Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Cutting through the pouring, thick snowstorm and across the snowy fields, the Demon King’s army has arrived.
It was an advance force consisting of only the fastest troops selected from among the main force consisting of hundreds of thousands of people.
Although it was an advance party, its numbers were enormous.
The users’ faces turned pale at the sheer number of monsters that filled the plains.
The same was true of the NPC dwarf army and the Himalayan guild members who stood with their weapons drawn.
“Now is not the time for us to fight among ourselves!”
Aaron quickly stopped him.
“They’ve arrived! We must join forces to fight the Demon King’s army!”
“Umm… … .”
“but!”
Dwarf Lord Bindard and Master Everest of the Himalayan Guild still growl at each other.
That was when.
Slowly. Slowly.
A knight from the Demon King’s army, which had stopped a distance from the castle, slowly walked forward.
A death knight riding a horse made of bone and wearing a flowing blue cloak.
The leader of the advance party’s monsters was ‘Dearan the Brave’.
Users stared blankly at this skeleton knight who approached the castle gate alone.
He was so confident that I didn’t even think about intercepting him.
“Ruler of the Sky Mountains, King of the Dwarves! Bindard!”
The Death Knight, who had come right up to the gate, shouted in his characteristically rough low voice.
“Great monarch, this is a message from the Demon King Labo! Listen carefully!”
“… … !”
Of course, not only Bindard, but all the users of the castle were holding their breath and listening to those words.
And the message that Dearan spat out was.
“Expell all ‘users’ of Iceberg from the castle!”
It was enough to confuse them all.
“Then I will guarantee you eternal rule over Iceberg.”
“… … .”
The Iceberg Fortress is a two-story structure with walls built in layers and rising upwards.
The uppermost palace was a structure that was directly adjacent to the last wall.
Bindard, who had climbed up the wall, growled softly.
“How can you believe that?”
“Our lord never breaks his promises. If he breaks this treaty, he will offer his head.”
“… … .”
Bindard was silent. The dwarf king was lost in thought for a moment.
Users watched that bindard with bated breath.
Just a moment ago, there was a situation where a war with the users almost broke out. It wouldn’t have been strange to accept the Demon King’s offer right away.
‘Now that it’s come to this, let’s do it first before it’s too late!’
Everest grabbed his weapon.
The plan was to attack first before Bindard could give the order to attack the users.
but.
“I refuse!”
Bindard, who had finished his worries, suddenly shouted. The users all looked surprised.
Everest was surprised, and Aaron was surprised.
“Hoo.”
The flames inside Dearan’s empty skull flickered thinly.
“You burned everything on this continent! Everything, except my kingdom!”
The dwarf king roared.
“I did not look favorably on the other kings, nor did I wish for them all to burn to death. But you killed them all, trampled them down, and laid them in ruins!”
“… … .”
“How can we believe the advice of such invaders who simply enjoy burning and trampling!”
Bindard waved his hand.
“So I’ll tell you again and again. No matter what you suggest, my answer is ‘No!’ If you understand, then get out of here, you skeleton!”
Bindard spat and turned around quickly.
And he snorted at the dumbfounded users.
“Huh! Let me be clear. I don’t trust you ‘players’!”
Bindard, with his arms crossed over his thick arms, added reluctantly.
“… … But it would be better to fight with you guys than those demon lords.”
After finishing speaking, Bindard glared at Everest once more. Everest and his guild members flinched and stepped back.
“Let’s settle the issues between us after we kill all those monsters.”
“Your judgment is indeed correct, King Bindard.”
Aaron bowed politely.
The Bindards and the Dwarves still had discontented expressions, and some of the users also had discontented looks, but the discord between the NPCs and the Allied Forces was thus mended, however clumsily.
“I heard the answer well.”
Daeran, who was standing in front of the gate, nodded slowly.
“But King Bindard of the Dwarves, our offer stands until the end!”
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Bindard didn’t even look at Dearan or pretend to listen, but Dearan continued to shout loudly.
“Continue, and think carefully before this battle ends. Which side is more likely?”
Slowly. Slowly.
With his body still intact, Daeran returned to the monsters’ camp.
Silence fell on the iceberg.
Bindard screamed.
“What are you guys doing! Get your defenses ready!”
“Yes, yes!”
Everyone came to their senses at that shout.
The commotion died down, and everyone hurried to their assigned defensive positions.
But even as both the users and NPCs prepared for thorough defense, the monsters remained motionless, surrounding the castle.
Are we waiting for the main force to arrive?
or not……?
The tense moments continued to pass.
The monster army grew by the minute. The main force was joining the advance party in order.
Users had to watch the scene with bated breath.
“… … .”
Aaron looked around outside the castle and inside the castle with a stern face.
A powerful external enemy and a vague but clearly visible internal conflict.
‘What should I do… … .’
Aaron gritted his teeth.
‘How can I protect it?’
* * *
Meanwhile, in the Demon King’s army camp.
“Barbecue in a snowy field is also quite a delicacy.”
Labo, who was muttering leisurely, was lying down under a mat with a parasol spread out, leisurely eating grilled skewers.
To the left and right, the Nightbringer members are taking a rest, each in a comfortable position.
Next to the mat, Oasis was cooking on a brazier. The delicious smell of cooking wafted through the air chilled by the heavy snowfall.
The Nightbringer members had already arrived here with the advance party.
But Labo had no intention of striking right away in the first place.
I sent Daeran to deliver the message and rested with the other members.
“Couldn’t they have just come all at once? Why did you have to set it up so that they arrive one after another?”
Labo answered Cain’s question calmly.
“They’re doing it on purpose to ‘show’ us that it’s a scale we can’t win against.”
When human visual stimulation reaches its limit, no more stimulation is felt.
It would have been effective to show all the troops from the beginning, but Labo hoped for more.
The advance party is large enough to fill the snowfield, but as time goes by, the rearguard arrives and the monsters increase in number.
Enough to be visually apparent.
“It’s just heightening the sense of unease. There are so many monsters that it wouldn’t be strange if they came at any moment, and they’re showing off their growing numbers.”
Labo smiled faintly at Cain, who still looked unsure.
“Psychologically, it’s about putting them in as much of a corner as possible.”
“What’s the point of that? Can’t we just sweep it away with overwhelming force?”
“I want to see the self-restraint.”
Labo’s voice was as calm as usual, but more vicious than usual.
“If they are trampled by force, users will always rise again. However, if they fall due to internal divisions and distrust among themselves… … it will be difficult to recover.”
The doctor who was listening from the side exclaimed, “Wow.”
“That’s an interesting story, Mr. Labo.”
“Haha. If you’re going to destroy something, wouldn’t it be more fun to destroy both its body and mind?”
Labo stared blankly at the ice fortress atop the rugged mountain range.
“Dearan relayed my words… … The division has already occurred. All we have to do is leisurely widen the gap.”
Finally, Labo, who had swallowed the skewer that Oasis had handed him, slowly got up.
“Anyway, I think this much time would have been enough.”
It’s been several hours since the advance party reached this plain.
A little while ago, the last main force joined.
Labo sat up, relaxed his shoulders, and looked back.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A horde of monsters so densely packed that they could not even be seen, were lining up neatly to the sound of drums.
“Gentlemen.”
This time, Labo turned his head to the Nightbringer members and smiled.
“It’s time to get to work.”
The villains stood up as if they had been waiting. Labo also put on the helmet he had taken off.
“Let’s put the final finishing touch to the conquest of the Old Continent.”
And with a familiar gesture, he declared war.
Declaration of War: Do you declare war on the Bindard Dynasty, who rule over Iceberg?
Of course, Yes.
‘Guild: Nightbringer’ declares war on the ‘Bindard Royal Family’ that rules ‘Iceberg’!
The five-minute war waiting time appeared before the members’ eyes.
At that moment, Cain, who had sneaked up next to Labo, lowered his voice.
“You’ll keep your promise, right, Labo?”
“hmm?”
“Aaron and his men are my prey.”
Labo burst into laughter.
“Of course. I won’t let anyone else touch it.”
“……thanks.”
Cain walked forward first, his eyes glaring fiercely like a wolf’s.
“Oldman.”
Labo gestured to Oldman, who was checking the hammer next to him.
“If you have something to vent your frustrations about, do as you wish.”
“… … No, that’s enough.”
But Oldman refused.
“I’m too old and tired to go around looking for and resolving all the grudges from the past.”
“Still in good spirits… … .”
“Poohaha! Jim will enjoy watching the young man run wild.”
Labo looked around at all the members who were smiling.
“Now, Nightbringer! This is your last chance to destroy the ‘Castle.’”
Labo, who had been looking around at Oldman, Cain, Uggle King, Rabbit, and the Doctor, nodded heavily.
“Enjoy it to your heart’s content.”
Sling-!
Instead of answering, the villains pulled out their weapons.
* * *
The monsters did not move, but only grew larger and larger.
It only took an hour or two to prepare for defense while standing tensely, and the users grew tired as they continued to wait in a state of battle readiness.
How many hours passed like that?
The scout, who was now looking with weary eyes at the horde of monsters that had filled the horizon and even reached farther out, cried out in surprise.
“No, they’re coming!”
“what?”
“They’re coming! The attack is beginning!”
The scout rang the bell next to him in a hurry.
Ding ding ding ding-!
The startled users quickly got up and grabbed their weapons.
The Demon King’s army began to advance slowly, as if they were of enormous size. They formed a mass, making the earth shake with a roar, “Koo-wook, Koo-wook, Koo-wook.”
Only the vanguard quickly broke away from the main force and rushed toward the castle first.
“uh…….”
Users who realized the identity of the vanguard screamed.
“It’s the undead! It’s the abomination-!”
The vanguard of the Demon King’s army protruded forward. The Abomination Queen and the six Abomis let out a terrible roar all at once.
Kuoooooo!
And at the same time, I used the skill.
WTG.
It’s an abbreviation for the zombie mass outbreak skill, Welcome To the Graveyard!
Gugugugugu!
The ground shook for hundreds of sectors where the Abominations were located.
Kookung! Kookugung!
Guuuuuuuu!
Zombies rose from all sides of the snowfield, their hideous bodies rising. Individually they were weak, but their numbers were ridiculously large.
The already terrifying number of monsters has increased even further.
Even from afar, the users’ confusion was clearly visible.
Laying comfortably on the palanquin pulled by the four knights of the Dark God, Rabo raised his index finger as he watched the scene.
“First of all, it’s numbers.”
