052 Tues – Lucas (3)
The curse of immortality.
Tigris considered all curses terrible, but this curse was the worst of them all.
Other curses, such as the curse of corrosion, the curse of satiety, the curse of insensitivity, and the like, end when the magician or target dies.
However, the curse of immortality does not end when the target or the magician dies, but only when the medium on which the curse is cast is broken.
And even worse, he lost his memory every time he returned from death.
It also takes away the most precious memories.
He loses the inner driving force that moves him, such as the face of his beloved family, the taste of his wife’s cooking, the book that influenced his thoughts, and the touch of his first kiss.
In the end, only gray malice remains, and if even that evil is burned as a firewood for resurrection, it becomes an idiot.
The curse of immortality is not a curse that prevents death, but a curse that makes you lose yourself.
– Cool!
Lucas vomited ashes instead of blood.
Strangely, the arms that Tigris first cut off did not return.
When Tigris first cut off his arms, it didn’t stick because he cut it with the image of the amputation.
Instead, Lucas’s hands fell alone, wriggling and wandering.
Lucas looked at Tigris.
Lucas’ whites were stained black, and his brown eyes turned red.
There was only one emotion in those red eyes.
anger.
I couldn’t find a reason for that anger.
It was because Lucas couldn’t remember why he hated Tigris.
He only hated Tigris.
– Aaaaaaah!
Lucas ran towards Tigris.
This was the reason why Tigris first developed an image and cut off his arm.
Even if he cut off his head, his arms and legs were still alive, so he could hit the spectators sitting in the stadium like a blind arrow.
Shh-!
Lucas’ new model disappeared in an instant.
When about 10 steps left from the target, it was a gait of a hunting dog, which disturbed the other’s gaze and at the same time rushed low and fast to occupy the opponent’s blind spot.
Tigris reflexively lowered his sword in an oblique line in the lower right corner.
Lucas’ right leg, which was aiming at Tigris’ waist, was cut off.
Then, when his left leg entered Tigris’s popliteal fossa, Tigris slammed his foot down hard and crushed his left leg.
Instead of blood, cloudy ashes flew in the air.
Lucas rolled on the ground like a worm without limbs, avoiding Tigris’ subsequent attacks, and then glared at Tigris.
His left leg, which was crushed by Tigris’ feet, and his severed right leg, were attached to Lucas’ body.
– Whoa!
Lucas slammed his head hard on the ground, feeling like his head was going to break.
He lost his memory again.
The reason for Tigris’ passive approach was simple.
He wasn’t in very good shape right now.
While Tigris had 5 rings, he developed a sword that can be used by 7-star knights, and at the same time put an image on the sword.
Because of that, the muscles of the whole body were overloaded.
Emperor Todd stood up and said, when the atmosphere took a turn for the worse.
“Stop the duel! Evacuate the people immediately, and Berggan must deal with Count Vinsmoke!”
Berggan rushed into the arena right away.
“Count Vinsmoke! What are you doing now! Did you even have to defeat Lord Tigris like this?!”
-Shut up···. Shut up!
Lucas rushed to Bergang.
Berggan cut off Lucas from head to crotch.
Lucas’ body clinged to the back of Bergan’s body, and suddenly he thrust his teeth toward Bergang’s neck.
At that moment, a silver wire struck Lucas on the neck.
Lucas’s head flew into the sky and sprinkled black ashes.
When Lucas’s leg flew toward Bergang’s waist, Bergang cut off Lucas’ right leg with his sword.
Lucas’ body receded back, and the severed neck and right leg were attached to it.
– Whoa!
Lucas slammed his head hard on the floor.
The vain pain of forcibly extracting memories drove Lucas crazy.
“father!”
A man ran out of the audience.
It was Carter.
Lucas looked at Carter.
Carter’s body trembled.
Lucas wasn’t the Lucas Carter knew.
Lucas was looking at Carter like a stranger.
Carter was the person who watched Lucas the most.
Although he was portrayed as a vicious monarch who rules the black soil with blood and fear, he was a person who wanted a sword and a hoe more than anyone else.
He wasn’t the kind of person who would give up being human in this way.
Carter’s eyes lit up.
“Levis…!”
Carter made it clear that black smoke was coming out of Levis’ mouth he met yesterday and flowing into the pieces of his sword.
It was clear that Levis had done something.
Tigris saw Levis’s name popping out of Carter’s mouth.
‘You seem to have figured out the medium.’
Carter ran frantically across the arena to the hotel.
Lucas reflexively pursued the fleeing Carter, but both of Lucas’ legs were cut off by Tigris’ sword.
“Lord Tigris, do you know how to deal with Lucas?”
Tigris glanced at the fleeing crowd.
Levis could have been among them.
“I have no choice but to kill.”
“It is, too. By the way, if I’m not mistaken, I think it contained an image when Lucas’ arms were cut off?”
“You didn’t see it wrong.”
“How can a 5-star knight put an image on a sword? I feel like my common sense is shattering.”
Bergang fired a sword and slashed Lucas’ waist.
– Aaaaaaaaaah!
“Is it unreasonable to use it again?”
“yes. That’s right.”
“Then leave Lucas to me.”
The cold blade wind of the northern snowy field swept around Bergang’s sword.
“If you don’t die, you’ll have to cut down until you die.”
* * *
Lucas couldn’t understand why his body was being torn apart.
Obviously, he was watering the potatoes he had planted in his garden, but the man with his sword in the wind ripped his whole body to pieces.
But strangely, there was no pain.
It just tasted like bitter ash in my mouth.
It was like the ashes of burning potato stalks and haystacks when they got into your mouth.
Potato farming was Lucas’ favorite.
7 years old.
When I first started farming with my mother’s hand, the first farm I started was potato farming.
Potatoes grew well if you cut them roughly into quarters and plant them in black soil.
The taste of potato soup that Lucas ate for the first time on the farm was…
I didn’t remember.
10 years old.
I burst into tears when the cherry tomatoes raised by my sister Mary died.
Lucas went to the garden without Mary’s knowledge and planted cherry tomatoes by root.
The next day, Mary ran around saying that the cherry tomatoes that she had planted in her garden had come back to life.
Seeing Mary’s smile that day, Lucas felt…
I didn’t remember.
12 years old.
There was a drought that dried up the river Frikha, but Lucas’ potatoes grew so well.
It was only then that I understood why the potato is called the old-fashioned crop.
Lucas distributed the potatoes he had farmed to the permanent residents.
The expressions that the permanent residents made…
I didn’t remember.
17 years old.
Lucas killed the first person.
The Viscount d’An-Pierre family next to the Count of Vinsmoke had attacked the family’s territory.
The permanent residents took up swords and spears instead of hoes and sickles to protect the potato fields.
The soldiers’ blood soaked into the black soil, and the blood-stained potatoes grew well and harvested that year.
I realized that day that I needed not only a sickle and a hoe, but also a sword and a spear to protect my crops.
Lucas realized that he had to become ■.
26 years old.
Mary is dead.
Lucas attacked Viscount Danpierre and annihilated them all.
He killed every man and child on his knees begging for forgiveness with Lucas’ hands.
Before I killed Gaju, I asked him why he killed Mary.
He lost his wife to Lucas’ father.
Then I…
I couldn’t remember what he said.
Whoops!
Suddenly, a sword pierced Lucas’ heart.
Lucas felt like a mole digging a potato.
All the moles caught by Lucas were pierced with a scythe and died.
why am i dying
Lucas looked at the man with the sword in his heart.
-kill.
Lucas hated that man.
It’s like my sister… I can’t remember her name.
Dangpi who killed my sister… I don’t remember.
Anyway, Lucas seemed to be the person he hated the most.
Lucas reached out, but his arms were already severed.
Ashes were scattered
Black ashes flowed from Lucas’ eyes.
Lucas opened his mouth to bite the man’s neck.
Then, the neck flew away.
It also tasted like the ashes left over from burning the potato stalks.
When he woke up, Lucas was on his knees.
It felt like all the strength in my body was gone.
Lucas reflexively turned his head to the side.
A man who looked exactly like him burst into tears and smashed a piece of sword that was emitting black smoke in half.
Red blood flowed from the man’s hand.
“ah···.”
The man threw the broken sword fragment and ran and hugged him.
“father.”
Lucas’ body was collapsing.
Why is this guy looking at me and calling me father and crying?
I didn’t remember.
However···
A tear fell from Lucas’s eyes.
Im sad.
I searched for a sad reason, but couldn’t find it.
Lucas disappeared in ashes, leaving behind a single tear.
Carter looked at the ashes on his hand and howled like a beast.
“Ahhh!”
* * *
Levis glanced at Carter howling and left the crowd.
Then he went to the bathroom and handed the soldier’s clothes and sword he was wearing to the man lying naked.
“Thank you.”
Levis changed into his suit and went to the duel.
Reporters and citizens flocked to the outside of the arena.
– Count Vinsmoke, tell the truth!
– Give severe punishment to the nobles of the Black Land!
-All black land nobles must be executed!
Levis smiled and hid among the crowd.
The people were outraged that the nobles who ruled the Black Earth were experimenting with chimera and trying to kill Tigris using magic.
They were all pictures Levis wanted.
‘I can’t even look at the Marquis of Baros for a while.’
As the Empire stabilizes the Black Land, the Marquis of Baros and the Kingdom of Gillion will not be interested at all.
It was a bit disappointing to lose the black soil to the Empire, but it would be better to finish it at this level.
If I had been more greedy, even Levis could have been caught.
After waiting for a while, two men came out.
It was Tigris and Bergang.
– Tigris! Tigris!
The people shouted the name of Tigris.
Levis glanced at Tigris.
Tigris’ talent was truly frightening.
If Levis wasn’t mistaken, Tigris used a sword despite being a five-star knight.
I don’t know much about Levis because he’s not a swordsman, but he knew that the original swordsmanship could be used from 7-star knights.
But how could a 5-star knight be able to use the sword?
It looked like he used a sword with images that only the sword master could use.
Because Lucas’ arms were not attached.
If Oslo made the 7th ring, there was no one among Rota’s body and the razor to answer Levi’s’ curiosity.
But one thing is certain: Tigris was a dangerous man.
If you give Tigris time to grow like this, there will soon be another Sword Master in the Empire.
‘I have to tell Arfem. We need to find the enemy of Tigris quickly.’
* * *
A week later.
Tigris, Irene, and Irene’s mother Laura headed to the Imperial Palace.
Laura and Irene were on their way to an audience with His Majesty the Emperor, and Tigris was on the way to meet the princess, so they rode in the same carriage.
Tigris looked at Laura de Welf.
It wasn’t the face of someone who did bad things for the past three years.
There was nothing wrong with her old-fashioned appearance.
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Just as the diamond’s light doesn’t fade just because it rolls in mud, her appearance hasn’t changed.Rather, it seemed that he had become stronger through hard work.
A carriage stopped in front of the Imperial Palace.
Tigris got down first and escorted them both.
“thank you. Sir Tigris.”
Laura was escorted by Tigris as a noble nobleman.
His voice was not frivolous and had a sense of weight.
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Just a few days ago, she didn’t seem like a woman who raised her voice to sell fruit on a noisy market floor.It seems that the reason Irene grew up with courage was greatly influenced by Laura.
Irene, Laura, and Tigris walked through the gardens inside the Imperial Palace.
Laura opened her mouth.
“I never dreamed that I would step into the Imperial Palace. I never imagined that I would personally meet His Majesty the Emperor to ask for the Welf family’s lottery.”
Black eyes, like Laura’s black soil, turned towards Tigris.
“It is all thanks to Sir Tigris. Thank you very much.”
“no. It was supposed to be like this.”
“It should have been like this…”
There was bitterness in Laura’s words.
“There is a truth that I have learned while living in a mix with the common people for the past three years. Nothing in the world just happens.”
She suffered a lot on the rough market floor.
“In order to sell one more fruit on the market floor, I had to speak louder than others, and I learned that I had to sell not only fruit to customers, but also smiles. But they were all just struggles for survival, not revenge or an effort to restore the Welf family.”
Laura wiped away the tears that flowed unwittingly with her handkerchief.
Tigris’ gaze turned to Laura’s rough hand.
Her face belonged to a noble aristocrat, but her hands belonged to a commoner.
“So, I think that this good fortune that came to our mother and daughter was given because the world wanted them for us.”
Laura’s eyes were the strongest among those Tigris had ever seen.
“Thank you so much again. Sir Tigris.”
* * *
While Irene and Laura went into the audience room to attend an audience with the Emperor, Tigris headed to the garden to meet the princess.
There were only two people in the garden: the princess and Berghan.
There was also no court lady, because Tigris had requested it in advance.
Tigris paid her respects to the princess.
“I see the great golden clan.”
“Example. Sir Tigris.”
Tigris sat across from the princess.
“Is Irene seeing His Majesty the Emperor?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
Tigris took the tea from the princess and said.
“What about the Welf family?”
“In a few years, you are going to bring back the territory ruled by the Welf family. But Irene and Laura should be ready to rule the Welf area.”
No matter how much you try to reinstate the Welf family, you cannot give it if you do not have the ability to lead the family.
You have to choose vassals to lead the family, hire knights and wizards, and raise funds to repair the collapsed walls.
“The Emperor intends to appoint Laura as governor of the Welf region. If you work there, you should win the hearts of the permanent residents and hire talented people.”
In the meantime, Irene must work under Tigris to earn her fame.
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Just as Tigris becomes a hero and people flock to Norberd, if Irene raises her reputation, talent and money will naturally flow into the Welf family.“The problem is the descendants of the Welf family…”
“That would be up to Irene to figure out.”
“Actually, that’s an off topic.”
Even if Irene does not have to get married, there is a way to bring in an adopted child.
So it’s up to Irene to decide.
After taking a sip of tea, the princess opened her mouth.
“Now then, shall we get to the point? What did you call us to tell us?”
“As I said before, this is to tell you a secret that I’ve been hiding for so long.”
Rain Rover and Bergang knew that Tigris was hiding something.
But he just didn’t know what the secret was.
I just thought it might have something to do with Tigris’ ridiculous strength.
Bergan said cautiously.
“Was Sir Tigris a dragon?”
“Absolutely not.”
After taking a sip of tea, Tigris opened his mouth.
“I made a comeback.”