The Ruined World Was Mistaken for a Game-Chapter 80.1: Great War (4)

The Ruined World Was Mistaken for a Game-Chapter 80.1: Great War (4)

Translator: Dreamscribe
A dark night where the sunlight had disappeared.
The lights of the villages scattered across Arsilan went out one by one. Like a massive tsunami rolling in, it swallowed the villages whole, and the villages sank into the abyss. The lighthouse that had been scattering brilliant light was submerged in the black surface and lost its light.
However, they were by no means defeated.
The heroes gathered and somehow fulfilled their quota.
The port town closest to International City Marogo.
Under the Sea could no longer hold out.
"There's no end to it."
LifeHunter exhaled deeply.
The hundreds of traps set up over a long period had already been completely used up. Bombs were continuously supplied, and they barely managed to hold on, but with the city wall breached, it was only a matter of time before the port town Under the Sea vanished.
But they endured.
LifeHunter and his guild members took the lead and fulfilled the quota. Still, it was a great regret that this place would disappear.
“Hyung, it’s a shame. Fishing here was really fun.”
“I could’ve broken the record, too.”
“Isn’t second place still pretty good?”
At Jam-sik’s words, LifeHunter’s eyebrows twitched.
It had been a close call.
“First place was… well, technically they didn’t fish but dove to catch it….”
That’s what LifeHunter said. But in any case, it was hunting, so he acknowledged the result.
“Haha! Hyung, you’re practically first place.”
LifeHunter gave a faint smile at those words.
He looked at the statue in the center of the village. Statues were erected in the order of the largest fish caught. LifeHunter was the only one who had caught a big fish purely with fishing skill.
“That ship’s a shame, too. It was almost complete….”
“Mm.”
A massive ship was being built at the port’s shipyard.
Heroes from Europe brought blueprints from Earth and were constructing a giant sailing ship. People who used to make miniatures or learned woodworking as a hobby began gathering, and even university-level professors were fully mobilized to build the ship. They were edly writing a paper on the process.
“We’ll head to Marogo now!”
“LifeHunter nim! It was an honor to fight alongside you!”
“You were really amazing!”
Countless heroes gave their farewells to LifeHunter.
Thanks to LifeHunter and the knight-level commander dispatched from the Kingdom of Sillion leading excellently, they were able to complete the mission. The heroes and Arsilan people escaped to Marogo using the Hero’s Flower.
LifeHunter looked at the shipyard.
A few heroes were still clinging to the ship, continuing its construction. The sight was filled with quite a bit of romance.
“Hyung, aren’t you going?”
LifeHunter nodded.
“I’ll stall for a little longer. If this place falls, the enemies will definitely head to Marogo or Solis next.”
“You heard hyung, right?”
There was no need to ask.
All the hunters nodded and went right back into battle preparations. It went beyond following LifeHunter’s words, his words were their will itself.
Enemies began to infiltrate the village as if seeping through the broken wall.
At that moment, someone appeared using the Hero’s Flower. It was Luceren, Tia, and the Elves. They were all dressed in the attire and armor of the Kingdom of Sillion.
“This place is dangerous.”
“We heard a ship was under construction.”
LifeHunter headed to the shipyard with Luceren. The Elves created trees at every path to hinder the enemies’ advance.
Luceren and the Elves looked at the ship.
It was a large galleon.
The reason for building such a sailing ship was purely out of romance.
“We’ll fill in the lacking parts. Please tell us what’s needed.”
“O-oh! Then…”
As Luceren said that, the heroes became highly excited.
When the heroes pointed out the missing parts, Luceren and the Elves filled them in with wood.
The sight of trees growing on the large galleon overflowed with romance. The trees tangled around the masts, creating sails that shimmered in golden light. Branches extended and intertwined, and countless leaves filled the space, forming a giant sail.
“Get ready. The wave will crash in soon.”
At Luceren’s words, LifeHunter and the hunters immediately moved the cannons and cargo inside. The Elves helped as well. The cannons brought from Marogo had already been installed.
LifeHunter looked under the ship.
Luceren and the Elves looked at him and smiled before leaving the shipyard.
“It’s finished!”
“It looks way cooler, doesn’t it? Glowing trees instead of sails!”
“Elvens Galleon! Whoa!”
The heroes who had built the ship now looked as though they had no regrets left. As if something came to mind, they handed a captain’s hat to LifeHunter.
“I made this for fun, but it feels like it suits you perfectly, LifeHunter nim.”
LifeHunter took the captain’s hat.
“But… suddenly a wave…”
“Let’s wait and see.”
The heroes waited aboard the ship.
Tia, Luceren, and the Elves moved to the shore. As Tia reached out her hand, something began rising from the sea that had been filled with silence.
A race that lived deep in the sea of Arsilan.
Mermaids. The merfolk, who had been waiting for the right moment, saw Tia’s signal and their eyes lit up.
“Episode 2: Great War!”
Tia raised her hand toward the sky.
“Part 3: Wrath of the Sea!”
It was a bit childish, but Tia shouted with a bright smile. Despair was rising around them, but she didn’t lose her smile. If it meant she could save Arsilan, she could smile and die no matter how painful it was.
They would fight fiercely and die laughing.
That was the duty of Arsilan people when facing the Arsilan Saga.
It was a performance for the heroes who would grieve their deaths.
Paaaat!
The transmission device, emitting a pillar of light, shot up toward the sky. A massive tree growing from below wrapped around the transmission device and rose upward. The completed form looked like a lighthouse made of wood.
“Let’s go! We’ve got work to do!”
Tia and the Elves, having finished their part, moved to Solis via the Hero’s Flower.
The lighthouse did not shine over the sea. It shone upon the countless enemies surging toward International City Marogo. Enemies like massive siege weapons trying to bring down the walls, giant races as large as the walls themselves, flinched when they were struck by the light.
Even the heroes desperately defending the broken walls of Marogo, those fighting off enemies who had climbed over or invaded inside the walls, could see the light.
As the mermaids began swimming, the calm surface of the sea trembled violently. A massive wave surged and became a tsunami. Everyone at the shipyard was dumbstruck as they stared at the sight.
As if he expected it, LifeHunter put on the captain’s hat. Jam-sik took a cigar from his inventory and handed it to him.
It was one of Elvens’ products. Unlike in reality, the white smoke emitted from the cigar had the function of purifying the surrounding air.
"Set sail."
LifeHunter said, putting the cigar in his mouth and lighting it.
Pwooooooo!
The hunters pulled out horn pipes and blew them all at once. The sound echoed beyond the village and reached Marogo.
Kwagagaga!
The massive tsunami smashed the shipyard and pushed the ship forward.
“I-it’s moving!”
“Damn! To think I’d experience this firsthand.”
“Research… I must, I must study more!”
The professors who had been researching sailing ships in real life couldn’t help but be thrilled. They had already begun planning to bring university students in.
The mermaids continuously created waves from the sea, pushing the ship and increasing the size of the tsunami. Swimming alongside the ship, the mermaids gradually increased its speed.
Haebyul and UruBear, who were fighting fiercely on the walls of International City Marogo, could see the light stretching from Under the Sea.
As the sound of horn pipes rang out, the sound of something breaking followed.
A fierce tsunami was coming.
The sound of countless enemies being crushed by the wave brought immense exhilaration to the heroes.
The tsunami surged with incredible speed. It swept past the walls of International City Marogo, following only the light emitted by the lighthouse.
“Wow…”
At the majestic sight, Haebyul was left in a daze.
So was UruBear.
Graaaaah!
The giant race that had been advancing fell with their legs broken. The giants floundered in the wave and barely managed to get up. Even as they were pushed back by the wave, they desperately tried to approach the walls.
The siege weapons, which looked like massive elephants or rhinos, were no different.
And then it happened.
Following the light of the lighthouse, something appeared.
A large galleon.
It was a massive ship, like something straight out of a movie.
Haebyul, UruBear, and the heroes on the wall all had dazed expressions as they looked at the ship that suddenly appeared.
-Huh? Over there!
-A ship?
-What...
Even Haebyul’s viewers couldn’t keep up with what was unfolding in front of them.
The ship that had suddenly appeared sailed straight through the enemies heading toward the wall and then.
“Fire!”
Kwagagagaga!
A barrage of cannonballs burst out from both sides of the ship, blasting away all the nearby enemies.
“Wow! This is insane!”
-The romance is insane.
-You want naval battles? Just make an ocean on land!
-Ah, I wanna finish work and log in already!
-Now this is fantasy!
Haebyul and her viewers were in awe.
The heroes engaged in fierce combat on top of the wall raised their weapons and shouted in triumph. The ship kept firing as it moved along with the surging waves.
“We’re out of cannonballs…?”
Jam-sik flinched in surprise.
They had clearly run out of cannonballs, but after blinking, the storage was full again. Come to think of it, they’d fired at close range with massive explosions, yet the ship was fine. Even the damaged parts faded and filled back in.
Jam-sik blinked and looked closely at the empty spaces on the ship. Faint angelic figures were repairing the ship. They deployed barriers or poured cannonballs from their hands.
He made eye contact with one of the faint angelic figures.
Startled, Jam-sik opened his mouth.
“A-a-a-an angel…, there’s an angel!”
“What are you talking about?”
“Just reload already!”
The other hunters had no time to worry about anything outside of battle.
“Keep firing!”
At LifeHunter’s command, Jam-sik resumed loading cannonballs and firing without rest.
“Now I can die without regrets!”
“No, we have to keep researching!”
“That’s right! Hahaha!”
The heroes who built the ship laughed heartily, and the hunters laughed along with them. The light of Marogo didn’t go out.
“Kyaaaah!”
“So cool!”
The trainees who were evaluated as aces while performing missions also all screamed together.
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Chapter 80.1: Great War (4)