Episode 188: Nemesis (8)
“The shield has been breached!”
“damage!”
When headquarters finally decided to send proper reinforcements, Ravizda was already in hell. To be precise, only to the frontier employees and local dark elves who were soundly defeated in the power battle with Lucy.
Lucy attacked several cities at the same time with troops that had increased production, and those who had already been pushed back by the National Guard were unable to resist and had to give up their homes and their lives.
[I can’t believe that no action has been taken yet. If this continues, we will soon be able to take over the entire world.]
This was something that even Lucy could not have predicted. In fact, Lucy wasn’t even trying her best right now. They clearly predicted that the enemy would send proper reinforcements, stored up enormous amounts of energy produced every second, and proceeded with the siege only with optimal efficiency.
“That’s too much. “They are their employees, so they want to throw them away like a dedicated worker.”
Changhyun, who was watching the scene with Lucy, clicked his tongue, thinking they had completely given up on Ravizda. The situation was that overwhelming.
[If it takes longer than this, I think I will have to move on to the next plan. If they don’t attack, our troops will have no choice but to invade their base first.]
“But they say we still lack the technology to do that.”
Lucy had no intention of staying still. If they didn’t attack him, he planned to attack them first.
Fighting, chaos. Lucy, like the devil, wanted only that. However, unlike other demon lords, fighting and chaos were not Lucy’s goals themselves. It was simply the most efficient process to achieve the goal.
The problem is that Lucy still lacks the technology to strike enemies across distant space.
It was expected that clues could be found by studying the enemy’s warp technology, but there was no opportunity to even analyze the flagship with warp technology.
[Incomplete portal technology. There are still ways to use it to find clues.]
Lucy mentioned portal magic as a last resort. It was an imperfect technology with a time limit, but it was a way to go to another world, so I was going to do something with it.
[Some troops attacking the city have been hit. As a result of confirmation, it is believed to have been bombarded with a large amount of hypersonic missiles. The direction from which the missiles came… … It is the sky.]
However, in the end, that didn’t happen. When Lucy was contemplating the next best option.
Some of the troops attacking the city were completely evaporated by the countless artillery bombardments pouring down from the sky.
Currently, the Ravizda Defense Force does not have the capacity to launch such an artillery bombardment, so what this means is clear. Finally, the enemies Lucy wanted had arrived.
* * *
“They are disgusting, Captain. “It’s all pitch black.”
“I admit it’s gross. “But aren’t they just bugs?”
The essence of cutting-edge technology that opens a large-scale warp portal with set coordinates. Fleets that passed through the portal immediately began to appear one by one over Ravizda.
Even at this very moment, requests for rescue and support continue to pour in. Commander Edmund naturally dispatched ships to rescue the cities currently under attack and bombarded them with missiles.
“There are a lot. “Keep shooting!”
Walter, the leader of the mercenary group who received his instructions and who participated in this operation with his own ship, was disgusted by the sight of the Demon King’s army and ordered continued bombardment.
[at las.]
Lucy welcomed their appearance. But at the same time, the troops were moved to minimize damage. There is no reason to throw the troops alive. Lucy has already achieved her goal.
“Captain, they are taking refuge. “The distance is long, so killing efficiency is low.”
“Lower your altitude. “At least we have to deal with all the ones we see.”
“yes? However, the commander’s orders are to stay in place and protect the city… … .”
“You idiot. “If we go down and fight a little, are we going to have any trouble with those guys on the ground?”
Walter laughed at the sight of the Demon King’s army running away, and tried to go down further and catch the Demon King’s army, as if he was hunting. The adjutant’s eyes widened in surprise at the order, which was slightly different from the commander’s, but he instead scolded the adjutant.
“Isn’t that right?”
“It would be an even bigger shame if we missed those who were running away.”
The captains of other ships moving together also agreed with Walter’s opinion. In the end, the ships dispatched by Edmund lowered their altitude in unison and continued bombardment and missile fire.
[Their firepower is so strong that they cannot be suppressed using existing methods.]
Even though it was just a mercenary group, the equipment and ship itself were military equipment, so their firepower was different from the old, remodeled ships that the National Guard had.
Lucy realized that the small force attacking the city was impossible to deal with, so she pushed her troops back as much as possible.
In the first place, that wasn’t the only thing Lucy had to worry about right now.
“Sena, start bombing. “That huge area is their nest.”
“Understood, Commander. The most efficient coordinate calculation completed. “Bombardment begins.”
This is because Edmund, who sent only a few ships to protect the cities, led all ships, including the flagship, and attempted to attack the land previously occupied by infected entities, which could be said to be Lucy’s base.
* * *
“It’s a major air raid.”
[This is not indiscriminate bombing. It is a precise bombing operation that calculates and executes the most efficient rate of destruction.]
Changhyeon was scared when he saw countless bombs falling from the sky. To those who do not know, this bombing may seem like an indiscriminate air raid.
However, Lucy immediately recalculated their patterns and realized that it was a well-calculated attack.
[I will defend first.]
As if to demonstrate the true power of the Hive Mind, Lucy immediately moved the entire huge nest. The Corrupted World Trees planted between the nests in advance converted the enormous energy stored in the nest into magical energy and spread a defense shield.
[Multiple overlapping instantaneous shields.]
It wasn’t just a shield either. This shield, which Lucy combines with magic using her unique computing power, maximizes its defensive power by overlapping several layers of shields.
“As a result of the bombing, the destruction rate was less than 12%.”
“what?”
When the first attack ended in vain, people, including Edmund, were naturally shocked. I couldn’t have even guessed that it wouldn’t be able to destroy even half of it.
“Commander, the enemy used etheric energy to offset the barrage.”
“Does that make sense? It’s a space monster. They’re bugs. “They use etheric energy?”
“It’s not like there are no such cases.”
“Yeah, yeah. It definitely existed. A variant that mutated by absorbing etheric energy. But they were ultimately mutants and individual units. “It wasn’t a colony unit like it is now.”
Sena, an AI, made a more cool-headed assessment based on data compared to those who were perplexed. Edmund was embarrassed, but bit his lip.
“Sena! Recalculate the coordinates. Even if they have etheric energy, there will be limits. “There is no way we can protect the entire continent-sized area.”
“All right. “We will guide the bombing so that possible attack points do not overlap.”
He instructed Senna, now the central AI controlling the entire fleet, to calculate the coordinates again and attack.
[It looks like you are using a fairly high-performance program.]
Lucy sensed it and quickly and quickly changed her defense coordinates once again.
At the same time, he seemed relaxed enough to smile. Lucy, who is still unaware of the existence of an AI named Sena that is leading the opponent’s attack, guessed that the expeditionary force attacking her was using a high-performance program.
“This time too, the enemy reacted. “Immediately calculate the next coordinates.”
[Are we going to have a calculation battle?]
The calculation battle between Hivemind Lucy, who uses a huge, transcendent biological brain as her computing device, and Senna, a military AI who uses the ultra-high-performance computer onboard the ship as her brain, has begun to take place in seconds over a continent-sized area.
Senna quickly moved the fleet and calculated the most difficult points to defend, directing artillery fire in all directions, and Lucy easily followed suit and defended all the bombardments.
As long as she had enough nutrients, Lucy was confident that she would not be defeated in this fight.
“The enemy has once again defended against bombing. Judging by the organic response at a transcendental speed, it seems that there is a being among the enemies with computational power equal to or greater than mine. As a guess, there appears to be a large command entity that commands all nests and troops.”
“Are you saying that because you think it makes sense?”
“This is based on the data collected so far.”
Senna analyzed this fight and reported to Edmund that she had vaguely noticed Lucy’s presence. But of course Edmund didn’t believe that.
Senna was an AI. In other words, because we blindly trust the data, errors may occur in the process.
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According to Edmund’s common sense, it is a super creature that has its origins in an artificial intelligence program like Senna and has awakened as a special being called the Demon King, and has survived countless times from the moment of its birth by going through such competitions for survival and eating everything around it. Because of course it didn’t exist.
[It seems that there is someone in the enemy camp who can think as organically and efficiently as me. No matter how good a program is, it is bound to be obvious that the human brain using it is poor, and the opponent’s attack shows no such ‘humanity’ at all.]
“Then is it really AI?”
Of course, Lucy also noticed Sena’s presence and reported it.
His situation and status were different from Edmund, but there was another difference. That is, he believed Lucy’s words.
As someone who has watched Lucy’s growth, proving herself at every moment, I naturally believed in her.
“There is no difficulty in stopping it. They can’t just keep dropping bombs from up there. “There will be a limit to the quantity of bombs.”
[you’re right. Enemies will eventually attempt to bombard you with the ship’s main guns. That is the opportunity to counterattack.]
Lucy had no intention of being beaten forever. If we held on like this, the opponent would eventually lose altitude and come closer, so we planned to attack them all at once by mobilizing not only the artillery ships but also the ships that were on standby.
[I really want to see it at least once. Opponent.]
At the same time, Lucy decided to meet Sena. Maybe it was because Sena was like Lucy’s compatriot whom she had met for the first time.