Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 107

I absolutely didn’t want to retreat, but even she could see that the situation was already leaning towards defeat.

Nemitz’s judgment was correct.

They had to retreat before losing any more troops.

Green unleashed a fierce attack on the enemies to protect her retreating children. And she shouted to maintain formation.

“Maintain formation! Never break ranks!”

Maintaining formation was essential even during a retreat.

Otherwise, they could fall into chaos, lose control, and suffer near-total annihilation.

“Commander! The enemies are retreating!”

“They’re finally tucking their tails! Good! Push them harder! Don’t let a single one escape alive!”

Boooooo-ooooooo-ooooooo!!

The sound of victory trumpets echoed across the battlefield, and the soldiers roared with triumph, pushing the enemies with renewed courage. Victory was now within sight.

“Just a little more! Victory is at hand!”

“Waaaaaaaah!”

As the enemies began to retreat in an orderly fashion, Kang Chan grew increasingly anxious. He hadn’t yet avenged Jeina. He had to kill Green, even if it meant sacrificing his own life.

‘Where are you, you green witch?’

Having become unburdened, with no enemy Gigantes [giant warriors] or troll elves blocking his path, Kang Chan scanned his surroundings, searching for Green. Spotting Green in the sky, unleashing a fierce attack alongside the Spirit King, Kang Chan glared at her with murderous intent. But all he could do was glare.

He had no means to attack her in the sky.

The Elven Knight he was riding couldn’t fly like Zaid, and it wasn’t equipped with ranged weapons like railguns.

Then, Kang Chan conceived a plan and began pouring all his mana into the dagger in his right hand.

“Kuaaaaaah!”

Because Kang Chan was drawing in such a large amount of mana so rapidly, the Elven Knight’s mana furnace began to overheat as if it were about to melt down.

Soon, all the mana stored in the mana furnace began to concentrate on the dagger in his right hand.

Crack! Crackle!

As the condensed aura blade was compressed and compressed, discharge began to occur, and cracks started to appear on the Gigantes’ arm, which was reaching its limit.

However, Kang Chan didn’t care at all and focused even more fiercely on concentrating mana into the dagger.

When the compressed mana was about to explode, Kang Chan immediately threw the dagger at Green.

“Go!”

Phew-ooooooong!

The Elven Knight, having hurled the dagger, stopped dead in its tracks.

This was because all the mana stored in the mana furnace, the heart of the Gigantes, had been poured into that one strike.

The mana furnace, the heart of the Gigantes, had turned to stone.

That meant the death of the Gigantes.

The knights who had been watching Kang Chan’s reckless actions were so shocked by the sight of the Elven Knight that they nearly fainted.

Kang Chan had exchanged the life of a top-tier Gigantes for a single strike.

That was crazier than trading a dwarven-made treasure sword for taffy.

Because pouring magic power into the mana furnace cost an astronomical amount of money.

But Kang Chan didn’t care about the Gigantes.

Not if it meant he could kill Green.

The massive, three-meter-long dagger, brimming with highly compressed aura blade, flew towards Green in an instant.

Phoenix spotted the incoming dagger and quickly spread its massive wings to protect Green. But Kang Chan’s dagger pierced through Phoenix’s wings as if they were paper and grazed past Green’s side.

“Keeuk!”

“Kyaaaaak!”

A scream of pain erupted from both Green and Phoenix’s mouths simultaneously. And blood spurted like a fountain from Green’s shoulder.

It was clearly a critical wound that could be life-threatening if not treated quickly.

Phoenix, whose wings had been pierced by Kang Chan’s aura blade, was also filled with pain.

The power of the aura blade, unleashed at the cost of abandoning the Gigantes, was immense.

But Phoenix wasn’t one to back down that easily.

However, when Green lost consciousness and became unable to fight, Phoenix had no choice but to grab Green and hastily flee the battlefield.

As Phoenix carried Green away from the battlefield, Kang Chan tore apart the Elven Knight’s armor with his aura blade and jumped out.

As soon as Kang Chan jumped out, he checked to see if Green was dead or alive.

His eyes caught sight of Phoenix’s tail as it frantically fled.

The fact that Phoenix was no longer attacking and was running away meant that Green must have been seriously injured.

But since he still couldn’t tell if she was dead or alive, Kang Chan kicked the ground nervously and cursed.

“Damn it!”

Then, a warning sound came from Kang Chan’s computer.

-Beep! Beep! High-energy reaction in space. Garipza cannon! Evacuate!

“What?!”

Kang Chan was startled by the computer’s sudden mention of a Garipza cannon and looked up at the sky.

His expression instantly changed to one of disbelief.

‘N, no way! Has the Space Federation army already arrived? Impossible!’

According to Kang Chan’s calculations, it would take at least 20 years for the Earthlings to arrive.

That was only if the artificial satellite that the Red Mars ship had deployed to establish warp drive coordinates was functioning properly.

There was no way they could have arrived already.

Kang Chan considered two possibilities.

Either another advance team had departed similarly without their knowledge, or a groundbreaking method had been developed to drastically shorten the travel time.

But whatever the case, the fact that an Earthling warship had appeared before his eyes was undeniable.

The sky he looked up at.

A star was visible to the naked eye, even in broad daylight.

But Kang Chan knew better than anyone that it wasn’t a star.

It was clearly the sight of the energy charging before firing the Garipza cannon.

“Danger! Everyone, run away!”

Kang Chan desperately shouted, pouring mana into his voice, and his voice echoed across the battlefield like a lion’s roar.

But no soldier stopped attacking just because they heard his voice.

How could they stop fighting when they were facing the enemy right in front of them?

Then, a streak of light plunged down upon their heads.

In an instant, a light several dozen times brighter than the sun blinded the soldiers, and an unimaginable explosion engulfed them.

Jiiiiiiiiing!

Kuuuuuuuuuung!!

The flash continued for several minutes.

When the flash disappeared, a crater several kilometers wide had formed in its place.

Amidst the dust that obscured everything, the Allied soldiers wandered around, screaming.

The green elves, who had been pursued by them, were equally bewildered, but they seized the opportunity and hastily began to retreat from the battlefield.

The Allied headquarters was in an uproar.

The morale, which had been soaring high, collapsed at once due to the sudden flash of light from the sky.

Duke Sachsen, who had returned to headquarters to take command, suddenly felt uneasy.

That was because a flash of light with that much power was absolutely impossible unless it was a dragon’s breath.

But he soon realized that the flash wasn’t the work of a dragon.

Because a real dragon had appeared in their camp.

The dragon, which had suddenly appeared with light, was so huge that it dwarfed all the dragons known so far.

And it was very beautiful.

The Allied soldiers panicked and fled at the appearance of such a massive dragon.

“D, dragon!”

“Ugh! It’s a dragon!”

“S, save me!”

The suddenly appearing dragon didn’t even glance at them and looked up at the sky, quickly inhaling.

Then, an enormous amount of mana began to accumulate within the dragon’s massive body.

Soon, a beautiful green light began to shine gradually on the dragon’s massive body, and the dragon unleashed a tremendous torrent of green light towards the sky where the flash had fallen.

It was breath.

Zikyon, who was treating the injured patients like a priestess as usual, sensed something and looked up at the sky in surprise.

In the sky, the energy she sensed was growing stronger and stronger, and soon it became so immense that it made Zikyon tense.

It was an intense energy that even Zikyon had never experienced before.

‘W, what is it? This unbelievable energy?’

Zikyon, who had stopped working for a moment, looked up at the sky where the intense energy was emanating from.

And she could see something sparkling like a star.

“What is that?”

She had no way of knowing what it was, but she soon realized what it was trying to do.

She was horrified.

“Gasp!”

As the beam of light pouring down from the sky illuminated the earth, a tremendous explosion occurred, shaking the earth.

She screamed.

Because Kang Chan was there where the light had struck.

“N, no!”

At that moment, neither the game nor anything else mattered to her.

Zikyon released her Safe Change magic and returned to her original dragon form.

“Direct hit! Yessss!”

Lebedev, who had directly aimed the Garipza cannon, cheered with excitement after confirming that the Garipza cannon had accurately hit its target.

He seemed to be enjoying the situation as if he were playing a game.

The other members of Zvezda were gathered in the situation room, watching the situation on a large screen.

The reason they fired the Garipza cannon into the middle of the battlefield where the battle was raging was to stop the Allied forces from pursuing them.

Because the side they had chosen as the cooperator in this world was the green elves.

The reason Zvezda chose them was simply for fun.

The Allied forces were the ones who had been acting like kings here for a long time, so it seemed more fun to subdue those ruling powers one by one.

After all, what Zvezda needed wasn’t power.

They had enough power on their own.

What they needed was a loyal dog.

A loyal dog that would move according to their wishes.

To do that, it was easier to exploit a failing force.

The reason they understood so much about this world was that they had been collecting information about this world indiscriminately for the past few months.

Of course. That didn’t mean they did much themselves.

The intelligence computer took care of collecting and organizing the data.

The warship was equipped with all the necessary equipment and facilities.

The intelligence computer sent infiltration ships equipped with combat droids to the ground to collect samples, and on the other hand, it used intelligence satellites to observe the entire continent 24 hours a day.

The vast amount of information collected in this way was naturally injected into the Zvezda members, and the members could easily accumulate knowledge of this planet.

What they were particularly interested in was the superpowers of the people of this planet.

It was only a month ago that they learned about the superpowers of the people of this planet.

At that time, there was a case where a droid that had gone to the ground to collect data was destroyed and did not return.

When they looked at the last video transmitted by the droid, there was a scene where a human man sliced through the droid’s high-frequency blade with an extremely primitive sword as if he were slicing radishes.