Episode 98
“Those little bastards!”
It didn’t take long for Choi Hyun-seok to figure out the situation.
I felt a magical force entangled like a spider’s web around the fence.
I don’t know if they had been hiding it until now, but now that the attack has begun, it seems like they have no intention of hiding their magical powers any longer.
“Squeak squeak! It’s hot! It’s hot!”
“We have to run away!”
The Tephos fled outside the fence to escape the flames.
But what awaits you where you have fled is the messenger of death.
Choi Hyun-seok, who knew that fact, desperately tried to stop the tapes.
“No! You can’t go out!” “Squeak squeak! Run away!”
“Save me!”
But the Tephos, whose reason had already been paralyzed, did not listen.
To begin with, they are a clan that is far from combative and devoted to peace.
There was no way I could maintain my sanity in a situation where flames were raging.
Rachel, who was next to him, stamped her feet.
“Hero! If we keep doing this, we’ll all die!”
“I know!”
Choi Hyun-seok alone cannot stop the Tephos from running away in all directions.
Well then, there is only one way.
We just need to catch and punish the person who caused this situation.
The moment you decide to do so.
Confusion has set in.
‘What is right?’
Things are different than before.
They didn’t come here to target Choi Hyun-seok or Abelson, they came here to hunt the demons.
They are just doing their own thing and have no relationship with Choi Hyun-seok.
“f*ck! I don’t know!”
Choi Hyun-seok kicked the ground.
There is no room to leisurely indulge in thought.
I could not stand to watch such a massacre, regardless of whether I was human or demonic.
First, move.
‘There’s no end to catching them one by one. Catch the commander and beat him up.’
There were about five hundred people gathered.
It was a large-scale operation.
Tepho, with a population of less than 200 people, was swept away in an instant.
There was endless screaming and blood everywhere.
“Kill them all! Wipe them all out, don’t leave a single one behind!”
Choi Hyun-seok’s eyes lit up.
It’s that guy.
The man holding the sword and shouting over there is the commander.
The magical power felt was also overwhelming.
‘It won’t be easy. It’ll be hard to win, let alone subdue them…’
The man’s magical power was similar to Choi Hyun-seok’s total magical energy.
It didn’t seem like they would lose the fight, but they weren’t an opponent you could easily guarantee victory against.
However, it didn’t take long to realize that these worries were unnecessary.
“Hahahaha! Kill the demons! Burn and slice them all…!”
The commander who had been shouting suddenly stopped.
Before his eyes stood a huge, muscular cow head that was over 2.5 meters tall.
“uh…?”
I’ve heard of it.
Red skin.
Huge muscles.
Flames shoot out from the horns that rise above its head.
“Red nightmare…”
Pfft!
The commander’s upper body bursts open with Raidrun’s punch.
The commander collapsed with nothing left above his waist.
After that, another massacre began.
“Kwaaah! Run away!”
“It’s a red nightmare!”
“S, save me… Whew!”
Raidrun mercilessly slaughtered his enemies.
Grab the arm and break it, then tear the head off the torso.
Up until this point it was the usual Red Nightmare raid run, but there was one difference.
Wood crack!
Raidrun grabs a soldier’s head with his bare hands and crushes it.
There was a rare hint of anger in his gestures.
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It was a different sight from before, when they always carried out massacres like machines.
“Please save me!”
“Are you letting the demon live?”
“that…!”
“Do not blame me. I do not blame you either.”
That day, no human being emerged from the mountain alive.
***
The day has dawned.
The small village where the Tepho clan had stayed was completely in ruins.
“This is miserable…”
The surviving Tephos clan members were not yet twenty years old.
A clan of nearly two hundred
Most of them were annihilated.
Of course, not a single one of the humans survived.
Just death and death.
All that remained was a corpse.
“…”
Abelson closed his eyes and said nothing.
She was confused.
More than five hundred human deaths
Because Baek’s death was even sadder.
It seemed like it would take Abelson Marriott some time to collect his emotions and gather his thoughts.
“What happened?”
Choi Hyun-seok was talking with Raidrun and Royger.
Why did this happen?
“Didn’t you say that this is still the Demon King’s territory?”
“yes.”
At the front line, the boundary between the Demon King’s army and humans is unclear.
Yesterday, the Demon King’s fortress transformed into a human fortress the next day.
There were many cases of the opposite as well.
But not here.
Even though it was close to the front line, there was still some distance.
It was not common for human armies to advance this far.
“They seemed familiar with this type of operation.”
Rogers said.
As the saying goes, the human army was quite adept at this type of encirclement and annihilation operation.
That is to say, this isn’t the first or second time that such massacres have occurred.
If Choi Hyun-seok and his group had not been here, the Tepho clan would have been annihilated without even being able to resist.
‘I don’t understand. What is the 8th Division doing?’
Raidrun was also in a strange situation.
This is the most rear-most area within the 8th Division’s jurisdiction.
In other words, it made no sense for humans to come this far to the rear unless the 8th Division was destroyed.
‘Did the 8th Division really collapse?’
I was unable to contact my unit for a week due to being on foot.
But it was hard to believe that an entire division had disappeared in just a week.
“Go to Gardrak Castle right away.”
Ultimately, there is only one answer.
8th Division Headquarters Guardlock Castle.
If you go there, you will know the truth.
***
The angry party ran straight to the Gardrak Castle.
He was ready to meet the 8th Division Commander and confront him right away, but his spirits were dampened when he arrived at Gadrak Castle.
“Hero. Don’t you feel a little eerie in here?”
Rachel said.
As she said, the Gardrak Castle smelled of danger.
A huge castle and thick walls surrounding it.
The history of war that had lasted hundreds of years remained intact there.
“Kaaaah-!”
The eerie atmosphere unique to battlefield blocked the group’s path.
“Going in.”
Raidrun was the first to step forward.
At those words, the group nodded and stood in front of the castle gate.
“Who are you!”
“It’s Raidrun. Open the door.”
The process of passing the exam was unexpectedly simple.
The soldiers who recognized Raidrun moved in unison.
After going through a simple rite of passage.
As they entered, an unexpected person greeted the group.
8th Division Commander Grat.
He stood in front of the group.
‘big…’
Choi Hyun-seok’s mouth opened without him knowing.
The 8th Division commander, Grat, was a huge man.
Height and size that overwhelm Raidrun.
The long-snouted crocodile head there was intimidating just to look at.
He even had a long scar on one eye, and his unfocused white eyes were sharp and glaring.
Raidrun stepped forward representing the group.
“Meet the 8th Division Commander.” “Raidrun. You barged in without any notice.”
Grat said in a cold tone.
To anyone who looked at it, it didn’t look like he was welcoming.
His gaze swept over the group behind Raidrun.
‘Sir, don’t you think I’m being openly hated?’
I heard Rachel’s voice in my head.
Choi Hyun-seok nodded.
As she said, Grat seemed quite dissatisfied.
In particular, the eyes looking at Choi Hyun-seok and Abelson were filled with hostility.
‘It’s not surprising anymore.’
Choi Hyun-seok passed it over as nothing serious.
There was nothing new about it.
Because wherever you go, there are plenty of people with hostility.
What’s important now is that the crocodile head in front of you is the division commander.
In order for Choi Hyun-seok to survive, he must not get on the bastard’s good side.
“Raidrun. What are you doing here? You have a human hanging from your back.”
Grat said.
“This is the commander’s order.”
“command?”
“Yes. I think it would be better to tell you the details separately.” “Come to my office.”
Grat turned around.
It seemed like he was planning to head straight to his office.
Raidrun looked back at the group.
“Wait a moment. I’ll go talk to the division commander and come back.”
***
Grat’s office.
The atmosphere of Raidrun was somewhat subtle.
He was the type of person who always valued manners and showed a respectful attitude to his superiors, but now he was oozing cold air.
“Before I tell you about the order, there’s one thing I’d like to ask you.”
Raidrun looked at Grat with cold eyes.
“I encountered an army of humans on the road today.”
“I see.”
“Villages were burning everywhere and civilians, not soldiers, were dying.” “What are you trying to say?”
Grat’s expression was indifferent.
“What is the 8th Division doing?” “They are guarding the Gadrak Castle.” “Humans are committing massacres in the courtyards of houses. Why aren’t you stopping them?” “We can’t stop them. All we can do is hold out here.”
Grat’s attitude was dignified.
There was not a single trace of guilt or shame on his face.
That calmness only made Raidrun more angry.
“What is the reason?”
“Reason? Did you say reason? Hahaha!”
At that moment, Grat laughs loudly.
“That’s interesting. You guess the reason. What do you think it is?”
“…”
“Exactly eight days ago. The massive human air raid began.”
Raidran’s face hardened at the words eight days ago.
On the contrary, Grat’s smile becomes deeper.
“Did you notice?”
“Could it be… because of the battle at the Black Giant?” “Yes. Eight days ago, the human air raid began, and at the same time, the supply and support from the 2nd Corps was cut off.”
Raidrun took stock of the situation.
Eight days ago, it was the day that Hemis killed the 2nd Corps Commander, Rotak.
With the core of the Legion, the Rotak and Scavin clans, annihilated, the 2nd Legion would have been paralyzed.
Taking advantage of that gap, humans advanced.
Raidrun couldn’t help but be astonished.
‘How far have human spies penetrated…!’
Rotak’s death cannot remain a secret forever.
But the timing was too fast.
As if they had been waiting for Lotak to die, they marched forward.
It would have been impossible without knowing the information in advance.
‘One, no matter what the situation is, this man is still the same.’
Raidrun stared at the grotto in front of him.
This demon, who had served in the military for 300 years and had risen to the position of division commander, ironically did not look like a demon at all.
On the outside he looks like a cheerful warrior, but inside he’s an old fox.
You can tell just by looking at the fact that as soon as the situation turns unfavorable, he locks the door and stays in the guard lock.
A normal Demon King’s Army commander would have fought the enemy with the resolve to die.
“I’ll tell you the story in detail later. Right now, I want to hear the order.”
Grat said.
He remembered that Raidrun had first come to him because of orders.
Raidrun took the order out of his bosom and held it out.
“Here it is.”
“What is it about?”
“It says that the Gardrak Castle will be used as a temporary headquarters for the 3rd Army Corps.”
Grat’s face was distorted.
“Then where should I go?”
Gardrak Castle is the headquarters of the 8th Division.
If we use that place as the headquarters of the 3rd Corps, the 8th Division will have nowhere to go.
“Is the division headquarters and the corps headquarters being merged?” “No. The division commander can leave here and set up a temporary headquarters somewhere else.” “What nonsense is that!”
Grat, unable to bear it any longer, suddenly stood up.
He suddenly appeared and told me to leave because he had to use the division headquarters.
Even if it is a high-level unit, this cannot happen.
Moreover, the human sword has now come close to the chin.
The safest place in the entire 8th Division was this Gadrak Fortress.
“That can’t be. I will speak to Lord Hemis myself.” “Lord Hemis has already left a message about that.”
“what?”
“I hope there is no misunderstanding, as what I am about to say is not mine but what Hemis has said verbatim.”
Raidrun continued with a blank expression.
“Crocodile head. If you stay in the guard tower until I come to you, be prepared. I’ll skin you alive and make a bag out of you.”
Raidran spoke in a blunt tone, completely devoid of emotion.
“He said this and laughed.”
For a moment, a deep smile appears on Raidran’s face.
Grat’s face, looking at him, gradually turned red and blue.
“Raidrun. You little punk…” “I ask that you vacate the Gardlock Castle as soon as possible, Commander Grat.”
Raidran bowed his head once and left the office.
***
As Raidrun appeared, the group that had been waiting came rushing towards him.
Choi Hyun-seok stepped forward as a representative and asked.
“Did you enjoy the conversation?”
Raidran shook his head.
He briefly relayed the conversation he had had with Grat.
“The 8th Division Commander is a fox. It won’t be easy.”
“okay…”
“Choi Hyun-seok. Do you remember the Hemorn Fortress?”
Choi Hyun-seok nodded.
Hemorran Fortress.
If you don’t know, you can’t help but know.
Because it was the place where he first fell into another world and lived as a slave.
“At that time, our Demon King’s army was defeated, and only the commander managed to escape alive. As a result, we had no choice but to hand over several areas, including the Hemorn Fortress, to the humans.”
“Uh… No way…?”
“Yes. The commander who commanded the battle at that time was the 8th Division Commander Grat.”
Now that I think about it, I vaguely remember.
The day I first met Hemis at the Black Giant.
She said this.
“8th Division Commander. That crocodile head came back alive without any shame?” “That’s why I’m thinking of making it into a leather bag. These days, crocodile head bags are trendy. Haha.”
It was something I overheard without thinking, but I didn’t know there was such a story behind it.
“Then what happens next?” “It depends on how Division Commander Grat reacts. I don’t think he’ll leave easily.”
The 8th Division commander is a smart man.
It was clear that he would not want to leave the safety of this Gardlock Castle.
“If he doesn’t leave…” “There might be a fight.”
Raidrun nodded.
As Choi Hyun-seok said, he is prepared for battle.
Raidrun had always been submissive to the Demon King and the military, but this time he had no intention of backing down.
‘Incompetent commanders must disappear.’
Raidrun, who received spoon-fed education from Hemis.
He loathed incompetent commanders like his superior, Hemis.
