Episode 137 Tyrant (7)
“The opportunity… … “It doesn’t come very often.”
Lucy sighed softly. Because things didn’t work out the way we wanted. And the situation was not a war against infectious agents that was urgently going on right now, or a situation on a continent where war had flared up again.
The Earth where Changhyeon is located. We were prepared to run out at any time if something happened there, but it wasn’t easy for Lucy to run out.
It was so bad that he hoped that the people of Earth, including him, would be in danger.
That way, if he is in danger, he will ask for your help, and by saving him, you can prove and appeal to him your power and value.
However, this was not that opportunity, so Lucy wanted to quickly show him her growth and strength and make him rely on her.
“We took advantage of the terrain and completed all the ‘optimization’ you mentioned. Indeed, it became easier to stop it. Now what’s your next plan?”
At that time, Raon approached Lucy. After completing all of Lucy’s instructions, he returned.
His mission concerns the war against infectious agents that continues at this very moment.
Lucy analyzed the data generated frantically in the event of an ongoing war of attrition like the current one, and calculated the amount of nutrients and troops consumed to maximize efficiency.
The Demon Lord called it optimization. It’s literally about getting the most out of the least amount of force.
“Now that optimization has been completed, there is almost no chance of our team losing. Now, I will lead my troops again to hunt down the corrupted World Trees.”
In this way, Lucy smoothly overcame the crisis that her enemies had created until the last moment. Instead, the plan was to continue operating the special unit that had been paused for a while and take down the corrupted World Trees one by one as they had done so far.
“Please finish from the northeastern direction, where variables are expected to be few. “We are continuing to scout the West.”
Lucy provided Raon with a ship-type unit that had been continually improved and remodeled using data from the super-giant flying species Island, and instructed Raon to neutralize and defeat the corrupted World Tree with the spell of the ancient elves.
But in the meantime, I also paid attention to other aspects.
For Lucy, who settled in the eastern corner of the continent, both the western and southern parts of the continent were unknown spaces.
Although it is an irrelevant hypothesis if the corrupted World Tree and infected entities have covered the entire land, Lucy, who had already discovered those who appear to have been recently infected, dispatched a new scouting party to check for the possibility.
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“According to our calculations, if we take over the entire world, the amount of nutrients that can be fully used will be tens of thousands of times the existing amount. “If we can further increase efficiency.”
Lucy continued her calculations by dispatching a scouting party specialized in flying at high speeds. It was a calculation of how much profit he could make if he occupied all of this land.
As a result of the calculation, Lucy decided that if she could completely consume this world, she could become tens of thousands of times more relaxed without any special supplements.
At that level, the fight between the church and the Allied Forces is meaningless anymore. Because it was possible to capture everything and take over that world with just force.
“Combining that amount of nutrients with the information expected to be obtained in the future, it is not impossible to fix spells that are still incomplete.”
Above all, Lucy thought that if she used that power and invested a lot in research and analysis, she would definitely be able to get one step closer to him. To put it a little extreme, it could be said that I was fighting purely for him.
“The current flight distance is over 1,000 km, but no significant traces can be found.”
Lucy made up her mind and sent the scouts forward endlessly.
Unlike the steady scouting of every nook and cranny so far, the purpose was to see if this world was really full of infected organisms.
“Wide angle response all around.”
And, as if their intention was correct, after traveling a huge distance, the scouts succeeded in discovering something in the distance.
“It’s the light of the sun.”
The atmosphere filled with dark clouds, operated by the infected corrupted world tree, ended and a land was discovered where pure white clouds continued to let sunlight pass through.
It was thousands of kilometers away from the nest occupied by Lucy.
“Confirmation of existence of life and confirmation of the territory of infectious agents.”
Lucy had developed a hypothesis, but when the environment was revealed to be truly normal, Lucy became slightly agitated and dispatched scout soldiers there without any hesitation.
It wasn’t just sunlight. Unlike here, where there was only wasteland and death, green life was growing there.
“Perhaps we can provide additional information about dimensional movement to the surviving dark elf survivors… … .”
However, Lucy, who began scouting the place with the gaze of a scout, was unable to continue scouting.
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In an instant, contact with the scouts was lost.
“We were shelled. “I haven’t been able to confirm who it is.”
Lucy captured the last sight. The blue light cannon fired from the ground penetrates and crushes the scouts in one blow.
“Artillery, artillery fire? “So you’re saying there really are survivors?”
Changhyeon, who received the report, was also surprised and mentioned the dark elf survivors. However, Lucy discovered something discrepant in her calculations.
“I think there’s a chance it wasn’t an attack by elves.”
“… … “But the only intelligent beings left here are dark elves.”
Lucy was certain that the bombardment was a completely different type of attack than the information about the dark elves.
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“Hey, Cassel! “I need to check beyond the border.”
“What do you mean?”
“The automatic turret attacked something. It looked like a flying animal, but the direction it flew from was a polluted area. “These are a type of infection I’ve never seen before.”
Accommodation for a languid afternoon. Hearing the words of the person who burst open the door and came in, the man called Cassel frowned and got up from the hammock he had been lying on.
Cassel’s long, pointed ears perked up, his skin was dark and his hair was bright silver. He was a dark elf who won a war a long time ago and became the owner of this land.
“You’re making a fuss. “If they came in broad daylight, they wouldn’t be infected.”
“I-I’m just following the procedures. “There is no harm in being thoroughly prepared.”
However, the person who gave Kassel the terminal on which the video was playing was not the Dark Elf. He was a middle-aged ‘human’ man with a stocky physique and stocky stature.
“This is for everyone’s safety.”
“I know. “I won’t ignore you, so don’t fuss too much, Lloyd.”
Cassel clicked his tongue and stood up. At the same time, he took his weapons and equipment.
He held a sturdy shortbow in his hand, wore a pistol on his waist, and wore a vest containing various tools.
“Seren, go and call the kids.”
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In addition, he summoned his subordinates through the contracted dark spirit.
Their mission is to reside at this border and protect it. It was okay now because the sun was high, but at night, this was the place where infectious agents from the polluted area attacked.
‘Damn, there’s no need for a major general level, so I hope he gets assigned somewhere else quickly.’
And this human man, looking at Cassel’s back, trembled. Although only a month had passed since I was appointed as the person in charge here, I couldn’t wait to go somewhere else.
But that is impossible. Because the mine was right around here, they had to protect this area at all costs.
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“Didn’t you say the turret took care of it anyway? Do we really have to rush all of them? “You’re taking a break, leader.”
“It’s because I’m curious. If you see it coming out in broad daylight, it doesn’t seem like an infectious agent, but if that’s the case, it doesn’t explain why it came out in a contaminated area. “There are no living creatures there.”
They boarded the vehicle and crossed the rough forest road with thick wheels. Meanwhile, Cassel laughed and shook his head when his subordinate said that he could rest.
“Let’s go take a look and come back soon.”
“Almost there!”
They quickly arrived with the help of a vehicle, got out of the car, and moved to find the bodies that the automatic turret had detected and shot.
The sun had not yet set, so the dark land ahead was scary, but not dangerous.
“What on earth are these guys?”
“This is my first time seeing this… … “It’s a beast.”
They sighed when they saw the miserable wreckage that had crashed to the ground. Cassel also sat with a stiff expression on his face and touched the shattered pieces of the corpse with his hands.
It was a body part that had been torn in half, resembling the face of some creature.
However, its shape, which seemed to resemble a stingray or flounder, was extremely awkward.
“Can a monster like this exist?”
Some of them sneezed. Since they don’t know how and for what purpose Lucy’s demon lord army was created, to them, it was just an ugly and strange corpse of an animal.
“What should we do, leader? “It looks like there’s nothing to salvage.”
“I’ll just take this and go back. I honestly don’t know either. “Seeing as it doesn’t die from sunlight, it definitely isn’t an infectious agent.”
In the end, not only his subordinates but also Cassel could not come up with any good ideas, so he picked up some pieces of the body and got back into the vehicle.
It’s true that I was interested, but that was it. Since they were just strange beasts that were taken care of by the automatic turret anyway, they soon forgot about this incident and returned to their daily lives.
In the first place, dispatches like this are not that common.
“Why is your face so serious?”
But about two days later.
Cassel found the person in charge, Lloyd, looking down at something with a serious expression on his face.
“Headquarters sent me this. Do you see this? You know what it is now, right? A photo taken of this planet and this continent from the atmosphere! “Look here, there’s a hole in the contaminated area.”
Lloyd showed him a photo file. It was truly a photo taken of this continent from the atmosphere.
A continent where almost half of its area is always covered by dark clouds. However, at the eastern end of the continent, the curtain of dark clouds that had not budged for the past year had holes here and there, as if eaten by rats.
“I can’t see it even when I enlarge it, so can’t I take a closer picture?”
“Don’t expect too much from a decommissioned and refurbished military satellite. “The company doesn’t have that much money.”
Lloyd shook his head at the words of Cassel, who frowned at the screen. He clicked his tongue and eventually gave his eyes more strength.
‘something… … Something black.’
Although he could not clearly see anything on the ground due to the poor quality of the image, Cassel clearly saw something black filling the hole.
“So what are you going to do?”
“Headquarters said it would be better to prepare a little more thoroughly just in case. It would be great if we could at least do orbital bombing, but we are not a warlord company. “I’m just telling you this so you know.”
Lloyd smiled bitterly and took the terminal back.