Your Commander-in-Chief – Chapter 197

“Kill ’em all-!”

“Dieeeee-!”

“Th, this is!!!”

Jupiter started struggling among the soldiers surrounding her. With her power stat, slipping through the soldiers’ ranks wasn’t going to be easy.

“Huff…!”

How much time passed? Jupiter barely managed to break free from the midst of the soldiers.

Her usually well-kept hair was drenched in sweat, sticking out messily, and her gambeson armor was caked with dirt and filth.

“Ugh…?”

At that moment, someone approached Jupiter after she escaped the soldiers.

A massive man stood before her, and Jupiter felt a wave of intimidation wash over her. His muscles seemed ready to burst, and his half-naked torso was covered in gruesome scars, writhing grotesquely.

“Oh, oh! An enemy!”

The moment the word escaped the man’s lips, Jupiter realized where she was. In the middle of the battlefield, a dangerous place swarming with foes. She must have been pushed all the way here, disoriented from darting around among the soldiers.

Swoosh-!

A colossal axe came crashing down from above her head. Feeling every hair on her body stand on end, Jupiter rolled quickly to the ground.

As her small body rolled across the dirt, the massive axe slammed right where she stood.

Boom!

Dirt exploded in a cloud behind her as Jupiter sprang to her feet without even letting out a scream.

The enemy was a Viking user wielding a giant double-headed axe. As Jupiter recognized the identity of her adversary, she swiftly drew her sword, hanging at her waist.

Swish—

The long blade glimmered with a soft blue light as it was drawn. Her posture naturally dropped low, her body instinctively moving to evade the enemy’s attack effectively.

“Die, rat!”

The Viking’s eyes shook dangerously with excitement, clearly over the top with adrenaline.

Most likely, the VR capsule was filled with endless alarms blaring.

While acknowledging the Viking charging at her, Jupiter threw her gaze around. Despite the chaos with countless soldiers mixed in, there were no other players in sight except for the enemy Viking.

With nothing else to worry about, she focused entirely on her opponent.

Jupiter exhaled softly, summoning the white pain coursing through her. The hot blood from her heart rushed through her veins.

Thud-!

Acceleration.

Limit released.

The moment the white pain spread throughout her head, time began to slow around her.

There was only one opponent. There was no need to overly concentrate.

What Jupiter needed now was a fleeting moment.

The frozen second turned into five seconds for Jupiter. Those five seconds doubled down to ten.

This was enough.

Reading her opponent’s movements, Jupiter boldly pressed forward.

The enemy’s strength was surely higher than hers, thus Jupiter chose not to meet the attack head-on.

She dove deep under the enemy’s outstretched leg.

Swoosh-!

The wide swing of the axe just barely missed her head. If she had been even a moment late, her shoulder or head would have taken a hit.

She dodged the first attack.

Now it was time for the second one.

Calmly exhaling, Jupiter raised her sword.

The second attack would be deflected with a skill.

The edge of her raised sword glowed with a blue light. The knight’s skill [Calmness] activated.

Clang-!

The impact at her fingertips was faint. She successfully blocked the enemy’s attack.

Jupiter smiled slightly as she rotated on her ankle.

With the slight body rotation, her sword slicked forward.

Slash!

The long, swung blade cut through her opponent’s torso.

The sensation at her fingertips was vivid. She struck deep.

“Ugh!”

In the slow flow of time, Jupiter noticed the change in the Viking user’s expression.

Wide open mouth with furrowed brows.

While enduring pain, his gaze was fixed directly on Jupiter’s head.

A shiver started from his neck, tracing down his arm.

Arm.

An attack was coming.

The moment Jupiter realized this, she rolled on the ground.

Thud-!

Another axe slammed where she had just stood.

However, it lacked the power of the previous hit.

Jupiter kept her gaze fixed on her enemy.

The opponent’s attack was weak.

It meant he couldn’t swing his weapon with power like before.

“Hyah!”

Continuing the roll, she quickly pivoted her body.

The sudden change in posture caused her thigh muscles to expand painfully, sending a sharp ache to her ankle.

Yet, Jupiter didn’t stop.

The blade of her long sword glimmered brightly as it finally pierced the Viking user’s heart.

It was an attack she could only pull off because he wasn’t wearing armor.


If he had been in chainmail, Jupiter would have aimed for his neck instead.

“Hoo…”

“Crazed…”

The Viking user muttered with a voice boiling with rage before collapsing to the ground.

Jupiter smiled as she checked the kill log that appeared in the upper right corner.

She had won her first battle. Things seemed to be going well.

At that moment, Jupiter’s gaze caught the rising kill log.

Enemy eliminated: Jupiter → Arcanite

Ally eliminated: yeon1111 → sinq2

Ally eliminated: yeon1111 → Steamed Bun Dumplings

In a brief moment, two of her allies had fallen.

Given the kill log showed no sign of anyone else being involved, it meant that just one person had taken them all out.

Jupiter swallowed dryly after confirming the enemy’s nickname.

No way, it couldn’t be.

Of course, it was true she logged on to this game to find her rival, the Blood Demon King.

But to coincidentally encounter the opponent she was searching for in a random game?

And, as an enemy?

If coincidences keep piling up, they become inevitable.

Jupiter felt her heart race as she confirmed the enemy’s nickname.

“Looks like it…”

A low voice escaped the small girl knight’s lips.

The Light Knight, Jupiter, felt a strong sense of inevitability at this moment.

“Rivals must be drawn to each other…”

Jupiter’s gaze quickly scanned her surroundings.

All her teammates had come rushing this way.

That meant the user with the nickname yeon, who was slicing through her allies, would also be nearby.

He, or rather she, was the Blood Demon King.

Jupiter tightened her grip on the sword in her hand and charged into the battlefield.

All around were the corpses of soldiers. Jupiter stepped over the lifeless bodies, searching for Yeo.

The place Jupiter arrived at was the front of the enemy’s occupied territory, where traces of battle were long evident.

The passageway leading to the enemy’s occupied territory had a narrow log bridge placed over it.

Seeing the fierce current flowing beneath the log bridge, it was clear that to approach the enemy, she had no choice but to cross it.

The rival she sought stood on that bridge.

Her long, well-kept black hair danced in the wind.

The small girl stood, clutching a weapon that was taller than her, with a wicked smile plastered on her face.

In that moment, the girl’s eyes turned towards Jupiter.

When their eyes met, they recognized each other.

“Little Sparrow…?”

“Blood Demon King…!”

Even from a distance, she could hear the words clearly.

The tiny girl’s voice calling her “Sparrow” pierced into her ears, slowly spreading through the wind.

Jupiter gradually raised her sword, aiming it at Yeo.

“What are you doing here…?”

Jupiter didn’t answer Yeo’s question. Instead, she quickly scanned her surroundings.

There was no sign of enemies. None of her allies were in sight either.

This meant she was in a one-on-one situation with her rival.

“I came to find you.”

“Me…?”

As Jupiter walked slowly up onto the log bridge, the ground to stand on was narrow. If she slipped up even slightly, she’d fall and be swept away by the rapid current below.

Whoosh!

Hearing the roar of the fierce waters, Jupiter opened her mouth.

“Have you given up on Deron Gal?”

“D, Deron Gal…? What are you talking about… I was here for the event battle…”

“Event battle, huh?”

What was she saying?

To participate in the VRS event battle, one had to achieve specific conditions.

That was why Jupiter had been stuck in the arena all day.

“Blood Demon King, are you lying to me? From what I know, you haven’t played a single match in the arena this season.”

“Th, that’s…!”

Ah, now she understood how things were progressing.

The Blood Demon King had run away. To hand over the owner of Deron Gallery to her.

It must have been the reason she called her rival a nice person while playing as the Soft & Chewy Raccoon.

“You ran away…”

“What…?”

“You’ve run away from me, the Light Knight, Jupiter!”

“What do you mean…?”

“Blood Demon King. I understood your feelings well… You recognize me, this Jupiter, as the rightful owner of the Deron Gallery…”

A cowardly person doesn’t deserve to be a ruler.

Jupiter declared this as if it were a proclamation.

The heavy sword in her hands stretched out towards Yeo.

“Ow, owner…? You?”

At that moment, Yeo’s aura began to shift.

Her gaze grew colder, and a twisted smirk crept up her lips.

Her relaxed stance lowered, beginning to scatter sharp threats like a well-honed blade.

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

The gazes of the two young girls clashed in the air.

Neither was willing to back down even an inch.

The black and white girls faced each other, weapons drawn.

The extended weapon gleamed as the sharp edge of the long sword sliced through the air.

Clang-!

“The gallery users acknowledged it too. That I deserve the seat of the owner more…”

As they struggled with each other’s weapons, Jupiter and Yeo realized that their power stats were equal.

Yeo smiled at the small girl before her.

The opponent she had easily defeated before in Deron wouldn’t change in this game either.

How dare she babble nonsense in front of her.

She intended to deliver a merciless punch just like she had back then.

“Save your nonsense for the afterlife.”

“Blood Demon King…”

After glaring at each other for a while, Jupiter and Yeo both frowned and stepped back.

The shock made the log bridge sway slightly, causing the small girls’ bodies to shift.

However, neither lost their stances.

“Huff…”

Yeo let out a deep sigh as she summoned the white pain within her.

As the pain rapidly spread until its peak, the time around her began to slow.

White pain.

Acceleration.

As Yeo prepared to fight, Jupiter began to summon her white pain too.

Unlike Yeo, who could utilize white pain like a spear, Jupiter didn’t have as much time available to her.

White pain.

Limit release.

As the pure white pain engulfed her mind, the surroundings she perceived began to slow down.