Reincarnator - Chapter 399: Continental War (3)
—rummmblee—
The Haetara made a strange expression as it moved.
Just up until this exact moment, there was the aura of a delicious meal in the location it was heading to.
An aura of a meal that would allow it to far surpass its siblings.
But the aura had suddenly disappeared.
—rummble—
The Haetara pondered for a moment and then stopped heading forward and turned around instead.
—boom! boom!—
Because of its sheer mountainous size, just a simple turn caused giant dust clouds to form around it.
And there was a very dissatisfied expression on the Haetara's face.
It had almost reached it, but for it to suddenly disappear…
But there was no time to sulk over this matter.
Since its siblings were already far ahead of itself, moving toward other sources of food.
Although there were a few flies clad in steel armor that also aroused their hunger, these little things were nowhere close to being able to satisfy them.
Instead of wasting time on these little things, they needed to move.
In search for that one large chunk of meat that could fill up its stomach.
—boom! boom!—
The Haetara turned around and then started to proceed towards the far distance that radiated another delicious aura.
And in the location the Haetara had previously headed to…
'Good, I've stopped it before things got more annoying.'
Hansoo mumbled in annoyance and then started to descend.
Towards the Nerpa who had attracted the Haetara with its tremendous energy but was now laid out on the floor, powerless.
"Ughhh… Kuhuk."
The Nerpa puked out blood.
One strike.
It only took one strike to destroy this weak body currently under its control.
Even if the body had the power of his soul, it was useless.
Since the moment he started using it, what was left of his weak body would start to disintegrate.
'Damn…'
The Nerpa looked despairingly at Hansoo who was descending from the sky and then glanced at the crystal in Hansoo's hand.
And at that moment, Hansoo's words flashed by.
'I'm… a fake?'
This being the reason why he could not use the controller.
But the Nerpa denied this.
'No. How can I be fake?'
Then, what were these memories in his head?
From waking up from the crystal to having his body stolen by Melchizedek.
And stealing the body of N-Aroel who was nearby.
It remembered everything.
Even his goal of saving his race and achieving glory.
But at that moment—
—pain.
The Neropa's expression turned grim.
And it wasn't from a headache or the pain from the injuries on his body.
But because of one thing.
'...I can't remember.'
When it tried to think of its past memories, the clear memories started to blur and he started to slowly forget them one by one.
As if he was someone who had simply passed by, picking up things other people had talked about.
If those memories were truly his, then something like this shouldn't be happening.
'What the hell… What's going on?'
While the Nerpa was raking through his memories—
—he heard a very familiar voice inside his head.
And the moment he heard this…
Chills ran down the Nerpa's entire back.
He knew this voice.
This voice.
It was his own.
Of course, he couldn't think for long.
The moment he heard this voice, his consciousness quickly came to a halt.
Every thought process stopped and his memories were erased.
The Nerpa understood what was happening as he fell into despair.
'Damn…'
And with this word as his final thought.
—thud—
The body of N-Aroel that the Nerpa had controlled weakly slumped down onto the ground.
—rummble—
His body stopped moving.
—ssss—
Overloaded from the Flame's powers, N-Aroel's body could not withstand the energy coursing through it uncontrollably and soon disintegrated.
—tatak!—
Kiriel landed next to Hansoo and then looked at N-Aroel with a frown.
"Damn…"
'I can't read anything like this…'
She needed at least a small remainder to read a body's memories.
But since there was nothing left, there was no way she could read any memories.
—kiiiing!—
She placed her hand on the ground to test it out, but couldn't read anything.
'He looked like he had a lot of information we could dig out… Damn.'
Although she hadn't participated in the battle, she had witnessed it from afar.
The moment Hansoo said he was fake.
The Nerpa had flinched and Hansoo used that opening to send a fatal strike.
She had run over because of her curiosity, but for the Nerpa to have become like this…
'Shall I ask?'
As Kiriel was about to ask—
—Hansoo turned to her and spoke first.
"Let's move."
"Huh? Where?"
Hansoo glanced at the crystal in his hand and then said:
"Towards the location of the second object."
The closest location was the Neropa Union.
It wouldn't be hard to go there.
Within Erunheim's memories that Kiriel read, there were clear memories of the Neropa union.
"Where?"
Hansoo replied.
Neoreim.
Neropa Union's capital city.
A core city inhabited by a hundred million civilians.
Kiriel raked through her memories relating this giant city and then muttered:
"...It won't be easy."
The Neoreim existed within Erunheim's memories.
Since everyone under the Neropa Union would have been to the capital city, Neoreim.
But there were two reasons she said this.
First.
Neoreim was too far for them to reach with her Cloudy Movement.
Of course, this wasn't such a huge issue.
Since they could reach the city by using her skill multiple times or just run over there.
They were Transcendents after all.
But the main issue was the second problem.
'Damn.'
Kiriel's expression turned pale as she thought of the Neoreim.
Countless mechanical soldiers and Dragon God Soldiers.
Thousands of ships flying through the sky.
She had realized it on the Arkreim just a moment ago but the power of these ships was far above that of the Dragon God Soldiers.
According to Erunheim's memories, the ships that were either at K-Level or above were especially hard to deal with.
And hundreds of such powerful ships were in the air, so of course things would not be easy for them.
Of course, the ships wouldn't turn their own city into a sea of flames.
'And it seems like they know about us now too.'
Kiriel looked towards the distance at the ships that had stopped approaching them.
The giant ships that were clearly visible despite being hundreds of kilometers away.
Of course with their technology, they would've seen what had just happened here.
If they started to set up their defenses, it would be almost impossible to breach them.
But Hansoo shook his head.
"It won't be that bad."
"...How?"
Hansoo continued.
"They… won't have the time to care about us anymore."
—boooom!—
—boom!—
The slowly moving mountain-sized creatures.
The Haetara that continuously searched for food.
They had already moved far out.
'They would be of help, at least for now.'
Their strength was not something that even he could deal with, at least not yet.
Although he would need to deal with the Haetara eventually, they would help him out for now.
Because if those things went berserk… his opponents were the ones that would lose much more than himself.
Hansoo thought as he watched the giant creatures that had already moved past the Flameless Land and were proceeding further.
—boooooom!—
"F***! Block it! Blow it apart!"
In the distance.
The commander of the Akaroun Fleet, R-Aeuran Ron, shouted as he watched the giant beasts wreaking havoc beneath him.
And the Technorat, N-Kadiak, made a hesitant expression at these commands.
"But… beneath us…"
He couldn't finish.
The location that giant creature was stomping on was one of the Neropa's Union three main defensive cities.
It was the largest city out of the ones that the Ron family controlled, a city located at the very outskirts of the Neropa Union, the first line of defense that guarded against the Pompeion Empire.
If they attacked, it would sweep away their entire city as well.
R-Aeuran Ron shouted with rage.
"Do you think I don't know about that? Just blast it! It'll all be over once they're dead! Fire!"
R-Aeuran Ron pointed to the location the beasts were heading to.
A structure that was only built on giant or defensive cities that held the power of the Flame. The structure drew out this power from inside the planet and used it to supply their soldiers and weapons.
The Alpha and Omega that fueled the Neropa Union.
They were only nine of these in the entire Neropa Union as well.
This meant that if at least one of them ended up smashed apart, a large chunk of the Union's strength would be lost.
Sadly, R-Aeuran Ron's shouts were in vain.
Guooooo!
—chomp!—
—chompchomp!—
The beast ignored their attacks as it headed straight into the Great Furnace, slammed its head inside and started to devour it.
—kiiiiing—
The attacks from the surrounding ships and the city's defensive weapons weakened at a visible rate.
With the severing of the Flame's power, the army that moved using this power began to stop as well.
And it was the same for R-Aeuran Ron's fleet.
—kiiiing—
Amidst the sounds of the engines weakening—
—R-Aeuran Ron wasn't looking at the beast but rather in the opposite direction.
"Damn… Report it. They've started their attack."
The beast wasn't the only issue.
This next opponent was an existence that they'd despised for so long.
The reason for this city's existence.
'War… This is war. Damn. So sudden.'
As the strength behind the city came to a halt.
—rummble!—
The Pompeion Empire's great fleets that were scouting in the distance started to head towards this city.
R-Aeuran Ron gritted his teeth.
Reincarnator - Chapter 399: Continental War (3)
Reincarnator - Chapter 400: Guerrilla Warfare (1)
'Where did these monsters jump out from…?'
A woman frowned as she received a report from a ship.
But she wasn't actually frowning at the monsters but rather at the ones that went to war the moment a chance sprang up.
"Pompeion, that crazy bastard."
Inside a decorative office, surrounded by twenty Dragon God Soldiers guarding her, a woman sat in a chair as she gritted her teeth.
K-Adelaia Ron.
A title that only one person in a family can hold.
The woman with the 'K' title, held only by three people within the entire Neropa Union, frowned as she read through the endless reports that were being sent her way.
The seven monsters that popped out from the land where the defeated had gathered at.
They were the spark that caused the sea of flames that was raging through the lands right now.
A hologram in front of K-Adelaia Ron spoke with an amused expression.
K-Merrow Nell continued to frown but soon sighed.
It was not a wrong decision.
They needed to destroy at least one city to have some breathing room against Pompeion.
K-Adelaia Ron then said:
"That's not the main issue, we need to deal with the most basic problem first."
Kuoooo!
K-Adelaia Ron thought as she looked towards the mythical creatures.
'Where in the world…'
Of course, the monsters weren't the only things on the screen.
Around the monsters themselves…
—booom!—
—boooooom!—
A fleet of warships was attacking the giant creature in front of it.
Sadly, their efforts seemed futile.
Kuooo!
It looked like the attacks had damaged the monster but the rate it was healing at was much faster than the rate of damage.
Healing with the energy from the Great Furnace.
No, it wasn't just healing.
'It's even getting bigger.'
K-Ukatan Pael looked at K-Adelaia Ron who was staring at the monster that was becoming larger and larger, saying:
K-Adelaia Ron felt a headache.
Catastrophes were flying over in bulk quantities.
The Neropa Union, who should've only had a bright future of expanding their territory, was suddenly faced with countless dangers.
But K-Adelaia Ron knew.
That all these incidents were linked.
The alien that took over a relic.
The giant monsters that appeared out of thin air and were now shaking the entire planet.
The Pompeion Empire's invasion.
These were all caused by those aliens.
And the person who caused all of this was…
'This man.'
—tirik!—
K-Adelaia Ron looked at the changed image in the screen before her.
A couple who was standing right in the center of their highly advanced satellite camera.
K-Adelaia Ron saw the blue-armored man holding a hammer, and the woman who was standing very close to him.
Of course, the issue with these two was miniscule when compared to what was going to happen in a bit.
But she didn't feel comfortable leaving these two alone.
K-Adelaia Ron smiled as she said:
"Well, we know who'll be able to deal with them. Family matters should stay within the family, right?"
K-Adelaia Ron switched off the communication panel.
She didn't know where that man was heading to.
But it didn't matter.
Maybe if they were hiding inside the trash dump where the power of the Flame was sealed, they would be safe, but…
The moment they came out, they won't be able to escape her eyes.
'Do you think you'll be able to escape?'
K-Adelaia Ron chuckled as she looked at the face of Hansoo on the screen.
—rumble—
In the land where the monsters have stomped through.
Thousands of people had gathered.
'Haa… We have to move.'
Erunheim, who had gathered all the remaining survivors, looked towards Hansoo in the distance.
The relic wasn't here and the fence that was protecting them had disappeared as well.
Although they could use the power of the Flame…
She could feel her confidence shredding apart as she looked at the battle between the Pompeion Empire and the Neropa Union.
The sky was collapsing as the earth was flipped upside down.
The ship that they were on seemed nothing more than a small cargo ship in comparison to the ships in the distance.
She was in disbelief.
'No way… Their technology has advanced this far already?'
She was at a loss.
It had only been two years.
The level of technology between them hadn't been that different back then.
They were just much weaker in terms of the number of resources they had.
But those ships in the distance.
They were at least a whole generation ahead of them.
And it had only been two years.
'...What happened? Weird.'
Erunheim gritted her teeth as she looked towards the ships in the distance.
A whole generation of differences meant that at least 90% of their weapons were nothing more than scrap metal.
Their opponent would be able to attack normally but their own gear wouldn't allow them to attack their enemies as freely.
It would be a massacre.
And as she thought up to this point—
—Erunheim stood up and walked towards Hansoo who was talking in the distance.
'He… He might know something.'
He was acting so confidently while everyone else was crying in despair.
This was more than enough to stand out in this crowd
"Do you have a plan? Or anything we can do to help…"
John Stone spoke out from nearby.
"Damn… What can we do? Our amazing Kang Hansoo will solve everything! Killing monsters! Crushing ships!"
John Stone lay down on the floor while yelling sarcastically.
'F*** it. F*** everything. I'm just going to go up.'
His original plan of trying to go against monsters like Hansoo was flawed from the get-go.
He should have just gone up to work under somebody right from the beginning.
Hansoo, who had been looking up into the sky, turned towards John Stone and smiled coldly.
"No, there is a lot you can do. A lot."
John Stone felt shivers run down his back as he saw both Hansoo's cold smile and Kiriel's look of pity.
"We've caught them"
"Good."
R-Eronia Nell, who had been assigned to the rats, smiled.
He had long felt pissed off due to the fact that he was assigned to dealing with rats instead of fighting the Pompeion Empire.
Even more so since he, an R-level, was being watched over like the rats he was trying to catch.
'Damn…'
If he could deal with them himself then at least he wouldn't be this pissed.
R-Eronia Nell decided to hurry and finish this mission, and he asked the Technorats:
"Where is it?"
One of the Technorats scanning the entire planet with the satellites replied:
"The 14th City. Etoreim."
—chiiiing!—
A scene appeared on the panel before them that displayed an area near the factories on the outskirts of Etoreim.
Showing the alien pair who were covered in a dark cloth.
'Amazing… How did they activate the Quantum Transmission with just their bodies?'
R-Eronia Nell shrugged his shoulders as he looked at the pair who were walking out from a cloud of white smoke.
He didn't have to deal with them anyway.
'Not a bad choice but… still.'
R-Eronia Nell chuckled.
Although this was the original territory of the Kalkata tribe who eventually ran off to the trash dump, it was still one of the four cities that was protecting a Great Furnace.
If they took that city down then it would be a huge blow as well.
They had expected those two to do something great but for them to be aiming for such a small goal…
R-Eronia Nell scoffed at the Nell family's leader who had ordered him to watch over these two.
'Well, it's good for me since my job is done.'
"Send the report, tell them to activate the Quantum Transmission towards Etoreim as well."
But then—
—countless voices started to speak out.
"...12th City outskirts, three aliens have been located."
"The Capital, Neoreim. Aliens have appeared in seven locations all at the same time."
"A total of 181 aliens are heading towards the nearby 54 cities within the Reyunion territory."
"Damn… This location. 2nd City. Three aliens are heading towards this location! Hurry and prepare the Dragon God Soldiers!"
Dozens of panels started to appear before them.
Hundreds of aliens covered in dark clothes and powerful auras appeared.
No, they hadn't just appeared.
—boooom!—
—boom!—
As he watched them begin their attack—
—R-Eronia Nell felt something snap inside his head.
"These rats… Wait. What about that guy? The guy with the blue armor?"
"He cannot be scanned. Due to the countless auras exploding out…"
As he heard the flustered Technorat's report—
"Ahhhh!"
—booom!—
—R-Eronia Nell stood up and slammed his fists on the panels and roared towards the countless aliens on the screens.
Reincarnator - Chapter 401: Guerrilla Warfare (2)
—boooom!—
'It's a bit noisy outside…'
K-Adelaia Ron flinched at the sudden noise but soon refocused her attention.
There were much more important tasks to consider
'What… is his goal?'
The aliens.
They had come as visitors and didn't have that much of an effect in the beginning, but the moment a strange elevator descended from the sky, they started to grow stronger at an extreme pace.
And now they had grown to the point of fighting on the same level as the Dragon God Soldiers and their ships.
Some had even grown to the point that they couldn't be ignored anymore.
Existences that can rip apart ships with their bare bodies.
If those beings didn't exist then they would've long wiped out the rest of the other aliens.
Although this newly appeared man wasn't as strong as those freaks...
But from what he has done so far, he was far worse than the rest of them.
'...For a single man to be able to cause an entire war.'
Although they had pushed it aside, some high-ranking members within the family actually believed that the problem they'd had with the Nelkipa was somehow related to these guys as well.
'That's not what's important.'
They didn't need to care about the Nelkipa anymore anyway.
They had to deal with the two problems they had at hand first.
K-Adelaia Ron pondered for a moment and then spoke to the other family leaders.
"The task of defending against the Pompeion Empire will be spread out around the three families. The Nell family will watch over zones 114 to 272. The Pael family and Ron family should watch over their own respective areas."
The other two leaders nodded.
Although it was sudden, they all had the same goal.
After all, those stupid monsters couldn't seem to discern between the sides.
This might actually be a good chance.
Dealing with the giant opponent they'd been fighting against all this time and acquiring the chance to take over this entire planet.
'Well, we three will probably fight amongst ourselves after that, but…'
K-Ukatan Pael nodded and asked:
K-Adelaia Ron looked at the screen K-Ukatan Pael had pointed to, observing the monsters devouring the energy from the Great Furnace. She then replied:
"You two just need to agree. Using the relic during a most dangerous time… Do you two agree?"
K-Ukatan Pael's and K-Merrow Nell's expressions stiffened up at this talk of the relic, but they soon loosened up.
They nodded.
They both knew that the current situation was really dire.
Even they themselves might need to head to the frontlines to aid them.
Although they disliked the thought of having to act, but that bastard Pompeion might come as well.
They needed to prepare themselves in order to defend against him at all times.
Preparation against Pompeion directly entering the battle and destroying the ships on his own.
'That monster..'
As if all three had thought of Pompeion at the same time, all their expressions had stiffened up.
K-Adelaia Ron quickly erased Pompeion from her mind and spoke towards the two other leaders before her.
"Good, then it's settled. Let's focus on our own territory."
At that moment—
—tiririririk—
—K-Adelaia Ron received a message.
'I told them that I was in a meeting and that they shouldn't send any reports up…'
K-Adelaia Ron frowned and started to open up the message.
But then—
—tiririirk—
—tiririk—
—the other two leaders received messages as well.
K-Adelaia Ron was shocked at this scene.
And K-Merrow Nell, who had an impatient personality and had read the message first, frowned as he spoke out.
K-Adelaia Ron frowned as she quickly opened up the message she received.
She felt like the three messages they'd received separately had similar contents.
Although they were thousands of kilometers away and it was unlikely that they would simultaneously receive a similar message, her intuition was telling her something else.
And soon—
"...Those bastards."
—K-Adelaia Ron's expression turned into that of rage.
—boooooom!—
—booom!—
Cities blew apart alongside the sounds of explosions.
"Waaaahhh!"
"What the hell! Where's the army?!"
The citizens of the 14th City, Etoreim, ran away while roaring in rage.
For N-Levels like them to receive such a lack of protection…
N-Zairon cursed as he continued to flee.
"How dare they allow these trashy aliens to come all the way up here and cause a scene! Dammit!"
At that moment—
—a man walked out from a nearby street with a frown.
"Trash?"
As soon as those words ended—
—paaaaaak!—
"Kuaaaaah!"
—N-Zairon, who had been kicked in the abdomen, felt as if his stomach had been ripped off as he started to roll on the ground.
John Stone, the man who had walked out from the nearby street, spat at N-Zairon and mumbled:
"You bastard… I'm really not in a good mood."
But as he was about to crush the man's head with his feet—
—a woman who had followed John Stone from behind, stopped him and said:
"Hurry and continue. If you want to kill each and every single person like him then all 423 days of the year wouldn't be enough."
"...F***.'
John Stone swung the axe in his hand as if to vent out his anger.
—boooom!—
He looked in satisfaction at the building that had been cut into two as the woman continued to talk to him.
"We have no time."
"Damn… Let's go."
The woman who was wearing the Dragon God Armor started to dash away as John Stone quickly followed after her.
—whoooosh!—
While dashing through the air at a very quick pace—
—John Stone continued to curse inwardly.
'Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!!!'
He should've quickly run away and headed up.
For him to have been forced into this war…
—rumble—
He could feel the ships aiming towards his location.
If the city's worth was much lower than their own expectations then those ships would've long blown this place to pieces.
Since those things were originally designed to cruise through space and destroy stars.
Although he could deal with one or two ships, any more than that and even he'd be forced to run.
But it was too late.
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'Damned bastard. Damned bastard. Damned bastard.'
As John Stone frowned at the red energy that was squirming around inside his body—
—the woman who was running alongside him pointed towards a structure.
"We need to break that."
"...God dammit."
"Hurry."
John Stone exhaled deeply and then tightly gripped his axe.
—kacha—
—booooooom!—
The reinforcement placed around the blade of his axe exploded out and slammed into the building the woman had pointed at.
—whoooosh!—
As if it was an important building, a few bright pillars appeared and covered the building with a bright shield but it didn't last long.
—clank!—
John Stone's attack smashed right through the shield with ease and started to cut the entire building into two.
"Aahhhhhh! What the hell?!"
"Run!"
A building that was easily hundreds of meters tall had been cut into two and had started to crumble as the people beneath it began to freak out and run away.
Although they had set up defensive structures so that even a Dragon God Soldier could not get through this place.
John Stone, who could even destroy entire ships, could easily break this place apart.
Since this building had been designed to defend against Dragon God Soldiers who were similar to level 2-Star Transcendents, it could not defend against John Stone who was at the 3-Star Transcendent level.
As John Stone looked at the crumbling building in satisfaction—
"Let's hurry and continue. Since we destroyed the communications tower, there should be a huge delay in their communications. We need to destroy as many important structures as we can while they fix it."
—Metionell, a woman from the Kalkata tribe, pointed towards the other building as John Stone frowned.
But he soon sighed and nodded.
"Haa… Fine. Fine."
He just wanted to watch his handiwork for a moment, but for her to speak out right away…
But her words weren't wrong at all.
The faster they disarmed this city and left, the higher the chances of their survival.
John Stone started to run with Metionell as a question appeared inside his mind.
"Anyway, you know this city very well. Do you have a map or something similar?"
The city was extremely large and the buildings were all very similar to each other so it was basically a maze.
But for her to be able to find the important structures this easily…
Metionell replied to John Stone:
"It was originally the city of my tribe."
"...This was your land?"
Metionell nodded.
"That's why Kiriel moved us here."
How could she forget?
Her homeland which she had lived in for decades and had been driven away from.
She had never forgotten it and had always thought about it.
'But now… We have to break it.'
It wasn't theirs anymore so there was no need to hold back either.
At that moment—
—boooom!—
—boom!—
—a few beings appeared before John Stone and Metionell.
—chiiiiik—
Dragon God Soldiers clad in their armor.
The person who had been standing at the very front spoke out in a cold voice.
"I don't know what you're trying to do, Metionell."
At that moment—
—Metionell's eyelids shook.
"...Karass. You filthy traitor."
Karass welcomed Metionell's disgusted expression as he tapped the Dragon God Armor surrounding his body and said:
"I've been able to wear this because of that betrayal, and I've even been promoted. But for you to run away to that trash dump and now to join hands with the aliens… I don't know how far you can fall. Let me finish you off here today."
"Ha…"
John Stone yawned while watching the two converse, thinking:
'It's good to have a rest, but… why are they acting so confident?'
For them to be so confident in their Dragon God Armor.
It was something he'd fought against when he was a 2-Star Transcendent—it was nothing more than scrap metal to him now.
He could easily cut apart those beings with a single slash of his axe, and for them to act this confident…
Karass made a strange smile at John Stone's expression.
—rummmble!—
'It seems like everyone is doing well…'
Hansoo, who had been looking at Neoreim from the top of a skyscraper, turned to look behind him.
And he saw seven people who were conversing behind him with excitement.
"I wish they choose us."
"Well, we'll know soon enough when they take off their capes."
The seven Dragon God Soldiers who had arrived beside them.
Kiriel frowned at their conversation.
'There's no way that they're this stupid.'
There was no way they didn't know their level of strength since they'd observed Hansoo and her from the sky all this time.
They should know that the Dragon God Armor wasn't nearly enough to deal with the two of them.
But then—
—boooom!—
—a tremendous aura exploded out from around the Dragon God Soldiers.
And the Dragon God Soldier who had been standing at the very front spoke excitedly.
"This is your first time seeing the Flame's Blessing, right?"
"...Wait, I've heard this line before."
As Kiriel mumbled at the words of the Dragon God Soldiers—
—Hansoo looked at the red marks on their necks.
'Hmm… There's someone helping them out in using the relic.'
There was no time to be lazy anymore.
Hansoo thought of the Nerpa and then felt the newly found seed near his heart.
Reincarnator - Chapter 402: The Fifth Seed (1)
Hansoo frowned as he looked at the people exuding a powerful aura before his eyes.
'...They successfully used the technology of the relic.'
Relic, Controller, or External Flame Divine Tool.
It had various names but its role was all the same.
It allowed one to use the power of the Flame.
A Dragon God Soldier who had been standing on the top of a building pointed towards Hansoo, Kiriel, and Erunheim.
"It's my first time using it as well, but… it'll be amazing. I think."
At the same time—
—kiiiiing!—
—a terrifying amount of energy started to gather on his fingertip.
A pure white light.
And the moment the white light on his fingertip exploded—
—boooom!—
—a white wave of light swept past the location Hansoo and Kiriel had been standing at.
—rummble—
Everything between Hansoo's position to the citizen's building behind him…
Whatever the white light passed by—all had turned into ashes.
"Haa… hahahaha!"
The Dragon God Soldier who had caused this, R-Kelkadian Ron, laughed out loud.
'I'm sorry! I've had my doubts about it all this time!'
He'd heard that the upper echelons of the Ron family were working on a new weapon.
Their goal was one thing.
How to allow the Dragon God Soldiers to become stronger than the aliens.
When the aliens weren't here in the past, the Dragon God Soldiers were more than enough.
Since the armor allowed them to achieve a strength that normal humans couldn't even imagine achieving.
And things that a Dragon God Soldier couldn't deal with could just be dealt with their ships.
But with the appearance of the aliens, everything had changed.
Not all of them, but instead the rare few that had the strength to rival their ships.
Although they and the ships had similar strengths, the difference in their effectiveness was dimensions apart.
If such beings secretly invaded their territory with the goal of assassination, then it would be a nightmare.
But he had been doubtful even while hearing about the research.
Although he knew that they needed a change, he believed that there was a limit to how far technology could take them.
Although these aliens existed, they only looked similar.
They were a different race after all.
'Amazing.'
R-Kelkadian looked at his hands in shock.
The tremendous power that was flooding out from inside him.
It felt like the ship's engine had replaced his heart, and he had the ship's proud Bardian Cannons in lieu of his hands.
The power to turn an entire city into dust, enough to massacre hundreds of thousands of people—this power wiggled inside him.
But R-Kelkadian soon frowned.
Through the dispersing smoke.
He could see the couple that didn't have a single scratch on their bodies.
—chiiijijik—
R-Kelkadian Ron smiled as he looked at Hansoo who was clad in the blue armor.
"It seems we hit the jackpot."
"Haa… Good."
The entire Neropa Union was raking their entire territory to find these two people, and for them to appear before his eyes…
He would have been trembling in fear if he was still at his former state.
Since the power that he'd seen through the video was nothing close to what a Dragon God Soldier could handle.
But not anymore.
They now had a new skill, a new strength.
'Danger… is an opportunity.'
If he could deal with these two with his own hands.
His position within the family would skyrocket.
And Hansoo looked at the greed-filled eyes of these people and thought:
'Weaker than the Nerpa, but… there's quite a lot of them.'
They seemed much weaker than the Nerpa but there were seven of them.
They weren't a force that he could ignore.
And it didn't seem like it would stop at seven people.
And behind Hansoo and Kiriel…
"Ahhh…"
"Please help us! We're stuck under the rubble!"
They could hear the countless screams of the citizens resounding from the destruction of their city.
Kiriel frowned at the citizens screaming beneath her and then asked the Dragon God Soldiers.
"Aren't those your citizens?"
They had chosen the city as their stage for the battle to limit the attacks of their opponents, but it seemed like they didn't care about them at all.
One of the Dragon God Soldiers who had been drunk with power chuckled.
"They're our citizens, so we can do whatever we want with them, right? If you guys hadn't barged in then this wouldn't have happened in the first place."
—boooooom!—
—booom!—
R-Kelkadian Ron made a content expression as he listened to the explosions around him.
A power that allowed him to do anything was overflowing inside him.
Kiriel frowned at this.
'This is more annoying.'
Although their individual strength was far weaker than the Nerpa, their resistance to damage was much higher.
And there was a lot of them too.
'And these guys… They look like they're mass-produced. It seems like there's a ruckus going on all around.'
This plan had started out with the idea that there wasn't much that could threaten them outside the ships.
Since if the Neropa Union's fleet was busy dealing with the Pompeion Empire, they wouldn't be able to defend them with just the remaining Dragon God Soldiers.
But what was this?
Kiriel frowned as she looked at the Dragon God Soldiers approaching her and Hansoo with confidence.
—boooom!—
14th City, Etoreim.
The city that Metionell and John Stone had gone to had been turned into a sea of flames.
"Hahaha! Why did you come here, Metionell?"
—rumble!—
As a red mark shone from Karass' neck.
A tremendous amount of energy sprang up from beneath and started convening towards the Dragon God Armor's core.
It then flowed towards the subatomic cannon on his right arm.
The Nerpa was strong enough to control this power with his own strength, but Karass wasn't.
Instead, he had a powerful body and the Dragon God Armor.
Soon—
—booom!—
—the subatomic cannon, which was on par with the ship's cannons, split through the air and flew past the melted buildings within the city.
'Eeeeek!'
Metionell clenched her teeth as she watched this scene.
She was also a high-ranking member of the tribe.
Although she was wearing the Dragon God Armor that could use the power of the Flame, it wasn't strong enough to defend against an attack on the scale of a warship.
And as Metionell fell into despair—
Whooosh!
"It'll become annoying to navigate if you die, stand behind me."
"Huh?"
—someone grabbed her by her neck, flung her backward and stood where she had been standing at.
—booooooom!—
As the bright red axe slammed down, it split the attack in half.
'This barbarian… You can split that as well?'
As Karass flinched at this scene—
"Kuaaaaap!"
—John Stone shouted and started to charge ahead.
Earthquakes occurred around his feet and shook the surrounding area.
As Karass hurriedly activated his defensive mechanism—
—booom!—
—the bloody axe slammed onto the forcefield around Karass's body.
—craackackack!—
Although the forcefield ended up slightly cracked, it was still intact.
The blood-colored axe had failed at penetrating the shield that continued to regenerate.
"This…You bastard!"
—booom!—
And as if he was venting his anger with his newly found strength…
The tremendous energy from the Flame started converging around him.
And not only Karass but the two other Dragon God Soldiers as well.
"No!"
As Metionell let out a shout from behind—
—ssssss!—
—three beams of white light shot forward and swept past John Stone, who had been standing in front of Karass.
"Hahahaha! Did you barge in here by trusting in this weak alien? At least bring a ship, Metionell!"
Karass laughed out loud.
Thinking that the betrayal of his tribe in the past was the right choice after all.
What use was there in trying to hold onto the flag of a damned tribe?
Preparing for revenge after falling far, far down was something only found within a story.
Always strive for survival, for profit.
Winners only grew stronger and losers only fell weaker and weaker.
While they were crawling around the ground in search of revenge.
He and the Neropa Union he had chosen were rising into the sky.
K-Adelaia Ron.
The person who had given him, an outsider, a set of Dragon God Armor and even the Flame's Blessing.
As long as one had the ability, they were treated well.
If it wasn't for this, they wouldn't have been able to unite thousands of tribes, clans, and families under her feet.
Since she would've had to kill them all.
But as Karass was smirking at Metionell—
"Bastard… Who are you calling weak?"
—a voice full of rage rang out from the dust.
Then—
—booooom!—
—something cut through the dust and flew towards Karass.
'Uhuk!'
Karass barely managed to dodge it with luck.
He'd never thought that John Stone would be able to survive the strike.
Since the attack from before was an ambush.
Sadly, the two Dragon God Soldiers behind him weren't as lucky.
—pakakaka!—
—crunch!—
"Khuaaak!"
"Kuhuk!"
The bloody axe flew through the air and cut through the necks of the two people standing behind him.
The attack was so swift that they couldn't react on time to activate their defense mechanisms.
'What in the world?!'
Karass clenched his teeth at the man who walked out from the dust.
But his calculations hadn't been wrong.
The man had been destroyed to the point of being unable to fight.
Except… he was much more tenacious than he'd expected.
"Some damned bastard inserted some things inside me… Although it's a bit annoying, it's still very helpful."
—thud—
John Stone muttered, grabbing the axe that flew back towards him.
—whooosh—
The red aura leaking out from his destroyed body was somehow maintaining his body.
It was forcibly suppressing the nerves that relayed the feeling of pain to his body, forcibly moving his destroyed muscles.
Karass looked at John Stone, who was standing tall like a zombie, and he couldn't help freaking out.
Although he was about to fall.
It felt like his own neck would fly off if he approached him.
'Monsters…'
But Karass then realized he didn't need to worry so much.
"Hahaha! There will be reinforcements! Dumbasses! Countless Dragon God Soldiers are receiving the Flame's Blessing even now!"
Karass touched the communication device by his ear.
Just one.
If just one Dragon God Soldier came then he could easily deal with the two before his eyes.
But the moment he touched it.
'Support… denied? Why?'
There should be more than enough Dragon God Soldiers.
Did something bad happen somewhere else?
Something that prevented them from sending a single Dragon God Soldier this way?
'No… We should've already calculated their strengths with total accuracy!'
Then Karass heard a cold voice that caused chills to run down his entire back
"Keke… It seems things aren't turning out the way you want? Listen, let's have a fight. Man to man."
The expression on Karass's face turned gruesome.
"Originally… I didn't want to cause a ruckus here."
Hansoo muttered, swinging his hammer.
It wasn't good to cause too much damage to one side.
Only when the Neropa Union and the Pompeion Empire had similar strengths and gnawed away at each other would he take over the Pompeion Empire with much more ease in the future.
But if these guys wanted to act out like this, he didn't have the time to hold back either.
'Come.'
"Kuhuk…"
"Kuaa..."
The seven Dragon God Soldiers rolled around the floor, their entire bodies utterly destroyed.
And as for the countless extra Dragon God Soldiers rushing towards him from afar.
—rummble!—
A black aura started to flow out from Hansoo.