon had four units, Persia had three.
Currently in this forest, Joseon held the numerical advantage.
“The problem is, neither side knows that!?”
However, neither side had a perfect count of the other’s forces.
Pangeo and his group were sprinting toward their base without looking back, and the enemies likely didn’t know the exact number of Joseon troops either.
“Right now, only Almond probably knows roughly! We have more!”
Only Almond, who knew his own side’s numbers and was pursuing the enemy while observing their count, could accurately understand the current situation.
“Ah, does Almond even know!?”
-Of all people, just him lol
-Only Almond can know, so I’m not sure;
-Lol
-Let’s say he doesn’t know
“Almond! You need to know! It’s not even bad if four of us just surround them and fight it out numerically!”
“Ah, well! It seems Cookie would need to see it for orders to be possible, but….”
Suddenly the Observer shows the entire flow from a distant vantage point.
“Ah. Cookie is busy right now deploying other archers to check the other resource locations! This is─”
──Thwack!
Another arrow pierced straight through someone’s skull.
“!?”
“!”
The commentators all fell silent for a moment, their mouths hanging open in shock.
‘Did he just die?’
One of Persia’s three archers was dead. Incredibly anticlimactically.
As if Almond was saying this is the difference between you and me.
“Waaaaaaaaaaa!!”
The crowd erupted in cheers, and only then did the commentators finally speak.
“O-one of the three archers! The ID is… Rga? Was it Rga!? Rga is down!!!”
-Wow
-Nice
-What even is this??
-Lol
-Joseon’s dominating for real
-This is it, this is it
-My lord, one of the three thugs is down~
-Joseon archers are the best, period!
“In bow versus bow! They don’t just trade blows back and forth for ages! There’s none of that! You just land a headshot and they’re gone!!”
“That’s right! So now Persia has two left!? It’s Kenin and Upla right now!?”
“Both of them are stopping right now!?”
Screeeech──
The Persian archers finally come to an abrupt halt.
I judged that at this rate, we’d all be dead before even reaching the main base.
“Shooting while running doesn’t work against Almond, right!?”
“But! Almond keeps running!? Keeps going!! Where is he headed!? The main base!?”
They stopped pursuing Pangeo’s group and tried to catch Almond, but he simply continued running.
“Right! After all, if he goes to the main base, those people have to follow him!?”
“Oh, no!? He’s not heading to the main base!?”
“Huh!?”
Almond wasn’t running toward the main base.
He started running in circles around his opponent as the center point.
“Oh, wait, what is this….”
The Persian players stood still while Almond ran around in circles.
“This is dangerous for Almond!? If the Persian players just stand there and shoot─”
──Pababababang!
Frosio and Kenin unleashed an incredible barrage of arrows with rapid-fire speed.
-Wow
-What
-Gasp
-That’s fast though
“They’re shooting this fast! At this rate, honestly, even if Almond shoots, the arrows could just collide mid-air and fall! It’s hard to shoot!?”
“Why make such a choice… wait!? They’re all missing!?”
The arrows certainly came close to Almond.
Just like in soccer where a goal sometimes appears to have gone in due to the angle, this too looked at first glance like Almond would become a pincushion.
That’s how close the arrows were shot.
Especially Kenin’s rapid fire—it was accuracy befitting someone called a divine archer.
“What’s this?”
Strangely, none of the arrows hit Almond.
Thunk!
Thwack!
They embedded themselves in trees here and there.
But no arrows struck Almond.
‘As expected.’
Almond continued running as if he’d figured something out.
“Ah! Captain! Now I understand! That’s why you told me to run!?”
-That’s why he made us do running drills…
-But where did everyone who participated in the training go, and he’s doing it alone lol
-Such a grand strategy
-He’s fighting alone anyway, so why make the rest run lol
Thunk!
Thwack!
Persia’s arrows continued to fail to land properly.
The arrows came close to Almond, but whether he was dodging or for some other reason, they never made contact with him.
It was such a bizarre phenomenon that even the commentators were bewildered.
“Wh-what!? Almond!? This isn’t hitting either!?”
“What is this!? Is he just moving around randomly!? Is this sorcery!?”
-LMAOOO
-The sorcerer is casting spells~
-What’s going on?
-Is this even possible??
Rather, the Persian Archer who had been attacking unilaterally was the one caught off guard.
Almond wasn’t even firing arrows, yet he wasn’t getting hit either.
“Wait, Almond isn’t shooting at all and he’s just continuously moving. This means… he’s focusing entirely on his movement!?”
The reason Almond couldn’t shoot was simple. It meant he was concentrating on something else just as much.
-KKKKK
-So he’s dodging just by watching? For real?
-Crazy
-Is this toying with them?
-This is possible?
-He’s insane in every way…
-Guess “nuts” fits him perfectly
“Wait, this kind of play is possible!? Is this even feasible!? His condition looked incredible, but…”
He was concentrating solely on dodging, as if he were taunting those called divine archers.
“No, is this just a matter of condition!? If it were blocking with a shield, sure! But he’s getting shot at dozens of times and he’s dodging all of it…”
“Then is this really sorcery!? Almond Sorcery!?”
-Almond Sorcery lol certified KKKK
-KKKKKK
-???: You’re using sorcery, I see?
“It’s gotta be a bug! This is the kind of thing that makes you say that!?”
“It’s not a bug, it’s sorcery!”
-So it’s confirmed as sorcery now?
-???: Do you know the Way of Almond?
-LMAOOO
-Hey Almond, let’s see if you can bloom plum blossoms with a bow from the Age 2
-Sorcery = Bug
Sensing something was amiss, the Persian Archers began a cautious probe rather than continuing to shower arrows.
‘What is this.’
‘Why aren’t they hitting.’
They slowly advanced their steps toward Almond, who still wasn’t firing arrows.
“But! What you need to pay attention to right now!? Pangeo’s group has just reached the Workers!?”
However, time was on Almond’s side.
From the moment Joseon infiltrated the Archers into the forest and deployed them to other resource locations, the game had already become considerably favorable.
“I’m running workers right now! Persia! They’re going to take damage, aren’t they?”
Kenin and Upla, facing off against me, couldn’t help but feel their urgency mounting.
“Persian archers in the forest! You’re getting anxious, aren’t you!? Here they come again!”
Twang!
Persia resumed their barrage.
Yet unlike before, they weren’t firing in rapid succession—instead, they were shooting methodically, one arrow at a time.
“Huh? One at a time? Why are they doing that?”
“It feels like Persia is trying to confirm something?”
What could Persia be trying to verify?
Twang.
As another arrow flew, King Gul’s eyes, watching from above, caught something.
‘Huh? The range is…?’
The arrow Persia fired did come close to me, but it fell short before reaching.
‘What is this?’
So I hadn’t dodged all those arrows after all.
In Civil M, such a thing was nearly impossible. The arrows in Civil M weren’t designed as elements meant to be dodged.
When the archer shoots, the target should be hit—that’s how Civil M arrows work.
But there was an exception to this.
Of course, if the range doesn’t reach, even a perfect hit is useless.
‘Why is this happening?’
From above, the observer’s eye could roughly see the range indicator.
Clearly, I was within the Persian archers’ range.
Not even at the edge—I was well within it.
Whoosh!
Watching the arrow fly again, King Gul realized it.
‘A curve shot.’
When you shoot a curve shot, you can’t travel the full range normally provided.
Since the arrow takes a curved path instead of a straight line, it requires more power.
Like an airplane that needs more fuel if it doesn’t fly direct but stops somewhere along the way.
‘They figured that out?’
The problem was that this depended on how much curve was added.
I had figured out the amount of curve Persia habitually applied.
So while they themselves barely understood their own range, I was maintaining a precarious position…
Slip.
‘!’
When the opponent fired, I was essentially just moving back and forth, letting the arrows pass by.
“Ah, wait—Player Almond!? You’re calculating the opponent’s curve shot range precisely! I’m not even sure if this is possible! That’s what it looks like right now!?”
“Yes!? But doesn’t the opponent not even know their own range!?”
“Curve shots vary depending on how much curve is applied… it would be confusing! But Player Almond is maintaining a position that’s genuinely confusing enough for them!”
That was exactly right.
Even the archer shooting was uncertain.
Whether the opponent dodged and the arrow missed, or if trees blocked it.
At the edge of the curved shot’s range, he swayed back and forth as if possessed by spirits.
It looked as though he was dodging everything.
No, in truth, this skill was barely different from actually dodging everything.
“If this isn’t sorcery, what is it!!!”
Hahahahaha
Sudden acceleration lol
-real sorcery
-whew~
“Almond! You’re doing an excellent job buying time! Meanwhile, what about Pangeo right now!?”
The commentators’ attention had already shifted toward Pangeo.

* * *
Meanwhile, Almond, who had been continuously dodging arrows, had no intention of killing them.
[Just delay the time]
Even if I just drag out the time like this, it benefits Joseon.
Besides, those two seemed difficult to kill with their superior accuracy and agility.
Joseon’s bow had greater range, but that was only when concentration was built up.
Either way, I became defenseless when shooting. If I build concentration and fire one shot, the other thug will shoot at me.
Ultimately, I would take an arrow. So it was better to follow Cookie’s orders.
‘Did they notice?’
Seeing that they weren’t firing in rapid succession, it seemed Persia had noticed the arrows weren’t reaching.
‘They’ll attempt something.’
I observed the Persian Archers.
What would their next move be?
Then, I recognized one person’s face.
It was Kenin.
“…?”
I suddenly recalled those words.
‘I’ll leave the details to your judgment on the field.’
Cookie’s orders weren’t absolute.
Twang.
I drew the bowstring.
‘I must kill both of them simultaneously.’
If even one survived, I would die.
If the two moved perfectly separately, I would be at a disadvantage since I couldn’t rapid-fire with concentration.
‘Ah.’
I pondered for a moment, then curled the corners of my mouth upward.
The Viking match came to mind.

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