Only one wish (3)

The wind blows in the quiet wilderness.

The land, devastated by a long war, was spending a moment like the night before a storm under a dark and dark sky that blocked the sun.

“…it’s coming soon.”

One of the commanders confirmed the movement of the monster through the crystal ball.

The dimensional wall is shaking.

It means that the witch is coming here.

On the other side of the vast wilderness, the moment demons appear through the loosened dimensional walls, the war will begin.

The final war to end everything.

“Don’t be too scared.”

At that time, there was a hand on the commander’s shoulder.

When I turned my head, there was a woman there.

Dressed neatly in a white uniform.

Light purple hair tied in a ponytail.

And, sunglasses that stand out even in the dark battlefield.

The head of Deneb, Claire, was there.

“De, meet the head of Deneb!”

“There’s no need to be formal. I’m not the important thing here.”

All the soldiers were watching her.

The family head of Deneb, who had left long ago feeling skeptical about the war, stood on the battlefield again after a long confinement.

Although this must have been an unusual event, Claire smiled as usual.

Wearing a confident smile, he threw off his sunglasses and stood in front of the soldiers.

“Do you remember me, kids!”

A booming voice reverberates everywhere.

She put down the chair she had brought from nearby, stood on it, and looked around at the soldiers.

Faces of tension and fear ahead of the final battle.

Claire looked into each of their eyes and said.

“First of all, I’m sorry for talking on a chair like this out of shape! The stage was all covered up, so I finally borrowed this one too! It’s a fucking mess! Fucking things!”

His casual remarks dispelled the heavy atmosphere.

At the voice that didn’t even feel the slightest tension, the eyes flew and stuck.

“Kids these days are out of their minds! Back in my day! If there wasn’t anything on the podium, I made it and brought it!”

One of the subordinates of the guard team who came with the story of the leak said the other way.

“Gyeongjeong-nim, you’re in your late 20s now.

“What are you saying, you idiot. When did you make a fuss about getting married because you were full of age?”

In the end, laughter erupted from all over the place.

Everyone knew that it was a conversation to lighten the mood, but Claire’s words were witty enough to be attacked knowingly.

“Anyway! I know why you guys are so down!”

Light purple eyes, the same color as her hair, looked at the soldiers.

“It’s the last battle. It’s scary. It’s scary. It won’t end if only you die, but if the battle is lost, everyone will die, so the burden will be heavy on your shoulders.”

If you lose here, everything ends.

The Emperor will devour entire dimensions, and the world will lose its light in his darkness.

Knowing that, they carried a greater fear than their own death on their shoulders.

“You can be afraid. It doesn’t matter if you are afraid. It’s natural for humans.

So, she acknowledged their fears.

acknowledged and allowed to accept.

She didn’t command me to forget the obvious.

“If you’re scared, you can run away. Instead, even if you run away, protect your family. If you become a Hunter, shouldn’t you do that much?”

“Can I go too, sir?”

“You are my family from today. Protect me first.”

“Let’s wash the baby.”

It’s family, not family.

After kicking away the babbling subordinate next to her, she continued.

“Leave it to us whether the world is ruined or not. That’s why there are three generations and our heads of families.”

Since they were the ones who reigned and ruled over the society at the central level, they also took responsibility.

It was a matter of course, but she recited a proposition that had not been followed in the meantime.

“So straighten your chest. Don’t shrug your shoulders! Raise your eyes straight and look ahead!”

she drew the knife

He saw countless soldiers watching him with bated breath.

“No matter what choice you make, you are proud Hunters of the Alliance! Got it!”

“”All right!!!””

With a roaring roar, she finally got down from her chair.

Allied commander Claire, her return was truly splendid.

“Then what if you really run away?”

“Don’t run away.”

She saw the Hunters heading forward.

Without sunglasses, she looked at them with her own two eyes, not averting.

“If they had run away, they wouldn’t have come here.”

Even though she left the battlefield long ago, she believed in those called Hunters.

Even if their circumstances are different, the reason they became hunters is because they have a desire to protect something.

“You go and get a chair.”

“Oh no…”

She took care of the chair and stared at the distant horizon.

As she was looking at the wall that had become so thin that she could see the other side, there were people approaching her.

“Can you treat your subordinates like that?”

Thereon, who had come to the side, clicked his tongue and sighed.

He was heavily armed with black armor instead of his usual suit.

“They who came under me are taking over.”

“Tsk… That’s why you took your father out of the way. Didn’t you?”

At the place where Thereon turned the question, there was Helena who shook her head throbbingly.

“The only thing that stays the same is that it’s a good family.”

“Is that a compliment? Since it’s ambiguous, I’ll just take it as a compliment.”

At that, both shook their heads.

In the past and now, Claire was the one who couldn’t even eat the gourd seeds.

“The day when I stand on the battlefield with you guys will come again eventually.”

Altair.

Vega.

Deneb.

They are the three major families that dominate the central dimension, and they were separated by ideological clashes a long time ago.

No one thought they would be able to unite again, but fate brought them to a single battlefield, like divergent rivers meeting at sea.

“What. Wasn’t that what you expected?”

What brought them together was neither ideology nor belief.

Their goals are still different, and the emotional trough has not completely healed.

But even so, they stood on one battlefield.

It’s not because of the huge intention to protect the world, but because of the butterfly effect caused by just one person.

“···yes.”

they saw each other

At least for this moment, there was a common intention to unite them.

“For the one who became my granddaughter’s teacher.”

“For my daughter’s benefactor.”

“For the milestones that lighted my path.”

they grinned

After all, the three propositions refer to only one person.

“For Professor Yujin Kang.”

The heads of the three families stood on the battlefield doing their best.

uuu-

The dimensional walls began to sway, and demons began to appear one by one.

“···come.”

The monsters that appeared one by one eventually began to gather as a ‘swarm’ beyond the torn dimensional wall.

“Everyone prepare for battle!!”

Countless hunters pulled out their weapons.

Swords, spears, bows, etc. were all different, but all of them were creating a circle with one kit.

A rotating body kit made by Yujin Kang and distributed to the military.

It eventually replaced the Artifact and was held in everyone’s hands.

“Sympathetic nervous system connection!”

“Connect to the nervous system—!!”

and one more.

The sympathetic nervous system was established, and all hunters began accessing the conscious network without exception.

A neural network that can share consciousness with each other and process all feedback in batches.

The power Yujin Kang gave them by interpreting the power of the Witchbeast merged the hunters, who had been separated as separate rituals, into a single community.

“「We don’t know fear!」”

“Sing back!”

“”「We don’t know fear—!!」””

“Charge———!!”

Countless hunters charged towards the monsters with a huge shout.

Their shouts swallowed the cries of their enemies, and their will ignited fear.

The future that one professor had prepared for one day eventually became a reality and stood proudly in front of the enemy.

─────!!

Formation changes with shouts.

Countless people moved in perfect order like a single organism.

This is because the clustered consciousness shared all the information collected by each individual, and one could grasp the meaning of the whole even if it was not conveyed verbally.

What monsters are there, what abilities are there, and what tactics do they use?

All of that information was fed back in batches, and the countermeasures were delivered to everyone in real time.

The demonic power that had plagued mankind for a long time now belongs to mankind and protects them.

“… that’s great.”

Counting the number of demons is meaningless.

Even though it was an army that was enough to dye the sky and the earth black, the allied forces were not pushed back and were fighting on an equal footing.

No, on the contrary, it even showed an overwhelming appearance in some places.

The blade that a man named Kang Yoo-jin spent many years forging became a dagger that could stab the beast so sharp.

“Break down the enemy’s sympathetic nervous system!”

“Find the enemy general!!”

The Allied offensive did not end there.

Some reverse infiltrated the beast’s sympathetic nervous system, attacking the network and locating the command object.

Those who enthusiastically supported Kang Yoo-jin’s theory of witchcraft, as well as his thesis and opinions on witchcraft.

The people of Kang Yu-jin’s school became fanatics and began to exterminate the demons.

“He’s watching! It’s a holy war—!!”

“Kill the enemies of mankind!!”

“Ooooh——!!!”

Helena looked at them with a tired face as they screamed with bloodshot eyes wide open.

“Those fanatics…”

How did people like that even exist?

Each of them had nothing in common, but the reason they became fanatics of Kang Yu-jin’s school was for one of two reasons.

People who had a direct conversation with Yujin Kang, or had his thesis reviewed by him.

Because his knowledge always had the power to open people’s eyes, those who experienced the traces of truth he showed would all become fanatics of Kang Yu-jin.

At one time, I even suspected that they might have been mentally controlled, but as a result of the confirmation, their minds were fine.

“I’m more scared because I’m fine…”

Yujin Kang fascinated people so much only with his own knowledge and studies.

This fact made Helena both respectful and appalled at the same time.

“You don’t know how lucky we are to have that man on our side.”

“I mean.”

Laughing, they also stepped forward.

I put the first button well, but I can’t be vigilant.

Witchbeasts always create unexpected variables.

They couldn’t let go of the tension until the end because they didn’t know how to catch them off guard this time.

The eyes of the three heads of households were directed to the other side of the battlefield, beyond the walls where demonic beasts were pouring in.

*

“The battle has begun.”

Helios, the Altar of Stars.

In a place full of silence, I was looking up at the sky with Laniakea.

Coming out from the other side of the sky, where the Milky Way is far away, she saw an extraordinary phenomenon rising from the constellation where the front line was located.

“It’s not just one place.”

A giant front that covers the entire Milky Way.

Battles were breaking out simultaneously in that wide and expansive area.

Numbers are numbers, but it was proof that the emperor’s leadership was strong enough to cover all fronts.

“…It’s beyond my imagination.”

Even Laniakea said as if she was slightly fed up.

No matter how powerful a Constellation is, it is difficult to control multiple dimensions at the same time.

It was the same for the corps commander, and even for Laniakea, it was impossible to command all of such a vast territory.

The power of the emperor who was doing such a thing had enough coercion to cut off the fighting spirit of those watching.

“You don’t have to worry about it again. Isn’t that what you expected anyway?”

“Whoa… that’s right.”

It was already expected that the power of the emperor’s body was strong.

I didn’t expect it to be like this, but now there was no reason to be surprised and worried.

“We just have to do what we can.”

“Can I win?”

“I will win.”

I turned and looked at her.

He stared straight into the silvery hair and eyes.

“You just have to trust me, your apostle.”

“·······.”

Wait a second, her eyes stared blankly at me.

Then, he responds to me with a softly drawn smile.

“Yes. I believe in you. Always.”

“Yes.”

We got up from our seats.

There was no time to play now.

War had come upon the world, and it was time for us to do our part.

“Please prepare the constellations. We will go as planned.”

“I know.”

I was going to my seat, but suddenly she opened her arms.

Looking at something, she said with a shy smile.

“Will you give me a hug?”

“·······.”

It was an unexpected request.

It wasn’t a request that suited me recently, but I gladly complied.

Laniakea’s body, which was embraced with both arms, was small enough to be held in her arms at once, just like Maria’s.

“…please be careful.”

“Yes.”

after a brief hug.

With a satisfied laugh, she spread her wings and soared into the sky.

Watching the light of her receding, I also moved to the seat where my colleagues were waiting.

“You can come, Emperor.”

i am waiting for you