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Typically, monsters instinctively prioritize attacking the humans in front of them. Thus, the soldiers on the walls serve both as defenders and a kind of bait. This principle has allowed Crossroad to endure as humanity’s last line of defense. Intelligent monsters, capable of tactics, have tried various methods to destroy the city. They have targeted…

Boom! The mages’ magical barrage struck Cromwell with full force. Waves of colored magical energy spread out, melting and crushing Cromwell’s entire body. “Graah…!” Cromwell groaned and staggered backward, hit by the barrage of spells for the first time. “Now is our chance while her defenses are down!” I extended my arm and shouted. “Pour…

Wriggle, wriggle… The tentacles sprouting from the massive reindeer-like Cromwell pulsated. ‘It looks like the parasites we saw before.’ The tentacles resembled the zombie parasites that Rosetta had extracted and shown. It was as if these parasites were enlarged and attached haphazardly without any design considerations. Snap. Snap. At the same time, the giant teeth…

“Aaaahhh…!” A desperate scream erupted from the Flame Giant King’s mouth. The special concentrated zombie cure had pierced through its eye and lodged directly into its brain. The giant parasite inside, allergic to the cure, must have been in immense pain. Unable to withstand the concentrated cure, the gigantic parasite burst out from the Flame…

For a while, the battle proceeded smoothly in this manner. After passing through three “party halls,” there was the Crossfire Zone, followed by the ballista and archer squad, and then a very formidable new fortress wall. The zombie monsters that arrived first tenaciously endured, but eventually, after passing this long defensive line, they fell and…

It was still early dawn, the time when light and darkness switch, enveloping the world in a dim glow. Grrraaah! Gaaaah! The tide of corpses surged toward Crossroad. Under the dawn sky, the writhing bodies of the zombies appeared gray. The mass of zombies, swarming over the land, resembled a fluttering cloth or a cluster…

Cromwell was walking forward. ‘Huh…’ Using her bloated arms as forelegs, she crawled along the ground and noticed an ant colony crushed beneath her tree-like hand, pondering in a daze. ‘Where am I going?’ The fragments of her torn thoughts slowly entangled and stitched together. ‘Ah, right.’ To Crossroad. To the gateway of the mortal…

For the next two days, La Mancha and the griffons poured diluted cure over the heads of the zombie horde. At first, most of the zombies endured with little reaction, but as the cure application accumulated, changes began to appear. The zombies’ condition weakened, and the parasites controlling the hosts gradually lost their grip. The…

“What do you think will happen if we pour this cure on the zombie monsters… Is that what you were asking?” I nodded heavily, and Rosetta scribbled the cure recipe on the parchment on the desk and handed it to me. “I think, Your Highness, that we will need a substantial donation to our temple…

A moment later. “Huff, huff!” I wiped the sweat pouring down my face and surveyed the infected still blocking my path. “Seriously…! Huff, don’t make! Huff, me do close combat like this!” Even with a few crowns and several powers, my poor stamina had not improved at all! Nevertheless, I had enough ability to beat…