I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 593

The Fly King’s movements were sealed.

But this binding wouldn’t last long. Even now, the ropes binding him were stretched taut, snapping one by one, and the tree roots were tearing apart in succession.

Swoosh!

The tentacles erupting from his body thrashed violently. First, Dusk Bringer and Verdandi, who were fighting on the monster’s body and holding him down, were all thrown off with screams.

‘Now’s our only chance!’

It was time to execute the prepared plan. I commanded.

“Operation Winter Calling, commence!”

Lily, who was on standby, immediately echoed.

“Operation Winter Calling, commence!”

The alchemists activated the artifacts they had prepared all at once.

While devising a strategy to deal with the Fly King, I decided not to get bogged down in overly specific details.

I decided not to get distracted by information such as the lack of information about him, or what his characteristic patterns were.

Instead, I thought about a larger premise.

The Fly King is, after all, a fly. Even its variant is ultimately within the category of a fly—a pest.

What can fundamentally block the activity of a pest? What is the biggest weakness of a pest?

The answer I came up with was simple.

“It’s ‘winter’…!”

What truly eliminates and stops flies is not insecticide, natural enemies, or traps. It is none other than winter. In the face of falling snow and layers of frost, insects cannot withstand it and die.

Operation Winter Calling was a plan established in that way.

In simple terms—it’s a tactic that throws all the ice attributes at once!

“King Poseidon!”

When I called out the name of the Merman King, the Merman King, who had been waiting, forcefully threw his trident.

Thud!

The trident lightly pierced the Fly King’s body, and,

Swoosh!

A fierce stream of water surged from the trident. The summoned cold river water from the north drenched the Fly King’s entire body.

“Lily!”

“Yes! Target set!”

“Artifacts, activating!”

Whirr!

Lily and the alchemists activated the artifacts they had prepared all at once.

Crackling!

The cold air, shot simultaneously at the Fly King, swirled and directly hit the Fly King’s body.

《This is…!》

The Fly King, who had been generating swarms of fly tentacles from his entire body to break free from the restraints, spoke in a bewildered voice.

《Haha, indeed, such a method…!》

The cold radiation artifact was connected to the magic furnace by dismantling the remaining artifacts to forcibly amplify the output.

It was a reckless operation to discard more than half of the artifacts held by the front line and invest them all in this one cold radiation attack. But since it was all or nothing anyway!

Everything had to be bet on this one attack!

Crack, crackle-

The outer surface of the Fly King’s body, directly hit by the rampaging cold, froze. The swarming tentacles also stiffened and turned white, and frozen flies fell down in droves.

The ice attribute is temporary.

Moreover, the current season is summer. It cannot maintain its effect for long.

It had to be stacked up quickly and finished off at once…!

“Junior!”

“Yes! Everyone, joint magic-!”

Junior, with a pale face, relayed my command.

It would have been best to use Junior’s ultimate skill, but [Elemental Disassembly] had been used several times today alone.

If he used it again, Junior would die. Instead, I put him in charge of this command.

Junior and the mages under his command put their hands on each other’s shoulders, preparing for support.

Magic power was transferred to the few ice attribute mages on the front line, and a blizzard formed in the sky descended upon the Fly King’s head.

Covered in snow and frozen white, the Fly King muttered as if he was enjoying it.

《To think you would implement a plan to summon winter in the middle of summer… I never imagined it, Guardian of the Mortal Realm.》

The Fly King burst into a hearty laugh.

《But because it is midsummer… the freezing speed was just a little lacking.》

“…?!”

The Fly King raised his arm, which was not yet fully frozen, and then, after forming a hand blade, struck down on his own frozen and bound legs.

Clang-!

The Fly King’s two legs were severed from the calves.

Since most of the restraints were concentrated on his lower body, he was momentarily freed.

“What…!”

The Fly King then focused all his energy on generating wings. The restored wings vibrated wildly even while frozen white, and his massive body began to soar upwards.

“He’s breaking away!”

“No, we have to stop him…!”

But he managed to fly into the sky with his half-frozen body. Everyone sighed, and I gnashed my teeth.

Damn it, at this rate, time…!

At that moment, above the Fly King’s head, which was just soaring up—from above the clouds where dark clouds had gathered to pour out the blizzard, a mechanical sound rang out.

Whoosh…!

The next moment,

Thud-!

A huge airship suddenly appeared, cutting through the dark clouds.

I was shocked and shouted the name of the ship.

“Alcatraz…?!”

The flagship symbolizing the Imperial Airship Fleet was in a terrible state. The exterior was completely burned, and there was no undamaged part of the armor.

But the emblem engraved on the armor below the bridge—a sword and a rose—was clear.

A calm voice flowed from the airship that was falling like a shooting star.

「Imperial Special Mission Ship Alcatraz. Due to the aftermath of blocking the joint magic, the main booster is destroyed, the magic furnace is melting, the barrier is lost, and the keel is damaged… it is practically deemed decommissioned.」

It was Fleet Commander Macmillan.

「If it is destined to be decommissioned anyway, then let’s have a chance to dance flamboyantly for the last time.」

“….”

To Macmillan, who was requesting permission for a last dance, I nodded.

“…I’m counting on you, Sir Macmillan.”

「Aye aye, Sir.」

The Fly King tried to evade hastily as he saw the Alcatraz falling directly above his head, but with his half-frozen body’s mobility, it was impossible.

The bow of the Alcatraz, which fell from above, collided with the Fly King’s crown.

Boom-!

The Fly King spread his two wings and continued to try to ascend, and the Alcatraz, trying to crush the Fly King, spewed out fierce flames from its rear thrusters.

「I speak to the enemy monster. This ship is the Alcatraz. It is the strongest ship of mankind and the best ship in the world. I think I have enough qualifications to ask you to dance with me-」

Macmillan muttered in a deep voice, teasingly and sensually.

「Shall we dance?」

Thud-!

The Alcatraz’s boosters spewed fire as if they would explode.

No matter how you looked at it, it was not an elegant dance but closer to a rough punch—but in the end, the one who won was the Alcatraz.

The Fly King’s altitude slowly lowered, and unable to withstand it, he fell back down again.

Crash…!

The Alcatraz, as if declaring victory, spun around once on top of the Fly King, who had fallen to the ground, spewing out snow powder, and then slowly fell out of the city, spewing flames and smoke from not only the thrusters but also the entire rear output section.

「Well then, ladies and gentlemen, good luck.」

Leaving the last communication, the Alcatraz slid and disappeared to the other side of the city.

There was no time to worry about that. I shouted.

“We have to finish it now! Hannibal!”

“Yes!”

Hannibal and the spiritists, standing in front of the fallen Fly King, were preparing to enchant ice spirits.

“Everyone, receive spirit enchantment on your weapons and charge-!”

The vanguard heroes grabbed their respective weapons and charged at the Fly King, and the spiritists temporarily imbued ice spirits into the weapons of those heroes.

Swoosh-!

Lukas and Kuilan dashed forward at the very front. One ice spirit was imbued into each of Lukas’s twin swords, and Kuilan also wrapped one ice spirit around each of his fists.

Behind them, Nobody, Zenith, Elise, Rosetta… all sorts of heroes ran out, receiving ice spirits imbued into their respective weapons.

“Go!”

I also summoned an army of afterimages and sent them all out to charge.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Piercing through the Fly King’s frozen carapace, tentacles made of flies emerged from underneath, panting.

My heroes charged, cutting down those tentacles with their ice-imbued weapons.

Over the fallen Fly King’s body, towards the center of his chest.

Like a fuse burning down, he was gathering magic power in the center of his chest for self-destruction—and his core must be there, at the gathering point of magic power.

Swoosh!

The resistance of the tentacles was fierce.

Even half-frozen, the tentacles formed by the flies were swung powerfully, and they managed to stab and strike down the heroes who were charging, cutting and breaking through.

The heroes were injured and fell. My army of afterimages was also annihilated in an instant.

But they didn’t stop.

“Winter…!”

I shouted, running alongside the heroes at the very rear.

“Let this pest know the harshness of winter to its bones-!”

Nobody, who had cut down a huge tentacle, was knocked down, unable to block the follow-up attack. Elise, who had blocked the falling tentacle with her sword tube, fell, dropping her swords along with the breaking sword tube.

The heroes who picked up those swords fought desperately, but one by one, they fell.

Zenith and Rosetta, who were fighting closely beside me as if protecting me, fell at the same time while leading the way, and even as they fell, they put a divine power armor on me, who was running at the very back.

“Your Highness…!”

“I hope you succeed…!”

Instead of answering, I just nodded and looked ahead.

Now, the only heroes left in front of me were Lukas and Kuilan.

Swoosh!

Finally, Lukas, who had pierced through the field of tentacles and reached the Fly King’s chest, crossed his two swords in front of his chest, and then,

“Haaah…!”

Exhaling white breath from his mouth, he simultaneously slashed with his twin swords without hesitation.

Clang-!

Lukas’s twin swords, each imbued with [Willpower Strike], slashed through the monster’s chest with tremendous force.

The light emitted by [Bestowed Sword] and the darkness emitted by [Excarnival] exploded, leaving a huge cross-shaped scar on the Fly King’s chest.

The barrier inside the chest armor was revealed, and a clear crack appeared on the surface of that barrier as well.

“Kuilan!”

Lukas shouted and stepped aside, and Kuilan was already leaping into the air, kicking off the ground.

“First.”

After taking a unique stance in the air, Kuilan, wrapped in crimson magic power all over his body, plunged down to the ground.

“Severing Heart Wind Wolf-!”

The ultimate skill that Kuilan used, accepting the curse of his ancestors, had the same stance as the one he used before, but the result was much more violent.

The single fist that was unleashed, containing the first secret technique created by the Wolf King Lunared, slammed down on the cross-shaped scar that Lukas had left.

Boom!

The Fly King’s chest was torn off and simultaneously caved in.

Clang-!

And the barrier that was wrapped inside was also shattered like glass.

In the very center of the monster’s chest, where the outer shell and the barrier were completely blown away, a black, glistening core was clearly exposed.

“Captain…!”

Kuilan called out to me, stepping aside. I nodded, running forward. And I shouted with all my might.

“I transfer the ownership of the summoned beasts of my subordinate heroes to me! Do you agree!”

All the heroes who had fallen, covered in blood, around me, after fighting while charging at the Fly King, answered in unison.

“We agree!”

The summoned spirits are, of course, summoned beasts.

And my ultimate skill, [The Foremost Banner], is specialized in controlling summoned beasts.

It can easily handle hundreds at once…!

Swoosh!

The ice spirits that had been enchanted on the weapons of all the heroes in the area rushed towards me and wrapped around my banner.

So many spirits that it was hard to count began to spin around my banner.

Even through the divine power armor that Zenith and Rosetta had put on me, a terrifying chill was felt. If I didn’t have the divine power armor, I would have frozen to death.

“Ugh…!”

Despite being protected by the armor, I was so cold that I felt like I would freeze to death at any moment. My tightly clenched teeth were chattering.

Still, I run.

Because this is the only strategy I can see right now…!

“In the world of humans….”

I grabbed the flagpole, where white snow powder was swirling, with both hands, and I ran forward, then jumped up—

Falling onto the monster’s core, I plunged the banner down.

“Get lost, monster-!”

Crack-!

The tip of the flagpole broke through the monster’s core and dug inside, and,

Boom-!

The monster’s core, which had been black and glistening, instantly froze white.