I Became a Tyrant of the Defense Game - Episode 6
◈ 006. [STAGE 0] Battle
Dawn began to break in the distance.
Every part of the fortress, which had been immersed in a deep blue night, was bathed in the morning sunlight and turned red. I was standing on the walls of the fortress.
Far away... … A swarm of spiders was seen surrounding the forward base..
The spiders, which had been curled up as hard as rocks during the night, began to move slowly with the sunlight..
The scene where hundreds of monsters stretched out their long legs at once was terrifying..
I couldn't tell when looking at the game screen beyond the monitor. A terrible horror was there.
gulp.
Dry saliva went down my throat without me knowing..
Can you really defeat it? Those guys? With exhausted soldiers and low-level characters?
“majesty.”
At that time, someone called me from behind..
When I turned around, the blonde escort driver, Lucas, walked towards me. I nodded slightly..
“lucas.”
“The wind is cold. Are you inside?.”
“no. You should take a look at their progress. Then, won't this side also respond and deploy troops?.”
These were not empty words. I was really looking out for their herpes..
No, not exactly… … Where is their ‘queen’? was desperately looking for.
Lucas, who was staring at me from the side, shook his head slightly..
“Your Majesty is a truly unpredictable person..”
“huh?”
“Just a few days ago, Your Majesty looked extremely dangerous..”
Lucas' neat face showed concern for me..
“It felt like he wanted to destroy himself..”
“Did I do that??”
“yes. From the beginning when I started serving... … You said so. It's like you're desperate to break somehow.…….”
Immediately afterwards, a smile appeared on Lucas' lips..
“But you're different now.”
Feeling embarrassed for no reason, I smiled awkwardly and turned my head away..
“haha. Because I am a maniac. It's no surprise if the situation suddenly changes.?”
“…… I have no way of knowing whether the reason for His Majesty's change was because of the danger to his life or for some other reason..”
Lucas muttered vaguely..
“I like the current situation.”
“…….”
“Please continue to be as you are now, Your Majesty..”
Haha, I laughed out loud and tapped Lucas on the shoulder..
“For that 'forward', let's do our best today. lucas?”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
Lucas answered vigorously..
I've roughly finished identifying the enemy's positions. I entered the base with Lucas..
“lucas.”
After walking together in silence for a while, I opened my mouth..
“If this operation fails... … Don't bother trying to save me, just escape on your own..”
“yes?”
“You can survive..”
Because you are the main character.
Even if I fail, you have to protect this world.
So I meant it when I said it..
“majesty.”
but,
“A knight does not abandon his lord.”
Lucas said that and laughed. I laughed too.
“Even if that bastard, the master, is an incompetent lunatic.?”
“Your Majesty is neither incompetent nor crazy. I always believed that.”
“…….”
“Lastly, I will reorganize the soldiers and come back. See you later.”
Lucas bowed his head and ran down to the barracks..
“……Thanks, Lucas.”
To my protagonist, who helped me clear the Hell Ironman difficulty level and is with me here as well. I muttered like that..
***
The operation itself is simple. No, in fact, it's so simple that it's embarrassing to even call it an operation..
“There is no need to explain the Black Spider Army, but there is no way to defeat it with the current attack method..”
A place to gather party members and finally explain the strategy..
“Then we too should be mean and dirty..”
I grinned and pointed my finger outside the fortress..
“Do you know what those spider bastards' biggest weakness is??”
The party members were puzzled. I continued to explain.
“These guys are a colony. Individual entities do not have the ability to think. So who will give orders to these guys??”
Lucas gave the answer.
“Queen, are you??”
“okay. This army of monster bastards has a commanding entity, a queen..”
“However, the queen…….”
I knew what Lucas was trying to say. I nodded..
“From far away, beyond the reach of the naked eye, I am giving orders to my children..”
“…….”
“Even if you try to get rid of it, it's usually impossible. It is difficult to determine the location, and even if the location is determined, it is difficult to attack..”
Perfect! I snapped my fingers..
“But I have the ability to determine the queen's location..”
Characteristics, Mapping.
This ability allows you to determine the location of enemies using a dot-shaped minimap..
“And for Damien.”
I turned to face Damian..
“I have the ability to snipe that monster bastard.”
Trait, Clairvoyance.
Ability to hit if you shoot.
I look, and Damian shoots. I was planning to snipe the queen and finish her off with this..
“But, Your Highness.”
Lucas broke into a cold sweat..
“The Black Spider Queen is not a combat entity, but you won't be able to kill it with ordinary arrows. Even if sniping is possible…….”
“mana cannon.”
I pointed above our heads..
“Use the artifact, Mana Cannon, installed on the highest battery in this forward base..”
When I first looked for useful items at this forward base, the first thing I found was this mana cannon..
It is an SR grade artifact. It will be enough to damage the queen..
“The Mana Cannon is clearly an artifact of great power. But the range is not that long…….”
“That part has also been calculated. We will force the cannon's magic core to explode to increase its range..”
It was easy to say, but causing the magic core to run away was no different from saying that you were going to destroy the artifact..
Artifacts with damaged mana power plants will most likely be damaged..
But now that they're all dead, who cares how expensive the artifact is? I was willing to ruin it..
“Here's the operation! I look for the queen, and Damian snipes at her. In the meantime, all of you.”
I looked around at Lucas, Ken, and Lily in turn..
“It's about stopping them..”
The three of them swallowed their dry saliva at the same time. I gestured to Lucas..
“Lucas. You command the soldiers. Take your time by holding the line as long as possible.”
“yep.”
“In particular, the area near the central battery where the mana cannon is located must be defended. certainly!”
“I will risk my life to do it..”
Lucas said with a determined face. I turned my eyes to Ken next to him..
“ken.”
“Yeah, yep!”
“Take it. Collected all remaining health potions in the fortress..”
I handed Ken a potion belt with red potions hanging from it. Ken took it in a daze..
“You go out of the fortress, draw their attention, and hide again. Disperse them by attracting attention..”
“…….”
“The principle of action of black spiders is simple. Attacks the nearest human.”
I continued talking to Ken, who had a pale complexion..
“But their cognitive abilities are not that high. If you hide, they won't find you..”
“…….”
“Attract attention, lure, and then hide. Repeat this, draw them to another location as much as possible, and disperse the attacks coming to the base towards you. can you do it?”
Ken gritted his teeth and nodded heavily..
“Let's do it, Your Highness..”
“thanks. Good luck.”
After patting Ken on the shoulder, I turned to the next party member..
“lily.”
“Yes, Your Royal Highness.”
“I have to give you a painful role too..”
I handed him a potion belt with a blue mana potion hanging from it. Lily pursed her lips and took it..
“Here at the forward base, there is only one entrance to the central battery where the mana cannons are located..”
“…….”
“If the front line collapses and the spiders invade the battery, block the entrance with your body and activate your flame skin to withstand their attacks..”
Flame Skin nullifies physical attacks at the cost of mana. If you have this much mana potion, you should be able to survive for quite some time..
As expected, Lily remained unfazed by the command to use her body as a barricade..
Blood oozed from my bitten lip, but.
“The entrance passage is narrow, and the spiders cannot enter more than one or two at a time..”
“…….”
“Just, just hold on. That's all..”
I was afraid of blades, so I was ordering Lily, who had acquired this trait, to use her whole body to catch the blade..
And Lily was a strong person. She nodded slowly..
“I'll give it a try, Your Majesty..”
“good.”
I turned to the last party member..
“damian.”
“…….”
“you move with me.”
Damian nodded silently. He had a scared face, but he didn't run away or avoid my eyes..
This was the end of the operation instructions. Actually, there were a few more things I wanted to direct.,
ridge-! ridge-! ridge-!
Outside, the drums sounding loudly announcing the approach of the enemy..
“The black spider army is coming! Monsters are coming-!”
The skirmishers' desperate shouts rang out. A strange feeling of tension ran down my spine..
It begins.
The tutorial stage will determine life and death for all of us..
***
above the central battery.
The mana cannon's mechanic looked at me in a cold sweat..
“Are you sure you don't mind, Your Majesty??”
“Don't worry, just do as you're told..”
“Yeah, yep!”
The maintenance worker gritted his teeth and tore off the control unit surrounding the mana cannon's magic core..
Patsu Tzu Tzu……!
Mana poured out from the magic core and jumped like an electric current through the cannon barrel..
If it were me, I would have watched in amazement as I saw Mana move for the first time. I couldn't afford it now..
I clenched my molars and looked beyond the castle wall..
Doo doo doo doo-!
They were coming in droves..
All around, swarms of black spiders.
Extending its vicious claws like a rake, it slaughters all living humans..
“Get into formation!”
Lucas stood on the front line of the castle wall and gave a command..
“Until His Highness defeats the Spider Queen, we will bide our time as long as possible.!”
“yes!”
The soldiers answered in unison..
It must be thanks to Lucas that the soldiers are able to stand like that even when they are about to lose their will to fight and collapse..
Lucas, who had skillfully adjusted the deployment of his soldiers, turned to me and nodded..
I also nodded my head..
Kendo taking a deep breath as he prepares to go out of the castle walls, Lily standing on the first floor of the passageway leading to the battery, and even Damien standing next to me..
After checking once in a while, I carefully activated the feature..
‘map making.’
With the feeling that the entire terrain of the area was being scanned, a mini-map with dots appeared in the upper right corner of my field of vision..
Since this is an ability that can only be used once a day, this was the first time I actually used it..
I quickly looked at the map, running my tongue over my dry lips. Where are you? where are you?
‘where is the queen?’
but,
‘uh?’
Soon after, I noticed something strange..
‘Boss Monster Mark…….’
not visible.
The enemy queen, the key to this operation,.
‘doesn't exist?’
on the map……
not visible.
Doo doo doo doo doo-!
A swarm of black spiders was already rushing right in front of the castle wall..
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