Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 114 - 112: The Fall of Copper Hammer City, the Human Race’s Trial, and the Return

Chapter 114: Chapter 112: The Fall of Copper Hammer City, the Human Race’s Trial, and the Return

The Giant Demons’ Airship Corps was annihilated in an instant.

After all, from the moment they entered the Mist Forest, Lince had been well aware of their arrival.

Letting them in was precisely part of Lince’s plan.

He merely wanted to test his current Power.

The Giant Demon Legion on the airships had been forcibly dragged into a dreamscape by a standard Skill from Lince’s Nightmare Giant Dragon Bloodline.

The so-called kilometer-long Giant Dragons were, naturally, created in the same way.

In the dreamscape, Lince used his powerful Spiritual Power to create a group of Winged Dragon-like nightmare creatures to attack the Giant Demons.

Soon, all the Giant Demons, except for the Giant Mage, died completely in the nightmare.

From beginning to end, Lince never officially made a move.

Relying solely on the Abilities of the Nightmare Giant Dragon, he had already annihilated the thousand-strong Giant Demon Airship Corps.

In the end, the only one who broke free from the dreamscape was the Giant Mage.

But even though he had forcibly escaped, his Magic Power and Spirit were now severely depleted.

Lince found this to be normal.

After all, this Giant Demon’s strength was comparable to an Initial Entry High Tier Demon Beast.

It was only natural that he could break free.

Unfortunately, once this Giant Mage escaped the nightmare, he was plunged into complete despair.

Under the clear blue sky!

Fifteen airships floated intact in the heavens.

But the Giant Demons operating them had all died in the dreamscape!

Expressions of unwillingness, despair, and ferocity were frozen on the faces of the dead Giant Demons.

He looked at the Giant Demon Legion Commander lying beside him, his face a mask of bitter resentment.

The Giant Mage, Chim, gasped for breath and closed his eyes in despair.

When he opened them again, the Giant Mage’s gaze fell upon the Black Dragon hovering in front of the flagship.

This Black Dragon was immense, its eyes dark, deep, and indifferent.

It seemed to be watching the deaths of the Giant Demons with the expression one would reserve for ants.

To it, what was the annihilation of the entire Giant Demon Legion if not the crushing of ants?

"A Demon Dragon! It’s actually a Demon Dragon!"

"Haha, how unexpected! To think a powerful Demon Dragon like you still exists in this world!"

"This isn’t my fault! It’s the fault of those fools in the Empire’s expeditionary force!"

"So, Your Excellency, Demon Dragon, can you tell me? How did you escape the purge of the entire elite expeditionary force a hundred years ago?"

At this moment, the Giant Mage actually relaxed.

He seemed to have given up any thought of useless resistance.

However, Lince found his typically sinister, villainous tone rather displeasing.

’The experience pack is talking?’

’Who gave it permission? The experience points?’

Lince complained to himself. Why do villains always have so much to say?

Lince still had things to do.

So, in the next instant, before the Giant Mage could comprehend what was happening...

The Giant Mage’s entire body exploded!

Just like a bug bursting open.

’The Power of Space Compression is quite useful.’

’A Tier Seven Giant Demon with most of its Magic Power gone has almost no ability to resist.’

’The consumption is acceptable, less than ten percent of my Magic Power. But then again, this Giant Demon wasn’t that strong. Maybe I should find a Tier Nine Giant Demon to test it on.’

Looking at the Giant Demon whose flesh and blood had splattered all over the airship, Lince felt no discomfort whatsoever.

Instead, he began to evaluate his own Skill.

Throughout the entire process, Lince ignored the loss of these Giant Demon lives.

In Lince’s eyes, as long as they weren’t his own kin or the humans under his command, he felt no psychological pressure killing anyone else.

In fact, from this perspective, Lince’s psyche was transforming.

He was growing closer and closer to his non-human side.

It was a mentality of contempt for lesser life forms. He could now kill any being that harmed his interests, human or not, without any pressure.

It was the psychological inflation brought on by his strength.

And having been a Giant Dragon for so long, Lince’s entire mind and body were gradually becoming more and more inhuman.

Of course, he hadn’t noticed this himself.

After dispatching the Giant Demons with a flick of his finger, Lince turned his attention to the airships.

’Not bad, these airships are in perfect condition!’

’I’ll have the Shadow Wind Giant Eagles bring York over to take possession of them. This will also help spur Dawn City’s industrial development.’

As he thought this, Lince merely sent out a mental command.

Instantly, more than fifty kilometers away in Dawn City, the Shadow Wind Giant Eagles suddenly let out a sharp cry.

A flock of Flying Eagles took to the air.

They flew toward the Lord’s Mansion, clearly on their way to pick up York.

As for whether York and his people could pilot them, that wasn’t a problem. At worst, he could just have some Flying Demon Beasts help push them.

They had to get these airships to Dawn City one way or another.

This way, York’s subordinates would have plenty of time to tinker with them.

After taking care of everything, Lince’s gaze immediately shifted to the distance.

’Only a little over eight days left until Inference Day.’

’Since I’ve already sent Phemos to deal with the Giant Demons’ ground forces...’

’...I might as well go all the way and wipe out that Giant Demon City over two hundred kilometers away!’

’It’s a simple matter. It’s just a case of killing the small fry and having the big ones show up.’

’Still, I need to be discreet. Before destroying the city, I’ll have to go in first myself and disrupt the Magic Power in that region.’

’I can even use the power of nightmare to kill off the vast majority of the Giant Demons beforehand.’

’That way, as long as they can’t send any information out, it will take a significant amount of time for anyone to investigate later.’

With this thought in mind, Lince no longer hesitated.

Ultimately, the current Lince was very confident in his growth rate.

Thus, using his Space Travel Ability, Lince quickly headed toward the battlefield where the Earth Bear was.

By the time Lince arrived at the edge of the Mist Forest, the Earth Bear’s battle was long over.

Three thousand Giant Demons, even if every one of them was lavishly equipped, were, in the end, mostly life forms that hadn’t even reached Entry Tier.

The strongest Giant Demon leading them was only around Tier Five in strength.

Compared to the Oakland Continent, the overall strength of these Giant Demons didn’t seem to be that much greater.

The main advantages were their standardized armor and perhaps their nascent industrial capabilities.

Through his dream-entering Ability, Lince had already pieced together information from the fragmented memories of the dying Giant Demons.

In Copper Hammer City, the total Giant Demon population was about fifty thousand.

As for human slaves and servants, there were over eighty thousand.

The human slaves were used for nothing more than cultivating land, building cities, and performing all sorts of manual labor.

They handled almost all the low-end physical labor for the Giant Race in this world.

Therefore, they slightly outnumbered the Giant Demons in population.

But a hundred years after their defeat in this world and the loss of the Professionals’ protection, these human slaves had long since suffered a cultural fracture, completely subjugated by the Giant Demons.

Killed and beaten at will, they were treated no differently than livestock.

Calling them slaves was a compliment; these captive human slaves didn’t even know that this world originally belonged to them.

This was what it meant for a nation and a people to be utterly destroyed.

It was a form of genocide on another level.

Now, looking at the corpses of the exterminated Giant Demons, Lince had a new idea.

On one hand, Lince had Phemos immediately summon a Beast Tide.

On the other, Lince ordered York to dispatch three thousand soldiers from the Human Legion to join the battle!

It was time for these humans from Dawn City to see some blood!

They couldn’t live under his protection forever.

If life was so comfortable for them, wouldn’t that make Lince their worker?

Was he raising a bunch of freeloading masters?

Therefore, this time, Lince intended to let these guys see some blood too.

No amount of training could compare to the experience of real combat.

They had to see blood!

And he would also let the enslaved humans of this world see!

See how their fellow humans could kill their Giant Demon masters on the battlefield!

And so, on just the second day, Dawn City’s legion finally faced its first battle.

Before this, Copper Hammer City’s high-ranking officials and nearly ninety percent of all its Giant Demons had been wiped out overnight.

The process needs no further description.

In short, on a path cleared by a massive number of Demon Beasts, the thousand remaining Giant Demon soldiers and the Human Legion from Dawn City began their duel.

Under the watch of the Giant Dragon and a host of Flying Demon Beasts in the sky, and under the watch of the Earth Bear and a group of Demon Beasts on the ground, the legions of the two Races clashed!

"KILL!!!"

"We cannot let the great Dragon God look down on us!!!"

"CHARGE!!! For Dawn City, for the great Dragon God!!!"

"..."

Led by York and a group of Knight’s Squires who charged at the very front, the Human Legion roared, trembled, and worried, finally clashing with the thousand-strong Giant Demon Legion.

Sometimes, despair can be like a last stand. This asymmetrical duel ignited a life-or-death courage in many of the Giant Demons.

Although Lince had made these thousand Giant Demons strip off their armor from the start and had ensured they had no Entry Tier leader, even so, the casualties on the human side left Lince somewhat speechless.

Even while wearing armor and being led by Entry Tier Knights and a Lord, they still lost nearly five hundred soldiers!

’This is a bit pathetic.’

Lince was not in a good mood.

But it had to be said, the Giant Demons’ natural physique was also a factor.

Giant Demons averaged two and a half meters tall. In terms of both physique and strength, they held a considerable natural advantage over humans.

And they were facing an army of complete greenhorns.

After some thought, Lince grudgingly accepted these losses.

’One step at a time.’

At least they had seen blood. Lince had plenty of time to put these guys through more trials of blood and fire.

Courage, ferocity, and morale—these things had to be built up slowly.

’No need to rush.’

Thus, with a grudging nod of approval from the Giant Dragon, the Human Legion on the ground erupted in a massive cheer!

Their trial from the Dragon God had been acknowledged!

Could anything be more exciting than this?

Therefore, the moment Lince acknowledged them, this legion—which had been somber and anxious just moments before—immediately exploded with tremendous passion and morale.

’As expected, the presence of a god has a huge impact on something like morale.’

’Not bad at all.’

Lince was very satisfied.

As for what came next, that was York’s business.

He had to relocate the remaining human slaves in the Giant Demon City and also move all the Giant Demon books that could be carried.

Lince used the Authority of the Book of Truth to convert the information in these books.

Afterward, York and Lince learned about the Giant Demons’ industry and their system of Extraordinary Power from some of the books.

In this process, the most delighted were York and his group of Mages.

These guys pored over the books, studying them tirelessly and with great enthusiasm.

As for Lince, he finally reached the last moments of the Inference Day.

And in the end, he silently withdrew from this Inference Day.