I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 312

After organizing the tactics in my head, I first called out to the mage.

“Junior.”

At my call, Junior nodded briskly, and I drew a halo in the air with my hand.

“When I signal, use your ultimate skill, [Elemental Disassembly], on that guy.”

“Understood.”

“How long does the casting take?”

“Fifteen minutes.”

This was a lot shorter than before. Junior’s condition had improved quite a bit, and he said he had been continuously improving the spell.

“I’m counting on you.”

“Yes!”

“Punishment Unit, and the Anti-Air and Knights.”

I called out to the Kuilan Party and the Dusk Bringer Party, then pointed at the troll king who was walking towards us with heavy steps.

“Please stop him.”

“Hmm… Is it even possible to stop him?”

Even while preparing to sortie, Dusk Bringer was sweating.

“Our attacks don’t even work, and he’s just walking straight through?”

“Please stop him anyway. By any means possible.”

If he gets any closer, he’ll be too close to the forward base.

Then it will be difficult to project our firepower. We have to stop him from getting any closer.

“Tch, fine! A dragon can’t lose face to a troll! Let’s go!”

Dusk Bringer and the knights, mounted on their horses, dashed out through the open gate.

“Huh? But are we walking?”

Behind them, Kuilan and the Punishment Unit members, looking flustered, ran out with a ‘one-two, one-two’. They should be able to buy enough time.

“God Hand, Body Bag.”

I called the metal manipulator and the telekineticist and pointed to the vanguard.

“Follow them and form a barricade. If our front line is breached, you will buy time with the barricade, and then we will reorganize the front line.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The two elven mages followed without a word.

“Burnout, prepare for fire support. Lily, prepare all the attack artifacts as well.”

The bombardier was already ready and waiting, and Lily, nodding, hurriedly pulled her wheelchair towards the artifacts installed on the ramparts.

After giving orders to the Punishment Unit, the Dragon Blood Knights, and the Shadow Unit.

“Lucas, Evangeline.”

I called out to my two knights.

The two knights immediately ran to me, and I gave them a simple order.

“In this battle, you will use the Holy Equipment.”

The weapons we forged during Stage 5 to fight the vampire legion—the Holy Equipment.

The two knights immediately took out the Holy Equipment without asking any questions.

Lucas drew his Holy Sword, and Evangeline took out the Holy Parts and attached them to her spear.

“Sortie, but don’t join the vanguard. Conserve your strength. When I signal, you will embed the Holy Equipment into his body.”

I could already see the vanguard and the troll king clashing.

Dusk Bringer and Kuilan simultaneously roared and charged head-on at the troll king, while their knights and beastmen circled around to surround him.

They poured attacks on the troll king from all sides, but.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

He simply ignored them and kept walking.

Neither Kuilan’s power kicks nor Dusk Bringer’s magic torrents could stop him, even if they damaged his body.

What kind of tough bastard is that?

I clicked my tongue inwardly and continued to explain to Lucas and Evangeline.

“You must leave the deepest wounds possible with your weapons. His hide is much thicker than any armor… Attack with the determination to kill. I believe in you.”

“Understood.”

“Leave it to us~!”

The two knights also mounted their horses and quickly dashed out.

I took a breath and looked back. I could feel the gazes of the remaining two party members, looking at me with tense faces.

Right.

They are the core of this operation.

“Damien. And Saintess.”

The healers.

To those who could use divine power with the blessing of the goddess, I gave a simple order.

“When I signal, bestow your strongest healing magic on that troll.”

The two looked at me with wide eyes.

“Huh? Your, Your Highness, what do you mean…?”

Damien stammered,

“H, healing magic? You mean, heal that monster…?”

Margherita pointed to the troll king approaching from the other side.

Even now, the troll king was ignoring the vanguard’s desperate attacks and striding towards the forward base.

I nodded silently.

“With all your might. With the thought of bringing even the dead back to life. Squeeze out every last bit of your strength—and heal that troll.”

As if wondering if this was some crazy talk, the two healers were still looking at me with disbelief.

I grinned.

Our healers, after working with me for almost a year, shouldn’t they know my tastes by now?

I originally like crazy plans!

***

There is something called Overflow.

It is an error that occurs when a program value exceeds its defined maximum value.

To explain it simply, there was the famous ‘Y2K problem’ in the past.

It was the time when we were transitioning from 1999 to 2000.

At this time, when a sense of end-of-the-century crisis was already widespread, the ‘Millennium Bug’ occurred, causing chaos with rumors that the world would be destroyed and national systems would stop.

Due to the limitations of the system at the time, the year after 1999 was recognized as 1900 instead of 2000.

The reason for this was that when the year system was first programmed, it was designed to change only the last two digits, like 19NN.

According to the rule, 00 came after 99. The computer system recognized 2000 as 1900. It was a rumor, or rather a tall tale, that the entire world’s computer systems would be paralyzed and cause various malfunctions.

In reality, the world quickly responded and it passed without any major issues.

Anyway, this is the famous Year 2000 Problem.

It is a typical overflow trouble, widely known as the Y2K problem.

The reason why I am suddenly explaining programming terms is that this is the key to capturing the troll king.

‘In the game, the troll king’s health regeneration rate was 999 percent per second.’

999 is the limit value that can be assigned in character stats.

In the case of Damien’s [Clairvoyance], it provides a vision of +50 squares and a hit score of +999 in the game.

Here, 999 does not mean that it actually increases the value by 999.

It means that it is corrected to the MAX value, up to the limit value of 999.

‘Then, what if we could forcibly overflow this number?’

In a system where 999 is the limit, what if we could forcibly add 1?

Then what would that number be?

1000?

No. The answer is ‘000’.

A number that exceeds the system’s calculation range ‘overflows’, causing an error, and instead of 1000, it starts counting from 0 again.

In the game, I had actually verified this theory.

After stacking dozens of attack power buff mages and attack power buff artifacts on one person, the attack power became a single digit when it exceeded 999.

During the game strategy, I established this as a tactic against the troll king.

I would forcibly give the troll king a health regeneration buff.

The overflowed health regeneration rate would drop to a single digit, exceeding 999 percent, and I would easily kill the troll king who had lost his monstrous health regeneration. It was a strategy that used the system’s loophole.

‘Of course, this is a story from the game.’

The place where I am now is clearly reality.

It is impossible to kill the troll king with numerical tricks using overflow trouble like in the game.

However. The tactics established at that time provided a sufficient hint in the current situation.

‘The troll king has the best regeneration power allowed in this world.’

Then, what if. We could further promote that regeneration power, which has already gone crazy and reached its limit?

Beyond the level of restoring his body, what if we could make it go berserk?

What would happen?

The boiling troll blood, body fluids, and cells. The system of regeneration and self-repair engraved in its genes.

What if it exceeded the limit and ‘overflowed’?

Wouldn’t excessive regeneration become poison and collapse his own body?

‘It’s worth a try.’

In the first place, there is no other effective method right now.

The only way to kill him for sure, ignoring that absurd health regeneration, is a one-turn kill, but that is virtually impossible.

I would have to mobilize all my defense reduction means and pour all my maximum firepower in one go without missing a single second, which is realistically impossible.

If the one-turn kill fails even by one second, he will recover with overwhelming health regeneration.

In the end, both theoretically and realistically, we have to rely on the initial ‘Overflow Operation’.

Above all, I had a gut feeling. A gamer’s gut feeling.

‘This is the way!’

The path to the strategy.

Within a set number of turns, squeezing out the set means, and finding a single solution. It’s what I’ve done every time during the past 742 strategies.

The certainty of success that I felt every time a clever solution was successful was now present.

‘Games exist to be conquered.’

There is always a clever solution in any situation, and there is a way to survive.

If we have found a way out, we have no choice but to try it…!

***

“…This is the principle behind telling you to cast healing magic on him.”

After explaining the outline of the ‘Overflow Operation’, Damien and Margherita nodded, looking bewildered but understanding.

“Okay. Damien, you will fire healing magic bullets at maximum output from here with your magic gun. Saintess? Saintess, you will move with me.”

While Damien’s instant heal value using magic bullets is high, Margherita’s overall continuous heal value is high. Both of them are key cards in this operation.

Damien ran to the ramparts with his magic gun, and Margherita followed me.

I put Margherita on my horse first, and then I got on in front of her. Margherita grumbled, awkwardly placing her hand on my shoulder.

“I thought I had gone through all sorts of hardships since being assigned to this front line, but I never thought the day would come when I would cast healing magic on a monster…”

“Haha. Well, this is nothing. You’ll go through even more hardships in the future.”

When I said it as a joke, Margherita’s complexion turned even darker. Seriously. Why does everyone keep taking my jokes so seriously?

“Let’s go, to the battlefield!”

I lightly kicked the horse’s belly, and the horse began to gallop forward.

Margherita let out a small scream from behind, but I ignored it and accelerated the horse even more.

The battlefield where the vanguard and the troll king were entangled in battle quickly came into view.

“It’s already a mess…”

The front line was a disaster.

“Uwaaaah-!”

Kuilan and the Punishment Unit, who had charged in first with a loud shout, but.

Thwack! Thud!

It didn’t work at all.

The troll king, as if annoyed, grabbed the Punishment Unit members one by one and threw them aside.

The fact that his attack power is low is only in comparison to boss monsters, and there is no way that the basic strength of that muscular mass would be low.

The Punishment Unit members screamed and rolled on the ground.

“Dragon Blood Knights-!”

At Dusk Bringer’s command, her four knights immediately readjusted their weapons and lined up behind her.

“Form a sword formation! In a defensive formation!”

“Understood-!”

The SSR-grade five-person party skillfully formed a defensive formation and tried to stop him, but.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

He just kept walking, even while being slashed by magic, swords, and spears. The knights, bewildered by the unprecedented situation, lost their stopping power and scattered to the left and right, breaking the formation.

“Eutttteuttt!”

Dusk Bringer, who was trying to stop the monster by clinging to the front of the troll king with her small body, screamed with a flushed face as he finally pushed through.

“Isn’t this guy a crazy bastard?!”

“He is a crazy bastard, indeed.”

Looking at the numbers, he has a regeneration power that is equivalent to Damien’s [Clairvoyance], which is a cheat skill.

Since Damien’s Clairvoyance is described as ‘a mistake by God’, this guy is on the same level.

Still, while Dusk Bringer was struggling to hold on, God Hand and Body Bag finished forming the barricade.

Dusk Bringer retreated, grinding her teeth, and the troll king pushed through the barricade made of iron bars as if annoyed and continued to advance.

Dusk Bringer, wiping the sweat from her chin and catching her breath, gritted her teeth.

“These kinds of monsters keep coming?”

“No, well. Not every time. But sometimes, really difficult ones come.”

It’s a problem if you’re already like this. We’ve dealt with even crazier bastards before.

When I briefly explained about the Selendion, Jormungandr, and Lunared that we had defeated so far, Dusk Bringer, shocked, yelled.

“Is the monster front line a crazy place?!”

“Yes.”

It’s nothing new. Haha.

“Your Highness!”

At that moment, a voice came from the ramparts.

When I turned around, I saw a geometric magic circle spread out on the ramparts.

Magical elements of dozens of colors rotated along the chaotic spell.

Below it, Junior smiled like a fox with a more relaxed expression than before.

“Preparation complete!”

“Good! Shall we begin!”

I stretched my hand forward and shouted.

“Operation name ‘Overflow’! Commence-!”

At the same time, Junior’s [Elemental Disassembly] exploded.

A halo like an angel’s ring appeared above the troll king’s head and shone brightly, and a dazzling beam of light poured down on the area.

The next moment, a crack appeared in the air as if a mirror was breaking,

Clang-!

It shattered into pieces.

At the same time, all the magical elements around the troll king’s body were ‘disassembled’ at once.

Dusk Bringer, who was watching this scene with her mouth agape, screamed.

“What kind of magic is that-?!”

Seriously, it’s a problem if you’re surprised by everything like that?!