Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 810

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 280
91. Ask and Go Triple (4)
For the Joseon soldiers, everything about this situation felt like a single onomatopoeia.
CRASH!
With that impact, the Chinese spearmen broke through the defensive line.
‘Insane.’
‘What is this?’
‘…Sigh.’
It was as hollow as watching a ball kicked from mid-range sail straight into the goal.
[Breakthrough]
The moment the command came down.
They immediately realized that until now, the enemy had never intended to actually break through.
The spearmen, their eyes suddenly changed, flawlessly deployed charge formations, defensive formations, and dispersal tactics with perfect precision, literally sweeping away dozens of barbarian soldiers.
“This, this is way too costly!?”
“Compared to how well we held in the initial engagement! This is too difficult now!? Was the triple too ambitious!? The difference in armed troop numbers is just too great!?”
“No matter how many barbarian soldiers! They take time to produce! Money! And resources!!”
“We couldn’t even stop them! We’re taking losses! And they’re getting reconnaissance information!”
The spearmen unit that broke through the scout line immediately rushed down the mountainside toward the target scout location. That was precisely where the third expansion was located.
Just when it seemed like all information was being handed over helplessly.
“Wait!! But!?”
RATATATAT!
From higher up on the mountain path, someone was pursuing at a terrifying speed.
Of course, many barbarian soldiers also moved to encircle the area.
But no one looked as threatening as this man.
Among all these people, only his hands held a bow.
“Almond! Almond is following!? Can we escape!?”
When an archer receives the mountain tribe effect, they gain speed equal to a spearman.
And when the opposing spearman experiences speed reduction on mountain terrain, the archer actually becomes slightly faster.
So it made sense that the archer was catching up.
However, China currently has the [Charge Formation] effect, which provides a movement speed buff.
Being caught up was strange.
“Aaahhh!”
King Gul screams as if he’s figured something out.
Then, with a meaningful expression, he turns to the Caster and speaks.
“This is… archer within archer, isn’t it?”
-Archer within archer lol
-Ah lol
-That’s why he’s holding an arrow lol
-Wow
-Insane lol
That was it.
Almond hadn’t actually switched to the Archer unit class—he’d simply picked up a bow while remaining a Barbarian Soldier and charged forward.
This happened because he was the unit originally stationed at the defense tower.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
Thanks to this, Almond descended the slope at tremendous speed and managed to catch up with the enemy Spearmen.
‘I can reach them.’
Click.
In an instant, his eyes gleamed sharply as he nocked an arrow to the bowstring.
‘My stance…’
I had to shoot while running down the mountain path.
Almond briefly watched the ground below.
If I caught my foot on a jagged rock, it would be disastrous.
‘Now.’
Shhhhiiiik—
Dust billowed up as my feet applied the brakes against the acceleration.
For a moment, a single soldier entered my targeting reticle.
One of the six Spearmen frantically rushing down the slope.
Twang!
I released the bowstring.
Thunk!
The arrow struck true—right in the head.
“A headshot while running down this slope!? Almond! Did you coat your arrows with super glue!?”
However, since the Archer’s arrows against Soldiers didn’t have bonus damage, a second shot was necessary.
Immediately after, I fired again.
Twang!
The arrow flew in succession, heading straight for the same target’s head.
But then—
“What!? This—!?”
Clang!
A Spearman burst from the side and deflected it.
“He blocked it!?”
“And on top of that, he just switched to a defensive formation in an instant!?”
When switching to a defensive formation, movement speed decreases, but damage taken is halved.
Particularly, it grants significant resistance to ranged attacks.
Yet without even needing that effect, he simply batted it away with his spear. And in the process, just to be safe, he instantly formed a defensive formation.
His immediate response to simple situations was excellent, but beyond that, he always had second and third contingencies layered in.
“China! They’re no joke!? The third-line Spearmen from earlier and these first-line troops are completely different!?”
-Wait, they were third-line earlier??
-The skill gap shows even now
-Wow… damn
-He met the first attack with a third-line formation lol… what composure…
-Huh?
In terms of pure skill, they were already ahead.
No, several tiers ahead even.
“Changing formations like this—the Chinese players are making it look incredibly easy! But if soldiers get tangled up like this, it becomes a real headache and gets difficult!?”
“It’s genuinely difficult! This is only possible when soldiers coordinate perfectly with each other!”
“Yes! Their organizational cohesion right now is absolutely incredible!”
Not just their individual skill, but their organizational power too… they were clearly superior.
And yet─
‘─again.’
Almond’s eyes flickered.
He started running again.
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
A different position than before.
He aimed and fired from there.
The position changed, but the target remained the same.
Whoosh!
The arrow flew on the wind flowing through the trees, targeting the enemy again with a surprise attack.
Clang!
They blocked it again.
This was no coincidence.
“Again!?”
“This looks like some kind of coordinated play!?”
“Almond seems to understand he’s not facing an archer! There’s no feeling of him desperately trying to keep up! He’s just trying to deplete their arrows! That’s what this is!”
Grit….
Almond clenched his teeth without realizing it.
‘Is the first line different.’
Still, he had no intention of backing down.
‘Then─’
Almond shifted position again, targeting a different enemy as if asking, what about this?
──Boom!
This time it hit directly.
However, they took the hit while in formation, so the damage was severely halved.
They seemed to know Almond’s situation perfectly, barely putting effort into defense anymore.
After all, he only had five arrows left.
Even if he fired all of them and hit every shot, as long as they maintained their formation, Almond had no way to break through.
Ting.
[Charge Formation]
The spearmen suddenly began running.
Almond immediately reacted and rushed forward.
Twang!
The bowstring snaps back in an instant, and an arrow flies through the air.
──Thunk!
“Ooh!”
An arrow embeds itself in the head of a Spearman.
The Spearman immediately loses control of his entire body and tumbles to the ground.
“Almond! First kill!!”
“Excellent! That’s the Spearman you hit earlier, right!?”
I had managed to land a second shot on the same target I’d struck before.
“Will we get another kill!?”
It was difficult.
No matter how skilled with curve shots, when both the opponent and I are moving violently and trees are randomly scattered across the terrain, I can’t simply carve a path through.
I could only attempt it if a suitable ‘corridor’ for the arrow presented itself.
“We need to block this! Why can’t the Barbarian Soldiers surround them and stop this!?”
The Barbarian Soldiers were indeed joining in as well.
They were running from a distance and encircling, but they couldn’t attack directly. They couldn’t afford any more losses.
“We can’t! If the Barbarian Soldiers charge in, we’ll just end up grinding them to pieces! They’ll be shredded like a blender! Then we’d have a massive hole torn in our defensive line!?”
A subtle psychological battle between commanders.
China was threatening that if they got close, they’d destroy the defensive line, while if they didn’t, they’d move to a reconnaissance position.
“Even if the reconnaissance fails, we deal massive damage! If we can’t deal damage, we’ll still scout! Right now we’re forcing Joseon to choose between these two options repeatedly! That’s why Joseon can’t easily charge in!”
“Wait, they came wanting to scout! But now they’re forcing us into combat!?”
It seemed rather unreasonable.
When dividing the map in half, this was essentially Joseon’s territory, yet strategically the exchanges were unfavorable.
I needed to eliminate one of their options.
For instance, make reconnaissance impossible.
‘Yes. Let’s pin them down.’
I nodded slightly.
I intended to pin down their movement.
Switching to formation would significantly reduce movement speed, so pinning them wasn’t difficult.
I began accelerating and making large circular movements.
Tap-tap-tap-tap-tap!
I run with all my might.
Like a wolf herding sheep.
Otherwise, I couldn’t herd them with wide circles.
“Almond! You’re making wide circles without additional shots, right!? You’re not wasting arrows! You’re not spending resources right now!”
“Ah! Will this work!? If they just keep running straight, they’ll scout everything!”
If China maintained their charge formation and kept running forward, without reinforcements arriving, there was practically no way to stop them.
I had to threaten them somehow to force them into formation, but I had no arrows for that.
So I was attempting a method where I could threaten them through my presence alone.
Circling around them in large movements while drawing my bow once in a while.
A sort of feint maneuver.
“I can’t help but be aware of it! The opponent is Almond!”
“What happens now!?”
“Ah, China keeps pushing forward!”
China’s judgment was accurate.
They didn’t fall for the feint and continued their advance.

* * *
Watching China’s forces press forward without hesitation, Cookie muttered to himself.
“They know.”
China had already figured out that Almond wasn’t an archer.
They were gambling on the assumption that his arrows would eventually run out.
Since there was already precedent for utilizing mountainous terrain speed without being an archer, China was handling this exceptionally well.
Almond, for his part, was responding brilliantly to their strategy.
Without being told, he was conserving arrows and herding them like sheep toward a specific location.
Unable to eliminate them, he was binding their feet—a truly excellent decision.
However, precisely because it was such a good decision, they quickly caught on.
Once they sensed he was trying to restrict their movement, they became bolder and more aggressive. They moved as if mocking and provoking him.
But if Almond fell for this provocation and fired arrows recklessly, only he would suffer the loss.
Right now, Almond was playing without disadvantage, executing the most intelligent strategy possible.
However, Cookie didn’t want that kind of play from Almond.
Almond wasn’t that type of player.
Cookie issued him another command.

* * *
“Haah… hah…”
Almond ran up the mountain, catching his breath.
He tried to drive them back by any means necessary.
But the Chinese army completely ignored him as if he didn’t exist, continuing to run in their intended direction.
It was as if they were saying: You don’t have arrows anyway.
I was beginning to get angry.
Just then, an order came down to me.
Ding.
[Eliminate]
My eyes changed.
It felt like something that had been chained for a long time had been released.
‘Don’t hold back on arrows.’
Creak.
The bowstring settled across my parched lips.
Two arrows were nocked.
All the remaining arrows I had.
My transformed eyes hunted for prey.
Among these countless trees, a single path visible within.
‘Now.’
Swish.
I released the string with an eerie silence.
The arrow flew smoothly, piercing roughly through the back of the head.
──Boom!
“Again! He hit again!?”
“How did he avoid that and still hit!?”
And it was two shots.
The Spearman collapsed and tumbled immediately.
“What!? If this happens!?”
[Charge Formation Deactivated]
The charge formation was deactivated.
Because they fell below the minimum number of people needed to maintain the formation.
“The charge formation is deactivated! So they’re slowing down!?”
“He actually did it! He actually killed another one!? Remarkable work, Almond!”
-Wow
-That?
-Wow lol
-Insane
In the end, although I didn’t manage to bind their feet, I did manage to slow them down.
Of course, there was a countermeasure for this.
[Scattered Formation]
They dispersed in different directions, temporarily gaining the movement speed increase effect of the scattered formation.
They refused to abandon their resolve to scout.
“They’re just running faster!?”
“But if they scatter, wouldn’t it actually be easier to catch them….”
“This is because Almond has no arrows left, right!?”
From the perspective of the pursuer, scattering made them easier to pick off one by one.
But Almond had no arrows left to catch his opponents.
And yet─
Almond began chasing them madly anyway.
“Huh!? He has arrows again!?”
“No, he doesn’t!?”
He slung his bow over his shoulder.
Then he picked up the spear of a fallen Spearman as he passed by.
“Ah…!?”
“A spear! He picked up a spear!?”
Almond descended the slope nearly tumbling, and threw himself at one of the scattered Chinese Spearmen.
Attacking from behind, he thrust the spear forward.
──Thwack!
The Spearman’s head was pierced before he could even react.
He hadn’t anticipated an attack like this.
Almond didn’t bother pulling out the embedded spear. Instead, he grabbed the spear of the newly fallen enemy and hurled it sharply at someone else.
Whoooosh!
After the heavy whistle of air, the spear lodged into someone’s back.
Another running Spearman stumbled.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The audience erupted in cheers.
Almond continued his relentless pursuit.
‘China… they’re manageable?’
It seemed I could catch them all.

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