◈ 368. [STAGE 15] Suicide Squad (2)
Before the rescue unit enters the forward base.
Carly-Alexander had already found an emergency teleport gate on top of the battery.
I found it by accident while standing on top of a battery because I enjoy looking at the occupied area from the highest point.
The magic stones of the teleport gate skillfully mixed between the bricks that make up the turret.
Originally, he wanted to destroy it right away, but the Goblin God King’s intuition, forged through countless battles, stopped it.
I had a hunch that I could use this gate in reverse.
They deliberately left the battery empty and tightly packed the surroundings with troops. And he told me to monitor the use of this gate.
I thought it would take a day at the earliest- but I didn’t expect the humans to return in just a few tens of minutes.
《The human soldiers move in a team of 5.》 A
decoy unit fighting loudly in the north of the advance base.
And the rescue team escaping from inside the outpost.
Callie-Alexandre muttered calmly, standing on the wall and looking down at them in full view.
“We killed two fallen people. It is reasonable to expect that there will be more members of the same group left.”
It was as Carly-Alexandre had hoped.
More fallen personnel were hiding, and to save them, the human side was conducting an unreasonable rescue operation.
“This one lost two thousand, the other lost only two, so the exchange is too expensive.”
Carly-Alexandre waved her hands. The goblin amirs who understood his orders saluted in unison.
The human heroes rushing towards the battery and the goblin army enveloping them like a whirlpool.
Watching this, Carly-Alexandre lightly flicked her fingertips.
《Let’s try to adjust the exchange rate between each other a little more reasonably.》
***
Holy Grail Expedition Shadow Unit and Lily ran towards the battery.
Meanwhile, goblins were densely packed around them.
Outside, the decoy unit was luring out a significant number of goblins, but there were still a lot of them inside the outpost.
“Let’s see… .”
Standing at the head of the party, Belldandi’s green eyes radiated a clear magical light.
“It’s a goblin-!”
Scattering light green afterimages, Belldandi rushed forward at terrifying speed.
Behind her moving tracks like a flash of light, all the goblins collapsed with blood spraying from their necks.
As an SSR-class assassin and a combatant from the fairy royal family, her combat power was terrifying.
But
“ha ha ha ha!”
As the goblins swarmed endlessly and the battle dragged on, Verdandy quickly became exhausted.
An innate shortcoming of the Assassin class.
Although powerful in one-on-one situations and short fights. Vulnerable to one-on-one situations and long-term battles.
The conditions were also unfavorable, and it was burdensome for her, a pure dealer, to take the lead.
The remaining members of the Holy Grail Exploration Corps, who had made their way in front of them, were consumed in an instant.
So,
“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”
Lily suited the situation.
Roaring-!
Lily’s 2nd skill [Fire Wall] exploded.
A huge wall of flame rose up on the right flank of the party, and all the goblins that rushed towards it were burned at once.
The true value of the wide-area flame mage, the natural enemy of the mass offensive corps, was revealed without regret.
As the goblins burned to death with unbelievable efficiency, Verdandy blew a whistle unconsciously.
“Your girlfriend is a bit hot?!”
“It is too much for me!”
“Don’t say ha in front of me! ha! It’s embarrassing!”
As she moved in God Hand’s arms, Lily poured the stretching magic potion into her mouth.
Since he was a flame mage with the worst fuel economy, he had to keep drinking in the current situation.
The party finally reached the battery.
At the entrance of the battery, the corpses of goblins were piled up in a hill.
Then, I saw Torkel, who was covered in goblins and his own blood, striking down and killing another group of goblins with his shield and greatsword.
“Thorkel!”
“Go up, come on… !”
After taking everyone from the Holy Grail Exploration Team and Lily of the Shadow Troop into the battery, Torkel followed up while blocking the goblins from the last place.
On top of the battery, the rest of the Leper Slayers and the climbed goblins were struggling.
The top of the battery was also a mess as if it had been attacked on a large scale.
But relief flashed across everyone’s faces.
Now all you have to do is escape through the teleport gate.
“To be able to succeed in such an absurd operation is really… .”
Belldandy, who was about to say something, stopped his mouth.
Pei-ing –
An ominous sound rang out, and
the liquid was leaking!
Kwagwagwang!
The entire battery vibrated with the explosion.
The goblins started shooting and grinding the captured cannons at the battery.
Most of the cannons left at the base were extremely damaged by human soldiers setting them on fire, so they often exploded on the spot without firing properly.
But the goblins didn’t care. He ignorantly continued to hit the shells.
The battery shook continuously, and the flames of the shells soared right next to it. Belldandy shouted.
“Activate the gate! Escape immediately… … !”
It was then.
Kung-
A heavy vibration came up from the bottom of the turret, and
Kwa-gwa-gwa-!
There was a huge explosion accompanied by a huge explosion.
After waiting for the rescue team to enter the battery, the goblin suicide bombers that had been waiting were put in at once.
Although the power of individual explosions is poor, the number of goblin suicide bombers Kali-Alexandr sent to blow up the battery exceeded one hundred.
The battery, weakened by the previous artillery fire, could not hold out.
The lower part of the battery melted and the entire battery collapsed.
All of the rescue team standing on the top floor of the battery also fell helplessly.
***
“Ugh… .”
Lily blinked blankly.
As I managed to hold on to my flickering consciousness and raised my upper body, I saw a landscape that was somehow familiar to my eyes.
The battery had collapsed all the way down to the first floor of the building.
The remnants of the collapsed batteries formed a wall around it, and it felt like being trapped in a well.
‘This… .’
1 year ago.
It resembles the appearance of the battery that was loading the last bullet when fighting the black spider army here… … .
“From the east!”
“Reinforcements from the south too!”
“We need more cover!”
“Damn it, get down!”
Here, the heroes of the rescue team were fighting desperately.
Everyone was hit hard as they fell from the top of the battery to the first floor, but right after that, goblins attacked from all sides, so they had to grit their teeth and fight.
“Lily! You came to your senses!”
God Hand, who came running bloody, smiled like an idiot. Lily struggled to get herself up.
“why… Are you all fighting? Escape through the gate… … ”
“That… .”
God Hand looked to the side, blurring the end of his words. Lily looked that way too.
The magic stone forming the teleport gate was shattered. God Hand muttered bitterly to the bewildered Lily.
“It looks like the gate was damaged as it crashed. It doesn’t work.”
“… .”
“Everyone is fighting, but as it is… .”
Waves of goblin attacks continued from all directions. Hope escaped from the faces of the heroes in an instant.
Lily gasped.
Is this the price of a futile challenge?
“… no.”
Lily clenched her hands, which were still in a daze.
She was one of eight survivors of the battle against the Black Spider Corps.
It reminded me of when Ash and I defeated the Black Spider Queen. Then, in the same situation, Ash said:
– Even if you die by fire, you should throw the dice.
okay.
She is a normal human being, but even to such an ordinary human… … have the right
You have the right not to give up the challenge.
It’s still too early to give up.
“I’ll fix it!”
Lily deliberately raised her voice. The heroes around her turned to her.
“I am the head of the artifacts at the Alchemy Workshop, Senior Magician at Crossroads. I was also involved in installing the gate.”
After tying her hair tightly at the back, Lily gathered the scattered magic stone fragments forward.
“Buy me a little time, just a little… !”
The heroes who paused for a moment looked back at each other. And nodded.
Patter… … !
A fearsome number of arrows flew from all directions.
The battery was in the center of the forward base.
In other words, it also meant that it was the place where all the goblins around it could see, and it was the best place to attack.
The surrounding goblins fired arrows at once. A literal rain of arrows poured down.
“Take cover!”
“Take it off-!”
God Hand created a shield on the spot and Body Bag kicked it off once with telekinesis, but it didn’t matter.
Arrows rained down like showers.
The goblin’s arrows were crude and not lethal, but the problem was the numbers. Before I knew it, several arrows were stuck in the bodies of the heroes.
But the arrow was rather cute.
The type of goblins who rushed over the collapsed battery wall was changing from regular infantry to cavalry.
The mobility and power of goblins mounted on mountain goats were several times that of foot soldiers.
The heroes of the Leper Slayer, who had stepped forward to block the rush of the goblins, collapsed one by one, unable to cope with the accumulated injuries.
The Holy Grail Exploration Team also fought hard with their stamina, but could not stand it and fell to their knees one by one.
Arrows, potions, and even barricades to use as cover ran out.
It was a time when everyone felt the shadow of death cast.
Kiyiing!
With a clear operating sound, the collapsed magic stones sprang up and created a magic door in the air.
“Repair completed!”
Surprised, everyone looked that way. Lily was laughing bashfully.
“It was just that the connection to the magic core was cut off and the power supply was not working. I temporarily connected my magic furnace.”
“Lily… … !”
“Everyone escape! hurry!”
Lily urged. In reality, none of them had the strength to hold out any longer.
Belldandi, who came to the gate while helping the injured party member, asked urgently.
“Then what about Lily-sama?”
“I have to hold the gate, so I will escape last.”
In an instant, Lily and Belldandi’s gazes met.
Biting her lip, Belldandy lowered her head and smiled.
“… all right. See you later?”
The heroes retreated through the gate one after another. All that was left was Torkel God Hand Lily.
Thorkell, who was able to catch the arrows pouring down to the end with his shield and body, winked at the two.
“I am last… ! Come on in!”
“I told you. Because of keeping the gate, I’m last. I’ll follow you soon, Thorkell.”
“I can’t go until I go first. I don’t want to leave anyone behind me anymore… … .”
slap!
Having said that, God Hand shoved Thorkel’s back.
Thorkel was sucked into the teleport gate with his eyes wide open.
Flash-!
“… .”
“… .”
Now there are only two left.
There was silence for a moment.
Lily said in a trembling voice.
“Go, God Hand. I will follow you right away.”
“… .”
“Go! Can’t you see I’m having a hard time?!”
“Lily. You know what?”
God Hand, who slowly crouched down in front of Lily, smiled.
“Lily-sama is bad at lying.”
This teleport gate whose magic core was damaged is now operating with Lily’s magic.
The moment Lily releases her hand, the gate will also close.
therefore… Lily couldn’t escape from the beginning.
God Hand had already noticed this fact.
Lily closed her eyes and sighed.
“I’m doing this to save you, God Hand. please go… … .”
“… .”
“This is my last request, so… .”
“no, I do not want.”
God Hand’s hand, which answered lightly, slowly came up onto Lily’s hand.
It was the hand that activated the magic furnace of the teleport gate.
“Swear at me for being selfish. Call me an idiot who trampled on your dedication and consideration. But in front of you… … I don’t want to lie to myself.”
“God Hand… !”
“Rather than leaving you and surviving alone and regretting it for eternity… .”
God Hand squeezed Lily’s hand and slowly pulled it away from the gate’s magic furnace.
rumble… … .
The magic stone that formed the gate collapsed like a lie.
God Hand grabbed Lily’s hand, who was speechless.
“Even momentary is fine. I want to be with you.”
“… .”
“Lily.”
Covered in blood and ashes in this place where monsters swarm from all sides.
Looking into the lover’s trembling eyes, God Hand asked shyly.
“Will you marry me?”
Just die..