Chapter 139 – Chapter 139. War Is Not Done Alone.
Weak meat diet.
There could be no other word that describes the society of the beast tribe better than that.
The strong dominate everything, and the weak have no choice but to rely on the mercy of the strong to preserve their existence.
Alakion, who reigned as the head of such a society, was always proud of himself.
To the point where he thinks that he is worthy of being the one and only ‘ultimate creature’.
“Everyone stay still. I’ll have these guys sorted out.”
The moment that arrogant existence reigned on the scene of chaos, the fear of the prisoners who followed him began to subside in an instant.
“That, yes. We have a boss!”
An overwhelming physique that refuses to compare with the beasts around him. That ferocious impression was not distorted even by the disaster that happened in front of me.
That this is not a mere bluff is what his subordinates know best.
A natural hunter and slayer himself, he would be able to slay any lowly being like stepping on an insect.
“… Beastman King Alakion.”
As soon as such an existence appeared alone, Verdia immediately recognized it and held her breath.
When Alakion read the tension, he laughed heartily, and the muscles on his body began to twitch.
“I don’t know about males, but I’ve heard of females wearing armor. An armor that shines with long blue hair… Did he say he was the one who defeated the corpse lord?”
Corpse Lord Ballark.
It was an unforgettable name for Verdia.
He was the one who raised countless corpses who had died on the battlefield as soldiers, and he was the one who gave him the opportunity to make himself one of the 10 strongest.
The news must have reached not only mankind but also within the Demon King’s army.
“Pahahaha!!! That’s right, the root of it is the guy who defeated the loser, right?”
Even so, what Alakion showed toward Verdia was an emotion that could be called ridicule.
Even though he heard the news that he had defeated an executive like himself, he did not show any tension.
That arrogance was very annoying in Verdia’s eyes.
“A loser from the root, are you talking about a corpse lord?”
“Yes, he was a weakling who longed for life again, with lingering lingering feelings for his defeat. If he has already been weeded out, he will remain weeded out… !!”
This world runs under the law of the weak.
Facing death in such a world means that he fell into a loser under the laws of the world, but even so, the corpse lord could not give up the lingering attachment to life and reappeared in this world.
Using the power to twist the laws of the ecosystem, and at the end of it, as if mocking himself at the top of the ecosystem, he rises to the same position…
Wouldn’t Arakion, who worships the law of the weak and the weak, be truly detestable?
“Of course I feel grateful to the four years who took down that filthy bastard… Khuhu, seeing it in person like this, it seems unreasonable to be equal to me.”
And that hatred did not stop at Balak, but also applied to the war god’s shaman in front of me.
Even though he saw firsthand the power of the sword of light that devastated the entire area, his arrogant attitude showed no signs of breaking.
“To show courage by serving an imaginary being like a god. I don’t understand how a man can depend on something like that if he’s not confident in himself.”
The fact that they gain power by serving a god is proof of their innate limitations.
Even the power he gained so far is far short of a strong man like himself, so how can he give up the thought of being ridiculous?
“… You are quite confident. You, too, have been working with the mighty existence of the Demon King behind you.”
“Pahahaha!! Maou-sama is the world itself!! How can a mortal who lives in the world he creates evaluate him?”
If he is the top of the ecosystem, the demon king is the existence that can be called the ecosystem itself.
His current provocation, far from stimulating his own nerves, was, on the contrary, only boosting my self-esteem.
“Whatever it is, it will be a light warm-up before enjoying the festival in earnest. Show me that god’s power once, and I’ll make you realize your limits right here!”
Alakion corrected his stance with such a cheerful smile.
As if preparing for battle, Bardos, who was watching the situation from the sidelines, quietly asked Alakion with a new cigarette in his mouth.
“Hey, two of us and one over there?”
A crusader who has experience in defeating executives, and a shadowy solver who has declined but can demonstrate power beyond his prime through drugs.
No matter how confident they are in themselves, if the two of them fight together, they will not be able to avoid difficulties.
Even the subordinates around him were so sure.
“Do you think all executives are at the same level? One or two humans, no matter how strong they are, are just worms in front of me!!”
Alakion, who exudes confidence with enthusiasm as if to exceed everyone’s expectations. As the foot clouds that followed pressed down on the ground, the cracks in the ground caused by the fall of the sword of light began to widen.
The moment when only an individual’s body manifested the harbinger of disaster that could only be manifested only by relying on the power of God.
The morale of the troops, who felt that even that came from uncontrollable spirit rather than power, began to soar high into the sky again.
“As expected, boss!!! Always do something that exceeds our expectations!”
“You will admire that!”
Cheers and cries erupted from all directions.
Alakion, who also saw it as a victory foreshadowing his soon-to-be victory, opened his mouth intoxicated with victory and prepared to rush at the two.
“Let’s get started!! A slaughter battle to compete to see who is the most superior creature in this place!!”
In the end, it will be you who will win the victory.
Soon after, a shout of such confidence erupted, and the heavy body tried to rush at the two.
– Fu-wook!
The sound of flesh being threaded resounded, and hesitation began to arise at the movement of the heavy legs that were about to lunge at them.
No, not by my will.
Something flew from afar and pierced my knee, so I reflexively stopped.
“… Uh?”
Alakion, who noticed it belatedly, immediately turned his gaze to his lower body.
A thin rod that went right through the skin and bone of my knee. Obviously, something called an arrow was stuck in his knee.
“What, what is it? This… Reinforcements?”
A chill up your spine that scares you into imprinting it on your eyes.
‘Arrows, that’s nonsense. It was a surprise, but I didn’t even notice it?’
Immediately afterwards, a sharp sensation felt in the bristled nerves.
The moment he sensed arrows flying from afar rushing towards him, Alakion hurriedly left his place.
It was at that moment that the fist of Bardos, who was standing on the side as if he had been waiting, was swung.
-Quaang!!
A bare fist thrust into the beast’s powerful body.
Pushed by the power derived from it, Alakion felt his muscles throb, and started glaring at Bardos.
“Keugh! This guy…”
“Why? Are you going to say something cowardly?”
Bardos burst into laughter and sucked more deeply from the cigarette that produced red smoke.
The two fiercely shining eyes did not bow down even to beasts of superior origin than themselves.
It’s not because I’m sure of victory against the person in front of me.
Because I felt sorry for the foolishness of those who rushed into a situation where the outcome was so obvious that they didn’t even need to be sure.
“I’m sorry, but this is a battlefield, not the wild where you’ve been king all your life. It’s a place where you’re cowardly and you just have to win anyway, isn’t it strange to show up alone and be angry that someone interfered?”
– Fast.
The moment when the noise of sharp teeth meshing echoed.
“How dare, how dare a lowly servant laugh at me… ?”
“Sneering. I gave you some advice as a senior because I rushed like I was playing in my hometown.”
Alakion’s eyes are set as if he would tear himself to death at any moment.
Vardos sneered at him, preparing to turn his attention quietly away from him.
“You’d better be careful. The combination that I had to risk my life for will be targeting you from now on.”
The moment you lose your guard, your neck will be cut off right away.
After that, Bardos turned his back on his seat and, belatedly noticing the surprise, started jumping towards the small puppies who wanted to help Alakion.
To escape the bombardment that will soon overtake the place.
“Where are you going! Your guy… !!”
Alakion didn’t notice that and set out to track down Bardos.
However, the place where he was already standing was in a state where the area was in the range of a great disaster that a wizard would do.
-Fury!
It reveals its presence from the top of a building in the distance.
The moment when the mana of the bright light in the body spreads in all directions.
– The Quagga River!
A torrent of fire erupts from the cracked ground, and a rain of lightning begins to rain down upon it.
The moment when the whole area is exposed to a disaster that is likely to destroy the world.
The only thing the beastmen living on the scene could do was scream and run away.
“Kwaaa! Boo, fireball!”
“Wizard! A wizard appeared from the human side!”
Even if they are predators of the ecosystem, can they not do anything about natural disasters?
The beastmen, frightened by the surprise fire, left their seats, but only Alakion, who was directly exposed to the center, remained firmly rooted.
“This…”
Just as it teaches me that neither the flames that burn my body nor the lightning can make a single flaw in that mighty body.
The king of beastmen who immediately took the flames with his body, pulled out the arrows stuck in his knees, and crushed them.
“You think I’m going to get hit by this bullshit!!? I, Alakion-sama!?”
Compared to the beasts overflowing in Baldur’s Plain, the land under his control, such an attack was not ticklish.
No matter how much I surprise or push through numbers, it has no meaning as long as I can’t take my breath away in the first attack.
-Quaang!!
The same applies to the shield imbued with the power of the god that crashed into my body, targeting this chaotic scene.
“The momentum is good, but that is over now. I’ll break the entire shield and turn it into a piece of meat!!”
Even if you borrowed the power of the gods, you can’t overcome the limits of humans in the end.
Verdia felt it as well, but despite that, her lips showed compassion for the person in front of her.
“… You are arrogant, the king of beastmen.”
It was because I felt pitiful for the attitude of deciding all outcomes simply by gaining an advantage over the being in front of me.
“No matter how wormy they are, they can rip a dragon’s vitals apart if several attack them.”
Yes, her role is only to pass the time.
At the point where I couldn’t break my shield right away, victory or defeat was decided.
-Suddenly!
At this moment, beyond mankind’s strongest shield, mankind’s fastest sword galloped across the battlefield and succeeded in severing its neck.
“Uh… ?”
By the time he noticed that, his vision had already turned upside down.
The fury that should have erupted after that eventually turned into a faint exclamation, and the beast’s head, hardened in that state, fell helplessly to the ground.
The result of violating the law of the jungle that has been worshiped all along.
Those were the words greeted by an arrogant predator who underestimated the coldness of the battlefield.
