I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 140

A little while ago.

Right after the regular vampires jumped over the castle walls.

Someone stood in the way of Alpha and Beta, who were slowly trying to follow behind.

Thud-

《Hmm?》

Alpha scoffed, scanning the opponent blocking their path.

《Even so, this is a bit much.》

“……”

《Me, Alpha, the first subordinate of the great No Life King… are you saying a mere knight is blocking me?》

The one standing in front of Alpha was Evangeline.

Clank!

Wearing bulky armor that didn’t suit her small frame, Evangeline readjusted her shield with her usual sullen expression.

Alpha clicked his tongue.

《And they send out such a young whelp. Do you not have anyone of worth on your side?》

“Do vampires fight with their tongues instead of their bodies?”

Evangeline grinned, twirling her massive cavalry spear before settling into a stance.

“Stop acting like you’re scared and just come at me. I’ll flatten you like toast my senior baked.”

《It seems you have some talent, but…》

Swish-

Behind the sneering Alpha, a red magic circle unfolded like a flower bud.

《It seems you haven’t yet learned the ability to gauge your opponent’s capabilities.》

The next moment, the magic circles that had been like flower buds bloomed all at once.

Pepepepeeng-!

From the countless magic circles that opened their mouths, blood-red magic flashed, firing hundreds of blood bullets.

Alpha was confident.

With the power of the magic he unleashed, he could shred any knight, no matter how thick their armor.

However.

Tatatatat-!

《……?!》

Fast.

Evangeline ran across the castle walls as if flying, with a speed that was unbelievable for someone wearing such heavy armor.

Kugwagwagwang!

The blood bullets that exploded right behind the young knight’s heels scattered and detonated.

However, Evangeline didn’t even blink, running in a zigzag pattern, narrowly avoiding the attacks.

《What is this-》

Evangeline instantly reached Alpha’s face, who was in shock.

“For someone who’s lived quite a while…”

The girl had a wicked smile unique to teenagers.

“It seems you don’t know how to gauge your opponent’s capabilities!”

Thwack-!

The silver-coated cavalry spear tore through the air and thrust forward.

But just before the spear tip could reach, Alpha deployed a blood magic barrier in front of him.

While the barrier shattered, buying him time, Alpha barely managed to roll to the side to evade.

《Tch…! How unsightly!》

Alpha, who had rolled on the ground, shuddered.

Evangeline clicked her tongue, as if disappointed, and shook off the spear tip.

“Tch, this armor is good and sturdy, but it slows down my weapon swings…”

Evangeline’s armor, the Golem Armor, had excellent physical and magical defense, but it was a double-edged sword that penalized attack and movement speed.

However, Evangeline ignored the movement speed reduction with her unique trait [Unstoppable].

She maintained her unique, squirrel-like agility.

However, the attack speed reduction was unavoidable, and the cavalry spear’s speed was noticeably slower than usual.

Alpha could easily notice this. This young knight was much more agile than she appeared.

‘Then, I just need to reduce the power of the blood magic and increase the firing speed!’

Behind Alpha, blood magic circles unfolded again in droves.

Pepepepeeng-!

Hundreds of blood bullets were fired again. This time, the power of each one was reduced, but the speed was significantly increased.

However,

Pubeobeobeong-!

This time, Evangeline held her shield forward and charged straight ahead.

《What…?》

The blood bullets that poured like rain onto the shield exploded like fireworks.

Breaking through the thick blood mist created by the exploding blood bullets, Evangeline charged like a tank.

Behind the shield, Evangeline grinned.

“If you lower the power, I can just block it!”

First damage reduction through the shield.

Second damage nullification with the Golem Armor’s massive magic defense.

And the remaining damage was absorbed with her 1st skill [Damage Save]!

Because Alpha had lowered the individual damage of the blood bullets, she could easily withstand hundreds of them by reducing and nullifying the damage with her shield and armor.

“It was good that you used your head to cheat, you mosquito geezer!”

She surged to Alpha’s face again.

Evangeline, sticking out her tongue, had her spear tip glow white-hot.

“That’s the wrong answer~!”

Thwack-!

The damage she had stored while blocking hundreds of blood bullets was fired back at Alpha through Evangeline’s 2nd skill [Damage Payback].

***

On the opposite side of the castle wall.

“……”

《…….》

Whish-

Amidst the eerie wind, Lucas and Beta, facing each other, silently glared at one another.

Lucas had his longsword gripped in both hands, lowered, and Beta also had her axe held in both hands, lowered.

The knight and the monster stood still, about ten steps apart, quietly reading each other’s energy.

“……”

《…….》

There were no openings.

The stances of the human and vampire, who had trained their bodies to the limit, were close to perfect.

Since they judged that the one who charged first would be at a disadvantage, they both remained still.

《……Krrrk.》

The one who couldn’t endure it and changed her stance first was Beta.

More than anything, what Beta couldn’t stand was Lucas’s cold and aloof, statue-like face.

How dare a lowly human act like an equal warrior and stand there, holding his ground.

She wanted to trample that neat face as soon as possible… Beta thought to herself.

And a skilled warrior moves their body at the same time as their thoughts.

Thwack-!

At the same time as Beta’s thigh muscles swelled like balloons, Beta’s body, kicking off the ground, surged forward like a ray of light.

The ten-step gap was reduced to one step in the next moment.

Kiiiiiing-!

A whirlwind wrapped around the axe that was ringing in her ears.

Beta’s arm muscles, gripping the axe, swelled as if they would burst through her maid outfit.

She would honestly bring down the immense power contained in the axe.

Kugwagwagwang!

The axe that struck the castle wall shattered the outer wall to pieces.

The solid bricks were crushed into sand, the iron plates were split, and the steel bars were bent like taffy.

It was an enormous power, as if it had been hit by a siege weapon.

But the fact that the axe hit the castle wall meant that the knight had evaded it.

《……!》

Looking at the empty space where her axe had struck, the vampire’s red eyes turned sharply to the side.

“……”

Lucas stood there, still expressionless.

Just one step from the point of impact. He had evaded Beta’s attack by moving just one step.

And still with an expressionless face, he was staring down at Beta as if looking down on her.

It was a contemptuous gaze, as if looking at a bug.

《Krrk.》

Beta’s brow furrowed.

Annoying.

The bug should be this human knight. She wanted to dig out those blue eyes that seemed to look down on her and tear them apart.

Kiiing-!

So she swung the axe horizontally towards the knight’s face.

It was a horizontal slash with tremendous speed, coming from overwhelming strength without any prior movement.

But, he evaded it.

Lucas moved his body like a feather, narrowly avoiding Beta’s axe.

Beta swung more than five attacks in an instant, but Lucas evaded them all with ease, using only minimal movements.

And.

Clang-!

For the first time, he brought his sword against Beta’s axe strike.

He accurately struck the side of the axe with his sword, twisting the direction of the axe.

Lucas didn’t move his feet, and Beta’s axe, with its trajectory twisted, was stuck next to Lucas’s foot.

《……!》

“Slow. Much slower than your king.”

Lucas muttered emotionlessly to Beta, whose eyes were wide open.

“This isn’t enough training. I’d like you to be faster.”

Beta bared her fangs and exhaled white breath. Lucas narrowed his eyes, coldly staring at the enemy.

“Ah, could this be the end of your abilities?”

The unique light of skill activation began to form on the silver longsword in the knight’s hand. It was his 1st skill [Willpower Strike].

The number of monsters he had cut down with this skill already exceeded one hundred.

Since it was a stacking skill that grew stronger with the number of monsters killed, the power of one hundred stacks of [Willpower Strike] was….

“Then you’ll die.”

It was not inferior to that of a monster.

Kugwagwagwagwang-!

Lucas’s sword was swung down from above, and the bricks on the castle wall soared into the sky all at once.

***

Evangeline widened her eyes.

The spear tip she had thrust out was stopped in mid-air.

“Huh?”

When she came to her senses, Evangeline’s whole body was immobile, as if she were tightly bound by a spider web. She was stuck in the same position as when she had thrust out her spear.

“What is this? What?”

When Evangeline urgently looked around, she saw a thick blood mist.

It was the blood mist that had spread around her as the blocked blood bullets had exploded.

This was what had bound Evangeline’s whole body like a spider web.

《Battles begin with groundwork, young human.》

Alpha sneered, approaching Evangeline, who was unable to move. The vampire’s long fangs gleamed.

《Did you think I scattered the blood bullets without any meaning? How naive.》

“L-let…! Let me go!”

《Sucking the blood of a child isn’t really my taste, but…》

Alpha’s hand came up to the neck part of Evangeline’s armor. His fingertips glowed red, ready to dismantle the armor.

《Taking the life of a talented human is quite enjoyable.》

“……!”

Thud-!

The neck armor was instantly torn off by the direct hit of blood magic. Evangeline’s slender, white neck was exposed between the armor.

《Let’s have a good meal. Your life.》

After smacking his lips, Alpha brought his fangs to Evangeline’s neck.

Splat!

Blood splattered.

***

Right after swinging his sword down, Lucas shuddered.

In the thick smoke caused by his sword strike… the sword wouldn’t budge.

‘What?’

A moment later, when the smoke cleared, Lucas could see the reason.

She had grabbed it.

Beta had grabbed Lucas’s sword with her left hand.

No, it was difficult to say she had grabbed it exactly.

Lucas’s sword had split Beta’s left hand, passed her elbow, and pierced into her forearm.

But she was regenerating.

Lucas’s longsword was the [Immortal Silver Longsword], alchemized with devil’s mistletoe.

The healing reduction rate applied to this weapon, which was the natural enemy of vampires, was a whopping 75 percent.

But Beta’s powerful regeneration, combined with her innate recovery and physical enhancement, was restoring her severed arm with the remaining 25 percent.

So… she had grabbed it.

Between the thick muscles that had bulged out from Beta’s forearm. Lucas’s longsword was trapped.

Heh.

Beta raised both corners of her mouth and smiled like a monster.

And she made a small mouth shape. Lucas could clearly read that mouth shape.

You. Can’t. Evade. This.

Thwack-!

The axe in Beta’s right hand split Lucas’s chest open.