Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 690
◈ 690. [STAGE 40] Time to counterattack
today.
Field south of Crossroads. At the feet of the Night Bringer.
“…….”
Now I am fake Ash and real Ash... … Lucas, who heard that 'Master' and 'Your Highness' were mixed up, hesitated as if he didn't know how to react..
Maybe it's a side effect of using the demon sword in the beast form, but the facial expression has also lost its taste..
First of all, the corner of his mouth is twitching as if he's happy that I'm back... … Is this laughing or crying??
‘Well, my main focus right now is ‘Master’..’
Right now, fake Ash takes the lead, and real Ash occasionally helps..
But strangely, every time I see this guy, Lucas, I keep getting the urge to hit, kick, and torment him. It seems like Ash's true mentality is being reflected... … Look at Jjin Ash’s personality.?
“I'm sorry, my lord..”
Lucas bowed his head to me..
“My lord told me so, but I ended up giving in to the darkness.…….”
beast shoes.
magic sword.
Dragon Slayer, Nightmare Slayer, Geumjutsu, Biggi…….
I quietly looked at the heroes who were still fighting throughout the Night Bringer's body. That desperate and desperate look.
It couldn't have been helped.
That would have been the only way to immediately destroy the monster's body. I also continued to make reckless choices, so I was in no position to blame others..
“But the darkness couldn't defeat him... … It was a wrong choice.”
Lucas knelt before me and let out a suppressed voice..
“Already, we… … This is how I dipped my feet into darkness. My lord. leave us alone.”
“…….”
“And the path you must take... … Please walk the right path. The only way to defeat that evil dragon is at the end. so…….”
I looked at Lucas' slightly trembling shoulders..
“Eight.”
Unable to resist the urge, I swung my foot and gave the guy kneeling on his knees a nice slap on the butt. False!
“Wow?!”
Lucas jumped up and looked at me with a truly aggrieved expression. It was so unfair that tears welled up in my bear-like eyes..
I feel like I'm going to cry soon. Forgive me. Because it was Jin Ash who told me to do it, not me..
I spoke out before he said anything useless..
“Hey, escort. What did I say before??”
“yes?”
“‘If I forget, you lead me.’”
As expected, when he mentioned something that happened a long time ago, Lucas' blue eyes widened..
“No matter what I look like or what you look like, what we have to do is fixed. Even if I forget, you must not forget.”
“…….”
“Answer me, Lucas. what do you have to do?”
Lucas slowly lowered his head and answered slowly but surely..
“……Standing in front of the lord, opening the way for the lord to go..”
“Accurate. escort.”
If not you, who else would I appoint as my vanguard, you bastard knight?.
“I will defeat that damn evil dragon. And to do that, you... … And we all need it, Lucas..”
“But, I… … And everyone in the special lease… … Already immersed in darkness, it can no longer harm that monster. For us, this is the end. It's no longer of any use…….”
“no.”
I grinned..
“If I am immersed in darkness, there is a way to help me. So don't give up already.”
“…….”
Lucas looked like he couldn't understand..
But, that's right. This guy. Does life end if you take a few steps in a dark direction? I think the game will end with a bad ending?
Not like that.
Life goes on. The fight continues. As long as we try to keep going, keep going.
I raised my head and looked at the sky. Lucas followed suit and looked at the sky together..
Not a single star can be seen in the dark sky where the curtain is undulating. There is only vast and vague darkness.
“Operation name: Night-Closing).”
I smiled faintly as I said the name of the counterattack operation..
“Let's end this awful night together, Lucas..”
Leaving behind Lucas, who was looking at me with a blank expression, I walked towards the front of the Night Bringer..
“I'll be playing with that dragon for a little while, so you can gather all of the special team and gather them together..”
I glanced back and made a gesture..
“Let's do it, let's give it a try.”
***
Jeopuk, Jeopuk, Jeopuk.
As I headed straight towards the Night Bringer, the evil dragon looked down at me, frowning as if in shock..
《player.》
“If I see this often, I get bitten. Isn't it, Night Bringer??”
I chuckled..
Actually, I'm tired and exhausted, and I keep trying to calm down... … The inner ash keeps bouncing off my vocabulary. This feels weird.
《Even though he has already been defeated twice by me, he cannot admit his limitations... … Are you going to try again? I can't even say it's ugly at this level..》
The Night Bringer's gaze on me no longer contained the interest of observing something strange..
Instead, there was a sense of boredom, as if looking at something cumbersome and bothersome..
“It's different from back then.”
But I don't care how you see me.
I am tough and ugly, messy and ugly... … I just keep playing the game no matter what..
“I'll show you, I've completely changed.”
……No, I'm trying to be serious, but this damn bastard can't resist his instinct to drip.!
“Once again, let me introduce myself properly..”
I stood straight in front of the Night Bringer and politely bowed in imperial style..
“My name is Ash 'Bonhater' Everblack.”
Afterwards, one more time in the Bringer Principality style..
“At the same time, it is ‘Dawn Bringer’.”
《……!》
When I revealed the name of the dragon, the Night Bringer frowned..
Anyway, I continued to introduce myself..
“The crown prince of the Everblack Empire, the Dragonblood Duke of the Bringer Principality, the lord of the fortress city of Crossroads, and the commander of the World Defense Front.…….”
After that, I threw out random words..
“Owner of Hotel Crossroad, Winter Silver Merchant's future son-in-law, Sid's godfather, winner of the Fall Festival Dance Festival, dungeon training instructor, former best playboy in the imperial capital, corrupted save data, iron man of hell…….”
Spreading nonsense, then slowly. Added a pseudonym that did not exist before.
“Also, he is a descendant of Jeokryong..”
Smiling with my molars exposed, glaring at the monster.
“He is an illegitimate child who stole the blood of a black dragon..”
Finally, I finished the introduction..
“He is the current guardian deity of mankind..”
Yes.
Currently, I have three overlapping statuses as a transcendent person..
Red dragon. Black dragon. And the guardian deity of the human race..
As the entire world was on the verge of destruction, all mankind prayed for salvation... … I became a state of yearning for the presence of a savior more intensely than ever before..
Ironically, because it was facing destruction, it was given the strongest authority as the guardian deity of the race..
As each day approaches destruction, its power increases exponentially, and it is now incomparable to before..
《under.》
Night Bringer, who was quietly listening to the list of gloves I wore and the armbands on my shoulders, clicked his tongue..
《It's too much. It's ugly.》
Narrowing his eyes, the Night Bringer looked carefully above my head. As if there were several invisible crowns crowned there..
《How many crowns are there… … How many yokes are you willing to take on yourself??》
“I have to change this much to be on par with you..”
If there was a difference in level so far that it couldn't even be touched before. Now, we can say that we are close enough to see each other's faces..
“how is it. At this level, can we say that we are on a level with the well-known World Closer??”
As I chuckled, an unpleasant expression flashed across the Night Bringer's face..
I gently bit my lower lip and raised one corner of my mouth..
‘God or dragon or human, real or fake, Dunbringer or Bonehater, whatever..’
I'm a mess, a melting pot, I'm falling to pieces.
If I could make morning come to this world again, all I could do was to recklessly devour everything and drag everything around..
It was then.
《……I looked and saw a beast coming out of the sea..》
The Night Bringer quietly recited a sentence..
《It has ten horns and seven heads. On its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads were blasphemous names..》
And then, the Night Bringer stared at me intently..
As if I were a monster with seven heads and ten crowns.
《……Now I don't know which side is the monster..》
“I'm human.”
I spit it out without a moment of hesitation..
“'Cause here on the front, I'm the one who defines people.”
《what is the definition?》
“What is a person.”
This time I stared at the Night Bringer..
“A person who wants to communicate and understand others.”
《…….》
“Even if we have no choice but to pick up the sword and kill each other in the end, I want to talk and understand first. So here on the front lines, no matter what crown I wear on my head, no matter what blood flows through my veins, I am human..”
I gestured at him..
“What about you, Black Dragon??”
《hot.》
Nightbringer snorted..
《There is no conversation to be had with you..》
“Are we still talking now??”
《This is not a conversation. It's just entertainment, having fun playing with things worse than ants..》
The next moment, the Night Bringer's eyes burned with a terrifying golden light..
《You have already defeated me. player.》
“…….”
《Even if we try again a thousand and ten thousand times, and even if we wear hundreds of millions of hastily made crowns, the gap between you and me will not be permanently narrowed. So my conversation with you and your new challenge are all in vain, vain, vain..》
I laughed bitterly..
That's actually true.
The only way to defeat Night Bringer was in the first battle, a raid inside the Lake Kingdom..
I had no choice but to take him down underground before he landed on Royalty and absorbed the night..
In past episodes where the real Ash succeeded in hunting the black dragon, most of the time he also defeated the black dragon. If you fail at this time, it is safe to say that your chances after that will be infinitely low..
I lost that raid, so it was really over at that point..
Night Bringer, who safely climbed to the throne, absorbed the night and became the night itself, breaking the standard and flying outside the scope of the attack..
If it were a game, I would have just given up and moved on to the next round..
But this is reality.
It is the final battle. There is no such thing as a next round.
So, recklessly, dirtyly, shamelessly, I tried my best to continue the game..
For variables you may not know about.
I just did my best to spread the possibilities..
《I will engrave it on your body and soul again. No matter how many times you die and rise again, in the end, you and your world are nothing but embers that will die out under my night... … I will cry and make you realize!》
flashing-!
A terribly bright golden light burst from the Night Bringer's eyes, and the darkness of the area began to distort and swirl..
‘‘Forged chestnuts’. And that too, an overwhelming output unlike anything we have ever seen before..
I watched in silence as the Night Bringer loaded a deadly weapon with the power to tear the world apart..
thud… … ! thud… … ! thud……!
At that time, the ground began to shake.
Is it because even the earth trembles in fear in the face of the overwhelming power of the monster that seeks to destroy the world??
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump……!
no.
no.
This is a ground shaking that has a more direct cause..
《……?》
‘Night Bringer, who was loading the 'Forged Chestnut', was startled and looked behind himself towards the south..
《what?》
Thump thump thump thump thump-!
Like the sound of drums, the earth roars.
The epicenter moves north at once from the far south - causing the entire earth to shake violently..
Yeah, this sound… … It's the same earth-rumbling sound that has been ringing underground in the Lake Kingdom for several days now..
The sound of rough scratching on the surface, as if announcing the approaching end of the world..
The identity of this sound is-
《No way, this shaking of the ground……!》
When an unusually large earthquake struck, Night Bringer panicked and turned his large body completely to face the south.,
the very next moment.
Kugwagwagwagwanggwang-!
As if a thunderbolt had struck, the surface split open from the south, digging a long groove, sending waves of dirt and rock bouncing all the way to the sky.-
Tuquaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
A huge snake swimming across the earth rose from the ground, its silver-gray scales shining..
continent terminal.
civilization predator.
snakes of the world.
A very large monster that Crossroads faced in Stage 9. That name is-
《Jormungand……!》
The Night Bringer, who had spoken the other person's name instead of me, let out an embarrassed groan..
Behind the rising horns of the giant white snake's head, sat a smiling masked clown with a flute in his mouth..
Pied Piper, Crown.
A prince of the Lake Kingdom who can communicate with and control monsters with the sound of a flute..
“after.”
Crown slowly removed the flute from his mouth, glanced at me, and nodded..
“I did what you asked me to do. so.”
I hope you keep your promise-
Crown's last words were not revealed. A brown-haired boy sitting behind Crown... … No, it was because the sniper, who should now be called a young man, waved his arms at me and shouted.
“Prince-!”
Damian shouted, looking at me with big brown eyes filled with tears..
“I believed that the prince would return safely.……!”
A smile formed on my face..
I also believed in it, my trigger.
That you will return safely to my lines..
***
The possibilities I had randomly scattered were turning into cards and returning to my hand one by one..
Whether this hand is a loser, a royal straight flush, or whatever.…….
There's only one thing I can do anyway.
“All in.”
As I looked at the massive body of Jormungand rushing towards the Night Bringer, I muttered quietly..
“Well then, let's get started.”
Finally, it was time to strike back.
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