“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” …
Earth-shattering roars exploded over and over as one meteor after another continuously fell upon the camp outside the canyon.
As the meteors glowing red from friction fell upon the camp, they shattered the earth and released terrifying shockwaves from their impact, covering the entire area.
Thousands of meteors continuously fell from the sky, streaked through the air, and then exploded out as they impacted the earth, creating crater after crater, covering the land.
With the impacts, waves of dust blown up by the impact blasted forth.
It was a catastrophe.
An unquestionable catastrophe.
Under such a catastrophe, the strength of mere mortals are truly weak and insignificant.
“No!”
“Ah!”
“Save me!”
One knight after anther screamed out within the camp.
One figure after another attempted to run away like scurrying ants.
However, there’s no way that they can escape such a disaster simply on foot.
They were either crushed under the enormous meteors like ants or buried by the shockwaves and dustclouds from the impacts. They were crushed meaninglessly under this catastrophe and lost their most valuable lives pointlessly.
“No…! No…! No…!!!”
Farbin had come out of his tent at some unknown point. While he was running for his life from this disaster, he also screamed out in utter despair at the sight of the knights being constantly killed by the meteors.
He had no idea just what had happened.
Nor did he know why things had turned out this way.
All he knew is that those knights that were being crushed mercilessly by a natural disaster were all valuable human resources that his Garibaldi family had painstakingly raised and recruited.
A point of note. Due to the matter with the Demon Refining ritual, in order to prevent any news from leaking out and getting discovered by the Kingdom, all the knights that Farbin had brought this time were all part of the Garibaldi family’s camp that they had either raised or recruited.
As for those normal knights who were recruited from commoners or knight born from other families, Farbin didn’t dare to bring them along at all, just in case of problems.
In other words, those knights that were continuously dying around him were all forces specifically of the Garibaldi family.
Now thought, they were being utterly unreasonably cut down, continuously being killed by the meteors falling from the sky.
This made Farbin was go insane, dumb, and even cry in pain.
Of course, what truly crushed him is still yet to come.
“Father!”
Before him, Lana, who carried with her the hopes of Farbin and the entire Garibaldi family as a whole, let out a terrified and despairing shout. Then, before Farbin’s very eyes, she was struck by a meteor and completely disappeared beneath the shattered ground.
“I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die! Save me! Father! Mother! Save me…!”
Raysig was also crying like mad, with his face covered in snot and tears as he ran with all his might within the crowd. However, in the end, he was still smashed apart by a rock from the skies, leaving nothing but a puddle of blood and ground meat.
“Aaaahhhhhhhh…!”
Farbin had completely collapsed. His screams were both regretful and like a demon’s howls.
In that instant, all the ambition and greed had completely vanished from Farbin’s mind.
It was his former unwillingness to accept the situation.
As well as his past obsession.
He doesn’t know just when this had started.
Was it when he heard people around him say [The Garibaldi family is second rate after all. They only have some average leveled knights, but they don’t even have a single true powerhouse] that it had all started?
Or was it when he heard others say [The Arbin and Vladina are the real pillars of the Kingdom. Even without the Garibaldi and the National Knight Order, the Kingdom can still go on without worries with the Royal Knights lead by those two families] that it had all started?
Either way, it’s because of those instances that Farbin would be dissatisfied, unwilling to accept the status quo, and thus formed his obsession.
Why did the Garibaldi family have to always lag behind the Arbin and Vladina?
Why is it that we can only control some second rate knights? Why is it what we control the National Knights, but are only pushed out of the spotlight by the Royal Knights as the Kingdom’s glory?
Was our family’s history shorter than those two families?
Were our family’s merits lacking compared to those two families?
So why couldn’t our family birth a true powerhouse?
Is this the will of the gods?
Do the gods forbid our Garibaldi family from rising?
Then I won’t believe in the gods anymore!
It’s with such thoughts that Farbin had ended up forging a relationship with the Old Demon Faction. In the end, he gained the Demon Lord Spawn and headed down this wrong path.
His deal with the [Original Devil] was quite simple. He will help the [Original Devil] enact their Demon Refining ritual, raise up sacrifices, and perfect their Demon Lord Spawn. The [Original Devil] will then lend him the Demon Lord Spawn to defeat Aldia and his vice captain, the head of the Vladina family.
So long as those two fell, then the Arbin and Vladina families will have lost their pillars.