Duck Bomb Build

Current time: 11 PM.

The Snow Mage, who taught me the build, said he had things to do and left first.

Chloe, who helped me with my experiment, did the same.

Left alone like that, I headed back to the capital city.

That’s when it happened. Along with the unique notification sound that a 1:1 message had arrived, a familiar nickname popped up in front of me.

Jupiter-[Oh, Blood Demon King-isiyeo!]

Right after the maintenance ended, she was showing as offline, but it looks like she’s trying to connect now.

I thought of Jupiter-ssi in her school uniform and started typing a reply.

Yeon-i Princess-[Why?]

Jupiter-[Is there nothing more you can teach me today?]

I chuckled softly as I read Jupiter-ssi’s message.

She was having such a hard time back then, but now she’s the one sending me messages first.

Yeon-i Princess-[Weren’t you saying it was tough?]

Jupiter-[To achieve greater skill, one must not shy away from any trial. That is who I am, Jupiter, the Knight of Light!]

That’s a pretty good answer.

I nodded and wrote down the coordinates of where I was for Jupiter-ssi.

Looks like I won’t be able to sleep tonight.

How can I leave first when a kid who wants to learn from me is showing this much determination?

I can just catch up on sleep at school.

Tag-dak- tag-dak!

I waited for about five minutes like that.

The sound of small hooves could be heard from afar.

A brilliantly shining radiance.

Plate mail that focused more on comfortable movement than defense.

The small girl, adorned with all of that, was riding a pure white foal, the same color as her hair, and running towards me.

“Oh, Blood Demon King-isiyeo!”

As Jupiter-ssi got closer, she jumped off her white foal and landed on the ground.

While I was admiring her light and agile movements, I noticed the pure white angel wings spread out behind her.

I frowned at the sight.

“Jupiter.”

“Where are you thinking of going today?”

“Wings.”

I didn’t answer Jupiter-ssi’s question and pointed to the wings spread out behind her.

As I said before, the more weird attachments a tank has covering their body, the harder it is for the rest of the party or raid members.

Jupiter-ssi looked like she realized her mistake and deactivated the angel wings she was wearing.

Ppyong-

“I-Is it okay now?”

“Yeah.”

“Ahem… Sorry about that.”

“Knowing is enough. You’re not allowed to wear wings when you’re with me from now on. Got it?”

“Understood…”

“Especially don’t wear them in town.”

“…In town? But you were clearly saying it was because of the danger in dungeons…”

“Just don’t do it if I tell you not to.”

“Ah, understood…”

I shook my head at Jupiter-ssi with a firm expression.

It definitely wasn’t because Jupiter-ssi was getting more attention than me because she was wearing wings.

If she wore wings all the time, she might get too used to it and accidentally wear them when going to dungeons.

“S-So, where are we going today?”

“Today…”

At Jupiter-ssi’s words, I thought of various dungeons.

I had farmed all the special Transcendence Stones with Jupiter-ssi on the first day, so this time I had to choose a farming spot just to earn gold.

“Hmm…”

The place that was decided on was [Volcanic Cave], which I had raided with the Snow Mage in the past.

Due to the hot and annoying dungeon environment, the market prices for the various material items that came out of it were always high.

“We’re going to Volcanic Cave this time.”

“Volcanic Cave…?”

“Yeah, we went there yesterday. That hot and sweaty place.”

“Ah, Aaaack…!”

At my words, Jupiter-ssi seemed to recall yesterday’s memories and shuddered, making a bitter face.

“C-Could we go somewhere else? That place is too hot… My body gets full of sweat and it’s sticky…”

“But the materials that come out of there are expensive, you know?”

“The materials are expensive…? Are you perhaps aiming for gold?”

“No, it’s for your training. Don’t you want to be a great paladin? Don’t you want to be a shield for your teammates that never breaks, no matter the crisis?”

“A shield for my teammates…”

“Yeah. A shield for your teammates.”

Jupiter-ssi nodded, looking tempted by my words.

“I’ll go.”

“Good choice. You should buy a bunch of handkerchief items at the auction house. We’re going to be stuck there for six hours today.”

“Six hours…?”

“Why? Is there a problem?”

“Oh, Blood Demon King-isiyeo… I need to sleep to go to school.”

“You can just sleep when you get to school, right?”

“Sleep at school…?”

“Yeah.”

“Isn’t school a sacred place for studying…?”

“A sacred place? School is?”

At Jupiter-ssi’s words, I realized that she had no experience going to school.

What kind of life has this little girl been living?

She probably hasn’t even tried the delicious bread sold at the school store.

“You’re good at studying, right?”

“Well… I have a private tutor…”

“So it’ll be okay if you sleep. The stuff they teach at school is probably boring anyway?”

“R-Really? School is a place where you can sleep?”

“Yeah, when have you ever seen me lie?”

Jupiter-ssi opened her mouth blankly at my words.

I had never lied to Jupiter-ssi even once.

“I see… There was something I didn’t know.”

Jupiter-ssi nodded, her eyes sparkling as if she had realized something.

Looking at her pure white head shaking in front of me, I unconsciously wanted to reach out and stroke it.

I barely managed to turn my gaze away and said,

“Let’s move to the dungeon for now.”

“Understood. Come here, Rupellius!”

Jupiter-ssi nodded at my words and called her foal.

The white foal, which had been grazing nearby, responded to its owner’s call and approached with an elegant gait.

Ttok-gak- ttok-gak-

That was the moment.

A hostile gaze was detected in my always sensitive senses.

Hostility. Hatred, anger, disgust, fear.

A gaze mixed with all sorts of negative emotions.

It was a gaze I had felt before.

While recalling vague memories, I grabbed the staff I had slung behind my back.

It’s like I remember it, but I don’t.

Where have I felt this gaze before?

It’s definitely recent. It hasn’t been long.

That moment.

Taang-!

A huge gunshot that shook the air was heard.

It was definitely an attack from an archer, a sniper who had raised their musket tier.

The moment I recognized the attack and the sound, my body was already moving.

But this body, Yeon-i Princess, was not a body I was familiar with.

99 percent of the time I play Deron is limited to my main character, Yeon.

Naturally, I was bound to be familiar with moving that body.

Could that be why?

I couldn’t perfectly evade the snipe aimed at me.

Pwyuk-!

“Ugh…”

A huge impact was felt on my right shoulder.

The impact caused the weak mage’s body to slump to the ground.

“Blood Demon King!”

“It’s an enemy sniper. Protect me.”

“A-Alright!”

Jupiter-ssi seemed unfamiliar with this situation and panicked as she got off her horse and blocked me.

I drank a potion and said to Jupiter-ssi.

“The enemy’s attack came from the forest on the right.”

“The right… Understood!”

Taang-!

The moment Jupiter-ssi finished answering, another gunshot was heard.

But this time, the bullet was blocked by the large shield that Jupiter-ssi had pulled out.

Tung-!

“You cowardly bastards! Where are you hiding! Why don’t you come out already!”

Jupiter-ssi roared in the direction the snipe had come from.

Her fierce appearance looked like a puppy desperately resisting to protect its home.

I bit my lip.

I perfectly recognized both the direction and timing of the attack.

But my body wouldn’t cooperate.

If it had been my Yeon character instead of Yeon-i Princess, I wouldn’t have been injured in the shoulder.

I checked my slowly recovering health and started summoning duck quacking dolls on the ground.

Kwak-kwak!

“Blood Demon King…?”

“Don’t worry about this.”

“B-But there’s a duck sound coming from behind…!”

“I made them. So don’t worry about it and just block the front.”

“Understood…!”

Kwak-kwak!

The total number of ducks summoned by consuming all my mana was 30.

The ducks, walking diligently on the ground, were waiting for my command.

But the work wasn’t finished yet.

I drank a mana potion and used the next skill.

[Magitech Mine!]

I don’t know how many enemies there are.

I couldn’t simply conclude that it was a lone sniper attack.

There will be more enemies.

I’m moving with that assumption.

The number of summoned Magitech Mines was exactly 30, matching the number of duck quacking dolls.

I attached the Magitech Mines to the backs of the ducks.

“Go!”

Kwak-kwak!

I released the 30 ducks in all directions.

The ducks’ duration is short. And they’re slow.

I wasn’t planning on using the ducks to find the enemies’ locations.

I just needed hands to install Magitech Mines at a distance for me.

As I expected, the 30 ducks, waddling around, scattered Magitech Mines in all directions and disappeared.

“O-Oh, Blood Demon King-isiyeo. What was that just now…?”

“There might be assassins too. Just in case.”

Since I couldn’t move around and install Magitech Mines myself, I entrusted the installation to the ducks.

The build that the Snow Mage created seemed to be more specialized for PVP than I thought.

Taang-!

At that moment, another gunshot was heard.

This time, it was from the back, not the front.

But before I could even react, Jupiter-ssi turned around and blocked me.

Piiing!

A quickly swung holy sword.

The sword, wrapped in that brilliant light, cut off the blue flash in one stroke.

I widened my eyes at the sight.

The fact that Jupiter-ssi could react at this speed meant that she had started using her talent.

“Oh, Blood Demon King-isiyeo.”

“You…?”

“Use the return stone right now.”

“What about you?”

Jupiter-ssi didn’t answer.

She just raised her sword and shield, her eyes shining as if to protect me.

The reason Jupiter-ssi could react to the snipe was because she had a similar talent to me.

But the time she can react to the snipe is at most about a minute.

After that time passes, Jupiter-ssi will collapse on the floor like melted mochi.

“A shield that protects teammates. That is a paladin.”

I bit my lip at Jupiter-ssi’s words.

Death in Deron is very light.

There’s just a small penalty, and even that can be shaken off in an instant by paying gold.

As Jupiter-ssi said, if I used the return stone and waited in the capital city, the dead Jupiter-ssi would respawn at the resurrection point.

But.

My pride is hurt.

There’s no way I can run away with my tail between my legs from someone whose identity I don’t know.

Kwak-kwak!

I summoned duck quacking dolls once again.