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Case 125: Cluster shells are the best shells.
🕑 Added 2023-11-14 11:35:21 +0000 UTCThe back of Miracle - a certified loli trotting towards a sea of zombies certainly doesn't look reliable. But right then, she jumps to an unbelievable height with her little legs and her body begins to shine.
Her body swells rapidly, growing larger by the second, in order, two wings, a tail, and a long head spurt out. Before long, in the sky is a majestic blue dragon.
ROARRR
She lets out a deafening scream, which is most definitely unnecessary because none of the zombies is affected at all. Talk about zombies, from the look of it, one gate can summon multiple zombies, and with the mind-boggling number of gates and the fact that the zombies are heading toward the cat-kin territory behind us...
''Don't let a single one pass the borderline!'' Bald Saint shouts. ''Fire Festival!''
You don't have to shout the skill name, you know?
''Blizzard!'' Fox Saint adds.
Okay, you do you, I guess.
From beneath the massive army of zombies, an intense red light bursts forth. It dyes the entire atmosphere around the slow-moving zombies, creating a dome of sorts that covers about one-third of them.
Hundreds of fireballs appear inside the dome, they then quickly accelerate to near-bullet speed and fly in all directions, some hit the zombies and burn them to a crisp, and the rest bounce off the interior of the dome continuously until they can hit their targets.
In another area, the opposite is happening. The blue sky has turned gray, and there's an intense blizzard blowing, freezing hapless corpses in place.
To add to the blizzard, our trusty loli Miracle unleashes her icy breath on the frozen zombies, making the already fragile corpses even more brittle, so brittle that they snap from the wind like potato chips.
Even with all of that, the number of zombies doesn't seem to decrease one bit, they keep coming out of the gate one after another, in fact, I think there's more of them now. And we still have an entire area untouched as well.
''Let them handle those areas, we'll start shooting!'' I shout while loading the cluster shells into multiple Saiga-12 magazines with telekinesis.
My fiancés by this point have already finished loading their guns with explosive shells and shooting wantonly, killing off the closest ones to us.
Because I made these Saiga-12 cluster shells with the aim of bombing my enemies from above, the pellets won't fly in a curve, not at this short distance, at least, but in a straight line.
So I fly up above the advancing zombies and aim my gun down.
BANG
Ten pellets shoot out of the barrel following a relatively smooth bang, well, this gun wasn't exactly loud, to begin with.
snap
I snap my finger, detonating the mini-Gungnirs scattered across the sea of moving corpses. Immediately, I see blue light flicker in the crowd before the fire bursts out, exploding the zombies into the sky along with an obscene amount of dirt and body parts.
Fortunately, I didn't forget to put on a sound barrier, both for me and my party... Huh? Why is the loli looking at me nervously like that?
But anyway, my little firework has taken care of most zombies in the area already, but the gates have not closed yet.
Let's do an experiment.
I aim my gun at the gates area and then pull the trigger.
BANG
snap
Another dozen massive blue explosions erupt, startling the poor loli flying nearby.
''Woohoo~''
It's so satisfying blowing up stuff like this.
Now, let's see them gates... Oh? There are fewer of them now...! As expected of my amazing explosives, nothing can stand against-
''Hm?''
Oh, wait, they're actually decreasing on their own. Nevermind.
It's almost over, then. Let's just clean them up and go home. I suddenly want some yogurt... No, not that yogurt, although I do like it.
BANG BANG
I shoot two more shells at the remaining zombies and immediately detonate them, sending even more flesh, bones, and charred dirt into the air.
Alright, I can probably leave the remaining few thousand for my party.
''Hgn~'' I stretch out, looking at the absolute wasteland that used to be a beautiful snowfield before my eyes. ''Beautiful.''
So I fly down to regroup with my comrades after admiring my work, and they seem to be having a lot of fun, especially the dual-wielding Liana and the rapid sniper Anna.
''Good work, you guys~'' I greet cheerfully, earning nods from them.
''It's quite underwhelming indeed.'' Bald Saint strokes his beard, looking at his fire dome calmly.
''True. This is not exciting at all.'' Fox Saint adds.
At least be grateful that there's nothing like the Leviathan here.
''Huh?''
Glancing to the side, I see three more dragons, one blue, one red, and one green flying toward our general direction from the range. Well, damn, they're much bigger than Miracle, huh.
Miracle herself is still enthusiastically cleaning up the zombies but clearly seems to be aware of the three dragons.
Eventually, they all land in front of us with their enormous bodies, blocking the battle scene and casting shadows on us. Based on their mana alone, I'd say they're pretty damn strong. I don't know if I can even beat them one-on-one without using my weapons. They must be in quite high positions, huh, like elders or something.
''EXPLAIN YOURSELF.'' The green one grumbles in a dignified, low voice.
Because of the rather loud and sudden grumble, nearly all of us are frowning right now. Especially Bald Saint, he seems seriously pissed, holding his ears.
''Explain my ass. Stop trying to sound cool and morph down.'' He cusses.
''THIS ARROGANT BASTARD-''
''Shut up and morph down!'' He cuts the red one's sentence and nearly shouts.
Jesus, I've never seen him this mad before, just look at how much mana he's drawing out.
'''' ... ''''
After a brief silence of Bald Saint staring the dragons down, they eventually give in. Bald Saint turns to us with a sigh while the dragons are transforming their body.
''Sorry for that. I seriously hate loud noises.'' He says.
''No problem. You made it easier for us.'' I reply with a smile.
I'll have to teach him the sound barrier later, apparently, it's hard, but I think he can do it.
Before long, standing in front of us are not fat lizards but three men who all look to be in their thirties. Them reducing their sizes like that also reveals the battle scene again, and it seems like Miracle cleared all the remaining zombies already. What a good girl.
Talk about Miracle, she's already back here before I know it.
''Papa~!'' She turns into a loli again and runs up to the man with blue hair.
''You've done well, my daughter.'' He strokes the grinning loli's head. ''Now, tell me who these intruders are-''
BOOM
'''' !!! ''''
Suddenly, a blast of dark mana hits us... Again. Just how many tricks does the evil goddess have??
Purple light shines brightly from the hundreds of thousands of corpses we've blown apart, the body parts to be exact, then they float up into the sky and clump together to form a giant ball of flesh and bone.
The sight is absolutely disgusting, and before I can even pull out anything, four ginormous limbs spurt out of the ball, and the amalgamation quickly turns into a humanoid shape, just, without the head. Even then, its height must be higher than our castle, which is more than 150 meters, mind you.
''What in the hell...?!'' One of the dragons exclaims.
BOOM
The giant takes a step toward us, stomping the ground so hard that even the land we're standing on shakes violently.
Stupid idiot, you think making the zombie even bigger is going to stop me? This ain't near civilians anymore, bud.
So I pull out my Hecate and, hm, how many should I do... Let's go with four Gungnirs first.
