768. [STAGE 48] Breaking ground (4)
Asura Tamjinchi roared.
《Om(ॐ)-!》
The mouths of the Rooster, Snake and Pig open at the same time and a mantra bursts out as if in resonance.
The golden airflow extending from the core of the gigantic statue condensed on the double-pole swords held in the six arms and poured like a storm in all directions.
Quagwang! Kugwagwagwang!
If it had been within range, we wouldn’t have been able to find the bones.
However, this person is riding the [Night Bringer], a mobile wall that creates a railroad track in real time and moves over it.
We barely managed to pull back the wall and get out of Asura Tamjinchi’s attack range. Run Night Bringer!
thud! Kugwagwang!
The three weapons were swung threateningly, and each time the attack narrowly missed, the plywood on the outside of the castle wall was torn apart or the edges fell into pieces.
Lucas, who was assessing the power of the attack that passed by, broke into a cold sweat.
“It is an incredibly destructive force. “If a guy like this reaches the Crossroads….”
“Our water-based facilities will all be in shambles.”
Asura Tamjinchi, who is currently in Phase 2, has lost all of his special abilities from Phase 1.
Instead, it exerts a lot of physical power.
If a guy in that state gets hit even once, even if the castle wall is made of black dragons, it will be crushed. There is a high possibility that it will cause fatal damage to our water-based facilities.
“So we need to inflict as much damage as possible before it reaches the Crossroads.”
thud! thud! Coooooo!
A series of dangerous attacks are struck, but each time [Night Bringer] rapidly accelerates or twists its path to avoid them. As if there was a will to not want to be hit.
“How can we finish him off, my lord?”
Lucas asked me if I thought I would have a strategy. I sighed here.
“This is the really fun part…”
Because of my [Indomitable Commander], I was able to block their mental state attack without any damage in the first phase.
However, only if you have suffered mental contamination due to a mental abnormality attack, you can counterattack into the mental world of Asura Tamjinchi during Phase 2. This is the 2nd phase clear gimmick.
In other words, you can easily beat Phase 2 only when you allow mental contamination attacks in Phase 1 and have become somewhat accustomed to it.
You can get rid of defilements only by acknowledging them. I would say it’s really faithful to the concept.
But thanks to my [Indomitable Commander] effect, we are all in good spirits. In other words, there is no way to utilize the 2nd phase gimmick…
what can I do? However, [Indomitable Commander] cannot be canceled. To break the gimmick, I intentionally caused mental contamination without knowing what might happen later.
So, you have to overcome the second phase with evil and gang without any gimmick. Until that huge and strong Asura Tamjinchi falls!
After briefly explaining this to Lucas, I smiled and nodded.
“So… that Asura Tamjinchi will work hard for the next three days while he is heading north! You have to beat it up! He’s a very strong bastard, so we’ll use all the resources we have! “With persistence and grit!”
“….”
Lucas, who was quietly watching the Asura Tamjinchi chasing him, suddenly burst into laughter.
“Somehow… I remember the time when we stopped Jormungand.”
“That’s right. “I’ve already experienced worse things before.”
During the time of Jormungand, a small elite force was dispatched on top of Jormungand’s body and they went through a lot of trouble to destroy the three protruding protrusions. Even being attacked by werewolves.
“If you think about it back then, wouldn’t it still be considered a worthwhile operation? uh! About the latte…”
Listening to my flirtatious voice, Lucas smiled bitterly without saying a word and pulled out the [granted sword].
Then, he struck Tamjinchi’s body as he approached him with a long, whip-like blade of light.
***
For the next three days.
We continued to play a thrilling game of tag with Asura Tamjinchi and continued to attack without stopping.
pop! pop! pop!
On top of the moving castle wall train, our gunners, including Damien, launched a long-distance attack on the battery. Lucas strikes with the blade of light.
Doo doo doo doo!
Okay! Whoops!
In the sky, the wizards on the airship poured out magic without sparing any magical power, returned to the Crossroads, and then loaded the next wizards on the airship again and poured out magic.
Asura Tamjinchi was a large, strong, and durable enemy, but in the face of our endless attacks, damage gradually accumulated.
The armor shattered and fell to the floor, leaving numerous bullet marks all over the giant statue’s body.
So, when we reached the southern plain where the Crossroads walls were visible, cracks had already opened up all over our bodies…
“Artillery unit-!”
Our artillery, which had been waiting a long time ago on the Crossroads walls, took aim at that guy at once.
I waved my flag loudly as I moved out of the artillery’s line of fire, as if I was drifting by bending the mobile castle wall to the side.
“Firing crossfire!”
pop! Pubububung…!
From what we could see, a distant gunshot rang out from the walls of Crossroads, which was still far away, and then,
“Aaaahaaah!”
Hundreds of shells rained down, tearing the air.
All of the metal-like bullets that flew through the sky were lodged in Asura Tamjinchi’s body with incredible accuracy.
pop! Bubble bubbling!
Kwagwagwagwang…!
Hundreds of shells that hit at once exploded.
I clenched my fists as I looked at the explosion center engulfed in thick smoke. After all, the flower of the battlefield is artillery!
《….》
As the smoke cleared, Asura Tamjinchi, who had once been caught in the crossfire of the strongest monster front, was already incapable of fighting.
It was not possible to withstand the crossfire that rained down on the accumulated damage over the past three days. All six arms were broken off and both legs were crushed. The three heads were also badly broken and greatly broken.
《…Ah.》
Is it an illusion?
Only before death did the statue’s six eyes, which had been burning red, regain their moderate glow.
《This is what it meant. The priests’ teachings that day…》
Afterwards, the monster muttered quietly through its mouth, with stone debris dripping from it.
《Hundred aeons of sins.》
Sins accumulated over a long period of time.
《One thought and money wasted.》
With one thought, they suddenly disappear.
《Yeohwabungocho (如fire焚枯草).》 Just as
dry grass burns up in fire,
《Destruction, 盡無有餘》
disappears without leaving anything behind….
Tamjinchi, who spat out the adage like a will, slowly closed his eyes. .
The secondary crossfire from the Crossroads rained down on the monster like a whirlwind.
Quagwagwagwang….
***
This is how the Three Poisonous Heart Troubles were eradicated.
After praising Lucas, Damian, the soldiers, air force personnel, and everyone else who worked hard during the three-day vigil during the operation.
After manually retrieving the magic core from the pulverized remains of the statue, I raised my head and looked far to the south.
A clown wearing a mask was standing on the distant horizon.
It’s a crown. It looks like he came to see this battle in person.
“….”
“….”
The Crown, which was staring this way in silence, soon turned around and disappeared once again into the distance to the south.
“…after.”
I clicked my tongue as I took the three SSR grade magical cores of Tam Jin Chi that I had just recovered.
The Rat Army and the Three Poisonous Affliction Corps are clearly very powerful as a single army. He must be one of the most powerful enemies among the legions of monsters left in hell.
But for some reason, I had a premonition.
“I think something bigger is coming….”
Next stage.
I have a feeling that Crown will pull out an even bigger move than this.
“….”
…And, as always, these ominous premonitions always turn out to be correct.
***
A few days later.
Stage 48.
Dung-! ridge-! ridge-! ridge-! ridge-!
The drum sounds.
This regular and orderly drumbeat that makes the heart tremble is not ours.
It belongs to an army of monsters that are just coming out of the Black Lake.
Buoooooooo-!
With the sound of a huge horn that shakes the earth.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Monsters with the upper body of a human attached to the body of a horse came out of the black lake, stamping the ground with their horses’ hooves in unison.
These people, all dressed in shining helmets and armor, are the Centaurs (Κένταυρος).
They were a primitive race that served as teachers who taught medicine, politics, farming, and life to all races in the world.
For some reason, they suddenly wanted to destroy the entire world, and after waging war with all remaining races, they were defeated. There is a legend that it eventually collapsed.
chuck! chuck! chuck! chuck! chuck!
They moved in incredibly elaborate formations and reorganized into four major units in front of the Black Lake.
These units were distinguished by the color of their capes, which consisted of white capes, red capes, black capes, and blue capes.
Additionally, unusually large unit commanders stood in front of each unit, holding up their respective symbols.
The white cloak’s commander holds a bow.
The red cloaked unit leader holds a sword.
The black cloaked unit leader holds the scales.
The blue cloaked unit commander carries a scythe.
“Huh…”
Over the Black Lake.
While glaring at them as they formed their formation aboard La Mancha, I chewed up their names and spat them out.
“Apocalypse Knights….”
White knights of the plague.
Red knight of war.
The Black Knight of Famine.
The Blue Knight of Death.
And 110 units for each unit of the knights that followed them.
A total of 444 Knights of Destruction racing toward destruction.
These are the monster legions that will invade Inse during this defense.
‘I’m afraid it’s the last minute, so they only pick up the damn kids. Really…’
As a single monster corps, it is the most powerful and unparalleled corps.
In terms of simple combat power, it is comparable to the 10th ranked nightmare army that we have faced so far.
There is only one reason why they did not make it into the top 10 monster corps. Because there is no monarch to represent the entire corps.
There are four knights who are field commanders who lead each unit, but there is no king who represents their consensus.
That’s because these are nothing more than materialized plagues, wars, famines, and deaths that devastate the world without any will. Because, just as it did in life, it is nothing more than embodied violence rushing towards destruction.
For this reason, he was not ranked among the nightmare corps commanders, but his power is truly terrifying.
‘It will not be an easy battle.’
Buoooooooo-!
The trumpeters assigned to each unit put down their drums and blew their horns vigorously in unison,
clang, clang, clang….
The four units of the Knights of Destruction slowly began moving north….
doo doo doo . Dudu-!
Soon, it kicked the ground and started running across the ground with terrifying force.
These are centaurs. A race of half-man and half-horse.
Everyone is like a cavalry unit.
With this mobility, you will reach the Crossroads at incredibly fast speeds.
“The enemy monster army has started moving north!”
The scouts’ reports rang in my ears one after another.
“The enemy army suddenly split into four units!”
“The 111 planes are divided into four parts and are heading north on different routes!”
“Even if you run to a place where there is no road, the speed does not decrease! If this continues, I think we’ll reach the Crossroads in two days or less!”
“What shall we do, Your Highness?!”
“….”
I opened my eyes that had been closed for a moment.
Defense tactics have been prepared in advance.
“We also split into four to stop them.”
Apocalypse Knights consists of four units.
And when they fight together, they create synergy with each other.
These guys, who are splitting up and heading north, merge into one army in front of the Crossroads, and if all four units arrive intact, they cannot be stopped even if they die or wake up.
You must defeat each one before that.
“Divide the mobile wall [Night Bringer] into three units and place them in three locations.”
I stood in front of the map floating in the center of the bridge and pointed out the key points from the Black Lake to the Crossroads.
“At this point, we transform [Night Bringer] into an advance base and each block enemies. Units are deployed as previously organized.”
Then one of the soldiers asked cautiously:
“I understand that three forward bases can block three units, but… doesn’t that leave one enemy unit empty? “What about the one place left?”
I nodded.
“I’m coming.”
Because my magic fortress is still usable.
I banged the table and threw my hand to the side.
“Now, there is no time! Let’s start the operation immediately!”
