Chapter 115 – The War Begins

When a life dies, energy appropriate to the status of the being flows out. It could be the mana accumulated in the body, it could be the karma of life, or it could be the power of the reverse sky that black magicians handle, but one thing is for sure that it is in contact with the realm of the soul.

“According to the movement of the celestial gate and dimensional coordinates, the incantation and magic circle repeat inversion. The way it maintains its status in the midst of infinite change is infinitely complex, but its purpose is clear.”

Yuchun, who was lost in thought, turned his head to the place where he heard the sound. There was Arbella, who was smiling more cynically than ever.

“Isolation, entrapment, storage, contraction, relaxation, synthesis, release.”

“It blocks the river of the soul that should flow to the underworld, binds it, stores it inside, and then squeezes the soul by repeating contraction and relaxation like squeezing a rag.”

“After squeezing all the energy like that, the messed up soul is put together in the name of rationality, synthesized, and then thrown out like garbage.”

“That…”

Yoochun was speechless at Arbella’s self-deprecating words.

It is a natural cycle and the law of the world that souls flow into the underworld, wash away the dregs on their souls, and then reincarnate, and return everything they have accumulated to the world in the body that remains in the present world.

But that’s different.

Butchers also hope that their livestock will go to a good place after death, and hope that they will live in the next life. In a world where the existence of the underworld has been revealed, that is the bare minimum.

However, in that method, there is no respect for the warrior who has protected the dimension from the monster, no honor for humans, and no duty for life. In other words, those who end their lives on the line of absolute defense are literally reduced to less than livestock in pain worse than death that squeezes their souls.

“When I got to the 13th seat and heard the truth, I was furious. It has to be that way… It’s a space that insults everyone’s condolences.”

The space called the absolute defense line has desecrated the tears of parents who lost their children and the cries of a woman who lost her fiancé, and trampled them all on the ground for tens of thousands of years. And it was the same with Arbella.

A colleague sharing a drink was decapitated.

The limbs of a friend who was staying vigil together and feeding snacks were amputated.

The two subordinates smiled and said that they would get married when they returned. Among them, who were remembered as pretty good men and women, the woman was slaughtered, and the man became a cold corpse with bloody tears and intestines shed in front of him.

No matter how much Arbella says that there is nothing important other than Yuchun, her memories of her previous life are not meaningless. And the absolute defense line was a hell with a history of misery even for Arbella.

But… The place where her companions who met her death through such hell reached the altar for her sorcery and magic… It is said that it is a history that has already disappeared, but it enrages her who has been worn out in various parts of her. Made it

“But from the past until now, no one, including me, even the lords of the outer dimension have thought to touch it.”

“…Because it can’t be helped.”

“Yes that’s right. It’s the only lifeline in a world where the Creator’s legacy is gone. And…That’s why I want to find them.”

“Vengeance?”

“Rather than that, I want to ask. Did you guys do that? Then why did you do that? Did you want to make a god that much? But did he place the original sin of that failure on us? But at the same time, I’m expecting an answer. That’s where the losers’ excuses for failing to do what they did for the greater good are there.”

Passus…

Yoochun and all her living things except for her died because of bloody living things like the sunset rising from Arbella. Arbella’s red-hot eyes turned to Yoochun, and her complex emotions overflowing even in the image of the sea came intensely.

“Before I came here, my subordinates died due to a mistake made in my haste to meet you… Even while I am enjoying myself, their souls must be grinding in pain.”

“…”

“But please don’t look at me with those eyes. I may feel sorry for my subordinates, but I don’t feel guilty. More than that… Most of them want to kill those who have been doing tricks behind the scenes for a long time.”

The annoyance of having committed such an original sin and being toyed with by those who may still be plotting something in hiding, and the humiliation of thinking that their souls were played by them in a previous life.

In fact, the blind killing intent that Transcendentalists who know the truth, such as Arbella, against the group called Deus Ex Machina originated from such self-consciousness. They had no intention of allowing themselves to be someone’s puppet.

“Are you going to use me as bait after all?”

You need a decoy to get them out of hiding and tear off their leashes. And the lure chosen by the transcendentalists of the committee was the Earth, or Yoochun to be exact. He also agrees to catch them, but he doesn’t like being taken advantage of.

“In exchange, there will be many merits, so please don’t feel too sad about it.”

“Merit?”

“They threatened the Relics Group there, but the Committee will pretend they don’t know what’s going on on Earth. Even if it is a prohibited weapon beyond an artifact.”

“Are you going to deliberately pretend to look away?”

“That way they will crawl out of their burrows. They don’t want to stand out from the committee.”

In the end, even if there is talk about the earth from inside the committee, they will ignore it. It wasn’t a bad thing considering that comment came from the Top 5. After all, they are the strongest coalition in the central world, and they will not interfere with Yuchun’s growth.

“In addition, with this, the big parts that Yoochun should pay attention to will be able to disappear.”

“How?”

“Pango, who has caused many conflicts with you, will turn his eyes away from Earth, and Dragonia, who begins to form a strong relationship, will make a deeper connection with Earth.”

Considering the status of the dimension of fairness and anti-go, it was never an easy task, but Arbella’s eyes were full of confidence.

“Other than that, I will take care of the troublesome things related to the committee. So…”

Arbella approached Yoochun and slowly reached out her hand and touched Yoochun’s face. She said it was like the love of a parent for her child, like the worship of an object of awe, like the love of her lover.

“Eat everything and come to me.”

The process and outcome would obviously be brutal on one side, but Yoochun thought that her smile as she said that in the setting sun was beautiful and looked earnest.

*

Jason Holquimber, a renowned American professor of warfare, says that the discovery of mana and the beginning of exchanges with the central world are the beginning of all armed changes. And his book ‘The Cataclysm of Violence’ begins with one topic.

Where is the current place on Earth that is overflowing with the most murderous intent and conflict?

AMCU, the African National Union, a completed dystopia that encourages the struggle of all things, regardless of monsters or humans?

East Asia, which has become a powder keg with a delicate balance centered on the Chinese Federation, the Emperor’s Kingdom, and Korea?

Central Asia, where human rights were originally at the bottom, but all governments collapsed and were divided into hundreds of terrorist groups that advocated Islam?

Russia, where the powerful aristocracy and the mafia formed a cartel?

In addition, there were numerous war zones after the cataclysm, such as the Cartel in South America and the Monster Forest in Southeast Asia, but none of them were what he declared as the best conflict zone at the end of his book.

It is not comparable to China of the distant past. A continent that has continued the Age of Warring States following thousands of years of history, but maintained its unity by suppressing its resentment and hatred with ideology and education.

Europe.

The EU, which was established in the past to check powerful countries such as the United States, became famous after the cataclysm and the emergence of mana and monsters.

Due to the disaster of the monster, they couldn’t care beyond the ocean, and when one individual was able to exert the power of an army with mana, hatred and contempt for other peoples that had slumbered awoke, and Europe became a hell where endless melee unfolded all year round. Transformed into

Among them, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland across the sea were England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, which were tied together as the same country but actually regarded each other as strangers. It was divided into four, and the war of killing each other had been going on for nearly 30 years.

Their situation could be said to be the most intense in Europe, considering that other countries still stick together within their own countries. To the extent that even France, which hates England the most, ignores them, saying that if left alone, they will destroy themselves.

And among them, Aughnacloy, which used to be a peaceful village in the past between the fiercely conflicting British Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is now the biggest battleground.

Soldiers from the two countries, originally pointing their guns at each other with different flags, turned and fired their guns in the same direction.

Doo doo doo doo-!!!

“Keuek…!!”

“What the hell is that?!”

“Shut up and shoot, you fucking IRA terrorist!”

“Disgusting pirates! You guys do well!”

But that wasn’t a reason for reconciliation or anything. The two nations, divided from each other on the same island, still loathed and hated each other. Even so, the reason why they formed an alliance was that one side could not stop the garbage and foreign objects running madly from beyond the walls of the building.

“Kirrugua!!”

A foreign body with elongated limbs drove its claws into him and climbed the wall, and a soldier dressed in an Irish flag stampede on his head and slashed his rifle.

“Dooooo!!!”

Doo doo doo doo–!!

Having emptied his entire magazine, the soldier breathed heavily and removed his foot from the drooping head of the proboscis, but sat back down.

“Kuh…”

I was tired of this situation because my legs were relaxed from tension. Pulling his head up to see why his legs weren’t working, he looked around. Then he met eyes with a soldier wearing a British flag and turned his head away in amazement.

“Wait… You bastard…?”

However, the British soldiers did not miss the appearance.

“Oh no! It’s not me, me!!!”

There was a different reason for calling those monsters foreign objects rather than monsters. They stretched and shrunk, and twisted at the same time, but they had limbs attached to them, and all of them were dressed in human clothes.

“You pull up your pants…”

“No, Sivaal-!!!”

In other words, the foreign body is an infectious agent that originally originated from a person. There are several triggers for infection, but the most damaging among them is genetic mutation caused by parasites.

“Or show me, you son of a bitch!”

A British soldier, knowing from experience how fast and dangerous the mutations can be, thrust his rifle into the fallen Irish soldier’s head.

“Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no…”

Wood Deuk-!!

Then the Irish soldier rolls back his eyes and his limbs swell. The British soldier, who heard his veins bulge and his bones crush as if gas were filling up inside, shouted in amazement to the surroundings of the car.

“Shit!! Avoid everyone!!”

A foreign body is not necessarily born just because it is infected. Knowing what that failure meant, he found a cloak, but it was too far away to avoid.

“Oh shit–!!!”

He had no choice but to get as far away as possible and cover the vitals with his luggage, sticking to the ground as much as possible, but this could not be guaranteed. Like that, a kaleidoscope flashed through his mind and he cried out to his father and mother inwardly.

Pop-!
Kwakwang-!!

Just when I was hoping to at least save my life, I heard a huge explosion in the distance, accompanied by the sound of wind blowing and skin kicking.

“Uh…?”
“Are you alive, soldier?”

Realizing that he was alive, he opened his eyes, lifted his head, and turned his head where the grave voice had come from. And he let out a voice full of surprise and joy.

White hair that was swept back all back, a bushy beard, and blue eyes. And the knights in armor with blue and white light overflowing, as if matching the color. He knew a group with such a striking presence and the person who led it.

“Me, Mr. Paderson!”
“Haha! Seeing that your voice is booming, you seem to be fine.”

A ranker in the central world and a knight of the British royal family. Paderson Oliver.

Even though he was from the Central World and not a British citizen, he did not return to that place, and for his remaining merits in defending this country, the British royal family granted him the honor of a knight.

As a ranker who received a knight’s seat in England, where there are no ranker-level Awakeners, it is natural that his popularity is skyrocketing.

“What is the name of your military friend?”

“Boo, I am Max Hound, Sergeant Hawk of the Northern Ireland Trident. Lord Paderson!”

British soldier Max answered him with a trembling voice. Max also admired him for claiming to be England’s protector.

“So Sergeant Max, are those soldiers over there your subordinates?”

Max stuck his head out of the silver plate and looked at those who looked at this place with admiration and wariness. You know the admiration, but the vigilance, even though they are enemies with them, Max opened his mouth with dissatisfaction with Aylaid-kun, who gave an impure look to the British hero who saved them.

“Half of them are Irish guys!”

“Heh heh… It’s not that I don’t understand that feeling, but what’s the point of belonging in a war against these monsters? Isn’t that right, Sergeant?”

“Sin, sorry! I will correct it!”

“No.”

Patting his soldier on the shoulder, Paderson turned his head toward the battlefield, which momentarily stopped at his appearance.

“Can I ask you a favor? Sgt?”

“Just say anything!”

“It seems that from now on, the Awoken will have to step in to push all the regular soldiers back.”

“Yes?”

“Because there is a squeamish guy… It seems like it would be difficult for us to fight while protecting you.”

It wasn’t just because of Paderson’s appearance that the aliens stopped their advance. He surveyed his battlefield with his eyes narrowed to determine the source of the killing spree directed at him. And he immediately raised the corners of his mouth and smiled fiercely.

“Flaw…! Are you saying you won’t hide?”

“Yes? What is that…? Omg-!”

A monster with sickle-like blades instead of hands. There was nothing on the face except for one huge eye in the middle.

And that wasn’t all. His arms were long and thin enough to drag on the ground, and like the rest of his body, his white body was bare and smooth with no protrusions.

Compared to the foreign objects that Max and the soldiers had dealt with that still left at least some human traces, that was a monster itself.

“Um, what the hell is that…”

“Sergeant Max, I will give you one piece of advice. Don’t focus too much on the unknown. This goddamn world is so big, there are things that you can’t understand.”

Paterson, from the Central World, did not know what that was. But the kind of incomprehensible things he’s been fighting for overflow and overflow.

“Just do what you can. And now all you can do is get out of the ranks with your soldiers intact. Do you understand, Sergeant?”

And that is how Padderson Oliver lived until now. He smiled bravely, confident that he would survive this time too.

“Yes Sir!”

Impressed by his trustworthy appearance, Max corrects his posture and chucks! He saluted and immediately turned around and ran back. To do his bidding.

Paterson, who looked at the scene with a smile, slowly turned his head at the monster’s characteristic sloppy life.

Kick-!

An eerie laugh emanated from the mouthless monster. At the ridicule, as if watching a worthless child’s outbursts, Paderson also brought out a huge greatsword from his back with a wicked smile. The blue knights lined up behind him also pulled out their weapons and increased their mana.

“Then now that the distractions are gone, let’s play monster.”

There was only one reason why the soldiers were bitten back. It’s because they, who are not awakened people, can’t survive in a magical storm stained with murderous intent. It was never right for those who would go beyond this country and this land to foam and fall down and be bitten by foreign objects to become new enemies.

Wooddeuk…

Cracks begin to open as Paderson’s feet, bent down to charge, dig into the ground.

“Order!!”
“”Yes!!!””

Paterson raised his lips even more at the sight of his men responding to his call with a loud voice, pounding the ground with all kinds of weapons, including swords, spears, swords, and guns. High morale in a battle of strength and power was a good sign.

“Destroy the enemy!!”

Oooh–!!!

Foreign objects are swept away like the sand of the sea by the feast of magic waves that cannot be compared to the shooting spree of soldiers.

Indeed, with the momentum of a ranker, the weak foreign objects could not approach, and even if they did, they were crushed by the barrier surrounding him.

Kik-kick-kick-!!

Nonetheless, the white monster in their center still looked at Paderson running from the front with a grotesque smile, then slowly let go of his foot and walked away.

Drooling… Drooling…

There was no one around the ground-dragging blade monster and Paderson. The aliens listened to the monster’s orders, and the knights knew that the fight was not their territory to intervene.

“I’ll check how long you can keep smiling!”

A greatsword engulfed in surging sword spirit descended to tear his head apart, and the monster brandished a scythe-like blade in response.

Aaaaang–!!

The first battle to decide the direction of Europe began in Ireland as the sound of bombardments shattering the ground resounded.