Future Knight

Chapter 47

Of course, the battleship was equipped with near-space weapons that were far more powerful than conventional weapons like missiles, including large-caliber rail guns, small-caliber coil guns, plasma beams, and quantum bombs.

However, those weapons were unusable if the main power was not operational.

The only weapon currently available on the battleship was the missile.

That didn’t mean the missile’s power was weak by any means.

From the past to the present, the most powerful and malicious weapon was still the nuclear missile.

However, Kang Chan couldn’t use it because it required a code authorized by the home base.

If he had been able to use it, Kang Chan, who had already given up on life, would have used it without hesitation.

As all the missiles on the battleship, except for the nuclear ones, were launched and flew away, the massive hangar door on the upper hull of the spaceship began to open slowly.

Despite the loud creaking sounds echoing from the dented upper deck caused by the crash impact, the door opened without much trouble.

From within the now fully opened hangar, a massive object slowly began to reveal itself.

The Red Rabbit, which had been quietly dormant all this time, finally awoke from its slumber.

Various connected cables were automatically removed from the Zaid, and an airborne assault flight was mounted on the pylons on its back.

As the pressure in the launcher began to rise, in no time, the massive Zaid, weighing nearly 80 tons in combat weight, exited the hangar, revealing its hefty form outside the battleship.

―Wooong!

The wings of the massive flight mounted on the Red Rabbit’s back spread out in an instant, and as the ion engine ignited, the Red Rabbit soared into the sky, rocketing towards Kang Chan with a thunderous roar.

### 15. The Enraged Red Rabbit

“What is he muttering to himself?”

Green watched Kang Chan, who was mumbling to himself, with a face full of fear.

At that moment, Green witnessed an unbelievable sight.

A massive something began flying across the sky at an unimaginable speed.

And it wasn’t just one massive object, but dozens.

Then, another astonishing event unfolded before Green’s eyes.

A vast area wider than her field of vision flashed simultaneously, and with an earth-shaking explosion, massive flames engulfed everything in all directions.

Watching the explosion, Green couldn’t believe her eyes.

The explosion spanned several kilometers.

It was an incredibly extensive explosion.

To her knowledge, the only magic with such power and attack range was Meteor.

But she felt no mana from the explosion before her eyes.

And the incoming objects weren’t simple meteors just falling randomly from the sky.

They could freely change direction to find their target points.

Those things continued to fly in relentlessly, crashing into other places and exploding.

The sound was so loud that she, with her excellent hearing as an elf, had to clutch her head in pain.

She screamed, covering her ears.

“No! My children! My children!”

Certainly. The place where the explosion was happening was the elf village where hundreds of thousands of Green Elves were fighting.

Given that, it was obvious what had happened to her children caught in the massive explosion.

“No, stop! I said stop!”

Green screamed, but the missiles continued to roar as they flew towards their next target.

Watching those missiles, Green wandered around like a madwoman.

Then, she urgently shouted towards Kang Chan.

“This is your doing, isn’t it? Stop it immediately!”

Green glared at Kang Chan with eyes full of anger, as if she could kill him, but Kang Chan only stared back at her with an emotionless gaze.

“You bastard! I’ll kill you!”

Green screamed that she would kill him, but in reality, she did nothing but float in the sky.

In that moment.

A tremendous attack rained down on Green.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!

The attacks continued relentlessly.

Green fled as if her soul had left her body.

Desperately diving into the forest, Green barely escaped the persistent attack.

It was truly a tremendous attack.

Green glared to see what had attacked her.

Then, a gigantic object slowly revealed itself in the sky.

Once again, Green was too shocked to close her gaping mouth.

“What the! What is that!”

A gigantic silver-white Gigantes, accompanied by a massive storm, descended slowly beside the humans.

It was a Gigantes with enormous steel wings and a mysterious appearance that stood ten meters tall, something neither heard nor seen before.

Seeing the smoke rising from the back of the Gigantes’ hand, it was clear that the terrifying attack earlier had come from that Gigantes.

As the Gigantes landed and slowly lowered its head, it opened the shoulder part, and the human quickly jumped into the cockpit of the Gigantes.

“A flying Gigantes! I’ve never heard of such a thing! Is that an ancient giant? Phoenix, help me!”

Green, who had been watching Kang Chan board Zaid with bated breath, called for Phoenix, as she knew she couldn’t face the enormous steel giant alone.

Then, Phoenix, who had somewhat recovered from the injuries inflicted by Arteon’s attack, let out a shriek and slowly ascended into the sky.

The restraints extended around Kang Chan’s head and shoulders, securing him tightly to the seat.

Through the biochip implanted in his mind, Zaid attempted to establish a neural connection with Kang Chan.

-Neural connection complete.

As the neural connection was completed, Kang Chan slowly opened his eyes.

He and Zaid were now one, and he found himself as a giant steel giant, standing ten meters tall.

-Due to the pilot’s severe injuries, medical micromachines will be injected.

“It’s unnecessary…”

Treatment no longer meant anything to him.

His body was already dying.

-Understood.

“Red Rabbit, how long has it been since we last connected?”

-Captain Kang Chan, it has been exactly 53 years, 6 months, 12 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes, and 55 seconds since our last connection.

“It took fifty years to get here… I waited those fifty years and finally met Jaina here…”

As Kang Chan remembered the day he first met Jaina, tears flowed from his eyes as he sat quietly in the cockpit, filled with sorrow.

-Beep! High-energy reaction detected ahead.

The warning sound snapped Kang Chan out of his reverie, and his eyes returned to their cold, emotionless state.

Turning his head in the direction of the enemy’s appearance, he saw Phoenix, who had recovered from her injuries, shrieking and soaring into the sky.

“I’ll kill you! Fire the 30mm railgun!”

-30mm railgun, initiating automatic error correction targeting.

As Red Rabbit extended its hand toward Phoenix, three gun barrels emerged from the back of its hand and began to fire in succession.

“Die, you wretched creature!”

The large-caliber railgun, incomparable to a rifle-mounted railgun, unleashed a barrage of bullets at Phoenix, creating a vivid spiral vortex that pierced her entire body.

Phoenix screamed in agony.

Although Phoenix was a spirit without a physical form, the railgun’s attack was still effective. The lingering ice from Hel Frost shattered from the railgun’s impact, tearing through Phoenix’s body and causing her intense pain.

“You bastard!”

Enraged, Phoenix breathed a scorching breath at Kang Chan, forcing Red Rabbit to soar into the sky to avoid the flames.

The forest behind them, unfortunate enough to be in the path of Phoenix’s breath, exploded and transformed into a molten lava field.

Kang Chan continued to fire the railgun at Phoenix from the sky, but when it had no further effect, he reached for a more powerful weapon.

“Prepare to fire the Buster Cannon!”

The Buster Cannon, mounted on Zaid, was the most powerful weapon designed for battles with space warships. It accelerated plasma particles to fire as a beam.

-Preparing to fire the Buster Cannon. Accelerating plasma particles. Countdown 30 seconds until ready.

The Buster Cannon, shaped like a double-edged blade mounted on Zaid’s back, rose over its shoulders, and plasma particles began to discharge between the blades.

Bzzzzzzzzz!

Phoenix soared into the air, rushing toward Kang Chan. He began evading while using the railgun to keep Phoenix at bay, needing to buy time until the Buster Cannon was ready to fire.

Phoenix flapped her wings and launched dozens of massive, flaming feathers, each two meters long, at Red Rabbit.

Each feather carried the same destructive power as a Hellfire missile.

To evade the feathers that pursued him like missiles, Kang Chan deployed chaff and started evasive maneuvers.

The chaff used by Zaid wasn’t just simple aluminum foil like those used by past fighter jets but also contained high-performance miniature explosives capable of destroying approaching enemy weapons and aircraft.

As the flaming feathers neared the chaff in the sky, a massive explosion occurred, and the feathers were caught in the blast, causing an even larger explosion.

As the tremendous explosion filled the sky, a brilliant flash of light shot through the blast, targeting Phoenix.

The beam, moving at the speed of light, left no time for evasion.

Bzzzzzzzz!

“Aaaaaargh!”

Phoenix’s body was split in half by the dazzling beam, and the plasma beam pierced through Phoenix, striking the ground.

Unlike the railgun’s physical attack, the beam weapon that accelerated plasma particles was akin to a light-based magical attack, causing Phoenix severe damage.

If Phoenix’s flames had transformed the vast land into a lava field, the Buster Cannon created a small, deep hole in the ground. As the hole widened and melted from the intense heat, it eventually triggered a massive explosion.

Green, who had been hiding in the forest, was blown away by the explosion. The resulting storm from the blast flattened all the trees in the forest.

After the storm swept through.

The scene of destruction, spanning hundreds of meters, revealed its horrifying aftermath.

The ground was cracked like a spiderweb as if struck by an earthquake, and the gaps were filled with glowing red lava.