055. Legion Upgrades Again (1)

As I waited for the Legion troops to arrive, what I witnessed was the constant rise of corpses exuding powerful force in the desert full of sand and gravel.

The temple guards, with their mummified bodies and primitive weapons like spears and axes, were still covered in unrotten fur, perhaps because of the arid desert climate.

However, their appearance is a bit peculiar.

Unlike those who are generally similar to humans, their hairstyles were all in the form of beasts, that is, beastmen.

At a cursory glance, those with rat or dog heads were the most common, and those with eagle or crocodile heads were also mixed in between.

“Is this an animal farm?”

“hahahaha, ruler. Even if they look like that, each and every one of them are really powerful.”

Those who boasted such overwhelming visuals lined up in a very orderly manner, filling the front of the temple where the holy relic was located, showing off a tremendous sense of intimidation, as if they were going to do it.

“They are an ancient army sworn to serve Horus forever. It is not the manager who is the agent of God, but the 30,000 warriors and 10,000 priests, the shaman, and the ancient spiders they command, who have been given power directly by God.”

Their momentum was really no joke. Each one of them seems to be emitting so strong divine power, that it seems to be stronger than the strong people.

“Since sacred relics are precious things, it makes sense to hide them in a place like this, but… … .”

When I checked that power with my own eyes, I was very curious.

How did you hide the holy relics in a situation where monsters like that are infested, and there are even a huge number of divine power turrets embedded outside the temple?

“How the hell did you get in there and hide the holy relic?”

To my question, the head of the elders replied as if it was nothing special.

“Simple. I took a moment to release the dimensional separation force field and use the golem to place it. By the way, if you have a holy relic, they won’t attack first either. Rather, it obeys the control of the believer holding the holy relic.”

“… … Well?”

No, what kind of mouthwatering sound is this?

If you have a holy relic, you can command that powerful army of 40,000 with your hands and feet?

“Ruler, did you come here without knowing anything about the sixth relic?”

Could I have known The only information I have is that there is a sixth relic here.

I nodded my head as a sign of affirmation, and the dwarf uncle made an absurd expression before beginning to explain.

“The sixth holy object is the blood and flesh of the first representative, a direct descendant of Horus. After wandering around the world for a long time and being abused, I finally returned to my hometown.”

“Five… … So?”

“The first administrator was the one who controlled death and moved the corpse. They are the troops of that authority. Those who possess the holy relic can raise that army at any time if they wish.”

“… … such crazy.”

No, there is such a thing with crazy performance?

It wasn’t an item that directly gave strength to the legion like the first demon relic, but instead it was a very good item that could lead a powerful army.

“Can you hand over something so important to us?”

At my question, the dwarf man smiled faintly.

“According to the last oracle given by the god Horus, the being who will bring peace to the world will use the holy relic. There was a phrase that said, “If you know the location and come and want the holy relic, take the temple test and give it to me.”

Are those just us?

I hurrahed inwardly.

What kind of cake is this? I was salivating at the large ancient spiders over there, but after hearing the explanation, there is a very good opportunity to farm an S-class item that can drastically enhance the power of the alliance here.

“It is difficult to subdue the clan and neutralize the temple. We can give advice with the permission of the oracle.”

The dwarf uncle started talking about the corpse unit’s weakness that I hadn’t even asked about.

Seeing that the emotion of ‘expectation’ is strongly felt in his surface psychology, it seems that he wants us to kill the demons coolly.

“Ruler, if you look over there, there are priests.”

“Oh, you mean those with canes?”

“Destroy those priests first. Otherwise this ancient army will rise again and again. Of course, the priest also resurrects after a while. First… … ”

I thought the explanation would be long, so I cut it off first.

“No, I don’t think there’s any need to bother.”

“… … Well?”

Starting with knowing the opponent’s weaknesses is a shortcut to winning the battle, but it is also a story that works when the difference in strength is equal. If there is a level difference that is not comparable in the first place in numbers, you can just trample it with that.

Legion is originally an attack land.

―Master, I have sent all the forces in the hive.

From beyond the horizon, I saw a huge number of legion troops rushing in, coloring the sky black.

The colony is defended by the turret experts, the apostles and the leader, and others, so they can bring all the troops created here.

Hyung scored a rally point.

“The corps competes with quantity. 400 million spiders would be enough to beat those bastards.”

“… … .”

Because the demons poured so much food, this place was as plentiful as Nemesis. In addition, most of the territories of the demons that can be seen in the sky have colonies, so they have all these troops.

As the overwhelming amount of troops surrounded the temple in 360 degrees, the Dwarf uncle looked very depressed.

“… … I think it’s really great. How the hell did you get these powers? It would be impossible for a god to tame an entire race like this.”

“It is a trade secret.”

I shrugged my shoulders, and immediately began pouring Legion troops very coolly.

【Sweep coolly.】

As the corpses wielded sparkling weapons imbued with divine power, the warrior spiders of the legion were lightly cut to pieces. Even the 40,000 corpse troops fighting against the pouring waves of legions showed amazing fighting abilities, to the point that even crabs would break their shells when attacked intensively.

“It’s tough.”

It wasn’t just the corpses fighting in front that were impressive. The scene where the shaman behind them swung their wands and waves of black fog appeared and swallowed the troops was also truly spectacular.

It took an instant for all the reactions of the Corps objects swallowed up by the waves to be cut off, and since the range was wide, the troops of the Corps disappeared in an instant, as if they had been erased with an eraser.

“The priests of death. Every time they gather their strength and pour it out in one blow, any creature that touches the mist faces an irresistible death and the army of the dead gains strength.”

“Well, you mean they have a cooldown. There are still legion troops left anyway, so we can push it with force.”

“… … .”

Yes. No matter how hard the shamans worked, they couldn’t block all defenses. There is a clear limit to the troops that can be erased at once.

“It has already been swept away.”

“… … .”

After a while, in my field of vision, a scene that is hard to find now called the army of death unfolded. In the first place, 40,000 troops were holding out, and 400 million troops attacked, so they are now completely trapped in the deep sea of legion spiders.

When a death warrior slashed three or four legion spiders at once, dozens of spiders jumped over the corpse and rushed at him at once.

“Resurrection is useless, right?”

“… … I guess so.”

As explained by the dwarf man, they are immortal. The scene where the corpse was torn so badly that it could not be recognized was put together again with the power of the priests was clearly visible ‘at first’.

Now I can’t get up because there’s no place to get up. The billion-unit legion of spiders did not allow the space itself for them to arise.

At this level, it was like being crushed to death by mass.

【Clear the road.】

I gave the order, and regardless of whether my allies were dead or not, a storm of jellyfish and gunnery spiders’ acid bombardment disintegrated the floundering army of deaths trapped among the spider corpses.

Thanks to this, the corpses melted away, and a path was opened for the Legion troops to reach the front of the temple.

Flash-!!!

Finally, as the Army of the Dead lost most of its strength and the Legion forces approached the shrine where the relic was sealed, the turrets began to emit light to deal with the spiders.

“Old-style turrets, even those take time to recharge.”

Of course, since I’ve often used turrets with similar principles, I’m already familiar with the problem.

Attacks made with divine power require time for the energy to recharge. So, no matter how many enemies there are, there is a limit to what you can endure even in situations that are advantageous.

But now, all of my legionnaires are running to this place.

I wouldn’t know if that was the apostle’s turret defense line that pours lasers without any delay. As long as it’s a turret that needs to be recharged, the defense line has exceeded its limit.

What remains of me now are the legion’s spiders.

【Excavate.】

In addition, the biggest drawback of such an old turret is that the energy is in the form of an explosion rather than penetration, so it cannot attack deep into the ground.

The battle came to an end as the spiders crawled out from the depths of the ground and took over the stepped pyramid-shaped temple layer by layer.

“The game will be over soon. Oh, by the way.”

“… … speak.”

“By the way, do you have any information about those spiders?”

The power of the army of the dead was certainly amazing, but the ones that impressed me the most were the ‘ancient spiders’.

Those spiders were as strong in combat as the spiders in the Legion, so they showed themselves dealing with several warrior spiders alone.

They shot cocoons made of cobwebs all over the place to bind the Legion’s troops, and once trapped, they showed that they could not get out of the cocoons again.

Even the crab, which is the final level in terms of weight, is so numerous that it is impossible to escape without the help of other spiders.

“Speaking of those spiders… … According to the records left in the oracle records, it is an ancient servant.”

“Are there any characteristics?”

“When it comes to features… … I’ll look up some literature for a moment. I do not know everything about the Army of the Dead.”

Of course, the spiders in our legion can also use very strong webs, but their use was only to hang on to jellyfish or make nests.

If you look carefully, they instantaneously eject unhardened spider webs, wind them around enemies, and instantly harden them into a cocoon. Our corps has no such technology at all.

So that’s a really coveted skill.

An intense desire to upgrade the corps came from catching that spider, making a cocoon, and eating the technology that binds the feet unconditionally.

“Ah, I found it. There is an elaborate technique to bind enemies by rolling up and throwing cocoons, and there are records of their spider webs being very useful in real life. It was also very useful in the war against the giant insect race that was common in ancient times. Oh, and… … .”

The elder tribe leader, the dwarf man, came out with truly incredible information.

“They say they were able to gain strength and live by not eating food, but by basking in the light instead. So it’s very easy to raise, so in those days, everyone had a space to raise spiders… … .”

… … no wait a minute

What did you say now?