◈ 377. [STAGE 15] Winter cicadas
churn!
Okay!
A dog-collar-like figure appeared out of thin air and bound Carly-Alexandre’s neck.
《… .]
The Goblin God King looked blankly at the chain around his neck.
[Goblin God King Kali-Alexandre (SSR) has been incorporated as an ally!]
– Current Loyalty: 0 (+0)/100
– Absolute Command: 1 time
There is no additional compensation for Loyalty even when receiving the effect of [Imperial Proclamation]. It seems that you don’t have the slightest desire to become my subordinate.
However, what I needed in the first place was the ‘absolute command right’ that could force the capture monster to command only once.
With this, I can say that my goal has been worked out by simply ordering the attacking goblins away from the wall.
“Carly-Alexandr I command you!”
I shouted in succession.
“Withdraw your troops immediately… .”
But I couldn’t finish the order.
hook-!
Carly-Alexandre was quicker to pick up her scimitar and drive it into her own chest.
“… what.”
Seeing the goblin god king’s chest and back, blood gushing out like a fountain, I was dazed for a moment.
《I refuse, Ash.》
Kali-Alexandre said calmly, spitting up blood from inside the mask.
《I will refuse whatever your order is.》
I urgently took out the potion and ran to him. It was to somehow survive.
However, his sword precisely split his own spiritual core. It was an injury that could not be saved with potions.
Still, I shouted as I poured the potion into his chest.
“Damn it! Order again! Your Legion immediately… … .”
“It’s no use, Ash,”
Carly-Alexandre said flatly.
“Even if I obey that order, I will die before I withdraw all of my corps. Then the war will resume again.》
“… .”
I gritted my teeth.
“why?”
《… .》
“You said you wanted to be born as a human. You said you don’t want to hurt people. But why?”
If you had accepted my offer, we could have coexisted.
There must also have been a future where goblins and humans could live peacefully as one alliance, with cultural exchanges as you wished.
《The life of a goblin is miserable. The life of a goblin is terrible,”
Carly-Alexandre muttered in a dying voice, leaning against the wall.
《Goblins don’t have poetry or lyrics, and they don’t even have the slightest breeze or morals. They are a terrible race with only the desire to destroy.》
“… .”
“But I am their king.”
Blood dripped from his crown attached to the helmet.
“My people worshiped me as a god and a king. Then I must lead them… … . You have to let them find happiness and live according to their nature and instinct.”
“A goblin’s happiness is, after all… … You mean invasion and slaughter?”
“It is miserable and terribly so,”
Carly-Alexandre vomited another handful of blood.
“Maybe we can castrate that instinct and let it live…” … You can be part of your alliance and forcefully reform them. But that would be my happiness as the king, not the happiness of my tribe.》
“… .”
《If the entire race lives miserably because of the individual ruler’s will, how is it different from living as a slave?》 I
could see his smile at me blurry through the mask.
“A leader should live not for himself, but for the people who support him. So Ash. After all, I am also a goblin. It’s a fucking monster.”
The goblin who longed for people said,
“We cannot coexist. Sadly that is the reality. My people can never live as people. So I will die like a monster.”
In the end, I chose life as a goblin, and I chose death as a goblin.
“If you want to survive. Kill me and my compatriots without leaving a single one.》
“… .”
《Standing on the island of corpses floating in the river of blood, do not regret or reprimand. go ahead Go forward with the heart of an iron man. Don’t look back as a prince… … .”
His breathing quickened. The enemy’s death is near.
《… One last humble request. Will you listen?”
“Tell me.”
“After hearing what you said then, I wrote a poem too… I tried to make it.]
Carly-Alexandre, who was embarrassed, looked at me with eager eyes.
《Can you listen?》
“… .”
I nodded my head after confirming that there was still time left until Plan B was executed after grasping the current situation with [Map Creation].
Callie-Alexandre caught her breath and slowly recited a verse.
After waiting for the summer sunlight
for seven years, I
lifted my head and raised my head.
It is a white winter night,
a world born in the wrong place. Even if
I shout to reach
the stars,
an empty echo returns.
《It’s embarrassing to be so mean.》
“… no. It is a wonderful poem.”
His poetry, comparing himself to a cicada born in winter, was rough but sincere.
It’s hard to believe that it’s the first poem I’ve ever written, so it wasn’t so bad.
“If you hadn’t become a war commander, you might have become a poet famous on the continent.”
“haha… . Don’t tease me too much… … .”
Callie-Alexandre murmured sadly, bursting out laughing.
“But yes… . I once dreamed of such a life… … .”
“… .”
“If I had met you in a different place, Ash. It might have been a little different relationship with you… … I don’t know… … .》
I did not console his death.
I just watched him die until the end.
“Goodbye Carly-Alexandre. This time, I hope you go to eternal sleep.”
《… May I call you Alexander? If I had a friend, I wouldn’t want to hear a grandiose title like Carly.”
“… Goodbye Alexander.”
As he drew his last breath, I whispered a courtesy to him.
“Have a nice trip.”
As if in response, Alexander muttered softly.
“I bless you who are going a long way… . Whatever the ending, I hope you won’t regret it… … .》
The Goblin God King stopped breathing.
He is dead.
I approached and took off Alexander’s helmet. The goblin’s face, hidden behind a mask, was covered with scars from many years.
His nose had been cut off, one eye had been crushed with a sword, and one of his cheeks was pierced with a scar as if it had been pierced by an arrow.
It was the face of a warrior.
I looked down at him from afar as he slept peacefully, then turned around with only my helmet on.
Plan A- Now that the forced withdrawal of the goblin corps using the enemy commander has failed. Plan B must be triggered.
‘It’s going to be a much more difficult road in the end… … .’
Plan B is a straight-forward method.
It is to use all available means to physically annihilate the goblin army.
And, of course, the number of cases on this side was also planned in advance.
I opened the stage information window and counted the number of remaining enemies with [Map Creation] still running.
It wasn’t long after the battle started, but over 5,000 goblins’ lives had evaporated.
However, the camp of the goblins stayed close to the Crossroads.
I moved the walls of the gray fortress to my will and climbed to the top floor of the fortress. The surroundings were clearly visible.
Kwajik! Quadduk!
Most of the turrets surrounding the gray fortress were damaged, and even those that were still in motion were collapsing under the onslaught of the goblins.
‘It must be hard to hold on for a long time.’
This time I looked towards the crossroads wall.
bang! Kwakwawang!
The fire spread across the walls of the Crossroads, and one side of the wall was severely damaged and collapsing.
The goblins that were close to the wall were climbing up the wall starting from the city.
These bastards were able to climb the walls without a ladder, perhaps because of their light bodies.
‘The castle walls and the guys are stuck enough.’
Did your mind become impatient as the target to attack approached?
The entire goblin legion leaned forward.
I passed the gray fortress where I was standing, and most of the legion seemed to be stuck right in front of the crossroads wall.
It’s time to start plan B.
I took a blue flame torch from my inventory and waved it upwards.
I saw my men waving their flags loudly on the wall, recognizing my signal.
At the same time, the eastern and western gates of
the Kugu Palace-
Cross Road began to open.
I activated the ‘One-Way’ option with [Guardis Blessing] in this defense battle. The monster army only attacks from the southern defense.
In other words, the march of troops through the eastern and western gates is unhindered!
‘What is the basis and standard of tactics from ancient times to modern times?’
As I said before, it’s Anvil & Hammer.
A tactic in which the defending unit (anvil) receives the enemy’s attack, and when it endures, the attacking unit (hammer), which has excellent mobility, returns to the enemy’s rearguard and strikes.
Then, what about the anvil and hammer of the allies in this battle situation?
The anvil is the wall that withstands the onslaught of the goblin army.
And while the Goblin Legion is chained to the walls, they can attack their rear and flanks – my heroic party is the hammer.
All right! All right! All right!
Through the open east and west gates, heroic parties on horseback rushed out.
They circumnavigate the battlefield and begin converging towards the gray fortress where I am. I clenched my fists.
Plan B is, in a way, a simple plan.
While the wall holds out, a guerrilla party made up of heroic parties annihilates them from the flanks and rear.
If we annihilate them before the walls are breached, we win.
If the walls are breached before they are annihilated, the monster wins.
‘The situation is different from the time of the guerrilla.’
At that time, there was no wide and strong anvil called a castle wall. It was like hitting an empty void with a hammer.
But now, the best anvil called the monster front lined up on my body to beat goblins.
The power of this hammer also increases several times… … !
I cleared the gray fort until the heroic parties arrived. It’s time to slowly demolish it.
Four of my captives are seriously injured, but none are dead. I roughly sprayed the potion and put everything back into the subspace.
Kwajik! Kurur… .
The last auto-defense turret collapses and
Kirik! Kiriririk-!
The moment when a group of goblins are about to invade the gray fortress.
“Lord!”
Riding his horse like flying, Lucas arrived first.
The blade of light he sprayed tore through dozens of goblins at once. After that, heroic parties gathered one after another.
lucas party. penal unit. Dragon Blood Knights. Holy Grail Explorer. And 50 skilled soldiers selected for each party. All are on horseback.
The Holy Grail Exploration Corps was organized with a strong willingness to participate, even though the injuries were not cured.
So two hundred and twenty and one.
Even if surrounded by goblins, they are masters of melee combat to the extent that they can easily beat them to death and escape.
They were organized as the hammer unit for this battle.
“Come on, sir.”
“hmm.”
Leaning on the horse Lucas had brought,
I canceled [Imperial Declaration].
Whoaaah-!
The gray fortress, covered in the blood and corpses of goblins, disappeared like a lie.
‘Ooh!’
I vomited for a moment, probably because I had been holding the fort for too long, but I desperately endured it.
I handed the goblin god king’s helmet to Lucas.
“Please, Lucas.”
“Yes sir.”
Accept the helmet of the Goblin God King, a combination of a mask and a crown.
Lucas, who held it high, let out a lion’s roar in a loud voice.
“Your leader is dead!”
Hearing Lucas’ voice, the goblins looked back at us in bewilderment, and were immediately startled.
Lucas put the helmet on the end of the sword of light and held it high into the sky. So that the pitch can be seen from a distance.
“Your god and king lost his life at the hands of our commander!”
Panic spreads among the goblin army in an instant.
“And you too will meet the same end!”
I spat out with difficulty as I glared at the back row of those who began to panic and panic.
“They lost their heads. Clean up and leave no one behind!”
“yes-!”
“let’s go! What!”
As soon as I started to ride, the other heroes who ran immediately followed and drove around me as if to protect me.
All right! All right! All right!
The heroes formed a wedge-shaped formation. I took a seat in the center, and regular soldiers lined up behind them.
That’s how we run in the form of a javelin –
Kwa Gwa Kwang -!
Jumped into the waves of goblins.
