Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 479
◈ 479. [Auto Play] Foreshadowing) (4)
temple entrance.
“……hmm?”
Thorkel made a curious voice..
He was suffering from leprosy, his entire body covered in bandages and a helmet covering his face, and he was driving a carriage..
He had just returned from a medical errand to the eastern port city. But somehow the atmosphere before I left and now is very different..
‘what's going on……?’
Blinking his eyes beneath his helmet, Thorkell stopped his chariot and entered the temple..
The inside of the temple was empty, and the few remaining people were busily gathering their luggage and leaving. Thorkel was confused as he did not know the meaning..
“What is this…….”
“Ah, Thorkell! You're back!”
At that time, Zenith came out from inside the temple waving her hand..
He had oil-covered hair, a dark beard, and looked like he hadn't washed properly in several days..
Thorkel asked, pointing around..
“I just went there... … Anyway, what's going on??”
“Oh, I guess you didn't hear? A monster is coming. They say it's a very dangerous monster. So the temple is evacuating all but the minimum number of people out of the city..”
“No, if you're going to evacuate, send everyone there. Why is there a minimum number of people left in the temple??”
“Lily is giving birth.”
Thorkell gaped. He said that Lily's childbirth began in the few days he was away..
“Then, Lily, take refuge.……?”
“I can't go. It’s already the most difficult pregnancy ever… … Oh, you see what I look like? I'm like this, the one helping next to me, so what do you think about Lily??”
Janice waved her hand..
“It's in a state of emergency. I can't even dream of refuge.”
“…… If an evacuation order had been issued, it would mean that it was not an ordinary monster attacking. Will you stay here, Chief Priest??”
“So, the mother is here, should the priest in charge leave her behind? Make sense..”
Zenith, who was grumbling, gestured with her chin..
“Thorkell, that is.?”
“of course… … will stay.”
Thorkel clenched his fists and looked around the temple..
“We will never allow monsters to enter this temple again..”
“…….”
“I am the last person on the front line here..”
There was deep regret in Thorkel's voice..
Zenith, who had been listening quietly, gestured toward the barracks..
“Come to think of it, Sir Lucas was looking for me. Come see him. I think he was holding a strategy meeting for this defensive war..”
“yes. then.”
Thorkel lowered his head, glanced anxiously inside the temple, then turned around and ran toward the barracks..
“……Okay then.”
Zenith looked in that direction, brushed back her sweaty hair, stretched, and then turned toward the temple..
“Should we continue this war as well?……!”
***
As Thorkel arrived at the barracks, Lucas stood at the entrance to the main conference room..
“sir lucas!”
“Ah, Thorkell..”
A flash of color flashed across Lucas' face when he discovered Thorkel..
“It arrived just in time. We were just about to start the strategy meeting. Come this way.”
When Thorkel entered the conference room, all the remaining heroes of the monster front were gathered there..
Heroes who have fought several battles together so far, and new heroes who are clearly nervous as they have just been formed..
and…….
“……?”
Five gangsters sitting in a corner, smiling evilly, and no matter how you look at them, they don't look like good people..
The five blacklist members who were killing it at the Crossroads Hotel Casino had also entered the conference hall..
Those who had recovered all the weapons that had been pawned at a pawn shop were in very dire vigour..
“Ki-kick, how many gold coins do you earn just by participating in one battle?……?”
“Besides, if you cut off the head of a monster, you get ten times the amount of gold.?”
“If you have that much capital, you can rob this casino.!”
“Just shake it off? Let's just take it over!”
“Whoa, whoa, I want to waste the money I risked my life to make like trash... … ! hurry……!”
Without realizing it, Thorkel sat far away from these people. They were the type of people you wouldn't want to interact with closely at all..
“Everyone gathered.”
Lucas opened his mouth as he stood in front of the conference room table..
“This is Lucas McGregor, acting commander of the Southern Front. The strategy meeting begins now..”
In a desperate attempt, Lucas immediately tapped his cane on the blackboard..
“Half a day from now, tomorrow morning... … In this defense battle, the opposing monster army reaches the castle wall. Some people may have heard about this in advance, but this monster army is a small elite made up of three high-ranking monsters..”
As Lucas continued, the atmosphere in the conference room became cold..
“The three Gorgon sisters.”
One of the blacklist heroes who was dazed burst into laughter..
“Puhahaha! Gorgon? A monster from a folk tale that turns anyone who makes eye contact into stone.?”
“…….”
“That legendary monster is coming here? Please make jokes too.!”
“Does this sound like a joke??”
Lucas growled..
“All citizens of the city evacuated, and all soldiers went into war mode and waited at the walls... … More than anything, this situation of hiring trash like you out of necessity feels like a joke.?”
The hero, who had begun to hiccup without realizing it due to Lucas' bloody force, stammered and asked..
“Are you really the three Gorgon sisters? in that legend?”
“Yes.”
“The petrified monster that reigned for hundreds of years on the Sunken Ship Islands.?”
“There are many related stories. The object it refers to seems to be the same..”
The silence in the conference room became deeper and more uncomfortable..
Only then did the blacklist thugs realize that the situation was no joke and quickly stood up..
“……Wow, I'm going to fall. I'm going to fall in!”
“I'm here to make gold, not to kill myself……!”
“How on earth are you going to deal with a mythological monster like the Gorgon??!”
It was then.
sreung!
Lucas pulled out the blade of light and aimed it at their necks..
“You have already signed a contract to participate in this defense war..”
Lucas coldly declared with a cold face..
“In other words, it means that you are soldiers of the southern front here until the end of this defensive war, and it also means that the power of your life and death is in my hands as the acting commander..”
“…….”
“Desertion is punishable by death under imperial military law. So sit down, mercenary..”
All five mercenaries on the blacklist were confident that they were doing something in their own right, but the momentum that Lucas exuded was on a different level..
The spirit of Lucas, who has grown over the past two years by fighting and killing mythical monsters in all four limbs... … It was not something that these gangsters, who had wasted their lives addicted to gambling, could overcome..
“sit down!”
“Pfft……!”
Ranking was completed through momentum alone..
The five heroes of the Blacklist gritted their teeth but had no choice but to sit down..
After finishing the situation with force, Lucas immediately put away his sword and changed his tone to a gentle tone..
“And, you don't have to worry too much. A head-to-head battle with the Gorgons... … Because I have no intention of sending you on such a suicidal mission..”
“what?”
“With our current strength, it is too risky to take them down head-on. It would be better to take another tack..”
“then……?”
Lucas nodded, raised his wand and pointed at the blackboard..
“The strategy we will use in this defensive war is…….”
And I spoke about the details of the strategy that Ash had left behind..
“‘It's a game of tag..”
***
“Haha, haha, ugh…….”
Lying on the bed with a dull complexion, Lily chewed her already tattered lips..
Even though I had no longer been able to use my lower body for a long time, the colic pain was spreading horribly. Lily let out a raspy voice while tearing at her blood-soaked collar..
“……I won't die.”
Although she was on the brink of death several times, Lily's eyes still held a strong will..
“I made a promise to that person..”
loved.
But now I remember the face of the man who never came back.
“I will buy it.”
Lily took a deep breath and looked down at her swollen belly..
“Mom, I will definitely live…….”
With her haggard face shaking, Lily tried to smile..
“Don't give up either, baby…….”
Even though the monster was getting closer by the minute, the priests and midwives who remained at the temple helped Lily's birth all night long..
and…….
After a long night, the sun inadvertently brightened.
***
A dry, sunny early winter morning.
thud… … . thud… … . thud…….
With heavy footsteps, the three Gorgon sisters entered the wide plain..
Among the three Gorgon sisters, Euryale is capable of flight, but cannot sustain it for long periods of time..
So, before the enemy fortress, I started walking again... … We have finally arrived at the human courtyard..
Finally, the southern wall of Crossroads began to be visible in the distance..
The eldest Stheno and the eldest Euryale, who stood in front, still had blank faces without any sense, but a smile flashed across Medusa's face..
《The walk was a bit long. Sisters. Still, it's all here.》
The walls looked strong, but that was it..
Medusa was confident that with the power of herself and her two sisters, she would be able to eventually subdue her enemies, no matter how long it took..
《Take down that defense line, and then go back to that damn Midnight Sun lich... … I decided to ask how to break the sisters' curse..》
Medusa shook the chains around her two sisters' necks and laughed bitterly..
《……It doesn't matter if there is no salvation..》
Medusa stole the mouths of her two older sisters who were drooling with her open mouth..
《It's okay even if what Baekya Goge said was a lie. Then we can go back to our hideout and hibernate again..》
Yes, that will do..
What good is salvation? Why is it so necessary for the sisters to get Izzy back?.
It's more precious for the three of us to live together…….
That was when Medusa thought so..
《huh?》
nettle liquid-!
I heard something flying from afar. Medusa looked there.
The sky seemed to turn dark - something fell this way, covering the sky..
shell.
It was a fire net fired from the human side of the castle wall. The overwhelming number of artillery shells blocked even the sunlight and created a shadow..
《……hot.》
Medusa looked up at the group of cannonballs and sneered with her long, torn mouth..
《Well, even though times change and places change, why is what humans do always the same?.》
Kiiiiing!
Medusa's eyes emitted an eerie yellow flash..
《And is it always this foolish?……!》
A bright yellow magical light exploded, shooting out a powerful wave of magical energy in front..
Hwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
And- turned into stone.
The shells that were raining down in the sky all turned into rocks..
《Now, it's your turn..》
Next, Medusa tightly grasped the leashes of her two sisters and conveyed commands to them with her magical power. OK,
Key profit!
Kyaaaaa-!
Stheno and Euryale emitted sound waves from their mouths and shot them at the rocks falling towards them..
thud! Kugu Palace……!
All of the petrified shells that rained down like a shower were either pushed away or broken by the sound waves, and were unable to even touch the three sisters, falling to the ground and breaking into pieces..
In the rain on that rock, Medusa suddenly hummed a song in her native language..
Φρίξον ήλιε, στέναξον γη
The sun is burning, the earth is lamenting
Εάλω ή πόλη!
the city has fallen!
Εάλω η πόλη!
the city has fallen!
An evil joy appeared on the face of the monster who finished the short song..
《Let’s go, Sister Steno! Euryale's sister!》
Taat-!
Under the pouring sunlight, kicking the earth.
Naturally, like children playing in the fields.
《Let's go wild for the first time in a while! Like the old days when I was young!》
To kill every human being close to him, as he has been doing all his life..
The three Gorgon sisters began running towards the walls of the Crossroads..
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