Chapter 334 30 Reinforcements (4)
Puck.
He threw Calott to the floor.
Unable to balance due to the loss of both arms, Roman Dmitri looked at the crowd of people.
“This guy is the only one who survived as the commander of the Orcs. Cowardly, he abandoned his subordinates and ran away, and took Luna’s prisoners as hostages and offered a deal to save himself. War must pay a price for its course. I intend to execute this fellow, and I will give you the hilt of the sword.”
People were perplexed.
It was an unexpected development.
“Who will hold the hilt of the sword?”
got a sword
It was one of the swords scattered on the floor, and blood and flesh of an unknown owner were attached to it.
People looked into each other’s eyes.
I didn’t rush out.
The people of Arcadia lived in peace and were not accustomed to such extreme revenge.
Usually, when someone did something wrong, they were punished according to the due process.
Isabel presided over the trial and, according to divine judgment, imposed servitude rather than death. Was it like that?
Until just now, the people who had attacked the orcs with faces stained with madness did not accept the sword that Roman Dmitri held out when they laid the plate.
“Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu”
Carlot crawled on the floor.
With a terrified face trying to survive somehow, someone stepped forward among the people.
“I will do it.”
it was smith
A man who lost a friend to Carlot.
he took the sword
With a strong grip on the cold, eerie handle, Smith cut Calott’s leg without hesitation.
Knock!
“Cheak!”
A scream broke out.
Carlot trembled and turned around hastily and looked up at Smith with a terrified face.
Smith’s expression was contorted with complex emotions.
Even though she shed tears from her sadness, her face, distorted like a demon, couldn’t hide her anger toward Carlot.
“My friends and colleagues died because of you. They were good guys who couldn’t even kill a young ant if they were living things, but you ate their flesh in front of us just because you were starving.”
gritted it
He bit so hard that his teeth were chipped and bleeding.
“What did we do so wrong? Why did you have to go that far!”
hooked
stabbed in the stomach
As Carlot’s eyes widened and he wiggled his missing wrist around, Smith stabbed him several times in the stomach even as his face was pushed away.
Blood poured out profusely.
No matter how much Carlot screamed in pain and sent pitiful glances, I couldn’t forget how he treated Luna’s people.
“These bastards! Fucking babies! Could we all live together? Could you fucking do that?!”
hooked
Puffy.
Violence intensified.
Anger took full control of reason, and Smith did not stop with a bloodstained face.
From a certain point on, even Calott couldn’t resist.
Her hazy eyes trembled slightly because she hadn’t died yet, but her floating body had completely lost the strength to resist.
Anger was not resolved.
The people of Arcadia were proud of the harmonious world, but the peace of the past collapsed in an instant.
“Aaaaaagh!”
screamed
The opponent no longer felt the pain.
But if I didn’t do this, I felt like I would choke to death.
people watching it.
Some averted their gaze.
Some opened their eyes as if they were not going to miss anything.
It was then.
“… Roman Dmitry. How would you like to do this? Carlot is already dead.”
Droopy calotte.
Cayden could no longer watch the situation.
* * *
It was disastrous.
My heart ached.
Smith was an ordinary man.
The good young man who had taken the lead in taking care of people as Luna’s soldier was now hacking into Carlot with the face of a lunatic.
One person was falling.
As a person who worships God, Cayden could not stand still and watch such a scene as he watched as he complained of pain as he was stained with madness.
said Roman Dmitry.
“why. Is this sight cruel?”
“… That’s not it. I just can’t watch Smith corrupt in anger any longer.”
“It is a fall. You are very much mistaken.”
I looked away.
Roman Dmitri pointed to one of the wide-eyed men.
“say it. What happened to you orcs?”
It was a woman.
The woman, who appeared to be in her mid-40s, shed bloody tears and vomited out pain.
“My husband and son were eaten by orcs. I had no choice but to sit on the floor and watch as my husband’s limbs were torn apart as he tried to protect his son. Roman Dmitry. I don’t think this situation is cruel in the least. Orcs, not those demons. It left an indelible mark on us.”
saw someone else
Asked the same question she had been asked, the young man had a blood clot in his neck.
“All my friends are dead. One was about to get married, and the other was a good guy who took care of his old mother. He died fighting for Luna. As a soldier defending the country, I know that death is inevitable. But isn’t this Arcadia? We genuinely worried about the welfare of the orcs, but as soon as they starved, they considered us as food.”
Everyone fell for evil.
peace is over
They didn’t hold the hilt, but they had the same expression as Smith.
again.
I saw Cayden.
His wavering eyes were struggling with the reality in front of him.
“Kaden. Arcadia, which pursued peace, no longer exists. People have experienced unforgettable scars for the rest of their lives, and in order for them to overcome the past, they have to pay the price to those who gave them pain. You must trample on the corpses of your enemies and spit on them. In the future, the people of Luna can live.”
the war.
It is an unethical act.
In order to survive in this cruel world, you have no choice but to change yourself into a person worthy of it.
“And the war is not over yet. Beyond Luna’s Fortress, the same thing you went through is repeating itself. But let’s do this. Do you think that the slashing of an orc has sufficiently relieved your anger? Or do you think you don’t have to be a monster to deal with monsters? If Luna really wants peace to be restored. Show no mercy to your enemies.”
The world has changed.
from the moment the war broke out.
Luna’s peace will not come from a warm heart, but from a powerful force capable of protecting herself.
“That’s Dmitri’s way you guys will follow.”
* * *
Carlot is dead.
Cayden’s heart felt like it was burning at the sight of Smith sobbing with his face lowered over it.
‘… Roman Dmitri is right. Now Arcadia can’t go back to the old days.’
Revenge was successful.
Smith inflicted enough pain that his face and body were stained with blood, but he burst into tears with a face more painful than those who watched.
It was like a monster.
It’s not the joy of succeeding in revenge, but I had to express my emotions even like that because I couldn’t accept this cruel reality.
if.
If we win the war and subdue the orcs.
Will Smith be able to regain his old self?
It was impossible.
Whether you are eating, working or sleeping.
I will put my fork down on the painful memories that pop up, I will stop working, and I will wake up from bed with a face stained with cold sweat like someone who had a nightmare.
It was like a stigma.
In the days to come, Smith’s peaceful days of seeing and thinking only good things were not allowed.
The Luna Kingdom was the same.
Even if the orcs are destroyed.
I couldn’t trust other races anymore.
Arcadia in the past created a peaceful world without any special restrictions, but Arcadia in the present will endlessly doubt each other and prepare for an unexpected war.
A single precedent led to distrust.
The same situation will be interpreted differently, and distrust will breed strife and confusion.
saw the sky
it snowed.
There was a time when I thought I loved Arcadia even when the world was frozen, but now it was different.
‘To become a monster, I must become a monster.’
It was a bone-chilling word.
They eat the flesh of lesser humans.
If the act of taking revenge on it is also cruel, if we look away, we will never be able to win this war.
at last.
It’s for Luna.
Rather than shouldering all the burdens on Roman Dmitri, he knew that he could only save Luna by getting his hands stained with blood and becoming a demon.
Cayden didn’t cry.
Now, standing at a crossroads completely different from the life he promised as a believer, he accepted with his heart how to live for Luna.
‘… sorry.’
Is it an apology to someone?
sure thing.
Even if Isabel returns alive.
She, who did not share Luna’s crisis, would not be able to replace Roman Dmitri’s presence for any reason.
* * *
Day.
Took a break.
Rest is what I mean, the day just passed by tidying up the inside and figuring out the situation.
next day.
A leadership meeting was held.
Cayden said what he had confirmed through Luna’s sources.
“Even at first, Graxar attacked storage and thought of securing food as a priority, but at some point he changed his course. I think I decided that it could be dangerous if I dragged the time. After capturing Luna’s fortress, Graxar immediately set off eastward, leaving behind Caloth’s 10,000 men. The exact situation is not known, but given the direction they moved, it is highly likely that they will attack the elves’ territory.”
“Do you have any reason to think so?”
“Once there is an area of elves in the direction Graxar moved, and the elves, who have settled around the World Tree, form the largest force, including the Luna Kingdom and Orcs. Now that Luna’s fortress has been destroyed. If even the elves are dealt with, there is virtually no force to stop the orcs in Arcadia.”
It was a conversation between Cayden and McBurney.
then.
We had to move our troops as quickly as possible.
When the forces of the elves were strong, they had to join forces with them to increase their chances of winning in this war.
“The problem is that we can’t move our troops right now.”
for just one day.
A drastic change occurred in Arcadia’s climate.
“Currently, the heavy snow in Arcadia is getting worse. Traveling through this amount of snow is virtually impossible, and no matter how you do it, the current climate is very favorable to the orcs. They deal with ‘White Wolf’. No matter how much snow is piled up, if it’s the White Wolf’s ability to move agilely on top of it, we can’t help but be in danger when we encounter it in the snowy field.”
It was a pitiful situation.
Coincidentally.
Needless to say, it was snowing like a hole in the sky right now.
Luna’s technology created a way to fight in the snow, but even that was not applicable to this heavy snowfall.
It was hopeless.
If you had prepared for war from the beginning.
When the Orcs attacked the surrounding races, they would have immediately joined forces with other races, but they missed the important timing while trying to figure out the situation.
In the case of elves, they are beings that do not leave the ‘realm of the World Tree’.
Attacking Luna’s fortress first was the judgment that Graxar had perfectly exploited Arcadia’s loophole.
however.
Roman Dmitry thought differently.
“War is a race against time. Now, when the elves have not yet collapsed, and Graxar is unaware of Caloth’s death, is a golden opportunity to turn things around. We won’t stay here because of heavy snowfall. Dividing the troops into two, one will liberate the storage and other prisoners, and I will lead the other and leave immediately for the ‘Elf Territory’.”
“… I agree with the idea that this is an opportunity, but moving through heavy snow is not an easy problem.”
Caden had a different opinion.
I was determined to become a demon.
I was willing to shed blood for Luna’s peace, but I couldn’t support her reckless judgment.
Roman Dmitri saw Cayden.
“Kaden. When I first asked Dmitri for help, you said that Luna knew many ways to overcome Arcadia’s environment. Throw away all common sense you’ve ever known. If it was a method that could not cope with even common variables such as heavy snowfall, Arcadia lived complacently in a comfortable reality.”
Luna.
They were attributed to Dmitry.
In order to manage Arcadia from now on, it was necessary to at least revise Luna’s complacent system.
“30 minutes from now. Gather all the forces Luna can mobilize. I will tell you the way of survival Luna should have pursued from the beginning. If you still think that heavy snow is a problem, I will take your advice and find a new way.”
