Episode 166 Summary (6)
‘It’s a crazy world. Maybe more than us. In a situation like this, is it right to get support here?’
Liam clicked his tongue as countless monsters began to flock in front of him.
The reason why he and some other awakened people came here and began their activities was to lend their power to the religious faction to settle the conflict here and bring that power back to Earth.
However, the ever-changing situation on the continent made it impossible to even think about doing that.
Monsters and wars more terrible and tiresome than the invasive species that emerged from gates and dungeons and completely distorted Earth society.
As for Liam himself, it was still worth the investment as he continued to grow stronger as he repeated killings and battles using the power of the Constellations, but honestly, the others were not.
“Tsk.”
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Liam, who stepped forward and blocked the enemy to buy time for others to evacuate, barely managed to block the enemy’s axe.
Although he has now become a terrible monster who has lost his mind, he was once a powerful enemy who received his power from Evelia and participated in the Great War, making great contributions.
It’s different from the idiots I’ve dealt with so far.
‘More than that black monster back then.’
He recalled the higher-ranking species of the Demon King’s army that he had faced in the last battle.
Although the two beings were clearly different, they had one thing in common: lack of reason. However, Liam thought that the rampaging, rampaging mutant of Baal was stronger than the demon king’s army, which was like a cold machine.
In fact, the magical power contained in the mutant was stronger than that of the higher-ranking species of the Demon King Army.
A violent attack struck several times in a split second. With a loud noise, Liam’s feet were slowly pushed back.
“We have to help Liam. Heavenly light!”
Still, this time Liam didn’t fight alone. As the power unleashed by the priests of the church enveloped Liam’s body, he felt his injuries growing and his strength increasing, and he swung his sword with even greater force.
[Cut it to death. It will be the nourishment for your strength.]
“I know.”
The Constellation prompted him to kill his enemy. With his eyes shining, Liam eventually found an opening and swung his sword, and the slash from the sword cut off one of the enemy’s legs.
[Do you think this is enough? More than the monster you have to catch?]
“… … .”
Without missing the opportunity, he swung his sword one after another, cutting down various parts of the enemy’s body and finally cutting down his neck.
Although he achieved victory over a hero-level enemy, Liam’s expression was stiff.
Clearly, he continued to grow, and his sword skills improved faster than before when he was swinging his sword aimlessly.
But a part of my heart was still anxious. The being that occupies a corner of his heart and makes him obsessed with revenge is Code X, a special monster he encountered in the past.
‘No, you can win. ‘I am different now.’
He gritted his teeth and forced himself to calm down. Even if you look at it objectively, there is a big difference between who you were then and who you are now.
I was confident that if I faced that monster again, I would never lose.
Still, it bothers me. Ultimately, that is what stimulated him and made him grow to this point.
“I think it would be best to retreat now. “I don’t know when more of them will come.”
At that time, the High Priest approached Liam, who had subdued his enemy, and told him that he must now retreat.
After hearing those words, Liam shook his head to shake off distracting thoughts.
“Can we afford it? From the looks of it, even these heroes turn into monsters. What if everyone in the alliance turns into enemies and comes to attack us?”
“that… … .”
The high priest could not give a definite answer to Liam’s words.
No matter how much its power was greatly increased based on the Great War, the religious power, which was not much bigger than the existing vested interest and overwhelming power of the Union, was waging a war of nerves on par with the Union. The reason was that there was support from the Goddess, but that was not everything.
The heroes of the alliance couldn’t properly come together because they were trying to keep each other in check. Their loose cooperation created a gap.
If only they had gathered all their strength from the beginning. If only he had put aside the back and forth and only thought about winning the fight like he did when dealing with the Demon King’s army during the Great War.
Even if Evelia held on, the church would probably have been pushed out in an instant.
“We used that opportunity to create an advantageous battlefield and survive. But those monsters are different. Where will the monsters that ate all the people and heroes come from? Of course he would come to us.”
“Oh, I know. “I’m sure the higher-ups have their own thoughts.”
The high priest did not deny his words. The reason the church, which was not involved, was trying to persuade them somehow to get something was to prevent enemies from increasing in the future.
‘Is that enough? ‘Why did these monsters come into being?’
Nevertheless, Liam doubted until the end. It was an extraordinary event that even those who had experienced everything up to the Great War did not know the reason for. It really couldn’t have been a disaster that occurred without any cause.
* * *
[The enemy’s intentions are visible. The plan is to drag out the battle with our allies as much as possible and somehow expand our strength.]
What Liam expected, of course Lucy also noticed. Baal’s purpose is to gather strength to fight back. If you succeed in properly gathering the power of the continent, you can generate power equivalent to the Demon World.
To achieve this, he planned to attack key figures scattered throughout the country, mutate them, and turn them into his soldiers.
“I heard a rumor that mutations only occur in humans. “It looks like we won’t be attacked, but if things continue like this, the forces will completely move over to the church.”
Naan, who was staying in the northern part of the continent, shared the information he had collected with Lucy. Already, countless refugees are flocking to all directions, especially to the outskirts, to escape this terrible disaster.
However, not many people were able to support the sudden increase in population.
[The circumstances of humans are not worth considering. If you can break it with force, it is more efficient.]
Lucy, on the other hand, didn’t really care. Right now, the mutants created by Baal are the most important, and it is inefficient to divert attention to other areas.
[This last, unlikely struggle must be trampled and crushed.]
From Lucy’s perspective, Baal’s struggles are just annoying and annoying. Even if the entire continent was covered with mutants, Lucy was convinced that she could not lose in the war that would eventually go to the end.
[They are now gathering power around the empire in the central part of the continent. There is a high possibility that Baal is there, so we will attack there.]
Lucy moved her troops. It is true that the more time you take, the stronger your opponent becomes, so there is no reason to give him more time.
The Demon King’s army, which crushed the Demon World Alliance and put an end to their world, united as one and marched in unison.
If it splits into several branches, it is possible for the other party to give up some places.
However, if they came together like this, the opponent would also have to come together to stop them, so Lucy’s intention was to destroy it.
“Demon King, are you really confident?”
Baal also realized Lucy’s intentions.
Launching an all-out offensive to not give the opponent time is the method he used against Lucy.
‘It doesn’t matter even if the results are the same. I won’t die like this!’
Baal also gathered together his troops, which he had been ramping up like crazy, and set out to deal with Lucy.
It was by no means an easy feat. Baal, who turned the heroes of the past who were unable to escape into his soldiers, began preparing to capture the Demon King once again.
“I don’t think that stupid b*tch will get it, but just in case, let me know. The Demon King has been resurrected and is trying to devour not only the Demon World but the entire world. “If you don’t want this land that you protected through the Great War to be taken away, you should behave well.”
At the same time, Baal sent a message to Evelia through his subordinate who followed him. It was a call that mentioned Lucy and said she needed to be kept in check.
Of course, he didn’t particularly expect Evelia’s help.
From the church’s perspective, it was a golden opportunity to achieve their own goals by absorbing the collapsed alliance.
* * *
[It is impossible to accurately measure the size of the enemies that have expanded in a short period of time, and the number of mutated hero-level enemies is estimated to be more than a dozen.]
“To me, it doesn’t seem much different from when we fought the Demon World Alliance.”
[That’s right. Those self-classified mutants are a mixture of infections from the Demon World Alliance and Ravizda.]
Lucy analyzed the power Baal was gathering and, as always, calculated the odds of victory based on that. Changhyun also gained experience, to the point where he was able to make a rough estimate based on what Lucy reported.
The ferocity of throwing one’s body away, obeying orders without reason, and the ratio of a large number of soldiers to a small number of strong people, were characteristics that Lucy had already encountered in those she had dealt with.
[I will skip the analysis and response steps.]
Based on that data, Lucy quickly responded to mutant enemies she had never seen before.
Anyway, the soldiers that Lucy mobilized now were brought from the demon world. Lucy, who was stockpiling nutrients without any need for additional production, coordinated her troops as efficiently as possible without producing unnecessarily.
For Baal, who gave up even his greatest desire for revenge on Lucy, this war was everything to him, but Lucy was already looking elsewhere.
“But this time, is it possible without mobilizing ship-type soldiers? “In the end, it was only after the ship-type soldiers appeared that we were able to finish in the Demon World.”
[Unlike back then, Baal, the enemy commander, already knows about ship-type soldiers. He judged that investing in it in the middle instead of starting from the beginning would minimize the loss in preparation for the variables he had prepared.]
For Lucy, the meaning of this war is simply to trample on Baal. So there is no reason to add excessive nutrients.
He could have said he was thankful, since he had already devastated those he was supposed to attack anyway.
“Come, Demon King!”
However, this does not change the fact that in order for it to be fully beneficial, this war must ultimately be won.
Gritting his teeth, Baal could no longer be found as an ordinary person, and went out in person to meet the Demon Lord’s army advancing towards the empire infested with mutants.
‘It’s different this time!’
Although it was a completely different form, it was the second fight between Baal and the demon lord army of Lucy.
Just before that, he had lost the demon army he had gathered on a record-breaking scale, but Baal, determined to be different this time, charged the mutants he had deployed as he intended towards the demon army.
A legion that is a combination of countless mutants who mutated ordinary people and those who were mutated from being knights or wizards in their lifetime.
The Demon King’s army opposing it also became a corps with thoroughly differentiated roles and clashed head-on.