Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 41

Futuristic Knight Episode 41

Rather, he was effortlessly destroying Ents, like a fish in water.

As the war situation worsened, Arteon focused on gathering as much mana as possible to eliminate even one more giant centipede.

Then, someone’s shadow fell over her.

She confidently flew alone to the gathering place of the Elf mages. This was Green, the leader of the Green Elves.

“I am glad to finally meet you.”

Arteon frowned at the Green Elf who had come to find her.

This was because her greatest worry had become a reality.

The leader of the Green Elves had appeared in person.

She had hoped Green wouldn’t appear while she was confronting the human and orc alliance, but her earnest wish was futile.

“Are you Green, the leader of the Green Elves?”

“Yes, Arteon-nim. Or should I call you grandmother?”

“Ha, grandmother?”

Arteon asked, her expression unreadable, when Green suddenly called her grandmother.

“Why would I be your grandmother?”

“Because my inherited name from my mother is Judrian Odd Lacasa.”

At those words from Green, Arteon’s iron mask, which had remained intact even before the Ancient Dragon, crumbled.

“Su, Su, Surely! You are that child from back then!?”

Artheon watched Green slowly nod, shaking her head in disbelief.

“No, no way… How, how!”

Artheon staggered, and a mage hurried to support her.

“I have been waiting a very long time for this day, to meet my grandmother like this. And I wanted to ask: why did you abandon my mother and me so coldly…?”

“It was because if I hadn’t, you and your mother wouldn’t have survived.”

“Stop making excuses. Aren’t you curious about what happened to our mother and daughter after that, how we lived?”

As her sorrowful rage boiled over, flames began to erupt around her.

“Why, why didn’t you ever look for our mother and daughter after that?”

Tears streamed endlessly from Green’s eyes.

Artheon’s heart ached as she looked at her.

The pain of having to ruthlessly drive her beloved daughter and granddaughter, whom she had brought into the world, to their fate washed over her.

However, Green’s next words were chilling enough to dispel Arteon’s sadness.

“Heh heh heh… The pain our mother and daughter received, and the revenge my deceased mother craves, I will exact it from this place today.”

Her grotesque appearance, laughing and crying amidst the flames, sent chills down the spines of those who witnessed it.

And the next words from her mouth were not just chilling, but shocking and horrifying.

“Come forth… Phoenix.”

A massive spatial distortion appeared behind Green, and it was clear that something enormous was crossing dimensions.

The elf spiritists, who were connected with spirits, collapsed to the floor, wetting themselves.

Just as black mages, who were in league with the demon king, felt an irresistible fear before the demon king of the demon world, spiritists, connected with spirits, lost control of their minds before the presence of the Spirit King.

As hundreds of spiritists suddenly panicked and became helpless, even Arteon trembled with fear.

Amari was clearly an elf contracted with Silvan, a high-ranking spirit of the forest, but seeing even her trembling, it was clear that Green had contracted with the Spirit King, as rumored.

If it was the Spirit King, she would wield at least 9th circle fire magic, equivalent to her own level.

Perhaps, in the worst-case scenario, it could be even more powerful.

Until now, only dragons could contract with the Spirit King.

Artheon couldn’t believe that a mere half-elf could contract with the Spirit King.

But everything happening before her was real, and the reality of the Spirit King was slowly being revealed.

She had no doubt that today would be her last day.

Artheon recalled the distant past.

The day her daughter Matana gave birth to a child with green skin was still vivid in her mind.

The sight of her being banished from the village, unable to even wash away the blood from childbirth, holding the newborn Lacasa, was still vivid.

Everyone thought that Matana and the child would soon become food for the beasts.

It was incredibly difficult for a tired mother who had just given birth to survive in a monster-infested forest, taking a baby out of the elves’ protection.

But they survived.

And that child, once a baby, unbelievably grew stronger and reappeared before her eyes.

Tears also flowed from Arteon’s eyes as she looked at her granddaughter.

‘I hope this will ease your resentment, my daughter…’

She decided to accept her impending death willingly.

Before she knew it, Phoenix soared into the sky from the spatial distortion with a deafening roar, spreading its furnace-like hot wings.

The fireballs that fell from its wings instantly ignited the surroundings, and the forest was soon engulfed in flames.

“That, that is the Fire Spirit King Phoenix that I have only heard of!”

Numerous elves, witnessing the reality of the Fire Spirit King Phoenix, which had only been passed down as a legend, were awestruck by its massive and beautiful appearance.

Phoenix, in the form of a giant bird covered in burning feathers, slowly lowered its huge wings and approached Green, overwhelming all who saw it.

A suffocating heat wave swept over the elves.

“What is the matter for which you summoned me? Shall I turn this area into a desert?”

Phoenix, who had the most violent personality among the Spirit Kings, asked Green aggressively.

“Wait a moment, Phoenix.”

Seeing Green touching Phoenix’s beak, which resembled lava, without hesitation, it seemed the Spirit King did not harm its contractor.

“Why are you crying? Are you sad because you are going to die?”

At her question, Arteon simply shed tears without saying anything.

“Why aren’t you preparing anything? You are a 9th circle archmage; are you giving up because of Phoenix’s appearance?”

Artheon couldn’t say anything, even when asked again.

“Say something! Do you think my mother and I will be able to resolve our resentment if you just shut your mouth and die obediently like that? I have lived desperately for 500 years with the determination to kill you! Don’t be ridiculous! Don’t be ridiculous!”

Green flew towards Arteon like an arrow and strangled the defenseless Arteon.

“Fight! Fight! You’re a 9th circle! You’re the best magician on the continent! You can’t die so easily! You can’t!”

Green, with her small stature, lifted Arteon lightly with one hand.

Even though Arteon was light, it was an amazing display of strength.

As Arteon’s breath was cut off and her face turned red, the elves around her rushed to save her.

Then, Green, with her eyes filled with madness, turned her gaze towards them, and those who rushed in were instantly torn to pieces and scattered in all directions.

In the midst of the blood rain, something wriggling like a snake was held in her hand—a whip.

But it was no ordinary whip.

The whip was covered in a burning aura.

She was the rarest whip master on the entire continent.

Because of the Spirit King’s formidable power, she rarely had to wield this whip of terror that she had been honing for hundreds of years.

But her whipping was so destructive that it could subdue most knights in an instant, and the attack pattern was unpredictable.

In the past, when she traveled around the continent alone for blood revenge, she was called the Green Witch.

The knights who tasted her whipping even gave her whip the infamous name of ‘Blood Whip’.

“Fight! Fight! If you don’t fight, I’ll kill everyone here! And if that’s not enough, I’ll burn all the elves in the Elf Forest to death and turn the forest into a desert!”

“La, Lacasa…”

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“…?”

Kang Chan, who felt an unusual mana wave strong enough to shake the giant Red Mars vehicle, went to the upper part of the Red Mars vehicle.

Then he couldn’t believe his eyes.

The elf village was burning under the night sky.

“Could it be? Enemies? Oh, no! Jeina!”

It wouldn’t be strange if the enemy attacked first since the war was imminent, but the problem was that Jeina was there.

Kang Chan, worried about Jeina’s safety, ran madly to the hangar.

He grabbed the combat equipment that he hadn’t touched since coming to this world.

It was a small-caliber railgun capable of launching grenades, which he used to enjoy using.

Wearing a combat suit, he slung his rifle over his shoulder and immediately flew towards the village on an air bike.

What unfolded before Kang Chan’s eyes when he arrived at the village was nothing short of hell.

Explosions that shook the earth were happening everywhere, and tens of thousands of elves were fighting in the forest, entangled with black elves.

In the center of the village, terribly huge centipedes and animated trees were fighting fiercely.

Behind them, countless green soldiers were massacring the elves.

The village was a scene of utter chaos.

Kang Chan’s heart grew even more anxious.

Avoiding the arrows that flew from time to time, Kang Chan arrived at Jeina’s house and landed in front of it.

The area around the house was already devastated, and countless elves were dragged out and thrown on the floor with their heads cut off.

Kang Chan rushed into Jeina’s house, holding a railgun at the ready.

The house was already devastated and on fire.

“Jeina! Jeina! Answer me, Jeina!”

An elf who appeared to be Jeina’s father was burning on the living room floor in a terrible state, his limbs severed.

Seeing a blood-stained rapier in his hand, he knew that he had strongly resisted the enemies before he died.