Nanomachine Emperor

gulp!

Isabella swallowed.

Following Isar’s words, he was trained directly by the mercenary king Karbal, and finally was able to obtain the title of knight of the empire.

In the process, Croft’s influence worked and she joined the Yellow Dragon Knights, but she, now an apprentice, had no choice but to participate in this invasion.

“Ah!”

“Kill!”

“Push!”

Battlefield to die and die.

Hundreds of corpses increased in the blink of an eye, and this place was literally a mountain of corpses and a river of blood.

“There must never be anything as wicked as going to the heart of the empire!”

“Kill! Leave no one alive!”

The elites of Palman, including the Yellow Dragon Knights.

It was too many to welcome the invaders of the Holy Church, which were only a thousand.

However, the invaders of the Holy Church did not die.

Tiriri~

A music box that can be clearly heard even on a battlefield where screams are rampant.

The sound of the music box was replaying the invaders of the Holy Church in real time.

Arms sprouted when an arm was cut, and a neck sprouted when a head was cut.

And the regenerated parts swelled up even more, and most of the invaders lost even their human form.

‘It’s terrible…’

A knight she dreams of and wishes for.

I wanted to follow Reinhardt in the Yellow Dragon Knights and fulfill his dream.

It’s not a battlefield full of corpses like this.

However, this was also a knight’s duty. to serve the empire. It is because he is a knight that he knows how to lay down his life for him.

Isabella gritted her teeth and swung her sword at the approaching invader.

Wheein!

At that moment, weak mana nestled in Isabella’s sword.

Chow!

He thrust his sword into the heart of the oncoming invader, but he did not budge.

Can that be called a human being, the same creature?

“Calm down!”

A mysterious man who cut into pieces the whole body of an invader that swelled up in an instant.

Although disguised as the other soldiers, Isabella immediately recognized the man’s identity.

“… Karbal?”

Mercenary King Karbal!

He taught her himself, but that was all, so why is he here?

“Damn it. Isar bastard… I guess I’ll have to pay a high commission fee.”

“… Did Brother Izar tell me to protect me?”

Izar was a rising star in the Empire’s central political world as the deputy head of the investigation team. A genius among geniuses who grows differently day by day after luring an important position at once.

Rumors that he was Reinhardt’s closest aide were rife, and his influence was absolute.

Even such a genius seemed to be worried about his younger sister going to the battlefield.

said Balzac hastily.

“Get out. Something is strange. I don’t feel good.”

“This is my battlefield. I am a member of the Yellow Dragon Knights.”

“Now, what about apprenticeship?”

What kind of member are you talking about as an apprentice rather than a regular member of the Knights Templar?

There are many apprenticeships. No one thinks or says apprentices are knights.

But Isabella did not back down. If he resigned from here, he would not have the qualifications to become Reinhardt’s knight.

she took the sword The feeble mana began to shine brighter.

“Since the captain has killed the dragon, all that remains is the crow saint. It will end soon, so Karbal-nim should step back.”

“That is the problem. Where is Croft who killed the dragon?”

Croft.

He is the leader of the Yellow Dragon Knights and the strongest swordsman in the empire.

He killed the black dragon. It was slaughtered after clashing with the strongest weapon brought by the Holy Church for a long time.

But then it suddenly disappeared.

Karbal is the mercenary king and assassin king.

When it comes to assassination, he prides himself on being the best of mankind.

So he tried to assassinate the crow saint, but failed.

can’t reach That crow saintess is not human.

The reason why the Holy Church confidently sent the crow saint was for a reason.

Besides.

“From Captain Croft…”

“Everything, Captain? Aww!”

“Why, why us…?!”

Familiar screams heard from somewhere.

When I looked up, Croft was there.

His eyes, covered in dragon’s blood, were sunken like the abyss.

It is producing aura like mad and slaughtering knights in an instant.

The problem was that the knights were the knights of the Yellow Dragon Knights.

“… I guess what I saw is right.”

Karbal gnashed his teeth.

At the end of the battlefield, I saw Croft kneeling before the raven saint.

In other words.

“Croft betrayed. I was attached to the Holy Church.”

“Stop talking nonsense.”

“Are you saying that even looking at that makes no sense?”

Croft is stirring the battlefield.

When the empire’s strongest swordsman turned against the enemy, the war situation was pushed helplessly.

The screams of the soldiers were constantly embroidering the entire battlefield.

However, it is impossible. It is nonsense.

Isn’t Croft the best knight loyal to the Empire?

‘I can’t lose Isabella here. He has a bright future. More than me.’

I didn’t like it at first.

I was paid, but to teach a woman a sword.

It would be better to teach her beauty class and raise her as an assassin, but it was not her taste to make her learn normal swordsmanship.

I rolled like crazy with the thought of giving up on this.

And Isabella got through all those crazy workouts.

There was grit.

And he also had talent.

That talent was a gemstone that was superior to himself, called the mercenary king.

No, better than anyone else on the continent. It’s that kind of talent.

It would be a pity to let them die here. Even if it wasn’t because of Izar’s request, Karbal himself wanted to save Isabella.

“Resent me.”

“what······?”

Took!

Karbal struck the defenseless Isabella on the neck.

In an instant, Isabella’s body flowed like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Karbal, who received her, immediately left the battlefield.

Croft turned into an enemy, and the crow saint hadn’t even made an appearance yet. The infinite regeneration of the soldiers due to that music box is also terrifying.

More than anything.

‘There are people who can’t even be considered human beings.’

Those who haven’t even appeared on the battlefield yet.

Although they are in human form, they are too powerful to be called human.

It was like seeing a monster in human form.

‘Damn it. To think that monsters like that were attached to the Sacred Church. Those aren’t divine beings.’

what to say about them

A living disaster, a disaster?

The situation will become even more dire once they enter the battlefield in earnest.

Now, this war was like entertainment or a joke to them.

It just didn’t seem like he could win.

*

“Keuk. kill each other.”

said Pope Hannibal.

He was looking at the battlefield as if he were dying of joy in his human form.

They are playing soldiers as if it is a war between ants.

“…”

“Ballog. Aren’t you sorry? To pass up a golden opportunity to be the main character.”

And next to it was a balrog.

The last feat had been accomplished.

A balrog was proposed as the protagonist, but the balrog refused.

Afterwards, the role of the protagonist was assumed by the pope, Hannibal.

‘Empire is the land of the master. But the owner gave priority to my being undetected.’

It is his job to play that role until his master, Reinhardt, returns from the demon realm.

Priority was given to following Reinhardt’s orders rather than defending the empire.

To be honest, I wasn’t very impressed with the death of humans.

However, the fact that the dying humans were on the owner’s side made it unbearable.

“Is this fun?”

“Is it fun? why? Is it a little because the empire you raised seems to collapse too easily?”

“I think it would be much more efficient to push it with the body.”

“Arthur. You still don’t know how tenacious humans are. When we come to the fore, people come together. When all humans come together, things get complicated in many ways.”

It has to be a human to destroy a human.

If the dragons come to the fore, humans will band together and start fighting.

It’s not like I’m doing the last feat once or twice, so I’ve already learned that the side effects only increase when the dragon is shown.

“Didn’t they give you a dragon for that?”

If the dragon should not appear at all, what is the black dragon brought with the crow saint? It couldn’t be compared to an old dragon, but a dragon was a dragon.

Hannibal smiled.

“Ah, that’s a ‘curse’. It’s the best way to annihilate humans.”

“curse?”

“That dragon bears a powerful curse. It’s one of the ones I raised, but it can change its body to the one who killed it.”

“So it seems that the human who killed the dragon suddenly changed.”

“This is the moment when the best of the empire becomes the worst. Now they will slowly perish, losing faith and losing hope.”

the best is the worst

Worse than that was Hannibal.

The man we saw earlier, who killed the dragon, was quite strong. In fact, it seemed to be stronger than the dragon. I think I saw it in the empire with Reinhardt.

But right after killing the dragon, he changed completely.

They began to slaughter the soldiers and knights of the Empire.

it’s because of the curse

Hannibal had several more dragons with such a curse.

An ironic situation where a dragon raises a dragon.

The Balrog frowned involuntarily.

‘I don’t know what to do.’

There were no guidelines for this situation.

It was because even Reinhardt did not expect that the final feat would progress so quickly.

But I couldn’t have done anything more striking here.

If I took the side of the empire, I could have just given you an excuse.

but······.

There will be no way to help at all.

This is Reinhardt’s house. When the house is gone, there is no place for Reinhardt to be. In other words, it could have been directly linked to Reinhardt’s death.

It is the duty of a Balrog to follow and protect their master.

‘If at least I can release the curse.’

I looked at Croft, who was slaughtering soldiers on the battlefield.

His skill was real. Quite a few dragons couldn’t even step out.

The soldiers and knights who followed him were also powerful.

From the moment Croft became the enemy, the situation on the battlefield was reversed.

So if he returned to the bosom of the Empire, Hannibal’s intentions would be blocked.

*

Stagger!

Deus’ new model was shaken by the shocking news.

“your majesty!”

“your majesty!”

The knights came running, but Deus raised his hand to stop them.

“Okay. Is that more true?”

“Yes, it is true. Averted annihilation, but fatal defeat…”

“I asked if it was true that Croft betrayed me.”

“…”

The knights could not answer.

Although they hurriedly retreated, the number of 80,000 soldiers was quickly reduced by half.

40 thousand. Besides, Croft has defected.

No one could answer.

However, what many soldiers saw could not have been a lie.

Croft. that he suddenly attacked the soldiers and knights.

“It can’t be. There was no way that a knight who was more loyal than anyone would have betrayed the empire.”

I handed over the equipment myself.

It means that he divided the soldiers of the empire with the sword he had bestowed on him.

How can you believe this?

It was then.

“your majesty. The news is that the Holy Church’s troops are being replenished.”

“The pope declared a holy war.”

“Additional reinforcements from Rigel Kingdom…”

Crazy news.

Eventually, the pope declared a holy war.

Not only that, but several kingdoms, including the kingdom of Rigel, began to side with the Holy Church.

How can things go so fast?

I don’t know if they had won by overwhelming, but they retreated after attacking with overwhelming numbers in the empire’s territory.

Four thousand died against only a thousand. who would believe

As the news spreads, more kingdoms will join the movement of the Holy Church.

The tower built for a thousand years will collapse in an instant.

‘If it’s Archduke Carlos…’

If it was Archduke Carlos, how would he have overcome this situation?

If he had been there, this situation might not have happened.

His execution was already known to all on the continent.

He knew very well that there were many who saw the empire as a toothless tiger.

After all, Archduke Carlos was the strongest general and a deterrent.

His execution must have played a part in creating this situation.

But Deus shook his head.

His execution was, of course, to be carried out.

It is something that should not be regretted and should not be reversed.

“How long will you last?”

“If it’s short, move. At the longest, they will advance to the capital in about two months.”

Even if the number of soldiers is increased through forced conscription, two months is the limit.

It was absurd. Was the empire so weak?

No matter how messy the times are…

The reason may be that he reigned as a sage king and drastically reduced military-related expenditures. Because I thought the first thing was to build infrastructure with that money and create a world where people could live comfortably.

under.

Deus sighed.

It’s all his own fault for being complacent.

As an emperor, he has no face to face his ancestors. It was all because of his incompetence that the thousand-year-old empire was so weak.

“your majesty.”

Then Launel stepped out.

“Raunel. tell me.”

“I will personally lead the knights and go out.”

“…”

Deus closed his mouth tightly.

Now that Reinhardt is away.

If even Launel goes wrong, the empire has no future.

Knowing that, Deus couldn’t bear to open his mouth.

But if you don’t make a decision, nothing gets better.

You have to trust Launel.

I have to believe

‘What should I do…?’

mouth does not fall

＜ Last feat (6) ＞ End