Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 216
◈ 216. [STAGE 9] Jormungand
3 raid parties, 15 people.
We got ready early in the morning before sunrise and teleported to [Lakeside Ferry]..
We were waiting for Jormungand to appear at a point overlooking the Black Lake..
“Ugh~chachacha!”
Next to me, Kelly Bay is looking down at the lake and doing exercises stretching out her short limbs..
that… … I don't know what to say, but my gymnastics posture really looks like you. Stop it..
“Hey, you too, come next and follow along! If you slouch like that all the time, you'll regret it when you get older.?”
“What kind of fatherly nagging... … No, don't pull it.!”
So, I was half-forcibly dragged to Kelly Bay and did gymnastics while looking down at the lake. Holy shit… … Tskchacha.
“It's been a long time since I came out of the Lake Kingdom.!”
After finishing the gymnastics, Kelly Bay clapped her hands on the front and back of her body and said:.
“If you're in there, you become numb to the passage of time..”
“Do you really need to be in there? There will be a teleportation gate anyway. I'll build a blacksmith shop at Crossroads, so you can stay cool outside in the sunny weather..”
Use it by sucking all the way down to the bone marrow... … No, I suggested this because I was worried about your health. Kelly Bay shook her head.
“There is something I can do because I am in there. And, wouldn't the other poor fellows crawling down there need at least a blacksmith?.”
Still, I tried to bake and boil it, but Kelly Bay covered both ears and didn't listen to me..
Sheesh. Like a dwarf, he's a stubborn old man..
“Hmm…….”
Next to us, Reina and the reinforcement party were looking at the teleport gate..
“There are many strange things here, Your Majesty. The teleportation magic has been lost, and it's a dungeon under the lake.…….”
“There's an ancient magic kingdom down there that's linked to the origin of those monsters..”
I smiled at Raina..
“I thought the center had it all figured out.?”
“I heard something simple when I was dispatched, but I didn't know that there were things that couldn't be overlooked in modern magic..”
Reina, who was contemplating with her chin resting on her face, looked at me with sparkling eyes..
“Can you take me with you on your next expedition??”
“If the situation is right.”
Anyway, wizards are all interested in ancient magic..
But strictly speaking, reinforcements are just reinforcements. There is no need to invite friends who are going to leave soon anyway to go on an expedition and share experience..
That's why I intentionally left Rayna's party out of the dungeon..
‘Still, next is boss stage 10. In order to get all the hero characters together, it might be a good idea to go exploring together and conduct joint training.…….’
Well, we're relieving the tension by having small talk like this..
Kugugugugung Palace-
the ground began to shake.
Everyone intuitively sensed the enemy's arrival. I shouted.
“Everyone, get ready!”
Bubbly…….
The surface of the pitch-black lake shook violently as if hit by a storm, and then.
Shoot ahhh……!
A terrifying spray of water rose up..
Between the spray, the head of a huge snake, shining silver-gray, was revealed. I chewed up his name and spit it out.
“Jormungand……!”
Gooooooo-!
The monster's two pale yellow eyes appeared in the air, and there was a sound as if the air was boiling..
……It's huge.
It's an adjective I've used several times, but I couldn't help but use it again. Because there are no words that describe him better than this..
The head that has just emerged from the surface seems to be about the size of a mansion..
What on earth is this ignorant size?!
‘This is a ‘super-giant’ monster……!’
Seeing it with my own eyes, it's a completely different level of power than what I felt in the game..
Does this mean that such a large creature can exist in the world?.
Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-
Jormungand slowly pulled himself out of the lake, letting out a horrified breath..
A huge silver-gray body with scales the size of a small shield crawled slowly across the floor and finally landed on land..
slam-!
The water of the black lake crashed into waves and poured outward..
Water droplets fell like a shower on our heads as we stood next to the ferry and watched this scene..
“……When I saw it with my own eyes, it was ridiculously big..”
Evangeline remained stiff even though her entire body was covered in water..
“Are we really… … Can you defeat this monster??”
“We have to repel it.”
I said calmly.
“If we don't, the monster front will end and the world will perish..”
Looking back, all defensive battles were like that..
If we couldn't stop it, everyone would die. We have always been the world's last line of defense..
It's the same this time too. There's no difference.
kill the monster.
save people.
That's what I've always done.
When I said that calmly, the frozen shoulders of the party members relaxed little by little..
“Come to your senses, you ragtag bandits..”
Lucas hit the stiffest member of the punishment unit on the shoulder..
“I'm already scared. What should I do? If you do that, you all die later. Don't make me clean up the body for no reason, come to your senses..”
“Who said you were scared, driver?!”
2Kuilan, whose legs were trembling as he was over 100 m tall, shouted at Lucas' words..
“I'm already excited to go snake hunting.!”
“It really looks like that. weakling.”
“It's real! Damn it, let's compare our majors later when it's all over.!”
“That's good. It's a very good condition to clearly remind me of the difference between you and me..”
Lucas sneered coldly, and Kuilan gritted his teeth..
I looked at him and smiled. It's okay to bluff, so it's better to fight now..
‘And, it might not be as difficult as you think..’
Although it is a non-standard monster that makes the ground tremble as if there was an earthquake even though it is just crawling..
Actually, Jormungand was my preferred boss monster in the game..
Because the strategy was clear..
Aggressiveness is also low. Is he just a guy who just moves north? As long as the part destruction gimmick was thoroughly performed, it was possible to sufficiently defeat the crossroads before approaching..
Moreover, in this stage,
[Dark events do not occur in this stage..]
[This is the maximum difficulty level applicable. Difficulty cannot be increased any further than this.]
There is no fucking dark event.!
There are no dark events due to the same ‘maximum difficulty’ as in the vampire era..
It's annoying that it's at maximum difficulty, but anyway, there are no dark events, which means there are no additional variables..
‘Stable attack is possible.’
I nodded heavily as I adjusted the hook launcher on my arm..
The opponent is a monster like a natural disaster, but.
It's worth it.
“Now, it's time to board.!”
Almost half of Jormungand's large body has already left the lake..
I measured the timing and fired the hook at the monster's body..
“let's go-!”
Sigh! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Almost simultaneously, fifteen hooks with silver threads were shot towards the body of the monster snake and caught between its scales..
ping! peeing!
The device's springs tangled, the rope pulled us in, and all 15 hero characters flew through the air..
fault! crackling!
Just like he landed on the ground.
We landed on his back too..
“you are wide…….”
Evangeline, who had just climbed onto Jormungandr's back, was impressed..
“Is this what ants on my body feel like?……?”
Jormungandr's body was shaped like a cylinder placed on its side and pressed up and down, possibly due to its enormous mass..
In other words, the top is quite flat. We are worthy of moving.
Evangeline, who was lightly jumping on it, tilted her head..
“It's not a snake, it's a dragon, right? This is enough?”
“Whether it's a snake, a dragon, a dragon, or an earthworm. Anyway, how are you? They are just our enemies..”
I nodded after confirming that everyone was up. There are no losers.
“It is as instructed in advance. From here, all three parties head to their respective operational areas..”
There are three nerve centers that need to be destroyed. Three parties were deployed.
Each person decided to take charge of one nerve center..
We, the main party, are at the head, Raina and the support party are at the center, and finally, the punishment unit is at the tail..
If I land on the head, I'm afraid I'll get on his nerves, and it's difficult to land on the tail because it moves so loudly..
Once everyone landed in the center, they decided to disperse to their respective operational areas..
“The nerve center we need to destroy looks like this.”
I stretched out my hand and pointed to the center of Jormungandr's body..
I saw a huge horn-like protrusion in the middle of its back..
One of the three nerve centers of Jormungand.
The object of destruction was exposing its body in an appetizing manner. I gestured toward it and nodded..
“If you attack it steadily, you will be able to destroy it in two to two and a half days..”
Because the snake's body is long, communication between parties may be a bit difficult..
I had a system window that was, in some ways, the biggest cheat..
[Jormungand - Part Destruction Progression]
-first center : 0%
-second center : 0%
-third center : 0%
I planned to check the current situation through this and move to understand the situation if other parties' progress slows or stops..
‘It must have invaded the human world, a monster. Then we'll invade your back too..’
I curled up the corners of my mouth and gestured to the party members..
“Okay, then go to your area of operation.…….”
The moment you try to tell me to move.
Kuwagwanggwang!
The vibration suddenly became stronger..
The entire body of Jormungand, which we rode on, trembled violently. As if I hit a thick wall.
“what?!”
“Hold on tight!”
All of the frightened hero characters fell down and clung to Jormungandr's back..
Lucas and Evangeline held me on both sides as I stumbled..
bang! Kugwagwang!
Pile of dirt poured down from all directions, and the ground cracked with a loud noise..
‘what's the matter?’
As I craned my neck to look around to understand the situation, I soon realized that Jormungand was pushing my body into a rugged mountain valley..
‘what? Why are you leaving the road paved by Crossroads intact and suddenly digging into the mountain??’
I blinked because I couldn't understand, but eventually I realized why..
‘no way……!’
This snake monster honestly travels north.
In other words, there is no need to use human-made paths..
I just move forward towards true north, carving out my own path with my gigantic body.……!
“This is crazy-?!”
Quagwang! Kugwagwagwagwang!
The mountains on the path to Jormungand collapsed, pouring out piles of dirt one after another..
Trees that had grown tall for tens to hundreds of years without being exposed to any external influences fell down one after another..
We screamed inaudibly as our bodies were hit by pouring dirt and tree debris..
In front of the roar of the mountain collapsing, I couldn't even hear the screams of humans..
Natural Disasters.
A snake of this size was literally a miracle just by moving around..
“Hang in there! The operation will be able to continue soon when the mountain area is over.…….”
As I looked at the map of the area and shouted, I saw in the distance a snake's head burrowing under a huge rocky mountain..
Rumbling!
Then, the rocky mountain starting to collapse..
“……No, fuck.”
A swear word came out without me realizing it..
Since there was no dark event, I was a fool who thought it would be easy to clear if I followed the game strategy carefully..
This is not on the walls that can be called our home ground..
From the moment the battlefield moved outside, everything was a variable..
“Anyway, this is a bit too much, you snake.-!”
Rumble - Kuwagwagwang!
A landslide of rocks swept away the snake's body..
We, who were clinging to the snake's body, were swept away by the torrential rain of rocks and dirt..
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