Episode 178: Crack (8)
A new war unfolding in a completely different place with a completely different enemy. But clearly, Lucy, who was carrying out that war, was fighting another war just before, no, even now.
Even I, just watching, can’t help but wonder at the endless war. Despite this, Lucy has no hesitation or resistance. In the first place, these actions were very natural for Lucy.
They compete non-stop and always eat. The moment you stop it, it is eliminated and disappears. All Lucy has to do is acknowledge that it is a natural law of nature to which she belongs and act proactively.
It was impossible for me to stop it. Even if the employees of Cartus are of the same human species as me, if the universe in which I live literally asks me to choose between other people and Lucy, since I have come this far, I have no choice but to choose Lucy.
“The defense will be weak… … I said it would. “It really seems that way.”
Lucy simply changed her target when the city she had previously attacked invested heavily in defense. There were more than one or two cities along the border they called the defense line, and Lucy had already mastered the art of attacking fortresses in this way.
[The ones you need to be most wary of are the dark elves who can use magic and the ether weapons they have, which can inflict attacks of the same type as magic. But now that they are blank, they cannot stop their allies.]
The enemies are a coalition of the local Dark Elves and the Carthus Corporation, a space force that came to visit them from outside.
Befitting their technological prowess, they possessed superior energy weapons that were incomparable to Earth’s magic weapons that had just begun to emerge through me and Lee Ji-yeon, and Lucy was also most wary of them.
However, since some of the weapons have been sent elsewhere for support, they are now unable to properly defend themselves against Lucy’s attacks.
[If we can break through that shield before unexpected support comes from somewhere else, our troops will win.]
Lucy showed me the city being pounded by artillery fire.
That bluish energy shield surrounding the city was their last hope, and as expected of their last hope, the shield withstood Lucy’s onslaught and was not breached.
“They are definitely a completely different type of enemy than the people on the continent, such as the Demon World lords and the Church, that we have dealt with so far. “What are you going to do?”
[It is a different kind of enemy, but it does not mean that there is no intersection with the data accumulated so far. Since our army has experience using the shield that surrounds the entire protected object first, we will counterattack based on data from past demonic lords who tried to focus on one point to break through our army’s shield.]
Here, Lucy’s strengths, which are based on artificial intelligence programs, are demonstrated once again.
Unlike those who have limited capacity and eventually have no choice but to gradually forget the past, and who also have limitations in recording themselves, Lucy continues to proliferate her brain, which is a kind of storage, and literally uses that information as ‘data’. will be.
Thanks to this, the countless experiences I have accumulated so far can soon become my full strength. It was said that in a situation like the present, the law of destruction that had been encountered before somewhere could be found at once and implemented immediately.
[Energy concentration.]
Lucy ordered her avatar, as well as the ship-type soldiers that emit power commensurate with their size, to concentrate their power as one. The beams of light fired like that got stuck at one point of the shield, and the entire shield, which began to tremble, finally cracked and created a crack.
“But isn’t it too small? “It’s about 10m at most.”
[We move on to the second hypothesis and turn to close hand-to-hand combat.]
Additionally, every time Lucy fights a battle, she assumes countless possibilities and creates hypotheses. If your plan gets blocked, it takes less than a second to immediately move on to the next plan.
[Our soldiers advance inside. Although the enemy’s resistance is strong, the calculated loss rate is less than 5%.]
Lucy finally broke through the enemies’ defense shield. The existing plan was to wipe out the ground with artillery fire from ship-type soldiers, but there is no need to push back just because that was blocked.
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In the first place, Lucy was better at it, had done it more, and preferred war, which involved close-quarters combat rather than exchanging artillery fire from a distance.
It was something I learned naturally while dealing with demon lords and the like, but it was completely opposite to my current enemies.
‘It’s terrible. surely.’
Strange monsters pouring into the city. Even those monsters have no mercy or hesitation. They are combat weapons meant only to kill people.
Although they take on a variety of appearances depending on their type and role, most of them are wearing black armor and have been modified by Lucy to have a fearsome appearance for slaughter. You can only see through the screen the sight of the Demon Lord’s army running across the sky and down the road. It even makes me cringe.
Even though I have followed Jiyeon Lee and seen quite a few invasive species and their battle scenes, I have never felt anything like this.
[Break through the enemy’s defense line.]
At the forefront was Lucy. Lucy, wearing a helmet that covered her face, swung the double-bladed sword in one hand and unleashed a slash, leading her troops forward and rushing forward.
I could see that the enemies were confused. Lucy’s slash instantly blew away the defensive post they had set up, and the bullets they rained down did not penetrate Lucy’s defense shield.
[Operation progress 45%.]
Lucy, who began to roam the battlefield, cut them down without hesitation or mercy. The same goes for other Demon Lords. Once the fire net is breached, all that follows is a one-sided massacre.
‘It’s a kind of declaration of war, so it’s natural.’
True to Lucy’s strong conviction, the result was actually already planned.
Cartus is just one company. Even this Ravizda is just one of the frontiers pioneered by the company. In the meantime, what troops and equipment we had were delivered to other cities, so if we were attacked, we would inevitably be pushed back.
In the first place, Lucy didn’t attach much significance to this victory. You might think that this is a process that should be taken from the beginning.
The true enemy that Lucy assumed was the huge force behind Carthus Corporation, which governs this city. Today’s war was a kind of declaration of war and warning to them.
[Operation progress 65%. Their defenses have already completely collapsed.]
Lucy and the Demon King’s army have almost completely taken over the city. What remains in the rubble of collapsed buildings and broken roads are miserable corpses.
Meanwhile, there were definitely people who stood in Lucy’s way until the end.
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“Stop it, monster!”
[He is wearing a reinforced suit, but appears to be a local dark elf.]
Lucy became interested in the person who blocked her. This hasn’t been the first time this has happened, but I can’t help but be interested.
Because he was a challenger who literally challenged himself.
‘This is all there is. ‘I have no choice but to do this because this is all I have.’
As if answering questions was useless, he gritted his teeth and lunged at Lucy. The moment Lucy confirmed his will, she sent the other soldiers elsewhere and dealt with him herself.
In a situation where light cannons fired from all directions were exploding from all directions, including various fire-spewing firearms, as well as huge ether weapons and the Demon King’s strong core weapons, he rushed in with a spear and struck Lucy with all his might.
“I know how to use a weapon. Then how about this?!”
Lucy swung Longinus and knocked it away, and he immediately attempted to attack a vital point again with his flashy spear skills. That spear filled with magical power is definitely powerful.
Although the firepower itself is inferior to firearms, his spear is much more lethal, at least from the perspective of handling the special power of magic.
A martial art unique to the Dark Elves that has lasted for a long time and remains to this day.
“Ugh?!”
The problem is that the enemy he is dealing with is a monster that is familiar with various types of magic combat and remembers everything. Even the people who became that data were people called heroes in the world.
With his considerable skill, he was immediately defeated and counterattacked. He was astonished by his flawless skills and was pushed back by Lucy’s attack, which caused him to stumble.
“die. monster.”
He instinctively sensed his defeat and made his decision quickly. Since he can’t fight with clumsy techniques, he tries to win with a single blow with all his might.
If this fails, he dies. But he took it. He wanted to stop Lucy even if it meant risking everything, including his own life.
[Variable blocking completed.]
However, Lucy, who swung the double-edged sword in her hand, not only delivered the final blow, but also easily cut the spear and the body in half.
A gap that cannot be bridged even if everything is put on the line. For some, that blow may have been everything, but for others, it was just a struggle.
After showing this, Lucy trampled on the corpse that was split in half and spewing blood, and then moved forward again.
[There appears to be no significant resistance anymore.]
The city has already collapsed. The defense shield that was barely holding on collapsed, and the Demon King’s army that had infiltrated inside had already rushed to the main facilities and occupied them one by one.
“Hurry and avoid, quickly!”
“Get out of the way! I have to go first… … .”
Administrative headquarters where Major General Brandt is located. Lucy, who flew into the sky and visited this place, found people rushing to board a helicopter to escape. Brandt was one of them.
[Progress rate 100%. The city has completely fallen.]
Lucy raised Longinus’ output and fired a burst of energy, evaporating them to the rooftop.
There is nothing left in this city anymore. The only people who survived were those who managed to escape, and all who tried to resist were defeated and killed.
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“Commander, the city where Brandt was dispatched was… … .”
“How dare you damn monsters!”
Naturally, this grand declaration of war had to be immediately reported to their leadership.
“I don’t know if we can blow up the base of those guys who took over that entire vast area, but at least we have to destroy the troops of those guys who are wearing fleet costumes and escaping from there and making fun of themselves. “Isn’t that the norm for dealing with infectious agents so far?”
“That’s right.”
The frontier commander was furious when he heard that a mining town on the border had been attacked by monsters believed to be a variant of the infection.
The first raid was just a clash, but the second was completely different when a city was completely destroyed.
“But Commander. If their power is truly fleet-level, then with the equipment we have now… … .”
“They’re big monsters, but they’re really fleet-level. “Send out the National Guard immediately.”
The commander, already very angry, gathered all available troops from all over the frontier. They even confiscated equipment used for work.
And the troops raised in this way were immediately dispatched to the city where Lucy’s Demon King’s army was located. Although we responded hastily, it was possible because we were confident that we were not outgunned.