Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 280

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Chapter 280

Since I was born,

I have been through countless battlefields.

I have faced dozens, hundreds, perhaps even thousands of monsters.

I have experienced fierce battles between organizations.

But I haven’t experienced many large-scale battles that could be called wars.

No, I haven’t.

This moment was my first war.

* * *

Whoosh…….

A sharp wind swept through the silence.

Numerous warriors constantly adjusted their weapons, gazing beyond the walls.

Even the usually rational and composed sorcerers and mages repeatedly swallowed hard.

There was still no change beyond the walls, but everyone standing here felt it.

That today was the end.

And that the end was rapidly approaching.

Thump!

A distant, ominous vibration shook the ground.

That was the beginning.

Breaking through the suffocating silence, the darkness began to move.

-Kiek!

-Kyak!

The sound of something brushing, breaking, or shattering, cries and breaths.

All sorts of noises rushed in with the stench of beasts.

Far away, filling the horizon, they arrived right before us.

-Kieeeee!

-Kyaaaaa!

Monsters.

More monsters.

East, west, south, north, land, and sky.

Centered around the city walls, no matter where you looked, there were only monsters.

I stood at the highest point of the wall, gazing at the overwhelming sight.

‘Was even the horde that gathered here at first… just a drop in the bucket?’

Even Erster’s group that I encountered in the first test, and the monster army I faced as soon as I arrived here, felt small in comparison.

It was pointless to count.

The distant horizon and the edge of the sky were all dyed black.

“Warriors.”

Far away, the man revered as the king and god of the ancients opened his mouth before the approaching monsters.

“Destruction has arrived right before our eyes.”

Destruction.

That’s right. This was not a battle for victory. It was a struggle to survive destruction.

“There is nowhere to run. Fight or die. The only choices we have are to struggle or to die. Only two.”

Everyone knew what that meant.

What was about to unfold was the final battlefield for the human race, where even speaking of survival felt like a luxury.

“But this war will be written in myths and passed down through generations.”

“Poets will sing of our achievements.”

“The elderly will tell our stories to children.”

“Young lives will dream of our great deeds.”

Bang! Kwakwakwang!

The man’s voice echoed clearly throughout the city, even amidst the noise of the approaching monsters.

“So, warriors… fight back. Leave behind a history that you will not be ashamed of as warriors. This place is a battlefield to be recorded in myths, and it will be more than enough to spill your blood on.”

Weeeeeing!

A white spear pushed back the dark shadows, emitting a brilliant light as it was raised high into the sky.

It was the king’s spear, which had always brought them victory.

Thump!

The drum sounded.

Boo-ooooooo!

As if representing the warriors’ fervor.

The sound of the horn heavily descended upon the battlefield.

-Kieeeeeeee!

The monsters roared even more wildly at the sound.

Lou’s body bent like a bow, and the fully drawn spear was launched.

An explosion erupted.

A torrent of light swept through the surroundings, and the monsters’ front lines collapsed.

“Come, destruction.”

Lou said in a dignified voice.

Immediately after.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The war began.

* * *

Immediately after the throwing of the Holy Spear, which signaled the start of the battle, the monsters began to pour in.

“All archers, draw your bows!”

On the walls, countless warriors drew their bows, gathering their mana.

“Fire!”

Thwoong!

The bowstrings were released simultaneously.

A rain of arrows filled the sky.

Kwaaang! Kwaaang!

These arrows were not ordinary arrows, but arrows imbued with mana [magical energy].

Each arrow caused countless explosions as it fell on the monsters.

The monsters of the front lines rolled on the ground.

And trampling over those monsters, the monsters of the rear lines surged forward again.

“Keep drawing without stopping!”

“Druids! Don’t spare your mana!”

“Prepare magic!”

“Fire!”

Kwaaaaaaaang!

Explosions, smoke, the smell of blood, and the stench of beasts.

Humans desperately fought back, and monsters surged in to spread destruction.

-Kieeeeek!

“Air! Flying monsters are approaching!”

“Mages, aim at the sky! Archers, keep firing your arrows!”

“Arrows! Bring more quickly!”

A chaotic scene unfolded where warriors, mages, and sorcerers were indistinguishable.

Ordinary people boiled oil and brought arrows, and warriors constantly unleashed mana and shot arrows.

Flying creatures, animal types, monster types…….

The types of monsters were also varied.

Some sprayed poison, breathed fire, flew in the sky, or dug into the ground.

……And.

Kugugugugu!

As the battle progressed, the warriors felt the ground shaking.

“……Is the mountain moving?”

Far away, at the edge of the horizon.

A huge mountain was moving.

Slowly, shaking the ground, something so large that it touched the clouds began to move among the monsters.

In an instant.

-Groooooaaaaaar!

The mountain let out a cry.

No, it wasn’t a mountain.

It was a huge, too huge monster.

Each time the creature, reminiscent of a black-stained bull, stretched its legs, the ground undulated like waves, transmitting vibrations.

“Wasn’t that what the king killed!”

“Did it get reborn again so soon!”

“It’s the Black Bull!”

“Shoot! Don’t let it get close!”

“If that thing touches the wall, it’s over!”

-Gooooooo!

The Black Bull.

They were monsters that they had encountered many times in the long battlefield.

Its huge legs reached the bottom of the sea, its body seemed to move the mountains, and its long horns touched the clouds.

How many countries had been devoured by that thing?

How many humans had died because of that thing?

The most desperate offspring created by the monster of destruction.

The moment that thing touched this castle even for a moment, the victory or defeat of this war would be decided.

“Your Majesty!”

The warriors called out to their king.

Their king would be able to stop that desperate monster.

But…… their king did not raise his spear.

He was just looking somewhere else.

The place where King Lou’s gaze was directed.

I was there.

“Ron.”

“Yes, Lee Cheol. Tell me.”

“I trust you.”

I already knew about Ron’s change.

The scent of mana wriggling within Ron’s body.

That was proof that Ron had awakened his mana circuit [pathways for magical energy], and at the same time, it meant that I had gained a strong ally I could trust.

“Leave it to me.”

Ron drew his sword.

The light of blue aura, reminiscent of the sky, stretched beyond the sky.

Ron drew his sword.

Then it was time for me to do what I had to do.

With a crackling sound, black energy gathered between my fingers.

A staff reminiscent of a tree branch was created, and an opaque, thin blade formed at the end.

Heavenly-grade sacred relic, Divine Spear Gyeongcheon.

Wiiiiiiii!

Gyeongcheon was activated, and its unique noise erupted.

The warriors on the wall were startled and looked at the young stranger among them.

Thump!

I firmly fixed my lower body to the ground with mana.

The muscles in my right hand, which held the spear, swelled like a balloon, and thick blood vessels popped out.

The left hand, stretched out and aimed at the enemy, was the sight.

The right hand, gripping the spear, became the gun barrel.

-G, uh, uh, uh……!

Towards the monster’s massive body.

I threw the spear.

Thwaaaaaak!

The air exploded.

A sonic boom occurred.

Some of the floor on the wall was shattered and collapsed by the storm caused by the javelin throw.

A long black line was drawn in the air.

Monsters and warriors alike focused their attention on the end of that line.

And finally, like a judgment from God, a spear fell on the Black Bull.

Jjeoooooooooong!

All the noise of the battlefield was swallowed by the explosion.

Immediately after, a terrifying heatwave completely evaporated the surrounding air.

Countless monsters were scattered like dust by the shockwave that spread from the epicenter.

Flying monsters crashed helplessly to the ground, their necks broken or their internal organs ruptured, meeting their deaths.

“Uwaaaaaaak!”

Hwaaaak!

The rushing aftershock reached the walls.

Even trained warriors were pushed back or lowered their bodies, and those with lower levels had to cover their ears and eyes from the massive amount of light and explosions that rushed in from the epicenter.

……Sssssss!

The moment of explosion, which seemed like it would last forever, ended, and the warriors took in the scene of the explosion.

The Black Bull was gone.

There were no monsters either.

Where the explosion was erupting.

The dust and debris on the ground were still being pulled up by the unresolved force, creating a pillar-like shape that reached the sky.

Hooduduk! Tuduk!

Within a radius of several hundred meters around, fragments of black aura began to pour down like snow.

“……!”

The warriors felt shock, astonishment, and joy.

But.

-Grooooooo!

-Kieeeeeeee!

Soon they had to tilt their heads again, feeling the ground shaking once more.

“Again, again?”

“How on earth!”

“Damn it! This disgusting……!”

The large monsters were not the end with the Black Bull.

Huge shapes appeared in a row.

-Kieeeek!

-Keureuk! Keureuk!

The monsters that had died or lowered their bodies due to the aftermath of the explosion also began to move again.

Breathing low, I reached out my hand into the air again.

Deudeudeuk!

Black energy stretched out and took shape again.

I pressed my lips tightly.

‘It doesn’t matter whether this battlefield is a record or an illusion.’

Since I have participated in this battle, I intend to do my best.

I looked at Lou.

The man who was risking his life even though he realized that the situation he was experiencing was fictitious.

I will do my best to repay what I have received from him, and not to be ashamed of him.

Woo-oong!

I deployed black energy.

Countless weapons floated into the sky, incomparably more than the first day of battle.

I was not prepared enough to adapt at that time, but not now.

‘You disgusting monsters.’

My mana began to imbue all the weapons at once.

Come on.

You will not be able to set foot on this land where I stand.

* * *

I created another Gyeongcheon by creating black energy.

Bang!

This time I didn’t throw it.

I slammed it into the ground and activated Gyeongcheon by raising mana as it was.

Hwaaaak!

Black and white radiance spread in all directions from Gyeongcheon.

Countless residual mana that was being wasted on the wall gathered in Gyeongcheon and was returned and flowed back to the warriors.

This was the new way I had acquired to use Gyeongcheon.

And that returned mana was also flowing into me.

-Kieeeeek!

Kwaaaaaaang!

With the activation of Gyeongcheon, changes also occurred in Cheonra, which was occupying space in the air and flying.

The weapons, which already contained enormous mana, began to sweep around with even more powerful momentum, filled with numerous forces.

-Kieeeee!

A flying monster flew in, circling in the air for a long time.

What greeted it was a sword.

Kwaaaaaaaa-!

The night sky was dyed even darker with black aura by the flash caused by the sword shot into the air.

All that remained when the light subsided was dust.

Dozens of flying monsters rushed in, but not a single one crossed the wall.

Kwareureureung! Jjeoooooong!

And that wasn’t the end.

From the moment Cheonra was deployed, the unit of death that the monsters rushing to the wall faced changed.

When the black aura caused a fire, they burned.

The mana of water surged like a flood.

Thick lightning struck, scattering the monsters without a trace.

It was already a force that was too far beyond what the weapon possessed.

Allies and monsters alike were horrified by the phenomenon caused by Lee Cheol.

‘Lee Cheol……! What on earth are you!’

Ron looked at Lee Cheol and felt a thrill.

The force that overwhelms the battlefield was exactly that.

Lee Cheol was already too powerful to be called an individual.

He was showing the power of an army as an individual.

“Fall back! You’re getting in that young man’s way! Leave the west wall to that young man!”

So much so that even the commander who was near him withdrew his troops.

Lee Cheol did the work of thousands of warriors alone.

Bang! Kwaaaaaaang!

The terrain beyond the wall that Lee Cheol was guarding changed.

The ground was turned upside down, and the overturned area was covered again with mana with the properties of soil, and flames soared, and poison and ice poured down.

According to the principles of mana, the attributes or properties of mana that an individual can have are clearly one or two, but Lee Cheol is wielding countless forces as if he were a god.

‘That spear!’

And Ron could see that what was providing Lee Cheol with such power was the spear stuck next to Lee Cheol.

‘I can’t fall behind either!’

Ron gathered mana.

It’s still awkward, but he uses the mana circuit to deploy his secret technique.

I can stop it.

Maybe, we could win this war.

Ron thought so.

But.

‘It’s not good.’

My thoughts were different from that.

I was clearly blocking all the rushing monsters without leaving a single one behind.

But this was not a battle I was waging alone.

This was a battlefield, and no matter how many monsters I cut down, death was piling up here and there.

“Uwaaaaaaak!”

“Block it! There! It’s over there!”

“No! Mother!”

“God! Lead me to Valhalla [hall of the slain in Norse mythology]……!”

Far away, where my power does not reach, countless deaths continue.

‘Is this…… war?’

The ending of this war…… was actually decided.

It was the future of destruction.

The ancients cannot win this war.

That was history.

This brilliant civilization will be extinguished, and they will disappear, leaving only myths behind.

It was the first time.

To engage in a fight knowing that you will lose.

‘No…….’

I shook my head.

The victory or defeat of this war did not depend on that.

The warriors also knew.

That all that remained before them was death.

But they wanted to remain and protect.

A history that will be remembered for generations.

The survival of mankind.

For them, victory was exactly that.

That is why they were engaging in the fight even knowing death.

I was thinking that.

I was about to correct my thoughts and try to raise my mana.

“……!”

But I immediately stopped the operation of mana and had to quickly turn my head.

Ssssst!

The muscles all over my body stiffened.

Goosebumps ran up my spine.

My intuition rang the alarm, and black energy seethed and spread through my body.

“It’s here.”

That.

The primordial monster.

Appeared to realize destruction.

─────────!

A scream that could not be expressed in words echoed.

-Kieeeeeee!

The monsters rushing towards the wall screamed as if they were in joy.

“Ah, ah…….”

Even the warriors who showed indomitable will collapsed and slumped down.

I stared at it with my eyes wide open.

I’m watching.

I felt its gaze was directed exactly at me.

“Finally, it’s the end.”

At that moment, I felt a presence landing next to me.

It was Lou.

An incomparably brilliant light erupted from his hand, which had been preserving his strength.

“Will you watch over me?”

Lou turned to me and asked.

It was the final battle determined by fate.

Lou wanted to fulfill his mission even though he knew that the situation he was experiencing was fictitious.

I clenched my fist tightly and said.

“I have no intention of just watching from behind.”

Kiiiiiiing!

I drew the sword that I had not taken out in the meantime.

A long sword forged to cut that thing, for annihilation.

Black Night.

“I will fight with you too.”

I finally got to experience it.

The primordial monster, that grotesque being.

I gathered everything I had.