Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 837

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 307
99. SCV good to go sir! (3)
The finals.
This was the moment when all the variables that had been crouching in the shadows awakened.
Throughout the history of sports, similar things had always happened.
There were countless examples.
At this moment, nothing that could happen would seem strange at all.
Whether past opponents had been strong or weak, or evenly matched—none of it mattered anymore now that everyone had reached the finals.
Even what kind of team they would become in the future, or whether they had potential, was irrelevant.
The finals were purely about colliding with full force in the present moment.
The bodies and minds they had tempered through countless trials, hardened like steel, now burst forth in brilliant flames.
But no one could know whose sacred fire those flames would become.

* * *
Whoooosh…!
White flames erupted as the Priest’s head exploded.
In that instant, everyone in the audience jumped to their feet with roaring cheers.
“Waaaaaaah! Almond! You absolute madman!”
“Almond’s insane.”
“Almond! Kyaaaaa!”
“That guy’s completely crazy.”
The Balloon Stars members also leaped up, each throwing out words of praise for Almond.
-Wow
-Wow
-Wow
-Woaaah
-Insane
-OMG
The chat reactions were the same.
The messages scrolled endlessly upward as short exclamations burst forth in succession.
This happened when multiple people typed the same words simultaneously.
Only after the wave of amazement subsided did people begin typing actual sentences.
-Wow, seriously?
-He just sealed the deal right there
-This guy’s just good at the game
-Almond’s specialty) Priest? What’s that?
-GG
Rome’s early Priest shouldn’t have disappeared so pathetically.
“That’s huge, isn’t it!? That’s huge!”
“Exactly! Rome actually had the chance to keep defending! To turn this situation around!! But this time, it’s really! Almost impossible to see!?”
“Rome needs to advance to the third era! They’re recruiting another Priest! But with this map’s characteristics, that’s impossible!?”
This stemmed from the unique features of the Ancient Walls map. Since base resources were limited here, one had to venture beyond the walls to advance to the third era.
On a different map, losing a Priest at this timing wouldn’t have been such a critical issue, as they’d be approaching the third era anyway.
But here, the third era wasn’t something that simply came with the passage of time.
On the Ancient Walls, the third era had to be seized by force.
“What a shocking shot! Almond!!”
With that single arrow, Joseon had secured the foothold to advance to the third era, while Rome fell further behind.
That’s why King Gul shouted with veins bulging from his neck.
“Almond! Shock Wave! No! Shock Arrow!!”
-?
-Is this Pokémon?
-Does such a technique exist?
-Shock Arrow lol
-Wow
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this line as written. The text “-유관의 기술 ㄷㄷ” contains “ㄷㄷ” which is internet slang/onomatopoeia (expressing mockery or dismissal) that doesn’t have a standard English equivalent, and the context is unclear.
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 56]
If you could provide more context, I could offer a better translation.
“So anticlimactic? The Priest is dead!”
“Yes! I hadn’t even processed it yet! Ah! Now that it’s happened! That shouldn’t have been there!?”
“Should we call this Anto’s mistake!?”
“Absolutely! Absolutely a hair-thin mistake! And Almond’s arrow just now! Threaded that needle! Ahhh…!”
The commentators marveled again while watching the replay.
“This is truly art!”
“That single arrow! Has completely transformed! The entire flow of this battlefield! A literal shockwave! A clutch play! Back to the live feed!”
With the situation escalating, they quickly switched back to the live broadcast.
“Rome’s detachment has paused! They’re deliberating on where to send their forces!”
“In the end, they choose to split their troops!?”
Rome was sending its detachment toward the region where Joseon was attempting to expand.
But then those forces split again.
So now Rome was divided into three separate forces.
The main force defending the base, the detachment that had been blocked at the entrance while attacking Joseon’s base and was now heading toward Joseon’s expansion, and the support unit split off from Rome’s main force.
“Rome’s forces are quite divided, but since there aren’t that many Joseon troops in the expansion construction area… that’s actually good!?”
“It’s a reasonable judgment!?”
“But! Joseon!! What if Joseon picks up the pace!?”
This battlefield was always teeming with variables.
No matter how optimal a decision seemed, there was no guarantee it would play out as planned.
Because every single Soldier was a living, breathing Player.
“Joseon! The speed at which they’re pushing Rome’s main front is accelerating!?”
After completing their defensive towers, Joseon began pushing forward with increasing momentum.
With no Priest and more towers now in place, Joseon had nothing to fear.
“Rome’s support unit needs to launch a rapid assault from behind!? From Rome’s perspective!?”
Rome’s support unit arrives.
“Charging in!”
“Ah, but the formation!? We’re rushing in too hastily!”
With time running short, our positioning wasn’t ideal.
We had to target the Joseon Archers regardless of the circumstances.
“The Joseon Archers! They’re not defenseless right now!?”
“Yes! It’s different from when we first pushed through the entrance!? All the Archers! They’re all climbing up the defensive towers!”
Joseon had built three defensive towers in total.
The towers were most efficient when five units climbed up them.
All fifteen Joseon Archers fit perfectly into this arrangement.
“We’ve become the dog chasing the chicken!! Rome!!!”
The Roman detachment, charging forward with momentum, found themselves unable to land any blows.
They ended up rushing toward the Barbarian Soldiers instead.
[Attack]
An order came down for all the Archers atop the defensive towers to strike the detachment.
Uuuuoooong…!
The light of concentration gathered.
“Ah… This, this!? No!”
King Gul couldn’t find his words.
Pababababang!
Roughly one-third of the detachment was struck by arrows.
But then—
“!”
The Legion Soldiers within the detachment raised their shields upward, protecting their neighboring Colleagues as well.
“They, they’re reacting and blocking this too!? All of them!?”
“It seems the angle is predictable! They’re definitely coming from above!!”
“That’s true, but this….”
On an actual battlefield, it’s difficult to see what’s happening above.
Yet the Roman forces blocked it perfectly.
Thud-thud-thud!
Thud-thang!
“Ah, another variable like this!?”
“Wow, this isn’t a speed the Commander could react to!? This means someone over there read this!?”
The broadcast camera zoomed in.
In the center protected by those shields stood a Soldier with long hair.
[Pierre]
He was Pierre.
Rome’s ace Soldier.
In this desperate situation, he had commanded everyone to raise their shields toward the defensive towers.
And they had pierced through the arrow barrage in an instant.
“What!? They’re breaking through!?”
“To the rear!? Joseon’s rear!”
“But the archers keep firing! Can this even work!?”
Cheers erupted from the Rome spectator section at the sight of Rome’s organizational prowess and swift response.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
The Rome detachment led by Pierre seemed to have become their last hope.
Yet even they couldn’t block every arrow pouring down relentlessly.
The archers atop the defensive tower grew more ferocious with each volley they blocked.
Then—
“Oh, they’re climbing!?”
Rome’s soldiers began scaling the defensive tower.
Rather than targeting the rear of the Barbarian Soldiers blocking their entrance, they aimed for the tower’s summit.
One Legion Soldier raised a shield and climbed first, with others following behind in formation.
Thunk…!
An arrow from the archer atop the tower struck the shield and ricocheted away.
From their elevated position, the archers couldn’t find an angle no matter how much they fired.
But Joseon wasn’t without countermeasures.
[Mutual Attack]
Each defensive tower began firing at one another.
Unable to shoot at soldiers climbing their own tower, they’d shoot from the sides instead.
“Joseon! That’s right! They’re adapting! Firing from the sides too!”
“Block it!? Then block from the side as well!”
──Thunk!
And indeed, shields jutted out from the sides.
“All the soldiers climbing the ladder are Legion Soldiers! They maintain a tortoise shell formation on all sides while climbing!!”
Shields raised as if anticipated.
As they ascended, they maintained a turtle-shell shield wall, climbing methodically upward.
“Ah! Archers alone can’t handle this!? We’d need Barbarian Soldiers to manage!?”
With Barbarian Soldiers, blunt force would register, allowing them to push shields back with repeated strikes.
But arrows were absolutely useless against this.
In this game, shields existed specifically as a counter to ranged attacks.
It was similar to how horses functioned.
“There’s not a single opening right now! But wait, it’s amazing they can maintain that formation while climbing!?”
Creating a shield wall wasn’t difficult. But ascending a ladder while maintaining it was an entirely different matter.
Clink.
Thud.
Moreover, they accelerated their climb up the ladder.
“If they neutralize the defensive tower first, Rome essentially gains control of it, which means Joseon gets pushed back!?”
It was one of the tower’s inherent risks.
Once captured, it became the enemy’s asset.
“Wait, can’t they capture the enemy tower and fire arrows from it? Wouldn’t that mean unlimited arrow supply!?”
“That’s true, but the Legion Soldiers can throw their spears!?”
“Ahhh!”
The Legion Soldiers could throw their spears at set cooldown intervals.
The spears naturally regenerated.
These spears had short range, but they carried powerful damage that was treated the same as close-range attacks.
However, if they took these defensive towers, range became irrelevant.
Since these defensive towers belonged to the enemy, they were built in the heart of enemy territory, and throwing from above extended their range significantly.
“Rome! The defensive towers… wait, but!”
King Gul suddenly glanced at the situation elsewhere and gasped.
“They couldn’t stop the multi-base construction!?”
Fifteen Roman soldiers had attempted to cancel the multi-base construction. It seemed they had failed.
Only about ten Joseon soldiers were defending that location.
How was this possible?
“There’s a defensive tower up!?”
A single defensive tower stood beside Joseon’s multi-base.
-Another defensive tower??
Damn! Joseon!ㅋㅋㅋ
Joseon, which is beating Sagittarius in the 2 o’clock era, is invincible lolol
One Worker continued constructing the Town Hall, so this defensive tower was built by Joseon.
“Ahhh…!? This, this actually works!?”
“Yes. Because they built a defensive tower!? That’s why the Roman soldiers couldn’t approach! All the soldiers here were Barbarian Soldiers!!”
The fact that Anto had confirmed only about ten soldiers defending the multi-base turned out to be a critical mistake. He had thought that sending slightly more troops would secure victory, but Joseon had built a defensive tower there as well.
“But if they do this! There won’t be resources for the main base!?”
Of course, building four defensive towers at this point couldn’t be entirely the right choice.
Even if they protected the multi-base, the pressure they could exert on Rome would diminish.
“Ah, that’s right!? Our original plan was to cancel the multi-base and use that money to explosively build more defensive towers in front of Rome’s main base! To completely seal them off!?”
They had completed the multi-base and even built a defensive tower to protect it.
With that money, they could have attempted to completely blockade Rome’s entrance.
But Cookie didn’t do that. He was looking ahead. He had changed his judgment.
“Is this… because of that one moment when the Priest was killed!? It seems like a snowball rolling like this! Joseon can now see a bigger future!”
Perhaps the catalyst was the Priest’s death.
He was gambling on this variable.
[Town Hall – Complete]
Thud.
The Town Hall was created, and Workers began to be produced.
[Worker – 2%]
Joseon’s future began to be carefully prepared.
However—
“Now, Joseon! While the multi-base generates resources, they’ll extract more! But it takes time!”
At the same time, reinforcements to the main base had to be cut off.
“The source of Joseon’s strength right now is the defensive tower!? But they can’t build anymore!?”
“Wait!? With things like this! Pierre’s decision to climb the defensive tower! It’s truly the best of the best! A divine move!! We can’t just leave this and retreat!?”
“If we take the defensive tower, the pressure at the entrance might actually end!?”
With a single arrow from Almond, Cookie had unleashed a more decisive winning move, but Pierre seized this opening of greed and wedged himself through.
No matter how much a commander prepares strategy, war ultimately depends on the execution of battle.
And there are always players who shine in these moments.
Rome has Pierre.
By choosing the unconventional option of climbing the defensive tower instead of striking the rear, and executing it flawlessly, he was saving Rome from crisis.
But then─
“─Almond!? What are you doing!?”
The defensive tower he was climbing happened to be where Almond was positioned.
‘What is this?’
Pierre watches his actions and grows puzzled.
He was now leaping down from the top of the defensive tower.
Thud…!
-???
-Huh?
-What?
-Eh?
“Flying Almond!?”
“What, what is this!!”
The expressions of the commanders visible on screen diverge.
Cookie’s lips curved upward as if he had been expecting this, but Anto’s expression hardened rigidly.

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