Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 858

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 328
105. Steam Pack (2)
I attack the lower flank of the Legion while spinning around to strike the Priest.
This sudden engagement called for a tactic of considerable difficulty to execute.
Yet the Joseon Frontline Archers were pulling it off.
“Ugh!”
“Hee, heal!”
Attacks poured down on the lower flank so relentlessly that even the Priest’s healing beside them couldn’t keep up, and the Legions’ movement speed had become that of a tortoise.
However, they never let their guard crumble.
“Hold the line! Watch the flanks!”
“Don’t worry about the front!”
These were Rome’s Frontline Legions as well.
In particular, Encio among them was the player second only to Pierre.
To Encio’s eyes, this was clearly a feint operation.
Though it looked like they were attacking the Legions, the real target would be the Priest.
“He hasn’t fired yet!”
Encio kept his shield raised, rolling his eyes around.
Where was it….
“Right flank!”
Right flank?
Encio’s head turned.
There it was.
[Aamond]
Almond. That guy was sprinting.
With the bowstring already drawn.
‘It’s coming.’
Encio stepped back and focused entirely on him.
Another Soldier filled his vacant spot, thrusting a shield forward to cover it.
Creeeeak…!
The taut bow aimed at this very spot.
‘…Now!’
Thwack─
I release the string with one final powerful leap.
Had he been any other archer, he wouldn’t have paid attention to an arrow fired while running like this.
But Encio gritted his teeth and glared intensely.
‘I have to see it.’
This was none other than my arrow.
My arrows are unpredictable.
──Whiiiiing!
The arrow curves in like a serpent.
In the instant I released the arrow.
Rome and Joseon, all the audience held their breath.
Gulp.
Encio swallowed hard.
‘Watch until the very end….’
I had to see it through to the end without fail.
Not prediction, but observation and reaction.
In that moment, his eyes flashed with clarity.
‘Upper left.’
He violently raised his shield and stepped back to brace himself.
‘Please… move!’
In Encio’s eyes, his body seemed impossibly slow.
An arm could never be faster than an arrow.
But a shield had far greater surface area than an arrow.
Even minimal movement could easily block it.
‘It works. It works…!’
As Encio gritted his teeth and swung the shield with both hands─
A resonant ring transmitted through the metal.
──CLANG!
“!”
The arrow was blocked.
An arrow shot at an impossible angle, and the shield that stopped it.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“Aaaaaaaagh!”
Roars erupted from both sides.
One side cheering, the other in despair.
Either way, tremendous excitement rippled across the entire arena.
Of course, the players had no time to be excited.
My arrows didn’t stop with just one.
Twang!
Twang!
‘Here it comes. Again!’
The rapid fire continued like a storm.
Encio desperately moved and deflected each one.
Clang!
Two arrows.
Clang!
Three arrows.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“Encio! Encio! Encio!”
With each deflection, the Roman audience’s cheers grew more intense.
However, Encio’s circumstances were far from equally joyous.
“This… this is insane.”
I was reaching my limits.
The arrows came from unpredictable angles, and the rate of fire was exceptional.
And the accuracy? Don’t even ask.
Every single arrow was embedding itself toward the Priest.
‘What kind of monster is this guy!?’
Boom!
Crash!
Even as I moved my shield left and right, I managed to block them all.
But I was getting closer to the breaking point. If this continued, eventually my shield would move too slowly, and an arrow would pierce straight through to the Priest.
Then—
“!”
—Thwack!
An arrow lodged into my flank, not the Priest’s.
[Health 64%]
“Oooookay!”
Pangeo’s shout rang out.
It was his arrow.
He’d shot through the gap while I was moving my shield.
Ento shouted urgently.
“Priest! Heal!”
The Priest immediately cast healing.
[Health 83%]
My health began recovering.
“Retreat!”
Following my command, the Legion withdrew again.
We were trying to hide behind the buildings.
Boom!
Crash!
Even as we retreated, I blocked every arrow that came flying.
“Haa… haa…”
My concentration was already near its limit.
Exhaustion was plainly evident.
Yet at the same time, I was smiling.
Because I’d bought time.
“Haha. You’ve pushed too deep.”
Time for Rome’s reinforcements to arrive.

* * *
As Encio and I clashed, the commentators roared with fervent excitement.
“No! Almond! How long are you going to keep firing!? You’re relentlessly targeting the Priest!!”
“And he’s blocking all of it! Encio! Is this the shield of Rome!?”
-For real
That’s so scary/creepy lol
-This is dizzying wow
-He’s blocking everything
-The shield is just so huge;
From the commentators’ vantage point overlooking the entire situation, this play held tremendous significance.
“This is Encio’s super save!? Right now Joseon is pouring in way too many units!? The Priest really is! A truly broken unit!”
“Exactly. With healing and movement speed buffs, it shouldn’t exist in the second era! But now that he’s participating, the sustain is completely different!”
“But if he dies, it’s all over! Yet he survives again! He buys Rome one more turn! If this happens!!”
King Gul pointed somewhere on the map and shouted.
“Those Legions that have been circling since earlier could actually play a role! I really thought it was reckless!? But now anything could happen!”
Rome didn’t immediately commit the newly spawned Legions to battle.
Instead, I had them circle in a wide arc, moving outside the main base.
This would catch Joseon’s forces from behind.
-Survival victory
-Oh this is it
I can’t provide a reliable translation for this text. It appears to contain Korean characters mixed with internet slang/emoticons (ㅋㅋ), but the phrase “-ㅁㅊ 의지의 피에르” doesn’t form coherent Korean and seems to be corrupted or intentionally obscured text.

* * *
Almond dashed forward frantically, loosing arrows as he ran.
‘Huh?’
He felt it too.
‘When did I get this far in?’
Roman structures surrounded him on all sides.
By the time he regained his senses, he had already penetrated deep into Rome’s main base.
Ting!
[Danger]
A danger ping flashed on his screen.
Far behind him, outside Rome’s main base, Legions appeared.
Four newly spawned Legions.
‘What? Why there?’
They shouldn’t exist in that location.
It was in the completely opposite direction from Rome’s main base.
Almond couldn’t easily comprehend this situation, but truthfully, he didn’t even try to.
The enemies had already arrived, and they were charging madly forward with spears and shields raised.
‘What do I do.’
This was flat terrain.
Legions were far faster than archers.
If I didn’t shoot first, they would eventually catch up.
The other archers were in chaos too.
“Hey, both sides! Damn it?! What the hell is happening!?”
“From behind! Just shoot them dead! We can’t come from the front because of the Priest!”
The archers turned backward and fought back.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-bang!
The arrows were blocked by shields.
“Screw it! Shot! You bastard!”
Even when Pangeo fired curve shots, Rome’s soldiers now knew.
──Boom!
That they fired curve shots.
“I see.”
Rome was positioned with soldiers who could defend once they understood that much.
The distance closed.
One Legion with long black hair flowing, burst forward at the very front.
Almond shouted to Pangeo.
“Dodge!”
‘Huh?’
──Whoosh!
A spear suddenly erupted from Pangeo’s abdomen.
That spear belonged to Pierre.
Thud.
Pangeo collapsed.
My eyes met Pierre’s.
Whoosh.
Pierre casually spun his spear in a full circle and raised his shield with ease.
He had never lost in a direct confrontation.
Pierre shouted.
“Charge!”
Crash!
The soldiers began running forward with fierce roars.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
Joseon’s momentum was instantly crushed.
Two more fell to the barrage of thrown spears that followed, and two more died as the distance closed completely.
I fired more arrows, but it wasn’t enough.
I only managed to take down one.
‘It’s different….’
The Legions, when faced head-on and on open ground, were simply beyond what an archer could handle.
Pierre came charging.
I was caught up in his advance.
He swung his blade lightly.
I raised my short bow and deflected it.
Clang!
‘I can’t lock it down.’
The most crucial technique in close-range archery was to briefly lock the sword with the bow stave and fire an arrow.
When Pierre’s blade found its path blocked, it vanished somewhere and came thrusting back in from another angle.
Whoosh!
I twisted my body and barely evaded it.
“It’s over.”
Pierre glided past me as if dancing, bringing his blade down in a graceful arc.
His sword was already above my head.
Slash!
[Death]
I was done for.
My vision faded to black and white, and my spirit began rising upward.
I could see more and more as I ascended.
Yet my gaze remained fixed on one person.
‘That bastard….’
Pierre.

* * *
“Ah. Complete annihilation on both sides… To be honest, I’d need to punch some numbers into a calculator to figure out who really came out ahead, since both sides got wiped out once?”
Whether Joseon’s second-era thrust was truly profitable remained difficult to calculate precisely.
They hadn’t damaged the enemy’s workers, nor had their forces returned alive.
“Yes. While there was no worker damage, they did annihilate the Legion produced in the first phase, and they secured map control… which seems like a meaningful result.”
Joseon gained significantly more vision across the map, and based on that advantage, the Barbarian Soldiers hunted smoothly.
“Yes. Because of that, there’s developed quite a significant gap in food resources?”
“That’s right. Ah~ anyway, Choi Sun-sin’s attacks are absolutely fierce. It’s terrifying. Once he commits, he really drives the blade right to the throat, you know? Anto must be even more scared?”
“Yes… I hope so, but right now the strategy doesn’t feel like he’s intimidated by the opponent at all?”
What King Gul meant by “the current strategy” was a hidden multi-pronged attack.
-For real
-What’s that
-Wow, he’s really relentless lol
-He’s doing a multi in the middle of all this???
-His vision is already falling behind wtf
“Anto creates an opening in Joseon’s assault and secures a multi-pronged expansion!?”
In Anto’s eyes, there was a small gap in Joseon’s offensive.
“The rough mountain ranges and highlands have quite a few areas suitable for multi-tasking… This looks difficult to spot.”
“Since he used up all his Falcon Strikes… it’ll take some time, right? I think he knew that from the start and did this intentionally.”
Joseon had utilized [Falcon Strike] to secure victory in combat.
And once more during the early scouting phase.
Now they couldn’t use it again without waiting for the cooldown.
Anto seized that information gap and secured his multi-expansion this way.
“Rome’s probably going to be late to the third era too, right? But once they reach the third era and the Priests appear…?”
Then resources would skyrocket explosively.
“Exactly. Then the resource gap could really widen significantly. Of course, Joseon will do something before that happens. And!”
Boom.
[Joseon – Third Era]
Joseon rushed straight to the third era without multi-tasking.
-Nice
-That’s a real man’s build
-Multi? That’s only for cowards~
-Haha
“Joseon has reached the third era! Truly impressive speed, right?”
“Yes. Since they got to the third era first, they need to accumulate more damage to the opponent using the units that appear here, right?”
“Yes. Which build they’ll choose… I’m quite curious about it…”
-Joseon will have to get some multi eventually. The resources here run short
-Probably gonna multi while gaining advantages with third-era units
-But with the mountainous terrain, they can’t even produce Reapers, so what’s the plan?
Typically, Joseon’s third era leverages the mobility and cunning of Mounted Archers to harass the enemy.
They’re exceptionally specialized at hunting workers, and enemies find it difficult to counter them.
However, Mounted Archers are heavily dependent on terrain.
With mountainous terrain present, they essentially couldn’t move at all.
This was precisely why a mountain map didn’t automatically favor Joseon.
“Usually in these situations, people go with siege weapons and pure Archers, right? It’s the standard approach.”
“Right. It’s either Mounted Archers or pure Archers. That’s the norm.”
-Tank Marine lol
-Yeah
-Siege weapons seem good
-Siege units cost a lot so you need to expand quickly
Here, Choi Sun-sin’s choice was a faction upgrade.
[Pyeonjeon – 1%]
Pyeonjeon.
A small arrow from the third-era faction, also called “aegit-sal.”
The method involves placing these small arrows inside auxiliary equipment called a tong and firing them.
They’re specialized in ultra-long-range shooting.
In truth, this ultra-long-range shooting isn’t easy for everyone, so it’s not a faction people choose lightly.
“Ooh. Pyeonjeon?!”
However, with Joseon’s frontline archers having significantly improved their skills recently, choosing Pyeonjeon was no longer such an unusual decision.
“Good choice. It gets a bit awkward with lots of trees, but the highlands are basically flat terrain anyway, right?”
The mountainous terrain had steep elevation changes, but it wasn’t a densely forested map.
Pyeonjeon seemed surprisingly viable.
“Exactly. It really comes down to how Player Almond utilizes it. That’s the key point… huh!?”
But the truly unusual strategy was this.
[Militia – 3%]
He was beginning to upgrade the Militia faction from the second era right now.
“Wait, this… Rome probably has no idea this is coming!?”
Using the Militia faction removes all armor and pushes ‘speed’ to its absolute limit.
This was just as unconventional a faction as the spear militia.
In this state, you die from merely grazing the opponent’s weapon.
-Militia?? Oh
-Wow it’s been forever
lol this is a trash-tier faction but this one
-Huh?
Steam pack marine lol

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