I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 126

Evangeline had broken four SSR-grade equipment pieces so far.

First, the cavalry spear and shield she received as a graduation gift from the academy.

I broke that one. My Lucky Strike, which I swung to subdue something, hit a 777 jackpot.

Next, the cavalry spear and shield set she bought from the dungeon merchant NPC, No Name. [Demon of the Spear] and [Giant of the Shield].

That one got smashed while the two of us were taking down 50 golems.

‘It seems like everything is related to me.’

Anyway, all four pieces of equipment were broken in unavoidable(?) situations.

I requested the smithy to disassemble these four broken pieces of equipment.

As a result, I was lucky enough to recover one SSR-grade magic core. I used this magic core to commission the manufacture of armor.

Since the magic core came from disassembling Evangeline’s equipment, I naturally had armor made for Evangeline.

“And what was made from that is!”

After a long introduction, I whipped off the wrapping of the armor placed next to me.

“This is it! The Golem Armor!”

“……”

Evangeline stared at the armor I revealed, her small mouth agape.

“What is that?”

“Heh heh. Are you so moved, junior? Well, this is the armor I decided on and ordered after much deliberation for you. Go ahead! You can shed tears of gratitude for your senior’s consideration.”

“No, that’s not it.”

Evangeline pointed at the armor and shouted.

“It’s uglyyyy!”

This kid, calling it ugly is too much. How upset would the armor be if it heard that?

“Can you at least say it looks sturdy?”

“No, there’s a limit to how sturdy something can look! Is this some kind of wearable tower?”

Evangeline thumped the heavy armor’s gauntlet with her hand. Immediately after, she recoiled in horror.

“It’s scary hard! What is it!”

“Heh heh… It’s the result of alchemists diligently researching golem armor fragments? Of course, it’s sturdy.”

I grinned slyly and stood next to the armor, which was covered in gauntlets.

It certainly had a crude… no, a weighty appearance with gauntlet plates attached all over.

[Golem Armor (SSR) Lv.35]

– Category: Armor

– Defense: 70-80

– Durability: 40/40

– Health +25

– Each additional armor gauntlet increases the wearer’s physical and magical resistance by 5 percent. (Total 50 percent)

– Each additional armor gauntlet decreases the wearer’s movement and attack speed by 2 percent. (Total 20 percent)

It was the result of researching ‘Golem Legion Armor Fragments’ obtained from defeating the golem legion in Stage 3.

It became possible to manufacture armor with superior defense compared to ordinary metal.

‘Golem armor has advantages in physical and magical resistance, but it’s terribly heavy, so it has penalties on movement and attack speed.’

Usually, to reduce these penalties, they only mix one or two parts into the armor.

But here, a reverse idea.

‘What if we made armor completely covered in golem armor?’

That was this armor, the Golem Armor.

It gains tremendous physical and magical resistance, but in return, it gets huge penalties to movement and attack speed.

In particular, the decrease in movement speed is fatal in fierce battles.

‘But here, Evangeline’s trait [Unstoppable] activates!’

Evangeline’s trait [Unstoppable] has 100 percent resistance to movement impairing status effects.

Thanks to this, Evangeline can ignore the movement speed penalty attached to this armor.

In other words, she only receives the attack speed penalty, but her physical and magical defense is greatly boosted.

This makes it equipment where the advantages outweigh the penalties.

‘It’s the best armor for Evangeline in the early to mid-game.’

Although she has skills that help with attack, Evangeline is ultimately a pure tank.

She has to draw the enemy’s attention in the middle of the enemy lines and take their attacks with her body.

I’ve been uneasy watching her perform acrobatics with just a shield, but if she wears this sturdy armor, I’ll feel a little more at ease.

“……It’s thick.”

Evangeline, who had finally put on the armor, mumbled while waddling.

The huge and thick armor didn’t suit Evangeline’s small frame at all.

It was like a festival part-timer waddling around in an ill-fitting mascot costume…?

“What is thiiiis……”

Evangeline looked like she was about to cry, but I was satisfied and nodded.

‘A front-line tank should show off this reliable, hearty appearance.’

Seeing her frail limbs, which looked like they would break with a single touch, taking on the attacks of monsters, my senior heart has been aching. Now, that won’t happen anymore, right?

“As you can see, these additional gauntlets attached to the basic armor can be detached.”

I explained, tapping the additional gauntlets attached all over her body. Evangeline was looking at me with hollow eyes, as I was very excited.

“If many additional gauntlets are damaged during battle, you can detach them by pressing this connection point… Then, your defense will decrease, but your mobility will increase.”

The Golem Armor’s additional gauntlet parts can be purged, that is, detached.

The reason I could make it right away without measuring the size was because of this.

Because it’s armor in the form of parts attached together. It’s a free size.

‘It’s a bit… big for a free size, though…’

You’ll grow taller, Evangeline. Then it’ll fit better.

Evangeline, who had been listening to my long explanation, muttered softly.

“It’s dead……”

“Huh? What is?”

“The fantasy I had about my first armor.”

“You rascal. Don’t worry about the looks of armor. Practicality is the most important.”

It is a bit too bulky, but it’s sturdy, okay?

“Aish, these days, the trend for knights is to look cool with armor! Wearing shiny armor! Wearing cool helmets! And fluttering capes!”

Evangeline shouted, then lowered her head.

“Can you promise me just one thing, senior?”

“What?”

“Next time I get different armor, please make it something really pretty.”

“Ummm.”

It’s a story for later, but your final armor, [Snow White], is incredibly beautiful.

So much so that a screenshot of you wearing it was used as a promotional image for this game.

“Okay, okay. I promise. But for now, you have to roll around with vampires. So, bear with it and wear that.”

“I’m really… going to exterminate the vampires……”

An unprecedented fighting spirit was boiling in Evangeline’s eyes.

But seeing her like that while waddling in the armor is a bit funny… no, it’s cool.

I turned my gaze away from the huffing Evangeline and looked at the head of the blacksmith’s guild.

“What about the golem armor to be given to the regular soldiers?”

“Currently, half of the smithy’s facilities are dedicated to producing golem armor. It will be possible to distribute it to everyone before the defense begins.”

“Good.”

It was decided to give each regular soldier one part of golem armor.

So that they could attach it to the desired part of their armor or add it to their shield.

‘Even if it seems like nothing, these upgrades must be steadily accumulated one by one.’

If hero characters are hammers, then regular soldiers are anvils.

You need an anvil to swing a hammer.

And both must be sturdy to turn the monsters in between into a bloody mess.

We must steadily strengthen the equipment of regular soldiers as much as we take care of the equipment of heroes.

It feels like I’m making too much fuss over just one armor part.

After giving additional instructions to the head of the blacksmith’s guild, I turned to my party members.

“There will be a meeting tonight to discuss the tactics for this defense.”

Evangeline, who was waddling in her new armor, Lucas, who was openly laughing at her (hey, you), and Damian, who was covering his mouth and laughing (hey, you 2), looked at me.

“Everyone, rest and come to the lord’s mansion by 6 PM.”

I smiled.

“Let’s talk while having a meal together.”

This defense will be a fierce and difficult battle.

I was planning to explain the strategy while feeding them something delicious.

***

Since this meeting was also a place to announce the overall defense strategy, I went around the city and summoned the other party members as well.

The Dion Mercenary Company was in the barracks.

It was a little past lunchtime, and they were training, sweating profusely, in the training grounds inside the barracks.

“One!”

“Two!”

“Three!”

“Defense is weak! One more time!”

Two rogues were attacking three warriors holding shields.

The warriors were coordinating their shields to prevent the defense from being breached, and the rogues were also attacking together to break through the defense.

Even though they were only using wooden swords and wooden shields, a fierce battle was taking place.

“Looks good.”

As I muttered, Dion, who had finally noticed my visit, was startled.

“Ah, Your Highness, you’ve arrived!”

“Huh?!”

“You’ve arrived, Lord!”

The five of them, who had lowered their shields and wooden swords, rushed to me and bowed their heads. I smiled gently.

“I’m sorry to interrupt your training. It looked like you were having a good time.”

“Oh, no! I’m embarrassed that you saw something you shouldn’t have.”

Dion was genuinely embarrassed, but I was inwardly reassessing them.

‘They’re doing their own party coordination training without being told to do so.’

They are all N-grade heroes. They don’t have any skills or specs to boast about.

In the end, there isn’t much they can show, and one of them is their strong teamwork.

‘If five people can attack and defend as one, they can fully cover the limitations of N-grade, low levels, and specs.’

They know exactly which direction they need to go.

Dion looked at his party members and smiled awkwardly.

“The other heroes under Your Highness are all very talented, but we are ordinary. We can’t be a burden. We have to train to the death.”

“……”

I didn’t bother to deny it.

To be competitive. And to survive on the battlefield. They have to continue their bone-grinding efforts.

“There will be a meeting at the lord’s mansion at 6 PM tonight.”

I said, patting each of the five members of the Dion Mercenary Company on the shoulder.

“Sweat it out and take a shower. You worked hard, so you should eat something delicious.”

***

The Shadow Unit was staying in a separate building a little away from the lord’s mansion.

Since they were elves, they were conscious of other people’s gazes. So, I just gave them a separate building.

Swish! Pshoo pshoo!

Behind the separate building, there was an archery range that had been set up at some point.

Targets were scattered around, and scarecrows with arrows stuck in them were everywhere.

When three archers shot arrows, two mages moved the targets to help with the training.

Their training is very systematic.

“Old Girl. Your long-range shooting accuracy is still low. Raise it by one point today. Skull. Your close-range shooting speed is slow. Start reaction speed training from the beginning. Burnout. What about you… are you just going to keep bombing? If that’s all you can do, you’ll die later.”

God Hand, who was giving feedback to the archers, turned to me as if he had sensed my presence.

“Your Highness, you’ve arrived.”

“Everyone is working hard.”

“You’ve arrived, Your Highness!”

“You’ve arrived!”

The rest of the Shadow Unit members bowed to me.

Only Old Girl waved her hand slightly. Hmm. She’s still the same.

I stared at God Hand’s two hands.

“Are your hands okay?”

“Of course. I’m in perfect condition.”

“That’s good. You’ll have to use your body a bit starting tomorrow.”

I gestured to Lucas, who had followed me.

Lucas jumped onto the cart he had pulled behind the carriage and opened the box on the cart.

Squeak-

Inside the box, there was a pile of shiny gray metal.

Silver ingots.

“This is yours, God Hand.”

I brought all the leftovers from making equipment.

“…With this amount of silver, you could hire an army, not just the five of us.”

God Hand, who was flustered, looked at me.

“Why are you giving this to us?”

“You’ve heard that the opponent in this defense is a vampire, right?”

I grinned.

“And the weakness of those vampires is this silver. God Hand, you are a metal manipulator who can freely handle metal.”

“… !”

“How about it? With this amount of silver, you can cause quite a stir against vampires, right?”

Only then did God Hand, who had understood my intention, smile faintly.

“What would you like me to do, Your Highness?”

“Come to the main building’s dining hall by 6 PM. Let’s talk while having a meal… Ah.”

I winked at the little squad members.

“Is there anything you want to eat for dinner? If there is, tell me now.”

Then the three archers immediately raised their hands, their eyes sparkling. These gluttonous little kids.

***

I sent someone to call Junior separately, and the answer came back that he would come by 6 PM.

With this, all the party members were summoned.

I decided to rest a bit before everyone gathered. I sat on the bed in my room and stared blankly into the air.

“……”

A system window was floating in front of my eyes.

[Enemy Information – STAGE 5]

– Lv.? Vampire Lord: 1

– Lv.? Vampire General: 2

– Lv.? Vampire: 7

– Lv.25 Fallen Blood: 20

– Lv.20 Frost Ghoul: 970

– Time until start: 9 days

‘They’re coming.’

I felt dizzy looking at the enemy information window that had unfolded. I then turned off the system window.

‘They’re getting closer.’

This stage is difficult.

I had been preparing for the defense with a lot of bravado, but I knew from experience.

This stage will be terribly harsh.

But knowing that it cannot be avoided, I have no choice but to open my eyes wide and stare at the enemy’s wave.

‘Nothing changes. Every defense, no, every moment, is a decisive battle.’

I throw a hand, betting the fate of the world.

As always, that is what I have to do.