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First battle of the great war of Garmille

    War has broken out and like I had promised to the recently deceased Duchess, I went to the front line. Alone. Well, with an aide-de-camp that accompanied me to report everything that would happen here to the capital. The plan is just to wipe out their army and more importantly take their capital. So, in short, I''ll get rid of every noble and armed force that fight for them. As Alice asked me I have to limit the civilian casualty, I''ll try to do my best but if I have to wipe out a village or two I''ll do it.


    The first battlefield I''m faced with isn''t that impressive in my eyes. They sure have the numbers, roughly ten thousand warriors and even some tamed monsters to help them. It''s very cute, they think that will stop me with just this. Okay, they don''t know I destroyed an entire continent by myself but I don''t blame them, Humans will always be the same. Some of them might even think I''m feeling oppressed by them since for the first time in my life I am wearing an armor.


    Mineferos just forced me to try his design for his new heavy armor. It looks very bulky but it is in fact fairly light and easy to move in. The shoulder-pads are fairly massive but the enchantments he put on them make it so they sink into the armor when they collide with it. it allows the wearer to move without getting blocked by them, which would be highly problematic. The helmet hides most of the face while keeping a rather head-like structure if you had rectangular horns on the forehead of course.


    I would have preferred if it were black instead of pure white but I guess he didn''t want to give an ominous feel to it and preferred a hopeful feel. I guess we differ on that point, I prefer to instill fear into my enemies while he prefers to improve our soldiers'' morale. I think it is a little bit naive but history has proven that morale could change the outcome of battles so I respect his point of view, and since the Dragons are unlikely to fear us I guess his choice to reinforce our own army is something logical.


    A man wearing a flamboyant armor of red and gold approached me, he was riding a two meters tall and five meters long red lizard. It is quite a nice war-beast but it won''t change the outcome of this battle. The man''s long blond hair were swaying in the wind. He was handsome in his own way but once again that won''t save him, it would if Sextria was the one standing here instead of me but I don''t show pity for things such as beauty. If I want to kill you I''ll kill you, if I want to keep you alive I''ll keep you alive. I never plan to kill Furia so she did not die and her appearance had nothing to with her keeping her life. However, those guys came here with the intention to kill me, each and every one of them wants me dead. And none of them will come back alive to tell the tale.


    The man came to me and did not bother dismounting since I was still taller than him on his mount. He looked in my eyes and so did I. I did not use my power on him and just stared for a few seconds before removing my helmet.


    |I must assume you are sir Apocalypse.|(Man)


    |I am, and ya are ?|(Apocalypse)


    |Duke Berdil Von Lorfer, the cousin of the man you slaughtered during the tournament.|(Duke Berdil)


    |Don''t say it like ya care would ya, my ears hurt after such bold lies.|(Apocalypse)


    His face cramped because of my disrespect. Such are the nobles I guess, not even honest to the man they want to kill. It amuses me deeply to see their faces contort in disgust, because of how satisfying it is to see once they are filled with fear, one of my little dirty pleasure. You can say it is Enri''s fault that I enjoy toying with that kind of people like that, they just look so much alike that it is disgusting to even see them smile.


    |Don''t get cocky, heretics. The Dragons may have mistaken you for one of the Children of the Earth but your pitiful tricks won''t work against us.|(Duke Berdil)


    .... No seriously what must I do to get taken seriously, I''ve defied the Dragons, turned into one, defeated several great warriors and they still don''t take me seriously. And that, that angers me beyond everything so far. Faster than the eyes could see I grabbed him by the throat and with a kick to its jaw, killed his mount. He tried to free himself, clawing on my hands but I did not release my grip and approached his face to mine. In a low voice, I whispered to him.


    |Despair ... do ya even know how delightful to see it on yar face ? I''ll tell ya, just seeing it is making me feel extatic.|(Apocalypse)


    I tightened my grip around his neck and my fingers dug into his flesh, blood spilled from his mouth as his neck made the very distinct sound of breaking. He became limp in a matter of seconds. Silence spread across the battlefield, I indeed did not follow the custom and killed the commander when his duty was to do a final parlay to make sure that neither of the armies was surrendering. In a normal battlefield, it would surely be a problem since the survivors would tell the story of the man without honor and assassins would get sent to get rid of him, and that would bring disgrace to the man''s family. However, none of those bastards are going home tonight.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.


    I let go of his body which fell to the ground like a broken doll and looked at the massive army standing before me. My aide-de-camp had since long taken refuge on a nearby hill. It took them some time to get out of their stupor and like the gentleman that I am, I waited for them to get themselves together. I don''t want to fight a bunch of unresponding zombies, if I wanted to do so I would go to a dungeon and do just that. I put back my helmet and stepped forward.


    My steps broke the deafening silence and the soldiers finally raised their weapons. My steps began to accelerate, the distance between them began to grow, dust began to fly behind me, the mass of foolish creatures was drawing closer and closer. I slightly leaned forward, my right shoulder in front. In front of me, men of the same nation made their war cry echo like the thunder in a storm and like a lightning bolt I tore through their line. I could hear bones getting crushed under my feet and every time my body came in contact with someone else''s, blood would spray like a geyser. I could hear the sound of their armor crushing against mine, the swords bending at each hit and the hammers breaking each time they struck me.


    I stopped running and grabbed the closest soldier by his head, which I crushed like a show-off would crush an apple, spinal fluid sprayed and his body fell to the ground like many of his companions''. Without rest, I thrust my open palm into a mage''s chest, my hand pierced his skin only to come out from his back with his heart in my hand. A cry of despair echoed and three hundred fireballs were launched at me. It would surely have armed me before but I trained, my goal is to defeat the Dragons, petty fireballs won''t do anything to me. I faced them and kicked the ground, a wall of earth was erected and the spells collided with it, raising a cloud of dust at the same time. They continued to shower it with spells and using a small lap of time between their volley I kicked the wall. Shards of earth were sent flying faster than a bullet, even dust was weaponized with that kick. Soldiers in front of it had their body torn into pieces by the schrapnels and even more died without even knowing what killed them.


    Using the chaos that I had just caused I jumped right into the fray once again, each strike with my hand would cause the death of a warrior. Sometime one would be lucky enough to land a strike on me but so far my armor did not even bend but the pure white is gone only to be replaced by the dark red blood of the fallen. I can understand why mineferos choose this color now, at first it inspire hope only to instill fear in the midst of battle. A smile crept up my face, that guy, that guy really is smart.


    While I was thinking about that a beast leaped at me. A giant black bear with six feet with fangs longer than the arm of a baby. To think they would send such low-level monsters to defeat makes me laugh. I shoved my arm down the bear''s throat and destroyed its innards, I violently pulled my hand out of the filth. In the carnage, I grabbed someone by his arm and used them as a mace. Unfortunately, the Human body being as weak as it is the arm reaped after a few strikes. Letting go of the dismembered limb I joined my two hands into a hammer and smashed a soldier''s head into his torso. I suddenly turned around to slap a warrior that had tried to sneak up behind me. The moment my palm grazed his skin his head was shot like a cannonball and ended the lives of many soldiers.


    Using earth magic I created ten rock spear, grabbed them and jump fifty meters high in the sky. From that height, I could tell that although I had just run rampant I still haven''t even killed three thousand soldiers. I could just wipe them out in one strike but that would be no fun. I threw the spears in the crowd, each time they hit the ground, tremors were felt and craters were made. Bodies went flying and soldiers were nailed to the earth by spears made of rock.


    |Guuuuuuuuliaaaaa !!!!!|(Apocalypse)


    Still up in the air, I removed my helmet and after taking a deep breath I roared towards the ground. Although my usual roar does not produce shock-wave this time I roared specifically to cause one. And like I had hoped I managed to do it. The shock-wave pinned down around a thousand soldiers and as I increased the intensity of my roar some even got crushed under the sheer pressure it produced. Once again I increased the intensity. This time the earth itself began to collapse under the pressure, again soldiers were crushed to death, some even had their ribs coming out of their back. Their cries of agony could be heard from miles away and even the toughest of the beasts would feel chills coming down their spines hearing them.


    Four thousand men have fallen already and the battle hasn''t even been going on for more than an hour. This is pathetic, I can''t even enjoy that kind of fight. It''s just a man-slaughter and this would be funny in a video-game but here it is just sad. I still have six thousand more to go. I stopped roaring and dive bombed into a group of soldiers, at the moment I collided with them I heard the sound of bones breaking, I landed on a warrior and crushed him. I decided to unleash a bit more power, I punched another bear and the wind pressure alone created a crater, obliterated the bear into pieces and killed hundreds of soldiers.


    I followed by a round-house kick that devasted the landscape and annihilated dozens of hundreds of men and beasts alike. Their cries were over-shadowed by the almost thunderous detonation that my kick produced. Guts of air and shards of earth tore the soldiers apart and none of which came in contact with that power made it out alive. Innards and blood were everywhere, the previously green valley was now dyed in blood.


    Soon enough I was left standing alone, in the pool of body I grew accustomed to in this world.
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