Episode 181: Nemesis (1)
‘I don’t think there’s any need to worry.’
Although it was a little creaky due to the characteristics of the opponent being significantly different from the enemies she had faced so far, Lucy was adapting as she always had.
Still, as I thought about it with Lucy, I remembered the past. Even back then, the methods I taught helped Lucy.
[The experiment went smoothly.]
Lucy acted on my advice. The moment I thought I had enough combat data, I tried out a new tactic, as I said.
It is none other than guerrillas using small, high-powered entities. It would certainly be an action that breaks common sense.
[It is judged to be impossible with gamma type output.]
Lucy attempted to break through the enemy’s defense shield and confuse them by using the Harpy and Gamma that were dispatched first along with the covering fire of the ship’s class.
However, no matter how efficient the penetrating power was, it was impossible for the Gamma type to penetrate the enemy’s defense shield, which was impermeable even by the high-powered light cannons of the gigantic ships.
[Delta type input.]
Of course, Lucy had other methods, so she sent out a higher-ranking type with a stronger output than the Gamma type, which only has an external core.
Harpy Delta, who has more strength and more efficient strength than the Gamma type, raised his honed magical power and turned himself into a spear.
[We succeeded in breaking through and entering the interior.]
As a result, Harpy and Delta succeeded in instantly breaking the enemy’s defense shield and infiltrating inside. Naturally, they quickly restored the shield, but it was already too late.
Harpy/Delta, which had infiltrated inside, avoided or ignored the enemy’s response fire and began directly attacking the huge ship with powerful output that exceeded its weight class.
Then, I saw an enemy ship that was shattered and exploded by a slash from a foot with sharp claws.
“how is it. Is it efficient?”
[Considering that the opponent is not a proper battleship, and comparing the resources used to build higher-level ships with the resources used to bombard ship types, this tactic is not efficient enough to be used as the main strategy, nor is it inefficient enough to exclude it.]
Lucy acknowledged that this method was fully usable.
We’ve experimented with everything we need to do, now all that’s left is to finish it. Lucy, who sortied all her troops, deployed a number of ship types towards the enemy ship that was still held captive.
“Try to penetrate all the way inside.”
I told Lucy why not move Harpy/Delta to infiltrate the ship’s interior. Well-made mechanical devices are strong, but those who operate them are ultimately weak humans.
Because it is clear that they are a weakness. As a fellow human being, I know this well.
[Infiltration successful. Their movements have definitely become slower. The connection was lost without showing an organic movement.]
The strategy worked, and the already creaky movements of the enemy became more sluggish.
There must have been a reason why he attacked Lucy’s much larger army alone, but was he caught off guard? The Carthus Frontier’s defense forces were helpless and collapsed.
According to the information obtained, they were probably a group of people who had gathered troops by scraping together what they had, but they were defeated by Lucy’s vanguard, which had not yet unleashed true production capacity or volume.
The ground forces, who should have been responsible for most of the firepower due to the bombardment, were already pushed back by the attack of the Demon King’s army led by Raon, and the ship they were proud of eventually exploded without being able to withstand the bombardment pouring in from all directions, so I am confident that Lucy will win this battle as well. did.
‘This is part of the plan anyway.’
Of course, Lucy’s purpose was not at the level of a defense force. The real goal was to destroy the National Guard and inflict a serious blow on the frontier, inevitably ‘those who had no choice but to move’.
Win against them, grow up to imitate them, and advance into space. And it evolves itself further by devouring the possibilities that overflow there.
It’s just an assumption for now, but when that time comes, even Lucy can’t relax.
That was the outcome of this war that Lucy hoped for.
The enemy ship crashing and Lucy watching it from below. And countless demon lords flocking from all directions. I sighed softly when I saw this picture-like sight.
In some ways, isn’t this the true devil? The destructive chaos pursued by Lucy, a child-dependent child, does not stop at a single planet at best.
If possible, it would also be possible to expand throughout this universe.
“Have you seen everything?”
“Some extent.”
At that time, Jiyeon Lee approached me. He came to look for me, who had suddenly disappeared while watching Lucy.
* * *
“Looking at it like this… … It has grown tremendously in just one year. “Awakened people.”
Jiyeon Lee looked around and muttered as if she had new feelings.
Clearly, this university-like place was bustling with countless people as if the semester was in full swing.
In fact, its scale is no less than that of large universities. In fact, the number continued to increase, and it was only natural since people gathered from all over the country on a mandatory basis. They are all awakened, and according to the newly enforced law, all awakened people are required to receive combat training here and are used as a mobilized force during that period.
“Is your job easy?”
“Much more so than fighting. But I can’t help but feel itchy.”
Jiyeon Lee chuckled. The instructions she received from the president of the association were to use her previous experience to provide practical training for the awakened people here.
However, she said that even though she faithfully carried out the mission, she felt something was missing. Perhaps because he was a person who had been rolling around in a battlefield where his life was in danger from the beginning of his awakening until now, he seemed to be unable to adapt to peaceful life.
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‘Or maybe it’s because I’m that kind of person to begin with.’
Of course, I also knew Jiyeon Lee’s heroic tendencies. Perhaps due to the aftermath of losing her parents in an accident, she became obsessed with protecting people, and as long as she could fight, she continued to keep an eye on the scene.
“There is no need to go first. “If something big happens, the president of the association will call you first.”
“If that’s the way to go, it would be better for me not to go to the scene. “If I get called in, something big will happen.”
Of course, she couldn’t continue to stay in the back like this. As my own social status and ability increased, my dependence on her gradually weakened. I wanted her to not go to the field due to my worries that had risen beyond my decreased dependence, but when a real crisis came, the president of the association, who was protecting her, also tried to protect her. You will have no choice but to call.
This was a fundamental problem. It was a problem that applied not only to Jiyeon Lee, but to everyone living in this world today.
Because the existence of an adversary and a mortal enemy that threatens our lives is now clear, and it is impossible for anyone to escape from it.
As long as the unreasonable and merciless monsters who attempted to invade through gates and dungeons and made conflicts between people seem cute, we could not enjoy the peace of the past.
‘I don’t know if Lucy exists.’
In the end, I was convinced that if we truly wanted to overcome this problem, the only way was, ironically, for Lucy to grow up.
If Lucy, who has accomplished her mission, conquered the demon world, conquered the continent, become a true demon king, and is now preparing for a war with a cosmic force whose scale is difficult to predict, grows even more than now and helps us.
Only then may we be liberated.
“By the way, I didn’t mention that the story started coming out again recently. “The story of ‘another world’.”
It was then that Jiyeon Lee suddenly said that.
I was momentarily startled by the words “different world.” Because I knew where that other world she was talking about was.
“Well, what does that mean? “Can I see you for a long time?”
“That’s not right. I think the situation there is very bad. They said they needed additional support, and one person from our country actually went. You know, right? Seo Ji-won.”
The survivors that Lucy had driven to the corner of the continent instead of intentionally destroying them according to my opinion, are said to be holding on, fighting to the death against the mutants caught between them and the Demon King’s army.
Those who had to get back the money they had invested so far, including nuclear weapons, and who had much to gain from cooperation there, could not give up on that place and continued to invest resources there.
Jiyeon Lee said that there was definitely something to be learned by going there, so it seemed like there was something that appealed to the high-ranking awakened people.
* * *
[Phase 2: Conquest of the Continent (15%)].
“… … .”
At that time, Changhyun was looking at Lucy’s propaganda on his cell phone. Even here, on a different continent, someone was looking at their phone.
The achievement rate of the goals on that phone is dismal. The achievement rate, which was once expected to be 50 or 60%, has now shrunk to 15%.
She herself had a hunch. With this reduced progress rate, there is no longer any chance of reaching 100% and succeeding in the mission.
She ended up losing in this game, which she first encountered as an ordinary mobile game and has now become a serious matter with the lives of countless people at stake.
But unlike other games, it was a game I couldn’t give up on. Because literally everyone dies the moment you give up.
Marisa had to hold on to this game until the end for the sake of those who believed and followed her as a goddess.
“Is there really no way to bounce back? “Isn’t there some special feature or something that’s more open?”
Director Nelson asked her if there was any way. The power she had was definitely close to a miracle in the other world.
But she couldn’t help but shake her head. No game ever gives rewards for free. Rewards are given only when you achieve something.
‘Where did it get twisted?’
She also has intuition. Even she, who had been watching the continent until now, could understand that the situation on the continent that had suddenly changed so drastically was not ‘normal’.
The game, which was obviously operating within common sense and normal boundaries, became distorted after an abnormality that occurred in the demon world became a sensation.
Baal, who escaped from the demon world, went half-crazy and disrupted the balance of the continent, and monsters who had no idea where they had gathered such power took over the world she was supposed to occupy.
The momentum of that sudden collapse had the destructive power that she and the church forces had now lost. It was the destructive power she once possessed, uniting the entire continent against the Demon King.
It was something that should never have been an ‘enemy’ in a game.
“uh?”
[Special reward payment: Abnormal difficulty detection].
Then, her eyes saw a phrase appear on the screen. This was the phrase I had been waiting for so long.