Episode 334: 30 reinforcements (4)
puck.
Calotte was thrown to the floor.
Roman Dmitry looked at the crowd of people who had lost both arms and was unable to balance.
“This guy was the Orcs’ commander and the only one to survive. He cowardly abandoned his men and fled, taking Luna’s prisoners as hostages and offering them a deal to spare his own life. War must pay a price for its course. “I plan to execute this guy, and I will give you the hilt of the sword.”
People were embarrassed.
It was an unexpected development.
“Who will hold the hilt of that sword?”
I picked up my sword.
It was one of the swords scattered on the floor, and it had blood and flesh stuck to it whose owner was unknown.
People looked at each other.
I couldn’t come forward quickly.
The people of Arcadia lived in peace and were not accustomed to such extreme revenge.
Usually, if a mistake was made, it was punished according to legal procedures.
Isabel presided over the trial, and imposed labor rather than death in accordance with God’s judgment. Was that why?
The people who had been attacking the orcs with faces stained with madness just now were unable to accept the sword that Roman Dmitri held out when they laid the groundwork.
“Keuuk, kuuh.”
Calott crawled on the floor.
Seeing that person trying to survive by any means possible with a face filled with fear, someone stepped forward among the people.
“I will do it.”
It was Smith.
A man who lost his friend to Calotte.
He took the sword.
Grabbing the cold, creepy handle tightly, Smith cut off Calotte’s leg without hesitation.
Sigh!
“Kaaak!”
A scream erupted.
Calotte hurriedly turned around, trembling, and looked up at Smith with a look of horror on her face.
Smith’s expression was distorted with complex emotions.
Even as the sadness of the past was pushed out and she shed tears, her face, distorted like an evil spirit, could not hide her anger towards Calotte.
“Because of you, my friends and colleagues died. “They were good guys who couldn’t even kill an ant baby, but you cut off their flesh and ate it in front of us just because you were hungry.”
I gritted my teeth.
The bite was so bad that my teeth were broken and bleeding.
“What did we do so wrong? “Why on earth did you have to do that?”
Deep.
stabbed in the stomach
As Calott’s eyes widened and he swung his missing wrist back and forth, Smith stabbed him in the abdomen several times even as his face was being pushed away.
Blood poured out.
No matter how much Calott screamed in pain and looked pitiful, I couldn’t forget the way he treated Luna’s people.
“You bastards! f*cking bastards! We could all live together, right? f*ck, you could have done that?!”
Deep.
Puff puff.
The violence intensified.
Anger completely took over reason, and Smith did not stop with his face covered in blood.
At some point, not even Calotte could resist.
Because he was not dead yet, his blurry eyes trembled slightly, but his trembling body had completely lost the power to resist.
The anger was not resolved.
The people of Arcadia were proud of their harmonious world, but the peace they had had so far collapsed in an instant.
“Aaaah!”
I screamed.
The other person no longer felt pain.
But if I didn’t do this, I felt like I would suffocate and die.
People watching it.
Some people avoided eye contact.
Some people widened their eyes as if they wouldn’t miss a thing.
It was then.
“… … Roman Dmitry. How about just doing this? Calotte is already dead.”
A limp calotte.
Kayden could no longer watch the situation.
* * *
It was devastating.
My heart ached.
Smith was an ordinary guy.
The good young man who took the lead in taking care of people as Luna’s soldier was now chopping up Calotte with the look of a madman.
A man was falling.
As a person who worships God, Kayden could not sit still and watch such a scene as he watched the man tinged with madness and complaining of pain.
Roman Dmitry said.
“why. “Is this scene cruel?”
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“… … That’s not it. “I just can’t stand watching Smith deteriorate because of his anger.”
“It is corruption. “You are very mistaken.”
I looked away.
Roman Dmitry pointed to one of the people whose eyes were wide open.
“say it. “What happened to you from the orcs?”
It was a woman.
She, who appeared to be in her mid-40s, was shedding tears of blood and vomiting out pain.
“My husband and son were eaten by orcs. I had no choice but to sit on the floor and watch as my husband’s limbs were torn apart while he was trying to protect our son. Roman Dmitry. I don’t think this situation is cruel at all. The orcs, no, the demons. “It left us with an indelible wound.”
I saw someone else.
When she asked the same question she had been asked, the blood in the young man’s neck rose.
“All my friends are dead. One was about to get married, and the other was a good guy who took care of his old mother, but he died horribly while fighting for Luna. He knows that as a soldier protecting his country, he cannot avoid death. But isn’t this Arcadia? “We were truly worried about the orcs’ well-being, and as soon as they were starving, they thought of us as food.”
Everyone was overcome by evil.
Peace is over.
They just didn’t hold the hilt of their swords, and they showed the same expression as Smith.
again.
I saw Kayden.
His shaking eyes were overwhelmed by the reality in front of him.
“Kayden. Arcadia, which pursued peace, no longer exists. People have experienced unforgettable wounds throughout their lives, and in order for them to overcome the past and live on, they must receive compensation from those who caused them pain. You have to trample on the corpses of your enemies and spit on them. “The people of Luna can live in the future.”
war.
It is an unethical act.
In order to survive in this cruel world, you have no choice but to change yourself into a person worthy of it.
“And the war is not over yet. Beyond Luna’s Fortress, the same thing you experienced is happening again. But enough of this. Do you think that chopping up an orc is enough to relieve your anger? Or, do you think that you don’t need to become a monster to deal with monsters? If Luna really wants peace to be restored. “Do not show equal mercy to your enemies.”
The world has changed.
From the moment the war broke out.
Luna’s peace will not come from a warm heart, but from a powerful force that can protect itself.
“That is Dmitri’s method that you will follow from now on.”
* * *
Calotte is dead.
Seeing Smith sobbing with his face down on top of him, Kayden felt like his heart was burning.
‘… … Roman Dmitry is right. Now Arcadia can’t go back to the old days.’
Succeeded in revenge.
Smith suffered enough pain that his face and body were covered in blood, but he cried out in even more pain than the people watching.
It was like a roar.
Rather than feeling happy about having succeeded in getting revenge, I had to express my emotions like that because I couldn’t accept this cruel reality.
if.
If we win the war and subdue the orcs.
Will Smith be able to regain his old self?
It was impossible.
Even while eating, working, or sleeping.
You will put down your fork, stop working, and wake up with a cold sweat on your face like someone who had a nightmare.
It was like a brand.
In the days ahead, Smith was not allowed to have peaceful days where he could only see and think about good things.
The Luna Kingdom was the same.
Even if they say the orcs will be destroyed.
I could no longer trust other races.
In the past, Arcadia created a peaceful world without any special restrictions, but in the present, Arcadia is endlessly suspicious of each other and will prepare for a possible war.
A single precedent created distrust.
The same situation will be interpreted differently, and distrust will lead to strife and encourage confusion.
I looked at the sky.
it snowed.
There was a time when I thought I loved Arcadia even when the world was frozen, but now it was different.
‘To become a monster, I also have to become a monster.’
Those were words that pierced my bones.
The enemy cuts off the flesh of humans and eats it.
If we turn a blind eye to the act of revenge, saying it is cruel, we will never be able to win this war.
at last.
This is for Luna.
Rather than putting all the burden on Roman Dmitri, I knew that I could save Luna only by getting my hands dirty and becoming a demon myself.
Kayden didn’t shed any tears.
Now that he was at a completely different crossroads from the life he had promised himself as a believer, he accepted with his heart how he should live for Luna.
‘… … sorry.’
Is this an apology to someone?
One thing is certain.
Even if Isabel comes back alive.
She, who did not share Luna’s crisis, will not be able to replace Roman Dmitry’s presence for whatever reason.
* * *
day.
took a break
I meant rest, but the day just passed by with me organizing my insides and understanding the situation.
next day.
A leadership meeting was held.
Kayden told what he had confirmed through Luna’s source.
“At first, Graksar prioritized securing food by attacking warehouses, but at some point he changed his route. He seems to have decided that if he waited too long, it could become dangerous. After capturing the fortress of Luna, Graksar immediately set out east, leaving Caloth’s 10,000 troops behind. “The exact circumstances are unknown, but given the direction they traveled, he is most likely attacking the elves’ territory.”
“Is there any reason to think so?”
“First of all, there is an elf territory in the direction Graksar moved, and the elves who have settled down around the World Tree form the largest force, including the Kingdom of Luna and the orcs. Now that Luna’s fortress has been destroyed. “If we even deal with the elf race, there is virtually no force in Arcadia to stop the orcs.”
It was a conversation between Kayden and McBurney.
then.
We had to move our troops as quickly as possible.
Only by joining forces with the elves while their power was strong could we increase our chances of winning this war.
“The problem is that we can’t move our troops now.”
For just one day.
A drastic change occurred in the climate of Arcadia.
“Currently, heavy snowfall in Arcadia is worsening. It is virtually impossible to move through this much snow, and no matter how you do it, the current climate is very favorable to the orcs. They deal with ‘white wolves’. “With the white wolf’s ability to move nimbly over no matter how much snow piles up, we are bound to be in danger when we encounter them on a snowy field.”
It was a sad situation.
Coincidentally.
As if there was a hole in the sky right now, it was snowing heavily.
Luna’s technology created a way to fight in the snow, but this did not apply to heavy snowfall like this.
It was hopeless.
If only we had prepared for war from the beginning.
When the orcs attacked the surrounding races, they would have immediately united with other races to fight back, but they missed the important timing while trying to understand the situation.
In the case of elves, they are beings who do not leave the ‘realm of the World Tree’.
Attacking Luna’s fortress first was Graksar’s decision to perfectly exploit Arcadia’s loopholes.
however.
Roman Dmitry thought differently.
“War is a race against time. Now is the perfect opportunity to turn the situation around, when the elves have not yet fallen and Graksar is unaware of Caloth’s death. Even if there is heavy snow, we will not remain here. Dividing the army into two, one will liberate the prisoners, including the warehouse, and the other will lead the army and immediately leave for the ‘elves’ territory.’”
“… … “I agree that now is an opportunity, but moving through heavy snow is not an easy problem.”
Kayden had a different opinion.
I decided to become a demon.
I was willing to shed blood for Luna’s peace, but I still couldn’t support such a reckless decision.
Roman Dmitry looked at Kayden.
“Kayden. When you first asked Dmitri for help, you said that Luna knew many ways to overcome Arcadia’s environment. Throw away all the common sense you have known until now. “If the method is not able to respond to even common variables such as heavy snow, Arcadia has simply lived complacently in a comfortable reality.”
Luna.
They were attributed to Dmitry.
In order to manage Arcadia in the future, it was necessary to at least overhaul Luna’s easygoing system.
“30 minutes from now. Gather all the troops Luna can mobilize. I will tell you the way Luna should have pursued survival from the beginning. Even then, if you think heavy snow is a problem. “I will take your advice and find a new solution.”
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