Chapter 911 - It starts with Me, But it doesn't End with Me
What is the reason for your aspiration?
What is the reason you resolve to crawl forward, prepared for death?
'What are you going so far for?'
The question stimulated his past.
"Please save me."
A child shouting to be saved dies.
A farmer looking at him with desperate eyes dies.
A woman dies, and a father dies too.
Not few people died like that.
Because he couldn't protect them, those standing behind his back died one after another.
"Actions come with responsibility. You idiot."
Who was it that said that?
He remembered it as words blaming him for only putting action first.
It wasn't a mistake, but there were many he couldn't save because his ability was insufficient.
Too many.
Friends he shared friendship with died, and people he shared affection with died too.
The world wasn't filled with warm spring sunshine but with ruthless biting wind.
Even in this place, someone died.
"Why?"
Enkrid threw the question but didn't hear an answer.
It was natural since the dead cannot speak.
Although this wasn't the sole reason, it was clearly one of the reasons Enkrid moved forward.
He never forgot the retribution and resolve regarding himself.
Instead of excuses and pretexts, he strengthened his resolve.
Living today not for yesterday but for tomorrow.
A life doing his best in everything.
Instead of regretting the time passed, he focused on the present and lived.
That was the way Enkrid lived.
"What is the reason for that aspiration?"
The Great Emperor asked again, and Enkrid's gaze headed to the Great Emperor.
Silence wrapped between the two.
Everyone seemed to expect what kind of answer would come.
Furthermore, the fight was in a lull for a moment.
In such a situation, Enkrid opened his mouth.
"What will you do if you know?"
It was an unexpected answer.
The Great Emperor's expression hardened.
He couldn't find words to answer.
Who knew such words would come out in this situation.
From far away, a Fairy's laughter was heard.
"Indeed."
That Fairy's name is Shinar Kiraheis.
She sympathized with the words spoken by her Captain and prospective lover.
What's the point of asking, and what's the point of knowing.
Rem also nodded while swinging his axe, and Ragna agreed from afar, muttering there was no need to tell him.
To the Great Emperor, all this was a fresh shock.
What his words contained was 'Dominion'.
The will contained in his voice was power shaking and binding the opponent.
But it didn't work.
'Rejecting Dominion?'
He had no way of knowing, but since Enkrid built the Will of Rejection, he had rubbed against, fought, and experienced countless things.
Furthermore, recently he overcame even a Dragonkin's Word.
To Enkrid, the Great Emperor's Word Spirit was 'merely' that.
"Interesting."
Even so, the Great Emperor didn't express bewilderment.
He wasn't a fool who simply pressed everyone down with power.
Composing his mind, the Great Emperor spoke again.
Although the opponent didn't reveal his inner thoughts, it wasn't difficult to read what he wished for by looking at his attitude and actions until now.
An outstanding ruler must have the talent to read the inner thoughts of subjects and subordinates, and the Great Emperor was a person possessing excellent talent in this aspect.
"If viewing the world as a large flow, you are small. Do you think someone's effort or action can change the world? It cannot."
The Great Emperor said.
His tone full of certainty sounded like truth.
Like a priest conveying God's words.
He showed sincere belief.
That belief was merely directed towards his conviction and values viewing the world.
Like that, his tone seemed to equate it with things impossible to change no matter what, like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west.
Enkrid had heard those words elsewhere too.
"Therefore, the knight of the end is but a dream."
Strictly speaking, they were words spoken by everyone who ridiculed his dream until now mixed together.
Just as the ferryman did, parts forming his past became one and scolded him.
Pressed him asking what it is he could do by himself.
"Reality is different. What moves the world is not someone's effort or resolve."
The Great Emperor spoke again.
His words had sufficient persuasiveness.
But just because it is sufficient doesn't mean it works every time.
The world's logic is like that.
In this aspect, Enkrid was stubborn, but he was a human who established a clear standard for viewing the world inside himself.
Enkrid opened his mouth, but not intending to refute the Great Emperor's theory.
Words came out spoken to his past self, and ultimately words reinforcing to himself who reached the present through action.
"One within the whole cannot change anything, but if that one gathers and becomes many, the world changes. Because change starts with me, but doesn't end with me."
He was the start.
Now, those connected to that start were by his side.
The Madmen Knights, Krang, he met all kinds of people until now.
Even Jaxen showed spirit abandoning efficiency saying he would protect those behind his back, and the witch named Esther performed miracles risking her life saying she would protect the people.
Besides them, truly many people stood by his side.
Krais and all the people of the Border Guard.
Amidst roars and explosions ringing consecutively from all directions, the Great Emperor and Enkrid maintained silence.
Breaking the brief silence, the Great Emperor spoke.
"Only the one moving forward is right."
Meaning the history is on the side of the victor.
Enkrid also responded to his words.
"By the law of the continent."
If both insist they are right, what distinguishes that rightness?
Distinguished by swords and spears, hammers and arrows, shields and armor.
The winning side is right.
The truth or law of the continent was a ruthless biting wind.
Enkrid acknowledged the law of the continent, and crawled, walked, and ran pushing through that biting wind.
Of the two, the right one is the winning side.
Agreement ended.
Meanwhile, Cypress crossed the battlefield and approached Enkrid's side.
"Is the talk over?"
Approaching, he asked.
"Just finished now."
"Then I will lend a hand."
Whose side is time on?
At least for now, it was on the Great Emperor's side.
The image of the demon lingering behind his back created a knight order that didn't die even if killed.
The Last Knights became the Immortal Knights.
-I will burst if I eat all those humans.
The demon expressed joy and tried to grow ominousness, but there was no one here to be affected by mere words.
Everyone was steadfast.
Ragna heard words resuming the fight stopped during Enkrid and the Great Emperor's talk.
"Hey, is your stomach okay? I don't want to do this either. Kill the Great Emperor and end it if possible. From now on, I won't join the fight."
Kaelo, who was Ragna's opponent, modified his strategy and mixed deception.
While speaking like that, he swung his club abruptly.
Even though he died and revived, his inscribed weapon was the same.
It was a tricky item to block.
Ragna deflected the club falling obliquely and sliced Kaelo's body again.
A straight sword cut parallel to the ground divided its owner's body in two before the club touched.
While the upper body rolled backward, the lower body moved forward and died, and blood vessels rose from the cut section of the body, weaving together again, and he stood up again.
'Revival is getting faster.'
It was a visible change.
Ragna had applied and drunk Anne's medicine long ago, but his lover's medicine wasn't synonymous with a miracle.
Stamina consumed and Will is also being shaved.
"Can still do more, but the Great Emperor calls. See you later."
Kaelo, who stood up, retreated.
Ragna didn't bother chasing.
Strictly speaking, he judged it right to save the energy.
The wound stabbed in his stomach wasn't shallow, and sword cuts containing Will didn't heal easily.
'Can't fight long.'
Ragna evaluated his condition coldly.
But no need to let go right now.
It happened that Rem was in a similar state.
Although it seemed likely to open a path if pouring out strength right now.
'If we don't catch the guy named Great Emperor, it won't end.'
What should be done.
Rem's head spun fast.
Not a problem to agonize over for long.
'Pierce through and kill.'
Simple and clear, so certain.
Would Enkrid not have seen what he saw.
The Great Emperor, perhaps grasping this flow, gathered all the guys fighting in front of him.
Cypress leaned on his weapon against the ground and caught his breath.
Just looking at that, he looked like a person about to die soon.
Then looking at Enkrid, he said.
"Watched you fighting all along. Try listening to what your body says."
Will he listen?
If he's a stubborn guy, he wouldn't listen.
"Is there no easier explanation you can give?"
This interesting friend showed desire for improvement even in this situation.
"The literal meaning."
Cypress scratched his chin.
Thinking he had no talent for teaching after all.
Enkrid understood his intention.
Not that he learned something from the words just now, but acknowledged that a knight's explanation was originally like this.
Also, it wasn't a situation overflowing with leisure, so it wasn't the time to dwell on his words.
Kwareureung!
The wizard wielding lightning truly became lightning under the Great Emperor's dominion.
Lightning struck and clumped in the sky, and below it, the group of faceless knights wearing plate armor lined up.
The Minotaur who lost his roar held an axe with only the handle left, and in between, the knight who died and died again to Lien while peeking into the future was seen, the one Black Elf stood with her bare body having all bows and weapons taken away, half-naked, barely the lower body being covered.
"Who did that?"
As Enkrid spoke looking at the Elf, Shinar's answer was heard from right behind as if she approached when he didn't know.
"Because she revived even if killed repeatedly, I took her weapons."
It was indeed an ingenious and clever act.
Since killing an opponent without a weapon would be much easier than one with a weapon.
Enkrid also split the Minotaur's axe as if disassembling it with a similar thought.
"Our minds connecting as expected."
While angry at the demon's appearance, such words come out naturally from the mouth.
Truly a fascinating Fairy.
"Even in this situation, a joke?"
"I am always sincere."
Enkrid let the Fairy's words flow and looked ahead.
As things emitting black soot and heat from their whole bodies blocked the way, the insurmountable wall the ferryman showed in the dream came to mind.
"Save me, Ragna of the Madmen."
From between the walls blocking the Great Emperor, Kaelo's shout, whose obsession became excessive, was heard.
"Made another friend?"
Rem said.
Naturally words directed at Ragna, but Ragna pretended not to hear.
One answers to words, but those weren't words right now, but something similar to excrement.
"This bastard really."
Rem grumbled and stopped.
"Let's pierce through."
Enkrid said, and Ragna and Rem stood side by side.
Dunbakel sneaked up behind them.
"Where did you go?"
Rem asked.
"The Giant keept reviving and keept chasing."
"So?"
"Ran a bit far then buried him in the ground and came."
Seems like a decent method?
Enkrid thought briefly about how it would be to bury all of them in the ground but stopped.
The Great Emperor moves the ground with his iron whip.
If they couldn't do anything about that talent, it would all be useless.
"Amazing. How did you dig the ground?"
Cypress asked, seemingly impressed too.
"A beastkin's claws are weapons in themselves."
Dunbakel said raising her chin and nose.
"Seems they're also shovels."
"If there is work to dig ground, you do it all from now on."
Ragna and Rem expressed respect to her in turns.
Dunbakel naturally didn't accept the respect of the two as respect.
"You aren't thinking of me as some laborer, right?"
Dunbakel muttered.
"Pierce the path and kill the Great Emperor."
Enkrid stated the operation briefly once again.
"If failed."
"Will die."
"Phew. If things go wrong in the middle, can I run away?"
"Master, I will use strength without thinking about later, so you must take care of it."
Words spoken by Ragna, Rem, Dunbakel, and Lien in order.
Cypress laughed aloud and raised his head.
The power of the iron whip the Great Emperor swung was amazing.
Furthermore, that wouldn't be all.
The demon shimmering behind him was also a problem.
Cypress judged there was one way to end the fight.
Swear an oath, heighten resolve, and put determination forward.
Abandon thoughts of greeting the coming tomorrow.
Like that, risking everything he had, he had to become an arrow piercing the Great Emperor's heart.
It was the moment he strengthened his Will and was about to open his mouth.
"I swea...."
"Wait."
Enkrid interrupted.
Grabbed the shoulder of the person who was once an idol.
"What are you doing?"
Cypress, who cooled his just-boiling Will a bit, asked back.
"...Do I have to explain?"
"You look like a person preparing to die."
Correct words.
Seeing he felt that with intuition, a friend with truly good senses.
"You seem to think of going at it alone, but opponents are also two."
"So?"
"We also go as two."
Enkrid decided.
Opening the path will be handled by the rest
"Opening the path itself would be hard work though?"
Cypress asked, and Enkrid spoke calmly.
Just as the Great Emperor's words sounded like laws earlier, the words Enkrid spoke now were similar.
"They will handle it."
Would the trust embedded in those words become a burden to them?
It wasn't so.
These people ignored the conversation of these two.
They do natural things naturally.
It was just the same thing right now.
"Directionally challenged bastard, don't get lost and stick close. Going to do something similar to piercing ten thousand specters."
Rem said with disgust as if it was really something he didn't want to do.
Of course, even speaking like that, he does his work.
Because that is Rem of The Madmen Knights.
"You just follow closely behind. I am the front."
Ragna was the same.
"What are you going to do?"
Dunbakel tilted her head.
"If my fiancé wishes, wherever that place is, my sword will personally be there."
Fairy Shinar, putting harmony as the core banner, mixed in well on her own.
"Not thinking of doing it without me, right?"
Lien of the Crimson Cloaks intervened without hesitation among them.
"Really?"
Cypress, who watched all that, asked back as if whispering.
Enkrid looked back at the five once and said.
"If it doesn't work, forget it."
It was a joke.
Naturally, it will work.
Belief is firm and trust is solid.
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