Chapter 103
Chapter 103
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 103
Chapter Title: Isekai Destruction Gallery
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“No!”
Everything had seemed to be going smoothly.
Under Judak’s command, the majority of the hidden magical beasts had been hunted down.
In the hopeless situation, Judak had become their eyes.
Just as hope grew for retaking the World Tree...
-Boom!
The drone exploded right in front of the frog variant magical beast.
A wave had occurred.
“Ahh...”
The drone was lost.
The elves’ only eyes were gone.
The elves watched the scene in despair, but fortunately snapped out of it quickly.
They immediately nocked their arrows and fired at the magical beasts crawling out of the rift.
The moment they were most vulnerable, their positions fully exposed—that was their last hope.
-Ting!
“Huh?”
Until the arrow fell powerlessly before a transparent barrier.
“Melang, use magic!”
Eliana shouted at her vice-captain Melang, who looked utterly shocked.
Melang, the vice-captain well-versed in magic, cast a spell almost instantly, but...
-Kaboom!
“M-Magic doesn’t work either!”
Even magic was useless against that protective barrier.
It had converted the mana from the elves it had absorbed through the mist into a barrier.
Neither attacks nor observation were possible.
“W-What do we do...”
Eliana’s mind went blank.
-Whirrr.
A familiar wing-flapping sound came from somewhere.
When Eliana turned her head, something identical to Judak’s familiar from moments ago was flying.
“Huh?”
Didn’t it just explode?
*
Drones are cheap.
Incredibly so, and with great performance.
No fear, easy to control.
That’s why drones are used more than people in wars.
I approached near the World Tree again using a new drone.
-Gurgle!
A large variant magical beast stretched out its tongue, but this time I didn’t fall for it.
“Too slow.”
To me, now skilled with drones, that simple straight-line attack was easy to dodge.
[Notice: Elves Must Read (Revised Revised Revised Revised)]
Author: Judak*
31. (Bushes near World Tree roots gif)
32. (Camouflaged on World Tree trunk gif)
[Recommendations 9999+] [Disrecommendations 0]
- Kyah;
- Saw it in another post, what the hell is that thing flying around in the sky?
- Seems like Judak’s vision-sharing grand magic
- Isn’t it a familiar?
ㄴ Nah, familiars have emotions, they don’t do mindless acrobatics like that
ㄴ Didn’t seem alive to begin with
ㄴ Wasn’t Ground Explosion Mage researching magic golem operation?
ㄴ lololol they can barely move an arm, this one’s doing aerial stunts
ㄴ zl Ground Explosion Storm Mage) fml how
The variant magical beast was untouchable due to the barrier.
For now, I kept sharing the positions of the remaining regular magical beasts.
As a result, we succeeded in taking down most of them, but the situation hadn’t progressed much.
“In the end, we have to take that one down.”
It was obvious it wouldn’t resolve without killing the variant magical beast, the wave’s boss.
But time was the issue.
- Whoa, it’s already pushing right up to them
- Hate elves hate elves but this is seriously bad?
- Uh;
- How do you even stop that?
Even in war, there’s a standoff phase.
But since the variant appeared, there was no standoff.
With the empty World Tree as a base, there was no escaping the endlessly generated mist.
The mist soon grew larger, spreading as if to devour Elad Forest.
[Title: Eladrien Situation...jpg]
(City entrance fog encroachment gif)
(Magical beasts advancing near following the fog gif)
- Whoa it’s fucked
- For real, what now?
- Even non-elves couldn’t stop that, right?
- Fml they’re throwing everything at it
Eladrien was deep within the forest, hidden away.
Narrow entrance, plenty of hiding spots—truly the elves’ fortress.
But the mist neutralized it all.
They had no choice but to retreat helplessly, surrendering the entrance in an instant.
- But don’t the elves have guns?
ㄴ Oh
We’d given them mines and guns during the Great Elad Invasion before, but that was a problem too.
They could only temporarily block the advancing beasts.
[Title: Remember Us!]
(Elf knights with guns and swords gif)
(Approaching fog via back path gif)
(Elf thumbs-up meme)
In the end, they had no choice but to close in.
No matter the variant or barrier, they’d be powerless against guns.
Pulling out the guns saved as a last resort, the elves’ elite knights formed teams.
- (I’ll remember! Knight meme)
- X
- They’re really going in there?
ㄴ But what other option is there?
ㄴ Still, almost all will die fml;
A reckless suicide squad, no different from throwing their lives away, entered beyond the mist.
Among them, at the front, was my slave—no, my fully recovered elf.
I watched the elves disappear into the thick mist, then stood up.
Casually opening the packages piled in the corner of the room, I smiled.
“Alright, time for me to do my part.”
Opening the packages revealed countless drones.
Different from the previous ones in size and appearance.
They were all made for carrying heavy loads from the start.
[LMAMS]
[Rancher]
“Time to see the suicide drones in action.”
Not knowing much, I’d bought everything.
From war-use suicide drones to buying regular drones and explosives separately.
That’s the scary thing about drones.
As long as they can handle the payload, any drone can be a suicide drone.
Just load explosives onto any drone.
[Title: Aren’t They All Gonna Die?]
(Elf knights cornered gif)
Reposted gif, but it really looks over no matter how I see it...
Hated elves but this feels wrong
I took in the real-time posts while slowly picking up a drone.
[Item Safely Delivered!]
“Alright, let’s go.”
Time to test their performance.
*
“Shh, wait here.”
Eliana hurriedly crouched low behind fallen tree debris.
The following elves held their breath.
Each held a long sword and a gun.
Eliana peeked out briefly to gaze at the variant magical beast perched on the World Tree.
‘If it’s Judak’s magic, it’ll definitely work...’
The problem was landing a hit.
Countless frog-type magical beasts surrounded the variant like a formation.
Even if they shot, it was obvious they’d block for it.
She knew the gun’s power well, but it was strong against single targets.
So Eliana’s plan was simple.
“The vanguard will charge ahead and cut down the beasts. Aim for the variant.”
“...Understood!”
A surprise frontal assault.
Plus, she’d asked Judak for some grenades.
Brought them for the absolute last resort, to hug the variant with.
But every elf here knew.
‘Even if we miraculously take down the variant...’
The mist wouldn’t vanish right away.
They were holding out with mana for now, but it’d run out soon, and they’d fall asleep.
Falling asleep defenseless in the enemy camp—the outcome was obvious.
“We have to do this.”
But there was no other way.
No, no time to agonize.
Even now, as they thought, the mist was infiltrating Eladrien’s interior.
Eliana steadied her breath, then burst from the trees.
“Now!”
With Eliana’s shout, several elf knights burst out in a surprise attack.
-Bang!
They fired almost simultaneously, but unfortunately, no effect.
-Gurgle!
The beasts guarding the variant blocked with their bodies.
“Don’t stop!”
Eliana tossed grenades at the swarming variant beasts.
-Kaboom!
The grenades arced gracefully, turning a swath of beasts to ash.
But it wasn’t enough.
-Gurgle
-Gurgle gurgle
Others instantly filled the gaps.
The beasts from this wave hadn’t pushed into the kingdom.
They’d formed a nest around the variant, just protecting it.
-Slash, slash!
Even now, mana drained rapidly.
Eliana displayed near-acrobatic movements, slicing beasts in half.
The following elves closed the distance to the variant in an instant, but that was it.
“Captain, ahead...”
“Ugh...!”
Using overwhelming numbers, the beasts formed a living wall.
The breakthrough closed faster than expected.
‘No way out.’
Eliana racked her brain swiftly amid the mist and beasts.
But everywhere she looked was packed with beasts.
The moment she tried to think of a turnaround.
“Aaack!”
“Captain!”
The heads of the beasts blocking the front exploded.
Stunned by the sudden event, in that gap, the variant’s tongue shot like a blade.
The variant used its own beasts as fodder for the attack.
Eliana’s leg was sliced, and she collapsed in place.
“Eeeek...!”
Blood poured down her leg.
She gritted her teeth, propped herself up with her sword, but that was all.
The wound accelerated mana drain, and the mist thickened further.
‘Am I really dying like this?’
Everywhere she looked, only gruesome futures.
As death loomed clearly before Eliana’s eyes, her calm expression paled.
-Whirrr.
“Huh?”
A quiet, alien wing-flapping sound.
The drone that should’ve been flying above was now beside them.
“Steel fairy?”
No, it looked subtly different.
A bit larger, with something attached below.
It leisurely passed the elves, heading straight for the variant.
-Gurgle!
The variant reacted extremely sensitively to the drone.
All this time, big and small waves had been nullified by that one Judak.
Hadn’t the situation nearly resolved before the wave thanks to it?
It looked like mere scouting, but the variant didn’t let its guard down.
-Chomp!
A frog variant’s tongue shot swiftly, piercing the drone.
But that was the fatal mistake.
Just as Eliana’s face was about to twist in despair at another drone’s death.
- Judak*: Do NOT duck to avoid the explosion, absolutely
A notification appeared before her eyes.
“Absolutely...?”
Eliana blinked blankly, then urgently flattened herself to the ground.
“Duck!”
“!”
At Eliana’s cry, the seasoned elf knights all ducked.
In that instant, the drone flashed.
A brief flicker of light shimmered.
Then...
-KABOOOOOM!!!
A massive explosion rocked the earth.