Do Your Own Revolution

#081

“Damn it, open fire! Open fire!”

Boom–!

The Special Magical Power Unit members were the first to react when abnormal signs were detected from the Count.

Dozens of artillery shells loaded with magic bullets unleashed at maximum firepower.

Though the terrifying firepower that had slaughtered thousands of Republican soldiers enveloped the Count’s body, I knew that attack would be useless.

Gooo…!

When the smoke cleared, what appeared was a massive black sphere.

And right below it, Count Elcryer looking down at us.

Seeing that avant-garde sight, Count Gloucester gritted his teeth.

“Great Rupture…!”

Bewilderment, rage.

And the deep fear underlying them.

These were emotions anyone who experienced the Great War would feel.

The cursed source of power that transformed the current continent into hell.

It had appeared before his eyes once again.

“What a peculiar sensation.”

As if the previous attack meant nothing, the Count slowly opened his mouth while gazing at the Great Rupture.

A voice filled with magical power.

It was a voice containing magical power in its purest form, emanating not from a human magic circuit but from a monster’s mana core.

“Power surging throughout my body. Magical power moving freely without going through inscriptions or formulas. And…”

After carefully examining his reborn body, he finally looked at the Great Rupture he had summoned.

“Even this bizarre voice ordering me to kill humans.”

Crack-!

Just as he was about to continue speaking, a stake woven from thorny vines pierced through the Count’s shoulder.

The Count’s shoulder gradually turning white.

It was shot by Margrave Gloucester.

“You… Do you realize what you’ve done?!”

As if enraged to his limit, magical power swirled around the Margrave.

Magical power surging as if hit by magic bullets.

One could easily guess the extent of his anger, given that the surrounding contamination was being purified even without casting magic.

“Creating a Great Rupture! Bringing back that terrible seed of disaster to this continent again! Just what are you trying to accomplish with such nonsense…!”

“What am I trying to accomplish, you ask?”

Crumble-!

The Count’s shoulder that had hardened and crumbled like a plaster statue instantly regenerated.

Not human flesh, but a body made of magical power flowing from the rupture.

Seeing that, the Margrave’s face twisted.

This can’t even be called human anymore.

While he was muttering that, Count Elcryer waved his hand as if to demonstrate his reason.

And at that moment.

“Grrrr, grrrrr…”

Grotesque figures with twisted faces dripping black liquid and mucus crawled out through the rupture.

Thud-! Thud-!

Not monsters generated from contaminated areas, but ones that directly crossed over through the Great Rupture.

Seeing dozens of monsters staring at them, the knights’ eyes filled with shock.

“This is insane, those are high-rank monsters…”

“Even one is tough enough, and now they’re in a pack…!”

A pressure completely different from the disciples they had just subdued.

However, the Count’s actions didn’t stop at simply summoning them.

“Bow your heads.”

As soon as the Count finished speaking, the monsters that had been looking around slowly lowered their heads.

“You can control monsters at will.”

A gesture seemingly showing submission.

Seeing that, Margrave Gloucester clenched his teeth.

“The power to artificially create Great Ruptures and freely control the monsters that emerge from them… The Emperor feared this power and strictly forbade it.”

After saying that, Count Elcryer clenched his fist.

“But look. The monsters obeying my commands, and the perfectly controlled Great Rupture.”

Speaking as if giving a speech, Count Elcryer spread both arms and said.

“Misguided fear of knowledge has hindered this marvelous and amazing progress. And I have overcome that persecution to reach the source…!”

Crash—!

Just as the Count was about to continue, a massive fist made of hundreds of intertwined tree branches struck his body.

“So in the end, you summoned this absurd disaster just to obtain that worthless knowledge.”

Margrave Gloucester walking forward with a chilling voice.

As his inscription emitted a brilliant green light, the black contamination eating away at the surroundings began to dissipate like scattered dust.

“Without knowing how many people those monsters you summoned will kill, how many humans have died meaninglessly because of that rupture you brought forth…!”

“You’re trapped in misguided morality and can’t see the bigger picture, Lord Gloucester.”

Hiss-!

The mass of trees summoned by the Margrave melted into darkness, and the Count’s face appeared in the center.

“The pursuit of truth and progress through it. Compared to the prosperity and light it will bring, what’s so precious about human lives?”

“What… did you say…!”

Eyes stained black and a pale face.

Seeing that face with its maniacal smile and the monsters revealing themselves one by one around him, I recalled the [Black Sun Incident] from the original work.

Elcryer, who had been operating in secret in Gloucester’s territory.

He had been researching methods to fuse humans with monsters and artificially create Great Ruptures.

Horrific human experiments that abandoned all human morality.

After piling up countless corpses like mountains, he was able to produce several remarkable research results.

The ability Count Elcryer displayed was one of many powers discovered that way.

If a human brain could be fused with a monster’s body, he could interfere with the hive mind that controls monsters.

‘However, that’s where it ended in the original.’

In the original, his chosen test subject wasn’t the Count himself but Irene.

Irene, who became the test subject, had her mind completely dominated by the collective consciousness flowing from the Great Rupture and went berserk, while Count Elcryer and his disciples met their fate being devoured by Irene’s tentacles without leaving a trace.

The seeker of the source died at the hands of his creation, and the seed of disaster, consumed by hunger and madness, arrived at Gloucester territory seeking prey.

That’s how the [Black Sun Incident] unfolded.

It was a great calamity where the Great Rupture that appeared in the center of the territory devoured all the territory’s people and transformed them into monsters.

‘However, Irene escaped that fate.’

And instead, Count Elcryer himself accepted that power, and now he’s blocking my path.

Count Elcryer, who made himself the test subject and accepted the power of the Great Rupture.

This was the result created by my choice.

‘Somehow it seems the difficulty is even higher than the original game.’

Thinking about it in terms of [Revolution Empire]’s system made it even more apparent.

‘Head Family Magician class’ – the highest tier among human-type bosses.

‘Fusion-type Monster’ – the highest tier among monsters.

The difficulty would be mind-breaking even with just these two appearing together, but now we also had high-rank monsters thrown in as a bonus.

If I were sitting in front of a monitor, I would have immediately demanded a refund while shouting “This is bullshit, fuck this trash game!”

But there was no choice.

Where I stood wasn’t inside a game but reality.

If I ran away, only death awaited at the end.

It was bad enough being possessed into this trash game, but now I should just give up and become monster food?

After all the hell I went through to get here, should I quietly give up and meet the same end as the original protagonist?

Fuck that.

Click-!

“Hmm?”

I aimed my gun forward while releasing magical power charged with magic bullets.

‘One fortunate point is that our forces aren’t inferior to that bastard.’

Kalkas Gloucester with his seven stroke imprint, and the knights following him.

Two companions supporting my back, and the Special Magical Power Unit they command.

And finally Irene, the fusion being who overwhelmed Elcryer’s test subject.

Unlike the Revolutionary Army rabble who couldn’t be trusted, the allies fighting alongside me now had overwhelming specs.

And one more reason why I could find hope.

‘Count Elcryer is a researcher. He’s naturally far from combat.’

It was something I realized from the battle just now.

An overwhelming situation with numerical superiority and fortress occupation.

Yet instead of utilizing those advantages, Count Elcryer made the incomprehensible blunder of opening the fortress gates and coming out to meet my unit.

‘Moreover, the disciples who came out weren’t even given proper missions, they just randomly fired magic and tried to push through with numbers alone.’

A rookie mistake that anyone with even basic military training would never make.

Seeing that, I could be certain.

Though he was good at number games, he had no experience commanding a battlefield where situations changed moment by moment like this.

To make matters worse, the enemy was caught up in and showing off his newly acquired power.

‘If we strike at an unexpected moment, we can definitely exploit this.’

Whoosh—!

“Grrk?!”

“Hmm?”

Chains formed of magical power wrapped around the monsters’ bodies, and dozens of Hellfire circles spread beneath them.

“These ones first.”

Whoosh—!

The monsters were thoroughly roasted by pillars of flame that instantly shot up.

However, I didn’t hesitate to order the waiting members behind me.

These weren’t ordinary monsters that could be dealt with just like this.

“Aim for their heads! You have to burn them completely before they regenerate!”

“…!”

Whoosh-!

The Special Magic Unit members’ gun muzzles spewed fire simultaneously with the battalion commander’s order.

Dozens of magic bullets scorched the regenerating wound areas again, beginning to burn the monsters’ bodily tissues without a trace.

With the outer shell stripped away by Hellfire and the Special Magic Unit’s bombardment.

In this state, attacks from the Gloucester knights with purification formulas should be effective!

“Your Lordship!”

“I know!”

Receiving my signal, Margrave Gloucester and his knights charged at the monsters.

“Kwaaack?!”

“Kwok! Kwaok-!”

Neck, thigh, heart.

The Gloucester knights’ kukris targeting the monsters’ vital points instantly turned five monsters into corpses.

“Indeed, an excellent strategy. Such spirit that can’t even be compared to a mere scholar like myself.”

Thanks for the praise, you bastard.

The Count smiled with the characteristic composure of an absolute being and gestured toward the monsters as if ordering them to clean up something bothersome.

“Kill them.”

“Kwaaaaaok–!”

Crack-! Crack-!

The high-rank monsters broke through the chains I created and charged forward.

Their main targets were the Gloucester knights forming the purification zone.

“Here come the real ones! Everyone withdraw! The next support…”

“Damn, this bastard got my protective suit…! Gaaah?!”

“Willace!”

As over twenty monsters charged all at once, casualties began appearing among the knights.

Two dead. One with damaged protective gear.

About one-fifth of our knight forces were lost in a single clash.

However.

Crack-!

“Kwaok?!”

The knights who were sent flying by the monsters’ attacks got back up and stabbed at the monsters’ necks.

Their gas mask lenses shattered, inhaling the poisonous air of the contaminated zone.

Though their bodies could never return alive, their faces bore confident smiles.

“We die here. However…!”

“Your Lordship, our revenge…!”

The knights spoke while looking at the Count rather than the monsters.

While wondering about their words, Margrave Gloucester’s figure appeared right in front of the Count.

“I’ll make you pay dearly for my subordinates’ lives.”

“Oho…!”

Suppressing the initial engagement with firepower superiority, the knights’ charge, and the Count’s assault exploiting that gap.

While briefly admiring the smoothly connected combination, the Count transformed his hand into dozens of tentacles.

“Irene!”

Crack–!

However, what met him were Irene’s tentacles shooting out from the shadows.

Seeing the monster tissue tangled together, the Count’s eyes narrowed.

“Can’t cut through? That’s impossible. As an individual, I should be superior…”

And in that moment when he was distracted by Irene’s tentacles.

“Where are you looking now?”

“?!”

Crack-!

Along with a bright light, Margrave Gloucester’s stake pierced through the Count’s body.

Unlike before, tree branches suppressed all the vital points of his body.

As the Count’s body shook like a broken doll, I immediately prepared the next formula.

“Irene! Your Lordship! Get away!”

Click-! Click-!

Five magic bullets fired simultaneously.

The magic circuit operating at maximum output felt like it would burst at any moment, and the magical power released transformed into two magic circles floating above my shoulders.

Screech–!

[Spear of Mithra], an attack formula with penetration pushed to the extreme.

That beam which had broken through Claude’s barrier instantly blew away half of Count Elcryer’s face and abdomen.

“Ah… Aah…”

The Count seemed unable to make sounds, as if his vocal organs were destroyed.

Not missing that opening, the Margrave immediately swung his kukri and severed his neck.

Slash-!

The Count’s body crumbled instantly after losing his head.

“Huff… Huff…”

After confirming the Count wasn’t moving anymore, Margrave Gloucester who lowered his guard took heavy breaths.

“We can’t rest yet, Eugene. He’ll regenerate soon! We need to deal with the remaining monsters and that rupture as quickly as possible…!”

“I know.”

There’s only one way to close the rupture.

I immediately approached Count Elcryer and aimed my Heresy at the Count’s heart.

“If we destroy that heart, the Great Rupture you created will disappear too.”

“…”

“Am I wrong? Count Elcryer.”

Saying that, I pulled the gun’s trigger without hesitation and.

“How impressive that you know that.”

Thump.

The Count’s headless corpse immediately grabbed my wrist.

“Wh-What?! Eugene…!”

“Infiltration begin.”

Crack—!

Though Margrave Gloucester who belatedly realized it swung his sword, the tentacles that shot out from the Count’s body were even faster.

The Count’s extremities crawling through my blood vessels, passing through my magical power circuits, and immediately burrowing into my brain’s center.

‘This is one of the techniques I obtained through the deal with Elcidore.’

As if time had stopped, all vision froze and his consciousness and will began flowing into my mind.

‘Mental domination. A formula to dominate the opponent’s brain and steal their body… From the moment the battle began, this was all I aimed for.’

Persistent bastard.

Thinking that, I desperately resisted his will.

‘When we first spoke, you didn’t answer my question.’

‘Question?’

‘How you knew about my plans. How you discovered my relationship with Elcidore and countered my hidden card.’

‘You’ll regret knowing.’

‘No, that’s impossible.’

As he quietly said that, the Count’s will digging into my mind grew even stronger.

‘I felt it from the first time I saw you. Your actions, and your attitude. They’re not something a normal human could show.’

‘…’

‘What are you? Why do you know me, know my plans, and know how to counter them?’

My head felt like it would burst into flames.

Desire for knowledge.

Curiosity trying to dig up what’s unknown.

The feeling of a will that wasn’t mine shaking up my mind was truly unbearable.

‘You don’t need to tell me. There’s no need.’

‘What…!’

‘I just need to dig all the way into your mind, dominate your body, and find out the truth.’

With those words, Elcryer’s will dug deeper and deeper into my mind.

Meeting with Gloucester.

The battles on the Eastern Front.

The audience with the Emperor.

Claude.

Keiren.

Elcidore.

And up to that moment when I opened my eyes in the slums’ gutter.

‘I see. The Emperor is one who sees the future. That’s why he tried to block me and my plans.’

‘Claude? Betrayal? I see. You also have the same ability as the Emperor…! That’s how you could know my plans in advance and prepare!’

‘This is truly amazing. A returner from the future! More, I need more knowledge, more materials for progress…!’

Deeper and deeper like that.

Count Elcryer’s will greedily dug through my memories and knowledge and.

‘…Huh?’

At the end of that torrent of memories, he suddenly stopped moving.

‘No, no. This can’t be… This can’t be…’

The Count’s will that had stopped was filled with confusion.

As if he had learned something he shouldn’t have known.

As if he had seen something he shouldn’t have seen.

‘Your… These memories…’

His consciousness was enveloped in indescribable terror, as if afraid to acknowledge the truth.

‘That’s why I told you.’

I slowly looked at the point where he had stopped.

A monitor glowing in a dark room.

Piles of garbage.

In the middle of it all lay the corpse of who I once was, human Seong Yu-jin.

‘You would regret it.’

Hearing my answer, Count Elcryer’s will was consumed by despair.

He now knew the fact that he was a character in a game.

That he was a fictional being.

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