Stories to be told. The Beginning of the War
Fantastic Splendor Patraxion marched into the Plain of the Abyss with the demons.
Not too long ago, Jeolchang was gathering troops to exorcise Tyrkanjaka, the ancestor of vampires. Jeolchang thought the operation was natural.
The progenitor of vampires has too much presence to be left roaming the country. Either politically or forcefully. In addition, there are many things that are stabbed in the military.
A country created by disassembling and reassembling all systems and technologies in the world. It includes the method of Seonghwangcheong.
What kind of reaction will Sijo show when he faces it… I’m curious, but I never want to try it.
It makes sense to drive them out quietly. With that in mind, Jeolchang embarked on the operation.
Of course, it was just an ‘excuse’ to fight, but the reason Jeolsang was involved in the operation was because he was essentially a duelist.
So Jeolchang almost disobeyed the order to head to the abyss.
“I am. Why did they suddenly tell me to go to the bottomless pit?”
Jeolchang got on top of his catapult and brushed his hair.
I received a report that Jiseon went to the abyss without saying a word. He performed the ceremony to free the abyss, not caring that the Founder and several others were residing within Tantalus… And he listened to a very elaborate explanation from the signalman.
However, a thousand words are not worth seeing. No matter how much I hear, I’ll only do what I saw with my own two eyes. Jeolchang was at a loss for words when he faced the consequences himself.
An unrealistically huge hole, and an upside-down Tantalus lying sadly next to the hole. The concrete site, unable to overcome its own weight and bent, forms an oblique slope. It is as if a giant had turned the lid that was blocking the hole and opened it and left.
The sight in front of you is awe-inspiring. Jeolchang said to the majang.
“Looks like the Earth Mother God exists. Right, grandma?”
“Every faith has a good reason. Even if it’s not a god, if it’s a power comparable to a god, it’s no different from a god. In the past, magic was also called the power of the gods.”
“… I didn’t mean to ask the old lady to take a magic lecture.”
“I participated in the operation to transport Tantalus to the bottomless pit. There is nothing new.”
“Not really new.”
He shook his head and stared at Tantalus as if the chant was not interesting. Then he narrowed his eyes when he noticed something roaming Tantalus.
“What is there?”
A group of suspicious people roaming around Tantalus, an asset of the military. Their behavior was unlike anything else. So Patraxion knew who they were. It was because he, the commander of the North, was the enemy he met most often.
“Did the wildcats come in droves already? Guys, you smell amazing…. For a moment.”
It’s natural that the wildcats came after a large prey like Tantalus. Because the seungnyang who were scattered in all directions must have felt the abnormality first. However, no matter how you look at it, there was a huge body that could not be dismissed as a ‘seungnyangi’.
“Juggernaut?”
Just as the sun hidden behind the moon slowly reveals itself, the gigantic structure hidden in the shadow of Tantalus gradually emerged as the zenith approached.
It was a ship that roamed the land. A boat the size of a garden was moving stealthily with dozens of auxiliary wheels suspended.
The only thing that can be called a ‘city’ among the nations where everything moves. It’s smaller than Tantalus, but it’s amazing in that a structure the size of a land mass can move.
The Majang looked at him and put on a serious expression.
“Isn’t Juggernaut a magnate of nations? Why are they here who don’t even come outside the mainland?”
“It must be a ploy to make this the mainland.”
Jeolchang muttered as he looked into the distance.
“I was told to go to the bottomless pit. It doesn’t seem like a simple tour.”
“Definitely. The size of the corps gathered was too large to deal with only a few people. Did the General Headquarters read this from the beginning…? !”
“Because against the Juggernaut, a single unit would be no match.”
Jeolsang’s shoulders trembled little by little in front of the enemy’s growing figure. The magistrate quietly looked at his back and opened his mouth.
“Patraxion.”
“Why, grandma?”
“Are you laughing right now?”
Jeolchang nodded his head without answering.
After getting a little closer, a small shadow jumped out from Juggernaut’s side. The four-legged beast landed on the ground and approached at an unusual speed, beating the ground.
A jockey on a horse stopped in front of a catapult with a chant and a horseman. After some distance, the jockey shouted to the horseman.
“The military is comfortable. At a glance, you can clearly see who the captain is. There, is that the captain?”
“I am the captain of the army, Frelbjor.”
The Majang nodded and replied. The jockey also pretended to be surprised if he knew the name of Jangseong Yuk.
“Whoa! You are the famous Yuk Jang-seong! This is where the big man came!”
“Are you an emissary of the Juggernaut?”
“You can say that. Rather, what did the military corps come to do near the border?”
The Majang answered with his arms crossed.
“… Rather, this is a question that needs to be asked. How did the Juggernaut approach the military territory?”
“hahahahaha! Why would wildcats like us come here? They said there was a commotion, so I came to see if there was anything to pick up!”
“With Juggernaut?”
“Because it looks like there is so much to pick up! You need a cart to move a load that can’t fit both hands, and a bigger cart is needed for a load that can’t be loaded with a cart! I guess I couldn’t even bite everything with the small mouth of a jackdaw, so I went with Juggernaut! However… for a moment.”
The jockey changed his expression and said.
“More than that, isn’t it strange? It is said that we are originally like that, but there was no war, so why did the military government lead such a laggard corps all the way here?”
The Majang answered calmly.
“This is military territory. Military forces of the militia may come into the territory of the militia.”
“No, this is the border. Since when did the Abyss Plain, where no one lives, become territory?”
“Since the days of the kingdom, this place has been under the management of the kingdom.”
“Puhahahaha! Sounds funny. Aren’t you a kingdom, not an army? But why mention the kingdom? Has the military finally decided to serve a new king? Killed with my own hands?”
For those who have lived since the days of the kingdom, the king has always been an uncomfortable subject. Those who were loyal to the king felt vaguely repulsed by the fact that they could not protect the king, and those who rebelled against the king killed the king with their own hands. No matter how tyrannical he was, it was because the king was a king.
In the case of the horsemanship, if you had to choose which one, it was a case of rebelling against the king. But she didn’t even want the king to die, even as a sixth adult.
Like most of the coup participants, Majangdo intended to change the country by holding the king hostage. It’s easier to fix what’s there than to destroy everything and build a new one.
But the king died in an accident. He was run over and trampled to death by an angry mob. Paradoxically, the unkillable king died because no one intended it. The end of the king, whom no one could hold hostility to, was futile.
The area between the foreheads of the horseman, who was uncomfortable with planting, narrowed even more. The jockey smiled and stimulated even more.
“Even then it was not your territory. How much more would a traitor who killed a great king with his own hands inherit the kingdom’s borders? Ha ha ha ha! This is a spectacle!”
“Stop the sophistry! Tantalus is the property of the military. It was the military that attacked the bottomless pit. Whatever the reason, there is no justification for you to plunder Tantalus with the Juggernaut! Are you going to start a war by invading without notice?”
“Invasion? What an absurd sound! If this land were truly yours, you wouldn’t have come with an army! Where are the men who lead armies to invade their lands? I didn’t bring the Legion because you guys are stabbed too!”
The rider looked around him and questioned.
“On the contrary, I doubt it. Juggernaut, I was able to get here quickly because I was originally moving. But why did the military government come all the way here with an almost similar corps? You must have intended to start a war from the beginning!”
“Now that’s a delusion.”
“A delusion? We arrived only an hour ago! Even that, there was only one Juggernaut that was originally moving, and only one machine had arrived! On the other hand, you guys have amassed an army that would normally not even move! We have twice as many troops as ours, but who is the aggressor?”
Although he was a maestro, it was difficult to answer. In fact, the Majang did not know the situation here until just before arriving here. The magistrates only moved after receiving orders from the General Headquarters.
At this point, it is admirable that the General Command for predicting all these situations and gathering troops. It is probably not a simple prediction, but the result of judging by collecting information through reports from signal soldiers.
“Why no answer? What, have you seen the future? Can I be a saint? Since a war broke out later, we prepare for a war from now on in order to respond, is that so?”
However, you cannot reveal the military secrets related to the headquarters to the enemy. It was a time when the magician had trouble answering.
“Let’s go to sleep. Let’s both stop.”
A great song perched on the edge of the cataphract intervened in the conversation.
“No matter how much you make up your mind, the conclusion is not that. Now this land has been lifted from the Earth Mother’s curse. The abyss that sucks everything must disappear, and it will become fertile again. Of course, neither this side nor the other side have any intention of conceding that.”
The military government directly negotiated with Jiseon to build Tantalus and plunge it into the bottomless pit. Although it was requested by Ji-seon in return for making the meta conveyor belt, it must have had a significant stake anyway.
And the nations want a land where they can settle down.
The bottomless pit is a hole that sucks in everything. In countries where weight is value, dropping something into the abyss means permanent loss. So I was seized with fear and didn’t even go near it… Now that it’s gone, if you don’t use this place as a bridgehead, you can’t expand further.
Land that cannot be yielded. Two countries aiming for it.
“In that case, there is only one way left.”
With a spear slung over his shoulder, he replaced the words that were difficult to say without haste.
“-War.”
Words have a strange power. Surely everyone thought of it in their heads, but they didn’t draw a clear picture. However, when the chorus brought out the word, it was determined as if something had been spilled.
It was the jockey who reacted first.
“… You finally showed your true colors! You guys started first!”
Sand dust rose from the back of the stable.
The mounted cataphract was slightly overhanging in conversation with the rider, so those following could neither notice nor deter its approach. In the meantime, three assailants rose from the ground and flew towards the majang at once.
The jockey exclaimed in rapture.
“The military is easy to understand, so I like it! You can clearly see who the captain is!”
The nations are countries of alchemy. Its basic knowledge is to change the material it touches according to its will. The combat alchemists who had dug into the ground had penetrated the tunnel with simple alchemy and approached.
An unexpected surprise that took place literally underground. However.
“You’re stupid.”
Before they even got on the Cataphract, a round hole appeared in the attacker’s chest.
A red mist spread behind me. The blood-soaked sand clotted and fell. He was a warrior who came from his own choosing, and he was armed quite well, as befits a nation. Unable to withstand even a moment, it returned to the soil.
It was obvious who did it. Because the person in question was holding out a window while sitting down.
“Yes. This is it I’ve long forgotten… It was this.”
“A spear, no way….”
Jeolchang did not wear an overcoat and did not wear a rank insignia. However, it was hard to misunderstand that the spear master standing next to the majang was someone else.
The rider called the name in a trembling voice.
“Patraxion? A knight of treason?”
I didn’t bother to affirm the obvious fact. Instead, Jeolchang raised the spear and held it forward. Aiming simultaneously at the bewildered rider and the juggernaut beyond, Jeolchang smiled the long-suffering smile.
“As expected, a duel requires an opponent. A person who longs for something by risking their body and soul. Sijo is… The taste was good, but the resonance of the soul was lacking. This side is much more enjoyable than forcibly holding on to an opponent who has no intention of fighting.”
The two words war contain many tragedies. It is frightening and sad, so people tremble in fear just hearing the word war.
But the best part was laughing. There was only joy in his trembling.
A superb Patraxion who challenged a country to a duel and actually made it a success.
The jockey swears, recalling his anecdote.
“… Crazy child.”
“It’s a duel. Raise your weapon. Victory is justice, and the winner will get this land. That’s god… No, the Earth Mother will protect you this time.”
But he can’t back down. If the opponent backed down saying they were willing to go to war, there would only be a greater loss.
This is the reason why war does not go away just because everyone avoids it. Cried the jockey.
“I will not back down!”
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha! The desired sea!”
A war between nations and nations broke out with the cry of one person.