CH 64

[Massacring Torrential Rain!]

“Activate strengthening art, ‘Hyper Magic Burst’!”

“Gugagagagaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

Gigataro’s super-large laser beams fired at the hostile guilds.

They burned down a small mansion, a fort, and an old castle nearest to the city, turning them into dust. Or course, along with the players inside them…!

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You have defeated the guild, ‘Sideboob Extremists’! You have defeated the guild, ‘Protectors of Princess Sakura’! You have defeated the guild, ‘Victims Who Got Sick Because Their Favorite Idol Apparently Has a Macho Boyfriend’!

You have defeated 1428 players!

+3000 event points to the guild, ‘Guild of Yuri’!

+1428 event points to Player: Yuri!

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While lending my ear to Miss Message announcements, I set my sights on other guilds.

There were still a few seconds to go until Gigataro disappeared. I was thinking of having him annihilate more than ten guild bases before then, but…

“—Here it comes! Wall warrior unit, raise your shields!!!”

[Ooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhh!!!]

It was when I was about to destroy an exceptionally splendid mansion. In front of the incoming laser beam, men’s wild voices echoed!

And in the next moment, Gigataro’s deadly attack ended up getting blocked by dozens of players with shields raised.

I immediately shook my head and aimed at other bases, but members of the surrounding guilds also hurriedly formed human walls, and the laser beams ended after managing to vaporize only some of them.

They did prepare countermeasures, alright. In the end, only about four guilds were destroyed.

At the same time, the number of surviving players had decreased by about 2,000, but we still got 58,000 enemies remaining. In terms of numbers, they had an overwhelming advantage.

“Gugau~…!”

“There, there, don’t be sad, Gigataro. Leave the rest to me.”

Gigataro disappeared while hanging his head.

I’d only be able to summon him again after one hour. Since our goal was quick and decisive war, I probably wouldn’t get to use his service anymore.

Now then, time to start the war for real. As I fell from a height of 100 meters in the sky, I could see players rushing over from guild bases in every direction.

“The giant summoned beast’s attack is over! Now, everyone, attack!!!”

[Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!]

Tens of thousands of players rushed toward Helheim while making rumbling footsteps.

They weren’t just rushing blindly, however. I could see each guild divided into groups consisting of hundreds of people, and there was a small space between each person. Like a spider’s web.

I see… this was their countermeasure against ‘Arms Barrier’ they had seen me using when I had hijacked Seele’s channel.

By marching in lines while maintaining a distance of about three steps from each other, they could avoid getting several people skewered by my swords and spears at the same time.

The guy who had suggested the idea must be the baldhead, no doubt. He was the man who had gathered such a large army just to defeat me, so it was safe to assume that he’d perfected countermeasures against me.

“Haha, thanks for the gift baldhead! As a token of my gratitude, I’m gonna break through your countermeasures head-on!

“It’s your turn, Chuntaro!!!”

“Piyoooooooooooooooooooooo!”

In response to my shout, a giant red bird, Chuntaro, appeared.

I rode on his back and flew over the heads of the players.

“Yo, you guys! You’ve got something prepared against flying monsters, I bet?!”

“That’s obvious, Demon King Yuri! Long-range attack unit! Now is the time to surpass the object of your admiration!”

[Woooooooooooooooo!]

The players roared in response to their leader’s shout.

What the hell…! To my surprise, instead of the popular mages, it was a large number of archers came out, readying their arrows to shoot me down.

They were all looking straight up at me, their eyes burning with admiration and fighting spirit.

“As archers, we challenge you!”

“Do you know, Yuri-senpai!? Unlike mages whose spells lose attack power completely after 10 meters, arrows can pierce opponents dozens of meters away!”

“We can make up our hit rate with numbers! Eat these—!!!”

And then the volley began. Along with the loud sounds of bowstrings being released, hundreds of arrows flew up toward me from the ground!

Seeing the sight, I couldn’t help but feel happy…!

Users of the bow that had been treated as a useless weapon were given a place to belong and challenged me full of motivation…! I couldn’t be happier than this!

“Fall down, Demon King Yuri!!!” The archers roared, imbuing their arrows with their fighting spirits.

Ahh, then allow me to respond in kind! With the new archery technique I’ve invented!

“Activate skill! ‘Arms Barrier’–fully open!”

At that moment, a total of 100 summoning formations appeared around me.

Now, time to counterattack! Be sure to have a fill of my torrential rain of explosive weapons till you’re full—!

“Wipe ‘em out!”

Volleys of explosive armaments let loose and the incoming rains of arrows were instantly wiped out.

After wiping out the hundreds of arrows with just one explosion, without losing any momentum, the swords, spears, axes, and sickles continued to fly down toward the ground, hit the players, and blew up—!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! With an eardrum-shattering sound, they instantly turned hundreds of players into cinders…!

“Ugyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?! W-what the hell is thiiiiiiiiis?!”

“T-they exploded?! What’s going on, why did the weapons blow up?!”

“T-this is no archery!!!”

The players were scattered apart. Despite their attempt to avoid being skewered by keeping some distance from each other, it was in vain.

The explosive weapons I’d invented made explosions so huge that they dug out craters in the ground the moment they land, after all!

As burnt flesh and blood filled the battlefield, the charred leader let out a confused cry.

“W-what is this… what’s going on, Demon King Yuri!? To start with, isn’t a player supposed to be able to hold only up to 50 items?! But how did you manage to carry so many absurd explosive weapons…!”

“Isn’t it obvious? Just get the Craft Maker job, then you’ll be able to carry a lot of items.”

“Wha-?! Y-you mean you chose that job that can’t fight as your second job?!”

As the enemy leader was shocked, the swords, spears, and other weapons that had carried out the bombing turned into particles and returned to my item box.

The weapons shot by ‘Arms Barrier’ skill returned 3 seconds after use. Thanks to it, I could immediately recover the weapons that were on the verge of breaking because of the ‘Great Explosion’ effect.

Now all of them were at 1 durability, but that wasn’t a problem. After all, I was a Craft Maker.

“Activate art, ‘Weapon Repair’—done. Now then, get ready for the second round of bombing, you all…! We’ll keep this up until you’re all dead!”

A large number of summoning formations reappeared around me. Weapons that had just been repaired could be seen pointing their tips at the enemy from beyond them.

Faced with such a sight, the survivors, covered in injuries all over their bodies, instantly dropped their weapons.