062. Legion vs Calamity Showdown (3)

Looking at the vision of the hive consciousness that was last transmitted before the door closed, Kang Jin-hyeok said with an expression of absurdity.

“This is a bit… … .”

“why?”

“You said your opponent was a ruler like you, but isn’t this too futile… … ?”

“What is the natural result? A guy who doesn’t do anything in the first place will never win against a guy who prepares thoroughly.”

The attempt by the ruler of calamity to open the door and ambush me was lightly repulsed by the commandos, who had already leveled up a lot, showing a powerful force.

The guy hurriedly closed the door he was trying to use for the attack, but the commandos, who had already been put in, were still rioting within his sphere of influence without being caught.

“Take a look at the hundred days. Can you catch a snow crab with just a piece of flesh?”

Although they are usually few in number, they are the most powerful objects currently available in the corps. There is no way for weak flesh, which can only attack with water, to pierce the hard shell protected by the energy of the first demon.

If we put the current situation as a game, the snow crabs are literally the same as hero units that have received an invincible buff.

“So how are things going now?”

“now? It’s running very, very well, like the meter on a taxi running without rest.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

I guess I’m not very good at jokes. My age is still in my late 20s, but the sense of entertainment that has accumulated over the course of the series has already disappeared.

“… … Hey, stop being serious. What am I not even kidding about? Let me explain.”

Anyway, the reason why I was a little nervous when I came here is because I felt quite threatening with the size and power of the ruler of disaster.

The mental power of the main body of the disaster was so strong that it was difficult for me to grasp, and I was very good at using it to the extent that I could freely create a door that crossed the dimension using that power.

If such a bastard showed his dominance in earnest, it was my expectation that this fight would be very difficult to be honest.

I wasn’t even sure if I’d be able to defeat that bastard’s dominance. I also thought that the corps might not be able to withstand the difference in strength and just scatter.

But this was just a misfortune.

“At first, I thought what would happen if he used his dominance to destroy my legion.”

“… … did you?”

“Perhaps because the wave of dominance is slightly different, it seems that the dominance over other legions is not being displayed properly.”

Oddly enough, its dominance was powerful enough to shake the Legion’s chain of command, but it didn’t seem capable of complete control.

This was the same for me too. I was able to stimulate divisions by stimulating the disaster entities, but I couldn’t really dominate them.

“Then, isn’t the ruler of calamities completely unable to intervene in the rule of our Legion?”

“It’s not that I can’t do it at all, but I can get in the way a little bit. The wave of Hive consciousness that you and I use can hasten the disintegration of the catastrophe, right? But just as we can’t completely control the catastrophe, he can’t take our control either.”

After listening to my explanation, Kang Jin-hyeok nodded meaningfully as if he knew something, although he wasn’t sure if he understood.

“then… … Are you saying it’s a pure fight over quantity?”

“Yes, he is incapable of usurping control of the Legion. In this situation, those of us who can produce a much higher quality object definitely win.”

Under these circumstances, there was no reason for me to be afraid of disaster.

If you compare Legion vs. Legion power without the intervention of the rulers, it was hard to find a reason why I couldn’t win against Calamity.

If you think about it, you didn’t have to be scared when you saw the dominance of the giant disaster that had attacked Nemesis in the past, and you didn’t have to go into debt while getting help from the manager.

There’s no way that guy below him could do something that even his head couldn’t do, right?

Anyway, let’s move on to the past. In conclusion, the difference in strength between Legion and Calamity is much larger than expected.

Whenever I had time left, I always immersed myself in experiments to upgrade the corps, and thanks to this, they have become much stronger and more efficient than the ones I saw in the first round.

On the other hand, the objects of disaster still had their primeval form. There was no upgrade process at all.

“I’ve done a lot of upgrades to the corps, so I can’t lose to a guy who doesn’t do anything and only competes with quantity.”

“… … Aren’t the workshops upgraded over there?”

“That’s true, too, but there’s a difference in that you can only draw basic tier units in the first place and this side can only draw the final unit.”

Catastrophe’s attack objects have the ability to mimic various life forms, but that’s just stealing a simple appearance and some behavioral patterns.

Above all, the unit of disaster was all that flesh. The governing entity of the disaster we met in the mother castle called us ‘the legion trapped in a frame’, but in reality, they are still in a primitive state and have not developed anything, so it is a true story.

On the other hand, I was able to freely combine and utilize reinforced objects in a wide variety of positions depending on the situation.

“Besides, we are ahead of the pack now.”

“Well? Can you outsmart those guys? Wouldn’t that be impossible?”

“It used to be like that.”

As Kang Jin-hyeok said, in the past, the process of expanding my corps was much more complicated than a catastrophe that ended with a simple division.

Disasters are characterized by eating everything in sight, digesting it, and immediately dividing like an amoeba, so if I exchanged troops purely 1:1, I was unconditionally pushed back in productivity.

However, the Legion’s situation is completely different now.

“All the colonies created here are photosynthetic colonies. Even if nutrients are not enough, the troops can come out enough.”

The Legion has undergone a recent upgrade, allowing it to produce troops much faster and more efficiently than before.

In fact, if the ruler of disaster had no hidden trump card that I hadn’t predicted, this game would have already tilted the scales of the game from the moment I safely unfolded the colony in the first place.

“Geez, disaster bastards made me pretend to be strong, but it’s not a big deal. Ruler of disaster, you fell behind today.”

“Oops… … Is it a fratricide between brothers?”

Well… … .

Intellectually, that statement is correct, but emotionally, something feels a bit bad.

“… … I’ve never had a brother like that. I’m not from that kind of flesh, I’m from a human.”

“… … .”

With this, self-rationalization is complete.

While I was talking with Kang Jin-hyeok, the colony had a certain assortment and began to recruit troops in earnest.

Having finished the delicious stir-fried chicken prepared by the corps-only cook, I stood up and ordered the start of the corps reinforcement project in earnest.

【The corps moves to the specified location.】

Hyung scored a rally point.

* * *

Although the distance between the place where the ruler of disaster is located and the colony is quite far, the distance is not a big obstacle anyway with the means of transportation secured.

It’s just that the movement time for the attack takes a little longer, but I was rather excited about the sweet reward the moment I won this fight.

“I’d like to try using a [gate] based on mental power.”

I swelled with anticipation of being able to obtain the dimensional movement technology used by the ruler of calamity.

The ruler of calamity has shown such an amazing ability, but has shown a very passive attitude against the demons. Despite the fact that he has the ability to fuck the demons enough if he wants to, he never came to the fore, perhaps thinking that the pond in the beginning was far more important than dealing with the demons.

Since I’m wasting my precious ability like that, I think it’s reasonable to use it very well when I steal it and fuck the demons.

I have a lot to gain from this fight.

“Move the jellyfish transport unit.”

The jellyfish that hung the legion’s troops in clusters and the swarm of spider wasps to escort them created black clouds in the sky.

Those who didn’t have a seat created a wave of spiders on the ground to join behind them while making their own wave.

-Enemy in sight! Enemy in sight!

―It’s disgusting, so disgusting!

-storm! storm!

Against the tidal waves of these gigantic spiders, the masses of disastrous flesh came rushing forth with such force that they seemed to sweep away everything in all directions.

It was truly a sight to see gigantic control entities the size of a decent mountain rise from the ground, and they sprinkle their flesh to create countless calamities.

Of course, those fleshy guys are the ones who don’t have any tactics at all except for the ‘injury tactics’. They are left with only the ruling entity’s order to divide and the instinct to crave food, and all they do is attack living creatures.

[Spiders prepare to run away, shooters and jellyfish pour as much venom as possible from behind while warriors and snow crabs attack.]

The corps I command are distinctly different from those brutes. It showed organic movements that reminded anyone of a well-trained army, and the effectiveness of battles as well as the strength of individual objects was incomparable.

-storm! storm!

The corps’ first modified jellyfish, me and Kang Jin-hyeok hanging from the tentacles, excitedly shouted a storm, and in an instant, a map of hell filled with shattered flesh of disaster unfolded in all directions.

It didn’t take long for things to be sorted out. The dominants are just a good source of protein for the swarm, and it’s not scary at all to be attacked by flesh.

I was sure of a smooth victory.

“The master of disaster. Do you really have a hidden trump card?”

“… … Jiwoo, every time you said something like that, there was always a twist to the enemy.”

“Oh no way?”

However, it is not possible to catch people.

Flash-!

The moment Kang Jin-hyeok finished speaking, a dazzling flash of light exploded in the sky and a huge number of elliptical dimensional doors opened. From the large and small oval doors that filled the sky, burning stones started pouring down like a shower.

That, I guess.

“Oh, storm! Bounce at full speed!”

-storm! storm!

An intense golden wave spread around me in all directions. Thanks to that power pushing the usually slow Storm Jellyfish at tremendous speed, Kang Jin-hyeok and I broke away from the battlefield in the blink of an eye.

“What the fuck!”

When I moved away from the battlefield in an instant, I saw that the sky where my incarnation and Kang Jin-hyeok were staying were swept away by a huge explosion just a few seconds ago.

Kwaaang-!!!

A tremendous roar sounded as if the incarnation’s eardrums were about to fall apart, and the earth as well as the air created a huge aftermath as if an earthquake had caused it.

The fierce rain of fireballs swallowed up the Legion’s troops in an instant, turning the land into a sea of fire with flowing lava.

“Wow… … .”

I couldn’t help but admire the scene the ruler of calamity had staged with his authority.

As the fire lit up and covered the world in dust, the area that the enemy claimed to be the home of the Legion suddenly became a veritable hell with nothing but darkness and flames.

This was the most powerful attack that anyone who could open a door could use, like the method I used to blow up the continent of the goddess in the past, if I decided to blow it, it could completely destroy a planet.

“Great.”

I was fortunate that I quickly escaped, but because of his counterattack, about 80% of the legion’s troops that launched the first attack were wiped out in an instant.

“Yes, the name and color are the rulers of disaster, but there’s no way he could be this bland.”

“… … Did you have a trump card? Calling a meteorite through dimension shift.”

“Also… … Han Ji-woo, the magician of resurrection, did not go anywhere.”

“… … .”

After all, people should be careful what they say… … .

wait, is something weird?

“Hey, this isn’t my fault. Isn’t that a skill that bastard originally possessed?”

“… … Well, don’t let that happen.”

“… … .”

To emphasize once again, I did not add any stake to the counterattack of conversion by the ruler of calamity.

“Ha, that kid is funny.”

“… … Jiwoo, that guy seems stronger than I thought. It won’t be easy. What are you going to do now?”

“Huh, what do you do?”

I smiled as I looked at the overcast sky from meteorite bombardments.

“You have to pay it back in the same way.”

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

【Leviathan, see that big stone over there?】

The huge whale began preparing to sling.