◈ 379. [STAGE 15] Collapse (2)
Rumble… .
Quagmire!
The wall on the right began to collapse.
Cracked iron plates fell like hailstones, and the shattered walls of the castle poured down in a cloud of dust. A thick cloud of dust hung over the area.
Kirik!
Kiki Kiki Kick!
The goblins watching this scene from below let out cheers.
It was an achievement at which he generously threw away the lives of his comrades. Finally, humans broke down this high barrier where they hid like rats.
You can see the red blood of the humans hiding behind them… … !
When the shaking and collapse stopped, the goblins could not stand it any longer and rushed through the cracks in the collapsed walls.
Destructive desires and murderous urges soared to the limit were dominating their brains.
And in the thick of dust –
a huge lance protruded.
hook-!
Fuck! Wow!
The cavalry spears protruding through the dust pierced the bodies of the goblins at once.
The large shield that flew behind them shattered the goblins’ bones.
The frightened goblins faltered back, revealing human shield warriors perched in a cloud of dust.
Evangeline, who was in the lead, took a step forward and commanded.
“Nothing changes!”
Behind the five heroes with shields, hundreds of soldiers with shields appeared.
“We become the wall! We stop the monsters here!”
It was the Evangeline party and the soldiers in charge of hand-to-hand combat who rushed down at the same time as the wall collapsed.
Evangeline shouted as she stood firmly in the crack of the collapsed wall.
“If we hold out, the other allies will annihilate the monsters! therefore… .”
Kwak.
Evangeline growled softly, clutching the handle of the lance.
“Let’s fight!”
Kyririk!
Kyaaaa-!
Thousands of goblins screamed and poured into the narrow gap.
Evangeline and the heroes under her command also shouted at each other and charged forward with their shields.
Evangeline sincerely believed. If they endured, their comrades on and outside the wall would destroy all remaining goblins.
That’s why he came down without hesitation to this place where monsters endlessly swarmed.
But Evangeline didn’t know.
How long will this battle be?
And how terrifying it would be.
***
There is a game genre called Mussangryu.
It is an action game genre in which a user-controlled character sweeps the battlefield with enthusiasm and defeats weak enemies who are easily defeated to win the war.
The pleasure of defeating weak enemies is the main pleasure of this type of game.
However, even in these games, there is a point where the majority of users feel fatigue in common.
one thousand.
Even in action games like this, where the number of enemies defeated exceeds 1,000, the user feels fatigued.
That’s why most stages are set so that you can win around 1,000 kill counts.
If this is the case in a game where you don’t fight directly and only manipulate virtual characters, how about in real life?
Even if they are the heroes of Ikkidangcheon. Even if that opponent was a weak goblin-
he would get tired after defeating hundreds of enemies, let alone 1,000.
body and mind. It gets tattered.
“Huh! Huh!”
How much time has passed since the start of the battle?
The rush of raiders had long since ceased. We lost our mobility and fell in the middle of the goblin army.
Seeing the walls collapse, we all became impatient. Therefore, the reins of the attack were not relaxed.
But much more than I thought- there were a lot of goblins.
The rush of our heroic party quickly cost them thousands of lives. But even then, there is still a long way to go.
Their depths were thick, and they were filled in as much as we dug them up.
Eventually, the recoil that sped up excessively returned.
The heroes, who exerted all their strength from the beginning of the battle, quickly tired and were stopped in the middle of the goblin army.
“… .”
I looked up and saw the red eyes of the goblins surrounding us.
What a tasty prey the cavalry had lost their ability to charge.
But none of us talked about retreating.
Everyone just grabs their weapons with tired hands and glares at the monsters with poisonous eyes.
The goblins in the middle and back ranks that our raid group is at least attracting attention.
If we retreat, these guys will join the goblins that preceded them and run into that collapsed wall.
Then, the burden of the fortress wall defense team is further increased.
It must be hard to endure because the castle wall has already collapsed… … .
‘Here, we have to draw their attention to the limit and reduce their numbers.’
No one said anything, but it was clear that everyone was thinking the same thing.
So, even though each of us was tired, we fought bravely… … .
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
Quilan groaned as he shook his fists, which were covered in green blood.
Due to the inherent limitations of a fighter who has to stay close to the enemy, he had to tumble with the goblins and suffered minor injuries all over his body.
“The Chet Arrow… .”
Belldandi tossed the empty quiver to the ground and grabbed a dagger in each hand.
All consumables, such as arrows and throwing daggers, ran out.
Now the Holy Grail Exploration Team had to fight with their own bodies, but since they were injured from the beginning, they wouldn’t be able to fight for long.
“These worms… !”
Grinding his sharp teeth, Dusk Bringer growled.
As for the second worst fuel economy, the Dusk Bringer’s output dropped noticeably as it entered a long-term battle.
During the battle, he fired dragon breath several times and burned them as a group, but because of that, the decrease in output came more quickly.
At least the knights under his command are in good condition, perhaps accustomed to such a struggle… … .
“after.”
Finally Lucas.
Even after [Descent of the New World] was over, Lucas was still rampaging. His kill count far exceeded 1,000 by himself.
It was a great performance worthy of a protagonist who goes beyond Ikkidangcheon (一騎當千) and is close to everyone.
But no matter how heroic you are – you can’t fight infinitely.
He’s trying not to show off, but I noticed without difficulty that his stamina and mana were considerably depleted.
‘If the battle went as planned… … Would it have been all right?’
Originally, the leper squad and the shadow unit should have been organized together in the attack unit.
If that were the case, the defense and firepower units would be added one by one, so the perfection of this raid would have gone up a lot.
It would have been possible to fight more flexibly and efficiently than now.
But no.
The Leper Slayer was severely injured during the shadow unit rescue operation and was accepted into the temple, and the shadow unit was killed and injured and disintegrated as a party.
‘Where did I make a mistake?’
In the meantime, I’m going to review the moves I’ve made.
It may have been a battle that could have been fought much more efficiently and with less damage. But I made the wrong decision… … .
“They are coming!”
Then, goblins started pouring in from all directions.
It seems that we are preparing to hunt when our movements are noticeably sluggish, and finally push in.
No matter how many heroes who are good at melee combat were brought in, the damage would inevitably increase if we continued to receive onslaughts from the middle of them like this.
So I gritted my teeth and mumbled.
“… proclaim.”
I whipped out the folding flag in my hand. Lucas, who was standing over there, exclaimed in fright.
“Not my lord… !”
But the flagpole in my hand was already digging into the ground.
“This land is the territory of the Empire-!”
Whoaaaaaaah-!
[Imperial Declaration] has been activated.
Koo Goo Goo!
The magic power pouring out of my body built a gray wall. In no time, our raid was protected by the Gray Magic Fortress.
Combat will be much more efficient now… … .
“Cool.”
… The eyes turned bright red.
My tinnitus rings in my ears and I feel like my stomach is burning. Blood dripped from his nose and mouth.
was a little overworked To use this technique twice a day.
The heroes and soldiers around me rushed to see me. But I gritted my teeth and yelled.
“Fight-!”
“… !”
“I’m fine, so go and fight!”
I am not a perfect player.
My undertaking is full of blemishes. There must be a lot of tricks I missed and breakthroughs I spilled.
But looking back and regretting it is not something to do now.
Reduce the number of enemies one by one.
If they are monsters that need to be annihilated to the last one to stop, then this one has no choice but to defeat them one by one, no matter how fast they are.
go ahead
advance somehow
“Fight-!”
The heroes and soldiers who cursed this stood at the edge of the fortress made of magical power. Monsters poured from all sides like a waterfall.
I breathed heavily and opened the stage information window.
Still, thanks to our assault team and fireteam on the wall constantly killing goblins, the number of goblins left is a little over 10,000.
If the castle wall defense team somehow manages to hold out, I should be able to calmly reduce the remaining guys… … .
It was then.
Kwakwang! Quguaguagwang-!
“… !”
There was a terrible roar and I looked over.
I saw a group of goblin suicide bombers raining down on our defense team blocking the gap in the collapsed castle wall.
Additional walls to the left and right of the already collapsed walls… … .
***
‘What?’
Buried in the rubble, Evangeline blinked blankly.
My whole body felt sore as if I had been beaten.
Coughing violently, Evangeline was eventually able to recall the reason why she had become like this.
‘Damn the suicide bombers… … .’
Although the fireteam on top of the wall was clearing out the suicide bombers on the ground as a top priority.
Eventually, a group of suicide bombers succeeded in reaching the defense team and exploded magnificently.
Heroes with shields as well as ordinary soldiers were caught up in it.
Evangeline, who was caught in the explosion from the front, was also far away.
‘Where are the fallen limbs… … No.’
He suffered bruises, but all his limbs moved. It was my own body, but it was a phenomenal defensive power.
Evangeline jumped to her feet. But soon after, his legs lost strength and he fell to his knees on the floor.
‘Ugh!’
It was a situation where the damage was accumulated so much that it could not be handled even with its phenomenal defense power.
Evangeline gritted her teeth and forced herself to stand up with the spear on the floor.
‘Move, move… … Move!’
Dead soldiers caught in the explosion were scattered everywhere.
Fellow heroes who had been holding shields with her until just a moment ago and stopped the goblins on the front line.
Evangeline glared straight ahead, closing her eyes tightly to calm them down.
‘If the front line collapsed, more goblins would push in… … Even I have to stop it!’
It was as she expected. Through the thick dust cloud, the countless footsteps of the goblins approached.
Evangeline grabbed her spear and shield and prepared for a desperate resistance.
Then someone grabbed Evangeline by the shoulder.
When Evangeline looked back in shock, it was an old soldier of the Twilight Troops who led the soldiers of the defense team.
“miss! You’re all right!”
“ah… ! The unit commander is also safe!”
“Rather than that, this is not the time! We must retreat! We can no longer stop our enemies here!”
The old soldier pointed left and right.
“More left and right walls have collapsed! It is no longer a gap that can be blocked by defense units!”
“then… .”
“I ordered you to pull back the defenses! Monsters attack humans nearby, so we must protect the fireteam on the castle wall!”
“… .”
“Lady, retreat back too! Come on!”
Evangeline, who looked around the corpse of her ally, gnashed her teeth and bit her body. The old soldier shouted in a hoarse voice and retreated together.
“Retreat! Retreat to the wall!”
The surviving soldiers of the White Brigade took their bloody bodies and camped at the entrance of the stairs leading up to the fortress wall.
Standing at the forefront, Evangeline glared at the goblin group with haggard eyes.
Kirik!
Kiriririk!
Goblins poured in through the cracks in the collapsed walls, screaming.
About half of them came towards the stairs of the castle wall where Evangeline and the soldiers were.
But the other half was digging into the crossroads.
Staring at the monsters pushing into the city, Evangeline gnashed her teeth.
“… All the citizens of Crossroads have been evacuated, right?”
At Ash’s direction, all civilians were evacuated to the northern city.
And the rest of the soldiers and alchemists gathered on the wall.
The filthy feet of those monsters trampling down the crossroads is terrible, but there won’t be any damage because it’s an empty city… … .
“… Temple.”
However, Evangeline’s face stiffened at the old soldier’s reply.
“To the temple… There are priests and wounded soldiers… !”
