Do Your Own Revolution

#120

“Kruuk…! Kruuruk…!”

Crunch-!

The monster’s head that let out a dying groan shattered into pieces.

The one who crushed it was the monster created by Irene.

No emotion could be felt in its gaze as it looked down at its own kind.

“Eugene-!”

Amid the staggering corpses of the monster corps.

While I was blankly staring at them, Irene, who had gathered the mana core, came bouncing towards me.

“Yes. You did well.”

I patted Irene’s head with a satisfied smile.

Unlike last time, there was no rampage, and the monsters she created were much more organized than before.

No, to be honest… they were an army created better than expected.

‘This is… quite unexpected.’

Monsters with magic imprint implanted.

These kinds of monsters didn’t exist in the original game.

Moreover, not only were they implanted with magic imprint, but they could also use the same magic techniques.

I looked around at the monsters guarding Irene.

Shwick-!

Receiving my gaze, the monsters bowed their heads in perfect form.

Though they weren’t speaking, it was clearly a movement that showed intelligence.

‘It’s true that I let Irene’s power grow… but to think she could create something like this.’

I looked at Irene who was smiling brightly while looking up at my face.

The ‘Black Sun Incident’ she caused in the original story.

The empire’s greatest disaster that turned hundreds of thousands of territory residents into monsters and destroyed the entire Count Gloucester domain.

The cause of that tragedy was the result of her losing control of her power and rampaging while being swept up in emotions.

Then how should one change that future?

I thought of two methods.

Either have her live as an ordinary girl while suppressing her power for life.

Or have Irene grow until she could adapt to her power and gain the ability to control it.

Of course, the method I chose was the second one.

I had to escape from House Count Elcidore, and Irene’s power was absolutely necessary for that.

And Irene has grown excellently, beyond my expectations.

‘However…’

To think she could create monsters with imprint beyond simple monster corps.

Moreover, Irene had certainly taken Count Elcryer’s seven stroke imprint after killing him.

The essence of House Count Elcryer that became impossible to handle with a human body due to contamination by the rift.

“Could it be that Irene… can already utilize that?”

If she could recreate Zeplant and Carlos using five stroke imprint, it means she could do even more.

If that’s the case, Irene hasn’t shown all her cards yet.

She can now handle power comparable to an entire magic noble house by herself.

“Eugene. Eugene.”

Just as my thoughts were deepening, Irene called out to me softly and grabbed my hand.

“…What are you doing?”

“Just stay still for a moment.”

As she said that, Irene’s finger touched my left ring finger.

Looking at the ring worn there, Irene puffed up her cheeks with a slightly sulky expression.

“Mari is unfair. I was going to do it first.”

“Huh?”

What’s she talking about all of a sudden?

Meanwhile, having said her piece, Irene suddenly lifted the ring worn on my finger slightly.

“Irene? What are you…”

Ignoring my question, Irene immediately put my finger in her small mouth and.

Chomp.

“Ugh?!”

She bit my finger, creating a small wound where the ring had been.

In that moment when I was struck speechless by the sudden action.

Swoosh-

“…!”

Centered on the teeth marks Irene made, black stems began to wrap around my finger like ink.

The black line surrounding my left ring finger.

Looking like a tattoo, it resembled wearing a black ring.

“There! Now it’s done!”

“What’s done?”

“Secret!”

Secret?

I looked at Irene with a suspicious expression, but she just giggled happily about something.

She’s not planning to tell me?

After adjusting the engagement ring back on, I looked at my finger once again.

The silver ring I wore together with Mari covered the black mark Irene had made.

“The preparations are complete, Eugene.”

Meanwhile, Margrave Kassel, who had finished preparing the automatons, spoke to me.

A thousand automatons ready for advance and the special units guarding the count.

Having completed the connection with them, the Margrave immediately extended his hand and activated the magic formula.

Woong—!

A hundred automatons positioned in the rear opened their chests, and the mana cores that emerged synchronized their magical power.

An army of dolls made with monster hearts.

And what was created by gathering the magical power of that doll army was a giant magical power spear.

As the light beam gradually took shape.

Looking at it, I could understand what the count was doing.

“Mass Formula.”

The massive formula that Lupeon, the head of House Count Elcidore and magic noble third seat, used to suppress the Revolutionary Army’s airship fleet.

Magic nobles’ secret technique that implements a single spell by synchronizing the magical power of numerous mages.

Margrave Kassel had realized this through the power of machines.

‘Come to think of it, Margrave Kassel originally planned to conquer the rift alone.’

Conquering the rift with a thousand automatons.

It sounded simple, but in reality, destroying a rift wasn’t an easy task.

Thousands upon thousands of monsters coiled up inside the rift, and numerous pure-breed specimens commanding them.

To destroy the rift, one had to break through all of them and destroy the rift’s core deep inside.

‘In the original story, it was barely possible only by bringing the protagonist with seven stroke imprint and companions who awakened six stroke imprint.’

However, the Margrave tried to destroy the rift with automatons that were merely equivalent to two stroke imprint.

Though the numbers were far greater, from my perspective as someone who completed the game, it was an impossibly reckless plan.

However, with the count’s method, there was a chance of success.

“The main doll army advances to draw the enemy’s attention while simultaneously locating the position of the core.”

“And then fire the mass formula at the exposed core from a distance.”

When I muttered this, the Margrave responded with an amused expression.

Simple.

But at the same time, it was an astounding strategy.

‘To use mass formula, you need to synchronize the magical power of hundreds of mages and cast the same formula simultaneously.’

This means hundreds of people must simultaneously calculate the formula and control magical power to construct and implement it.

However, Margrave Kassel was achieving this alone.

He was single-handedly performing the formula calculations and magical power control that should require hundreds of people.

‘So this is why he’s called the ruler of the north.’

I thought while sending an admiring gaze.

One-man army, Kassel Korhonen.

He wasn’t just an individual, but a mage who could handle the power of an army by himself.

“If it weren’t for you, this wouldn’t have proceeded so smoothly.”

Saying this, the Margrave looked at the monster corpses spread before him.

“These monsters have been invading the north for decades. If you and that child hadn’t stopped them, things would have been much more drawn out.”

“Looking at the scale of the formula… I think you would have been sufficient alone, sir.”

“Not at all.”

The count shook his head once and said.

“Those monsters that you and Miss Irene stopped have evolved through repeated invasions of the north over decades. Stopping them with just 900 dolls… wouldn’t have been such a simple task.”

“…”

“Moreover, if I had to command the dolls in battle while simultaneously deploying mass formula, the preparation speed of the magic would also be delayed. If powerful specimens like pure-breeds had exploited that gap…”

The formula under construction would be cancelled at once.

The aftermath of the failed magic would lead directly to magical power backflow, likely driving the count, the core of the doll army, to death.

“A success rate close to fifty-fifty. It was indeed a risky gamble to commit the north’s full strength.”

Hearing those words, I recalled the vision I had seen before.

The Korhonen of the original story.

There, the Margrave’s spirit broke while suppressing Russell’s coup.

The reorganized monster army instantly devoured the weakened Korhonen.

‘That incomparably gloomy future has been overturned due to my intervention.’

Ah, that’s good, that’s good.

While thinking this, the light spear constructed by the doll army had now taken complete form.

A massive beam of pure magical power.

The neatly disposed monsters, and the core’s location captured by detection formula.

Everything was perfect, without the slightest hitch.

All that remained was to open the rift with Irene’s power and return before it collapsed.

Soon, Margrave Kassel fired the light spear without any hesitation.

Kiiiiing—!

The giant magical power spear shot into the space beyond, emitting dazzling light.

The essence of pure magical power, with enough strength to destroy the core.

‘…’

While watching this, a voice flashed through my mind.

‘The existing monsters that jumped out from the rift were all specimens fully adapted to the frozen land. But look at this.’

Reina’s words to me while looking at the monster army attacking the barrier.

‘The existing invaders would never create specimens like these. Moreover, crucially, these specimens’ body structure isn’t suited for swimming in the sea.’

I turned my gaze to look at the remains of the monsters Irene had annihilated.

Gills, fins, scales, streamlined bodies.

These would indeed be the monsters that had long invaded the north, as the Margrave said.

However, looking at the monsters that invaded the barrier, Reina had said this.

‘These creatures are monsters, but they’re different from the monsters Korhonen usually faced.’

And as I recalled those words, I remembered.

‘Hu… man…’

The pure-breed monster that sprang out from the pile of corpses, targeting Irene.

‘Over…come… Queen’s… seed… A disgusting hybrid, shouldn’t have…’

That resentful voice.

That obsession rushing to kill Irene.

The moment I recalled that, I realized.

“Not yet.”

That the battle wasn’t over yet.

The fact that the real enemy remained inside this rift.

Tukwaang—!

The magical power spear shooting toward the end of the rift exploded at a certain point.

An enormous impact and vibration shaking the entire space.

However, Margrave Kassel’s expression was stiff as he watched that explosion.

Something had gone wrong.

“They blocked it? This mass formula created with hundreds of mana cores?”

The count’s voice was filled with astonishment.

I immediately activated [Eye of Horus] to look at the point where the magical power spear had exploded.

The core located in the rift’s depths was still intact.

And beyond that core, life signatures I had never seen before began to be detected one by one.

“Krururu…”

“Kwaaak! Kwaaaak–!”

A group of monsters gradually revealing themselves while maintaining formation.

It was a grotesque monster corps with human faces and limbs tangled here and there.

Not the specimens just exterminated, but ones with appearances like those that had attacked the barrier.

However, my gaze wasn’t fixed on that monster group.

Step- Step-

A specimen standing at their vanguard, silently approaching this way.

A form wearing black exoskeleton and wielding a spear.

And the formidable magical power felt from within it.

I could immediately notice.

That it was this one who had blocked the mass formula.

“This is why old groups are problematic. If they had quietly listened to me, things would have been much easier.”

A bizarre voice flowed from the center of the monster group.

A woman’s voice filled with malice.

Soon the distant monster ranks parted to either side, and a monster with a peculiar form slowly walked out.

Carapace spread wide like a dress.

A thin-lined body reminiscent of a ball-jointed doll, and a human face attached to it.

“If you want to die comfortably, listen to me. Human.”

Similar to a human.

But at the same time, a grotesque monster that couldn’t be thought of as human.

“Quietly hand over that filthy hybrid.”

At the end of that monster’s gaze was Irene.

“That detestable false queen who usurped the Queen’s Factor.”

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