039. Alliance Majesty (2)

“It’s time to start the operation.”

The territory of the demon realm that can be seen through the open door is always the same. The sky is gloomy as if ink has been sprinkled on it, and there is only a desolate landscape where only flower fields that have swallowed up the destroyed civilization exist on the land.

That is a landscape that should disappear from this world.

The only good demons are dead demons, and the only good demon kings are dead demons.

“A demonic preemptive strike… … .”

“This is not really a dream, is it?

“You bastards, this is not a dream. Let’s go. Let’s go and wipe out all the demons.”

I could hear the chatter of human players. They faced the first preemptive strike operation in history, and they couldn’t hide the excitement of the anticipation of the massacre of the demons and the resentment they had accumulated during that time.

Some shed tears of sorrow or joy, while others clutched their weapons with mad smiles.

I was bullied a lot.

The families of players who have been granted regression can be summoned by the administrator to their estates from the second playthrough and send and receive messages. However, other people who knew each other’s faces repeatedly returned to death without remembering their previous life and then flocked to the devastated world again.

It’s hell.

Watching the scene over and over again of people who knew their faces and talked to them dying in front of their eyes, this is really no different from the most vicious punishment in hell.

“Waaa—!!!”

As the powerful creatures of the Legion and a huge battleship led by an apostle entered the dimensional door created by 10,000 players by gathering their divine power, Nemesis resonated with a battle cry that could only be heard in movies.

“Death to the demons!!!”

When someone came forward and shouted the death of the demons, they each started shouting according to the wishes they had in their hearts.

“Death to the demons!”

“Heaven to the demons!”

“Bitter taste of the organization to the demons!”

“Kill the woman and rape the man!”

… … Fuck, what kind of bastard is that?

Anyway, the human players were all crazy. Even the comrades standing next to me have a flushed expression in order not to be swept away by the madness of this war.

Players who are excited about the fact that it is the first pre-emptive mission will run towards the demons in front of them without looking back.

The atmosphere, as if it would not stop even if his own head was cut and his heart pierced, felt as if the battle had already reached its climax.

Moderate excitement before a battle is helpful, but it is problematic to see veterans who have already returned repeatedly disregarding their lives like that.

Combat is not about risking one’s own life, but an efficient picture of beating only one side without getting hit by the enemy as savagely as possible should come out.

“You guys, control them well so that they don’t run out first.”

At my words, the three old colleagues nodded with firm expressions.

【Everyone, calm down!】

Of course, I will never tolerate a situation in which players fight dangerous battles even if they regain their sanity.

【Individual actions are prohibited. Anyone who does not follow Choi Kang-han, Lee Garam, and Kang Jin-hyeok’s command will be excluded from the operation. Everyone step back.]

Standing in the forefront will be the Nemesis corps and the apostles who have come out to support thoroughly, and they must be responsible for the opening of the gates and the situation after the battle.

If their numbers decrease, they will run out of strength to maintain the [Gate]. In order for the successive operation to succeed, there had to be no damage to the player.

【The first battle belongs to the corps. The operation to exterminate the Pandemonium Territory begins.]

The waves of the legion that dyed the world black entered the territory of the demon realm, and the flower garden, feeling the danger, hurriedly hatched the fruit of the entire territory at the same time, and the first collision occurred.

The sky over there was also black with low-class demons equipped with bat wings, and the sky here was also black with jellyfish and guard wasps carrying legion troops.

Those who had come so blackly, surrounded the [gate] we had opened and struggled to block the advance of the corps. It was to build a mountain with meat shields to protect this territory.

【Apostle! Clear the way!]

However, the crowd of demons is just a very good target for future weapons.

Quaang-!!!

Like a battleship that had been edited in a game, the ship brought by the apostle began to lightly clear the way, spraying beams of light from the enormous number of divine power turrets mounted on its huge body like a shower.

Even on battleships, countless unmanned fighter jets scrambled to create a feast of fireworks that adorned the sky.

In addition, how strong the armor of that battleship was again, the lower-level demons crashed into the surface of the battleship and rather fell out of themselves. It is like watching a super-large electric fly swatter that catches flies.

It took only a few minutes to clear the way for the corps to pass through such hot firepower.

【Break through!】

-ruler! charge!

-storm! Legion Storm!

The moment the meat shield barricade for their [Gate] blockade was pierced by the firepower of the battleship, the Legion troops rushed through the gap like a storm.

[‘Bullet Man’ is activated.]

I intervened right away in the scene where the siege collapsed, lowered the output and widened the range to the maximum, and started pouring mind-destroying thunderbolts like showers.

“Lightning.”

Kwaaang!!!

The thunderbolt roared through the heavens and turned all demons within range into chunks of meat. Of course, my body is also getting damaged little by little, but if I can wipe out the demons, it’s not a waste to use incarnations as consumables and throw them away.

For this day, I stacked the incarnations very carefully inside the Leviathan.

When I intervened in the field by giving a ranged blow to me, the demon’s encirclement was now useless. From now on, a full-fledged front line was formed.

The demons flying in were hit by the tentacles of the jellyfish and tumbled to the ground, and the warriors and spiders ravenously tore them off.

The shooter spider’s acidic liquid was poured like a mortar into the crowd of them, and the demons who tried to get close to them were baptized with poisonous stings from wasps.

The dirty blood of the demons and the acidic liquid spewed by the legion shooter spiders and jellyfish mixed and flowed, and the alliance expanded its frontline around the newly built colony.

【Arachne, protect this colony!】

In the midst of a mud fight right under their noses, the drones began aggressively planting hatchlings and forward spine tentacles.

Not only here, but also in the powerful creatures that moved quickly throughout the territory, there were corps queens and worker bugs. There will also be a colony spread out there.

Asmodian corpses are an excellent source of food for Legion hatcheries. My colony plans to eat all the demons in this territory.

【Only players with ranged attacks are allowed to participate.】

As soon as my order was given, the players who had just entered the Pandemonium Territory began to serve with indiscriminate ranged attacks, eager to change the demons.

“Kill! Kill them!!!”

The players dropped demon objects as if possessed, and the fallen ones were dragged into the basement by the spiders, and the situation was repeated.

As the battle repeated, the number of demons around them noticeably decreased, and the morale of the players skyrocketed.

However, when I saw a huge number of demons flying in from the far horizon, the atmosphere cooled slightly.

-storm! storm!

– Ruler, enemies are coming!

It’s obvious, but this is the territory of the demon realm. Here, after destroying the existing civilization, there was a bloody demonic flower that covered all the land, and the number of low-class objects pouring out using the stored nutrients was so large that it was difficult to count.

Until the colony vomits spiders in earnest, the legion crossing from Nemesis through the narrow gate is inevitably pushed out of numbers.

The players gritted their teeth to buy time and did their best to drop the demon objects.

“Hold on! Don’t be pushed!”

“Hold the front lines!!!”

But I was still able to afford it. Because we have one very powerful secret weapon to buy us time.

Now, that secret weapon has begun to move.

Flash-!!!

Kwaaang-!!!

During the fierce battle between corps and corps to keep up with each other, a tremendous flash and roar, like a strategic nuclear weapon exploding, exploded on the horizon.

It was such a massive explosion that it made me wonder if the planet was splitting apart, with the ground and sky shaking so madly that all players had to stop and hold on to each other.

All of the Demon Legions that had been rushing in in one shot evaporated.

Players who witnessed this overwhelming force were speechless, and thanks to the originally mute Legion’s forces, a heavy silence fell on all sides.

After a while,

“sky! Look at the sky over there!”

Players were able to find out the identity of the being who accomplished this amazing miracle.

In the distance, a being as gigantic as the Legion’s Power Creatures was flying towards the colony, flapping its wings with the Apostle’s battleship beside it.

“D-It’s a dragon!!!”

The creature that arrived on top of the colony in an instant had a black color.

It was a gigantic spider resembling a dragon whose scales were made of chitin, and even plastic surgery had failed and it had become very fat.

The person possessed by the crude life form that was nothing short of a failure said this to everyone including me.

[Explosion is an art.]

… … That man, no matter how you look at it, it doesn’t seem normal.

[What are you doing? Deliver quickly and clean up the mess.]

Anyway, with that single explosion, the duke who ruled this territory was wiped out.

Now, there are only those who are not under anyone’s command in this territory, and the only thing left for the alliance to do is to hunt them down to get points and build a colony.

“… … .”

No, fuck it, if the power emitted from the possessed state is that much, how strong is the whole body?

* * *

[Demon Castle], which has been purified by the flames of hell, is recreating the original form of the capital city using the ashes of those burned alien creatures as a base.

The demons and their slaves who were recruited from the territory of the high-ranking demons hurriedly built a new building, and the colony of demonic plants re-established its roots on the empty land.

There was a high-ranking demon watching all of this from the fortress.

The demon king, as usual, had his hands behind his back, but when the high-ranking demon standing in front of him turned his head backwards, he was startled and corrected his posture and lowered his head.

“… … You are a great demon.”

The Demon God who borrowed the body of the Grand Duke and descended into the present world stared at the Demon King expressionlessly. Just that alone made the demon lord feel cold sweat running down his entire body.

gulp-!

The demon king swallowed dry saliva. Even just a few days ago, when the demon king showed a cool look, the grand duke would bow his head first, but from the moment the owner of the body changed, the situation was completely reversed.

Now, the person in front of the demon king is not the grand duke who served him faithfully, but the one who gives power to high-ranking demons and creates the flames of hell.

“The hero and the spiders started moving.”

The demon king felt breathless and choking at every word he said. It’s just the sound flowing through the vocal cords, but the threat to life is felt with just one voice.

“A territory has fallen into their hands. Even the young warrior moved himself.”

The moment he uttered these words, a mad smile appeared on the face of the archduke, who had not made any expression.

“I will give you a mission.”

“Oh, tell me, demon… … .”

The Archduke, no, the demon possessed by the Archduke began to move in earnest.

“Keep the head of the calamity alive and bring him back. Demon King, prove your usefulness.”