I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 479

The Gorgon sisters all possess petrification abilities and powerful physiques. However, their specialized areas differ slightly.

First, there’s Stheno (Σθενώ).

Thump! Thump-!

True to the meaning of her name, she possesses immense strength. Stheno led the charge, smashing through the wide-set barriers and barricades on the plains. The defense lines that the humans had painstakingly set up were torn apart like paper in the face of Stheno’s powerful charge.

Whoosh!

Second, Euryale (Εὐρυάλη) flew with her aerial abilities, clearing away all the human fire raining down from the sky. Cannons, arrows, magical artifacts… she evaded, petrified, and nullified them all. Among the three sisters, she also possessed particularly strong magic resistance, so Euryale spread her membranous wings and blocked all human attacks in the air.

Kiiiiing!

And the youngest, Medusa (Μέδουσα). She possessed particularly strong magical power and the Evil Eye among the three sisters. When Medusa glared, the snakes on her head also glared with wicked eyes at the same time.

Flash!

Medusa’s two eyes and the snakes’ eyes glowed simultaneously. A petrifying gaze swept through the area with an eerie yellow flash. Not only did the human attacks that were pouring down turn into stones in mid-air,

Crack, crackle…

Everything in the area turned to stone. The soil, grass, trees, and insects… everything that lived on the southern plains turned to stone and hardened. Everything that came within Medusa’s line of sight was petrified without discrimination.

“Ugh?!”

“M-my body is hardening… !”

“Save me… !”

The power of her Evil Eye was so strong that even the soldiers on the distant walls began to suffer petrification damage.

“Petrification even at this distance…?!”

On the wall.

As dozens of soldiers were petrified and fell, a flustered Lucas urgently issued an order.

“Do not look directly at them! Aim through the mirrors we provided beforehand!”

“B-but… that will reduce our aiming accuracy…”

“There’s no choice! Even if we have to sacrifice accuracy, do not look directly at them!”

The soldiers had no choice but to turn their eyes away or estimate the distance through mirrors, pouring a crossfire on the three Gorgon sisters. However, even when they shot accurately, they could not secure any significant stopping power. As their aim became even more sloppy, the three Gorgon sisters began to approach the wall even more easily.

“Sir Lucas!”

In an instant, the three Gorgon sisters had crossed half of the southern plains, and the artillery commander, who was gauging the aiming line, shouted.

“They’ve broken through the final defense line!”

“Already…”

Lucas, gritting his teeth, looked around at the soldiers. It was much faster than expected, but there was no other way.

“As instructed beforehand!”

Lucas raised his hand and shouted as loudly as he could. “All troops, retreat!”

Hoping that this plan that Ash… that his lord had instructed would work properly.

***

《Huh?》

Medusa, who was rushing towards Crossroads with her two older sisters, suddenly noticed something strange.

《…What is it?》

The fire pouring from the wall had suddenly subsided. Not only that. The soldiers on the wall, who had been desperately firing something at them and trying to block them with weapons… were quickly disappearing.

Unable to understand, Medusa frowned with a hiss.

《Have they given up resisting?》

She also suspected it might be a trap, but logically, that couldn’t be the case. The wall was the greatest and strongest weapon that humanity could use against monsters. There was no reason to set a trap while giving up all those advantages, and even if they did use such a shallow trick, it would be too much of a loss for the human side.

《I don’t know what their intentions are, but either way is fine…》

Whether they gave up resisting, or whether it was a foolish decision to give up the wall and try another method. She would just turn all these humans, who continued their insect-like resistance, into stone and kill them…!

The three Gorgon sisters approached right in front of the wall. Medusa, who was about to leap over the wall in an instant with Euryale’s flight, glared.

《Huh…?》

The strangest sight she had seen all day was there.

Squeak…

It was open. The gate. Carelessly, shabbily, as if saying, ‘Come in or not, it’s up to you…’ the slightly opened door widened the entrance with a squeak.

Medusa couldn’t understand at all. Wasn’t this the last line of defense to protect the human world? Why were they doing this?

‘Something’s wrong.’

Thwack!

Medusa pulled on her two sisters’ reins. Stheno and Euryale immediately stopped in their tracks. The three Gorgon sisters, who had been charging relentlessly, completely stopped in front of the open gate.

《…….》

The three Gorgon sisters had been holed up in their hideout all this time, so they knew nothing about the outside world. They didn’t know that as many as five Nightmare Legion commanders had fallen on this front. They didn’t know that the commander here had been crushing monsters with all sorts of bizarre tactics. They knew nothing. But at this moment, Medusa sensed it.

‘They have something up their sleeve.’

By giving up the wall and opening the gate, they were planning something absurd…!

《…….》

But.

Would they not go in because of that?

《…Hah. Of course not.》

Both in life and after death, for countless years, these three Gorgon sisters had been turning the humans who tried to hunt them into rocks and killing them.

《I’ll jump right in, into your shallow tricks…!》

Hoping that these humans, whatever they were planning, would entertain her and her sisters for a while – Medusa flung open the south gate.

Kugugugung…!

And inside the open gate,

《…?》

There were no traps at all. Medusa, leading her two sisters, entered hesitantly, feeling bewildered. It was a city. A city on the outskirts, just beginning to develop, with old, dilapidated buildings, newly built buildings, and buildings being expanded…

But that was all. There were no amazing magical devices, no deep pits, no ambushing soldiers… nothing at all. The three Gorgon sisters cautiously advanced to the empty central square of the city. But they could not encounter anything until they reached the center of the city.

The city was empty. Really, the humans had abandoned this place and fled.

《…Is there really nothing?》

The moment Medusa muttered in a daze,

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a figure flashed past between the buildings on the side.

Kiiiiing!

Stheno, who reacted immediately, activated her petrifying gaze. However.

Clang-!

The opponent reflected the gaze with a mirror shield in their hand, then ran away far behind the building.

《What was that?》

At the same time as Medusa muttered in a daze,

Tap!

Tap-!

This time, humans quickly ran away to the opposite street.

Kiiiiing!

This time, Euryale reacted. A petrifying gaze was activated, turning the entire area into a pile of stones. But this time too, the humans avoided the direct hit with mirror shields and hid away on the other side of the street.

《What are they trying to do…?》

This happened repeatedly.

Whoosh!

Taptap…!

Humans popped out from all over the city,

Kiiing! Kiiiiing!

The three Gorgon sisters, reacting immediately, wildly fired their petrifying gazes. But the city center was full of buildings, and the humans, using mirror shields to deflect the petrifying gazes, hid again behind the buildings – in the blind spots of the gazes.

《Kuh…?!》

The three Gorgon sisters were originally base-defense type monsters. They indiscriminately killed all opponents who approached them in their hideout. …In other words. They always used their petrifying gaze on ‘all humans within a certain radius’,

Kiiing!

Kiiiiing!

And if that petrifying gaze did not take effect and failed to petrify the opponent.

《Krrr…》

《Kyaaaaaa!》

They would move on to the next process. Thwack-! With their innate, strong bodies that had been passed down since the mythical era. They would chase after the opponent who had invaded their territory and tear them apart with their own hands.

《Sister Stheno?! Sister Euryale, don’t…》

Stheno and Euryale, caught up in the humans’ lure, each rushed off in different directions. Medusa tried to control them, but,

Whoosh-!

Because of the shadow of a human knight that came into her sight, she had to reflexively use her petrifying gaze without realizing it.

Kiiiiing!

“Huuup!”

And the human knight deflected Medusa’s gaze with a mirror shield. When Medusa came to her senses, her two sisters had run off somewhere in the city… and she was the only one left in the central square.

《…What is this.》

She swore, in all her long years, this had never happened even once. As Medusa, bewildered by the situation that was difficult to understand logically, heard a young man’s voice.

“To attack you Gorgon sisters, we first had to separate you.”

It was the knight who had caught her attention earlier.

“And we succeeded. As expected of our lord’s plan. It never misses.”

The blue-eyed knight with flowing blonde hair walked towards Medusa. Lucas McGregor. The acting commander of the monster front approached fearlessly, reflecting Medusa in a mirror.

《You’re a bold one.》

Medusa, looking at Lucas with an interesting gaze, tilted her head to the side with a snap.

《I don’t understand, human. To separate us, just for that one thing… you gave up the wall and opened the gate?》

“…”

《You willingly let the wall fall and allowed us to invade the city…? What kind of crazy plan is that?》

“You’re the one who doesn’t know anything, monster.”

A ferocious smile appeared on Lucas’s lips.

“You didn’t invade this city.”

At the same time,

Thump! Thump! Thump-!

Starting from the south gate of Crossroads, all the gates in the north, east, and west closed with a dull thud.

Medusa was so dumbfounded that she stared at Lucas with her long, torn mouth open.

Swish…!

Lucas, drawing a dazzling sword made of light, roared with explosive killing intent.

“We’re the ones who trapped you in this city!”

《…!》

“No matter what you spew from your eyes! No matter how strong your limbs are! That doesn’t matter! Like all the other stupid monsters who crashed into this city… your necks will roll on this ground too!”

Medusa, realizing that the knight in front of her was no ordinary strongman, began to prepare for battle seriously.

《…Hah.》

But, it couldn’t be helped. A sneer leaked from her lips.

《Luring and then attacking separately. The plan was interesting, human.》

Certainly, this knight in front of her was strong enough to fight her on equal terms.

《But the other humans in this city don’t seem to be as strong as you.》

“…”

《Will this plan really work as well as you think?》

Lucas’s brow furrowed deeply. Medusa licked her long tongue and smiled.

《My sisters are very strong.》

Cold sweat ran down Lucas’s spine. That’s right. In fact, Medusa was right.

‘I was bluffing, but this plan is just for stalling for time in the first place.’

What is tag? It’s a game of running away without being caught by the tagger. It’s not about fighting and winning, but about hiding and avoiding… such a reckless plan.

‘Hold on, everyone.’

Lucas gritted his teeth, igniting the flames of light from the [Bestowed Sword] even more fiercely.

‘We have to hold on!’

***

Crossroads City. Back alley.

“Kuaaaa! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts!”

Crack! Crrrack!

The limbs of a knight held in Stheno’s hands were torn off. Blood splattered everywhere. The knight, who had been screaming at the top of his lungs, rolled on the ground as Stheno threw him away like trash. And he never screamed again.

“…Ah.”

A foolish groan escaped from the mouth of another knight who was watching this scene, holding a broken sword. There were two more corpses of other knights who had been similarly crushed around him. These four knights were veterans and heroes who had fought in many battles as part of Lucas’s party. However, a head-on collision with a legion commander-level monster was decided in the blink of an eye, and their lives evaporated in vain.

《…Krrk.》

Stheno, approaching the knight who was frozen and unable to move, reached out and firmly grabbed the knight’s body, then,

Kiiiiiiing!

Activated her petrifying gaze.

“Aaa… Aaaaa! Aaaaaaaa!”

As his whole body turned to stone while still alive, the knight let out a desperate scream. But the petrification did not stop. After a while, the knight had completely turned to stone. Stheno indifferently threw the statue on the ground.

《Krrk, krrk.》

There were no more humans trying to lure Stheno around her. That was because they were all dead. Stheno tore apart and petrified all the human heroes in her assigned area. There was no party to mark her now.

《Krr… ?》

Stheno’s pale eyes, scanning the surroundings, turned sharply. For Stheno, a base-defense type monster, all humans within a certain distance of her were targets to be killed. And the place where the most human presence was felt from where Stheno was currently located was…

《…Kikik.》

A white building not far away. It was a temple.