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=======[Imperial Palace]=======

“Keuuu…”

Andrei, the grizzly bear, groaned and pulled out the arrow stuck in his shoulder.

The hairs pulled out were tangled and stuck to the arrowhead, which was shining silver.

Unlike steel arrows, Amu’s speed was quite slow.

‘I lasted about 20 minutes. Slowly, silver arrows appear…’

The response was faster than expected.

After all, this is where the leader of the humans is located.

I never thought it would only take 20 minutes to supply silver arrows in this chaotic situation.

It was a surprisingly quick response that went beyond Boris’s predictions.

I would never have imagined that beastmen would attack the islands.

From now on, I had to be more careful.

At first, thanks to the steel swords and arrows flying in, I was able to slaughter all the humans I came across, but…

If you fight like that against silver weapons, you will fall before long.

Shouts, screams, and loud noises rang out from all over the imperial palace.

‘How much longer do I have to endure?’

Andrei asked himself.

In the first surprise attack, they killed the knights on guard and collapsed the outer wall of the imperial palace.

Afterwards, he jumped in, leading the nine comrades of the death squad and the inferior half-blood Lee Baek.

‘I wonder if everyone is still alive.’

They dispersed as soon as they entered the imperial palace.

To avoid being crowded in one place and being suppressed, and to make the most of each person’s time.

Andrei also minimized fighting and focused on sabotage.

Knights are not your enemies, but if you deal with masters, you will be stranded in one place.

If they showed up with weapons mixed with silver…Rather, Andrei himself could have been defeated.

Avoiding the enemy was a humiliating act for a warrior.

However, since this was Boris’s instruction, I just followed it.

There was no doubt that it was efficient.

If we had faced each other proudly, we would not have been able to last even 20 minutes against the endless crowd of knights.

‘Natalia and Boris…did they succeed?”

Andrei glanced outside the imperial palace.

Looking at the burning city, at least Natalia seemed to have successfully accomplished her mission.

That was enough.

From across the alley, urgent footsteps were heard.

It smells human.

Again, it was time to fight.

It had to take at least an hour.

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How many times have I experienced this feeling of my vision becoming distant?

No, at least it was a physical problem so far. This time was different.

My mind was screaming as it faced the worst possible situation.

“You sent out first-year students to fight against the beast-human warriors? What are you crazy bastards thinking..!”

Is this rising emotion anger or frustration?

Or is it a lament?

Unable to hold back his boiling passion, he grabbed the priest who was casting the healing spell by the collar and let out a rage.

The priest’s expression became perplexed.

“A prisoner…? From what I heard, they’re just vagrants…!”

“What do you mean! You’ll know right away when you see it! no. More than that, how long has it been since I sent it out!”

At least, if it was just now. If you go out right now, you can get it-

“About 8 or 9 minutes…”

A sigh of relief escaped me.

So, almost as soon as the knights left, they kicked the students out?

Without even knowing who the enemy is?

Response was too fast, and information acquisition was strangely slow.

Is this possible?

No, even if it is 1-2 minutes fast, it is too fast to gather the students and send them out.

I expected it would take at least 10 minutes to make the decision, gather the students, prepare, and send them out.

So, does that mean that the students were prepared in advance?

From the beginning, were you planning to subdue the vagabonds with the knights?

Since the time of the fire was before the imperial palace collapsed, it would be an explanation if the students had been gathered since then.

Meanwhile, when the imperial palace was attacked and the knights headed there, at least the students were sent away.

okay. They didn’t know that the enemy was beastmen, so they probably thought the students were enough!

He released the priest’s collar and gritted his teeth.

Shit. Damn it. why!

In my mind, I mull over the aimless swear words.

Fate presents only the worst imaginable developments one after another. As if mocking me, as if reprimanding me.

It seems like this is all the result of your negligence.

“Healing techniques! Strengthen your divinity! Whatever it is, pour out everything you have right now! The people who started the fire are beasts! It’s impossible for freshmen!”

The parade leader yelled at me to leave. Blood flowed from the corner of my mouth.

Now that things were like this, I had to go out right away.

Since the priests are gathered together, if we overlap their healing and blessings, we will be able to fight somehow.

The priests were startled by the sudden shout and turned to look at me.

One of the priests tilted his head in disbelief.

“A prisoner…? No way. There’s no way a beast that only exists in the north could appear in the islands…”

“Because there were corpses of prisoner babies all over the special hall! Go check it out!!”

In my frustrated heart, the desire to live burst out.

The priest who had been refuting turned pale and sat down.

It’s something I wouldn’t have done normally.

It’s not doing me any good by causing friction with the priests.

But now, the situation is urgent. There was no time to persuade them.

I had to move right now.

“I guarantee it in the name of Palun! Immediately implement what that woman said!”

Friede added a word.

Then, the hesitant priests recited prayers and gave us all kinds of blessings.

The pain from the wound decreases, and injuries throughout the body gradually heal.

The power of the medicine I drank earlier fades away, and my consciousness and senses become clearer.

Strength returned to my limbs.

It was impossible to fully recover, but at this level I was able to fight just fine.

“Asha, Friede! let’s go! We have to move quickly!”

“Okay!”

“Don’t give orders to your junior!”

I got back on my horse, picked up the spurs, and rode toward the front gate.

Friede and Asha, armed with weapons, ran after them.

hurry. Just a little faster.

Before it’s too late.

Suppressing the creeping anxiety, ignoring the overwhelming feeling of despair, and just being desperate.

Two horses galloped across the campus.

—-

Beastmen, even those of light mixed blood, have the strength of a semi-knight.

Because the harsh northern environment trained them to be strong.

In addition, it has regenerative power to quickly recover from cuts.

Unlike people who rapidly weaken whenever they are hurt, they are not afraid of spears and fight fiercely.

In order to overcome that gap, we must prepare means to suppress the regenerative power.

Roughly tearing the wound to slow down recovery, or neutralizing the regenerative power itself with silver and true silver.

Or, it could cut off one’s life in one blow without any room for regeneration.

In other words, it means that it is an enemy that cannot be confronted without such means.

The results were right in front of me.

I had a feeling of déjà vu.

Before my eyes, hell is dancing.

With people screaming and burning buildings in the background.

It smells familiar. The fishy stench of blood, the stinging smell of grilled squid.

The smell of a dead person burning.

ah.

iced coffee.

My vision became dizzy and I stumbled on my horse.

Actually, I knew it.

okay. Damn it, I knew very well!

My clenched nails tear the gloves and dig into my palms.

Blood flowed down the sword hilt.

The moment I remembered it, I felt like I couldn’t fight anymore, so I was forced to ignore the truth.

Here.

As for the prisoner. humans. I hate it.

Countless people are cut into pieces and burning.

Not students. All of them are ordinary people.

As usual, the residents of this city, who were living happy lives, were now turning into grilled meat.

A man without limbs burns.

A woman torn to pieces collapses into ashes.

A child with his head missing curls up and burns.

The rioters, wearing tattered hoods, laugh and wave pieces of grilled meat on skewers.

It gets in your face and bites you. Cheering as if tasting a delicacy or enjoying a festival.

eat people

It shouldn’t have happened.

Why is this happening?

– Because you are here.

okay.

It couldn’t have happened.

– If you hadn’t come here.

A distant feeling of falling entangles my body.

I wanted to scream.

But I didn’t deserve it.

Even the right to be angry.

The hand holding the sword trembled weakly.

I barely managed to hold on to the hilt of the sword that was about to fall from my fingertips.

“These bastards…!”

Friede, who was gnashing his teeth, struck down the reins.

Her words run like thunder.

The moment the beasts turned around, the saw blade on the spear tore off their necks.

The hood is torn off, and the severed heads pop out.

Like lighting a row of firecrackers, one after another.

Blood gushes like a fountain from the severed neck, and the animals stumble around like wooden dolls and are sucked into the fire.

The burning smell was the same as that of humans.

Friede picked up a head and spat.

The severed head looked no different from a human, except for the sharp teeth.

Is this why you thought the rioters were people even when you saw them?

But how? No matter how mixed blood a beast is, it must still have traces of a beast, right?

Friede grabbed the hair from the head he was holding.

There was nothing on the side of the cheek, where the ears should be.

Instead, scars that looked like they had been cut remained on both sides of the top of the head.

“As expected, an inferior mixed race… The North warned us not to use beastmen as slaves…!”

She gritted her teeth and threw the head.

So, did the mixed-race slaves with very light blood cut off their ears and disguise themselves as humans?

It was a development not seen in the original.

About twenty warriors were enough to attack the scattered freshmen.

I wondered how they could set this entire city on fire, but it was also because I had changed the development.

… I was extremely nauseous.

“What are you doing! Don’t stay idly by, both of you, disperse! I don’t know how many enemies there are, so run through the city and kill everything you see!”

Friede urged us, twisted the reins, and ran out.

“Well, I’ll go too! Be careful, Hashal!”

Asha flew into the opposite alley.

I tried my best to suppress the rising pressure in my stomach and the terrible scream that pounded my heart, and I pulled down the reins.

Blood flowed from my chewed lip.

Every time the horse’s hoof struck the ground, my cracked skull throbbed as if it would break. Maybe even inside.

Twelve swords that protect humans.

The phrase engraved on the sword body seemed to penetrate my mind like a painting.

I was complacent. Even though I was complacent, I was too complacent.

I should have thought about it more carefully. How drastically the original story will be distorted by the variable that my existence came to the West.

I declared in front of the man, in front of Knut.

I will survive until the end, protect and save people.

With an arrogant heart, like a savior, like a prophet who knows everything about the world!

It was a terrible illusion.

I was not their savior.

I couldn’t even imitate it. Because it wasn’t like that from the beginning.

Look at this tragedy.

Just because I came to the empire, reality became so distorted!

In the original work, in the worst case scenario, a dozen students would have died, but this turned into a fire and massacre that burned the entire system.

That prisoner, Boris, said that earlier. The reason they, Miliciya, committed terrorism so suddenly and on such a large scale was because they felt a sense of crisis when Ka’har, an enemy of the empire, signed a peace treaty with the empire.

okay. The reason why this tragedy occurred was because of a few words I said without thinking about crossing over to the West.

He is the culprit who twisted the decided future in his own way and brought about a disaster that would not have happened originally.

That was me now.

—-

I run my horse and run through the hell I created.

A wind full of heat.

A passing flame leaves deep burn marks on the face. Like a brand on a criminal.

The breath I took in was so hot that I felt like my chest was going to burn.

As if a fireball had been lodged in my lungs.

The whole world was filled with black smoke, and the air I breathed in and the heat heating my body made my head spin in a mess.

A feeling as if the brain is boiling. Even my thoughts didn’t flow properly.

Still, people had to be saved.

Save? No, you’re wrong.

I wasn’t in a position to blurt out such arrogant remarks. I am.

I had to reduce it. Those who fall victim to my foolishness and my complacency.

At least one more.

– Ugh!

Jin’s long sword vibrated once again.

Running after the screams.

In the distance, animals were seen swinging spears at the students.

“Aaaa!”

Letting out a scream-like shout, he draws his bow and draws it.

The silver arrow fired pierced the beasts’ heads.

Kill before regenerating. If one leg doesn’t work, use two or three feet.

Like a machine, it fires arrows repeatedly.

The beastmen dance. As if happy, waving his arms and legs.

Soon, he lies down as if he is exhausted.

I approached the students who were sitting down.

These were faces I felt like I had seen at least once during the lecture.

Fortunately, we were able to prevent them from dying.

The number of jurors in my trial increased. Only to convict.

“T, special student…?”

“The enemies are beastmen! Don’t fight him, avoid him as much as possible and return to the academy!”

I ran away again without saying a word.

I couldn’t lead them.

Because death still abounds. Now I had to run.

Raise your senses. Enduring the smell of burning, ignoring the smell of blood, looking for animals.

Friede was right. I also smelled like an animal.

I grit my teeth and run through the city. It was not yet.

It wasn’t time to stop yet.

—-

“What, Ka`har…?!”

“If you find out, you’re dead!”

I run towards the prisoner who is shocked to see me.

Was he a member of the Miliciya? Although he was not a pureblood, he had a face that was clearly close to that of an animal.

A woman was pierced through the fingernails of her left hand.

It’s a familiar uniform. Could it be a student at the academy?

I couldn’t tell who it was because it was just a torso without a head.

The face that had become mush was being chewed in the jaw of the beastman.

The molars that were clenched were completely broken.

“Kyaaa!”

He rode on his horse, roared, and swung his sword.

The blessings of the priests residing in the body lead to destructive power beyond its limits.

The prisoner’s arm explodes.

A lump of pink flesh, crushed like clay, popped out from the screaming creature’s maw.

The passion has surpassed its limits.

The left hand stretched out from the horse’s back grabs the beastman’s head and pushes it down.

The head sinks into the neck, lower and lower. Under.

Blood sprayed like a waterfall, and the beastman’s body was crushed vertically.

Between the crotch that had been cut in half, crushed internal organs were scattered on the floor.

What I was holding in my hand was already just a piece of meat.

—-

How many did you keep? How many people did they kill?

Before I knew it, the horse was completely exhausted and collapsed from exhaustion.

I fell from my horse and rolled on the ground.

Thanks to that, I came to my senses a little.

Are Friede and Asha doing well?

Milia is alive, right?

As for Damian.

okay. I had to find Damien.

I had to protect him.

Up until now, I felt somewhat relieved in my heart.

Since he is the main character, he will become stronger.

Since he is the main character, he will survive in the end.

Even if we are in danger… There was no way he was going to die.

However, I could no longer trust the content of the original work.

Just because I’m here, everything has already become distorted.

So I had to protect him at all costs.

If the owner of the holy sword dies because of me, it would be like I destroyed the world.