Your Commander-in-Chief – Chapter 161

Silence.

A strange silence hangs in the air.

The battles happening all around suddenly come to a halt.

Because a truly bizarre scene unfolds.

“Owner of the Holy Sword…”

The owner of the Holy Sword, Jupiter. A person often derogatorily referred to as a sparrow. An absolute ally of humans, lost in the role-playing he created for himself. That is Jupiter.

And now, that very Jupiter is aiming his sword at his own human faction.

His eyes show no wavering, and his sword carries a resolute conviction.

“What am I supposed to make of this…?”

“You…! Are you seriously siding with the demons?”

The Exorcist Guild members who came with Jupiter chatter noisily.

With a calm expression, he slowly opens his mouth.

Everyone focuses on what he’s about to say.

“Just.”

“Just…?”

“Just. I wanted to do this.”

His heavy voice spreads widely.

There is no special meaning behind it. He simply says he aimed his sword at the Exorcist Guild because he wanted to.

“This is going too far as a joke.”

“Does this look like a joke to you?”

Jupiter speaks calmly as he draws the divine power bathed in sunlight from his sword. The light knight he envisioned speaks. The ones they truly need to help right now are none other than the demon clan.

“Did I say this is going too far? To me…”

Jupiter trails off. The nausea rising from within him prevents him from continuing.

Shifting the sword he held with both hands to one, he pulls out a massive shield.

Boom-!

The shield wrapped in divine power strikes the ground, revealing its enormous presence. A determination not to falter can be felt in his actions.

Everyone here feels it.

Jupiter is genuinely hostile to the Exorcist Guild.

Jupiter crouched his body, taking a defensive stance.

He’s good at taking hits. He spent quite a bit of gold to boost his lacking stats.

“Owner of the Holy Sword. If you don’t step aside, I will consider you a demon as well.”

Demon.

Jupiter rolls the word around in his mouth.

To Jupiter, the light knight, demons are not the enemy but the Exorcist Guild.

“I, the owner of the Holy Sword Jupiter, declare.”

The light knight spoke alone and grandly. He is always alone. He is used to such situations.

“You are demons disguised in human skin.”

It wasn’t loud, but everyone could hear it.

The quietly spreading voice drew a reaction from the Exorcist Guild.

“A demon! You’ve already been brainwashed by the demons!”

“It’s the corruption of a paladin!”

“You must be under mind control!”

“How rude…”

In that moment, unable to contain their anger, the Exorcist mage unleashed a skill.

A huge fireball was created in the air and shot rapidly towards Jupiter.

Whoosh!

It was fast, but not to the point he couldn’t dodge.

However, Jupiter didn’t back down.

He crouched lower, pushing out his massive shield.

Boom-!

A heavy impact struck the shield, but the divine power-wrapped shield didn’t even get a scratch.

“Attack!!!”

The attacks from the Exorcists began to pour down.

Giant fireballs and ice struck Jupiter’s body.

It was familiar. An all-too-familiar situation.

Jupiter strengthened his legs and buried his sword into the ground.

Boom-!

A giant halo exploded behind him, and his injured body began to heal rapidly.

The light knight is a shield. A solid wall that can protect what he wants to protect in any situation.

That was the setup.

And this time, that light shield wanted to protect the demon clan.

But no matter how good his stats were, he couldn’t block every attack alone.

If he had just deflected the ranged attacks with his sword, he could have lasted longer.

Even though he was blocking with a shield, Jupiter’s health was decreasing rapidly.

At that moment.

He felt healing pouring onto him.

A warm and comforting sensation.

Jupiter shifted his gaze behind the shield.

The demon clan healers, with red horns sprouting from their heads, were showering him with healing.

“Die!!!”

At that moment, a warrior wielding a massive great sword charged towards Jupiter.

His eyes sparked with madness as they flickered.

Jupiter acted calmly. His body wasn’t responding quickly. He always had to act a beat slower.

Clang!

The rapidly swung great sword hit the massive shield.

But the opponent seemed to have used considerable Transcendence Stone, as the pressure on his wrist wasn’t light.

Jupiter swung his sword too late.

Swish-!

As he watched the sword slice through the air, he quickly corrected his stance.

Familiar. The only opponents his attacks worked against were monstrosities.

So he minimized his attacks and concentrated all his nerves on defense.

Boom-! Clang-!

Bang!

Like beating a training straw dummy, the warrior rushing toward Jupiter swung his great sword with abandon.

Because Jupiter’s massive frame blocked him, the range attacks from the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild didn’t fly in.

Hold on and hold on and hold on again.

Relying on the healing pouring onto him, he blocked every attack.

His wrist holding the shield ached. His arms felt heavy as they swung back and forth.

“What a waste for the Holy Sword!”

Jupiter remained unfazed by the opponent’s taunting. He had heard it all before. So he didn’t care.

He focused and concentrated. He could see where the opponent’s attacks were flying from. But his body didn’t respond.

At that moment, someone approached Jupiter from the side. He too had silver divine power wrapped around his shield.

[Soft & Chewy Cow]

[The one who hindered the Empire’s ambitions]

[Dogrik]

Dogrik pushed the warrior swinging the great sword back with his shield.

Clang-!

But that wasn’t all. All the tanks within the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild began to move forward and form a line.

The axis of this formation was Jupiter. Change has arrived for the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild, which was fighting like a disorganized rabble.

“This, this is…”

Jupiter looked around in a daze.

It was undoubtedly a front that had been pushed back. It seemed there was no chance of winning.

But it was different. A change had come.

Jupiter wasn’t the only one taken aback by the sudden shift within the Soft & Chewy Cow Guild.

All the Exorcist Guild members facing them were greatly startled as well.

They seized the opportunity while all the commanders of the opposing guild had gone to rest. This was supposed to be a successful ambush.

It was as if they were being commanded by someone.

They attacked and retreated in perfect unison. The tanks never flinched. They trusted the healers behind them.

The thieves, who had been scattered and merely waiting for an opportunity, began to move collectively.

Like a breeze, they stepped forward and used stealth.

Seeing this, the Exorcist Guild’s mages and priests started to feel tense.

They directly witnessed the thieves’ stealth.

They had recognized the danger of a surprise attack that could spring up at any moment.

Just that caused their movements to turn passive.

The mages and priests no longer stepped forward. Because of that, the Exorcists’ formation couldn’t advance.

“Could it be… that the Blood Demon King has logged in?”

At Jupiter’s small murmuring, a loud gunshot echoed not far away.

Bang-!

A blue bullet is shot. The flash flying through the air takes on a bizarre trajectory as it curves to the side.

Like a living bullet, it bypasses the opposing tank formation.

Thud-!

The blue flash pierced through the head of one mage.

Everyone nearby saw it. And realized.

It was the attack of an archer user.

“That’s an archer’s sniper shot!”

“It came from the right! It came from the right!”

The Exorcist Guild members began to move towards the right.

They were trying to pressure the hidden archer sniper.

However, this time, a blue flash flew in from the opposite side.

Bang-!

Thud-!

Once again, one priest’s head exploded and died.

“Left!”

“I can’t see the sniper!”

This time it’s the left. The Exorcist Guild members looked around in great shock.

It was a vast open field. Meaning there wasn’t a spot suitable for a sniper to hide.

The range of an archer user isn’t that long. No matter how much they had specialized as a sniper.

Bang-!

Once more, a gunshot rang out.

Swish-!

Like a snake hunting its prey, the blue flash twisted to attack the backline of the priest and the mage.

Thud-!

Another down. The body of the mage user, whose head exploded, fell apart slowly.

“From… behind!”

This time it came from behind. Everyone witnessed the blue flash unfolding before their eyes.

But the archer who fired the bullet was nowhere to be seen.

The sniper shot came from an unseen location. They couldn’t even guess the direction.

“Ma, Ma-tan’s sniper…”

“That’s Ma-tan’s sniper!”

Bang-!

Thud-!

“Ack…”

Another one down.

Each time a gunshot rang out, without fail, one would fall.

The commander of the Exorcists let out a deep groan.

He couldn’t break through the solid defense line of the opposing side. The pressure from the hidden thieves caused the placements of the mages and priests to be inevitably passive.

“Wh-what should we do…”

At that moment, the opposing lineup began to move significantly. They attempted to advance in response to the now passive opponent.

“Advance!”

Leading the charge was the light knight wielding the brilliant Holy Sword.

The immense halo unfolding behind him lit up the surroundings brightly.

Is this what a knight blessed by the gods looks like? It seemed divine as he marched alongside the demons.

Bang-!

Even in that moment, the unseen sniping continued.

“Ugh, ughh…”

The Exorcist commander clutched his head. It was a good timing, but the lack of a unifying user spelled his downfall.

He had dragged the time out too long. One of the opposing commanders must have returned.

Silver Bullet, Andersen, Judah.

If just one of the three had been there, they wouldn’t have been pushed back like this.

He swallowed deeply and transmitted the retreat order to all guild members.

The Soft & Chewy Cow Guild did not pursue the retreating members.

It was because of the order from their vice-guild leader.

Hwarang casually rotated the twilight and dawn in his hands before holstering them.

His stylish cowboy hat swayed slightly.

Hwarang’s gaze shifted to Jupiter.

Though mixed among the guild members, the light knight exuded a vibe that was strikingly different.

“Hwarang.”

“What, me…? Did you call for me?”

Hwarang was greatly surprised. Jupiter suddenly spoke to him.

The light knight was smiling brightly.

“Did you hear? They’re calling you Ma-tan’s sniper.”

“Ma, Ma-tan’s sniper…?”

“What a cool nickname… I’m honestly jealous…”

Hwarang stared blankly at Jupiter.

The one who entered during the fight and brought order to the disorganized bunch was now someone Hwarang felt deeply conscious of.

What purpose did he have in fighting on their side?

Jupiter murmured the name Ma-tan’s sniper as if genuinely jealous.

“What’s your goal?”

“I helped because you looked like you needed it.”

“What…?”

“Owner of the Holy Sword, Jupiter. That’s what a light knight does.”

Jupiter said this and smiled widely.

He was genuinely pleased with his own line.

Now it was time to leave. The light knight never stays in one place.

After all, there were still many who needed his help.

Jupiter pulled a small goddess statue from his inventory and held it in his hand.

“Deliver this to the Blood Demon King. There’s no next time.”

“Uh…”

Jupiter turned his body.

As he left, he thought to himself.

What an amazing exit.

It was just as he reached the path near the village.

BEEP- BEEP- BEEP- BEEP-

An alarm sound only Jupiter could hear rang.

7:30 AM.

Time to take his medication.

Jupiter moved to a safe location and put the game into standby mode to exit.

*

BEEP- BEEP- BEEP- BEEP-

A small white hand suddenly emerged from the large capsule.

“Cough-!”

What crawled out from inside the capsule was a small girl.

Dressed in blue pajamas, the girl let out a few coughs and turned off the alarm on her phone.

The loud alarm that had been ringing stopped.

The small girl sat dazed at the edge of the capsule, inspecting her hands and feet.

They were not large and sturdy hands. They were soft and chewy, pure white hands.