Future Knight

Chapter 96

As they anticipated, Kang Chan was very disoriented and confused upon losing his sight.

“Damn it! I need to secure my vision somehow.”

Kang Chan tried to emit the Aura Blade more strongly to illuminate his surroundings, but within the sphere of darkness, that level of light was not very helpful.

“What should I do…?”

Thinking about Nemitz, who could attack from somewhere within the darkness, made Kang Chan increasingly anxious.

But just then, the cold voice of the computer rang out, warning Kang Chan.

-What are you going to do with the infrared sensor?

“Oh, right! The suit’s infrared sensor!”

-To see you panic and flounder around like this…

“…”

Kang Chan made a face like he’d swallowed something bitter as he wore the battle suit and switched his vision to infrared.

Then, everything before him turned green, and he saw a giant Hellenic tiptoeing stealthily from afar.

“Pfft!”

Kang Chan couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight.

The world’s strongest swordsman sneaking up on tiptoe like a thief was nothing short of humiliating.

Nemitz must have thought that no one could see him approaching like that… Unfortunately for him, Kang Chan, who was watching everything clearly, picked up a pebble from the ground and threw it at Nemitz.

The pebble flew straight toward Hellenic’s head.

Startled by the sudden flying stone, Nemitz asked in great confusion.

“Huh! How could you see me?”

Seeing the Elven Knight aiming precisely at him, Hellenic shook his head in disbelief.

“This makes no sense! How can he see me in this darkness?”

“Enough with the show, come at me!”

As Kang Chan charged with the Aura Blades blazing in both hands, Nemitz turned off the sphere of darkness and fled to his camp.

“Damn! I don’t know how you saw me in that darkness, but I’ll see you tonight!”

“You coward, stop right there!”

To catch up with the fleeing Nemitz, Kang Chan exerted strength in his legs, causing cracks to form in the joints of the Gigantes’ legs.

Tick! Tick! Crack! Crackle!

“Huh! My legs?”

Kang Chan was momentarily flustered but tried to remain calm.

If Nemitz realized there was a problem with his Gigantes, he might turn back and attack.

“When we meet next, I’ll make sure to end you…”

With a heart full of resentment, Kang Chan glared at the escaping Nemitz before turning back to his comrades.

As Nemitz fled frantically with Kang Chan chasing him, the Federation Army soldiers watching from afar erupted in cheers.

The trumpets of victory echoed across the battlefield.

Bwoooooo!

“Wooooaaaahhh!!”

“Wooooaaaahhh!!”

Amid the victorious cheers, Kang Chan first attended to the battered Elradian.

“Master! Are you alright?”

“I’m fine. Disciple, are you alright?”

“Yes, Master. I haven’t even hurt a finger.”

At the disciple’s words that he hadn’t hurt a finger, Elradian looked incredulous at first, then nodded proudly.

“Excellent, truly excellent. I can’t believe you’ve grown so strong.”

“It’s all thanks to you, Master.”

Elradian patted his proud disciple on the shoulder.

At that moment, just like his knees, cracks began to form in Kang Chan’s shoulder as well.

Crackle!

“Huh! What is this? Chan, are you hurt?”

“No, it’s not because I’m hurt. The Gigantes just started to crack suddenly.”

Kang Chan showed Elradian the cracks in the Elven Knight’s knee joints. Elradian spoke in a grave tone.

“Hmm, a defect? The Dwarves wouldn’t make defective products… In any case, let’s request a thorough inspection from the Dwarves who are here.”

“Understood, Master.”

Since Kang Chan and Elradian’s Gigantes were no longer in a condition to fight, they retreated to the main camp under the cover of their comrades.

—

On the first day of the all-out war.

The losses on both sides from the clash of forces numbering in the millions were immeasurable.

The death toll reached 200,000, with several times that number wounded and groaning in pain.

The number of Gigantes, initially 250, had decreased to 180.
As expected, the prowess of the Green Elves was astounding.

Despite a united full-scale assault from all races, they held their ground without yielding an inch.

The greatest damage to them was inflicted by Green.

The fact that the number of soldiers who died at her hands reached 100,000 showed just how hard she fought. If it hadn’t been for Arteon’s interference, that number would have been several times higher.

The Wind Spirit King Ariel’s attacks were terrifying to that extent.

The aerial bombardment by the Wind Spirit King was almost a one-sided massacre, and the morale of the Federation Army soldiers plummeted instantly.

They had no way to attack Green in the sky, nor any means to avoid her attacks.

The Federation Army had only the Orcs’ wyverns, bows, and magic to attack her, but even these were useless before the Spirit King.

The wyverns attempting to fly up to attack her were betrayed by the very winds that held their massive bodies aloft, crashing pathetically to the ground.

Arrows slicing through the air were toyed with by the wind, flying off in completely wrong directions.

And low-level attack magic did nothing to harm the Spirit King.

Only 9th-circle magic could deal a fatal blow to the Spirit King.

Thus, Arteon, the only 9th-circle mage on the continent, persistently sought opportunities to attack, but Ariel, sensing the 9th-circle magic, would never simply watch her cast it.

True to his nature as the Wind Spirit King, he swiftly covered Arteon as she cast her spell, forcing her to frantically use the short-range teleportation spell, Blink, to escape.

The casting time for 9th-circle magic was as long as its power was great.

The cat-and-mouse game between Green and Arteon continued until dusk.

As night fell and darkness descended, the fierce battle subsided.

Both camps began to slowly retreat, leaving behind an immense number of corpses as they receded like the tide.

Soon, countless wild animals swarmed over the bodies, satiating their hunger with the dead.

The soldiers, utterly exhausted from the all-day battle and in ragged condition with no intact spots on their bodies, clutched their hungry stomachs and longed for food and rest.

However, unfortunately for them, the night was just beginning for the Dark Elves.

The Dark Elves launched a full-scale attack on the exhausted soldiers.

As Dark Elf assassins hunted the retreating soldiers in the darkness with poisoned needles and daggers, the soldiers panicked.

Their lives threatened by invisible Dark Elves, they lost their sanity in fear.

“Ahhh! Save me!”

The Federation Army camp instantly turned into a scene of chaos, and to make matters worse, twenty massive centipedes emerged from the forest.

What followed was a massacre.

In an instant, hundreds of soldiers lost their lives to the blade-like legs of the giant centipedes.

Although thirty Federation Army Gigantes were deployed late to block the giant centipedes, the ground started to shake as if on cue, and soon, another twenty Black Centipedes appeared.

“Screeee!”

“Rrrr…”

When nearly forty subterranean monsters, each with the power of three Gigantes, emerged, the hope vanished from the faces of the Federation Army Gigantes’ owners.

“Report! Forty of the enemy’s Black Centipedes have appeared and engaged our thirty Gigantes! If we don’t send reinforcements quickly, we’ll be annihilated!”

“Damn it! I’ll head there myself. Deploy all the Gigantes on standby!”

“Understood.”

When Duke Sachsen personally led the Gigantes to the battlefield, the thirty Gigantes were already lying in ruins. The enemies had all disappeared back underground.

“Damn it! Damn it all!”

Having lost thirty Gigantes in an instant, Duke Sachsen felt a despair that made the sky seem dark.

Out of the total 250 Gigantes, they had already lost 70 in today’s battle alone.

And now, to lose another thirty…

At this rate, they would lose all their Gigantes in less than five days.

Even if they hurried to reproduce them, it would take several months to manufacture new Gigantes, making it impossible to produce them within five days.

The dwindling number of Gigantes…

If they lost any more, they would have no means to stop the enemy’s Troll Elves, giant centipedes, and Black Centipedes.

That meant the defeat of the war and the end of all races.

Gazing up at the dark night sky with a gloomy expression, Duke Sachsen thought of Kang Chan.

“I’m counting on you…”

The only variable he now considered was Kang Chan’s Black Wyvern unit.

### 30. The Rising Black Wyverns

This place, filled with a foul stench and noisy clamoring, was the Orcs’ camp.

Squeeee!

All around, one could see the horrifying scene of Orcs being slaughtered by their comrades due to severe injuries sustained in the day’s battle.

They knew nothing of medical treatment.

They were a cruel race that nonchalantly used even severely injured, hopeless comrades as food.

Their dinner was, as usual, the corpses of their dead comrades, with their entrails bubbling away in pots.

Anyone with a weak stomach would surely be shocked and retch at the sight.

Eleven insane humans walked into such a place—the members of the Black Wyvern unit.

“Ugh! The smell…”

“Ew! Look at that! They’re eating their own comrade!”

“Nom nom, slurp slurp. Grr?”

An Orc, gnawing on the leg of a comrade that had been roughly singed by fire, glared at the human pointing at him.

Then it growled a warning sound, like that of a beast.

“Rrrr…”

“Growl…”

In the past, the Orc would have attacked without hesitation, but because of Urkanta’s strict orders, it just continued to chew on the leg of its comrade while glaring as if to kill.

Under the Orcs’ murderous gazes, they arrived at the Wyverns’ nest.

There, Orc trainers were carefully tending to Wyverns injured in the day’s battle.

It was an ironic sight: while they devoured their own kind, they meticulously cared for the Wyverns. However, with Orcs who gave birth to more than ten offspring twice a year, the concept of valuing human life was non-existent.

The eyes glaring at the members upon arrival were even fiercer than those of the Orcs outside.

Orcs were divided into general Orcs and High Orcs. Unlike the lower-tier Peons, High Orcs possessed superior physical strength and exceptional intelligence.

Thus, they were even more arrogant and hostile toward other races.