◈ 212. [Side Story] Countermeasures against the Colossal Monster
I explained what happened yesterday and Damian became depressed when he heard that he had run out of control again.
This is the second time I’ve already lost my mind and ran amok. It got to the point where I couldn’t watch it anymore.
“So for now, you are detained.”
One of Damian’s arms is chained to the wall and handcuffed.
It may seem like an overkill, but it was outrageous and they shot at us. I should go safely.
Damian didn’t react much to his detention punishment, but was taken aback by what he said next.
“And also confiscated the Black Queen. I won’t give it back for a while.”
“yes?”
“Even the wizard alchemist came to the priest and looked at the condition of you and the horse gun. They say the dark energy from the horse gun is already eating away at your soul.”
I said sternly.
“Immediately cut off contact between you and Ma Chong, and they told me not to let them come close again. So that’s what I’m going to do.”
Damian begged me with a pale face.
“Prince Hwa! please! I’ll be quiet here, so can you give me that gun?”
“What are you talking about? It’s been four months since that gun.”
would you give it back I know what to do while spraying a black aura again.
“I heard you haven’t eaten or slept properly for weeks since that gun started to emit a black aura? I heard it all from the temple people.”
“… .”
“I will separate it for you. I know that.”
“But, Prince. I had nightmares because of that magic gun, and every day was painful, but… … .”
Damian hesitated and murmured.
“I was able to dream half of it.”
“… .”
“The face of the class I thought I would never see again… I saw it live. So I… … .”
Was it because he couldn’t let go of the Black Queen even though he was in pain?
Crossing my arms, I let out a sigh.
“You must have been a really dear friend.”
Suffering every night just to see your face, even in a nightmare.
“… .”
Instead of answering, Damian kept his mouth shut.
Silence prevailed. I looked around Damian’s room.
It’s a room with a unique design of a shrine, but there are few furniture, and a desk in a closet… … And I see a hamster cage.
They said that they raised hamsters in the past, but they are actually raising them. I went and stood in front of the hamster cage.
Squeak.
In the haystack, a tiny hamster raises its bean-like eyes and stares at me. Is it an illusion to look like my owner?
“What did you say his name was?”
“Podong… yo. this.”
“It’s not as plump as its name suggests.”
“I guess it’s because I didn’t manage the day properly yesterday. Even if I give them less food for a day, they get thinner.”
Are hamsters like that? I don’t know because I didn’t grow it.
“Plump this plump, Damien. Get your health back too.”
Pointing at Damian’s embarrassed face, I slowly headed towards the door.
“You are out of season. Don’t participate until this defense battle and recuperate here. The horse gun story is next.”
“… !”
Damian hurriedly tried to jump out after me, but one arm was handcuffed.
Along with the sound of chains, the staggered Damian hurriedly shouted.
“But, Prince! I need to be there!”
“… .”
“Since you were appointed here, you have never fought a defensive battle without me! You always need my sniping skills!”
“Damian.”
I opened the door and looked around blankly.
“I told you to be my trigger. You said you would.”
“… yes.”
“All I need is a gun that I can point and shoot at will. But now you have become a dangerous gun that can be fired from anywhere.”
Damian shut his mouth and lowered his head. I pulled myself out of the room.
“I can’t stand it on the wire in that state. Let your body recover first.”
“Prince… .”
“It’s a Commander’s order.”
I smiled one last time.
“It’s a long-awaited vacation. Get some rest.”
I shut the door, leaving Damian alone to look at me with a devastated face.
thud!
***
“Establish a strategy to catch the super-colossus.”
manor house. drawing room.
After convening all hero characters except for Damian to a meeting. I said.
“The name of the monster that will invade this defense is Jormungand. It is a very large snake.”
This stage monster, corps, and boss.
A group of monolithic monsters. Jormungand.
It’s a monster with a ‘super giant’ tag, which is rare in this game.
And, as if proving that the word super-giant was not added for nothing, it is filthy big and strong.
“This guy will honestly crawl from the lake to the crossroads, destroy the walls, crush the city, and head north.”
The appearance of a super-giant monolithic monster that was unprecedented during the previous defense battles.
Now, the heroes who had won the battle against the monster and the beginners who still lacked experience were all nervous and swallowed dry saliva.
I’ve made it clear here.
“I’ll tell you in advance, killing this bastard is next to impossible. Our goal is to ‘repel’.”
It is not for nothing that Jormungandr’s nickname is ‘the snake of the world’.
He is a very mythical being. It is a different being from other monsters.
The goal was not to kill him in the game, but to send him back by inflicting more than a certain amount of damage. I will do the same this time too.
“This snake has only one behavioral principle. It’s just going up north.”
widely!
I continued my explanation while drawing on the blackboard that Ader had brought me.
“It will attack if there are obstacles in the process, but it is basically low on aggression. Compared to other monsters whose goal is the destruction of humans, they are very docile.”
Then Evangeline jerked her hand up. I chinned.
“Any questions, Evangeline?”
“Why do you want to go north?”
“I don’t know either. There seems to be a restaurant up there that you want to visit.”
I’m guessing this is a joke and maybe the purpose is to end the world.
going around the world from south to north.
‘The problem is that continental civilizations will perish one by one with that drink.’
All towns and cities in the path of this giant serpent are destroyed.
Even if other monsters pass through the southern front here, there is a way to block them by forming a new front from above, but Jormungand has no answer.
As it moves north, it eats up civilization and grows bigger and bigger.
have to stop here.
If you can’t stop it, the whole world is truly over.
Everyone’s faces became serious at my explanation.
Reina, the commander of the reinforcements, who always behaved casually, and Quilando, the punishment unit, who was still showing off his rookie teeth.
There is something to protect on this wire.
That’s what goes for all of them.
“Anyway, he’s not very aggressive. It is more focused on moving north than attacking humans. And the body is very huge. What conclusion can be drawn from these premises?”
Everyone looked at me blankly without answering my question.
Well, it’s hard to answer with just such fragmentary information. I immediately gave the correct answer.
“The correct answer is, ‘Even if we get on and hit them, they stay still.’”
Evangeline opened her mouth at my words.
“Wait a minute. What does that mean? then… .”
“okay.”
each.
I looked like a rotten cow.
“In this defense battle, all of us are not on the walls here… .”
I roughly erased the drawing of the castle wall on the blackboard and drew a road farther south to the Black Lake.
“Go south and wait at the entrance to the Black Lake. As soon as Jormungandr sticks his head out of the lake, I climb on him and start attacking.”
Perhaps they didn’t know that it was a real operation to ride on the body of a snake, so the heroes all made a look of astonishment.
“… !”
“… ?!”
In particular, the cowardly duo of Lily and Marherita were hugging each other and screaming silently. pretending to be weak
“It usually takes three days to reach the Crossroads Wall from the Black Lake. For three days, you will be fucking beaten on the body of this giant snake.”
I sketched Jormungandr’s massive body on the blackboard.
Something like a long earthworm was drawn, but you’ll recognize it roughly.
“His body is huge. As large as it is, the nerve centers that give orders to the body are distributed throughout the body.”
I pointed to three places on Jormungandr’s body.
head. middle of the body. and around the tail.
“Attack and destroy the three most important centers among them. Then you can stop him.”
It is a kind of part destruction gimmick.
If this part is destroyed three times successfully, Jormungandr will return to the nest to repair the damage.
What if it fails? They’ll chew up the walls, eat up the city, and go upstairs.
“So, this defense battle will be conducted in a form close to hand-to-hand combat.”
Landed directly on the giant snake’s body. You must attack and destroy the protruding nerve center. Naturally, it becomes the shape of a hand-to-hand combat using the body.
It was also the reason why it was possible to establish a strategy without Demian in this defense battle.
Because long-range sniping capabilities are not so required in this Jormungand repulsion operation.
“Nine days until the start of the next defense battle. In other words, six days remain until Jormungandr sticks his head out of the lake.”
Since you have to start the defense battle from the entrance of the lake, the time is tighter than the existing defense battle based on the time they arrive at the castle wall.
“In the meantime, I’m going to make a weapon that can damage his body, and I’m going to train all of you at the same time.”
I looked around the heroes all the way.
“This defense battle is completely different from the previous defense battles. Since you have to carry out the operation on top of the monster’s body for up to 3 days or more, there will be a different threat from the previous big monster battles.”
I nodded with a firm face to all the party members who looked at me with trembling eyes.
“Make your resolve strong.”
Subsequently, I announced the compilation.
The main party of 4 without Damian. A party of 5 reinforcements. Punishment unit 5 people.
A total of 14 people decided to land directly on Jormungandr’s body and carry out this dangerous operation.
Ordinary soldiers were not going to take them. You have to spend three days on top of the body of a boss monster that exudes fraud.
Unless you are a heroic character, it is a strategy that you cannot endure in the first place.
The most elite main party, as always, nodded with a determined face, and the reinforcement party and punishment unit also followed my orders with a firm face.
If Jormungandr breaks through the southern front here and goes north, the ecliptic is in its path.
From the point of view of the reinforcement party, of course, they would have to risk their lives to stop it.
“My homeland is also on that route.”
With a hard face, Quylan clenched his fists tightly.
“I will risk my life to be with you, Your Highness the Prince.”
The penal unit also seems to have a reason to be serious. I gave a faint smile to the bandit king, who was burning with fighting spirit.
“Lily and the saintess!”
I called the two of them out of fear, waiting for their names to be called. I gestured to the two of them as they started to hiccup.
“The two of you will remain at Crossroads as a reserve.”
Both of them’ faces brightened up. But not the time to be so happy.
“There is a possibility that the city itself will be swept away in this defensive battle. That’s why the evacuation of citizens will be done differently.”
In the meantime, even if the monsters dug into the city, they would only try to kill humans and would hardly touch the facilities and buildings in the city.
That’s why the evacuation in the meantime was, at most, to get the citizens to the north of the city for a while.
But this time the threat is different. There is a possibility that the entire city will be devastated.
If nothing is prepared, in the worst case, Jormungandr will crush the entire city and the infrastructure will disappear, threatening the survival of all citizens.
“Cooperate with all members of the Lily production workshop to build shelters, drinking water storage facilities, and food warehouses for evacuation. You can arrange it on an empty plain northeast of the city.”
“Yes, I understand!”
“I will attach a worker to the saintess, so build a simple treatment facility in the northeast of the city. Have enough beds and medicines.”
“I will do as you command, Your Highness.”
I nodded heavily to the two who answered with serious faces.
“I hope your work is in vain.”
These two are preparing for the worst.
Of course, the best is to repel Jormungand before it reaches the wall.
At any rate, the attack is already over by the time he reaches the castle wall.
‘But I am the lord of this place.’
Even if the game ends, the strategy fails, and the world perishes.
After that, there is an obligation to take responsibility for those who survived. So you have to prepare for the worst.
I hope both of them work hard, but I also want it to be a complete fuss.
Reading my intentions, Lily and Marherita nodded once more.
The two of them were not the usual cowards, but the faces of heroes on the front lines here.
