Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 130

퓨쳐나이트 130

If this world falls into the enemy’s hands, reclaiming it will be an even greater challenge.

However, Kang Chan lacked the strength for a full-scale battle at that moment.

His immediate priority was to save as many Sword Masters and Sword Expert knights as possible.

“Jiekyon, let’s go. We need to buy them time to retreat.”

“Are we diving into a brawl? Alright, I’m in! Let’s play!”

As Jiekyon began her transformation into her dragon form, Kang Chan summoned Red Rabbit.

Then, Kang Chan’s Zeid, emitting a dazzling silver light, materialized beside Jiekyon.

However, Kang Chan, after climbing onto Zeid, quickly realized a problem.

He had forgotten to equip the Zeid with its flight module. Without it, Zeid would be limited to ground combat, leaving Kang Chan vulnerable to the flying enemies.

“Damn it! What am I going to do?”

As Kang Chan worried, Jiekyon, now fully transformed, soared into the sky and called down to him, “I told the youngest, so she’ll be here soon. I’m going ahead.”

“What, what? The youngest? What are you talking about?”

Kang Chan asked, puzzled, but Jiekyon had already flown towards the enemy forces, followed by dragons of various colors.

“What the heck is she talking about?”

“Could that ‘she’ be referring to Lady Jiekyon’s younger sibling?”

“Huh!”

Kang Chan was startled by the sweet voice that suddenly spoke from behind his seat and turned around.

There, a woman with beautiful silver hair fluttering in the wind sat in a seductive pose.

She was strikingly beautiful.

“Who are you?”

“Who? How dare a human speak to me so informally? If you weren’t favored by Jiekyon, I would have blasted your head off right now…”

Kang Chan sensed that she was a dragon from her arrogant tone. If so, the ‘youngest’ Jiekyon mentioned must be…

“Are you the youngest?”

“What? The youngest? Are you out of your mind?”

She, who had been putting on airs, momentarily lost her composure. She never imagined she would hear the nickname ‘youngest,’ which she had grown tired of over thousands of years, from a mere human.

Her name was S. Silfirys.

Currently the youngest Silver Dragon among dragons, excluding hatchlings, she still needed another 500 years to mature into a wyrm-class dragon [a more powerful, mature dragon]. She was the dragon Jiekyon had mentioned would be defeated by an alien battleship with a single blow.

“Ah! Let go! Let me go!”

“Ugh, I’m so angry! Are you ignoring me too? Do I look that easy to you? Huh?”

“Cough! Cough! Let go!”

“I won’t! How dare you, a human!”

“Ah! Seriously!”

Holding onto Silfirys’s arms, who was mercilessly choking his neck from behind the seat, Kang Chan pulled her forward with all his might. Unable to withstand the Sword Master’s strength, she was easily pulled into the front seat where Kang Chan was.

However, the resulting position was so embarrassing that Kang Chan’s face flushed, and he couldn’t bring himself to open his eyes.

Her head was buried between Kang Chan’s legs, and her rear was in front of Kang Chan’s face.

“Hey, you pervert! What are you doing to me! Do you think I, a dragon, wouldn’t recognize the lecherous intentions of human men? I know everything because I’ve lived as a human before! You pervert! Are you going to let go? Where are you touching?”

“Just stay still!”

The two, tangled together in an awkward position in the narrow cockpit, struggled for a moment.

But that was only for a moment. Tremendous explosions echoed in quick succession, halting their scuffle.

The attacks of Jiekyon and the dragons following her had begun.

“The battle has begun! This is not the time for this! Go back to your seat! Quickly!”

As Kang Chan spoke, exuding an immense presence that was anything but human, Silfirys momentarily panicked and looked at him in an embarrassed pose.

Although young, she, a dragon, was intimidated by the force emanating from Kang Chan, a Sword Master.

“U-um, okay.”

She slowly straightened her body, stepped on Kang Chan, and moved to the back seat.

However, her inconsiderate kick mercilessly crushed Kang Chan’s groin, eliciting a mournful groan.

“Hngh!”

“What? What’s so hard? Are you, by any chance, excited because of me?”

Kang Chan couldn’t bring himself to respond to her casual dismissal. It was a physiological response beyond his control. Blushing, Kang Chan instead raised his voice and scolded her.

“I don’t know why you got on here, but stop talking nonsense and fasten your seatbelt tightly! It’s going to shake a lot!”

At Kang Chan’s words, Silfirys started to retort but, realizing the gravity of the situation, gritted her teeth and silently sat down, fastening herself tightly with the seatbelt. Watching Kang Chan running on the ground, she clicked her tongue.

“You still don’t know why I, a dragon, am riding in this shabby golem [a magically animated being]? The reason I’m here is this!”

As Silfirys poured magic power into the crystal balls attached to her hands and chanted a spell, Kang Chan experienced something amazing.

“Huh! How is this possible!”

The Red Rabbit’s body floated into the sky even without the flight module attached.

[I cast a levitation spell on this Gigantes [large, humanoid robot]. But moving it is up to you.]

“What? Suddenly!”

Kang Chan was startled and flustered when Silfirys’s voice suddenly echoed in his head.

[How provincial. How dare someone who doesn’t even know telepathy talk back to a dragon! No need for long words, just move it. I’ll assist you.]

“Okay.”

As Kang Chan manipulated the Zeid following her instructions, the Zeid miraculously began to move through the air as he intended.

“So that’s what she meant.”

[Drive straight.]

“Don’t worry! I used to be a top-class pilot in my prime.”

Kang Chan activated combat mode and unleashed his aura blade [a weapon made of pure energy] with all his might. As before, a huge aura blade reaching 8 meters in length revealed its thrilling appearance.

“Let’s go!”

Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit, armed with an aura blade, flew like an arrow to aid the Allied forces.

The humans, on the verge of annihilation, began to cheer at the sight of the dragons that had suddenly appeared.

They were heartened because the beings with the most powerful force they knew were helping them. As many as ten of them.

Duke Sachsen was among those who were overjoyed.

The one flying towards the enemy at the forefront was clearly the leader of the dragons, the Ancient Dragon Jiekyon, who had once played with him like a toy. He used to resent her, but today Sachsen couldn’t be happier to see her.

The group of dragons she led seemed poised to turn those monstrous metal lumps floating in the sky into scrap metal in an instant.

But that was just his wishful thinking.

The dragons, led by Jiekyon, were struggling against the tremendous attacks unleashed by the battleship.

Hundreds of close-range combat heat-ray lasers and plasma guns were mounted on the exterior of the battleship.

Hundreds of gunports relentlessly spewed fire at the dragons, and small fighters circling the battleship also flew in at tremendous speeds, unleashing laser and missile fire.

The dragons who had not been wyrm-class for long seemed to be primarily focused on defending against the brutal attacks. Each attack carried the power of a 9-circle-level Hellfire [an extremely powerful magical attack].

Only the dragons who had been wyrm-class for a long time, and Jiekyon, were alternating between offense and defense, firing breath attacks and magic at the massive battleship.

However, the energy barrier surrounding the battleship was stronger than any magical shield they knew, making it difficult to penetrate.

Still, Jiekyon continued to bombard the battleship with attack magic.

“Just break through, damn it!”

The moment Jiekyon managed to fire five Hellfires at the battleship, the scream of A. Eiselion, a 4,000-year-old wyrm-class Gold Dragon, echoed.

“Kuaaaaaak!”

“Eiselion!”

Jiekyon called out to Eiselion, but he screamed and plummeted to the ground.

His shield had failed to block the main gun’s attack, resulting in a direct hit.

“Kuaaaaaak! You damn bastards!”

Jiekyon teleported to evade their concentrated fire and attempted to unleash her desperate breath towards the top of the battleship.

However, before she could unleash her breath, Jiekyon experienced something bewildering. Giant steel constructs resembling five Gigantes emitted light with tremendous power towards her.

“What are those things!”

Jiekyon had to halt her breath attack and defend against their assault. Their attacks felt unusually potent.

The moment their attacks collided with her shield, Jiekyon couldn’t help but groan.

As expected, each ray of light possessed power exceeding the breath of a wyrm-class dragon.

If it hadn’t been her, even a Recreacion [an extremely powerful dragon] would have been fatally wounded by such a powerful attack.

‘Is this the power of science? I really can’t believe it. Even with a huge battleship being burdensome, even those Gigantes-like steel dolls are comparable to the power of a dragon…’

Jiekyon felt a chill run down her spine. And for the first time in her life, she began to feel nervous.

What being in this world could gain an advantage against ten dragons, including herself?

The only beings who could do that, as far as she knew, were God and the Demon King.

Jiekyon felt as if the scales on her entire body were standing on end. But she didn’t stop attacking for a moment. The screams of her fellow dragons echoed from all directions. They were being ravaged by hundreds of fighters moving at incredible speeds that were almost invisible.

In addition, they were being battered by the battleship’s attacks.

From Jiekyon’s perspective, this was a hopeless fight.

Jiekyon suppressed her despair and fired 9-circle magic [the most powerful form of magic] indiscriminately to shake off the five Zeids that were persistently attacking her.

Her power, manifested as a dragon rather than a human, was incomparable to what it used to be.

However, even her powerful attacks were in vain.

The speed of the Zeids was extraordinary.

It was a speed that was on a different level from levitation.

The only way to deal with them was to immobilize them with gravity magic and destroy them one by one. But there was no time to do so because hundreds of rays of light were pouring out of the battleship without a break.

While Jiekyon was engaged in a difficult battle against the battleship, Kang Chan and Silfirys flew to find Duke Sachsen.

He was someone who should never die.

As Kang Chan roamed the battlefield, he finally located the Gigantes marked with the Hell Liner Knights emblem.

They were also under heavy fire from green elves and fighters.

The only positive aspect was that most of the knights were still alive.

As expected, they were the best knights on the continent.

However, the surroundings were littered with destroyed Gigantes, and even those who remained were in a precarious situation.

Kang Chan blocked the attacks of the fighters and flew towards Duke Sachsen’s Agni.

“You damn gnat bastards! To meet these guys again even here, bad luck is bad luck.”

-I don’t really want to meet them either.

The unmanned fighters that had bothered him even during his Red Mars days were still annoying existences.

Kang Chan nervously fired an aura blade and shot down one fighter.

Then, the cunning unmanned fighters began to launch missile attacks from a distance, staying outside of Kang Chan’s range.

However, such small missiles could not penetrate Silfirys’s shield, allowing Kang Chan to leisurely approach Duke Sachsen.

The Gigantes belonging to the Visman Empire, who were frantically defending against the enemy’s attacks, were wary of Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit flying towards them in the sky.

From its flight capabilities to its appearance, it resembled the enemy.

However, Sachsen relaxed his guard when Kang Chan’s voice echoed.

『Duke Sachsen!』

『Ah, no, this voice is, could it be, Kang Chan?』

Duke Sachsen couldn’t help but be surprised by Kang Chan’s unexpected voice.

Kang Chan’s Zeid slowly landed next to Agni.

Then Sachsen asked.

『Are you really Kang Chan?』

『Yes, let’s save the greetings for later. There’s no time to waste. Hurry and lead the knights to retreat.』

Sachsen seemed a little dazed by Kang Chan’s sudden appearance from the sky, but he quickly regained his composure and replied.

『We are doing our best to retreat, but there is no way to shake off those monsters flying in the sky.』

『I’ll take care of those. So, Your Grace, please retreat towards the Elven Forest with as many knights as possible.』