I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 361

Before their departure, the biggest obstacle for the goblin army was the Nameless One.

This enigmatic swordsman, who claimed to be the guardian of the Lake Kingdom, was a disaster for the monsters.

Her sword of light was fundamentally the antithesis of monsters.

A monster slayer who had single-handedly blocked the monsters’ invasion of the human world for the past five hundred years.

Usually, other monster armies would throw lower-level monsters as bait at her, and only the elite forces, including the commander, would depart.

However, the goblin army could not use such a method.

It was an army that pushed forward with sheer numbers, lacking any proper elites, and its scale was too large.

To safely dispatch them, a bait army of almost the same size was needed. If 50,000 were to depart, half of them would be cut down by the Nameless One.

So, instead, the task of stopping the Nameless One was given to the orc army, but the orc army betrayed the goblin army, and in the end, they all had their heads chopped off.

Kali-Alexandre had to come up with a countermeasure.

And so, this was the countermeasure that was devised.

“……Oh.”

As the goblin army prepared to depart, the Nameless One, who had stepped forward to stop them, was intrigued.

“Are you going to face me directly, greenskin?”

《That’s right, ‘Nameless One’.》

Before her stood the Goblin God King, riding a mountain goat.

A unique helmet that combined a crown and a mask. Leather armor and a golden cloak.

Without a single escort, Kali-Alexandre calmly pulled the reins of the mountain goat in front of the monsters’ natural enemy.

《I’ve wanted to cross swords with you for a long time.》

“Indeed, I must be rusty. To think that a mere goblin believes he can match swords with me…”

《You’re not scared of a goblin like me, are you?》

“What?”

《If you have any sense, follow me. Now, giddy up!》

The mountain goat carrying Kali-Alexandre galloped into the deep darkness of the Lake Kingdom.

“……”

The Nameless One hesitated for a moment.

The direction Kali-Alexandre was fleeing was the opposite of where the main goblin army was located.

‘Is he luring me? To separate me from his army?’

However, the Nameless One also knew well.

The strength of the goblin army came solely from the command of their leader, the God King, Kali-Alexandre.

If he could be eliminated, it would be the same as eliminating the core of the goblin army.

‘The Nightmare Legion Commander I killed will surely be revived by the Demon King, but in the meantime, the goblin army will not be able to exert its full combat power. If the departure is delayed, I can wipe out the entire army in that gap…!’

The hesitation was short, and the Nameless One’s movement was swift.

Thud!

She kicked off the ground and chased after the Goblin God King like a flash.

Clop! Clop!

Kali-Alexandre lightly spurred the mountain goat, dashing deeper into the Lake Kingdom.

Flash!

The Nameless One, having anticipated the mountain goat’s path, shot out light from the tip of her sword, but,

Kieeeing-!

The light slash strangely curved just before reaching the Goblin God King and went wide.

It was the effect of the armor Kali-Alexandre was wearing. The Nameless One clicked her tongue.

“It is said to block all ranged attacks, and indeed, it is not a lie.”

《Haha, if you want to kill me, you’ll have to thrust your sword directly into my neck…!》

“That’s exactly what I was about to do!”

The Nameless One closely pursued the Goblin God King, who was going deeper into the darkness.

Her sprinting speed was comparable to that of a warhorse, and she was soon able to catch up to the Goblin God King.

‘Just one more step-!’

The Goblin God King’s body came within the range of her sword. The Nameless One quickly extended her sword to slash down.

But at that moment,

Clatter!

Clatter!

Goblin soldiers fell from the darkness all around.

It was an ambush. From the beginning, the Goblin God King had hidden soldiers here and lured the Nameless One.

However,

“As if!”

Swoosh! Slash!

The Nameless One easily beheaded the goblin soldiers with a light sword movement.

From the start, there was no way that ordinary goblins could stop her. Even buying time was only a fleeting moment.

After finishing off dozens of goblins, the Nameless One quickly raised her head.

‘Where is the Goblin God King?’

Clop! Clop!

《Clatter, clatter!》

The back of the Goblin God King, running away in the nearby darkness, was visible. The Nameless One kicked off the ground again.

There were a few more ambushes like that, but the Nameless One easily broke through them all, and finally.

“Got you!”

She succeeded in attacking the back of the Goblin God King.

Swoosh-!

The mountain goat, cut by the Nameless One’s sword, collapsed, spilling blood, and the Goblin God King’s body, who had been riding on it, rolled helplessly on the ground.

As she approached the Goblin God King, who had fallen in an unsightly manner, the Nameless One felt something was off.

“……No way.”

A look of bewilderment crossed the Nameless One’s face as she hurriedly removed the goblin’s helmet.

《Clatter, clatter!》

The goblin’s face, wearing a clear sneer, had a unique tattoo on it.

A Goblin Amir. [A high-ranking goblin warrior, second only to the God King]

The ten elite monsters who followed the God King like shadows. It was a tattoo only allowed to them.

At some point, this Goblin Amir had been switched with the God King.

“When did this happen… !”

The Nameless One gritted her teeth.

At first, it was definitely the Goblin God King. While repeating ambushes and escapes in the darkness, the God King had slipped away, and a subordinate who had been switched had lured her into the darkness.

《Clatter, clatter, you’ve been properly fooled, you stupid human…》

Swoosh!

The head of the Goblin Amir, who was about to say something, fell with green blood.

The Nameless One, roughly shaking off her sword, turned sharply around. She was now far away from the central square where she had first tried to stop them.

Moreover, the place where this goblin had lured her was the base of another monster army.

The marine monster army, sensing the intrusion of the ‘Nameless One,’ rose from their places, letting out gloomy groans.

The Nameless One gritted her teeth.

“To fall for such a basic trap… !”

***

《Whew, that was close.》

Kali-Alexandre said, stroking his chest as he spurred the mountain goat towards the central square.

Although he had switched with a subordinate in the middle, it was Kali-Alexandre himself who had first appeared before the Nameless One. Otherwise, the Nameless One would not have been fooled.

Using subordinates dressed exactly like him to deceive the enemy was a deception tactic he had enjoyed using even in his past life.

The Goblin Amirs, who were his direct aides and could be called field commanders, all possessed the same equipment.

And, following Kali-Alexandre’s instructions, they could imitate him.

This time, it worked beautifully, and it would take quite some time for the Nameless One, who had been lured far away, to return here.

It was somewhat dangerous, but the result was successful.

‘Even so, it won’t be able to buy much time… In this gap, I must quickly finish the departure to the surface.’

Thinking so, Kali-Alexandre returned to the central square and saw his army, which was in the midst of leaving the lake.

Among the goblin army, which was divided into advance, main, and rear guards, the advance guard had just finished departing, and now the main force was about to leave the lake.

《…?》

Kali-Alexandre felt something was off.

He urgently shouted.

《All troops, halt-!》

Thump!

The soldiers of the army stopped their march at once and stood in place.

The Goblin Amir, who was commanding the main force, rushed to Kali-Alexandre in a flurry.

《Clatter, great Kali-Alexandre. What is the matter?》

《……Something feels off.》

Kali-Alexandre frowned behind his mask and looked at his army.

He tried to find where the sense of unease was coming from, and soon found it.

《Any contact from the advance guard?》

《Clatter? Yes?》

《Shouldn’t the advance unit inform the rear guard of the safety of the path? Was there any contact?》

《Clatter, ah, no, there wasn’t… But isn’t it just because it’s too close? We have to regroup again at the lake entrance…》

《It’s not a matter of close or far. There should have been contact at regular intervals.》

Goblins have low intelligence.

But they thoroughly carry out tasks they have been trained in.

Kali-Alexandre had applied strict military discipline to his army, and the goblins were adept at carrying out tasks like machines.

Among them was this basic wartime code of conduct.

The advance unit must report the safety of the path ahead to the rear unit at regular intervals. Unless they were annihilated, they should have, without fail…

《……No way.》

Kali-Alexandre spurred the mountain goat towards the front of the main force.

A transparent path connected the gate of the Lake Kingdom to the surface of the lake.

Kali-Alexandre stopped the mountain goat just below the surface of the water and gestured to the goblin soldier in front.

《You there, go out onto the surface of the water.》

《Clatter!》

The goblin soldier went out onto the surface of the water without a moment’s hesitation, and,

Flash!

He disappeared as if being sucked in.

Kali-Alexandre, alarmed, hurriedly pulled the mountain goat back.

《……This is not the surface of the lake.》

Beyond the sunlit, rippling surface of the water.

There were swirling magical lights overlapping.

Kali-Alexandre, having realized what it was, muttered in disbelief.

《This is the entrance to a teleport gate… !》

***

“Looks like the goblins have caught on.”

On the wall of the forward base.

I, who was looking at the black lake with binoculars, clicked my tongue and stepped back.

The numbers of those guys that were rapidly decreasing in the enemy information window, and at the same time, the kill count that was rapidly increasing, suddenly stopped.

It seems that those guys have caught on.

My trump card trap installed on the surface of the black lake.

A super-large teleport gate.

Whoosh-!

Devouring dozens of magic cores and several carts of magic stones, the teleport gate, installed horizontally on the surface of the black lake, was working well.

The vanguard of the goblin army was all sucked into this teleport gate and disappeared.

‘Coco Granny clearly said this before.’

– For this reason, beings born from nightmares cannot use teleportation magic. If they enter a teleport gate, they will all be swept away to the other side.

That’s right.

Monsters are said to be sent to the other side if they use teleportation magic. So, they cannot use teleport gates.

And as soon as I heard this, I thought this.

‘Then, if I can somehow put these bastards into a teleport gate, I can give them a free pass to hell, right?’

I don’t know exactly what ‘the other side’ means, but isn’t it roughly similar to the afterlife?

The rules can be interpreted in reverse.

So, this trap was planned.

The surface of the black lake itself is a place full of magical energy, shimmering.

Even if you put a teleport gate there, where the magic concentration is suffocatingly dense, it won’t stand out.

Moreover, the surface of the water seen from below is full of light.

Even if the magical light unique to the teleport gate flickers a little more, it is not easy to notice.

– I need a very, very large teleport gate, as many as possible. Coco Granny.

So, this is what I ordered last time. A super-large teleport gate.

I made several of these, which are several times larger than ordinary teleport gates, and installed them parallel to the surface of the lake.

Of course, the black lake is vast, so it is impossible to cover the entire area with gates.

However, the points where the monsters emerge were fixed, so it was sufficient to cover only that area.

Thus, the result.

[Enemy Information – STAGE 15]

– Lv.?? Goblin God King: 1

– Lv.?? Goblin Amir: 5 (Kill Counts: 1)

– Lv.35 Goblin Janissary: 1,710 (Kill Counts: 300)

– Lv.15 Goblin: 30,360 (Kill Counts: 15,520)

The Amirs and Janissaries are a bit fewer than the initial enemy information, probably due to what happened underground, but whatever. The important thing is the kill count of the ordinary goblins.

15,000!

One-third of the enemy goblins disappeared cleanly without even seeing the light of the surface.

It can be said to be a very fine start to the defense.

“Now it begins, you bastards.”

I gritted my teeth and cracked my knuckles.

“I’ll chew you all up without leaving a single one… !”