Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 860

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 330
106. Fire (1)
Once the third era arrives, players begin constructing walls around their main base.
The forest becomes a significant problem at this stage.
Building walls in forests is far from efficient.
The productivity drops considerably.
The terrain elevation is inconsistent, and constructing around trees consumes excessive resources.
This is precisely why Joseon’s Gakgung archers are targeting the forest regions.
“Damn… thankfully we didn’t run into anyone.”
Ratte exhales in relief.
The archers who had sprinted madly regrouped within the forest, maintaining their spacing.
“Hey, hey. D-don’t come too close! Hah!”
Even as they ran together, they kept maximum distance from one another.
This was because if they clustered too tightly, a stray arrow could send them all skyward in a neat line.
“Good grief. Activating militia beforehand to enter like this—I’ve never seen such a strategy in my entire Civil M career.”
Pangeo runs his hand through his hair and speaks.
Given Pangeo’s Civil M experience, if even he found this unprecedented, the enemy would certainly be caught off guard.
“Hmm. It seems they went this far to accelerate the timing by one tempo…”
Just as I was contemplating why such an extreme strategy had emerged.
Ting!
[Move]
The movement ping sounds again.
Keep running without pause—that was the message.
The soldiers had no reason to hesitate.
“Okay, okay! Let’s go!”
The archers sprint forward, maintaining maximum distance between themselves.
“Wow! This is definitely fast!”
Running across flat terrain like this made the speed incredible.
How far had they sprinted?
[Stop]
The halt command comes down, and everyone freezes in place.
Whoosh.
They all duck behind trees, taking cover positions.
Rome seemed unaware of their infiltration.
They would likely assume the Archer had gone multi-tasking elsewhere.
“What is this? We’re waiting here?”
“What’s happening?”
Deep within the forest.
No Roman Workers were visible yet.
[Move]
At that moment, a new movement order comes down.
“Hey. Ratte. Where are you going? Stop. Stop!”
But it’s only Ratte.
“Ah, no. Only I have the order!”
“Huh? Really?”
Ratte advances alone.
With an uneasy feeling, I move forward slowly.
[Run]
I’m told to run.
“Ah, damn it…”
I run.
Charging through enemy lines at full speed with nothing but my bare body isn’t exactly a comfortable situation.
‘Stop thinking. Just go.’
I squeeze my eyes shut once and sprint forward recklessly.
Since the Commander is already mapping out the route for me, there’s no need to think about anything else.
However, when a Soldier doesn’t understand what he’s doing, his movements lose efficiency.
[Reconnaissance and Bait]
Soon the operation details are revealed to me as I run.
“!”
I realize that my mission is to serve as bait.
‘Bait?’
Surely the Workers won’t be lured out, so there must be Roman Soldiers nearby.
‘Will I die on the first hit again?’
Shortly after, I spot the Workers.
‘There they are.’
As I carefully approach while drawing my bowstring.
An order comes down immediately after.
[Stop]
Stop?
I’m a bit confused.
Not to shoot an arrow, but to stop.
Even though a Worker has a narrower field of vision, staying still here feels uneasy.
The confusion doesn’t last long.
[Polearm – Complete]
After the Polearm upgrade is completed.
Clank.
A piece of equipment is added to my waist.
At that moment─
“!”
──Boom!
A Worker’s head exploded.
An arrow had flown across this vast forest.
‘Ah…!’
There was no question about who had fired that arrow.
‘Almond!’
Ratte finally understood the true nature of this operation.
‘I’m the eyes.’
The range of a crossbow sometimes exceeded the field of vision.
Especially on flat terrain like this with no elevation changes.
In such cases, you illuminate the target through your own ally’s line of sight, and the Commander designates the target, then you shoot based on that.
Of course, it was easier said than done—hitting a target invisible to your own eyes in this dense forest was frankly an impossible feat.
Yet the one behind me pulled it off every single time.
Thud!
Boom!
The Workers began falling silently.
‘Wow.’
Ratte felt almost omnipotent watching Workers die wherever he looked.
‘You. Next is you.’
Boom.
Boom!
They continued to fall.
Despite crossbows being unable to rapid-fire, five Workers were already dead.
Of course, five Workers wasn’t significant damage in the 3rd era.
‘Rome doesn’t know.’
The crucial point was that Rome remained unaware.
Because if you kill with a single strike rather than multiple hits, no message reaches the Commander.
Unless Anto directly observes these Workers in the forest himself, there’s no way to know.
Thus every Worker visible in Ratte’s field of vision would die.
“Hmm… Will he still not notice?”
For some reason, it felt like Anto would realize soon.
Ding.
Regardless, an order comes down.
[Move]
This time the entire Archer unit begins advancing forward.
If we advance one square at a time like this, we’ll soon reach the main base.
If Anto still doesn’t know.
‘This is practically….’
Ratte begins to think we might be seizing victory here.
‘If it’s like this, didn’t we not really need the militia at all?’
The militia is, no matter what anyone says, a faction for mobility.
The Enemy doesn’t even know my location right now, so what does mobility matter?
Was I trying to climb the slope faster?
While I was thinking such thoughts─
“!?”
─Crunch.
Footsteps echoing from somewhere.
It wasn’t a location where my allies should be.
Ratte’s head snapped around.
Something appeared in his vision.
Ting!
[Threat]
Whoosh…!
I immediately threw myself aside.
The arrow grazed past my ear and struck the tree behind me instead.
──Crack!
The tree split cleanly in two.
This wasn’t just any arrow.
It was a crossbow.
[Genoese Crossbowman]
Genoese Crossbowmen emerged from the flank.
But they weren’t alone.
Whooom!
[Movement Speed Increased]
Blessed by the Priest’s buff, Soldiers began charging forward.
They were like human tanks—massive shields and maces in hand.
“Raaaaaaah!”
“Die!”
Ting!
[Move]
I bolted toward the location marked by the movement ping.
“Aaaargh! Dying on the first hit again! This is insane!”

* * *
Joseon’s Sync Tank Team.
“Huh? Is he dying on the first hit again?”
Worried murmurs rippled through the room.
There was a running joke that Ratte dying on the first hit was a kind of jinx.
For someone like that to take on a bait mission made the concern even worse.
“Hmm.”
Chiseung scratched his head uncertainly too.
“Maybe that’s true….”
Looking at the data alone, Ratte was indeed a glass cannon.
Of course, that also meant he led the charge, but compared to his reflexes and targeting ability, his evasion was lacking.
“No.”
Then Hee-cheol, seated at the center of the table, spoke.
“He won’t die.”
“…What?”
He won’t die?
Wasn’t this basically throwing bait to the wolves?
And it’s Ratte, who has the number one death rate on first contact.
“I couldn’t use him properly, but Daisunsin Choi is different.”
Daisunsin Choi is different?
He is different, sure.
But he’s still just a Soldier.
‘Now that I think about it….’
Daisunsin Choi had said something about Ratte before.
「Why does this person always die first?」
「Isn’t it because he always charges forward?」
「Hmm… Is it really just that?」
After that, she’d analyzed something further, and there was something she’d said later.
「I understand now.」
What was it?

* * *
Ding!
[Move]
As if waiting for this moment, a movement command flashed before me.
Thud-thud-thud-thud!
Ratte bolted toward that location at full speed.
By common sense, I assumed the marked movement command indicated an escape route.
“!?”
Ding!
[Move]
But I was wrong.
The moment I reached the first movement command, another one appeared.
‘What is this…?’
As I hesitated, ping!
[Threat]
Another arrow came flying.
Whoosh!
“Hup!”
I rolled my body again to evade it.
Crash!
Innocent trees toppled in my wake.
Ding-ding-ding!
Ding!
[Move]
[Move]
[Move]
.
.
.
Movement commands flashed in rapid succession.
Only then did it become clear.
‘I’m running in circles!?’
I was the Archers’ eyes and their bait.
‘Damn it!’
I ran for my life once more.
Ding!
[Threat]
[Threat]
Threat markers appeared.
Crossbowmen.
An arrow flies in.
Ratte spreads his limbs in an odd posture, and the arrow passes through the gap between them like a magic trick.

* * *
All members of Joseon’s Sync Tank Team stood up.
“Whoa, whoa-whoa-whoa!? What!? He’s actually dodging!?”
Ratte was practically dragging the Roman army along with him.
“Ooooh! R, run! Run!”
“He dodged everything!?”
“What is this!?”
It was literal.
Wait, what is this?
‘Huh?’
Chiseung stares blankly at this absurd scene.
Then it came back to him.
「I see. This guy dodges well, doesn’t he? That’s why he’s always in the vanguard.」
At first, I didn’t understand what she meant.
「Yes…?」
「He’d be perfect as bait.」
「But, he dies first every time!?」
“Ugh, uaaaaaaah!”
Ratte screams and runs along the route.
Crash! Crash!
Trees fall in succession, and he even nearly collided with a close-range Soldier and almost got hit by a blade.
Whoooosh!
“Hup!”
He survived by rolling like a loach, or by dodging in an almost horizontal sprawl.
‘What on earth….’
Chiseung couldn’t comprehend it.
I knew Ratte was agile, but what was this miraculous trick?
How was this even possible?
Just because the Commander changed, the Soldier’s performance improved this much?
「His reactions are fast. But his body is slow. If he were just a bit faster, he wouldn’t die first.」
She said Ratte’s body was actually slow, but his eyes were quick.
「He’s the type who dodges after seeing the attack.」
Ratte didn’t react to all threats preemptively—he dodged after seeing them.
If he saw too late, he’d definitely get hit.
Then─
「Just show him faster.」
So all I had to do was show him faster?
──Ting!
[Threat]
If I see him?
If he sees me first?
No, if I can show him first.
“!”
Ratte reacts instinctively.
Whoooosh──
The arrow grazes past once more.
“Waaaaaaaaaaa!!”
──Crash!
More innocent trees topple.
“Again, he dodged again! Ratte!? How is this even possible!”
“Just grazing should kill him! How is he still alive!? Still!?”
“And he’s getting closer again! This is completely tearing everything apart!?”
Rather than flee, Ratte charges closer to them once more.
That was the ordered route.
“While this is happening! Joseon is─”
While Ratte tears through their ranks, where did the other Gakgung archers go.
What were they preparing.
Rome had no idea.
“──Completely wiped out!!!”
“!?”
Boom!
A Crossbowman’s head flies clean off.
The Roman Soldiers finally understood.
“Insane!”
An invisible enemy, the sound of air splitting a beat too late.
Whoooosh…!
“Arrows from above!”
These are arrows from above.
Joseon is using arrows from above.
They realized this fact, but it was too late.
“Where!?”
“That, that is….”
They couldn’t pinpoint the location.
No, knowing didn’t matter.
“!”
Arrows rained down from all directions.
They were everywhere.
The archers had already positioned themselves in a massive circular formation.
This clockwise-expanding encirclement of fire.
This was the window Ratte had created.
“There, there he comes again!”
“No, where the hell is he shooting from! How is he even shooting!?”
As he charged toward the Roman forces again, they cried out.
The squad leader Pierre and Ratte’s eyes met.
“….”
Pierre ground his teeth.
Only then did he understand.
“That bastard is their eyes.”
Ratte had become the archers’ vision.
Unbelievable as it was, Ratte served as their eyes while the commander designated the firing routes.
This was a tactic that couldn’t exist any other way.
Pierre grasped the truth relatively quickly, but.
‘I can’t stop him.’
He couldn’t intercept the one charging toward him.
Once Players ignite, they occasionally display impossible performances.
Pierre sensed it instinctively.
Right now, he was igniting.
‘Too late.’
Now that I’ve realized it, it’s too late.
“Ratte! He’s charging again! How is he still alive!?”
“Javelins! Crossbows! Like you’re all hitting ghosts right now!”
“He’s in a completely possessed state!!”
Fire needs kindling to burn.
The kindling had been waiting there for the wind to blow for a long time.
Cookie knew that wind wasn’t himself.
「Daisunsin Choi will be different.」
The wind would come from Daisunsin Choi.
「If she shows it properly….」
Cookie knew.
When meeting this wind, how brilliantly that kindling could ignite.
How it could devour the enemy.
「Perhaps a perfect eye.」
Whoooosh──
The archers surrounding him all release their arrows in unison.
Arrows converging toward the center of the circle.
Ratte runs within it.
Whoosh!
“Waaaaaaaaahhhhh!!”
The audience’s roar spread like wildfire.

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