I Became The Tyrant Of A Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 201

The dark event for this stage is as follows:

[Activated Dark Event: Boss Enhancement I]

> A random enhancement trait is granted to the boss monster.

So, we won’t know what kind of enhancement trait it got until we actually face it.

Moreover, it hasn’t been confirmed which of the slime horde’s monsters has stepped up as the boss yet.

‘Those slimes are incredibly diverse…’

Which one was chosen as the boss monster? A Slime King? A Slime General? Or, if we’re really unlucky, a Slime Abomination?

Still, given the current situation, it seems like we can handle most things…

Thump.

“?”

Thump.

“Hmm?”

…It sounds like I’m hearing something ominous.

Thump-!

A series of heavy, unidentified booms echoed from the end of the right wall. The heroes, soldiers, and I all looked in that direction at once.

Nothing is visible.

Thud!

However, an invisible ‘something’ is climbing the wall.

The iron plates of the right wall are being crushed and warped as if by a massive weight. What is this…?

‘There aren’t any slime-type monsters with the ability to turn invisible, are there?’

Then, could it be—that the boss monster was granted ‘stealth’ as a dark event enhancement!

“Damien! Can you see that?”

I urgently called for Damien, but he only frowned and groaned, his eyes narrowed.

“Ah, no. I can’t detect it either. I know something’s there, but…”

Even [Thousand-Mile Eyes] can’t identify it? Just how high-level is this stealth?

But we can’t just stand idly by. I gave the order urgently.

“Fire at that area!”

Damien immediately drew Black Queen and aimed at the invisible something.

“My gun’s tip shines… and the trigger delivers judgment.”

Forget the chuunibyou [a Japanese term for someone who acts like a delusional teenager] lines, just shoot already!

Thwack-!

The magic bullet fired from Black Queen’s muzzle tore through space and surged forward. The magic bullet accurately struck the ‘something’ that was climbing the right wall.

Splat!

Then, the invisible ‘something’s’ stealth was dispelled, and its true form was revealed.

Booo-ooo!

It was a gigantic… truly gigantic slime.

Inside the massive, streamlined body of the gelatinous substance, hundreds, thousands of colors swirled. A slime almost the size of a small hill.

On top of that massive body, a golden crown made of magic was slowly rotating.

‘A giant slime wearing a golden crown?’

My jaw dropped.

“Th-this monster bastard… !”

[Enemy Information – STAGE 8]

– Lv.35 Slime Emperor: 1

– Lv.30 Acid Slime: 26

– Lv.25 Tricolor Slime: 33

“It’s a Slime Emperor…?!”

I’ve rarely seen one even while playing [the game], it’s the highest-tier monster among all slime-type monsters!

‘And they gave this guy stealth as a dark event enhancement? Are they insane?!’

Besides, even if it was granted stealth, a normal slime monster should have come with the rest of the horde.

Did it maintain its secrecy while its subordinates were dying, secretly maneuver around the battlefield, and climb the wall just because it got stealth?

Is this even something a slime-type monster can do?

“This is ridiculous, you bastards-!”

Booo-oooo!

The Slime Emperor, making a sound similar to an elephant’s roar, leaped onto the wall.

I shouted at the top of my lungs.

“Artillery! Everyone retreat-!”

Kuwagwagwang!

The Slime Emperor climbed onto the wall, smashing all the artillery emplacements on the right wall.

The artillerymen screamed in unison and began to flee inside the wall.

I broke out in a cold sweat, flustered by the sudden situation, but there’s still a way.

“Lily! Use [Start Over!]!”

“Yes!”

At my command, the alchemists of the artifact team struggled to pull out a metal plate about the size of a human torso.

It was the SSR-grade [Super Super Rare] water-type artifact, [Start Over!], that I got from the box after clearing stage 5.

If you shine this huge golden metal plate on an enemy, you can forcibly teleport them to the wave start point.

It has a limit of once per stage, but it’s an extremely useful artifact in certain situations. Like right now!

“Artifact, activating-!”

The alchemists aimed the metal plate at the Slime Emperor and activated the artifact.

Whoo-oong-!

The metal plate glowed white. Soon, with a ‘click!’ sound, it would capture the enemy monster and send it flying to the wave start point.

But at that moment,

Squish!

The Slime Emperor’s body rippled like a water droplet, and small slimes were spewed out from within.

It was the Slime Emperor’s power, slime summoning.

The small slimes, shot out like cannonballs, poured down on the artifact team,

Click-!

Completely blocking the view of [Start Over!].

The swarm of small slimes caught in the artifact were forcibly teleported to the wave start point in an instant, but the Slime Emperor remained unscathed in its place.

I gritted my teeth.

There’s no other way. We have to kill it here.

“Jeeeeeeen-zaaaaaang!”

The absurd game difficulty.

My own failure to consider stealth among the dark event enhancement traits.

And, the monster in front of me.

I cursed at all three and thrust my hand forward.

“All personnel capable of melee combat, grab your blunt weapons and shields and come out! We will stop it on the wall no matter what!”

Evangeline and Lucas are already rushing forward.

After giving the order to hold the monster with all available melee forces, I looked at the mages.

“Let me say this first. The Slime Emperor is practically immune to elemental magic.”

The Slime Emperor possesses all the characteristics of every type of slime in its body.

In other words, it also possesses all the elements that other elemental slimes have: fire, water, lightning, wind, ice… and so on.

If you attack with elemental magic, it will change the element it has at that moment to reduce the damage.

Non-elemental, or light or dark magic, is somewhat effective, but there are no mages with those abilities here.

At this rate, the mages, our strongest damage dealers, will have to just watch without being able to do anything.

And if that happens, we won’t have enough damage to kill it.

I can’t let that happen.

“Junior. Prepare to use your ultimate skill, [Elemental Disassembly].”

Junior’s ultimate skill, which grinds down the target’s magic stat to negative values, should be able to ignore any changes in element and inflict magic damage.

We’ll grind down the Slime Emperor’s magic stat with Junior’s ultimate skill, and then finish it off with Reina’s powerful wind magic.

That was the way I thought we could finish it off.

Then, Junior replied with a dismayed look.

“I’m truly ashamed to say this, Your Highness… but I overdid it with the magic barrage just now, so I need time to recover.”

Junior’s face is pale. He seems to be in bad shape from overexertion. But it’s not like there’s no other way.

“Reina, assist Junior.”

Both mages made disgusted faces at my words. But I gave them a stern warning with a serious face.

“Stop complaining and do as I say. Can’t you see the situation? The enemy boss monster is on the wall. If we can’t stop it here, this city is finished!”

Melee combat has already begun on the other side of the wall.

Booo-ooo!

Long tentacles stretched out from the Slime Emperor’s massive body, lashing out at the humans.

I could see shield soldiers being swept away and falling with screams.

“Junior, cast your magic as quickly as possible. Recover your magic by using the essence gathered in your staff. Understand?”

“…I understand, Your Highness.”

“Reina. Assist Junior with all your power. And when the assistance is over and Junior uses [Elemental Disassembly], attack the Slime Emperor without delay.”

Reina asked with a face that showed she didn’t understand.

“What is this brat’s magic that it can break through that monster’s thick magic defense?”

“You’ll see for yourself.”

Reina reluctantly placed her hand on Junior’s shoulder and helped with the magic casting. Other mages in Reina’s party also assisted.

“Hoo… Here I go!”

Whoo-oong!

Junior began to prepare [Elemental Disassembly].

It’s a magic that takes a lot of time, so we have to hold off the Slime Emperor in the meantime.

“Damien!”

I called for the sniper.

“Can you see its core?”

Damien, who was aiming at the Slime Emperor with his gun, muttered in a trembling voice.

“No, Your Highness. I can’t see its core even with my eyes. No… there are too many cores. Almost its entire body is filled with cores. I don’t know where to aim…”

The Slime Emperor is a monster formed by the merging of a cluster of thousands of slimes into a single entity.

For Damien, who specializes in sniping single-entity cores, there aren’t many points to aim at.

But I can assign him a different role.

“Damien. Your role today is not to kill it. It’s to save our allies.”

“Huh?”

“Observe the battle, and if an ally is in danger of being attacked by that monster, snipe it to stop it. Can you do that, Damien?”

Damien, who had been looking at me with a sullen face, eventually grinned and nodded.

“Heh heh… I like it. I’ll do it.”

That pretentious smile still doesn’t sit well with me, but Damien seemed much more relaxed when he was assigned the role of protecting allies rather than killing enemies. That natural-born healer bastard…

After giving various instructions to the rear members such as Lily and Margherita, I rushed to join the front line.

Bang! Kwagwang!

On the wall, the defense line formed by humans was barely holding on.

“Mister! Lower right!”

“I know! You block the upper left!”

Evangeline and Lucas were each holding shields and taking the Slime Emperor’s attacks from the front.

The regular soldiers standing right behind them also formed a neat battle line with their shields, simultaneously using their shields to block the Slime Emperor’s tentacle attacks, three or four at a time.

“Ugh!”

“Kuh!”

Each time, they were knocked back, but by taking turns defending like this, they were somehow able to maintain the defense line without being pushed back.

“The mages are preparing the magic to kill it! Hold on until then!”

I encouraged my allies and commanded the defense line.

It seemed like the defense line would hold for a while, but.

“Ouch! It stings!”

“Kuh… !”

Evangeline and Lucas had more and more minor injuries.

The Slime Emperor had a lot of tentacles, and they couldn’t just block them, so Evangeline and Lucas were each swinging their hammers and maces. Each time, acid splashed.

“Kuh-heok!”

“Aaaagh!”

The regular soldiers also showed their limits in continuing to hold out.

It was one thing to block the tentacles together and get knocked back a few times, but as it was repeated, everyone was struggling.

Bang! Kwang!

As the battle continued, only the 50 reinforcements sent from the capital were the regular soldiers who did not retreat and held out.

As expected of the elite forces sent from the capital, they were able to block the Slime Emperor’s attacks by raising their shields in perfect unison.

But even their faces began to show signs of exhaustion.

‘I wonder how much longer we can hold out like this…’

As I was gritting my teeth while observing the battle,

Twitch. Twitch.

I saw some guys in the defense unit trying to fall back.

The newly added penal unit.

The disorganized bandit guys’ butts kept moving backward. And that was putting more strain on the other defense units.

“You bastards… !”

I ran to the back of the penal unit and shouted.

“What are you doing! Don’t fall back! Maintain the defense line!”

“B-but…”

The bandits turned to me with pale faces.