He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 269

“The Undead are coming!”

“Fire! We must stop them!”

Officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) screamed orders at the helmeted soldiers.

The soldiers of the Eastern Territory, peering from the trenches, stared in fear at the Undead Legion that seemed to fill the horizon.

Bang! Tat-tat!

The Imperial Army fired, but most shots weren’t fatal to the Undead, who were already dead.

Before long, the Undead began to ‘return fire’.

Tat-tat-tat-tat!

“Kkeuaaaack!”

“Injured! Healer! Get a healer!”

Just as the Empire’s weapons had advanced, so had their enemies armed themselves with better weapons over time.

Even the Undead, once only able to run and bite, were now holding guns and engaging in firefights.

While it seemed a small change, the addition of firearms made them a far greater threat.

Humans could die from a single gunshot, but the Undead couldn’t be easily neutralized unless hit by bullets specifically designed to kill them.

“Damn it, prepare firebombs!”

“Not yet! Fire all at once when they are in range!”

“What about the machine guns?”

Once the shooting started, the living could no longer fight them proudly on the ground.

That’s why they dug trenches. That alone certainly improved their chances of survival.

“Get out of the way! Installing!”

“Shoot them down!”

Tu-tu-tu-tu-tu-tu!

As soon as the gunner installed the crude, large machine gun, he fired at the approaching Undead.

The machine gun’s large-caliber bullets shredded the Undead. But even as dozens fell, hundreds more filled their places.

The Undead kept coming endlessly from the Dark Portal across the front line, no matter how many were killed.

“Oh, they’re coming!”

“Prepare for melee!”

The officer drew a silver-plated sword. They were officers and Holy Warriors of the Purification Order [a religious military order] at the same time.

As they recited prayers, flames of purification rose on their swords and the soldiers’ bayonets.

Kyaaaaak-!

“Damn Undead bastards!”

“Die! Purify the Undead!”

“For the Empire!”

Bang! Tat-tat!

Chwaak!

A fierce close combat broke out against the Undead pouring into the narrow trench.

The trench was double and triple layered, so support fire came from other trenches, but the only way to deal with the Undead that had rushed in was close combat.

The officers and soldiers fought desperately. Those who fell occasionally rose again as Undead, so they had to kill those who had been comrades until just now.

Seokeok!

“Huk, huk… It never ends.”

“They’re coming again! We won’t be able to stop them this time!”

Even if they somehow repelled those who had entered the trench, the Undead would only send more.

The eyes of the soldiers who fought desperately were full of desperation.

The officer, who had just cut down dozens of Undead with his sword, looked outside the trench as calmly as possible, but he saw no hope.

“That was the first attack. This is the real one.”

Coming now were Undead behemoths that would easily ignore even machine gun fire.

The Undead had no artillery or heavy weapons. Instead, they mobilized huge Undead monsters that could ignore most artillery fire.

The Death Lords used them tactically, making them difficult to deal with.

They weakened the line with relatively weak Undead, and then deployed stronger Undead when the firepower weakened.

They weren’t just dead things that could be baited into charging mindlessly.

“Officer, what do we do now? At this rate……”

It was too late to retreat. Once they started, the Undead, specialized in pursuit, would give chase. There was no escape.

“If we risk our lives here, we will buy time for others. There is no retreat.”

“…I understand. Did everyone hear that? Hold the position. Do not retreat a single step.”

The officer gave the order calmly, and the NCO conveyed it to the soldiers.

The soldiers’ eyes were filled with fear, but they were prepared.

They were filled with fanaticism enough to make such a resolution. It was typical of the Easterners, who had the strongest religious passion among the Imperials.

“…Empire, protect us.”

The Undead behemoths soon reached the front of the trench.

The officers and soldiers sensed the end and prepared for the final defense.

Shuuuuuuuu- Kwang!

“What-!”

At that moment, something exploded on the Undead behemoth.

The officer, who had given up and resigned himself to death, watched the explosion and the sight of it flying into the sky with a roar.

It was an Imperial prop fighter. They had provided close air support.

“Reinforcements! Reinforcements have arrived!”

Tu-kwaaang!

Before the officer could rejoice, additional artillery fire rang out. The artillery unit, silenced by the Undead’s attack, had received support and began firing again.

That wasn’t all.

“Advance! Push the Undead back into the Darklands!”

“Death to the dead again!”

The Legions arrived on the battlefield through the warp gate.

They charged while firing Gatling machine guns attached to their battle armor.

The giant superhumans used the heavy weapons with ease.

The sealed battle armor easily ignored the firepower of the Undead’s bolt-action rifles, so they suffered no damage.

The fire from the elite Imperial soldiers following behind increased the density of firepower, and the endlessly rushing Undead were pushed back.

It was a complete reversal of the situation.

But one perfect point remained.

“Ha, look at the sky!”

“Oh, oh……!”

The sky was covered in a pure white radiance.

A being with wings made of pure white light was descending from the sky.

He filled the entire front with that light, and those swept away by it regained their lives even if they had suffered fatal injuries.

The soldiers who had fought a desperate battle looked up at his existence.

“…His Majesty the Emperor has come.”

He was the living god of the Empire, their Emperor.

* * *

“The Undead are moving as expected. They are using the Dark Portal to carry out blitzkriegs [a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower]. ”

During the last 10 years,

there were no full-scale wars, but dozens of local conflicts.

With each battle, the Empire and its enemies continued to develop tactics and weapons.

The Undead began to use guns at some point, and they showed threatening firepower at the infantry level using line tactics.

Even if the Imperial Army had abandoned line infantry tactics, they were powerful when used by the Undead. Unlike the living, they had no worries about death.

But what was even more frightening about the Undead was that they didn’t fall easily, and they didn’t starve or get tired.

“Dark Portals are being created all over the Eastern Territory. After that, they are marching day and night. At this rate, our front lines will become a mess.”

“If it becomes a melee, it will be overwhelmingly advantageous for them.”

“Yes, that’s the problem.”

If the front lines become entangled and the battle turns into a free-for-all, the Undead, who have almost no supply system and a huge number of troops, will be at an advantage.

“Vostok, therefore, we must make it impossible for them to carry out blitzkriegs.”

“What is Your Majesty’s method?”

“It’s simple.”

The reason why the Undead can march so quickly that it can be called a blitzkrieg is because they are Undead who don’t get tired, and because they can warp near the front lines using the Dark Portal.

To stop that? Eliminate the guys who summon the Dark Portal.

“Beheading operation. Kill all the Death Lords.”

Then we will win this war. If they die, the Undead will be neutralized or simply disappear.

“The problem is that they are not here. Feeling the difference in technology, they have long since disappeared from the Eastern Territory. They have crossed over to the Darklands and are remotely controlling from there.”

Vostok, who knew the Death Lords well, added.

I nodded, thinking that would be the case.

“I know. Then, to kill them, we have no choice but to cross over to the Darklands.”

“…It will be dangerous. After Pestras died last time, they would have further fortified the Darklands.”

“That’s right. But it’s a miscalculation if they think they can stop me.”

Cheok-

I said to Vostok as I walked towards the Dark Portal in front of me.

“Hold the front lines, Vostok. I will go to the Darklands alone.”

“…I understand, Your Majesty. Please take care of yourself.”

Vostok knew that he couldn’t stop me and bowed his head obediently.

With him behind me, I stepped into the Dark Portal without hesitation.

It was originally intended to send Undead, but when I, a living person, entered, the portal seemed to sense me.

“Trying to close the portal? No way.”

[Starting environment domination.]

[System Overdrive]

I don’t know what happened, but after visiting the Vision Maze with Leonis, my power has changed and become stronger.

I felt that the power of the ‘system’ given to me had become stronger. The fact that this world was not a world in a game but a distant future, I still didn’t know why such harmony was achieved.

But there was no need to find out right now. It was important to use that power well.

[Environment domination complete]

[Seized control of the Dark Portal.]

The Dark Portal, which was about to close, was taken over by my system.

The portal did not close and remained open until I reached the other side.

-Kill the one who dares to invade the land of the dead!

Tada-da-dang! Tang!

But as soon as I came out of the portal, the Undead fired at me.

Ting! Tting! Ting!

There was no need to avoid it or cut it off with a sword. The bullets could be easily ignored with just the Silvatane battle armor I was wearing.

I gestured as if I was too lazy to swing my sword, and the blades of shadow swept them away.

The Undead swept away were torn to pieces and rolled on the ground.

“Kisil, track their location.”

[Command received, I will reverse track their magic power.]

The ones I’m looking for are the Death Lords.

If I find them and kill them all, the fight with the Undead will be over.

[Identified the location of 24 targets.]

[Transferring coordinates to the map.]

Kisil soon transmitted all the locations of the Death Lords.

I was going to hunt them down one by one.

“That’s strange, but they’re all scattered?”

However, unlike what I thought, the Death Lords were scattered throughout the Darklands.

To be exact, it was an arrangement that seemed to be divided into two groups.

“What’s going on?

I felt something was strange, but I didn’t know what, so I decided to fly to the nearest location.

And there, I saw an amazing sight.

-Kueeeeek!

-Geureureureu!

-Bring down the false lords!

The Undead were fighting each other.