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Although it didn’t have a large number of users, the amount of posts they generated was unmatched.

While being in the top two hundred was relatively easier on Korea's smaller server, being a commander was a different story. Each server could only have one main commander and two assistant commanders for the national competition.

Cookie, the current main commander, had experience reaching the main stage of the national competition. This was comparable to reaching the top thirty-two in football and he achieved this at the age of twenty-seven, which was quite young compared to the average age of commanders at thirty-five. Top commanders often skewed older, given their role in leading people and not just units.

There was even a fifty year old winning commander, who was actually a former military officer with extensive real-life experience.

Cookie’s achievement at twenty-seven had been a significant event, marking Korea's best performance in the competition to date. It was almost comparable to their 2002 World Cup placement.

Reaching the main stage had been their highest achievement, which spoke volumes. Such a record was disappointing for a nation that once dominated the RTS genre and pioneered esports.

However, the prevailing opinion was more straightforward.

Everyone agreed that the ginherently had balance issues.

One user pointed out that harboring negative thoughts about the gwouldn't help to achieve better results. Therefore, posts like these began to dominate the forum.

As usual, the discussions about this topic in the community eventually ended without much result. The community members shifted their attention back to this year's national team roster. Was there any hope this year? Their curiosity persisted despite being let down every year.

Then, the first piece of news cin.

Nobody believed it with a title like that.

The next post included a clip of Almond receiving an offer from Kimchi Warrior.

They considered the possibility that a B rank could have received such an offer, but expected nothing more. However, the following video further piqued their interest.

The latest clip showed Almond discussing with Kimchi Warrior and entering the gwith BornToB.

This led to speculation that the national team was really trying to raise Almond to S+ rank to get him on the national team.

Their community of veterans was quite closed off to outsiders. From their point of view, Almond was receiving special treatment for being famous. It was a misunderstanding, but not entirely unfounded since it was true that Almond was a famous B rank player.

The misunderstandings and speculations continued to spread. Amid this, someone posted a live link.

Of course, their numbers barely reached a thousand. However, they were as noisy as five thousand in terms of chatter.

They already felt frustrated with what they saw and started dishing out advice.

They didn’t intend to do so, but naturally started bullying Almond with their veteran presence.

Meanwhile, Almond had been running for a while and finally reached the location designated by Commander BornToB.

Almond glanced at the chat as he walked toward the enemy base. He surveyed the enemy camp and spotted a few enemy soldiers already waiting.

Only their side was supposed to have soldiers according to the original plan, but that didn’t turn out to be the case.

“Darn it... What do we do now?!” BornToBe sounded quite flustered.

Almond took the lead before his commander could make a ridiculous decision in a panicked state.

"Let's just go in."

As he took the lead, the other archers followed as if it was no big deal.

The enemy troops noticed them straight away as they blatantly entered.

"The enemy is here!"

"This way!"

Around three soldiers approached them.

Almond drew his bowstring and thought three soldiers could be easily taken down in an instant. Even more so if they were spearmen.

He planned to shoot as soon as they cinto range.

At that moment, the enemy soldiers stopped and Almond's troops began causing a stir.

"What's going on?"

"There are usually only spearmen, right...?"

"They have archers too? This is crazy."

The enemy also had archers. The fast second era and archer rush strategy normally involved dealing with spearmen who were at a disadvantage. Another ideal move would be to play cat and mouse with defensive towers.

However, the enemy had also prepared archers.

Almond thought for a moment. BornToB rushed to the second era like a madman to recruit archers. How could the enemy have archers too? Unless the enemy commander deliberately recruited archers…

Their strategy had been completely foiled.

Someone shouted from the back, "Wait, more enemies are coming!?"

An ally was looking out from on top of a rock.

"One... now ten! There are ten!"

The enemy had as many as ten archers.

"Ten!?"

"The difference is too big."

"Is this even possible? They must have realized it was a fast rush and prepared for it!"

Almond thought along similar lines.

To sum it up, the enemy commander had roughly guessed BornToB's strategy through scouts and unbelievably prepared a countermeasure.

They had fewer numbers in an all-in rush than the enemy who didn’t go all-in.

Almond's team had more members, but the rest were still on their way.

BornToB was recruiting archers at a fast pace.

The distance between the two camps posed an issue. It was quite far to execute such an early-gstrategy, which was why this strategy was not generally viable.

Normally, it would be correct to change strategies in this case. However, BornToB had only learned this one strategy from Kimchi Warrior and had no backup plans.

Almond’s side only had five soldiers while the enemy had gathered as many as ten. Waiting a bit longer could increase their numbers to six, but that wouldn’t make much of a difference if the enemy continued recruiting archers after spotting them here.

Expressions of defeat could be seen on Almond’s troops.

“Ah... this is a loss.”

“Let’s just fight.”

“We’re outnumbered two to one and against archers too... Is this even possible?”

“The enemy is approaching! What do we do?”

The enemy archers, who initially hesitated, started advancing after realizing that they outnumbered Almond’s side. They would soon cinto range of each other.

Almond's troops began to step back.

Almond stopped them from fleeing and spoke, “Honestly, it's not twice as many, is it? It's just one or two more.”

He blatantly lied to them. Even at a glance, the enemy definitely didn’t have just one or two more soldiers than them.

One of Almond's soldiers grew annoyed and snapped, “If ten against five isn't double then what is─”

Instead of responding, Almond leaped forward and pulled his bowstring.

The arrow swiftly flew and struck the enemy's vital point, knocking them down in a single shot.

The enemy archers were instantly reduced to nine.

“!?”

Both the enemies and Almond's troops were shocked.

They all thought no one was in range yet, but Almond’s shot had been too precise.

However, it was too early to be surprised. As usual, Almond didn't shoot just one arrow.

More arrows already flew and brought down two more enemies. In an instant, three enemy soldiers had died and left their side with only seven left.

Almond's side still had five archers.

“See. It's just a difference of one or two.”

Eventually, his words proved to be accurate.

Almond's troops suddenly roared in triumph.

“We can win! Let’s go! Shoot!”

They sensed that victory was already theirs after seeing the capabilities of their leader.

It wasn’t just Almond’s troops who suddenly changed their stance.

A new post appeared on the Embul community forum.