Chapter 2082 – 2082. The Fallen Empire
Contrary to the village chief’s orders, the villagers hesitated to rush me, surrounding the house but unable to act rashly.
It was partly because they were afraid of me, but also because there were women near me. Women who were being violated by me even at this moment. These were someone’s mothers, someone’s wives, and someone’s daughters.
“What are you doing! Kill that knight! We have to kill him to survive!!”
The village chief shouted desperately. It was laughable that he wasn’t stepping forward himself but watching from behind. Even in this small village, there was power.
I pushed the women aside. I didn’t want them to get caught up in this.
“I’m not going to run or hide. Let’s go outside. I’ll kill you all.”
I confidently walked out the door. The villagers swallowed hard and stepped back. They were clearly tense. As expected, the area was already surrounded by men.
“Attack! He violated our women! Are you going to keep living like cowards, letting him take everything from you!!”
The village chief shouted desperately. His words were a good catalyst. The villagers overcame their fear with anger and became murderous.
First, three men who looked like hunters nocked arrows on their bows. They didn’t shoot all at once but shot at me one by one. They were predicting even how I would dodge.
‘Not a bad strategy. If I were ordinary, that is.’
I ran towards a villager next to me. If I can dodge bullets by looking at the direction of the gun, dodging a hunter’s arrow that’s shot openly is nothing.
‘I definitely have to dodge. Even if my physical abilities are outstanding, my skin doesn’t turn to steel. If I get cut by a blade, my skin will tear and I’ll bleed.’
Thwack!
I beat the man to death and threw him at the villagers rushing towards me. The villagers were horrified. Some fell over, colliding with the corpse. Perhaps it was because they were trained in farming. They had some physical strength, but their fighting style was crude. It was no different from rushing in haphazardly.
“Push them! Push them and attack!”
“Don’t just charge! Charge with your spears and swords out!”
“Move together! When facing a beast, the hunters’ teamwork is important!”
The village chief and the hunters shouted loudly. They were lecturing, claiming they had some combat experience. Regardless, I kept moving. The moment I stopped, I could be stabbed by a stray spear or sword.
‘These bastards have good weapons. They shouldn’t be things easily found in this kind of village. …Did some bandits stop by the village and give them these? Or are these guys actually bandits… but they’re too clumsy to be bandits.’
I felt like I needed to keep the village chief alive and interrogate him.
A spear aimed for my side. I dodged it with a footwork. I grabbed the spear shaft as it passed my side and pulled. The man holding the spear was pulled towards me. I punched him in the head and took the spear, throwing it at a hunter. The spear pierced the hunter’s body. I didn’t forget to grab the headless corpse and throw it at the villagers.
The villagers were shocked.
“What kind of strength is that…!”
“C-can we really win?”
“I told you, knights aren’t human!”
The villagers’ morale plummeted at the overwhelming sight. The fear that had been hidden by anger resurfaced. These guys weren’t soldiers but ordinary villagers. Having weapons and being good at fighting are two different things. Even if it wasn’t me, if one of the knights who had been knocked out had woken up, they could have easily annihilated these guys.
Whoosh.
An arrow flew.
I caught the flying arrow and threw it at the hunter. The arrow flew much faster and pierced the hunter’s forehead.
“E-even bears aren’t that strong!”
One of the villagers said, wetting himself.
“Bears tear people apart. And I tear bears apart.”
I showed them directly. I grabbed the shoulders of a nearby guy and tore him apart with just my strength. Blood and guts spilled out. None of the villagers were burning with fighting spirit anymore. Even the village chief, who had been shouting, slumped to the ground.
“K-Knight, please spare us. W-we had no choice. Bandits took the village children and threatened us to kill the knights! We had no choice to save the children! The sleeping pills and weapons were also given to us by those bandits!”
The villagers threw down their weapons and surrendered.
It was absurd. They tried to kill me first, and now they give up because it seems impossible. Did they think I would just let them live if they surrendered?
I hesitated to kill them all. Death was too easy.
“Do you want to live? Do you want to live even as slaves?”
The people couldn’t answer easily. In the Empire, slaves were beasts and objects below humans. Even if a slave owner killed a slave for fun, they only had to pay a small fine. That was the law of the Empire. That’s how miserable the life of a slave was.
“If you don’t want to be slaves, die as commoners.”
I grabbed a fallen sword. A blue sword aura ran along the blade.
I swung the sword towards the ground. The sword aura fell like lightning, leaving a long scar on the ground. The villagers couldn’t even make eye contact with me.
Knight.
The military power of the Felheim Empire.
The reason this fallen empire can barely stay alive is because of the knights.
“Since you all want to be slaves, I will give you the chance to be slaves. Fight for your chance to live. The winners will live as slaves, and the losers will die as commoners.”
Of course, the village chief was an exception. This bastard was the instigator. He had to be horribly tortured and then executed in the public square.
I took them to the village chief’s house. The women were kneeling naked. As if begging to be spared.
“Women, listen. I will tell you how to atone for your sins. If you satisfy me, you can live as commoners.”
They were the women who would bear my children, so I decided to show them generous mercy.
“Thank you, Knight! We will do our best.”
“Call me Sir Daycart. Shall we begin then?”
The village women became proactive. Perhaps they hated becoming slaves so much, they spread their legs and flirted without hesitation. They licked my toes and even did vulgar dances.
“S-Sir Daycart. Please spare only my husband! I’ll do anything!”
“Oh. Okay. Who is your husband?”
“That man!”
I stabbed her husband in the chest with a fork and killed him. The woman’s neck was snapped.
“You old, ugly hag, you don’t know your place. Remember that my mercy is not infinite.”
Gulp.
The women swallowed hard. As expected, setting an example makes the rest not dare to act up. I watched the death match of the village men while tasting the vaginas of the village women with my dick.
The conditions of the death match were one-on-one. They fought naked, with only their fists, until one of them died. The death match would not end until one person died.
• • •
As the morning sun began to rise, the knights who had fallen asleep as if they had fainted from the sleeping pills began to wake up one by one.
“Ugh. My head hurts… Did I drink too much?”
“Gasp! What is this mess? What happened last night!”
The knights were all shocked. The naked women were collapsed, two naked men were punching each other, and the other men were kneeling. In one corner, dead bodies were piled up. Even to the knights, the situation was not normal.
A quick-witted knight immediately understood the situation.
“…They put sleeping pills in the food yesterday. Sir Daycart didn’t eat the food or drink the alcohol, so it didn’t affect him. Sir Daycart, I am indebted to you.”
“It’s nothing. Why don’t you enjoy yourselves for a bit?”
“Hmm. My head hurts, so I don’t think I have the energy for that. But why are those two men fighting?”
“Those two are brothers. They are fighting to become slaves. Heh heh.”
I told the awakened knights and their squires what had happened last night. Everyone was furious. They insisted that everyone, men and women, should be killed.
“Whoa, whoa. Calm down. I have decided to forgive the women. What sin do these frail women have?”
The woman in my arms moved her hips up and down more vigorously, as if she was happy.
“…If Sir Daycart says so… Looking at it, Sir Daycart seems too merciful. These should all be torn apart and killed. Why not at least sell them as slaves?”
“I have decided to show mercy to the women.”
“I understand. If it weren’t for Sir Daycart, we would all be dead… I will follow Sir Daycart’s opinion. Does everyone agree?”
“We must cooperate for Sir Daycart’s honor. However, I will buy a few of the male slaves. I need to vent my anger.”
The knights got up and gulped down the cold water that the squires had brought.
“Sirs. I, your squire, would like to speak. We must interrogate the village chief.”
The interrogation ended quickly. The village chief, who had already lost his will, answered everything he was asked.
The bandits kidnapped the village children and headed towards the hill. There was an abandoned village beyond the hill where they were resting. They gave the sleeping pills and weapons and ordered them to kill the knights.
“They must know that the village failed, so we must move quickly.”
Following Cotton’s words, we put on our armor and moved. We left the squires behind to manage the village.
Beyond the hill was an abandoned village. Even without getting close, I could feel the presence of the bandits. But that wasn’t the problem.
“Even if the stupid bandits didn’t run away… isn’t something strange about the village?”
“There is definitely something ominous.”
“Even from this distance, I can smell blood. It’s more than just one or two… Did some kind of internal conflict happen among the bandits?”
“We’ll know when we get there.”
The knights, including me, felt something was wrong.
As soon as we entered the village, armed bandits jumped out. They were now fully armed, not even trying to hide the fact that they were mercenaries.
At their center was a one-eyed man, Derek Kaluan, the leader of the Thorn Wing Mercenary Group.
“Useless village bastards. I even gave you sleeping pills, and you couldn’t kill a single knight.”
The knights didn’t react to his insolent tone. They were overwhelmed by the woman floating in the air behind Derek.
Her hair, over 2 meters long, was spread out in all directions, writhing like tentacles, and her skin was pale, almost ashen. Her two eyes were as red as blood, and her veins were visible on her skin, wriggling. The white dress she was wearing was stained with blood.
The witch opened her mouth and giggled. The knights were all tense at the chilling laughter. There were pieces of flesh and entrails stuck to the witch’s mouth.
Sir Rakgus groaned.
“…A witch. Did she eat the children taken from the village? Judging by her appearance, she has dabbled in forbidden magic. Gentlemen, be careful. This battle will not be easy.”
