Chapter 126 – Over Technology (6)
Chapter 126 – Over Technology (6)
“Ha ha ha ha ha!”
His ears are still ringing, but Aaron staggers to his feet and laughs.
Innumerable monster spiders came horribly. For the monsters had been slain in one blow, leaving only their crushed and burned corpses to roll around.
There were a few people who were still alive, but unlike the Dwarves who were prepared, they were injured and couldn’t move properly.
“Finish it! Charge!”
As the morale of his allies rose, Aaron rushed at the remnants and cleaned up the remaining monster spiders.
Among the monster spiders, there were tricky enemy variants that possessed magical powers, but even those variants struggled and failed to fully survive the bomb blast that hit them openly.
“The effect is good enough. If this is the case, we can win the war against them.”
“Still, I have to be a little careful. If you don’t care, the aisle collapses, it’s great.”
Aaron and the other dwarves were also very excited by the power of the gunpowder. If they fought like this, it seemed that they would be able to win even the desperate fight against the monster spiders without the help of the elves.
“Let everyone calm down. It’s true that I’m happy, but the battle isn’t over yet.”
Aaron calmed his teammates and pointed to the passage. The spiders that were lured and exploded are only a few. There were still many monster spiders that used the entire mountain as their territory.
Besides, the monster spiders are clever. If they knew that the troops they had lured were wiped out in a big explosion, they would not be lured back.
“I guess I should try the new weapons.”
In such a situation, the Dwarves who tasted the gunpowder tried to use the new weapons more actively.
Basic cannons and hand cannon-level guns, but reliable weapons to fill the power they lack. The Dwarf army led by them headed for the nest of spiders.
“I saw it for the first time too. It’s not even magic, but it’s possible to have such powerful power.”
“Ugh… I still have my ears numb.”
Pia and Hans, who had come to help them in case of emergency, followed them in a state of surprise at the firepower of the gunpowder. Even those who had experienced a great war were surprised by the powerful explosions created by the Dwarves, who were mere villagers.
Pia was still covering his ears and shaking him.
“…It is also a force that should never flow into the continent.”
Hans looked down at Pia and smiled bitterly. Powers that require special qualifications or conditions to deal with, such as mana, magical power, sorcery, magic, and divine power, are certainly strong and important enough to occupy the center of the world.
That’s why those who handle that power are called heroes, and they shine in moments of crisis or victory.
But even if it’s a little uncomfortable compared to those powers, even if it’s a little weak.
It literally breaks common sense that ordinary people who have no power can imitate that power even similarly. What would happen if this power flowed into the chaotic continent?
I didn’t mean to think of it that hard.
***
‘Isn’t it that they’re attacking almost everything?’
I didn’t give gunpowder to the dwarves for nothing. He asked me to do my best to clear the dungeon as quickly as possible. And in fact, the Dwarves were in the process of attacking the dungeon of the beast spiders by using gunpowder generously.
A few days after delivering the gunpowder to them. After work, I looked down at the plant pots in the quiet mountainous terrain. Dwarves no longer work at night thanks to power machines that stop when there is no sun. Even if you do the work, it’s just hammer hammering in small groups.
But this quiet doesn’t mean they don’t do anything. In that huge mountain that occupies more than half of the flower pots, they have been fighting fiercely against the disgusting monsters for several days.
I heard the drone’s controller. The drone, which became my eyes in the world of potted plants, guided me through the underpass, mountain speed, and forest speed, guiding me to the invisible side.
“–!”
“—, –!”
The drone that guided me to their kingdom, which was made by carving a mountain, shows it at the same eye level as theirs.
And as expected, the place is busy with the dwarves’ urgency. The first thing I saw was a bleeding warrior being carried out on a stretcher and being treated urgently.
Elves, who are good at herbal medicine and sent as healers, and female dwarves, who are very similar to humans except for the fact that they are of dwarf size, take care of them.
The battlefield where they are fighting desperately despite being so injured. I flew the drone there.
‘Is this the last time?’
A narrow and winding underground passage. From a certain point of divergence, I noticed that it was not dwarves, but spiders’ territory.
Unlike the dwarves’ realm, where the floors and walls were made straight, the spider’s realm was wild itself.
After going back quite a bit through the realm of those spiders, I found dozens of dwarf armies fighting. The Dwarves, who had camped out to attack the huge cavity that appeared to be the dungeon’s boss room, were fighting a desperate battle against the spiders coming from all sides.
“—!”
They were fighting several times the number of monsters using all means at their disposal, including gunpowder, ballistas made of rubber bands, and crossbows.
Among them, what stands out is a round iron ball with a wick set on fire. The dwarf who threw the heavy-looking thing with all his might blocked his ears, and the bomb that fell between the spiders exploded as it was, tearing the bodies of the spiders around them and burning them.
While Pia, who was fighting alongside them, summons tree roots to build a fence and blocks the entry of spiders using mana-based magic to create a shield, the Dwarves do not care about defense and only attack the spiders unsparingly. .
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‘The strategy was well thought out.’
Aron, the leader of the dwarves, is a competent person. I don’t know what he’s like as an administrator, but at least as the leader of the dungeon raiding team, he seemed quite capable to me.
He knew exactly what their strengths and weaknesses were, and after occupying the high ground, the entrance to the boss room, was a battle of attrition by continuously attempting long-range attacks against monster spiders many times as many as himself.
However, the dwarves consume supplies such as gunpowder and arrows, and the spiders consume their own lives. The monster spiders’ win rate dropped sharply the moment they lost the unfavorable terrain to them.
Even at this moment, you can see the small bullets fired from the dwarves’ cannons tearing apart and pulverizing the bodies of the spiders rushing into the barricades they built.
People, monsters, and environments are different, but that brutal and desperate struggle for survival is a familiar sight to me.
“Dungeon Core.”
After that, the spiders that had been pouring out from all sides as if they were giving all their strength eventually came to an end. The dungeon core appeared at the end of the boss room, and I sighed at its brilliant light.
The huge queen spider that was laying her eggs raised her body the size of a dump drug to get herself out, and she could see that she was covered by that body. The dungeon core, which absorbed half of the monster earthworm dungeon’s core, is shining brighter than before.
“—.”
Aaron, who was in command of the dwarves, turned to Pia, who was beside her with her hard face, when the queen spider appeared and asked for something.
The gloomy magic that the queen spider exudes is strong enough to survive being hit by dwarves’ arrows and cannonballs.
Just as you need a strong hunter to eventually break through the defense against a monster of a certain level, you need the right strength to catch the boss, the queen spider, in this dungeon.
“–!”
Pia nodded her head with a determined face. In the end, it is up to the strongest to go through the final showdown to bring the battle to an end. As one of the heroes of the Great War, Pia has the power to do so.
This was a fact I could know from my own experience.
‘Enough. Can do.’
When it comes to battle, you can hardly see your usual naive and naive side.
Pia stepped forward with a staff under the protection of the dwarves and aimed the staff at the gigantic monster.
The first tree roots that penetrate the ground wrap around the spider’s legs and seal its movement. Naturally, the spider bared her fangs and struggled, trying to sever her restraints, and in fact the restraints seemed to break sooner or later.
“—!”
In such a situation, Pia, who gritted her teeth, pierced the spider’s back, which was protected by her carapace, by sticking together the tree roots summoned from the ceiling like a spear. The roots of trees bursting through the body and bursting through the body. They opened right away and secured the spider’s body like a hook.
‘Bomb.’
She immediately began to entangle the dwarf-made bombs around the roots of the trees, spraying her miasma and inserting them into her ferocious spider wounds.
It is an attempt to fill the disappointing finish unique to a shaman with a bomb made by the dwarves.
Setting it on fire was resolved as the tree roots wrapped around the spider’s body all at once burned into blue flames that had been converted into Pia’s mana.
Tree roots burned away and the spider got her freedom, albeit slightly scorched, but the bombs planted inside her exploded all at once, and the gigantic body eventually broke in half and crashed to the ground.