◈ 568. [STAGE 35] Advent (3)
The giant head of the Lord of the Flies exploded.
We all watched this scene with bated breath. In the moment of silence, I swallowed a dry saliva.
The headless giant of the Lord of the Flies stumbled. The halos that had been rotating overhead stopped all at once, and the infinity that was orbiting behind them also slowly stopped.
Before long, the huge body of the Lord of the Flies slowly collapses and pours down to the floor –
towering.
stopped in midair.
The huge figure of the Lord of the Flies that had been pouring down slowly corrected its posture and
sizzled!
Began hair restoration.
Hundreds and thousands of flies escaped from his body and began to fill the empty head.
It was as if time was rewinding.
The Lord of the Flies, whose head was restored in an instant, floated into the air again as if nothing had happened. Halo and orbital wings, which had stopped moving, were also spinning again.
“Yes, yes… .”
I gritted my teeth.
“There’s no way I could die this easily… … !”
It seemed that the march was only delayed for a moment. The Lord of the Flies stretched out his legs again.
Sixty-four this time.
I haven’t counted it, but looking at the increase in the past, it’s almost certain. Dozens of the Lord of the Flies’ long, hairy, ugly legs began to slowly thrust forward.
Before his legs even stretched out in front of me, I ordered.
“… retreat.”
Lucas looked at me startled. I said one more time.
“All troops retreat! hurry! Forward base give up! Get ready for a counterattack at the Crossroads mainland!”
Lucas urgently took my order and shouted loudly.
“All forces retreat-! Retreat to the teleport gate!”
The reaction of the heroes and soldiers was quick. No one threw up and started running towards the teleport gate with equipment that could be taken immediately.
“Burnout! body bag! Ditch the equipment! Retreat comes first!”
The two were ordered separately. It was unreasonable to run away with such a large piece of equipment.
Anyway, there is spare equipment in Crossroads.
The hesitant Burnout and Body Bag eventually nodded and ran towards the teleport gate.
Non-combatants, including alchemists, come first. After that, ranged attackers such as priests and mages and archers. Finally, the avant-garde heroes retreated while being wary of the rear row.
In the prescribed order, we retreated in an orderly manner.
“… ?!”
only one team.
A new hero party that came under his command this time. Except for ‘Insect Busters’.
Kagagakak!
Dressed in hazmat suits, these five heroes were still standing on the edge of the wall, crushing the flies that continued to swarm.
“Insect Busters!”
I exclaimed urgently.
“Stop fighting and retreat! Can’t you hear me?!”
“… little bit more… .”
But frantically wielding their weapons, the Insect Busters still did not retreat.
“I will kill ten more, no five more… !”
Even in the midst of this, the Lord of the Flies was slowly stretching out dozens of legs.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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A large number of fly monsters rushed towards the advance base, throwing up from the body of the Lord of the Flies.
Even if the troops on this side were holding on, it was a number that could not be stopped, but the situation had already entered the retreat.
Staying here is just dog death. I let out a shrill cry.
“Retreat! hurry-!”
And with this momentary difference, they crossed an irreversible river.
Countless flies filled the gap between Insect Busters and us.
Swarms of flies poured like summer squalls began to harpoon the walls.
The flies tightly clung to the automatic defense turret that was pouring out barrage, slowly and surely peeling off the armor and destroying the turret.
Artifacts were down one by one and all traps were invalidated.
The Insect Busters, who turned around belatedly, stopped moving when they found the flies that surrounded them densely.
“… .”
and.
Chi-Ik-!
The leader of the Insect Busters restarted his equipment, which had paused to retreat, and then turned back toward the wall.
“Leave us, Your Highness.”
what?
“It’s impossible to break through this siege and go there anyway. Then I will just fight and die.”
The leader chuckled.
“We are the ones who lost our families to the worms. We were the ones who ran away leaving our families in the village during the pest outbreak in the east. We saved our lives that day, but we lost everything else.”
The leader man turned his goggles, which were glistening with insect bodily fluids, and looked at me.
Those shiny colors… … It looked just like the compound eyes of a fly.
The goggles, which were always foggy, were clear. It was the first time I saw this man’s eyes.
empty. empty. skinny.
It was not the eyes of a living person.
‘ah.’
I realized in that moment.
Why can those who have no skills or stats of N rank be able to fight better than any other SSR rank heroes when it comes to bugs?
The answer was simple.
They were fighting for their lives.
Chii profit… … !
Five restarted their equipment. Flamethrowers, venom sprayers, hammers, electric wands, and hextech saw blades let out ferocious roars.
“We swore that day. Let’s never run away from bugs again. I’d rather die with them.”
The leader man let out a scream similar to the saw he was holding.
“Today is the very day!”
I love you!
Toward the five, monsters of flies poured like a waterfall.
As I tried to go back to take the five of them somehow, Lucas grabbed my shoulder urgently.
“Lord! You must retreat immediately!”
“but!”
“They ignored my lord’s orders! Those who disregard military orders on the battlefield are no longer soldiers!”
“But he is a man! People save! They can still return!”
At the same time as I spit out,
weeeeeeeeeeeee!
A swarm of flies began to cling to the five isolated heroes like crazy.
The Insect Busters started killing the flies with their weapons. Indeed, these five were strong enough to fight without backing down even in this situation.
“Give it to me, you bastards!”
The leader man screamed with a bloody sound.
“Spit out my daughter you chewed up too!”
Kaga gak gak!
The saw blade rotated without hesitation, tearing apart all the flies that clung to it.
I directed the heroes who hadn’t gotten to the gate yet.
“Assist the interception until they return! Damian! Junior!”
“Yes, Prince!”
“Whoa… !”
Damian took out his [Venom Fang] and opened fire, and Junior took a deep breath and created a tornado.
The flies approaching the gate were torn apart by Lucas’ longsword and Evangeline’s lance.
I built a magic wall and continued to shout in support of the Insect Busters.
“Come back, Insect Busters! You can still retreat! We’ll open the way! Don’t you have to live with revenge! hurry… !”
but.
they didn’t look back
And that judgment was right. Because their return was impossible.
The Insect Busters survived at the edge of the wall for only a moment. The flies that completely surrounded them gathered and fell, coiling like a giant whip.
Buuuung-
chin!
And the pouring flies… … Grabbing their limbs, he began to forcefully lift them into the air.
“Let go, you bastards!”
The leader man wielded a saw blade and endured, but
“Let it go! Let go of this!”
“Aaaaaaaaaaagh!”
One by one, the rest of the Insect Busters were dragged up into the air with their entire bodies captured.
The flies ripped through their hazmat suits with their violent footwork, and inserted tubes into their mouths through the cracks.
Then, all the heroes who resisted lost their strength and drooped their bodies.
bang! bang! Taang!
Damian hurriedly shot down the flies, but soon new flies came and took their place again.
Before anyone knew it, the heroes of Insect Busters were dragged high into the sky.
Kwajik!
The saw of the leader man, who was struggling until the end, was broken.
The leader man, who had been looking down at the saw that had been broken in half, only then looked back. It was towards us.
“You don’t have to try to understand us like this.”
The leader man laughed dejectedly and muttered.
“Because it’s like people can’t understand a fly.”
Boo woo woo!
The next moment, the flies rushing at him tore his hazmat suit and stinged him, dragging him into the sky.
“Lord!”
Lucas shook my shoulder vigorously as I blankly watched this.
“I can’t stand it any longer! hurry!”
“Kuh… !”
I closed my eyes and turned around.
Torkel, who remained at the very end of the gate, nodded heavily. I gritted my teeth and threw myself into the teleport gate.
In the sky that I looked back at last.
All five Insect Busters were being dragged through the air, possessed by the flies.
And at the end of that void… … .
There was a huge Lord of the Flies floating in the air with hundreds of arms outstretched in all directions.
“… .”
incomprehensible (incomprehensible)
The behavior of the monster and the human mind.
Flash-!
The teleport gate worked, and white flashes filled my eyes.
***
“… eww.”
The leader of Insect Busters slowly opened his eyes.
“Ugh… How long have you been asleep… … .”
He must have been fighting the flies… … .
… I was caught and dragged by them.
“… !”
The frightened leader opened his eyes wide. Then, he hurriedly looked around, waving his arms to find his weapon.
But why?
There was not a single bug to be seen around. It was a clean, white space.
“uh?”
Suddenly, in the leader’s ear, he groaned in bewilderment.
“dad!”
An inaudible voice was heard.
When the leader, his eyes wide open as if about to burst, sees that direction, he smiles brightly and runs… He saw his little daughter.
A precious daughter who was captured by bug monsters decades ago and never found her body.
The child he abandoned to live and ran away.
Living dazzlingly as it is in memory without any scars.
“ah… ahhh… … !”
The leader hesitated and couldn’t say the right words, but eventually shed tears and hugged his daughter.
“My daughter… my daughter… … I’m sorry dad… … .”
The small and warm daughter in his arms let out a rumbling laugh. Desperately savoring the touch, the leader begged for forgiveness.
“I didn’t run away like I did back then… . Did you do well Dad? Will you forgive me, Dad?”
“Then of course, Dad.”
The daughter replied brightly, hugging the leader man’s neck with her short, plump arms.
“Daddy is so delicious!”
***
Somewhere in the belly of Lord of the Flies.
Hatchery with countless number of eggs.
The heroes of Insect Busters who were transferred here laughed smirking at hallucinations while being poisoned and paralyzed.
The maggots that had just hatched were pouring down like a wave, wriggling towards the five heroes.
The maggots that found fresh food slowly covered the bodies and faces of the five heroes.
The face of the leader man, who had been smiling until the end with a bloody face, was eventually completely covered by the monster’s larvae and was no longer visible. In addition to
the five
heroes, the flies that went out of food were brought to the hatchery if they could eat.
From the charred corpses of his own people to deer, squirrels, birds, and even trees and grass.
Countless numbers of flies devastated the area and stored resources in the body of the Lord of the Flies.
The Lord of the Flies, which had been moving slowly while floating in the air while stacking food for its young inside of itself, let out a slow cry.
boo oo oh oh… … .
An aircraft carrier that transports adult flies and a hatchery that raises baby flies.
A bio-seeding ship that exists to preserve and spread the species called flies that travel around the world from generation to generation.
Baalzebub, the Lord of the Flies, did not rejoice at his first victory in the royal family and calmly resumed his northward journey.
The monster was well known from past experiences.
Unless he kills and eats all humans, his own species is destined to be persecuted forever.
so i have to kill it
before being killed.
