Became a tyrant of defense games - Episode 696
◈ 696. [STAGE 40] Man of La Mancha
Alcatraz exploded.
And before everyone in La Mancha could react, a figure flew onto the deck of La Mancha, with a long billow of smoke flowing behind it from the shattering wreckage..
It was the emperor of the empire, Traha ‘Peacemaker’ Everblack..
“Hmm!”
And Traha immediately raised his right hand, and the back of his hand glowed brightly... … Control of La Mancha passed to him..
“Uh oh?”
Kelly Bay, who had suddenly been robbed of control, made a puzzled sound..
The emperor glared at the front of the airship and shouted..
“Don’t lose your bearings just because there is no light! Because where we had to go was decided from the beginning.!”
La Mancha's rear thruster was instantly overloaded and spewed out terrifying flames. The emperor shouted, accelerating the aircraft roughly..
“to the darkest place!”
“……!”
Everyone on the bridge suddenly came to their senses..
“To the most unpleasant and despairing place! That's the direction we need to go!”
All kinds of vicious tentacles, grasps, and rakes followed behind La Mancha..
And the emperor's driving skills were so great that even Kelly Bay was left speechless. La Mancha moved forward, avoiding all the attacks by just a hair's breadth..
A huge curtain-like blackout appeared in front of La Mancha, which was advancing fiercely..
“Make way, warriors!”
At the same time as the emperor shouted,
Taat-!
Lucas jumped from the bridge to the deck like a thunderbolt and swung his dual swords..
A large X-shaped hole suddenly appeared in the huge tent.,
Phuwak……!
Darkness spurted out like blood through the X-shaped hole, as if the body of a huge creature had been wounded..
La Mancha rushed into the gushing blood..
The entire airship, and all the heroes who jumped onto the deck, turned pitch black as if they had fallen into ink..
and-
***
“uh?”
Kelly Bay made a stupid noise..
Suddenly, the entire surrounding scenery changed. He was not standing on the deck of La Mancha, but in a large, brightly lit shaft of the mine..
As he stood blankly, unaware of the change in situation, a young boy's strange voice sounded in his ear..
“Dad, why are you doing this??”
When I looked down in surprise, I saw a young dwarf boy with big, bright eyes..
Kelly Bay absentmindedly called the child's name..
“kellyson?”
Young Kellyson then crossed his eyebrows and lightly tapped Kelly Bay's leg..
“What, why are you calling me by my name? wonderfully.”
What was it originally called??
My son's childhood nickname slowly came to mind from memories that were old and faded as if buried in mud. Kelly Bay laughed nervously..
“……my pebble.”
Kelly Thorn smiled and gestured forward..
“Okay, open it quickly, quickly.!”
“huh? What do you want me to open?…….”
When I turned my head forward, there was a door leading to a small crypt..
And when Kelly Bay looked down at his hands, he was holding a key..
‘Oh yeah.’
Today was the day I gave my youngest son a crypt for the first time..
A very early coming-of-age ceremony, so to speak, where all dwarves begin to solidify their identity as miners..
Kellyson's eyes were sparkling with anticipation, and Kelly Bay slowly opened the door to the crypt with trembling hands..
sweet-
The small door opened, and Kellyson excitedly rushed into the crypt. Kelly Bay, who hesitated, also followed into the crypt..
The crypt was small and narrow. When two adult dwarves and child dwarves entered, it was full..
And it was cozy.
The comfortable smell of earth, the warmth of magical power, and the young father and son.)…….
After circling around the inside of the narrow crypt to inspect it, Kelly Thorn slapped his hand on the earthen wall with a bright face and asked:.
“Dad, you're here to play with me today.?”
“……okay.”
The corner of Kelly Bay's trembling mouth slowly lifted up..
“For you, whatever it takes.”
Kellyson laughed and ran deep into the crypt..
Kelly Bay slowly followed behind and closed the door to the crypt..
sweet…….
***
“You can't go, sister.?”
Verdandi, startled by a young hand pulling on his sleeve, turned around..
A young Skuld was standing there with tears in his eyes. Skuld shook her head..
“There's no need for things like the Holy Grail... … I just need my sisters.”
“…….”
“Don’t go, Sister Verdandi… … please…….”
“……Schooled.”
Verdandi tried to emphasize the need for the Holy Grail..
I tried to explain that this was the only way to save the Fairy Kingdom, which had already clearly lost the race war..
But for some reason my voice didn't come out.
As if we already knew that this search for the Holy Grail would have nothing to do with the outcome of the war..
And as if I already knew that I would regret today's breakup forever..
“……good.”
After thinking about it, Verdandi nodded. Skuld blinked her eyes..
“what?”
“I won't go. I'll stop searching for the Holy Grail. I'll be here instead.”
Skuld's face instantly brightened and he hugged Verdandi..
“I love you, Sister Verdandi! thank you!”
“He too…….”
Verdandi, who was embarrassed, raised his head..
Behind Skuld, the Fairy Queen - Urde, the eldest sister, was standing and looking at her with complicated eyes. Verdandi had a trembling voice..
“your majesty.”
“…….”
Urd, who had been silent, eventually laughed softly..
“okay. Our three sisters must not be torn apart. We should always be together.”
“your majesty……!”
“No matter what war is raging in the outside world... … let's not worry.”
Urd approached and gently wrapped his arms around Verdandi and Skuld's shoulders..
“Let’s be happy here, Verdandi..”
Verdandi smiled brightly with a face filled with tears..
“huh……!”
Verdandi reached back..
The open door of the oak tree palace slowly closed..
***
“Thorkell!”
Thorkel, who had been sweeping the broom at the temple gate, suddenly came to his senses..
“Thorkell, can't you hear me? Thorkell!”
A voice he thought he would never hear again called to him. Thorkel slowly looked inside the temple..
“……Holy woman?”
Margerita was walking towards us with her characteristic expressionless face..
Margerita looked at Thorkel's complexion and crossed her eyebrows in confusion..
“What's going on? Your expression is scary.”
“yes? Can you see my expression??”
“Then you can't see it? Look in the mirror over there. I slept wrong?”
There is a mirror installed at the entrance to the temple. The intention was to organize one's clothes before praying to the goddess..
And in that mirror, instead of a face with a scar covered by a helmet... … There was a man with a plain face and no helmet.
Thorkel couldn't believe it and touched his face and his whole body..
There wasn't.
There was not even a trace of the cursed leprosy that had plagued him all his life..
Just as he had prayed and wished for thousands and thousands of times, he had become an ordinary human being..
It's not like you're being pointed at just for breathing or walking down the street; you're not caring about anyone, you're not despising or hating anyone for no reason.…….
such an ordinary person.
“Unbelievable… … I am…….”
“Are you tired after organizing the warehouse until late yesterday? Or does it hurt somewhere??”
Margerita approached and calmly stretched out her hand and touched Thorkel's forehead. Thorkell felt his heart drop at the touch of those rough, warm hands..
“No fever? Don't act like a fool, come on, let's go.”
“yes? Where… … What do you mean??”
“The routine after morning cleaning is set.?”
Margerita smiled as she took the lead..
“pray.”
“…….”
“Now, come here. I will pray with you. Just like every morning.”
The saint who was walking into the temple motioned as if to welcome me..
Thorkel, who was looking blankly in that direction, slowly put down the broom..
And after finishing cleaning, the main gate of the temple was closed..
***
“professor! I don't understand this formula!”
“grandfather! I don't know this!”
“I don't know the basic principles of this.?!”
The chick-like young wizards chirped and chirped all at once..
Diarmudin, who was covering his ears in front of the children crowding into the ivory tower's dean's office and making noise, screamed..
“hey! Do you think I look that relaxed? Study on your own!”
“But, Grandpa teaches in the easiest way to understand..”
“The professor was the one who told me to ask questions, even if they were trivial.!”
“Grandpa, I can’t eat these cookies.?”
“I'm going to lie down on grandpa's sofa.!”
“You can braid your grandfather’s beard.?”
Diarmudin suffered among the young wizards surrounding him..
“Wow! my precious research time……!”
Even as he said that, a smile appeared on the old wizard's lips..
The young wizards I met and taught at Crossroads..
And the disciples of the ivory tower who parted ways in the past.
He was deployed to war all over the world and died, never returning... … seekers of truth.
They were all alive and by his side. Instead of dying in place of his old self, he was alive and breathing like this..
“You are too young to go out into the outside world. So stupid. too… … They're kids.”
Diarmudin declared sternly, waving his artistically braided beard..
“You can't leave here until you learn everything I'm telling you.!”
“Eh~”
The children booed and laughed..
Diarmudin took out snacks from the cupboard next to the dean's office door and slammed the door to the dean's office behind him..
At the same time, the marble door of the ivory tower was also closed..
***
“…….”
Young Lucas was standing in front of the second empress' villa where he spent his childhood..
In the bright, sunny summer garden of my childhood, Serenade in a beautiful dress and Ash in a cute tailcoat dance with blushing cheeks..
Empress Dustia clapped her hands and laughed, and Chamberlain Alberto cried until his beard got wet..
It was the scene of that beautiful engagement day..
“…….”
Lucas looked back..
Inside the garden it was midday summer, but outside the garden it was a pitch black night and a winter snowstorm was blowing..
And outside the closed garden back gate, assassins wearing black masks were waiting with blades in hand..
It was an assassination unit sent to kill Ash..
Lucas' eyes met the leader of the assassination squad at the head of them..
‘open it.’
The leader of the assassination squad whispered.
“…….”
Lucas slowly turned his head and looked toward the center of the garden again..
“lucas!”
While dancing, Ash stepped on the hem of Serenade's skirt, lost his balance, and fell..
Ash, who was holding his stomach and laughing while entangled with Serenade, gestured..
“Come on, let's play together!”
Everyone smiled brightly at Lucas..
Serenade, Dustia, Alberto.
And, my lord in his childhood…….
“…….”
Lucas closed his eyes tightly once..
There was no reason to hesitate.
he took a step.
***
“Why are these people suddenly losing their minds and just zoning out??!”
Private La Mancha. on deck.
After breaking through one level of the barrier, the attacks from tentacles, grasps, and rakes pouring in from all directions became more intense..
And all the heroes who were supposed to take this attack were lying unconscious..
From the elite heroes led directly by Lucas to the reserve heroes belonging to the special squad, almost everyone was collapsed on the deck..
Those who remain sane are the Emperor, who controls the airship, Nobody, and finally Luna Red. There were only three like this.
“Even if I shake it or slap it, it won't wake up, the tentacles are getting stronger from all directions, and I'm going crazy and jumping around. Really.……!”
Nobody groaned and swung his sword repeatedly..
Is it because he was born blind, or is it because he is good at living with his senses blocked? He did not lose consciousness even though he was hit directly by the darkness..
The Emperor endured with the willpower of a superhuman, and Lunared…….
《Are you having this nightmare? I'm like water, just.》
Maybe it was because he was the shadow of the nightmare corps commander, but he was holding on just fine..
《It's because you guys grew up smoothly without any hardships... … . After going through a lot of hard times, it just feels like a sweet drink..》
Immediately after, darkness spread like ink everywhere..
And Luna Red, who had been hit by all of this, curled up on the floor and began to cry sadly..
《Ugh, I don't want to get kicked out.…….》
“Someone get rid of this useless wolf cub.-!”
Of course, there was no one who corresponded to that ‘who’. Now the only ones who remain sane are Nobody and Traha..
Emperor Traha drove the airship with divine piloting skills, and fired machine guns and guided missiles installed on the airship in all directions to clear the tentacles. But the limit came quickly.
“Hehehe… … Let's go home, go home…….”
“You don't have to kill anymore. Come on, jump off and get comfortable.…….”
One by one, the heroes of the reserve unit of the special rental unit were unable to endure and fell into mental contamination..
Those who had been sitting still and unconscious suddenly stood up shakily and ran down the deck in strange, creaking positions, falling or sticking out their bodies toward the entangling tentacles..
Even the fallen heroes and the heroes who sacrificed themselves were happily snatched up by tentacles, palms, and rakes. and.
Kwasik! Quack! Phuwak……!
Reserve heroes died horribly..
One had his limbs torn off in the air, and another was crushed between the giant palms. One person had his entire body dismembered one after another by a pitchfork..
Blood splattered everywhere. The reserve heroes were annihilated in vain..
‘Damn, damn, damn! As it is……!’
Nobody swung his sword desperately, but his black sword could not properly cut down the tentacles of darkness..
The darkness kept its shape as if cutting off a stream of water..
Clap, Clap, Clap…….
Tentacles landed on the deck with a splashing sound..
And he pointed the end of that long, hideous antenna towards the heroes of the special team who were still unconscious..
“no-!”
Nobody screamed..
Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The next moment, a swarm of tentacles rained down on everyone who was still breathing..
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