I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 660

As the heroes each took their rest, and Dusk Bringer regained consciousness and stabilized,

Five days before the start of the final battle, I summoned all the heroes.

“The final battle is just around the corner.”

I looked around at the heroes gathered in the lord’s mansion reception room.

After confirming Dusk Bringer, surrounded by the dragon knights, I smiled faintly.

“I know you’re probably tired of hearing it, but I’d like to explain the strategy for this subjugation once more.”

The more thoroughly you understand it, the better.

I tapped the squiggly worm drawing I had made on the blackboard—supposedly a black dragon—with my staff.

It was a bit large for a worm, and it had several wings and tails, and seven heads, but still.

“First, the major premise.”

I took a breath, then spoke as if confirming something.

“The Black Dragon is an entity that cannot be defeated by conventional means.”

As if overwhelmed by the words, even after hearing them several times, the heroes flinched again.

“He’s a monster even more out of the norm than that Lord of the Flies. It’s practically impossible to defeat him with a normal raid method, like the evil dragons that have been part of the Black Dragon Legion.”

Conventional means—that is, it cannot be defeated by a typical boss monster raid.

‘That doesn’t mean the game’s strategy is useless, though.’

The game’s strategy—in short, a gimmick.

That’s all there is. Because there’s only one path, it’s clearer, even if it’s narrow.

“First, let me explain about him again.”

I lightly tapped the blackboard with my staff.

“Night Bringer, the True Black Dragon. He is the main body of the Black Dragon Legion, and he possesses all the special traits of all the Black Dragon Legion monsters we’ve faced before.”

In other words.

‘Claw’ Parekian’s tough body and mobility.

‘Fang’ Tustibean’s massive size and breath.

‘Wing’ Winged Huan’s flight, feather bombardment, and mind control.

‘Eye’ Ipian’s dark magic eye. And even multiple heads—

It’s a total compilation of the patterns of the evil dragons we’ve faced so far. Actually, it’s more than that.

‘The other two. Blood Drop and Scale are a bit weaker in their own characteristics, but…’

‘Blood Drop’ Kilitian’s vitality.

‘Scale’ Scayrian’s… sneakiness? What the hell is this guy…?

Anyway, you could say he has all of that too.

“Among these, the rest are intuitive abilities, so let’s put them aside. The most problematic are the dark magic eye and the multiple heads.”

I roughly poked the seven heads of the thing drawn on the blackboard with the tip of my staff.

“You all know that he’s a seven-headed dragon, right? The middle head is Night Bringer, and the other six heads are…”

I ran my hand across my neck as if cutting it.

“Night Bringer beheaded them himself.”

“Ew…”

Evangeline, a master of reactions, stuck out her tongue and grimaced. Good reaction. I nodded and continued the explanation.

“He destroyed their necks, leaving only the six heads… He usually attaches them around the middle neck, and only ‘awakens’ them during battle to assist him.”

“His taste in usage is really weird…”

As Evangeline said, it’s some kind of bizarre sense.

The Black Dragon Night Bringer is this kind of dragon. He is a seven-headed dragon, but the middle head has complete control, and the other six heads float around the main body like drones, assisting in battle.

These six heads are already dead, so they have no free will. They are just a kind of artifact that breathes and uses magic as the leader orders.

Evangeline tilted her head at my explanation.

“But how can the heads breathe if they’re just floating around?”

“How should I know? If you start asking like that, nothing about this guy makes sense.”

The floating heads were connected to the main body by darkness, and they probably get something supplied through that dark passage.

Tap!

I tapped my staff on my palm and summarized.

“Anyway, to sum it up… he has tremendous vitality, is incredibly tough, is incredibly huge, moves and flies incredibly fast, and uses breath, dragon roar, magic, feather bombardment, mind control, dark magic eye, and even has six floating heads assisting the main body.”

Sighs erupted from the audience. I felt like doing the same.

At this point, I don’t know how they expect us to catch him. No, it seems like they made him so we wouldn’t catch him in the first place.

“Moreover, he doesn’t even have the typical dragon’s weakness, the ‘reverse scale’ [a scale that grows in the opposite direction, often a weak point]. To be precise, his entire body is made of reverse scales, and there is no part that is a weakness.”

The True Black Dragon Night Bringer is said to have every scale on his body as a reverse scale.

Like a dragon of defiance, the direction of his scales is completely opposite to that of a normal dragon.

And just as a normal dragon has only one reverse scale on its body, Night Bringer had only one forward-facing scale on his body.

“This single forward-facing scale is the ‘Scale’… This is presumed to be his only weakness, but he tore it off with his own hand and threw it away.”

And what was born from that torn-off scale is Scayrian…

I wonder if Scayrian can be used somehow, but I still don’t know what he’s thinking. It seems like he could act as a variable that is advantageous to the enemy, so let’s leave this guy out of the equation.

I’ll have to use the strategy from the game as it is.

“If you only hear this much, there’s no answer.”

I grinned and looked around at the heroes.

“But if there really was no answer, I wouldn’t be so relaxed, would I?”

Everyone was tense, but they smiled back at me. I nodded emphatically.

“What I’m going to exploit is the only opposite of darkness… That’s right. ‘Light.'”

Just like the strategy in the game.

I plan to actively use the gimmick of ‘light,’ the only weakness of darkness.

In the game, when the battle with Night Bringer was near, you could start new research in the production workshop. It was research on handling ‘light,’ which could be called the nemesis of darkness.

I knew about this research in advance, so I had already instructed it. And the results have already come out.

“This is the result of our production team and many mages researching and creating in their spare time over the past two months.”

I took out the special equipment I had brought and placed it on the table in front of me.

“It’s a magic light concentrator.”

“… !”

“Ooh… !”

The heroes, seeing the real thing for the first time, exclaimed in admiration.

It was a long, rectangular, white artifact that was worn on the arm.

“The effect is simple. It converts the wearer’s magic power into light. Now, I’ll show you a demonstration. Be careful with your eyes.”

As a demonstration, I put it on and infused it with magic, and immediately a gray light, the same color as my magic, shot out from the end of the concentrator.

“Kyahhh!”

“It’s blinding!”

“Oh, Lord! You should have warned us about the eye-blinding!”

“No, I did warn you, you guys…”

Except for Nobody, who was blind, and Damian, who had already covered his eyes, everyone screamed and fell over. I told you to be careful… I controlled the output and only shot it out gently, but it’s still like this. Is it because it’s dark around here?

“The magic light concentrator will be distributed to everyone. As you’ll see when you use it, the magic power efficiency isn’t that good, so use it only when necessary.”

I turned off the light and winked at the priests.

“Normal magic power can produce enough light, but the divine power system is particularly efficient. So, the priests will have to work a little harder.”

And, the fact that divine power is efficient means…

“Those who wield the power of other gods will also be particularly efficient. I ask for your help.”

The power of other gods also produces similar power.

The four representatives of the different races nodded. I gestured to the side.

“This is the first way to counter him with ‘light.’ The second is this.”

Lily and the alchemists, who had been waiting, brought in three artifacts on a cart.

“We also use ‘darkness.'”

“… !”

The heroes swallowed hard.

The three artifacts were all in the shape of black glass spheres.

“This is a dragon slayer and nightmare slayer made from Ipian’s magic core. The artifact is called [Shining Dark]. Its ability is to generate ‘darkness.'”

Ipian, like his father, possessed a dark magic eye and had the ability to emit darkness.

This artifact can reproduce that ability.

“The darkness of the Black Dragon Legion has substance.”

Normally, darkness is the absence of light. But the darkness that these evil dragons emit… and the darkness that is spread under that lake is different. Honestly, I don’t even know if it should be called darkness.

This malicious darkness has substance.

“And the fact that it has substance means that it can be blocked.”

“… !”

“It’s one way to fight with our light, but there’s no need to do that. We have the enemy’s eyes and hearts that we worked so hard to extract.”

I tapped the artifact with my hand.

“Okay, the premise was long! Now, I’ll explain the strategy. It’s simple. When Night Bringer emits darkness, we also activate this artifact and spread counter-darkness.”

While blocking the darkness with darkness,

“During that time, use the concentrators given to each of you to emit light and sever the connection between his other six heads and the main body.”

Cut off the darkness between the drone heads and the main body and shoot them down.

“Every time the connection of another head is severed, Night Bringer’s main body will also be temporarily stunned. Using this, after severing the connection of all the heads, we will simultaneously shoot all of our light at his middle head.”

Attack with light.

The beings of the mythical era can be said to be the laws of nature themselves that living things fear.

Among them, the law of nature that Night Bringer symbolizes is ‘night.’

In other words, because the essence of his existence is infinitely close to darkness, conversely, he must be damaged by light.

‘In the game, that’s how it was.’

When the light emitted by the heroes was concentrated and shot at him, Night Bringer endured for a while. But if you reduced his darkness gauge beyond a certain point, he would suffer and expose a gap.

The scales on the area where the light gathered would peel off, and a non-existent weakness could be forcibly created.

“In this one moment, we will shove in the maximum attack means we have.”

The nameless light slash, Dusk Bringer’s maximum output breath, Damian’s snipe, the mages’ joint magic, etc…

We will pour all the firepower we have into this moment.

Evangeline, who had been hit by my flash of light earlier, kept rubbing her eyes and asked carefully.

“What if he doesn’t fall with that?”

“We repeat it.”

I said calmly.

“We repeat this entire process. Until he dies.”

“…”

I didn’t say it, but everyone knew.

‘This entire process’ includes enduring the breath and magic he shoots, the feather bombardment and mind control, the melee and aerial combat.

Also, the fact that we will also suffer tremendous damage during that process.

We have to kill him before we are annihilated—this battle is a chicken game [a risky situation where both sides are likely to suffer losses].

“This is the basic framework of this Black Dragon subjugation.”

It was also the only tactic I had established in the game.

Of course, it won’t be easy.

But even if it’s like a camel going through the eye of a needle [an extremely difficult task], if that’s the only path, we have no choice but to run into it.

“So, the name of this operation is… since we all have to emit light diligently…”

I scribbled on the blackboard with chalk, then shouted forcefully.

“Operation Firefly! That is, Operation Firefly!”

In Earth-Korean style, it could be called ‘Operation Dung Beetle’.

“Don’t go, don’t go, don’t go~ Please sing for me just once~”.

When I sang a tune, everyone had a dumbfounded expression.

Evangeline muttered softly with a pitiful face.

“Senior, he’s gone crazy again…”

No, this is a masterpiece… You guys don’t know…

“If we use all the experience we’ve gained in all the battles we’ve done so far, I believe we can do it.”

I said with emphasis after returning to a serious face.

Just like we defeated Parekian, Tustibean, Winged Huan, and Ipian. Just like we deciphered their patterns and attack methods.

…No, it’s not just that.

With the experience and will of all of us who have won thirty-five defense battles over the past years. Thirty-six if you include the tutorial.

I believe we can win. Sincerely.

“The magic light concentrators will all be completed and distributed tomorrow, and we will immediately begin training to emit light.”

I looked around at the heroes and smiled faintly.

“Wait comfortably.”

Then I clapped my hands.

“Okay, that’s the end of today’s strategy meeting! Everyone, take a break and go eat!”

The heroes, who answered in unison, began to gather in groups of twos and threes and talk among themselves.

About the Black Dragon Legion they had faced so far, and about Night Bringer, who was stronger than all of them combined…

As I was quietly watching my colleagues talking,

《You’ve never even met your father, but you’ve planned this far. Player.》

A voice came from beside me.

《But… are you really going to be okay?》

When I turned around, there was the captured monster with the usual nerdy vibe. The Black Dragon Legion who had willingly been captured by me…

Scayrian was smiling meaningfully.

《If this strategy doesn’t defeat your father, what are you going to do then?》