Episode 96 – Predation and Evolution (6)
Four dragon horned swords. It’s a weapon that doesn’t exist in the first place. It was a kind of reward given in recognition of Riena’s expertise in defeating the Chapter 3 boss who colluded with Bug.
‘I feel power.’
Riena picked up the sword made of pure dragon bone from the enemy’s corpse lying on the floor.
She could feel in her hands that it contained a different power than the swords she had used so far.
The texture was similar to the special equipment containing the magical power of mutants.
Before going into the fight to stop the bugs’ onslaught, he brought Riena back here for the purpose of arming her.
“As a new, unknown evil threatens to invade the world, God has prepared a plan to stop them. A great warrior who has already killed countless demons. “Please pick up that sword and face the enemy.”
“I don’t know if you will believe me if I tell you this, but black monsters are attacking my hometown at this very moment.”
“I understand. “They are by no means simple beasts.”
Before he knew it, Regnor, pulling a carriage, appeared in front of Riena, who was holding a dragon horn sword, and him, who was looking at her.
Regner chuckled when he heard her mention the bug.
“I hope that I can use the power I gained here to defeat my hometown’s enemies. So that you can come back here again. “I, we will be waiting.”
“…All right.”
When Regnor spoke openly, Riena stiffened her face and nodded.
Obviously, games are just a means to become stronger. However, Riena, the person involved, could not think of it separately.
This too was another world where other people lived, and a land where bugs were trying to encroach. She wanted to cut down her enemies and save them.
It was proof that she, who started out as a mere warrior, gradually developed stronger beliefs and inner self, and continued to move forward as a true hero.
‘If I can keep getting items, I should keep coming.’
On the other side of the screen, he, who moved the mouse to retrieve the Four Dragon Horned Swords and took Riena back to the village, also had similar thoughts.
Although I didn’t have a noble sense of mission like Riena, I didn’t necessarily want to stop playing Dark Blood because the benefits I could gain from playing it continued to come.
Especially since the bugs were slowly spreading into reality and the items I had acquired had been put to good use.
“It looks like almost everyone who can come has come now.”
“It is difficult to properly grasp the scale of the enemies coming through the dense forest.”
“That doesn’t really matter. “We must protect this place.”
Riena, holding the Four Dragon Horn Sword, arrived at the fortress.
Varun, who had already mobilized the maximum number of troops the Arin could muster, excluding the essential personnel to protect the village and those who collected resources in the game, saw several defensive turrets planted around him.
“The guardian spirit personally gave us these defense towers to protect this place. “If we fail to protect this place or give up on it, we are abandoning His will.”
Varun encouraged the soldiers by mentioning that this was the temple desired by the guardian god. It wasn’t wrong.
Junyoung, who is watching this now, also wanted to block the enemies in the fortress where he had invested defense towers. If you lose this fortress, you will lose the investment you made.
“Things like this will continue to happen in the future. They’ll try to kill us, and we have to stop them. Even though they are coming at a scale never seen before, don’t think it’s a big deal, just go to your spot and shoot. “He will be with us and we will be victorious, just as he has been all along.”
The saying that a guardian spirit is with you was not just encouragement, it was true.
In fact, he was currently preparing to destroy the desktop, activating the defense game Glory Tower and checking the defense towers.
It was to gather resources and build a new defense tower.
‘I’m fighting with them too.’
As long as these means existed, he decided that if they worked well together, they could easily win this war.
Only by properly reading the situation, building defense towers at the correct location, and supporting chainsaws can you effectively help the residents.
“They are coming! North!”
Before long, numerous bugs revealed themselves and attacked.
There is no fear from those terrible monsters. They just move for one purpose, like a program that receives commands.
“Everyone ready to fire!”
The villagers lined up and raised shields and aimed arrows along with the defense turrets, which began firing in unison.
‘It’s real. ‘They’re in line.’
Riena, who was waiting to step forward in case of emergency, sighed softly as she saw the enemies standing in line and holding up their head armor like shields to counter the friendly fire.
The sight of them slowly marching in a tight group looked more like an army than a pack of animals.
“It comes this way too. “They keep coming.”
“Calm down and raise your spear. “The fence hasn’t been built here yet.”
Bugs with the weapon of numbers adopted a strategy of attacking multiple directions simultaneously rather than concentrating their power on one side.
The same goes for this place where the transporters have not yet built a fence.
All that was given to those guarding this place was a pit hastily dug by the miners, 2 squares high and 5 squares wide.
“These guys!?”
However, these giant ants did not fall into the pit created as an obstacle.
When the guys in the lead stretched out their bodies to create a bridge, the guys behind them casually stepped on it and crushed it.
“Raise your shield!”
Now there was nothing between them and their enemies. The soldiers who were supposed to be the fence themselves held on with their shields, and those with spears began stabbing the oncoming enemies.
‘no.’
It is a brutal battle that is on a different level from a one-sided barrage of arrows.
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In a split second, there were people who were grabbed by the men’s jaws and torn apart, and there were others who fell to the ground and were trampled.
Larsen, who was stationed here to support the firepower, held his staff and his eyes trembled with a pale face.
It was more intense than any war we had experienced in the past. Even when we fought against Luhan’s tribes, we won an overwhelming victory, but it wasn’t as brutal as it is now.
The defensive turrets continued to fire arrows and magic without stopping, but the number of enemies did not decrease at all.
Rather, they just trample on the corpses of their comrades and advance.
“What are you doing. “Hurry up and use magic!”
“Wow.”
Shura hit Larsen on the back of the head and shouted, pointing at the large enemy approaching in front of him.
Soldiers are difficult enemies to deal with, and that is why warriors like them must step forward.
Larsen hurriedly raised his staff and fired a series of hot flaming bullets.
‘Who understands this struggle?’
Larsen gasped as he saw the enemy stagger after being hit by the flame bullet he fired.
Terrible monsters trying to invade the world, and people dying while fighting those monsters.
They were maintaining their position in the northern frontier where there was no proper place name. It was a moment when Larsen’s faith was shaken in the face of harsh reality.
In the first place, Larsen was not the only one whose heart was shaken right now; it was a feeling of despair that anyone who faced a cruel battlefield and an overwhelming enemy could feel.
“That!”
“An additional defense tower has appeared!”
But then. A miracle occurred again to calm my trembling heart.
New defense towers appeared on top of the enemy’s corpses with a flash of light and began firing bullets in front of the enemies.
The soldiers who were beginning to be pushed back cheered when they saw this.
“He is watching. “That’s enough.”
Shura, who drew his sword, looked at Lassen and pointed to the sky.
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“The damage is great. As expected, those guys are getting smarter…”
If they had attacked recklessly like in the last battle, our troops would have calmly sucked them in and annihilated them without causing much damage.
However, the bugs learned how to form a line in that short period of time. As a result, the war was not about hunting animals, but rather about army vs. army.
Although we still had the advantage as we had overwhelming ranged attacks, including defense towers, the longer we faced each other, the more the damage piled up.
Those bugs don’t seem to care whether one of their soldiers dies or not… but to me, each and every resident is precious, so it was an incomparable loss.
‘We are making good money. ‘If it’s a war of attrition like this, we can win.’
And in return for that sacrifice, I am now earning an incredible amount of magical power.
A certain level of magical power, a kind of commodity used in the construction of defense towers, could be obtained every time an enemy was killed, and such a large-scale war was literally a pot of honey. A pot of honey stained with blood.
However, I couldn’t overthrow this honey pot, so I started using it to plaster the defense towers.
The level 1 defense towers, which were based on shabby wooden towers, were quickly destroyed by their attacks, but it was enough to make them suffer instead of the residents.
Tanking and dealing increase with each additional defense tower.
Meanwhile, the defense towers located in the rear that spewed out damage attempted to be upgraded by raising their levels.
Defense towers with increased levels fired larger arrows and stronger magic, reducing the number of enemies swarming around.
Occasionally, I would use a chainsaw to destroy important enemy objects, and the work of repairing and adding defense towers would go on for hours, even forgetting to eat.
The physical strength of the residents fighting directly and my nerves, which I had to manage while looking down on everything, were gradually reaching their limits.
“The end is in sight.”
I laughed out loud when I realized that almost all of the thousands of enemies that had come were already dead.
We ended up stopping the all-out attack of three hives.
As I held my head and took my hand off the mouse, I could clearly see the status of countless dead and injured people in the status table of residents floating on one side.
“—, —. —!!”
We won. The enemies were blocked. But it wasn’t over.
This is because not only defense but also offense is important in this game, which can be seen as a type of game.
Varun summoned warriors and soldiers who were in good condition.
The purpose was to exhaust troops and attack enemy nests that were obviously empty.
It is true that it is tiring and difficult. However, if we do not clear out the enemy’s base, the enemy will suck all the life force in this area and produce troops again to attack us.
‘I need some help with this.’
There was something I could do for them.
If you try it when there are a lot of enemies, it will break as soon as it is installed, so you are throwing money into the air, but it is different when the number of enemies is greatly reduced, like now.
Defensive towers are built near road corners and enemy nests to protect allies and attack enemies.
It was a kind of map-revealing act that saved as much stamina as possible for tired and struggling residents and ensured safety throughout the area.