Chapter 41: The Intuition of the Great Knight

At the time when Cheonma won a victory against the newly born goddess on Earth, and the newly born goddess was left with only her head rolling on the ground.

On a continent beyond England… on the first continent newly created due to dimensional fusion, and in a harsh land where humans could not live due to overflowing monsters, another clash of monsters was taking place.

And an Awakener was clearly watching that clash of monsters…

‘I-is this… even possible…!’

That Awakener was none other than the greatest superhuman in England and a member of the Nine Stars, the Awakener who came to the first continent to investigate the anomaly of the first continent survivor group that remained on the first continent and cooperated with Earth instead of restraining the monsters, and the unidentified mysterious phenomenon that was occurring on the first continent, the great knight Sir Marlon Stafford.

Earth made a deal with the first continent’s survivor group to obtain a powerful force and a means to restrain the overflowing monsters of the first continent without consumption.

However, the Earth side did not just think of them as consumables to be used and discarded. In the first place, they were a powerful force, and if they collapsed, the next one might be Earth, which had to bear the burden directly… It was too short-sighted and foolish to abandon them just because support was a waste.

Therefore, Earth protected their families, supported them with supplies, effectively restrained the first continent, and blocked the approach of those monsters.

It was not a waste to provide them with supplies. If the big problem of the first continent could be solved with just enough equipment, supplies, and food, this was really a profitable business.

Can you imagine? If the monsters of the first continent did not stop at the first continent and aimed for the Earth side as well, how much human and material loss would there be! Territory, manpower, and resources, these three things could be greatly lost! The Earth side also faced the monsters of the first continent and grasped their power, so they were well aware of the danger.

In the first place, they are powerful enough to almost bring a world to near-destruction, no, to completely destroy it and force only a few survivors to fight for survival, and they are full of hostility and murderous intent towards mankind. If there are those with whom you cannot coexist as neighbors, the only way to survive is to completely exterminate them.

However, Earth’s problem was not only that first continent, but also the dimensional rifts that were occurring simultaneously all over the world, and the dimensional fusion that occurred occasionally but caused upheaval in the world whenever it occurred… It was a reality that they could not pour all their strength into the first continent.

A relationship where they are necessary for each other and must coexist, a relationship where they are a great help to each other. That was the relationship between Earth and the survivors of the first continent until now.

But now, there was a problem in that indispensable relationship.

And… it was not because one side betrayed the other, but because of the intervention of another external force.

There was a big problem for the survivors of the first continent. It was a situation where they might have suffered great damage. It was not an ordinary situation.

Because Earth does not have any leeway right now.

Dimensional rifts are now a daily occurrence and problems that must be dealt with with all their might. If there is no solution to completely block them, it is a problem that must be lived with.

If those phenomena are not dealt with in a timely manner, the area that was originally human will be handed over to them. Isn’t it impossible to just leave it alone and watch?

However… although there have been many enemies and many problems so far, they were not disasters like the present.

Despite not appearing long ago, the problems that have recently occurred due to dimensional rifts were of a very dangerous kind…

Even though it hadn’t been long since they appeared, many places on Earth suffered great damage. There was so much damage that it was questionable whether it could even be recovered.

It wasn’t just the land that was destroyed, but the precious forces that would resist the rift were disappearing.

All of Africa disappeared, the Holy Kingdom was smashed, and Europe was shaken. A huge clash occurred in Korea, and problems arose on the second continent as well.

This is not the end, countless disasters, and disasters that seem impossible to prevent, are happening, and in a gloomy and frustrating situation where it is expected to continue… An important alliance that would restrain the first continent is shaken.

This was not a problem that could be overlooked. It was a matter directly related to the security of mankind.

That’s why the great knight Marlon Stafford, a member of the Nine Stars, was urgently dispatched.

And Marlon Stafford, having arrived at the first continent, saw a sight he could not have imagined.

He expected that there was a problem with the first continent’s survivor group, which was an alliance of mankind. Otherwise, there would not have been problems such as not being able to contact them.

Their annihilation was also expected. If there were survivors, they would have tried to convey information about the problems that had arisen, even if it was for the sake of their families.

They probably died without even having a chance to convey anything due to an overwhelmingly skilled person.

It was a cold judgment, or it wasn’t that Marlon thought of them as just tools. It was just for understanding.

‘I too was once a comrade who fought with them with our backs against each other. That’s why… I don’t know who it is, but I vowed to avenge you when I heard the news…’

The determination that he thought would never waver, the determination and sadness that he vowed to honor the souls of his comrades who had fought against the enemy with their backs against each other.

Arriving at the first continent and seeing it with his own eyes, the tragedy of the first continent was scattered faintly.

Because the sight he saw was not something he could handle.

Everything that existed on the first continent was dead.

Whether it was the survivors, or the group of monsters that existed on the first continent and posed a great threat to mankind, which had driven a huge country to destruction, there was no distinction.

Everyone was equally, terribly and horribly dead.

Species, gender, age… there was nothing to distinguish. Everything was given equally. Fear, pain, and… even death.

“How… can life have such strength and cruelty…!”

Befitting the title of great knight, Marlon is old and has a lot of combat experience.

That’s why he could tell. The traces of a strong person flowing from those corpses.

And what was even more terrifying was that the being that accomplished all of this was an individual.

Even if they use the same power, if it is a different person, it cannot be completely the same. But all the traces he saw were the same.

A being with overwhelming strength has such terrible cruelty.

And it is bestowed equally on everything without distinction… how cruel is this.

‘Death… I am afraid of it, even after fighting and accumulating strength for so long. But what is more terrifying is…!’

He could tell just by looking at the traces. His strength was not enough to stop this monster.

That made the Awakener called the great knight Marlon Stafford afraid.

Because it was clear that if a monster with such cruelty was a strong person like this, they would not be satisfied with just themselves and would leave this place and go to the realm of mankind and cause cruel bloodshed that was not inferior to what was seen here.

The great knight, who had swung his sword and trained all his life to protect, feared that more than anything.

So, even if he died, Marlon continued to search a little more to get some information and help others, and he finally saw it.

The appearance of the being that caused this tragedy…!

‘That, that vicious and eerie energy… and the smell of blood and the blood-soaked appearance… it’s clear, that’s it. That monster is the protagonist of this tragedy…!!’

It was a being that looked like a delicate girl at first glance.

However, how could he be deceived by that appearance? The inside of it is the most vicious being.

Appearance was not important. Because it’s not a real girl anyway. Maybe she’s an old hag who lived longer than himself, who is called a great knight…

‘But… she’s not looking at me…?’

However, even though the distance was not far enough for him to discover such a monster, and with that strength, she should have sensed him, the monster’s attention was not directed at him.

‘Where the hell…?!?!?!?’

Marlon, who was puzzled by that fact, soon realized the reason why.

‘T-this is…!’

The Nine Stars, the body of the Nine Heavens trembles, feeling the gap in power, and freezes with tension.

“Oh, oh…? If something like that existed, I, I couldn’t have not known it…??”

A blood-soaked monster holding a dagger and a kitchen knife in both hands, scratching her neck with the dagger, and,

“I fell into a strange place. Is the next one after that annoying swordsman a crazy human?”

A demon who emits a distant heat with a displeased expression.

‘Monsters… two of them are here…!’

Marlon thought, unable to even think of moving.

That he might die a dog’s death in this land of another world.