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The flames of war danced, blood was splattered, and countless golden knights were sent flying by a massive, unknown attack.
In the sky, a hundred men in green uniforms and Court Mages launched countless saturation attacks toward a specific position!
Yet, judging by the stunned and terrified expressions on their faces.
It seemed that no matter how they attacked.
They could not achieve the desired effect!
What kind of thing could cause such a terrifying impact in the Imperial Capital? What could draw out the three great elites of the Empire to act together?
Schlacht pursed his lips slightly.
He gave a faint smile.
Naturally, it could only be his own Demon King.
"Deploy the troops, Rivale."
Schlacht lightly flicked his robes.
At the hour of dawn.
He departed from the front of the demon army.
Replacing him was a man filled with the aura of twilight.
Carrying all sorts of negative energy.
With hideous horns and a cold expression, the man raised his pale arm.
He lifted the giant sword in his hand and issued the command for the total offensive!
"Attack!"
Rivale's lips moved slightly.
As his command was issued in the cold morning wind.
The demon army began to move!
Intermingled with a gloomy aura.
Grey clouds surged, blanketing the sky!
Amidst the mournful cries of dragons!
The demon army crushed forward toward that human fortress, which was already flickering like a candle in the wind!
"Kill!"
The soldiers guarding the city swung their swords without fear of death!
They roared loudly!
Only to be swallowed by a breath of eerie blue dragon fire in the next second!
"Fight with all your might!"
"Defend! Defend!"
The generals guarding the city couldn't help but roar out commands in the face of the sudden total assault!
But if roaring were useful.
Then wouldn't everyone just roar and be done with it?!
Like a surging tide, the demon army charged frantically toward the Kino Pass Fortress!
Cold, bloodthirsty, their eyes were crimson!
Wielding their sharp claws!
They were determined to bathe this place—which had already become a delicious meal on their plate—in blood!
"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"
When Denken emerged from his tent, he looked at the skeletal demon dragon wreaking havoc in the sky above the fortress.
And at the soldiers and mages who were constantly letting out blood-curdling screams.
He felt as though the heavens had collapsed!
Just yesterday, he and Hendrik had discussed everything thoroughly.
They were prepared to launch the final decisive battle against the demons this afternoon!
To defend human glory with blood and death!
But now!
There was plenty of blood and death!
But no matter how one looked at it, this was a one-sided slaughter!
And even more terrifying!
The demons... were these ghost-like things that overturned his understanding even demons anymore!
Denken's mental state, which had been calm for decades, trembled.
After using his staff to summon a defensive circle to block a blast of cold dragon breath!
Denken fled!
Glory, dignity, responsibility!
Everything became insignificant before the arrival of the danger of death!
After dozens of years!
He had once again become a coward!
He fled from the battlefield filled with the danger of death without hesitation!
Flying through the sky on his staff!
Trailing a long tail of blue smoke, Denken fled toward the Imperial Capital at high speed!
There was a chance!
There was a way to save this!
He wasn't running away!
His departure would bring the news of the breach of Kino Pass back to the Imperial Capital!
As long as they gathered people!
As long as they assembled the elite of the army!
There was still a chance for everything!
"That fellow..."
"Is as cowardly as ever."
In front of the gates of Kino Pass.
Hendrik, who had organized the army of the knight order, glanced at Denken, who had already turned into a speck of light disappearing over the horizon behind him.
After a cold laugh of mockery.
He gently put on his helmet.
He drew the sword from its scabbard.
"Charge!"
This was a heroic unit!
A torrent of blue steel faced the invasion of the boundless black tide and launched a counter-charge without looking back!
With numbers far fewer than the enemy!
They forcefully checked the momentum of the tide!
It was even like a blue streak of light erupting across the horizon!
Hendrik's knight order actually acted like a sharp wedge, driving itself deep into the interior of this strange Demon King's army!
Great joy!
Hendrik had not expected the seemingly renowned Demon King's army to be so pathetic!
It was merely an empty facade!
Faced with their attacks, whether they were monsters or demons, they actually offered no defense at all!
They allowed themselves to be slaughtered!
It was a fighting style that traded lives for injuries!
"Soldiers!"
"Fight to the death!"
Hendrik raised his sharp sword and shouted loudly to boost morale!
If they kept killing at this rate!
They could completely gouge through the Demon King's army and break out of the encirclement!
They could head to the borders of the Northern Kingdoms to gather support for the Empire!
When that time came, with a pincer attack from both sides!
Even this Demon King's army, which currently looked unstoppable, would surely be annihilated here!
"Are you happy?"
A tall figure rode a ghostly warhorse.
Carrying a simple, unadorned spear, he charged straight out from within the Demon King's army!
His eyes, calm as stagnant water, locked onto Hendrik.
It was a gaze devoid of any emotion.
Yet Hendrik felt as if he were being targeted by something terrifying!
He couldn't help but feel his hair stand on end!
"Is he here!"
"The Bloody God of War, Rivale!"
Hendrik bit the tip of his tongue hard.
He suppressed the trembling caused by his desperate last stand in this dark, hopeless situation.
He raised his sword!
The sword emitted a dazzling blue light!
"Kill!"
Leading the blue torrent, he erupted with dazzling brilliance once again!
He charged violently toward Rivale's position!
The two clashed head-on!
Sparks flew!
The sound of clashing metal rang out continuously!
With his fearless troops and the support of the city guards who were constantly rushing out from the city to assist!
That boundless tide actually showed signs of drying up!
"Rivale..."
"You have failed!"
"Retreat!"
Once again, after violently clashing his greatsword against Rivale's spear, he pulled back to his side.
An irrepressible excitement appeared on Hendrik's exhausted face!
He!
He saw the dawn of victory!
Right in the middle of this tragic battle!
The morning sunlight broke through the strange dark clouds!
It shone directly onto his heroic unit!
Humanity would surely be victorious!
"Foolish."
Rivale was neither sad nor happy.
He merely swung the spear in his hand mechanically.
He had no will to fight.
Yet he still beat Hendrik back step by step.
There were even several times when Hendrik's confidants blocked Rivale's fatal attacks for him, barely stabilizing the duel between the two!
"Foolish..."
"Hmph!"
"Nothing more than a desperate struggle unto death!"
Hendrik's face darkened.
He remained silent and focused on countering Rivale's powerful offensive.
In his heart, however, he couldn't help but ponder the meaning of Rivale's words.
After all, it was very difficult for him to imagine that the demon army, which was originally strictly disciplined and brimming with momentum, would be so pathetic once the fighting actually started!
There was even no sense of order to speak of!
Unlike his various tactics!
The demons were completely like a pile of loose sand!
They only knew the most barbaric way of swarming!
Until he saw the figures of demons who had already died begin to reform on the battlefield!
And throw themselves recklessly back into the fight against his army!
Only then did Hendrik realize what had been happening!
"It's ruined, everything is ruined..."
Rivale's spear pierced violently through Hendrik's chest!
But he did not dodge or avoid it.
He simply looked at the despair appearing on the faces of the human soldiers and mages as they faced death!
He muttered his final words...
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