Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 763

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 233
77. The Leader (1)
I sank the Sekibune with the Swift Ship.
“Waaaaaaah!!”
“Insane! D-did that really just happen!?”
Not just the audience, but the players themselves couldn’t hide their excitement.
How many times had they ever experienced sinking a ship with arrows?
Whoooosh….
The Swift Ship advanced toward Japan as if nothing had happened.
‘If this match also ends quickly….’
I absently rubbed my right arm while gazing out at the sea.
‘I think it’ll be fine in the third match too.’
It was difficult for me to gauge exactly how significant my current achievements were.
But judging from the players’ reactions and cheers, it was clearly an extraordinary feat.
The first match had also ended in swift victory thanks to such accomplishments.
If this match went the same way, the next match would become even easier.
‘I can see it now.’
The coastline of Japan’s main base was now coming into view for the players.
“There’s no one here?”
The archers squinted their eyes and looked around in all directions, but surprisingly, no soldiers were visible blocking the shore.
“I thought they’d prevent us from even landing.”
Thud….
The ship docked without any resistance, and all the archers disembarked safely.
Compared to the Sekibune’s resistance from before, this peaceful situation felt ominously wrong.

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“Excellent! Joseon’s swift ships have finally arrived at the Japanese main base!?”
“Yes. It took far longer than expected, but we’ve arrived! Now, the problem is…”
King Gul’s eyes darted back and forth.
There were quite a few things to mention.
“First of all, we have absolutely no vision, right?”
“That’s correct. We have one falcon scout left. It’s impossible to fully illuminate the main base island with just that.”
“Exactly. This is the sea map’s characteristic—the island map feature. The ground troops who first land must advance through complete darkness without any vision, right? They have to attack without even knowing where the Japanese buildings are located.”
This was the difference from typical land battles.
The soldiers who first landed essentially had to be used for reconnaissance.
“In Ril, when you face-check without seeing into the brush, you die about 70 to 80 percent of the time, right? This situation is the same.”
No, then why did you come?ㅋㅋㅋ
-Ah
Lol, that’s a face check reality check ㅋㅋㅋ
Why doesn’t Face ID work on the Almond even though it has it? lol
If that island had been Reinado, I would have given up my entire field of vision…
-Why did they even come in the first place?
“In this situation, it’s practically impossible for the archers to secure a good position, right?”
Position was critical for archers.
If archers secured an advantageous location and started shooting, they could handle even several times more infantry.
But if they failed to secure proper positioning, just three or four swordsmen could annihilate an entire archer unit without issue.
Right now, in this battle, the archers were already at a disadvantage from the start.
“Yes, that’s right. How can you secure a good position without knowing the terrain? Whether that’s even possible with just one falcon scout depends entirely on luck!”
“Wait!? Then why did they come in the first place!? After all that struggle to get here! There’s literally nothing!”
“Right! We’ve come to this island where there’s treasure, barely alive! The real treasure is the memories you’ve all created together through this adventure! That’s what they’re saying, right!?”
Damn, haha
hahahahahaha
Just thinking about it pisses me off lol
-So what’s the point
“Even so, the reason Joseon sent archers in the second era! That reason has actually faded significantly now!”
“Yes!?”
That was true.
Joseon had already arrived far later than intended.
Sorry for being late ㅠ
-If they’d gone in earlier, the story would’ve been different
-Still, we got one Sekibune, so it’s fine
“We’re late. If we’d come straight through earlier! Japan wouldn’t have had much defensive infrastructure yet! We could’ve scouted carefully without them noticing! But now Japan has all their scout units deployed in the area!?”
“Ah! An assistant commander is positioned far away right now, showing us all the vision!”
Japan had vision while Joseon had none—the situation was becoming one-sided.
“This means Ringo’s earlier attempt to predict and block them was actually a very sound decision, wasn’t it?”
“Yes. Actually, that’s correct. That’s why I said I was at a huge disadvantage, right? But now that I’ve caught the Sekibune, the situation has shifted a bit… Ah, but what’s more important right now is Joseon’s main base!”
“What!? Joseon’s main base!?”
King Gul had been wanting to bring this up since earlier.
“During the battle with the Sekibune! Joseon barely produced any workers or fishing ships!?”
“Ah… because they were too focused on that battle!?”
“That appears to be the case.”
In truth, it was a natural phenomenon.
It’s the very reason most RTS professional gamers ultimately prioritize macro management over micro control.
The concentration required to secure victory in small skirmishes causes them to fall behind in economy, which accumulates into overall game losses.
‘But Daisunsin Choi didn’t do that.’
What puzzled King Gul was that whenever Daisunsin Choi appeared with Joseon, they fought without any such handicap.
That’s precisely why her strategy of fighting without losses always worked.
To be precise, it wasn’t really her ‘strategy’ so much as…
‘She was simply in a different weight class.’
Her caliber as a commander was incomparable from the start.
As the analyst for Joseon, ranked last in power rankings, he couldn’t easily say such things, so he hadn’t.
Interpreting his roundabout explanation, it ultimately meant that Daisunsin Choi’s caliber was higher, and Joseon’s early skirmish combat power—led by Almond—was also superior.
The only thing that could truly be called ‘strategy’ was the precise calculation of how much resources needed to be invested to secure victory.
Everything else was ultimately just ‘skill difference.’
“Wait. Daisunsin Choi is falling behind on workers!? And even fishing ships!?”
It was no wonder the Caster was surprised.
Especially since fishing ships are crucial for food production on sea maps, and Joseon absolutely must maintain 20% more—or even up to 50% more—fishing ships than Japan.
If they start falling behind there, the food gap will widen significantly in practice.
Land animal hunting is handled by the players themselves, so it doesn’t stop, but the difference becomes pronounced as the game progresses into the mid-game.
After all, the opponent is Japan, an island nation faction.
“Ah. You see, among the commanders, some aren’t comfortable with direct control? Daisunsin Choi is fast at issuing orders, but she’s had a tendency to consistently avoid direct control. I suspect that might be the reason.”
ㅠㅠ (crying face/tears)
-What???? Bad condition?
-Don’t catch Ratte with just one marine, you need a ton of marines lol
-A lot was sacrificed for that superplay
-Huh? Choi Sun-sin’s form is off today?
In fact, even existing Civil Empire players found King Gul’s explanation difficult to accept.
There wasn’t a drastic difference in concentration consumption between issuing orders and direct control.
Remembering the absurd performances Daisunsin Choi had shown until now, they couldn’t understand this current lag.
The more one understands the game, the more ambiguous this point becomes.
“Ah! But while I’m explaining this!? The archers!? Aaaah…!”

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As is well known, the Civil Empire’s maps have strong randomness.
Only certain concepts remain fixed, while the locations of resources, the paths leading to them, and even the positions of mountains all differ.
The prelude to navigation is a map where nothing is predetermined except for the island map concept itself.
Naturally, it was the map with the highest degree of randomness.
Whiiiiiiii!
I watched the falcon soaring through the sky. I pondered.
‘It hasn’t found anything.’
If it had, the command would have been different.
[Search]
The command remained search, and the ping was marked on areas where the falcon wasn’t flying.
This meant I still didn’t know the exact location.
Normally, an assistant commander would ride a horse to conduct reconnaissance, but now the archers were walking on foot to scout, so time continued to slip away.
“It’s a mountain path.”
After walking on flat terrain, we eventually climbed onto a mountain path.
[Search]
The command was to search here without missing anything either.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes, sir.”
The archers followed with brief acknowledgments.
When we first destroyed the Sekibune and landed, they were lively and full of vigor, but gradually they fell silent.
Fatigue was likely accumulating from the continuous searching.
Though we weren’t actually walking, constantly being vigilant about our surroundings with the thought that enemies could appear anywhere was exhausting.
Especially on mountain paths like this, we had to walk so quietly that even breathing could be heard.
Crunch.
We couldn’t help but startle at the sound of a single leaf being stepped on.
“Ugh… what was that.”
Pangeo aimed his bow to the right for no reason, then shook his head.
“Pangeo, you were just─”
Ratte laughed, trying to ease the tension for a moment.
Crunch!
“!”
I spun around sharply.
But I was one step too late.
──Swhiiiiing!
One archer’s head flew up, then rolled across the mountain ground.
It was a swordsman.
A swordsman had been hiding behind a tree.
“Shoot!!”
As I shouted and fired an arrow, all the archers instantly unleashed arrows toward the black shadow that had flashed past.
Splortch!
The swordsman became a porcupine in an instant and collapsed.
However, Danggeun cried out.
“No! Don’t lower your guard elsewhere!”
The problem was that everyone’s attention had focused on the arrival of a single person.
Swoooosh!
Another swordsman rushed in and swung his blade.
With half water and half fish, someone else fell as expected.
Not just one.
This time, two fell.
Thwack!
The charging swordsman was struck in the head by Almond’s arrow and fell as well.
Now there were seven archers.
[Alert Formation]
At this moment, an order came down.
“Into alert formation!!”
Twang.
The archers all drew their bowstrings in unison, pressing their backs against each other.
Then, no more swordsmen appeared.
[Alert Movement]
The archers moved slowly while maintaining their alert stance.
Already slow, they became even slower.
Though they benefited somewhat from the mountain clan’s inherent speed, maintaining constant vigilance while moving was fundamentally impossible.
Ding.
At this moment, a separate message arrived for Almond.
[Cannot See]
The commander’s vision was obstructed in the mountainous terrain.
Commanders normally looked down from above, but the trees blocked the view below.
Therefore, I couldn’t target where the swordsmen were in advance.
Gulp.
Almond swallowed dryly.
I had grown accustomed to Daisunsin Choi’s orders in the meantime. The weight of having to navigate this situation on my own without her assistance pressed down heavily.
‘Sending me out saying she can’t see means….’
The commander was telling me to move based on my judgment in the field.
That meant she was entrusting that judgment to me, now as the leader.
“So, our objective is….”
First, I decided to establish the highest priority objective in this situation.
“For now, let’s focus on surviving and scouting the enemy’s main base location.”
Objectives like harassing the enemy’s base resources were pushed to secondary priority.
Right now, Japan knew our position, but we didn’t know theirs.
I had no choice but to postpone the larger objective.
I glanced sideways at Danggeun to gauge her reaction.
“Okay.”
Everyone nodded at my words.
‘Good.’
They didn’t really trust me so much as they believed the Commander had issued orders to the Leader.
I didn’t bother correcting that misunderstanding.
“Ahem. Well, we need to move quickly then. Drop your guard and advance.”
I cleared my throat unnecessarily while checking Danggeun’s expression.
“Drop your guard and advance~”
She echoed the command without hesitation, lowering her bow.
‘Good.’
The Archers moved forward one step at a time, much more quickly now.
Knowing the Leader was relaying orders from the Commander gave me confidence.
They must have determined there was no danger nearby, so they dropped their guard. That was my reasoning.
I grew more confident myself.
“Let’s run. Move fast.”
I meant to scout this area at a sprint.
“Okay.”
Thud-thud-thud-thud.
I wanted to move as quickly as possible using the mountainous terrain to our advantage.
My decision wasn’t based on a comprehensive understanding of the situation.
I wasn’t even certain myself.
But I did have one concept: I needed to find the main base before reaching the 3 o’clock position and deal some damage.
‘If things go wrong, I can always find them again if I survive.’
I was simply moving forward with the belief that I could take responsibility for this situation somehow.

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Meanwhile, the swordsmen hiding behind the trees.
“…What? Why are they suddenly running so fast?”
“What?”
They whispered to each other in bewilderment.
“They’re running! Suddenly!”
“Damn it…! What are these crazy bastards thinking!?”
The plan to slowly approach the enemies on alert and take them down one by one had unexpectedly changed.
“Change of orders. We run too!”

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