"Strike, buy time."
The great warriors of Helkan, they are the most powerful and monstrous of all orcs.
Chosen by the devoted Helkan, their axe skills cut through iron and shatter armor.
-Crack! Kwah!
The holy sword slices their flesh in half. Faster than their mighty axes, as if it doesn't care about the battle of strength and power, it slices through the axes with a single blow.
"K---!"
It's fast and never lacking in strength.
When he has to cut the leading warrior in half and strike him while being outnumbered, he certainly does.
Strength and speed come from overwhelming muscularity. He crushes the Black Orc warriors through sheer force alone.
"Unbelievable."
Each and every one of the Black Orc warriors of Helkan is a warrior of reversal. They are the strongest Orc warriors who once fought against the Holy Knights of Lionheart.
Such monstrosities have grown stronger through their battles in the demon realm, and yet---the unbelievable sight of Black Orc warriors being crushed. But------
"Fuck you, tin can."
Even as one arm is severed and the rest of the body is crushed, the fighting spirit of the indomitable warriors on the brink of death, chips away at the Lionheart King's armor.
"He---!"
The King of Knights does not recognize such fighting spirit. In further protest, the hunters of the Hunting God cast their nets.
"Freeze!"
The net of the Orc Hunters is a dense, powerful net that captures even great beasts. Blessed by Skunik, the net is so tight and sharp that even the beast's strength cannot escape it, and the more it struggles, the more it hurts.
"------"
"His feet have stopped! Shoot!"
Soon a large number of explosive javelins were fired. The collective javelins of the Black Orc hunters who melted down the Great Old One Beluza explode right in front of him.
"This won't end well------!?"
-Gooooooooo---!
The Black Orc warriors' faces twist. They are born warriors and fearless, but they didn't expect the monster to survive such an explosion.
"That's it."
The new masterpiece of the Iron Holy Knight of this age, the armor that made Leon immortal.
The Star Iron Armor, which is enhanced by the divine favor and the vastness of his power, reaches its full potential when worn by the Lionheart King.
This makes him an unharmed immortal, allowing him the arrogance to shrug off a few mortal attacks from his enemies.
"Now it's my turn."
The Lionheart King gestures to the orcs, as if the overwhelm so far had not been an offense. As if to pronounce punishment, the arrogant saint invokes the power of the gods with a wave of his hand.
Divine Punishment
A thunder-crowned giant in the clouds is ready to punish the orcs.
[Fry to death, bugs]
-Crack! Quack!
A spear of thunder slams into the center of the orcs with little time to react.
-Thwack!
In the dizzying moment of the collision, Leon saw that the orcs' spears had absorbed lightning.
"Lightning rods. How uncharacteristically clever."
"Kkkkk, this isn't the first time I've fought you tin cans."
Black Orc Warlord Bultan laughed ferociously.
"I see the shamans are ready for this."
"Hmm?"
The Black Orc shamans, who had been hiding in the rear and out of Leon's sight until now, turned their enormous power toward the orcs at the front.
The mighty power of Orc champions is given to all Black Orcs.
The results of this enhancement were great: a massive beam, massive strength, and swift feet.
"------!?"
Leon swung his sword at the charging Bultan, but his abnormally fast movements caught him off guard.
"You're slow!"
Bultan caught up to him in a flash. The axe he swings strikes Leon in the back.
Leon swings his sword to block, but he scrapes the ground as he's overpowered by Bultan, who is now much stronger than before.
"Here!"
The Black Orc hunter charges. Running with his boar, he slams into Leon with ferocious momentum.
"How rude of you!"
Leon slammed his fist into the boar's head, exploding it and stabbing the orc hunter in the heart as he fell forward.
But the orcs would make the most of the moment, capitalizing on the death of one of their own.
Helkan's great warriors, Bultan and Grokan strike the Lionheart King in unison with their axes. Leon quickly blocks it, but the orcs crush him with their might.
-Thud!
He falls to one knee. It was a first.
"Kkkk---! Now that we're using the power of the gods, we're overwhelming you!"
The Black Orcs were too arrogant to utter such words.
An explosive physical rise, as if the Holy Knights' Holy Descent had been used by every single Orc warrior. Leon realized it was a trick of the Orc shamans.
'A timed holy descent.'
They really are sparing no lives.
The Black Orcs gained momentum, pressing Leon from all sides.
They had the strength of Helkan, the footwork of Skunik, and the firepower of Gokrok.
A devastating combination of Black Orc warriors that even the Demon Archduke would be overwhelmed by.
"You stopped them all?!"
"What a monster!"
It is the orcs, not Leon, who accumulate hundreds of combat damage in a row.
'Seven down already.'
'The rest of my brothers, no more than thirty.'
As time passes, the orcs' offense diminishes.
Bultan locked eyes with Grokan and nodded in unspoken agreement.
"Lionheart---!"
Grokan shouted, his roar enough to draw the Lionheart's attention.
"Now die!"
With a thud, Grokan charged at Lionheart, a force to be reckoned with, and Leon was not merciful enough to deflect his righteous charge.
-Pooh!
Leon stabbed into Grokan's heart but at the same time──
"------?!"
Grokan grabs Leon, who was stabbing him in the stomach. Leon tried to break free from his grasp, but it was hard to escape from the Black Orc warrior who had given up his life.
"Bultan, follow your brother!"
Bultan grabbed Leon from behind. Naturally, Leon found it even harder to escape.
"Great Warrior Garham! For the glory of Helkan!"
"Great Warrior Falbata, I give myself to Skunik!"
Black Orc warriors rush in from all directions, their power exploding and creating a vast force on the terrain.
"Die, King of the Tins. Your legend will end at our hands."
The shamans of the Shaman God have channeled their overflowing power into a single force, a force they cannot contain. The concentration of so much power in a minute creates an internal explosion.
The veteran warriors who wield divine power have joined forces to fight to the death. Against this──
Holy Sword Unleashed.
The starlight gathers into a golden color.
* * * * *
--Hull damage repaired. System reactivated.
The peacock-class has recovered its damage and has begun flying for its mission.
Unsurprisingly, the weapon, in the form of a space battleship, headed for the Helkan statue faster than anyone else, and the Helkan's spirit body, sensing its approach, reached out.
"Uhhh, danger---!"
The sight of the asteroid being shattered by the creature's fist made Soo-ho cringe, but he was soon distracted by the furious movement of the battleship.
-Evasion Pattern 137. Emergency Evasion Mode. Thrust deflector nozzles fully extended.
The peacock-class in sudden evasive maneuver was like a desert rabbit escaping the clutches of a swooping eagle, the Peacock makes an abrupt turn and an acrobatic 780-degree spin to escape Helkan's grasp.
"Aaaaahhh!"
"Sir Yappy, drive, drive, drive---!"
The knights on board cry out in pain at the overwhelming G's, but the Holy Knight of Iron and Blacksmiths shrugs them off.
-Control successful. Mobius-class guns deployed.
The guns of the attack satellite attached to the peacock class. It unleashes a barrage of doomed charged particles at the statue that summoned Helkan spirit.
-Kaah!
As hundreds of missiles were fired from the battleship, the statue shudders and collapses under the merciless bombardment.
-Kuung!
[Helkan's statue collapsed, the spirit body summoning stops]
"Oooh---!"
"We did it!"
"It's Lord Yappy after all!"
The interior of the ship was colored by the sight of the vomiting knights, but their own vomit took precedence over the fact that they had succeeded in defeating the statue as announced by the system message.
-Crack! Moving to next target──
"This guy---!"
Then, with a thud, something collided with the peacock class. The impact was so intense that the crushed Peacock rolled on the concrete floor of the city.
-Damage severe. Armament firing sequence. Pilot and payload landing.
Yappy urgently landed the payload. Han Soo-ho and the rest of the Knights of the Ten Thousand Gods were well-trained knights, and they formed up in a straight line, even in this mess.
"Those who can't get on their horses, join the ranks! Those on horseback, line up left and right! Here come the orcs!"
Han Soo-ho shouted to his comrades in arms, urging them to join him, and then---as he did so---he noticed a huge presence approaching.
[Balbaza, champion of Helkan, roars]
-Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa──!!!
Balbaza, champion of the Orc Battle God Helkan, having crushed the peacock in a single blow, rushed toward the half-destroyed peacock with his men.
"Champion-- Lord Yappy, is there a way?"
-The time had come to prove my superiority.
A shadow shot out of the cockpit. The pilot, Yappy, landed on the roof of a building.
-Boom!
"What is it, you?"
Balbaza stared at the mechanical spider that stared down at him from the rooftop.
It was too small and cuddly to be a warrior but knowing that it was a famed Holy Knight of the Ten Thousand Gods, Balbaza's spirit rose.
-Balbaza, Champion of the Orc Battle God Helkan.
"Ho, you know my name?"
Yappy analyzed the situation. Thirty knights from the Alliance of the Ten Thousand Gods, including Han Soo-ho. Not a lot of troops for the peacock-class weapon.
Meanwhile, the other side has hundreds of them. And that number would only grow.
His goal is to capture the orc champion Balbaza and unleash overwhelming firepower on the enemy army, but first he must take care of him.
But how should he isolate and defeat Balbaza alone in this battle?
The wise and superior AI Yakt Spinner understood the mindset of these inferior organics very well.
So──
-Call.
"What?"
-What? -Lousy. Crap. A dog running away from a one-on-one peck.
"You, you---!"
Balbaza leaped off the ground. Balbaza's leap was so powerful that he was approaching in an instant but Yappy began to run, scurrying across the rooftops.
-Following.
"Yes, I will kill you!"
Balbaza began to race across the city's rooftops in pursuit of Yappy.
* * * * *
Balbaza took Yappy taunt in stride.
When he was far enough away, he caught up and swung his axe at the Yappy's slender carapace.
With a thud, the building collapsed. From the rubble, Yappy leapt with a swift leap and landed in a plaza.
-Crack!
"Hmph, I heard you were a Holy Knight, and all you can do is run away!"
-What?
Yappy's camera eyes stared at Balbaza and scanned the surrounding battlefield.
They're far enough apart and in the right position but Balbaza didn't seem to realize his intentions.
"I'm guessing you want to isolate me and take me down one-on-one, which is not a bad idea."
Balbaza was not unaware of Yappy's intentions but he let his speculation boil over, radiating Helkan's power.
"Your plan assumes that you can take me down."
"-------"
Yappy watched Balbaza's power surge with clarity, making an objective power analysis.
Indeed, a Holy Knight. No, a power eruption of that magnitude is more than just a Holy Knight.
It was a marked difference from the Balbaza that had been observed at Jerea's Relic Transport Gate in the past. Even Yappy's early self would have calculated a certain defeat.
-Bam! Peacock-class final armor sequence activated.
But that was in the past.
-Thump! Thump! Thump!
It was fired from a battleship that should have been destroyed.
The peacock-class final armor takes the form of a space battleship, which makes it seem like that's what this final armor is all about, but it's not.
-This is the Holy Knight of Iron and Blacksmithing.
Flying container boxes disintegrate in a shower of blasts, revealing one thing after another.
-An endlessly evolving, developing, augmenting being.
It was a myriad of armaments.
Support armament - Land Fire Support Weapons Baron class.
Support armament - Airborne Mobile Bombers of the Viscount class.
War armaments - Electro-Mechanized Special Warfare Vehicles, Count class.
Decisive Armament - Marquis class, land-based anti-tank weapons.
Full set of the following 12 types of all-round response armament systems.
Full-scale integrated armament platform. All-weapon ready.
In addition to these, there are dozens of specialty weapons developed for Yappy's exclusive connection and designed to respond to dozens of combat situations. There------
End Armament - Universal Combat Support System Control Armament Peacock Class.
This is the Peacock class, the last-resort weapon for all situations.
-Today's main weapon is stronger than yesterday's main weapon.
With this infinite blacksmith's grace, the Holy Knight of Iron overthrows the savage beast.