I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game - Chapter 15
Lucas cautiously opened his mouth
at the black lake .
“I am… .”
I was a little nervous. All sorts of plans popped into my head as to what I should explain to Lucas so that he would follow me.
but.
“I only move as Your Highness tells me. I have no questions.”
Lucas said so.
“I am your sword and your shield. I just cut and block as Your Highness commands.”
“… .”
I was speechless.
There can be no question. But Lucas told me that he would trust me beyond that question.
I was even slightly impressed. big. Lucas You are this baby. I’ll give you a hefty bonus later.
“Okay Lucas!”
I pointed to the inside of the gate and exclaimed excitedly.
“Then are you ready to enter the mouth of hell?”
Lucas nodded deeply with a hard face.
“With Your Highness, even to the bottom of hell. Gladly.”
You don’t know, but we’ve already gone through hell together, Lucas.
And we will do it together this time too.
Without saying those words out of my mouth, I just tapped Lucas lightly on the shoulder. Lucas smiled faintly.
After a while, the preparations were completed. In the first place, there was nothing else to prepare because it was going to be a light reconnaissance.
I went and stood at the gate. Then a system window popped up in front of me.
[Teleport Gate]
– Please select a destination.
> Lakeside Pier
> (unopened area)
> (unopened area)
> …
There is only one place you can go to the gate now. Only ‘Naruto by the Lake’.
As you clear the dungeon, the places you can go will gradually increase. I selected the lakeside ferry and activated the gate.
As the magic door started spinning, Lucas stood in front of it first.
“I will go first, Your Highness. If there are enemies on the other side, I will clear them up.”
“If you don’t have to worry about that, the gate is safe.”
“Still, there is only one thing. Then first.”
Then, he jumped into the gate. It’s like this incarnation of sincerity.
“after.”
Inhaling, I followed and threw myself into the gate.
Woo-woo-!
His vision was distorted, and a sensation of floating in midair enveloped his whole body.
Soon, the world turned black.
***
[Now Loading… Teleporting.]
[Tip – Heroes can become stronger by wearing equipment. Equipment is obtained from dungeons or produced at smithies.]
What’s the matter, don’t pop up a tip window out of the blue! Come on, stop pretending it’s a friendly game!
***
Flash!
A flash of light flashed through the gate.
When I passed through the gate, I saw a lake with dark blue water.
“You came right.”
I got a little bit sick, but my limbs came back intact.
Straightening my body, I looked around. It is next to the old ferry by the lake. A sparkling lake is right in front of you.
This Black Lake is the source of the monsters. A hell that spews out nightmares.
It is a dungeon blocking the southern part of the world.
“… .”
The pitch-black lake swirled slowly, exuding a disturbing aura. like an abyss.
I looked into the lake as if I was possessed without knowing it.
“majesty!”
Lucas’s voice sounded urgent.
Startled, I looked over there. I could see Lucas’ back standing at the end of the naruto.
“What is it?”
“Over there… !”
Lucas raised his hand and pointed to one side of the lake, his face white. I saw that too.
And opened both eyes.
shoot it… … !
The water surface of the pitch-black lake creates foam and cracks and
thumps! thud! thud!
The monsters began to rise, stomping their feet in unison.
Okay! Chunk!
They were hollow, rusty armor.
Clutching their red-rusted weapons, the armored monsters crawled out of the lake with a grotesque metallic sound.
Inside the empty helmet, a whitish earlobe shimmered.
An army of specters clad in armor.
I gritted my teeth and muttered.
“Living Armor Corps… !”
All in all, these bastards!
The stage composition of < Defend the Empire > has some degree of randomness.
Enemies in the early stages are randomly determined from among several types of low-level monsters.
However, it does not deviate from the low-level category. It means that there is no absurd difficulty cliff like a tutorial.
… Except for just one case.
‘If it’s necessary, it’s by all means!’
I grinded my teeth.
‘It must be living armor!’
Goblin is good, Mermaid is good, Wyvern is good at least.
Among the many low-level monsters, Living Armor was just caught.
I tried to stay calm and turned on the stage information window. Perhaps thanks to our encounter with the enemy, enemy information was displayed properly.
[Enemy Information – STAGE 1]
– Lv.? ??? : 1
– Lv.5 Living Armor Assault Soldier: 1052 The
‘???’ displayed at the top must be a boss monster.
The rest of the Living Armor is a staggering number of 1,000 water mirrors. Should I say that the low level is merciful?
thud! thud! thud!
The scene of thousands of armored monsters cutting through the water and crawling out was grotesque and grotesque.
The monsters gathered in the northern part of the lake started marching north without delay. This is the direction of the crossroads.
“They… These are the monsters we need to stop this time.”
“… .”
“majesty?”
As I stood visibly frozen, Lucas looked back at me with a slightly worried look on his face.
“Are you okay? Your complexion is not good. Even if you feel uncomfortable… … .”
“… Lucas.”
I think I did it in this dialogue tutorial too.
I couldn’t help it. There was nothing else to say except this.
Facing Lucas, I said it seriously, honestly, and solemnly.
“Fuck it again.”
***
While playing < Defend the Empire >, I reset the game as many as 741 times.
If I couldn’t see the possibility of clearing it, I had no choice but to start over from the beginning.
The reason for the reset was different each time. Starting from the reasons for fostering, such as Lucas dying during the process or the 1st party being wiped out.
Even operational reasons such as ruining the city’s finances, destroying facilities that lacked resources, or not getting high-level heroes due to poor draw luck.
Still, in most situations I tried to hold on to the game until the end.
Even in losing situations, there are lessons to be learned and lessons to be used in the next game.
But only in one case. In this case, I reset the game without looking back.
That was in the case of the Stage 1 monster species, the Living Armor Corps.
In this case, no matter what you do, you get a game over or no matter how you clear it, the damage is so great that you have to reset it anyway.
I tried to break it up to 10 times, but after that, I just reset it as soon as I see the living armor.
‘The most troublesome monsters in stage 1 are these armored cubs.’
I rubbed my aching forehead with my fingertips.
Living Armor is literally a monster made of armor. The main body is a specter inside it.
In short, it means that the resistance to physical attacks is quite high.
Most of the soldiers who will fight defense battles in the fortress are ordinary humans.
Like Lucas, he can’t cut off the monster’s spiritual core or use magic like Lily or Jupiter. You have to fight normally with a spear knife.
But 1,000 specters in strong armor attack?
Other monsters will die if you shoot a cannon and stab them with a spear, but these are not the case.
The armor is strong, and the main body is also a ghost, so it is difficult to sharpen blades.
If you just slam it, the damage on this side is bound to be enormous.
This also becomes easier to deal with from the middle when the characters and party become stronger and equipped with various water-based equipment.
Now, stage 1, all environments are poor.
‘It was supposed to be as long as it didn’t have a living armor, but damn it!’
At this point, I feel a certain malice. I even feel like someone is deliberately sabotaging the game… … .
Flash!
After scouting, Lucas and I immediately took the gate and returned to the Crossroads. I brought up the stage information window again.
[STAGE 1]
– Until the start: 2 days, 23 hours,
3 days until the start of the stage.
It means that in three days, those monsters will come here. It’s tight, but there’s time to defend.
I just have to do everything I can.
“Ader!”
I shouted as I entered the mansion, and Ader ran in front of me, correcting his bangles and glasses.
“Did you call me, my lord!”
“What is the military situation in the city?”
“Currently, the total number of people who can go to the frontlines employed by Crossroads is 526!”
In the past few years, when the invasion of monsters has decreased, the fortress’s resident troops numbered about 3,000.
Most of them were lost in the tutorial stage.
Although they had recruited more than a hundred mercenaries, the military situation was still poor.
‘Ash, you stupid bastard!’
I cursed once again at this stupid prince who lent me his body. Damn!
If it was another monster corps, it would be ridiculously chewed up even with the current troops, but if it was a living armor corps, this was not enough.
“How many troops can be recruited?”
“All the mercenaries who came to the city have already been hired. I’ll hire more as more arrive, but… … .”
“Are you saying there’s no room for more?”
“In this city, yes.”
“Then send a dispatch to another nearby city to borrow troops! They say they’ll give you twice the regular wage!”
Of course, Crossroads is a fortress that has fallen alone in the southernmost remote area of the world.
It takes several days round trip to visit a nearby city. Still, it’s better to ask than not to ask.
“And send dispatches to the imperial family in the home country. Announce that the monsters are on the move and request maximum reinforcements.”
Ader, who had been writing down my words, paused and glanced at me.
“… Are you really okay, lord?”
Calling for support from the Imperial Center triggers some deadly ‘event’ in the mid-game.
So I tried to hold out as much as possible without asking for support, but what can I do? live now!
“It’s okay, call me!”
“Okay!”
“And call all the carpenters and masons, blacksmiths and alchemists in the city. No, I’m not calling in, I’m conscripting.”
Crossroads is the world’s largest magic stone producer.
A significant number of production workers are working for magic stone processing. I was thinking of using these too.
“But if you do that, the magic stone processing line will stop… … .”
“The city looks dead, but is magic stone processing important? Stop everything and bring them all!”
“All right. I will enlist immediately.”
Besides that, I gave a small order, and I gave the last order.
“And summon all the party members.”
“There are a total of 9 heroes that can be organized. How would you like to organize it?”
“… .”
I opened the system window.
And five newly chosen heroes, including Jupiter, in one party.
The rest of me, Lucas, Damian, and Lily were organized into the main party.
“The party is organized like this. Deliver while convening.”
“Miss Lily is in a pretty bad condition.”
“Now is not the time to argue about that.”
I’m sorry for Lily, who is about to retire because she can’t walk. Right now, I’m not in a position to relax enough to let R-rank wizards play.
“I do not have time. Follow the instructions immediately!”
“Okay~!”
Ader sprinted out of the mansion.
After ordering Lucas to prepare for battle as soon as the party members arrived, I returned to my room in the mansion.
Sitting on the bed, I opened the system window in the air.
I couldn’t decide and I was thinking about it all the time, but… … I can’t seem to afford that anymore.
‘Choosing a job.’
Among the jobs that can be selected, I ended up choosing the last one.
‘Commander’.
The difficulty of this game is not normal.
The queen spider in the tutorial and, of course, the worst monster species in the beginning, the Living Armor Corps, appeared right away.
The more difficult the game is, the more necessary it is to create variables.
So, I decided to gamble. I decided to create a variable as a hidden job I had never seen before.
[Would you like to choose ‘beginner commander’ as your job?]
– Yes/No
Yes. Yes, you bastard.
I carefully touched Yes with trembling hands.
[Ash (EX) has changed to a ‘beginner commander’!]
A fanfare was heard to congratulate the change.
and.
“What?!”
I widened my eyes at the system message that followed.
no what is this?!