Chapter 84 (2/2)
Bang, bang, bang!!
Pushed back by the impact, their enemies’ tight formation collapsed.
“Suppress the magicians!”
The das.h.i.+ng groups jumped over or slid past the guards and attacked the long-range attackers behind them. Their enemies simply stumbled at the mobile striking force they had never experienced before, unable to react.
Lee Jinhee and her team were famously known as the world’s fastest speed demons. As someone whose fame increased daily through Alexei’s videos, Lee Jinhee’s team members had an especially large portion of foreigners, and the majority of them had enjoyed extreme sports before awakening their karma. They stood at the very front, jumping over their enemies and attacking their long-range troops, a.s.sa.s.sinating their commanders, and at times, even led a riot to collapse their enemies’ formation.
“Director, are you okay?”
Alexei, who slashed at his enemies, read Lee Jinhee’s expression. It was because he knew that she didn’t want people to fight against each other. Lee Jinhee glanced at Alexei and roughly ruffled his hair.
“Lyosha. Are you worried about me? Don’t worry. I already talked with the leader…”
As she said this, she nailed her gladius in her enemy’s forehead. The moment she pulled out her sword, the spurting blood formed a small whirlwind due to the wind. With his eyes still open, the corpse was flung into the wind and disappeared.
Looking at that, Lee Jinhee bitterly said,
“To be honest… I didn’t think they’d be so weak.”
‘For there to be so much of a difference.’
In fact, it wasn’t only Lee Jinhee who thought this. Not only the Berserkers, but even the non-combatant colonizers of their captured cities, and the medium and small clans that felt the same.
The enemies they felt were powerful when they had fought them, now collapsed like scarecrows when fighting the Berserkers.
Even though there was already a large difference in fighting experience, due to the intense successive battles the Berserkers had experienced recently, their senses had reached their peak. In their enemies’ perspective, they suffered before their bodies could even warm up. They simply couldn’t stop them. When the Berserkers’ swords pierced their enemies’ neck and hearts, their enemies’ swords were unable to touch them. It felt as though the Berserkers were swinging their swords one step in front of them while they were swinging their swords ten steps away.
“Only two and a half years… We all awakened at the same time, but if there’s such a big difference…”
Lee Jinhee, who sighed bitterly, raised her sword yet again.
“… I wonder if there really is anyone who can stop us.”
Lee Jinhee smiled bitterly as she sliced another enemy’s neck.
“Euah… Euaack!”
Another enemy who witnessed this fell into a state of panic and began to flee. That was the start.
“Euaahhh!!”
In various places, their enemies began to retreat like a tide. It definitely wasn’t a wrong choice. The enemies, who were being overwhelmingly crushed since the start of the battle, fled soon after. Then, Choi Hyuk and the Berserkers would leave their fleeing enemies alone and chase the enemy sovereign… capturing and killing him. There were no exceptions.
The Sovereign of Counterattack, the Sovereign of Expectation, the Sovereign of Blood, all were unable to live up to their names and were killed off. In the end, the sovereigns located in the place the Berserkers were advancing to withdrew their application for the seven overseers and began to flee like Nasir.
Dragonic’s storm didn’t cease, and the Berserkers’ madness didn’t cease either.
Within three weeks since going to battle starting from Nasari, Choi Hyuk had captured five colonized lands.
As revenge, the enraged colonizers turned the base of the Berserkers, Barhaloleun, to ash and collapsed the Berserkers’ residence in Yeouido. Yet, Choi Hyuk didn’t care in the slightest. He simply advanced with the att.i.tude of killing them all. Necessary supplies were handled by the colonized lands he captured. As all citizens who surrendered were thrown into the army whenever he captured a city, the number of his army gradually grew. The concern that all sovereigns would submit to Choi Hyuk was slowly becoming a reality.
Around this time, Choi Hyuk was more often called the Demon King than the Berserk Sovereign. Humans faced repeated, futile defeat against the Demon King. Whether he was a demon king or whatever, since Choi Hyuk continued to be victorious, the wide recognition which vilified the Berserkers as ‘crazy b.a.s.t.a.r.ds’ changed every day. People wanted to stand on the side of the victor.
There would be a dispute every day.
“To be honest, the Demon King is right.”
“Right, my a.s.s… Are you a psychopath? Killing all those people is right?”
“Now, really… Do you really think the world is the same as it was three years ago? Are we in a peaceful time where, if the Demon King doesn’t kill people, no one will die? If anything, if it wasn’t for the Demon King, I bet blood wouldn’t have had time to dry as the sovereigns fought amongst themselves to choose the seven overseers or whatever. The casualties from that would be higher.”
“So, are you saying Choi Hyuk is right? You crazy… Is pulling those who were running their business well into the battlefield a good thing to do? If that’s so good, why don’t you go out to the battlefield yourself? Why are you here?”
“Why are you like this? You already know that I fought as much as I should. Also, to be honest, that isn’t normal either. In the end, we’re in a situation where people will have to risk their lives and fight… But does it make sense for only a portion to do that? They both awakened at the same time, yet does it make sense if some can stay at the back and run their business with ease, while others have to deal with missions, the war between clans and fight with their lives on the line every day? When we’re in a situation where we might be annihilated because of monsters?… We all need to fight. Don’t you know that billions of people died during the past advancement evaluations because of those who didn’t partic.i.p.ate?”
“Of course, there was a problem then… Still, this isn’t right. We need to do this rationally, pus.h.i.+ng forcefully isn’t everything. Haven’t you heard of division of labor? Everyone has something they’re good at, and if they don’t consider that and just make everyone fight… well, that’s not good.”
“f.u.c.k that. Then do those who aren’t good at anything need to fight with their lives on the line while others who are talented in a lot of things can just stay at the back in safety? Even though they are protecting their lives?”
“Why are you getting so emotional? I’m saying this because this is more effective.”
“Effectiveness, your mother… If they are so effective, why are they being broken to bits by the Demon King?”
“That’s…!!”
“If that’s more effective, then they need to beat the Demon King! Don’t you see that those who divide labor are being knocked out? Come to your senses. This isn’t just a war between countries but the fight that determines whether humanity becomes extinct or not.”
“No, how can you put this so simply…!!”
The voices of those who supported Choi Hyuk became louder every day. It was as if Choi Hyuk’s victories themselves were proof that Choi Hyuk’s method was right.
Would the Demon King continue to unite humanity like this? Was the Demon King Choi Hyuk someone who had the capacity to lead humanity? Was Choi Hyuk’s method truly right?
Even though it seemed wrong, there were no alternatives. The majority who opposed Choi Hyuk simply didn’t know what to do about their growing uneasiness and conflict. It was as if the storm had s.n.a.t.c.hed the people’s cool-headedness.
That was why Richard’s joint agreement created a sensation.
{Sovereigns who will calm the storm in Dragonic sign this agreement. We will drive out the Demon King’s army, who slaughter indiscriminately. We promise that sovereigns who sign will be under a mutual non-aggression agreement. We promise to dispatch troops within our power to the allied forces. -Partic.i.p.ating Sovereigns: Richard, Camilla, Baijan, Nasir, Ichiro…}
This was a change to the people who constantly heard news about the Berserkers’ victory and their opponent sovereign’s defeat and death. A different wind from before. A new wind that may be able to calm the storm.
‘Something is happening.’
‘It’s different this time.’
‘Will the Demon King be able to win this time?’
‘Which side will we have to take?’
Whether they supported Richard or not, everyone, young, old, male, or female, couldn’t help but be interested in the formation of this large-scale allied force.
Because the reveal of the joint agreement occurred after all under-the-table negotiations had ended, the advance of the allied forces began at the same time as the reveal. The allied forces symbolically trampled through Barhaloleun, which used to be the Berserkers’ base, and advanced past Zhiyu, which had previously been Lao Ban’s colonized land.
Hearing news of the allied forces’ advance, the Berserkers’ army a.s.sembled.
The location they met at happened to be in a desert near where the Berserkers’ indiscriminate capturing of colonized lands began, Nasari.
The storm, which had entered its final stages, swept dirt and rain-trees to the right and left, and between them, the Berserkers and the colonizers of the allied forces stared at each other, standing firmly as if they had been nailed to the ground.
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