I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 298

Deep Impression

There were no dark events in this stage either.

[???’s turn is skipped.]

[No dark event will be triggered in this stage.]

Following the last stage, an unidentified enemy skipped their turn again.

I was puzzled by their intentions, but one thing was certain.

At least in this stage, they wouldn’t be up to any tricks.

Thud-!

The Scorpion Legion was just crawling on the ground without any other gimmicks.

And for the Dragon Lady—Dusk Bringer and her Royal Knights, crawling bugs were no match.

“Woo-hahahahahahat!”

Dusk Bringer roared with laughter, and right behind her were four Royal Knights clad in red armor.

The five-person Dragon Knight party struck the side of the Scorpion Legion with the same momentum they appeared with.

Clop! Clop! Clop-!

Crack! Thwack!

They cut through the ranks of the scorpion monsters horizontally and broke through the center.

They showed an absurd feat of breaking through to the opposite side in an instant.

The powerful magic that Dusk Bringer scattered at the forefront, and the four knights in the rear violently swung their weapons.

Moreover, the horses they were riding were all Dragon Horses bestowed with dragon blood.

They were 1.5 times larger than ordinary warhorses, and their breakthrough power was three times greater. They probably had levels too.

Following the Dragon Knights’ breakthrough, the Scorpion Legion was literally crushed under the hooves of these massive Dragon Horses.

The torn carapaces and flesh of the scorpion monsters scattered everywhere.

“……”

Watching this bewildering scene, I looked to the side. My heroes also had dumbfounded expressions.

“Um, should we go out and support them, Senior?”

Evangeline asked hesitantly, and I slowly shook my head.

“No. It seems like they want to show off their skills.”

They came out as if they had been waiting for the monsters to appear and were showing off their power.

This development couldn’t be a coincidence.

‘It seems like the Grand Duke wants to have a good time. I’ll let them do as they please.’

I gestured, and a scout brought a telescope. I put it to my eye and grinned.

“Let’s see how strong the last knights of the Bringer Duchy are.”

***

After breaking through the side of the Scorpion Legion’s ranks, creating a large hole.

“How delightful, how delightful! Trampling on bugs that don’t know the difference in power isn’t really my taste, but!”

Dusk Bringer smiled, revealing her sharp teeth like a shark’s. Black blood from the scorpion monsters splattered on the girl’s white cheeks.

“It’s been so long since a ‘battle I can’t lose’ that I can’t help but be delighted! Ahahahahahat!”

“Your Grace.”

A white-bearded old knight reported to her.

“The monsters are surrounding us.”

“Oh?”

Dusk Bringer raised an eyebrow playfully and looked around.

“They’re bugs, but they know how to fight?”

The scorpion monsters moved in unison, quickly filling the torn ranks.

At the same time, they quickly spread out across the ground, trying to surround the five Dragon Knights.

“What shall we do? Shall we break through before we are surrounded? Or…”

“Let them surround us, set traps, do whatever they want!”

Dusk Bringer, who had turned her large horse’s head and was ready to charge into the thickest point of the monsters, smiled fiercely, revealing her teeth.

“I shall have some fun as I please for the first time in a while!”

“We will only follow Your Grace.”

The old knight turned around and nodded.

“Follow!”

“Yes!”

“Haa-!”

One middle-aged male knight and two young male knights immediately followed her.

Clop! Clop! Clop-!

The five Dragon Knights began to charge again. Not towards the shallowest part of the encirclement, but towards the thickest part of the enemy’s main force.

The scorpion monsters raised their sharp pincers and tails like swords and spears, ready to respond.

“Tsk, you fools-! How dare you attack!”

They were scattered by Dusk Bringer’s roaring lion’s roar.

Dragon Roar.

The power of the dragon species, the apex predators. Just by growling, the prey are terrified and their bodies stiffen.

This is a status ailment skill called Dragon Fear.

The scorpions of the Scorpion Legion, which had almost no resistance to the fear status ailment, trembled in fear before the dragon’s power, lowering their weapons and tucking their tails.

Over the monsters whose fighting spirit had been broken—the heavy hooves of the Dragon Horses crashed down.

Crack! Crunch!

They were trampled.

Ridiculously, the Scorpion Legion was trampled by the five Dragon Knights again. They were pierced and penetrated.

The first scene of the battle was replayed. The five Dragon Knights easily broke through the ranks of the scorpion monsters and destroyed the center.

At the forefront, Dusk Bringer wildly swung her rough and even wicked magic to clear a path.

Right behind her, the neat white-haired old knight and the long-haired middle-aged knight each swung their long swords and long blades to assist.

Behind them, two young Dragon Knights spread out their formation like wings, finishing off the still-living monsters with the long spears in their hands.

The five Dragon Knights formed a V-formation and lightly broke through the Scorpion Legion as if they were swimming in shallow water.

“Get out of the way if you don’t want to die!”

At Dusk Bringer’s roar, the monsters, probably just terrified by Dragon Fear, opened a path to the left and right as if they understood her words. Like the Red Sea parting before Moses.

However, Dusk Bringer’s magic fiercely bombarded the bodies of the monsters that had opened the path. Ku-gwa-gwa-gwang!

“Of course, I’ll kill you even if you get out of the way! Ahahahaha-!”

Something caught the eye of Dusk Bringer, who was laughing gleefully as she stepped over the mangled monsters.

Far away from the Scorpion Legion that had moved to the left and right, at the end of the ranks—there was a huge monster exuding a fierce aura.

A monster that seemed to have a human-like upper body with a carapace attached to it, on top of a scorpion’s lower body. On top of the helmet carapace on its head, sharp poisonous needles protruded like a crown.

The Scorpion King.

The ruler of this scorpion legion and the boss monster of this stage.

“That’s it! That’s the enemy commander!”

Dusk Bringer, who cheered, lightly kicked the belly of her Dragon Horse. The huge horse snorted and spurred forward.

“Faster! Faster! Let’s go quickly! Hurry!”

However, unlike Dusk Bringer’s excited heart, the Dragon Horse’s speed did not increase dramatically.

Eventually, Dusk Bringer, unable to bear it, got annoyed and lifted her body onto the saddle.

“Eish, I’ll go first! You guys follow slowly!”

“Your Grace, just a moment…!”

Before the flustered old knight could stop her, Dusk Bringer floated into the air—gathering magic behind her back, she shot forward like a rocket.

Thwack-!

The magic field that unfolded behind the young lady’s back fluttered like a membrane-covered wing.

Dusk Bringer skipped through the air and rushed to the front of the Scorpion King in an instant. The Scorpion King roared.

《You, a half-baked dragon with only scraps left! I lived in the same era as your ancestors-!》

“Oh? Do the monsters here know how to talk?”

The amber eyes of the Dragon Lady, which had widened in surprise, soon curved playfully.

“Ahahahahat! How interesting, how interesting! It’s no wonder the Third Prince would bring me in!”

《Shut up and show respect, half-dragon! I am the great ancient…》

The Scorpion King, who had pulled out poison needles in the form of snake-belly swords from his two tails, was about to command something, but he shut his mouth at the sight before him.

Gooooo-!

A tremendous torrent of magic was gathering between the Dragon Lady’s outstretched hands.

The magic, which was red at first, was soon mixed with amber magic, and finally turned into a dazzling vermilion color.

As vivid as the color of the sunset.

The magic gradually took shape in Dusk Bringer’s small hands.

《Magic materialization, is it…?!》

The shocked Scorpion King muttered blankly.

Refining the magic emitted from the body into another form.

It was something that even the great ancient magicians could not have dared to do, let alone in the modern era.

A feat possible only for a dragon blood holder who could handle clearly out-of-standard magic, or rather, a supernatural power.

The height of waste, not caring about efficiency. The extreme of inefficiency. A technique that is definitely not recommended in actual combat. However.

“Isn’t it cool?!”

It was cool.

So she used it.

With the gathered magic, Dusk Bringer created and held the shape of a huge greatsword.

It was a greatsword of vermilion magic, larger than her small body.

“I have no interest in who you were or what era you lived in.”

Dusk Bringer growled, smiling wickedly with the face of a young girl.

“I am now a newcomer trying to entrust myself to this monster front! Do you know what that means!”

《Wh, what…?》

“It means it’s time to leave a deep impression at the interview!”

Dusk Bringer, who had approached the Scorpion King’s nose, raised the magic greatsword high.

“So—if you’re going to die, die in a very spectacular way, monster!”

Clang-!

The magic greatsword, cutting through the air, came down.

The Scorpion King’s guards stepped forward and held out their carapaces like shields, but the blazing heat emanating from the magic greatsword instantly melted the carapaces.

A huge magic slash struck vertically and squarely. A flash of light and a heatwave engulfed the Scorpion King and his guards.

Kyaaaaak!

The guard scorpions, who tried to protect their king, burst and were torn to pieces.

Clang!

The snake-belly sword poison needles that the Scorpion King had crossed in front of him shattered like broken glass,

《A half-dragon…! Unbelievable…!》

Thwack-!

The powerful body of the Scorpion King, who was babbling something, was split in two from head to tail.

Kwa-gwa-gwang…!

The magic slash tore through the earth, and a huge aftershock swept through the area.

After a while, in the dust that had settled, Dusk Bringer, soaked in sweat, was seen heaving her thin shoulders and catching her breath.

Her small hands were burning red as if they had been burned, and the condensed magic scattered and disappeared like a mirage.

“Hoo, hoo……”

Dusk Bringer, catching her breath, swept her sweat-soaked hair back.

Her black hair, which was so long that it dragged on the floor, was covered in dust and monster blood, but the Dragon King didn’t care.

“Hmph, even if I’m a half-dragon, a dragon is still a dragon.”

Looking down at the Scorpion King, who had been cut in half and died miserably, Dusk Bringer twisted one corner of her mouth and sneered.

“I have a much better lineage than you. Bug.”

Clop! Clop!

Behind Dusk Bringer, the Dragon Knights and her Dragon Horses arrived late.

“……That was a magnificent strike, Your Grace.”

Looking at the gruesome traces her attack had left on the ground, the old knight slowly spoke.

“It was too wasteful.”

“Hmph. I had to take the initiative.”

Of course, the opponent that Dusk Bringer was talking about taking the initiative against was not the monsters.

It was Ash and his subordinates who were watching this fight.

“I have lost all my foundations and am trying to throw myself into this southern front. I need to show how strong and useful I am.”

And.

We had agreed to fight Ash for control of this southern front.

Taking the initiative was necessary. It seems like I showed off a bit too much….

“Well, I think that’s enough.”

There was no need to clean up all the remaining monsters.

Now that the enemy commander was defeated, the remaining remnants could be handed over to Ash and his subordinates.

Dusk Bringer, having made her decision, easily mounted her Dragon Horse.

The five Dragon Knights slowly rode their horses towards the forward base where Ash was. The monsters trembled and hid themselves to avoid the Dragon Knights.

“Huuuuaaam.”

I was a little tired after using so much power. Dusk Bringer yawned widely and looked towards the forward base.

“……! ……! ……!”

Ash, standing on the ramparts, was shouting something and waving his arms wildly.

Not only Ash, but all the soldiers around him were also raising their arms and shouting something. Dusk Bringer chuckled.

“Haha, there’s no need to welcome me so enthusiastically….”

The distance was getting closer. Only then did Ash’s shouts faintly reach Dusk Bringer’s ears.

– Don’t come this way! Come around…!

“Huh? Come around?”

Dusk Bringer tilted her head. Why?

That was when it happened.

Click.

The front hoof of the Dragon Horse that Dusk Bringer was riding stepped on something, and the sound of a machine operating rang out.

“Huh?”

Dusk Bringer looked down at the ground.

Then, she saw a machine device emitting an ominous flashing red light….

Dusk Bringer blinked her large eyes quietly, then let out a short breath with cold sweat.

“What is this?”

It was a landmine.

Ash had installed a lot of them in front of the forward base to deal with the scorpion monsters.

Thump-!

The next moment.

Dusk Bringer and her horse were swept up in the explosion and soared into the air, spinning around.