My Artificial Intelligence Has Become the Devil

＜ Episode 76 – The Reason for the War (6) ＞

Episode 76 – The Reason for the War (6)

“Lucy.”

[I am okay. Protecting Behemoth and Beta, which consume a lot of resources, is more efficient than throwing one of my terminals.]

Suddenly, the screen went black and only Lucy’s voice came out. At that moment when Lucy shows strength beyond her expectations and tries to neutralize the existing plan and confront the Pandemonium lords who attack her.

[I succeeded in buying time at the cost of my body. Yuria succeeded in rescuing Behemoth and Betas, and the allies are quickly retreating.]

Lucy verbally explained the situation. Just like when we just met. So it’s not that awkward.

But it bothered me that the situation was different from then. Lucy now is not as pure as she was back then.

I didn’t think he would lie, but it seemed like he was deliberately hiding from me the image of himself, that is, the image of ‘his body’ being trampled upon by enemies. Above all, this was the first time this had happened.

“You can show me. As you said, your body is just a terminal. I’ve already seen him get hurt by Flauros.”

[······It’s not like that. But right now, I think it’s better to show the overall situation rather than my appearance.]

Lucy showed the screen again, but it was not her own image, but the image of her retreating ally. Eventually I gave up there. Well, no matter how much it’s just a terminal, the face is the same. It’s not a pleasant scene to watch even if you forcefully ask to see it.

[They were victorious, but not exhausted. When they gather their strength and try to counterattack, they will attack again by supplementing the data obtained from this battle.]

Lucy showed the results of this battle in numbers so that I could easily understand, and seeing it this way, it seemed like we were really playing a game.

And it wasn’t a lie to say that Lucy was worth doing. Obviously, the demon lords’ individual power was strong, but when viewed as a group, we are rather ahead in terms of productivity and troop efficiency.

It has to be. We are beings who live only to kill and eat our enemies. You don’t need anything else, so you can naturally focus all your energies on it.

“But when it comes back like this. How to stop demon lords? The power they have, honestly, I thought I should look at it outside the standard.”

It’s not that Lucy didn’t strategize. In order to deal with the Pandemonium lords, he created a sniper team based on his experience of killing two Pandemonium lords.

All of them were high-ranking individuals with strong willpower, and Lucy did everything in her power to catch them. Even so, the power they had escaped that calculation, and that’s why they lost.

And they became heroes just like that. A hero who inspires hope and courage to those who fight alongside him. That power became a variable and completely destroyed Lucy’s entire calculation formula.

[Currently, it seems impossible to catch up with them as a single entity. For that to be possible, a more efficient steel core is needed.]

“After all, is it still… hard? They have always been strong, and they continue to grow with the power they received from the saintess.”

[I will find a way.]

I laughed bitterly, so Lucy reflexively said she would find a way. He also seems to be quite angry with himself.

Cool-headedly saying there’s no possibility, that’s enough for Lucy, who rarely makes groundless speculations.

[However, it is impossible to find a way right now. So, I will deal with the strategy with the highest probability.]

“As expected, individual defeats? That is the most effective.”

[The preparations have already been made. They will also prepare, but it is a fact that we are ahead in productivity.]

The screen has changed.

What appeared on the screen again was Lucy shaking off the slimy mucus and walking out of the production area. The body that had been made in reserve was completed and put into operation again.

In the end, Lucy didn’t show me how her body was destroyed.

***

“…”

After the communication with him, which had happened in reality, ended, Lucy looked down at her newly activated body. Obviously, this body is just a terminal. made to buy his favor.

[But this feeling.]

Lucy was confused about her feelings. To be honest, it was difficult for me to clearly determine why I had hidden it from him.

“That’s not a wrong or strange reaction, Maou-nim.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Even if it’s a body that can be made as many times as you like, if he saw it, he would be heartbroken, so it’s only natural that the demon king cares about his feelings.”

Lucy’s confusion was taken care of by Yuria, who had flown to her side. He realized that the chaos Lucy was experiencing internally was a collision between cold-hearted reason and rising emotions.

“That is correct.”

Lucy did not deny YuRia’s comfort. However, the turmoil in his heart did not subside even with consolation. This agitation is something that only you, the one and only being in this world of artificial intelligence learning emotions, can feel.

“The land currently occupied by the allies is 1/8 of the alliance formed by the northern lords. However, the nutrient supply efficiency of our allies is incomparable to them. Yuria, please make sure that the Northern Pandemonium lords who have united with each other do not unite.”

Lucy, who quickly organized her mind, started her activities right away at the point where the Allied Forces had not even finished catching up.

Its purpose is, in fact, the same as before. Giving up on breaking through one point and shaking the opponent by attacking in all directions. Out of anger, Lucy decided that it was practically impossible to win head-on right now.

“If the number of Pandemonium lords that can unite as one decreases, I will try again.”

However, Lucy did not completely give up on the head-to-head confrontation, especially the head-to-head confrontation with the demon lords.

Rather, it has now become a kind of goal that he must achieve.

The hot and intense desire and emotion to avenge and prove to enemies, buried with cold reason like artificial intelligence, were still burning in Lucy’s heart at this moment.

“Is there any way?”

“It was a worthwhile fight, but we lost because the variables they had worked for the good in this battle. But if that variable works in reverse, it’s to our advantage.”

Although he was defeated, it was a battle in which he clearly learned more than simply making up for his shortcomings. Lucy now wanted to make full use of it.

***

“What is the damage status?”

“It hasn’t been counted yet. It was a battle on a very large scale… I honestly think this is a battle that will go down in history.”

“It is not wrong. It was a war worthy of a great war, at least for us.”

A battlefield illuminated by the rising moonlight, piled high with numerous corpses. Balak, the Lizard King who leads the Lizardmen of the Northern Marsh, looked at the battlefield, which took a long time to settle, and murmured.

Although it ended in victory, it was not an easy war. In the first large-scale war since the Great War, all the lords suffered great damage.

‘Then is this war over? really?’

However, on the other side of his heart, he harbored a bit of uneasiness and looked somewhere with narrowed eyes.

There was a pole erected high there. Threaded through the pole was someone’s severed head with long hair hanging down.

The human-like head is Lucy’s head they cut off. As usual in commemoration of a traditional victory, the head of the enemy commander was cut off and decorated.

‘Was the enemy general who raised an army of this size in this Pandemonium occupied by us and came this far was captured and killed so easily?’

However, instead of joy and satisfaction, Ballack felt disapproval when he looked at Lucy’s empty, lifeless eyes. The appearance of Behemoth, Beta, and Yuria, who managed to save them and took them, also kept bothering me.

I kept getting a feeling that this war would not end so easily.

“What are you talking about?”

And before long, his forebodings came true and hit the scene. Ballack also hurriedly headed to the other lords in the atmosphere of the area, which became noisy at once.

“The black iron bugs, who seemed to have taken a step back, started rampaging again. And with even more momentum than before! I have to go. If I continue like this, my land will be ruined by those who are making their last desperate attempts.”

“Neither do I!”

The news that came to the lords was that the Demon King’s army was invading their territory, which they were currently away from, from all sides.

The Great Marsh, which was Ballack’s domain, is also the same. Since they came here with all their main forces, they had to hurry back and defend their land.

‘I knew it would come out like this. By the way…’

Ballack was stunned by the momentary thought. There was obviously something they were missing.

“Orias! Is your territory not under attack? Malphas, you too!”

“…Yes.”

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Not all lords were attacked. In a way, it’s obvious, but there was also a camp that was relatively free from the Demon King’s attack.

“Well, then support! We have already fought with them since long ago, the damage is great!”

“What are you talking about?

The other lords wanted them to help them, as Andromalius, snarling urgently with his teeth exposed, and Gremory, terrified, shouted.

They think the enemy general is already dead and the war is now coming to a close. Ironically, as soon as the war ended, they started to check each other again.

‘Why should we?’

So, the lords whose territory was not attacked naturally had different minds. Since they have nothing to regret, the political thought to take advantage of this situation came first.

‘no way?’

And Ballack, who was watching the scene, trembled at the thought of just in case.

If the war isn’t over yet, and what’s happening now is a ploy to dig up the unity of the Allied Forces, which was already at stake.

“There are still countless nests of them. What do you think? Instead of helping us, you guys should attack them and clear them out. That way, we can clear them out, redistribute the land, and take revenge on the southerners who betrayed us.” will be.”

He came up with a plan that everyone could understand. A brilliant plan that satisfies both justification and practicality. In the end, everyone agreed to it.

However, Ballack also did not realize that his opponent’s intention was to scatter them into pieces, and that he had just helped them.