Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 864

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 334
106. Fire (5)
The reason Anto hadn’t prepared any countermeasures against Daisunsin Choi was actually quite simple.
He’d felt almost no need to do so.
From his perspective—one that distilled every event down to its essence and viewed it as a single thread—Choi Sun-sin’s strategy was ultimately far too one-dimensional.
Beyond the fact that Joseon’s operations were structured around Almond’s escort capabilities, Daisunsin Choi utilized that ability exclusively for direct main base attacks.
Remarkably, this was true. She charged in like a boxer obsessed with knockout victories, striking only one side of the jaw.
The reason enemies couldn’t defend and fell was first because that strike was far too fast and precise.
Second, because she feinted attacks on countless other spots before delivering the real blow.
Yet her destination always remained the same—the most lethal vital point.
This manifested most clearly during the all-in confrontation against Japan.
Even as Supreme Commander, she’d drawn her blade while pushing for the all-in.
No normal commander would ever take such an action, but she charged forward regardless.
That’s why Anto was confident this time as well.
If he could maneuver into this setup, she would execute an attack whenever the opportunity arose.
An all-in would occur.
‘As expected.’
The outcome unfolded exactly as he’d anticipated.
She chose to continue striking the main base even with her dwindling archer forces.
It was successful. Because Anto had focused on multi-directional defense rather than protecting the main base, it had momentarily become undefended.
The archers could capture or drive out all the workers at the main base.
Resource gathering at the main base came to a complete halt.
From that position, the archers penetrated the main base hall building’s arrow defense and advanced inside.
Achieving such a performance while using militia units was truly remarkable.
However, they didn’t know.
That Anto had acknowledged her strengths and prepared countermeasures against them.
That where they were headed wasn’t actually the main base.
“An all-in you’re guaranteed to win.”
Toby, the leader of Rome’s think tank, nodded and murmured to himself.
“Anto used to mention theories like that from time to time. He’d say it would be fun if you could pull something like this off.”
An all-in you’re guaranteed to win.
An all-in is literally a game of chicken where you stake everything and charge forward.
So how could you be guaranteed to win?
This strategy was something Anto had been planning for quite some time.
The core principle was that only the opponent would be all-in, not himself.
If the opponent took the bait, victory was assured.
Yet few would accept such an extreme confrontation.
But there was one person in this finals.
“They’ll bitterly regret that player substitution.”
Toby reaches his conclusion.
There’s nothing more to see in this match.
They’ve already fallen into Elysion’s undefeated trap—what chance do they have of winning?
We’ll prepare for the next match and secure our fifth victory.
Then Rome will be champions.

* * *
“Th-this is what!? Rome!!”
King Gul’s eyes looked ready to pop out of his head.
Caster beside him was no different.
“N-no… why is it gone!? What is this!?”
-Huh?
-An identity nobody could have imagined
-What is this for real
-Bug confirmed lol
-????
-?
-Whoa
The broadcast suddenly zoomed in on both commanders’ expressions.
Choi Sun-sin, who had maintained a poker face throughout, was biting his lip at this very moment.
Something had gone wrong.
-Scary
-How
-Whoa
-It’s over
-Noooo
The audience stirred as this man, who usually maintained an even expression despite his aggressive tendencies, showed signs of wavering.
“W-what do we do!? This!?”
“I don’t know. Why is it gone?”
“How long can Joseon even hold out!?”
Meanwhile, the Rome audience was intoxicated with joy, singing their cheers.
“Wooooooooooo! Antoooooo!”
Boom. Boom. Boom.
A cheer for Anto resonated with the sound of massive drums.
A seasoned veteran crushing a passionate challenger, a grand celebration of perfect victory.
That was the atmosphere filling this arena right now.
“Ah… we’re getting a replay now. We’re quite bewildered, but let’s take a look.”
The live feed momentarily fades as the replay begins.
The moment Almond enters.
“When you enter the hall, the Supreme Commander’s position marker appears, right? But it hasn’t shown up since he first entered?”
“That’s right. I thought Anto had simply deactivated commander mode and was hiding!”
“No! He wasn’t even in this area to begin with! He’s not in this building at all! That’s why his position marker isn’t showing!!”
“When exactly did he leave!?”
The Observers locate and display the moment Anto departed.
At first glance, it’s a scene of Workers rushing out en masse.
King Gul’s eyes widen in that instant.
“This is… when the Workers evacuated earlier, right!? When the Workers evacuated! Anto left with them!?”
That was it.
The Joseon Archers were filling the screen at that moment, so it wasn’t visible properly.
There was a time when Rome’s Workers evacuated en masse across multiple locations.
Unless one looked down from the sky above, it would’ve been impossible to know.
For Almond and Ratte, watching from a first-person perspective and from a distance, there was no way they could’ve known.
But what truly shocked King Gul wasn’t that Anto had used the tactic of camouflaging himself among the Workers.
“No, but how did he… from this timing…?”
The evacuation timing.
He evacuated the Workers immediately as soon as the Joseon Archers arrived at the main base.
“It is impressive that he evacuated preemptively!?”
No, that’s not it.
“I mean, a preemptive evacuation strategy could exist.”
“?”
Something feels off.
“It’s strange. Something….”
“What is it?”
“Anto… didn’t know where Joseon would strike, did he?”
“Ah! That’s right? We all thought Joseon was actually going to attack multiple locations! That’s what we assumed!”
That was correct.
The Archers who have now invaded the main base were actually forces that appeared to be heading to attack multiple locations, and Anto had prepared accordingly.
“Anto invested heavily in defensive systems for the multiple locations, but suddenly Joseon came to the main base?”
And then suddenly they came straight to the main base with the militia, completely ravaging Rome’s main base? That’s why the Workers had to evacuate.
At this moment, King Gul’s eye twitched.
‘Wait.’
Now it all clicks into place like a puzzle.
‘Damn it. I’ve been looking at everything from Joseon’s perspective.’
The reason Anto had invested his defensive systems in the multiple locations.
It wasn’t because he thought the Joseon Archers would attack the multiple locations.
No, ultimately that would happen.
But the timing was different.
‘Right now…!’
Whoosh.
In that instant, King Gul’s gaze turns toward Rome’s multiple locations.
Pierre and the defensive garrison, defensive towers, and even some fortifications all in place.
“…”
It was a defensive system that two archers alone could never hope to breach.
‘This is what I built it for.’
From the start, Anto had known the probability was high that Joseon would strike the main base.
He’d planned to offer the main base as bait.
Besides, he’d already mined out nearly all the resources from the main base anyway, so the resource loss wasn’t significant. There were important structures at the main base, but archers couldn’t burn buildings.
A perfect bait.
‘How is this even possible.’
King Gul felt utterly deflated.
Was there any other match where a Commander’s ability had such a profound impact?
‘When did this start? Where did it begin?’
The scope of Anto’s design was so awe-inspiring that I couldn’t even dare to comprehend its full extent.
“K-King Gul, sir? Please say something! For now, Joseon is still holding back Rome!”
“Falcon scout….”
“Pardon?”
A multi built during the window when falcon scouts were unavailable.
When the opponent’s falcon scouts or reconnaissance became impossible, there were actually several strategies one could employ.
Among them, Anto had chosen multi construction.
King Gul had felt a slight sense of incongruity at that moment.
It was because of the multi’s location.
Rome generally prioritized territorial expansion, so they liked to build multis aggressively forward and defend from in front of them.
Once you claimed the land, your defensive capability skyrocketed, and that in turn protected the main base.
‘He twisted it.’
This time it was reversed.
The multi went back and the main base took the front.
But actually, that was King Gul’s perspective.
Rome’s strategy was the same.
What was in front was the multi, and what was built behind was the main base.
“Starting with the falcon scout! In that very moment when the falcon scout was absent! Anto rolled his snowball all the way to this point!”
“?!”
-??
-Is this real??
-What is he talking about
-King Gul mode on
-This game is just… I have to admit it… wow
-Huh?
“W-What do you mean by that!?”
Caster forgot even to relay the Joseon main force and asked again.
“The falcon scout was absent and Anto chose the multi. But it wasn’t Rome’s typical aggressive forward multi expansion—it was a sneaky rear multi! No matter how much Rome wants to explode their resources, a Priest emerges from the main base. You generally don’t build a multi like this that doesn’t even protect the main base! Even if you get more resources! Because if the Priest dies, it’s over! But Anto went through with it! Why do you think that is!?”
“!”
-What the hell
I don’t understand either ㅠㅠ
What the hell is this ㅠ
Those damn bastards lol
“That wasn’t a multi-tasking play! Look! Every Priest! Most of the Workers! They’re all on multi-tasking right now! Even the Supreme Commander!”
lol
If this isn’t the main base, then what is!
Wow lol
That trick show is crazy/insane.
“From the very beginning! The moment the Falcon release was missing—he predicted this entire elimination structure!”
“…!?”
Caster’s eyes widened as if they might pop out of his head.
“No, no… reaching this elimination match… such a structure… you drew this back then!?”
“Yes.”
King Gul nodded with absolute certainty.
“Look at the replay carefully. Before even knowing the Archer would come to the main base… who moves first?”
“!”
I hadn’t thought of it that way until now.
There’s a group that starts moving before the Workers.
“The, the Priests….”
lol
-What
-Is this real??
-Wow
-What??
-He knew??
“The Priests either participated in the Joseon main base expedition or were moved to multi-tasking long ago. I thought this was a desperate attempt at resource pumping… but it wasn’t.”
“Huh….”
Caster was at a loss for words.
It was true.
That’s a trick show lol
-The details are insane
-What…
-What is this;;
-Going this far?
“The, the Workers are cheap, so they just mined resources until death or evacuated later, so the enemy had no idea at all, right?”
Some Workers were simply left to die.
That way the enemy would be completely certain.
King Gul couldn’t finish his words.
‘Damn it.’
To lose so pathetically like this.
Though I’m just a commentator, I wanted Joseon’s victory more than anyone.
I thought the championship was right within reach.
Two archers had pushed into the enemy’s main base hall.
Joseon had essentially already won.
The despair crashing down in that moment was utterly indescribable.
‘All of this… all because of that one moment?’
Using a single falcon strike in battle had triggered this snowball effect.
Against an opponent like this, not even a single mistake is permitted?
And why is Rome’s main force so overwhelmingly powerful?
Joseon had more troops.
How did they break through?
What kind of game are we even playing against these monsters?
Helplessness.
King Gul felt it—that helplessness.
An emotion I’d barely felt even during my playing career.
And I’m feeling it now here at the commentary desk.
“This is Anto’s strategic complete victory. This is… this is simply…”
Rome had pushed all the way into Joseon’s front yard.
Joseon had only two archers left in militia condition.
What could they possibly accomplish at this point?
“Wait just a moment!!”
That was when.
Caster struck King Gul’s shoulder and shouted.
“Joseon is preparing for their final stand! Not yet! It’s not over yet!!”
“!?”
Not over?
This?
King Gul snapped back to attention and examined the screen.
‘This can’t be.’
Ratte and Almond.
These two were heading back toward the multi-lane region.
They were breaking out of the main base, piercing through the arrow barrage from the enemy’s main hall once more.
“Almond! Ratte! They’re breaking out! Actually, escaping is harder than breaking through!!”
Arrows flying from behind and arrows flying from ahead.
Which is easier to dodge is obvious.
They were advancing while evading the arrows coming from behind.
Just the two of them, running to destroy the enemy’s multi-lane… no, what had now become their main base.
It’s truly absurd, but they’re going nonetheless.
They did not break.
‘It continues… forward!’
That was right. There was no way I could collapse here.
Helplessness. That was the weight that had crushed Almond for ten years.
A familiar sandbag that came in day after day.
I simply rose again and ran as I always did.
Rather, I could push forward with even greater strength.
“And!!”
Movement erupted from the Joseon main camp.
“Our Supreme Commander too! Just now emerged from the main hall on horseback!? For this final stand! The cavalry is being gathered in the rear!! They’re assembling there right now!?”
“What!? The, the Supreme Commander!?”
-Huh??
lol
-No way
I can’t translate this as it appears to be incomplete or unclear Korean text. The characters “-ㅁㅊ” don’t form a recognizable word or phrase.
-What is this;
-Gasp
Joseon, pushed back to their limit.
They were gathering fresh forces in the rear and preparing for their final stand.
This was a sight seen in most civilizations.
But there had never been a case where the Supreme Commander stood among them.
‘What.’
I didn’t know.
That existence which had dealt me nearly the only helplessness of my entire career as a player now stood here.
That existence too had pierced through countless moments of helplessness to reach this point.
Shing…!
She drew her sword.
‘This can’t be.’
Gulp.
King Gul swallowed hard.
I had seen the gleam in the Commander’s eyes on the camera feed.
It was as if literal flames blazed from those eyes.
That fire spread to her surroundings like a raging inferno.
Thundering hoofbeats!
The horses charged forth in unison.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
Joseon launched their final assault.

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