Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 735

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 205
68. Monster Clash (2)
“W-wait, people are falling from the sky!?”
Countless soldiers plummet simultaneously from atop the city wall.
Toward the elephant.
They are diving toward the elephant.
“Bisaaaaaang!”
Hahaha, it’s kind of an emergency though.
-Emergency dive~
Hahaha emergency hahaha
Atop the elephant, Persian archers frantically draw their bowstrings.
Pababababang!
A volley of arrows intercepts the plummeting soldiers.
Though the arrows seemed numerous enough, striking soldiers in rapid free-fall one by one proved far from simple.
The descent happened in an instant, and before long they were already upon the elephant.
Kuung!
Numerous soldiers landed atop the elephant.
Of course, not all of them stuck the landing successfully.
Of the forty who fell, roughly thirty managed to stand in a state fit for combat.
“This much! We’ve survived quite well, haven’t we!?”
A quarter had been eliminated before the battle even began, yet King Gul considered this a respectable survival rate.
The enemy were archers, and we were swordsmen.
“Thirty soldiers! If they’re alive, that’s all we need! Archers can’t do anything once we’re close!!”
The thirty surviving swordsmen charged across the elephant’s head and back, their blades flashing.
Their targets were the archers mounted on the elephant’s back. Some fell in gruesome fashion, others hastily shifted position and dropped their bows, while still others slipped and tumbled off. It was absolute chaos.
As the swordsmen closed the distance, the archers found themselves helpless.
“Excellent! Absolutely! Total pandemonium!”
I thought that once we cleared the elephant’s back and slashed the beast to pieces, we’d be done.
“Huh!?”
Kaaaaang…!
Some blade blocks our path.
“Persia!? You didn’t just put archers on the elephant! You’ve deployed other infantry units too!!”
Elifer, who had already suffered defeat at the hands of Almond alone in the previous match.
He had stationed different unit types on several elephants, even if it meant wasting valuable space.
[Anausha]
Figures clad in terrifying iron masks, wielding a pair of sleek curved scimitars each.
The Anausha—Persia’s elite special unit.
The name means “Immortals,” and they were an actual elite corps that existed in historical Persia.
“The Anausha!? This is a massive investment from Persia!”
The Anausha could only be trained after a faction upgrade.
It was because of the special ability they possessed.
[Ambush]
Ambush was one of Anausha’s special functions.
If they crouched quietly, they would become invisible to the commanders looking down from above.
They had been waiting for their opportunity while crouched behind the wooden wall of the elephant’s saddle.
So Joseon’s commanders couldn’t give a warning, and the soldiers who couldn’t see beyond the wall couldn’t see them either.
And then, close combat suddenly erupted atop the elephants.
Clang!
Clang!
The Joseon forces couldn’t help but feel intimidated.
-Scary
-They look brutal
-Wow
-Startling
It was because of the grotesque skull-like iron masks and the dark-toned armor.
Of course, Anausha’s strength wasn’t just about appearance.
Clang!
Their twin curved blades swept brilliantly as they drove the swordsmen back.
The movements were lightning-fast—far beyond what mere player skill could explain.
“Anausha has high agility! They jump high and move freely!? It feels perfect for fighting on top of an elephant! This can’t be a coincidence!?”
Just as archers have infinite arrows and spearmen get bonuses against cavalry.
Anausha is a unit that wields twin blades freely to dominate enemies in close combat, and they have an agility buff.
Agility doesn’t mean movement speed.
Even if overall movement speed stays the same, it means movements become faster within a single space.
In other words, dodging an enemy’s blade strike is faster, and thrusting attacks are faster too.
This ultimately affects attack speed, evasion rate, flexibility and attack angles, even psychological warfare.
“Aaahhh…!”
“Even if we stab the elephant, we’ll die!?”
Whoooosh──!
With Anausha’s sudden appearance, the swordsmen tumble off. Only about ten remained alive now.
“Meanwhile, Maratang! Maratang is stabbing the elephant!”
The elephant Maratang had ridden didn’t have Anausha on it.
Thrust!
He charged across its back while driving Waldo into the elephant.
“All the archers are dead! This might actually be possible!?”
Whoooooosh…!
He dragged Waldo along, dealing tremendous damage to the elephant.
However, one Anausha from another elephant leaped to an incredible height and crossed over.
“!?”
-Scary
—and
—how did he jump that far?!
—unbelievable
Whoosh!
The curved blade descended sharply, slicing through empty air.
But Maratang could no longer inflict damage on the elephant.
“Oh no, the wall’s about to collapse! We have to stop at least one of them!”
“Maratang!”
The elephant Maratang had been riding was the one closest to the fortress wall.
Every second counted, but they had to stop it.
On the elephant’s back, Anausha moved with such freedom and grace that she held an overwhelming advantage.
Slash!
The curved blade struck his abdomen, drawing a line of blood.
Maratang’s body was driven backward, tumbling off in an instant.
“Ahhh?! If this continues—?!”
Almost simultaneously with his fall.
Crash!
The elephant’s tusks pierced through the fortress wall.
Already weakened from multiple impacts, it caved in instantly.
“The first wall has been breached?!”
“Ah… this is no simple matter. Truly, Persia… a master of turtling!”
“Yes! That reputation is well-earned! Deploying Anausha as a surprise attack! They’ve completely overcome the crisis!”
From the impact, several archers atop the wall lost their footing and tumbled down.
The wall’s surface rippled like waves.
Among the chaos, an unexpected accident occurred.
“Ah, Almond?!”
“No, how could this happen!”
To make matters worse, fortune turned in the worst direction.
—how many of them are there lol
—Almond lololol
—Almond has so many of them
Almond, who had been positioned closest to the wall, firing into the depths of Persia’s main camp alongside several other archers, fell along with them.
“D-dead?!”
This was almost an accident.
Civil M was originally this kind of game. No matter how exceptional soldiers were, death came in an instant.
In war, a soldier’s life was no different from that of a fly or mosquito.
Almond was no exception.
—wait, he’s dying like this?
—is this a reaction?
—who sponsored his death
-Hahahaha, this is actually hilarious
-What’s so funny about it?
-But he always dies so anticlimactically lol
-That’s an all-time pathetic death haha
-Isn’t this the first time he died faster than Ratte?
I had nothing to do but wait for my revival.
“Well, anyway, I’ll be back up and running soon! We’re in the middle of intense combat right now, so revival is incredibly fast!”
The fortunate part was that with the battle raging, the recruitment function was operating at second-level speed.
“We still have plenty of archers on the walls, so we’re fine! Joseon! You need to apply more pressure!”
“But what do we do about the elephants now!?”
The Inspection Unit threw themselves into battle, but the elephants remained completely intact.
Though there were only four of them, once they entered Persia’s main base, Joseon would find it much harder to maintain pressure.
“Two more are coming from behind!? Persia is really squeezing every resource!!! They delayed soldier revivals just to create these elephants!? But if this shows results! It’s the right call!!”
Persia appeared to have committed everything.
Meanwhile, Joseon was conserving their revived forces.
“Joseon is preparing a cavalry charge unit at their own main base right now… Is this really the right decision!?”
The revived soldiers weren’t being sent directly to the battlefield. Instead, they were mounting horses one by one to form cavalry units.
“Cavalry is way too weak against elephants!? I don’t really understand either! Not yet! To my eyes, this looks like a suicide charge unit!?”
-For real
-What is this?
-Not mounted archers, but a cavalry charge unit??
-Moth suicide squad lol
“Joseon spread their investment across something unclear, while Persia put everything into something clearly visible!?”
“I see! If Persia shows results from this! Joseon could end up in a very disadvantageous position! Right now I can’t keep up with the judgment…!”
“Yes! Because it’s more dangerous to just keep overwhelming Persia without stopping!? These people are comeback masters!!”
The momentum that had been building suddenly broke.
It definitely looked dangerous.
Especially Anausha’s surprise attacks were devastatingly effective against the Inspection Unit soldiers jumping down from the walls.
“If these Anaushas climb up onto the walls!? It’s terrifying!?”
If they made it up to the walls currently manned primarily by archers, Joseon would be pushed back in an instant.
That’s when it happened.
[Attack]
A new command was issued to some of the archers on the walls.
“Some of the archers suddenly turned around!”
Spam, Ratte, and Danggeun, who had been consistently shooting only toward the interior of the base, turned around.
The aiming didn’t take long. Time was critical. They released their bowstrings without hesitation.
The arrows shot in a surprise volley pierced rapidly into the enemies’ chests.
Twang…!
Several Anaushas collapsed backward without even managing a scream.
Faster than sound itself.
It happened in an instant.
With just a single shift in targeting, Anausha and a significant portion of her forces were neutralized.
“In, in an instant!?”
“Clearing the elephants was crucial! Those elephants were how Anausha planned to scale the walls!? We don’t need to worry about that anymore!”
Originally, Elifer’s plan had been to send Anausha and her forces up and over the walls.
But the elephants were cleared far faster than expected.
‘Damn.’
Because of this, he had no choice but to change his strategy.
“Wha, what!?”
“He’s just going to tear it all down!!!”
He was simply going to demolish the entire wall.
“Even the ancient walls!?”
The ancient walls were terrain—neutral territory, but undeniably walls nonetheless.
Just as trees could be cleared to forge new paths, these walls could be demolished.
And if elephants were doing the demolishing, it was all the more possible.
Kuuung!
Their massive tusks began smashing into the ancient walls.
Heavy chunks of stone tumbled down with dull thuds.
Kugugung!
Four elephants struck in rapid succession.
The wall’s surface undulated like a turbulent sea.
The archers couldn’t maintain their footing.
“Th, this is dangerous! Such a sudden decision…!”
“Shouldn’t we retreat!?”
Yet the archers couldn’t flee entirely.
They had to keep firing arrows from here if they wanted to win.
“If the elephants keep hitting it, the wall will eventually collapse!!”
That was when it happened.
Phuuuuu!
One elephant raised its trunk high and shrieked.
It swayed violently side to side.
Kuung!
With a heavy sound, it collapsed.
“The, the elephant down!?”
“Suddenly!? What is it!?”
-Lottery jackpot lol
-What
-???
A thick cloud of dusty brown haze swirled violently.
As it cleared, someone burst forth.
It was Maratang.
“Marataaaaaang!!!”
King Gul cried out in anguish.
“Maratang did it! Maratang pulled it off!! Ian-yong again!!”
-Ian-yong lmaooo
-His name is insane
-Lol
“Ian-yong’s saying it! Your country’s already been sold! If you want in, pay up and get in here!!!”
-Crazy
-Wow
-Lmaooooooo
-Even Persia got sold off…
“Wait, how exactly did Maratang take down that elephant!?!”
The replay showed.
Even after falling, Maratang had gotten back up and relentlessly hacked away at the elephant’s legs.
“When he fell down! He persistently targeted the elephant’s legs! To bring it down like this! Remarkable!”
“Yes! So Maratang could keep striking the elephant! The other Swordsmen around him fighting the Persian Infantry continuously! Incredible!”
Lol in the midst of all that, he’s hitting the elephant’s leg ㄷㄷ
Even below, it’s hell ㅠ
-What about the Persian Infantry
-So many soldiers crazy
On the walls and atop the elephant it was chaos, but below it was even worse. Both sides were locked in total war.
Taking down even one elephant in this situation was a tremendous achievement.
However—
“Ah! But taking down just one…!”
The victory cry was loud but brief.
The remaining three elephants continued battering the walls.
“W-we need to evacuate, right!?”
[Evacuate]
The archers on the walls eventually evacuated.
Not long after, portions of the ancient walls came crashing down.
Craaaaaash…!
“But even if we evacuate! They’ll try to destroy it all, right!?”
The elephants didn’t stop there. Determined to leave no space to stand on the walls, they moved to demolish every section of the ancient fortification.
Some of the Joseon Archers desperately fired at the elephants, but it was futile.
Boom! Crash!
Each time the ivory struck the walls like drumsticks, they became rats trapped in a jar. There was less and less ground to stand on.
“There’s nowhere to go! We have to win against the ground forces!”
Below the walls, on the ground, the battle raged fiercely.
However, Joseon’s numbers were insufficient.
Maratang’s team is barely clinging to life.
They’re tanking with elephants at the front, archers firing from behind, and infantry protecting them.
Persia’s formation was flawless, and their reinforcements arrived swiftly.
They were losing in numbers.
“The Swordsmen are being rolled over by Anausha—the snowball is growing!”
“Wait, why aren’t Joseon’s reinforcements coming!? Looking at the minimap right now… aaahhh!”
Crumble…!
The ancient walls collapsed further.
“The cheese crust is disappearing!”
“There’s nowhere left for the archers to stand!”
“At this rate it’s not even pizza anymore! It’s just pasta with bread in it! The Joseon pizzeria’s margins don’t work out!?”
-It became a wise person’s pizza lol
The hill tank is done ㅠ
-Wait, how did it come to this???
-What are those cavalry doing?
-Why does Joseon have so few troops
“But seriously! Why aren’t Joseon’s reinforcements coming….”
Why weren’t additional Joseon forces arriving?
With the camera fixed only on this battle, the commentators couldn’t see and felt frustrated.
At that moment, the Observer shifts the viewpoint briefly toward Joseon’s main base.
King Gul’s eyes widen.
‘So that’s why!?’
It was the moment when the true nature of the snowball Joseon had been slowly and deliberately rolling became clear.
Boom.
[Joseon – 4 o’clock Position]

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