252 Tue-Epilogue (2)
“Hey! The airship has landed! It’s passing over town now!”
“Is that really?!”
In this quiet rural village, where everyone in the village was busy working in the fields, there was a sudden commotion.
It was one of the villagers who brought the uproarious news, and he seemed to be trembling with excitement and even his voluminous beard.
“Let’s go, everyone! I couldn’t believe what I heard!”
“Is it really possible for that heavy piece of iron to fly?!”
People threw away their farm implements and started running. For people on the outskirts who have nothing to enjoy or see, the ‘flying steel castle’, which had only been heard as a rumor, was such a shocking story.
Even after several years of contact with the cosmic forces who call themselves the Federation, they were merely fantasy creatures to those who were powerless and uneducated.
“Father! I have to organize this…”
The boy, who was embarrassed by the rush of adults, was the same with Carl’s father. His father, who was usually blunt, was also running on the ground with a blunt face, leaving his work behind.
In the end, Karl also ran after them.
And as we ran over the nearby hill, what we saw.
“Oh my gosh.”
Karl, like everyone else, looked at the sky and was mesmerized.
There were several streams of meteors across the blue sky. However, it gradually came closer to the earth and clearly revealed its presence, different from a meteor.
“I’ve heard that it’s coming, but I’m sure I’ll pass by here.”
“Tell me about that in detail. You probably haven’t heard anything.”
The villagers flocked to the bundle general. He buys and sells goods between town and town, and he is the best source in the town. He was the one who asked for rumors and information about the Federation, and also brought medicines and tools that they had made and distributed.
“I told you we were talking around the countries. You must have had a good conversation with our king. So come back. Rumor has it that they are looking for an alliance. An alliance of mankind to fight alongside the terrible monsters.”
“Well, then, are the knights going with them?”
People roared at every word of the bag dealer. He chuckled as if enjoying the reaction, and Karl, too, listened as much as he could, looking at the sky over the crowd.
“Maybe so, but I heard one more thing. They said they were looking for talented people. They said it doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re from. If you have the talent and the heart, they give you a chance to fight the enemy with them.”
“Ah, if you don’t look at your status or origin, does that mean that people like us will also use it seriously? That makes sense.”
The general with his shoulders raised to the top spoke in a quietly solemn voice, but the people were skeptical.
It was because they didn’t know that the Confederacy was scouring the universe for new Guardians who were constantly under manpower.
“Still, things are going well, so I’ve got more interesting things…”
“Wait! Look at that!”
But it was then that something strange happened.
At someone’s urgent cry, people turned their heads to the sky without realizing it.
‘…uh?’
So was Karl. Carl looked up at the sky and for a moment his eyes widened and he stepped back.
A gigantic kn-class ship that gets bigger and closer.
What was falling together were the wreckage of the wrecked ship and the damaged aircraft.
“Shake, fall!”
Even those who are ignorant of space ships know that they are going down. The terrified people started running in the opposite direction blindly. Karl, too, took a deep breath and ran as his legs fell.
Until the moment when the shock wave that came with a roar shook the ground and spewed out a huge storm.
***
“Keep…Emergency landing…success.”
“Is everyone okay! Report any abnormalities!”
Atlas, the alliance ship that crashed and fled frantically, frightened when he saw the locals including Karl falling.
The ship that managed to absorb some of the shock by restoring the shield just before the collision was able to withstand it somehow without turning into powder.
“Are you all right? Branch manager!”
“Wow… it’s okay, don’t shake it.”
Stumbled from her seat while everyone moaned, she grabbed her body and shook it, pushing the worried lieutenant away.
Pointed ears protruding between the hair of the uniformed hat.
She, an elf Shria, of a race different from humans, rubbed her head and turned to the captain.
“What the hell is this?”
“Ugh… I didn’t know they’d be ambushed by them. Category Z-01, Type 1 variants!”
The captain, who was grabbing his arm as if it had been broken, muttered while grinding his teeth.
As the saying goes, they sailed unharmed and were ambushed. It was also attacked during the orbital entry stage, and there was no way to resist.
Z-01, the first type of legion among successful Eve’s children that the Federation first observed and encountered.
Shria, who had already experienced fighting with them, frowned.
“So where are they now?”
“Wow, it’s a big deal!”
She opened her mouth, but there was no need to rush to answer. The face of a soldier who had rushed into this messy command room was already contemplating.
“They! They’re falling with us right now, attacking the locals in this area and making a riot!”
“what…”
“That won’t be all. Go ahead and ask for help.”
Shuri passed the terrified captain and looked up at the sky through the cracks in the hull.
Something with wings began to gradually stretch in the air. In addition to that, there was even a single gigantic hull that revealed its shape. The struggle against the tedious monsters had begun again.
“Follow me! Cut them down and save the people here!”
“Oh, I see!”
Shuri, who turned and exited the ship, gathered her guardians along the way. It was only a dozen people, but now there was nothing we could do about it.
“Look at the equipment available right now. Prepare for battle!”
Of course, the Guardians weren’t the only ones fighting. According to the command of the captain, the troops who could fight immediately moved in haste.
Soon, troops poured down from the ship along with the Guardians. Negotiating with local powers needed to mobilize troops and Nabal, this planet, initially classified as Vulnerable by the Federation, lacked the ability to confront the Legionnaires.
“Are you nervous, Ben?”
“Oh, no.”
“Don’t stand still. The moment you hesitate for one second, one person dies.”
Just before the start of the battle, Shuria exhorted the successor who was by her side.
Although she still looks like an elf, she is a veteran who has been repeating this war for more than several decades.
The process was also a bloody battle with the original, which has incomparable strength and expandability with the current variants, so the qualifications for extensive Germany were sufficient.
“I say to all of us. Don’t die. Those who have to protect themselves, protect themselves.”
Having delivered her voice to all the troops, not just the Guardians, through a communicator, she pressed a button on her wrist to put on a full-body nanosuit, lifted her bow, and pressed the maximum mana into the arrow.
In front of them were monsters that recognized them and ran towards them.
The start of the battle was when the arrows she shot ripped through the sound and swept through the area and wiped out the monsters.
“There are people in the northeast direction. Presumed to be locals.”
“There are no troops available to support right now. It’s just our platoon, Guardian!”
Shuria leads the main force and faces the enemy’s ship and main force.
However, their purpose is not to annihilate enemies, but to rescue and defend them. Thanks to this, there were those who had to separate from the scattered monsters to protect the locals.
“Then we’ll go there together.”
The rookie guardian, Ben, fearlessly made a decision, clutching the spear in his hand tighter.
“Of course. Then we will be together.”
The platoon commander’s eyes widened as he reported to him, and he nodded.
The platoon leader, well-equipped with a bulletproof hat and military commander, is a wolf beast with a blue mane, who also survived the attack with the support of the Federation in his hometown.
He overlapped the self at that time with the present. The other platoon members were no different. Even though they were intertwined with various races and origins, their sense of duty was one.
“There! There!”
They gathered around Ben and ran to the villagers who were being ambushed by ordinary legionaries following the screens shown by the drone.
“Shoot!”
Their guns spewed fire, and they were locked in by the tentacle-wielding quadrupedal monsters.
The type 1 variants that actively preyed on the main enemies of the cosmic maw and evolved, retaining the characteristics of the angles including the tentacles.
“I can’t do this. High class! Why is he supposed to be in the main unit!”
However, they, including Ben, soon saw something and were astonished.
Like an octopus, walking and wielding with eight tentacles wrapped in a black carapace, a human-like figure on its upper body was holding a giant awl that looked like a spear in both hands, flashing red eyes.
‘Should we retreat?’
In that brief moment, fifty thousand thoughts ran through Ben’s head.
If the opponent was a superior species of the original, comparable to the special species of the variants, he would not have dared to fight alone.
However, the higher-ranking species of the strain had a large variance in their abilities. Just because you have a power engine and use a shape force isn’t the same thing. Compared to the original, which once put the entire universe in crisis due to the immature experience and level of the Hivemind produced, it was definitely worth it.
“Rescue those people.”
In the end, Ben made a decision. If they back down now, hundreds of locals will be slaughtered.
“Okay! Cover the Guardian!”
According to his opinion, the platoon members supported Ben as much as possible using their own weapons. Thanks to this, he is now able to fight one-on-one with the upper class.
‘One more step.’
At the moment of the collision, Ben swung the spear in his hand, engraving Shuria’s advice he had given him based on his own experience.
It wasn’t just a spear.
The strongest spear in the alliance, which was given as a gift in recognition of its talent, that no one can learn.
A spear burning with blue magic drew a single trajectory, shattered the opponent’s shield and pierced the heart precisely.
***
“OMG…”
That moment when I was running away. At that moment when people, including my father, were screaming and dying.
Carl didn’t even realize that the monsters around him were getting hit by bullets.
A completely different kind of salvation came to Karl who stumbled and fell.
A black-haired girl who grabbed the tail of a common species that was about to pierce herself with its tentacles and threw it away, then trampled her face with her feet and crushed it at once.
“You, who are you?”
Karl said that without knowing it. Because this beautiful girl with sparkling red eyes had never been seen before.
‘My Name…’
The girl, who had been standing more dazed than Karl, tilted her head. It’s like searching through memories. Then something came to mind.
‘Eat it. Be one among them.’
Even without any memories, one instinct engraved on the genetic level designed by Hivemind still remained.
“Aww!”
In the meantime, one of the common servants rushed to them again, and while Carl closed his eyes tightly, this time again, the common servant drove the government into the face of the common servant and crushed it at once.
There wasn’t even a single hesitation. In the first place, there was no sense of kinship between the competing variants.
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know the name? This, even this…”
Bewildered by the girl’s words, Karl picked up someone’s overcoat and put it on the girl who was standing still.
“You guys! Are you okay!?”
It was then that Ben, who had defeated the superior servant, ran to him with a recalled expression. Contrary to the bewildered Carl, the girl looked at him and her eyes twinkled.
There was only one reason why Hivemind Z-02 made her and sent her here secretly. learning right away.
The strains that were fighting the demons were not able to learn the enormous skills and knowledge that the enemies had cultivated. Just as Eve was obsessed with advanced knowledge and culture, the variants finally reached this point.
“Come on, let’s go. Are we friends?”
“Yes? Oh, no I…”
Unbeknownst to the situation, Ben grabbed the reluctant Carl and the girl by the hand and carried them to a safe place.
Eventually, the battle comes to an end.
However, it wasn’t all over yet.