◈ 578. [STAGE 35] Find The Way (6)
“It would be best to move together, but realistically it would be difficult. There is a high possibility that they will not be able to maintain even the party unit. It will be torn apart, each one moving, then joining, and so on.”
I continued to direct the operation.
“Destroy as many eggs as possible in the process, and try to attract attention and disturb them. If you find survivors, rescue them.”
I then pulled out a teleport scroll and showed it.
“And if you decide that you have held out enough to hold out, use the teleport scroll to retreat without delay.”
The Teleport Scroll can teleport all allies within a certain range.
The current retreat point is the teleport gate in the backyard of the manor house.
Survivors will also be able to get out without a problem. If alive… … .
After familiarizing themselves with various other small tactics and precautions, while the heroes packed their equipment and packed their supply bags.
Lucas approached me and asked insinuatingly.
“Lord. I understood the outline of our strategy. but.”
“but?”
As I looked, Lucas glanced across the backyard.
There, the Paris midnight sun was sloppily preparing for flight.
“The Lord of the Flies collective consciousness infiltration operation to be unfolded in the midnight sun… I doubt if that will work.”
I winked at Lucas to keep talking. Lucas continued.
“Midnight is obviously a great wizard, but I don’t think he can steal the consciousness of the Lord of the Flies by himself.”
“What is the basis for that judgment?”
“It may sound a little funny when I say this, but it’s a feeling.”
It was an unexpected story, so I blinked my eyes. Lucas explained earnestly.
“All the monsters I have met have a natural presence. You could also call it wickedness. I’m a knight who uses his body, so I’ve been estimating the opponent’s rank with this.”
“Hmm, that’s an interesting criterion.”
“Of all the enemy generals I have met, Lord of the Flies is far superior in this wickedness. White Night was also a great adversary, but I couldn’t help it… … I don’t think I can face Lord of the Flies alone.”
I rested my chin on my hand.
“Good point, Lucas. so?”
“Let me make a suggestion… How about getting insurance?”
I blinked curiously.
“insurance?”
“yes. In fact, while the lord was presiding over the meeting, I prepared it separately.”
At Lucas’ words, I widened my eyes.
“The White Night is to mobilize ‘many’ rather than ‘one’.”
“… what?”
“This way.”
Lucas took me to a field a short distance from the manor house and pointed in that direction.
“… !”
Looking above the field, I opened my mouth slightly.
At that place… Several wizards were creating a new Jiangshi, Paris.
“Lucas, this is… ?”
“… You said that before the Midnight Ritual, magic was basically copy-pasting. In other words, the same original can be overlaid over and over again.”
Lucas spoke calmly.
“We mobilized the wizards who created the first Parisian Gangsi to create new Parisian Gangsi. If my lord permits it, I will make an additional copy of the Midnight Sun and put it in there.”
“… .”
“The one who everyone thinks is the only one who thinks he is cloned, and who believes he has been affected by his master’s mind-controlling magic. You can make a bunch of duplicate midnight suns like that.”
It seems that Lucas had called in advance, but the ‘Gamble Club’, a party for illusionists, was also waiting.
It must be to imitate my mind control magic.
I swallowed my words in bewilderment. Lucas continued.
“We duplicate a lot of Midnight Nights, and if the first one fails, we put in a second Midnight Night. If the second White Night also fails, a third White Night is put in. That’s how you throw until the operation succeeds.”
“… .”
“It doesn’t matter if Midnight doesn’t take control of Lord of the Flies. It doesn’t matter if the midnight sun is eaten by the collective consciousness of the flies.”
Lucas’s voice was like a blue blade.
“That’s because the flies will become smarter and the evolution of intelligence will accelerate like crazy to the extent that they devour the magic emperor.”
“… .”
I swallowed dry saliva.
Continuing to insert the cloned white night. It throws the midnight sun as food for the collective consciousness.
Until they are wise enough.
Until, as in history, they split among themselves and fight and kill each other.
And in the stomach, we do as much damage as possible to speed up the generational shift with smarter flies… … .
Unable to speak, I looked at Lucas with trembling eyes.
“Lucas, this is… .”
“I know. It’s too much.”
Lucas said coldly.
“But isn’t the Magic Grand Emperor already confirmed as a ‘monster’? If so, how about using this one to the very end?”
“… .”
okay. I have no intention of coming this far and pretending to be naive.
In the first place, I conceived the brutal strategy to put the midnight sun into the body of the fly, and this cloning operation that Lucas prepared without my knowledge… … Actually, that’s what I was thinking too.
The Midnight Sun was a being that would eventually destroy this world for its own ascension in any future. It is a helpless monster.
And I’m looking for people kill the monster
The end of the world is imminent. It is not the time to cover the means and methods. So there is no justification, no reason, no room to oppose the brutal treatment of monsters for the purpose of attack.
but.
“… no lucas. What I wanted to say is.”
I said looking straight at Lucas.
“It’s the risk of this operation itself.”
“… .”
“Despite being trapped in the body of a fly, White Night is the third-ranked commander of the Nightmare Corps. If you make so many copies of such an existence… … Even if our operation succeeds and we defeat the Lord of the Flies safely, what will happen after that?”
Lee Jae-yi (以夷制夷).
You are using the enemy to hit the enemy, but the problem is the one who survives.
If the Midnight Sun doesn’t stop at defeating the Lord of the Flies, but becomes something more… … .
Can I control the midnight sun?
The reason why I only conceived of this White Night cloning operation and did not use it is simple. This is because there is not enough leash to control the midnight sun.
The first White Night was half-threatening, but I asked for his consent anyway and even obtained the absolute right to command with [Be mine!].
But what about the rest of the White Nights? If you really clone and use them, how will you control them?
I decided that maybe this might come back with more risk than Lord of the Flies. So I tried to dissuade Lucas.
After a while, Lucas bowed his head to me.
“… I’m sorry, lord. My thoughts were shallow.”
“No, Lucas. I was thinking the same thing.”
“Then I will stop this operation here.”
After bowing to me once more, Lucas walked to the field. Looking back, I thought.
Already in the past, I made up my mind to become a being who ignores the rules in order to win.
And to win relentlessly, Lucas’ strategy might be more efficient.
But why?
I had a hunch that I couldn’t go any further.
As I explained earlier, it might be because the midnight sun is dangerous.
Or it may be a pointless hypocrisy that makes use of captured monsters cruelly and makes no sense.
Either he, or maybe it was just that I, who had watched him from behind because Lucas went one step deeper than I, was startled and looked around.
Anyway, first of all… … .
I felt as if the dark abyss I was peering into to kill greeted me and turned its eyes to me, as if asking why it was coming now.
“… .”
What is this unknown ominous thing?
However, there was no time to explore its identity. The dark sky in the distance was slowly brightening.
Day 3 of Advent of the Lord of the Flies.
Only one day until he reaches the Crossroads.
***
Dawn began to break in the distance.
The members of the infiltration team mounted their horses and ran straight toward Lord of the Flies from the teleport gate closest to where Lord of the Flies was anchored – scout tower.
boo oo oh… … !
At sunrise, the Lord of the Flies began marching.
At the same time, the fly monsters poured out in all directions, devastating the area again and kidnapping prey into their stomachs.
All right! All right! All right!
I shouted at the head of the party as I galloped toward such a Lord of the Flies.
“ruler! Shall we go excitedly doing what we already do-!”
A total of 20 infiltration team heroes, including me, rode the horses with all their might.
Before long, the swarms of flies that sensed us came pouring ferociously at us.
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong
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Since the full-scale battle is scheduled to take place in the belly of the Lord of the Flies, we promised in advance not to lose our strength.
“Do you think you’ll treat me calmly?”
Tsukaaaak!
At the same time as my cry, Lucas started to wield a sword of light from the side.
Cuilan, who kicked off the saddle and flew up, crushed the fly monster with a flying kick, and then Belldandi, who threw a flash dagger, appeared in the air and decapitated the flies.
Like men who had given up their lives, we ran frantically, tearing flies to death and being shot into the middle of enemy lines.
And when we came to our senses, we were completely surrounded.
Countless flies swarmed around us, flashing red compound eyes.
“everyone!”
I unplugged the antidote I took from my bosom.
“Take the antidote!”
Twenty people swallowed the antidote at the same time, no matter who was first.
“Cheak!”
I don’t know the effect, but the taste is really dirty!
I roughly tossed the empty bottle aside and one unlucky fly hit me in the head and fell out.
“Haha, asshole.”
Did you mix some alcohol in the antidote? I felt better for no reason.
I shouted as hard as I could with my arms outstretched.
“Come on, eat me now, you bastards!”
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
At the same time, thousands of flies rained down on me.
***
“… .”
After a while, I was stopped by flies with a blank face and was being dragged down the hallway of the hatchery.
‘Oh shit I wish I was paralyzed… … .’
Being caught and being dragged through the hallways of the hatchery, let alone stabbing the mouths or coffins of these monster babies, was very, very far from a good experience to say the least.
It would have been better if it had been a development in which he was brought unconscious and woke up inside, but is the antidote working well or is my cure-all effect effective? … In any case, I pretended to faint for no reason and was quietly dragged away.
Soon after, as if the transfer was over, a fly threw me into a large room in the hatchery. Oops I don’t know! A sound leaked out.
Ssssssssssssssssssss
Then the flies all glared at me.
“… .”
I calmly put my face on the floor and didn’t move. pretend to be dead pretend to be dead pretend to be dead I’m dead.
Doo doo doo… … .
Fortunately, the flies rushed out of the room without any further suspicion. I carefully nodded my head.
‘Around… … There is no one.’
The start is not good. It seems that I was brought into this room alone.
‘Once you move… … Oh shh!’
I was startled as I stood up against the shiny wall.
I thought it was just a shiny wall, but let’s take a closer look… … Flies the size of my fist were lined up in an orderly fashion and clumped together like bricks.
So, the entire huge structure was a collection of countless flies.
Big flies where big poles are needed, little flies where small structures are needed… … Something like this.
‘It would have been better if I didn’t know, Woo-wook.’
I was worried that it would suddenly come to life and fly away, but that didn’t happen.
Either dead or hibernating, the flies that made up the rescue didn’t react to anything I did.
This look was grotesque and… … The whole body of this huge Lord of the Flies looks like a very elaborately designed alien ship. I even heard a strange sense of awe.
‘Ah, that’s it!’
Having relieved my senselessness, I shook my head and looked around.
‘I don’t even know where this is, and I can’t see my allies… … .’
I’ll have to find one soon. We have to save them before they become prey to maggots.
I carefully and stealthily got up and came out of the room… … .
“… .”
《… .》
Ah.
This is really good luck.
As soon as I left the room, I ran into another group of flies.
Two members of the shadow unit in their mouths – The flies who were carrying a burnout and a body bag stood still for a moment as if they were taken aback when they saw me moving.
Taking a deep breath, I whispered softly.
“Summons.”
Immediately, a huge magic circle was engraved on my back, and long legs with huge suckers poured out from within.
The flies tried to get away quickly, but the sucker legs were much faster. Huge tentacles coiled around the flies and tore them to pieces.
oh oh oh oh-!
The huge cephalopod monster that appeared in the summoning circle roared. I clenched my fists.
“That’s it, take it all down! Kraken-!”
After that, I rammed my flag into the ground and unleashed the ultimate [Flag in the front].
Between the towering walls, he poured out all the captured monsters and summoned beasts he had.
From the various monsters I’ve captured in the meantime, to the Colosseum Corps that Jackal guided me to. As if they had been waiting for it, they all came out in a rush.
The highlight among them is the beetle corps commander I recently captured. It was an SSR-class Hercules.
Kwakwagwagwang!
Hercules, protruding with his huge horns, was unable to destroy the hatchery and pierced the ceiling with his horns.
A new group of fly monsters rained down from the empty ceiling.
“Okay, it’s a monster battle! You flies… !”
My dream of filming a secret stealth action has been shattered!
I waved my arms round and round and shouted vigorously.
“Since this has happened, let’s go hot!”
