Future Knight

Chapter 92

The team, having received their mission, secretly left the solar system, following the Red Mars ship.

They were aboard the Zvezda ship, which was at least twice the size of the Red Mars ship and equipped with much more powerful armaments.

However, when they woke up from their sleep capsules, the world had changed.

While they slept in the capsules, a full-scale war had broken out between the Federation Army and the Imperial Army.

As there was no difference in the strength between the two sides, they began using forbidden weapons, even firing antimatter missiles without hesitation, turning each other’s homes into wastelands.

It was the fiercest war in the history of the solar system, and humanity, using even forbidden weapons without hesitation, ultimately destroyed itself in the solar system.

Learning all this through the computer, the Zvezda crew sharpened their blades of vengeance and searched Neo Earth for the Red Mars ship.

But the Red Mars ship was nowhere to be found.

Of course, it might have crashed somewhere in space, destroyed by the destruction droid they had prepared as insurance.

However, they did not rule out the possibility that it was hiding somewhere.

They scoured the entire Arkandor Continent using ultra-high-resolution spy satellites.

But again, the Red Mars ship was nowhere to be found.

In the end, they concluded that the hyperdimensional navigation system developed by the Federation Army was unstable or that the Red Mars ship had failed to reach Neo Earth due to the sabotage of the destruction droid.

With no immediate enemy and no place to return to, they turned their eyes to Neo Earth.

And they nurtured ambition.

The ambition to communize this new planet, and the ambition to become its rulers.

They had enough power to do so.

**29. Total War**

The night before the total war.

Duke Sachsen quietly called for Kang Chan.

“You called for me?”

Duke Sachsen, who was buried in documents, looked up and warmly greeted Kang Chan, who had come to see him.

“Ah, you’re here! Please come this way. Bring some tea here.”

“Yes, Commander.”

Duke Sachsen, who always seemed to live with a cup of coffee, had a strong coffee aroma around him.

A maid poured coffee into a vintage cup and placed it in front of Duke Sachsen and Kang Chan.

Duke Sachsen offered Kang Chan the tea.

“Please, have some.”

“Thank you. But why did you want to see me?”

“Ah, it’s nothing special, but do you by any chance have a Gigantes?”

Kang Chan cautiously asked as he suddenly brought up the topic of Gigantes.

“Why do you ask all of a sudden?”

“Well, as a Sword Master of the Helrainer Knights, it wouldn’t make sense if you didn’t have a Gigantes, would it? So, if you need one, we could allocate a Floto for you. The Floto produced by our Visman Empire is the best Gigantes on the continent, and I think you’ll be very satisfied with it.”

Duke Sachsen emphasized Kang Chan’s affiliation with the Helrainer Knights, trying to win his favor by offering the best performance Gigantes that every knight desired.

However, Kang Chan didn’t show much interest in the bait he had thrown.

Though leased, he already had an Elven Knight, and he also had the Red Rabbit, which was under repair.

“Thank you for your kindness, but I already have a Gigantes.”

“Ah? Is that so? As expected, you do have a Gigantes, Kang Chan.”

Duke Sachsen showed a hint of disappointment, but quickly changed his expression and asked another question.

“Then, which model are you using?”

“Hmm, well…”

Kang Chan hesitated for a moment, deciding to keep the Elven Knight a secret for the time being.

“That’s a secret.”

The reason he kept the Elven Knight a secret was that he didn’t want to reveal his identity just yet, but Sachsen misunderstood Kang Chan’s intention.

‘I wanted to use this opportunity to find out his true nationality… but it seems I’ve failed. But what kind of Gigantes could he have? A Sword Master wouldn’t possess a low-performance Gigantes. Could it be one of the ancient giants?’

The ancient giants, relics from the past magic era, were the ultimate weapons with such tremendous destructive power that people called them weapons bestowed by the gods.

Only a few of these ancient giants remained, and the countries that possessed them treated their performance as national secrets, shrouding them in mystery.

‘Well, we’ll find out when the battle begins…’

With a sense of regret, Duke Sachsen had to let Kang Chan go.

As the morning of the total war dawned, a heavy atmosphere weighed down the vast Helion Plains.

Doom! Doom! Doom! Doom! Doom!

The sound of drums, heightening the tension, echoed across the battlefield, and extreme tension was etched on the faces of the soldiers, who were fighting for the survival of their race.

Some were already so terrified that they wet their pants.

However, no one mocked them as cowards.

Facing an enemy that filled the horizon, it was commendable enough that they didn’t run away.

The forces gathered on the vast Helion Plains numbered approximately 2 million.

An army that filled the horizon.

An army that filled the horizon was an unprecedentedly massive force in the history of the Arkandor Continent.

Standing before this vast army, Duke Sachsen, as the supreme commander, delivered a speech to boost the morale of his troops.

However, no matter how loud his voice was, it was insufficient for all the soldiers gathered there to hear, so it didn’t seem very effective.

As soon as Duke Sachsen’s speech ended, the battle horns from the allied forces’ camp blared, signaling combat readiness.

Bwooooom! Bwooooom!

“All troops, prepare for battle!”

“All troops, battle formation! Gigantes, advance!”

“Kraaagh! Orc warriors! Fight for honor! Charge!”

“Kwoooorrr!”

At the orders of Duke Sachsen and Urkanta, the allied forces, led by 250 Gigantes, charged towards the Green Elves’ camp.

In response to the allied forces’ charge, the Green Elf archers nocked their arrows and aimed at the sky.

Simultaneously, numerous archers in the allied camp, led by the Elves, also drew their bows.

“Archers, fire!”

“Fire all at once!”

A tremendous volley of arrows crisscrossed the sky, raining down on both sides like a summer shower.

Many soldiers were struck down by the arrows, but it couldn’t stop their collision.

Meanwhile, the Gigantes, charging with ground-shaking force, encountered 100,000 Troll Elves.

The Troll Elves’ counterattack did not yield at all to the might of the Gigantes.

In fact, they surrounded the huge Gigantes, immobilizing them.

Though their size was only about three meters, roughly half of the six-meter-tall Gigantes, they used their troll-like incredible healing abilities and overwhelming numbers to completely encircle their enemies.

From a distance, it looked like a colony of small fire ants swarming around a giant ant.

As time passed, Gigantes lost limbs and collapsed one after another, while the corpses of Troll Elves, struck by massive axes and maces, piled up higher and higher.

The infantry battles were even fiercer.

With 2 million soldiers on each side, the battlefield extended over dozens of kilometers.

Screams and cries of agony erupted constantly from all directions.

On the battlefield, turned into a living hell, the bodies of soldiers lay in heaps, and the blood flowing from them formed rivers.

Amid the chaos of the vast battlefield, the command structure had long since become meaningless.

The soldiers, focused solely on survival, charged at the enemies before them.

In such chaos, the Dwarves, who had been ambushed to attack the enemy’s flank, were speechless at the overwhelming sight before them.

“Damn it! How are we supposed to find the flank in this mess?”

The scene before them, where they had expected the enemy’s flank to be, was a chaotic melee where it was impossible to tell the front from the back.

“Forget it! Charge! Let’s show them the might of the Dwarves’ axes!”

“Yaaaaah!”

With a wild roar, the Dwarves charged into the melee, supported by the latest mortars developed by the Dwarf artillery.

In the midst of the fierce battle, the Black Wyvern members, who were waiting in the main camp for a night operation, were busy trying to stop their commander.

“Captain, do you really need to go out to fight?”

Hollis, the oldest of the members, spoke with concern, and Kang Chan replied curtly.

“Yes.”

“You’ll be joining the night raid operation anyway, there’s no need to push yourself now…”

“That’s that, and this is this. You all need to focus on preparing for tonight’s sortie as I instructed.”

“No, we won’t stay behind! We’ll follow you, Captain!”

“That’s right! We can’t just stay here and watch from afar!”

“If you’re going, take us with you, Captain.”

As all the members insisted on following him, Kang Chan raised his voice.

“Silence! Do you not understand that the reason I can confidently go to support our allies now is because I trust you?”

At Kang Chan’s stern words, his loyal subordinates could say nothing more and lowered their heads, and Kang Chan spoke to them soothingly.

“I believe you understand the importance of the mission entrusted to you. So, stay here and prepare for the operation tonight. That is all.”

Reluctantly, the Black Wyvern members responded.

“Understood…”

Leaving his subordinates behind, Kang Chan headed to the battlefield with Loki.

“Let’s go, Loki!”

“I’ve been waiting for those words.”

As soon as he stepped out of the tent, Kang Chan summoned his Elven Knight.

A massive portal opened, revealing the beautiful and majestic form of Kang Chan’s Elven Knight.

The Black Wyvern members gasped in awe at the sight of the magnificent Gigantes they had never seen before.

“Beautiful… What kind of Gigantes is that?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never seen a Gigantes with such an appearance before.”

However, unlike them, Jaizen was surprised for a different reason.

‘Where did he leave that monstrous ancient giant he used to ride and summon the Elven Knight?’

Jaizen, who had seen the Red Rabbit in the Elven forest before, wondered why Kang Chan had suddenly summoned the Elven Knight and felt a bit disappointed. If Kang Chan had summoned that monstrous ancient giant, it would have been a tremendous help in the total war today.

Unaware of Jaizen’s thoughts, Kang Chan climbed into the cockpit of the Elven Knight that appeared before him.

“It’s been a while.”

Since this was his first time summoning the Elven Knight after their contract, Kang Chan fondly patted the control panel.

Beside Kang Chan’s Elven Knight, Loki undid his belt and dispelled the magic. Slowly, Loki returned to his original form amidst a dazzling light.