Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 22

Future Knight Episode 22

Urukanta of the Gale.

He was the Orc Lord, leading a horde of hundreds of millions of savage Orcs, and one of the five Great Martial Gods, each representing a race; in his case, the Orcs.

The number of Elf and Dwarf warriors who fell beneath his Gale Blade was countless, and the two races had been bitter enemies for generations.

“What! That good-for-nothing bastard dares to come here without fear? Fine, good! Today, I will show him the taste of my hammer!”

As Gafeld von Kraxion, the Dwarf Lord, grabbed his beloved giant hammer and tried to rush out, Arteon urgently stopped him.

“Lord, please be calm. He must have come here on his own because of some important matter. Why don’t we talk to him first?”

“What conversation can we have with that thief? How many Dwarf villages have been devastated by those thieves!”

“Still, you must be patient. Lord Kraxion, I don’t like him either, but I think now is the time to talk to him.”

“Tch! Seriously!”

At Arteon’s continued persuasion, Kraxion roughly put down the hammer he had been holding, and the meeting room shook with the hammer’s heavy weight.

Thump!

Sitting back down, Kraxion nervously poured strong fruit wine into his mouth.

“Orc Chieftain Urukanta wishes to see Arteon.”

“Let him in.”

“Yes.”

As the Elf guard left the meeting room, the sound of clanging metal and heavy footsteps began to be heard.

Then, pushing the meeting room door open with enough force to nearly break it down, Urukanta of the Gale, the Orc Lord, entered.

“Shiek! Long time no see, Arteon. Krrr, oh? Who is this? Isn’t it the Hammer of God, Kraxion?”

Urukanta, with eyes gleaming with a wild intensity, was a High Orc with a muscular and magnificent physique over 2 meters tall, unlike other Orcs who were about 1.6 meters tall.

His body was covered with numerous tattoos, and over them were countless scars, giving him such a fierce appearance that made onlookers swallow hard.

The expressions of Arteon and the Dwarf Lord, Gafeld von Kraxion, who were looking at him, were dark.

The Orcs, with their unruly temperaments, and the two races had constant friction since ancient times.

It was common for the warlike Orcs to raid the villages of the two races for plunder.

It was no wonder that Arteon and Kraxion’s gazes towards Urukanta, the Orc Lord, were not favorable.

“What brings you here, Urukanta?”

“Krrr, what else? You must have heard the story, right?”

“What story are you talking about?”

“Shiek! Don’t pretend you don’t know. The story of our Orcs helping the humans and winning a great victory in the first battle against the Green Elves. Krrr.”

“Ah! You won a great victory? Congratulations.”

“Kuwaaak! I didn’t come all this way to hear that! Kurrrr.”

The Elf guards were terrified by the roar that shook the ground, but among the people gathered in the meeting room, there was not a single person weak enough to be surprised by such a roar.

“Then why did you come here?”

“Krrr, you guys join the war! How long are you going to hide in the forest like cowards!”

“Cowards, you say!”

Anger boiled in Arteon’s eyes, who had rarely shown anger to others before, and the mana around her seethed as if about to explode due to her emotions.

“Shhh! If you’re not cowards, then fight the Green Elves and prove it! Krurk!”

“Hmm! Hmm! Now, Arteon. Will getting so excited solve anything? Calm down.”

“Let go!”

As Kraxion, the Dwarf Lord, grabbed Arteon’s arm and tried to stop her, Arteon shook him off roughly, and Kraxion, sweating as he tried to persuade her, was in a completely opposite and ironic situation from before.

Kraxion, who was having a hard time stopping Arteon, glared at Urukanta and raised his voice.

“Don’t interfere without knowing! Urukanta. Right now, our Dwarf and Elf races have prepared hundreds of high-performance Gigantes [giant war machines] for the war against the Green Elves!”

“……!”

The expressions of everyone in the meeting room were shocked, as if they had eaten something rotten, and they all looked at Kraxion.

‘We haven’t even produced 50 yet, and he’s making such a bluff…….’

Urukanta, speechless at the mention of hundreds of high-performance Gigantes, opened his mouth in a trembling voice.

“Kruk! Really hundreds of high-performance Gigantes?”

Even if he was a simple-minded Orc, he knew well the terrifying power of the Gigantes possessed by humans.

Urukanta’s face was filled with surprise at the words that they had made hundreds of such Gigantes.

Arteon, the Elf Lord, who had been very angry, also looked at Kraxion with a pale face and desperate eyes, as if saying, ‘How are you going to handle the aftermath?’

But Kraxion’s gaze towards Urukanta, ignoring her desperate eyes, was endlessly confident.

“Shh! That’s really amazing. A high-performance Gigantes must be worth a castle, but you’ve prepared hundreds of them? Then when will you join us? Krurk.”

Clearly, hundreds of high-performance Gigantes were a force that could completely change the war situation.

“The Elf knights haven’t mastered the controls yet, so we’re waiting for the right time. So when the time comes, we will definitely fight together.”

“Shiek! Then good! Trust us and train hard. In the meantime, we and the humans will somehow stop them. Krrr!”

Urukanta left the meeting room like the wind, leaving only those words as he came.

Then, the gazes of everyone who remained turned to Gafeld von Kraxion, the Dwarf Lord.

“Dwarf Lord, what are you going to do now?”

“W, well, we can just make them, can’t we?”

“You said there were no materials?”

“Actually, I can make about five more with the materials stored in my personal warehouse, hidden from my wife.”

Everyone was amazed that he had stockpiled high-quality materials worth five castles with his personal slush fund, but it was still far from the number he had bluffed.

“Then what are you going to do with the rest?”

“We will make them one by one with the materials that will be mined in the future…….”

Arteon felt a sense of hopelessness.

“Why did you make such a bluff?”

“Well, I got so angry without realizing it.”

“Now there’s really no other way. We have to find the Mithril mine as soon as possible.”

“Hum! Hum! Then I’ll hurry up and go find the mine.”
The Lord’s jovial figure was nowhere to be seen, and Kraxion left the meeting room weakly to find the Mithril mine with a voice as small as a mouse’s tail.

* * *

Kang Chan, who had left the waterfall and returned to the village after almost a year, exclaimed as he watched the Orcs and Wyvern groups lined up in the village square with Jeina.

“Wow, there are such huge reptiles.”

“Wow, it’s a Wyvern!”

It was a monster that looked similar to the giant reptiles called dinosaurs that lived on Earth in the past, and Kang Chan’s expression was slightly excited as he looked at the Wyvern.

This mysterious creature, which he was encountering for the first time, gave a very strong impression, befitting the king of the sky.

The manly and strong figure emanating from the Wyvern’s entire body was enough to captivate the heart of Kang Chan, who was a soldier.

‘Special Forces Wyvern, huh…….’

Having even thought of a special forces team with the Wyvern as its mascot, Kang Chan smiled contentedly.

“Cool.”

While Kang Chan was lost in his own thoughts, Jeina, who was next to him, shook her head in disbelief as she looked at the Wyvern.

“W, wow. The Wyvern is so big…….”

Wyverns did not live in the Elf forest.

They had been annihilated long ago by the Elves, who were good at long-range attacks.

So young Jeina had only seen Wyverns in books, but today she saw the real thing.

She uniquely liked reptiles for a woman, so the giant Wyvern, which was 20 meters long, was enough to take her soul away.

Kang Chan, who knew that Jeina especially liked lizards, looked at Jeina, and he could tell she wanted to see it up close.

“Do you want to see it up close?”

“…….”

Jeina nodded eagerly.

“Really? Then shall we go closer?”

“Wouldn’t it be dangerous to get too close?”

“Look over there. Someone is riding on it. It’s tamed, so it’ll probably be okay.”

“Still, it’s a bit much to approach suddenly. Besides, the one riding on it is an Orc…….”

Even though it was the same as a lizard in some ways, the Wyvern’s presence felt monstrous, so Jeina seemed a little scared, and she seemed even more scared because the Orc riding on it was a race that didn’t get along very well with the Elves.

But Kang Chan, who didn’t know that at all, wanted to get to know the other races living on this planet, so he decided to talk to them first.

“Then let’s ask the owner and take a look. I’ll protect you if they act dangerously.”

“Okay, thank you.”

Jeina held Kang Chan’s hand tightly, and Kang Chan, taking her with him, slowly approached the Wyvern and politely asked the Orc riding on it.

“If you don’t mind, can I see the Wyvern up close?”

“Kruk? Kyaruk!”

At Kang Chan’s polite request, the Orc suddenly threw an ax.

“What are you doing?”

Kang Chan, who was angry, glared at the Orc.

“Cheyik! This was a warning. Don’t bother me and get out of here! Krrr.”

Kang Chan was a little angry at the Orc’s hostile words.

It was infuriating that a trivial-looking guy ignored his polite request in this way.

“If someone asks politely, you should accept it politely.”

“Krrr! I said the warning is only once.”

“Let’s go! Mister, he said he doesn’t want to.”

“…….”

Kang Chan, full of anger, glared at the Orc as if to kill him and turned his body.

Then the Orc rider exchanged glances with the surrounding Orcs and smiled cruelly, throwing an ax at the back of Kang Chan’s head.

The Orc with surprising skill threw the ax accurately at his head, but Kang Chan was not one to be hit by such an ax.

Clang!

Kang Chan, who had knocked away the flying ax with his blade, glared at the Orc with murderous eyes and said.

“This crazy pig dares to aim for my back?”

“Kwaaack! Pig!”

The Orc rider’s eyes, a proud High Orc, began to turn red with anger when he heard the word pig, one of the words that Orcs hated the most.

It was the Orcs’ madness, Blood Dust [a state of berserk rage].

“Krrr! Die!”

When the Orc whipped the Wyvern’s back with a whip, the giant Wyvern, nearly 20 meters long, screamed and spewed flames at Kang Chan and Jeina.

Whirr!

“Huh!”

“Kyaa!”

Kang Chan had no choice but to be quite embarrassed when the giant lizard unexpectedly spewed a huge flame breath from its mouth.

Wyvern’s breath came so suddenly without even having time to avoid it.

Kang Chan quickly spread his suit like a ball to protect himself and Jeina from the flames.

Thanks to the flame-resistant suit, the two were safe from the Wyvern’s flames, but Kang Chan hugged Jeina and threw himself without delay to avoid the Wyvern’s tail attack that followed.

Thump!

The giant Wyvern’s tail slammed down with tremendous force on the spot where the two were, and a deep pit was created on the ground.

“How dare a trivial thing attack a person! Eat this!”

A high-frequency blade sprang from one of Kang Chan’s arms and spewed a mana sword at the Wyvern.

With a year of painstaking effort, he had now reached the intermediate stage of Sword Expert, capable of spewing mana swords.

It was the result of Kang Chan’s blood and tears.

In order to awaken the mana sword, Kang Chan threw himself into the waterfall every day for a year until he collapsed from exhaustion, swung his sword until his muscles were paralyzed, and reduced his sleep to practice mana training.

That’s how Kang Chan was able to reach the point of spewing mana swords like this today.

It really couldn’t be helped that Elves or humans would be amazed at the growth.

Usually, the intermediate stage of Sword Expert was a realm that a talented swordsman could barely reach after devoting himself to the sword for more than 20 years under a good master.

Kang Chan had done it in just two years.

Kang Chan’s counterattack flew accurately towards the Wyvern’s neck, but unfortunately, his mana sword only caused a little blood to come out of the Wyvern’s tough-skinned neck.

It was only powerful enough to provoke the Wyvern’s temper.