[Translator: Dawn ]

[Proofreader: Alissa ]

Chapter 62: [STAGE 3]? A war fought with just the two of us (3)

There was one immutable law when playing this kind of game.

If you rely on luck too much, your strategy would eventually fail someday.

Let’s take an example.

Assuming there was a magic spell that killed an enemy with a 50% chance of a lethal strike.

If you trust only the performance of the magic spell and proceed with the game, will you be able to proceed to the ending?

For a while, luckily, the magic continued to hit, and you may have been able to easily proceed with the game.

But at some point, it was bound to miss. And at that point, it could be game over.

Whether it’s 1% or 99%, the odds will always betray the player.

Those aiming for a full clear should not rely on luck. The playthrough must be carried out in the realm of certainty.

Even though I knew that well, I continued to wield the Lucky Strike.

Right now, I thought it would be best to use this option I had opened in advance to the limit.

And this.. was the result.

0, 0, 0!

[You Are Doomed.. Rest In Peace.]

[??FUMBLE??]

I thought I would get this one day, and it turns out today was that day.

000.

The worst hand. Fumble.

Crush!

Immediately after the slot stopped, my left hand was crushed.

“..Urgh!”

I clenched my teeth and withstood the pain.

My entire left arm was completely destroyed. My bones pierce through flesh after being shattered, spurting blood.

It hurt so much that it felt like sparks were flying in front of my eyes.

This was the price of a fumble.

I, the attacker, will receive a ton of damage.

Sensing something strange, Evangeline pushed the golem that she was blocking and looked in my direction.

Soon, her face turned pale.

“S-sunbae! Your left hand!”

“Don’t make a fuss about it. I already had it coming.”

I took out an advanced HP potion with my right hand, tore off the stopper with my teeth, and poured it into my left arm.

Sizzle-

“Urgh..!”

A white steam rose from my left arm. The wounds healed and the bones glued together, accompanied by terrible pain. God, that hurts so bad.

First aid was given, but I could not use my left arm for a while. Taking a deep breath, I glanced at Evangeline.

“Buy some time for me, will ya? Just 10 seconds.”

“Are you sure 10 seconds is enough?! You should take a longer break..!”

“Our lives are in danger, I’m not taking a break for a little injury like this. Keep your guard up, they’re coming!”

Guooo-!

The five golems that had been chasing us charged at us.

“Damn it! Enough with this, you damned rock heads-!”

Evangeline gritted her teeth and blocked every single attack standing in front of me.

It must be very hard for her, but there was no helping it. Buy me a little more time, please.

I stretched out my right arm behind me and grabbed the long bag I was carrying on my back.

If I relied on my luck then I’d fail the playthrough. I knew that very well.

The reason why I swung my Lucky Strike around despite knowing that was simple.

‘Because I have a backup plan in case my luck betrays me!’

Flutter-!

I unpacked my bag.

– A long, thin, beautiful black long rifle was revealed.

‘There’s a reason why I forced myself to use Lucky Strike with my left hand even though I’m right-handed.’

I supported the barrel with my broken left hand and gripped the handle of the magic rifle with my right hand.

The buttstock was pressed against my right shoulder, put my eye and the sight aligned, crouched down, and took a single breath.

Then I pulled the trigger.

Bang-!

With a terrifying roar, I was thrown backward.

Flames exploded from the tip of the muzzle like firecrackers, and the magic bullet fired from the flames blew away the torso of the golem standing in front without leaving a trace.

Without stopping there, the magic bullet pierced the upper body of the monster behind it and then exploded the monster standing behind it from its chest to its head.

One shot, three kills.

It was because they were standing in a row, how lucky for me. Thanks to that, I was able to witness a pretty rare situation.

“....”

Evangeline, not understanding what had just happened, dropped her chin.

Even the remaining golems could not accept the current situation and stopped for a while.

“Wh-what was that just now?!”

After a few seconds, Evangeline finally shouted out loud. I answered her casually.

“The lottery ticket that I won. This is the second one.”

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The SSR magic rifle forged with the Magic Core of the Black Spider Queen.

The Black Queen.

It was supposed to be with Demian, but I brought it with me because of the urgent situation. I had to use all the overpowered options that could be used at this point.

‘I used the variable of Lucky Strike as much as possible with my left hand, which could be damaged, and then when I ran out of luck, I would use this gun to kill the remaining units.’

That was my strategy.

Magic rifles were a difficult weapon type to handle. It was sensitive and difficult to aim, so the accuracy rate dropped sharply as the distance from the enemy increased.

But if you shoot at an ultra-close range,

and if the opponent was the size of a golem,

Even for a character like me who had terrible stats and no shooting aptitude, the bullet would hit.

‘Being forced to serve in the military on Earth proved to be helpful at times like this.’

I wondered why I needed to learn how to shoot a gun, but thanks to that, even the weak body of this prince could manage to fire.

Boom-!

I straightened up and fired one more bullet. I hit only one this time.

I missed slightly, but it didn’t matter because half of the monster’s body was blown anyway.

‘Its recoil is at the level of a cannon.’

Not only my injured left arm, but my whole body screamed. If I use a weapon like this, I will have bruises all over his body.

‘I’m sorry, Demian..!’

The last golem tried to pounce on me, but Evangeline, who jumped in front of me, stabbed the monster with a spear and struck with a shield.

Thud!

I let out a long sigh when I saw the last monster fall.

“Sigh..”

My whole body throbbed as I caught the recoil of the rifle with my body.

My left arm seemed to be paralyzed, as I couldn’t feel anything, not even pain.

“I have a mountain of questions I want to ask, but I’ll ask just one.”

Evangeline, who approached me, asked with her exhausted face.

“What’s your plan now?”

“I told you already. We will kill them all.”

I gestured in the direction of the monsters’ main unit.

“We’ll return to the villa. That mansion has a few more ‘backup plans’ that I can still use.”

“In that collapsed mansion..?”

Evangeline looked in the direction of the villa along with me. It was not that far away. The problem was the swarm of golems still standing over there.

The boss golem I summoned had already been neutralized.

I saw enemy golems riding on top of the boss golem that had fallen to the ground.

They were tearing off the remaining armor of the boss golem and destroying the mana cores one by one.

“To return alive, we must kill them all here.”

If they come after us later, we will die before we reach Crossroad.

We have to see them end here.

At that time, as if they had sensed our gaze, the golems began to turn to us one by one.

Evangeline’s shoulders trembled as if the sight gave her goosebumps.

I looked at the Black Queen’s ammunition. It was a seven-shot magic rifle and two shots were used, so five bullets were left.

‘That’s more than enough.’

I nodded and started to walk forward. Toward the villa of the Earl, where the monsters were infested.

“Ah! Aaaah! I don’t even know anymore!”

Evangeline with her eyes teared up came close to me.

Now, the golem corps started slowly moving toward us, leaving the neutralized boss golem behind.

I opened the system window and displayed the skill list of the summoned boss monster.

I looked at the last skill among them.

This was the feature that caught my attention the most since I first summoned it.

“You’ve done well, buddy.”

I calmly gave the order.

“..Now self-destruct.”

At the same time as my words fell, one eye of the boss golem on the ground turned red.

Psssh..!The golems looked back at the boss golem as if they felt something unusual, but it was already too late.

Kaboom-!

Boom!

A grand explosion occurred with deafening explosions.

I leisurely watched the enormous pillar of fire rising, and Evangeline just stared, as if she had no energy left to be surprised anymore.

‘Excellent, giant steam golem. You have completed your mission.’

I praised the boss monster’s achievements in thought. Goodbye.

“Hopefully, they’re all dead with this explosion..”

I activated my [Map Creation] trait.

With a sense of scanning the whole area, a dotted map appeared in one corner of my field of vision. Alright, let’s see the number of enemies left.

“There are 14 left.”

I couldn’t confirm that because it was covered by smoke, but the map doesn’t lie.

Quickly counting the remaining monsters, I grabbed Evangeline and led her away.

“Let’s go before they come back to their senses, we must enter the villa.”

We started to run toward the villa. Both Evangeline and I were at our limits, but we approached the villa pretty quickly.

But it was at that moment.

Ziing-

Flash!

Red streaks of light flew through the thick smoke. Evangeline, who had wrapped her arms around me, parried the attack with her shield.

“The most troublesome one is still alive!”

“Well, it’s always like that. The assholes always live a long and healthy life.”

A magic crystal golem appeared in the raging smoke.

Its whole body was covered in soot, perhaps because it was swept away by the boss golem’s self-destruction, but it was functioning normally. Indeed, a defense stat that befits the name of a semi-boss.

“But it looks like his friend is dead.”

“What great news..!”

The other magic crystal golem was destroyed as it was rolling around the floor.

That was the one that killed our horse earlier. He was surely swept away by the explosion. Serves you right!

Boom! Ka-boom!

Ba-Boom!

We ran toward the villa while receiving the magic bombardment from the magic crystal golem. We’re almost there!

Crack-!

At that moment, Evangeline’s shield cracked with a sound like glass breaking.

Because it received too many attacks, its durability wore out. However, she continued to block the attacks with it and now it was really broken..

“Damn it..!”

A ray of red light followed.

Evangeline reluctantly blocked it with her cracked shield, and immediately after, her shield shattered, scattering its golden particles and fragments.

Crash-!

“Ugh-?!”

Evangeline brushed off the fragments from her left arm as she groaned while holding the cavalry spear in her right hand with both of her hands and lifting it over her head.

Streams of red light spilled over it.

Boom!

Kaboom!She blocked it with her weapon because she no longer had her shield.

A fair decision indeed. If it couldn’t be blocked then we’d die.

However, her cavalry spear was a weapon. It was not a defensive device.

If she kept getting attacked like this-

Crack.

It would inevitably receive damage.

Crash-!

And finally, even her cavalry spear shattered to pieces.

As for the beams of light pouring down after that, Evangeline wrapped around me and blocked them all with her body.

“Aaargh..!”“Evangeline!”

“I’m fine, hurry, to the villa..!”

The villa was right in front of me.

Almost lifting Evangeline, who was about to collapse after receiving the attack, I sprinted and threw myself through the back door of the villa. Crash!

Rolling into the building, we immediately pressed ourselves against the wall.

Crash-!

Boom! Ping!

The windows were shattered, and streaks of light continued to pour in.

The wall served as a temporary cover, but it won’t last long.

“Alright.. so as you planned, we’re here at the villa now..”

Evangeline, with a pale complexion, asked with difficulty as she pressed her hand over the injured area to stop the bleeding.

“You must have..a great plan..to overcome this..situation, right, Sunbae..?”

“You can count on me, Hubae.”

I smiled and put my hand in my inner pocket.

“I’m not a prince on a white horse..”

The inner pocket was connected to my inventory, and I took out what I was looking for from among the contents and held it in my hand.

“But I’m a decent scammer.”

What came out of my hand was a magic core.

This was the Standard Highest-grade magic core (SR) obtained from the last free exploration.

I tossed it toward the inside of the villa building.

And shouted.

“Summon!”

[Summoning Magic: Auto Defense Turret]

– All the required materials are prepared.

– The level of the summoned object will be the same level as its summoner. You may summon only one entity at a time.

– Please select the location you want to summon it.

I will use whatever is available.

I raised the corners of my lips and grinned.

Do you really think I will fall at a place like this, you goddamned monsters?

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