79 Tue-Aggression and Erosion(8)
“Heh heh heh…”
One blow, it was still a clumsy sword, but the power it contained was actually hard to compare with others.
With the power that Eve had created for me alone, I knocked out all who came against me.
“Something has changed.”
“It’s only now that I’ve come to my senses.”
Even though Ji Chang-hyun opened his mouth as if surprised, it was difficult to express his expression.
I said goodbye to the trainee who was a former officer who was hit by my sword and missed the sword, and left the dungeon.
“It seems to me that there is a reason other than that I have come to my senses.”
“…any other reason?”
“My teacher says so too. Now, Shin-Woo Kang’s sword has a load on it. Mission, duty, and so on.”
“Jim.”
I couldn’t deny his words. Because now I have no excuses.
Since I saw with my own eyes the path my 17-year-old brother chose to fight for himself, I had to fight too.
“I was a child 10 years ago, so there was an excuse that I couldn’t help it. Now that I’m an adult, there are people who help me. I have to take the chance. I hate being helpless? That’s me too.”
“…It’s a good attitude. Master’s teaching is not to simply wield a sword, but to put your true will into that sword. Shin-Woo Kang, you are already ahead that much.”
Ji Chang-hyun smiled and clapped. To be honest, I still don’t understand what he’s talking about the sword.
He probably misunderstood me in a slightly different direction, but he couldn’t tell the truth, so I just kept my mouth shut.
“I’m going to compete soon. Be prepared.”
Ji Chang-hyeon just passed me and turned to the others.
Coming out, literally the Allied Forces once again go on the offensive. It will probably be a completely different type of battle than before.
The enemy’s strength was also roughly known, and those who were trained by the Guardian Alliance were formed into a new force within the Allied Forces.
The thought crossed my mind that maybe this was just the beginning. The game, which used to be a thorough individual battle death game, is gradually flowing into a power battle.
It was only then that I thought that this game board, which I thought was a gambling board for the existing strong, might be attracted to me more than I thought. We will continue to grow stronger by interacting with each other as needed.
“Is it possible to deal with legionaries at my current level?”
[…Are you referring to the upper class?]
I just mumbled it once, but somehow it seems that emotions can be read from the letters that came to mind. I just gave up on hearing the answer, packed my bags and left.
“I’m with you this time too. Now that both sides have made up their minds, it’s really an all-out war.”
“Did the player say nothing?”
“Perhaps he cares about something else.”
Cha Ji-yeon, who met in the barracks, smiled weakly and nodded her head.
The step-up hunters her player has as a unit are now spread all over the world, working closely with the Allies.
As the size of the corps grew and there were more places to look around, I agreed a hundred times with the statement that I would be crazy.
“To be honest, I don’t want you to fight…”
“Anyway, I taught you to use me to eat, but let’s see if the players will? And I can fight.”
“It’s not restricted. It’s not a player, it’s my pure heart. Although it’s not worth much right now.”
She muttered in despair and shook her head. I was curious about this.
The relationship between players and units is not absolute. In other words, it means that it was she herself who accepted the constraint like a leash.
“He said he wouldn’t give me strength if he didn’t put restrictions on me. He wants me and I want the same thing anyway, so I thought it wouldn’t matter if I could be strong.”
“That’s what you want.”
“Killing demons to save people.”
She spoke quietly. In a way, it was an idea that matched the ideology of the Alliance of Guardians very well.
“Monsters have bad feelings.”
“…Yes. Most likely.”
I did listen a bit. She said that one of her family members was attacked by a monster that day 10 years ago.
It may be because of that commonality that she was angry, comforted, and burned after hearing the story of my visit on the day my sister suffered.
“So I don’t regret it. You’ll think it’s worth paying the price for using it like a chess piece because it’s gained strength. They’re monsters that harmed people even before they were units.”
Biting her lip, Cha Ji-yeon burned her courage.
Without a word, I floated a screen that she couldn’t see over her face.
Like us, my units, the Legion and Eve, were preparing for war.
When I turned the screen to the scout’s gaze, I saw the image of the opposing camp.
A lot of people are gathering We haven’t met any units or players from the other world yet.
If so, what would the corps that came out of the labyrinth look like?
To those who don’t know anything, wouldn’t the Legion look like monsters, invaders crawling out of the Demon Realm?
“It’s just fighting.”
I muttered blankly. The idea of good and evil has already changed a lot.
There is no good or evil in the struggle for survival. It is the law of this world to just eat and be eaten.
Even if the Legion is not hostile to humans, if the Legion invades the world, clashes with them are unavoidable.
So we just have to hate each other to our heart’s content and fight.
There is no need to feel guilty about hunting each other’s lives.
“You’re right. With them, I’m just fighting. I don’t have to complicate things, I just do what I want.”
Cha Ji-yeon smiled with a lighter expression on her face.
“there…”
“Hey, wasn’t it like that with Chris-san?!”
I was taken aback by her act of blatantly fiddling with my hands.
“What are you talking about. He already has a fiance in his home country.”
Of course, on the battlefield where you never know when you’re going to die, I’m well aware now that everyone has a different emotional line than usual.
“Since I came here, or even after I became a unit for the first time, I always think that there is no tomorrow.
Her leaning face came over the desk.
What stopped her instead of me, who couldn’t speak at all, was the cry of an Evolution official who was urgently looking for her from outside.
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[The force to which he belongs has entered into full-scale preparations for war. It’s still very busy right now. Maybe tomorrow at the earliest, or within two days at the latest, he will also participate.]
“It doesn’t matter. Who else is it? Who dares to excite his feelings? Now I can tell the difference.
[Is it important? You may not know how great he is to you, but in the end he is just an ordinary person. No matter how much you are like a daughter, you will be more attracted to a person of the same kind and reason who can communicate with each other than a person who doesn’t know a face and has never even talked to each other.]
“no!”
Eve, who rolled her feet, uttered a shout filled with figurative power.
The entire nearby nest was twisted and swayed by that fierce anger.
“Uh, I’ll have to show him my face and talk to him. Then he’ll take care of me.”
[…I don’t know if I’ll be able to talk]
Eve tried to ignore her voice.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t fully focus on communicating with him right now.
The forces of humans who had begun to gather were heading to the nearest stronghold nest.
“Now what?”
Likewise, Kang Do-yeon, who was waiting at one of the stronghold nests, inquired about how to respond. Eve quickly started counting.
“I told you. Humans are constantly swayed by useless emotions. We have a choice.”
The calculation itself was quickly over. Eve gave new orders to the scattered legionaries.
“The gangs are marching slowly and demanding an all-out war. But our purpose is to pass the time. So there’s no need to get involved in their intentions.”
Eve’s order was a total rear disturbance and guerrilla.
It was after they had already taken out all the information, such as the emotions and behavior patterns of humans here, and the situation they were in.
Eve, knowing that they could not simply rule out rescue activities, continued to raid villages and cities in the rear, and eventually decided to destroy the cause they had with something they had to protect.
Besides, it didn’t matter if this plan failed.
Rear disturbance is just one of the options, and if you fail, it’s enough to just gather around and fight.
“After this battle, I’ll show him my face. With a gift.”
“Well, I don’t think it’s necessary to say that.”
At Eve’s words, Kang Do-yeon tackled it.
“No need to worry. Unless they show us something new we don’t know, we win.”
“So that’s what…!”
[The legionaries who received the order began to move in all directions to avoid their main force. It is a simultaneous movement that takes place in hundreds of places on a wire that is more than several hundred kilometers long. Unless you realize this, you can’t stop the definitive hit. But…they still seem to have enough energy]
Kang Do-yeon’s sinister intuition was correct. As soon as the corps began to move, something floated high in the sky from the main corps of the human formation.
Glowing in a translucent blue, it was a gigantic magical eye.