Chapter 661 – Raid on Atlantis (3)
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“It’s an enemy we can’t defeat on our own.”
After returning to the mansion, we regain our composure in the place the former lord used as a meeting room.
But before she could simply bring the holiday drink to her throat, Veronica said it. Even though I explained that I had discovered the source of the curse.
“Did you see the number? What we found was thousands of them. Besides, it’s not just a lot of numbers. It was an army each with the strength of a hundred.”
“… Will the ship be all right?”
Tyrsi said while frowning. Dana clicked her tongue as she calculated something on a piece of paper.
“It’s hard to say because I don’t know the power of the spears, but I’m sure you didn’t get hit by all those thousands of javelins. If you calculate the surface area, less than 30% of them would have been hit.”
“30%? Did I just throw it at random?”
“… Out of it. That is evidence of high intelligence.”
Nefertiti denied Fran’s words. I agreed with him too.
“It blocked the way out. Destroying the ship was a bonus, and we surrounded it 360 degrees and fired artillery fire to prevent us from escaping.”
“Yes. No matter where I fled then, I couldn’t escape.”
There was no way to avoid it, and there was no choice but to stop it.
If so, the ship that will act as cover until you pull yourself out while blocking it must have been harpooned. They were quite tactical chews that did not suit their ignorant appearance.
Didn’t thousands of them have 1 or 2 spears at home? No more words are needed.
“You probably didn’t expect us to
Veronica muttered as if she understood, and continued.
“Anyway, numbers are numbers. It’s not a terrain that can be broken individually, and even if you try to hit and run with
“Can’t you just pour attack magic on the other side with
Did you think that even though you said it, it was not credible? To the hesitant Lalura’s question, Veronica flatly denied it, as if she was unworthy.
“If you mass-produce magic items with attack magic, the transfer of energy is too costly. Even if we want to fire that way, there is no way to see the situation on the other side.”
After that, several strategies or opinions came out.
However, all of them were methods that could be called last resort, not good tactics.
“Again, it is impossible for us alone. We might have to borrow the national power of a human nation.”
“… Maybe that would be more reckless.”
Veronica concluded that, but Frank denied it, picking her words a little.
“Even if the island doesn’t move. Landing is very difficult. I’ve tried unloading Nadu, but when the javelin comes flying while people and goods are about to disembark…”
“How about the boat? Would you rather die if you took a soldier? That said, taking thousands of elite soldiers would be unsettling, but what about taking them?”
─Swipe.
Dana draws a beach on the back of a piece of paper with a calculation formula written on it.
It’s a clumsy drawing, but it was an aerial view of Atlantis from the elves’ detector.
“Look at the coast. It’s perfect for the fishmen to surround the ship and intercept it.”
“… They will be annihilated by javelins on the shoreline.”
“That, the way back wasn’t a problem~? It was an open sea with no direction, right?”
Sounds like a dick. It would be faster to find out why
Nefertiti, blinking blankly, spoke.
“… What if we fly and attack with
“My mana can’t stand it. It’s like going to commit suicide if you put all your energy into it. However, it is impossible to disseminate
“In the days of ancient civilizations, there was a technology that prevented
Dana sighed as she recalled the technology of the past.
“If [Space movement] Proves that you can move troops by surprise, you’ll somehow collect mana and start something like assassination, terrorism, treason, or war. There are many precedents.”
“We can’t make such a big deal out of what we’ve done.”
For example, let’s say our wives lost their lives in a teleportation attack.
But the reason why such killing techniques became rampant was because some mother-in-law, who had exploded, piled up a pile of shit for self-interest and couldn’t clean it up, so she grew up working?
‘If it were me, I’d become the joker on the spot, damn it.’
Batman has risen as a hero after losing his parents, but I can’t open my eyes to justice if my beloved wives lose their lives that way.
The same goes for other people.
We can’t just throw world-class shit to solve our problems.
After acting like that, later on at the nobility/state level, there might be talk of ‘kill that bastard’! The affairs of this world were so intricately twisted.
“… But, won’t they come out of the island?”
I put in my mouth a sudden feeling of foreboding.
“Nord? Are you out?”
“No, why? Even though we were uninvited guests, the killing intent of the fish heads was no joke. Didn’t it seem like a race that hated people over and over, or something like that?”
“Damn, then what? Could those bastards be aiming for people now that they are on the sea?”
“Oh, no. I don’t think so.”
I urgently deny Dana’s words.
Are those all-weather killing machines targeting humans? It gives me goosebumps just imagining this. Even if a hungry shark came ashore in a tornado, it wouldn’t be this far.
“If you were going to aim, you would have aimed long ago. Judging by their movements, they could have dominated the nearby waters, but there were no rumors about a ship sinking in the area.”
“… Yeah, come to think of it, there was something like a barrier, right?”
Dana snapped her fingers. Veronica nodded as if she had just remembered.
“The reason why it was so strangely dark inside the trench was probably because there was a barrier to confine them. Just as the light cannot escape, they cannot escape either.”
“Uh? Did we get out of there well?”
“Franc. Didn’t the master and we go in and out of it only by
“In addition, if we assume that the barrier is a barrier that ‘you can enter, but you cannot leave’, it makes sense.”
While saying that, it was Tyrsi who imitated the flytrap with her palm.
“There, even if there is an adventurer who discovered Atlantis and entered it, if he died without being able to escape, it would be worth not telling him. There are many cases in which adventurers do not spread rumors and act in order to monopolize their achievements.”
“… If you can’t come out, how about food?”
“A barrier must be a trap-like concept. It may have lived on fish or marine life. Doesn’t it make sense for fishmen to keep that number?”
“Atlantis was very big. However, the number of fishmen is small compared to the city… I see.”
When the back and forth matched, Nefertiti muttered something new.
‘The only prey is fish and marine creatures that are occasionally trapped in barriers, isn’t it?’
There is a saying that the reason why the population was so low in East Asia in the Middle Ages was because of rice. If they couldn’t provide themselves with food, those fishermen would have a bad harvest every year.
Maybe that’s why.
The reason why the number could not be increased even though it could be maintained.
“Thubble, at least that’s good news.”
“No, aren’t you just lucky? That’s damn good news!”
Dana exclaimed, her face wide open.
Did this nunna secretly drink vodka? What do you think is good news?
“If we leave it on the surface of the sea as it is, we might not be able to find food and starve! I don’t know how big the barrier is, but you can’t feed thousands of mouths with something like fishing!”
“Det?”
Do you see and hear it?
My family made faces like Dana at a glimpse of hope.
It was obvious that those fishmen would have strong vitality, so they wouldn’t starve right away, but even after starving, they wouldn’t be able to show the same strength.
Wouldn’t it be okay to secretly look around the island for a few weeks and then attack?
“Cutting off supplies is the basis of strategy. Either float a small boat nearby using 〈Space Shift〉, Or if I strike up a fight with the dolphin-like guys——”
While talking excitedly, I suddenly found the only girl in my family with a blue complexion and blinked her eyes. Why again, really. Ominously.
“… Lalilura? What’s wrong with your complexion?”
“… Here you go, old man.”
My youngest said with an expressionless expression, as if begging me to say no.
It’s been a long time since he’s been so expressionless.
“Didn’t we draw a magic circle for
“… … … .”
Shit, that’s right
The magic circle that Veronica used when she sent me to Atlantis and when my family returned to the mansion was still there. Unless it was broken by a javelin.
Of course, you can’t go anywhere with it.
Why? Isn’t there a magic circle connected to that magic circle?
It was to assist Veronica’s magic. It’s useless if there’s no one who can use
‘But what if fishmen have magic knowledge?’
What if they reverse engineer the magic circle?
Can’t say it’s impossible
It was because Veronica herself was in a position to acquire the present
‘… Is it possible. As long as I have the knowledge to interpret the magic circle.’
Atlantis’ technology is better than that of the modern other world.
The high intelligence of fishmen has already been confirmed several times.
If the fishmen could master the craft of the mobile island, this household would not be an IF.
“… I will have to fight.”
The moment she understood that, Veronica changed her opinion 180 degrees from just before.
“It is a situation that can never be ignored. Even if you leave out personal reasons.”
“I agree.”
My family didn’t dismiss it as an ordinary day, but made a decision with their eyes.
Radioactive waste is not solved by covering the lid.
Are you saying we don’t know about this situation? So, is it no different from the idiots who get hit by a radioactive tsunami after spraying radioactive juice on the sea and saying ‘I don’t know what to do?
Tyrsi covered her mouth and groaned.
“One thing is certain. What we need now is numbers, not individual strength.”
Let’s say that my family is a combatant of the Party of Manbubu beyond the ilkdangcheon.
However, the opponent also had thousands of monsters per day.
Ten thousand couples VS One hundred per hundred.
10000 VS 100. The exchange rate is 1 to 100.
‘Shall I administer it with the spirit of retaliation to waste Valkyrie’s mana?’
Then the number is (20+@) x 100 VS thousands.
2000’s thousands.
‘Damn mother, it’s not enough at all.’
Even if we don’t know the exact number of the enemy, it seems like a few of our wives will die by the time the enemy fishmen are all searched for.
In addition, the calculation itself was not as realistic as Jammin’s Maple DPS calculation.
It is not possible to talk about the exchange fee for such a broken head.
‘I need more allies.’
A soldier who can just roll on behalf of my family.
Or a wizard capable of ranged attacks.
I stood up stroking my chin.
“… I’ll try to multiply the golem as much as possible. If you use 〈Subspace〉 Magic, you can transfer the guys you sent to Narmer-Nile. If you’re going to invest, you shouldn’t be sparing.”
I don’t know how helpful it would be, but even if it only moved at a 1:1 ratio, I was grateful.
‘Why do you gather so many golems for a war?’
Fuck my fucking life.
─Bruh!
It was then. That’s what Brünak trembled briefly, as if asking to see him.
Smal…
The darkness from the bracelet gathered into the shape of a skull.
Darkness and negative manada. I shook my head.
“… Ignoring my likes and dislikes, it is too reckless to believe only in cramming black magic.”
I saw Equinox’s past the other day.
In addition, there was a record of seeing Equinox’s black magic while fighting with Odin’s eyes open—even with the power of a god.
It’s not like Equinox, but it wasn’t difficult for me to use black magic either.
Black Magician Nord.
Wouldn’t it be stronger than now, if not as much as when Equinox and Letitia were killed? It might be helpful if he revived the fishmen he had killed with black magic and used them as meat shields.
‘If I have an aptitude for dark magic, I’ll be able to cover the side effects.’
In addition, it was also a situation where some side effects were worth considering.
‘But cramming black magic has its limits.’
I have never properly learned black magic, and I wonder if there is even a concept of a proper course for black magic. So it was like gambling.
─Mongle.
Then Brunak changed Mana’s form.
From the black skull gourd to the golden key.
“… No shit Wait a minute?”
─That… Seeker?
Muttering like an idiot at the sight of the mana that had turned into a golden key, I raised my head to the polite telepath digging into her head.
Then why are there dozens of pairs of bright, worried eyes?
Wow, it looks like you’re in a stable.
—Is it true that something went wrong?
“… It did happen.”
When I affirmed, the bicorns who had been summoned before Haeju blinked and shouted.
─Is there anything we can do to help? The Seeker is the one who leads us, not the one who has to bear the sins of our people!
─The seeker said it before! I found the Prophet’s memory! The curse that fell on us was the mercy of Asgard who tried to save us from destruction!
─Then, what hesitation would our clan have to pay the corresponding price before shaking off that mercy!
─We also want to tell our descendants that we were not just saved!
You did a good job connecting your thoughts last time. If it wasn’t for that, I would have broken the atmosphere with a hee-hee-hee sound.
As I thought about that, I alternately looked at the copy of the golden key in the mental world and the dozens of vicorns lined up in front of me.
… With a bang!!
Looking back quickly, I saw Veronica, her eyes widened, and her maiden Maman Nefertiti, who was twisting her head in an angle as if asking why she was staring.
Bicorn. Runic magic.
Virgin allergy. Temporary remedy.
Valkyrie’s ability to harvest souls.
The throne of Freyja, who uses harvested souls as soldiers.
“… Aww.”
And only then could I smile.
Yes, this is worth a try.
