Chapter 311: Night (1)
Translator: miraclerifle
Editor: Borderline Masochist
However, nobody else realized that the wind was caused by the trees.
The area was too chaotic already for something so trivial to be noticed.
“T, those people are!”
“It is an emergency situation! The Queen of the Jungle has launched a raid!”
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Voices shot out along with the sound of the alarm.
The Empire’s forces near the four gates were the most chaotic.
“...T, that person is the Roan Kingdom’s sword master!”
“It is the necromancer! The necromancer has appeared!”
“Dark Elves! They are the Roan Kingdom's forces that appeared during the battle at the Caro Kingdom!”
The strong individuals from the Jungle and the Roan Kingdom had suddenly appeared and started to ruthlessly attack the golems.
“What the hell?!”
The palace at the center of Section 7 of the Jungle that was similar to the heart of the Jungle.
An alchemist who had been sitting on Litana's throne quickly headed toward a window in order to see what was going on outside. He could see darkness cutting through Section 7 that was shining brightly under the Empire’s influences.
None of them seemed to have any light about them.
“H, how did they get here......!”
Black aura cut through the sky.
The necromancer's black mana rushed toward a golem like spider webs.
The Dark Elves and their Elementals were using black mana in order to eat up the Empire’s lights.
“They just made the declaration moments ago......!”
The Roan Kingdom had just declared with the other kingdoms that they would resist black magic, which was really just a way of declaring war against the Empire.
‘But the Roan Kingdom and the Jungle have already allied with each other?’
The alchemist who was responsible for this Jungle invasion got the chills.
‘Just how far does the Roan Kingdom's reach go?
How long have they been allied that they could respond this quickly?’
The alchemist recalled crown prince Alberu’s stern but confident gaze that he had seen through the screen.
It was not the gaze of someone who thought that he was going to lose.
Beeeeeeep- Beeeeeeep-
The alchemist took an orb out of in his chest pocket after hearing the sound of an alarm.
It was a grey orb.
Black mana started to come out of the tip of the alchemist's finger.
He was a black mage as well.
The black mana lit up the grey orb and delivered the message.
- Destroy the Jungle. Use the airship to withdraw once you do that.
It was the voice of Adin, the next-generation sun of the Empire. He sounded weak and tired but also focused and cold.
The nervousness disappeared from the alchemist’s eyes.
‘This is actually better.’
He started to speak.
“We can currently see the Roan Kingdom's forces.”
- The Roan Kingdom?
“Yes, your highness. The sword master and necromancer-”
- The commander should be there as well.
The alchemist looked toward the person who showed himself at the center of Section 7 after hearing Adin's comment.
Cale Henituse. He could clearly see Cale's red hair.
“Yes, your majesty, he is here as well.”
- I see.
Adin sternly gave the order.
- Follow the original plan.
The alchemist nodded his head and responded back.
“Yes, your highness. We will proceed as planned.”
They would pour dead mana into Section 7 and turn it into a land of death.
A variable named Cale had appeared in that plan.
Of course, the Dark Elves and necromancers had appeared as well, however, there were not enough of them to instantly block the dead mana bombs. It would be difficult to purify all of that dead mana as well.
It would take them some time.
‘And it would be even better if Commander Cale used that power I heard about.’
He had heard that Cale Henituse used a fiery thunderbolt in order to purify the golems, black despair, and dead mana. Section 7 would be destroyed just as the Empire wanted if he used that thunderbolt in the Jungle.
That would be enough.
That was why he headed out of the throne room and gave an order to his subordinates.
“Get ready!”
His subordinates quickly started to move.
He then added on.
“Gather at the airship as planned!”
The alchemist quickly started to head toward the airship located at the center of Section 7 as he continued to speak.
“Detonate the bombs starting from the edges of Section 7!”
The edges of Section 7.
Those were the residential areas for the citizens of the Jungle.
They were also located close to the four gates into Section 7.
Beeeeep Beeeeeeep-
The beautiful orbs installed on top of the bombs started to shine even brighter than before.
The alchemist started to sneer while looking at them.
It was at that moment.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
He heard an explosion that was much stronger than before.
“I, it is coming from the North!”
The alchemist turned toward the North after hearing his subordinate’s voice.
“Ah.”
It was breaking.
The golem that was close to 20 meters in height was slowly kneeling onto the ground.
He could see a sword that had gone through the golem’s heart.
Choi Han, the Roan Kingdom’s sword master.
His sword had cut through the golem’s right chest where the core was located.
Screeeeeeeech- screeeeeeech-
Terrible shrieks could be heard.
That sound made even the alchemist's body shake for a moment. Although he had participated in the experiments as well, that black despair really was dirty and terrible.
However, the shrieks soon ended.
“... Dark Elves.”
The alchemist, no, the black mage, bit down on his lips.
Two Dark Elves pushed Choi Han to the side as they activated their mana and called their Elementals to help them.
“Ugh!”
“Ugh!”
Cale slowly started to get angry.
‘Why did they all live such sad lives?’
The glutton, the cheapskate, they all had sad lives.
He thought about the single black tree on top of the desolate area in the slums. Although nothing was there, that ground had not been a land of death poisoned by dead mana.
- All I could do was be a shield.
The glutton priestess had to lay low inside that black tree for over 10,000 years.
- I can't do anything on my own.
The glutton priestess was different than the Scary Giant Cobblestone. The Super Rock was able to attack. However, the glutton had no way to attack. The only powers that she had was the power to defend and protect.
This was the reason she always needed allies.
She needed allies in order to grow, just like how a tree cannot grow on its own.
Shield.
The power to protect something.
This power was only able to get stronger when it had someone to protect.
The Indestructible Shield.
She was able to finally find a new ally after over 10,000 years.
Cale Henituse.
After waiting for such a long time, she finally found a new person to protect.
Plop.
Plop. Plop.
Very quiet noises could be heard through the explosions.
“Huh?”
The people of the Jungle who were hiding away and looking at that state of things outside flinched and opened their eyes wide.
Things were falling.
Cale heard the glutton's voice.
- The trees said that they will help.
Branches from small trees were starting to fall from the trees one by one.
And soon...
Boom. Boom!
Boom!
Branches from large trees were starting to fall as well.
All of the trees throughout Section 7 were lending parts of their bodies to help. That was only visible to the people of the Jungle who were quietly hiding in their homes.
The branches stabbed into the ground.
It was at that moment.
At the center of Section 7.
The alchemist who had boarded the airship at some point shouted to one of his subordinates who was holding a red orb.
“Detonate them starting from the edges now!”
“Yes sir! Three!”
It was as the subordinate holding the red orb started to count.
It was as the few remaining soldiers by the edges of Section 7 started to run.
“Two!”
Beeeeeep- Beeeeeep-
It was as the beautifully shining orbs slowly lost their lights.
Click.
It was as a small click could be heard from the bombs installed on the large cylindrical tanks.
Cale felt an odd sensation at that moment.
He could feel everything.
It was as if his senses could reach all four corners of Section 7. That was why he was able to say something the glutton told him to say as if it was the obvious thing to say.
“Grow.”
The ground started to shake.
Something happened to the branches that all of the trees in Section 7 dropped for him.
The branches that had stabbed into the ground started to grow.
They became alive at Cale’s orders and started to move.
“W, what the...!”
“What the...? What is going on with the trees?”
Boobooboooooooooom-
Large vines appeared between the Empire’s soldiers.
They started to move faster and faster as they grew larger and larger.
Shhhhhhh-
The leaves were starting to shake.
The trees were crying.
No, the trees were shouting.
Cale could hear them.
‘Protect them because I have given you a part of my body.’
Cale’s two hands responded to the trees that were asking him to protect them.
He looked toward the large vines
“One!”
It was the moment the subordinate alchemist shouted that number.
Crack!
The red orb in his hand exploded.
People could see what happened at that moment.
The large vines divided up and wrapped around the dead mana bombs.
It was as if they were shields.
No.
It was as if they were prisons.
The vines completely caged in the dead mana bombs.
It was the moment that could be seen.
Beeeeeee- beep!
The orbs lost all light and the sound stopped.
The dead mana bombs located at the edges of Section 7 started to detonate one by one.
Baaaaaang! Baaaaang! Baaaaaang!
Black liquids shot up to the sky.
However, they could not reach the sky.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-
The vines were slowly turning black.
The tens, no, hundreds of vines that were destroyed by the explosion but grew back were shooting up toward the dead mana.
All of the Empire’s forces looked toward a single person.
The vines were growing around that person.
Cale looked toward the Empire's forces and started to speak while laughing.
“Eat up.”
Eat and eat some more.
The vines that had turned black were eating up the dead mana bombs as if they had become snakes.
The vines became as dark as the night the more they ate.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh-
The world became darker and darker as the trees continued to cry.
This was just the beginning of hell for the Empire’s forces.