Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 138

퓨쳐나이트 138

-Fusion reaction detected in the enemy Gigantes. There are many changes in its appearance, but after comparing it with the data, it has been identified as the Allied Forces’ JED130-AT2 model.

『JED130-AT2!』

『Wh, what?』

Zvezda members couldn’t hide their surprise at the mention of JED130-AT2.

That was the Zaid’s official designation, the model mounted on the Red Mars, which had been dispatched here before them.

『Su, surely, the Red Mars guys are alive?!』

They had been searching for them, but the remnants of the Red Mars, which they couldn’t even find, suddenly appeared like this.

Zvezda members were in great confusion for a moment.

They were on this planet, believing that they were the only Earthlings, but there were other Earthlings.

Moreover, they were in league with the rebels against them.

Zvezda members were filled with questions.

『No, but why is that guy fighting on the side of the aliens on this planet?』

『Where did the battleship go, and why is he the only one showing up? Is he perhaps aiming for us from behind?』

As the members became confused, Hong Hak-mae, who was recently emerging as the second-in-command, gave them an order.

『Change the plan. Capture that guy. If it’s not possible, you can destroy him.』

『Roger!』

Eight Zaids rushed towards Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit.

Soon, a 30mm large-caliber railgun spewed fire at Kang Chan.

Dududududung! Dudududududung!

As a large number of railguns were aimed at him, Kang Chan urgently called for Sylphiris.

“Sylphiris, Blink!”

“Okay!”

The enemy Gigantes, who had been dealing with unmanned fighters, disappeared from sight again to avoid the railgun barrage, and the Zvezda members were embarrassed.

『He disappeared! Where is he?』

They looked around for the Red Rabbit.

Then, they discovered the Red Rabbit, which could only move a short distance, and shouted loudly.

『He’s up there!』

『Fire!』

Tudududududung!! Tudududududung!!

Hundreds of blue spiral bullets cut through the air and rushed towards Kang Chan. However, Kang Chan avoided all of their attacks through continuous blinks [short-range teleports].

This was possible because the magician aboard Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit was a dragon, not an elf.

Even for an elf skilled in magic, it would be very difficult to make several instantaneous leaps like this in such a short period of time.

『N, no way! How!』

The Zvezda members’ faces were filled with disbelief at the enemy Gigantes, who avoided their attacks like a ghost.

Even they did not have such perfect short-range teleportation technology.

『Has the Allied Forces’ technology advanced so much?』

If the Allied Forces had such technology, the Empire would have no chance of winning the war.

Hong Hak-mae thought with a serious face.

‘Could the reason why the Empire used anti-gravity bombs be because of this technology?’

It was a complete misjudgment, but the technology the enemy was showing was so valuable.

While he was thinking that, Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit teleported to close range and attacked Hong Hak-mae.

『Hut!』

As if to show that thinking about other things on the battlefield is directly connected to death, Kang Chan’s sword had no mercy.

『Haaaaaaat!』

『Keuk!』

Chaeaaaaaeng!

Hong Hak-mae blocked Kang Chan’s aura blade [a sword made of energy], which had covered him in an instant, with the Zaid’s high-frequency blade.

However, Kang Chan’s aura blade lightly cut through Hong Hak-mae’s high-frequency blade as if cutting through tofu, and, not satisfied with that, even cut the Zaid mercilessly.

Shuga gag!

『Keu! You bastard!』

However, Hong Hak-mae was not one to be easily defeated.

As a member of Zvezda with skills comparable to the Red Mars, he twisted his body in an instant, gave up his shoulder, activated the booster, and quickly escaped from Kang Chan’s range.

But Kang Chan had no intention of letting him go.

『Forget about running away!』

『Sa, save me!』

Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit, which looked like a grim reaper from hell, spat out a blue aura blade and followed him, and the blood disappeared from Hong Hak-mae’s face.

However, support fire soon came from the enemies from all directions.

All of them were plasma beams with the power to penetrate Sylphiris’ shield.

Kang Chan had no choice but to let go of the enemy Zaid he had caught and entered evasive maneuvers.

“Damn it! Sylphiris! Blink!”

“Heok! Heok! Sorry, I can’t do it anymore…….”

Sylphiris, who had teleported the giant Zaid countless times in a row, was almost exhausted.

Kang Chan had no choice but to block the enemy’s attack directly with the aura blade.

“Haaap!”

A recklessly foolish act.

The Zvezda members who saw the sight were convinced that he would soon be riddled with plasma beams.

It was absurd to block a plasma beam, a ray weapon, with a sword.

However, their expectations were shattered without exception.

As Kang Chan moved the aura blade at an incredible speed and struck down the plasma beam, the beam disappeared too easily.

『That! How?』

『No way!』

They could never understand how they could extinguish a plasma beam fired at the speed of light with a sword.

But all of that was a clear fact.

Kang Chan was still continuing to ward off plasma beams.

They were slowly beginning to doubt whether the person inside was human.

『Disperse and engage!』

Hong Hak-mae, who barely escaped from Kang Chan’s grasp, wiped away his cold sweat and ordered his comrades.

Looking at him, Lebedev giggled incessantly, wondering what was so good.

He was so happy to see him, who was always pretending to be so smart, flustered.

As the enemy Zaids spread out and began to pour attacks with time differences, Kang Chan was quickly put at a disadvantage.

No matter how good he was, it was impossible to block all the attacks pouring in from 360 degrees.

“Sylphiris, it’ll be tough, but blink!”

At Kang Chan’s urgent request, Sylphiris bit her lip tightly and said.

“I’ll try.”

Sylphiris took a breath and concentrated, and the Red Rabbit blinked over the enemy’s head in an instant.

“It’s done!”

Kang Chan cheered, and the enemy screamed in response.

Because as soon as he discovered the enemy who had moved over his head, a huge sword of light, 20 meters long, instantly covered his head.

Kwajijijijijik! Chijijijijik!

Kang Chan hurriedly got out of the way of the enemy Zaid, which had been split in half.

Because the fusion reactor exposed to the air would cause a massive explosion.

As Kang Chan expected, the destroyed enemy Zaid’s fusion generator caused a massive explosion.

Kuuuuuuuuung! Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!

『Alexandria!』

『No!』

Even if they shouted the name of their dead comrade, he was already turned into flames.

The exploded Zaid was a flying hydrogen bomb, with an explosion diameter of 3 kilometers [~1.8 miles].

A small sun was created in the sky in an instant.

As the unmanned fighters faltered due to the aftermath of the explosion, Kang Chan did not miss the opportunity.

“Now’s the time!”

Zikyon and Rekrashion, freed from the shackles of the unmanned fighters, fired their breath and magic at the faltering fighters with all their might, even in their exhausted state.

“Ah, no!”

Despite Hong Hak-mae’s urgent cry, dozens of unmanned fighters turned to ashes in the sky.

Hong Hak-mae’s face contorted as he looked at the unmanned fighters that had turned to ashes.

Without Earth’s aid, losing one-third of their fighter strength was a huge loss of power for them.

“Damn it! Retreat to the battleship for now!”

Hong Hak-mae chose to retreat because he could not afford to lose any more power, and they left the battlefield in an instant with tremendous speed, just like when they came here.

Zikyon wanted to follow them to the end and fight to the death. However, everyone was very tired and seriously injured, so it was necessary to return to Raksha and reorganize.

“What should we do, Zikyon-nim?”

“Let’s go back to Raksha for now.”

“I understand.”

The dragons teleported the exhausted Kang Chan and the wounded sword masters on the ground.

* * *

Benziller couldn’t believe it.

His subordinates who had retreated had returned as stragglers.

“How could this happen?”

Out of 100 unmanned fighters, only 65 returned to the battleship, and even those that returned were not in good condition.

All of them required extensive maintenance.

Moreover, losing the Zaid, which was the most core force, was a really painful loss for him.

“Hong Hak-mae, what happened?”

“I have no excuse, Captain…….”

“What about the Dark Knights you took with you?”

“They were all annihilated.”

“Wh, what? Were those rats that powerful?”

“There was a variable.”

“Those dragons, we should have wiped them out back then…….”

Benziller gritted his teeth, thinking that everything was naturally the work of the dragons. But Hong Hak-mae’s next words were enough to ring the alarm for him.

“The variable was the Red Mars guy.”

As an unexpected name popped out, Benziller frowned and asked back.

“Red Mars? Why is their story coming out here?”

“We have secured evidence that the Red Mars guys are surviving on this planet.”

“What? Those guys were left on this planet? Show me the evidence.”

“Computer, play the video.”

-Yes, projecting on the main screen.

The scene of the previous battle was replayed on the huge main screen of the Zvezda bridge.

It was a video stored in Hong Hak-mae’s Zaid.

Soon, an unidentified enemy Gigantes appeared in the video. Its appearance was very familiar to Benziller’s eyes.

“What is that?”

“It is disguised as an alien Gigantes, but it is the Allied Forces’ JED130-AT2 model equipped with a fusion reactor. It is the same as the aircraft used by Red Mars.”

Benziller, who was watching the video, widened his eyes in surprise.

“That disgusting detail…… It’s definitely a JED130-AT2 model. But did the JED130-AT2 model have a short-range teleportation function?”

The scene of Kang Chan’s Red Rabbit teleporting and ravaging the allied forces with a huge sword of light was a very surprising scene for him as well.

The sword of light that even distorted the plasma beam.

It had tremendous power that could cut even the Zaid protected by the shield like tofu.

Benziller knew the identity of that technology.

It was the superpower used by those called knights here.

“But how is the Red Mars guy using that technology?”

“I don’t know. However, judging from the fact that they are fighting with aliens, I guess they have obtained some kind of power from them.”

“Some kind of power?”

Some kind of power was, in Benziller’s view, much more powerful than any weapon on Earth.

“First, we need to try to win him over to our side. We must make those technologies ours, Hong Hak-mae.”

“I understand, Captain.”

“By the way, did you recover the chip inserted into the Dark Knight’s head?”

“Yes, I had the droids recover all of them.”

The number of chips brought from Earth was strictly limited. Recycling was essential here, where there were no production facilities.

“The power was useful in its own way. Insert the recovered chip into the next Dark Elf.”

“Yes! Captain.”

Benziller, who highly appreciated the power of the Dark Knight who had driven the enemy sword master before being annihilated by the Red Mars’ Zaid, demanded the next victims from Hong Hak-mae.

“I understand.”

It was as easy as eating a cold soup for him to manipulate Nemitz’s subordinates who had become puppets.

* * *

The Dragon Knight returned to Raksha’s Square through teleportation.

Kuuuuung!

The two Gigantes, whose lower bodies had melted and disappeared, landed on the ground, and a tremendous vibration echoed as if to collapse the surrounding buildings.

“What on earth is going on?”

People who were surprised by the tremendous vibration poured out of the buildings, and what they witnessed were the destroyed Gigantes and two huge dragons descending from the sky.

The dragons also had many large and small wounds on their beautiful bodies.

The only one who was unharmed was Duke Sachsen, who was riding Agni. He was the only one who could stand on the ground with both feet intact.

Unlike when they set out, their appearance had become so miserable that it was pitiful to see.

The expressions of Kraxion and the elders of various races who were watching their return were almost desperate.

Because of the fear of the Earthlings who had made the absolute beings of this world look like this.