Iceberg Fortress. 5th floor.
“But, leader.”
Just before the hammer falls on your head.
“Haven’t you forgotten?”
Drake muttered quietly,
Oldman’s eyes widened as he brought down the hammer. The hammer stopped just above Drake’s head.
“What are you talking about?”
“War is ultimately a fight of checkmate. The one who cuts off the king’s head wins.”
Drake slowly raised his head.
“In this case… … it was a question of ‘who will occupy the core of the castle first?’”
“… … !”
Oldman turned around quickly.
In front of the throne, Everest, with his hand on the core of the castle, was desperately crouching and hiding, shivering.
There are only a few seconds left until the occupation is complete.
A triumphant smile appeared on Drake’s lips.
“From the beginning, my goal was to stall for time. To provoke you as much as possible and focus your attention.”
“……drake.”
“This war is our victory!”
Drake shouted confidently.
Then Oldman said.
“Drake. Drake, this guy.”
… …He shook his head repeatedly.
“Aren’t you the one who’s forgetting the most important thing?”
“… … ?”
Oldman made a face of laughter.
“Who taught you the art of war? Strategy and tactics. Or even chess and janggi. Who taught you that?”
Drake’s eyes widened.
no way…….
“You still don’t know the basics of staking, Drake!”
Oldman burst out laughing, “Poo-ha-ha-ha.”
“Whoever cuts off the king’s head wins? Yes, that’s right.”
5 seconds to complete capture.
4 seconds, 3 seconds, 2 seconds… … .
Oldman reached out his hand toward the throne.
“… … Then, we won this war.”
The next moment,
Taaang-!
Gunshots rang out through the area, ripping through the cold northern air.
“Occupation! Hahahaha! Now I am the lord of Iceberg… … .”
Everest, who was about to laugh out loud with just one second left before the occupation was completed, was roughly thrown out in front of the castle’s core.
It was a clean head shot.
Everest’s body, which had been hit between the eyebrows by a bullet and immediately fell down, rolled violently on the ground.
The occupation was canceled, and Drake’s mouth fell open as he watched.
“Why would I blow up the entire palace wall during a battle?”
Of course, I thought it was just a wall blown away by swinging an underwater hammer at will.
“To create a good angle for our snipers.”
In fact, it was a pre-calculated action.
At that moment, a boy in a yellow raincoat poked his head out from the hill across from the fortress.
“Night, night! That’s it!”
The sniper in the yellow raincoat, Aggle King, jumped out and struck an arrogant pose. He was shouting loudly into a large loudspeaker that he had acquired from somewhere.
“For this one dramatic appearance! Today, I didn’t even turn on the broadcast and just stayed in a corner of this snowy mountain, waiting for the right moment to snipe! The stylish and cute sniper, Mr. Aggle King. I’m giving BR a thumbs up for your sacrificial spirit!”
The Aggle King drew his giant crossbow, aimed it forward, and hummed a song.
“I’ve endured enough~ I’ve gone as far as I can go~ I’ve done as much as I can~ I’ve done it endlessly… … Now I’m going to do what I want!”
Taang! Taang! Taaang-!
A series of harsh gunshots.
The magic bullets fired in all directions indiscriminately pierced through users who were continuing to resist throughout the fortress.
With the sudden appearance of the Demon King’s sniper, the users who were barely holding on began to crumble.
The front line that had been clashing with the monsters finally collapsed.
“ruler…….”
As Drake watched this scene with a blank expression, Oldman’s cheerful voice came into his ears.
“Keep a close eye on it, Drake.”
This time, Oldman was holding the hammer straight.
“The moment this continent falls into the hands of our Demon King’s army.”
“… … .”
Drake squeezed his eyes shut.
‘Ah, I’ve been completely defeated.’
Now this battle, the Iceberg, is over… … .
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As Drake thought so, a hammer fell on his body.
This time there was no stopping or derailing.
Cookies and cookies!
“……after.”
With a sure touch, Oldman raised the hammer again. Drake was lying face down.
The users of the Invincible Fleet, including the downed Drake, began to glow one by one and then disappeared.
It must have been resurrected in the temple inside the Iceberg Fortress.
“joy.”
Oldman snorted and slowly turned around.
Even though Everest, who was lying down next to the throne, was down, he could not take his eyes off the throne until the very end.
“No… … That iceberg is mine… … .”
puck!
Oldman nonchalantly kicked the chin of Everest and passed by.
Even though he was completely dead, Everest was unable to even think about reviving and just stared at the throne with empty eyes.
dump.
Oldman sat leisurely on the throne, leaning back.
And he placed his hand on the ice statue that was carved into the core of the castle, the Iceberg Fortress.
The siege side begins to capture the core – 4 minutes 59 seconds remaining.
The occupation has begun.
There are only five minutes left until the Old Continent completely falls into the hands of the Demon King’s Army.
* * *
Iceberg Fortress. 4th floor.
There were no users alive here. Not even any users who were down.
Everyone was clearly in a state of death and left.
They fell before Cain’s sword, or hid and fell to the sniper’s arrows.
Now only Aaron can move.
The reason Aaron was able to survive until the end was because all the users rushed to protect Aaron.
Cain’s sword strike, Aggle King’s sniping, the monsters’ attacks… …the users blocked them with their bodies, and then fell.
Aaron was stunned and just watched the scene, but even after the stun was lifted, he just watched the scene.
I couldn’t move.
As he watched people trying to protect themselves while being trampled and trampled on… …Aaron froze.
Thud, thud.
Finally, after clearing away all the obstacles, Cain stood before Aaron again.
The tip of his sword touched Aaron’s neck.
“I… …wanted to be a hero of justice.”
Aaron muttered softly.
“I thought that if it could be done on the surface, it didn’t matter how it was done.”
Cain listened quietly without moving his sword.
“I did not hesitate to commit dirty and despicable acts and rose to the position of champion. I started broadcasting and manipulated public opinion, and after much effort, I rose to this position as the head of the union.”
“… … .”
“But now I understand. Why I played this game all this time, achieving all the goals I set out to achieve… … but didn’t have fun.”
A hollow smile appeared on Aaron’s lips.
“Even though I volunteered as a user vigilante and tried everything to maintain my title as champion, I never once thought this game was fun. It couldn’t be otherwise. Because I was a fake. A fake hero who wanted to pretend to be a hero of justice.”
“… … .”
“It was never sincere… … so of course it wouldn’t be fun.”
Aaron looked up and looked around the empty fourth floor.
“But people treated me like this… … as a hero. They truly believed in me and died for me.”
Aaron clenched his fist.
“Now I too… … will try to be sincere.”
“… … That won’t happen.”
Cain spat out coldly.
“The Old World is now finished. The New World will soon be swallowed up by us. Your sins will be exposed. You will never be sincere. You will forever be stuffed as a fake.”
“… … It may be as you said.”
Aaron’s voice was tired and weak.
“The Iceberg ends here. The Old Continent ends here. The players will lose most of their base.”
But I felt a sharp will that I had never felt before.
“But there is still a new continent left, and the world will not end. Wings Online will not end. Game Over, even if it comes someday, is a long way off.”
“……you.”
“I will be punished. I will be judged by the public. I will formally apologize to you. I will give up all the honor and position I have accumulated.”
Aaron raised his head.
Her blue eyes sparkled through her disheveled golden curls.
“But even so, my game is not over.”
“… … .”
“I declare this not as a champion, but simply as a gamer named Aaron.”
On a battlefield where everyone is dead and fallen, facing an enemy that cannot be defeated.
“I will fight to the end. With you.”
The fake hero declared so.
“I will fight until the very last dot of this world is destroyed.”
“… … .”
Cain, who had listened to the story until the end, snickered and mocked cruelly.
“That was a touching speech. Are you done? Then go back to your friends.”
“Mr. Cain.”
Aaron slowly lowered his head to Cain, who was raising his sword.
“I’m sorry about what happened in the finals that day. No, everything that happened up until now… … I’m sorry.”
Cain’s eyes flinched.
Aaron knelt down on both knees and bowed his head to the floor.
“A proper apology will be made at a later date. After this whole war is completely over.”
Aaron slowly raised his head again and smiled bitterly.
“But until then, we are enemies.”
“… … .”
Cain tightened his grip on the knife. Aaron closed his eyes, waiting for Cain to strike.
Just as I was about to bring down the sword.
“… … ?!”
Cain flinched.
His eyes were not on Aaron… … but behind him, above him.
“What is that?”
“… … ?”
Aaron, who was puzzled, also looked back.
“What… … ?!”
And then, I was shocked.
* * *
Iceberg Fortress. 3rd floor.
“Games are fun because they provide a sense of accomplishment. It’s easier and faster to achieve that sense of accomplishment than in real life.”
The doctor shook his head.
“But Wings Online is already broken. You are losing endlessly. Is there any ‘fun’ in continuing to play this game?”
The leader of the Majangdongdong clan still smiled leisurely.
“I’ve played a lot of so-called ‘shit games’. The more trashy and unreasonable the structure, the greater the pleasure when you clear it.”
The doctor let out a hollow laugh as if he had been caught off guard.
“I can’t even imagine. Monsters like you, boss mobs that don’t even seem to have a chance of being defeated… … When we finally take them down, how great it’s going to feel.”
“… … You really have a positive mindset.”
“We lost today. We lost yesterday. We lost last week. But there’s no guarantee that we’ll lose tomorrow.”
The eyes of the users who had been paralyzed with fear gradually became clearer.
“Even if we lose, lose, and lose again, if we can light even just one, tiny beacon of counterattack… … We will wait for that moment. We will not miss that tiny light of ‘clear.’”
The doctor shook his head.
“That moment will never come… … .”
That was when.
“You bastard-!”
An old man in a fresh-looking outfit suddenly ran up behind the doctor.
The Southern Undefeatable returned to the front lines after the resurrection penalty at the temple ended a little while ago.
“hmm?!”
While the flustered doctor was talking to the Southern Invincible, the healers who had also been resurrected ran over and sprayed cleansers in all directions.
The users who had fallen recovered from their aging state and all got up.
The recently recovered Ma Jang Dong Dong Dae Jang grinned and grabbed a shovel-shaped greatsword.
“I guess the plague bomb we used on Snow White won’t work, Plague Doctor? Is it because there’s a chance our troops could get caught up in it?”
“… … .”
The doctor quietly looked down at the users who quickly recovered and formed a formation.
“Don’t take us for granted! No matter how high your level is, we can remove things like ‘aging’ stacks, Necromancer!”
“Ugh… … .”
The doctor let out a small sigh.
“I told you to just lie down. I didn’t want to knock you over, so I just left you lying down.”
The doctor opened his arms wide.
Although I’ve been ‘looking after’ you so far, there’s no need to keep things in your hands anymore.
“Then let me show you guys something special. My second ‘project’… … .”
The doctor who said that tried to sprinkle something towards the users.
“… … ?!”
I looked back with a start.
The users were surprised by the doctor’s sudden change of gaze and looked in that direction.
And everyone opened their eyes wide in surprise.
“… … What is that?”
Behind the Iceberg Fortress.
A huge snow-covered valley surrounded by a fortress.
Gugugugugu-!
Riding on that snowy mountain, a huge avalanche.
It was sweeping downwards, carrying an overwhelming mass.
As if they were trying to sweep away and destroy the entire fortress.
