The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 102
101. Because there is no escape from death
【shit….】
No good words could come out of the mouths of the Four Heavenly Kings.
That was also because he was commanding from the rear as a commander, which did not suit his name of a warrior. Given his lifestyle and personality, slaughtering enemies from the front was the most suitable thing for him… . But right now, it was an unavoidable situation.
The Great Heaven was too weak to deal with the warriors, the advisors and the Four Kings who should have taken on this role were dead, and the tyrant who was better suited to this role than himself had received the order from the Great Heaven and was absent… In the end, there was no one else who could lead this Demon King’s army but himself.
【It’s stuffy! It’s stuffy!】
-Kiuruk! You should be here.
【I know!】
If he were at the front, he would have blown away the entire human army… However, if he were to leave his post, the chain of command would be paralyzed. That would be like the army physically disappearing from the neck up. That would be the worst situation, and there was no worst situation… Since that was something that had to be avoided, no matter how frustrated he felt, in the end, the fighting king could not leave this place.
-Kkuruk! If we continue like this, it will be a war of attrition. It will be disadvantageous for the Demon King’s army.
【I know! I have eyes and a brain too!】
It wasn’t like he was just watching because he was the Demon King. He knew that if it went into a war of attrition like this, it would be overwhelmingly advantageous for the human army, which had the advantage in numbers. That’s why he tried to see the end by overwhelmingly using force… As if he had expected this, the human army thoroughly attacked the weak points and broke the strength that the Demon King army had put forth.
Besides that, I tried to change the situation somehow, but it didn’t lead to any results. It was as if they knew that you would do this no matter what I did. I just felt helpless in front of a cliff, like dancing on the enemy’s palm as the enemy wanted.
The problem was that the tactics that the King had pulled out were so obvious that it was embarrassing to even call them tactics, but it also meant that the human army had prepared thoroughly to that extent. No matter how strong an army was, if it did not have the ability to create variables with its strength, then in the end, that army could not be called truly strong.
-Kuaaang!!!!
Kwaaang!!!!
【… It’s chaos there too.】
An overwhelming sense of power and a clash of great forces in an area just outside the war zone.
Even monsters that didn’t use their brains very well instinctively tried to keep their distance without any orders, because they didn’t want to be caught up in that clash of power.
Even he, who was called the King of Fighters, did not want to get caught up in that fight.
Because it was a battle between the great sky, the warrior, and the first white dragon. Even though I was crazy about fighting, I didn’t want to get involved in that.
‘It’s possible to fight like that because it’s a great heaven. If it were a normal demon, it would obviously be defeated in an instant.’
It is because he is a great heaven who has already reached the realm of a god with the body of a demon that he is able to endure the power of such a natural enemy. If he were a normal demon, he would not have been able to endure it and would have disintegrated and disappeared. It is the same as how a tree cannot overcome fire.
【But the tree is trying to overcome the fire because it can’t stand it. The great heaven is truly great.】
The most surprising thing was the grandeur of the tree, which stood up proudly, saying that it could not be burned. It was something that I could not even imagine. Just as I could not do something like rushing to the sun, knowing that I was weak to fire.
‘I like fighting. I don’t like the gamble of risking my life.’
He likes fighting, or more precisely, winning. He likes to prove his strength by fighting and winning, and he likes the sweet, honey-like satisfaction of victory.
We fight to win, not to be abusive.
Any guy who likes to fight would do that. It would be only natural to like the thrill of being strong in a fight that you can win, rather than a life-threatening challenge.
That was when.
Kwaaah!
【What’s going on?!】
-Kkirik! Kkiuruk! Ha. From the sky! Something fell!
【what?!】
At that moment
Phew!
The wind blew.
No, it wasn’t that natural and light.
Literally ‘the wind of the blade’
The wind of the blade that passed in an instant blew away the heads of all the demons around the king. Some of them were turned to dust and disappeared as if their cores were damaged, and even if their cores were intact, they were unable to recover immediately since they had suffered such great damage that they lost their heads.
【crazy!】
The king quickly realized what had happened.
It fell right here, at the center of the Demon King’s army’s main base.
A special force comprised of superhumans who are among the strongest among humans.
‘Are they crazy? Are all humans just crazy?’
As the King of Fighters, he couldn’t understand it. For a weak human to become so strong, he must have worked very hard. He must have given up a lot of things and only pursued strength to achieve it. But why would he carry out such a special attack? Even though the probability of death was overwhelmingly high? As the King of Fighters, he couldn’t understand it.
It was a feeling that the King of Fighters, who was born strong and has always reigned as the strong, could never understand. The demons, who had only reigned as the strong through their own strength, apart from the King of Fighters, could not understand it either.
If I were to be defeated and surrender according to the law of the jungle, and if I had no choice but to follow orders according to that oath, then that would be understandable…
It was incomprehensible to the king that he, who was considered a powerful man among his own people, would show up to do such a foolish thing.
At that moment
“hey.”
The King could still smell the familiar scent of a fight.
The king instinctively defended himself.
Phew!
【Ugh!】
“If you just sit there blankly, you’ll get lost.”
【You b*stard…! The human of that time!】
“You don’t look like the type to use your brain at first glance, so why are you lagging behind? Anyway, a guest has arrived. Go ahead and take care of it.”
The mercenary king Balik has appeared.
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A mercenary must be prepared to die. That’s the job.
Of course, there are no mercenaries who want to die. Since the price is high because they are risking their lives, they all do this work prepared to die.
The important thing is that, as a mercenary, you have the habit of being prepared for death. Or should I say, it’s a habit? Anyway, doing such things makes you take death a little lightly.
The King of Mercenaries, in his case, was like that.
“Sir, you barely even put in the name of Geomseong, aren’t you afraid of losing?”
The mercenary king asked that question to the old swordsman beside him.
“I never put much meaning into names, you punk.”
He was a swordsman with the past name of Geom-Gwi, and the current name of Geom-Seong.
“Don’t you feel bad for the other old people too? They’ve all worked hard to get to such high positions.”
“It’s noisy.”
In addition, other superhumans also participated in the reckless special operation, risking their lives.
“Are you sure you’re okay?”
For this special operation, Archmage William, who was in charge of blowing up the enemy’s main base, looked at the superhumans and asked.
“In my case, I’m already old. Hehe. No matter how much of a superhuman you are, you can’t avoid physical problems when you get old.”
“Well, that goes for me too. If it’s not going to be of much help anyway, shouldn’t it at least be of some help in the short term?”
All of those gathered here gathered here purely of their own free will. As they said, they also thought that the longer the war dragged on, the less helpful they would be… .
“Is it right for a teacher to stand behind his students?”
“Hahaha. The teacher has pride.”
Yes, all of these were teachers who had warrior candidates as their disciples.
These were the people who gathered here, willing to sacrifice their present selves for the sake of their disciples’ tomorrow.
Fighting with one’s life at stake for one’s disciples
That was the final battlefield decided by the superhumans gathered here.
“Mercenary King, is there no reason for you to risk your life to join this place?”
“Yeah, why is a young guy like you getting involved here? Just get out.”
“Why is it like this? I have never put my name on the list as a master… . Anyway, there is a reason! I also want to end this battlefield quickly, risking my life!”
The mercenary king, who thought about it a lot but never taught Sarah any lessons, chose to change the subject instead of speaking confidently.
‘Seeing that guy so nervous, it seems like the Demon King is a truly terrifying monster… Even if he wins the fight, it’s obvious that it’ll be dangerous if the Demon King’s army is still there. There’s no way I can just leave him alone.’
Even if the warrior defeats the demon king,
What if the Demon King’s army is still alive and well? Would the Demon King’s army immediately run away to the Demon World because the Demon King is dead? Wouldn’t it be natural for them to target the warriors who have lost all their strength, saying that they must take revenge because the Demon King is dead?
No matter how much I thought about it, the probability that they would target the hero was overwhelmingly high. So, before the hero could defeat the demon king, it was necessary to beat up the demon king’s army as much as possible. There was an overwhelming need to beat up the demon king’s army so thoroughly that the moment he died, he would think, ‘I have to run away!’
“If we send only old people, they will lose their strength and say they have a bad back and can’t fight properly, so what’s the point? If we send in a country that is a little younger, wouldn’t we be able to play our part?”
“Look at that speech habit.”
“There’s no one here lower than you, so how can you speak so carelessly?”
“Here you are, the youngest one, and you’re acting like a troublemaker.”
“Go drink some more milk, youngest.”
“I’m the youngest here! Where do you think I’d be treated as the youngest?! I’m the Mercenary King! The Mercenary King!”
“Is there anyone here without a reputation? Where are you talking big with just a mercenary king?”
Death is inevitable for humans.
But that’s why everyone knows.
It is an absolute destiny that the final moment, death, will come to you.
That is why people have the right to decide.
His own end
his own death
How can we accept the end and what meaning can we leave behind?
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Because there is no escape from death
On the contrary, humans can decide.
And everyone here has chosen their own end.
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“Grit your teeth, you son of the Four Heavenly Kings. You are the death I have chosen for myself.”
The Mercenary King released all of his aura and decided to die in the final battlefield he had chosen.