I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 481

482. [STAGE 23] Tag (3)

“Hey, you blind bastard! What are you doing!”

The remaining four Blacklist members on the rooftop looked utterly bewildered.

They had agreed to just observe, but suddenly, the blind swordsman had abandoned his position and charged at the monster.

“The Gorgon sisters are not opponents for the likes of us!”

“We got our advance payment, so we just need to hide and wait it out!”

“What kind of loyalty makes you suddenly act like a hero of justice? Just because you’re blind doesn’t mean you can’t even take care of yourself?!”

“Shut your traps, you bastards.”

The blind swordsman spat on the ground, lowered his stance, and placed his hand on the hilt of his long sword.

“I may have lived a bottom-feeder life, eating dust my whole life. I may have lived a messed-up life, seeing nothing my whole life… but damn it. I know what human decency is.”

The blind swordsman gestured with his chin towards the temple.

“Pregnant women and children, and…”

…and also towards the Crossroads hotel, not far from the temple.

“You can’t mess with the casino.”

The Blacklist heroes wore dumbfounded expressions. The blind swordsman grinned again, revealing his yellow teeth.

“That’s the unwritten rule, you monster? Didn’t your mom teach you that?”

Kiiiiing!

Stheno responded not with words, but by activating her petrifying gaze.

Thud!

A man with metal plates embedded all over his body quickly rushed towards the blind swordsman, grabbed him by the back of his neck, and rolled on the ground.

The petrifying gaze narrowly missed, turning the entire alleyway to stone.

“Are you trying to get yourself killed, you bastard?!”

The other Blacklist heroes, who had followed them down, rebuked the blind swordsman while preparing for battle.

“Your slash is a trash skill that takes ten minutes to prepare for the next one! And you can’t even aim properly!”

“Don’t expect too much from a blind man.”

“Then he shouldn’t have stepped up, you damn blind idiot!”

“And they call themselves ugly…”

“You’ve never even seen us?!”

The metal-plated man, gritting his teeth, stepped forward and spread his arms wide. Magic symbols appeared on the metal plates embedded in his body, forming a magical barrier in front of him.

Stheno’s petrifying gaze, fired in rapid succession, was blocked and nullified by the barrier. The metal-plated man trembled and smiled.

“But, yeah. You’re right. You can’t mess with pregnant women, children, and casinos…!”

The others helped Torkel up. The metal-plated man shouted at the bewildered Torkel.

“While fighting, let’s slowly lure this bastard somewhere else!”

“You guys…”

“We’re all someone’s children. We’re not bad enough to abandon a mother giving birth and run away, you know?”

The metal-plated man grinned.

And the next moment.

Crack!

Stheno charged towards them ferociously, tearing apart the barrier that the metal-plated man had deployed.

The metal-plated man blinked dumbly and turned his head to look straight ahead.

“Huh?”

《Kyahhhhh!》

Stheno, belatedly unleashing her rage at losing her wrist, grabbed the metal-plated man with her remaining hand,

Opened her long, torn mouth wide, and-

Crunch!

Crackle! Snap!

She devoured the metal-plated man’s head, chewing and crushing it.

Blood splattered everywhere. The sturdy metal-plated man’s body instantly went limp.

The remaining Blacklist heroes, and even Torkel inside his helmet, turned pale at the gruesome sight.

“…Hmm.”

The blind swordsman muttered in a slightly trembling voice.

“Did we mess up by getting involved?”

《Kyahhhhhhh-!》

Stheno threw the headless body of the metal-plated man aside and roared menacingly at the surviving heroes.

***

The three Gorgon sisters were successfully lured away separately.

So, in this situation, which of the three sisters is the easiest to kill?

Stheno is out of the question from the start. The heroes deployed here are, to be blunt, not capable enough to kill Stheno.

The same goes for Medusa.

Lukas is one of the strongest in Crossroads, but he would struggle to defeat Medusa, the most powerful of the three sisters, alone.

Lukas was deployed alone to hold off Medusa.

Therefore, the last one.

Eurayle, the most agile of the three sisters, with high magic resistance but the lowest strength and physical defense.

Defeating Eurayle is theoretically the easiest, and that’s why-

“Hoo.”

Evangeline was deployed.

Awakening.

Specialized equipment enchanted with spirits.

And the strongest magic armor, Snow White.

Considering overall stats, including mobility, Evangeline was more suitable for defeating Eurayle, who was forced into aerial combat.

‘One chance.’

Standing on the rooftop of the spire, Evangeline looked down at Eurayle being lured towards her and clenched her teeth.

‘I have to take her down in one shot.’

The hero party acting as bait screamed in agony as they were petrified one by one by the flying Eurayle, but Evangeline gritted her teeth and endured.

She couldn’t let their sacrifices be in vain.

She had to attack at the perfect moment.

“Snow White, deploy.”

Shhh!

From the bracelets and anklets on Evangeline’s wrists and ankles, armor sprouted like scales, covering her entire body.

Clank! Clatter, Click!

In an instant, a silver-white armor tailored to Evangeline’s figure was completed, and a pure white cloak fluttered like feathers behind her back.

The front of the helmet was a visor made of a magic panel, and Evangeline’s face was clearly visible through the transparent panel.

Snow White was called magic armor even in the ancient magic kingdom of the Lake Kingdom, and it was equipped with special functions befitting its name.

It had the ability to quantify and visualize the user’s abilities, displaying them on the helmet’s magic panel.

And Evangeline possessed the unique trait [Crossroads], which allowed her to identify the optimal path in battle.

This transcendental intuition, honed over time, had developed to almost a sixth sense, and combined with Snow White’s functions-

Kiiiiing!

It reached the realm of precognition.

The magic panel of the helmet predicted Eurayle’s next move, and the path Evangeline needed to take was displayed accordingly.

Evangeline, with her emerald eyes filled with determination, closed and opened them, then jumped off the spire.

“Evangeline Cross. Launching-!”

Thud-!

Evangeline fell straight down, free-falling towards Eurayle.

The timing was perfect, but there was a slight error in the trajectory.

However, Evangeline didn’t panic and skillfully manipulated Snow White according to her will.

The shoulder blades of the back armor opened, and magic power was released backward, creating a small halo.

Thwack-!

It was a single-use booster function to assist movement on the ground, but Evangeline skillfully used it to adjust her falling trajectory.

The trajectory displayed on the visor perfectly matched her actual movement.

《Kireek?》

Eurayle, flying towards her next victim, finally sensed Evangeline swooping down from above and looked up, but it was too late.

“Haaaaah!”

Evangeline’s massive lance, charged with immense magic power, glowed white-hot and was thrust downwards,

Fwoooosh!

The knight’s lance charge, propelled by the momentum of falling from the air, unleashed its tremendous power without restraint.

Evangeline’s lance pierced through the center of Eurayle’s back and emerged from her chest.

《Kyahhhhhhh!》

Eurayle screamed in a bone-chilling voice, spitting out blood as she plummeted to the ground.

Crash! Crack! Thud!

Eurayle crashed to the ground, smashing all sorts of junk and boxes in the alleyway.

Evangeline, still with her lance embedded in the monster’s body, landed lightly, placing both feet on the monster’s body as if she were riding a yacht.

“Successfully bringing her down to the ground…”

Evangeline snorted.

“Now all I have to do is kill you.”

《Krrk, Krrrrlk!》

Kiiiiing!

Eurayle twisted her head back at a grotesque angle and used her petrifying gaze.

But Evangeline skillfully covered her left arm’s shield with ice, deflecting the gaze.

《Kyaaak…!》

Eurayle’s eyes glowed as if in a final struggle.

Then, the surrounding stone buildings vibrated all at once, shattered, and floated above Evangeline’s head.

Evangeline looked up at the stones and grumbled.

“It’s a whole rock gift set…”

Thud!

The pile of stones that covered Evangeline at once stuck together. It was Eurayle’s technique to trap her opponent in rock.

But,

“It won’t work.”

Thud!

Evangeline lightly spread her arms and shattered the pile of stones that had enveloped her.

Trait, [Unstoppable].

Evangeline was resistant to all kinds of restraints. This rock restraint was no exception.

“Now, then…”

Evangeline coldly muttered towards Eurayle, who was still screaming and struggling.

“First, the wings.”

***

The Blacklist was on the verge of annihilation by Stheno.

“Rise, my children! Please, stop that crazy monster!”

The woman wearing a candlestick crown was a golemancer [a magic user who creates and controls golems].

She summoned blood golems, bone golems, sand golems, and even candle golems, using all the materials she had, but they were all easily crushed by Stheno’s hands.

“This is… the last, bullet…”

The bespectacled man, who had half of his body modified with magitech [a combination of magic and technology], was a magi-gunner.

He was skilled in using both magic and guns, but the magic bullets and spells he used failed to inflict fatal damage on Stheno.

After having his prosthetic leg and arm torn off by Stheno, he loaded the last bullet with his opposite hand and pointed the gun at his temple.

“Should I just kill myself? I don’t want to be eaten by that monster.”

“If you’re going to kill yourself, at least be a meat shield first, you bastard!”

The child in a prison uniform, bound in chains, was a dark magic user.

This child, who was casting various evil spells with hand seals, was the only one inflicting significant damage on Stheno, which made him Stheno’s primary target.

Torkel was limping, carrying the child on his back, barely managing to escape.

But soon, the mage’s magic power ran out.

There was no chance of winning.

In fact, everyone knew it from the beginning.

“Damn it! That’s why! Why did you step up and cause trouble!”

The golemancer woman cried, almost sobbing.

“We knew we couldn’t win! We knew it was best to hide! Why did you suddenly act on some pathetic sense of justice and get us killed like this?! Why!”

“…We have to save the child.”

The blind swordsman muttered.

He was sitting in a corner of the alley, his leg bone broken from being kicked by Stheno.

“We have to save the child that’s about to be born.”

“What good is there in being born into this messed-up world, huh?! The monster will be waiting with its mouth open, drooling! Do we really have to show this terrible world to the child?!”

“That’s for the child to decide.”

The blind swordsman took a deep breath, placed his sword sheath on the ground, and stood up, trembling.

“This world is a messed-up place for us. That’s for sure.”

Stheno, who had stopped at the end of the alley, prepared to charge.

The blind swordsman placed his broken leg on the ground and slowly took a stance to draw his sword.

“But we don’t know what that child’s world will be like.”

“…”

“Whether the world is beautiful or terrible, that’s for the child to decide. It’s up to the child to make that conclusion after experiencing all the sweet and bitter tastes of the world.”

As he listened to those words, Torkel, covered in blood and sweat, blinked blankly.

“I’ve never seen what this world looks like, but I know this.”

A shy smile appeared on the blind swordsman’s lips.

“This world usually tastes like sand, dust, and ash… but sometimes, just sometimes, it tastes incredibly soft and sweet, like cotton candy.”

“…”

“Since the child is born into this world, they have the right to taste that too.”

Clank-

The blind swordsman, having prepared his final slash, muttered.

“Okay, I’m ready. Just tell me the direction.”

Thump-!

Stheno began charging towards them.

And the magi-gunner stepped in front of Stheno and pointed his gun forward.

“This way.”

Bang-!

The gun-type magic gun fired.

Of course, the bullet didn’t stop Stheno.

The last bullet hit Stheno’s metal forearm and bounced off, and Stheno’s charge tore the magi-gunner’s body to shreds.

But the direction was clearly conveyed to the blind swordsman.

“Hoo.”

The blind swordsman lowered his stance as much as he could, took a deep breath, and then,

Drew his sword and swung a slash.

His attack, which could cut through anything if it hit, flew through space and-

Shhh-!

…cut through the stone wall.

At the last moment, his broken leg failed to act as a support, causing his stance to collapse, and the blade went in the wrong direction.

“Ah.”

The blind swordsman muttered awkwardly.

“I missed.”

“You moron!”

“Aaaaaaah!”

Stheno charged like a tank towards the screaming Blacklist survivors.