◈ 008. [STAGE 0] Decisive Battle (3)
Kihehehehe-!
Monsters poured in endlessly around the mana cannon battery that was loading the third shot.
The defenses led by Lucas were still holding out, but they wouldn’t last long.
“Loading complete!”
“Damian!”
The artillery commander announced the completion of the loading. I immediately shouted at Damian.
“Shoot!”
Damian’s eyes were stained red with blood vessels bursting.
It might have been a side effect of using the clairvoyant trait. But right now I didn’t have time to consider that.
Clap!
Damian, who had already finished his aim, pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Pachichi Pachichichi… … !
Tuquaaang-!
third step.
The mana bullets that were fired pierced the distant distance and flew in,
making a fuss… … !
It lands exactly where the Spider Queen is.
It was aiming and shooting that could only be called divine skill.
Whether it was God’s mistake or the developer’s prank, Damian’s eyes were a miracle that existed in reality.
The problem is
Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Still, the Spider Queen did not fall.
The Queen was no fool. At the point of being hit twice, he realized that he had become a target for sniping and was devising countermeasures.
And the strategy was simple and effective. He used the body of his subordinates as a shield.
The mana bullets falling in a parabolic line were instead received by the bodyguard spiders.
The mana bullet penetrated all resistance, but by the time it reached the queen, its power had already weakened.
“Confirm that the Black Spider Queen was hit. But it’s alive… … !”
The scout looking through the telescope reported in a trembling voice. I shouted out loudly.
“What are you doing? Are you relaxed right now? Load the next bullet! hurry!”
The artillerymen sweated profusely to cool the barrels and load the bullets. However, despair hung over their faces.
“Euliyaap-!”
First floor of the outpost. around the canopy.
Lucas was desperately wielding his sword, commanding the defense line that had shrunk to this point before he knew it.
“You must protect the cannon! We must protect His Highness-!”
Lucas was fighting brilliantly, befitting the strongest knight among the troops here.
Even though the level was twice as low as the black spider, he skillfully fought with his sword and shed his claws.
Where Lucas was, the wires were not pushed at all.
But other soldiers.
“Cuck!”
“Ahhh… .”
“Save me! send me home… … .”
Casualties were on the rise.
The number of allies in the allies information window was dropping at a tremendous rate. I couldn’t bear to look at the window anymore and turned it off.
I didn’t know.
I didn’t know when I was playing the game.
that this is where people live.
The fact that death is not just a number, it is accompanied by such terrible screams and smells.
The wire shrunk in an instant. At this rate, it seemed that the defense line would completely collapse after not being able to fire four shots, let alone five.
“Hey- you monsters!”
It was then.
Someone from outside the perimeter let out a hoarse roar. I suddenly looked over there.
It was Ken who stood in the middle of the monsters and screamed.
“Here, here! look at me!”
In the meantime, Ken was successful in attracting the attention of enemies outside the castle wall and repeatedly hiding, luring out some of the spiders.
But when the Spider Queen changed the order and all the spiders rushed around the turret, he was left alone outside.
He could have just run away. He has a lot of family to feed.
“Damn you spiders! I am Sir Ken, Knight of the Empire!”
However, Ken was faithful to his mission until the end.
While trembling in fear of the spiders, he noisily drew the attention of the enemy.
Is it because of my threats? or not… .
Kieh-!
I had a hunch when dozens of the spiders that had been breaking down the defenses turned to Ken.
That he would never be able to ask why he came back.
Dozens of black spiders stopped attacking in this direction and ran to Ken.
Ken led them on the run, hiding behind a collapsed stone wall and trying to activate his Stealth trait.
“ah.”
I couldn’t activate [Petty Thief’s Survival Method] because my HP was already low.
Dozens of spiders rushed at him. Ken looked at me standing on the sack and smiled bitterly with a tear-stained face.
“Damn, I thought it would be like this… .”
hooked! Pupuk! Pukagak!
A terrible cracking sound could be heard clearly from a distance.
I saw his death clearly without averting my gaze.
It wasn’t just Ken. Humans were being slaughtered by monsters everywhere.
When I bit my lip, blood flowed out.
I’ve been playing this game for a while and have been willing to throw allies as needed.
This damn game was designed that way. Someone had to die to go to the next stage.
To save someone, to eat that item, to complete that secondary mission, to break that achievement… … .
Someone had to die and I was willing to kill.
In order to efficiently clear the entire game, countless subordinates were thrown to death without any remorse. He had no doubts about the act.
“stop.”
But now I realized.
“stop… .”
The meaning of what I’ve been doing all this time.
“Stop it, you fucking monsters!”
The fact that all those deaths are so painful.
I screamed involuntarily as I watched people fall down in front of me, dripping with blood.
“Stop it!”
But it doesn’t stop.
A scream does not stop the monster. Because there is always only one way to stop a monster.
have to kill
before we die
“majesty!”
I glanced around at the voice of the artillery commander.
“Fourth foot loaded! However, the gun barrel can’t stand it due to repeated runaways and cooling… … .”
“Damian!”
I ignored the artillery commander’s words and yelled at Damian.
“Shoot-!”
Tears of blood flowed down Damian’s big eyes.
His face was also pale and bloodless. It seemed that her body could not withstand the use of [Clairsight].
But Damian gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger.
The rule of thumb… … !
Tuquaang-!
fourth foot.
The blue mana bullet cut through the sky in a dizzying arc and flew over the queen’s group again.
This time dozens of escort spiders scrambled to stop it.
However, the mana bullet draws a bizarre trajectory in the air and avoids most of them, causing
Kwagwagwang… … !
impact.
It landed right on the queen’s head.
This is a clairvoyant.
The strongest morale attribute, which corrects the hit score to the point of overflow, succeeded in hitting the queen, ignoring even the laws of physics.
Kiyiyyy… … .
But but-
kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
Amidst the fire and smoke of the searing explosion, the damned Spider Queen was still alive and well.
The artillerymen collapsed to the ground at the sound of the Queen’s terrifying roar. Damien, who was standing there holding the crosshair, could not hold on any longer and collapsed.
Despair was on everyone’s faces.
“It doesn’t work. Our attack… .”
The artillery commander muttered in a weak voice. His hands, burnt from cooling the heated gun barrel, were covered in blisters.
“The gun barrel is also at its limit. If you try to fire one more time, the mana cannon itself will explode.”
“… .”
“Anyway, it’s over now. Giving up… … .”
The other soldiers looked up at me with tired faces as if they agreed. I took a deep breath and looked around.
The defense line is already on the verge of annihilation.
There are spiders under the bag.
Lucas was now guarding the last line of defense, encouraging the few remaining soldiers.
There was more of his own blood on his body than the spider’s.
I turned my head to Damian. Damian groaned and closed his bloody eyes.
The cannon is on the verge of being destroyed, the defense line has collapsed, and the gunner can’t even open his eyes.
Everyone sacrificed and bombarded the queen of monsters, but the queen did not budge.
Is this the end?
Is there really no more hope… … .
“no!”
It was then.
“There must be a blow! The Queen has been stripped of her outer skin!”
someone shouted that Everyone was surprised and looked that way.
Even in the midst of this, a soldier who is faithful to his role until the end. It was a skirmisher. He removed his face from looking through the telescope and shouted.
“I can kill you with one more shot-”
That was the next moment.
Kugoogu Palace… … .
The entire battery vibrated violently, and then
a quagmire!
The floor collapsed.
The black spider siege soldiers approaching slowly collided with the heavily armored bodies and smashed the battery.
The entire battery was shattered in a single charge. Everyone standing above them fell helplessly.
Amid pouring people and smashed cannon debris.
I fell to the floor and closed my eyes.
It collapsed.
Both the whole world and the hope of clearing.
all.
***
“Your Highness.”
A soft voice was heard.
I barely opened my eyes in pain as if my whole body was being torn apart.
In front of your eyes… … Lucas was there.
Lucas lay face down on the floor as if to cover my body.
And the rubble of the collapsed building was pouring down Lucas’s back.
I blocked the debris from the building that had fallen on top of me when I fell.
“Lucas?!”
Suddenly I came to my senses and quickly got up.
Lucas groaned as I moved away and brushed aside the stones that had fallen on his back.
“When you get hurt… Don’t you have it, Your Highness?”
“I’ll tell you, Lucas! I’m fine… … .”
I stopped talking.
Lucas’ back was covered in blood. In the meantime, the wounds I received while protecting myself in a collapsing building were bigger than the scars I received from the spiders.
“Cool!”
Lucas coughed up blood and muttered with a pale face.
“Do you remember, Your Highness? It’s already been close to 20 years ago.”
“… .”
I don’t remember.
Because I’m just a game player possessed by this body that doesn’t share any memories with you.
“His Highness told me when he first met me and brought me in as an escort.”
“… What did you say?”
“’I won’t be emperor, but I will be the most wonderful man in the world.’”
A faint smile appeared on Lucas’ face as he remembered his childhood.
“’So make sure that you, my escort, become the finest knight in the world.’” “
… .”
“Even though I was an immature child, how much His Highness’s words touched my heart. It has been like this all along.”
Lucas looked at me with a bloody face.
“majesty. I trust you.”
“Even in this situation?”
“Anytime, anywhere.”
And Lucas collapsed.
I picked up Lucas as he fell on his side and carefully laid him on the floor. He was seriously injured, but fortunately did not die.
‘Hold on, Lucas.’
you are the main character You are the savior of this world.
I can’t die in a place like this.
I quickly looked around to make sense of the situation. At the bottom of the collapsed battery were smashed cannons and wounded soldiers.
Why haven’t the spiders killed us yet?
“majesty.”
The doubt was quickly resolved.
The first floor of the collapsed battery. At the entrance to the narrow passage.
“It is not over yet.”
Lily stood still.
He activates the characteristic [Flame Skin] and receives the attacks of the spiders rushing behind him with his bare body.
Lily, who had inhaled the last mana potion with a pale complexion, asked with trembling lips.
“Isn’t it?”
