Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 132

퓨쳐나이트 132화

The imperial banquet hall was overflowing with the finest dishes and wines, the kind most ordinary people wouldn’t see in their entire lives.

The key players of this war gathered around the lavish table, raising their glasses together in a toast to victory.

“For the construction of a bountiful Earth!”

The slogan, shouted in unison by the members, echoed loudly enough to shake the banquet hall, but Green and Nemitz merely watched them with cold, silent eyes.

They were calling the land they had lived on by a strange name.

Green, visibly displeased, grimaced and gulped down the wine in her hand.

However, a moment later, her expression twisted even further. Soon, Green lost her grip on the wine glass.

The sound of Green’s wine glass shattering echoed sharply through the banquet hall. Nemitz, who was just about to take a sip, threw his glass down and caught the staggering Green in his arms.

“Green!”

Holding Green, who seemed intoxicated and out of her mind, Nemitz glared at the Earthlings with murderous intent.

“Could it be? You guys?”

“Hehehe, you could have just drunk with us and fallen asleep peacefully… you’re making things complicated.”

“You!!”

Nemitz pulled a small dagger from his chest and, infused with mana, hurled it at Benzler’s forehead. It was truly as fast as lightning.

However, the dagger Nemitz threw with mana did not harm him at all.

The dagger pierced Benzler’s head perfectly, but he merely looked at Green and Nemitz with a sneering gaze, his expression unchanged.

Soon, Benzler quietly opened his mouth.

“We won’t hurt you. If you obey us.”

Nemitz had directly confirmed that the dagger he threw pierced Benzler’s forehead.

But realizing that it had not harmed Benzler at all, he blinked in disbelief before screaming in rage.

“Hmph! Don’t be ridiculous!”

He had left his dual swords behind when entering the imperial palace, but for a Sword Master like him, there were swords aplenty in the banquet hall.

As he reached out with both hands, a dining knife from a distant table flew into his grasp, and soon, a blue aura blade surged from the knife.

Holding knives in both hands, Nemitz lunged towards the ten Zvezda members without hesitation.

‘The plan Green and I discussed before coming here is to kill you all and seize the warship anyway!’

Green and Nemitz had assumed they were just ordinary humans because they couldn’t sense any mana from them.

Just ordinary humans with powerful weapons.

That’s why they had devised such a risky plan.

However, their rebellion was already within Benzler’s calculations.

Benzler had foreseen that they would not obey their words forever.

So, Benzler had made some preparations.

Preparations to implant chips in their heads and turn them into their eternal dogs.

However, only Green had taken the super-strength sleeping pill, and Nemitz, the leader of the Dark Elves, was emitting a blue aura blade, desperately brandishing his knives at them.

Yet, the Zvezda members did not tense up or panic in the face of Nemitz’s aura blade. Instead, they wore expressions of amusement.

With mischievous expressions, the Zvezda members were instantly beheaded by Nemitz’s lightning-fast aura blade, their heads falling to the banquet hall floor one by one.

However, Nemitz’s expression turned grim.

The sensation of the aura blade touching them was not the sensation of cutting a person.

It felt as hard as metal.

And if they were people, they should have bled, but not a single drop of blood could be found on the corpses of the ten of them.

Panicked, Nemitz became extremely wary of his surroundings.

Then, ten strange men in black suits appeared around him.

They were Zvezda members wearing combat suits like Kang Chan.

On the Red Mas, only Kang Chan had been issued a combat suit, but surprisingly, all ten Zvezda members were wearing combat suits.

“I won’t kill you. You’re too valuable…”

As he said that, the bodies of the droids Nemitz had cut down exploded, spewing something sticky in all directions.

Nemitz had no choice but to be covered in the sticky substance and struggled to shake it off.

However, it only hardened, further hindering his movements.

“You dirty bastards!”

“Hehehe!”

Watching Nemitz, who was gradually becoming incapacitated, the Zvezda members sneered coldly.

Nemitz unleashed his full-power aura blade at them, but those armed with combat suits had the ability to withstand the strike of a Sword Master.

Like hyenas tormenting a wounded lion, the Zvezda members continued their game until Nemitz was exhausted.

Once the goo had completely hardened, becoming as hard as steel, the Zvezda members shocked his immobile body with electric batons.

Zzzzzzzzzzz!

“Kaaaaaaaaaaak!”

The unbearable pain continued to course through Nemitz’s body.

No matter how superhuman his mental strength, he could not withstand nearly an hour of electric torture, and eventually, Nemitz lost consciousness.

“Hey, what? He’s already passed out?”

“He lasted ten times longer than an average person, what are you so disappointed about?”

“Too bad.”

Behind the disappointed Zvezda members, droids waiting in the wings tightly restrained Green and Nemitz and moved them to the warship.

The place they were headed was the operating room, and now, chips would be forcibly implanted in their heads.

A chip that would turn them into loyal dogs of Zvezda.

46. Red Flags Planted in the New World

Three years had passed since Zvezda occupied Arkandor, which they called Neo Earth.

During those three years, Arkandor had changed a lot from its former self.

The scientific civilization brought by Zvezda had transformed the landscape of this planet into a completely different scene.

Across the Arkandor continent, large cities exclusively for green elves had sprung up, and as huge factories were built there, the sky was covered in black smoke.

The once clean rivers and streams began to be polluted by wastewater from the factories.

The mistakes of Earth were being repeated here on Neo Earth.

The humans of the Arkandor continent, who had once dreamed of a new world, were spending each day in despair.

This was because the harsh exploitation by the green elves who had begun to rule them continued day after day.

The ruling class had merely changed from nobles to green elves, and nothing about their lives had changed.

Rather, they were being forced into even more inhumane abuse and hard labor.

Moreover, the Zvezda members, who had become the absolute rulers of this world, were mired in inertia and had no interest in spreading revolutionary ideas or building a new world.

They were simply indulging in all sorts of wicked deeds, intoxicated by the absolute power they possessed.

They built huge amphitheaters like those in ancient Rome and enjoyed watching humans kill each other every day, and they indulged in all sorts of hedonistic pleasures, such as creating rivers of alcohol and floating boats on them.

In addition, they carried out absurd large-scale construction projects all over the continent under the guise of a great transformation.

One of the projects they were currently enthusiastically pursuing was the absurd industry of restoring cultural heritage from Earth. The largest of these projects was the recreation of the Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.

The large-scale construction to restore the Great Wall of China, which was 6,000 kilometers long, involved millions of people, and dozens of people died every day in this dangerous project that crossed rugged mountain ranges.

And in the desert region of the Edura Kingdom, they began to recreate the Giza Pyramids, where countless people were also forced into hard labor and died.

But what tormented the humans more than anything else were the green elves.

Since the green elves had always hated humans, there was no way they would leave them alone.

The level of their abuse was comparable to the Holocaust in Germany, and the number of humans dying unnoticed throughout the continent was astronomical.

The humans in such a desperate situation could only long for the past and live each day in despair.

* * *

“It’s become hell.”

Emaciated humans and green elves whipping those humans like livestock.

Kang Chan gritted his teeth.

“Damn it…”

“Is there anything left to look around?”

“No, that’s enough. The information I’ve gathered today is sufficient.”

“Then let’s go back.”

“Yeah.”

Kang Chan looked with furious eyes at the warship towering in the distance.

The Zvezda, which was landed on a huge pier built in the imperial palace of Belalen, the former capital of the Bisman Empire.

Kang Chan and Zikyon were traveling all over the continent every day, gathering information about them.

Information such as the troop distribution of the green elves, weapon factories, and storage facilities. The world that Kang Chan saw in his eyes as he gathered such information was not the Arkandor continent he knew.

The continent was like a dead world.

As he looked around the continent, Kang Chan had one question.

Clearly, this Neo Earth was in the hands of Earthlings, but no other Earthlings had been seen since the Zvezda.

Moreover, they were building huge, unnecessary structures all over the place, as if they were trying to build their own kingdom on this planet.

Was that even possible with their own will?

Kang Chan thought about this as he returned to their new hideout on the Raksha continent.

The Raksha Continent.

It was another continent far from the Arkandor continent.

Too small to be called a continent and a bit too big to be called an island, this place was safe from outside eyes because of the tremendous storms in the nearby waters, and the sky was filled with thick fog and clouds.

It was all thanks to the barrier of the Silver Dragon, the ruler of the sea.

This place used to be a continent exclusively for dragons. But now, humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, and other races were living together.

Thanks to the consideration of the dragons.

Since the alien invaders and green elves had completely dominated the continent, it was no longer a place where people could live. No matter where they hid, they could not escape the eyes of the dark elves.

As expected, their next target after taking over the continent was Mine Kingdom. There was no way the green elves would leave them alone, as they were making the best weapons with their excellent craftsmanship.

That was fatal to Kang Chan and Zikyon.

This was because Mine Kingdom was full of numerous weapons and production facilities that Kang Chan and Zikyon had prepared to fight against the Earth’s invaders.

But they had to abandon their attachments and leave.

It was a great shame to give them up, but they had to save their lives first.

In the end, they secretly began to move to the Raksha continent through the portal opened by the dragons.

Thus, the elf tribe led by Arteon, the dwarf tribe led by Craxion, the orc tribe led by Urkanta, and the human tribe led by Sachsen all gathered in one place and were busy preparing to fight the invaders.

And most importantly, the repair of the Red Mas was almost complete.

The Red Mas was still safely in the Elf Forest, protected by the space distortion magic that Zikyon had cast when he first met Kang Chan.

As a result of the dwarves and dragons traveling back and forth through the space- 이동 magic circle [teleportation magic circle] and repairing it for four years, the Red Mas had become a completely different warship that surpassed its past performance.