Episode 179: Crack (9)
From their perspective, Lucy’s Demon Lord’s army was an unprecedented enemy. Clearly, in many ways, it is similar to the infectious agent they investigated. The ability to multiply quickly, behavior that appears to be ‘absent’ from the opposite s*x, etc.
However, there were quite a few heterogeneous aspects to it that it was simply a group of strange creatures that had mutated. Although it was destructive, unlike the infected entities that ran wild, Lucy’s Demon Lord’s army moved with a thorough purpose and goal.
Even though it may seem like a random battle unfolding in the middle of nowhere, it is different. The countless commands that only Lucy, the central control system, can handle simultaneously move numerous armies to carry out their goals.
[Successful in capturing the enemy’s equipment.]
Thanks to this, Lucy becomes stronger faster and more accurately than others even if she fights the same war.
“But what you wanted was their ship… … “Isn’t it related technology?”
[That’s right. Most of the technology acquired this time is information about small or medium ether weapons. It is not very efficient.]
Lucy reported to Changhyeon that the harvest from this battle was not that great. Certainly, Lucy also seemed embarrassed by this situation, which was a little different from the war she had experienced so far.
It is the cells of living organisms that Lucy can thoroughly analyze and disassemble to reveal their principles and composition.
No matter how strong and durable a creature was, it was possible for Lucy to perfectly replicate it if she set her mind to it.
But the mechanical device is different. A field that is fundamentally different from biology. Lucy does not have the ability to create mechanical devices. The problem was that the opponent that Lucy needed to prey on and take advantage of was the machine civilization itself.
[It is unlikely that it will be impossible to acquire their knowledge and apply it, but in the absence of proactive data, trial and error and time will be required.]
Lucy’s progress was put on hold. Contrary to plan, it took more time and effort to absorb the enemies’ characteristics and strengths, and efficiency began to decline.
[New enemy troops are coming.]
And it didn’t end there. A large number of troops dispatched from the frontier headquarters flocked to annihilate the demon king’s army that occupied the city.
“It may not be easy, but you can still win, right? “I don’t think you would have attacked me without even calculating that much.”
[Their power already lies in data. Only when we can overwhelmingly suppress them and have the aftermath affect the entire planet can we attract bigger enemies.]
Although it was a little different from what she expected, Lucy decided to take it and fight against them. This was the intention from the beginning, so there was no reason to back down.
The purpose of declaring war was to fight in the first place. If you fight, you may find a way. That was the experience Lucy had accumulated so far.
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“What are the enemies’ movements?”
“After destroying the city, they have been stationed there and have not made any significant movements until now. But it’s clear they’re doing something strange.”
When Lucy noticed their presence. They too were already watching Lucy’s movements.
They were able to see the ground clearly using satellites in outer space, which Lucy has not been able to do yet, and were able to observe Lucy opening a nest in the city.
“How dare you damn monsters!!”
The commander, who led the troops under the command of the commander, was enraged when he saw the nest of the demon king’s army that was developing using the corpses of the residents.
That wasn’t all. The commander ordered this fact to be reported to all troops.
Most of the troops are local dark elves. Naturally, they were very angry at the fact that their compatriots were being used as fertilizer by monsters, and their fighting spirit was aroused.
“Launch the fighter planes. There are no survivors inside the city anyway, and the facility is completely destroyed. “Give me the bomb without hesitation.”
“All right!”
He dispatched fighter planes first. As it is a frontier country, old military equipment is purchased at a low price, remodeled, repaired, and operated, but it is still a fighter plane.
As fighter jets equipped with missiles and explosives simultaneously crossed the sky and approached the Demon King’s army, Lucy came down to the ground and attempted an aerial battle by mobilizing dormant ship-type soldiers and flying bells.
“Die, you monsters!”
However, the missiles and bullets fired from the scattered fighter planes deflected all such defense attempts and landed on the city, causing an explosion.
Hot flames burn the nest, and the rushing soldiers are crushed by the shock wave.
The ship types that were sortied to stop it wriggled their bodies and tried to shoot it down by firing light cannons concentrated on the front, but the fighters were too small and too fast for the flying types to catch up.
‘If I do this well, it will be easy.’
Marcus, the pilot who was driving a fighter jet, smiled faintly as he watched the flying bells falling down with their bodies torn apart by the cannons he fired.
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They realized that the devil’s army’s aerial combat, which consisted of ships that were too large or flying species that were too small and slow, was surprisingly weak against them.
“This is an opportunity. “This is an order to hit as hard as possible.”
“Try more!”
The fighter planes flew over the city like fish out of water and unilaterally attacked the Demon King’s army with the intention of consuming all the ammunition they had brought with them.
Lucy tried to catch them with an aerial phalanx created by moving the flying species simultaneously, but it was physically impossible for an ordinary creature without strength to catch up with a fighter jet with powerful engine output.
‘That guy can’t be.’
Meanwhile, Marcus saw something beyond his colleague’s fighter plane passing by. An enemy that is completely different from the flying species, which are clearly birds. The four-armed enemy, floating in the air without wings and glaring at us for a split second, had a reddish shield wrapped around its body.
‘Higher species!’
Of course, he knew what that enemy was. Among the infectious agents, there were often monsters that could use power equivalent to ether weapons.
They were enemies who could never let down their guard.
“Ugh, then what are we going to do? “It’s a slow topic!”
Marcus turned his nose around and grinned. It is certainly true that the opponent is strong. So there is no need to fight from the front.
It would be enough to just leave the position and continue the air raid elsewhere.
“What is this!”
But his movements were suddenly and quickly blocked. A completely unexpected and powerful force struck the entire fighter plane he was riding in an instant.
Although it was clearly taking off at maximum power, the fighter jet was trapped in the swirling air as if it had been pinned to something and did not even dream.
[Magic is not efficient no matter how simplified it is, but it is judged to be the most efficient method in the current situation where variables are needed.]
Lucy, who had been hit by an opponent, searched through the vast amount of data she had accumulated so far, and the method she used to catch fighters who had an upper hand in their compatibility was none other than magic. The magic cast by high-ranking species with strong hearts oppressed them in ways they could not even imagine.
“S-Stop!”
Marcus desperately tried to escape this unknown force that went beyond common sense, but it was a futile effort.
A superior species flew towards the fighter fixed in the air and raised the sword in its hand, and the moment he saw it with a pale face, the fighter was split in half along with his body and exploded.
The first proper conflict between Lucy’s Demon Lord’s army and a completely different enemy began in a somewhat strange way.
“Well, all the fighters were defeated!”
“You crazy monsters!”
And this was the same for other fighters.
Except for a few who immediately fled after seeing their comrades suffer, the entire fighter squadron was completely suppressed and fell to the ground. The commander, who watched this scene, gritted his teeth and became angry.
“It’s dangerous. I don’t know what more tricks they will pull… … .”
“If we retreat like this, we will be defeated. Do you want to do that! “We’re bombarding right now.”
The commander, enraged after the ambitiously dispatched fighter planes were shot down, decided to attack the Demon King’s army and its nest in earnest.
Even closer. He brought his ship close to the Demon King’s nest along with the army advancing together on the ground.
It is the only ship that exists in this frontier. Even that was modified for non-military use.
[We were finally able to come into contact with their ‘ship’.]
They had no idea that Lucy was targeting them, or more precisely, the ship they were on.
“Shoot. Now we are in an offensive position. “No matter where you shoot, they hit you.”
The commander gave the order to attack. Literally now the positions of attacker and defender have been reversed.
Now that they can freely attack the city they once had to protect, the burden has become less.
[The damage to our allies is heavy.]
But it wasn’t Lucy. Lucy, now in the position of defender, had to protect her troops and nest from enemy fire from a long distance.
In this situation, the most standard countermeasure would be to launch ships and send them to attack.
[Run full shield.]
But Lucy took a completely different approach.
What he attempted to attract to his target was the energy shield that spread across this vast area when he attacked this city.
Lucy recreated it in a similar way, using the strength of the ships’ species.
“Those bastards. “That can’t be possible.”
And Lucy’s prediction came true. The commander’s eyes turned upside down when he mistakenly thought that the shield deployed by the Demon King’s army was their own technology.
From his perspective, it only seemed like the Demon King’s army was provoking them.
“Destroy that thing right now. “They stole our technology.”
“Well, to do that, we need to get closer and attack with the ship’s main guns. But then they might strike back.”
“I came here to see the end anyway. If we give it time like this, I don’t know how far those crazy monsters will go. They are monsters that replicate and infect anything. “It would be a disaster if even our equipment was taken away by those mutants.”
Of course, the order to charge was not given out of anger alone.
They still misunderstood the Demon King’s army as a mutant infectious agent and decided that the infectious agents that infect and mutate living things were now infecting and using the machines they had.
It’s just an assumption, but if it comes true, it’s a terrible thing that would be a disaster itself. Others, persuaded by his arguments, eventually agreed to approach and bombard.
[They are coming.]
At the same time, Lucy noticed their decision and started preparing.
The intention was to rush out and sweep them away at the point when they got as close as possible.