Chapter 11: Grok’s Dream

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The world was engulfed in the telephone.
Declarations of war from human dictators with endless ambition.

Humans weren’t really special beings.
They were a species that maintained a thorough average compared to most races.
Just a few talented people come out from time to time.

On such a subject, they are greedy, and the race is always full of betrayal and schemes.
There are good people, but the wickedness of the wicked is so severe that it is a hated race.

They were ignored because they were weak.
However, human ordinariness was becoming increasingly terrifying.

Mana, which is contained in the vessel of a creature, is not easy to contain in an inanimate object.
So, mages who could use the magic called enchant, which could engrave magic on tools or weapons, were few in number, and it was a magic that couldn’t be easily mass-produced.
And mages forbade their disciples from passing on the magic they researched to others, in order to maintain their uniqueness.

That’s usually how it was.

However, the research on enchant magic by the German mage, Gregory, was rapidly improved through new discoveries and was almost completely overhauled to the extent that it created new magic.
Even a mage with only two circles could put attack magic into a weapon.

The world changed rapidly with his discovery.
The chancellor, who was also watching the possibility of mass-producing weapons that could be used by ordinary people, armed his soldiers with those weapons and called the soldiers armed with those weapons the ‘Magical Armored Brigade’.

Germany, which was at war with Poland due to a slave trader who had kidnapped and sold a High Elf of Poland, put in the Magical Armored Brigade and ended the war at once, and the empire was able to obtain good-quality and beautiful slaves.

After that war, the chancellor’s ambition grew.
In order to produce more weapons, he enacted a law that made it mandatory for mages to announce their research on magic to the empire, and implemented numerous policies, such as supporting education for commoners to produce mages.

As a result, the concept of hygiene was created, and magic was used in agriculture, and now magic-powered weapons were supplied to all soldiers.
As the problems of hygiene and food were solved, the population began to explode.

It would have been nice if it had ended there… but unfortunately, the empire’s ambition didn’t end there.
The chancellor was truly crazy.

He plunged the whole world into a whirlpool of war, and the war became bloody with the participation of several giant dictatorial countries.

The countries whose leaders were not human began to hate humans, and because of this, humans began to unite.

Grok was also involved in that war.

Wiiiiing

Pang

A huge fireball flew up and burrowed into the trenches.
They scattered, screaming, but an orc and a dwarf, who couldn’t avoid it, were caught in the explosion and tried to extinguish their bodies on fire.

“Haaaah! Haaa! Aaaaa!”

A halfling came to extinguish the fire, but he couldn’t avoid the fireballs that flew again and burned together.
A lycan, enraged by the death of his comrade-in-arms, raised his head and aimed the mortar, but he couldn’t avoid the ice awl that flew and was pierced through the head, and he collapsed on the spot without screaming.

This was hell.

The German army brought a huge, red pillar with wheels, aimed at the bunker of the trench, and the light was glowing red from the end of that pillar.

“They’re preparing a flame cannon!”

“Our artillery should respond! No! I can’t die here!”

“Respond! Counter-fire! Ugh…”

“Mom…”

Jiiiiing

The place where the red ray had passed was too gruesome.
Soldiers melted away, and soldiers who had lost their limbs and were crawling on the floor looking for medical personnel.

“I want to be comfortable now…”

There were soldiers who chose to die, unable to bear this extreme situation.

However, the Norwegian soldiers and the allied soldiers survived safely until the sun went down, and the German army temporarily retreated.

Grok threw off his magic-powered weapon and sat down.
It could have been criticized for the soldier’s act of throwing the weapon on the floor, but it was the same for the other soldiers, as they all put their weapons on the floor and rested.

Grok recovered his strength to some extent with insufficient rest, and it gave him a little breathing room.
He approached Jack, a lizardman, a hometown friend from the same village, who was visible in the distance.

“Hey! Jack! What are you doing over there!”

It was strange.
His friend Jack was sitting in the corner of the trench without any injuries, staring blankly into the air and ignoring his call.

His thoughtful friend never ignored his words, so Grok tried to drive away his anxiety with annoyance.

“Jack! Why are you ignoring me! Why aren’t you answering?”

Grok, who arrived next to him, pulled Jack’s shoulder towards him and spoke, but… what he saw was Jack’s half-faced face.

He had died in battle.

“O… Oh… Jack… what is this… I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Oh, my God… What a poor guy… How about your mother if you die..”

He grabbed the face of Jack, which had only half of his face left, and sobbed, but the situation didn’t give him time to grieve.
Everywhere was filled with the groans of soldiers who couldn’t die, and mice were running around and devouring the corpses, and mosquitoes were swarming and bothering them.

If they didn’t dispose of the deceased quickly, the disease would spread and they would all die.
The soldiers, who quickly removed the corpses, started to eat.

Grok tried not to eat, but as the smell of food gradually spread, what Grok was increasingly feeling was the feeling of appetite, rather than the sadness of losing his friend.
It was survival instinct and it was natural, but Grok felt it was truly sad and miserable and ate his meal, crying.

Olgrot, a taciturn bear, who was watching him from the side, said something.

“Hey. Forget it. You know? Just think about surviving here. Think about the family waiting for you.”

“I know… I know… but I can’t forget…”

Elron, a rabbit, interjected, seeing the situation.
He looked very tired, and his glistening eyes made it clear that he wasn’t in his right mind.

“Hey. What’s so great about one person’s death? Hundreds of people have died right now! We’re all going to die anyway! Just go out and die too!”

“Shut up.”

When the lycan, Ingrio, frowned and glared at him, Elron screamed in terror.

“Hey! You’re going to kill me! You and me! We’re all going to die! Hiiiik!”

When he stood up and threatened, Elron, who was at the extreme of stress, rolled his eyes and fainted.
Olgrot, watching the scene, said.

“He’s a rabbit. He might die of stress, since he’s stressed right now, so you don’t have to scare him.”

“Ha. If this son of a b*tch had said more there, I would have died from stress.”

Olgrot sighed at his joke with a sincere tone and gave Grok a biscuit and thin beef soup, and he ate it.

“How long do you think this war will last?”

“Forever.”

“It won’t be that long.”

“At least forever to me.”

Grok, after eating a little, remembered his comrade Jack again.
He let out a sorrowful word.

“Will tomorrow come?”

It was a thought that he always had after the war began.
The bombardment and the German army, which was pushing in day and night, was terrible and an endless hell for him.

He was lucky and survived so far, but now it didn’t seem like it would.
He felt a feeling that tomorrow wouldn’t come.

“Definitely.”

Olgrot replied, but he was in an atmosphere that wasn’t sure either.
It felt as if he was answering himself.

Anyway, the night grew deeper, and they lay down and went to sleep for tomorrow.

Grok didn’t fall asleep and remembered the conversation between Olgrot and Ingrio, and thought about the current situation.
The trench was not a place for any race to live in at all, and the protracted battle made this trench horrible.

The mice that were devouring the corpses that hadn’t been removed yet, were roaming around, and there were also fleas, and mosquitoes were swarming in the water puddles that had collected from the rain, and they were spreading diseases.

They couldn’t care about hygiene, and only a few fortunate ones received help from the medical personnel, who were much less than the soldiers.
There were many soldiers who caught colds due to the drop in temperature.

There weren’t many soldiers who could keep their minds, as it was cold, hot, and painful.

Nevertheless, the war continued, and new soldiers came in and died.
How many more must die for this war to end?

It would be more comfortable to die…
Crazy bastard.

Leaving behind his wife and children waiting at home, thinking of death.
What would happen to his family if he collapsed here!

Kwang!

“Ambush!”

The ground shook with a huge explosion right next to him.
Grok got up and picked up the magic-powered weapon next to him.

“Elron! Ingrio! Olgrot! Get up!”

He shouted as he turned around, but Elron and Ingrio got up with their weapons, even if he didn’t call them.
Olgrot wasn’t visible among them, who were half asleep and ready to fight reflexively.

“Olgrot?”

The bear, who had hoped for tomorrow and tried to instill hope in his comrades, was crushed by a rock and couldn’t open his eyes.

The bear who talked about hope died, and the rabbit who had spoken of death lived.
It was ironic.

“Gas!”

“Kerk… Kek…”

The battle started again.

The war that seemed like it would never end came to an end.
His hometown was protected by countless deaths and blood, and Germany barely held on, and humans, who were the main axis of the world, had almost disappeared.
His country was hit too hard and dropped out in the middle, but everyone knew that he had played a role in this war.

He lost most of his friends he knew, but he boarded the mana train and headed to his hometown.

Chiiiii-

It was terrible.
He was truly lucky, and his limbs were intact, but Grok’s mind was tattered, and he was very tired.

He looked at the window next to him and looked at the strangely familiar elf in the next seat.
He had a feeling he had seen her somewhere.

It was his friend, Elijah.
Elijah, who was drafted with him, although they weren’t in the same battlefield!

He greeted him, having lost an eye and an arm.

“Oh, my God! Elijah! It’s been years!”

But Elijah didn’t answer.
Grok kept talking, but Elijah, who was completely out of his mind, didn’t react to anything, and his appearance looked like he had only a shell with his soul gone.

Grok looked outside the window again with a gloomy look.

Yeah, it was enough that he was alive.
If he lived with his family in his hometown, he could regain his former appearance again.

His hometown, which was almost a dot, was visible outside the window, and his mood improved a little.

Soon, his wife and…. What is that?

Something huge was flying to the village.
It looked bizarre enough to be seen at a glance as it flew from a distance and flew at a fast speed.

Like a cannonball.

The war… is it over…?

Shhweeeeek

A sound of something tearing was heard.

It got closer to the village.

Shhweeeeek

“No!”

Kwang

The train shook violently.
The world outside the window was flashing with blue light constantly, and fortunately, the train didn’t turn over, but it stopped completely.

As Grok got off the train, he broke the train door and ran to his hometown.
It seemed like Elijah was next to him as he was running out of his mind.

But he didn’t have time to care and ran out of his mind.

And the village he arrived at was burning blue.

The blue flames were shining beautifully and burning the villagers, and he ran into it and headed to his house.

Strangely, the blue flames didn’t affect him at all, and he felt strange and ran to his house.

And he saw it.
The scene was gradually disappearing….

“Aaaaaaaah!”

“Aaaaaaaah!”

Why!

Why!

He cried endlessly.
Even if the sun set and the day darkened, the blue flames were burning the village brightly as if it was daytime.

At the same time, Germany collapsed and declared surrender.

This weapon was called Mana Burn, and the research of the worst weapon in history ended, and it was aimed at the scorched earth of neighboring countries, but this attempt was stopped, as the capital of Germany was occupied by the allied forces.

“Huff…!”

It was a really terrible dream.
It was a really terrible dream.