The King's Game

“No, they must have gone to the Tree of Life... last time they didn’t succeed, but these mechanical creatures will not give up easily.” The Tree of Life was the source of life for the elves. After learning the news, the elves in Ogg City naturally had the most distorted faces in the team.

It was nearly a hundred years ago that mechanical creatures attacked the elves on a large scale. The elves on the scene did not want to recall the terrible scene at that time.

On that occasion, although mechanical creatures did not successfully destroy the Tree of Life, they forcibly took away a holy relic of the elves. Even the peace-loving elves were extremely resentful of mechanical creatures.

There was a time when their source of life was nearly destroyed. The guards set up by the elves at the entrance to their Holy Land naturally felt extremely somber. It could be said that more than one-third of the elves’ troops were guarding around the Holy Land, where they’d laid down many defense arrays. Once foreign enemies invaded, all kinds of magic spells would be activated.

“Let’s go Kuta, we will follow.” Gu Huai tapped the arm of the R-03 robot carrying him, then put the newly-made magic booster on his left wrist.

Members of the vanguard had rushed to the elven territory first. Gu Huai was now stepping into the teleportation device with the large forces of the parliament.

From getting the news to the integration of the troops was only a short span of barely more than ten minutes. None of the people in the parliament of Kadrin ever thought that the invasion of the elf territory by the mechanical army would be so rapid. In only this short period of time, the mechanical creatures had broken through several layers of defense on the periphery of the territory and rammed directly into the Holy Land.

This was an overwhelming attack...

Even if they were unwilling to admit it, this was a fact that could not be denied.

It had taken some time to ready the teleportation device for mass teleportation. By the time the large parliamentary troops arrived in the Elf territory, the elite guards at the entrance of the latter’s Holy Land had already been defeated.

Defense arrays had been activated. The scene was full of the powerful terror of the various spells that hit their marks. But in front of everyone’s eyes, the army composed of cold mechanical creatures still had a large number, as if they had taken no damage.

“How did this happen?” Among the guards who were defeated were the vanguard of the Kadrin Parliament. The allies who followed them to the scene could hardly believe their eyes.

How was that possible?! If the mechanical army could break through the numerous defenses of the elven territory so easily, did it mean that the other party usually played with them casually??

But there was no reason why the other side, who had overwhelming strength, had only been fighting a war of attrition with them. This was not in line with common sense.

Although facing such a frightening situation, the Allies immediately pursued and rushed to the entrance of the elves’ Holy Land where the defensive line was broken, and immediately began to engage with the mechanical army.

“I’m so tired. I didn’t come to play with you this time.” Frowning at being blocked so many times, Sage turned his eyes to the oldest tree in the Holy Land, which was the target of his mission.

This mechanical army was composed of N-type robots. It was a new kind of creation made by the Ark plan. Its combat ability was different from that of the old models. According to ability, N-type robots could be divided into N1, N2 and N3.

Among them, N1 robots had the same shape as human beings. Apart from the fact that they were emotionless, others could hardly see any difference from human beings in appearance. N1 robots were also the most powerful group of N-type creations.

“This is a monster...” Seeing the leader’s famous machine constantly bombard the surrounding area with forbidden magic, and that the magic showed no indication of bottoming out, the Allies felt very difficult to accept this scene.

The gap in individual combat capability was too big, and the other party was not a flesh-and-blood living body, so could not be injured or bleed at all. This battle was extremely unfair.

Support troops of all races had arrived, but even so, the joint force seemed to be difficult to stop the mechanical army’s continued advance. According to this progression, the latter would soon approach the Tree of Life—

“Can you give me a way through?” His family was very strong and they had not been hurt, which relieved Gu Huai a little. Gu Huai knew that his family was now on the invading side and was on the side that were to blame, but he inevitably still had such a feeling.

“Ah Huai ......” The system called the youth’s name at this moment, with rare hesitation in its low and cold voice.

Gu Huai understood the unspoken words of the system in less than a second, but he was still firm in his choice. “I know, but I don’t think that person can really destroy anything.”

There were problems with the Ark program, that was certain. Therefore, the new type of mechanical creatures created by the Ark program would do such things as destroying human beings... or even destroying all the races in Eizea.

This was basically the enemy’s arrangement, in order to make him unable to complete this world’s task.

Gu Huai looked at himself as he had just reached the 15% clearance value. He looked at the nearby red dragon and waited for an answer.

“I can change back to my dragon form and fly you there, but what do you want to do?” Gerald did not dare promise anything easily. The youth in front of him was the last human being. They were still counting on the other to come up with ways to stop the mechanical creatures.

“If you want to protect the Tree of Life, please send me there quickly or it will be too late.” Gu Huai responded concisely and comprehensively.

Looking at their desperate situation, and the elven leaders’ pleading eyes, Gerald transformed back into his original form.

Before riding on the dragon’s back, Gu Huai calmed down the dozen mechanical creatures around him and ordered them to stay where they were.

“Du.” The mechanical creatures, appeased by the youth’s words, imitated a nod and obeyed the youth’s request. They would obey and would not walk around casually.

The dragon’s flying speed was very fast. Gu Huai, in a blink of an eye, was taken to the front. When the red dragon descended to a certain height, Gu Huai jumped down from the dragon’s back.

The sudden fall of a living body from the sky in the central war circle was nothing unusual, and Sage did not pay attention to it at first until he heard more and more people from his clan making monotonous sounds one after another.

“Du, Du, Du-“

Being a member of the same clan, Sage could easily understand what these monotonous voices were saying, but it was for this reason that he felt puzzled.

The relatives around expressed an extremely contradictory emotion and the reason for the contradiction was unknown.

In order to investigate the reason, Sage withdrew his attention from the Tree of Life back to the war zone. When he caught a glimpse of a dark-haired young man standing in the war zone, he froze.

Human.

This was discovered at a glance. Sage focused his attention on the youth in front of him. All the mechanical creatures in the war zone did the same.

The originally fierce offense of the mechanical army suddenly seemed to slow down its attack. At this time, the struggling Allies finally had breathing space.

This was the idea of all the mechanical creatures invading elf territory: The destruction of human beings was the first plan set in their initial program. The youth was caught in the net. According to the program, they should now kill him immediately.

But... but...

But such serious decisions should be made by their commander himself. They could not do it.

They must quickly find a suitable reason for hesitating that could be justified; Sage and his peers had this common idea.

So now he was going to tie the youth up... no, he was going to take him back... back.

After finding the right reasons, Sage was ready to carry out his ideas.

The red dragon, who also arrived at the center of the battle circle, immediately realized that all the mechanical creatures around him were heading for the youth, which confirmed his previous worries.

The battle was over. Indeed as expected these mechanical creatures as long as they saw human beings, they couldn’t let go...

The mechanical army quickly caught their target. Although they were said to be captured, one target did not resist, and the other... the mechanical creatures that brought the youth back to the army did not actually use force against them.

Because the youth gave no resistance, they also did not need to use force, the mechanical creatures told themselves.

Sage looked at the young man captured by the soldiers. He felt that they seemed to have to go back to the city of Kelno.

Compared with destroying the Tree of Life, human beings should be the task on this...

Yes, human beings were more important. It was more important to take the youth back to their commander for disposal.

Once again finding reason to convince himself, Sage was ready to withdraw.

The red dragon who first discovered the situation certainly wanted to come and rescue Gu Huai, but it was too difficult for him to save Gu Huai from the encirclement of all the mechanical creatures. It could be said to be impossible.

“Don’t worry about me, just let them take me away so that the elves’ Tree of Life can be protected.” Gu Huai shook his head from a distance at the red dragon who wanted to come and save him, and passed this sentence to the other party by means of sound transmission magic.

Before being taken away from the scene, Gu Huai said to the humanoid at the front of the army, “I still have my family over there. Can I take them with me?”

“Ah... oh.” Although he didn’t know why he wanted to promise, Sage looked down at the youth and saw more than a dozen mechanical creatures of old models. It was not difficult to think about it, so let’s do it.

The withdrawal speed of the mechanical army was as fast as the speed of the invasion. Before the allied forces reacted, the enemy they had just been struggling to resist unexpectedly withdrew from the Holy Land of the elves like an ebb tide without lingeringing, leaving them frozen in place.

What was the matter... Why did these mechanical creatures suddenly withdraw??

When the crowd was stunned, Gerald came over with a heavy expression and told the story.

“Did he know that those mechanical creatures would make the choice to take him back to the city of Kelno when they saw him... so that our family could protect the Tree of Life, he sacrificed himself...” An elf soldier voiced this speculation, and when he said it, he actually believed it by three points.

Some people put forward such a statement, which sounded more and more reasonable. Almost immediately, the elite of all races in the Allies agreed with this view.

“We elves owe him a debt of gratitude,” Elf prophet Norma said.

“Prophet, you can predict the future. Lord Gu Huai. What is he...?” Gerald asked, he somehow got along with Gu Huai for a few days, so his impression of the youth was still good. He didn’t want the other to have an accident.

The prophet Norma was silent. He closed his eyes and calmed down to mobilize his ability. The next second, the prophet froze and his body took a step back.

“...” Unable to describe what he saw, the prophet after barely calming down, opened his eyes and shook his head at Gerald.

“This...” Gerald’s face was heavier, and the prophet shook his head at him. That was a bad sign.

After the red dragon walked away a few steps, the prophet Norma readjusted his mind and took a deep breath of relief.

A pair of very terrible eyes...

Cold pale gold, which did not belong to any normal race with emotions, and the owner of this pair of eyes put his hand on the neck of the young man.

How did the situation on the side of the elven territory continue? On the other side, the mechanical legion withdrawing troops from the elven territory directly transferred to the city of Kelno with teleportation magic after leaving the area of the enchantment.

Before returning to the Royal city, Sage suddenly stopped at the gate. He inexplicably felt some hesitation.

Wait a minute... Did he really want to hand over the captured human youth to the commander, when he didn’t know what the commander would do with the other...

If this plan was followed, the youth would be executed.

This...... he really wanted to...

In fact, Sage was not alone in the struggle. Other mechanical creatures were also struggling with the problem constantly. As a direct result, such a huge army was stuck at the gate of the city.

This large of an abnormality was easily discovered by the mechanical creatures in the city, so robots soon came to inquire about the situation.

“Was the mission accomplished, Sage?” The humanoid that came to the city gate was Ansel, one of the army leaders of mechanical creatures, who was good friends with Sage.

“Um... as a result, it failed.” Sage answered honestly.

Sage’s answer made Ansel pause for a moment, but he was not able to investigate the problem. The latter was frozen in place by sight of the human youth.

“You... How did you bring back a human?” This object must be killed, but Ansel was slow to action.

The group of mechanical creatures felt extremely tangled around the human while the human was sitting on the arm of a mechanical creature. Compared to the surrounding mechanical creatures that had tangled expressions, in contradiction, the youth instead appeared very relaxed.

They inevitably had to take the youth to the commander, because they could neither let him leave nor hide a living person in the king’s city. After some hesitation, Sage took the young man to the palace and Ansel followed him.

The commander was at the astrological table again. When the herald went to consult the former, Sage looked at the young man standing nearby and hesitated. “It is up to the commander to decide what to do with you, we...”

What to do, what if the commander really wanted to put him to death... They... Could they run away with the youth???

This idea came in like a ghost. Sage and Ansel both tensed up. They did not know what this idea represented, but they knew that their current idea was against their original program setting.

While the two men were struggling psychologically, a cold shadow appeared in front of them.

As the most perfect humanoid weapon produced by the Ark Project, the figure appearing in front of the public had a strong sense of existence that could not be ignored, and had a natural feeling of oppression belonging to a superior.

Silver hair and light golden irises. Since he was the most perfect humanoid weapon, the word perfect was not only reflected in his ability, but also in appearance. The outline of his facial features was cold and beautiful, which made one unable to pick out a flaw.

Noah.

The figure of their commander appeared in front of them. Sage and Ansel immediately held their breath slightly. The palace, which was already very quiet, was now even more silent.

But soon, a voice broke the quiet atmosphere in the palace.

“What will you do with me?” Looking at the cold figure, Gu Huai took a step closer to him and then asked this question.