Chapter 393: Episode 106: Road to Happiness (4)
Yu Jitae did not give commands.
There were many excellent commanders in the allied forces. These soldiers who had dedicated themselves to the military ever since a young age to fight against monsters at the frontlines showed superb skills at utilising the military based on their various experiences. Thus, it was more helpful for Yu Jitae to fight at the frontlines instead of giving out commands.
He was already like a legion by himself.
There had been hundreds of encounters over the last few hours. In each battle, he killed tens of Apocalypse Bringers and that summed up to more than a thousand in total.
With a thud, he drove the head of the approaching Bringer of Apocalypse into the ground as its head splattered into pieces.
Again, he was feeling a faint sense of pleasure.
He was reaching the end of the path.
The smell of blood tickled his nose as he turned his gaze to the sky.
This was not the time to mindlessly continue fighting – although the appearance of the Apocalypse Bringers made things a bit tedious, this just seemed like a prelude to a much bigger event in his opinion. It wasn’t something meagre like a zombie outbreak.
However, he couldn’t exactly tell what was coming.
Basing his mind on his experiences of hunting down black dragons, he came up with tens of possible scenarios.
Apocalypse Bringers were one of the subjects belonging to black dragons but they had a lot more threatening ones under their belt.
Why did they release the ‘Bringers of Apocalypse’ out of all their subordinates?
Why?
– In times like this, a simple perception could be the correct answer.
– Perhaps they are trying to disguise the opening moment of the fissure?
Zhuge Haiyan shared her idea.
A complicated entanglement could be resolved surprisingly easily by looking at it from a simple perspective. Although that was true, was that really how it was for this instance?
Were the ‘Bringers of Apocalypse’ that should be quite significant, nothing but the red carpet being laid before the appearance of the [Great Hostility]?
He crushed the neck of the Apocalypse Bringer – who had been a precious soldier of the Association until just then – and killed it.
Firstly, he had to identify the next opponent and kill it. Apocalypse Bringers might not be a threat to him, but were big enough of a threat to others.
One of the Bringers ran in at Yu Jitae as he senselessly slashed, stabbed and ripped every one of them to death. He grabbed onto the head of one of the assailants and smashed it into the ground.
In the end, they were colleagues and families of the soldier.
At times, there were ones that wept out loud at the death of their comrades. He ignored them.
At times, there were soldiers that attacked Yu Jitae out of their uncontrollable shock and fury. Those guys he killed.
It was when he was continuing his massacre.
Suddenly, his body froze on the spot as he then closed his eyes. His senses were sensitive to their limits and could even feel diluted mana that was dozens of kilometres away from him.
Those senses of his discovered a stalk of foreign mana falling down from the sky.
Thus, he flew up and approached it to examine the aura in more detail.
It was the mana of nature.
Nature – one that was abnormally large, which meant…
…An elf?
A heaviness that could not be disguised reached his senses. This was definitely the mana of the sublime and lofty race – the existences that were the most mysterious and rare across all the dimensions.
A fragment labelled as ‘Elf’ flew into the mix of scattered puzzle pieces.
Bringers of Apocalypse, and elves?
Elves. Elves…
It was then.
An enormous fissure started cracking open from the sky near the distant horizon as all the soldiers widened their eyes in shock. How big is it for it to appear so huge despite being off in the distance?
Before long, the fissure turned bigger like cracks going down a piece of glass as it drew near them.
The night sky started to tear open.
If a normal fissure was a mouth, then the one above them looked like the uneven and broken oral structure of an ogre. An unfathomably immense clump of mana poured down and suppressed the allied forces.
– On my mark!
The commanders shouted.
Mages glared at the sky, with each squad aiming at their designated target. If they were either too fast or too slow, it would decrease the impact of their initial response. There were 3.5 million superhumans gathered here – an error in 1% would result in tens of thousands of lives.
That was why they had to wait for the perfect timing.
– …
The other side of the radio was silent and that in turn amplified the white noise in the background.
As beads of sweat travelled down the cheeks of the soldiers that were hovering their fingers over the triggers of their artifact,
Ones with red eyes that gleamed in blue slowly started to appear from the darkness of the open fissure. Enemies with hostility were approaching while glistening the darkness with their tainted colours.
The first monster popped its head out of the fissure.
And then,
Monsters flooded out—
Millions of monsters that were in all sorts of shapes originating from beyond the horizon of Providence that people had never seen before were falling like raindrops. There were so many of them that the soldiers could not believe what their eyes were seeing. It was a scene of catastrophe.
Now!
The commander shouted.
– Firee!!!
For an instant, it became as bright as the day.
Bombardments brightened up the dark sky.
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Tens and hundreds of thousands of offensive spells and magic explosions all gathered to one place. Their flames were huge enough to brighten up the entire area. Because of that, most of the monsters that first left the fissure, if not all of them, were either dead or critically wounded.
Even then, the monsters did not stop hoarding out as more and more monsters followed suit.
The ones watching from a distance were shocked. As if the god was shaking a large container of black pepper upside down, millions of monsters were falling from the sky as black dots.
Each and every one of them looked bizarre. There was a squid fluttering in the sky and a horrendous spider looking like it was made from humans, as well as a cluster of reddened tentacles that looked as if they would burst at any given moment.
The soldiers had never seen any monster like this before.
It was like a part of pandemonium that was being unveiled in front of their eyes.
– Maintain your ranks! Do something and don’t let them break your guards!
A full-scale war.
– This is K315! We require backup! Our troops have been half-destroyed!
Rushed voices were echoing across the radio.
– Rr09, Rr09! The giant is in motion! It is heading North! Our mages have been neutralised! We will be wiped at this rate!
Their shouts and the thundering bombardments merged into a chaotic set of noises.
– Damn it! Stop themmm!!
This was war.
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Thanks to the hasty response, the ‘Apocalypse Bringers’ were pretty much completely subjugated.
Humans and monsters were chaotically fighting in a cluster. Many preparations had been set up for this day – the mages summoned huge balls of fire and ice mountains from the air to either scorch or halt the monsters.
The ground diverged and swallowed hordes of monsters. Having several human casualties in that process was unavoidable.
– Stop them! Stop them! Do not get pushed back!!
If their formation surrounding the fissure was to be pushed back, millions of monsters including those flying would end up spreading worldwide. In addition to the increase in human casualties, facilities would be broken and nature would be destroyed to an irrecoverable state like how several African and Oceanian countries were lost during the Great War!
– We must protect the barrier!
That was when Yu Jitae personally stepped in and killed large monsters above the SS+ rank. After disappearing with a flash, he would reappear several kilometres away to smash the head of a monster that was as big as an apartment before vanishing again.
Those watching him were befuddled. The ‘Prophet’ looked like a toothpick crushing the head of a bear and a tiger.
“The Prophet is with us! We can do it!”
“We got thisss!”
The ones that lost their comrades frantically shouted to keep their minds from crumbling down.
Despite the positive wave of encouragement going through the soldiers, Yu Jitae did not have a good look on his face. He had already been flying from place to place for several hours, efficiently killing the monsters that he had to take care of first.
There were so many monsters pouring out from the fissure that they made people want to vomit.
It seemed to be 50% more than the number of monsters that were in the East Asian Great War and yet each and every monster was also a lot stronger than normal monsters.
This was supposed to come to an end soon,
So why was the one that should have come, not coming?
That was when the command centre’s radio echoed with noise.
– Strategy Team! Is the boss not here yet!?
– Scouts! What are the scouts doing!? Are there seriously still no signs of the boss?
– The Western front is being pushed back! It’s a matter of time until they push through! Hurry up!!
The commanders shouted in angst.
– Not yet! Hold on a bit more! The fissure is radically interrupting with any type of fluctuation and we have already sent additional scouts!
– Damn it. It will take at least 20 more minutes for the Downfall to activate and reach this place. Didn’t you say there were three bosses?! We can’t halt three SSS+ bosses for 20 minutes!
Yu Jitae frowned hearing the jumbled up voices through the radio.
There were nigh 10 million monsters pouring out from the fissure and the number of allied casualties had already reached hundreds of thousands.
There were too many monsters – there were so many of those atrocities that even Yu Jitae could not exactly identify their numbers with his senses.
The hundreds of thousands of monsters they initially killed at the start of the battle with their concentrated bombardment did not even sum up to a fingernail compared to the rest of the monsters.
It was truly a ridiculous amount. If all of these monsters had spread worldwide, humanity would have suffered an irrecoverable loss no matter how desperate Yu Jitae was. So the Witch twisting the dimensional coordinates and the Association’s preparation for the battle could be called a success.
Yu Jitae’s plan was correct.
While swinging his sword and indiscriminately shooting out killing intent, he felt a strong doubt rising up on the inside.
Was this really the [Hostility]?
Did the black dragons that died to him, really send such an absurd army of monsters for their revenge?
Number alone was just too violent already. An astronomical number of monsters were raging at him. Even he was being forced to gasp for breath simply due to their numbers.
And that was something he could not understand.
There were way too many monsters for them to have been prepared for just revenge.
Even if it was the entire black dragon race doing it, preparing so many monsters would have taken them at least hundreds of years.
His mind branched off. Maybe the black dragons had been preparing an army for something else?
However, out of the tens of black dragons that he had met, none of them had owned such a large amount of monsters. This was nonsensical and impossible.
He frowned while swinging his sword. For now, he couldn’t do anything else but swing his sword.
That was while feeling an occasional surge in pleasure.
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Five days went by with the war still in place. After hearing the news, the allied nations worldwide sent additional soldiers in as reinforcements, and 2 million superhumans alongside 6.5 million human soldiers were added to the battle.
Although there were less monsters falling down from the sky, those that had already fallen down were colouring the ground in black.
Humanity was slowly being tinged by despair.
Blood splattered. Their comrades died and their broken fingers were unable to grab the weapons again and yet the sun had yet to rise for more than 10 days.
Yu Jitae saw a superhuman killing himself and frowned.
The problem was that the end of the night was still nowhere in sight.
That was when a superhuman scout standing far above in the sky gulped. He was a superhuman belonging to the Blue Wing Private Superhuman Military Corporation.
– Hurry up! We must find some before they request for additional back up!
One of their leaders shouted. They didn’t have much time on their hands.
Even though this battle was one that questioned the continuance of humanity, there were still ones that moved for their private profit.
They always assumed they would come out victorious because everything would be over anyway if they lost. Because of that, they had to find ‘ancient species’ while everyone else was engrossed in the battle to gain profit from the byproduct.
“Sorry sir. I need more time to identify one.”
– Do you fucking know how big of an opportunity this is! Hurry up and find one!
The scout in the sky gulped. Inside the world covered by a dense fog of darkness, something flickered at the infinitely distant place.
Millions of superhumans were fighting against ten million monsters but that had nothing to do with him. The scout headed higher towards the sky until he was right in front of the fissure. “–Oi! Where are you going!” A nearby commander shouted but the scout continued on while ignoring him.
At last, he stood before the fissure.
“I, I found it!”
– Where!?
“It, it’s, in the sky– kuhuk!”
A tentacle flew in and the blade at the tip of the tentacle pierced his heart as the superhuman scout gazed at the sky with disbelief. Following that, countless tentacles fell from the fissure aiming for thousands of soldiers. It was like a bombardment of tentacles.
The tentacle did not stop after stabbing through the man’s heart. Feeling blood seeping out of his pierced heart, the superhuman scout widened his eyes in shock.
From within the darkness,
He spotted an even denser darkness shifting its body.