Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 809

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 279
91. Ask and Go Triple (3)
China failed in their attempt to break through Joseon’s scout defense line.
The commentators were extremely excited by this.
“Wait, they blocked it!? They really blocked it!?”
“This is huge!? We absolutely cannot be certain this is a triple!?”
The match will be decided by whether or not we can figure out Joseon’s current strategy.
“If we don’t know the triple!? We really don’t know!?”
“That’s right!? Even if China has climbed here with an undefeated record in this set! We truly don’t know!?”
Both the commentators and the audience grew excited.
“Waaaaaaa!”
“Go~ Korea!”
Boom! Crash! Boom! Boom!
Massive drum sounds synchronized with applause and balloons.
The cheers grew fiercer.
The same tension and anticipation as when a soccer team first enters the opponent’s penalty box enveloped the entire stadium.
But I’m worried about this ㅠ
-Will China’s undefeated streak really end?
-I think their early strategy just wasn’t that good though.
-Let’s go
-Honestly no idea about this
The viewers debated various points, but a strange sense of anticipation hung in the air.
-Beating China isn’t easy;
-A triple match against China… sigh…
-I’m satisfied with winning the Korean-Japanese War 5-0
-Even if we lose, let’s show what we can do, Cookie!
Clearly, people were hopeful.
They believed Joseon could defeat China at least once, holding onto that small probability.
However, they couldn’t easily express that hope.
-It’s torture though…
Yeah, let’s just try to win at least one set, damn it.
Honestly, I don’t really understand Triple either… The commentators talk like that just to balance things out for entertainment, lol
Excessive pessimism flowing through the chat.
Even considering the internet’s inherent negativity, it’s strange given that the game is still in its early stages.
But their reaction was actually inevitable.
Because their opponent was China, ranked 3rd in the world.
Moreover, China currently rode an undefeated upward momentum.
The public consensus was that they were the strongest national team at peak form.
That powerful China, and among them, the strongest ever.
It was difficult for Joseon to possess great confidence against such a team.
Even the audience found it difficult to expect anything.
That was truly a matter of faith and trust.
From this point on, it was neither rational judgment nor emotional appeal.
Did they trust each other?
Did they trust them… no, did they trust us?
“Great! Korea!”
This was the moment when an answer was needed.
“Wait! This is a feint operation!? The real attack is coming from the other side!? That’s where the larger force is!?”
“Are they trying to break through the scout-blocking line with this much force!? Does Youbi know something!?”
“That must be it!? They’d suspect a double, but if it’s a triple… that’s really bad! I think that’s what they’re thinking!”
Boom—
At that moment, China’s civilization changed.
[Song Dynasty → Jin Dynasty]
“What!? Jin Dynasty now? The Jin Dynasty has opened!”
“This is…”
“The Jin Dynasty is far more aggressive and combat-oriented than the Song Dynasty!?”
The Song Dynasty, as a Korean civilization, could employ defensive strategies with its fast resource system and powerful Lianjian Soldiers effective against early light armor.
The Jin Dynasty, a Jurchen civilization, had factions that were extremely useful in direct combat.
Switching to the Jin Dynasty now meant China was committing to battle.
“They’re going to completely break through the incoming force! That’s what this is!?”

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[Move]
Ting!
The movement command marked on Almond.
I quickly descended the ladder and began running in that direction.
‘Is this a feint operation?’
There had just been combat, and the sudden movement order meant something was happening on the other side as well.
“Waaaaah…!”
I could hear soldiers’ war cries from far away.
But the forest trees blocked my view.
As I drew closer, Chinese Spearmen charged in a larger force than before, nearly breaking through the defensive line.
Thwack!
Splurt!
The Chinese Spearmen, with ghostly skill, turned the Barbarian Soldiers into skewers.
I could sense it at a glance.
‘That’s the front line.’
The force that came in earlier was the second line; this was the first line.
It meant they had put more weight into this attack.
“Turn back! Fall back!”
They maintained their charge formation firmly, continuing to rush forward, then pulling back briefly before charging again in a repeating pattern.
Uuuoooong…!
A faint aura-like energy began seeping up from their bodies.
[Charge Formation]
[Movement Speed increased by 15%, Piercing Power increased by 50% when charging]
They gained special effects based on their formation.
This was the Jin Dynasty’s faction ability.
The spears they thrust forward pierced through the Barbarian Soldiers’ cloth garments as if they were nothing, burrowed into flesh, and continued through to the other side.
Splorch!
In an instant, another wave of Barbarian Soldiers collapsed.
I wanted to help them.
[Lianjian Soldier Search]
But I had been given orders to search for Lianjian Soldiers, a threat in the vicinity.
Setting aside the Spearmen for now, I cautiously circled wide into the forest, observing the enemy’s position.
The Lianjian Soldiers were probably targeting the Joseon Archers as well.
‘There.’
A corner of clothing came into view in my sight.
It had to be a Lianjian Soldier.
The Lianjian Soldier spotted me too, briefly hiding their body before─
“!”
─Whoosh!
They burst out from the other side of the tree, firing arrows in rapid succession.
Pababababang!
Ten arrows flew at me in an instant.
I was momentarily startled, my eyes widening.
‘Huh?’
The ten arrows formed a barrage that closed in on me.
Through that web-like barrier, I drew my bowstring and released it lightly.
Paang!
An arrow flew.
Then I twisted my body slightly and ducked, slipping through a gap.
All of this happened in a single moment.
The time it takes to blink once.
After that─
Splorchasplorch!
With a loud sound, arrows began embedding themselves.
The trees on my side shook violently and were torn apart.
Brutal scars were carved into them.
On the opposite side, the tree remained unharmed.
The single arrow I fired curved around the tree and struck the Lianjian Soldier’s head with perfect accuracy.
──Crash!
“!?”
The Lianjian Soldier froze in place.
I thought I was dead.
‘What?’
My concentration had wavered, so the blow didn’t land with full force.
[Health 15%]
But then─
Click!
I plucked the arrow that had lodged beside me and immediately nocked it, firing it back.
Thwack!
The Lianjian Soldier’s own arrow pierces his head.
[Health 0%]
It happened so instantaneously that there was no time to react.
The Lianjian Soldier fell backward, his eyes wide with incomprehension.

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Meanwhile, there was someone even more bewildered than the fallen Lianjian Soldier.
‘What was that.’
It was Youbi, China’s Supreme Commander.
The Lianjian Soldier who just fell would at least have less to regret.
He would have simply thought that Almond happened to be where he went.
But Youbi was different.
‘I’m certain he was over there too?’
Even though Supreme Commanders at this stage often couldn’t watch much combat while managing production, he had carefully observed the archers’ battles.
After all, the variables in almost every Joseon match came from the archer unit.
Among them, Almond—the new ace selected as the top rookie to watch this time—was a key figure.
Youbi deemed him worth careful observation and had nearly completed his pattern analysis.
Almond had always participated in the first major engagement.
As the match progressed, his accuracy gradually declined.
However, through three matches, his accuracy and damage output differed from ordinary archers.
Thus, Youbi devised one solution.
Very simple and easy.
‘Don’t engage him.’
Simply avoid fighting where this man was positioned.
This was a decision that only people like Youbi, who could analyze the world coldly and without emotion, could make.
For a superpower like China to acknowledge an ace from a lower-ranked nation like Joseon was already difficult, and most strong teams did not.
They recognized the ace’s existence but did not truly acknowledge him.
They claimed to acknowledge him in words, but in actual gameplay, they paid Almond little mind.
Youbi considered that a critical mistake and devised his strategy with Almond in mind.
I confirmed where Almond was positioned, assured myself of places where he absolutely wasn’t, then rapidly drove forward into those gaps.
The shift to the Jin Dynasty also happened to align perfectly with the timing.
But—
‘Why on earth…?’
The very thug who should have been nowhere near here was brazenly roaming about, intercepting the Lianjian Soldiers one by one.
Boom!
Bang!
The Lianjian Soldiers were supposedly the counter to archers.
Yet here they were, in the forest terrain where they held the greatest advantage, offering up their heads one by one to the archer.
Even the Supreme Commander, possessing a heart as frozen as ice, couldn’t help but feel his blood boil at the sight.
‘How in the world is he here.’
[Aamond]
I confirmed it again, making absolutely certain.
It was definitely Almond.
Then what was that from before?
He couldn’t possibly be in two places at once.
If that were the case, there could only be one conclusion.
‘It was a different archer?’
For Youbi, this was a truly terrifying conclusion.
It meant there were several more archers capable of wielding curved shots freely in such terrain.
‘What is this. There definitely weren’t any before.’
Having watched all of Joseon’s previous footage, Youbi’s mind couldn’t help but become muddled.
According to his data, these archers definitely shouldn’t have known how to execute curved shots.
Yet they were executing them.
Then I could accept only one conclusion.
‘They’ve grown stronger?’
Those archers had finally mastered it.
If the Joseon Archers—a civilization of the bow—had grown stronger, this signified a substantial increase in combat power.
Grrk…
Youbi clenched his teeth for a moment.
However, he quickly regained his composure.
To an outside observer, it would be impossible to tell whether his emotions had wavered at all.
With cold eyes, he surveyed the battle situation once more and repositioned the Lianjian Soldiers.
If the opponent was Almond, then arranging a formation suited to Almond would suffice.
The Lianjian Soldiers began spreading their distances from one another increasingly wider.
This made them vulnerable to being picked off individually, but it would take time.
The Lianjian Soldiers, dying as they were, continued firing arrows toward Almond, revealing their positions one after another.
Almond had no choice but to keep running along the path where they were positioned.
Likely, he had been given orders to eliminate the Lianjian Soldiers.
Youbi had already grasped that much.
His hand commanded the Spearmen.
[Break through]
The message to break through was delivered to the Spearmen.
Until now, they had actually been receiving orders to pin down as many Barbarian Soldiers as possible.
Since a breakthrough was inevitable anyway, the calculation was to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy.
So the Spearmen continued to press forward as if breaking through, killing only the Barbarian Soldiers and withdrawing back again.
It was certainly a very efficient and terrifying tactic. But now there was no time for that.
“Break through, through, through, through!”
Crash──
A full frontal charge collision.
This time, instead of preserving the charge formation and retreating like before,
[Dispersed Formation]
they suddenly scattered in all directions, exploiting the gaps.
[Duration: 5 seconds]
[10% of damage dealt recovered as health]
[Attack speed increased by 20%]
When they formed a formation and then dispersed, they received an instantaneous buff.
This was the perfect buff for scattering and fighting alone, enduring and pushing through.
Whoosh!
Spear tips pierced through Soldiers as red energy flowed into the Spearmen.
All the scattered Spearmen began clearing out the surrounding Barbarian Soldiers at tremendous speed.
The Barbarian Soldiers’ defensive line was completely breached.
It became sparsely empty.
Crash!
At that moment, the Spearmen broke through and crossed the halfway line of the map.
At this point, Youbi checked the number of Lianjian Soldiers.
‘Already…?’
The four Lianjian Soldiers that had been there were now gone.
It was faster than expected.
No matter how quickly one shoots arrows, there’s a distance between people, and even with mountainous terrain, Archers couldn’t be faster than Spearmen.
‘There should be travel time…?’
The next moment, Youbi’s eyes wavered.
‘?’
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
From what briefly appeared in his field of vision, this wasn’t the running speed of an Archer at all.
He was gripping a pile of arrows in one hand, following behind the Spearmen at an incredible speed.
‘I see.’
This was a tactic he had seen in previous footage.
That guy…
wasn’t an Archer.
A faint smirk crossed his face.
Youbi’s lips curved upward.
It felt like encountering a practice problem he’d studied for during an important exam.
‘I can simply use the same strategy.’
That tactic only worked when one was caught off guard.
Once he recognized the difference in unit composition, countless countermeasures became available.

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