History of the Greatest Territory Design - Episode 105
105fury. Captain Frontera (1)
Bzzzzzzzz! ftz-!
rough wings.
Two pairs of wings made of membrane trembled..
A body measuring 70 centimeters in length was lifted into the air..
caught the wind.
glided down.
Then, my wings collided with a colleague who was flying next to me..
Parts!
lost balance in the air.
crashed. Without hesitation. fell.
I was thrown onto an unknown tree branch..
chuffuck!
shock of crash landing.
A large branch swayed heavily..
The fallen individual, the 86,215th grasshopper in the swarm, shook itself off..
As soon as I shook off the shock, I opened my large upper jaw wide..
I bit into the branch that swayed in front of my eyes..
Nod!
It was a tree branch as thick and strong as an adult thigh..
But there was no way to resist the bite of the grasshopper..
With one bite, a handful of the skin and flesh were ripped off in an instant..
Even so, the grasshopper continued to tease its upper jaw..
Nod! Crack! Crackling!
I bite and see everything in front of me..
Once it breaks down after chewing, swallow it first..
It fills my stomach endlessly like that..
86,215The second grasshopper chewed up a branch right down to the base in an instant..
And then he kicked off the tree trunk and flew up again..
Taaaa-! Partszuzu!
ride the wind.
The vast eastern mountain range passes below the ship..
It was blue.
Looking at that green scene, the 86,215th grasshopper suddenly remembered the land further east he had left..
Parts!
land of the east.
The area humans call wasteland.
86,215The first grasshopper was originally living there.
Emerging from the egg to welcome the spring season.
It shed its skin several times and passed through the larval stage..
Until then, the body length of the 86,215th grasshopper was only about 30 centimeters..
But one day, the environment began to change..
“March forward!”
The sound of the flute that shook the wasteland.
Thick dust gathered in an instant.
The human army rushed through the dust..
they were holding torches.
He swung at himself without hesitation..
The tips of the antennae were scorched by the razor sharp edges..
I was startled and ran wild..
To the west, to the west, as humans drive us.
Head in the direction of the sun just to survive.
moved for a few days.
But humans are also persistent.
Their army continued to follow. I wandered around. brandished a torch.
Meanwhile, some soldiers said something like this:.
“Centurion, what kind of damage will this do to the orc tribe to the west across the wasteland??”
“of course. You don't know yet?”
“What do you mean I don't know??”
“This new strategy devised by the Mamluk general..”
“What does that mean??”
“That insignificant grasshopper will cause great destruction throughout the wasteland..”
“What, a swarm of locusts??”
“It's not just that..”
“then…….”
“The locust swarm is only the beginning. The entire monster biome living in the wasteland will be forced to experience habitat disturbance by those locust swarms..”
“no way?”
“That's true. Swarms of locusts are ravenous. But what is there to eat in the wasteland?.”
“Is this a barrel milk cactus colony, really??”
“That's it. Barrelmilk cactus is rich in nutrients. The nutrition from that colony is enough to support the entire ecosystem of the wasteland. However, if a swarm of locusts west of here flies into the area where the cactus colony is located,?”
“……All the barrel milk cacti will work. All monsters living in the wasteland, starting with the herbivorous monsters that eat the cactus as their staple food, all the way to the carnivorous monsters that eat it, will experience a food shortage. Is that correct?”
“okay. that's right. Then, naturally, all monsters will head west in that order. Because there are mountains over there.”
“And at the beginning of the mountain range… … Are you talking about the Steel Sand Orc tribe that is the target of this operation??”
“That's right.”
The human centurion nodded..
“According to recent intelligence, the orc tribe has escaped chronic food shortages. Is it because they built a facility called a seokbinggoo? Then you're in trouble. The only thing that suppressed their power was the lack of food, but if their numbers increased based on the abundance of food,…….”
“It would be a big threat to us too..”
“Count that. So we have to trample them before they grow too big..”
“But hey, by the way. What if a swarm of locusts or monsters cross the mountain range further west??”
“hmm? Towards the Kingdom of Magentano??”
“yes.”
“I don't know that.”
“yes?”
“The higher-ups will take care of such matters. Should we, who are mere centurions and lieutenants, even care about such things??”
“Well, well…….”
“So, let’s peel only what the above tells us to peel. Now, like this.”
Grumbling!
The centurion laughed and threw the torch..
Parts, the surprised 86,215th grasshopper jumped up from its place..
Of course, the 86,215th grasshopper could not understand the meaning of the conversation between the Sultanate's centurion and his lieutenant at all..
They also could not recognize the fact that this operation they were carrying out was similar to the subjugation operation that the country called Joseon in another world often carried out against the northern immigrants..
86,215The second grasshopper just jumped to avoid the torch..
It just headed west as the human army drove it..
And finally found refuge.
sharp point.
A paradise full of thorns has unfolded.
The barrel milk cactus juice was sweet..
It was not food that grasshoppers originally ate..
But it was more edible than I thought..
There, the 86,215th grasshopper was able to fill his stomach without any worries..
Of course, I was still hungry..
I wanted to have the barrel milk and cactus juice all to myself..
But that was impossible.
It was because so many of my fellow countrymen had gathered together..
Parts zzzzzz!
The sound of wings flapping from all directions can be heard from all directions..
Our fellow countrymen have become more crowded than we could normally imagine..
The gap brought about changes in the body of the 86,215th grasshopper..
The density of conspecifics in one place has increased.
Contact with members of the same species has increased abnormally..
Such an environment gave the 86,215th locust the same hormonal changes that swarms of locusts on Earth undergo..
Tsuzuzuzu-!
Over the course of a few days, the wings became noticeably longer..
The hind limbs are relatively shorter..
Increased object density.
Because of this, the risk of being eaten by natural enemies is reduced..
Instead, the need to get ahead in competition for food among members of the same species has increased..
Therefore, the legs needed to jump to escape became shorter, and the wings needed to move long distances in search of food became longer..
At the same time, it more than doubled in size..
It was to survive the violence of the jungle among the compatriots..
Tsutsutsu! Parts!
Before you know it, the skinny resin body.
The body length has already exceeded 70 centimeters..
The 86,215th grasshopper crossed the sky, looking completely different from before..
Crossed the eastern mountain range with the group..
Meanwhile, his antennae were trembling..
Compound eyes capture the desirable land of abundance.
below the west side of the mountains.
The human territory was spread out..
Unlike the dense forests of the Eastern Mountain Range, there was no sign of any powerful and threatening monsters..
There is no need to hesitate anymore.
Today, over there..
Bzzzzzzzz-!
86,215The second grasshopper caught the downward current..
I took a sharp dive riding the wind..
The scenery of the human territory became closer in an instant..
I quickly passed by the harsh cries of the orc miners..
It crossed the paved road in one go..
And then I rushed towards the largest building in sight..
Kwachang!
broke the window.
It crash-landed inside the window, making a mess on the table..
Meanwhile, he opened his upper jaw ravenously..
I chewed anything that came into my mouth..
Crackling!
A handful of edges of the wooden table were torn off in one go..
A maid's threatening scream rang out in the midst of the frost..
“Wow!!”
Baroness Frontera's maid, Emily, was a peace-loving girl..
I just wonder where we will take the Baroness today?.
Or what will be the menu for lunch tomorrow?.
Sometimes, I feel proud of my new cross-stitch..
She was such an ordinary girl.
That's why Emily couldn't help but be shocked to the point of fainting today at the sight of a giant grasshopper rushing onto the breakfast table like this..
“Wow! Ah, ahhh!”
Could it be the devil's trick?.
Or is it a creature thrown to the ground by an evil devil?.
The grasshopper that suddenly broke the window and landed on the table was huge, ugly, and terrible..
But Emily's fear did not last long..
Kwajajak!
The wooden chair was swung..
top to bottom.
Without hesitation and hesitation.
Without any mercy, he slashed at the end of the grasshopper's belly..
Twisted!
The chitinous shell of a giant grasshopper is crushed..
Half of the tip of the boat was crushed by a chair..
Kiyiyi!
86,215The fourth grasshopper made a sharp sound and struggled roughly..
He smeared the spilling internal organs on the table and furiously rubbed the skin of his entire body..
But at that moment, the 86,215th grasshopper had to detect with its hearing a cry more ferocious than any human it had ever heard..
“Emily! Help me! hurry!”
cried Baroness Frontera..
I lifted the chair I had just swung again..
I hit it hard.
Kwajak!
This time it was my heart.
Some of the wings and chest shell were broken..
86,215The second grasshopper opened its upper jaw towards the Baroness..
At that moment, Emily lifted the table and flipped it over..
Kwadangtang!
It is said that humans show their might when faced with a crisis..
16Even for three slender girls, it was truly a full-fledged feat of strength..
Anyway, thanks to that, the 86,215th grasshopper did not bite the Baroness. I lost my balance and fell to the floor and struggled for a moment..
And that struggle became the last gesture of his life..
Gwajeogak!
The chair hit again crushed the head of the 86,215th grasshopper..
Body fluids splattered everywhere..
It was visible all over the Baroness's white dress as she was panting..
But the Baroness didn't care about such trivial matters..
“Emily, are you okay??”
“Yes, yes, ma'am.”
“Come on, take my hand and follow me.”
The peaceful and routine breakfast time has already passed..
Beyond the cruelly broken window.
The Baroness's fingertips trembled as she looked at the sight of a swarm of locusts covering the pitch-black sky. She ran down the halls of her mansion, tightly grasping Emily's hand..
At that moment, Baron Frontera was also running towards us..
The Baron's complexion turned pale as he noticed the locust fluids all over the Baroness's dress..
“ma'am! Where are you injured? Isn't there any? Is it okay??”
“Yes, it's okay. how about you?”
“I'm fine too.”
“But you too…….”
The Baroness's eyes turned to her husband's shirt..
The pure white shirt was stained with locust fluid..
Moreover, the Baron was even holding a sword in one hand..
You've probably experienced something similar to yourself..
“Let's get moving first. Come this way.”
The Baron took the lead..
I ran briskly down the hallway..
Meanwhile, the sound of cracking, cracking, and breaking glass could be heard one after another from inside the closed doors along the hallway..
Every time, the Baron, his wife, and Emily shook their shoulders..
Everyone had already experienced what that sound of breaking glass meant..
‘What on earth is this?…….’
The Baron's expression turned pale..
Suddenly there are swarms of grasshoppers in the morning..
I never imagined anything like this.
I never expected that such a disaster would strike..
‘We need to get the guards together quickly..’
The Baron thought as he reached the end of the hallway and ran down the stairs..
I thought about how to respond in the future..
‘We are building a defense line together with Lord Bayern. Fortunately, grasshoppers are not as strong as beast ants. Our well-trained soldiers can easily take down five or six of them alone. So, if we fight properly without disrupting our ranks,…….’
Suddenly!
At the end of his thoughts, the Baron opened the door to the mansion..
And then it hardened.
‘what…….’
stern expression.
The Baron's eyes are the only ones that move among them..
From the left edge of your field of vision to the right edge.
I slowly rolled over and looked over..
I caught the sight in my eyes..
Sent to the brain along the optic nerve.
He analyzed the scene he saw. Realized. understood.
‘Even though it's a swarm of locusts... … How can there be so many??’
Beyond the wide open door.
There were grasshoppers everywhere in the courtyard of the mansion..
The flowers that the Baroness always grew with great care.
The various trees that the Baron himself took care of with great care.
Everyone was being eaten by grasshoppers.
As such, the number of grasshoppers over 70 centimeters tall appeared to be well over several hundred in the courtyard alone.!
And they all looked back this way.!
Kwaang-!
The Baron reflexively closed the door harshly..
Before you know it, cold sweat flows like rain.
A tremor that took over my whole body like a shiver..
My breathing became uncontrollable..
‘What should I do about this??’
What about gathering soldiers?.
Why don't we form a line with Lord Bavaria and what?.
All the strategies and plans that I had been thinking about so solemnly just a moment ago fell apart like foam..
The moment I saw the swarm of locusts that had taken over the courtyard.
The moment when our eyes meet those of hundreds of grasshoppers looking back..
All strategies and plans were shattered in my head..
‘This… … There's no way.’
No thoughts came to my bleached white mind..
The only possible response is to simply lock the door. That was all that came to mind.
“you? What's it like outside??”
my wife asked.
Should she consider herself lucky that she didn't see the terrible scene outside? Or should she just pretend it's nothing and say she'll just hide out here?.
It was a moment for the Baron to hesitate..
Squeak! Crackling!
The tightly closed door shook loudly..
Like someone hit it with a huge hammer.
Or like a greedy beast starts chewing on the door.
“Wow!!”
Emily, who was watching from the side, let out a loud scream..
Soon the baron and his wife had to witness it..
The appearance of ten gaping upper jaws piercing through various parts of the door..
Soon, I saw the door being closed mercilessly, creating a hole bigger than my fist..
“Heo Eok.”
The Baron was horrified..
I soon realized the situation..
‘Those grasshoppers are chewing on the door..’
No, to be precise, it was eating away at this mansion itself.!
“Sigh! These guys!”
swung the sword.
Grasshoppers chewing on the door and sticking their heads in.
I thrust my sword into their heads..
Suddenly, bodily fluids splashed out..
However, two grasshoppers rushed to the spot where one fell..
If you defeat two, three grasshoppers will run wild trying to tear the door apart..
The hole in the door got wider and wider..
The Baron swung his sword with a pale face..
The Baroness also grabbed the vase with both hands..
Emily cried and picked up the candlestick..
Finally the door was completely broken down..
By the way!
It was a door that had been eaten away on all sides..
More than twenty grasshoppers clung to it..
The tattered door was not able to bear the weight..
The entire door collapsed..
Kwa Ja Gak! crackle!
Swarms of locusts poured in through the broken door..
Looking this way, compound eyes full of hunger flashed..
“Get out of here, you guys! Wow!!”
The Baron swung his sword..
but it was no use.
The number of locusts pouring in was so great.
The sword the Baron wielded alone couldn't even stop their wave-like momentum..
“backwards! hurry!”
I hurriedly retreated back the way I had come..
I walked backwards and went up the stairs..
However, the retreat was limited to the beginning of the second floor..
Quadang! Kwadangtang!
Doors throughout the hallway burst, broke, and fell..
Swarms of locusts poured into the hallway as they stepped on the fallen door..
Just like that, the Baron and his maid Emily were surrounded back and forth at the top of the landing..
“Oh my…….”
The Baron bit his lip..
A woman holding a vase from behind.
Emily cries and hugs the candlestick.
I want to protect it somehow, but I can't think of a way to do so..
No, I just thought that it would end here too..
“ma'am…….”
Extend the hand that is not holding the sword.
I hold my wife’s pretty hand as if I were hugging her..
Meanwhile, swarms of locusts came from front and back. They came as close as possible.
Am I fortunate enough to spend the last moments of my life with my loved one?.
In a hopeless romance, the couple closed their eyes tightly..
A swarm of locusts opened their upper jaws towards the couple..
It curled its hind legs to pounce on its prey..
But it was that moment.
Daeng… … Deeng……!
From somewhere, suddenly, a clear and beautiful sound that resonated throughout the world resounded..
As if ringing a bell with all your might.
Or like knocking on the lid of a large pot.
It was a sound that shook the air heavily..
At that sound, the movement of the locusts stopped all at once..
Soon, a voice that was somewhat familiar to the baron and his wife came shouting..
“You guys! When you hear the sound of the pot lid, doesn’t your whole body start to shake? It really grabs your attention, right? ok!”
Daeng-!
A clear sound is suddenly heard closer and closer..
A welcome voice that can be heard even more clearly..
“It's here! If you feel drawn to it, come and catch me! Today I'm Captain Frontera, guys.!”
Daeeeeng-!
A more magnificent resonance sound.
Inside, the baron and his wife muttered without realizing it..
“……lloyd?”
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