Do Your Own Revolution

#108

“Huff… Huff…!”

Something had gone wrong.

The endless barrage of firepower from the Special Magical Power Unit.

Revolutionary comrades falling one by one.

Even while consoling them and maintaining the frontline, Fell Rosson, a Revolutionary Army mage, couldn’t shake off that thought.

“What’s happening, Sir Randall! What are the next orders…! What should we do about the next orders…!”

“No instructions are coming from headquarters! The chain of command isn’t responding!”

“Hey! Where are you going in the middle of battle…!”

They had reached their limit in both withstanding the Imperial army’s firepower and maintaining the defensive barrier.

Despite repeatedly requesting responses from headquarters and executives, no answers came from anywhere.

‘Did the previous one fail? No, that can’t be…!’

The operation had all gone smoothly.

The simultaneous raids and the Special Magical Power Unit scattered to various locations.

And Randall and Claude who infiltrated during that time.

One seven-stroke mage and three six-stroke mages.

With such rabble as the Imperial Guard Knight Order, they shouldn’t have been opponents they could possibly defeat.

The other side shouldn’t have had any fighting power left to stop this.

But how…!

“The Knight Order is running away!”

“What?!”

A thunderbolt of words burst out from one of his fellow revolutionary members.

“They’re breaking formation! They’re creating an escape route!”

“Those bastards, what kind of communication did they receive?!”

“Stop them! If this happens, the defensive line will collapse!”

“Let go, you lowborn scum! Don’t you know what situation this is…!”

“Argh?! These sons of bitches are using magic on us!”

It was complete chaos.

While they were already struggling to respond to the advancing Special Magical Power Unit, now the Knight Order was trying to break formation?

This couldn’t be…!

Click, click-click…

Just as he was thinking that.

Receiving magical power communication through his magic imprint, Fell immediately focused all his attention on it.

“Headquarters?! What’s going on! What are the next orders?! How is the operation progressing…!”

And the next moment.

– Ah, ah. Good. The connection status is fine.

The voice that came through the magical power communication wasn’t Randall’s, but that of an unfamiliar person.

– Rebel mages, can you hear my voice?

“What, what? Rebels?”

“This voice…”

“Could it be, Imperial army?”

The languid voice calling them rebels.

The moment they heard that voice, the blood drained from Fell’s and the other mages’ faces.

‘For the enemy to use magical power communication on our network means they’ve captured the core imprint that relays magical power wavelengths. And the imprint that relays the Revolutionary Army’s magical power communications is…!’ ᚱÃ₦ộ𝐁Ɛś

The supreme leader’s magic imprint, [Red Wings].

In other words, they had now extracted Claude’s imprint.

And realizing this, Fell could recognize who the owner of the voice coming through the magical power communication was.

– This is Special Magical Power Unit Commander, Colonel Eugene Lorentz.

Eugene Lorentz.

The leader of those devils who were driving them into a corner.

– Your commanding officer Randall Dean Clark and rebel supreme leader Claude Elcidore have just been killed…

“Ha, haha…! Hahaha…!”

“Fell! What’s happening?! This communication…”

Still seemingly unable to grasp the situation, one revolutionary member beside him turned to Fell.

He was getting irritated seeing his colleague standing beside him laughing like he’d lost his mind.

But the moment the member with the scrunched face looked at Fell.

Click.

Fell had his pistol, which had been holstered at his waist, pointed at his own chin.

“Hey, what are you-!”

Bang-!

Before his colleague could stop him, Fell’s pistol spat fire.

“Ah, ah…!”

“Ca-Captain Fell…!”

“What! What just happened?!”

“Re-retreat! Run away! Run away!”

What had they said when they first set out?

To change the Empire?

To end the Emperor’s suffocating rule and create a new world?

It was all nonsense.

A hopeless battle situation.

No response from above.

The Knight Order trying to flee.

And finally, the suicide of their commanding officer.

Whatever cause or ideals they had resolved themselves to at the start had long since vanished.

The terrified revolutionary members now began to flee in complete disarray, having lost all reason.

“Confusion occurring in enemy ranks. Their formation is collapsing.”

“Looks like Eugene succeeded.”

Watching the anti-aircraft position occupied by the Revolutionary Army, Special Magical Power Unit 2nd Battalion Commander Guille smiled slightly.

“Eugene, you crazy bastard, you really caught a seven-stroke mage.”

He’d thought it was an impossible operation, but he really pulled it off.

Guille’s grip tightened on his weapon.

If he dawdled while his superior was doing this, who knows what harsh words he’d hear during the post-operation review.

Thinking this, Guille immediately loaded a magic bullet into his pistol.

When the five-stroke magic imprint implanted in his right arm began to glow, the other members who saw it grinned.

“3rd and 5th platoons advance first, with the fire support team following. The remaining troops?!”

“1st and 7th platoons are combat ineffective! The rest are ready!”

“Good. All troops prepare to charge!”

As Guille raised the pistol in his right hand, the other members in cover lowered their bodies.

Rumble–!

The moment shells from the armored train swept through the Revolutionary Army’s position-

“All troops charge-! Tear the rebels to pieces-!”

“Uwaaaaah–!”

“Forward! Forward-!”

With Guille’s command, the 2nd Battalion members began charging all at once.

Simultaneous attacks occurring throughout the Imperial Capital’s direct jurisdiction.

Unlike the magic nobles they had been facing, the Imperial army was defeating them all too smoothly.

***

“Huff… Huff…!”

Two shadows could be seen running down an old alley.

Trench coats and berets, wing-shaped magic imprints made of brass.

These were the characteristics of the Revolutionary Army they had seen sickeningly often.

“Where… Just where did the plan leak from?!”

A voice rang out.

While frantically fleeing, one of the members ground his teeth and shouted.

Right.

Randall had surely said this plan was perfect.

That they would start simultaneous uprisings in the outskirts of the Imperial Capital to disperse the Special Magical Power Unit, and during that time, they would infiltrate and deal with the Emperor.

The security would have been lax, and there wouldn’t have been any mages guarding, so they just needed to pull the trigger.

‘But now, all those plans that were made have been twisted.’

Randall, who had made the plan, had become a pile of ashes and had his magic imprint taken.

Claude, the Revolutionary Army supreme leader, had become a cold corpse.

The moment they lost both men who were the pillars of the plan, all command structure of the Revolutionary Army collapsed.

They had simply degenerated into a mere mob of rioters, without even high-ranking executives to give retreat orders.

– Eastern Direct Jurisdiction in charge, 4th Battalion Commander Matt. Area suppression complete.

– Western sector, 2nd Battalion operation complete too. We’ve captured the main executive members. Handing them over to Intelligence Department agents.

– Southern sector 3rd Battalion! They fortified the anti-aircraft position, so we turned the position to dust! Looking at how these bastards fought, seems like there were a few knights mixed in, maybe we should have kept one alive?

“We’ve secured about five from other sectors. The rest are unnecessary, eliminate them all.”

Magical power communications were coming in one after another from the commanders in charge of each sector.

The Revolutionary Army being quickly dealt with, along with revolutionary members from the Republic who had cooperated with them.

And even the knights who had been attacking the Special Magic Unit while disguised as Revolutionary Army.

They would all be dragged to the Imperial Palace underground as prisoners.

The torture technicians dispatched from the Intelligence Department would gladly extract information from these guys.

“With everyone below working, how can I rest?”

Muttering that, I fired my pistol straight ahead.

Bang-!

“Kuhk?!”

The bullet that cut through the air pierced one of the shadows.

It was a strange sensation.

Though it was just a basic technique, it had enough power to pierce through a mage’s barrier.

In the past, I would have felt at least some magical power draining away.

But now that I had awakened the seven-stroke imprint and could use domain.

Firing a magic bullet with this much power was nothing.

“Damn it… My, my leg…”

The Revolutionary Army member screaming while clutching his ankle.

Though it was hundreds of meters away, [Eye of Horus] had hit its target precisely.

“Go ahead! I’m done for!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! How can I throw away a comrade who shared in our great cause like an old shoe…!”

“You should have thrown them away like old shoes.”

While they were squabbling over their fallen comrade, I said that having reached right beside them.

“You should survive, even if just one person, to plan for the future, right?”

Though I’d killed the big shots Randall and Claude, unfortunately my work wasn’t done yet.

[Eye of Horus] is a detection technique with the highest level of precision.

The operation speed differs depending on whether it’s used or not.

I was identifying the locations of Revolutionary Army members scattered throughout the Imperial Capital and relaying them to our troops.

A tedious task that made me want to yawn.

When I dealt with the rats hiding in the Imperial Capital’s alleys while I was at it, the revolutionary members who heard my voice turned pale and trembled.

“Eugene… Lorentz…!”

Yes, correct answer.

Multiple iron chains appeared from a magic circle that manifested in the air.

Swoosh-!

“Kuk?!”

Magical power chains binding both arms of the fleeing revolutionary member.

In the case of his fallen comrade, I put it around his neck instead of his arms.

It was quite entertaining to see the faces of the two people as I bound the no~ble Revolutionary Army fighters who would liberate the Empire with chains like slaves.@@novelbin@@

“Why… Why do you side with those people! Eugene!”

To those words spat out like blood, I walked leisurely toward where they were.

The uniform roughly thrown over my shoulders, Heresy held in one hand.

And the magical power that was slowly leaking out around me, having awakened not too long ago.

Honestly, I was dying of exhaustion.

I felt like throwing away all this suppression operation nonsense and going to sleep in my quarters.

“Weren’t you a poor person like us! Weren’t you a refugee! Then why… Why…!”

“Why did I side with the Emperor instead of you guys?”

While answering, I pressed the gun barrel against the man’s face.

How dare rebel scum bark.

Making noise in the neighborhood in the middle of the night.

Thinking that, I spoke to the two revolutionary members with a languid expression.

“Simple. The ending of this game was getting betrayed while doing the revolution with you guys.”

“…What?”

Look at that expression.

A face showing they didn’t understand at all?

Well, it’s natural they would react like that.

How could there be games or anything like that in this world.

Since I wasn’t particularly expecting an answer, I pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Bang-!

The magic bullet that flew from Heresy struck the man’s face.

A non-lethal impact round rather than a penetrating round.

“Looking at your appearance, you seem like an executive, this is perfect timing.”

This guy should have lots of information to extract.

Looking at the man losing consciousness and collapsing, that’s what I thought.

“Do your revolution among yourselves.”

After putting a cigarette in my mouth, I opened my lips to the air.

“I’m going to sell you out and live well.”

After falling into this damn game world.

From beginning to end, that was my only goal.

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