Episode 83 – Encroachers (3)
The boss of Chapter 3 is obviously Zukar, the demon lord who corrupted the owner of the fortress. He is a person whose purpose is to possess the Margrave’s body and manifest his true self here.
But if there is a problem with it.
“These guys…”
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I walked forward with Riena and sighed when I saw the fortress in front of me. Although there were a lot of enemies in front of the fortress, it was very different from the strategy video displayed next to it.
“—!”
Riena also had the same reaction as me in real life. He looked at me with wide eyes in surprise and pointed there with his finger.
In the direction she was pointing, there were monsters with black tumor-like eggs attached to their bodies one by one.
Some of them didn’t stop at eggs, but instead harbored wriggling larva-like monsters in their bodies. helminth. I couldn’t help but think that when I saw it.
The images of the monsters with their black, smooth bodies that had penetrated halfway through the monsters’ bodies seemed to overlap with the bugs that had been trying to attack the residents just moments before.
‘We’ll have to fight.’
I put my hands on the keyboard with a solemn look on my face. Anyway, the only option for us was to fight. If you run away, you won’t be able to use this game from that moment on.
The good news was that this was a game world and I could move my character and use skills to attack those guys. Instead of just helping with limited power, like destroying a desktop, I take the lead.
“–, —.”
Riena seemed to know how I felt, too, as she smiled faintly with an expression of understanding.
She probably relies on me, but the truth is, I draw strength from her. Even if I stumble and make a mistake, she, who is an excellent warrior, will win.
At least anyone who has seen her fight cannot help but believe that.
‘let’s go.’
Soon my character holding a cane took the lead and ran down the road. Riena ran after him.
Naturally, the enemies discovered us and rushed at us with unconditional hostility. That’s where the game system exists but is also reality. You should not expect systems such as stiffness or knockback that activate unconditionally.
After roughly calculating the distance, I stopped walking and immediately activated the skill, and hot flames spewed out, driving away the cold air.
Those who were running ahead ignored their burning bodies and came forward.
‘Is it the effect of a bug!?’
Even though they were ghosts, they weren’t this indiscriminate. They felt pain and screamed.
But now, they only collapsed when their bodies were completely burned and unusable, and they came forward with the sole intention of killing us as if we were real zombies. The appearance was exactly the same as the bugs that made you wonder if these were really living creatures.
‘Then just shoot them until they die.’
I stepped back and fired my skills wildly.
Because for me, for my character, there is no concept of exhaustion. While drinking the potion, I was able to use my skills until I died.
“—.”
Riena, who normally would have rushed forward first and cut down everything, seemed to know my intention, but instead of going ahead of me, she kept the right distance and stayed in front of me.
A type of decoy hunting that is often used in games. It is still possible to reproduce this by taking advantage of the bugs’ habit of rushing forward. Rather, it was an AI-like loophole that occurred when a bug parasitic took control of monsters that had escaped the stupid AI at best.
“do.”
I smiled faintly as I was really concentrating all my attention on the game. We kept retreating and continuing to use magic to attack them one-sidedly, but instead, they were swarming in on their own and coming towards us.
‘now.’
And when the number of those who have been reduced in this way has decreased significantly. Then it was our turn.
Riena, who realized the timing before I could say anything, rushed forward like lightning, swinging her sword and slashing at the crowd of enemies all at once.
As the power of a simple and practical sword strike, which was completely different from that of the game character, increased, not only the ghosts but also the bugs living on the body died in one blow.
Several parasites broke through the frost wraith soldier’s body as if struggling and rushed at her, but Riena struck them away with her sword or stretched out her golden hands to grab the parasites that were wriggling like snakes and burst them open.
‘That’s it for the miscellaneous mobs, but what about the mid-bosses?’
I watched Riena cut the last remaining enemy in half and looked at the fortress that was still overrun with them.
We already know what the boss of Chapter 3 has. All of his subordinates were hit by bugs, and I thought there was no way he would care.
In the end, that means that he, too, was in the company of bugs or had already been hit by bugs.
“—.”
While I was thinking about it, Riena took a breath and looked at me and opened her mouth. The intention was clearly to kill the remaining ones as well.
As I began to walk forward, past the countless corpses strewn on the floor, she followed next to me. At this speed, I felt like I could kill all the enemies near the fortress today.
***
“I don’t know if you saw it. “Those giant monsters that came just now are the ones we have to deal with on a mission.”
“Well, that’s…how could that be…”
While Riena was fighting with him elsewhere. On the desktop, which he couldn’t see because he was busy playing a game, Varun was showing the bugs that he had encountered just before to Garhan’s envoy Letai.
Letai was truly entranced by the sight of so many of those black monsters coming one after another. In fact, this was the first time that they attacked in succession in the form of waves, but Varun did not bother to tell me that.
‘How do we fight against those monsters like this?’
There was another thing that surprised LeThai.
Knowing how much damage they had suffered from fighting bugs, it was hard to believe that they had fought several times more bugs in succession and still won without much damage.
No matter how high the combat power of the grassland tribe members is, the same goes for them.
“That too is thanks to the grace bestowed by the guardian spirit.”
“Is that really true?”
“Look at this. “If you’re a warrior, you’ll feel something.”
Varun, who was satisfied with Letai’s reaction, grinned and showed him something. It was a particularly large and special arrow made from the bones and feathers of mutants found in the hunting action game Creature Hunting.
“Unbelievable. “A truly strange power resides in this arrow!”
Letai was astonished when he realized the magical power of the mutant in the arrow. I had never heard of anything like this. This is because for the tribes of the grasslands, weapons with special power were items that only existed in folk tales.
“Because we believe in Him and follow Him, He also rewards us accordingly.”
“Oh oh…”
Varun began to persuade Lethai little by little, who seemed to have already reached the halfway point. If you succeed in recruiting Letai, who is also Garhan’s close associate, there will be more you can gain.
There was no reason to worry about technology leaks. In the first place, the source of everything was the game, and only those who were chosen by him and could enter the game could receive that power.
“It will take some time to convey the Warchief’s will, so wouldn’t you like to hear more?”
For a more complete inclusion, Varun talked to LeThai, whose eyes had already changed half of the time, one by one, to encourage him to change his mind.
‘I don’t know if that’s going well, but I guess I’ll have to do my part too.’
After letting Letai go first, Varun raised his head and looked at the portals lined up in the village’s central square.
It reminded me of Riena, who is now in the game. Since even the guardian spirit cannot dictate and inform everything, Varun understood that his role was to solve reality with the help of people like Riena.
“Monster, monster…!”
And now, Liena was in a situation where she was about to fight for her life by defeating numerous enemies alone.
“Divine power! “I would have been afraid of it before, but not now!”
The giant’s entire body swelled up viciously, his muscles writhing, and he shouted as he raised his huge hammer, frozen in cold cold and whipped by a frosty wind.
It is the mid-boss of Chapter 3 that was corrupted after being consumed by the demon lord Zukar, but its appearance was a little different from its appearance in the game.
Black blood vessels covering the entire body, including the face, were writhing, and parasites were squirming in some parts of the body, showing off who was currently living in the host and amplifying its power.
‘It’s true. ‘My strength has been weakened.’
Riena, who had killed many enemies while clearing the path to this point, gritted her teeth as she realized that the power of the Heavenly Guardianship she had obtained had weakened.
Zukar, who borrowed Bug’s power, overcame the divine power that was extremely different from his own by neutralizing it to some extent.
‘In the end, did the bug and the devil in the game use each other?’
He, who was holding the keyboard off-screen, also sighed when he realized that fact. If a bug that is indiscriminate but also simple enough unilaterally eats Zukar, you can respond accordingly.
If this happens, we are already out of the realm of calculation. The difference was who fought better.
‘It’s possible if we fight together.’
Riena came up with her own estimate in that situation. If you fight with his magic support, you can easily defeat him.
“Huh?!”
Although each blow was an incredibly powerful blow that exceeded the standards, Riena managed to avoid it.
She awakened all the nerves in her body to fight a fierce battle, and she also awakened all of her strength.
This battle has been repeated several times, both in reality and in games, from the beginning of the migration until now, and it was inevitable that she, who had received so much of his investment, would quickly catch up with the warriors of the plains ahead of her.
“die!”
At that time, cold air swept across the ground in the form of a blade from the hammer the enemy swung.
In the game, it is a skill that can be avoided only if you use the dodge at just the right time. The problem was that Riena, whose posture was now broken, could not avoid it.
‘If I get hit once, I’ll die.’
He knew that, and as if he knew it, he cast a forward roll and immediately stood in front of her.
Riena looked at him with wide eyes. The knight, who was looking at himself with his back to the enemy, was still wearing his face armor and was greeted by the swirling cold air.
HP drops at an incredible rate and a cold debuff applies, limiting operations. But he survived by drinking the potion.