I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game - Chapter 708

◈ 708. [Side Story] Status check

that evening. Yeongju’s office.

I was lost in thought, twirling the fountain pen in my hand.

‘Recovery of the bodies of fallen soldiers and reconstruction of the city… are taking place incredibly quickly.’

As true destruction came and went just around the corner, people who fully realized the gravity of the work being done on the front line came from all over the world to volunteer.

Thanks to this, there is an overflow of manpower, and it is expected to overflow further in the future. The size of the volunteer army is also rapidly increasing.

‘However, it must be said that the elite troops gathered from each country were virtually annihilated.’

Volunteers and workers will leave tomorrow morning to collect the bodies of those elite troops…

I gathered my bitterness and began to organize the current state of the front line.

‘Priority troops.’

The 30,000 troops gathered by the World Defense Front, consisting of only elites from around the world, were annihilated. The air fleet was similarly completely destroyed.

Currently, there is only one airship that can be operated, ‘La Mancha’. Even that was overworked during the ‘Night Closing’ operation, so it had to undergo repairs for a while.

‘Luckily among the misfortunes, there are still soldiers who were part of Crossroads from the beginning.’

An anti-monster warfare specialist who has been through hell here with me since the first year. The main unit of the Monster Front has grown from a ragtag group of kids to masters of killing monsters.

In addition, the Everblack Imperial Infantry Corps also retained its troops.

The heterogeneous troops also retained their troops, but their numbers were not that large to begin with.

Because they were living under oppression in their respective autonomous regions, it was not possible to have a large number of troops. However, the quality of the troops is high.

In addition, several remaining units remained, and here they are.

‘Volunteer Army…’

The volunteer army began to be incorporated into Crossroads during the fall festival.

The scale is quite large and training has been progressing steadily since then, but it is still clumsy. Especially since the opponent this time was the Black Dragon, we couldn’t send him to the front line at all.

‘The spirit of righteousness is high….’

Can they really be put into battle against monsters? Even if they are sent in, will they be able to properly fight against the terrible monsters of the latter half of the third year?

“….”

In addition, after organizing in documents the plan to reorganize the remaining units and small units from various places.

I put pen to new paper to handle the next item on the agenda.

‘Next is defense equipment.’

I hate to say this, but Crossroads is now very good at breaking down and rebuilding.

Various facilities and collapsed facilities within the city will be able to be restored quickly.

As expected, if it’s a problem…

‘It’s the castle wall.’

It was completely destroyed by the self-destruction following the Lord of the Flies’ body slam, and after painstakingly rebuilding it, it was torn apart by the Night Bringer’s breath and darkness.

Well, it wasn’t like that at some point, but it was the era of suffering on the southern wall.

‘It needs to be restored.’

Yes, I have to….

‘How do I do this?’ oh my.’

It goes without saying that facilities such as castle walls require annual construction time.

In the last reconstruction, the construction period was shortened to a monstrous level thanks to the magical construction technology brought from the Lake Kingdom and the castle wall parts completely airlifted from the imperial capital of New Terra, but this time, there is no way to pull off such a trick

.

‘The castle wall has been cut… The forward base has been harpooned again…’

I placed my hand on my forehead and let out a deep sigh.

‘The construction is really coming to an end.’

There is no clear solution in sight right now.

Fortunately, the parts of the castle wall brought from New Terra were assembled using a method of assembling the parts, so the parts that were not damaged are still standing.

Let’s focus on that and figure out a plan while carrying out restoration work.

Fortress wall forward base, barracks, military warehouse… After reviewing the details of damaged equipment, a rough recovery plan was put together.

I looked down at the next stack of papers.

‘And the last one.’

equipment.

The equipment of the heroes who fight directly against the monster kings of nightmares on the front lines is much more important than any military supplies.

And that important equipment…

‘Wow, no joke.’

As I was flipping through the documents filled with details of the damaged equipment, my jaw dropped lower and lower. Crazy how much did you change?

First, let’s look at my equipment.

[The flag of the great commander] is lost.

“Cough!”

After clearing my throat violently without realizing it, I hastily picked up the coffee cup and drank it down like water.

“Hoo hoo hoo hoo.”

Calm down, calm down… Damn it! Damn it! Wow!

‘You crazy black dragon! How dare I use my own equipment! ‘Thank goodness I worked so hard to get this!’

It was broken into five pieces and collected using gacha! If it weren’t for the blessings of God Ssal, I wouldn’t have been able to collect them all!

As I remembered the days of hard work collecting pieces of the flag, tears welled up in my eyes without me realizing it. It’s really unfair. under.

Still, I merged into Super-Kim Ash…? fusion…? Jogress…? Anyway, thanks to becoming one with the real Ash, I can still use most of the features in the flag.

Aside from that, I’m annoyed because I burned the dedicated equipment.

‘That’s it.’

Still, there was at least some preservation of functionality. Let’s take a look at the next equipment.

‘[Owner of the High Tower] Repairable. [Light and Shadow] Repairable.’

The armor made from Lord of the Flies [Master of the High Tower] was almost broken into pieces, but it was a piece of equipment with the concept of disassembly and fusion in the first place. Fortunately, repair is possible.

The flagpole [Light and Shadow] made of midnight sun… was used together as bait, but this equipment uncoupled itself at the moment of danger and split into the scabbard and ceremonial sword, avoiding further damage.

Because it resembles the original, its survival instinct is amazing.

All the rest of my equipment was neatly stored in my inventory. Is that fortunate?

‘Next Evangeline…’

This means that this is another big deal. I opened the equipment damage report of our frontier earldom successor.

‘Destroy the Cross family’s spear and the Cross family’s shield….’

Oh my gosh, it’s crazy! My exclusive equipment that I painstakingly upgraded and even applied with spirits… no, Evangeline’s exclusive equipment!

‘You crazy Night Bringer bastard! Change the name immediately to ‘Dedicated Equipment Breaker’! You say you’re going to destroy the world, but you just select special equipment and leave it all behind! die! I’m already dead, but I’m dying again!’

I gritted my teeth while cursing.

Fortunately, Kelly Bay says that although the exterior of the equipment is completely broken, the core of the interior is intact, so there is room to do something…

“Ugh. “Everyone has worked so hard.”

Okay, let’s think positively. How is it that the child didn’t die and only the equipment was lost? Maybe Kelly Bay can work some magic.

Evangeline’s armor [Snow White] was also quite damaged, but fortunately it is being repaired since it is a magic armor capable of self-repair in the first place.

‘Next Nightmare Slayers.’

The [Slayer of the Full Moonlight] that was attached to Kuilan was separated again. Kuilan himself also lost all of his wolf curses and returned to being a normal male character.

He says that he learned something from his heart and that is why his martial arts level has improved…

‘It was a mess to put on two layers of equipment…’

To be honest, his specs have been downgraded. The negative trait ‘glass body’ has also returned. You no longer receive buffs or debuffs depending on the waxing and waning of the moon.

‘Instead, [Full Moon Slayer] was purified.’

This purified leather cloak gave Kuilan several enormous buffs.

While wearing the equipment, you are immune to all types of curses.

The one who wears the ‘glass body’ seems to have accepted it as a kind of curse, and it is Tunkuilan. I have to wear it 24 hours a day.

‘…What happens in summer?’

Oh, I don’t know. First of all, I think about getting through this winter.

Anyway, the purified [Full Moon Slayer] provides several other buffs to Kuilan, but its overall effect is focused on speed.

Now that he has lost the curse of the wolf, Kuilan’s tenacity has weakened significantly. It seems like the character concept is changing a bit with the evasion damage, but I wonder if I can handle it well.

‘I hope you can endure it, Beast King.’

But the wolf’s curse has passed. So is he a prisoner? Considering that Isin’s blessing is still present, it seems that the tribal god still thinks of Kuilan as an avatar…

‘That’s it, next.’

In addition, all of the Nightmare Slayers we possessed were ‘purified’.

It was thanks to the strong will of each equipment user that they overcame the darkness in their hearts and awakened.

In addition to the various equipment made from the nightmare corps commander’s magic core, the various equipment forged from the evil dragons’ magic core (Dragon Heart) was also purified safely.

And as they overcame the ordeal, their specifications improved dramatically.

Of these, something worth mentioning is Lucas’ equipment.

‘No, [Xcarnival], is this something that can be purified?’

The demon sword [Excarnival] has become the holy sword [Excalibur].

If we look at the details, it would be correct to interpret that the Holy Sword [Excalibur] was corrupted and became the Demon Sword [Xcarnival], and that it regained its original form this time.

‘…The sword you were shaking for fresh food because you were hungry was a holy sword?’

This is an unexpected result and I am very embarrassed.

In any case, the holy sword [Excalibur], which had regained its true form, possessed incredible performance.

The specs are even better than the [granted sword] that Lucas originally used. The special features that come with it are also at an insane level.

‘Looking at it like this, it wasn’t all bad things.’

I groaned as I looked over the list of purified equipment. If you look at it objectively, it may be a blessing in disguise, but in terms of equipment, the benefit is greater.

‘More than anything, I gained a lot.’

It’s not just purified equipment.

That damn thing… no, it’s not that damn thing. The reward was also enormous for defeating the Black Dragon, the most shitty monster in history.

First, a huge amount of material was collected from the Night Bringer’s body.

I couldn’t get a complete body because I burned it all with a bombardment of light at the last minute, but I was still able to dig up a lot of it.

A dragon’s entire body can be said to be made of top-quality equipment.

The materials for that equipment are piled up right in front of the city, as big as a large mountain. All kinds of scales, bone horns, claws… all kinds of parts were swept into the blacksmith shop.

Without exaggeration, this is enough to provide weapons and armor for all soldiers on the front line. Equipment across the front line will be able to increase tiers.

‘Among them, the other materials to pay attention to are magic core and dragon heart.’

The Night Bringer was composed of a dragon heart, which was the most important magic core at the heart, and another magic core assigned to each of the seven heads.

So, it is normal to have one dragon heart and seven magical cores.

‘Eight magic cores came out of one dragon heart.’

At first, I wondered why this was the case, but after examining the recovered magic core, I could understand the reason.

One magical core belonged to a Skyrian who was absorbed by the Night Bringer at the last moment. The body was lost, but the magical core was not absorbed, and this is what remains.

I could tell because I had pierced the Skyrian’s heart with my flag and there was a trace of the piercing.

“….”

What should I do with this?

Should I make it into equipment or not?

I thought hard and looked at the rest of the list.

Seven other intact magic cores (actually, the six auxiliary heads had been eaten by Jormungand, so they were recovered from Jormungand’s torn body).

And likewise, a dragon heart with traces of being pierced into my flag.

‘As much as you destroyed our equipment, become our equipment, Night Bringer…’

Since the blacksmith is very busy right now, we decided to do the request to make equipment later when we have more free time.

I raised my head and looked at the golden and white boxes piled on one side of the office.

It is a stage clear reward. In addition to the EX grade boxes, I got as many as 8 SSR boxes.

‘In the game, I was wondering whether or not I should eat 10 in one play…’

I think I’ve eaten about 20 boxes of snails during the 3 years of this strategy. Why are you so generous? Ader, did this bastard use some tricks? Or…

‘Looking back, they matched all the set items in a strange way… and secretly distributed items well.’

It’s a game with a terrible level of difficulty, but I guess it has to be said that there is at least some conscience in this regard. Mmm.

Thinking, I reached for the box. I was planning on opening it right here and now.

But that was then.

Doo doo doo doo!

I heard someone running down the hallway and then

jumped!

The office door opened violently.

I looked there in surprise. It was Lucas who came in. Lucas, who was breathing heavily, shouted.

“It’s a big deal, my lord!”

“What’s going on?!”

Lucas is so embarrassed? What on earth is going on?

‘Is it an enemy attack? Either that or internal strife? Construction site collapse? Leaving a member country? ‘Which one?’

All kinds of thoughts ran through my mind at once,

“Eh, Evangeline!” Evangeline…!”

“Evangeline?!”

I was even more embarrassed when the name of our cavalry commander came up.

Why Evangeline? Are you hurt? Did you get into an accident? Did you run away from home? Was he suffering from PTSD so much that he threw pink paint on a building that was being restored? Damn which one?!

And Lucas gave an answer that I could never have imagined.

“I received a confession!”

“…?”

I didn’t understand for a moment so I just sat there blankly.

I screamed without realizing it.

“Do not lie-!”