I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 565

“……Princess Yoon.”

After a brief silence, Kuilan asked,

“Did you write your will?”

Yoon, who blinked at the sudden question, nodded.

“I did. Not just for this battle, but because I don’t know what might happen at any time.”

“Let’s exchange them.”

“Huh? Exchange? Our wills?”

Kuilan first took out his will from his pocket and handed it over.

“It’s embarrassing to say it myself, but my will is full of shameful things. I got a bit emotional while writing it. From my feelings about my dead brother to the words I have for my subordinates, I wrote a very long piece.”

“Ah, mine is the same. I wrote a paragraph each for my mom, dad, older brother, older sister, and younger siblings, pressing down with tears. Reading it again made my face burn.”

“I thought about it after writing it, and I don’t want to show this to anyone. Absolutely.”

“Me neither.”

“So, if we don’t want the other person to read this, we can’t die.”

Yoon, who had been speechless for a moment, laughed and took out her will, handing it to Kuilan. They exchanged each other’s wills.

“Let’s each keep the other’s. And after this battle is over, let’s exchange them again.”

“……”

“And let’s talk seriously about how our relationship should progress.”

“Okay.”

Yoon carefully tucked Kuilan’s will into her chest. Then, she sat next to Kuilan and gently rested her head on his shoulder.

“I don’t know what will happen then, but since we’re still in a ‘some’ relationship [a Korean term for a relationship that is more than friends but not yet officially dating], I can lend you my shoulder, right?”

“……Of course.”

Looking up at the summer night sky sprinkled with the Milky Way, Kuilan whispered softly.

“Let’s not die.”

“Of course not.”

Yoon chuckled.

“I have no intention of dying after being rejected my whole life without ever having a proper relationship.”

***

The next day, at noon.

The hot summer sun was positioned directly in the center of the southern sky, and the earth was shimmering with the sweltering heat.

At the forward base in front of the Black Lake, the elite forces of Crossroads had completed their deployment.

“Everyone, don’t forget. This is just a preliminary battle.”

I spoke once more to the heroes and soldiers.

“It’s a battle closer to reconnaissance, to observe their condition and gauge their strength.”

Throughout the exploration period, the fly monsters had only run away.

Without engaging in proper combat, they had only crawled into the darkness to avoid us.

So, right now, we have no combat experience against them, and we haven’t even identified who their legion commander is.

Getting proper information starts now.

That’s why I’m ordering my subordinates to proceed with the battle even more cautiously.

“Never overdo it. If necessary, think of giving up the forward base immediately.”

Listening to my words, the heroes and soldiers under my command fiercely glared.

“Keep your bodies light, but your eyes heavy. Minimize casualties and gather as much information about the enemy as possible. Understood?”

“Yes!”

My elite forces answered in unison.

At that moment, the five new recruits, the ‘Insect Busters,’ who were standing separately beside me in their protective suits, shrugged their shoulders.

“Don’t worry too much, Your Highness. As long as we’re here, we can exterminate any bug.”

“Hmm.”

“There’s no need to be nervous. We’ll disinfect them all…”

The Insect Busters were placed directly under my command as a party because they were experts in bug extermination.

They were acting strangely cocky, which made the existing heroes a bit uncomfortable, but I was letting it slide.

For this battle, they were actually the most elite, not inferior to any other hero party.

Swaaaa…

It was then. The surface of the Black Lake began to ripple.

“Foam observed on the lake’s surface! They’re coming out!”

A scout attached to the telescope shouted. I yelled.

“Activate all the artifacts around the lake! Don’t be late!”

“Yes! Artifacts, activating!”

Lily shouted and reached out her hand, and the artifacts that the alchemist team had installed in advance began to flash and activate around the lake.

I bit my parched lips, waiting for the enemies to appear.

And then,

Kwagwang!

A loud explosion rang out, and the artifacts I had installed around the lake exploded all at once.

“Damn it…!”

I couldn’t help but exclaim.

A teleport gate trap.

Covering the entrance of the lake with a giant teleport gate, sending the passing monsters to the spirit realm. It was the same one I used in the battle against the Goblin God King before.

I had poured all the resources and a huge sum of money into making it.

Bang! Kwagwagwang!

An unidentified ominous energy surged from inside the lake, destroying all the artifacts.

I had installed it thinking that the low-intelligence fly monsters would easily fall for it, but it was so easily thwarted.

And immediately after.

Bubbling, bubbling…

The surface of the lake churned as if it were boiling,

Poof-!

Water droplets shot high into the sky.

And- it appeared.

Boooooooom…!

A huge- almost like combining dozens of airships, truly enormous… but definitely a fly-shaped monster.

The giant fly, with horns like a demon on its head, slowly surfaced above the lake and stopped in place.

“……?”

I blinked.

“What is that?”

It’s huge.

The distance from the forward base to the lake is quite far. Nevertheless, even with the naked eye, the monster is enormous.

It’s too big. Can a fly of that size even exist?

Even if it does, how has it been hiding from our reconnaissance all this time…?

I urgently opened the system window. Then,

[Enemy Information – STAGE 35]

– Lv.? Fly King: 1

The enemy information window had completely changed.

“Fly King…?”

I’ve never seen it before.

It’s an entity that didn’t even appear in the game. Cold sweat ran down my spine in bewilderment.

Besides, why is it alone?

Where have all the other flies gone…?

Boooooooom!

And the next moment.

When the roaring monster spread its hundreds of huge legs to the left and right,

Booooooom-

Booooooom!

Countless flies, stored inside its body, began to pour out.

“……!”

Only then did I realize the monster’s ‘structure’.

That the giant monster was an entity formed by countless fly monsters gathering and merging into one.

Boooooooom!

Thousands of flies poured out to the left and right of the Fly King, making a sound like a hornet flying.

And they began to move in a way that was completely unlike flies.

In an orderly fashion.

Like fighter jets performing aerobatics.

They began an endless rotation along a set trajectory.

Swaeeeeek!

They flew endlessly, drawing a figure-eight on its side behind the Fly King. The shape drawn by those thousands of flies was clear.

Infinity (∞).

Thump-

It was impossible for a human mind to understand.

I didn’t know what principle generated lift through that meaningless ritual.

Slowly, the Fly King’s massive body rose into the air.

Charrrrrk!

This time, hundreds of flies emerged from the Fly King’s head and began to spin around above it.

The black afterimages they created as they rotated looked like an angel’s halo, or nimbus, just by their shape.

The flies drew three such halos above the Fly King’s head.

The innermost and outermost halos rotated to the right, and the middle halo rotated to the left.

The Fly King’s massive body, which had soared into the air, occupied the sky.

Was it a coincidence?

At that moment, the halo above the Fly King’s head blocked the sun.

It was because it was noon, and they were directly south of us. The black, bubbling circle of flies devoured the sun like a solar eclipse.

The world at noon, which should have been the brightest, was instantly covered in a dark twilight.

And the Fly King stretched its hundreds of legs out to the left and right, and then, the next moment.

Thump.

It folded its hundreds of legs and gathered them in the center of its body.

It looked like a gesture of clasping hands, or a posture of prayer.

“……!”

I couldn’t help but feel goosebumps on my arms.

Under the devoured black sun.

With a halo of flies above its head, and wings of infinity made of flies behind it.

A praying monster.

Ominous, unclean, and irreverent.

All of this fly’s actions, which I had never encountered before, were far beyond the realm of human understanding.

Frankly speaking.

My legs were trembling.

“My lord.”

When I turned to Lucas’s voice, Lucas also had a face I had never seen before.

“Something… something is wrong.”

He was pale.

Even Lucas, with a bloodless face, swallowed hard and muttered.

“The previous legion commanders also had extraordinary evil energy, but that…”

“……”

“It’s too… too evil. It’s suffocating. What on earth…”

My passive skill, [Unyielding Commander], is working fine.

All the heroes at this forward base are within the range of my passive skill. Even if that monster inflicted any mental status ailments, they would all withstand it without any problems.

But it didn’t do any such thing.

It just, by its mere existence.

With that form and behavior that were far beyond human understanding, and its innate evil… it had made everyone here feel terrified.

“……Kuh!”

I gritted my teeth.

But so what?

Is this the first time I’ve faced an incomprehensible enemy? Is this the first time I’ve faced an evil enemy? No, it’s not.

Nothing changes. Nothing is different. It’s a monster, it’s trying to destroy the human world, and we’re here to stop it.

“Prepare for battle-!”

At my command, the heroes and soldiers who had been spacing out snapped back to their senses.

“Don’t panic! Fight as you’ve trained!”

I waved the flag and slammed it down on the ground.

“It’s an aggregate formed by fly monsters! Don’t be intimidated just because it’s big! In the end, it’s made up of those flies that we can easily catch!”

It’s similar to a carrier and interceptors from classic strategy simulation games.

The Fly King is an aircraft carrier. The flies that make up its body are the interceptors loaded on the carrier.

We were just intimidated by the presence of the giant, but their essence is still just flies.

“We can defeat it! Don’t panic, stay calm, and prepare for battle as you’ve trained-!”

My subordinates, who had regained their senses at my repeated commands, prepared for the defense in an orderly manner.

Skilled artillerymen aligned their cannons, and the mage unit gathered their magic power. Various traps and artifacts installed throughout the forward base were ready to activate in an instant.

And the Fly King, which had been slowly rising and flying towards us,

Thump.

It released one of its hundreds of legs from its clasped position and slowly extended it forward.

And the end of that leg, which looked like it was covered in hideous hair… drew a small circle, spinning around.

Was it an illusion?

For a moment, that movement felt like the gesture of a conductor leading an orchestra.

Boooooooom!

And, in response to that gesture, some of the flies stored in the monster’s huge belly poured out of the Fly King’s body and began to rush towards the forward base.

Looking at the flies flying in a formation as if it were drawn in a picture, I was momentarily speechless.

No flying monster I had ever faced before.

Had ever flown in such a neat and beautiful formation.

“Prepare for battle-!”

I shouted repeatedly at the top of my lungs.

“They’re coming-!”