Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 483
◈ 483. [STAGE 23] Play tag (4)
It was that moment.
《Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!》
A horrendous scream rang through Crossroads..
Among the three Gorgon sisters, it was Euryale's final word..
A terrible roar rumbled over the city, and all the living had to shrug their shoulders at the overwhelming evil energy..
《……?!》
and.
When he heard the scream, Steno, who was just rushing towards the Blacklist survivors, stopped charging as if it were a lie..
Steno suddenly put on the brakes right in front of the humans and quickly turned around..
The monster's face was boiling with more intense emotions than ever before..
sorrow (grief)).
It was the face of someone who felt sorrow..
《Kiyaaaaaat-!》
As if in response to the scream, Stheno let out a scream and started running towards the direction where Euryale's scream was heard..
thud… … ! thud… … ! thud……!
The monster's back moved away, shaking the ground..
Thorkell and the three Blacklist members who survived right before death broke into a cold sweat..
“What, what?…….”
“It's good that I bought it…….”
“Where is he going??”
“…….”
Thorkel silently sighed in relief..
The ‘last trait’ of the three Gorgon sisters that Lucas told us about in advance.’.
Because I realized it was triggered.
***
“Huh... … Heo Eok…….”
Lucas let out a sharp breath..
In front of the knight, Medusa stood as strong as a fortress. Unlike Lucas, whose armor was torn and torn off here and there, Medusa suffered no major damage..
‘I never thought not being able to see the sight would be such a pain in the ass.…….’
Lucas gritted his teeth..
It goes without saying, but in a match between experts, eye power is very important..
You must observe all of the opponent's movements, detect any gaps in the opponent, and react to the opponent's surprise moves..
The other person's muscle movements, subtle changes in complexion, and a single eye blink.-
The role of the eyes is to comprehensively acquire all of this information, and based on that information, Lucas moves his body to fight..
But Medusa possessed the magical eye of petrification..
Since he couldn't look his opponent in the eye, Lucas had to fight by looking at his opponent in the mirror..
And this was quite a handicap.
Because Lucas was born with excellent eyes, Medusa, who had to fight with her own eye powers sealed away, was a difficult enemy to defeat..
And this was the result.
Lucas could not defeat Medusa in a head-to-head confrontation..
It just consumes endlessly and barely manages to hold Medusa in place..
Whoosh - Medusa laughed, licking her lips with her long, forked tongue..
《You're really not normal, human. How dare you fight with me this much, relying on the mirror?.》
“…….”
《If you had been born during the mythical era, you could have become a legend. But now the world is coming to an end, and the seemingly endless light and sound are also coming to an end... … Who will also remember your futile resistance??》
Lucas clicked his tongue and held his sword forward..
“You have a long tongue, monster..”
《Oh my, this long tongue is my pride. Thank you for the compliment.》
“I slowly got used to your movements. Stop talking nonsense and attack me one more time. This time, I will kill you with this sword..”
《Hehe, regardless of time and place, knights are always so pretentious..》
“This is a discriminatory remark.”
《Doesn't it matter? I'm a monster.》
The short chat is over..
The knight and the monster simultaneously closed their mouths and took a fighting stance, as if they had made a promise..
This time, both Lucas and Medusa prepared a deadly move to finish off their opponents..
And, the moment before the collision-
《Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!》
From the other side of the city, a terrible scream rang out so loudly that it seemed as if it would rip my eardrums..
Medusa's eyes widened in shock and she glanced in the direction from which she heard the scream..
Medusa spat out with a trembling voice..
《……Euryale's sister?》
Taat!
Medusa leapt from her seat and was launched in that direction. It seemed like Lucas wasn't even paying attention anymore..
《Sister, no! Sister!》
Lucas tried to stop Medusa, but it was no use. Lucas let out a light sigh as he watched Medusa's back quickly disappear..
“……You made it, Evangeline..”
The scream I just heard. that… … It must have been the sound Euryale made as she died..
***
An alley at the corner of Crossroads.
Euryale was dead, shattered..
The monster whose wings were torn off turned its entire body into a stone statue just before it expired..
And Evangeline even smashed this statue to pieces..
“after… … It was pretty dangerous..”
Evangeline took off her helmet and wiped the sweat that had formed on her forehead..
Thanks to the success of the first surprise attack, Euryale resisted with tenacious vitality until the end, even though the battle began with the monster dying..
Still, when it comes to toughness, Evangeline was no slouch. She eventually succeeded in taking her down.
Evangeline also had to use up more strength than expected, but…….
thud! thud! thud!
At that time, I heard heavy footsteps running towards me from the other side of the city..
Evangeline was frightened and quickly left the place..
Soon the other two sister monsters arrived in front of Euryale's body..
Stheno opened his mouth and looked down at the body in a daze, while Medusa screamed and fell down in front of Euryale..
《AA AA AA! sister! Sister Euryale! Ah ah ah, no ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!》
Yellow magic light exploded like crazy from Medusa's eyes, unable to control her sadness..
Stheno also let out an incomprehensible scream and shot out his demonic eyes..
Coogung! Kugugoogung Palace……!
Buildings collapsed, raising thick dust, and then turned into stone again after being hit by the Gorgon sisters' magical eyes..
The streets in the area were all petrified, falling apart, petrifying again and hardening..
After a storm of terrible screams and petrification swept through the area again and again... … The alley was shaped like a bird's nest..
Medusa muttered in a gloomy voice as she stroked Euryale's corpse in the center of the nest..
《It's okay, it's okay. I will never lose my sister. never…….》
Medusa took the broken pieces of Euryale in her hands and lifted them up.,
Quack!
I put it in my mouth.
Quack! Quad deuk! Crackling!
The eerie sound of Medusa chewing on the stone statue that was her sister echoed everywhere..
Stheno widened his gray eyes and glared fiercely at his surroundings, as if protecting Medusa..
Kuduk! Sigh! Crackling……!
And both shoulders of Medusa, who was frantically digging into her sister's remains.,
Blah blah, blah blah-!
It cracked open like an old stone statue.,
Sigh.……!
From the crack, wings protruded..
It was Euryale's flap wing, which was very broken and cracked..
***
“The last characteristic of the three Gorgon sisters. that… … 'Sister Predation’.”
Barracks at Crossroads. rooftop.
When Evangeline returned, Lucas, standing at the edge of the rooftop, slowly opened his mouth..
“If a dead entity occurs among the three, the surviving entity eats the corpse of the deceased entity.’.”
“…….”
“In this process, the surviving entity inherits some of the abilities of the deceased entity..”
A day of intense fighting was coming to an end..
Dusk was creeping into the sky as late afternoon passed and turned into evening..
Lucas continued speaking while looking at the setting sun..
“If you can prevent predation, it would be best to do so... … Three Gorgon sisters build a 'nest' for their own safety during sister predation..”
“…….”
“In a place with enough rocks, build a rock nest for sister predation and enter base defense mode..”
Evangeline just listened silently. Staring at a nest built in a corner of the city.
“And that nest is impossible to attack with our current power. The Gorgon sisters' combat power increases dramatically when they enter base defense mode. I have no choice but to wait for them to come out on their own once they finish predating their sisters..”
“…….”
“In other words… … Each time one of the three Gorgon sisters is killed, the surviving entity is strengthened, and the battle ends only when the last entity that has absorbed all of the remaining sisters is defeated..”
It's already a powerful monster, but it even has this terrible gimmick..
“Ugh.”
Evangeline stretched her shoulders and opened her mouth..
“The good news is that sister predation takes a very long time. I think it was 12 to 24 hours. There is a grace period for at least 12 hours..”
“…….”
“So, what will tomorrow’s operation be like, acting commander??”
“Same as today.”
Lucas answered mechanically..
“After separating the remaining two using a game of tag, kill one of them..”
“And waiting while the sisters feast again? Defeat the third and final object?”
“…….”
“Think calmly, Uncle Lucas. We have that much power left now.?”
Lucas slowly looked back at Evangeline. Evangeline nodded..
“I took a lot of damage today while dealing with three entities separately. The hero party mobilized for the decoy operation was either dead or petrified, and we who dealt with them individually... … It's not perfect.”
Most of Lucas' armor was destroyed, and he had numerous minor injuries that were not noticeable..
Evangeline was also violently exhausted..
The hero party mobilized for the tag operation suffered much more serious damage than expected..
Although they took some damage and lured the three out, the number of casualties was several times greater than expected in the process..
Evangeline continued to the silent Lucas..
“We need to understand Senior Ash’s true intention behind this strategy..”
“…….”
“Senior Ash didn't leave this 'game of tag' strategy to kill the three Gorgon sisters..”
Evangeline stepped in front of Lucas and made clear eye contact with him..
“In case the three Gorgon sisters appear, it was left as a 'way to buy time until senior Ash returns'..”
Why did they bother to abandon the castle walls, open the gates, and leave the plan to let the monsters in?.
Ash left this strategy in order to switch to a delayed battle and wait for his return rather than taking damage against an opponent he would have a hard time beating anyway..
Eliminate citizens and ordinary soldiers from the battlefield, and use elite heroes to buy time by constantly running away from the city..
If you are lucky enough to kill a Gorgon sister in the process, you can also bide your time while the nest is formed and sister predation occurs..
‘The reason they opened the castle gate on purpose was to make them give up on the battle in the first place and just waste time..’
If you kill one of the three Gorgon sisters while fighting along the castle wall, the remaining Gorgon sisters have a high probability of destroying the castle wall and building a nest there..
Because that is the rockiest place..
If Ash was going to give up this battle anyway, he had the last resort left to open the castle gate to maintain the castle walls for the next defensive battle..
The tag operation was not an operation to win from the beginning. It was just a way to kill time until Ash's return..
Lucas twisted this plan unreasonably and attempted to continue the battle with the three Gorgon sisters..
“……I can't send a request for support to the imperial capital..”
Even as Evangeline said this, Lucas shook his head..
“I can't burden my lord.……!”
“Why doesn't it work??”
“what?”
“Why can't I put pressure on myself?.”
Evangeline lifted her finger and stabbed Lucas in the chest..
“You really think straight. Senior Ash doesn't believe in himself and carries out the strategy unreasonably among us. The more damage we cause, the more sad he will be later..”
“…….”
“Senior Ash is the commander of the front line here. He is the one who willingly took on the position of carrying that ‘burden’..”
Lucas kept his mouth shut. Evangeline continued..
“The person who will suffer the most from your injury is you..”
“…….”
“If Lily's child is in danger, you will be the one who will blame yourself the most later..”
“…….”
“The person who will be suffering the most at the graves of those who died today is senior Ash! Why doesn't he know that??”
There is a short silence.
Lucas stuttered and opened his mouth..
“I don't want to get in the way of my lord.…….”
“Right here!”
Evangeline whispered with confidence..
“This is the path of His Highness Prince Ash..”
“…….”
“You really need to trust senior Ash a little more. He must have already won the ecliptic. And he'll come save us.”
Evangeline smiled like a wicked boy..
“Like a prince riding a white horse,.”
“…….”
“To Acting Commander Lucas McGregor. Evangeline Cross formally requests to be the successor to the Marriage Count..”
Evangeline, who had grown as fast as she was tall, boldly made a request to Lucas..
“Please allow me to send a request for salvation to the imperial capital..”
Lucas opened his mouth a few times to refute,
“……Haha. I was stupid..”
I let out a bitter sigh and lowered my head..
And I raised my hands.
“……Permission granted, Evangeline. You are right. Let's send a request for help.”
After the Acting Commander's permission was given, Evangeline grinned, baring her fangs..
“Actually, I already sent it.”
“……what?”
“On the day the three Gorgon sisters began their advance, I sent a messenger to the imperial capital without you knowing..”
Evangeline shrugged..
“They slightly exaggerated the idea that the city had already fallen. Well, it actually fell, right? Just look at the nest built inside the castle wall..”
Lucas was so shocked that he opened his mouth..
“you you… … ! Commander Deputy Ignoring Me……!”
“I just helped a guy who was so honest that he seemed like he was going to break. You don't have to be so thankful..”
Lucas opened his mouth and tried to say something, but eventually gave up and covered his face with his hands..
In the end, it turned out as Evangeline said, and in fact, the judgment was right..
Evangeline glanced towards the far north..
“Senior Ash will come to save us. please. So, just hold on until then..”
I had already sent a request for help without Lucas knowing, but it was actually too late..
How many days until Jeon Seo-eung reaches the ecliptic?.
And it took Ash a few days to lead his troops south again from the ecliptic..
When exactly will Ash return, and will he be able to survive the monsters in that nest? … nothing is certain.
‘Please come quickly, senior..’
I could feel the great evil wriggling in the nest set up in the city. Evangeline clenched her fists..
‘Quick, before our city is over……!’
***
ecliptic. New Terra.
“……Prepare to return immediately.”
After reading the urgent report I received from Serenade, I crumpled the paper and shouted urgently:.
“We have to get back to Crossroads, right now.!”
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