I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 306

This boss monster originally had various gimmicks.

There were patterns prepared, such as linking with the alchemical experimental device installed in the boss room to amplify magic or summon test subjects.

But we didn’t have time, and there was no reason to be lenient.

We poured out our firepower in an instant, and the boss monster couldn’t withstand the overwhelming gang-up and collapsed.

“As expected, dealing damage quickly is the best.”

I nodded, looking at the boss monster that had fallen miserably with its HP bar depleted.

Then, Junior, who was standing next to me, muttered gloomily.

“……I was hoping to show off my skills for the first time in a while…….”

It seems he was somewhat looking forward to facing a high-level magic user.

Watching a magic battle between high-level mages would have been interesting, but I keep saying, we’re on a time attack! There’s no time for that!

《With the lives of non-citizens…… if this experiment succeeds…….》

A mumbling sound leaked from the mouth of the fallen boss monster – Laboratory Director Dirandahi.

《I’ll submit a paper to the Magic Tower…… and be recognized…… synthesize a new guardian tree…….》

“Ah, hurry up and leave! We need to loot the items and go back!”

Every second is precious! I relentlessly landed the final blow on the boss monster. With a death cry, the Troll Sorcerer collapsed.

Ding!

The dungeon clear notification appeared, and the treasure chest inside the boss room opened. Without even checking what the loot was, I hurriedly stuffed it into my inventory.

‘There’s not much time left!’

The remaining time for the [Emergency Equipment Repair Quest] is now 3 minutes!

Fortunately, all the materials were collected. Now, all that’s left is to go back.

As the dungeon was cleared, the safe zone was opened, and a familiar teleport gate was activated, creating a magical door.

I was about to jump into it when Berdandi urgently stopped me.

“Ash! There’s something I need to tell you!”

“Huh?! What is it?! Make it quick and simple!”

“This dungeon! There are still some monsters left and unexplored areas! Would it be okay if our party explored a bit more?!”

Berdandi and the Holy Grail Expedition Team looked at me with determined faces and requested.

No, in the first place, you guys aren’t under my command yet? You don’t need to ask for permission, you can do whatever you want… Do you secretly feel like you’ve already joined my command?

I waved my hands wildly.

“Okay, then just me and my party will return! The rest of you help the Holy Grail Expedition Team search the remaining areas! Okay?!”

Berdandi’s face brightened.

“Thank you, Ash!”

“You’re welcome! Then, see you later!”

I threw myself into the teleport gate. 1 minute left!

Whoosh-!

***

As soon as I rolled out of the teleport gate at the base camp, I sprinted to Kellybay’s smithy.

“Kellybay! I’m here!”

The smithy was even more chaotic, with dark tentacles overflowing everywhere. What the heck do you have to do to equipment to make it look like this!

Kellybay, who was smashing the tentacles with a hammer, looked at me with a delighted expression.

“Did you bring all the materials?!”

“Here you go-!”

I threw the material pouch. Kellybay, who caught it easily, twisted his beard and laughed.

“Good! Now you’re all dead, you tentacle monster bastards!”

Then, he spread out the materials I had brought on the table, sprinkled various magical materials on the hammer, and then struck down on the tentacles one by one, beating them to a pulp.

(※This is a scene of forging weapons in the smithy.) I think we need a similar guide… How does this look like forging equipment?

“Hmm~?”

At that moment, Evangeline, who had come behind me and was watching this scene together, asked in a sinister voice.

“Senior. Surely those tentacle clumps…… aren’t our family’s equipment, right……?”

“N, n, no, no way! Th, th, there’s no way that could happen?!”

Am I trembling?

“Hehe…… right? There’s no way. Hehehe…….”

Evangeline, with her large green eyes gleaming, pulled out her bone spear and licked the blade with her tiny tongue.

“If that were the case, even just for a moment…… I might feel a little disappointed in you, Senior. Hehehehe.”

“Hiiiiiiii!”

Fortunately, Kellybay’s emergency equipment repair was effective.

Each time the hammer, imbued with magical light, struck down, the writhing tentacles shrank and melted into the equipment, disappearing.

As the dark tentacle energy faded, the beautifully reforged spear and shield were revealed.

Before, they were old, rusty, and discolored equipment, patched up with other metal plates to cover the damage from fierce battles.

But at Kellybay’s fingertips, the two heirlooms of the Cross family regained their original appearance. They were beautiful, with a white base and gold decorations swirling around them.

“Whew!”

When Kellybay, covered in sweat, put down the hammer with a sigh, the Cross family’s spear and shield were in the most beautiful condition.

Kellybay, who had taken off his welding mask and gloves, gestured.

“It’s done. Check it out.”

Evangeline, who had been looking like a menacing highway robber just a moment ago, now looked like a child who had received a Christmas present.

With her eyes wide and her mouth slightly open, Evangeline approached the table and exclaimed.

“Oh my god.”

Evangeline carefully stroked the spear and shield with her fingertips. Kellybay burst into a hearty laugh.

“How is it, do you like it?”

“If the dwarf grandpa was 50 years younger, not bald, and didn’t have a beard, I would have kissed him. I love it.”

Kellybay narrowed his brow and looked at me.

“……Was that an insult just now?”

“I think she meant it as a compliment.”

Fortunately, Evangeline seemed to be very pleased. With her eyes sparkling, Evangeline slowly put on the equipment on both arms.

“It’s amazing…… the appearance is completely different, but the weight and balance are the same!”

“Of course. The essence hasn’t changed. Everything else has been upgraded though.”

There were new red and blue gems embedded in the spear and shield. Evangeline looked at the gems, puzzled.

“Oh, what are these?”

“Those are the things that gave us trouble this time…….”

At the same time as Kellybay muttered, the two gems emitted a magical light, and then…….

“Whoa?!”

Fairies with butterfly wings rose from each gem. Evangeline was so surprised that her mouth fell open.

“Could it be…… spirits?”

From the cavalry spear in Evangeline’s right hand, a fire spirit spun along the cone-shaped blade.

From the shield in her left hand, an ice spirit giggled and slid down the metal surface of the shield.

I was also surprised and blurted out.

“Spirit weapons?!”

Spirit enchantment is the highest-level option among all equipment enchantments! Even in the game, I’ve only ever gotten a few from very lucky drops.

“Kellybay, can you arbitrarily imbue spirits into equipment?”

Oh, you cute little blacksmith! You have so many talents!

When I asked happily, Kellybay gestured to the side.

“It’s not me, it’s Hannibal’s work.”

Then, a disheveled boy walked out hesitantly from the workshop inside the smithy.

It was Hannibal, the N-rank mercenary I had hired before and assigned as Kellybay’s assistant.

“Hannibal is a spiritist. He can communicate with spirits.”

“A spiritist? I thought that profession had died out a long time ago…….”

In the game, it only existed in the setting, and it was a job class I had never hired before.

‘So, the thing he was hiding was his talent for spiritism.’

As everyone looked on in surprise, Hannibal bowed deeply.

“I, I’m sorry……! I thought imbuing spirits would make the equipment better, so I tried to enchant it on my own, and this happened…….”

According to Hannibal’s explanation.

Evangeline’s equipment had such high potential that he tried to imbue it with spirits to make it better, but the spirits went berserk, causing the black tentacle incident.

‘……So, the tentacles that were writhing just now were the same as those spirits?’

I stared at the fire and ice spirits that Evangeline was happily playing with. Hmm.

“I’m really sorry. I won’t do such presumptuous things in the future…….”

Hannibal, looking tearful, sniffled. I squatted down in front of Hannibal and gently grabbed his shoulders.

“What are you talking about, Hannibal? Thanks to you, such wonderful equipment was made.”

“Y, Your Highness…….”

“It’s okay to fail. So, don’t give up and keep trying.”

Spirit weapons are so expensive… good equipment!

It means that if I have you, I can keep making them! You can blow up as much equipment as you want, so never give up, you moneybag! Ah, no, Hannibal!

Anyway, Evangeline’s exclusive weapon, which was completed with the highest-level enchantment ‘Spirit Imbuement’, is as follows.

[Cross Family Spear 改 – Ifrit Edition (SSR) Lv.75]

[Cross Family Shield 改 – Glacier Edition (SSR) Lv.75]

改 (Kai) is a word that means upgrade.

When attached to exclusive equipment, it means that the original performance is being exhibited.

And the ‘Edition’ that follows is a modifier that is only attached to spirit weapons. It indicates which spirit is imbued.

The spear has the fire spirit Ifrit, and the shield has the ice spirit Glacier.

“At first, the spirits might not listen well, but as you become more familiar with them and more skilled at handling them, they will become a great help.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than Evangeline was seen screaming as she was being bitten by the two spirits on both sides…… Grow strong, Evangeline.

Anyway, that’s the performance of the enchantment. The original performance of the exclusive equipment is separate.

The most representative is the constant activation of the exclusive trait [Crossroad].

[Crossroad]

– A trait that has bloomed from the accumulated karma of the Cross family, who have killed monsters and protected people.

– You can identify the optimal path in any combat environment and move accordingly.

– When activated, MP is continuously consumed.

A trait close to intuition or the sixth sense, [Crossroad].

This trait originally consumed magic power continuously when turned on, so it was a toggle-type trait that Evangeline only turned on when concentrating.

But with the upgraded exclusive equipment, it can be activated constantly without consuming magic power.

Now, Evangeline will not be surprised by enemies and will always be able to take the optimal movements.

In addition, the special function [Booster] can be used.

Thwack-!

When Evangeline powerfully thrust out her spear, a magical flame shot out from the guard part of the cavalry spear.

At the same time as the spear, which had accelerated in an instant, pierced through the air-

Whoosh!

The magical flame was reverse-fired from the tip of the spear.

The spear, which had been thrust out at a tremendous speed, stopped abruptly in mid-air. Evangeline exclaimed.

“Wow, what is this! Awesome! I can control the acceleration and deceleration all by myself?”

The same goes for the shield. You can accelerate or decelerate movement by emitting magical flames in the desired direction.

In addition to the powerful stats.

The most powerful equipment we have obtained so far was the equipment called [Nightmare Slayer].

Equipment forged by defeating the Nightmare Legion Commanders and using their magic cores.

Damian’s [Black Queen]. Junior’s [Lord of Crimson]. Quillan’s [Moonlight Massacre].

The upgraded exclusive equipment has performance comparable to these Nightmare Slayers. It’s practically end-game equipment, so that says it all.

‘……The Black Queen is a bit out of standard though.’

That’s because the user is also out of standard. Anyway, they are all end-game equipment.

“Hmm…… hmm……!”

Evangeline, who had put down the equipment, rested her chin on her hand and pondered seriously, then looked at Kellybay and Hannibal and asked.

“Should I kiss you after all?”

Hannibal, flustered, quickly hid behind Kellybay, and Kellybay waved his hands.

“No, little one…… an old, bald, bearded dwarf doesn’t need that. If you want to, do it to your commander.”

Then, Evangeline turned to me and spread her arms wide.

“Okay! I’m in a good mood! Senior, come on!”

“I’ll just take the thought, just the thought…….”

“Oh, come on, there won’t be another chance like this?”

I’d refuse even if you gave me three chances, you brat.

Evangeline playfully pouted and made an “um~” sound. Shaking my head, I ignored her and gestured to Lucas.

“Did you see that, Lucas? The power of upgraded exclusive equipment is this amazing. Next time, we’ll repair your [Bestowed Sword], so don’t forget to bring it.”

“…….”

For some reason, Lucas smiled awkwardly with a troubled expression, then slowly nodded.

“Yes, my lord. I will prepare it.”

“……?”

I tilted my head.

Why does he always look so reluctant whenever the topic of the [Bestowed Sword] comes up?

‘If we finish upgrading it, it’ll be one of the strongest pieces of equipment in this world.’

Did he perhaps lose it or trade it for candy? Huh?