Future Knight

Chapter 129

Prelude to Invasion

A year had passed since the war ended.

After the invasion of the Green Elves ended in their defeat, people feared even looking towards Iceland, where they had retreated.

They worried that the elves might cross the frozen sea again and covet the continent.

If such a thing happened again, the continent would be engulfed in another inevitable war, and countless people’s blood would soak the land.

They believed that there would be no war like the one in the past during their lifetime.

No, they hoped so.

But their small wish was mercilessly shattered.

“Hey, Charles! Look over there!”

“Gah, damn it! Ring the bell! Ring it!”

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

“The enemy has appeared! The witch’s children are invading!”

As before, it was the guards of the Keremel Kingdom, the first to fall to the Green Elves, who first discovered their invasion.

It was the ill-fated kingdom that was trampled by millions of Green Elf soldiers in a single night.

However, when they saw the Green Elf army reappearing before their eyes, they scoffed.

“What? Is that all?”

“Did they lose the war and go collectively insane?”

At a glance, their forces did not seem to exceed 100,000.

It was by no means a small army, but it was far fewer than the Green Elf army that had once threatened the continent, and now, 500,000 peacekeeping forces supported by the entire continent were stationed in the Keremel Kingdom to contain the Green Elves.

So it was only natural that they laughed at the enemy’s forces. However, the attack was unlike anything they had seen before.

It was in the style of Earth.

“Fire!”

“Fire!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

When the cannons, made with Earth’s technology, simultaneously spewed fire towards the fortress, the harbor of the Keremel Kingdom was instantly engulfed in flames.

Kwah-gah-gah-gang!

“What is that? Is it magic? Retreat! Abandon the harbor!”

“Retreat! Ahhh!”

Hundreds of shells poured down on the harbor like rain, and the solid fortress they had painstakingly built over the past year vanished without a trace, leaving only rubble and corpses shattered by the bombardment.

“Land!”

Between the giant ships equipped with cannons, small transport ships reached the harbor, and from them emerged Green Elves in a completely different form than before.

Unlike the past when they were armed with swords, spears, and bows, now they held rifles made with Earth’s technology.

Although crafted by the hands of the Green Dwarves and somewhat crude in appearance, they were unmistakably guns.

“Ugh! Spare me!”

Wounded human soldiers screamed in pain and begged for their lives, but the Green Elves mercilessly pulled the trigger at them.

Bang! Bang!

Gunshots echoed everywhere, and screams filled the harbor.

The Keremel Kingdom, having lost control of the harbor, was in a state of emergency, and the king hastily gathered all stationed troops to the harbor.

Those troops, showing the results of their training, quickly formed a defensive line. But their efforts were in vain.

Three gigantic Gigantes in the sky bombarded them indiscriminately.

Every time a brilliant flash split the earth, hundreds of soldiers turned to ashes, and when something launched by them exploded massively, thousands of densely packed infantry disappeared without a trace.

The supreme commander of the Keremel Kingdom, who watched this scene, was ironically the same commander who had once fended off the Green Elves’ attack, and he fell into an incomparable despair.

In less than two hours, the 500,000-strong force was on the verge of annihilation.

All because of just three Gigantes with unbelievable power.

“Those, those things are…….”

The supreme commander was at a loss for words, utterly despondent.

What unfolded before his eyes was a one-sided massacre.

And that wasn’t all.

Another formidable enemy had appeared besides the Gigantes.

It was the spirit king summoned by Green, the epitome of fear.

Green, accompanied by Naiad, launched an overwhelming attack as if to avenge the past, and as ice crystals filled the sky and rained down, all that remained were countless scattered corpses.

“We can’t stop them, we can’t… Oh! God, why do you give us such trials! Please punish those devilish beings, please…….”

The supreme commander of the Keremel Kingdom, as if giving up on everything, collapsed in place and wept in grief.

The enemy before him was not something he could deal with.

The soldiers, having lost control, scattered and fled to save themselves, while the Green Elf soldiers who followed Green mercilessly pulled the trigger on them.

It was as if they were hunting prey.

The news of the Green Elf army’s reinvasion quickly spread across the continent.

To those who had only just begun to think peace had returned, it was like a nightmare.

No one could understand why those on the brink of annihilation were once again coveting the continent.

However, their reinvasion had already begun, and the enraged kings of various kingdoms hurriedly began to gather their troops.

Having experienced it once before, a massive army of 2 million and 300 Gigantes was assembled in no time.

The newly formed Continental Allied Forces swiftly advanced toward the enemies.

Of course, at the center was the Duke of Sachsen, followed by his formidable bodyguard knights.

“Commander, reinforcements from the Orc tribe have arrived at the front.”

Duke Sachsen raised his telescope and looked at the green mass filling the horizon.

“To think we have to join forces with them again.”

Even though they were allies, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy about the Orc tribe. As Sachsen watched the Orcs with a displeased expression, Urkanta, riding a giant wolf as big as a house, approached him.

“Urkanta, good to see you.”

“Shay! Long time no see, Sachsen. To think we would meet again like this. Krurk!”

“Indeed.”

“Krurk! I was so bored to death, now it looks like I won’t be. Krurk!”

“I’m the one who feels like dying now…”

The stench of the giant wolf that Urkanta rode was beyond imagination.

“Kyaruk! See you on the battlefield then! Let’s go! Krurk.”

At Urkanta’s shout, the overwhelming number of more than 3 million Orcs roared in unison. Their roar was so loud it shook the forest.

Not to be outdone, the humans also shouted, and the combined roar of the 5 million troops echoed across the sea to Iceland.

They were certainly filled with confidence.

A force of 5 million was equivalent to the strength of the previous continental war.

However, their confidence was thrown into the gutter just a few days later.

“This, this is impossible!”

Screams of soldiers filled the air from all directions.

They had no idea what was happening to them.

In an instant, nearly half of their 5 million strong army was annihilated. All from a single attack. What appeared above their heads was an unbelievably large steel structure.

“What is that!”

“My God…”

The Zvezda ship, piercing through the clouds and revealing its massive form, looked like a gigantic fortress in the sky, and the hundreds of beams it fired turned the ground into a sea of flames.

It was an incredible power, like nothing they had ever encountered.

But that attack was just the beginning.

Hundreds of things started to pour out from the gigantic steel structure, quickly covering the sky in black. Then they began to rain fire upon the ground.

The result was devastating.

The remaining humans and Orcs, along with the 300 Gigantes, were shattered like scarecrows, unable to do anything.

Urkanta and Duke Sachsen were left utterly dismayed, watching the incredible scene unfold before their eyes.

“What, what is this! What on earth are those things!”

“Kyarrk! This is impossible! This is insane! Kyaaa!”

Urkanta and Duke Sachsen’s screams of despair echoed across the battlefield.

As the battlefield descended into chaos, the Green Elf army joined in, and the allied forces of humans and Orcs began to walk the path of annihilation.

Unlike before, they did not use spears and swords. Their vaunted bows were nowhere to be seen.

They merely held long sticks. However, when a ‘bang!’ erupted from those strange sticks, the comrades beside them became corpses, and their fellow soldiers screamed in terror.

“Ahhh! It’s sorcery! The witch’s children are using sorcery!”

As the allied soldiers panicked and scattered, the Green Elf riflemen hunted them even more easily.

While the Green Elves were attacking the soldiers, a massive steel wagon charged towards the allied forces from behind them.

It was an object once called a tank on Earth.

Though it looked much like the tanks from World War I, the psychological pressure it exerted on the enemies was beyond imagination.

Their swords and bows could never hope to stop that steel wagon.

Moreover, the firepower of the steel wagon was tremendously powerful.

As the steel wagon spewed fire, dozens of soldiers died in one blast.

Even the Gigantes were no exception.

The massive size of the Gigantes made them excellent targets for the steel wagon, and as dozens of shells rained down on them, the mighty Gigantes began to fall one by one.

Watching this, Duke Sachsen’s mind went blank.

“This can’t be happening. This can’t be…”

“Uncle, what are you doing! Run away!”

Loki, having transformed into an Ogre, shouted towards Sachsen while covered in blood. Surrounding knights began to escort Duke Sachsen to retreat.

The battle had started barely three hours ago.

The number of soldiers still standing on their own two feet was so few it could be easily estimated.

Nemitz, having heard the news that the Green Elves had once again set foot on the continent, arrived at the battlefield on the plains of Arjan by evening.

Nemitz was also horrified at the scene before him.

What unfolded was entirely unexpected.

To be honest, Nemitz was the first to learn about the Green Elves’ reinvasion. However, he thought Green’s actions were extremely foolish.

Her choice to push her children into the fires of hell out of sheer stubbornness.

But the scene before him shattered his thoughts.

How could one even describe this?

It was her army pushing humans and Orcs into the fires of hell.

Nemitz thought he had to meet with Green and talk.

Kang Chan and Zikyon arrived at the battlefield late.

The reason for their delay was their dismissal of the Green Elves’ invasion as insignificant.

How many forces could those who had already been defeated gather in a year?

They were more wary of Earthlings lurking in space than the foolish Green Elves.

But now the situation was different.

It turned out the Green Elves had allied with them. With the very enemy Kang Chan feared the most.

They were more terrifying than demons.

“This can’t be! How could they ally with the Green Elves?”

It was the worst-case scenario Kang Chan had never imagined.

The enemy’s goal was not to destroy this world but to dominate it.

That thought alone was a nightmare.

If their aim was not just destruction but meticulous and organized action, then the Green Elves, having allied with them, were the worst possible partners.

“Those bastards are really something. It’s not enough to have stirred up the continent, now they’ve allied with an external force? That Green woman has really gone to the extreme.”

“This is going to be troublesome.”

Kang Chan, who was not yet ready to face them in battle, felt even more urgency.