I’m Here to End This Fight - Chapter 398



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Episode 398. The Belgrade War (13)

Aaron Schmidt’s impression was distorted.

“Their movements are suspicious?”

As his low voice spread, a cold silence fell over the conference room.

The reason why an emergency meeting was suddenly called.

That was precisely because of the unusual movements of the Giclee Union.

“What on earth is so suspicious?”

“They’re… narrowing down the camp.”

“Then why do you think they are moving like that?”

No one opened their mouth to answer Aaron’s question.

“hmm…….”

“hmm!”

There were two main reasons why those on the eve of war simplified their camps.

Or if they intend to give up the war and withdraw their troops at an early date.

Or, if you are preparing for a short-term battle where you will have to pour all your efforts into it at once.

Everyone had both of those cases in mind, but it was hard to come to a conclusion about which one was correct.

Meanwhile, Aaron was tapping the table with his fingers while looking around the room.

Knock knock-.

Soon the fingers stopped and a tongue-clicking sound was heard from him.

“Tsk, looks like it won’t be easy.”

“… … .”

“Everyone, organize your units and prepare for battle.”

Aaron’s command meant that he had judged that the enemies were preparing for a short-term war.

At this, someone carefully opened his mouth.

“Well, there’s still some time. If you hear news from the special forces, you should move… … .”

But his words did not end.

bang-!

When Aaron slammed the table down, it shook, and everyone present stood in awe.

Aaron rebuked those people.

“How foolish! Don’t you know yet! If the surprise attack by the special forces had been successful, those guys would already be running around like a lamb with its tail on fire! But how can you be leisurely lining up the camp like that, and how can you be acting like someone with a knife behind their back?”

If the surprise attack by the special force was successful as Aaron said, the Giclee Union would have had no time to move.

That was the first thing that made Aaron think that the enemies were preparing for battle.

‘Besides, how could a guy who shows such a vicious murderous intent back down?’

The terrifying murderous intent that had been emanating from the Giclee Union a while ago was the second evidence that they were preparing for a fight.

Aaron snorted in the direction of the Jikli Alliance camp.

‘Reckless thing.’

The ferocious murderous intent carried by the Asin Sword’s Mystery was something only Aaron, who had reached the same level, could feel.

And this would be a challenge and provocation from Uli Gikli to himself.

‘The little one doesn’t know how high the sky is and is always jumping around.’

The corners of Aaron’s mouth twisted into a murderous grin.

Then his gaze fell on a middle-aged woman sitting at the end of the table.

“I told you clearly. This time, you are responsible for it and will make it a success.”

A middle-aged woman.

When she first brought up the story of this special force, she bit her lips with a pale face.

‘… Are you saying it really failed?’

I just thought the news was a little late, but it looks like things have gone wrong.

And you will be solely responsible for it.

Maybe it would have cost him his own neck.

So while she was trembling and waiting for her turn.

“Find out.”

“…yes?”

“Reveal every detail of what happened behind their backs, and what the special forces went through! Also, if there are any survivors, they must be brought back alive, and if there are not even a single survivor… … .”

A sharp light flashed in Aaron’s eyes as his speech trailed off.

“… Find that villain and bring him before my eyes.”

“… … .”

“That is the only way you can survive.”

20 lumberjacks included in this special task force.

To Aaron, they were like friends, brothers, and children who believed in and followed him.

While the others in the Schmidt Union were like appendages that could be replaced at any time, the lumberjacks were the pillars of the family they would build.

But this operation resulted in the loss of half of those precious resources.

Of course, Aaron still believes they are alive, but if they are dead… … .

‘I will pay your debt without any regrets.’

I will definitely find the villain and take revenge.

Aaron pledged so.

And the middle-aged woman bowed her head and answered Aaron’s murderous words.

“Oh, I will definitely find it!”

She had to find it no matter what.

A sacrifice that would bear Aaron’s wrath on his behalf.

A few days passed as the woman set out in search of a lifeline.

Phew-!

Ding ding ding-!

The sound of drums echoes along with the loud blast of horns.

Finally, the two alliances faced each other across the river.

***

Aaron’s prediction was right.

The Giclee Alliance chose all-out war rather than retreat.

The Schmidt Coalition, which had been preparing early, also quickly got into battle readiness.

Meanwhile, Aaron, who had left the barracks, carefully observed the flow of the river.

‘You’re slow.’

The two camps had been facing each other across a river that stretched out from Crystal Lake.

The river between them served as a natural moat for both camps and a deterrent to war.

This is because in order to attack each other, they had to overcome the great hurdle of crossing the river.

The one who crosses the river first bears the burden of the siege.

On the other hand, those located across the river have the advantage of Mercury.

For that reason, it was a situation where they could not easily attack each other.

Aaron’s eastward advance was also blocked because the Jikli Alliance blocked the other side of the river faster than expected.

‘Are you now planning to cross the river and attack us?’

Those who had been using the river as a backdrop to launch a defensive attack until now suddenly changed their attitude and said they would launch a siege.

‘Where on earth does your confidence come from?’

Rather, if they were willing to cross the river first, I would welcome them with open arms, but I was curious.

I wonder what plan they will use to cross the river.

‘Do you believe in the dry season?’

Due to the dry season that started about two weeks ago, not only the water level of the river but also the flow rate was considerably slow.

But even so, it was still deep.

The water wasn’t deep enough to cross easily.

While Aaron was looking across the river with such doubts.

Chuck chuck-.

An old man wearing a fur vest approached Aaron.

“older brother.”

“Yeah, did you check it?”

The old man was the oldest of the lumberjacks who followed Aaron, and was a certified 7th-dan expert.

He nodded slightly at Aaron’s question and opened his mouth.

“Your guess was right, brother. Those bastards have taken their troops somewhere. Their numbers are a bit less than we expected.”

“Roughly, how much?”

“About two thousand? But seeing as those who know how to fight properly are still glaring across the river, the ones who are missing are all just straw men.”

The two camps currently in conflict have a combined strength of 15,000 men each.

Of those, two thousand was an ambiguous number that could be said to be neither a lot nor a small number.

Of course, if the two thousand were mostly low-level forces, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but Aaron was strangely curious about their whereabouts.

“Haven’t you figured out where they disappeared to?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t have enough time to find out.”

“Hmm… That’s right. What do you think? Where did they take that many troops?”

“Well, let’s go.”

The old man with his chin slightly tilted gave the answer.

“We have to cross the river, so we might as well build a raft somewhere.”

Aaron nodded slightly as it was a fairly plausible answer.

At that moment.

Ding ding ding-!

The sound of warning drums starting to ring urgently.

At this, Aaron’s gaze turned to one side, and at the same time his eyes widened.

“her?”

Aaron sighed briefly.

But soon the corners of his mouth curled up slightly and a light laugh broke out.

“Haha, it seems you and I are just hopeless country bumpkins. At best, we were thinking of building a raft, haha.”

At Aaron’s laughter, Nogosu made an awkward expression.

“Hmm, anyway, who would have thought they were city punks? They seem to be really rotten with money.”

The gaze of the old man with an embarrassed smile was directed towards that place.

Ding ding ding-!

What appeared at the end of the river, with the loud drumbeats serving as their marching tune, were none other than dozens of ships.

Aaron’s eyes were drawn to the sight of boats rowing vigorously upstream from the river.

‘That’s amazing.’

Dozens of the ships were not military but merchant vessels operating nearby.

To think that they’ve gathered so much in just a few days.

It was certain that they had borrowed ships, as the ships operated by their family alone would not have been able to fill that number.

However, merchant ships were a great asset to the merchants.

The fact that they gave away such a valuable merchant ship shows how great their influence was in Belgrade.

And that fact satisfied Aaron.

‘If I win this war… all their wealth and influence will be mine!’

If we can defeat them and take Belgrade, we will have a much better life than being trapped in that narrow mountain and rotting away.

Not only his own generation, but also his descendants, and even the descendants of those who followed him and came out of the hood.

Kkuduk-.

Aaron’s fist clenched.

Meanwhile, ships coming up the river lined up and began to conclude contracts.

Aaron had to admit that he had seen a wide bridge made of boats emerging over the river.

‘Those guys are smarter than us.’

Connecting ships to make a bridge.

It’s a simple but pretty useful strategy, isn’t it?

Of course, this was an idea that only those who could mobilize dozens of ships could come up with.

When Aaron looked straight ahead in admiration.

thud-!

Finally, all the ships were connected.

Just then, terrifyingly, a man from the other side ran across the river on the bridge at a terrifying speed.

The Schmidt Union was in an uproar when they finally saw his two feet on the ground.

“Wow, it’s so annoying!”

“Ulli Jikli!”

Wooly Giclee.

A rising star who has emerged as the strongest in Belgrade while the Singh family is in self-restraint.

He stood firmly at the forefront of the bridge of the ship, radiating an intense energy.

There, the will to attack this bridge was clearly read: ‘If you want to attack this bridge, you must first take me down!’

Aaron saw this and snickered and gave an order.

“Pull back the camp.”

“yes?”

How can you retreat the camp when you can’t even rush in and attack right away?

Aaron’s smile deepened as the old man tilted his head at the incomprehensible command.

“I too will become our spoils of war. Why should we just destroy it and use it carelessly?”

“Hahaha! That’s true. I understand! I’ll retreat to the back and prepare to welcome the guests!”

While the old man who had been causing a commotion was gone, Aaron sensed a ferocious murderous aura rushing towards him.

The murderous intent of the bastard who had been provoking me for the past few days has become more evident.

At this, the corners of his mouth twisted.

“Don’t rush me, sweetheart.”

Even if I rush you, it will only shorten your life.

Aaron’s murderous laughter was directed at Uli Jikli.

***

“This is your chance! Move on quickly!”

Petra mobilized her troops, screaming at the top of her lungs.

A strange light flashed in her eyes.

‘Pushing the camp back.’

Even if you make a bridge out of a boat.

Also, even if the Uli Jikli guarded the bridge until the troops crossed, it was expected that they would have to take some damage.

But what is this?

Rather than attacking the troops crossing the bridge, aren’t they actually retreating their troops?

Aaron’s intention was to stick with it properly, so that it wouldn’t be touched.

‘What great confidence.’

The twenty lumberjacks and three hundred elite soldiers they lost were not that many compared to their total force, but they were a considerable portion of their combat power.

How can you show that much confidence even when there is such a power vacuum?

‘Is this confidence well-founded or arrogant?’

Petra wished this was just Aaron’s arrogance.

‘This is all I can do.’

In waging war, tactics and strategy were of indescribable importance.

But there were times when such tactics and strategies became meaningless.

In the case where there exists a strategic weapon-level expert with the power to change the course of war.

And the ‘strategic weapon-level expert’ defined by Petra was a high-ranking expert with a certified 7th dan or higher.

A 7th-dan master who has completed the realm cannot be harmed by hundreds or thousands of blades, so he is a key force that determines the outcome of a war.

The official 8th and 9th Dans were capable of being called a one-man army.

A being that had completed the master’s level was no different from a natural disaster that humans could not fight against.

Strategy and tactics?

There was only one strategy and tactic to deal with a master of strategic weapons.

It’s just a master of the same level coming forward.

So if Aaron’s confidence is not arrogance but has some basis.

‘… It won’t be easy.’

Perhaps the outcome of this war will not be easily predicted.

Petra tried hard to shake off such anxious thoughts.

“Move quickly!”

She urged her troops to do the best they could.

***

At that moment, most of the Jikli Alliance’s forces crossed the river.

“Ooh! It’s sticking!”

Yuri, who arrived just in time, placed her hand on her forehead and her eyes sparkled.

His appearance, as if he was watching a fire across a river, showed no intention of crossing the river whatsoever.

Then Al Giclee asked cautiously.

“Shouldn’t I join the main force?”

“Yeah, I should. But not now.”

“Yes? Then when… … .”

Yuri waved her hand at Al’s slightly anxious voice.

“If you’re that worried, go and see first.”

“but…….”

Yuri sneered at the sight of him hesitating somewhere.

“Why are you scared now?”

“… … .”

“If you followed me because you wanted to change and grow, then grit your teeth and run with the determination to die. That small bit of courage will be the opportunity to change you.”

“… … !”

At Yuri’s calm yet strong voice, the expressions of Al and those around him hardened.

Instead, what caught their eyes was a deep emotion.

“… Thank you. If I survive, I will definitely come and say hello.”

“Yes, if you survive.”

As Yuri waved her hand again, the children of Belgrade’s influential families, led by Al, all ran toward the bridge.

Yuri muttered quietly as she watched them roughly cross the bridge.

“… went?”

“I see? He’s gone.”

Yuri smiled with satisfaction as Teresia nodded and agreed.

“I finally got that useless lump out of me.”

The group of people who followed them were just a bunch of useful lumps that served as good excuses while moving.

Now that we have reached our destination, it is no different from a malignant tumor that will interfere with our future work.

And those who thought they had something nice to say to Yuri’s muttering looked at her with a look that said, ‘That’s how it is with this kid.’

Then Theresia asked.

“So when do we plan on crossing?”

“well?”

“Are you sure you’re not going to participate?”

You’ve come this far and you’re not participating in the war?

When Teresia gave him a strange look at his unusual choice, Yuri snickered.

“Anyway, if I get involved in this mess now, it’ll just be a dogfight. That’s not the picture I want.”

“then?”

“You should be as observant as possible, then intervene and pretend to fight appropriately, but you should also take advantage of the situation.”

“stall?”

“Even if you do your best in a place that no one can see, people won’t know anyway. Even if you hide in a place that no one can see and slack off, if you just make one big, short, big hit, your performance will go up.”

“… So you’re going to slack off?”

“Of course, I plan to work harder than anyone else.”

“…So that’s why you sent Al Giclee over there.”

It wasn’t good for Al Giclee to know that he was slacking off.

Although he may seem like a womanizer, he was the eldest son of the Giclee family, the main force behind this war.

Teresia stuck out her tongue at Yuri’s intentions, thinking that she was still the same.

It was at that very moment.

Waaaaah-!

A tremendous roar was heard from the front.

With that, Yuri’s group’s gaze was finally fixed on the spectacle of the two camps rushing towards each other.

Even if they come from the cradle.

Even for Yuri, who had been a mercenary, this was her first time fighting a war with this many people.

“Is that… war?”

“Wow, that’s amazing.”

“hungry…….”

Expert and expert.

For them, who had only experienced battles between the strong and the strong, the large-scale clash between powers was quite a shock.

“It felt like two giant monsters were biting each other.”

“It definitely feels that way.”

The large-scale all-out war that was observed from afar felt like a clash between two giant creatures, just as Teresia had said.

Mixed up and falling apart.

Exploiting each other’s weaknesses.

A giant monster made up of a group of humans harassed each other relentlessly.

And the one who had the upper hand in that fight was a monster with a good head named Petra.

‘As expected, the nickname ‘Maninjang’ wasn’t created for nothing.’

As Petra instructed, each time the flag waved, the monster known as the Giclee Union would push its opponents hard.

Where are the troops being pushed back?

Where the hole was drilled.

The response to it occurred at a truly astonishing speed.

It was a clear example of how one outstanding commander with a keen eye for reading the situation can have a significant impact on the course of a war.

Waaaaah-!

The constant screaming and the sound of weapons clashing.

And the Schmidt coalition continues to be pushed back.

Yuri, who saw this, scratched her cheek.

“Oh, this… is going to end up just being a slacker?”

This, this, doesn’t it seem like it’ll be a lot easier to win than I thought?

But that was Yuri’s wish.

The tide was turning towards the Giclee Alliance.

Not only did it return everything to its original state, but a shout was heard that made it tilt in the opposite direction.

[Father!]

A loud roar echoed across the river.

At this, Yuri’s expression instantly hardened.

“Sigh… I was planning on blowing up something moderately large, but I didn’t mean to blow it up to this size.”

Isn’t this too big?

Can I afford this?

But that thought quickly crossed my mind.

‘I can’t help it.’

Looking at the situation, I couldn’t help but get involved.

Wouldn’t it be possible to receive compensation only by winning a war?

“I’ll go first. And… each of you take care of your own life.”

Yuri left those words to her friends.

Break-!

His new form was engulfed in lightning and disappeared.

Teresia muttered softly as she saw the blue light of the thunder continuing.

“… Shouldn’t you be more careful than us?”

Yuri, who is probably heading to the most dangerous place in the battlefield.

Teresia, who had been looking at his back with concern for a moment, quickly shook off her worries and grabbed the spear.

“Let’s go too.”

“yep!”

“hungry!”

“Let’s go.”

Led by Teresia, the Four Heavenly Kings of the Demon King’s Castle rushed toward the battlefield.

Following the trail of the Demon King who went ahead.