Episode 469
Episode 152. Prepared by God for human fight (3)
‘I feel like a miner.’
Yuma thought while cutting a block of ice with Ascalon.
I had been digging the ice and making a road without sleeping for ten days already. Now, the ice walls that densely covered the polar regions were pierced, and passages were opened for the large army to move.
Even so, Yuma was still shaving the ice. Each time Ascalon indifferently drew a trajectory, chunks of angular ice fell off.
It was because there was nothing else to do.
It meant that the Allied forces would still be arriving here in a couple of months, and until then, this strange peace would last.
Because the enemy doesn’t rush to the last line of deterrence first.
The seven ogres had never visited Yuma before.
They must have sensed Yuma’s presence, but they seemed to be focusing only on finding Evan.
Yuma also did not approach the ogre. He knew best that fighting with them would result in an irreversible loss of power if he had to enter the world for no reason or be injured.
“Hey, our god is cutting the world again. It is just gracious that an already lowly human being can watch God by his side every day. Shall we make a Yuma school at this point and serve as the leader?”
It was Jeka. After Yuma started cutting the ice, he visited the pole once every two days and played accompaniment with Yuma.
“Are you here?”
“You already knew I was coming an hour ago, so how do you pretend you didn’t know every time?”
“Take a drink.”
The two sat across from each other on the ice and munched on dry food and drank.
Zecca, who arrived at the interception line a few days earlier than Yuma, was constantly learning how to open Cybeline to Kriesha.
Also, as Orlando taught him spearmanship and Pidgin learned how to handle the power of the red dragon’s eye, Zecca’s power grew like a monster day by day.
“It’s good to be strong, but when you think about fighting seven ogres sooner or later, you know something like that. It’s like feeding the pigs something tasty before taking them to the slaughterhouse.”
“What a bloody noise.”
“You are the most brutal, you bastard.”
It was only a matter of seconds that the few bottles of liquor he brought with him ran out.
“It’s so clean here…
Zecca emptied her last glass and looked around.
It was only natural that the polar regions looked very clean, filled with pure white ice and snow, but Jeka’s story was about the void.
I couldn’t find the void that was eating away at the space like fungus in the pole where Risol had put up a barrier. Even though the land is quite wide, there is not a single trace of emptiness.
“Can Lisol be able to stop the Void from invading?”
When Zecca continued, Yuma shrugged.
“well. It’s just that it’s too clean to be lucky that there’s no public permit here.”
“Aren’t you tired of fighting a guy like that?”
“I’m not afraid of fighting, but I’m a little worried about you and your colleagues fighting ogres.”
“If you’re worried, you take that away too.
I’m married, man. Huh?”
“Yes, I would like to give it to you, but isn’t being a person supposed to be faithful to one’s duty?”
The two giggled and pulled out their pipes and asked. Zecca twisted her body while spouting exclamations of exclamation over and over as if she was still fascinated by the dragon cigarette.
“Looking back.”
Zecca put the extinguished pipe in her pocket and looked down at the ground.
“There were a lot of really big fights, but so far none of our teammates died and somehow we did well. There were no miracles. yes?”
A bitter smile hung on Jeka’s lips as she said that.
As Zeka said, Yuma and his friends have grown through countless fights.
There were many insignificant enemies such as thieves, gangsters, and pirates, but most of the cases that could be called ‘fights’ were fights against enemies so strong that one had to risk one’s life.
literally like a miracle.
Yuma and his friends all survived the countless battles and were able to see the sun of tomorrow.
But this time… can it be? Such worry permeated Zecca’s shadowy face. You can’t expect a fairy tale where no one dies while fighting seven ogres.
Yuma couldn’t help but think so.
In particular, since he had to take charge of only Rizol in this fight, there was a high probability that he would not be able to support the battle with the ogre at all.
And most of those who stand at the forefront in the fight must have been his relatives.
nevertheless.
Yuma wanted to believe that everyone could survive. He hoped that his past, which had always created miracles, could be proven once again.
Even if he had won the battle, if there were no more comrades left in the world, the world would no longer have much meaning to him.
So, just as he was about to put his hand on Zecca’s shoulder without saying a word, Zecca put his arm around Yuma’s shoulder first and smiled.
“Well, now, even if I die, I feel relieved that the Demon God who is in charge of death and reincarnation is here as my friend.”
“You’re talking nonsense, you crazy bastard.”
“It’s better if no one dies! anyways go Now it’s time to be poked around by Orlando again.”
Zecca stood up and stretched.
“By the way, Yuma.”
“why?”
“Aren’t you lonely here shaving ice alone? If you do this, it seems that you have made the road, why don’t you go back to the fort and rest for a bit?”
Yuma stared blankly at Zecca for a while before replying like this.
“To get some peace of mind. Making the road without thinking was quite effective.”
“Is that so? Still, come to the citadel from time to time. People here are anxious because they can’t see you.”
“I get it.”
For a long time after Zecca left the polar region.
The sound of the ice walls being sheared away from Ascalon echoed in the polar regions.
* * * Two months passed like that.
Duran Zak’s vanguard, which had departed from the capital, was now on the verge of arriving, and the number of troops from each region reached the blockade earlier than that.
Among them, there was a person that Yuma would be very happy to see.
“Yuma Drake!”
“Whimchat!”
It was Kantai, the owner of Pora Pora Island and the daughter of Belkan, the beast king, and his tribe.
“Kantai!”
Yuma was directly distributing food to the civilians within the castle. As Kantai approached, Yuma put down the ladle and shook her hand vigorously.
“It’s the first time since the Underworld War. Are you with Lisol this time?”
Although he said it bluntly, Kantai visited Yuma whenever there was a major war. As soon as he heard the news of the dragons passing through Pora Pora Island this time, he led the entire tribe to the southern continent in the west.
He was leading a sizable navy armed with state-of-the-art ships.
The Pora Pora tribesmen were extremely averse to outsiders, but this time they were ready to fight as comrades-in-arms.
“Chait Umcha!”
As all the tribesmen were dispatched, this time, unlike the war in the underworld, tribesmen such as Tantai and Untai were also present.
After asking about Yuma for a while, they immediately left to help with the work in the castle, leaving Kantai alone.
“I thought you would come, but I didn’t expect the whole tribe to come.”
“It’s not because you’re pretty.
It’s to protect the cog. Where is my cog?”
“It will arrive with a supply unit in about a month. What cog do you want?”
“It would have been fine if I had come a damn month later. Didn’t you come early for no reason?”
“Yes, thank you for coming without forgetting to get dressed.”
It wasn’t just Kantai.
The regular and volunteer troops from the East were also gathering one by one, and more than half of them were those who had fought under Yuma in the Underworld War.
When the soldiers of the East saw Yuma, the old commander-in-chief, they saluted politely and were proud to have participated in this war.
In addition, some executives of the Shurian group who operated Yuma’s wing had arrived.
When the eastern volunteers arrived, the branch line began to overflow with energy. Thanks to the supplies they brought, the already plentiful rations became even more splendid.
The reason why Eastern armies were able to reach the lowlands faster than Western forces was thanks to the route that Yu Ma instructed them to clear as soon as they returned to the West.
“And you seem to have freed that goddamned spirit king.”
“Oh, so it happened. I didn’t release it, the Dragon Lord.”
“Lord… then I have nothing to say. Anyway, Igmeseus activated the light of Cantra. As for me, I still can’t forgive him, but it will probably be of great help in this war.”
“In terms of supply and troop transportation, I thought that Kantra’s light was essential.”
Kantai shook his head.
“No, it doesn’t just mean that the Spirit King uses that ship himself. It means that the guns of the ships, which far exceed the breath of the upper dragons, are exploding.
“A ship gun?”
“Probably even an ogre’s body can be scratched.”
“Is it like magic bombardment?”
“Not similar. Except for using spirits as raw materials. Only the King of Spirits can do it, but I doubt that he will do well without being stabbed in the back.”
“Probably won’t hit the back of the head. Because I made an oath.”
After a few more days, troops began to arrive from various places several times a day, including the vanguard led by Duran and Landel.
The citadel was crowded, and the busy soldiers gathered under the walls looked like children.
More than 100,000 people from the east and west across the ocean had already gathered, so minor incidents were bound to happen everywhere.
Even if you don’t have to divide it into east and west, even the kingdoms of each continent have different cultures and there are many cases of old grudges, so it was natural for accidents to happen.
Surprisingly, however, there was not even a single fistfight between those gathered at the checkpoint. Because there is an axis called Yuma.
Also above all.
It was very effective that both Hella and Lhasa, the lords of the two continents, took on chores within the castle.
People in a position where they can rest comfortably are doing the hardest work, such as washing and cooking, so no one could do anything immature.
“It is a curious thing.”
Natalie said, sitting next to Yuma on the barrier.
“Since there is a common enemy called Resol and a common crisis called the apocalypse, people who couldn’t kill each other are gathering in one place and forming a place of harmony.”
“That’s right. When I was a eunuch, I never really imagined it.”
“How good would it have been if it had been like this before? Then there wouldn’t have been kids like you and me who had an awkward childhood.”
Natalie let out a low laugh, and Yuma ran a hand through her hair.
“Let’s do well this time, as always, Yuma.”
And when all troops reached the wall, the day of the decisive battle was finally decided.
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