episode_0001

A vast universe. A sea of darkness where countless stars disappear like dust and shine again and again.

In that sea, countless lives are disappearing.

Kwa-ang!

[Port side, hit! I can’t control my posture!]

[Erosion is in progress from area B60 to area B63! Uncontrollable!]

The bridge of a space battleship.

The operator’s urgent communication rings and hits my ears.

[Captain! It’s impossible to keep it like this!]

[Hey! What is so absurd! We are soldiers! If we are pushed out of here, those ‘crystal trees’ will just enter the Earth sphere!!]

Beyond that universe.

A huge red gem that resembles a satellite.

It is like a gem mined from a mineral vein and is not just a simple gem.

What gem has a larger area and size than a ‘satellite’?

It is a living organism, an ark of life that contains countless lives within it.

Not a human, but a monster that threatens humanity.

[Captain! A new reaction from ‘Cradle’! ‘Growth level’ monsters have appeared!]

[Is this dueling?! Tsk, what are the Armored Suit (AS) units doing? Tell them to intercept it quickly!]

[All units are already sortieing!]

[There will be a reserve unit!]

[This, the entire reserve unit has already sortied… !]

[Wow!]

The captain’s angry shouts fill the bridge.

[How can this be?! how!]

It is not an attempt to blame or hide someone’s incompetence, but a cry of sorrow that comes from the instinct that the immediate crisis cannot be overcome.

[Is it really necessary for humanity’s last bastion to collapse like this?]

It was a scream that sensed the destruction of humanity.

[We must protect! The solar system! Earth! We must make sure that our families are waiting for us in our hometown… !]

Must be kept.

As soon as the words are heard, a crackling noise is heard.

[Captain! Unknown reaction at the front! 1 object! This speed… Pattern ‘Garnet’! This object… This is !!]

[W-what… ?! Sashimi, avoid!!]

The captain urgently gives orders.

[It’s a monster targeting the battleship directly! Evade 15 degrees to starboard!!]

[Woohyun, avoid 15 degrees!!]

The warship they were on, the third Mercedes-class ship, tilted significantly to the side even on a battlefield of more than 1 km.

Although it appears to be struggling to survive, it is like a sinking ship in the sea.

Flashing.

The red trail that emerged from the cradle flew straight toward the ship.

[Ugh, shoot!! Stop them from approaching the flagship!]

[You’re too fast! Moving zigzagly, ignoring inertia!!]

Breaking through the fire net of beam gunfire fired by the AS unit.

[Great, anti-aircraft fire!!]

[Fire, fire!! Oh, no! The anti-aircraft guns couldn’t keep up with the speed… !!]

Effortlessly dodging the beam bombardment fired by the lead fleet by drawing an arc.

[Your opponent is me–!]

The blue AS held the beam sword with both hands and dodged a large slash swung towards the trajectory.

[Hey, high temperature reaction at the front! Depending on the movement radius of the red moon, a highly concentrated ether fission reaction is being observed… !]

[Oh, no! All of you must evade immediately from the trajectory he passed by–!!]

The moment the captain’s scream echoed throughout the universe, light twinkled along the red trail that ‘it’ had traced from the cradle to humanity’s flagship.

[ether explosion-]

Kwagwagwagwang ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!!

Explosions follow a red trail.

The leading battleship also opened fire to block its trajectory.

The armored suit that was dazed while wielding the beam sword.

And at the end of the red trail, in front of the main bridge of the flagship Mercedes 3rd ship ‘Sicles’.

Clap.

The end of the red trail.

A red robot that looks similar to an armored suit that burst where the trajectory passes, but whose exterior is crystallized like a jewel, extends its right hand forward.

Weeeeing.

Ether gathers in the right hand.

The energy of evolution that allowed humanity to advance into space is now gathering at our fingertips as a destructive force that will destroy humanity’s last hope.

[Ugh… !]

When everyone on the bridge sensed death.

Kaaaa!!

A silver spear that fell vertically from above.

The white and silver spear pierced the shoulder of the red variant AS, and the red mecha took a large step back, and the ether gathered in its right hand disappeared in an instant.

[Seo, no way… .]

In front of the bridge, Euncheong’s back is visible, blocking the main camera.

It’s already damaged and broken, so repairing it seems impossible.

However, the only intact silver cavalry lance and a large kite shield in both hands were the silver AS, with a blue etheric light shining throughout its body.

[Ahhh… .]

Those on the bridge let out an exclamation.

It was broken and broken and could no longer use the booster, and even the two legs that could run through space were already destroyed, so it ran forward and blocked the red trail with only its only weapons, the cavalry spear and shield.

[…why.]

A voice flows from the red AS.

The angry woman’s voice contained some confusion and ‘fear’.

[Why, even after being like that, does it come back again, ‘Silver Bullet’!!]

[…] yet.]

From Euncheong’s AS, the voice of a somewhat weak young man flows out.

[I can lift the spear.]

My breathing is weak, as if my breath will stop at any moment.

[The shield was not broken.]

The aircraft was worn out, destroyed, and in tatters.

[We are not defeated yet… !]

My will has not broken.

[Go for it, ‘Garnet Dahlia’!]

[Ugh, all the corpses are dying!!]

Kaaaan!

Spewing fire with the only remaining booster on his right back, the silver lancer stabs his spear forward.

[Why are you still resisting? Why don’t you give up! You are defeated! There are no more chances to win! Obediently accept the ‘blessing’!]

[What a blessing that is!]

Kang, Kang.

The red trace spreads its arms left and right.

[It’s a blessing! It is a new blessing for humanity to evolve!]

He swings his crystallized claws, which have grown like beasts, and blocks and deflects the silver lancer’s spear.

[Embrace evolution, like me!]

[I refuse!]

[Why?! Why, why!!]

The nails on the red trail become sharper.

[You deserve it too! You too can make your own crib! You too have the ‘blessing of birth’!!]

The voice of the woman within it also becomes sharper.

[You can become king! Are you going to die like this? Are you going to give up immortality for eternity and live by burning the fleeting moments like a mayfly?]

[Even if I live like that, I will live as a human!]

[It’s a foolish story, it’s a foolish story!]

Every time the spear and nail collide, stardust scatters.

As the two weapons collide, the crystals break into powder and the ether flowing inside them scatters.

[Humans are finite beings! It is a being that cannot leave the solar system! I can’t go off the planet with my bare body, and my body will grow old and die!]

[So, what should I do!]

[Accept the blessing! We will become new humans! Under the birth of the universe, you are the only one who awakened it!!]

Crack.

A spear is embedded in the shoulder of the red trail.

As if deliberately giving up his shoulder, the red trail grabbed hold of the cavalry spear with both hands and began digging his nails into it.

[Why are you trying to defy fate?]

[I will not refuse such a fate!]

Kwa-ang.

The window explodes.

The cavalry’s exoskeleton shatters and explodes, revealing a bone-like skeleton.

[You, who are not human, will never understand!]

[It is neither worth understanding nor necessary! Just as a bug can become a human, you can go from a human to a god!]

[I’m going to be an asshole!]

[!!]

Raise your leg on the silver lancer and kick the red locust in the abdomen.

I scratched the outside of the cavalry spear with my fingernail, but the red trail flew back in vain due to the lancer’s kick.

[Why, why! Why do you reject evolution? You are blessed by the ether! Give up! If you accept the ether, you can become a god like us!!]

[I’m not interested in that.]

[Aren’t you afraid of death!]

[I’m afraid.]

The silver lancer throws his shield forward.

[but.]

The end of the shield forms a sharp spear blade, and the thorn spear, which only has a skeleton, is stabbed forward.

[I don’t want… !]

Clap!

The thorn spear that pierces the center of the shield becomes one with the shield.

The wide shield attaches itself like a spear blade, and blue light begins to radiate from the split body.

[I am!]

[Ugh, the light of the ether is this much?!]

[I will live as a human!]

Fuuuk.

The tip of the shield touches the heart of the red trail.

The shield, which was sharpened like a spear blade, was diagonally pierced into the chest of the red locust, and the two aircraft stopped in space.

[You will regret it.]

[You will regret it.]

[You will not be repaid.]

[Is it a curse?]

[no. It’s true.]

Red Trail laughed lowly.

[Congratulations. you won But no one will know your victory, and they will just think that humanity has won. You are someone who should not exist.]

[That doesn’t matter.]

[That will happen now. But what will happen in the future? Yeah, I’m looking forward to it.]

Coo goo goo.

As red ether flowed out like powder from the body of the red trace, the huge cradle that was slowly approaching behind it began to collapse.

[I am the first. It doesn’t end with me. When my next one appears, I will realize that I was the most moderate being.]

[Tell them to come as much as they want. I will make them all like you.]

[ha ha ha.]

The red trail slowly crumbles into stardust from below.

[Even though I know I won’t get anything in return. why? Do you want to be a hero?]

[no.]

With a dying voice, the young man barely opened his mouth.

[My second life is because I want to use it meaningfully.]

[That’s foolish. You give up immortality and eternal life and choose humanity. Trying to protect a cursed race that should be erased first from this universe.]

[Noisy. Go away, alien. If humans do something wrong, humans will punish themselves.]

[You want to believe that. Ah, it’s the end. That’s great, kid. [What knocked me down.]

All red traces become fog and disperse.

[I congratulate you. your victory. I was not defeated by humans-]

Passs.

[I lost…to you…]

Everything turns into stardust and disappears.

All the red dots on the radar disappear and there is only silence in space.

2184 AD.

Beyond Pluto.

A war unfolding on a battlefield.

That’s how it ended.

leaving nothing behind.

* * *

“It’s a dog dream.”

I had a dream.

15 years ago.

So, the year is 2184 AD.

The dream of humanity’s first encounter with the extraterrestrial life form Crystal Tree, and the war waged against it for a short period of less than a year.

There, I was a pilot fighting for humanity, risking my life against the vanguard of alien life forms.

“Ah.”

I shouted.

“I regret it.”

Hope for humanity.

The potential of humanity.

“Why did I say that?”

2184.

Officially, nothing happened.

My cries only remain in my memory.

“Ah.”

I am now.

“I ran out of money in my bank account…”

I am unemployed.