Chapter 32: Monsters
When Victor arrived in Mu
mu
i
, he found that the village was surrounded. The Ishfanian scouts got there first.
Thankfully, all the training and drills paid off. Everyone in the V&V Adventure Company was armed and the townspeople set up barricades south of the village, where the main source of the army was. Allison and Rollo gathered a thick barrier of brambles and blackberries around the village to delay the intruders' onslaught and entangle the soldiers with the plants.
Riding on the back of the Black Beast, Victor rushed from the north to the town square, where his retinue repelled dozens of invaders around Winkel's statue. Most of the enemies are heavily armed elven soldiers with tridents or cursed bows, and giant gargoyles are their heavy weapons.
Thanks to the weapons purchased from Barnabas or Malfoy—who were all involved in the battle—the gnomes, kobolds, and undead maintained their superiority against their opponents, coming together in three-on-one numbers. The fully transformed werewolves, led by the Croissant, take on the more powerful gargoyles.
Winkel Jr. joined the scuffle, grabbing the elves with his hands and swallowing them whole. Other imitators shaped like chests, swords, and cakes followed, like wolves eating sheep.
Seeing everyone working together, Victor's heart warmed.
The strangest of attackers are ethereal, demon-like living shadows; They cast lightning spells on natives and kobolds, one for each kill. Red and the commandos tried to shoot them with arrows and shotgun bullets, but they passed them in stages. Only the priest of Chocolate and the Luna, who remained in human form, hit them with a light charm.
"Sir!" Red was delighted with Victor's arrival. "Our weapons can't hit the shadows!"
But the chocolate spell can. As immaterial beings, they may only feel vulnerable to magic or special abilities. Victor used his [Monster Insight] on the nearest shadow monster.
Somb
eux
Shadow Demon (Demon)
Resistance: Evil, Dark, Cold, Physical, All Status Effects.
Weaker than: Demon Hunter, Divine, Light, Necromancy, Magical Effects.
A veteran who has experienced three layoffs. As a soulless soul, it is immune to physical attacks; I don't know if you'll eat them for breakfast or if you'll run away. Hope to kill Mu
mu
i
can promote him to the finance department.
"You must be a representative of international business." The Shadow Demon hissed at Victor. "Genocide Chocolate!"
"You're half right," Victor replied. "As far as I know, the demons of hell can't beat me."
"But we're not from hell." The demon said in a smug and amused tone. "We come from the Paradise of Happiness."
Yours (Leave Hell Card Pe.)
k was canceled because, demon.
Bastard... Believing in his [Monster Insight], Victor rushed at the Shadow Demon and slashed it with his weapon. The shadow-like monster laughs at it, only to find itself accidentally dragged into the scythe.
Whack! [Helheim] and [Steal Life] activated!
Aha! His Helheim benefits are effective against immaterial creatures!
Victor felt the life force of the creature enter his body, relieving his fatigue, and the demon's soul joined Forriben's scythe. "A roommate." The lich said, his tone sounding both annoyed and strangely happy. "Finally someone to talk to."
At the end of the day, he'll have a lot of money. "I've always been here," Victor noted.
"Good company".
Victor, like a riding Grim Reaper, strikes any soldier or demon he can, receiving a critical hit notification of half of his blows. A few months ago, he doubted that he could kill so many enemies so casually; It is likely that he fled while the battle was chaotic. Surviving Winkel's antics made him even braver.
A terrifying monster that looks like a demon covered in bone spikes fights Victor, blocking his scythe with a shield and trying to drag him off his mount with a thorn whip. His black beast mount tried to crush the attacker, but the agile demon leaped backwards. Victor prepares to attack him with a necromancy while his enemies threaten to wave their whips.
Then, when a reptilian hand runs through his back and chest, the monster rinses blood. The corpse collapsed, revealing Savou, who was completely in assassin mode
euse, her claws were sharp and bloodstained. "Dried sausage!" The sight pleased Victor. "You didn't run away, did you?"
"I can't! She replied, letting him cover his face with his free hand. "The elven beast from the north cut off my retreat!"
Immortal beasts?" Melodieuse," Victor cursed, cutting off a gargoyle's head before it could drag him off his horse. If she had come from the north, then the whole village would have been surrounded by now.
Rollo and Allison also join the fight, and the iron golem hits a gargoyle with a shovel. “[Sheepi
ize]。 ”
With that, the giant gargoyle turned into a black sheep, and Rollo kindly moved it away. "Can farmers do it?" Victor asked in surprise.
"On the 51st floor." Rollo replied, raising his shovel menacingly to his friends. "You will all be Rollo's sheep!"
"It's a sheep, Rollo." Allison replied, summoning a giant flytrap to catch the gargoyle. "Here, it's sheep."
Victor suddenly realizes that he doesn't want to know about Mu
mu
i
where do most of the sheep come from. Unlike other Rangers, Pi
K did not fire cannonballs at the demons, and he began to sing, "Arise, children of the dragon, the day of glory has come!"
[The Bard's song increases your strength by one level.]
"The Bard's Song?" Victor blinked, and before he could shoot an elven archer off his horse, he cut him down. “Pi
k, you are in Ba
D"?!"
"Ever since I wrote The War of Hoarding!" Pinker shouted, then continued to sing. "Arm up, minions!" Form your battalion, forward, forward! Let the blood of the ox nourish our crops!"
In Pi
Inspired by the bloodthirsty carol, Victo
The rest of the minions cornered the remaining scouts against the wall of a house and slaughtered them, only the Shadow Demon managed to escape from the slaughter.
"Meat Treasure!" Winkel Jr. rinsed his mouth and spat out the remains of a half-digested elf.
"What's going on?" Victor looked at their troops and asked Red. Most of the Minions survived, but in the initial assault they lost dozens of people and their bodies were scattered on the ground. Hundreds of retinues and townspeople gathered in the town square, waiting for instructions. His [Mook promotion] Pe
K tells him that a lot of people can be promoted because they have gained experience from battles.
"We repelled the scouts, but more will come!" Rhett said, clutching his rifle tightly, his claws shaking. "Thousands!"
"Too many!" Cozzant said that Shaline was by his side. She looked bothered by her boyfriend's wolf-like appearance, but still stood beside him, brandishing a spear. "We must evacuate!"
"They've surrounded us!" Savou
Euse replied.
"They still have cavalry," Allison calmly noted, and she herself could not leave the village. "If we try to escape, they will catch up with us."
"Charlene," Victor turned to the only person in the crowd. "Did you inform Gardmani?" Since the king was soon to visit them with his retinue, they could warn the king in time to mobilize his army and stop Moore's army.
"I sent carrier pigeons, but most of them were shot by the archers," she replied, apparently fearing for her life. "I don't know if any of them passed, it would take them hours to send an army."
They are on their own.
When everyone looked at him, Victor realized that the task of organizing the defense had fallen to him. "We can't win a protracted battle with their unstoppable numbers," he admitted. Especially since they are just scouts, and most of the army is running towards them. "All we can do is delay until Wacker takes the Flying Fortress, leading to the rout of the army."
"The emperor has occupied the battlefield?" Blue lifted his immortal skull to the sky, and the flames burned.
"Lead us to victory!" Victor raised his scythe, bringing hope to the Minions' hearts. "As we speak, the Emperor is fighting for the Great Treasure!" It's his gold, and it's ours! If these beggars take over the village, they will steal our lives, our sheep, and our coins! Will we run away with our tails between our legs? No! We're going to send them back where they came from! Remember how we won the Battle of the Horde? We beat them once, and we'll win again! Because we are V&V! We are the treasure!"
It was a complete, desperate improvisation based on a cartoon speech he saw on Earth, but it worked. "We are the treasure!" The minions cheered, and the most sober-minded citizens like Allison and Charlene tentatively raised their hands in support. "We are the treasure!"
"They're going to meet their ......," Kobold Huang couldn't help it.
"For my local monopoly!" Malfoy shouted.
"Obey my orders, and we will win!" Victor shouted. "For the treasure!"
[Minions of the Rally) Activate! The stats of all followers have been increased by one level!
Victor immediately picks out the minions he can promote, namely the 10 dwarfs and all the kobold rangers except for Red himself. "Come here," he said, and then touch them and let them evolve in rapid succession. "I hereby give you a raise!"
As they evolved, these gnomes grew from very small to three meters tall, huge and emaciated humanoid gnomes with skeletal faces and gray skin. Their eyes turned red and boiled with beastly rage.
Pink and black, half of the kobold rangers, turned into a red copy of pink and black, although pink has a more sissy figure. Blue and yellow became skeletons of their kind, with a beating black heart on their chest; The blue bones turned dark blue, and the yellow ones turned golden.
Your goblins have evolved into grave goblins.
The Kobold Pink Ranger and the Kobold Black Ranger evolved into the Raptor Ranger.
The Kobold Blue Ranger and the Kobold Yellow Ranger evolved into Kobolds.
"We've all grown up and our complexions have changed!" Blue rejoice.
Victor immediately began distributing orders. "Allison, continue to pester the enemy. Rangers, once enough soldiers are trapped, set the thorns on fire. Shoot anyone who breaks through with arrows and bullets. Malfi, fill the sky with insects so they can't shoot arrows at us. We have to create chaos so that they can't avoid accidental injury. Pi
k, keep singing. You, Squid Priest, and Chocolate Chocolate—"
"Yes?" At the hearing of her name, the werewolf's head stood up, which made him shiver.
"You'll want to focus on buffing werewolves and greys with spells, or healing the wounded, unless you encounter shadow demons, in which case you're going to roast them." She seemed to like the wording too much. "Rollo, Junier, Savi, we will fortify the north with new troops. Everyone else is a hit-and-run; Ambush, isolate, cluster, and then retreat behind flames and thorns. Squeeze every inch of their land dry. ”
"What new troops, Vic?" Savou
Euse asked anxiously.
"These: [Animated Death]," Victor activates his Pe
k, resurrected zombies from both sides. Because he didn't sacrifice any gold, he only created monsters that were unconscious, but they could be good meat shields and complement heavy strikers.
When Malfi summons a swarm of hungry locusts and Allison begins planting a trench of thorns, Victor turns to Red the Kobold. "It's up to you. Remember, ambush and retreat, just like in Haudemer. ”
"Yes, sir!" The ranger posed. "We will protect the treasure with our lives!"
Congratulations! Since you lead an army of followers against overwhelming disadvantage in the name of your dragon master, your [Monster Squire] class has been promoted to [Monster Knight (Red Dragon)]!
Your [Rally Minions] and [Mook Ascension] Class Perks have been enhanced!
Well? Not bad...
At least that's what he thought until his whole body started itching and burning. Within seconds, black wings almost identical to Winkel's had grown from Victor's back and cloak, and a crimson reptilian tail protruding from his pants.
Victor remained motionless on his mount for a few seconds, uncomfortable with the new sensations and the gazes of other Minions. Fu
ibo
Laughed out loud like a madman from his scythe.
"Shut up! The holder complained. It can wag its new tail as if it had grown with it, but ......
Damn, he's going to turn into a mini version of Vigel! How disgusting!
In spite of. He will worry about it later. He ordered his mount to rush north, followed by his undead slaves and other minions.
…
It turned out to be very uncomfortable to ride a beast with a tail.
The makeshift group soon reached the sheepfold north of the village, where five elven hounds broke in, just like the ones they had fought in Ishfania, and they stepped on the food they had gathered for the dragon guests. Riding on the back of a horned black pegasus, Melodius looked down on them from above, flanked by three huge, terrifying ravens and a flock of Wyvern Knights.
"My flock!" Rollo saw that his sheep had been trampled and broken, and his rusty body began to heat up; The golem ran faster than Victor's own mount, breaking through the fence like an unstoppable behemoth. Behind him, Death slice the flesh of an elven hound that tried to pounce on him, and both the beast and the squire's own horse circled each other. Savou
Euse hides among frightened sheep, waiting for an opportunity to sneak up.
The fairy birds pounced on them like birds of prey, and one of them suddenly grabbed Savirus and tried to drag her up. Ju
io
Grabbed a few sheep that tried to escape, and then threw them at the crow as improvised projectiles, forcing the crow to release its captive. The imitator then picks up the sword as bait and uses it to cut the neck of an elven hound reaching out to him. "Sword!" Ju
io
Roaring, showing off surprising swordsmanship.
Above them, Melodius began to chant incantations. Still struggling with hip pain, Victor tried to attack her by spewing hellfire from his fingertips, but she immediately summoned a purple barrier around herself and her mount.
Her Wyvern Knight's bodyguards began firing at them with bursts of arrows, and Victor burned the projectiles to ashes before they could hit him. Rollo just shrugged his shoulders and busily treated an elven hound roughly, beating it with a shovel. The arrow struck Junior, causing it to cry out in pain, and Saviles dodged everything.
"[Death Candle]." Victor casts a spell to summon the will of a small bundle from the remains of the sheep. He sent them to besiege the Wyvern Knights and stop their attack. At the same time, the undead he created finally joined the fray, gathering in droves like a pack of zombies. The beast collapsed under the weight of dozens of walking corpses.
Well, that's much better than expected! Maybe they can handle it
"Crimson lightning."
As melodiuse said these words, a powerful red lightning bolt struck Victo
and his mounts. The black beast of the Grunt Grove fell with a single punch, and its rider jumped out of his back and fell into the dirt, losing control of the scythe along the way.
You've been hurt tremendously! Health matters!
"Oh." As Victor struggles to his feet, Frybon giggles in his scythe. "Will your luck run out?"
Victor looked up from the dust to find an elven hound hungry with its mouth open and ready to eat him. A big gloomy bird also flew down to eat him.
No.
It is much larger than a bird, or a dragon knight.
Before the elven hound could look up at the impending death, the huge fly landed on it, and its tremendous force scattered a cloud of dust and sheep in all directions.
When Victor regains his sight, he finds himself staring at the yellow eyes of a green dragon that is almost as big as Winkel, but more like a crocodile than a lizard.
"You smell like a chief of staff, and you look like a dragon, enough to make you half a civilized." The green dragon said in a pompous, arrogant tone. Seeing this ancient reptile, the beast and the wyvern knight stopped attacking. "Tell me, Venk's minion, is this a welcome buffet?" I was told that there was a sweet poison sauce here that tasted great for cow and pig and was for the hipster morning shifter. ”
"Yes!" Victor replied, realizing that this was the opportunity given to him. He pointed to the elven beasts. "But those farmers are trying to spoil the food!"
"The fairies are trying to play tricks again?" Didn't they know the food chain when we first ate their cattle?" The dragon turned to the sky and roared. "Winkel brought us elves and delicious birds for snacks!"
"The elves are mine!" A red dragon, smaller than Winkel, roared down from above, pecking at a dragon rider like an eagle attacking a dove. Melodiuse immediately cast a spell that strengthened her barriers, but her companion was not so lucky.
Soon, a flock of dragons descended from the sky, and most of them headed south to find the army of Ishfania, but four swooped down to hunt the wyverns and fairy birds. The Green Dragon allowed Victor to eat the fairy dogs and sheep indiscriminately, turning the battle into a one-sided feast slaughter.
Melodius looked down on the catastrophe, causing her escort to die, while approaching Victor with a hateful gaze. "The gates of hell have fallen," she said. "My garden garden plans are in vain. You ruined everything. ”
"It's always been you." Victor realized, reaching for the scythe with both hands. "Apple, Scorch, Moore's invasion...... It's all up to you!"
"None of this would have happened without you." Melodius glared at him. "You have taught Winkel the secrets of this cursed class system, and now our legitimate task of retaking Ofremond will become more difficult than ever."
"Teach? You're exaggerating. ”
"It doesn't matter. More lizards will follow in his footsteps. But you won't live long enough to see it. (Dark Fear). ”
Before Victor could fight back, he was engulfed in a dark aura that drained him of life and vitality. As he looked down from above, an inexplicable fear of death seized him.
HP and SP are reduced to 1! [Death horror] disease!
"Any last words?" Melodiuse asked Victo pretending to be polite
。 He noted Savou
Euse rushed to save him, but she was too far away to help.
Victor used [Monster Insight] to try to decipher any weaknesses the woman might have.
???
Damn it!" We can't... Say it?"
Charm Check......
Failed!
"We just did it, Manlin," Melodius said, holding his hand. "Death Peak."
As the sharp ice spear rises from beneath Victor, he realizes that maybe he should take a better insurance plan.