＜ Chapter 105 – Corps (5) ＞
Chapter 105 – Corps (5)
Although it has already appeared, there is still a big difference between completely revealing it and hiding it as much as possible and confusing it. Concluding that the difference was significant, Lucy tried to keep silent.
“So, I heard it through rumors. Black beetles!”
Marquis Robert’s body, as well as his voice, trembled like crazy when he managed to block Lucy’s wielded Longinus by calling an overlapping barrier.
In fact, just understanding this situation was the limit.
“Aren’t they monsters commanded by a cult that worships evil spirits…!”
“I don’t know why you misunderstood, but all of you, no, all living beings are my enemies.”
Lucy saw the marquis’ pale face and smiled faintly. I liked that face and this atmosphere for some reason. The chaos itself created by itself.
It was judged that those were the evidence. Clear evidence of what you have achieved and made.
“You know the truth this way, but others don’t. So your people will continue to fight like this in the future.”
Lucy gazed happily at the scene where her plan worked well beyond the confused face of the Marquis. The church and the allied forces fighting each other were in the process of being slaughtered all at once by the sudden invading demon army.
Unlike the Demon King’s army, which continued to attack indiscriminately, they still faced swords among themselves.
“And you guys who wasted so much time won’t stop us. When that time, that moment comes, you will no longer be able to stop us even with all your productivity combined.”
Lucy has already set up numerous hypotheses toward one goal. The goal was the moment when the central control system itself, the Demon King’s Army, completely bloomed its crouched body based on a sufficiently developed system and nutrients.
At that time, Lucy will no longer need complicated assumptions and calculations. All you have to do is generate as many troops as you can and attack whenever you see fit.
Even at this moment, it is the foundation for the time when a certain victory can be assured by simply repeating production and war.
“Dae, what are you going to do with a monster like you taking the heart of a dragon? How dare you interpret it!”
“It’s a stupid sound without knowing anything. This insignificant creature with a tiny ego and computing power that can’t perfectly control even one of its pitiable bodies.”
Lucy laughed at the Marquis sighing while looking at the dragon’s heart that had already disappeared into the sky, and raised the Longinus in her hand once more.
“Now stop dying.”
[Longinus, output expansion, slash]
Lucy raised a twin-bladed sword that emitted light and struck it down. No magic or simbeop needed. The destructive power of pure magical power itself is emitted as it is.
‘Nonsense.’
Seeing this, Marquis Robert was stunned. Being a wizard and coveting the heart of a dragon, it is impossible not to know. Lucy’s double-edged sword, like the dragon’s heart, was found to be an incredible weapon capable of handling pure magic without magical processing.
“I learned that greed is allowed only to those who are qualified.”
But the Marquis couldn’t think of any more. It was because they evaporated alive in a single blow that blew away not only the shield, but also the entire area behind it.
[All troops retreat.]
Lucy then ordered the subprograms that came along to retreat. The troops brought in for this high-mobility operation were all modified to be able to fly.
The Demon King’s army immediately pulled out and fled at once even at the risk of losing troops, but this extreme confusion will not go away now.
“We have achieved our top priority. Now wait here.”
Lucy landed safely on Island Alpha, where she was waiting in midair. However, Lucy, who was watching the chaos going on below, did not immediately return to the demon realm and waited.
Because not all troops have arrived yet.
***
“hurry! We must get out of here!”
“But others!”
“Our mission is to make sure this is sent home!”
A gloomy plain, some distance from the chaotic battlefield where thousands of people were entangled.
Two people were running with all their might. Throwing away their gas masks, they ran with all their might. Ignore dying comrades, ignoring killable enemies.
‘Obviously included. A group of black beetles, black iron bugs!’
The man in the lead grabbed the crystal ball hidden in his bosom while breathing heavily. As the last Paladins, they had a separate mission.
If an unknown variable appears during the operation, stop all operations and record it. This object, which can hold all 360-degree video and audio without needing a battery, clearly contained everything about what had just happened.
‘Goddess can’t let go of those terrible monsters.’
Seeing its destructiveness and brutality, they were terrified, so they were determined to deliver it to headquarters.
“Wait a minute! Wait, Rex!”
But they didn’t get very far. It was because several figures appeared over them who were running hard, blocking the moonlight.
“Damn it.”
Looking up at the sky in that state, they gritted their teeth and drew their swords.
They flap their wings reinforced with strong will. Compared to the other Demon Lords, they have relatively thin and slender legs and bodies, but their entire body is covered in hard-looking black armor.
In addition, the eyes shining in the helmet that covered the face. These harpy-type Demon Lords had already surrounded them from the sky with their backs to the bright moonlight.
“Rex, at least you can escape.”
“I see.”
Clutching the crystal ball in his arms, he gritted his teeth when his colleague told him to run away because he would wait. In order not to tarnish the price of a noble sacrifice and blood, you must return alive.
[Captured alive as planned.]
Looking at them through the eyes of the soldiers, Lucy ordered them to be captured as planned.
Harpy Delta, the field command entity that received the command, instructed them to aim something in their hand at them.
After being modified, they have a pair of arms that can use human-like hands in addition to wing arms, even though they are based on harpies, and they hold something long and thin in those hands. It wasn’t a window.
“Okay, let’s try it, you monsters. God will keep me. Come down and attack!”
The Paladins saw it and prepared for a final stand. Of course, their real purpose was to break through the siege and escape after fighting, but they were ready to fight for their lives anyway.
“Cheuk…”
However, despite their determination, the harpy types did not come down to the ground. When I put it in my hand and aimed it at it, the mana linked to the steel core within the body was focused and emitted in the form of a small beam of light.
The beams severed their limbs unprepared for the blow. Even as they fell to the floor, dripping with blood, they couldn’t understand why they fell before they even swung their swords.
[It seems excessive, but it doesn’t seem to matter.]
Lucy murmured embarrassedly as she watched the harpy-types retrieve them with their limbs severed and incapacitated, screaming.
The order Lucy gave was obviously captured, and the details were left to autonomous judgment. The result was this. Lucy herself knew how to subdue and capture through close combat, but Harpy and Delta, which were sub-programs and missionaries capable of autonomous judgment, were shot without any hesitation.
***
“Anyway, didn’t it end well?”
“It is.”
“If it’s not like that, it’s like being out of control.”
“Neither of that.”
Sub-programs that Lucy cloned herself, some of them, like Lucy in the past, bloom and improve themselves and grow. The level is extremely slow and insignificant compared to Lucy, but growth is growing.
In particular, those who can be called the first generation among them are still quite mature.
“Their flexibility is essential on the battlefield, so they can never be discarded now.”
“There can be no advantages. The flexibility you want is inevitably accompanied by discrepancies.”
I wasn’t too worried Because I already know Lucy, the strongest and most developed program.
“Isn’t it a bit like exposing a new weapon?”
“The two captured are the only witnesses. I had to check before committing to the central front.”
In fact, there was something else that caught my interest. Lucy’s new weapon, which has been put into actual use for the first time this time and has achieved great results.
It was not a new type of soldier. Literally a bottle. Lucy made a new weapon for the soldiers to hold.
“The additional armament project is successful. Interchangeable ordnance allows us to maximize computational power and troop efficiency.”
“It will be more efficient than creating synthetic creatures just for bombardment.”
The goal, of course, was to increase efficiency. The motif was firearms such as guns and cannons that flowed into the other world. From the moment Lucy first encountered this idea, she easily obtained and learned information about them through me, and created her own armament by checking even the captured objects.
Soldiers with ray cannons could use magic to inflict high firepower attacks without consuming computational power, and if necessary, they could throw away their weapons and engage in close combat, so there was no need to produce soldiers separately.
“We will break the balance of the battlefield with a system that has evolved one step further and newly acquired artifacts.”
“I got a date too. I have to leave the country again. Well, this time it’s the country right across the sea.”
Lucy always finds the best move and runs without stopping, no matter how big the achievement is or how big the loss is. The same goes for me, who has to match it.
Again, multinational Awoken Allies enter the dungeon with local troops.
However, there was something that bothered me a little this time.
“Liam Anderson. I think I will see him again. It’s obvious that it will be annoying. There may be restrictions on activities.”
Liam was among those participating in the dungeon raid. The bad relationship with him is also bad, but anyway, he must have a close relationship with the US government.
I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable knowing what kind of people are now cooperating with the church on the other side of the world. In the other world, they are my enemies, Lucy’s enemies, but here, they are the same team against monsters from the other world.
“If you want, you can send him here. I don’t think it’s very strong.”
“I want to make it as unlikely as possible. He’s a really important force in this world.”
Lucy seemed wary of him, but I was different. As long as it wasn’t tied up, that was enough. Of course, this wasn’t just a problem for me.