Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 46

Fortunately, she had only fainted, leading Jaina and Kang Chan to breathe a sigh of relief.

But that was short-lived, as a terrifying murderous aura enveloped them.

“I should have just killed you back then….”

Startled, Jaina and Kang Chan turned to see Green approaching, her eyes gleaming with murderous intent as she glared at them.

The eyes of the two, meeting Green’s crazed gaze, were filled with despair.

“Please… please stop now.”

“Die!”

Jaina’s words were cut short.

Without giving her a chance to speak, Green’s whip cracked through the air.

Kang Chan tried to block the fierce whip, flying with Green’s rage, with his shield, but the shield and Kang Chan’s arms, already battered, refused to obey.

His arms were numb, as if paralyzed.

Then, Kang Chan had no choice but to grit his teeth and stand in front of Jaina and Arteon with his whole body.

No matter what happened to him, he couldn’t let Jaina, who was everything to him, get hurt.

But then, someone pushed Kang Chan away with all their might, blocking him.

It was Jaina.

Kang Chan, so exhausted that he was pushed away even by Jaina, let out a scream of despair.

“No! Jaina!”

“I love you….”

“Don’t do this! Jaina!”

The fragile Jaina, not wearing the same protective gear as Kang Chan, blocked Green’s Blood Whip, which was said to cut even steel, with her bare body, so the result was obvious.

Jaina’s delicate body was torn apart like a firecracker, splitting into two pieces before Kang Chan’s eyes.

The blood that gushed out of Jaina’s small body sprayed everywhere like a fountain, and it splashed into Kang Chan’s mouth as he screamed, forcing him to drink Jaina’s blood.

A desperate scream burst from Kang Chan’s mouth, tearing his throat.

“No! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Jaina, who had been reduced to rags before Kang Chan’s eyes, moved her mouth with her last remaining strength.

She couldn’t make a sound, but Kang Chan could understand what she was saying all too well.

With her fading last breath, she said to Kang Chan:

That she loved him.

“Don’t die! Jaina! I’ll wake up Arteon! Arteon will heal you with recovery magic! So please hold on! Just hold on, Jaina!”

Kang Chan hurriedly approached Arteon and shouted.

“Arteon! Arteon! Wake up! Arteon! Please save Jaina! Please? Please save Jaina!”

Kang Chan, wailing and pleading, roughly shook Arteon with his knees instead of his unmoving hands, but Arteon, pale and unconscious, did not wake up.

Kang Chan, who had been desperately pleading, looked at Jaina again, and Jaina was already a cold corpse.

With her eyes still open.

“Ah, no! Jaina, no! You can’t die! Open your eyes! Open your eyes!”

Kang Chan, covered in Jaina’s blood, shed tears, and as the tears washed away the blood, he looked as if he was crying tears of blood.

His appearance was enough to make anyone who saw him feel eerie.

Hugging Jaina, who wouldn’t open her eyes no matter how much he shook her, Kang Chan rubbed his face against Jaina’s face, which was still warm, and wailed.

“I truly loved you……. You were more precious than my life……. Please…… open your eyes, Jaina.”

Kang Chan, wailing as he hugged Jaina’s corpse like a madman.

Green approached him, sneering with ridicule.

“Human, are you suffering? Are you suffering from losing your loved one? Yes, you must be very sad… you lost your loved one, so you must be very sad. But know that the pain you are experiencing now is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the pain you humans have given me!”

At her words, Kang Chan, who had been crouching, opened his mouth in a hoarse voice.

“So what….”

“What?”

“What does that have to do with Jaina… and those bastards?”

Asked in a calm tone, completely different from his previous wailing, Green replied in a slightly embarrassed tone.

“Blame it on the fact that you were born as cursed humans and elves!”

“That kind of bullshit… I’ll kill you all. Every single one of you without leaving any behind….”

Kang Chan slowly raised his head.

All emotions had completely disappeared from Kang Chan’s face.

He was just staring blankly at the target he had to kill.

He no longer felt any reason to live.

That meant there was no longer any reason to hide his identity.

“Hmph! Someone like you?”

Green, who had not noticed Kang Chan’s change, snorted.

“If you have the ability, why don’t you give it a try? Hohohoho!”

“I won’t let a single one of you survive….”

“Oh ho! You alone? That’s really amazing….”

The moment Green’s eyes met Kang Chan’s, she closed her mouth.

No emotions such as sadness, anger, or hatred were flowing from Kang Chan’s eyes.

His eyes were devoid of emotion.

He should have been sad, angry, and hateful.

He had lost his beloved woman before his eyes, so he certainly should have been.

But nothing was felt from the human.

Rather, an inexplicable sense of incongruity assailed Green.

She felt fear from a human who had become nothing more than rags.

The hairs standing on end on her arm proved it.

‘Fear? M-me, fear?’

She certainly felt a foreign emotion, but there was something lacking to drive it only as the emotion of fear.

But Green could clearly feel it.

The fact that the emotion that made even herself, who had reigned as an absolute being for hundreds of years, tremble was fear.

And she got to see it.

That the words of the man before her were by no means empty words.

‘I’ll follow you, Jaina.’

-Final safety mode deactivated.

-Entering combat mode level 6.

-Thank you for your hard work, Captain Kang Chan.

The bio-computer bid farewell to Kang Chan, whom it would never meet again alive.

He, who had lost the meaning of life, had chosen a path of no return.

The time he could endure now was only about 30 minutes.

A bizarre change began in Kang Chan’s body.

Kang Chan’s body rapidly reddened and swelled up as if it would explode several times.

His eyes gradually began to be stained with blood.

Soon, mana began to accelerate at an incredible speed, incomparable to that of combat mode level 5.

Then, an unacceptably large amount of mana filled his body in an instant.

The mana hole [a core within a person’s body that generates mana] swelled up as if it would burst, and mana that had nowhere to go spewed out of his body.

Looking at the human causing a huge storm of mana, Green thought he was not human.

“S-surely, a demon?”

Green, who was approaching to kill Kang Chan.

She couldn’t help but be surprised by Kang Chan’s bizarre change.

Because an unbelievably enormous aura of mana was emanating from the human who was dying.

Besides, the current appearance of the human was somehow unnatural to be called an ordinary human.

Thanks to the metabolic ability amplified hundreds of times more than usual, his wounds were healed in an instant.

It was a healing power much faster than that of a troll.

Veins as thick as fingers were constantly wriggling all over his body.

Even the surviving elves were in an uproar at Kang Chan’s bizarre change.

“Hey! Die quietly without struggling!”

Green lashed out her whip to finish off that bizarre human who made her feel an inexplicable unpleasantness.

But surprisingly, the human deflected her whip elsewhere with a light gesture.

Her whip, which was said to cut even steel.

“Huk! I-impossible…….”

Her shock did not last until the end.

Because a huge aura of flame, reaching 3 meters in length, exploded from the human’s dagger and was fired at her.

She had to run away in a panic.

It was an unbelievable power to be called a normal aura blade [a weapon skill that uses mana to enhance a blade’s cutting power].

There was only one thing with this level of power.

Only the Aura Fire, which is handed down only in legends.

‘Huk! S-surely that is Aura Fire?’

Green couldn’t understand the current situation.

The human was clearly exhausted enough to be pushed down by a girl.

Such a human suddenly spewed out Aura Fire with tremendous momentum.

But Green had no time to be surprised anymore.

Because the Aura Fire was rushing at her as if to devour her.

As Green hurriedly dodged into the air, the ground where Green was standing split in two with a tremendous explosion and caused a huge explosion.

The explosion was so intense that it shook Green’s internal organs, who had soared into the sky with just the shock.

“Keueup!”

Blood burst from her mouth as if she had suffered internal injuries.

‘Keuek! H-how can such an absurd power! This is not the ability of a normal Sword Master [a highly skilled swordsman]……. That bastard! To hide such power…….’

Green was dumbfounded at the traces of the great destruction that could not be created by human power.

Green, who had lost her will to fight, hurriedly flew into the sky and took refuge outside of Kang Chan’s attack range.

Then, Kang Chan, who had missed his prey, roared like an angry beast and rushed towards the surrounding green elf warriors.

Dozens of green elves were brutally torn apart by Kang Chan’s gesture.

“Kkyaaaaak!”

“Kuaaak!”

“I-it’s a monster!”

As the green elves began to die in droves, Green shook her head and screamed.

“Don’t do it! I said don’t do it!”

Even as she was screaming like that, dozens of green elves became chunks of meat and flew through the air.

However, Green could not even dare to approach Kang Chan and was only pacing around.

In just a few minutes, hundreds of green elves were mangled by Kang Chan’s hands.

Corpses with green skin were lined up on the ground, and Kang Chan, looking like a blood-soaked grim reaper, was quietly breathing heavily.

Then, a sharp stick soared high into the sky from the back of his black suit.

And Kang Chan quietly muttered as if he was muttering to himself.

“DEFCON [Defense Condition, a state of alert used by the United States Armed Forces] declared, enemy extermination war. Start, computer.”

-Understood. DEFCON declared as of this moment. We will mobilize all available armaments of the warship to protect the warship and crew from dangerous elements.

Kugugugugugugung.

The sleeping Red Mars slowly began to vibrate and wake up.

Then, the missile silos that had not been destroyed slowly opened, and dozens of missiles inside them sequentially spewed fire and soared into the air.

And flew at supersonic speed towards the loaded coordinates.