I Became a Tyrant of the Defense Game - Episode 50
◈ 050. [Free exploration] Hidden back alleys (2)
I explained my short plan.
The operation is simple. If I intentionally touch Mimic and Mimic swallows me, Damian saves me by killing Mimic..
Evangeline laughs when she sees me making a mess in the process..
When he sees the prince, who made an even bigger mistake than he did when he stepped on the gas and fell to his death, he will feel less embarrassed..
“Ah, I understand..”
Damian nodded immediately..
“Well, by the way…….”
Immediately after that, Damien tilted his head..
“Why are you doing this??”
“huh?”
I paused for a moment..
“I understand the intention, but there is no reason for the prince to be ruined, is there??”
“…….”
So, why?.
It's not like someone told me to do it, and Evangeline doesn't come under my command just because she goes through a lot of trouble and pulls off body gags like this..
After thinking for a moment, I shrugged my shoulders and answered whatever came to mind..
“That's right... … Making someone laugh while breaking down is my specialty.!”
My main job is a streamer.
If I can make someone else laugh by breaking down and going through a hard time on air, it's a good thing. Maybe it's because I've been thinking that way.
“…….”
Damian tilted his head as if he couldn't understand..
I smiled and tilted my head along with Damien. I don't know, man.
***
My body gag operation was a great success..
As soon as I touched the treasure chest, long limbs came out from both sides of the box and grabbed me..
When the box was opened, it was full of sharp teeth..
“Wow! Sibaaaaaal!”
A long tongue came out of the box and licked my face. I was really screaming, not acting. I hate it!
Mimic's long tongue stretched out like a frog and entangled my body..
I was lifted up into the air and stuffed into Mimic’s mouth.…….
Tukan! Tukan-!
……didn't lose.
Damian pulled the trigger repeatedly. The first magic bullet fired hit Mimic's tongue, and the second magic bullet hit Mimic's body..
Kieeeeek!
Mimic, who gave out his final words, died just like that..
Damian caught my fallen body. Crunchy soup!
“Quack!”
“Ahh!”
Of course, Damian is not a physical person, but a weak sniper..
Unable to withstand the weight of my fall, I fell and had to roll around on the floor..
“majesty?!”
“Oh my, your majesty! Are you okay??”
As soon as four months passed, the rest of the party rushed over to me, and they were speechless when they saw what I was like..
“Oh my gosh, I tried to open the treasure chest without knowing it was a Mimic and got into trouble... … What is it, you guys? Why are you laughing?”
I gritted my teeth at the party members who were obviously trying to hold back their laughter..
But Jupiter, Evangeline, and even Lucas couldn't hold back their laughter..
In particular, unlike the two who were laughing openly, Lucas was desperately trying to hold back his laughter by putting his fist in his mouth. just smile…….
That's funny.
The Mimic's tongue is tied round and round on its body, and it is soaked in Mimic's saliva from head to toe..
The appearance cannot be said to belong to the royal family..
Damian took a towel out of his bag and handed it to him. I babbled while wiping my head with a towel..
“Well, well. You bastards. This is what dungeons are supposed to be! It means making mistakes, being in trouble, and watching each other's balls. As long as you're safe, damn it.”
“Yes, yes. I will remember this look of you well..”
Evangeline, who was giggling, shook her head..
“Really, you are completely different from what I had imagined..”
You too, kid. It's so different from the perfect tank Evangeline I thought of..
‘Still, I'm glad you're smiling.’
I sighed in relief as I toweled off my wet hair..
Evangeline, if you are crying, I feel like I have committed a crime. Just think of your father and live with a smile like that..
The situation was quickly resolved, and a standard high-quality magic core (R) came out of Mimic's mouth..
We decided to take a break to finish collecting the items and to reorganize the mess I had made..
Evangeline seemed to feel much better and was even humming a song as she collected items from the golem's remains..
“…….”
After wiping my body with a towel and taking out the water bottle to drink water, I felt staring eyes on me..
When I turned around, it was Damian. I grinned..
“Why, Damian? I still don't understand?”
“……yes. I don’t know what’s on the prince’s mind..”
Immediately after, Damian laughed bitterly..
“But, I know you're a good person..”
“…….”
I shyly drank the water bottle. People call me a good person just because I used a body gag, that's right..
***
we kept moving forward.
The back alleys of the city, immersed in darkness, were complex and tangled. But there was only one way forward.
The other alleys that branch out around the main route all end at dead ends..
Lucas tried to force his way over the high stone wall blocking the alley, but,
“Huh?! Holy shit!”
‘The ‘darkness’ would not tolerate it..
The sticky, jelly-like darkness retreats when we push the light on it, but it doesn't retreat when we try to get out of its way..
Everything beyond the stone wall was covered in this darkness..
“It looks like you can't go outside the designated path. I think I should just follow this alley in silence..”
Lucas, who had stuck his arm into the darkness above the stone wall, urgently came down and said that. I asked purely out of curiosity..
“Have you ever touched that darkness? What did it feel like??”
“Well, if I had to describe it…….”
Lucas described it with a pale face..
“When I was an apprentice knight, I was swallowed whole by a giant sandworm monster. It was similar to the feeling of being trapped in the stomach of a monster at that time..”
Evangeline shook her head..
“I have no idea…….”
But somehow I felt like I knew. Is it because I just got caught up in Mimic’s tongue?.
“It's sticky, lumpy, and stuffy..”
“Exactly, Your Majesty! That's it!”
“Okay, let's move.…….”
Evangeline's face turned pale. It seems like he was just imagining it..
There were shabby buildings scattered along the stone wall road..
Unlike the gorgeous city seen in the distance, most of them were old and rotten shacks..
But I couldn't even enter this building..
“the door…….”
Damian muttered in front of the first shack he came to..
“The door… … It's blocked.”
All doors and windows are tightly sealed with iron plates and boards..
Lucas tried to tear off the steel plate, but the seal wouldn't budge..
“It looks like it has been magically processed. I can't open the door with simple force.”
Jupiter said, looking through the closed window..
Damien tilted his head..
“Did you lock the door to protect your house from something outside? What was outside??”
“no. damian.”
I shook my head and pointed to the nails that held the iron plate in place..
“This seal was done outside..”
“……!”
“What's inside the house is blocked from coming out..”
Damien swallowed his saliva and asked me in a trembling voice..
“Then, inside this shack… … What is there?……?”
“well. We don't need to know now.”
I turned away from the shack and took a step toward the road ahead..
“Let's move forward.”
The party members followed me one by one. Damien, who had been looking inside the shack until the end, ran after me in a huff..
***
[Area 2: Hidden back alleys]
- Clear progress: Normal room 3/4 Boss room 0/1
- Acquired treasure chest : 4/5
The strategy after that was simple..
As soon as the narrow alley got a little wider, steam golems came running out..
But it was difficult at first, but after learning the strategy, it was an easy opponent..
Evangeline blocks, Lucas holds in check, Jupiter removes the gloves, and Damian snipes..
The creaky teamwork gradually improved, and in the third encounter, four steam golems came out, but all party members were able to destroy them all without suffering a single minor injury..
‘The items obtained are… … see.’
I opened the bag and looked..
Three R-grade magical cores. Several magic stones. And a bunch of unidentifiable metal gloves..
The durability of the gloves was far superior to that of ordinary steel. I was just picking up a few items to hand over to the blacksmith for a research request..
‘It's not bad, but it's a bit disappointing.’
The R-rated magic core isn't bad, but as someone who was hoping for a more exciting reward, it's quite boring..
‘Should we look forward to the boss room rewards?…….’
As I was thinking, the alley suddenly widened in front of me, and at the end of the alley, a small square appeared..
‘It's the next room.’
I was very nervous, preparing for an encounter with a monster..
The rest of the party members also carefully stepped into the square, each preparing for battle..
There was a dried-up fountain in the middle of the square, and in the middle of the fountain was a statue of someone..
It was a statue of three people standing side by side..
For some reason, the heads of the two statues on the left and right were destroyed, and only the statue of the man in the middle was intact..
I think the man in the middle with a crown on his head is the king of the Lake Kingdom..
‘Why were only the two statues on the left and right destroyed?……?’
I have a useless question.,
“oh!”
Damian suddenly shouted..
Everyone looked at Damian in shock. Damien gestured to the other side of the square..
“Look, there!”
My eyes widened when I saw where Damian was pointing..
The only lights in this city were our torches and lanterns..
However, on the other side of the square Damian was pointing to, another dim light was flickering. That means…….
“Wow, I guess it's a person.!”
While everyone was surprised, I did not let my guard down..
“Let’s approach carefully. Prepare your weapon.”
In a city full of monsters, there's only one thing scarier than a monster..
person.
There is no way the people you meet in places like this are normal..
‘Is this a hostile NPC? Or friendly NPC? Which one??’
I suddenly remembered the hostile NPC that appeared in the last stage, ‘The Pied Piper’..
I tried to ruin the stage in an unexpected way..
‘If you're not careful, it's game over in one go! You must never let down your guard.’
We cautiously approached the light on the other side of the square..
As we got closer, the panoramic view there was revealed with a faint light..
“……!”
Five or six steam golems were completely destroyed and lying naked, and the oil leaking from the bodies of some of them was burning..
This is the light we saw.
And there was a small woman squatting in front of the fire..
“hmm?”
The woman must have heard our approaching footsteps, turned around, recognized us, and smiled..
“Hey, aren't they the lord of the Crossroads?.”
“……!”
A woman wearing a worn-out cloak, a hood over her head, white hair, and an old sword..
After realizing the identity of the other person, I muttered hesitantly..
“cotton?”
The NPC who guided the way into the Lake Kingdom during the last exploration was unknown..
Anonymous, who was looking over here, sounded a little surprised..
“It looks like you are taking the exploration here quite seriously? To come this far.”
“What are you doing here, unknown??”
There was a face-to-face encounter, but I didn't let down my guard..
This guy is an NPC that I have never met in the past 742 walkthroughs. There is no way to know whether he is hostile or friendly..
Since he gave me directions, I don't think he's an enemy. However, there is no guarantee that they are on our side..
“I was resting for a while. Living here in the Lake Kingdom is tiring..”
Nameless mumbled and turned towards us..
“By the way, if you made it this far... … I acknowledge you guys and I have to bring up ‘this’ too..”
Nameless put his hand inside his old cloak..
My party members and I all flinched. I was nervous because I was afraid I would memorize something..
Immediately after, what Mu-myeong took out of his arms and laid out on the floor was,
thud!
……It was a stall.
Afterwards, Moo-myeong began placing various items one by one on the stall..
The party members, including me, did not understand what was going on, so we just stared at the unknown person..
Soon, the unknown person who took out the item display spread his arms and said something indifferently..
“While you're here, how about buying something??”
“…….”
“I sell my quality products at low prices..”
I was so dumbfounded that I looked at the nameless person and shouted..
“Could it be that you were a merchant NPC??!”
“NPC? I don't know what that is, but it's a merchant.”
Anonymous nodded willingly and added.
“One plus one event in progress.”
“…….”
“There is a 30% discount on first purchase as well..”
“…….”
“What are you doing. Are you not going to buy it? Are you going to just stand from afar and watch this special opportunity? You don't often get this kind of loan service..”
After laughing helplessly, I squatted down in front of an unknown stall and lowered my voice to ask..
“So, what are you selling??”
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