Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 143

“Hey! Are you okay? Just hang in there for a moment! I’ll heal you right away!”

Zekeon urgently cast healing magic on Kang Chan.

However, no matter how much healing magic she cast, it was of no use.

Even her magic couldn’t stop the collapse of Kang Chan’s body.

The power that was destroying Kang Chan’s body and spinning fiercely was surpassing the healing speed of Zekeon, an Ancient Dragon.

“No! Don’t die! Please don’t die!”

His eyes had already lost their sight, and Kang Chan’s pupils had turned white.

“Ah, I can’t see….”

After repeated rampages, the speed of his body’s collapse was incomparable to before.

When he first used the 6th stage, the collapse of his body lasted about 30 minutes, but the second time, it didn’t even last 15 minutes. Now, barely 5 minutes had passed, and he was on the verge of death.

Kang Chan’s hair instantly turned white and began to fall over his shoulders, and Zekeon grabbed him and wept.

“Don’t die! You can’t die!”

“Th, this is the last strike. Be my eyes, Zekeon.”

“…….”

The attacks of the Zvezda were incessant, and Kang Chan, who had lost his sight, was blocking the beams of destruction with only his senses. Zekeon, watching Kang Chan’s determined appearance, steeled her heart.

“Okay, just a moment.”

Zekeon sent a magical communication to the Red Mars.

『Recreation, do you hear me?』

『I hear you, Lord.』

『Execute the final plan. Prepare.』

『Lord…….』

『Stop nagging and do it!』

Zekeon, who rarely showed her emotions to her own kind, raised her voice, and Recreation felt Zekeon’s firm will and agreed to her command.

『Understood. I will prepare.』

I don’t know what they prepared, but Zekeon turned Kang Chan’s head towards the enemy and said.

“The enemy is in the direction your head is facing.”

“What’s the distance?”

“About 3 kilometers [1.86 miles].”

As soon as he heard the distance, Kang Chan began to charge towards the Zvezda recklessly.

Judging by how hastily he was moving, it could be guessed that he didn’t have much time left. Tears continued to flow from Zekeon’s eyes at that fact.

She had never shed tears for anyone else before.

Not even when her parents died. To her, a dragon, parents were nothing more than beings who gave birth to her.

But Kang Chan was different.

Kang Chan was the first being Zekeon had ever opened her heart to. Kang Chan’s death made her realize what a heart-wrenching sadness was.

“What’s the remaining distance?”

“1 kilometer [0.62 miles].”

“Now, you need to evacuate to the Red Mars!”

“…….”

Watching Kang Chan charge towards the Zvezda, breaking through the enemy’s relentless offensive, Zekeon teleported away without a word.

She had something else to do.

As soon as she disappeared, Kang Chan detonated all of his power without any regrets, striking the Zvezda’s barrier.

『Kuaaaaaaak!』

Kuuuuuuuuung!

A tremendous impact struck the Zvezda, and the impact spread far into space.

As if it had collided with a giant meteorite.

The Zvezda’s solid barrier, unable to withstand such a massive impact, was shattered mercilessly.

Even the breath of an Ancient Dragon couldn’t penetrate that barrier.

But that was all.

The next attack did not follow. The Aura Fire that had formed in Kang Chan’s hands disappeared in an instant.

That meant Kang Chan’s death.

Zekeon was in space, watching his end.

She didn’t return to the Red Mars.

She quickly transformed into a dragon.

Space, with no air pressure or atmosphere, was in a super-cooled state of -270 degrees Celsius [-454 degrees Fahrenheit], so even the best life form on earth, a dragon, would surely die before long.

But she didn’t care.

As she manifested as a dragon, 13 beams of light were emitted from the Red Mars towards Zekeon.

The dragons of the Red Mars came out into space and breathed towards Zekeon.

That was the reason why they all boarded the Red Mars.

Power Linkage.

The last power of the Dragon race.

The breath they emitted gathered on Zekeon’s body through a giant magic circle that appeared behind Zekeon, and their highly compressed breath exploded and spewed out along with Zekeon’s breath.

It was the power of the Dragon race to gather the power of all the Dragon race with the sacrifice of one dragon.

It is said that their power is comparable to the power of God, and it is also the real reason why the Demon King of the Demon World has never conquered the earth.

The massive breath spewed out through Zekeon’s body directly hit the Zvezda, whose barrier had been weakened by Kang Chan’s attack.

“No!”

Benzler, who was watching the scene from the bridge, screamed his last. But before he could finish screaming, the bridge was shattered and engulfed in flames.

Zekeon’s breath had pierced through the Zvezda.

The 600-meter-long [1968.5 feet] mass of metal of the penetrated Zvezda began to crack like a spider web and finally caused a massive explosion.

It was the first time they had ever seen such a massive explosion.

The aftermath of the explosion shook the Red Mars, which was far away.

“Kang Chan-nim! Zekeon-nim!”

“Zekeon-nim…….”

The dragons and Arteon wept at the sight of the two heroes disappearing into the massive explosion.

While watching the heroic end of the two heroes who had brought hope to all races living on the continent.

Even after the Zvezda disappeared into space dust, a heavy silence flowed through the Red Mars for a while.

No one could easily open their mouths.

Before the heroic sacrifice of the two heroes.

But they didn’t have the luxury to sit down and grieve like this.

Now that they have driven out the invaders of Earth, they had to wipe out all of their remnants left on the ground.

The battle with the Earthlings in space was difficult, but the Continental Allied Forces, who were fighting against tens of millions of enemies on the ground, must have been just as difficult.

They had to hurry.

“I will follow in the footsteps of the two and go to deal with the remnants of the enemy left on the ground.”

“Our Dragon race will spare no support.”

Recreation, the Red Dragon who became the next Lord of the Dragon race after Zekeon’s demise, his eyes were burning with revenge, and his anger was directed towards the Green Elves and Dark Elves.

The Red Mars, which was almost half-destroyed, turned its bow and returned to Neo Earth, leaving only desolate scrap metal in the silent universe, telling the traces of the fierce battle.

As the battle in space was coming to an end, the Continental Allied Forces were surrounded by the Green Elves and were gradually being annihilated.

No matter how well-equipped they were with high-performance weapons, they could not defeat the Green Elves, who were overwhelming in numbers.

No matter how much they cut and cut, the knights at the forefront began to retreat as they felt the depletion of mana from the enemies who kept rushing in without end, and the riflemen and ordinary soldiers behind them fell into despair.

The battles of the Gigantes were no different.

The number of Gigantes left was only 50.

Even they were on the verge of annihilation due to the hundreds of thousands of Troll Elves and the mass-produced Gigantes that continued to be replenished. The aura in their swords was faint, and its power was significantly reduced due to the depletion of mana.

Tired members.

In front of them, Green and Nemitz, who had been watching, appeared.

Accompanied by Naiad.

Green was sending them a sneering smile next to Nemitz.

Once they eliminated those in front of them, there would be no forces to threaten their empire in the future.

Although Green was forced to become their henchman, she thought that becoming their henchman wouldn’t be so bad if she could only get revenge on this world.

The annihilation of the four major races that she had targeted was right in front of her eyes.

『You guys! Aren’t you ashamed!』

When Elladion, who was in crisis, shouted, Green still smiled and asked back.

“What are you talking about?”

『Standing on the side of alien invaders and handing over our precious homeland, aren’t you ashamed of your ancestors?』

“Where is our homeland? When have you ever recognized us as a race living on the same continent?”

『…….』

Elladion couldn’t answer Green’s words.

As she said, the Elves had never recognized their existence.

The Dark Elves were forced to live in damp and dark caves, and the Green Elves took root in Iceland, called the cursed land, all because of them.

When Elladion closed her mouth like a mute who had eaten honey, Duke Sachsen, who was standing next to her, stepped forward and said to Elladion.

『It’s not too late now! Let’s forget all the grudges of the past and join forces to drive out the alien invaders!』

Duke Sachsen didn’t expect those words to work, but he spat out words that were not in his heart as if grasping at straws.

But as expected, all that came back was Green’s cold sneer.

“Hmph, that’s funny. You’re telling me to forget all the grudges of the past? What kind of pain did your race inflict on me, and you’re telling me to just forget it? You humans are so selfish and hypocritical, talking so easily about other people’s affairs!”

Duke Sachsen’s insincere words made her even angrier.

Even if she forgot all the grudges of the past, she couldn’t join forces in the first place because of the chip that the Earthlings had implanted in her head.

Green said in an emotionless, dry voice.

“Is that all you have to say for the last time? Then die now…….”

When Green raised her hand and pointed at them, the Green Elves, who had stopped attacking for a while, began to attack again.

But their attack had to stop again.

Because a battleship broke through the atmosphere and appeared in the sky.

In an instant, everyone’s eyes turned to the sky.

Because the battleship that returned victorious would determine the victory or defeat of this war.

And after a while, the battleship, which was only a small dot, came down close to the ground.

The hideous appearance that had been destroyed by fierce battles was exposed in front of everyone.

Soon, cheers erupted from the Continental Allied Forces.

Although it was hideously destroyed, the battleship that returned victorious was the Red Mars that Kang Chan had brought.

Amidst the cheers of the Allied Forces echoing from all directions, Green and Nemitz’s faces turned pale.

The Zvezda members, who had guaranteed victory with an overwhelming difference, had been defeated.

They are currently overwhelming the Continental Allied Forces, but that is only a temporary victory.

The situation was reversed.

Their despair didn’t stop there.

As many as 13 giant dragons appeared from inside the hideously destroyed battleship.

The Green Elves, looking at the group of dragons, trembled like aspen trees in the face of fear.

When Recreation, the Red Dragon who became the new Lord after Zekeon, tried to pour out an attack on them, Naiad blocked his way and said.

“This is going to be difficult? Have you forgotten the covenant you made with us?”

The covenant between the Spirit King and the Dragon.

It was to significantly reduce the number of the four major races that dominate this world.

“Is their blood still not enough, Naiad?”

“As you can see, our plan is still in progress, young dragon.”

It may be a contradiction to call Recreation, who has lived for over 6,000 years, a young dragon.

But compared to Naiad, who has been with this planet since ancient times, Recreation was just a reckless young lizard, nothing more.

Recreation, who couldn’t know Naiad’s intentions, cooled his anger and dealt with it calmly, as befitting the Lord of the Dragon race.

“I’m sorry, but our covenant ends here, Naiad. Look at those stupid and foolish things you created. Not only did they mess up this land, but they even colluded with invaders from another world. To us dragons, those are just henchmen of invaders from another world. We dragons, as the regulators of this world, will never let them live.”

“…….”

Naiad was lost in thought for a moment at Recreation’s suggestion.

To be honest, he also didn’t like Green’s decision to collude with the alien forces from space.

Moreover, the environmental pollution they caused to the Arkandor continent was beyond the imagination of the Spirit Kings.

Compared to them, the four major races of the continent were decent.

They surpassed what the four major races had polluted for thousands of years in just three years.