592. [STAGE 35] Into the Darkness (3)
It was the time when the Lord of the Flies had cleared the Midnight Sun and was about to start slaughtering humans.
“hmm?”
thud… thud… thud… .
In the spirit world of Lord of the Flies.
The old fly suddenly felt a faint vibration.
It was not in the real world. Something was shaking in this mental world.
[“What is it, where did this sudden vibration… .]
Koo Goo Goo Palace-
The old fly, looking for the origin of the trembling sound, slowly turned around and found it.
It was collapsing.
A mountain of corpses of his own people piled up behind him.
The mountain on which he piled up the corpses he had eaten off the head and left only the body… It started to shake a little, but then it vibrated violently and collapsed.
Quarrrrr!
The corpse mountain caused a landslide and collapsed from the top. The old fly panicked in front of the vast number of corpses that were released and poured down.
[“What. Why is this suddenly collapsing… ?]
The mountain of corpses fell straight at the old fly, which tried to avoid them by backing away.
and that moment.
Amid a landslide of headless corpses that poured down like a torrential rain and was crushed – the existence appeared.
It emits dazzling darkness from its huge horns… dark red devil
“what?”
It was the time when the old fly let out a bewildered groan, seeing the being born in the collapse of the corpse mountain.
Quaaaaaa!
A landslide caught up with his retreat. Waves of corpses engulfed the old fly. Unable to escape, the old fly was trapped in the torrential rain of dead bodies.
In the rain of that corpse… Existence walked leisurely.
[……!]
The old fly realized belatedly.
The fact that his body is shaking right now.
He suddenly appears in this world where he reigns as king, destroying mountains and emitting darkness… In front of this existence that changed the world, the old fly felt an instinctive fear.
“You guys… Who are you?!”
cried the old fly.
Then the devil answered.
[The owner of the royal scepter.]
[……!]
[I’m here to get back what you lent me, former Lord of the Flies.]
The old fly looked down once at the scepter in its hand and faced the devil trembling.
The demon stretched out a hand and gave it a light nod.
“Give it to us. the royal scepter. That throne too.”
“You bastard, by what right do you have this kingship that is mine!”
[Your?]
the devil murmured softly.
“No way. The kingship is also- they just lent it to you.”
A black hole opened in the floor behind the demon’s back, and black figures rose upward like fountains.
it was the head
The head of a fellow tribesman devoured by an old fly.
The heads protruding from the depths of the mental world combined with the headless corpses pouring down from the sky, and then became intact flies and landed on the ground flapping their wings.
[…….]
The old fly watched the scene in awe.
Headless corpses pouring down from the top of a high mountain. And bodyless heads springing up from the bottomless pit.
Like a puzzle, the flies that interlocked in the air and combined into one lined up behind the devil in an orderly fashion.
Ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, billion… .
The old fly froze in front of the endlessly growing army of compatriots he had killed and swallowed one by one.
[“These guys dare… They don’t even know the subject, and they try to rebel… .]
“This is not treason.”
whispered the devil as he approached the old fly without stopping.
[They just return the rights they should have enjoyed to where they should be… It’s a lottery.”
[Lee Yii Ik!]
The old fly hurriedly slammed the scepter on the floor.
But- nothing happens.
Only then did the old fly realize. That everything in this mental world was stolen by the devil in front of me.
The world you thought was yours was actually… The fact that it is such a simple place to change owners.
[“like this… Do you think I will suffer like this… !]
The old fly turned and tried to escape. First of all, I tried to get out of this place and then try to do the next thing. however.
Fuuk-
The moment I turned around, I heard a piercing sound.
[… uh?”]
The old fly slowly lowered its head and looked down at its chest.
– The red arm.
Like a new life emerging from a chrysalis, a solid red arm… It had pierced the chest of the Lord of the Flies and was protruding forward.
“Cheuk… ?!”
The old fly, coughing up blood, managed to turn its trembling head and look back.
Before I knew it, the demon approached silently and pierced the old fly’s chest with one hand.
[“You are not even a fly, how can you claim the kingship of our tribe… .]
“no. I am Paris too.”
The devil laughed.
“Maybe everything in the world is Paris. Isn’t it?”
[……!]
The moment he heard that, a realization flashed through the old fly’s brain.
But the devil didn’t wait for him to sort out his realization.
The devil seized the scepter with his hand that penetrated the old fly’s chest, and then violently pulled his arm back.
Pooh… !
A fountain of blood gushed from the chest of the old fly, which had a huge hole in it.
[Big school… .]
Suddenly, a kaleidoscope flashed in the vision of the old fly, who was deprived of everything and collapsed.
He fed himself, stroked himself, and recited sutras.
The skinny, festering figure of the old human priest… .
‘Maybe everything in the world… It might have been that old priest… .’
Everything he thought was enlightenment might be just the delusion of a mad fly.
The real truth may have been elsewhere.
In hindsight, the old fly collapsed and died.
And behind that corpse… The demon squeezed the scepter that was finally recovered.
[… I am reborn.”]
The devil slowly looked outside the mental world.
As if reuniting with a close friend whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, with a gaze mixed with joy and excitement.
[To bring death into your arms.]
The demon stepped slowly into the darkness.
and-
***
“… What, why are you stopping again?”
Looking at the Lord of the Flies frozen in place, I broke into a cold sweat.
Right after the Midnight Sun was teleported away, Lord of the Flies stopped in place. Calming the agitated soldiers, I widened my eyes.
‘Whatever it is, it’s an opportunity!’
In conclusion, Midnight Sun peeled off the outer skin of Lord of the Flies.
Even with a simple eyeball, about a third of the flies that made up the body of the Lord of the Flies separated and disappeared along the midnight sun.
Currently, the Lord of the Flies, which has lost its outer shell, has changed into a chrysalis-like shape.
Now is the time to get rid of it… !
“majesty!”
Then I heard a voice calling me from the side of the collapsed wall.
Looking back, it was Lily who led the alchemists and Hannibal who led the spiritists. I nodded.
“Lily, Hannibal. Are you ready to resume operations?”
“We managed to recover the artifacts… !”
“The spirits have been summoned again! The operation can be resumed, Your Highness!”
Lily and Hannibal spoke in succession. I nodded.
These two teams were originally waiting on the ramparts. While preparing an operation to deliver a blow to the Lord of the Flies.
However, the castle wall collapsed, and in the midst of urgent evacuation, the artifacts prepared were destroyed and the summoning of the spirits was canceled.
Fortunately, the manpower was safe and the preparations were completed to resume the operation, albeit belatedly. I cried after making eye contact with them.
“good! Operation Winter Calling, Restart… .”
It was the moment I was about to order the resumption of operations.
saaaa… .
Suddenly, goose bumps appeared on my shoulders.
A terrifyingly evil aura rose like a fog at dawn. Everyone in the seat turned their heads to the source of the fraud.
It was Lord of the Flies.
A terrifying aura emanated from the monster in the form of a chrysalis that remained motionless in place.
“All defense! Power boundary-! The enemy is plotting something!”
Evangeline shouted with her shield at the forefront, and at the same time all the troops tensed up and glared at the Lord of the Flies.
damn-
There was the sound of something cracking.
It was the sound that came from the middle of the body of the Lord of the Flies, which had turned into a chrysalis.
‘… what.’
The middle part of the chrysalis opened with a clicking sound, and I gritted my teeth and moaned in embarrassment.
‘What are you doing again… ?!’
Wow-!
A pair of red hands protruded from the chest of the chrysalis.
The human-like five-fingered hand slowly grabbed the chrysalis shell and vigorously opened it from side to side.
Kwajijik!
The chrysalis shell completely split left and right, and a new monster that had finished metamorphosis slowly walked out of it.
that buck that buck that buck
“…….”
The sound of his footsteps echoed clearly through the eerie silence.
The guy was a fly. It was a fly, but at first glance, it was a monster in a form similar to a human.
He stood on the ground on two legs, and his four arms were well-muscled. Among them, in his right hand in the middle, he was holding a staff of jewels he had never seen before – a royal scepter.
A pair of wings were placed neatly behind them, and a thin film stretched between them like a cloak.
Its entire body was red, but huge horns sprouted from above its head, and thick darkness radiated from them.
At first glance, it looked like she was wearing long hair.
It was a shabby little monster compared to the first Lord of the Flies, but it was still vastly larger than a human. It’s about the size of a little bigger than the empty space.
[I wanted to meet you, Player.]
He looked at me with red compound eyes. For some reason, he felt that those eyes were gentle.
I glared at him and chewed and spit it out.
“who are you.”
[… I forgot the name.”]
Right after that, the monster corrected his words.
“No, I had to forget.”
“what?”
“Because you are a player who always finds a strategy. After my name is decided and who I am is defined, you will find a strategy again.”
The monster looked down at his body and nodded.
“So, to beat you, I had to forget my name.”
“…….”
“I was torn to shreds in this fly and assembled anew. Now I don’t remember my name, my way of speaking, my mannerisms, or anything.”
Right after that, the monster looked at me with sad eyes.
“but… is it so. This is for sure. I was born to meet and compete with you. I have lived only for that.”
“…….”
“And finally, now is the time.”
The monster’s wings stretched left and right, and it floated into the air.
[“My whole life is only for this moment… !]
I shouted at my subordinates who raised their weapons in unison and prepared for battle.
“There is nothing difficult to think about. This is the final phase of Lord of the Flies!”
Its total strength is getting weaker and weaker.
The Lord of the Flies is, after all, a collection of species called flies. As the number of flies that make up the body decreases, it naturally becomes weaker.
It sparingly scattered flies throughout the battle, and its power was greatly reduced when the hatchery was destroyed.
Even the flies absorbed in the present world fell to the spirit world after the Midnight Sun snatched them away.
Currently, its total power is greatly weakened.
Even if the form changes, nothing changes.
‘A head-to-head match is possible!’
No, even if it’s not enough… !
I grinded my teeth
“To save the world, we must kill him here… !”
We must win!
I raised the flag forward and commanded.
“All troops, start battle!”
With my cry, my surviving heroes and soldiers.
And the surviving flies rushed to kill each other.
