The cool night wind was thick with the stench of blood and piercing screams.
"Argh!"
"Protect the general!"
"General Gaius, hurry and leave! We can't defeat those monsters!"
Beside Mita's conical fountain, Gaius sat atop a white horse, his face livid as he listened to the captains around him urging him to retreat.
Yet his eyes remained fixed on the four Awakened Beings that kept smashing through the battle formation and drawing closer.
The next moment, he raised the sword in his hand high, his eyes bloodshot as he roared furiously.
"Don't you understand yet?! We have no way back!"
"No matter what lies ahead, we can only move forward! Forward!"
"Soldiers, charge with me!!!"
Gaius had actually realized that this rebellion was unlikely to succeed.
Like those coup plotters before them, they would be swept into history's garbage heap.
But he still summoned his courage and fought to the death.
"For Rome!"
The horse reared high with a neigh.
General Gaius led a group of knights toward the foremost Awakened Being, his crimson cape blazing behind him like fire.
[Bang------]
The sturdy white horse and sharp blade, carrying powerful momentum, collided with the ferocious Awakened Being.
However, reality was cruel.
Blood splashed as the white horse's neck was severed alive, while the blade shattered into pieces in midair.
Three vicious gashes tore across Gaius's Golden Armor, and he was sent flying by the immense force.
In that instant.
All he could do was watch with bloodshot eyes as the knights under his command died one after another beneath the wildly swinging claws of the laughing Awakened Beings.
Gaius was filled with incomparable fury and hatred.
He hated that the world allowed such powerful monsters to exist.
Yet he seemed to have forgotten how delighted he had once been when