Part 2, Episode 149.
There is a saying in fights.
If you lose the momentum, it’s over.
Even if someone is objectively stronger and has better physical abilities, once their spirit is consumed, they are helpless and lose—this happens even in fights between professionals.
There is a reason why people say that a fight is fought with spirit.
And this extended its scope to be applicable even in war.
No, rather, it was even more so because it was a war decided by sheer numbers rather than one-on-one combat.
Because in war, the morale of the entire army was often more important than individual skill.
“ah…….”
“Crazy… How are we supposed to stop all those monsters?”
Holy sh*t.
In that sense, thousands of gigantic monsters.
And the existence of intruders, who boasted movements that even average users found difficult to keep up with, could be considered the absolute worst.
The mere approach is enough to suppress one’s spirit.
Moreover, now that the Rankers, the core strength of Nymph Village, have all been attacked and killed.
For users who were already lacking compared to the ranked players, this kind of pressure was inevitably overwhelming.
That was a really fortunate thing.
“What are you doing, you bastards!”
“If the door is breached, it’s over. Block it for your life!”
“Snap out of it! We’re not alone! The nymphs are with us!”
Just stop the guys trying to cross over! The nymphs will take care of the rest.
The fact that this war isn’t just for users to participate in.
They are currently in front of the village entrance.
The nymphs, who were more desperate than anyone else as residents of this place, were building a barrier in that short time and holding it off together.
The nymphs are all specialists in their respective fields.
Although they were the smallest race in terms of population, each and every one of them was skilled enough to play a role equivalent to that of ten people.
Truly a reliable ally.
“That’s right. We have the nymphs.”
“This isn’t the end. All of Elanis’s alien races are fighting in other places as well.”
We just need to block as much as possible and earn the contribution points.
That gave the users a tremendous sense of relief.
Enough relief to bring you to your senses and focus on the siege, even if belatedly.
And ironically, it was similar for the nymphs as well.
The apostles are helping! Stop them.
Now that Allowin is missing, we must protect this place!
“Burn those pieces of trash that dared to barge in!”
“Catch them all and kill them! Let’s teach them a lesson!”
“Waaah!”
Although the reasons are somewhat different, they are unleashing their anger at the guys for the deaths of their friends, at the fact that the apostles are helping.
The firepower of those nymphs was truly tremendous.
It seemed that the number of nymphs catching monsters was greater than the number of users catching them, even though there were over tens of thousands of users.
That wasn’t a misunderstanding.
Pababat-
*Cough*
In reality, the role of the users is to hold out so as not to be overwhelmed by the onslaught of numbers.
And it was nothing more than dropping intruders who were looking for a gap to climb over the barrier.
It was the nymphs’ job to maintain the most important barrier and unleash heavy firepower.
However, no matter how much we join forces, we cannot eliminate all the assassins who are determined to cross over.
Whir-
“Two of them crossed over! Kill them!”
“Hey, there’s one on the left too!”
“Crazy, there are too many of them?”
“At this rate, we’re going to get breached. Kill them quickly!”
“Every single one of them is a ranker, so do you think it’s as easy as it sounds?! We lost all our core forces to that leader or whatever, so we don’t even have many rankers left.”
There were occasionally some who crossed over, but this time, their numbers were too high.
Roughly twenty people. And the number was even increasing in real time.
The nymphs are busy fending off the evil beasts.
It was at that moment, when everyone’s faces turned pale at the imminent danger of being breached if things continued this way, that everyone’s faces turned pale.
Kwaaaah-!
A massive tidal wave suddenly surged in, sweeping away the intruders and sending them back over the ramparts.
Everyone was momentarily taken aback by the massive scale.
Those who realized who had cast that spell shouted with noticeably brighter complexions.
“This is…… Lord Raihas!”
As expected of the teenage Guild Master! I knew it.
The class of the area-of-effect skill is insane…….
The master of the teenage guild ‘Ark’.
The strongest spearman, Laihas.
[Casting Legendary Skill, ‘Tidal Spear’.]
[When swinging the spear, it causes a tidal wave.]
[The special option ‘Ocean Current’ of ‘Water God’s Spear’ is activated.]
[When generating a water current, its power and size can be maximized or minimized.]
[Maximizes power and minimizes size.]
He appeared, causing a tsunami.
Gurr… …?
Grrrrrr!
A massive tsunami that made the monsters halt their invasion in an instant and stand there dumbfounded.
Indeed, the scale is such that even monstrous beasts larger than average boss monsters have to look up at it from afar; imagine how the intruders facing it must feel.
Step back!
-……this!
I tried to flee in a panic, but I could not avoid the tsunami that was close to a disaster.
Kwaaaah-!!!
Not to mention blowing away the intruders who were trying to climb the wall.
It swept away even the evil beasts beyond that far away.
A situation where intruders who suddenly climbed over the barrier and entered the entrance are isolated.
At the same time, Laihas landed and swung his spear.
Whoosh!
Bang!
Parry and thrust using the long range of the spear.
Whenever it was swung freely, water explosions occurred along the trajectory of the swing.
Due to the Water God’s Spear, the weapon symbolizing him, the currents of water, which had shrunk to the point of being invisible to the naked eye, exploded and swallowed the monsters.
Waaah!!
Cheers erupted at the sight of Laihas single-handedly and fearlessly taking on a large number of opponents.
“I’m crazy!”
“Wow! This is what a teenage guild master is.”
“Wow, look at that flashy spear technique. At that level, isn’t that a judo spear?”
They were vastly different from themselves, who were only focused on blocking while hiding behind barriers.
We can do it. I will take the lead.
In such a wartime situation, the presence of a hero is more important than anything else.
The users let out a cheer at the hero’s brief remark.
We have Lord Laihas!
“How long are you going to keep acting like a wimp and just blocking from behind?”
“Wipe them all out!”
“Waaah!”
The users, who had been hesitant at the thought that death meant the end, suddenly jumped over the barrier and followed Raihas to start slaying the monsters as if nothing had happened.
What was surprising was that when they stepped forward actively, a defensive line was formed that was actually more solid than when they had only been sieging.
“What? It’s easier than I thought.”
“At this rate, we might end up chasing them all the way out of the forest.”
Those bastards are just big. In the end, they’re no match for a mob attack, are they?
Come to think of it, he’s just strong, he doesn’t have any instant kill moves… He’s not exactly a raid boss.
“This… maybe it would be better to just take a big share of the contribution here?”
The users seemed taken aback by this, but in fact, it was only natural.
Unlike those guys who number only a few thousand, the number of users reaches tens of thousands.
It means the number of users is overwhelmingly larger than those guys.
And half of the users gathered here are melee classes.
While it is true that the barrier effectively blocks intruders and monsters, conversely, it was actually weakening the users’ combat power as well.
It is solely because of the element that it ends when you die.
“Yeah, whatever, it’s not like we’re really going to die. Let’s just wipe them out.”
Don’t you know high risk, high return? Even if you just sit back and do nothing, the ranged classes will steal all the contribution anyway.
“Okay. Everyone’s dead.”
“Look at Raihas. He’s a Master, yet he’s standing at the very front. We can’t lose either.”
Moreover, the one leading them is none other than the master of the 10th Guild.
Although it was true that his authority had slightly diminished recently as rumors spread, whether consciously or unconsciously, that he had been defeated by the King of the Lawless Zone,
In this place where rankers hit rock bottom, he was a god and a hero.
“Ah, with the apostles stepping forward so enthusiastically, we can’t afford to lose, can we?”
Yes. Let’s put in even more effort.
“Revenge Lord Raikun!”
“Thanks to them, it’s become much easier! At this rate, we can definitely hold them off!”
“Block them? What are you talking about! We have to catch and kill them all!”
And the impact did not apply only to users.
The nymphs’ morale soared at the sight of the apostles, who were clearly not even residents of this place, stepping forward so bravely.
As a result, the somewhat difficult siege became several times easier.
Whoaah!
Swish- Thud! Pop!
Bang! Bang!
No, can this be called a siege?
The battlefield, which had been in front of the entrance, grew closer and closer to the forest, and now the invaders could not even approach the barrier.
Conversely, they found themselves in a defensive position, preventing the monsters from being pushed into the forest.
You can do it!
At this rate, we can stop it.
“I don’t know about the top 100 in contribution, but let’s aim to be in the top 1,000.”
At this point, a spark began to ignite in the hearts of the users.
My heart swelled with hope that I could really do it.
Yes, that was definitely the case.
-……iced coffee.
That was until a woman’s voice was heard. It was not a very loud voice.
A voice so small… almost a whisper, that it was hard to believe it was heard piercing through the battlefield filled with shouts.
One user was stunned, as if they had encountered something forbidden.
It was a fatal voice overflowing with sensuality, enough to captivate even those who usually had little lust.
Those despicable rats are acting up without knowing their place.
However, that voice contained terrible contempt and disregard.
The moment everyone’s attention was focused on that sense of strangeness.
She, who had been floating in the air, fluttered and came down to the ground.
She was dressed in clothing that was almost naked, and she was a woman reminiscent of a black rose; even the way she frowned as if disgusted was fatal.
So much so that I forgot I was focused on the battle for a moment and was completely spaced out.
It looked as if he was determined not to take his eyes off her for even a moment.
But the next moment.
They could no longer bear to look at her.
– Be trampled to death and die a painful death. You disgusting things.
The moment her contemptuous words were spat out, creating a strange synergy with her seductive voice.
[Encountered ‘???’.]
[You have encountered the second-in-command of the hostile forces.]
[Warning! ‘???’ is about to inflict a fatal debuff.]
[If exposed to the range, you become her servant.]
“……what?”
“?”
Before the users could even regain their senses from the repeated warning sounds, a red energy burst forth from her center.
——!!
The energy engulfed the surrounding area in an instant, as if a shockwave had exploded, and
“…….”
The users, who had been standing there blankly blinking for a while, raised their weapons in unison as if by prior agreement and slowly turned around.
Squeak, squeak.
Somewhat bizarre and unnatural movements.
At the unsettling sight, resembling a puppeteer manipulating a puppet, the users and nymphs standing behind involuntarily stepped back.
And at that moment.
[Player ‘BrownGreatsword’ has become a servant of ‘???’.]
[Control of your body is revoked until the battle ends.]
[Player ‘Beradin’ has become a servant of ‘???’.
… …
[Player ‘HolyshipKnight’ has become a servant of ‘???’.]
… … .
“……what?!”
“This is crazy!”
At the same time as a message pops up in front of my eyes, blurring my vision.
The reliable ally who had been leading the charge just moments ago charged forward, eyes gleaming with murderous intent.
Among them, a handsome man wearing exceptionally brilliant blue armor.
[Player ‘Raihas’ has become a servant of ‘???’.]
“……Damn it. Run!”
The most reliable Ark Guild Master.
The strongest ice slayer, Raihas, was charging in as an enemy.
