049. Snow crab leveling up

Legion troops are huddled in front of an alien building reminiscent of a triumphal arch.

Speaking of that building, it is sold at the Dimension Workshop for 5 billion points, and it is a very expensive item that requires a whopping 10 billion points because the summon door must be installed on the other side to function properly.

Even the manager complained that he took out a loan because he didn’t have enough points while installing this building between Nemesis and Limen.

Of course, the effect of this building was enormous.

Since the need to open the [gate] in a stepping stone method by directly hitting the divine power by 10,000 players or administrators has disappeared, the power can be invested in other operations, resulting in a tremendous increase in efficiency.

The problem is that enemy commandos specializing in assassination have now entered Limen.

They will definitely be aiming for the summoning gate that serves as a bridgehead for troops, and we need to stop the demons from messing with that expensive building.

―Master, the preparation of troops is over.

The combination of multiple warrior spiders, land spiders, and shooter spiders, jellyfish for command and a small group queen is the same as usual.

Today, there were several eye-catching guys with a distinctly different appearance from the existing objects, boasting a huge size comparable to the mountain behind the neighborhood.

Influenced by the power of the First Demon God, they are snow crabs with powerful shells that shine like jet black and claws that exude the feeling of cutting through anything.

Because they require so much nutrients and take a long time to grow, the number of crabs is very small. When the legion queen builds a colony, only one or two can support it, so they are of a different value than normal spiders that can be recklessly stamped out.

However, as those snow crabs have the amazing ability to chew away the magical attacks of the demons, even one or two of them can be powerful enough.

【Giant Crab Troop Dispatch.】

Flash-!

The summoning door began to work, emitting a magnificent light. Soon, the space between the doors split open with a crackling sound, and the difference in air pressure caused Nemesis’ air to be sucked in like a vacuum cleaner.

Due to the influence of the geyser, the opaque and high-pressure air of Nemesis crossed far space and caused a storm on a planet in another dimension.

-storm! storm!

The jellyfish that were floating in the air flew across the summoning gate in an instant on the wind, and the legionnaires followed suit and rushed toward the gate.

I also quickly crossed the summoning gate, clinging to the body of the No. 1 jellyfish, which became my exclusive mount, with a newly acquired body.

【Demons. Do you guys know the taste of crab?]

Now, let’s see how well the snow crabs fight.

* * *

As the assassins hid in the shadows and began to play an active role, the Legion Queens of the colony met a mysterious death and began to lose power.

In cases like this, a legion queen from a nearby colony usually intervenes and absorbs power, but if that legion queen is also assassinated, control is inevitably lost until a new queen is born.

Unfortunately, the Legion didn’t have enough precautions to detect those shadowy reapers.

Originally, the legion queen controlled her forces through jellyfish and was stuck in the colony, so it was very rare for her to be threatened. There are enough defense buildings in the colony, and there are enough extra troops, so demons don’t even think about entering here.

But the assassin hiding in the shadows is a different story. They are invisible and, like assassins, they are very good at erasing their presence.

Although several attempts have been thwarted by queen instances with ESP abilities powerful enough for hidden assassins to notice the well-captured magic, few Legion Queens have ever reached that level.

Queens with weak abilities are just good prey, dying without even noticing the existence of the assassin itself.

squeak-!

It was like that even now. An assassin who had been moving the shadows of the Legion entities burst out of thin air and decapitated one of the Legion Queens with an enchanted capital.

-intruder! intruder!

―Queen death! production needs!

-Calm! Calm!

The jellyfish screamed and grabbed the individuals trying to get out of control, but they were originally sent to deliver orders and monitor the situation, not have the ability to control the colony professionally.

-Attack, attack.

-invisible.

-Attack first. attack once.

Besides, if there are too many boatmen, the boat will go to the mountains. There were as few as tens to as many as thousands of jellyfish for each size of the colony, and in the absence of a central point, the order spread to Jung-gu Heating.

Pew-!!!

The colony itself collapsed in an instant as the excited jellyfish sprayed venom indiscriminately and the shooter spiders, who received orders, fired acid shells at every defense in sight.

If you get hit by that acidic liquid, even if you’re hiding, you might get caught, but the assassin didn’t feel any threat because he was already out of his body.

“Stupid guys. It was a mistake not to hire us sooner.”

The assassin who watched this scene laughed at the poor response of the demon world.

True to his word, the nobles did not have the guts to hire these assassins on their estates. In the first place, assassins were the ones who would take the heads of high-ranking demons without hesitation if they could get enough money, so it was because they were worried that their heads could be blown away if they called them by mistake.

“Were you that scared?”

The assassin gave a fishy smile under his black hood. In his eyes, the aristocrats who possessed the estates were cowards who chose to run away on their own, abandoning weapons that could deal a fatal blow to the Legion.

“corps? Aren’t they nothing special?”

He laughed at the Legion too.

These spiderlings are difficult to win in a head-on battle of strength, even if you are a nobleman. However, if you make him the target of an assassination like this, he was a rather comfortable opponent.

Except for a few strong colonies, there was no fear of being discovered, and the ruling entities themselves didn’t have a threatening force that was dangerous to assassinate.

“We are the best weapon to defeat the Legion.”

The Shadow Reaper, who easily captures the ruling entity, had it started moving long ago, there was a good chance that the aspect of the war would have changed.

After completing the mission, the assassin took out a crystal ball used for communication from his pocket and proudly reported his achievements.

[Reported, and the assigned colony was dealt with. Give me the next mission.]

[…] … .]

But it’s strange.

[report. Are you listening?]

[…] … .]

The assassin continued to try to communicate, but somehow no order was returned for the next target.

“… … What happened?”

The Assassin had not received an order from his chief to halt the operation, but he was well aware that in such a situation, he must evacuate the operation area as soon as possible.

[After watching the recording, I will leave the seat.]

At that moment, the assassin felt his surroundings darken.

‘Oops, I have to avoid it!’

He realized that this darkness was the ‘huge shadow of a monster with arms raised’ that appeared behind him, and instinctively exercised his power of stealth and jumped into the darkness.

【Wow, there are really strange babies in the world. Cloaking this time?]

Dig-!

“… … !!!”

The assassin rolled on the floor for a while.

“Koo, cool… … this, what the heck… … ?!”

The assassin, whose black robes were soiled by slime and acidic liquids scattered across the floor, coughed up thick blood and looked in disbelief at the situation.

He is definitely a demon who was born with the power to hide in the shadows. However, an absurd incident occurred in which the shadow, which was supposed to accept and protect itself, refused to hide and instead threw it away violently.

This is something that should never happen.

【hey.】

When the assassin raised his head, there was a huge, hideous creature with black armor-like skin and claws, and the greatest achievement in the demon world with shining golden eyes was looking down at him.

【Do you know the taste of crab?】

The assassin, perplexed by this sudden question, tried to answer something with his lips parted, but before he could, he froze when he saw a huge claw flying towards him.

Kwajik-!

The pointy end of the claw took the assassin very lightly and held it up, and the voice of the legionnaire’s voice was heard as he watched it with cold eyes.

【Cloaking, this is very good genetic information. Thank you, nameless demon tribe bastard. I’ll write it very well.]

Clumsy-!

When the snow crab applied a little force, the assassin’s waist was broken into pieces as if a can of sorghum was broken.

The assassin had last seen, in his blurred vision, the huge, hideous creature emitting black light like a halo all around.

This was the last memory of the assassin who single-handedly killed 50 legion queens and threw the colony into chaos.

* * *

The moment the crab caught the damn cloaking demon that confused the legion, something very surprising happened.

“… … What is this?”

Jjoeok-!!!

Mostly, after absorbing all the magic power from the demon’s corpse, it suddenly began to shed itself while emitting a black halo.

This was a phenomenon that had never happened to General Spider and was completely unexpected even for me.

“I absorbed the magical power of the demons and made it my own… … ?”

Flash-!

The snow crab, which had changed its shell in an instant, began to exude a slightly stronger energy in all directions along with a slightly larger size.

“This isn’t about raising monsters… … .”

It’s really something I never imagined in my wildest dreams that crabs would become stronger as they hunted and leveled up.

Maybe this guy is just a little weird?

【Report the situation of jellyfish and snow crabs first.】

As I gave the order through the hive consciousness, the jellyfish began to incarnate and send video memories of the snow crabs in action.

Flash! Flash! Flash!

It seems that this is not the only strange guy. The snow crabs sent to the other colonies to deal with the assassin also ate the demons and then shed a black light.

“… … .”

Apparently, Choi Kang-han seems to have pulled out a hero unit in terms of the game.

“Well, let’s finish cleaning up. Storm, Gou.”

-storm! storm!

After giving orders to send crabs to each colony to catch the assassins, I now lead the rest of the troops and start flying toward the player’s pioneer city.

After a while, with the help of a fast-moving storm, I’m the first to arrive at a futuristic-designed city under the shadow of a massive battleship.

The city showed the appearance of several important-looking facilities and a significant number of robotic devices destroyed, and even a few players inside the building lost their lives, making it an unpleasant sight.

… … So hold on.

Fuck, the player is dead.

“Such a bastard… … Where have you been hiding?”

The back of my head felt slightly hot, and I felt very dirty.

I’ve been allied with the admins before, trying to make sure the players I’ve played with for several rounds don’t suffer this time.

So, all the spiders of the Legion died during the war, and among the returning players who were mainly active in the rear, not a single one died.

So, this is the first time the administrator has sent a human player to die since I formed an alliance.

Flash-!

A golden aura spread out in all directions, erasing all the shadows in the city as if burning them in an instant.

After a while, I was able to find a demon cub exuding quite powerful energy, bravely approaching the summoning gate alone.

I immediately jumped in front of the shadow of the building where it was hiding, grabbed it by the collar with my psionic energy and pulled it out by force.

“Cheuk… … !”

【You will never die.】

I conveyed my will as if I were gnashing my teeth while glaring at the young captain hanging in the air.

【You will live forever with the nightmares of taking out your brain and soaking it in a culture solution.】

It was just then that he opened his skull and tried to extract his brain.

“ruler! Wait a minute!!!”

Someone grabbed my arm.