Faction War

I had been riding a horse, so I assumed everyone knew how to ride.

I was taking for granted something that shouldn’t be taken for granted.

It was clearly my mistake.

“Eueum…”

Even if I were to pull out the people who can ride now, it wouldn’t even make up one squad.

This time, it was right for me to slow down and go with the guild members.

In my heart, I wanted to run wild with the new wolf, but if I did that, I wouldn’t be able to give orders in time.

“For now, let’s keep running without stopping.”

I stuck close to the guild members and spoke.

The only fortunate thing was that the guild members didn’t get tired while running.

While running like that, we finally discovered the enemies’ first important facility.

It was a barracks where soldier NPCs were constantly respawning.

“Iyap-nim, break off and move to the eighth base! The rest of you, attack the barracks!”

Before entering the battle, I pulled Iyap aside and sent him to a place far away.

This was a kind of insurance.

The enemies would send defensive forces to stop us from striking their base.

The number of those defensive forces was important. If there were fewer of them than our attack force, we would engage in a power struggle and push them away, and if they were equal to us or more numerous, we planned to use Iyap’s guild summoning order to move the attack force at once.

With that, nearly 160 people, excluding Iyap, began to strike the enemy’s barracks.

Numerous skill effects burst out, and the barracks collapsed very quickly.

An elite NPC popped out from the inside, but it couldn’t withstand 160 people.

It takes 20 seconds to destroy one base.

I immediately rode the wolf and shouted.

“You don’t have to finish it off! Run right away!”

Tadak tadak tadak.

I shouted while running hard with the small wolf.

Because it was noisy with the sound effects of various skills, I had to circle around the attack force so that everyone could hear.

Only then did the guild members start running again.

I checked that everyone had departed and quickly followed.

“Enemies ahead! One squad, no, two squads!”

At that moment, Hwarang, who was running at the very front, shouted.

With the strength of two squads, it seemed like a squad prepared to defend the base from attack.

“Charge without stopping! Prepare to dope!”

I shouted to the guild members and ran forward.

After checking the number of enemies with my own eyes, about 80 people were running towards us, just as Hwarang had said.

The enemies’ position was below the hill. Because of that, it seemed like they hadn’t properly grasped the number of our people.

If I were the enemies’ commander, I would have turned the attack force around and tried to hole up in the base.

Tadak! Tadak! Tadak!

I drove the wolf up a slightly high hill and stopped.

The enemies running towards the hill seemed a little surprised by my appearance, but they were increasing their speed even more.

“Attack!”

I shouted as I watched them.

At that moment, the guild members running towards my back began to jump down the hill.

There were 160 people who had finished all preparations for fighting. Since they had even finished doping, there was no way it would be a power struggle.

The human defensive forces melted away quickly.

“Don’t chase the fleeing people! They can’t do anything anyway! Don’t slow down, just keep moving forward!”

The information about our side would have been passed on to the opposing commander from the fight just now.

They would definitely send more people to stop us for sure.

“Hurry!”

But it didn’t matter. After all, we weren’t trying to have a power struggle.

Like that, I drove the attack force and blew up the second, third, and fourth bases.

When I turned on the map to check the war situation, a mark appeared indicating that our bases had also been destroyed.

But the situation was slightly advantageous for us.

There was nothing particularly said from the main force engaged in a power struggle in the center.

We just had to faithfully carry out the task we were assigned.

While running towards the fifth base like that, I could spot enemy forces approaching from afar.

The number of them seemed larger than our attack force at first glance.

I narrowed my eyes, estimating the distance. The moment we destroyed the fifth base, there was a high possibility that we would encounter the enemies.

Yeon-[Iyap-nim, have you arrived inside?]

Iyap-[Yes, I’m ready.]

Okay. Then it doesn’t matter.

I took out my sword and pointed at the enemy base.

“Destroy the base and take the summoning order!”

As soon as the order was given, the attack force quickly ran and began to destroy the enemy base.

I watched the approaching enemies from a slightly distant place.

Yeon-[Use it now.]

The moment I sent the message to Iyap, a semi-transparent system message appeared before my eyes.

[‘Iyap’-nim has used the guild summoning order.]

The moment the base was destroyed and the enemy forces rushed in, all of our people disappeared with a transparent pillar of light.

The emotion of bewilderment rises on the faces of the enemies I see last.

I smiled playfully as I watched them.

Goodbye.

The operation was successful.

Right in front of the place we moved to using Iyap’s summoning order was a new enemy base.

“Charge!”

Our role is to destroy all the bases.

I led the attack force and quickly destroyed the bases.

Because there was a considerable distance between the place Iyap summoned us to and the place we were originally, there was nothing the enemies’ defense forces could do.

They would just have to watch the whole situation like a dog chasing a chicken, being led around by us like that.

The moment we destroyed all the enemies’ bases, the Demon race’s points greatly increased.

If we could solidify the situation like this, our race would win.

At that moment, a message arrived from the Demon race’s main force.

AreYouOutOfYourMind-nim-[Yeon-nim, can you come support the main force for a bit? The enemies are transforming and we’re getting pushed back.]

AreYouOutOfYourMind-nim, an ajusshi leading the guild called Requiem, was a reliable ally who had a cooperative relationship with our guild.

Yeon-[Don’t you have users who can transform on the main force side too?]

AreYouOutOfYourMind-nim-[It seems like most of the enemy transformation users have flocked here. We’re still getting pushed back even when we transform.]

Yeon-[I’ll go now. I’ll stab them from the back, so hold on until then.]

AreYouOutOfYourMind-nim-[Okay.]

There are a total of 10 users per race who can transform.

Among them, there were as many as 4 transformation-capable honor rankers gathered in our guild alone.

If the human honor rankers were all engaged in a power struggle in the center, then we had to go there as well.

“Going to support the main force!”

The users in our guild who could transform were me, Iyap, SnowMage, and Hwarang.

There were 4 of us like that.

While running towards the center, I checked the transformation skills I possessed.

[Commander Transformation Skill.]

Transforms into a powerful form by receiving the power of the Demon God.

HP +500%

MP +500%

Damage +150%

Unstoppable during transformation duration.

Weak spots removed during transformation duration.

All status change resistance during transformation duration.

Resistance to execution-related skills during transformation duration.

[Flight] skill available

Lasts for 5 minutes.

Cooldown 1 day.

※Can only be used in faction wars.

Even if the stats of the transformation skill were slightly different for each rank, the basic performance was the same.

The center of the battlefield, the place where all the power was concentrated.

Our attack force, which had been running quickly, had now arrived in front of it.

There were users who stood out even from a distance.

They fluttered pure white angel wings, with bright halos shining behind their backs.

When I checked their nicknames, they were all human honor rankers.

The enemy rankers who had transformed into angels were relentlessly pushing back the Demon race’s main force.

The Demon race’s rankers were also moving diligently, but they were being pushed back because there were fewer users who had transformed.

“Cut off the healers and ranged dealers in the back and get out right away!”

The moment the distance to the enemy’s main force became close, I shouted loudly and jumped off the wolf’s back.

At that moment, I immediately used the transformation skill.

Kwaang!

Black lightning flashed in the sky and fell on my body.

The black magic bestowed by the Demon God began to bring changes to my body.

The horns that sprouted on my forehead began to grow large, and black flames bloomed on my legs and hands.

The changes didn’t end there.

Wings made of black magic grew behind my back, and a long tail sprouted from under my butt.

Iyap, Hwarang, and SnowMage had all finished transforming.

The lightning that fell from the sky naturally drew the attention of many people.

“Don’t stop!”

I shouted as I drew my sword.

The place where the enemy’s power was concentrated was the front row.

I spread the wings made of black light and plunged into the middle of the enemy lines.

Using the [Flight] skill.

It wasn’t really moving the wings, but a skill that allowed me to fly briefly in the direction I wanted, but anyway, it was a skill that boasted tremendous mobility.

After plunging into the enemy lines, I used the skill possessed by the Demon Sword.

[Black Lightning]

Lightning falls on everyone in a narrow range based on me.

Kwaaaang!

I didn’t stop there. I immediately stuck the sword into the ground and used [Declaration of the Sanctuary of the Fallen Sun God].

It was that moment. A new skill began to be laid over the black sanctuary that spread out widely.

The warm light of the sun color began to overlap the fallen sanctuary I had set up.

I narrowed my eyes and looked in the direction the light was coming from.

There, Jupiter, fluttering golden angel wings, was looking at me with a large holy sword in his hand.

[Two opposing forces collide.]

[The fallen sanctuary is destroyed.]

[The holy sanctuary is destroyed.]

“This son of a bitch…?”

It seemed like there were still hidden Easter eggs left in the Demon Sword and the Holy Sword.

Jupiter was wearing a satisfied smile, as if he was so proud of destroying my sanctuary.

I took a breath and pointed my sword at Jupiter.

Immediately after, I activated the buff skill [Sword of Azathoth].

The black magic that was burning on the back of my hand covered the sword.

It was the moment I finished preparing to fight Jupiter like that.

The guy who was smiling at me suddenly turned around and flew away.

It was an escape using the flight skill.

The moment I was blankly looking at Jupiter’s back as he quickly moved away.

Hwarang, fluttering black wings, landed next to me and aimed his musket at the sky.

Immediately after, he activated [Magic Release].

Black magic exploded from Hwarang’s body. Immediately after, Hwarang’s musket began to spew fire.

Taang-!

A bullet dyed black flew in a long line.

The attack didn’t end there.

Hwarang quickly moved his hands and indiscriminately fired bullets into the air.

Tadadadadang!

After dozens of bullets were consumed in a short moment, Jupiter’s body, which had been flying in the sky, turned gray and crashed to the ground.

As he had done before, Jupiter had chosen a strategic retreat, but it seemed that he had not accounted for the variable of Hwarang when devising his strategy.

“I can’t do anything for about 30 seconds, so I’m going to fall back.”

Hwarang, who had dealt with Jupiter, fiddled with his musket, which had become red-hot, and retreated to the back.

We joined and cut off the enemy’s healer line.

No matter how much the rankers transformed, they couldn’t fight for long without a healer to support them from behind.

The human rankers began to use flight skills to pull their bodies back.

Like that, the human race’s main force was annihilated.

The human race, which had been pushed back once in the power struggle, was pushed back all the way to their command tower, and in the end, the first faction war ended in the Demon race’s victory.