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334Tue 30 reinforcements (4)
puck.
Calotte was thrown to the floor..
Roman Dmitry looked at the crowd of people who had lost both arms and was unable to balance..
“This guy was the only Orc commander to survive. He cowardly abandoned his men and ran away, offering a deal to keep Luna's prisoners hostage and spare his own life. War must pay a price for its course. I intend to execute this guy, and I will give you the hilt of the sword..”
people were confused.
It was an unexpected development.
“Who will hold the hilt of that sword?.”
I picked up a sword.
It was one of the swords scattered on the floor, covered in blood and flesh whose owner was unknown..
People looked at each other.
I couldn't come forward quickly..
The people of Arcadia lived in peace and were not accustomed to extreme revenge like this..
Usually, if a mistake was made, it was punished according to legal procedures..
Isabel presided over the trial, and imposed labor rather than death in accordance with God's judgment. Was that why?.
The people who had been attacking the orcs with faces stained with madness just a moment ago were unable to accept the sword that Roman Dmitri held out when the board was laid down..
“Ugh, ugh..”
Calotte crawled on the floor..
Seeing the figure with a terrified face trying to survive at all costs, someone stepped forward among the people..
“I will do it.”
It was Smith..
The man who lost his friend to Calotte.
he took the sword.
Grasping the cold, creepy handle, Smith cut off Calotte's leg without hesitation..
Shut up!
“Wow!”
A scream erupted..
Calotte hurriedly turned around, trembling, and looked up at Smith with a look of horror on her face..
Smith's expression was distorted with complex emotions..
Even as the sadness of the past was pushed out and she shed tears, her face, distorted like an evil spirit, could not hide her anger towards Calotte..
“Because of you, my friends and colleagues died. They were good guys who couldn't kill even ant babies, but you cut up their flesh and ate it in front of us just because you were hungry..”
I gritted my teeth.
I bit so hard my teeth were broken and bleeding..
“What did we do so wrong? Why on earth did you have to do that?!”
deeply.
stabbed in the stomach.
As Calotte's eyes widened and he swung his missing wrist around, Smith stabbed him in the abdomen several times even as his face was pushed away..
Blood poured out.
No matter how much Calott screamed in pain and looked pitiful, I couldn't forget the way he treated Luna's people..
“These bastards! Fucking bastards! We could all live together, right? Fuck, you could have done that.?!”
deeply.
puff puff.
The violence intensified..
Anger completely took over reason, and Smith did not stop even with his face covered in blood..
At some point, not even Calotte could resist..
Because he is not dead yet, his blurry eyes tremble slightly, but his trembling body has completely lost the power to resist..
Anger not resolved.
The people of Arcadia were proud of their harmonious world, but the peace they had had was shattered in an instant..
“Ahhhhh!”
I screamed.
The other person no longer felt pain.
But if I didn't do this, I felt like I would suffocate to death..
people watching it.
Some avoided eye contact..
Some people widened their eyes as if they wouldn't miss a thing..
It was then.
“……Roman Dmitry. How about just doing this? Calotte is already dead.”
saggy calotte.
Kayden couldn't watch the situation any longer..
* * *
It was miserable.
My heart ached..
Smith was an ordinary man.
The good young man who took the lead in taking care of people as Luna's soldier was now chopping up Calotte with the look of a madman..
a man was falling.
Kayden, as a person who worships God, could not sit still and watch such a scene as he watched the figure stained with madness and complaining of pain..
Roman Dmitry said.
“why. Is this scene cruel??”
“……That's not it. No longer can we just watch Smith deteriorate through anger..”
“It's corruption. You are very mistaken..”
I looked away.
Roman Dmitry pointed to one of the people whose eyes were wide open..
“say it. What happened to you from the orcs??”
was a woman.
40She appeared to be in her mid-teens, shedding tears of blood and vomiting 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 while he was trying to protect our son. Roman Dmitry. I don't think this situation is cruel at all. The orcs, no, the demons. It left us with an indelible wound..”
saw someone else.
When she asked the same question she had been asked, the young man's veins rose 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, but he died horribly while fighting for Luna. He knows that as a soldier protecting his country, he cannot avoid death. But isn't this Arcadia? We were truly worried about the orcs' well-being, and as soon as they were starving, they thought of us as food..”
Everyone was overcome by evil.
peace is over.
They just didn't hold the hilt of their swords, and they had the same facial expression as Smith..
again.
I saw Kayden..
His shaking eyes were struggling with the reality in front of him..
“Kayden. Arcadia, which pursued peace, no longer exists. People have experienced unforgettable wounds throughout their lives, and in order for them to overcome the past and live on, they must receive compensation from those who caused them pain. You have to trample on the corpses of your enemies and spit on them. Luna's people can live in the future.”
war is.
It's 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 experienced is happening again. But enough of this. Do you think that chopping up an orc is enough to relieve your anger? Or, do you think that you don't need to become a monster to deal with monsters? If Luna really wants peace to be restored. Don't show 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 that can protect itself..
“That is Dmitry's way that you will follow from now on..”
* * *
calotte is dead.
Kayden's heart felt like it was breaking at the sight of Smith sobbing with his face down on top of him..
‘……Roman Dmitry is right. Now Arcadia can't go back to the past.’
Succeeded in revenge.
Smith suffered enough pain that his face and body were covered in blood, but he cried out in even more pain than the people watching..
It was like a roar.
It wasn't the joy of succeeding in revenge, but the inability to accept this cruel reality, so I had to express my emotions like that..
if.
If you win the war and subdue the orcs.
Can Smith get back to his old self?.
it was impossible.
Even while eating, working, or sleeping.
You will put down your fork, stop working, and wake up with a cold sweat on your face like someone who has had a nightmare..
It was like a brand.
In the days ahead, Smith was not allowed to have peaceful days where he could only see and think about good things..
The same was true for Luna Kingdom..
Even if the orcs are destroyed.
I could no longer trust other races..
Arcadia in the past created a peaceful world without any special restrictions, but Arcadia in the present is endlessly suspicious of each other and will prepare for a possible war..
A single precedent created distrust.
The same situation will be interpreted differently, and distrust will breed strife and encourage confusion..
looked at the sky.
it snowed.
There was a time when I thought I loved Arcadia even when the world froze, but now it was different..
‘To become a monster, I have to become a monster too..’
Those words pierced my bones..
The enemy cuts off the flesh of humans and eats it..
If we turn a blind eye to that act of revenge, thinking that it is cruel, we will never win this war..
at last.
This is for Luna..
Instead of putting all the burden on Roman Dmitri, I realized that I could save Luna only by getting my hands dirty and becoming a demon..
Kayden didn't shed any tears..
Now that he was at a completely different crossroads from the life he had promised himself as a believer, he accepted with his heart how he should live for Luna..
‘……sorry.’
Is this an apology to someone?.
What is certain is.
Even if Isabel comes back alive.
She, who did not share Luna's crisis, will not be able to replace Roman Dmitry's presence for whatever reason..
* * *
day.
took a break.
The word is rest, and the day just passed by just organizing my insides and understanding the situation..
next day.
A leadership meeting was held.
Kayden told what he had confirmed through Luna's source..
“At first, Graksar prioritized securing food by attacking warehouses, but at some point he changed his course. He seems to have decided that if he waited too long, it could become dangerous. After capturing the fortress of Luna, Graksar immediately set out east, leaving Caloth's 10,000 troops behind. The exact circumstances are not known, but given the direction they traveled, he is most likely attacking the elves' territory..”
“Is there any reason to think so??”
“First of all, there is an elf territory in the direction Graksar moved, and the elves who have settled around the World Tree form the largest force, including the Kingdom of Luna and the orcs. Now that Luna's fortress has been destroyed. If you deal with the elf race, there is virtually no force in Arcadia to stop the orcs..”
It was a conversation between Kayden and McBurney..
then.
We had to move our troops as quickly as possible..
Only by joining forces with the elves while they were still alive could we increase our chances of winning this war..
“The problem is that I can't move my troops now..”
for just one day.
There was a drastic change in the climate of Arcadia..
“Currently, heavy snowfall in Arcadia is worsening. It is virtually impossible to move through this much snow, and no matter how you do it, the current climate is very favorable to the orcs. They deal with ‘white wolves’. With the white wolf's ability to move nimbly over no matter how much snow piles up, we are bound to be in danger when we encounter it on a snowy field..”
It was a sad situation.
Coincidentally.
As if there was a hole in the sky right now, it was snowing heavily..
Luna's technology created a way to fight in the snow, but that didn't apply to heavy snowfall like this..
It was hopeless.
If we had prepared for war from the beginning.
When the orcs attacked the surrounding races, they would have immediately united with other races to fight back, but they missed the important timing while trying to understand the situation..
In the case of elves, they are beings who do not leave the ‘realm of the World Tree’.
Attacking Luna's fortress first was Graksar's decision to perfectly exploit Arcadia's loopholes..
however.
Roman Dmitry thought differently..
“War is a race against time. Now is the perfect opportunity to turn the situation around, when the elves have not yet collapsed and Graksar is unaware of Caloth's death. Even if there is heavy snow, we will not remain here. Dividing the army into two, one will liberate the prisoners including the warehouse, and the other will lead the army and immediately leave for the 'Elf Realm'..”
“……I agree that now is an opportunity, but moving through heavy snow is not an easy task..”
Kayden had a different mind..
I decided to become a demon.
I was willing to shed blood for Luna's peace, but I still couldn't support such a reckless decision..
Roman Dmitry saw Kayden.
“Kayden. When you first asked Dmitri for help, you said that Luna knew many ways to overcome Arcadia's environment. Throw away all the common sense you have known until now. If the method fails to respond to even common variables such as heavy snow, Arcadia has simply lived complacently in a comfortable reality..”
Luna.
They were attributed to Dmitry.
In order to manage Arcadia in the future, it was necessary to at least overhaul Luna's easygoing system..
“30 minutes from now. Gather all the troops Luna can mobilize. I will tell you the way Luna should have pursued survival from the beginning. Even then, if you think heavy snow is a problem. I will take your advice and find a new solution..”
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