Chapter 39
Chapter 39
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 39
Chapter Title: Monster Wave Breakdown
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**Title: Straight Talk on Monster Waves**
For all you destruction newbies rotting in your rooms, glued to the gallery and clueless about the outside world, here's the info.
1. Variant Waves
*(Twisted deer variant monster meme)*
*(The true dragon howls meme)*
This is the standard wave you're all familiar with.
A named or specific monster mutates, gets insanely strong, and rampages around smashing everything.
It's manageable enough to block.
The Elrad variants last time were this type.
2. Rift Waves
*(Massive monster horde army meme)*
*(Cities and lands burning, everyone dying meme)*
This one's straight-up a wave pouring out of a rift.
You can tell it's different just from the memes.
But if you stay calm and respond properly, you can... fuck, you can't respond at all.
If the scale gets even a bit bigger here, it's straight to Great War level, so just assume total annihilation ㅇㅇ
- lololol this guy's speeding like crazy, hilarious
- Shinmok Wiki source, thanks!
- Fact) It's a fact
- How many countries got wiped out in the Great War?
ㄴ Search it yourself, you got no hands or legs?
ㄴ Here's a Tuna Can for you
ㄴ Best guess, the countries left on the current continent number in the single digits if you're generous.
But according to history before the Great War, including small kingdoms and city-states, there were at least 20+ countries.
So currently, you can say 3/4 or more are gone. Estimated 21+ countries wiped.
ㄴ OK, got it, take this bartering goods
ㄴ Thanks teacher, blessings to you
ㄴ lololol damn Tuna Can works wonders
ㄴ Suddenly everyone's so polite lolol
ㄴ How do you even eat Tuna Can lmao
“And the monsters invading here are a variant wave, right?”
The same kind as the true dragon that appeared in Elrad last time.
Manageable, but if preparations are lacking, it could wipe out a small kingdom.
Wasn't the entire Kelton Kingdom destroyed because they couldn't fend off endless variant waves?
“But hey, we've got steel now...”
After investing steel in Kellirton, the forges had been burning non-stop for days.
Kellirton lacked molds for shaping weapons and the skill to refine them properly.
But that got solved easily too.
**Title: lol What Do You Think of My Steel Sword?**
*(Weapon forged from melted steel meme)*
*(Uneven, crude result meme)*
A bit disappointing, but whatever.
This is at least top-tier quality, right ㅇㅈ?
- What a fucking asshole
- This motherfucker?
ㄴ Poster) ? Why is everyone so mad ;(
ㄴ Refining is a joke to you?
ㄴ Making shit out of gold and calling it top-tier
ㄴ Wanna get hit top-tier style?
ㄴ This is an insult to blacksmiths
- To think that's all they could make with that quality of steel
ㄴ Why doesn't Judak give it to us!!!
ㄴ Brother, why torture us!!!
**Title: Dwarf Bros, Rate This.jpg**
*(Lumpy, uneven steel armor)*
*(Thick in some spots, thin in others steel shield)*
Be honest lol
This shit's seriously durable, right? lol
Honestly, I think it's tougher and stronger than dwarf-made weapons.
- *(Dwarf-made axe meme)*
ㄴ *(Dwarf-made armor and soldier meme)*
ㄴ Poster) Oh, comparing to my work?
ㄴ *(Dwarf weapon slicing a human-shaped wooden dummy in half meme)*
ㄴ I'll find you and make you like this
ㄴ Poster) .
He'd accidentally pissed off the dwarves.
To the dwarves, the flood of these "finished products" on the gallery was the ultimate insult.
- I could make better with my feet
- *(Screaming dwarf kon)*
The dwarves suffered all day looking at these pathetic armors.
In the end, they stepped up to refine the steel for humans for free.
- You filthy amateurs, I'll make it for you
- Me too, free of charge, just stop
ㄴ First time seeing dwarves this pissed ;
ㄴ More mad than when invaded by monsters
ㄴ Human refining skill = defeat from monster invasion
Thanks to that, in just a few short days, massive amounts of weapons and armor were produced.
By the time the monsters reached Kellirton's capital, preparations were fully complete.
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“Kee-eek!”
A heavy rain poured that evening.
The ghoul wave had begun.
- Ghoul shits came in a legit horde
- Can we win this?
- Knights have steel armor, so they should push them back somehow
Tough hides, overwhelming numbers.
Relentless persistence even after fatal wounds.
“Monsters are climbing up here!”
Monsters began scaling the walls one by one onto the high-stacked battlements.
“Kyaak!”
“T-This tough ghoul bastard!”
Puk, puk.
Three soldiers charged the first climber, thrusting spears and swords in.
But the ghoul wouldn't die easily and thrashed around, draining the soldiers' strength.
That was the ghoul's trickiest trait.
“Don't panic. Push them back calmly!”
Knight Alfred climbed the walls, commanding soldiers and slicing monsters.
At least two per swing.
A monstrous knight, but even he couldn't avoid gaps against sheer numbers.
“Knight! Behind you!”
“!”
A variant ghoul leading the pack appeared.
Claws sharp enough to shred human skin like paper.
Plus venom— even glancing wounds would surely kill.
“This is...!”
“Kee-eek!”
By the time Alfred noticed, the claws were inches from his helmet.
As Alfred squeezed his eyes shut, sensing death—
Klang!
“Kyaak!”
“Hm?”
A clear clang, and the variant ghoul's claws bent backward instead.
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**Title: I Did It All Again.jpg**
Poster: Alfred
*(Goat with a smiling beauty Judak meme)*
Saved my life again, goat...
Judak, you again?
- Draws memes like a pro lol
- Wtf why does this meme exist?
- So that's what Judak looks like irl?
ㄴ Gallery bait summed up into an imagined Judak
**Title: God**
*(Steel with a goat meme)*
Agh! So blinding!
- lololol Agh so blinding bullshit lol
- What meme is this? lolol
- How many variations are there lol
Results first: total victory.
The ghouls' teeth and claws couldn't pierce steel plates.
They'd expected a prolonged battle on the walls at first, but unable to breach the steel, they opened the gates and hunted ghouls instead.
**Quality Post) Kellirton Wave Update**
*(10 ghouls clinging to one knight meme)*
*(Knight grinning wide kon)*
Come on, scrape more~ Only hurts you guys lol
- lololol look at that happy face
- W-what is this
- Ghoulscreeeech!
ㄴ *(Monster coward kon)*
- So how tf did they win fr?
ㄴ 1. Put on steel armor
ㄴ 2. Pick up the monster
ㄴ ... 21. Monster dies as mincemeat
ㄴ ??
ㄴ Shockingly, it's a fact...
“They can't pierce it at all.”
Medieval tanks, basically.
Even a troll pounding might do something, but blades? No chance.
The knights' freakish strength played a part too.
**Title: Judak I Fucking Love You**
*(6mm thick steel armor)*
*(Fully armored knight thumbs-up meme)*
Kinda heavy, but defense is insane fr
Just went 1v1 with a troll and came back unscratched
- 6mm? Just quit being a knight
ㄴ Fr not even 1cm lololol
ㄴ Total noob
- That heavy?
ㄴ Fr Judak would sigh
ㄴ Shouldn't it be at least 1cm thick?
ㄴ Poster) Maybe, feels bad wasting Judak's steel ;
ㄴ Poster) Next time I'll train stamina and try 1cm ㅇㅇ
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- Judak☆) ? What to do
Standard armor thickness is 1.5mm.
The Great War + medieval combo madness left only the iron-bodied alive.
1.5mm? Why bother with armor?
Gotta be at least 1cm to be a knight lol
“Aaah, too scary.”
Plus, steel touched the knights' hearts.
No materials for weapons, always bare-bodied—their dreams captured perfectly.
After the Kellirton wave, the gallery exploded with steel armor bait.
- Rate my 2cm steel armor pls
- Big splurge on this large steel plate shield recently, stch?
- Dunno why, but feels good. Doesn't even hurt when hit, kinda pleasurable ㅇㅇ;
Full-body steel armor by dumping more steel in.
Even the idea that knight = someone who can move in steel armor was forming.
Kellirton seized the chance.
**Quality Post) Kellirton Knight Recruitment**
Poster: Lloyd
Gonna train knights with the massive steel investment.
Anyone qualified gets steel armor support and becomes a knight.
Pass the knight exam now, grab honor and wealth, feast on bribes and national salary till you die of old age!
Wow, knight! Wow, ironclad ricebowl!
Exam Process
1st – Stamina Test
2nd – Monster Sparring Test
3rd – Interview with Her Majesty
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- Steel armor if you become a knight?
- Let's crush the knight exam!!!!
- Can fatasses apply?
ㄴ Lloyd) Stamina to move in steel armor + decent skill is enough
- What's the 3rd interview?
ㄴ Lloyd) Light personality test
ㄴ How's the test done?
ㄴ Lol couldn't read between lines
ㄴ They check your gallog for queen-bashing lol
ㄴ Short version: No Judak/queen hate allowed ㅇㅇ
- Fuck yeah, guaranteed pass
- Steel armor? Hammer trial till I get it...
- !Ad! Come to our knight academy coached by real knights!
- @@@@ Become a knight! Academy taught by Adrian knight!!@@@@
“What the hell is this.”
The steel drop had massive ripple effects without much thought.
Steel supply was limited, and not just anyone could wear the weight.
Naturally distributed only to knights, sparking huge interest in knight exams.
- Adrian knight special lecture, just 100 gal!
- 100% pass knight exam secret, full refund on fail?
Felt like pre-possession Noryangjin in Korea.
Luckily, they'd beaten the monster wave, and Kellirton was starting to activate for real.
Knock knock knock.
“Are you in there!”
“Her Majesty's orders. If you're inside, come out for investigation.”
Someone knocked on my warehouse door.