I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 145

With the hidden trait [Fox Den] deactivated, Junior’s stats, no longer concealing her abilities, are as follows:

[Jupiter Junior (SSR)]

– Level: 50

– Title: None

– Class: Origin Disassembler

– Strength 15, Agility 17, Intelligence 50, Stamina 13, Magic Power 50

That’s right. Level 50.

In fact, Junior was already in the late 40s when she joined the front lines here.

To achieve this much while studying magic on her own… her talent was far more outstanding than I had imagined.

And she reached level 50 during the final dungeon clear.

Through her final third job advancement, she obtained her unique class – [Origin Disassembler] – and simultaneously awakened her ultimate skill.

[Skills]

> Passive: Element Harmonizer

> Skill 1: Element Blast

> Skill 2: Element Fusion

> Ultimate: Element Disassemble

The ultimate skill Junior awakened was [Element Disassemble].

After being severely affected by Selendion’s magic formula reverse engineering.

Inspired by that, Junior focused on ‘subtracting’ rather than ‘adding’ to her magic.

Disassembling formulas, removing components. Reversing the order of magic casting.

After subtracting and subtracting, she reached from Yang to Yin, beyond the void to nothingness, or something like that.

I don’t really understand what that means, but anyway, the effect of the ultimate skill is as follows:

[Element Disassemble]

– Interferes with all magical elements around the target, forcibly disassembling their bonds.

> The target loses control over magical elements. The target’s magic power stat drops below 0. It decreases up to -99.

A crazy debuff magic that reduces the target’s magic power stat to negative values.

‘Magic power stat determines the maximum MP [Magic Points] and magic defense.’

In other words, if Junior’s ultimate skill hits, it means that the enemy’s MP bar can be emptied and their magic defense can be reduced to negative values.

When the MP bar is empty, the target is forced into a ‘silenced’ state. Of course. How can you use any skills without MP? Both magic and skills are sealed.

If magic defense drops below 0? All magic attacks from our side deal true damage + additional damage.

It is truly a debuff skill specifically for boss battles.

‘Originally, the Selendion raid plan was much more complex and cumbersome.’

But with Junior bringing this skill, the story became much simpler. We just need to buy time until Junior can use this skill.

‘Buying that time was precarious, though…’

And what Junior was hiding last was.

– Equipped Traits (3/3)

> Fox Den

> Gold Rush (Cannot be deactivated)

> Limited Life (Cannot be deactivated)

This. The negative trait, [Limited Life].

[Limited Life]

– You don’t have much life left.

– Remaining: 1 year or less

※ The remaining days decrease each time your body is strained.

1 year or less……

Junior will die within a year. Moreover, the days decrease each time she overexerts herself.

Skills with heavy burdens like her ultimate will further shorten her life.

However,

Kwaaaaaa!

Junior is casting her ultimate skill.

I could only watch her, feeling both proud and sorry for her.

***

“Hoo……”

Junior opened her eyes.

A level 50 character, commonly known as an ‘Awakened One,’ has a unique mark appear somewhere on their body.

And from that mark, they manifest their ultimate skill.

Junior’s mark appeared on the back of her left hand.

She proudly raised her left arm with the burn mark, her hair swept by the wind, revealing her left face to the world.

“You said you wanted to die, Vampire King?”

Junior was unleashing her final technique that she had awakened.

“Because you have eternal life? Because you’re bored of living? Hey, I’m seriously asking you, stop talking nonsense.”

《……!》

The mage with a limited life rebuked the monster with eternal life.

“I want to live. I want to stay in this world for even one more day. But if I just lie down in my room and wait for the day I die, what will change?”

Even as she was spitting out blood from her nose and mouth, Junior smiled like a fox.

“So I decided. If my life is short anyway, I’ll burn it all until the very last moment.”

Life is like a flame.

Even if you spit blood and roll in the mud.

Even if your whole body, not just your left face, is covered in burns. Even if everything burns and only ashes remain.

It’s fine.

“I die because I want to live! To leave proof that I was alive in this world, I kill myself!”

Living is a painful thing.

Living fiercely is even more painful.

But this pain of magic consuming her body was proof of life for Junior.

That’s why, as she burned her own life to complete her ultimate magic, Junior smiled brightly.

“Hey, Vampire King. You greedily devour other people’s blood to prolong your wretched life, right?”

《Kuh……》

“I will prove it, even if I have to spit out every last drop of blood left in my body. That the mage, Jupiter Junior, existed in this world. And that she lived a very short but intense life.”

Flash-!

The magic was entering the final stage of completion. Junior gritted her teeth and shouted with difficulty.

“And this is the proof of my life-!”

Watching Junior’s ultimate skill being completed in the air, Selendion gritted his teeth.

《Don’t be ridiculous……》

Selendion hadn’t been idle either.

Selendion’s specialty, blood magic, is to nullify the opponent’s magic through formula reverse engineering.

Just by looking, he can grasp the opponent’s magic and turn it to zero.

Selendion had been trying this continuously.

However, [Element Disassemble], which Junior was casting, was a magic that utilized the principle of that reverse engineering to its limit.

Selendion’s formula reverse engineering itself doesn’t work.

Realizing this, Selendion urgently stretched out his left arm.

《Do you think I, Selendion, would show the disgrace of being defeated by magic based on a principle I created-!》

Even though his body was pierced by silver stakes, he could still cast attack magic.

A magic circle of blood magic appeared at Selendion’s fingertips. A cold, blood-colored torrent was shot from the Vampire King’s fingertips.

Kwaaaaaa-!

Watching this, the human commander, Ash, shouted.

“Block it! Use all means to protect Junior!”

The first to block Selendion’s blood magic with her body was Evangeline.

“Woooah-!”

Ignoring her previous injuries, Evangeline willingly threw herself in front of the storm of blood magic.

Her shield was already tattered, so she hastily held up another soldier’s shield she had picked up from the ground.

Kugwagwang!

“Uwaaaak!”

She managed to hold on for a moment, but the shield soon exploded and shattered.

Evangeline, who had been thrown away, rolled dozens of times on the castle wall floor before crashing into a corner of the wall.

The blood magic that followed was blocked by Lucas.

“Huuup-!”

Lucas, holding his breath, rushed forward and extended his greatsword forward.

Chaeeeng-!

It sounded as if swords had collided.

The tip of the greatsword withstood the blood magic, splitting it to the left and right. Lucas gritted his teeth, enduring the blood-colored spray with his whole body.

But a greatsword is not defensive equipment.

It can’t continuously block the enemy’s magic, even for a short time. Eventually, the blood-colored torrent engulfed the greatsword and covered Lucas.

Kwagwagwang!

“Kuh!”

Only after enduring damage close to lethal did Lucas roll to the side.

It was possible because of his passive skill [Man of Steel], which prevents instant death.

Flash!

Pshoo! Pshoo!

At that moment, Ash’s magic blades and Damian’s arrows flew towards Selendion simultaneously.

Blood splattered as Selendion’s left arm was sliced into pieces.

There was no time to regenerate. Selendion gritted his teeth and stretched out his right arm.

《Not yet-!》

Kwaaaaaa!

The magic circle unfolded again, and a blood-colored torrent poured out.

Selendion’s blood magic was first shot towards Ash and Damian.

Ash quickly tried to block it by summoning an automatic defense turret, but the turret was swept away by the magic during its summoning and was destroyed.

Kugwagwang!

Ash and Damian, caught in the explosion, were thrown away without even screaming.

Selendion turned his target back to Junior. But by then, others were standing in his path.

Thud! Thud!

The 10 members of Lily and Margherita’s reserve party.

They were holding the provided golem gauntlets like shields, pushing them forward and holding on.

“Anti-missile barrier artifact, activate!”

As Lily activated the defense artifact, Margherita cast a shield magic.

“May there be the grace of light-!”

A thick shield magic was cast on the bodies of the 10 reserve party members simultaneously.

Shield magic, anti-missile barrier artifact, golem gauntlet shields.

The Vampire King’s blood magic poured down on the reserve party, who had fortified their defenses.

Kugwagwagwang-!

“Keheok?!”

“Kkuaaaa!”

The reserve party members were thrown back like bowling pins, spitting blood.

When the thick blood mist cleared, all the other members were down, and only Lily was standing, holding her arms forward.

In front of Lily, a faint, flickering flame barrier remained.

“It’s, the limit……”

Thud!

But Lily also lost consciousness immediately and collapsed forward.

Now, Junior’s magic was less than ten seconds away from completion.

Crack, crack-

Selendion, who had risen, breaking the silver stakes in half, tried to shoot magic with his right arm again.

At that moment.

“I’ve been waiting for this, vampire-!”

The three tanks of the Old Hunters, who had been waiting for an opportunity, rushed in and threw themselves at Selendion.

They were veterans who had been injured in the previous battle. Selendion tried to ignore them.

However.

《……!》

Seeing the equipment in their hands, he had to block it.

In the hands of the three Old Hunter tanks were a cyan silver dagger, a cyan flame, and a stone tablet written in ancient language.

“Does it look familiar, you monster?”

“Moon silver, a flame that purifies evil, and an ancient magic inscription!”

“We brought them to kill you-!”

They were weapons used by ancient humans when fighting vampires.

They were the very weapons that Selendion had been wary of when he first saw the walls of Crossroads.

The Old Hunters were all mercenaries who had a grudge against vampires. They had prepared this equipment from the beginning.

《Kuh-?!》

Inevitably, Selendion had to swing the magic that had formed in his right hand towards them.

Puhbububung!

With a terrible explosion, the three Old Hunter tanks were torn to pieces.

Selendion’s eyes darted around. Junior’s magic would be completed in just a few seconds.

‘I can block it!’

There was no time to stretch out his hand. Selendion widened his eyes and floated a magic circle in front of him.

Chwarururuk-!

In less than a second, dozens of blood magic circles were drawn in front of Selendion, and immediately hundreds of blood bullets were shot forward.

The space in front of Junior was empty. There were no more defenders to protect Junior.

Having seized the victory, Selendion smiled.

***

The Gold Rush chases after what shines.

***

So Jupiter ran.

Because what shines more than anything else in this world is there.

***

“Don’t touch my gold……”

Chwaak-!

Jupiter, who had blocked Junior’s path, unleashed lightning with a shout.

“Don’t lay your filthy hands on it-!”

Kugwagwagwang!

Hundreds of blood bullets and lightning collided, causing a thick explosion.