Future Knight

Chapter 132



Chapter 132

The imperial palace banquet hall was filled with the finest dishes and the most exquisite wines, laden to the point of breaking the tables, which commoners could never hope to see in their lifetimes.

In front of such a lavish spread, the heroes of the recent war gathered to share a toast of victory together.

“For the construction of a prosperous Earth.”

“For the construction of a prosperous Earth!”

The cheers of the members echoed through the banquet hall loudly enough to shake the walls, but Green and Nemitz merely watched them with cold, silent eyes.

They referred to the place they had lived with such a strange name.

Green, evidently displeased, downed the wine in her hand with a twisted expression.

However, shortly after, her expression twisted further. Eventually, Green dropped the wine glass she was holding.

The sharp sound of the glass shattering echoed throughout the banquet hall. Just as he was about to drink from his glass, Nemitz threw his drink aside and caught the staggering Green.

“Green!”

Nemitz glared at the Earthlings with a murderous look as he held the barely conscious Green.

“Surely? You scoundrels?”

“Hehehe, it would’ve been easier if you’d just drunk it and slept… You’re complicating things.”

“You bastard!”

Nemitz pulled out a small dagger from his bosom and infused it with mana, aiming it at Benziller’s forehead. It was a lightning-fast move.

However, the dagger imbued with mana did not harm Benziller at all.

The dagger pierced straight through Benziller’s head, but he only stared back at Green and Nemitz with a mocking gaze, his expression unchanged.

Eventually, Benziller spoke quietly.

“We won’t harm you. As long as you listen to us.”

Nemitz couldn’t believe his eyes, seeing his dagger pierce Benziller’s forehead.

But realizing that Benziller was unharmed, he blinked in disbelief and then screamed out.

“Ha! Don’t make me laugh!”

Since he had surrendered his dual swords upon entering the palace, he had no weapon, but as a Sword Master, the banquet hall was full of potential weapons for him.

As he reached out with both hands, dining knives from a table flew into his grip, and soon a blue aura blade emerged from them.

With the knives in both hands, Nemitz leaped towards the ten Zvezda crew members without hesitation.

‘Anyway, the plan Green and I discussed before coming here was to kill you all and steal your warship!’

Green and Nemitz had considered them to be mere humans, as they could not sense any mana from them.

They were thought to be just ordinary humans with powerful weapons.

That’s why they had come up with such a gamble of a plan.

However, their rebellion had already been anticipated by Benziller.

Benziller had known all along that they would never willingly comply with their orders.

Thus, Benziller had made certain preparations.

He had prepared to implant chips in their brains, making them his eternal slaves.

However, only Green had drunk the ultra-strong sedative they had prepared, and Nemitz, the leader of the Dark Elves, wielded his blue aura blades, ready to cut them down in desperation.

But the Zvezda crew members neither tensed nor panicked in the face of Nemitz’s aura blades. Instead, they wore expressions of utmost amusement.

With sinister expressions, the Zvezda crew members swiftly lost their heads to Nemitz’s lightning-fast aura blades, and their heads sequentially fell to the floor of the banquet hall.

However, Nemitz’s expression darkened considerably.

The sensation of the aura blade did not feel like cutting through human flesh.

It felt as hard as metal.

Moreover, although ten of them were slain, not a single drop of blood could be found on their bodies.

Confused, Nemitz became extremely vigilant of his surroundings.

Suddenly, ten black-clad figures appeared around him.

They were Zvezda crew members, clad in combat suits similar to Kang Chan’s.

While Kang Chan was the only one outfitted with a combat suit aboard the Red Mars ship, surprisingly, all ten Zvezda crew members were wearing combat suits.

“We won’t kill you. You’re too valuable…”

As he spoke, the bodies of the droids Nemitz had cut exploded, spewing out a sticky substance in all directions.

Nemitz had no choice but to be drenched in the sticky substance, and he struggled desperately to shake it off.

However, it only hardened further, hampering his movements even more.

“You dirty bastards!”

“Kuhahaha!”

The Zvezda crew members laughed coldly at Nemitz as he gradually became immobilized.

Nemitz unleashed his aura blades with all his might toward them, but those equipped with combat suits could withstand a Sword Master’s strike.

Like hyenas tormenting a wounded lion, the Zvezda crew members continued their game until Nemitz was exhausted.

Once the sticky substance had completely hardened like steel, the Zvezda crew members electrocuted his entire body with electric batons.

Crackling!

“Aaaaargh!”

Unbearable pain continued to pierce through Nemitz’s body.

No matter how superhuman his mental strength was, he could not withstand nearly an hour of electric torture, and eventually, Nemitz lost consciousness.

“What the hell? Did he pass out already?”

“He endured ten times longer than an ordinary person, what more do you want?”

“That’s a shame.”

As the disappointed Zvezda crew members grumbled, droids in waiting securely bound Green and Nemitz and transported them to the warship.

Their destination was the surgical room, where chips would be forcibly implanted into their brains.

These chips would turn them into Zvezda’s loyal dogs.

### Chapter 46: The Red Flag Planted in the New World

Three years had passed since Zvezda had occupied Arkandor, which they called Neo Earth.

During those three years, Arkandor had undergone significant changes.

The scientific civilization brought by Zvezda had completely transformed the landscape of this planet.

Large cities exclusive to the Green Elves had sprung up across the Arkandor continent, and as massive factories were built there, the skies were covered in black smoke.

The once-clear rivers and streams began to be polluted by wastewater from the factories.

The same mistakes made on Earth were being repeated on Neo Earth.

The humans of the Arkandor continent, who had once dreamed of a new world, faced despairing days every day.

This was due to the severe exploitation by the Green Elves, who had begun to rule over them.

The ruling class had merely changed from nobles to Green Elves, but nothing had improved in their lives.

In fact, they were subjected to even more inhumane abuse and hard labor.

Moreover, the Zvezda crew members, who had become the absolute rulers of this world, were now indifferent to spreading revolutionary ideas or building a new world.

They were merely intoxicated with their absolute power, engaging in all sorts of misdeeds.

They built huge amphitheaters, reminiscent of ancient Rome, and enjoyed daily gladiatorial games where humans killed each other. They indulged in all sorts of debauchery, such as creating rivers of wine and floating boats on them.

Furthermore, under the guise of a grand transformation, they carried out senseless large-scale constructions across the continent.

One of their latest projects was a ludicrous undertaking called the restoration of Earth’s cultural heritage. The largest of these projects was the reconstruction of the Great Wall of China and the pyramids of Egypt.

Rebuilding the 6,000-kilometer-long Great Wall of China involved millions of laborers, and the dangerous construction, which crossed treacherous mountain ranges, claimed dozens of lives daily.

In the desert kingdom of Edura, they began to recreate the Giza Pyramid, where numerous people were also forced into labor, resulting in countless deaths.

But what tormented humans the most were the Green Elves.

The Green Elves, who had always despised humans, showed no mercy.

Their abuse was comparable to the Holocaust, and the number of humans who perished unnoticed across the continent was astronomical.

Humans, trapped in such a desperate situation, longed for the past and lived each day in despair.

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“It’s become hell.”

The Green Elves whipped the emaciated humans as if they were livestock.

Kang Chan clenched his teeth.

“Damn it…”

“Is there anything else to check out?”

“No, that’s enough. We’ve gathered enough information for today.”

“Let’s head back.”

“Yeah.”

Kang Chan glared at the warship towering in the distance with eyes full of rage.

The Zvezda ship had landed on the massive dock built in the former Visman Empire’s capital, Bellaren.

Every day, Kang Chan and Zikyon traveled across the continent, gathering information about them.

They collected details about the Green Elves’ troop deployments, weapon factories, and storage facilities. The world Kang Chan saw while gathering this information was not the Arkandor continent he knew.

The continent looked like a dead world.

As Kang Chan looked around the continent, he started to wonder.

Surely, this place, Neo Earth, had fallen into the hands of Earthlings, but since the arrival of the Zvezda ship, no other Earthlings were seen.

Moreover, it seemed as if they were building their own kingdom on this planet, continuously constructing huge, unnecessary buildings everywhere.

Could they really be doing this solely on their own accord?

With these thoughts, Kang Chan returned to their new hideout on the Raksha continent.

The Raksha continent.

It was another continent, separate from the Arkandor continent.

This place was too small to be called a continent and too large to be called an island. Massive storms raged in the nearby seas, making it inaccessible by ship, and thick fog and clouds in the sky kept it hidden from external eyes.

All this was thanks to the barrier set up by the Silver Dragon, the ruler of the seas.

This place was once a continent solely for dragons. But now, humans, orcs, elves, dwarves, and various other races lived together.

Thanks to the dragons’ generosity.

Since the invaders from another world and the Green Elves had completely taken over the continent, it was no longer a place for people to live. There was no place to hide from the eyes of the Dark Elves.

As expected, their next target after seizing the continent was the Mine Kingdom. The Green Elves wouldn’t leave those who crafted the best weapons with their excellent skills alone.

This was fatal for Kang Chan and Zikyon.

The Mine Kingdom was filled with numerous weapons and production facilities that Kang Chan and Zikyon had prepared to resist the Earth invaders.

But they had to abandon it.

Although it was a pity to give up on those resources, they had to prioritize their lives.

In the end, they started to secretly move to the Raksha continent through the portal opened by the dragons.

Thus, the elves led by Arteon, the dwarves led by Cracksion, the orcs led by Urkanta, and the humans led by Saxon all gathered in one place, preparing to fight the invaders.

And most importantly, the repairs on the Red Mars ship were almost complete.

The Red Mars ship had been protected by the spatial distortion magic Zikyon had cast when she first met Kang Chan, so it was still safely in the Elven forest.

Thanks to the dwarves and dragons who traveled back and forth through the teleportation magic circle, the Red Mars ship had been repaired for four years and had now become a completely different warship, surpassing its former performance.


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