Chapter 18
War of the Underworld
7th Day of the 11th Month of Human Empire Calendar 380
18:00
Solus’s afterglow dyed the gate isolating the two worlds in the red of blood.
«Great East Gate».
The humongous structure, built at the hands of gods, that isolated the Human Empire and Dark Empire for over three hundred years started crumbling away this very moment.
Tremors thundered throughout the world like roars from some immense beast in the Great Gate’s death throes, the last of its effectively infinite Life dripping away, while the five thousand in the Human Empire Defense Army and fifty thousand in the invading army watched on without a word. Those crossed from the Human Empire’s central capital, Centoria, in the east to the land of darkness’s imperial capital, Obsidia, in the west as distant, ominous thunder, prompting all in the Underworld to peer up towards the skies.
Seconds passed.
A crack streaked through the core of the over three hundred mel tall Great Gate. White light gushed from within and scorched the soldiers lined up on both the east and west.
The fissure branched out infinitely, reaching the ends of the Great Gate in no time, as the white light chased after, spreading out like a mesh. Giant words in the sacred script erupted among flames upon the gate’s two sides next. There were merely two throughout the vast battleground who understood the meaning behind the words, [Final Tolerance Experiment].
It started just about as those words burnt out.
The Great East Gate crumbled from the top, releasing flashes of light that extended to the skies.
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“Uoohh…”
An excited voice escaped from Vassago Casals whose upper body went over the command vehicle’s rails.
“This the «final load test»? It puts even Hollywood movies to shame. Shouldn’t we be taking this videography technology instead of the AI, bro? We would be billionaires in no time if we start a VFX studio.”
Despite having his eyes glued to the great spectacle in the distance, Gabriel Miller coolly pointed out upon hearing that.
“Unfortunately, this sight cannot be recorded onto any medium. After all, it’s not polygons that form everything in this world. It’s a grand show visible only to those connected to the STL.”
Half of the Great East Gate had already crumbled into countless pieces of rubble. Though the noise and tremors were tremendous, the massive rocks all melted into light right before they crashed into the ground. Judging from that, it seemed the remains of the gate would not end up as a barricade.
Gabriel stood from the throne installed on the command vehicle’s roof with his jet-black fur mantle aflutter before walking towards a large skull set up by one of the Ten Lords of the land of darkness, the chief of the Dark Arts Users’ Guild, D.I.L.
The skull placed on a small table was apparently an artifact capable of transmitting sound. She said that by speaking into this master skull, his voice would be sent to the slave skulls in the generals’ possession. Though inferior to the Stryker Command Vehicle’s multi-channel transmission system, it was far more effective than sending an army of messengers for every little command.
Looking down into the skull’s hollow eye sockets, Gabriel let out a somber voice suited to his role as the «Dark Empire’s emperor and Vector the god of darkness».
“Warriors of our land of darkness! The time you have await’d hath arrived! Kill all who live! Pillage all without hesitation! ——Trample upon them all!!”
War cries burst forth from all across the battle formations, their volume exceeding the Great Gate’s collapse. The countless machetes and pikes thrust upwards shone in the hue of blood under the setting sun.
The first batch of the Dark Territory Army comprised five thousand mountain goblins, five thousand plains goblins, two thousand orcs, and a thousand giants for a total of thirteen thousand units. He would first have them lead the charge and observe the enemy army’s reaction.
Swiftly swinging his raised right hand down in front, Gabriel gave his first command as a player in this war game.
“Group one—begin the assault!!”
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The one who assumed command over the five thousand mountain goblins on the right flank of the goblin force making up the first group of the fifty thousand-strong invading army was its new chief named Kosogi. He was one of the seven sons of the previous chief, Hagashi, who incidentally died through the Dark General Shasta’s rebellion drama.
Hagashi was extoled as the most cruel and greedy even among the past chiefs. Not only did Kosogi inherit a strong tendency for that disposition, he only concealed a high intelligence unbecoming of goblins under his hideous face.
Having reached twenty this year, Kosogi had been pondering over why the goblins were regarded as the worst among the five races of the land of darkness—the humans, the giants, the ogres, the orcs, and the goblins—for over five years.
Certainly, the goblins were the smallest among the five races and the weakest physically too. However, they once held numbers to compensate for that disadvantage and in fact, they conducted battles against the orcs and humans on equal terms during the ancient «age of blood and iron».
When the races eventually ended their wars, exhausted, the goblin chief, too, gained a seat in the Ten Lords Assembly, the highest aggregation in the land of darkness, upon the conclusion of the five races’ peace treaty. However, the treaty was, in reality, in no way fair. Both the mountain and plains goblins were given no more than the withered wastelands in the north as their dominion and there was nowhere near enough agriculture or game to preserve the Life of a whole race; their children constantly starved and their elderly rapidly died.
In short, they were done in by the chiefs of the other races.
In order to curb the goblins’ greatest strength, their numbers, they forced upon them a vast but infertile land. As such, the goblins had to exhaust all ends to even survive to this current day and could not further their civilization. Having maintained training institutions for their children to practice like the black iums was impossible; they were instead sent down rivers on boats in order to reduce the mouths to feed. All while aware of the treatment their children would receive in the lands of the other races when they arrive.
If only they had fertile land and sufficient resources, their soldiers would now hold not these machetes and plate armor casted from crude iron but tempered steel equipment. They would have amassed Life from ample food supplies and studied sword techniques and tactics. They might have even acquired those dark arts monopolized by the black iums eventually.
If they had, no one would claim the goblins to be an inferior race.
Kosogi’s deceased father, Hagashi, was constantly haunted by his anger and jealousy towards the black iums, but he lacked the brains to think about what he could do about it. He possessed wisdom enough only to hope to stay within Emperor Vector’s thoughts through military exploits in this great war.
What foolishness. How could they hope to distinguish themselves in battle? That was obvious with a look at the army’s arrangement.
It was likely suggested to the emperor by the chief of the Dark Arts Users’ Guild. That woman must have forced the «honor as the shock troops» upon the two goblin races to use and dispose of them from the start. The goblins would charge in as the vanguards and be promptly cut down by those devils of legend, the Human Empire’s integrity knights, before incinerated by her as collateral damage from the safe rear with the intention to rob them of their merits.
—How could he let her?
However, that, in no way, meant that they could disobey their orders. The descended Emperor Vector was not damaged by even a hair after immersed in Dark General Shasta’s attack which instantly annihilated the two goblin chiefs and the head of the Assassins’ Guild. The emperor held absolute strength and the law in the land of darkness decreed that the weak shall not disobey the strong.
However, that black ium female was different. Kosogi was now one of the ten lords, on equal footing as her. He had no duty to obediently abide by her malicious schemes.
The order given to the goblins was truly simple. They would penetrate in with a charge as the vanguard and annihilate the enemy army.
That was all. There was nothing about maintaining the warfront until the flames from the art users poured in from behind. They had the allowance to outwit that woman.
Kosogi secretly passed down a directive to his trusted commanding officers right before the Great Gate crumbled.
The moment the slave skull given to him clicked into movement and delivered the assault order from the emperor, he stuck his hand under his armor and pulled out a small ball he prepared prior. His commanding officers ought to be doing the same at that time too.
The clump of rocks that was once the Great East Gate crumbled completely with a roar and vanished as light.
He spotted multiple watch fires and the glint of dazzling weapons and armor further into the valley that opened straight on.
That was the white iums’ defense army.
Beyond them were lands sufficiently filled with abundance, endless resources, and manpower, enough for the mountain goblins to regain their age of glory.
How could he become some discarded stone? He shall have the plains goblins, cursed with a chief without brains yet again, and the orcs, who were even stupider, play that role.
Kosogi gripped the ball firmly within his left hand and thrust up the thick mountain knife in his right as he screamed in a deep voice.
“All of you, stick together and come with me!! —Chargeeeee!!”
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“First Unit, draw your swords and prepare to engage! Ascetics, prepare your healing arts and incantations!”
Fanatio Synthesis Two’s proud voice pierced through the twi
chapter 18
war of裏
7th day of 11 month of human empire calendar 380
18:00
ソーラスの残光をdyed the分離ゲートthe two世界にthe red of blood .
«great eastゲート».
the humongous structure the神の手で造られて、分離したthe human empire and dark empireのためのthree百年overこのまさしく瞬間away crumbling始めました.
震動thundered the世界中至る所でgreatゲートの死にthroes some immense beast from roars like , the last dripping its effectively無限の生命away ,五千人間の帝国defense army and fifty千にthe invading armyで見にwordしない.人間の帝国のcentral資本, centoria from crossed those ,darknessのimperial資本のland obsidia to東では、distant ,不吉なサンダーとして西に, prompting all裏におけるピアup空の方へto .
seconds通過.
、crack streaked through theコアのthree hundred高いmel greatゲートover .white光の範囲内でfrom gushed and scorched the soldiers東と西の両方のonに並べた。
infinitely分岐しthe fissure ,no時間にthe greatゲートof端部に到達した, the white光chased afterとしては、メッシュlike外に広がって.the神聖なスクリプトで噴火しgiant words flames間のゲートのupon two側next .merely two広大な戦場who語の後で意味をunderstood throughout there were、最終tolerance実験.それだけで約as those words burnt out始めました.
the great eastゲートthe top from crumbled , releasing flashes光of the skies toを延長することを.
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" uoohh…」an excited voice escaped from vassago casals上部body went over the command車両のレール.
「このthe«ファイナルload test»?それは恥toハリウッドmoviesさえします.we the ai , bro of instead this videography技術takingであってはいけませんか?我々は、vfxスタジオstart if no時間にbillionairesでしょう。」the distanceの素晴らしい光景に釘付けhis eyesを持つことにもかかわらず、ガブリエルmiller out coollyとがった聴力に.
"残念ながら, this sight cannotどんな媒体に記録される.after all、それのpolygonsこの世界であることとフォームの全てじゃない。それはstlに接続されたものにしか見えないが、grandショーの.」countless rubbleの部分に崩れたthe great eastゲートof halfはすでに.the noise and震動tremendous were though , all溶融光into右the ground into crashed before the massive岩.thatから判断して、門のremains、barricade端部としてのup not would
ようだ。ガブリエル・stood the hisジェットブラックファーmantle aflutterとthe command車両のroof on installed王座from、largeスカルdarknessの土地of the ten lordsの1つによってsetまでwalking before ,暗い芸術users ' guildのチーフ)は、d.i.l.
、小さなテーブルでplaced the頭音transmittingできるartifact明らかにwas .she thisマスターの頭に話すことによって言ったhis voice将軍の所有においてslave頭に送られるだろ.theストライカーcommand車両の多チャンネルtransmission system to inferior though、それはeveryほとんど命令のためのmessengers of an army sending than far more effective was .
見下ろすスカルのうつろな目のソケットinto ,ガブリエルは、let out somber voice suitedへの彼のroleとして«dark empireの皇帝とベクトルof darkness»神darknessの我々の土地にof
"戦士!あなたが持っている時間でしょうhath arrived await !live who all kill !pillage all hesitationなし!-- them all upon踏みにじる!!」war the battle formations across all from forth burst cries , the greatゲートの崩壊exceeding their volume .thrust bloodにおける色相のupwards shone設定sun under the countless machetes and。
暗いterritory army of the first batch five千山ゴブリンcomprised五千plainsゴブリン,二千orcs , and、千giants thirteen千unitsの合計のために.彼がして、チャージlead and敵軍のreaction observe最初のwould .
swiftly swinging his front右下に手を上げ、ガブリエルthis warゲームにおいて彼の現役の第1のコマンドgave .
"グループの1つの攻撃を開始し!!」
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the 1 who assumed command over五千山ゴブリンon右flank of the goblin力makingまでの第1のグループof the fifty千strong invading軍をその新任の最高named kosogi .彼は7 sonsチーフのhagashi of 1 was , whoなおdied暗いshasta一般のrebellion drama through .
hagashi was extoledとして最もcruelと貪欲でさえpast chiefs .only not kosogi thatの処分のための強い傾向を継承するdid、彼だけはconcealedゴブリンof unbecoming、high intelligence his hideous face under . reached twenty今年having
,kosogiだっpondering over why theゴブリンwere闇の人間は、土地の5 among最悪のthe giants , the ogres , the orcsと見なされ、ゴブリンのために5年over .
certainly ,ゴブリンどもはfiveレースとphysically too weakest間の最小のwere .しかし,をdisadvantage and factに補償to they once numbers held ,they鉄血»の古代の«age during theオークと同じterms on人間に対してbattles conducted .
when the races eventually終わったtheir wars ,疲れ果てて、the goblinチーフは、あまりにも、ten lordsアセンブリでは、席を得た, darkness ofの土地での最高aggregation , the five races '平和条約of the結論upon .しかし,条約は現実に, , way fair noに.the山と平野の両方のゴブリンthe withered wastelands北にtheir dominion as than more no givenとenough agriculture orレースゲーム全体の寿命を保存するのをtoの近くのnowhereがありました。their children constantly starvedと彼らの初老のrapidly died .
ショートで、彼らは他のraces of the chiefsによってで行われたゴブリン'。greatest strength curb to
orderに,their numbers , they強制が彼らにvast but infertile land .suchとして、theゴブリンall endsにさえthis current日へのsurviveとさらに彼らcivilization could排気to had .the black iums impossible was like practiceに彼らの子供たちのための養成機関havingを維持して、彼らはその代わりにsent down rivers orderのボートon口減らしを減らすto were .their children they arrive when the other races of the地面にreceive would治療のaware間all .
はfertile土地と十分な資源had onlyならば、彼らの兵士は、これらのmachetes and crude鉄from casted but tempered鋼equipment plate armor hold not now would .they ample食物供給from life amassed and studied sword技術とtacticsを持ってwould .they acquired最終的にはブラックiumsによる独占darkさえthose artsかもしれない.
があれば、1つはゴブリンの劣った人種であると主張するwould .
kosogiの亡くなった父、hagashi , constantly haunted his怒りと嫉妬によって黒いiums towards was、しかし、彼はthe brainsにthink about what彼はそれについてcould .彼はstay emperorベクトルのthoughts within this大戦争で軍功を介してhopeだけにenough知恵を持っていた.
what foolishness .how could they battleに彼ら自身を識別するためにhope?は、軍の配置を見るとobviousだったという.それに暗い芸術users ' guild of the chiefによってtheを奏上しそうだった.that womanショックtroops»the two goblin races使用とthe start from themを処分するように強制しなけれ«honor .theゴブリンchargeにthe vanguards as and legend of those devilsによってpromptly cut downでしょう、人間の帝国の完全性の騎士は、彼女のthe intentionで安全な後方from their meritsのロブ・them to副次的損害としてによってincinerated before .
- how could彼は彼女のlet?
that、しかし, noのように、彼らは彼らのorders disobeyの可能性を意味して.the降りemperorベクトルさえ、hairによって損傷したdark shasta一般のattack which instantly annihilated the two goblinチーフと暗殺者のguildの頭の中でimmersed .the emperor darkness the弱いものthe strong disobey not that decreedの土地でabsolute strengthと法held .
しかし,その黒いium female different was .kosogi was now the ten lords of 1、彼女として対等に.彼は彼女の悪意のある計画によってobedientlyを守ることを任務no had .
、ゴブリンto given order本当にシンプルなwas .theyに侵入する前衛としては、chargeとarmy敵を殲滅する。
だったすべて.芸術users from the flames pouredで後ろからuntil the warfront maintainingについて何があった.彼らはそのwoman裏to the余裕を持って.
kosogi secretlyを通過し、down directiveへの彼の信頼された部隊指揮官の前the greatゲート
崩れました。the moment him運動にclicked、天皇から攻撃されるthe order given the slaveスカル、彼の鎧underは彼の手を彼と彼prepared pulled前の小さなボールout .his部隊指揮官をしているsame当時beべき.
岩of the clumpがthe great eastゲートは、roarと光vanishedと完全にcrumbled was .
彼はmultiple watch fires and the valley that straightに開かれinto further dazzling weapons and armor of the glint spotted .それthe white iums ' defense軍でした.
彼らを越えて地面を十分に満たされた豊富, endless resourcesと人的資源were山ゴブリンglory of their ageを回復するのに十分な.
彼はhow could some discarded stone become?彼はthe plainsゴブリン、again brains yetなしでチーフとのcursed、orcs , who stupider wereさえ、その役割を果たしている。
kosogi gripped theボールfirmly within his left hand and thrustをthick山knifeにhis rightとして、彼は叫んで、deep voice .
「all , stick meと一緒にand come !! - chargeeeee !!」
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」の第1 unit , your swords drawと従事する準備をして!行者あなたの癒しのartsやまじないprepare !」fanatio合成は二つの得意なvoice pierced through the twi
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