I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 147

148. [STAGE 5] It’s a Death Sentence!

When facing a monstrously difficult enemy.

In any game, what’s the recommended strategy?

‘Skip the patterns and one-turn kill, duh.’

Completely block the enemy’s tricky patterns and, during the exposed opening, unleash a burst of damage to finish them off as quickly as possible.

From MMORPGs to action games, it’s a widely used, typical trick.

Junior’s ultimate skill, [Elemental Disassembly], made this possible.

It’s ironic that the boss monster himself provided the idea for this ultimate skill.

Anyway, thanks to that, Sellendion was in a very vulnerable state, unable to use any magic or skills, and with his magic defense dropped below 0.

Now, it’s time to beat the crap out of him.

Flash-

BOOM!

Jupiter, who landed that monumental first blow, fell backward with a satisfied look.

“……”

I didn’t look at her. I bit my lip tightly, controlling my emotions. The war wasn’t over yet.

Well done, old soldier.

The only way I can repay your dedication is this.

To finish off this vampire bastard for good.

“Everyone-!”

I shouted at the top of my lungs to the party members surrounding Sellendion.

“Tear him apart!”

Uwaaaaaah-!

As if they had been waiting for it, everyone grabbed their weapons and rushed at Sellendion.

With his magic stat in the negative, Sellendion quickly exposed his core even to weak magical attacks.

The party members used their respective means to pull out his core and shatter it to pieces.

Kill him.

If he doesn’t die after being killed once, kill him twice.

If he doesn’t die after being killed twice, kill him three times.

Four times, five times, six times, seven times, eight times, nine times-

In an instant, Sellendion’s death count reached double digits.

《Kuh-?!》

Even as his body was being torn apart and reassembled, Sellendion was frantically rolling his eyes.

He seemed to be looking for a way to turn the situation around.

“You stupid bastard.”

If he hadn’t tried to hog all the lives for himself from the beginning, and instead revived his dead subordinates to fight together, then we might have lost.

But Sellendion tried to wage war against us alone, clinging to his extra lives.

It was the same in the game.

The moment his last subordinate fell, Sellendion started using the remaining lives of the legion only for himself.

Without realizing that was the point where he would be exploited.

“You were hailed as the lord of the legion or whatever, but no. You’re not a leader.”

There’s no way out.

I coldly spat out at Sellendion’s face, which was growing increasingly pale.

“You’re just… a childish brat playing king all by yourself.”

Lukas’s holy sword cuts him.

Evangeline’s holy lance pierces him.

Damian’s holy arrows are lodged in him.

God Hand and Body Bag drive in spare silver stakes.

Burnout takes Old Girl’s and Skull’s weapons and fires them alternately.

The three tanks of the Old Hunters, even with their critically injured bodies, feed him ancient weapons.

Lily throws fireballs.

Lily brings three fully charged magic cannons and fires them point-blank, one by one.

Lily drags out a flamethrower artifact… no, stop there! How many times are you going to kill him by yourself!

……

After even the reserve party members had each killed Sellendion once.

Just as the turn was going around again, starting with Lukas, to kill him, a new participant came up from below the wall.

“Your Highness…”

The vice-commander of the Twilight Legion approached, grinding his teeth.

His face, with blood-stained bandages wrapped around it, was filled with deep anger.

“Will you give us a chance too?”

I readily nodded.

“Of course.”

The more people beating up a boss monster, the more fun it is.

The party members handed out spare silver weapons to the surviving Twilight Legion.

The veterans rushed at Sellendion with hate-filled roars.

One by one, the ordinary soldiers who had lost their comrades also came up from below the wall. I nodded.

There are still plenty of silver weapons.

And this bastard still has plenty of lives.

《You, you insignificant beings! How dare you- Keheok!》

That bastard’s mouth is still alive until the end.

And so, Sellendion died and died and died endlessly.

***

The fun time is coming to an end.

Around the time we had killed Sellendion about a hundred times, I sensed the white ring floating above his head fading away.

The duration of [Elemental Disassembly] is running out.

“The happy beatdown time is coming to an end. Junior’s magic is about to expire.”

At my words, Lukas looked at me with a flustered expression.

“Huh? But we haven’t killed him completely yet.”

He still has about fifty lives left.

But killing him fifty times in the remaining time is impossible. There’s physically not enough time.

《Hahaha…!》

Sellendion, who had noticed our situation, let out a haggard laugh.

《I guess this is the end, human.》

“……”

《Still, you were quite impressive. There were few even in ancient times who pushed me this far-》

“What the hell are you babbling about, you moron?”

I chuckled.

“I said the magic duration is running out, not that we have no way to kill you.”

《What…》

I pulled back the soldiers, then squatted down in front of Sellendion, making eye contact with him.

Junior’s [Elemental Disassembly] is a skill that drops the target’s magic stat to 0 or below, up to a maximum of -99.

What does it mean for the magic stat to drop into the negative?

It means it becomes food for my 1st skill, [Eye of Command].

[Eye of Command (魔眼) [Magic Eye]]

– Dominates the consciousness of the target you make eye contact with, forcibly controlling them.

– The lower the target’s magic stat, the higher the skill’s success rate and the longer its duration.

※ The effect does not apply to allies with the passive skill [Unyielding Commander] active.

It’s clearly written here. The lower your magic stat, the easier it is for you to fall under my skill.

I gave him a sly smile.

“Since the fun time is over, now we have to have an even more fun time, right?”

[Using Eye of Command.]

[Please make eye contact with the target you wish to use the skill on.]

The world slowed down for a moment.

The light blue interface unique to skill usage spread densely over the world. I stared straight into the vampire king’s red eyes.

[Target Acquired: 1]

[Please state the command.]

“Sellendion.”

I extended my index finger forward and whispered.

“Kneel like a dog.”

Flash!

In an instant, magic drained from my entire body.

My heart throbbed. I skillfully wiped away the nosebleed that was gushing out. I’m used to this sensation now.

[Command Difficulty: Easy]

[Comparing the user’s intelligence stat with the target’s magic stat.]

[Determining the success rate. Starting resistance roll……]

Ding!

Less than a second after starting the resistance roll, a light blue flash appeared before my eyes, along with the sound effect indicating the completion of the judgment.

The result was obvious.

[Judgment Complete!]

>Success: 1

[Executing Forced Command.]

There’s no way it would fail.

The difficulty of the command isn’t the problem. His magic stat is abnormally low.

As the skill activated, Sellendion trembled as if he had been struck by lightning. Well, he actually was struck by lightning earlier.

《Wh, what…》

Soon, Sellendion slowly knelt before me, his forehead touching the ground.

A voice filled with shock leaked from Sellendion’s mouth.

《I… Sellendion, the lord of all vampires… being mind-controlled by a mere human…?》

“……”

《Such a thing… there’s no way it’s possible…!》

I muttered lowly to him as he trembled and tried to raise his head.

“Keep your eyes down.”

《…!》

Thud!

Sellendion’s forehead slammed into the ground again.

Seeing the mighty vampire king groveling so pathetically made me feel good. But I didn’t do this just to feel good.

“I’ll show you the new skill I acquired, vampire king.”

I smiled and pointed my fingertip at him again.

The 2nd skill I acquired is.

[Become Mine!]

– Permanently incorporates one monster under the effect of Eye of Command into your allies.

– The monster gains ‘Loyalty’. The higher the loyalty, the better they follow the player’s commands, but if it’s low, they can break free of the player’s control.

– The ‘Absolute Command’ can be used once on the monster.

– This skill can only be used once per stage.

That’s it.

A simple and powerful skill that definitively makes an enemy under my mind control my ally.

It’s good, but the conditions are a bit tricky.

No matter how low I set the command difficulty, most useful monsters have high magic stats, so they don’t easily fall under my mind control in the first place.

But thanks to Junior’s [Elemental Disassembly], even the mighty vampire king has come within the range of my skill.

Then?

I have to use it!

“Sellendion, you are…”

I uttered the activation phrase for the skill.

“Become mine!”

Whirr!

Then, a dog collar with dangling chains… or something like that, appeared in the air and snapped around Sellendion’s neck.

《Kuh?!》

Ding!

[Vampire Lord Sellendion (SSR) has been incorporated into your allies!]

– Current Loyalty: 0/100

– Absolute Command: 1 time

Wow, the skill effect is so straightforward. It worked right away.

《What is… this again…》

Sellendion, who was staring blankly at the leash around his neck, bared his fangs at me.

《Don’t be ridiculous, human! You think you can make me your dog?!》

“No, that’s not it.”

I snarled fiercely.

“You’re going to die.”

Certainly, if I were to incorporate Sellendion into my allies, he would be useful. He’s a damn strong bastard.

But Sellendion is a boss monster. And a legion commander-level entity at that.

It would be difficult to manage his loyalty, and it would be difficult to control him properly.

And above all.

“The morale of my allies that I would lose by keeping you alive is greater than the utility I would gain by keeping you alive.”

This guy has caused too much damage on this front. I don’t even know how many of my heroes have died to him and his legion.

It was the same in the game.

When I used various mind control skills to make an enemy my ally.

If that enemy was an entity that had caused great damage to our side, it negatively affected the morale of the human heroes and soldiers.

In the end, before I could even properly utilize that enemy, the human soldiers would desert or gain a bunch of negative traits, and the efficiency of the entire front would plummet.

It would lead to a result that was worse than not recruiting them at all.

‘The monster front is where humans stop monsters.’

Using barbarians to control barbarians is ultimately just a makeshift solution.

The main characters of the front are humans, after all. We must not forget this fact.

‘Now, after killing this bastard cleanly… I need to share the experience points.’

Actually, this is the big one.

If I incorporate him into my allies, I won’t get the boss kill experience. I don’t know how many levels we’ll gain if we kill you now?

I slowly got up and extended my hand forward, giving the command.

“I, Ash ‘Bonehater’ Everblack, commander of the Southern Imperial Front, hereby declare an immediate judgment on the vampire lord Sellendion, who has knelt like a dog and surrendered in humiliation.”

《No, I didn’t surrender-》

“Shut up! Sellendion, you…”

What is the most appropriate judgment for a mosquito that sucks blood and keeps you from sleeping on a summer night?

Of course, there’s only one.

“-It’s a death sentence!”

I shouted loudly.

“Death! Death! Death! Death-!”

I used the ‘Absolute Command’ on Sellendion, whose face had turned pale.

“Commit suicide, Sellendion! Every last one of your lives, all of them!”