Episode 6: Mafia Game / Chapter 90: Independent Troops (1)
TL: emptycube / ED: Obelisk
The sudden group fight ended with the appearance of Commander Mack of the Virgo Cluster. She looked like a human and was beautiful. She had sapphire blue hair and a pair of golden horns that grew in a diagonal line near the back of her head. At a glance, however, they didn’t seem like horns but rather an elegant hairstyle.
“Haa…”
When she held her forehead and sighed, the aliens dropped to their knees with a thud.
“Cough… What’s this? Cough.”
Camilla, who had been hit by the aliens and knocked out, slowly got up and looked around.
She caught sight of the blue-haired Commander Mack. Commander Mack, who floated slightly in the air, was slowly sliding down towards the middle of the group fight.
“Pathetic fools.”
Her voice was chillingly cold. As if the four aliens in the group were pressed down by something, they couldn’t get up easily.
Commander Mack, who was a high ranked warrior (6-star), possessed an excellent ability that allowed her to invade and change other people’s karma. Alliance members called it ‘Laying down fate’ when she used her power. The fate the aliens were currently receiving was the fate of Atlas, who held up the sky. Commander Mack changed their karma and made their arms and legs rigid and heavy. To those experiencing it, it felt as though an enormous weight was weighing down on them.
“As those who are attending the welcoming event, you pick a fight with the main stars of the event? You who call yourselves warrior leaders of the Virgo Cluster?”
The four aliens, who fought against the overseers of Earth, were the warrior leaders of the Virgo Cluster division troops.
“Erk. For life and freedom.”
Tangka of the Armoured Soul Tribe, who was the leader of the four, stood on its trembling legs and saluted. It looked as though the 3-meter-tall, steel ‘robot’ was lifting the Earth as steam was emitted from its entire body. All it was doing, however, was barely straightening its legs and standing up. It displayed a karma light when it saluted, but it seemed even that was difficult as its shiny, metallic karma light swayed in different directions.
“Kik.” The Queen of England Diana, who had been hit by Tangka, laughed cutely, seemingly pleased at its current figure.
Commander Mack didn’t accept its salute.
“That’s enough. You guys are going to ‘lift the sky’ for the whole day. If any one of you frowns or if your legs tremble during the welcoming event because it’s too difficult… prepare yourselves.”
Mack said in a chilling voice.
“Bu-but commander. The new recruits committed mutiny!”
Tangka showed a dejected face as it protested.
Thud!
Its knees touched the ground once again. The burden pressing down on its body had increased.
“Looks like you have the strength to talk? You get double.”
“Keuk…”
Tangka couldn’t speak anymore and kept its mouth shut.
Mack clicked her tongue while looking at it.
“Pathetic, who’s a new recruit? They haven’t even been commissioned yet. Strictly speaking, what you committed was an abuse of authority and an assault on citizens. You’re lucky that you aren’t going on military trial.”
At the mention of a military trial, the four, including Tangka, became pale.
Only then did Mack turn her gaze towards the overseers of Earth.
‘How gruesome.’
That was the first thing Mack thought. The arms and legs of Earth’s overseers were broken, and their insides were injured, resulting in blood dripping from their mouths.
This was because of the big difference in levels even though they had the numerical advantage of 7 against 4. Tangka and the rest were above-average middle ranked warriors (5-star), while, on the other hand, Earth’s overseers were all hovering at the level of low ranked warriors (4-star) excluding Choi Hyuk, who had just become a middle ranked warrior. Even Richard was only at a level between middle and low ranked warriors.
‘But they fought well considering the difference in level.’
Mack glanced at the four warrior leaders standing as they endured the weight. They weren’t fine either. A bruised face wasn’t unusual, but there was even a fellow whose arm was broken due to burns.
Sighing, Commander Mack looked at the overseers and said,
“Nice to meet you. I am Commander Mack of the Virgo Cluster. Since Earth is part of the Virgo Cluster, if you get commissioned, you will be under my command. And you will occasionally see dimwits like them.”
Mack glanced at the warrior leaders again and then said to the overseers,
“You came here for the welcoming event, but you had a hard time from the start. Still… It was impressive.”
Grinning, she turned around and headed towards the event hall.
“Now, let’s head to the event hall. Everyone’s waiting for you.”
“Huh? Do we just go like this? What about our wounds?”
When the Queen of England Diana asked, Mack didn’t even turn around as she replied,
“Wounds at that level will heal by themselves. Don’t worry about it. Everyone attending the welcoming event is a warrior. If you have a few wounds, there will be something to talk about so it’ll be fine.”
**
Even though a civilization was newly joining the alliance, there wasn’t a particular ceremony or order to the welcoming event.
When they arrived at the event hall, it was bustling with aliens from various places throughout the Laniakea Supercluster. These aliens identified the ‘earthlings’, whom they were seeing for the first time, and greeted them.
Going around, greeting others and eating was all there was to the welcoming event… and it wasn’t all too bad.
Like Commander Mack said, the attendees showed interest in Earth’s overseers’ injuries. Each and every one of them wanted to gather around and listen to the story of the group fight between Earth’s overseers and the Virgo Cluster’s warrior leaders.
They crowded around and greeted them to the point Choi Hyuk’s eyes felt dizzy. And Choi Hyuk was surprised at the fact he memorized all their names. As his karma grew, the limit of living beings gradually became non-existent.
There weren’t only warriors who attended the event. They were surrounded by the Seo tribe, who weren’t skilled in combat but could make incredible weapons, the Thumb tribe, who were responsible for gathering and analyzing information, as well as other various tribes.
“Cough.”
Choi Hyuk, who was surrounded by all types of aliens, was conversing with them with a mixture of bewilderment and joy, occasionally coughing up a bit of blood. He had been hit in the chest by Tangka of the Armoured Soul Tribe, and it seemed as though it was taking a while to heal since it was an internal injury. Looking at this, the alien warriors made a fuss.
“Oh, earthling’s blood is red too?”
“Of course, blood has to be red to be genuine.”
“What are you saying. Warriors without blood are true warriors. Like me.”
Unsure whether they were always like this or because they could finally let loose after a long time, but the aliens joked non-stop amongst themselves and laughed as they floated around.
The event hall was a zero-gravity area made with a specially produced dark matter. It was dark and transparent all around them, but they could occasionally see a bright comet rotating around the event hall. The comet had a set rotation and, like a replaying video, continuous circled around, and when one saw it, they would become hazy as if hypnotized.
“Of course, blood has to be red to be genuine… Huh? Didn’t I say this already?”
“You did. You did. Puhahaha. You were caught by the time gap!”
