I Became the Tyrant of a Defense Game [EN]: Chapter 683

A little while ago.

Southwest of Crossroads. Observation tower.

“Thank goodness, we managed to block the breath…”

Damian let out a sigh of relief.

He had been watching the breath defense process with great tension, and thankfully, Crossroads had managed to withstand it.

Damian had also been consistently attempting long-range snipes to stop the breath, but the distance was too great, and the magic bullets’ power couldn’t reach properly, making all his sniping attempts futile.

‘Anyway, it’s a relief that we defended against the breath. Now I should go back and…’

Just as Damian was about to think about preparing for the final battle, he was startled.

From beyond that distant darkness, the Night Bringer’s golden eyes were…

Clearly ‘looking’ this way.

“…?!”

The next moment, the dark magic eye and the clairvoyant eye collided.

In an instant, the monster’s and the human’s visions intertwined. The eyes that saw the darkness and the eyes that saw the truth clashed, and sparks flew at the end of their gazes.

《So, you were the one whose gaze has been following me all this time.》

It was a distance where a voice shouldn’t be heard.

The black dragon’s thought surged and struck Damian’s mind.

《Then you must pay the price.》

“……!”

When Damian regained his senses, the tangled vision had already cleared.

“Wh, something is…”

“It’s flying this way!”

The observers screamed as they spotted something rapidly approaching from the darkness.

Damian could clearly see what it was.

“…They are the Night Bringer’s auxiliary heads.”

Whoosh-!

Six heads.

The Night Bringer’s auxiliary heads were all being shot towards this observation tower at a terrifying speed.

The black dragon had begun to march its main body north again, while sending only its auxiliary heads to attack this side.

There was no doubt that the evil dragon’s heads were targeting the humans in the observation tower. Damian shouted to the soldiers inside the observation tower.

“Everyone, retreat! To the teleport gate, now-!”

The observation team soldiers began to rush down the tower.

However, the teleport gate was on the first floor, and this was the top of the observation tower.

It would take several minutes for everyone to descend the stairs. And the Night Bringer’s six auxiliary heads were flying in like rockets.

‘At this rate…!’

The monster’s heads were flying in like arrows, and the humans were desperately but slowly descending.

Damian, estimating the speed, gritted his teeth. At this rate, it was clear that everyone would be caught and killed before they could escape.

‘Then!’

Damian picked up the magic rifle he had placed on the floor.

Then—there was no choice but to fight!

Click!

The first rifle was [Black Queen].

The strongest magic rifle on the ground, and a purified Nightmare Slayer [a weapon specifically designed to kill monsters]!

Thwack-!

Following an extremely quick aim, the muzzle spat fire.

The magic bullet, flying in a trajectory that could not be more accurate, struck the center of the head flying in the lead.

Splat…!

The lead head, hit by the magic bullet in the center of its forehead, sprayed blood in all directions.

However-

Creek!

The lead head grinned, baring its huge mouth, and continued to fly towards them at the same speed, even as blood poured from the hole in its forehead.

‘Is it not enough?!’

Damian gritted his teeth, put on his heat-resistant gloves, and readjusted his grip on the Black Queen.

“Then—how about this!”

Click, click, click-!

The barrel transformed into a long rail, sparking with magical current. At the same time, all the bullets that had been ejected from the magazine rotated in the air, combined into one bullet, and were fixed on the rail.

The Nightmare Slayer Black Queen had finished preparing to unleash its strongest attack performance. Damian’s large brown eyes flashed as he pulled the trigger.

Thwaaaang!

Lightning flashed.

A powerful bullet was fired, so strong that the observation tower swayed from the recoil of the shot. The white magic bullet, cutting through the dark sky, shot forward like a beam of light.

The huge magic bullet, fired like a bolt of lightning, twisted mysteriously in the air, pierced through the lead head flying towards the observation tower, and-

Pierced through all five of the remaining heads following behind it at once.

Thud! Splat…!

Only a few seconds after the magic bullet pierced through, all six heads spewed blood from the large holes that had been made.

《Kuaaaaaaah-!》

All six heads opened their mouths wide and vomited out pain along with blood.

However—they were not shot down.

Since they no longer had lives to lose or cores to destroy, the six heads still surged forward. They were now right in front of them.

‘But the damage went through!’

After throwing away the [Black Queen], which was emitting a hazy steam from its barrel, and his burnt heat-resistant gloves.

Damian pulled out his next magic rifle.

‘I’ll finish them off one by one!’

It was a magic rifle with a piece of jawbone taken from ‘Tustibean, the Black Dragon’s Fang’ attached as a decoration at the end of its short barrel.

A new piece of equipment manufactured by combining an SSR-grade magic core [a very high-quality magical power source] and materials taken from the Black Dragon’s army.

A magic rifle specialized for close combat that scattered bullets in a shotgun pattern-

Its name was, [Guillotine]!

Crack-!

The six heads simultaneously pushed into the top floor of the observation tower. The outer wall shattered, and the evil dragon’s heads, with their mouths wide open, snapped their jaws to tear and devour their victims.

And Damian, who had been waiting, pulled the trigger.

Thwaaang-!

Flames erupted with a deafening blast.

The shotgun [Guillotine], which had only two rounds, displayed absolute power in such close-range situations. The lead head, which had broken through the wall first, was torn apart and became a rag.

‘These heads have some kind of magic connected to the back of their brains! The Night Bringer is controlling them with this magic…’

Damian, having confirmed through his clairvoyance that a transparent thread of magic connected the auxiliary heads’ brains to the black dragon’s main body, aimed the shotgun at the magic connection point, and his judgment was accurate.

The lead head, its magic connection point destroyed, rolled grotesquely on the floor.

At this moment, the lead auxiliary head was definitely ‘dead’-

And Damian entered a state of stealth.

《……?!》

Clearly, the enemy shooter had been here.

Suddenly, he had disappeared from sight. So the remaining five auxiliary heads that had entered the observation tower were bewildered.

‘It worked!’

Hiding among them, Damian looked down at the equipment he was wearing.

[Stealthy Dawn].

Damian was still wearing this thin set of armor that Ash had given him a long time ago.

It was a magical armor that made him invisible every time he defeated an enemy. There was a restriction that it could only be activated once every 10 minutes, but this one instance of stealth was enough.

《?!》

《Creek……?》

《Grrr…….》

The five auxiliary heads looked around in confusion.

If it had been the black dragon’s main body, it would have instantly sensed this level of stealth and revealed Damian’s location.

But what had been sent here were already dead heads.

Inferior in every way to the main body, they were merely auxiliaries that carried out the main body’s orders.

The heads failed to detect Damian’s stealth for a moment, and during this short gap, Damian had enough time to prepare.

His ultimate skill—[Duel]!

‘I’ll unleash everything at once!’

Whoosh…!

Damian floated all the magic rifles he had into the air.

[Cerberus].

[Woodpecker].

[Hunter’s Retribution].

[Venom Fang].

[Guillotine].

And even the [Black Queen], reloaded with [Annihilation Magic Bullets] created with his own magic!

As the magic rifles floating in the air fell to eye level in order, he snatched the handles and—Damian pulled the triggers.

Ratatatatatat-!

He fired indiscriminately in all directions, dancing as he pulled the triggers of pistols, submachine guns, long rifles, rifles, and shotguns, whatever he could grab.

In an instant, Damian’s magic bullets poured down like rain in all directions.

The black dragon’s five auxiliary heads were directly hit by this barrage of magic bullets. The magic bullets relentlessly targeted the monster’s brains, specifically the points where the control magic was connected.

The black dragon’s auxiliary heads, pierced, riddled, and torn to shreds, stretched out their tongues one after another and collapsed.

Ta-a-a-a-a-ng……!

After the last gunshot echoed for a long time.

“Haa, haa, haa!”

Damian knelt on one knee on the floor, breathing heavily.

The top floor of the observation tower was in tatters, with the marks of the auxiliary heads’ physical attacks and the bullet holes from the magic bullets fired from within. It was already on the verge of collapse.

There were no more moving monsters on the upper floor of this horribly destroyed building. Damian clutched his trembling arm due to the sudden depletion of magic. He wiped the cold sweat that had soaked his forehead with his hand.

“Ugh…….”

Perhaps because he had concentrated too much, blood tears flowed down from his bloodshot eyes. His vision kept blurring and blacking out.

‘Still, I finished off all of the black dragon’s auxiliary heads… This will give us an advantage in the upcoming final battle…’

Unintentionally, he had lured the auxiliary heads and defeated them one by one.

If the black dragon’s main body decided to, it could retrieve them and revive them, but it would still be a troublesome task.

Damian, having barely stabilized his breathing, slowly got up. And he counted the number of black dragon’s auxiliary heads that had fallen around him.

‘One, two, three, four, five…….’

And, the last one was….

Damian discovered a hole in the floor. The last head, hit by a magic bullet and collapsing, had crashed violently into the floor, and that was the trace of it falling to the floor below.

Damian, staggering as he tried to look down, instinctively sensed something the next moment and rolled backward.

Crack-!

Immediately after, the last head shot up from below the floor, violently snapping its jaws. Fragments of the shattered floor scattered in all directions.

‘What?! No way, I definitely finished it off-’

In Damian’s eyes, slowly falling backward, he saw the back of the last head’s head.

The brain area that Damian had sniped was intact, and the magic thread was still there.

‘Could it be that the power was insufficient…!’

He had poured all of his magic and bullets to bring down the heads, but there were definitely some rifles with lower power mixed in. Damian had tried to distribute the bullets to take them all down accurately without overkill, but there was a limit.

This last head had been hit by the magic bullets of [Woodpecker] and [Cerberus] intensively, and although it had been suppressed for a while, it had not received damage that would lead to death.

And now, it was starting a counterattack against the shooter who had run out of ammunition.

Crack! Crunch! Crrrack!

The last head, having returned to the top floor of the tower, snapped its jaws ferociously, trying to devour Damian.

“Kuh?!”

He retreated, crawling backward, but was eventually cornered. Damian gritted his teeth and prepared for death.

The moment the jaws of the last head snapped shut, biting into the floor of the top floor-

Kugwagwang-!

Perhaps because of the impact, the tower began to collapse.

The collapsed floor caved in, and Damian narrowly avoided the monster’s jaws and fell below.

Thud! Thud! Thudududung……!

Following the top floor, the entire tower began to collapse from top to bottom.

‘If I want to live… I have no choice but to jump!’

Damian, within the collapsing building, opened his eyes wide to see where the debris was falling—and kicked off the wall he touched with his foot.

Taat-!

Damian fell down within the collapsing tower, narrowly avoiding the large pieces of debris pouring in from all directions.

The last head closely followed behind Damian, smashing all the pillars, floors, and stones it encountered.

Even so, as the distance did not narrow, the last head opened its huge jaws wide. Black magic began to gather between its open jaws.

“……!”

Horrified, Damian urgently stretched his left arm out to the side. Then, a small hook that had been attached to his left arm shot out and caught on the opposite wall.

Thwack!

It was a support device he had used a long time ago, a grappling hook launcher.

As a sniper, securing the angle of fire was important, so he had equipped one for moving positions… and this saved Damian’s life.

Whirr-!

Following the rope connected to the hook, Damian’s body drastically twisted its trajectory.

“Kueeeuk!”

He was hit all over by pieces of wood and glass shards that were falling with him, but he was still able to move his body to the other side.

And in the trajectory where Damian had originally been falling, a black magic flame spewed out by the last head poured down.

Whoosh-

Kugwagwang!

The observation tower, which had barely maintained its shape while collapsing, literally exploded.

Damian shielded his head with both arms as he dodged to the side of the wall. By sheer luck, there was a glass window there.

Clang-!

Damian, thrown out of the tower after breaking through the glass, shot the grappling hook that had been retrieved on his left arm back towards the tower.

Thwack! Whirr-!

The stone wall where the hook had caught cracked open. But Damian didn’t care.

The ground was already close. If he could just slow down his falling speed, it would be enough.

Damian’s body, which had flown back towards the tower, crashed straight into the wall of the tower’s first floor.

Thud-!

“Augh……!”

He had barely managed to offset the impact with the magic he had pulled up, but the shock was enormous.

Even though it wasn’t a very tall tower, he had fallen from the top, and he had hooked the grappling hook and slammed his body into the wall to reduce his falling speed.

The left arm where the grappling hook launcher was attached was torn to shreds, and he couldn’t move his shoulder, as if it had been dislocated.

‘Still, I’m alive…….’

Damian, barely managing to gather his broken body, gritted his teeth and got up.

‘I need to get to the teleport gate like this…!’

And.

Kugwagwang-!

The last head, which had burst out from inside the collapsed tower, smashed the teleport gate that had been installed at the entrance of the tower.

Damian stared blankly at the magic stone fragments flying in all directions. The last head, facing Damian, raised the corners of its mouth wickedly.

“Ah…….”

Damian’s legs gave out, and he slumped down on the spot.

The pain he hadn’t felt until now rushed through his entire body.

‘It’s over…….’

He realized that everything was truly over.

The last head, sensing the despair of its prey, leisurely crossed the air and slowly approached. Damian quietly faced his end approaching.

Thud.

At that moment.

Something touched the tip of his powerless right hand.

When he looked down blankly, it was the pistol-type magic rifle Cerberus. One of the three rifles was lying on the floor next to him, half-broken.

“…….”

Damian grabbed the pistol with his trembling hand.

And with the last remaining sliver of magic, he loaded a magic bullet and placed the muzzle under his chin.

It would be better to commit suicide cleanly than to be mocked and killed by a monster.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Was it because his heart was beating too fast?

He had the illusion that the ground below was shaking violently.

Damian swallowed the dry saliva that tasted of blood.

“…….”

He just had to pull this trigger and be at peace.

But… he didn’t have the courage.

“Kuh…….”

The courage to commit suicide didn’t come easily.

Tears welled up in Damian’s large brown eyes.

Thump, kugugugung……!

The sound of the whole world shaking and collapsing echoed.

The last head’s wide-open mouth came closer. A damp and unpleasant warmth covered Damian’s bloodied body.

Damian closed his eyes. He gritted his teeth.

And, squeezing out all of his last remaining courage, he put strength into the finger that was holding the trigger.