Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 759

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 229
75. The Crime of Leaving the Island (3)
Right after Joseon versus Persia.
Sarang answered as if making an excuse.
“Siege weapons… I don’t really use them.”
It was her response to Chiseung’s question about why she didn’t use siege weapons well.
From the 3rd and 4th eras onward, properly utilizing siege weapons has a significant impact on victory and defeat.
Yet she displayed a peculiar reluctance to use them.
It was the same during practice, but worse in actual combat.
Chiseung was not the type to miss such details.
“Would it be alright if I asked why?”
He was a man who analyzed every match. He had long since noticed that her usage frequency was unusually low.
He knew she didn’t prefer them.
But he didn’t expect her to avoid using them even when necessary.
For example, the elephant battle against Persia.
Knocking swordsmen off the walls while fighting was certainly overwhelming in terms of cost efficiency, but it carried significant risk.
In the second match, it didn’t work out properly, and in the third match, it couldn’t be said the strategy went completely as planned.
Because the opponent had placed Anausha on top of the elephant, most of the swordsmen were brutally cut down the moment they landed.
Yet Sarang either dropped swordsmen to kill them or relied on Almond’s Chataemeen to handle the elephant.
In fact, it would have been easy to deal with the elephant using either the Shingi Jeon or even an inferior Onager.
‘Especially with control and physicality like hers… she would have completely annihilated them.’
The reason people typically avoid using siege weapons is lack of confidence in their control.
Siege weapons are operated through the commander’s direct control.
Both attacks and movement fall entirely under the commander’s purview.
Someone like Cookie, who preferred issuing broad strategic commands, had reason to avoid them.
‘Cookie hyung still uses them though.’
Even Cookie uses siege weapons when he chooses to.
‘Why doesn’t this person…’
What was curious was that Choi Sa-rang possessed far superior micro-control abilities compared to Cookie, yet she refused to use siege weapons.
He wanted to know the reason.
As the person responsible for this team’s strategy.
“…”
However, Choi Sa-rang simply maintained her silence without uttering a word.
Why should I tell you something like that?
That was the look in her eyes.
Choi Sa-rang.
This woman occasionally displayed such an arrogant demeanor.
It seemed to be a deeply ingrained habit.
Chiseung had always feared the eyes of such people.
The eyes of those born into the upper class, predators by birth.
As someone who had been a herbivore eating grass since birth, Chiseung trembled whenever he faced her directly.
However, even herbivores bare their teeth when someone tries to burn the grass they need to eat.
Moreover, Civil M was far more than just grass that Chiseung ate three times a day.
It was his life.
Chiseung gritted his teeth and spoke with stubborn persistence.
“Don’t give me that look. This isn’t just about me anymore, is it?”
“….”
She gazed out the distant window, exhaling shallowly.
“Then just do it yourself, Chiseung. Remember why this stopped being just your problem?”
I knew this was coming.
“We asked you to do this. I’m not even in Rolster. I think Sarang is the optimal choice.”
“So why don’t you just go along with it?”
“That won’t work.”
“You begged us to join, and now you’re going to tell us what to do? Right now?”
Chiseung felt it.
This person was fundamentally different from Almond.
Yes, she wasn’t wrong.
I knew it was shameless. We pleaded with her to join, dragged her in, and now we’re telling her what to do.
It was infuriating.
But the world couldn’t work so neatly that everything revolved around saving face.
Chiseung simply nodded.
For the team’s victory, if he had to become a shameless thug who didn’t care about dignity, then he would.
“Yes.”
At his brazen answer, Sarang’s eyes turned openly fierce.
Chiseung’s heart pounded and his hands trembled, but he finished speaking.
“Telling people what to do is my job. It’s not about hierarchy or anything else. It’s just my job.”
She continued to glare at him.
It seemed like she was daring him to say more.
“You already agreed anyway. You said you’d be with us. Whether you like it or not, we’re a team.”
“Since when.”
“We’re in the same boat. Sarang holds the helm, but she has to listen to those rowing too. And….”
Chiseung cried out almost tearfully.
“You… you had fun too!!”
“…?”
“When we won the game! You laughed! I saw it all!? We won and laughed together! We linked arms! So we’re a team! Isn’t that right!? Isn’t that what a team is!?”
As Chiseung jumped up and shouted passionately, Sarang stared at him blankly for a moment.
「Whether we win or lose, we win and lose together. That’s what a team is. It’s not about whether you’re in or out.」
An old voice echoed through her mind.
Chiseung asked again.
“Should we develop a siege weapon strategy or not. Give me an answer.”
“I can’t use siege weapons.”
“Why not?”
“….”
She paused for a moment before confessing.
“Direct control consumes too much stamina….”
“Stamina…?”
“Moving siege weapons seems to be judged the same as me moving myself.”
She gestured toward her own legs.
Thin legs covered by a blanket. Legs that required a wheelchair. Legs that couldn’t be used.
“I originally can’t move. But if I move there… it’s complicated to explain, but something bad happens. The same applies to Almond’s archery.”
“?”
What?
Almond too?
Chiseung was learning this for the first time.
He had known that Almond had physical issues inside the capsule, but he hadn’t realized it was because he was moving in the virtual world when he originally couldn’t move.
Something flashed through his mind at that very moment.
“Then… how will you handle naval combat in the quarterfinals?”
The ocean map that appears in the quarterfinals.
Here, whether you like it or not, you must fight with ships.
“Ships also require you to move them directly like siege weapons.”
The commander must move the ship directly as well. Only the soldiers handle firing.
He had dealt with the elephants using swordsmen somehow, but you couldn’t fight with swordsmen on the ocean.
Even Joseon’s prized arrows were useless at destroying ships.
“Is it possible for you?”
“One match should be possible.”
“What about the next one?”
“The next one… that shouldn’t happen.”
“!?”

* * *
Joseon vs Japan.
Quarterfinals.
The players were entering for the second match.
“Wooooooooah…!”
The roar of the audience and the sound of drums filled the arena.
Chiseung spoke while pushing the wheelchair.
“I saw that fake national team earlier.”
She didn’t particularly respond.
Whirrrrr.
The capsule opened and as Chiseung helped her inside, he spoke again.
“You really do think we’re one team, don’t you?”
Chiseung was referring to her interview.
In the interview, she had said she wanted to be on the same team as them.
“That’s just devil’s editing.”
Pfft.
Chiseung deliberately laughed even louder and shut the capsule lid.
“Let’s go! Fake national team!!!”
Thud.
After the lid closed, the light cut off and there was only darkness.
Sarang stared into the darkened space for a moment.
Then she rotated both her hands in a circle.
‘Let’s finish this.’
Even if it’s a naval battle, I should be able to handle one match.
Just like Almond can now play about three matches.
After the countdown began.
[Game Start]
Light burst forth from the center of the black landscape, and the game began.

* * *
“Joseon versus Japan! Japan versus Joseon! These two will clash on the sea in Game 2!”
Roooaaarrr!
Thunderous cheers erupted from the audience, Korean and Japanese alike.
Japan hoped for the beginning of a comeback, while Korea sought to capitalize on this momentum and crush them completely.
Boom…!
The augmented reality hologram produced a heavy sound effect as it rendered the map onto the arena.
Terrain began to rise, and towering mountains emerged.
Then, the peaks of those mountains were sheared away, flattening them.
Red Joseon and blue Japan took their positions atop the massive mountains.
“1 o’clock! Joseon! 7 o’clock! Japan! They’re positioned at opposite diagonal ends!”
Whoooosh…!
Water cascaded into the arena in a spectacular display, and a blue sea rose to fill it.
Instantly, all the towering mountains became islands, with the two largest islands serving as each side’s main base.
-Wow
-So this is a sea map lol
-Amazing
-So hyped for this
The map’s name was displayed prominently in the center of the arena.
[Voyage’s Prelude]
Voyage’s Prelude.
Over 70% of the map was ocean, and aside from each side’s main base territory, the only land consisted of a few scattered islands floating in the middle of the sea.
“Ah. Voyage’s Prelude has appeared! King Gul, could you give us an explanation?”
“Of course. It’s a representative sea map, you see? The starting main base is the largest landmass, and beyond that, there are small islands scattered throughout the sea! Each of these islands contains quite a bit of resources.”
“Ah, I see? Each one?”
“Yes. One might have gold, another wood, another stone… and so on. So depending on the situation, the islands each side targets can differ. In many cases, they overlap, which leads to considerable combat here.”
After the game started, each Barbarian Soldier scattered individually to scout the islands.
“Now, since they know this is an island map, the Barbarian Soldiers scout alone without a unit formation! Their scouting purpose is simply hunting and identifying resource locations on their home island.”
“Ah, I see. Since they won’t actually encounter enemies! They move alone like this! It’s the same for Japan! Japan’s workers immediately rush to the sea as soon as the game starts?”
“That’s right. Because the amount of food they gain is so different! They go straight to the sea! They get 15% more from fishing, you see?”
Splash.
Japan’s workers cast their nets and begin fishing.
Meanwhile, Joseon’s workers continue as usual, mining wood and gold, while soldiers butcher the animals they bring back.
“What’s your assessment of the advantage in this match?”
“As I explained before the match started, the sea map itself is disadvantageous for Joseon. More precisely, Japan has the advantage.”
“Ah. It’s the food issue, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Food is the foundation of all close combat… and besides, ships consume a lot of food too? When you produce a ship, the workers who automatically generate to row it are also counted as food consumption.”
“Ah… that makes sense!”
“Yes. But!”
“But?”
“Food isn’t the core resource on ocean maps.”
“Ah, is that so?”
“Yes. There won’t be any conflicts over food on ocean maps.”
“Ah! Because there’s an abundance of it!?”
That was correct.
The ocean was a treasure trove of food.
Fish never ran dry.
The only difference was the harvesting speed, meaning Joseon would never face food shortages either.
“What matters on the ocean is the resources needed to build ships. Ships do consume a lot of food, of course, but as I mentioned, they never deplete. Wood will become quite important—it’s a scarce resource on ocean maps and goes into ships heavily. Next would be gold, which will be needed in large quantities. Advanced weapons absolutely require gold investment.”
So the core resources on ocean maps weren’t food, but gold and timber.
“The key is how well both sides secure these two resources and how skilled they are at naval combat!”
“Now, both sides are currently building shipyards. As you said, ships are the most important element on this map, and…”
Those crucial ships would soon be constructed.
“First, they’ll probably build fishing vessels, right?”
“Yes. And… Joseon! They’re advancing to Age 2 first, as expected!?”
Boom.
[Joseon – Age 2]
Joseon entered Age 2 the moment the shipyard began construction.
-Wow
-The god of age advancement lol
-Japan still has a ways to go
The blessing of Born to Be is amazing.
-The nation of Nalbit
-The nation of early rushes
All manner of titles flooded the chat.
That’s how remarkable Joseon’s age advancement speed was today.
“Excellent. This way we can produce combat ships faster and occupy the ocean more quickly!?”
“Right. On ocean maps, the fiercest battle is the struggle to control these waters, after all?”
Just then, the shipyard finished construction.
[Shipyard – Complete]
“Now, there are two types of ships available in Age 2. One is the Fire Ship that can launch flaming arrows. It’s rather slow, though. On the other hand, there’s the Swift Ship that can catch up and ram enemies.”
“For Joseon, Fire Ships would be the obvious choice, right?”
“That’s correct. Since flaming arrows concentrate their damage… eh?”
Fire Ships are what’s called defensive towers on the sea. When archers are stationed on them, every arrow they fire becomes a flaming arrow.
This is extremely efficient in early naval battles.
But Joseon chose the ‘Swift Ship’ instead.
[Swift Ship – 1%]
“What’s this?”

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