I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 669

Flap-!

The Black Dragon, having risen, spread its massive wings wide to the left and right.

Like those of Winged Hwan, one of its sons, they were bird wings covered densely with black feathers.

And those feathers shot out in all directions.

Thud thud thud!

Whoosh-!

Thousands, tens of thousands of black feathers covered the sky.

“Aaaagh!”

“Kuh-huhk… !”

The ground forces, who had barely gotten close to the Black Dragon, were instantly torn apart by the barrage of feathers that fell like a bombing raid.

Against the hail of feathers that shot like machine gun bullets, the armor worn by the soldiers was meaningless. Soldiers pierced by the feathers collapsed, blood gushing from the holes in their bodies.

The feathers also shot into the air. The hail of feathers flying through the sky looked like a huge flock of birds flying together.

The airships in their path quickly attempted evasive maneuvers, but the feathers moved much faster.

Thud thud thud…!

Crash-!

The feathers pierced the armor of the airships, turning them into porcupines. One airship, which was hit particularly hard, couldn’t withstand it and staggered before finally exploding. Another next to it spewed flames from its engine before falling, trailing a long plume of smoke.

And unfortunately, the crash site was a place where infantry was densely packed.

The soldiers screamed and tried to dodge, but they couldn’t because the troops were so tightly packed.

“Uwaaaah!”

“Get down, get d-”

Kwagwagwang…!

Flames erupted with a huge explosion.

Heat and the smell of gunpowder, damp darkness and the stench of blood… The smell of death spread.

The soldiers gritted their teeth. Slaughter was happening everywhere, all around them. In front of the Black Dragon, humans were being trampled like ants.

But, however – they couldn’t retreat.

They knew it once they faced it. The monster before their eyes was a being that could truly destroy the world.

They couldn’t let such a being advance any further. They couldn’t let it get any closer to the human world.

So the soldiers, even while crying, trembling, vomiting up stomach acid, and bleeding from their wounds… did not stop their charge.

“Forward-!”

“Go forward!”

Bang! Kugugung…!

Another airship exploded in the sky.

This airship also crashed, but the pilot, even as he was dying, changed course and fell towards the Black Dragon’s body.

The airship, falling at a sharp angle, collided with the Black Dragon’s hard scales but did not inflict any significant damage. However, it momentarily obscured the Black Dragon’s vision, buying time for the cavalry and infantry to approach.

And finally – the vanguard of the assault reached the Black Dragon’s body.

“Uwaaaaaah!”

With the momentum of their charge, the cavalry thrust their spears, and the infantry swung their swords.

But,

Clang-!

Against the Black Dragon’s hard scales, ordinary spears and swords could not withstand it and shattered into pieces.

The soldiers at the very front were taken aback, but soon they gritted their teeth and clung to the Black Dragon with their bodies.

“Climb on!”

“We’re going on top of it!”

The soldiers lined up and climbed onto the Black Dragon’s body.

If they were going to be crushed like ants anyway.

Then they would attack like ants.

Climbing began everywhere. The soldiers used their swords and spears like canes and ran up the monster’s body in lines.

Of course,

Crack, Crud-dud-duk-!

Even in the midst of this, more lives were being lost than were climbing up.

With a single movement of the evil dragon, tens to hundreds of humans died. But there were still many humans, and no matter how powerful the Black Dragon was, it was impossible to kill them all with a single movement.

The humans steadily climbed onto the Black Dragon’s body.

Not knowing if this was the neck, a leg, the belly, or a wing, like a blind man feeling an elephant…

“Find the weak points!”

“Find the wounds the previous expedition inflicted!”

“The expedition concentrated their attacks around its neck! Go towards the neck-!”

The cavalry also began to land on the Black Dragon’s body.

They jumped up with their saddles, clung to the Black Dragon’s body, stepped on scales, grabbed horns, and planted their feet on the black monster’s body, which sent chills down their spines just by touching it.

Thus, the allied forces and the imperial forces, who had started from opposite sides of the valley, reunited on the monster’s back – and after silently nodding to each other without a word.

They mixed together and marched towards the Black Dragon’s head – towards the place where they would die.

“It’s the neck!”

“The monster’s head is over there… !”

“We can see the wounds the expedition inflicted in the previous battle!”

After descending into the mortal realm, the Black Dragon had combined with the night and healed all its wounds.

But it had not yet erased all the scars. The wounds left by the guardian of the mortal realm and his heroes in the previous battle remained as traces all over the Black Dragon’s body. The soldiers flocked to those scars.

“Weapons!”

“Pass the weapons!”

“Forward, with the weapons-!”

From the rear to the front.

From hand to hand, the Dragon Slayers [weapons specifically designed to harm dragons] dropped by the fallen knights were passed forward.

The black longsword that was passed to the very front was raised high in one soldier’s hand, then brought down.

Thud-!

The tip of the black longsword was surely embedded into the scar left by the previous expedition.

“… !”

“It… went in.”

“The attack is working… !”

Then, the Black Dragon, belatedly discovering the tiny creatures on its body, lightly breathed out fire.

Whoosh-!

The engulfed soldiers were instantly reduced to ashes and fell dead. The burning corpses screamed as they fell below the Black Dragon’s body.

However, all the scales on the Black Dragon’s body grew in the opposite direction. Therefore, they acted as a barricade, allowing them to avoid the flames that were being shot from the head towards the body.

The soldiers who had hidden behind the scales and avoided the fire took the Dragon Slayers from the hands of the dead soldiers and gripped them again. And they screamed and swung them.

Thud-!

The blade carved a new wound on the scar left by the previous expedition.

“It’s working!”

“The attack is working-!”

“Pass the weapons! Anyone still breathing, come forward!”

“Forward!”

“Forward-!”

Hans swung their weapons, burned to death by the evil dragon’s flames.

The next human picked up the weapon, swung it, and died, and then the next human picked up the weapon, swung it, and died, repeating the cycle.

Finally, numbers became a weapon.

The soldiers continued this desperate relay at various points where the Black Dragon’s neck was wounded. They gripped the weapons stained with the blood of those who had died before them and swung them with screams.

Finally, the Black Dragon bled at the hands of humans. The evil dragon’s blood mixed with human blood and flowed down its massive neck.

How long did they continue their attacks?

Crack…!

The point where the Black Dragon’s back and neck connected.

Because Night Bringer had grown larger by combining with the night, a gap had formed between the protruding vertebrae and the scarred scales. The soldiers relentlessly struck the gap with Dragon Slayers at the cost of their lives.

Crack!

The huge scales cracked and split,

Crack! Clang-!

Finally, they shattered into pieces.

“Hah… hah… hah…”

The Black Dragon’s blood and scale fragments flew everywhere as the scales broke. Covered in it, the soldier holding the broken black sword gasped for breath.

“Haha. Look at this, everyone…! We completely destroyed its scales…”

As the soldier, on the verge of exhaustion, said that and turned around,

There were no more living humans there.

A chilling silence flowed. The soldier looked around blankly… and belatedly realized.

That the soldiers who had been attacking other places had all fallen long ago, and that he was the only ant left on the Black Dragon’s body.

Goooooo…

Before he knew it, the Black Dragon’s huge central head was looming close.

The Black Dragon turned its long neck back and looked down at the last ant left on its back. The soldier trembled and looked up at the head.

《Well done, soldier.》

After examining the wounds on its back that the tiny creatures had cut open, Night Bringer smiled faintly.

《Yes, you had to do at least this much.》

“…”

《What is your name, human? I will remember you especially for inflicting a wound on my body with that last insignificant blow.》

The soldier’s trembling lips struggled to curl upwards.

And he said.

“I won’t tell you my name, you salamander bastard…”

Night Bringer let out a soft laugh.

The next moment, the soldier’s entire body was blown apart by the magic that poured out.

***

The airship fleet and the assault team were annihilated.

They had dug into the Black Dragon’s scars and opened up wounds, but they could not reach its life force.

The chaotic battlefield was now silent. Swords and spears stuck into the ground below the valley stood like tombstones, and next to those tombstones, human corpses stretched endlessly. The wreckage of the crashed airships was still burning.

There were still soldiers alive above the valley. They still had the will to fight, but,

Uuuuuuuuu-!

When the Black Dragon raised its head proudly and let out a long, low cry… they immediately trembled, threw down the weapons in their hands.

Dragon Roar.

That deep, majestic voice was dark, and it evoked fear in humans from the depths of their genes.

The predator, the dragon, and the prey, the human.

Night Bringer’s roar reminded humans of this relationship that had continued since the distant mythical age.

“H-Hiiiiii… !”

“T-This isn’t right. This was never going to work in the first place… !”

“Run away-!”

“I don’t want to die!”

The rout began.

In the face of the Dragon Fear [a fear-inducing effect unique to dragons] spread by the apex predator, the dragon, the last will of the human expedition was shattered.

The soldiers threw away their weapons, equipment, and even their armor and turned to flee. They ran towards the teleport gates, their escape route.

However-

“…?!”

Before they knew it, all the teleport gates were destroyed and burning.

The soldiers, standing blankly in front of the vanished escape route, slowly raised their pale faces at the damp heat they felt above their heads.

One of Night Bringer’s floating heads was smiling cruelly.

“Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaaah!”

The huge head swallowed and crushed the bodies of the soldiers who had collapsed and were screaming.

“Kuh…”

Macmillan, watching the scene from inside the airship, shuddered.

The six auxiliary heads of the Black Dragon were being fought by the Wangha mage unit and six airships that had separated from the main force. However, in the face of the six heads’ overwhelming firepower, humanity was ultimately defeated.

Since the six heads were already dead, they did not have the same level of intelligence as the main body, but their attack power was monstrous.

The Wangha mage unit could not withstand it and was annihilated, and all but two of the airships that fought alongside them had also crashed.

Inside the two surviving airships, the wounded were accommodated to their limits. Macmillan, looking at the dying mages, bit down on his pipe until it broke.

“Retreat, retreat…! The subjugation has failed. Everyone, retreat! Regroup at Crossroads!”

There were few soldiers left alive to retreat, but Macmillan, as the commander, raised the volume of the communication device so that it could be heard throughout the battlefield and gave the order.

“Retreat-!”

“The teleport gates have been destroyed! Escape to the next point by land!”

“Survivors, help the survivors! We must retreat!”

The light cavalry unit, which had been stationed at the rear of the imperial forces, had the most survivors.

They began to flee, carrying the wounded soldiers who had fallen and were groaning in pain on the backs of their saddles. The Black Dragon’s floating heads tried to devour them, but the last two airships desperately fired a barrage to stop them.

Escorted by the two airships, the cavalry unit that had rescued the survivors quickly ran into the forest and fled. The airships also flew north in an unstable posture.

《Yes, run away. Let even one more live.》

Night Bringer sneered as he watched the human army scattering like ants in all directions.

《That way, the final despair will be even greater, won’t it?》

Then, the Black Dragon lowered its belly to the ground and slowly crouched down-

Whoosh…!

It began to gather its breath.

The Black Dragon’s massive body swelled and pulsed. Flames and magic, breath and hatred, began to be sucked into the monster’s body.

The six heads that had been hunting survivors also slowly returned to the side of the main body and began to rotate, helping the Black Dragon’s magic to condense.

A scout, observing this scene from inside the airship, screamed.

“N-No, it’s preparing a breath!”

“… !”

Macmillan turned around with a pale face.

The scout was a soldier from the observation team that had observed the Black Dragon’s first breath in the Black Lake earlier.

Tears of fear streaming from his eyes, which were glued to the telescope, the soldier continued his report in a muffled voice.

“This is the third breath since it landed on the ground! The direction is…”

Macmillan closed his eyes tightly.

“It’s Crossroads-!”