Chapter 154 – Visitors From Another Dimension (8)
Break through enemy lines from the front, where you don’t even know how many people are hiding!
If you are a sane conductor, this is a strategy that should be stopped even by grinding bamboo sticks.
If you commit suicide, you would not be able to hit your men because you could not be able to pension your family.
‘Kingchiman, how can this be the best way?’
If I had to give an example, this would be more like an anti-terrorism operation than a war. The summoning circle is a hostage that must be saved.
It’s not just a hostage, it’s a hostage more important than the US president!
Therefore, it was a better strategy to achieve the goal quickly than to set up a strategy with an ingenious idea.
‘All I have to do is move to the summoning circle.’
As long as we reached the range of 〈 teleportation 〉, it was our victory.
Is there not enough mana left in the summoning circle? Just fill it up The time had come for wizards who could not afford to waste their mana.
“All of us have transferred at once, so there is nothing to worry about for the losers of 〈 Teleportation 〉. All you have to do is enter the magic circle at the time of activation.”
Those were Selena’s words after hearing my strategy.
She seemed to realize that we were in a fucking deadlock right now. Complete eradication of the bugs was difficult to achieve considering the combat power and risk.
“Come on, run. There may never be a situation where the rest of the monsters are underground except for the boss.”
“So be it.”
We took off any gear that could make noise and threw it away.
It was an armor to protect the body in case of an emergency, but it was not needed now. The bug chicks couldn’t attack from a distance, and when they came close to fighting, they would already be surrounded and waiting for death.
It is a situation where you have to approach quietly to a point close to the summoning circle, even if it is 1 meter away. I couldn’t wear iron armor or anything like that.
─All right.
The warriors of the avant-garde took off their armor. Selena also released the gauntlet.
Because I didn’t have equipment that made a lot of noise—and more than anything else, because I was going to use runes—I remained fully armed.
─Nod.
Exchanging hand signals, we moved forward toward the insect’s lair.
When I arrived at the insect den, enduring a sense of suffocating anxiety dozens of times more than before, the insect leader was continuing his rituals.
The corpses of the adventurers are already unrecognizable. Damn did I keep tearing up corpses and throwing them into the summoning circle as I came and went?
‘It looks like the caterpillars are eating it.’
If the prey were not humans, I would have been able to watch it as if I were watching National Geographic.
─More forward?
Then Selena gave her hand signal. Which was discussed in advance. I shook my head and moved her hand.
─No. It seems to be caught.
—… Charge?
-Attack.
Sweat trickled down Selena’s cheeks at my answer. It was difficult for her to even take a deep breath. After hearing the sound of breathing, there was a possibility that the cub of the colon bug over there would notice.
─Suck.
Selena slowly raised her hand and she lowered it.
It was a sign of assault.
─Sasasak! The party dashed out of the shadows without making the sound of stepping on the grass. If all of them were adventurers, Silver was a moon-level warrior, so it was a skill that was possible.
I tried my best to keep the sound of my footsteps as low as I could. There is a summoning circle more than 50 meters away. The colon bug hatchling was engrossed in the ritual as if he hadn’t noticed.
‘Can I do it?’
If you go 20 meters further like this, you can arrive without a big crowd even if other baby bugs appear!
──It was when I thought so.
“Korooooo——!!!”
“Kooooo——!!!”
─Perseok! Bug monsters coming out of the hole in the oyster!
“I got caught too!!”
Lalilura squealed at the entries of the miscellaneous mobs coming out of the burrow, dancing blues as if an acid solution had been poured into them.
Still, there was no surprise or hesitation in people’s complexions, even after washing their eyes. Thanks to what I said beforehand.
─If the burrow leads underground, it may respond to the sound of us stepping on the ground.
─Don’t be surprised no matter what happens, take your party members and run.
1 child. Even if I said it, I hoped it wouldn’t fit.
After all, bad expectations don’t go wrong. Fucking wormy bastards. Befitting those who must have grown hairs and shells on their consciences, they couldn’t find a way for others to succeed.
“Krrrro! K-kkkk!!”
The baby bug captain also crackled his vocal chords as he watched us.
The high-pitched buzzing of bugs is always annoying to hear. I shouted, ignoring the kid’s ridicule.
“Don’t fight, run! Our feet are faster!”
“Archers!! Focus your arrows forward!!”
“Lalilura!! You kill those who are within reach of 〈 Puppet 〉!!”
Me and Selena took turns ordering. People with bows shot at random and sent a few on a journey to the sewers, the paradise of worms.
When Lalilura’s thread moved and tripped over the guys in front of her, her back row got caught in it and rolled.
“Cororororororo!!!”
But damn damn it, there are too many!
It was a wave of bugs that almost matched the people in line for Animal Crossing’s first release day! I felt like the main character of a blockbuster being chased by a group of zombies!
“KKK!!”
The master-racist took flight. Wings of a transparent film resembling a dragonfly! That guy was a land, sea, and air piece of shit!
The captain worm raised its claws and aimed at the Aman explorer who was in charge of the vanguard. I noticed what that bastard was aiming for and swung the mithril spear.
“You bastard, where are you going!! You have to play with me!!”
Take my permission and spread the wind! My spear hit the flying bug like a bee stinger at high altitude. The accelerated charge made my palms tingle as if it had tremendous kinetic energy, but I was able to save the explorer he was aiming for.
──But on the other hand, that was all.
“Aaaaa!!”
The one who withstood my attack flew to the rear, grabbed the hard-working wizard by the collar, and flew high!
It has been said since ancient times that the one who controls the sky controls the battlefield. I didn’t fucking want to admit it, but the ruler of this battlefield was that Captain Bug.
-Munjeok!! Hard!!
The captain worm chewed off the head of the wizard who did not give up on life and killed it. The wizard couldn’t even scream and stretched his limbs like a puppet with a thread cut off.
“KK!! KKK!!”
A fucking asshole who munches his skull with his gaping mouth and throws a corpse away! The large intestine worm rolled its inorganic eyes as if it were looking for its next target.
“… Kuu!!”
Selena bit her lip. We can’t use magic, but that bastard flies around like a dick, so there’s no way to win. Even if I had stopped and fought back, I wouldn’t have saved the mage.
‘Fuck!!’
I also overworked Daegulpak to the extent that my eyesight turned red.
Should I have turned the aggro by setting fire? He would have done it if he had the firepower to burn the tentacle tree.
No, I don’t think I could have stopped that bastard’s attack.
It is a bad idea for us to run after ignoring that bastard. By the time we get to the summoning circle, that bastard has room to snatch another 2-3 people.
Those 2 or 3 people might have Nana and Lalilura in it!
‘Then——’
I pulled the window sill back. It is a javelin pose. Beast Return’s green mana coating and strength that grows stronger day by day gave the hand that held the spearhead a power beyond recognition!
“Vector-choking law boy assault!!!”
─Weeeee!!
I threw the spear with all my might. Mithril’s spear blade turned into a silver arrow and flew to the target I was aiming for.
I believed in the distance and my strength. The javelin I threw for the first time in my life left a distance of 50 meters and flew away with a piercing sound.
The target was a stone statue resembling a caterpillar.
─Fuck!!
─Whoops!
The object of the worms’ faith was as soft as the depth of their faith.
When my spear was pierced, the stone statue was shattered with terrible cracks. The boulders resembling caterpillars became a puzzle that could never be put back together and rolled around the summoning circle.
The faith the worms believed in collapsed following the idol.
“─────K?”
Silence, and even greater silence!
The bugs that were chasing us as we ran looked at the stone statue’s words in dismay.
Did you say that the five stages of human acceptance of death are denial, anger, fear, bargaining, and resignation?
Was it the same for the baby bugs? They’ve entered a phase where they deny the fact that their beliefs are fucked up.
Their reaction was the bottomless pit of despair that idol groupies feel when they see a military service evader idol who died under the stage lights!
“——Korooooo!!!!”
“──Aararakororocococokoranararala!!!!”
Bastards of bugs forgetting to chase us and screaming! They bubbling purple foam from their snout or tearing off their antennae, expressing the severe damage to their mentality through performance art.
Like the world after the apocalypse, true destruction had arrived in a different world where only darkness remained. I followed Dana and humbly crossed myself.
“──KKK, You mother fuckers.”
All of your messiahs have been searched for.
Let me express my regret
“Kkk─rrrr─ooooo─N──!!!!!!”
─Booooo!!!
Drooling, the large intestine worm flew towards me.
For the first time, emotions other than the will to kill came to mind in the inorganic graffiti-like eyes. As the leader of the most outstanding bugs, he reached the second stage of death, anger, before anyone else.
What happens when microorganisms, whose pleasure is only eating and packing, gain faith and lose it!
The large intestine worm pricked up the hairs on its shell and roared to prove it.
“Do you pick? Go to Romania. Can you recommend another religion? Religion is a different world religion.”
I kicked the floor ─Quaang! The overwhelming leg force left shoe marks on the floor. Using that energy, Dash’s momentum increased.
I broke out of the ranks and ran forward. I was refraining from stepping out of the ranks alone because it was suicidal, but the situation has changed.
Because dragging aggro and being in the ranks is fucking troll.
“Kroooootttt!!”
As they got closer, the captain’s perceived flight speed was sucked madly. Does it make sense to power up because the fucking bastard is not even the main character? I took advantage of Dash’s speed and took steps.
“Vector-warigari!!”
─Papapat!
Dot the three directions to evade! A real master’s move!
With the skillful steps, the captain bug missed me. It’s too late to slow down! Hit the floor as it is and become like the death masks of dung flies that filled the walls of old snack bars!!
─Look ugh!!
My wish did not come true. The Captain Worm had activated its ability to pass through objects and disappeared through the ground!
“What a paging ability without that Sifal mother!!”
I had forgotten about the rituals and eating the heads of people alive because they were so shocking. That bastard’s specialty wasn’t just flying!
“Dig a hole and fly in the air, it’s like fucking shit!!”
An evil technique that makes my attack miss while watching the kill angle!
The captain worm, which used a mixture of the two techniques that stimulated my trauma as a Nintendo generation, came out from under my feet in 10 seconds!!
“The power of prediction and experience!!”
Seeing the surprise, I threw a punch with a cooldown of 0.1 seconds.
You won’t be able to kill a guy who couldn’t even get through with a spear with this one, but you can slow down the momentum of the attack—
─Look ugh!!
“Oh fuck me.”
It was also the object penetrating ability. The insect’s head, which should have been hit by my punch, came out like a hologram.
─Break! Mistaking the timing, the moment my body shook greatly, the small intestine worm penetrated my body and grabbed her collar with her hind legs.
While doing so, the ground recedes!
“Turn it off!!”
Grab-to-kill or drop-to-kill is this bastard’s killer pattern?
A baby bug copying the tactics of eagles! As someone who was once an aspiring veterinarian, it was impossible to forgive.
“Crazy bastard!! Do it to your God who has been searching for high!”
─Kidduk! I grabbed the leg holding my clothes and twisted it as hard as I could.
No matter how strong the outer skin is, it is the role of joints and muscles to withstand the pressure. Exposed to the power to break even rocks, the claws loosened.
Whiiing—Kooung!!
When I landed on the floor from a height of 10 meters, everyone else had arrived at the summoning circle. It seems that the other bugs were running hard while they couldn’t recover from the mind crash.
Damn I guess I was forced to ride the Insect-Roller Coaster.
This is why no one on Earth wants to be a tanker.
“Senior!! Come quickly!! I feel like I’m going to die of heart trembling!!”
Lalilura, who was crying, took her spear with 〈 puppet 〉 and threw it at me. I took it and ran.
─Booooong!! The captain bug launched a high-altitude raid again.
“Kooooorrrrooooo──!!”
10 meters to the summoning circle. Lalilura disappeared, enveloped in light so as not to be disturbed.
5 meters. Wings flapping like the sound of a helicopter.
3 meters. The strengthened five senses detected the presence of a hook approaching from a meter behind.
──So long-awaited 1 meter.
I swung the spear like a hammer while stepping on a backstep jump.
Kaaang-!!! Intestinal worms have a slow activation of their ability to penetrate objects. It was to catch the spear with the arm that was outstretched to kill me.
I politely raised my middle finger at the distorted bug-faced bastard. My feet touched the summoning circle.
“If you want hyeonpi, follow me. Sick.”
In that moment of brainstorming, light engulfed my vision.
