I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 578

Before setting out.

The infiltration team shared a brief moment with those remaining at the Crossroads.

Neither those leaving nor those staying could guarantee their lives.

Yet, with the certainty of morning following night, they exchanged farewells as if their reunion was assured.

“See you later,” Yoon said with a bright smile.

Kuhilan, standing before him, also smiled. “Let’s meet again soon.”

Beside them, the elf queen Skuld was adjusting Berdandi’s collar. “Come back safe, sister. Please be careful.”

“Nothing will happen. We’re the ones who survived a hundred years in the hell below that lake,” Berdandi replied with a smile, adjusting Skuld’s crown. “You be careful too.”

“Hehe, let’s both show off our royal elven prowess.”

Nearby, the ‘old men’ of the party were saying their goodbyes to their respective people.

Evangeline, standing before Lucas, raised her eyebrows in a V shape and said, “Take good care of our senior.”

“You too, command the defense well. I’ll probably be back before then to take back command,” Lucas replied quietly, checking his equipment.

Evangeline, who had been watching Lucas with narrowed eyes, carefully opened her mouth. “…Old man.”

“What is it, missy?”

“Your eyes are too fierce. Tone down the bloodlust.”

“…”

Lucas, tightening his gauntlets, glanced south. “I thought I needed to raise my own spirit to avoid being consumed by that monster’s evil. I guess it happened without me realizing it.”

“But you don’t need to become evil to kill a monster, do you?”

“I have to if it’s necessary to kill the monster.”

Ignoring Evangeline’s attempt to say more, Lucas turned away. “Don’t worry. I will protect our lord no matter what.”

Then, Lucas walked away, his back watched by Evangeline with dissatisfaction.

At the same time.

“Mr. Torkel!”

“Please be careful!”

The temple people approached Torkel, offering words of encouragement. Torkel was flustered, but he smiled shyly and replied to them, telling them to be careful as well.

Hannibal and Rosetta stuck close to Janice, while the young mages clung to Diarmuid, offering words of encouragement and advice. Janice was flustered, while Diarmuid scolded them instead, telling them to keep their wits about them.

“Everyone’s so heartwarming…” Nobody, who was squatting nearby, muttered as he listened to the conversations.

Then, someone came and stood in front of Nobody. Nobody looked up at them, puzzled. “Huh? Sorry, I can’t see in front of me, so who are you? Do you need something from me?”

“…”

The other person didn’t say anything, only letting out a shallow breath.

Nobody, guessing the other person’s identity, chuckled. “Don’t worry too much. I’ll be back safe. Take care. Okay?”

“…”

Candler stood there silently for a long time.

“…”

“…”

As Bodybag and Burnout blankly watched these farewell scenes, someone approached them, pushing a wheelchair.

It was Lily. Lily quietly took out two small pouches from her pocket and handed them to the two elves. The pouches felt rough to the touch. They seemed to be filled with nuts.

Bodybag and Burnout smiled bashfully. Lily smiled back.

And then—the time for departure approached.

***

Currently.

Inside the Fly King’s stomach.

Thump! Thump! Thud…!

Fierce explosions echoed continuously, and the vibrations were intense.

Bodybag and Burnout, who had been unconscious, slowly regained their senses due to the explosions and vibrations.

“Ugh… sunflower seeds…”

“…?”

The scene that greeted Bodybag and Burnout as they regained consciousness was,

Swoooosh!

Swarms of flies pouring in from all directions, and,

Crash! Crash! Crash!

My captured monsters rampaging and spreading out in all directions.

The beetle commander Hercules roared and rammed his massive body, followed by various captured monsters roaring and rushing forward.

Swoosh!

And the Kraken.

My summon, this unparalleled tentacle monster, stretched its long limbs in all directions, snatching flies and either crushing them or swallowing them into its massive mouth.

It was truly an apocalyptic scene.

Bodybag and Burnout stared blankly at this scene, then quietly lay back down. Hey!

“Hey, don’t pass out again. Get up now!” I manipulated the Kraken to lift Bodybag and Burnout with its tentacles and placed them next to me (on top of the Kraken’s head).

“I wish it was a dream, ugh…”

“…”

Burnout and Bodybag desperately held onto their sanity, stuffing sunflower seeds into their mouths. I ordered them.

“As you can see, things are a bit chaotic right now!”

Flies were pouring in from all directions, and my captured monsters, magic walls, and summons were fighting back.

“If you see any allies, rescue them immediately! Burnout, you keep watch, and Bodybag! You use your telekinesis to rescue them. Can you do it?”

“Yes, yes… !”

“Good! Let’s go!”

Thump-!

The captured monster legion advanced, breaking through the fly encirclement.

Along with the captured monster legion, we thoroughly searched the surroundings, focusing on rescuing our scattered allies. It wasn’t long before we found our party members.

“What is this chaos-!”

“Rampaging was the plan, but this is too much-!”

I recovered the two dwarf warriors belonging to my party, and as we rushed forward,

I found Kuhilan and Berdandi’s party fighting while surrounded by flies on the lower floor.

I dropped straight down with the Kraken.

“Kuhahaha! Thousand-Ton Drop!” As I shouted a martial arts move I had vaguely heard, Kuhilan and Berdandi’s party of ten screamed in terror.

Bodybag skillfully used telekinesis to grab them all and lift them up, while the Kraken landed on the lower floor.

Crash! Crash! Crash!

It crushed the swarms of flies, and unable to bear the weight, it broke through another floor and landed one level below.

As I piled the foaming-at-the-mouth beastmen and elves on top of the Kraken’s head, Berdandi swept her messy light green hair back and said, “Sir Lucas and his party went downwards…! We will search the lower levels, destroy the fly eggs, and if we have any strength left, we will go up. Your Highness, please go up first!”

“Okay! Thanks, Berdandi!” I lightly reorganized the captured monster legion and began to ascend again.

The Kraken, being a cephalopod monster, crawled up the floors of this monster’s stomach with ease.

Around that time, Kuhilan, who had regained his senses, shuddered. “By the way, how huge is this Fly King…?!”

“…”

The Kraken and Hercules were definitely not small, but they could move around, albeit a bit cramped, inside the Fly King’s stomach.

Everything about this monster was beyond common sense, but its size was also bizarre. When viewed from afar, it was just huge, so I couldn’t really feel it, but being inside, it felt strange.

It felt even bigger than the Jormungandr [a mythical serpent of immense size]. Jormungandr might be longer, but considering the volume…

‘The Fly King’s body is made of flies… then how many flies would it take to make such a huge monster?’

When insects multiply in large numbers, the units become strange.

In the case of locust swarms, called Huangchong [a Chinese term for locust swarms], they boast a terrifying reproductive power that easily reaches the trillions.

‘Is the Fly King the same?’

I shook my head, clearing my thoughts. Now is not the time to have trivial thoughts. I need to focus on the task at hand.

“Let’s go up!” I will destroy every inch of this stomach, and…

‘I will save them!’

The survivors who were captured first.

Kellybay, Kellyson, the crew, and Junior and Chain.

I hope they are all alive…!

***

Thump, thud…

A faint vibration started beneath their feet, gradually becoming stronger.

Junior and the survivors, who were carefully heading downwards, exchanged glances. Something seemed to be happening on the lower floor.

Junior, with his ear close to the floor, muttered in confusion. “What is this vibration?”

“Is there a battle going on…?”

“But we’re still far from the Crossroads…”

Immediately, Junior’s eyes widened, and he quickly raised his head. “Could it be that the rescue team has arrived?!”

“Surely not inside this fly’s stomach, how…?”

Following that, a wry smile appeared on Kellybay’s face. “…No, if it’s the young prince, it might be possible.”

Thump! Thud!

Following the increasingly intense vibrations, roars, and… the shouts of the heroes of the human realm could be heard.

It was real. The rescue team had really arrived.

Especially Ash’s voice was loud. I didn’t know what he was doing, but he was shouting strange spells like ‘Thousand-Ton Drop! 600-Kilogram Drop! 1322.77-Pound Drop!’

Junior, with a relieved smile on his face, muttered. “It’s him! He came himself!”

“That voice… it’s really him.”

“Indeed, he’s someone who doesn’t abandon his comrades.”

“Honestly, I sometimes thought he was stubborn.”

Kellybay burst into a hearty laugh. “Being the one rescued, I’m so grateful I could cry…!”

The voices of the rescue team could be heard, but they were still some distance away. The Fly King’s stomach was hollow, so the voices echoed even louder.

‘Probably two floors below… no, three floors or more? Still far…’

However, the mere fact that the rescue team had arrived noticeably boosted the morale of the survivors.

The despair that had been on everyone’s faces as they struggled downwards was completely gone.

“Let’s try a little harder!”

“Come on, let’s go down to join them…!”

Just as the survivors were starting to make holes in the floor again with the tools in their hands,

Thud…!

This time, the vibration came from above.

Junior quickly looked up. Kellybay and Kellyson, who had sensed an ominous presence, also looked in the same direction, startled.

“…Something’s coming.”

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

Through the holes that the survivors had made while descending from the upper floors, something unidentified was crawling down at a rapid pace.

“Everyone, get away! Something’s coming…!”

The holes that the survivors had made on each floor were not large. Just enough for one person to barely squeeze through.

Forcibly breaking and tearing open those holes, ‘it’ fell down at a furious speed.

Thump! Crack-!

Finally, ‘it’, having torn apart the last hole, poked its head out from the ceiling of the upper floor towards the group of survivors.

Just looking at its head, it was a fly.

A giant fly with red compound eyes gleaming.

“What, it’s just a fly monster…” Kellyson, who was muttering with a pale face, couldn’t finish his sentence.

Creak, creak…

‘It’ crawled out onto the ceiling through the hole it had widened.

It was a fly. It was a fly, but it was different.

Its entire body, several times larger than a normal fly monster, was covered in a massive carapace like a beetle, and a long stinger like a wasp protruded from the end of its abdomen. And.

Swoosh-

Its two front legs had transformed into long, scythe-like blades, like a praying mantis.

Seeing the form of this bizarre creature for the first time, Kellyson stammered. “Is that… really a fly?”

Junior was just as bewildered.

A body that combined the characteristics of various insects. It was like…

“Did someone make a chimera? What is this…”

That was the end of their musings.

The fly monster, which had been crawling on the ceiling and staring blankly at them, suddenly jumped down towards them.

With a clear surge of hostility, Junior shouted and began casting a spell. “Everyone, get away!”

Junior was by far the strongest in terms of single combat power here. Junior raised his staff and unleashed a barrage of magic.

Bang! Whoosh! Whoosh!

However, the fly monster skillfully twisted its body, dodging the magic with acrobatic flight.

“You-!” Lightning flashed in Junior’s eyes as he gritted his teeth.

At the same time, lightning surged from the tip of his staff, engulfing the fly’s body.

Crackling! Crackling!

However.

The carapace covering the fly’s body glowed blue, neutralizing most of the lightning magic.

“…?!”

Junior’s eyes widened in shock.

That appearance was like…

‘…A magic barrier from an airship?!’

As it fell, the fly didn’t even look at Junior.

Instead, it landed among the much weaker ones.

Among the crew members who were still paralyzed and lying on the ground. Thump-!

Most of the crew members were now conscious, though still paralyzed. Their eyes filled with fear.

“What…”

“You monster! I won’t-”

Before Kellybay and Kellyson, who were horrified, could rush in,

The fly monster swung its blade-like front legs around.

Swoosh…!

Blood splattered in all directions.