208 – Doom Slayer
Thousands of years ago.
So, in Genesis, there was a great war between the people of heaven and the princes of hell.
At that time, the orcs were on the archduke’s side.
As the Celestials brought the human world to their side, the Duke of Hell absorbed the orcs, who were also intelligent, to his side.
As a result, humans came to use ‘magic’ taught by the Celestials, and orcs came to use ‘demonic magic’ that combined the devil’s magic with their own magic.
And that ferocious and cursed magic was passed down to the Frost Orc tribe over thousands of years.
-Paaa!!!
In this way, the frost orc shaman used demonic arts to surprise the imperial army.
A large-scale, wide-area curse was placed on the imperial troops summoned near the siege weapons, drastically reducing both their speed and power.
-What is this…!
And this type of magic was something modern humans had never experienced before.
The period in which large-scale wars between orcs and humans took place is in Genesis, when the Celestials actually existed.
The imperial army could not help but be taken aback by the type of ‘curse magic’ they had experienced for the first time in their lives.
-Hung! Hung! Hung!
However, that momentary panic remained a fatal wound to the imperial army.
The frost orc assassins who were in ambush nearby rushed at the teleporter and took his life.
-Damn it! Release it with Dispel! It’s no different from debuff magic!
The imperial commander, who finally came to his senses belatedly, identified the nature of the spell and ordered it to be dispelled.
But by the time the curse was lifted, the teleporter had already died.
The only escape route was blocked.
【Tear off their flesh and drink their blood!】
【Chwiiikik!】
The imperial army, having lost its teleporter, was isolated.
Numerous orcs began to surround them.
Various spells and piercing weapons were poured towards the imperial army.
“Calmly deploy your defenses! Break through the siege and return to the defensive wall!”
Then, the commander of each squad quickly issued orders to calm the confusion within the unit.
An order to break through the siege and return to the defensive wall.
However, the difficulty of carrying out the command was extreme.
This is because it is nearly impossible for millions of armies to break through the crippling siege and escape to the defensive walls several kilometers away.
‘These guys are different breeds! ‘This is not the Orc we commonly know!’
Furthermore, frost orcs were different from regular orcs.
An orc that has been improved into a demon species.
Its power and viciousness were nothing compared to ordinary orcs.
Furthermore, unlike Orcs who degenerated into ordinary monsters, Frost Orcs were ‘intelligent beings’ that had inherited their own culture and knowledge.
That’s why they used the imperial army’s strategy in reverse and isolated them.
“We must rescue our allies immediately!”
Meanwhile, opinions were divided in the command room.
The side that calls for more ground troops to rescue allies, and the side that says sacrifices must be made to minimize damage.
Because both sides had a point, the differences of opinion were not easily narrowed down.
In the meantime, Archduke Ileiya burst through the door of the command room.
“What a sacrifice! Stop saying that nonsense! Even if you don’t allow it, I will mobilize all my soldiers in the name of Cruel to rescue my daughter, so you just shut up and open the door!”
Alpha unit was isolated due to an enemy surprise attack.
And in the Alpha unit, there were Enya and Isabella.
Because of this, Grand Duke Ileiya became desperate to retrieve Enya.
“I also share the same opinion as Lord Cruel. “Graham’s entire force will be mobilized to participate in the rescue operation, so open the door immediately.”
Then, Duke Graham gave weight to Duke Cruel’s opinion.
I had left my daughter in pain all my life in the name of ‘family duty’, but I couldn’t lose Isabella like this.
“I will also participate in the war. “It is entirely my responsibility to send my disciple into battle.”
Crucially, Elena, who returned after regaining her strength, also put her efforts into ‘rescue’.
In this way, the highest command office established a rescue operation and then gathered ground forces.
We gathered as many troops as possible, including mercenaries, private soldiers, imperial troops, war veterans, etc.
-Kugugugugugugung······.
Just like that, the main gate of the defensive wall was opened.
The frost orc chieftain Krall muttered with a bitter sneer.
【You are coming to the grave on your own feet. Stupid things. Wipe them all away!】
A defensive wall that could not be easily breached even with the ‘corruption bullet’ that Lilith gave her.
But the humans came out on their own, leaving behind the defensive wall.
For Frost Orc Chief Krall, there was no news more welcome than this.
【Warriors, go and greet them! Show them the anger we have endured for hundreds of years!】
【Chwiiik!】
Just like that, a large orc army began to charge.
Two huge camps rushed towards each other.
-Kang!
And the Imperial Allied Forces were able to realize this the moment they first interacted with the Orcs.
As expected, these are not ordinary orcs.
These are also ‘drinkers’ who fight by applying mana.
-Kang! Kang! Rumbling!
-I’m dying!
-Chwiiik!
The war situation descended into a melee.
Both races were masters of mana who could manipulate mana in detail, so the outcome was not easily decided.
“Don’t get in Cruel’s way!”
However, among the drinkers, there were those who trained themselves to the limit and stood out.
That was the case with Illiya Cruel, who is stirring up the battlefield here.
He reached the peak of the Sword Master and had the power to defeat dozens of enemies with a single blow.
The frost orcs fighting him fell like leaves in a cold wind.
【That person is quite capable. But we also have warriors just as good as the author.】
But Frost Oak Chief Krall was not embarrassed.
He calmly called his lieutenants and had them prepare the ‘High Warriors’.
The ‘High Warriors’ of the Frost Oak tribe were warriors who had reached the ‘peak of nothingness’ and were respected by the Orc warriors.
It has the same power and ability as the Sword Master.
【High-ranking warriors, a suitable opponent has finally appeared for you. Go and cut off his head and show the humans who is the strongest warrior.】
【【Chuiikik!】】
Like that, 11 High Warriors joined the battlefield.
They each rushed to key figures in the empire, such as Illiya, Gracia, and Adrian, and issued a challenge.
“····! sh*t! Such a strong person against orcs…!”
But that was not the situation the imperial army wanted.
Their goal is to quickly break through to one point and rescue isolated allies.
There was no time to waste as we engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy.
Moreover, the longer time goes by, the more enemies there are many times more, the more disadvantageous it becomes.
“Lord Cruel! Sir Graham! We must retreat! If things continue like this, we too will be surrounded!”
The war situation was going unfavorably.
As it is the strongest army with three sword masters and one archmage, I thought that we would be able to easily break through one point and rescue our allies.
The Orcs also had warriors who were just as good, so a variable arose.
“It’s too early to give up! “I’ll try to stop them, so clear the path!”
But I couldn’t give up.
This was especially true for Elena, who allowed her students to participate in the war, as she felt a sense of responsibility.
“Come on!”
Because of this, Elena appealed to her to carry out the operation even if it was a bit unreasonable.
She has already exhausted a lot of her energy by killing three High Warriors, but she has decided to take charge of the remaining ones.
【After defeating three great High Warriors, I recognize your spirit.】
But at that moment.
The Frost Orc High Warlock ‘Gazsha’ stepped forward.
And as soon as Elena saw Gazsha, she could immediately tell that she was a formidable opponent.
Looking at her with her blue eyes, she was an orc woman with energy that was at least comparable to that of Lord Illiya, or even higher.
“······.”
So, the staff of this rescue operation, including Elena, realized deep down that rescuing our allies was virtually impossible.
It was a group of orcs that I thought were just ordinary monsters.
They also had the same skills and abilities as humans.
Now is the time to seriously consider retreating to save the remaining troops.
“Hey, over there!”
But then.
Someone hurriedly pointed to a spot and shouted.
There was a person walking there alone.
Edgar Fix.
He disappeared, saying he had to prepare something to end this war, but he finally appeared.
-Could it be that that suit… Is the secret weapon to end this war?
-Well, it’s no different from a regular suit…
However, what Ed prepared was too ordinary to be a draw to end the war.
A Doom suit that doesn’t seem that special on the outside.
Furthermore, the thing in his hand was also one of the weapons commonly found lying around.
Weapons like that double barrel shotgun are ordinary firearms that even dwarves can develop.
“····Well, what is it? That power…”
However, those with ‘blue eyes’ like Elena could be recognized at a glance.
How powerful is Ed, who is currently equipped with the Doom Suit?
I could fully understand why he disappeared, even at the cost of sacrifice, and only now appeared.
Indeed, Ed wearing the Doom suit can be said to be the strongest person with ‘power enough to end the war’…
***
My whole body is overflowing with power.
It is a force that feels as if it can destroy the world if it makes a fist.
I feel like I can literally recreate the space marine who wandered around hell forever, fighting demons and then being sealed away.
In fact, such infinite power is overflowing within me.
“······.”
But suddenly, the process of obtaining this power flashed by like a flash of light.
It feels like a new feeling to have gained the power to crush any demon.
That’s because the process of obtaining this power was not that easy.
It is a strength gained through hard work.
‘I was lucky.’
Furthermore, there was a lot of luck involved.
For this power to be completed, an incident that breaks the Sigismund family’s treasured sword, the ‘Black Yordon’, must occur.
Because the Obsidian sword is a magic sword that converts feelings of resentment and hatred into energy to achieve destructive power, and my ‘Doom Suit’ also has a similar principle.
The key power of the Doom Suit is the ability to convert my hatred and resentment toward demons into energy.
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‘Contact with the World Tree also played a role.’
However, if I had replaced my personal resentment and hatred with energy, the power would have been particularly poor.
No matter how strong my personal feelings are, in the end, they only belong to one person.
This is because the energy radiated by one person’s emotions has clear limits.
-But what if you could use all the emotions from the last episode…?
So what I thought was to use ‘I’ from the last episode.
No, to be precise, it is using different individuals who are recognized as ‘me’.
Because even if the episode was repeated hundreds of times, the experience and range of emotions are not all the same, and that is why I lived each episode as a different person.
Furthermore, since I perceived the previous episode as a game, I always thought only of the current episode as the truth.
So, in some episodes, while he truly loved Enya, he hated Isabella.
In another episode, he loved Isabella while ignoring Enya’s corruption.
Besides, there were episodes where he connected with Elena, while there were also episodes where he attacked the princess and got scolded.
There were also episodes where we came close to connecting with Claire, but then we drifted apart due to a trivial reason.
Furthermore, even if you fall in love just like in the previous episode, how can the method or experience be the same every time?
Very minor events and minor coincidences created a butterfly effect that made me feel different experiences and emotions every time, which gave me a different life.
So, the sum of successive coincidences created a ‘different me’ in each episode.
For this reason, I do not consider ‘I’, who was connected to Adela and gave birth to Lucas, to be the same as ‘Edgar Fix’.
The emotions I felt during that episode were only ‘his’, and the emotions and experiences I lived as Edgar Fix were mine alone.
We are simply bound by a sense of duty to ‘protect the world from the devil’ and consider it our top priority.
There is no contact whatsoever between Edgar Fix and the mercenary Jack.
‘···If I split my soul into several parts.’
So this is what I thought.
Couldn’t I use the different me that has gone through hundreds of rounds?
How much power can you gain if you explode that emotional energy?
‘World Tree.’
And I was able to get that hint from the World Tree.
A mysterious tree that stores countless souls.
And the ‘Orb’ that can control those countless souls.
By studying these two, I am creating a vessel that can contain all my episodes.
‘If this is possible, I am the strongest devil.’
So, I devoted my free time to my research for about a year.
Of course, it was almost impossible to separate the memories and emotions from the previous episode and store them in some material, so we had to go through a lot of trial and error.
‘The answer lies in the ancient magic’
But I was eventually able to solve the problem.
An ancient technique that Elena is researching.
There was a technique that put the soul into the technique.
So, I started creating a Doom suit that encompasses metaphysics, ancient magic, magic engineering, mechanics, and natural science.
He began developing the ultimate suit by pouring all of the knowledge and experience he had gained while living as ‘Edgar Fix’.
‘····It is complete.’
That’s how I succeeded in making the Doom Suit.
It succeeded in gathering the emotions of all past episodes and replacing them with energy.
“····Phew.”
And so we come to the present.
I feel the emotions from all the past episodes rising explosively.
The greater the number of devils, and the more powerful the devil’s power, the more the soaring emotional power is converted into energy and concentrated within me.
【This is my first time seeing a warrior with such powerful energy as you! I want a showdown!】
But then.
A High Warrior blocked my path.
At first glance, it seemed similar to the level of Sword Master beginner.
-Pow!
But he chose the wrong race.
The Frost Orc tribe that became Lilith’s descendants is a demon species.
He is no match for me, the ‘Devil Limited Munchkin’.
With one punch, the guy’s face disappeared.
【·······!!!】
The faces of the orcs were filled with astonishment.