Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 96

Future Knight 96

As they predicted, Kang Chan lost his sight and was very embarrassed.

‘Damn it! I have to secure my vision somehow.’

Kang Chan tried to emit a stronger aura blade to illuminate the front, but that level of light wasn’t very helpful inside the dark sphere.

‘What should I do…….’

Thinking of Nemitz, who might attack from somewhere in the dark, Kang Chan began to feel increasingly anxious.

But just then, the computer’s cold voice rang an alarm for Kang Chan.

-What are you going to do with the infrared sensor?

‘Ah! The suit’s infrared sensor!’

-Look at you panicking and wandering around…….

‘…….’

Kang Chan, with a look of disgust at the computer’s scolding that left him speechless, put on his battle suit and switched his vision to infrared.

Then, everything in front of him turned green, and he saw the giant Nemitz tiptoeing and sneaking up from afar.

『Pfft!』

Kang Chan couldn’t help but laugh at the sight.

The world’s strongest swordsman tiptoeing and sneaking around like a thief was a humiliating sight.

Nemitz was probably approaching in that manner, thinking that no one would see him… but Kang Chan, who was watching everything, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at Nemitz as if he were pathetic.

Then, the stone headed straight for Nemitz’s head.

Nemitz, who dodged the stone that suddenly flew towards his head, asked in great embarrassment.

『Huh! How did you see me?』

Nemitz shook his head in disbelief as he looked at the Elven Knight staring right at him.

‘No way! He can see me in this darkness!’

『Stop the show and come at me!』

As Kang Chan rushed in, burning the aura blades in both hands, Nemitz turned off the dark sphere and fled to his own camp to avoid Kang Chan.

『Damn it! I don’t know how you saw me in that darkness, but let’s see about tonight!』

『Coward, stand there!』

As Kang Chan put strength into his legs to catch up with the fleeing Nemitz, cracks began to form in the joints of the Gigantes’ [Giant mech suits] legs.

Tick! Tick! Crack! Cracking!

『Huh! My legs?』

Kang Chan was very embarrassed for a moment, but he tried to act calm.

If Nemitz knew about the problem with his Gigantes, he might turn around and attack again.

‘Damn it, the next time I see you, I’ll cut off your breath…….’

Kang Chan glared at the fleeing Nemitz with resentment and turned around to return to his comrades.

As Nemitz was chased by Kang Chan and fled frantically to his own camp, the Allied soldiers watching from afar cheered in unison.

The trumpet of victory echoed across the battlefield.

Ppooooow!

“Waaaaaaaah!!”

Amid the shouts of victory, Kang Chan first took care of the battered Elradion.

『Master! Are you okay?』

『I’m fine. Disciple, are you okay?』

『Yes, Master. I didn’t even hurt a finger.』

Elradion looked incredulous at his disciple’s words that he hadn’t even hurt a finger, then nodded with a proud expression.

『Well done, well done. I can’t believe you’ve become so strong. I really can’t believe it.』

『It’s all thanks to Master.』

Elradion patted his proud disciple on the shoulder.

Then, at that moment, cracks occurred in Kang Chan’s shoulder, just like in his knees.

Crack!

『Huh! What is this? Chan, are you hurt somewhere?』

『No. It’s not because I’m hurt, but the Gigantes suddenly started cracking.』

Kang Chan also showed Elradion the cracks in the Elven Knight’s knee joints. Then Elradion said in a serious tone.

『Hmm, is it defective? The dwarves wouldn’t make defective products… Anyway, there are dwarves here, so let’s ask them for a thorough inspection.』

『I understand, Master.』

Kang Chan and Elradion’s Gigantes were no longer in a condition to fight, so they retreated to the base under the protection of their comrades.

* * *

The first day of the all-out war.

The damage suffered by both sides due to the collision of millions of troops was impossible to grasp.

The number of dead reached 200,000, and the number of soldiers injured and groaning was several times that.

The number of Gigantes, which had been 250, had also decreased to 180.

As expected, the power of the Green Elves was great.

It was a total attack by all races, but they did not budge an inch and accepted the total offensive.

The one who caused the most damage to them was Green.

Looking at the number of soldiers killed by her alone reaching 100,000, you can see how hard she worked. If it weren’t for Arteon’s check, the number would have been several times that.

The attack of the Wind Spirit King Ariel was so terrifying.

The aerial bombardment of the Wind Spirit King was almost a unilateral massacre, and the morale of the Allied soldiers plummeted in an instant.

They had no way to attack Green in the sky, nor any room to avoid the attack.

The only means the Allied forces had to attack her were the Orcs’ wyverns, bows, and magic, but even that was helpless in front of the Spirit King.

The wyverns that flew up to attack her were all pitifully thrown to the ground by the betrayal of the wind that lifted their heavy bodies into the air.

The arrows that flew through the wind flew in completely different directions due to the wind’s mischief.

And low-level attack magic did no damage to the Spirit King.

The only magic that could inflict a fatal blow to the Spirit King was 9th circle magic [the most powerful form of magic].

So Arteon, the continent’s only 9th circle user, constantly sought opportunities to attack, but Ariel, who sensed the 9th circle magic, would not just watch her magic.

He attacked Arteon, who was casting magic at an incredible speed befitting the Wind Spirit King, and she was busy fleeing in a frenzy with Blink, a short-range movement magic.

9th circle magic took a long time to cast as much as its power.

Green and Arteon’s hide-and-seek continued until sunset.

The fierce battle subsided as the sun set and darkness fell.

Both camps slowly began to retreat, and all that was left on the battlefield, from which they had retreated like a receding tide, were a huge number of corpses.

Soon, numerous wild animals flocked to the corpses, and the wild animals filled their hungry stomachs with their corpses.

The soldiers, who were exhausted and worn out from the all-day battle, grabbed their hungry stomachs and longed for food and rest.

However, unfortunately, it was only the beginning for the Dark Elves, who had been waiting for the night.

The Dark Elves’ total attack began against the exhausted soldiers.

As Dark Elf assassins began hunting retreating soldiers with poisoned needles and daggers in the dark, the soldiers panicked.

Threatened by invisible Dark Elves, they lost their reason in fear.

“Aaaaaah! Save me!”

The Allied camp quickly turned into a scene of chaos, and to make matters worse, 20 giant centipedes appeared in the forest.

And the massacre that followed.

In an instant, hundreds of soldiers lost their lives to the giant centipedes’ knife-like legs.

Thirty Gigantes of the Allied forces, who belatedly dispatched, blocked the giant centipedes, but as if they had made a promise, the surrounding land began to shake, and soon 20 more Black Centipedes appeared.

“Kieeeeeeeeeek!”

“Krrrrrr…….”

As the number of underground monsters, each with the power of at least three Gigantes, approached 40, the word hope disappeared from the faces of the Allied Gigantes owners.

“Reporting! 40 enemy black centipedes have appeared and are engaging 30 allied Gigantes! If we don’t send support quickly, they will be annihilated soon!”

“Damn it! Damn it! I’ll go there. Deploy all Gigantes on standby!”

“Understood.”

By the time Duke Sachsen personally led the Gigantes to the battlefield, the 30 Gigantes had already become scrap metal and were rolling around. The enemies had all disappeared into the ground.

“Damn! Damn it!”

Sachsen, who lost 30 Gigantes in an instant, had to feel a sense of despair that made the sky sing [a feeling of utter hopelessness].

This was because the number lost during today’s battle alone was 70 out of a total of 250 Gigantes.

And then losing 30 more…….

At this rate, it was clear that he would lose all Gigantes in less than 5 days.

Even if he rushed into reproduction, it was impossible to produce Gigantes, which take several months to manufacture, in 5 days.

The number of Gigantes is decreasing.

If he loses any more than this, he will have no way to stop the enemy’s troll elves, giant centipedes, and black Gigantes.

That meant the defeat of the war, the end of all races.

Sachsen, who looked up at the dark night sky with gloomy eyes, thought of Kang Chan.

‘I’ll trust you…….’

Now, all the variables he was thinking about depended on Kang Chan’s Black Wyvern unit.

30. The Soaring Black Wyvern

This place, which was noisy with terrible stench and loud machinery, was the Orcs’ camp.

Kweeeeeeeeeek!

Here and there, you could see the gruesome scene of Orcs who had been seriously injured in today’s battle being slaughtered by their comrades.

They didn’t know what treatment was.

And they were such a cruel race that they didn’t even hesitate to use their comrades who were seriously injured and hopeless as food.

Their dinner was also the corpse of a dead comrade, and their comrade’s entrails were bubbling in the pot.

If a person with a weak stomach saw that sight, they would be shocked and gag.

There were 11 crazy humans walking into such a place, and they were the members of the Black Wyvern.

“Cough! The smell…….”

“Ugh! Look at that! They’re eating their comrades!”

“Agua agua, smack smack. Keureuk?”

An Orc who was tearing off the leg of a comrade who had been roughly scorched by the fire glared at the human pointing at him.

And he was wary with a beast-like cry.

“Kyareureureure…….”

“Geureureureure.”

He was an Orc who would have attacked without hesitation in the past, but because of Urkanta’s strict orders, he could only chew on his own race’s legs and glare as if to kill.

The place where they arrived while receiving the murderous eyes of such Orcs was the Wyvern’s nest.

There, Orc trainers were carefully taking care of the wyverns injured in today’s battle.

They eat their own race and take care of the wyverns with utmost care. It was truly an ironic scene, but there was no way that Orcs, who give birth to more than 10 babies twice a year, would have a human-centered ideology.

The gazes pouring down on the members who arrived there were even fiercer than the gazes of the Orcs outside.

Orcs are divided into general Orcs and High Orcs, and unlike the lower individuals, Peons, High Orcs are beings with superior bodies and intelligence.

As such, they were more arrogant and exclusive to other races.