episode_0127

The man ran, looking back like he was obsessive. From the moment Code Zero was dropped, he was heading deep into the central headquarters instead of escaping.

The fact that the signal had already gone off meant that the Slaves had collapsed. Even if he ran outside, he didn’t have to look to see that the imperial hounds would be salivating to bite him.

So, instead of running away as quickly as possible, he headed to the secretly hidden armory. There was a plan prepared for such a moment.

Of course, I wasn’t sure. Because I wasn’t properly aware of the situation outside, there was no guarantee that this would be the solution.

However, simply running away was an act of suicide. As a man with many regrets about life, such a choice could not be made easily.

Damn you bastards! Because I can live a little better now!

I thought I was sucking out other people’s blood, but that was the way the world worked. If you are weak, you will be trampled on and everything you have will be taken away by the powerful.

In the past, weren’t men also persecuted by such powerful people?

Now that he had power, it was a completely natural situation where he could only take it from those who did not have it. That was the reason why the man increased his strength so quickly.

But the empire ruined it. They robbed us of the utopia that we had barely completed.

He gritted his teeth and ran a little faster. Because of the situation, I didn’t know if they would come into the central headquarters.

The man passed through the familiar hallway of the building and headed toward the underground armory. Even as I went to the armory, I looked back countless times due to the anxiety that was holding me back.

I was able to reach the entrance to the underground armory just as a sweet smell came out of my mouth.

After panting and catching his breath, the man opened the armory and went inside. When the light-emitting magic sphere recognized a person, it blinked a few times and worked.

The man looked inside and smiled. What was inside was his lifeline.

Although all the support I had built so far would be lost, I could somehow build it up again if I survived.

He was determined to survive this time too.

***

After the first clash, the battlefield was quickly settled. Serafina’s knights used their familiar skills to capture the slaves’ hounds that were still alive.

Summary execution was the basic order given to them, but Serafina’s additional order was to capture any incapacitated enemies alive during the extermination process.

If there were any remnants of the Slaves that survived in that way, they could be exploited politically, so the Knights faithfully carried out the orders given by their master.

Gilbert also took that into consideration and kept them alive as long as it wasn’t too much of a stretch. Although his limbs were cut and he was bleeding profusely, the knights had a very good first aid method.

-Chijijijik

“Quaaaagh!”

“Aaaah! You crazy bastards!”

There was a strong, musty smell. To prevent them from dying from excessive bleeding, the knights tore up the spellbook containing the ignition spell and burned the affected area.

It was an emergency measure commonly called cauterization. Although there were side effects such as burns and cell necrosis due to directly supporting the affected area, they were only kept alive for a short time for political reasons.

There was no obligation to take extreme care of the condition of those who would be put on the death row and disappear as a result of the execution.

In the end, this was just an act of extending the time so that they could die after the political reasons were over.

Gilbert tried to ignore the screams and the disgusting smell and checked the mini-map. Before the operation began, the entire area had been illuminated for security purposes, so the mini-map was activated.

Looking at the mini-map, there were still a few places where battles were taking place. For a moment, I wondered if I should go for support, but compared to the remnants of the Slaves, the number of our troops was overwhelmingly large. It seemed like there was no need to lead a separate unit to provide support.

“Deputy Commander Gilbert. I have something to say for a moment.”

The leader of the knights in charge of area C looked at the situation and approached Gilbert.

The knight commander had a long body and was tall enough to be a head taller than Gilbert.

Despite his burly arms, he focuses on delicate swordsmanship, and with his long, thick finger, he points to the entrance where the slave hunters came out.

“The princess ordered a search of the surrounding area. The order will be issued soon, but the separate unit will be given the task of searching for the Slaves central headquarters.”

“Confirmed. Can the goal be seen as the annihilation of the enemy?”

“Okay.”

The blunt knight commander left those words and turned to where the knights were to explore the surroundings again.

Just as the leader said, a voice was soon heard searching for Gilbert through the communication equipment.

[This is Polar Star. Sparrow please respond.]

“Sparrow. Reply.”

[Sparrow leads a detachment and orders the search for the Slaves’ central headquarters and the annihilation of the enemy.]

“OK.”

[Also, since there may be captured subjects, rescue is also carried out.]

“Confirm. I will continue my mission.”

Gilbert shared the orders he received from Serafina with his troops. Although they had fought a fierce battle, they did not appear to be tired, and after preparing for another battle, they entered the central headquarters.

“It has a musty smell?”

Hans frowned and grumbled. Perhaps because it was the entrance to the basement, the air was thick and dusty.

From the beginning, they seemed to be far from cleaning, so it’s not surprising that there was a musty smell.

Gilbert took the most dangerous lead and began exploring the Slaves’ central headquarters. I was able to find a warehouse of gold coins, food storage warehouse, liquor warehouse, etc. that they had piled up like a mountain.

Gilbert, who had passed several rooms without success, raised his right hand and ordered the troops to stop. It was because he felt a presence in the room in front of him.

He looked back slightly and gave me a look. This meant that there was a possibility that remnants of the Slaves might remain, so prepare.

The members of the unit, who noticed his gaze, grabbed their weapons tightly and glared at the door.

Gilbert opened the door wide.

“These crazy bastards… ”

Ilen couldn’t help but curse at the sight in the room. His appearance was different from his usual serious appearance, as he was from the North.

But no one here questioned his appearance. The room was so terrible that it is not enough to describe it as a disaster.

It was basic to be confined in a cage where animals were kept.

Food that could only be fed to livestock or animals was stuffed in a long wooden feed trough.

Gilbert looked at the name plate on the wall with fire in his eyes.

Livestock farm.

It was written that these damn Slaves did not view humans as anything more or less than livestock.

“Unbind and rescue people.”

But he was now the commander of a separate unit. If he was shown to be overcome by emotion, it could be conveyed to the unit members who followed him.

Gilbert tried to somehow calm his boiling heart and make a cool-headed decision.

Lily and Hans, biting their lips as if recognizing the effort, opened the iron bars and rescued the people.

“Who, who are you…? ?”

A trembling woman asked that question. Gilbert thought for a moment about what to say and then blurted out one word.

“Soldier.”

Although the words were short and concise, the people who were captured seemed relieved by those words. Some weak-hearted people cried, saying that they could finally get out of this hellish place.

After that, Gilbert visited several more places to find people who had been taken as slaves.

There were a total of seven places called livestock farms, and the conditions in the rooms were quite different, perhaps to distinguish the people they had captured.

Although he didn’t really want to know the classification criteria, Gilbert vaguely noticed the criteria and frowned slightly.

Because it was never good intention.

“Brynhild, transport the people who rescued Hans to the ground.”

“If it is a command.”

“Okay!”

To prevent any unexpected situation, Gilbert sent people to the surface with Brynhild, who was the strongest next to him, and Hans, who had a bright personality to calm down the anxious people.

The calculation was that if there were two of them, they would be able to respond flexibly to any situation that might arise.

“Continue with the mission.”

As Brynhild and Hans left with the men, Gilbert also led the members of the separate unit to search the places that had not yet been searched.

“Die!”

“ Dogs of the empire! ”

As Serafina expected, there were remnants inside the central headquarters who were unable to escape.

They hid in the dark and targeted the detachment, but they could not fool Gilbert, whose acumen was already well above that of an ordinary knight.

The members of the separate unit, who had cut off their heads without any mercy, brushed off the stains on their swords and moved forward.

After about 10 minutes, they had to come to a crossroads.

“Angelina Lilly and Ilene go to the right. Camilla and I will search the left side.”

Gilbert, facing a crossroads, tied Camilla, who was relatively weak, to his group.

The three heading to the other side thought that even without Gilbert, Lily and Illen would have a good balance since their power was at a considerable level.

So Gilbert and Camilla began searching the left side of the intersection.

But strangely, the left fork only stretched forward like a hallway. The door that appeared occasionally before coming across a crossroads was nowhere to be seen.

Is there something?

It was a structure that had no choice but to think that way. If I looked straight ahead, there must be something there, but I couldn’t quite figure out what it was.

“This looks like a hallway?”

Camilla, who was looking around, muttered as if she was thinking the same thing.

Instead of answering, Gilbert nodded and silently walked forward.

After walking for about a minute, a huge iron gate greeted them.

“I don’t know what’s inside, but I don’t think it’ll be anything good.”

“That’s what I think too. I have a bad feeling about something.”

Camilla pursed her lips and pulled the door handle.

– Drurk!

The heavy iron door slowly opened on both sides, kicking up dust.

Oh, what a dust!

Camilla coughed because of the white dust.

And at that moment, Gilbert opened his eyes and pulled her towards him.

– Quang!

“Who are you?”

There was a crack in the floor where Camilla had just been standing.

If Gilbert had been even a little late, it might have been Camilla, not the floor, that cracked.

Probably my bones would be shattered.

Camilla looked at the monster who attacked her with a pale complexion.

No, that wasn’t a monster.

It was about 4 meters away and was not in human form.

The rough outer armor and red eyes glowed in the darkness.

The sight of a heavy iron sword pulled out of the ground was familiar to both Gilbert and Camilla.

Colossal disease.

The culmination of magical engineering created by mankind appeared before them.

Holy shit!

Gilbert swallowed a curse as he looked at the giant soldier in front of him.

The giant god soldier in front of you did not appear in the actual game, but it was an early version of the giant god soldier shown in the concept art released by the game company.

It was a wearable type of reinforced suit giant soldier, not a riding type giant soldier like now.

In the beginning, there was no technology to reproduce the giant giant soldier, so we saw a setting where it was created in the form in front of us, but it did not appear directly in the game.

Since it was an early type of Giant God Soldier, it was no longer used because its size and output were too different from the current generation Giant God Soldier.

However, if you encountered a spherical giant god soldier in a place like this now, the story would be different. It was said to have lower output and performance compared to the current generation’s Giant God Soldiers, and it was definitely not something that could be fought with bare hands.

If it wasn’t for a strong person of Brianna’s level or higher, she might have been cut in half and killed as soon as the swords met.

This was no exception, even for Gilbert, who was crossing the border of superhumans.

[Damn you empires! I will tear them all to death!]

A roaring male voice was transmitted through communication magic.

The voice, filled with hatred for the empire, seemed to be filled with resentment.

What a criminal bastard sounds like!

Gilbert gritted his teeth and looked at Camilla in his arms.

Even if the two of them ran away, it was impossible to escape the giant god soldier.

The difference in limb length alone was several times greater, but even if I ran to my death, I couldn’t beat the high-speed movement of the giant god soldier.

Then there was only one way left.

Gilbert made a decision in his heart.

“Camilla. I will take my time. Run away now and bring reinforcements.”

“What, what? You can do that through communication!”

“It seems like there is a jammer in that damn giant god soldier. Communication will only be possible if you get out of its radio range.”

“But what are you going to do on your own!”

Camilla grabbed Gilbert by the collar and shouted as he tried to commit a reckless act. Fighting the Giant God Soldier with a human body was an act of suicide.

Even if it was an old relic made in the early days, the same would be true.

“No time. If this continues, we will both die.”

“Then we should run away together. Leave you alone and run away alone?”

“I didn’t tell you to run away. I asked them to come and request support.”

“That’s it! I’m dying!”

Camilla shouted, but Gilbert released her collar and stepped forward. Before he knew it, a sword was in his right hand.

“Because I won’t die. Come back. It is a command.”

“… You idiot!”

Camilla couldn’t stop walking, but she closed her eyes tightly and ran to find a place that wasn’t affected by radio interference.

Because it was the only way for both of them to survive.

Gilbert turned his attention to the stumbling giant soldier as Camilla left to call for backup.

Fortunately for him, the skill level of the person riding the giant god soldier did not seem to be that high.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with him. There was a huge gap in the fight between the giant gods and humans.

However, he shook off his fear with his exhalation and filled his inhalation with energy.

As if that alone was enough preparation, he raised a sword overflowing with golden magic.

“Come as you like. I will deal with you.”

An arrogant declaration was made.

As if asking you to do a trick.