Tale of the Fake Hero - Chapter 291



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Season 3: Episode 99

The last troops of the Adrion Continent were lined up in a military camp at the northern end of the Ranoa Bridge.

It was a line of light.

Beyond the dawn, the armour of humanity gleamed in sunlight, the armour of the fairies shone in moonlight, and the giant gods of Ain glowed with iron.

“Everyone, at attention, salute!”

As the officers walked forward, soldiers from the three armies opened up the path on both sides, each saluting in their own way.

Laminaria Alter Aradmantel.

Admiral of the Steel Fleet, Halbaron.

Hwang Eun’s private secretary, Balbray.

The soldiers of each camp saluted their respective commanders, and since they were walking side by side, it appeared as if they were receiving salutes from all three armies.

“Your disciple has grown up to be a very good boy. When I first saw him, he was a cheeky little brat.”

Halbaron said.

Balbray raised an eyebrow.

“I’m sure it was this body that I saw first, but I agree that he’s more cheeky than any of the other kids.”

“I guess I learned a lot from meeting the Admiral and the Sergeant.”

“Hahaha, my very existence is a lesson. By the way, dwarf friend, do you plan on going to the front lines yourself?”

Halvaron pursed his lips at Balbray’s words.

“What do you think of me, my dear friend? There’s a thing called the Type 48 that was developed for situations like this.”

This Giant Type 48 became the basis for the later developed Giants, the ‘Great King Giant Type 49’ and the ‘Great King Giant Type 0’.

“It’s equipped with high-temperature shells and is five times the size of a normal giant. It also has triple armor for close combat. I guarantee that even a god-level Mauna Loa would be useless against it.”

Oh, as Balbray let out a gasp, Aydin, who was assisting Laminea, shook his head.

“The difference in power between the Incarnation-class and other demons is as great as heaven and earth. If you let your guard down, you may suffer a great defeat.”

“That’s what I mean. Oh, right, I said, humans are always so pessimistic.”

“I apologize, Admiral. I didn’t realize that you were joking when the success or failure of the war was at stake… … .”

“You punk! An apology like this right now is exactly what a pessimistic attitude is! Just laugh it off! Come on, laugh. Hahahahahahaha!”

When Aydin was too embarrassed to react, Laminea smiled instead.

“Ahaha, hahaha, ahahahahaha! Now let’s talk about what would happen if an incarnation-level being appeared.”

“Now that I think about it, I’ve been thinking about why humans are pessimistic. I think it’s because their lives are miserable. You need to actively embrace our technology.”

“Admiral, let me explain why the Incarnation-class demons are more powerful than other demons… … .”

Balbray raised both hands and shook his head, a bewildered smile playing on his lips.

“We’re talking together, but it seems like we’re talking to each other while looking at the wall. I don’t know if we can cooperate properly.”

Balbray looked south across the bridge, to the ash-covered horizon where the dawn’s sunlight could not reach and where darkness swallowed it up.

“Hey, let’s see if things are different for you guys. You demons.”

The remnants of the abyss of Naigalas were violent.

A swirling sandstorm covered the horizon beyond the bridge all the way to the sea.

The Demons came through the storm and crossed the bridge. The flag of the Blood-Chewing Wolf Crest… … was High Kun Tark 2nd, Kiral Clan.

[Krawzan: As the enemy advance force approaches, the Red Lotus Corps will deploy in the center of the bridge, and the Iron Star Corps will deploy on the right wing.]

The elite line infantry brigade, the Redcoats, whose uniforms have now become synonymous with victory, are warming up their steam cores with their guns pointed at them.

The Red Lotus Corps, which boasted the best reload speed and concentrated fire skills, was truly the best musketeer corps.

The Iron Legion is a heavily armed infantry unit of humanity that has accumulated countless victories, though it is not as good as the Elven Holtransks. Its formation is solidified with shields and pikes.

[Balbray: Graham, deploy the Holtrans camp on the left wing of the bridge. Let’s see the youngest Paladin’s skills.]

[Graham: Yes, Your Majesty. It is a great honor to serve you! I may not be as good as Ebesran, but I will not disappoint you.]

The Holtrans faction, where only the best of the fairies are allowed to belong, creates a steel fortress on the left wing of the bridge.

[Halvaron: Steel Fleet and Mobile Artillery Brigade, open the cannons. The bombardment coordinates are south of the Lanoa Bridge. Even if you shoot roughly while digging the nose, a hundred people will be wiped out, so shoot indiscriminately. It will be perfect for manipulating military operations. After returning to the home country, tell them that you captured a thousand demons.]

[Gustav: The Steel Fleet exists to follow the Admiral’s orders. All ships, open the cannons! Make the demons dance to the beat of the cannon!]

The gunfire signaled the start of war.

Half a beat faster than that.

With a terrible, tearing scream, the old monster bird, Tuaki, dived down, aiming at the artillery.

“Two-a-ki-da!”

Its hideous mouth splits into six parts, revealing black, yellow teeth.

On their backs sat the Uruk riders of the Kaltquarin Clan, swinging abnormally long maces.

A weapon developed solely for slaughter, effectively crushing the enemy’s muscles and bones, even on Touaki’s back.

[Niven: Where are you, you little snakes!]

There was an air force unit that intercepted it in the air, the 0th Fighter Brigade. It was a large unit that temporarily merged the Strike Corps and the Pistol Corps.

The Fairy Solvent Corps was also present.

This beast, which looks like a combination of a dragon and a falcon, is a fierce fighting weapon raised by fairies. Although it is less mobile than a griffin, it is known for its greater aggression and fighting power.

[Niven: We’ll take the air! Focus on the ground battle!]

The volcanic ash storm soon became like a barrier, enveloping the demons and protecting them as they advanced together.

Aided by the protection of the sandstorm, the enemy’s vanguard burst through the barrage of artillery and gunfire: Kiral’s Wolf Cavalry.

Laminia stepped forward and pulled Aradhamanthel from her waist, scabbard included. Devoutly, she prayed as she pulled the pure-blooded blade from its scabbard.

“I am Laminaria Alter Aradmantel.”

The agent’s desperate prayer awakens the sword. The holy sword emits a dazzling light and cuts down the darkness rushing in from this side.

“Today too, please spread your fragrance to this land through me.”

The hero I saw and learned, the end of ‘Black Summer’ (4)

“The carrier has already encountered the power of the abyss many times.”

Camilla ran through the corridors of subspace with Sharon.

The name, Corridor of Emptiness.

In a dark green space where nothing alive or dead existed, only dimensional objects floated around like stepping stones.

“The power takes different forms depending on the king, but its root lies in the erosion of space and time.”

I couldn’t tell the exact direction, whether it was up, down, right, or left.

Their guide was Yoran, seven years younger than them, and wherever the girl went, the road became hers.

Because the dimensional floating objects that were floating around chaotically gathered at the place where the foot stepped, forming a stepping stone.

“Space-time erosion?”

Yoran nodded to Camilla’s question.

“For example, the abyss of the Bug Lord is the corruption that causes the target to rot away in an instant, the abyss of the Deep Sea Lord is the corrosion that uses moisture, and the abyss of the Lizard Lord is the dissolution that takes away all moisture and nutrients. These are all powers that can arbitrarily distort the lifespan given to an object.”

Soon the scenery of the corridor changed into something like a wilderness in the early morning.

It was a land like a wasteland, and the plants that sprouted up like sentinels all had the light of emptiness.

Giant monster plants snaked like snakes and blocked Yoran’s path, but when Yoran raised his hand, they quietly retreated and opened the way.

“The power of the void was created to mimic the power of the abyss, so it can counter its corrosive power more powerfully than any other attribute.”

“What exactly is it?”

At Sharon’s question, Yoran slowed down for a moment and looked back.

“Good question. Does either of you have an iron weapon? You don’t need one.”

As Sharon pulled out a dagger from her waist and threw it, voidlings appeared on either side of Yoran’s head and latched onto the dagger.

What is that… … ?

Are you eating a lump of iron?

But something was strange. It seemed like it was being eaten, but rather than being eaten, it seemed like something was disappearing somewhere.

“What you two are thinking right now is probably right. The power of the void erodes the source of the target itself and blows it away into the void dimension. The dagger was eaten and blown away to another dimension.”

Camilla bit her lip.

“To be honest… … I don’t really know, I just think it’s so cute.”

“I think so too. But she is less cute than the lovely Miss Samigle. I wish I could give her one to celebrate her loveliness, but that is not possible.”

When Yoran winked, she felt something prickling her heart.

What is this?

She’s a girl. But why is she so good at seducing women? No, is it because she’s a girl that she understands women’s minds better?

“Now is not the time to be playing around with things like that.”

As we were talking like that, the wasteland ended and now a staircase leading into the endless darkness of the underground appeared.

This is the Red Mountains stratum.

This was equivalent to traveling a distance of 30 days in just 3 hours, and one could not help but be amazed at the ability of the Void to teleport.

“The point is, the who are sealed by the power of the Void can be sealed more firmly and tenaciously than usual through this erosion effect. This is because the King’s Abyss is offset by the erosion of the Void.”

But from this staircase onwards, the security became several times stricter.

The NightFaces, faceless demons that Arzen, the Apostle of the Void, was said to have dealt with, were lined up on both sides of the stairs.

Their appearance was primal and repulsive, and their dark green wings and tails twitched, but they did not bow down to Yoran.

“They don’t bow down to the princess separately?”

“I’m grateful that they don’t attack me. They’re the servants of the first apostle, Arzen. I can’t even command a single low-level nightface, but these are the best.”

Then, at last, the stairs ended and Sharon’s eyes widened as she reached the depths of the void.

“Oh my god, what is that?”

It is the altar of seals.

The Voidrake, a monstrous plant of the highest order among the summoned beings of the void, was entangling the sphere with its roots and stems.

At first glance, it looked like a sphere, but upon closer inspection, it looked like a tumor mass. Yoran walked towards it and spoke.

“Attractive Samigle ladies, this is the seal of the Lord of Time, Anridal.”

* * *

Cheongseong confirmed the location of Lucasel’s appearance through ‘The Dream of Pure White’.

The location was different for each observed world line, but the punitive force was divided and deployed to the most likely locations, that is, points of appearance that were observed identically in multiple world lines.

In most of his appearances, Lucasel did not attack from the front. He only appeared from the side and took advantage of weak points in the formation.

– This is a diversionary maneuver mission that was mainly performed by Lucas in ancient battles. The vanguard was Alcaios and Enuel. I guess it’s a way to utilize their strengths.

Soon, an abyss appeared at the locations observed on world lines 3, 11, 62, 92, 104, and 162, and Lucas appeared on its surface.

Of course, this was not Lucas’s will.

All Yotos had to do was transfer Lucas to the place and time he needed, but what mattered to the Qing and humanity was not the reason, but the location.

“Damn it, that Yotos guy… … .”

Lucasel reeled in agony as the abyss stretched its tentacles into his core, the Psalm of Sanctification.

‘come…….’

In that situation, the first one to encounter Lucas was Ashir.

No signaling system is needed here. Just by the recognition information that they have encountered it, and just by the vibrations, the location information is transmitted to other punitive forces.

The time it takes for everyone to join together is only about one to three minutes, but even that short time feels longer than an eternity in front of such an overwhelming presence.

“I told you, if we ever meet again on the battlefield, I’ll kill you.”

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump… Even if the mind does not break, fear will destroy the body on its own.

This is Eldia Myu (04)… … .

That black, true sword, Yonniulan… … .

The thumping of my heartbeat is so loud that I feel like my eardrums are going to burst. I feel a greater sense of pressure than when I didn’t know the identity.

‘Has the Polar Satellite Sword Renault ever been this excited?’

Knock, knock, knock, knock… … Renault throbs madly inside his scabbard.

It was the same when we fought last time.

It feels like Renault is afraid of fighting, like a subordinate bowing to a superior… … .

“When will this ignorance be enlightened? I look into the abyss, and the weak are abandoning you again and running away. Just like when your master was abandoned.”

What suppressed the fear was anger bordering on murderous intent, and Renaud, who resonated with that hatred, also howled loudly.

The 10th form of the tithe, the stringed moon.

The five repeated strikes in an instant, the five crescent moons, dominate the space where Ashur was standing… … but there is no one there.

“You’ve grown since we met a year ago. I guess your teacher’s eye for detail is as good as your skills.”

Is it just that there isn’t any?

Wasn’t he right behind her, at a distance where they could even breathe, placing his hand on Asher’s shoulder?

Without even drawing the True Sword.

“Don’t you dare speak of the Master with that mouth!”

The 11th form of the tithe, half-moon.

Set the axis of rotation by lowering the heel of your foot to the ground, turn your body, and change the position that was previously behind to the front.

And through the crescent moon of catastrophic attack, the front 180 degrees were suppressed in red… … Renault stopped in midair without being able to completely draw the crescent moon.

“You were born with natural talent, but you pushed yourself even further and improved yourself to this point… … You deserve to be chosen.”

That’s ridiculous… … You held the half-moon, Renault in your hand?

That’s right.

The Eldia Primora armor was ranked 10th on the technology ranking table, which was far higher than the 7th rank that the Polar Satellite Sword belonged to, so theoretically there was no problem. Only in theory.

“Don’t you want to meet your teacher again, who was unjustly sacrificed by the weak?”

“what……?”

“Your master is not dead. He was just put to sleep for a while until the world becomes normal. If you follow me, I will see you again. It will be soon.”

A dream-like wish… … .

I’m meeting you, Master, again… … ?

The moment I reached out and grabbed the hem of her clothes, the sight of her back that had left forever, the look in my teacher’s eyes that came to mind was filled with reproach.

– You are a star in the world. If a star doesn’t shine at night, who would call it a star?

No, that’s not a reprimand.

The mindset of a warrior that I have taught my disciples over and over again, dozens and hundreds of times…

That admonition leads the way.

Change the course of the disciple’s desires from the wrong direction to the right direction.

“Don’t make fun of me… … .”

The 12th form of the tithe, full moon.

The ten-character fasting method that completely suppresses all directions so that it doesn’t matter which direction the target evades.

The number of repetitions is an indicator of skill, and by changing the sword and scabbard to pure and reverse, the interval is adjusted and even the opponent’s predictions are disturbed.

“Don’t make fun of the Master’s life──!”

The sword light of the polar satellite sword, Renold, burns dazzlingly and makes the red moon rise.

Yes, it had to be done.

But something is strange. I can’t put any strength into the sword. My grip on the handle is still the same. But I can’t put any weight on it. Why is that?

The body that was about to move forward suddenly fell down, like a tree whose roots had been cut off.

what……?

What happened…?

It was only when I saw that both my legs had been cut off below the knees that I felt an excruciating pain that made my eyes turn yellowish white.

“I’m tired of killing you guys now.”

The rank is… … .

The level of power itself is different… … .

“I thought calling it a counterfeit would only bring contempt, but that wasn’t the case.”

Certainly, he has grown.

I could see the purple afterimage that the True Sword, Yonniulan, left in the air. However, it was impossible to react.

The Master reacted to everything, but if only he had this Renault at that time… … !

“Yoniulan has severed the connection between the spirit and the flesh, so it will take a long time to regenerate the leg. Please stay like that for a while.”

Where, where are you going… … .

Have to hold on to it.

In this position, so that everyone can gather… …Luchael’s eyes narrowed as he tightened his grip on Renault.

“Do you think I have to cut off that arm so that my words will reach your dull head even a little?”

Again, at that moment when Yonniulan roared harshly and tried to cut off all the connections between the tendons and muscle fibers in his arm.

Chorrrrrrrr… … !

A purple snake, an identical purple snake, was wrapped around it. The brightness and power of the sword light were several times weaker, but the shape and color were exactly the same.

“This is… … .”

The True Sword and the Extreme Sword, which had been entangled in the air, pushed each other away, sending out fierce sparks.

“These days, no matter what luxury brand you buy, there are a lot of counterfeit products out there!”

The polar satellite sword, Fladimarte.

A derivative work of the Jinseonggeom Yonniulan.

“Oh, doesn’t the ancient fossil hag not even know about this?”

Since the operating principle was the same, when the Yonniulan returned to the hilt and merged into the shape of a blade centered around the spinal circuit, the Fladimarte also returned to the blade.

“I need to teach them that what distinguishes the real from the fake is not the outward appearance, but the inner quality.”