Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 131
131. [Side Story] One step to hell
[STAGE 5]
- Until: Next 24 hours
***
Crossroads downtown. barracks.
Dion's mercenary group's lodgings.
“we took a chance.”
Dion stood in front of his party members and grinned..
“During that time, we didn't always receive decent treatment. I always played the role of a meat shield..”
The four party members nodded in unison..
Before coming to the front here, these five had to endure all kinds of hardships as mercenaries..
When I was new, I was thrown into all kinds of suicide missions just because I was a newbie..
Even after I gained experience and learned how the floor works, I only took care of the most messy tasks due to my lack of talent and lack of great skills..
“But Prince Ash recognized our true value..”
Ash was different..
When asked for an opportunity, not only was he willing to give it, but he also spared no investment after recognizing the potential of Dion's mercenaries..
They were provided with good armor and an expensive silver sword, and were also allowed to wear military uniforms made only for soldiers serving on the Southern Front..
Of all the treatment I received while living as a mayfly-like mercenary, the treatment here on the monster front was the best..
Dion was already ready to be loyal to Ash..
“Let's show it to His Majesty properly during this defense. how well can we do.”
Dion clenched his fists..
“It's an irreplaceable opportunity. This time I'm going to succeed!”
“career…….”
“Let’s make it a success to show off!”
“success……!”
career. success.
The five faces brightened at the dream-like words. Dion grinned..
“good! Now, let’s each talk about our aspirations. What will you do if you make a lot of money??”
“If I'm successful, I'll raise money to build the top. My dream is to start a big business..”
“I am wedding fund! My boy is waiting for me in his hometown!”
“I want to send my parents a generous amount of pocket money. I've never done anything right…….”
“I'm going to enroll my younger brother in a magic workshop. When he grows up, he will feed me.?”
The party members each said a word and all looked at Dion..
Dion laughed and pointed to himself..
“Uh, me? I am… … hmm. It's so insignificant compared to your dreams..”
Dion scratched the back of his head..
“The first day I started working as a mercenary, I couldn't stay sober, so I went for a drink... … The price is too expensive. At that time, there was a brand of whiskey I couldn't drink because it was expensive..”
A shy smile appeared on Dion's lips..
“No matter how expensive it is, I still can't drink it because I feel like it's a waste of money. But if you succeed later... … I'll drink one bottle a week.”
After hearing Dion's goal, the rest of the party burst into laughter..
“What is that, Dion! Your aspirations are small!”
“Drink at least one bottle a day!”
“You bastards, then you're just a drinker.!”
Dion, who was screaming like a chick, soon smiled brightly..
“Let’s grit our teeth and do it right. we can make it.”
Dion jerked his arms up..
“Dion mercenaries, the beginning of a legend!”
“my top too!”
“my marriage too!”
“I will be filial to my parents!”
“My retirement fund, little brother! wait!”
The five members of Dion's mercenary group shouted loudly and eventually looked at each other and laughed..
***
Manor house. outbuilding.
Shadow Troop's Quarters.
The three archers were jumping around on their respective beds..
“Are we taking a break today? You don’t have to go to the dungeon?!”
“huh! His Majesty told me to rest completely comfortably today.!”
“Hehehe! exciting. I really like just lying in bed and doing nothing.!”
I was thinking of stopping the archers who were running around blowing up dust, but I decided to leave the body bag alone..
In the meantime, I trained whenever I had some free time..
It's been a long time since I had a very purposeful and comfortable day of rest. It is no wonder that the three archers are excited..
“?”
At that time, Body Bag noticed something different from usual and raised its head..
God Hand was nowhere to be seen..
‘Where did you go?’
The body bag escaped out of the annex, leaving the running archers in the room..
As I looked around, I saw Godhand's back standing in the archery training area behind the annex..
Body Bag's feet, which were approaching God Hand, suddenly stopped..
“……Don't worry. I will protect you…….”
God Hand was mumbling something quietly..
“……yes. If that's all I can do…….”
Bodybag tilted his head..
Who are you talking to??
“God Hand?”
As the body bag approached, deliberately pretending to be popular, Godhand was startled and looked back with a puzzled face..
“Body bag? What are you doing here if you’re not resting inside?!”
“Just to get some air... … What does God Hand do? who to talk to…….”
But God Hand's conversation partner had already disappeared..
It seemed like he quickly went into the forest behind the archery training center..
“What a conversation. Huh! I was alone. I was just talking to myself..”
Godhand's face showed a look of confusion..
As a body bag, this was my first time seeing God Hand like this and I couldn't understand it. what?
It was then. Three archers rushed out from inside the annex..
“What are you two doing? There's something delicious too?!”
“It's already lunch! I'm hungry!”
God Hand looked back at the party members who were holding their stomachs and suffering, and smiled slightly..
“Everyone is hungry, right? Then, shall we all go rob the restaurant in the mansion??”
“Wow, great! God Hand Genius!”
“Great approval-!”
“i juice!”
“I am pickled fruit!”
“I need to bring a lot of walnuts and peanuts.!”
The three archers were very excited and ran towards the main building of the mansion first..
God Hand, who was walking behind the archers, looked back at the body bag..
“Let’s go quickly, body bag. You should eat something too.”
“……yes.”
“Because tomorrow will be a difficult day. You must eat well today.”
The archers were already quite far away. Godhand ran off the ground to catch up with the children..
“Mmm……?”
A vague sense of discomfort remained, but I decided not to take it seriously..
The body bag quickly followed the party members..
***
Temple. Damian's room.
“…….”
Damian looked at the soldiers in front of him with calm eyes..
Six horse guns. a crossbow.
Three silver arrows, two silver arrows.
Enchant scroll here.
It was a one-time enchantment scroll that Ash had been collecting. A total of three pieces, with freezing, fire, and gust properties..
Ash gave this to Damian. They told me to use it when I had a spare time..
Damian quietly stretched out his hand and swept the magic gun and crossbow neatly placed in front of him with his fingertips..
next moment,
Clap!
He snatched the handle of the gun with his slender fingers in one go, held on to the butt, and at the same time pressed his face close to the gun barrel..
Slap! Cheolkeong!
Align your line of sight and place the iron sights in front of you..
“…….”
Damian slowly relaxed the aiming stance he had adopted in an instant..
In the meantime, Damian has been repeatedly training to quickly adopt this aiming stance..
It was to shoot the enemy a little faster..
In fact, for Damien, aiming the sights with the naked eye didn't mean much..
[Because clairvoyance is not a concept that works that way..
However, this posture was not bad for dealing with the enormous recoil of the horse gun. That's why he was practicing.
‘If only I could do it a little faster... … I could be of more help to the prince.…….’
While Damian was thinking, he suddenly felt dizzy. It seemed like it was because I was locked in a corner of my room all day training..
‘Should I get some fresh air outside?…….’
Damian came out of the room and headed toward the temple's central hall, when he noticed something..
“…….”
Saint Margerita was kneeling in front of the statue of the goddess in the central hall..
He seemed to be praying with a serious face. Damian stopped, his footsteps muffled..
“…….”
With both hands held together in front of the chest tightly clasped, the body curled up slightly trembles..
Margerita, who was still with her eyes closed, slowly let out a voice..
“I just want to be faithful to the mission given to me.…….”
Margerita, who was slightly annoyed, let out a long sigh and slowly raised her head..
“What should I do now?…….”
An elaborately carved statue of the goddess was looking down on Margerita..
Margerita closed her eyes again and whispered faintly..
“please… … please let me know…….”
“……?”
It was his first time seeing Margerita like this, so Damien tilted his head..
***
Honey from Inn Eti. Junior's room.
“haha… … Cough!”
Even while continuously hemopping up blood, Junior was using his magic power to keep elemental particles floating above his head..
“Just a little more... … That technique becomes mine…….”
All kinds of metaphysical magic circles were formed and released repeatedly around her as she was bleeding from her nose and mouth..
“This is not too much, just a little more... … a little bit……!”
Completion was just around the corner.
At that time, the enlightenment I gained from calculating the magic that the Vampire King showed me was just about to blossom..
That moment.
- Are you planning to die before me??
Grandma’s voice rang in my mind..
“…….”
A sneer appeared on Junior’s lips..
“There's no way I would want to die.…….”
but.
Because if you don't use your life, you can't even reach it..
Skimming the blood from his nose and mouth, Junior let out a soft sigh..
“Come on, just a little more……!”
***
Mercenary Guild. Jupiter's room.
“Cluck, cluck!”
Jupiter coughed violently. Dark red blood splattered on her pillow..
“Haha, hehe……!”
The aftereffects of the runaway magic power have not yet fully healed..
However, because he ignored it and used a lot of magic, Jupiter's whole body felt the rebound..
‘This is what it feels like, honey?’
Jupiter tightly closed his only eye as he held on to the stumbling old man and coughed up blood without stopping..
‘Until I endured this pain... … Do you really want to become a wizard? Until I die before this grandmother?’
- That wouldn't be bad either.
The granddaughter's face as she said that confused my mind..
“……So, do you hate me??”
Jupiter gritted his teeth..
Yes, hate it. Hate and curse yes.
‘It doesn't matter how much you hate this old lady. Still, I…….’
Cough!
Jupiter coughed up blood and roughly wiped the corners of his mouth. A bright light appeared again in her single eye, which had become blurry..
“Not yet. little bit more.”
Hang on just a little longer, you damned body.!
***
manor house.
Backyard garden. Small decorated training hall.
widely! Percussion! grasp!
Lucas and Evangeline were sparring with wooden swords, wooden spears, and wooden shields..
Since the day they were defeated by Celendion, Lucas and Evangeline have sparred with each other every day..
Lucas broke through Evangeline's defense, and Evangeline blocked Lucas' attack..
At first, the odds of winning were even, but at some point, Evangeline continued to win..
Evangeline completely mastered using her ‘intuition’ and blocked all of Lucas’ attacks without a single gap..
It's still the same now with one day left until the defensive battle..
widely! Crack! Going to school!
It was dusk time in the evening..
Evangeline's emerald eyes shined and she blocked all of Lucas' sword strikes with her shield..
‘I feel it. I feel all the ‘roads’ with my skin!’
Now, moving completely on intuition, Evangeline stood on the verge of enlightenment..
If you take just one more step.
The moment when it feels like we have completely reached the ‘ultimate’ that the Cross family has cultivated since its ancestors.-
Powok!
Craddangtangtang!
Evangeline fell backwards..
At some point, Lucas' wooden sword touched her body, and immediately afterward, it flew all the way outside the training ground with a huge impact..
“uh?”
Evangeline, who was lying on the floor in a daze, muttered..
And then I raised my eyes and saw the person who had struck this sword strike..
“haha!”
Lucas was standing in the middle of the training ground, panting heavily..
White steam rose from the muscular knight's entire body..
The knight’s bright blue eyes… … It was burning like that of an animal..
“……What was that just now??”
Evangeline looked down at her chest. Her training armor, which she wore in case of an accident, was dented..
If I hadn't worn it, I might have died.
“Even with my intuition, I couldn't avoid it. No, it didn't even look right. What kind of attack did you launch??”
“……this?”
Grinning.
Lucas swept back his sweaty blonde hair and raised the corner of his mouth..
There was no trace of his usual golden retriever-like smile. The ferocity of a wolf was hanging on the knight's lips..
“……Should I call it my desperation?.”
***
South from Crossroads. champaign.
Late night as dawn approaches.
chuck! chuck! chuck! chuck!
1,000 blood relatives led by Celendion arrived here..
Alpha reported after checking the distant Crossroads..
“You can see the castle walls. road.”
“…….”
“It's a city of humans. I think we'll be within striking distance in the next few hours..”
“Hoo.”
Celendion, who was sitting on the palanquin with a bored look on his face, glanced towards the north..
“Soon.”
A slaughter battle where people kill and kill each other.
Finally, now, it's starting.
Selendion got up from the palanquin and slowly looked back..
“My descendants.”
The Vampire King smiled at his royal guard with bright red eyes flashing..
It was a vampire-like smile with prominent fangs..
“Are you ready to cover your royalties with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood??”
no answer needed.
Royalties are covered with trial and blood damage..
Because that was the meaning of their existence..
***
“It's coming.”
I muttered while glaring at the southern plains in the distance..
I couldn't sleep at all, so I came to the castle wall early in the morning..
And I saw their appearance with my own eyes..
They were coming from far away, but steadily advancing..
[STAGE 5]
- Until: 3 hours to go
hell.
Towards the monster front here, a living hell... … was approaching.
It was right in front of me now.
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