766. [STAGE 47] Doomsday (2)
The rat army was destroyed.
‘Rat God’… The boss monster that I usually call ‘Great Rat Mother God’ was defeated, and the elite Ratman unit that was rushing towards the castle wall until the end also died without being able to overcome the castle wall.
During Stage 2, just by the guys rushing into the damaged castle wall, a hole was created in the wall, and the city was in danger of falling.
A lot of time has passed and we have become stronger.
With overwhelming walls, overwhelming troops, and overwhelming experience than before. He was able to crush monsters that were much stronger than before without difficulty.
《Kiyaaaaa!》
The last Ratman crawled up the castle wall, stepping on the corpses of his comrades, and tried to kill the humans with his red eyes shining.
“Quiet…”
Evangeline, who was waiting at the end of the castle wall, vigorously raised her shield and shouted,
“Ha!”
I hit it cool.
Kang-!
《Snap.》
In front of Ratman, who falls down the castle wall after being hit by a shield strike, Evangeline is cheeky and hot! and laughed.
Evangeline is equipped with the repaired [Cross Family Spear] and [Cross Family Shield]. These equipment are bigger and more flashy than before, and come with three spirits attached… they were reborn with terrifying specifications.
It is said that only the framework of the equipment was left intact and the rest was completely new, and one can only admire the extreme workmanship of Kelly Bay and Crossroads blacksmiths.
“As long as I’m here, you can’t even go to this city, you bastards!”
Evangeline roared as she pounded her spear against her shield, and the surrounding soldiers cheered in unison.
I smiled quietly.
‘Look, Margrave.’
Watching the grown heir of the Cross family fend off enemies who were several times stronger than before…
At that time, the face of the old man who died protecting the city passed before my eyes.
‘We have come this far.’
While recalling old relationships that were fading away among familiar enemies, I once again looked at the southern plains beyond.
“….”
The black-grey masked clown, who was glaring at us in silence, slowly turned around and eventually disappeared, shimmering like a shadow.
‘Come again and again, Crown.’
I clenched my fists.
‘I will block your attacks again and again.’
And at the end…
I will get the ending I want.
I nodded firmly. On the castle wall, the soldiers were cheering in joy of another victory.
***
A few days later.
Stage 47.
“No, I asked you to come several times.”
I broke out in a cold sweat as I looked at the enemies who were rapidly advancing north.
“No matter what, aren’t they only picking the very strong ones at the last minute?…”
Boom…! thud…! thud…!
Three giant statues dressed in oriental armor are advancing at the head of the monster army.
The heads of the colossi were all of animals, each in the shape of a rooster, snake, or pig.
In addition, the rooster is equipped with a scimitar, the snake is equipped with a bipolar hat, and the pig is marching by pointing at the ground with it.
I clicked my tongue and spit out their names.
“Tam Jin Chi…!”
What is tamjinchi (貪嗔癡)?
It is an abbreviation for greed, sincerity, and selfishness.
When the five desires, which are the basic human desires, are exercised beyond their limits, it is called ‘greed.’
Anger, hatred, anger, anger, envy, and jealousy are called ‘Jin-e’.
The foolishness of not being able to judge a matter correctly and seeing it as it is is called ‘woochi’.
These three minds darken wisdom and become the source of evil, so they are collectively called the Three Poisonous Minds… ‘
Well, that’s enough of this difficult explanation!’
Anyway, the chicken-headed statue is Tam, the snake-headed statue is Jin, and the pig-headed statue is Chi. Each has a name like this. Each will become the embodiment of greed, anger, and foolishness.
thud! thud! thud! thud! thud!
Also, behind these three statues, a series of soldier statues are running along.
There are a total of 108 statues of soldiers stamping their feet and following behind.
These statues also have a monstrous appearance and a sinister spirit.
The heads of these soldiers, dressed in oriental-style armor, were in the shape of huge eyes, ears, noses, tongues, and brains, and there were also sculptures that had no heads at all, just a lumpy body.
A person perceives an object in six ways – seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and thinking – through the six sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and thoughts). In this process, thirty-six defilements arise, and these defilements arise again. They all exist in the past, present, and future, and are collectively referred to as one hundred and eight sufferings.
…Well, these are statues that symbolize each of the 108 afflictions with roughly this origin.
‘The setup is complicated…’
It’s not actually a manifestation of agony or the Three Poisonous Minds or anything like that.
It is said that statues on display in a temple in the ancient East Continent somehow came to life, roamed the world, went on a rampage, and killed people. It is said that he crossed the sea to this continent and committed mischief.
Therefore, these three generals and one hundred and eight soldiers are collectively called the Three Poisons and Torture Corps.
《To reach Nirvana, you must remove the poison from your mind.》
《Ah, we will cut off your sufferings.》
《Throw away attachment to life, and in that abandonment there is the way to the land of paradise.》
A huge desire approaching with great strides. Jin Chi.
And behind him, the 108 Tortured Statue moves forward, muttering a sutra in a voice that sounds like scraping metal.
The very sight of profound and pure doctrine flowing out of the mouths of distorted and twisted murder statues gave rise to a strange fear from that gap.
“I appreciate your concern for someone else’s enlightenment, but why do you have to end your life that way?”
I grumbled.
In past legends. It is said that famous priests of the temple where these statues were originally used blocked the legion of statues with their bodies and discussed doctrine with these monsters.
And in the end, he succeeded in persuading the Sculpture Corps that their actions were wrong by reciting the doctrine.
The statues stopped moving on their own, and the priests fell dead on the spot, exhausted from the discussion that lasted seven days and nights.
‘Of course I can’t use that method…?’
Still, just in case, I tried to talk to him.
“Guys! Why don’t we resolve it through our words? “This side is willing to talk!”
《Abandon language. The mouth is the source of suffering. The mouths of all living beings must be torn open with a saw and the tongues pulled out. This is the first step to paradise.》
“What are you talking about, you crazy bastards!”
I was shocked, but they all sang in unison.
“Tear out the eyes!”
“Tear off the ears!” “
Tear off the nose!” “Cut off the tongue!” “
Burn
the body!”
“Get rid of the brain!”
“Get rid of it, get rid of it!” All three times and all things suffer! Everything in this world is suffering! Life is pain! The only way to get rid of pain is to kill and get rid of it!”
Next to me, who was exhausted, Lucas also broke into a cold sweat.
“Something… it’s heavily contaminated. “It appears that he is not someone who can be persuaded.”
“How amazing were the priests who persuaded these guys to stop?…”
Well, that’s it.
The best way would be to end the conflict through dialogue without fighting, but if the other side won’t listen, one side will have to use force.
“Night Bringer!”
I shouted, kicking the train below me with my toes.
“It’s time to work! let’s go!”
Wooooow!
Immediately the train reacted and started moving roughly.
A mobile wall made of black dragons – [Night Bringer].
It is an artifact that uses the operating principle of the Iron Demon King that was defeated earlier and can move by laying railroad tracks on bare ground.
Of the nine trains in total, three of these walls were pulled in front of the black lake. Even with just three vehicles, a small forward base can be installed instantly on site.
But what I wanted to set up this time was not an advance base.
Slam! Slam! Slam!
[Night Bringer] reached the point I had designated in advance and immediately began to transform.
Two trains formed a wall and barricade, and one train was turned into a high battery.
A special cannon that had been installed in advance was attached to the top of this battery, and Damian, who was already sitting in the gunner’s seat, made a hissing sound as the battery transformed in real time and the gunner’s seat rose upward.
“This is safe, right prince…?!”
“of course. Believe me!”
Although he shouted energetically, I actually don’t know the nature of this wall… I wonder if he’ll cause an accident at some point… but he seems like the kind of guy who will betray our expectations of having such an accident again… Anyway, [Night Bringer
] It was transformed into a total of two layers of walls and a battery, but the real-time railway was still maintained underneath. In other words, it can be moved even with walls and batteries.
And even in the midst of this, the Three Poisonous Heart Troubles are steadily approaching us.
「Your Majesty, we will conduct suppressive fire.」
「Yay! Let’s shoot!」
A voice came from the two airships that were guarding us in the sky. One is ‘La Mancha’ and the other is Rompeler’s newly joined pirate ship ‘Blue Pearl’.
Doo doo doo doo!
Boom! Boom!
La Mancha fired dozens of machine guns, followed by Blue Pearl, which fired huge mana cannons mounted on the center and left and right sides of the ship.
pop! Bubble bubbling!
Kwagwagwagwang-!
Thousands of bullets and three blue mana bullets rained down at once, hitting the monster army directly.
A huge explosion erupted.
The excited voices of pirates rang out from the Blue Pearl.
“It’s no big deal! “I can just leave work like this… huh?”
The voices of the two Rompelers, who were talking excitedly at the same time, stopped at the same time.
An unidentifiable golden energy surged from the monster army, forming a dome-shaped shield and absorbing all of our long-distance attacks.
thud…! thud…! thud…!
Even in the face of terrifying artillery fire, the monster army is advancing without any injuries.
“What is that?!”
“What the hell is this…?”
I looked at the enemy, ignoring the embarrassed groans of the two pirate kings who were still rookies.
Before you know it, they are standing in formation.
The three poisonous images stand in a triangle in the center, and around them, 108 images of defilements stand according to the formation.
《Om(ॐ)-》
With both hands together, Tamjinchi chants the mantra, followed by 108 agony.
《Om(ॐ)…!》
Then the golden curtain surrounding them glowed even more dazzlingly and expanded its area.
Wow! Damn it!
Crispy…!
The mountains and rivers of the area caught up in this golden realm disappeared as if evaporating, and the stones turned into powder.
“I don’t understand the principle, but anyway, these kids have this… very solid defense.”
I clicked my tongue as I saw the group of golden idols approaching.
“But it’s not invincible. It inflicts very strong damage beyond a certain level. The problem is that it renders all attacks below that point null and void.”
Don’t think about it difficult.
In the game, it was a corps with a special shield with the gimmick of ‘nullifying damage below a certain level’. The problem is that, as mentioned earlier, the damage cut is quite high.
“But there is a way.”
In the game, we continued to inflict damage that could even slightly penetrate the defense shield, accumulating metallurgical damage and defeating the 108 Thunderbolts one by one.
The structure is such that this damage cut goes down little by little every time one of the Torture Statues is defeated. For example, if it says that damage below 1000 is nullified, it changes to nullify damage below 500 when half of the 108th Thunderbolt is defeated.
By nature, they are the ones who have to fight for a very long time whether they like it or not, but…
“This side also has a new weapon.”
I kicked the train under my feet again with my toe.
Then, [Night Bringer] slowly began to move backwards. The two-layer wall and one battery created their own railway, increasing the distance from the enemies.
The speed of the approaching monster army is faster, so they are gradually catching up, but this distance is enough.
“Is Damian ready?”
“Anytime, prince!”
“good. I leave the timing up to you. Shoot comfortably…oh wait!”
I grinned and looked at what I was carrying in my arms.
“Everyone wear sunglasses!”
I wore what are commonly called MacArthur-style sunglasses, and Lucas, who was hastily pulling out his own next to me, wore ordinary round-style sunglasses.
“But why are you asking me to wear these colored glasses, my lord?”
“That’s right…”
I looked back at the battery where Damien was preparing to fire and grinned.
“When the new weapon explodes, it’s so dazzling that it could damage your eyesight!”
What was loaded into the battery that Damian was preparing
was… a huge missile like never before.
