Chapter 749: To The End (8)
I saw a vast battlefield. Maps that could be said to be the entire northern part of the continent began to appear in sight.
I couldn’t read it exactly, but one thing was certain: all of those things were prepared for the single hero on the screen. It was a sight that I couldn’t understand.
‘What are you going to do?’
All of the situations didn’t make sense.
Why was the Honorary Cardinal taking out the Goddess’s Hand Mirror and looking at the battlefield? For what was he talking about with the Blue Guild Master? Why were the Blue Guild members looking at that as if expecting something? I couldn’t understand any of it.
Of course, I had heard of it. Uncle Park, no, Captain Park Deokgu told me about it before.
‘We have nothing to worry about. If hyung-nim and the Guild Master join forces, they become invincible. Honestly, I don’t know how that’s possible either. After some explosions, some rumbling and squeaking, everything will be solved quickly, so don’t worry too much.’
It was hard to understand.
As usual, I thought he was exaggerating, so I didn’t listen, but as I watched that scene, the post I read on Benignore Net passed by in my mind.
I thought it was a post only to get attention because Yu Dong-nick posted it, and it was a post that I forgot because it went down in a few minutes.
‘What did it say again?’
It was a story about the Blue Guild Master during the war with the Republic. To be precise, it was the story of those who went through that war together.
‘Did it say that the Honorary Cardinal was using the battlefield for the Blue Guild Master alone?’
I remembered that it received numerous comments in a very short time. Of course, most of them were unproven and empty stories.
That when people chanted healing spells and health recovery spells in the air, the Blue Guild Master appeared. That when an arrow was shot in a seemingly empty dimension, it pierced through the heart of the enemy commander. It was like a testimony of a miracle.
Of course, all guilds that had some size had control towers and understood what they could do very well.
Regardless of small or large-scale battles, they were contributing to various battles, and in fact, famous guilds often had competent command posts, but…
‘That story felt too unrealistic.’
Those who lived as adventurers on the continent would understand how empty the post was.
Was that really possible? Didn’t I laugh, saying that it was part of the continent’s idolization work?
“Are you amazed?”
“Ah! Uncle Ahn… No, Commander. I-I’m sorry.”
“I am not rebuking you. Haha. Yes. Well, it’s a fascinating sight indeed. It’s not a familiar scene to me either. This is my first time seeing the Vice Guild Master like that. It’s probably the first time Deokgu and Ye-ri have seen it as well.”
‘Did he know?’
“But we know what they’re going to do.”
“What?”
“If you look at it, you’ll know.”
He even thought it was trustworthy. Didn’t it seem that I was the one that had become abnormal?
‘What the hell is that?’
I didn’t want to say it was ridiculous, but it wasn’t a common sight.
The Honorary Cardinal sat with his legs crossed on a large shield, and Uncle Park was holding the shield as if he were a god.
The Goddess’s Hand Mirrors of the entire unit were relaying different scenes, and the mage scholar Hwang Jeong-yeon was levitating them in the air.
The way they were moving while surrounded by protective magic and shields in case of an enemy attack looked as if they were carrying important cargo.
I wouldn’t have seen that sight if I hadn’t also been part of the unit.
The small control room’s situation was like that, and the screen quickly flowed.
‘What is that?’
What was reflected on the large screen made by attaching eight small Goddess’s Hand Mirrors…
‘…?’
It was simply a landscape passing by quickly. It was like the scenery one saw when they drove a car or the scenery they’d see when they got on a train.
What was a little different was that the surroundings had changed beyond imagination, and it wasn’t easy to recognize, most likely because of the screen moving so quickly.
The reason I could notice what it was, was because of the screen next to it.
A man moving insanely fast was displayed.
‘Perhaps…’
It was the view that the Blue Guild Master was looking at.
‘Really?’
The battlefield that Kim Hyunsung, who was called the Swordsman of Sunset, was witnessing.
“Ah…”
I opened my mouth in surprise, and the situation began to change from moment to moment.
“Fifth Unit. Get ready, healers. Hyunsung, you can go straight. I have sent you the location of the named target and all the expected moving lines.”
I could see the Sunset Swordsman wielding his weapon.
With each swing, the demons in angelic masks’ blood splattered as they fell.
In the blink of an eye, he had already moved to another place. It seemed as if he was using even teleport magic.
I could see the Blue Guild Master’s body shining on the third-person screen next to it.
-Clear.
What was reflected in the Blue Guild Master’s view was a priest of the 5th Unit looking at him with a perplexed face.
-No… way…
‘Nonsense…’
Before the priest’s perplexed words could be heard in the Goddess’s Mirror, the Sunset Swordsman had already moved on. I thought I could finally understand the story I read in the post.
Spreading his wings, he soared into the air while delivering multiple offensives.
A few meters away, the light emitted by the demons was aimed at the Blue Guild Master.
‘Isn’t that dangerous?’
However, the Sunset Swordsman light wasn’t shaken.
Why?
He had already been ordered to ignore it a few seconds ago.
As the Honorary Cardinal predicted, and as the Sunset Swordsman believed, a large wall began to form in the air.
The protection magic blocked the light emitted by the demon, and the Sunset Swordsman’s light once again exited the battlefield.
Again, the wizard’s face, looking at her hand with a bewildered face, was visible.
Of course, she made such an expression. The only command the wizard received was to put protective magic in the air at a set time, after all. There was no hesitation in the way he was moving like crazy.
“Enter forward base 24.”
-Any sprecif…
“Go ahead.”
-Yes. Clear.
It seemed that he drove him into a dangerous place.
‘This is dangerous.’
I thought so. Even to himself, who learned the tactics in writing, the battle situation of forward base 24 seemed to be extremely imbalanced. No, it was more accurate to say that it was full of angels.
That was when the view of the screen seen by the hand mirror was blurred. Nothing was reflected in it, almost as if there was fog.
The same thing happened with the Sunset Swordsman’s view. He could barely see what’s in front of him, much less see even 3 meters ahead.
I was able to quickly realize why such a phenomenon appeared.
‘Eight seats from the State. Mist Summoner. Cheon Gwan-wi.’
The Honorary Cardinal must’ve sent her. At that moment, I opened my mouth to the magic that covered the entire forward base 24 with fog. In an even more perplexing situation, I pulled my hair.
It was something that I could understand by thinking a little. All I had to do was calculate the time it would take to cast a spell of that scale.
‘At least 10 minutes.’
It sounded like she had chanted the incantation that took 10 minutes at least in advance. That meant…
‘He knew it.’
The Honorary Cardinal knew. Ten minutes ago, he expected that the sunset swordsman would enter forward base 24. He knew that it would take exactly 10 minutes to get from forward base 30 to forward base 24 and that there would be no error in that time.
The future… It could only be explained by saying he was looking into the future. It made more sense to think that he was actually doing something so unreal.
‘Is that possible?’
If he weren’t looking at the future, that wouldn’t be possible.
Considering all the variables of the battlefield that constantly changed from moment to moment, he made the most reasonable judgment and issued orders? To someone moving at that speed?
Was it possible to calculate and judge such a war with the human brain? No, could anyone capture something that moved like that in the first place? Wasn’t he really looking into the future?
‘Look, even now…’
“He’s looking… at the air.”
“The Vice Guild Master often looked into the air. I’m not sure what he can see, but…”
‘What would it be? Uncle Ahn. He must be looking into the future. Look at that.’
“Sniper, get ready. Release arrows at the coordinates that I sent on my signal.
-Yes, Blue Vice Guild Master. Long time no see.
“Right now.”
-Got it.
‘Look at that.’
The one who raised Dawan’s reputation in long-range fighting, sniper Wi-ran, along with Mist Summoner Cheon Gwan-wi of the State’s Eight Seats, fired arrows into the air.
Over a hundred rays of light were sucked into the fog at a time. The marksman who constantly pulled his bowstring showed no doubts.
The results immediately began to appear on the first-person screen of the sunset swordsman.
An arrow hit the head of a demon right in front of him. The same went for two next to him.
The fog obscured his view, but the rays of light created by the arrows continued to strike the pigeons.
If he shot a little later, that arrow would’ve been aimed at the sunset swordsman. If the speed of reaching the point were faster, an arrow would’ve been stuck in his head as well.
He was moving without hesitation. Even in the rain of arrows created by allies and enemies, the swordsman constantly advanced through the fog.
“…”
-Clear.
“…”
-Clear.
“…”
-Clear.
Wasn’t he scared? Was he really not afraid of anything?
A smile could even be seen in the lips of the swordsman that came through the fog.
Looking slightly to the side, I saw the face of the Honorary Cardinal. He had a nosebleed and was smiling like a madman.
He looked like he was having fun.
He seemed to enjoy doing crazy things on the vast battlefield.
The Honorary Cardinal’s mouth, which seemed to be holding back his laughter, was bothering me. It was hard to imagine him laughing out loud, but if I left him alone, it felt like he’d laugh like when he first met uncle Park.
“Forward base 21. Enter.”
-Roger that.
‘He ran a fifth of the battlefield.’
I thought I knew now why the map of the whole north was displayed.
“Ms. Kim! You need to get ready! We’re going to go out of the temple now!”
“Ah… Yeah, uncle Park.”
“Lift the shield! The shield!”
“Yeah… Yep!”
“Lift the shield! Advance! Advance! Enemy magic on the right, enemy grenade on the right! Wizards, keep chanting the spells!!”
“Don’t drive me crazy! Just go onwards, pig bastard!”
‘Was it the Honorary Cardinal’s voice just now?’
-What happened, Kiyoung? For a minute, the communication…
“It’s nothing. Do your mission.”
-Roger.
“Magic incoming! Magic!”
“Just move forward.”
I looked at the side where the magic would fall and the place where the Honorary Cardinal was, but he was still muttering. It seemed he couldn’t afford to care about other things.
“Hyung-nim just told me to go ahead! Just go ahead! Just go ahead!”
‘What? What? Really? That was a direct hit.’
“Just go ahead! Advance! Don’t hesitate and move forward!”
‘Is it okay to just charge in like this, uncle Ahn?’
“Go ahead. Quickly. Don’t fall behind. Quickly, now. Go. Ahead.”
‘Kim Ye-ri, really?’
“Advance!”
When I heard the order, I just followed it. I ran with my eyes closed, but I couldn’t hear the explosion.
As I slowly opened my eyes, I saw the back of the sunset swordsman, who had large horns and his huge wings spread out. He had blocked the attack that had fallen on us.
‘When did you come this far…’
“Kiyoung? Are you okay…?”
“Next.”
“Yes. Cleared.”
Before long, he became a dot in the distance and disappeared. Kim Hyunsung and Lee Kiyoung made eye contact briefly, but soon the Honorary Cardinal looked back at the hand mirror again, and the swordsman focused on the battlefield.
I could be sure. Those two…
‘Are not human.’
They must’ve been existences chosen by God. Otherwise, that couldn’t be possible.