My waist muscles screamed and my spine crackled, but that was all. Repeating this would likely result in either a slipped disc or torn muscles, but I didn''t care.
The mana coursing through my body coated my muscles and bones, making them harder, while the divine energy sleeping quietly in my chest wouldn''t allow even minor injuries, healing them naturally.
So I lifted the 6-meter cage with its bipedal elephant inside and heaved it at a slightly different angle. The cage''s iron bars clattered apart in mid-air as the magic released, dropping the second ogre through the opened space.
It sailed well over the wall, falling head-first a bit to the right of where the first ogre was having its tantrum.
The results were captured perfectly by Han Se-ah''s camera.
''This is quite convenient.''
"Wow, those ogre punches are brutal. They look like simple swings but with that weight class, they''re terrifying."
I thought they only went berserk when their health dropped, but could extreme anger trigger the pattern even before health loss?
The ogre''s muscles bulged bright red. After landing face-first and cracking its stiff neck, it took one look around before suddenly growing into a 10-meter giant.
The goblin infantry and orc javelin troops who had been preparing for humans scattered with shouts or screams when the ogre suddenly dropped in, but they were no match. Even I, born 6★, would be pushed back without getting close if hit by that thing - what chance did mere goblins have raising their shields?
Crack-!
Crunch-!
With each downward smash of its gorilla-like fists, goblins turned to mana stones, their armor and shields meaningless. The stones couldn''t even be seen - they must have been buried deep in the ground by the impact.
The muscular orc javelineers, bigger than goblins, fared no better. They tried to fight back, striding forward and throwing all sorts of bombs, but... a named monster wouldn''t fall to regular monster consumables. Like the goblins, they ended up buried deep in the earth.
"Huh? Why are they going berserk right after waking up? Dunno, maybe a bug? They were probably captured at low health triggering berserk mode, then healed while sleeping but the berserk buff remained. Extended buff and debuff turns are a classic RPG bug after all."
-That''s true lol lots of chaos from debuffs not disappearing
-That plague research paper from RPG games was also about debuffs not clearing
-Seems berserk state doesn''t end even after health recovers?
-lol BB Games probably never thought anyone would heal berserker ogres obviously lololol
-???: You''re saying players captured named monsters, healed them, then threw them at boss monsters? This report must be a joke
Unlike me watching beyond the walls through Han Se-ah''s camera and our party members monitoring through Charlotte''s familiar, the trainee commanders and others could only listen and imagine. No matter how they craned their necks, they couldn''t see past the 15-meter walls.
After the holy sword''s owner casually tossed those huge, terrifying giants over the walls like pebbles, shouts and screams and explosions rang out before someone lost their temper.
Just then an ogre''s kick knocked down part of the wall with a boom, drawing all curious eyes.
"How dare you throw such barbaric things at my masterpiece?!"
Beyond the fallen wall, ogres smashed barracks and warehouses, ignoring the shouts. Proving my concerns right, two ogres in the right corner were trading punches like UFC fighters in an all-out brawl.
True to the "Berserk" title, they showed no mercy even to their own kind.
And judging by the "masterpiece" comment, this elderly voice must belong to the floor 55 mid-boss dark mage. Seems he''s interested in military items like mines and bomb vests through alchemy, not just creating monsters.
"You dare call yourself a mage while ignoring the beauty of efficiency-?!"
Though he shouted and raved, his face remained hidden. He must be projecting his voice magically from somewhere in the distant fortress.
The funny part was his mana-charged shouts drew the ogres'' aggro to the fortress, except the two busy fighting each other. The halberd elites who had been pressing Ogre #2 visibly panicked as the giants with bulging veins charged en masse.
Of course they would struggle - they were already working hard to capture one by surrounding it, throwing chains, and jabbing with halberds from afar. Four rushing in together would be impossible to handle.
"Y-you uncouth barbarian! Your brutishness rivals these ogres you''ve thrown!"
"Your attempts at insults are so weak it''s making my tongue itch. Would it be too much to drop some... never mind. I really want to show this guy what real K-chat flame culture forged in the trenches looks like."
-He called Teacher Roland brutish like an ogre? Cut straight to the K-ogre level lololololololol
-But isn''t he stronger than ogres at this point?
-Saying games are a disease becomes 1200% more convincing when you show the chat fuck lololololol
-Just the people growling here prove it''s a disease lololololololol
So my only remaining task was throwing the last 4 ogres at that old man who still wouldn''t show his face.
"You son of a bitch! Stop! Stooop!"
Viewing the walls, barracks and warehouses through the camera from above, they seemed built with Tycoon-game precision, making it easy to choose where to throw the ogres.