Future Knight

Chapter 79

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

“The Green Elves have appeared! The Green Elves have appeared! Everyone, prepare for battle!”

As the Green Elves, who had been quiet lately, attacked again, fear and dread washed over the veterans’ faces.

“Damn it! Consider yourself lucky!”

It wasn’t clear who was considered lucky, but the 30 veterans who were about to attack Kang Chan hurried back to their positions.

“Everyone, prepare for battle! Hurry up!”

The formation quickly turned into chaos.

While they busily prepared for battle with their crude weapons and armor, Kang Chan quietly watched the approaching Green Elves.

A suffocating aura of murderous intent emanated from his entire body.

Loki cautiously asked, “Are those the Green Elves you mentioned?”

Kang Chan nodded quietly and said, “Yes, it was worth coming all this way. They appeared right in front of us…”

Kang Chan felt that his decision to choose this place was correct.

“Are those really them?”

While everyone else was busy preparing for battle, Kang Chan and Loki quietly observed the Green Elves, and Fibro called out to them.

“Hey! What are you two doing? Get ready for battle! Do you want to just sit there and die?”

Seeing that real enemies had appeared, he set aside his earlier bad feelings and scolded Kang Chan and Loki like a senior soldier.

“Form a line defense!”

As the regular army officer commanded the conscripts, they quickly formed a defense line with their crude wooden shields.

Kang Chan and Loki also joined them in forming the defense line, ready to face the approaching enemies.

At that moment, Fibro called out to Kang Chan.

“Hey, rookie!”

“…?”

Kang Chan looked at Fibro silently.

“I don’t know how strong you are, but new recruits who come here usually don’t last a month before they die…”

“So, do you want me to die?”

At Kang Chan’s words, Fibro gave a bitter smile.

“Well, I wouldn’t mind if you did, but if you want to live, just do as I say.”

Kang Chan became very curious about what someone who wished for his death would ask him to do.

“What should I do?”

“Play dead.”

“……”

“Heroes and all that don’t matter here. Just think about surviving. The reason I’ve been able to last a year here is because I approached every battle with that mindset.”

Kang Chan was a bit surprised that he had survived in this place for a year.

‘To have survived in a place like this for a year means he must have something special.’

As Kang Chan was inwardly surprised, Fibro turned his head and spoke.

“Then I’ve done my duty as a senior. Don’t blame me if you die.”

In his final words, Kang Chan sensed deep sorrow.

At the same time, he remembered how, back on Red Mars, he had grown increasingly afraid of getting close to people as his comrades became corpses one by one.

‘How many juniors and comrades has he lost in his year here? And what must he have thought each time? Probably not much different from me…’

As Kang Chan pondered these thoughts, Fibro began to seem like a better person than he initially thought.

In the midst of this, the enemy’s attack began.

“Arrows incoming! Raise your shields!”

“Raise your shields!”

Swish! Swish swish! Swish swish swish! Swish swish swish swish swish!

Arrows started raining down like a storm, and screams erupted from all directions.

“Argh!”

“Ahhh! My eye!”

Blocking the powerful Green Elf arrows with crude wooden shields was no easy task.

“The knights are coming! Hold on a little longer!”

Unlike the conscripts, the regular soldiers, who were protected by sturdy kite shields, had no casualties.

“Those damn bastards! They use good shields while giving us these crappy wooden ones! Damn it! Ah!”

Even as Fibro voiced his complaints, numerous arrowheads pierced through the crude wooden shield, and blood flowed from his arm where an arrow had grazed it.

Kang Chan and Loki were also hiding behind their wooden shields, waiting for the right moment to jump out.

However, while Kang Chan’s and Loki’s wooden shields didn’t even get pierced, the arrows sparked and bounced off.

Seeing this, Fibro rubbed his eyes as if he were seeing things.

“Is it really okay to reveal my true self in front of them?”

“Trust me.”

“Understood.”

Loki couldn’t hide his anxious heart, clearly feeling uneasy.

As the rain of arrows that had fallen like a storm ceased, the Green Elves began their charge, shaking the ground.

When Kang Chan looked up and around, he saw that the conscripts’ shields were all like hedgehogs, and numerous soldiers lay dead.

“Stay calm! Form ranks!”

A tremendous number of orc-like Green Elves were charging forward with axes and maces at the forefront.

“Shall we go?”

Loki shouted loudly, trying to calm his anxious heart.

“Alright!”

Suddenly, Kang Chan and Loki threw away their shields and left the defensive line, moving forward. Fibro hurriedly called out to them.

“Hey, you guys! What are you doing? Get back here!”

Kang Chan stopped and looked back at Fibro.

“See you alive, senior soldier.”

“Hey! Stop talking nonsense and get back here! Get back here now!”

Fibro shouted even louder at the rookies, whose actions were almost suicidal. However, Kang Chan and Loki didn’t respond and continued to advance.

The distance between them and the Green Elves was now just a few steps away.

Fibro was convinced that they would soon be crushed by the Green Elves’ axes and maces.

However, at that moment, Fibro and the conscripts witnessed something astonishing.

The rookie’s body began to be covered in black armor, and from his hands, a terrifying Aura Blade emerged.

Every soldier who saw this was shocked.

“Gasp! That, that’s…”

They had seen knights using Aura Swords often in battles, so they immediately knew that the dazzling light of that blade was not an Aura Sword.

It was undoubtedly an Aura Blade.

“No way, a S-S-Sword Master?”

“It’s a Sword Master!”

The conscripts couldn’t understand why a Sword Master would appear in such a place. But the only thing that filled their minds was a deep sense of relief.

‘We’re saved!’

They firmly believed that they would live to see another day.

On the contrary, the Green Elves despaired as they looked at Kang Chan.

They saw a Sword Master, emitting a terrifying aura that was not human, charging towards them.

“It’s a Sword Master!”

“There’s a Sword Master among the enemies!”

Whether they screamed or not, Kang Chan, blinded by his thirst for revenge, continued his charge.

“Raaah! I won’t let a single one of you escape!”

As Kang Chan’s Aura Blade cleaved through the enemy lines, dozens of charging Green Elves were split in half in an instant.

It was as if the world itself had been split in two.

Slash!

“Argh!”

“Screech!”

While Kang Chan was buying time, Loki, without hesitation, undid his belt.

‘I can’t back down after coming this far!’

Surrounded by a dazzling light, Loki began to grow larger, transforming back into the form of a massive ogre, standing five meters tall.

“Gasp! Th-th-that is!”

Both the humans and the Green Elves were wide-eyed in shock.

They were already stunned by the sudden appearance of a Sword Master, and now, out of nowhere, a giant ogre had appeared…

The terrifying roar of the massive beast echoed across the battlefield.

“Roooaaarrr!”

It was a cry so powerful that the ten thousand soldiers on both sides paused their battle momentarily.

It was the fearsome presence of the world’s strongest monster, the ogre.

Of course, it couldn’t be compared to the fear induced by a dragon, but Loki’s fear, imbued with mana, was enough to throw the soldiers on the battlefield into a frenzy of terror.

With the appearance of the ogre, the human formation quickly fell into despair.

They naturally assumed that the giant blue ogre was their enemy.

If that ogre were to charge into their formation and go on a rampage, there would be no way to stop it without a Sword Expert-level knight or a Gigantes.

However, their assumptions were completely off the mark.

The ogre began to help the Sword Master slaughter the Green Elves.

“Raaah!”

With a single kick from the giant ogre, dozens of Green Elves were sent flying high into the air.

And those hit by his hand, as if swatting ants, were smashed into unrecognizable pulp.

While Loki was busy crushing Green Elves with his bare hands, he turned to Kang Chan and spoke in a grumbling tone.

“Argh! No weapons! Damn it!”

Even though he was a swordsman by name, Loki seemed extremely dissatisfied with having to fight the enemy in such a brute manner.

In response to Loki’s words, Kang Chan, who was in a trance-like state cutting down Green Elves, said, “The power of your Ogre Kick and Ogre Smash doesn’t seem so bad.”

“Argh! Stop giving them weird names!”

Boom!

“Argh!”

Loki’s anger, sparked by Kang Chan’s joke, was directed entirely at the Green Elves, who were smashed and sent flying in all directions by the ogre’s immense strength.

Slash!

“Aaaaargh!”

The number of Green Elves Kang Chan cut down was uncountable.

He sliced through weapons and shields, charging through the enemy lines with incredible speed. His appearance was like that of a bloodthirsty demon.

There was no one among the Green Elves who could stop the two of them. They rampaged through the Green Elves’ formation.

At that moment, the conscripts, who had been solely defending, began to push forward.

“Waaaaah! Let’s push them back!”

“Let’s help the Sword Master!”

“Come on, you bastards!”

No matter how incredible Kang Chan and Loki’s performance was, it wasn’t easy for just the two of them to simultaneously suppress 5,000 enemies.

However, as the conscripts, who were not outnumbered, began to advance, the tide of battle shifted rapidly.

As the Green Elves started dying everywhere, their commander urgently ordered a retreat.

“Damn it! Retreat, retreat!”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

As the sound of the retreat horn echoed through the enemy camp, Kang Chan, not intending to let them go easily, pursued them even more relentlessly, massacring them.

“This can’t be! Were we deceived?”

Phila, the commander leading the Green Elf attack squad, couldn’t comprehend the scene before her eyes.

They had thought the conscripts would be easy prey and launched a surprise attack, but out of nowhere, a Sword Master and a tamed ogre appeared…

To her, the scene felt like a dream.

But it wasn’t a simple dream—it was a terrifying nightmare.

The reason she led her soldiers to attack this place was merely to draw the enemy’s attention.

They aimed to buy time so that the enemy’s 300,000 troops moving from the east couldn’t send reinforcements to this side, where they were engaging in meticulous guerrilla warfare.