136. Defend the Hive (1)
“Dantalian is dead.”
The Lord of Ruin, who had been watching the Legion’s bombardment, frowned as he realized that one of his men had been caught in the explosion and had gone to the goal.
The place where the nuclear warheads received the divine power buff of the legion poured like a shower was the fiefdom of Dantalian, the 71st in the demon hierarchy, and he set out to catch the demon commander who appeared in the sky above his realm, but was reconciled with flames.
“Your spiritual body has also been damaged.”
It wasn’t just a passing hit, but it must have been hit very well by the bombing, and even the Lord of Ruin was so badly injured that he had to tilt his head to see if Dantalian would be able to properly revive.
His spiritual body was in a very tattered state, but since this was a permanent damage that had no way to actually heal, he was in a situation where he wouldn’t be able to revive himself if he didn’t come to his senses in the flames.
“Damn it.”
After Baal left, laughing confidently at the ruler of Purgatory, demons of considerable rank began to gather around the Lord of Destruction as if they had waited for him to leave.
The Lord of Ruin looked at them, who were ashamed of Baal, who, like himself, had too much power.
“Agares, Bassago, and Marvas.”
2nd, 3rd, and 5th places in the demon hierarchy.
These were the ones who had been giving various advice about the dangers of Baal ever since the Lord of Ruin was imprisoned in Purgatory.
And even though they didn’t say anything, they were still conveying that will to their ruler.
“I understand what you mean.”
The Lord of Destruction, who had always held a wait-and-see opinion, finally agreed with the devil’s advisers when the situation changed dramatically.
It is said that Baal, who is worshiped as a god in some worlds and can overturn the ruler’s power and authority at any time, is more dangerous in this purgatory than the most enemy of the legion bombing and setting up their own colony.
With a mere nod from the ruler of Purgatory, these loyal henchmen knew he approved of their operation.
Agares, a demon who was once called a strong rival of Baal and hated Baal as much as the Lord of Destruction, spoke as a representative.
“I will seal Baal.”
Despite the fact that the Legion is right around the corner, the demons have begun preparing for a civil war in Purgatory.
* * *
The world called Purgatory was quite large, and although boiling lava filled the place instead of water, it was a world where the sea and a large continent also existed.
The place where I am now scraping all the nuclear warheads that exist in mankind and detonating them is a plain area of a secluded continent where there are not many demons that have settled first.
We planned to clear the area very clean and quickly build a Legion colony in its place using the power of the Clock Tower.
“A nuclear bombardment with a divine power buff… … .”
The emperor of the continent who was watching this scene muttered blankly.
When the war is over, that friend who asked me to make a ‘woman’s body’ for her to use and planted another cool flag on her face showed that she never dreamed that we would get rid of demons like this.
“Miyoung, no sister. Looking at this scene now, I am reminded of a line from a novel… … .”
“yes? What?”
“It’s probably like, ‘Fantasy! From now on, don’t ignore the earth again!’ … .”
“Aha… … .”
Nuclear bombardment with divine power buffs is not something that can be ignored.
The forts they had painstakingly built were now in ruins, and the fallout was spreading across the continent in the aftermath.
“Well, by the way, this looks gorgeous, but all the demons are running away?”
Of course, the killing power within the range of nuclear weapons is not as great as expected, so the number of demons dying right now wasn’t that many, but I was very satisfied with the current situation.
“Hey, Hwangbo… … Emperor.”
“Ah yes.”
“Right now it’s much better to kill as few of them as possible.”
“… … ?”
“Devils are born stronger after being searched for, but if that happens, they will be terribly weak after being covered with radiation without dying.”
“… … !”
“When the power is complete, it is much more efficient to sweep it in one shot at that time.”
As a result of taking several of the demon commander’s subordinates and experimenting with them, the divine power buff made the radiation significantly affect the demon.
The tissues that make up the body collapse without resilience, and the terrifying effect of radiation exposure, which creates a lot of tumors and consumes my body, is also eaten by them.
“Hmm, maybe I should have taken a radioactive lake or Fukushima and put it there.”
“… … .”
“It’s a joke.”
Of course, radiation is also effective, but spraying it too hard just because it’s exciting could have a bad effect on the legion.
Basically, Legion bugs have a fairly strong ability to withstand radiation, and their lifespan is short anyway, so it’s enough to use them quickly and pull out new ones, but it was difficult to spray too much fallout if Paladins and other personnel were to land and operate.
“If you wear a protective suit, your combat power is too low.”
The rest of the members are actually trained in conditions that are almost bare-bones, so it’s hard to fight as you want to wear those heavy and stuffy clothes.
“Cleaning up is coming to an end.”
It seems that even the brainless demons felt that the fallout from the flashing mushroom-shaped cloud was not unusual.
They were busy running away as soon as the Demon Commander’s stronghold appeared, and thanks to this, the site for the colony finally revealed its outline.
“This will make the fight a little easier.”
Those guys will commit suicide after a few days, and unless they come back, they will be in a physical condition that will make it difficult for them to go into battle.
And within the short span of a few days given in this way, we had to complete the operation and turn Purgatory into the Legion’s realm.
Even mutts are scary in their own yard, and if they start to get stronger here, which is their home ground, I will have no choice but to be pushed back from an away attack.
-You are the ruler.
“uh.”
―The drop is ready.
A huge number of jellyfish with worker spiders hanging from their bodies are waiting high in the sky for this operation.
Of course, it seems that most of them will die after going down there, but since we plan to use the clock tower, even if only one worker falls off and opens the hatchery, there will be a huge colony in an instant.
“Wait a little longer. Apostle Jeong Seong-cheol, are you ready?”
“… … Yes.”
Apostle Jeong Seong-cheol has already piled up a potion of divine power with ‘extreme side effects’ next to him.
Well, after drinking all of that, not a single hair on the real body would fall out very neatly, but he was also a person with a strong spirit of sacrifice, befitting an incumbent apostle.
“… … Why are you looking at me with such pitiful eyes?”
“Well, maybe it’s just the mood.”
“… … .”
“Now, are you ready to land?”
“Yes. If it’s black, it’s black.”
I tried to find the most suitable timing while constantly checking to see if there was anything lacking in preparation.
There are so many things I need to look at, whether there is a possibility that the children of demons hiding secretly will interfere, how much damage the colony will suffer from the fallout and polluted ground, and whether the escort operation of some personnel including the apostles will be successful. There were many.
“Huh, that bastard’s strategy game didn’t even use his brain this far.”
If it was a game, I would rather just play it, but I, who led such a large group of people on an expedition, was not in a situation where I could just do something like that.
If I were just an ordinary player without the superior arithmetic abilities of a legionnaire, I would have been knocked out dozens of times from overwork by now.
“great. It is now. Stop bombing.”
Finally, the cool place arrangements are over, and the time has come to open the colony of the Corps in Purgatory in earnest.
Of course, there were objections to this.
“Hey, won’t you shoot more?”
“… … .”
The old manager is looking at me, biting his lip, as if he is sorry.
“The points are coming in well now, let’s shoot a little more.”
Originally, points were to ‘deliver’ ‘resources’ such as corpses to temples such as the Pantheon and receive them in return, but now we could get points accordingly even if we just killed demons.
This is the story I conveyed while sending back the apostle of the Pantheon who dedicated [Dragon Slayer]. there was.
“No, let’s do something to lose money to earn some points? The more you kill them, the more they get stronger.”
“It’s erased.”
The look in the eyes of the senior manager asking me to allow an additional nuclear attack is really pitiful today.
“why.”
“Let’s pay off your debt.”
“… … .”
“There is also a limit to borrowing points. If the war ends like this, what am I going to do to pay it back? This is a real bankruptcy. It’s not okay to kill just once… … what?”
“Why?”
The manager’s expression went blank for a moment.
“It’s erased.”
“Yes.”
“I came in with 10 billion won in one room… … .”
“… … You didn’t read the number wrong, did you?”
“not really… … .”
“… … .”
He said he wouldn’t kill such a strong guy, and he beat him gently as he went, saying he wouldn’t kill him, but it seems that one of the executives got caught and died.
No, what kind of guy is he so that a demonic prince can die after getting hit by a nuclear nucleus? Do you really have to be beaten to know that that thing looks dangerous just by looking at it?
“Hey, stop shooting. They’re dumber than you think. If you do this, the other feudal lords are also beaten, and if you hold a joint ancestral rite, it will be a headache later.”
“… … OK.”
Of course, the manager did not hide his regretful expression.
“Please pay me back first.”
“… … Ha, the point just slips through the system. A very fleeting life.”
“… … .”
Huh, our manager is such a person.
* * *
Tremendous flames lit up the sky in Purgatory.
Despite deploying its power just once, the flame instantly became a hurricane with huge eyes and burned the jellyfish full of workers on the spot.
“What kind of guy is that?”
The problem was that it didn’t end there.
Just as a demon god in the past used his possession to wipe out all the flesh in the [Demon King Castle] at once, that demon was attacking the same level ‘continuously’.
No matter how much the corps units had extremely increased resistance to fire through various modifications, this situation made it impossible to reach the ground.
“I think he’s one of the strongest.”
The troops who had already tried to fall over three times had melted away, and the one whose home ground was Purgatory was tirelessly striking sparks to block the legion’s front.
“Hey, demon. Can you guess what kind of guy that is?”
“… … I want you to be a little more careful with your words.”
“I was just telling the truth.”
“… … .”
The demonic commander, who faithfully fulfilled his mission of putting in the fortress and pouring nuclear weapons into it, stared at the flames that covered the entire sky of Purgatory and then opened his mouth.
“It is Baal.”
Hey, that’s a name I’ve heard a lot.
When I was young, I suddenly recalled the memory of beating the boss called Baal dozens of times a day to get items while playing classic games.
“After that, I couldn’t pick out the characters from the game. Hey, I guess I just can’t go down. Let’s go by burning a worker into one of your forts and sneaking them in. Prepare one as the strongest fortress that can withstand even if you get hit by it… … .”
“No, I don’t think that is necessary.”
“What?”
“From reading the words of the flame, Baal is no longer focused on stopping the Legion.”
The Demon Commander looked at the flames of Hell and said confidently.
“A civil war has broken out in Purgatory.”
Aww?
“Prepare for hive drop.”
Finally, as he said, the moment came when the flames that defended the sky above Purgatory stopped.