Do Your Own Revolution
Chapter 148

#148

“Kwaaaargh–!”

“Upper section damage confirmed! It’s been eaten through!”

With a massive explosion, the giant’s body shook violently.

Half of its head blown away, the massive body staggered.

As expected, the barrier and magical power field emitted from the mana core were concentrated on the lower body.

‘The mana core’s output is about 20% of the Colossus. Threatening, but the durability is pathetic.’

It probably didn’t have enough power to maintain and defend a body of that size.

Watching its body melt like ice cream and its mindless thrashing, I made my assessment.

This one was still an incomplete specimen.

Due to the unexpected invasion, it was a hasty stopgap measure they’d brought out.

“Kwaaaa–!”

“Noisy half-baked thing.”

But this big lug wasn’t the real problem.

“This crazy bastard opened a rift in the middle of the city.”

The ‘Black Sun Incident’ that Irene had caused in the original [Revolution Empire].

Recalling that event, I narrowed my eyes and stared at the black hole beyond the giant.

Given the circumstances, Secretary General Vladimir, who was sitting on his behind in the center of the city, was controlling these monsters.

The intention behind sending out an incomplete giant monster before us was all too clear.

In that moment when we were distracted by the giant’s appearance.

The rift created in the city center had completely taken form.

“They’re coming.”

“…!”

The giant monster growled while facing me and my troops.

From behind that massive being, countless cries and roars began pouring out.

“Kiiiieek–!”

“Kwok! Kwaaaaargh–!”

“Kyaaaak–!”

The murky contamination spreading from the rift, and the enormous number of monsters pouring out of the black hole.

Seeing this, Guille immediately gave orders to his subordinates.

“All units, magic bullet use authorized-!”

Click, click.

High-concentration magic bullets being loaded into each weapon.

With the firing sound, the troops’ magic imprints glowed red, and hundreds of gun barrels containing magical power pointed forward.

The troops gathered like well-ordered infantry, gritting their teeth while waiting for Guille’s signal-

“Fire-!”

With Guille’s command, explosions and flames began mercilessly devouring the monsters.

Bang–!

The vanguard composed of four stroke or higher rank mages.

The bombardment enhanced by magic bullets instantly annihilated the monsters’ front line, and the blast pressure and heat made the following monsters hesitate.

‘Regular monsters can be overwhelmed with firepower. Then only one remains.’

I looked up at the giant roaring at the sky.

If we could just get past this big one, we could break the enemy’s spearhead and enter the city interior.

‘I didn’t want to use large-scale magic this early… but I guess there’s no choice.’

Just as I was about to activate the seventh stroke,

Thump.

Guille, who had been commanding the soldiers, suddenly grabbed my shoulder.

“Guille?”

“We don’t know what’s ahead in this situation. It would be troublesome if you jumped in already.”

Saying that, Guille stepped forward.

The six strokes of imprints on his right arm glowed red from the magical power of the magic bullets.

Click-!

The automatic pistol drawn from Guille’s holster.

After rapidly firing five additional magic bullets, he pulled the trigger with his eyes glowing red.

BOOM–!

A massive explosion engulfed the giant’s entire upper body.

Guille’s fifth stroke imprint bombing technique, [Concentrated Bombardment]

A huge hole was created in the giant’s left shoulder after it staggered once.

“Kwaok! Kwaaaaargh–!”

While it was focused on me, whom it considered its match, an uninvited guest named Guille had intervened.

As if the giant’s thoughts had twisted at seeing us, its remaining eye burst into flames.

Just as it was about to charge at Guille with a roar.

“Hey.”

At the voice from behind, the giant hurriedly turned its head.

At a height of 11 meters.

Ortega, pointing two shotguns at the giant’s face, was grinning with bared teeth.

“Look over here, where are you looking, you pig-!”

“Kruruk?!”

BANG—!

As eight magic bullets were fired, a tremendous impact shook the giant’s head.

Ortega’s personally developed attack technique, [Slug Shot]

“Ku, kuuuu……”

As if unable to withstand the force hitting its head, the giant’s body slowly began to fall.

Thud-!

“Giant monster down!”

“Extract the mana core! Assault team move in!”

“The rest maintain firing formation according to my command. Don’t let a finger touch our captain!”

“Yes sir-!”

The Special Magical Power Unit’s firepower increasing in precision according to Matt’s fire control.

Ortega’s assault team charging toward the fallen monster.

And Guille filling in the gaps with his six stroke magic imprint firepower while overseeing everything.

“Eugene-!”

With the fallen giant and burning horde of monsters behind him.

And the Special Magical Power Unit crushing the enemy with coordinated movements.

Standing with his back to all this, Guille spoke to me.

“Got magical power communication from the scouts we sent ahead. Looks like there’s something under this city.”

“I’m sure there is.”

Creating a rift of this scale would require a suitable sacrifice, after all.

Just as Count Elcryer used his cloned ‘disciples’ to open a rift, there must be the secretary general’s laboratory beneath this city.

“Not knowing what’s ahead, the Special Magical Power Unit’s highest priority is protecting you.”

“……”

“The place you need to fight isn’t these small fry, but the secretary general crouching underground.”

Guille was right.

I was Kalhyram Army’s only seven stroke imprint magician and the Special Magical Power Unit’s greatest fighting force.

The secretary general lurking under the city, and the things he had hidden.

I was probably the only one who could oppose them.

“So don’t think about charging ahead already. Just quietly take the escort down to hell.”

Guille’s casual remark.

“Puhaha!”

Hearing that, I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Such an easygoing guy. How can you laugh in this situation?”

“No, it’s not that.”

To think this stiff blockhead could now even prepare jokes like this.

Really, I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Haah…”

I looked at the Special Magical Power Unit before me with fresh eyes.

Guille commanding the troops in my place and his two assistants.

A mage unit meshing like well-designed machinery, complementing each other’s weaknesses.

The Special Magical Power Unit that Keiren and I designed had finally been completed.

“You’re doing pretty well without me now.”

“What?”

Guille asked about my unclear words, but I shrugged it off.

“Focus, idiot. Matt’s starting to struggle from concentrating too much on precision.”

Saying that, I activated [Eye of Horus] imprinted in my first stroke.

Calculating and reverse-engineering the monsters’ behavior patterns.

Computing assistance for bombardment techniques and aim correction for penetration techniques.

After making the immediately needed corrections, I thought about the army I had raised.

‘In the original work, these guys were just nameless extras.’

People who would have burned in the flames of revolution or been trampled by monsters originally.

But by my choice, they had finally reached this point.

In this game world that had strayed far from the original work.

They were now fulfilling their roles.

***

Thump-!

As the thick iron door shattered, a massive passage leading underground revealed itself.

Heh, would you look at that.

While all the troops continued fighting above ground, I was entering the underground alone.

The original protagonist ‘Eugene’, who had appeared by now, frowned while looking at the passage.

It’s quite different from when I saw it before. Mining rails and carts… and even conveyor belts?

“With Kalinin gone as a check on power, that much funding must have gone into this city. That’s probably why the Colossus was completed too.”

Overflowing funds and collapsed opposition.

Even the timely arrival of the test subject Petrenko.

Thinking about it now, it was absurd.

In other words, all of this happened because of me.

– The secretary general who should have fallen long ago is now gripping the republic’s full authority, grinding his own citizens into test subjects.

“……”

– Kalinin and Petrenko who should have kept him in check were shattered by your hands… by the unified Kalhyram Army’s hands. You understand what I’m saying?

Muttering that, ‘Eugene’ spoke to me.

– This bloated power of the secretary general. The secretary general’s madness devouring the republic, it all happened entirely because you changed the future.

The butterfly effect of interfering with the republic’s history for the empire’s victory.

Following cause and effect, the tens of millions of republic citizens killed by the secretary general were as good as killed by me.

“And?”

You feel nothing? No pangs of conscience or guilt for the dead?

“Then they shouldn’t have started the war first.”

I don’t feel guilty about their deaths now.

“But at the same time, I won’t try to justify it as sacrifice to prevent destruction.”

Hooh?

‘Eugene’ looked at me with interest.

One who was betrayed after being called a hero, failed and fell.

I looked at him and spoke slowly.

“I’m neither a hero nor a sage, just a single human being.”

……

A human who struggles desperately to survive each day, making countless choices for that purpose.

A human who chooses options for their own future and faces the consequences of those choices.

Just one person among countless such humans.

This is the result of my choices.

If so, what I needed to do was clear.

“If I chose to change the future, I have to see it through to the end.”

I will prevent destruction.

The countless tragedies and screams caused by the twisted future.

I accept all of it and achieve my purpose.

“And my purpose has always been one thing. Just survival.”

Survival.

Surviving and achieving peace for myself.

“That’s why I’m voluntarily going through this hell now.”

From start to finish, that was my only purpose.

……Indeed.

During the long descent underground.

The protagonist, who had been silent throughout, looked at me and said one thing.

You’re different from me.

“Of course.”

As I said that and put my foot on the end of the stairs.

Claang-!

“Kugh?!”

At the sudden sharp attack, the defensive barrier I had spread forward shattered.

To break through a barrier formed by seven stroke imprint in one blow.

Gritting my teeth and activating detection techniques, an unexpected being stood before my eyes.

“You…?”

Walking slowly toward me was a pure-breed monster.

Alexander.

A monster created by Arachne, the monster queen who had clashed with Irene.

Why is he here?

While I was thinking that, he slowly raised his weapon while looking at me.

“Well now.”

While drawing Heresy from my holster, I thought.

An environment cut off from the outside.

High concentration contamination spread to the end.

Really, what an exquisitely perfect situation.

“Irene.”

With those words, a small figure slowly walked out from behind me.

A girl in a black dress, Irene.

Her appearance standing in the middle of this mechanical forest filled with contamination and slime was beautiful to the point of being alien.

“……”

After confirming Irene’s appearance, the monster Alexander slowly lowered his stance.

In that moment when the tension was stretched taut to the breaking point.

Thump-

Why?

He knelt on the ground and bowed his head toward Irene.

“We acknowledge our legion’s defeat, new queen.”

“…What?”

This one could talk too?

No, more importantly, what?

Defeat?

“So I beg of you.”

The monster Alexander, speaking incomprehensible words, raised his head toward Irene and said.

“Please kill my queen who has become a puppet after fleeing in defeat.”

“……”

“Become queen and guide us to the Promised Land.”

In exchange, we will give you everything.

Looking at the monster bowing his head, I watched Irene’s face as she smiled faintly.

Irene.

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