Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 767

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 237
78. Strategic Weapon (2)
“No, Choi Sun-sin!? We’ve turned all the ships around to avoid encirclement! But this looks like we’re abandoning the gold mine!?”
King Gul half-rose from his seat, shouting frantically.
Though neither side had landed a single cannon shot yet, naval battles between warships tended to collapse in one blow, making everyone more tense than ever.
“Ah. Really!? Are we conceding the gold mine!?”
“Can Japan handle the volume of ships coming out of the gold mine!?”
Japan’s gold mine was currently depleted.
Joseon had already confirmed this through falcon reconnaissance.
If we just block the gold mine, we can halt Japan’s ship production for a while.
Joseon still had gold reserves, and in the meantime, we could catch up to Japan’s resource rate.
“What trick could there be!?”
“How will we reposition the formation to enter again? Through a different coastline!?”
Perhaps by circling the island to enter, or doing something on a grander scale.
I thought there might be something like that.
But Joseon seemed focused on avoiding naval combat with Japan, simply advancing in the same direction they’d been retreating.
“Ah. Joseon’s ships are… withdrawing.”
“If this is the case, the meaning of setting sail largely disappears… This is a coastal area with many islands where flat-bottomed ships have more advantage! If we retreat from here too…”
King Gul slumped back into his chair, his voice losing all energy.
-Can’t see the angle
-What do we do??
ㅠㅠ (or -ㅠㅠ) represents crying or tears in Korean text/internet slang.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 23]
A natural English equivalent would be:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 25]
T_T
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or simply:
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😭
-Why won’t they fight??
-Still, ram them;
The viewers’ chat also reflected their disappointment.
“Now. Joseon heads toward an island that appears to have plenty of timber, densely packed with trees.”
Joseon’s ships found solace in harvesting the timber island.

The opponent needed gold urgently, and the best defense was blocking what the opponent desperately needed.
So blocking the gold was optimal.
However, Daisunsin Choi thought differently.
‘I can make timber urgent.’
I understand gold is urgent, but blocking it is difficult.
So I’ll make something else urgent.
And I’ll seize it first.
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[Exterminating the Workers]
The command reaches Almond.
He plants his feet firmly into the earth, establishing his stance.
From a position where he can target the maximum number of workers, he draws back his bowstring.
Creak.
Without even a moment to steady his breathing, he releases the string immediately.
The arrow that takes flight pierces straight through a worker’s head.
Thud!
Not the slightest flicker of emotion crosses Almond’s face. Only the thin bowstring trembles and settles once more near the corner of his mouth.
Another arrow is loosed, piercing through another worker’s head.
Thud!
The workers were so numerous that it seemed doubtful whether he could kill them all alone.
Yet he never allowed his mind to wander to such distant concerns.
He focused only on the target directly before him, the moment it drove its axe into the tree once more.
Thud!
With a sound so quiet that even the most sensitive birds would not startle, the arrow severed another worker’s life.
Collapse…!

Thus the forest remained silent.
Within that silence, arrows flew.
One after another they fell, and the next, and the next after that, all quietly coming to rest upon the ground.
Twang!
Almond looses his final arrow and lowers his bow.
At that very moment, an arrow embeds itself in the head of the last worker visible in his field of vision.
After that, he quietly moved to the next area.
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Civil M’s commanders differ significantly from typical RTS gamers.
They excel at painting the bigger picture.
They are those who sketch not the next step, but the step after that.
This doesn’t mean they’re more talented than other RTS gamers.
They simply possess this particular inclination.
The reason they developed this tendency was simple.
Since Civil M’s soldiers fought on their own, commanders had the luxury of surveying the battlefield broadly.
For this reason, a rare sight in Civil M was the ‘feint operation’.
It wasn’t easy to divert a skilled commander’s attention.
The basic principle of a feint operation was to create combat elsewhere while battle raged in one location, confusing the commander.
But Civil M could simply deploy soldiers in necessary areas and they’d fight automatically, so attention wasn’t easily diverted.
However—
“Wait, Almond!? He’s been in the forest this whole time! I forgot too!? But now Japan’s lumber is—!?”
Naval warfare was different.
As a commander, the greatest difference on island maps wasn’t abundant food from the sea or slower game tempo.
“No, Ringo, how haven’t you noticed this until now!?”
It was having to pilot the ships directly.
It was equivalent to conducting battle with your own hands.
This fundamentally changed the nature of the game itself.
Here, depending on the commander’s disposition, the concentration of attention inevitably differed drastically.
“Even if you die in one hit without a warning, the lumber resource intake speed should have changed!? Wow…! More! I’m going to kill more!”
Ringo had no idea that nearly half of the workers harvesting lumber had been slaughtered in an instant.
lol
-I was wondering why he went to the lumber island, this guy’s insane
-Wow
-???:The god still has one more arrow from Almond…
-Ringo is still sleeping~ (-_-)ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Almond moved from place to place, methodically eliminating workers in another forest.
For an archer wielding merely a short bow, his elimination speed was far too precise and swift.
Not a single warning sound had rung out.
“How many have you killed!? Oppenheimer!!!”
-lol
Oppenheimer lol
Death God is scary
ㅋㅋㅋ (laughing)
-Info) Almond isn’t a “nut” fan, he’s a “nuke” fan
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Ringo was now meticulously positioning ships to defend the gold mine island, deploying workers within them and focusing intently on mining gold.
“Ringo’s completely preoccupied right now!”
“That’s why! That’s why Joseon pretended to head for Gold Mine Island at first!?”
Because Joseon had dispatched their entire fleet as if to seize Gold Mine Island, Ringo had been on high alert regarding this matter.
That’s why he was devoting even more attention and time to it.
The thought that the main base might be in danger had long since vanished from his mind.
Is this what you were aiming for?? Creepy.
Now I finally realize, Choi Burji ㅠㅠ
-Choi Sun-sin to the National Assembly…!
“Ringo, you’ll realize it when you try to build new ships at the shipyard!?”
When mining gold from the new Gold Mine Island and placing a new order for ships at the shipyard.
You’ll notice that timber hasn’t been gathered as expected.
“Look, judging by your expression, I think you’ve already figured it out!?”
Ting! Tiing!
Ringo frantically pinged.
Haha, I was startled!
The sleepy eyes were just a concept lol
Why does this guy seriously get weaker when he opens his eyes lol
Hahaha, that’s so funny!
Ringo had reacted out of surprise, but it was more of a spinal reflex.
“Ah, Ringo, it seems you still don’t know exactly why the worker died!?”
Ringo had no idea what had actually happened to cause the worker’s death.
He never imagined it was caused by one of the archers who had landed earlier—one he had “overlooked.”
For Ringo, who had completely forgotten about that existence and was only considering the massive battle to come, it was an impossibly minute gap.
“A Joseon soldier poisoned the well!!”
I’m dying laughing
I’m dying laughing hahahahaha
As expected, the well is creepy.
-This is why a frog in a well is so terrifying…
There’s a master above the master.
-???: Sparta!
After Persia, there’s another well lol
-ten lol
-Well Master! Another one’s going down!
“Ah… I did release something quite potent?”
“Look, he seems to have caught on! Ringo!”
Japan’s swordsmen, hastily summoned, began searching the forest.
The swordsmen hadn’t entered Almond’s field of vision, but the urgent footsteps echoing from all directions were distinctly different from those of the workers.
Almond’s movements shifted slightly, and Sarang didn’t miss it.
‘He saw it.’
She ordered all the ships to set sail for Gold Mine Island once more.
Whoooosh!
While Ringo’s attention was turning back to the main force.
The coastal waters created by the small islands accelerated the flat-bottomed ships, allowing them to advance at nearly the same speed as the Japanese vessels.
“Wha—!? But at this moment! The sea sector!! Joseon is approaching again!?”
“No, they’re eerily reading the fact that Ringo is momentarily distracted with the main force and making their move!?!”
The Japanese ships remained motionless, while only the Joseon ships advanced.
The soldiers aboard the Japanese vessels likely already knew.
That the Joseon ships had appeared on the horizon.
They would have seen it clearly with their own eyes.
However, the soldiers had no way to report it to their commander.
“They’re almost entering firing range!!”
“The Japanese ships are trying to move urgently now!”
The moment Ringo’s eyes spun in panic, the Japanese ships belatedly began moving.
[Movement]
Whoooosh!
The faster Sekibune surged ahead.
“Japan’s Sekibune moving first——!”
“Ah, they really are fast!”
If Joseon secured cannon range and fired first, Japan would have no chance of victory.
They had to rush in with something before the Japanese could deploy their cannons.
That’s why they were in such a hurry.
“Because they’re moving so hastily, the Sekibune and Atakebune can’t move together!?”
It was unavoidable.
While the Sekibune rushed in to create chaos, the Atakebune had to approach closer to secure cannon range.
“The Sekibune draws aggro first! Then while the Atakebune charges in, it fires with forward cannons! That’s the strategy!”
The Atakebune had cannons not only on the sides but also on the front, making it advantageous to approach and fire while advancing.
“Ah, that’s right!? The Atakebune has cannons on the front too! So charging forward and firing while pursuing puts Joseon at a disadvantage!”
Joseon had to turn broadside to fire their cannons.
Their cannons had longer range and greater power, but they hadn’t positioned cannons on the front.
Yet Joseon’s formation seemed to completely disregard broadside positioning.
“Huh!? Joseon is forming a triangular formation while advancing!? They’re going for a breakthrough!?”
Joseon approached the Japanese warships head-on in a triangular formation with their Panokseon.
“A Panokseon breakthrough!? Can this even—”
——Screeeech!
Suddenly, the Panokseon at the very front of the formation turned sharply to the side as if slamming on the brakes.
“The moment I’m speaking! The Panokseon at the front of the triangle!! It’s turning its head!?”
Not the front of the ship, but its broadside was now exposed.
Where the cannons were located.
“It turned so abruptly it was almost about to capsize!? Fortunately it didn’t! Can it fire cannons like this!?”
“The Japanese Sekibune are approaching in single file! Even if they take cannon fire! They’re only sacrificing one ship!?”
The Sekibune gathered in a single column, reducing the number of ships that could be hit by cannon fire to just one.
From the Panokseon’s perspective, the Sekibune formed such a precise single line that it appeared as merely one vessel.
“Ah, if we fire from here, the cannon’s efficiency would be….”
Clang!
Nevertheless, Joseon prepared for bombardment. Dark, menacing cannon barrels emerged into view.
“Now, this will be the first actual cannon volley!!”
It was the first time since the game began.
The Joseon warship’s cannons fired with genuine intent to destroy the enemy.
BOOM──!
The dark cannon barrel erupted with flame and thunderous sound.
The recoil was so tremendous that the ship itself was pushed back several meters.
The blast consumed the vision of the Sekibune at the very front.
──CRASH!
In an instant, it became splinters scattered across the sea.
“Direct hit on the first shot!!!”
However─
Whoosh!
The Sekibune behind it remained intact.
It continued toward the Panokseon at the same speed, cutting through the water.
“Ah but! When they approach in a single line like this! The cannon has splash damage on the sides! But it doesn’t penetrate through!? The formation’s mage! Ringo! I’m giving you just one shot at this!”
Sekibune weren’t particularly expensive.
Trading one Panokseon cannon shot for them was a profitable exchange.
“If they keep approaching like this, the Sekibune will eventually succeed in ramming!? The leading Panokseon! It’s in danger!?”
“That’s right. The… uh, uh uh uh!?”
King Gul screamed mid-sentence.
Was it because the Sekibune was approaching the lead Panokseon too quickly?
It wasn’t.
“The lead position changed!?”
The Panokseon that had been at the front of the triangular formation was no longer in the lead.
The Panokseon on both its flanks had moved forward to take the lead.
“The originally leading Panokseon stopped and fired its cannons, moving backward! And as the wings on both sides continued forward!”
Whoosh─
Just as the original lead had stopped, the Panokseon on both sides braked and turned sideways to halt. Then, they deployed their cannons.
“Now they have the angle!?”
Unlike the first Panokseon that could only target the lead Sekibune approaching in a line, these two Panokseon now had the angle to target those behind as well.
BOOM!
The cannons erupted with fire, and the ships were pushed backward.
Three Sekibune were destroyed simultaneously.
This time, it wasn’t just the lead that was destroyed.
-Wow
-Whoa
-Oh…!?
-What?
-Damn
-Wait, isn’t this that thing?
The ship that had fired its cannons was no longer at the vanguard, and the vessels beside it surged forward to become the new frontmost line.
Boom!
They unleashed their cannons, and once again the adjacent ships moved to the fore and fired.
Boom!
Crash!
After this pattern repeated several times, the Panokseon that had been at the very front became the rear, and the Sekibune column found itself inexplicably sucked into the rearmost position.
That was it.
The triangular formation had become an inverted triangle.
Ringo’s hand trembled.
‘This is…!’
His hand trembled only slightly because he was observing from above.

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