Do Your Own Revolution
Chapter 121

#121

“A monster… that can talk?”

The shock I felt during the wall defense battle struck Margrave’s mind.

But that was only for a moment.

“Unbelievable. To single-handedly block a mass formula created by synchronizing hundreds of automatons……”

Seeing the monster that blocked the mass formula, wariness crept across Margrave’s face.

“I pride myself on having faced many pure-breed specimens, but I’ve never seen one this powerful.”

“……”

“A monster emitting magical power comparable to a head family magician. Just what is that……”

Just as Margrave Kassel hardened his expression with that thought.

“Kekek.”

A low laugh rang out right next to Margrave Kassel.

The monster had already reached right in front of the Margrave.

“What the hell?!”

“When did……”

There was a good reason why Margrave Kassel failed to catch her movement.

While controlling over a thousand automatons, he couldn’t possibly keep his eyes on the monster’s movements as well.

However, that wasn’t the case for me.

[Eye of Horus] was already activated, and [Domain] was functioning normally.

Even in that situation, I failed to catch that monster’s movements.

Just as the monster’s spear was about to reach him in his startled state.

Swoosh-!

Magical power chains that sprouted from the ground restrained the monster’s spearhead.

“……”

After briefly looking at the chains, the monster drew up her strength.

Though the magical power chains crumbled helplessly unable to withstand the monster’s strength, it didn’t matter.

A moment of confusion. And hesitation.

What I needed was just that fraction of a moment.

Boom–!

Dozens of Fireballs rained down toward where the monster stood.

Red lines with penetrating power maximized through extreme compression.

While she created distance to avoid them, I immediately launched myself forward to block in front of Margrave Kassel.

“Whew……”

“Grrrr.”

Perhaps she noticed the magical power I emanated in that brief moment.

Instead of launching another attack, the monster slowly lowered her body and began examining my condition.

Probably indicating she had no intention of approaching rashly.

“I’ll say it once more, human.”

As she spoke those words, the monster with a tearing voice opened her mouth while looking at me.

Her awkward imitation of noble speech felt incredibly out of place.

“If you wish to die comfortably, hand over that fake.”

“……Hah.”

As expected of a monster, what amazing negotiation terms.

Not even offering to spare me if I hand her over quietly, but just offering to kill me comfortably?

If I’m going to die either way, dying comfortably or dying after torture is pretty much the same thing.

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

Pushing those thoughts aside, I spoke while looking at the monster looking down at me arrogantly.

Having encountered an unknown being, what I needed most was information.

If it was a monster capable of speech, dialogue should be possible as well.

And incidentally, it would buy time to regroup.

“Given that you call her a fake queen, does that mean there’s a real queen?”

“Eugene. What are you……”

It was absurd enough meeting a talking monster, but now having a casual conversation with it?

Though Margrave tried to stop me in surprise, I ignored him and waited for the queen’s answer.

“There is.”

Good, she’s answering.

Stopping her subordinates who were about to charge, the monster stepped forward and spoke to me.

“I, who stands before your eyes. Arachne, creator of the [Legion of Destruction].”

“……”

“I am the true queen who will lead our species to the ‘Promised Land’.”

Well, damn.

Here we go with the talk only they understand.

Looking at the monster called Arachne who was openly flaunting her authority to humans, I could immediately organize my thoughts.

‘Those monsters are probably… the ones that appear in the future the Emperor saw.’

The future witnessed by the Emperor.

The world after the ending.

The revolution succeeded, but the Empire couldn’t handle its aftermath and weakened.

The revolutionary government that took the positions of the Imperial family and magic nobles expelled Eugene Lorentz, the hero of the revolution.

After filling the mainstream power with the Republic’s pawns, they began gradually transferring the Empire’s interests to the Republic.

‘The Empire, having fallen to become a satellite state of the Republic, suffered exploitation no different from when it was under magic noble rule, while the rulers who sold out the Empire and high-ranking Republic officials were busy securing their own interests in that mountain of gold.’

And as if to punish such a world, the Great Rupture opens once again.

Monster legions covering the sky.

The burning continent.

A world facing destruction.

Recalling that, I realized.

This monster calling herself queen with her twisted face.

And the name they call themselves, the Legion of Destruction.

It wasn’t hard to deduce.

These were the monsters the Emperor had prophesied would destroy the continent.

The fact that they were beings who would create endless waves of monsters from the Great Rupture that would appear in the future.

‘And at the same time, I knew how to deal with them.’

I carefully observed the queen monster called Arachne.

‘She’s continuing dialogue even while halting combat, and openly revealing the fact that she’s the queen.’

Unlike specimens that take no unnecessary actions, this was a monster with self-awareness and subjectivity.

In other words, this queen Arachne was a monster with emotions.

“What is Queen’s Factor?”

“A lowly human need not know.”

Perhaps tired of my continued questions.

Arachne shot back curtly and spoke while looking down at me.

“All you need to do is hand over that fake clinging to you……”

Clang–!

‘If left alone, who knows when she’ll approach and aim for the Count’s neck again. In that case…’

I immediately drew up magical power to create dozens of magic circles.

What I created using magical power drawn through [Domain] was a penetration formula, [Spear of Mithra].

Having apparently grasped the formula structure in that brief moment, the pure-breed monster facing me immediately took up a defensive stance.

Probably saying “come if you dare.”

Confident that one who blocked even the Margrave’s mass formula couldn’t be stopped by this attack.

Reading that intent, I fired the loaded magic without delay.

However, unfortunately, where my attack was aimed…

“?!”

Was at the queen monster surrounded by regular monsters.

Boom—!

The red spears shot out instantaneously and detonated at a single point.

[Spear of Mithra], a penetration formula that tears through commander-level magicians’ barriers like paper.

With additional magical power supplied through [Domain], piercing the monster’s carapace should be all too simple.

Is the queen dead?

Though I thought that, I didn’t have much expectation.

That pure-breed monster called Alexander.

No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t an easy opponent.

“Grrrr……”

As the thick smoke cleared, the monster formation became clearly visible.

The monsters defending the queen in the front line had melted away without a trace.

But unfortunately, the [Spear of Mithra] I fired didn’t reach the queen.

“You……”

“For someone calling herself queen, your thinking is too shallow.”

The reason they targeted Margrave Kassel was simple.

The one with firepower capable of destroying the rift was the automaton army controlled by Margrave Kassel.

So they must have aimed for the Margrave’s neck first.

“When an opening appeared, you immediately tried to eliminate the Margrave. And even now, you’re targeting the Margrave first, not me or Irene.”

While throwing empty words about handing over the fake and whatnot.

Looking at the monster army that instantly surrounded us and bared their fangs, a slight smile appeared on my face.

“That mass formula you just blocked.”

“……”

“Seems like it would be hard to block twice, wouldn’t it?”

The moment those words were heard, Margrave Kassel behind me immediately began constructing a second mass formula.

“Such petty tricks!”

Along with the queen’s rough shout, Arachne also advanced her legion to begin the attack.

“Irene.”

“Yes!”

Along with the remaining puppet army, the monsters summoned by Irene began firing magic while adjusting their formation.

Monster activity detected. Eliminate. Eliminate.

“Kwok! Kwoooork–!”

Numerous spells fired by automatons and monsters.

Irene’s monsters blocking the monsters’ massive bodies in tight formation while butchering them with hammers and spears.

Flesh and gore flew about as magical power light and explosions covered the entire space.

A large-scale battle comparable to war had broken out inside this rift.

Clang–!

Alexander, the pure-breed monster protecting the queen’s side, immediately blocked my path and continued fierce attacks.

‘This is crazy. I can’t push it back even with [Domain] activated?’

A monster that launches attacks focused on close combat and speed, utilizing physical abilities and durability.

For me who was fixed in place relying on firepower, it was an unfavorable match-up.

Though I was somehow managing through martial arts, I wondered how long this could last.

It reminded me of hunting the Republic’s bear.

‘I can see why the continent was destroyed in the original work.’

A monster with power equivalent to seven stroke magicians.

If monsters like these came flooding out in droves, the continent’s destruction was inevitable.

The magicians in the Empire had been nearly wiped out by the fight between the Revolutionary Army and magic nobles, and the seven stroke imprint magicians who should have stopped them were all killed by the Revolutionary Army.

Even the protagonist called the hero of the revolution met his end in prison, so there was no way they had the strength to face such monsters.

While piecing together the settings of the original game, I continued thinking.

The fortunate thing was that the size of the legion we were currently facing wasn’t that large.

And the reason for that was most likely related to what Irene possessed called Queen’s Factor.

‘In the original [Revolution Empire], Black Witch Irene is eliminated before the revolution.’

In other words, the ‘fake queen’ died according to these monsters’ intentions.

Without the queen of that monster legion having to personally track down Irene.

‘So that’s why Emperor Franz, who was a reformist monarch, shut himself in his room? Because he saw such a future?’

Thinking about it now made me dumbfounded.

The journey to change the Empire.

Behind the main story of revolution, such a massive story was progressing.

Without knowing, we were putting together pieces for destruction one by one.

Boom–!

Meanwhile, the monster legion commanded by Arachne was pressing closer while overwhelming the monsters created by Irene.

“Detestable usurper.”

“……”

“A hybrid mixed with humans, controlling rifts while possessing the lost Queen’s Factor!”

Irene’s monsters were gradually being pushed back.

Monster queen Arachne looked down at Irene and shouted viciously.

“The essence of our species should not be in a disgusting human body.”

“……”

“Hand it over. Hand it over to me who will become the great queen! If you do so, we can go to the Promised Land……”

However, the moment Arachne spoke that far.

“No.”

Along with that brief word, an immense pressure pushed back Arachne’s legion at once.

“What?!”

Arachne cried out in surprise.

Confirming that, Irene spoke with empty eyes.

“You’re misunderstanding one thing.”

“Misunderstanding…?”

“You thought you lured me here, thought you could bring me here and eliminate me?”

And you think everything went according to plan.

Muttering that, Irene continued speaking.

“But that’s wrong.”

“……”

Along with those words, another shadow gradually emerged from within Irene’s shadow.

What gradually revealed itself was another of pure-breed monsters clad in black exoskeleton.

Seeing the imprint embedded in its right arm, I could only be shocked on the spot.

A seven strokes imprint glowing brilliantly in amethyst color like Irene’s eyes.

Though twisted and deformed in places, I could recognize it.

“That’s……”

The magic imprint of the Elcryer family that Irene had previously devoured.

The magician’s heart wielded by the one who made her an experimental subject.

Boom-!

As the name flowed from Irene’s lips, the black monster immediately released magical power to reveal its presence.

Two of pure-breed monsters gathering again around it.

And the monster legion forming ranks as if to guard them.

“You didn’t come looking for me.”

Standing at the center of that group, Irene looked down at the queen’s legion facing her and spoke.

“I came looking for you.”

It was like the appearance of a queen rising from her throne.

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