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33 The Legion of Monsters (1)
After Zion finished speaking, the meeting flowed smoothly.
The other members of the royal family also felt the need for a full-fledged competition for the throne, not a fight for the throne, and Sion’s suggestion was perfect for that.
Therefore, although Zion’s tone was offensive, they were able to accept the proposal without much resistance.
A definite advantage in the competition for the throne.
If they could gain the upper hand, the imperial family was also confident that they would wage war against the demons rather than the Seven Great Disasters.
” Then I’ll take the ‘Death Fortress’ side.”
After a while, the first person to speak was Rubrios.
His words were unmistakably firm, as if it had been pre-determined.
“ I cannot put such unclean things in this world that light has created. Even if it wasn’t, it’s always bothered me, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get rid of it this time.”
‘ Death Fortress’ was a collective term for the undead corps gathered under the Lich Kerungil, called the Immortal Lord.
The highest grade for the sake of being in close proximity to the Sea of Water in the east of the Empire and causing great harm just to exist.
At the words of the first prince, he nodded his head without saying anything as if he knew that others would.
‘ From the beginning, the ‘Fortress of Death’ is nothing more than a customized disaster for Rubrios.’
The divine power of the God of Light was the opposite of all unclean things in the world.
And the unclean included not only demonic beings, but also the undead.
Therefore, the 1st prince who can move the Holy Knights of the Church of Light will be able to deal with it much more easily than other royal families.
“ The giant rebel side was originally my job. So again… … .”
“ Then I’m near the fairy forest… … .”
Starting with such Rubrios, other royal families also began to choose the most favorable disasters for them.
It may be a coincidence, but the catastrophe they desired rarely overlapped.
Therefore, the choice of disaster was carried out without much friction.
‘ I also choose that.’
Shion smiled inwardly as she looked at Utekan, who had a firm expression on her face while choosing the ‘Church of Murder’ from the disaster.
killing cult
The First Doctrine had a crazy belief that ‘the only true salvation is death’, and its behavior was very similar to that of Ouroboros.
It exists at the southern end of the empire, and because of its location, it is inflicting damage that is hard to ignore even to demons.
From the standpoint of Utekan, who cried and chose to eat mustard, this would have been the best.
At the very least, the damage to the magic station could be reduced.
“… … Shion, of course you plan to participate in the subjugation too, right? Which one will you choose?”
As if he had barely regained his half-hearted spirit, Utekan asked Shion in a calm voice.
But, unlike him, deep in his eyes, staring at Zion, he was too young to live so large that it would not be strange even if he blew out water right now.
Sion opened her mouth as she felt that she was feeling better.
“ What’s left?”
“ A legion of snakes and monsters gnawing at the roots. It remains like this.”
Both were the most difficult of the six plagues to deal with.
Therefore, it must be left unselected by the other royal families until the end.
After raising the objection, the disaster could have been changed, but Zion did not.
It was going exactly as expected.
‘A snake that gnaws at its roots anyway must be subjugated by the hero himself.’
Then there was only one left.
“ Let’s do it with a gang of monsters.”
The voice that came out of Zion’s mouth.
For a moment, doubts were young in the eyes of others.
Because I didn’t understand Zion’s choice.
army of monsters.
As a group of monsters united around the monster king Horable, it was only a corps of horses, but it already had a larger scale than the corps.
If it was difficult to deal with not knowing where the phantom force would appear, this was really difficult because its power itself was stronger than the other plagues.
If it’s not, even the steel fortress, where an entire elite corps stays, is just in a state of urgency to stop the invasion.
If it were them, they would have chosen the ‘root-eating snake’.
“ Really… … Will you take it?”
“ I am not reversing what I said.”
Evelyn asked again, but Shion’s answer did not change.
A question deepened in the eyes of the royal family.
Others may think that they are just stupid or ambitious, but Zion was different.
For the past half year, they have already felt how deep Zion’s heart is.
‘ What the hell are you up to this time?’
With that thought in mind, Diena glared at Shion, but her eyes were languid as usual and showed no emotion.
Of course, Zion did not answer him.
“ It looks like everything has been decided, so let’s end the meeting right away.”
After taking a look at her and the other members of the royal family, Zion stood up as it was.
Formally, I had to fill the meeting time of at least one hour, but Zion was not the one to judge that.
“ Because we have to prepare as soon as possible to deal with the disaster.”
After smiling lightly with those words, Shion leaves the small meeting room first.
Even after Zion completely disappeared from view, the eyes of other people were chasing Zion’s back.
* * *
In front of the gate that exists outside the capital city.
“ Do you really have to go now? You can stay a little longer.”
There, Lane Dranir spoke dissatisfied with the silver-haired woman.
Just like the voice, her eyebrows were frowned, giving the impression that she was in a bad mood.
“ You have to leave right now.”
The woman responded with a low-pitched tone and walked towards the outside of the capital.
The woman now knew why Lane was doing this.
A thousand-year-old witch I met recently at the secret branch of Utekan, one of the Omar Spirits.
At that time, Lane missed the witch without a match.
That’s why you think you have to stay in the capital to find the witch again.
‘ No, it’s not that we missed it, but that the witch’s side let us go… … .’
The woman was well aware of the power of Liusi and Bloodwalker.
As a being who was even called the enemy of mankind in the past, it already possesses power comparable to the seven heavens at this time, and when it awakens later and becomes the ‘witch of the apocalypse’, it is a monster that has to attack itself and all of its companions.
Judging so coldly, there was no way such a thousand-year-old witch could not defeat the present Lane.
‘ What the hell happened… … .’
It was full of things I didn’t understand.
Why is there a thousand-year-old witch in the capital?
Why are you hunting monsters?
Why did they just let them go after seeing them?
‘ Is this also related to Zion Agnes?’
I thought so because there was always Zion Agnes behind all the futures that had been greatly changed up until now, but the woman soon erased that thought.
Because I still don’t know the connection between the two at all.
“ Only one day… … Can’t we just have one more day?”
Lane continues to spit at such a woman.
“ It’s still tight. I cannot delay here any longer.”
It was time for the woman to cut it off once again.
“ Is that for real? Are you going to carry out a massive disaster subjugation in the Imperial Castle?”
The surroundings became noisy, and the conversation between two middle-aged men passing by was heard in the woman’s ear.
“ Yeah, really? To be precise, the imperial family, not the imperial castle, are subjugating. Most of them guessed it was because of the competition for the throne. After all, the throne is also empty.”
“ Huh, the Empire is going to be noisy for a while.”
“ Do I think it would be fun? Isn’t it very rare for all members of the imperial family to come out of the imperial castle like this?”
“ This person. Don’t go anywhere and talk like that. If I’m wrong… … .”
The sound of conversation naturally diminishes as middle-aged people move away.
When the conversation became completely inaudible,
“ Disaster… … Are you going to subdue them all?”
A questionable voice came out of the woman’s mouth, which seemed to have stopped.
* * *
Subdue the disaster of the Agnes royal family.
The news quickly spread throughout the capital.
It is also true that although the imperial family has gone out to subdue one calamity, it is very rare for all the imperial families to go out to subdue multiple calamities at the same time.
Therefore, regardless of their rank, people living in the Empire had no choice but to focus on this direction.
And not long after the news spread,
“ Her Majesty Rubrios is coming out of the Imperial Castle!”
“ After that, Princess Diena will also appear!”
One by one, the imperial family began to set off towards the disaster they were in charge of.
Originally, even for the many people who waited in front of the Imperial Palace to see them go out, they would march slowly and show a basic performance.
“ Hurry up!”
Utekan and other members of the imperial family left the capital in a hurry, passing people in an instant.
That’s right, because this subjugation had the condition of ‘first of all’.
It was a race for the throne, so there was no time to relax.
However,
“ Come on, take it, Master.”
In fact, Zion, who had done all these things, was slowly climbing the steep mountain road in the north where the steel fortress existed with Riusina.
Unlike other royal families, Zion moved with only the two of them.
So I was able to start much faster than others.
Thanks to you, we had already reached our destination.
“ How are you? Bring me along so I can drink coffee on the go.”
Liusina, who handed the freshly brewed coffee using magic, said confidently with her chest open.
It seemed like he was trying to increase the chance of going together by clearly appealing to Shion this time.
In fact, this would not have been possible had it not been for the Twilight Swordsman to come under Zion.
He wouldn’t have been able to shift his duty of dealing with the remnants of the Utecan side of the secret force.
“ Does it taste good?”
After taking a sip of coffee in response to her question, Shion said in a calm tone.
“ No, it’s the worst coffee I’ve ever had.”
relentless words.
Speaking more calmly, I felt more ruthless.
If you drink it cold, it seems to get a little better,
– Tit!
I tried to lower the temperature using the Frost Spirit… … .
“ It’s still garbage.”
It was just cold and tasteless coffee.
At those words, Riusina’s face, which had a confident expression in her own way, turned pale in an instant, but there was nothing she could do about it.
From the beginning, Shion did not tolerate even the slightest compromise in front of coffee.
Besides, the taste was actually worse than what Priscilla had in the past.
“ It’s strange. I was fine before… … .”
Sion looked at the front while sipping the leftover coffee next to her and ignoring her with a puzzled expression.
‘ Are you still there?’
Shion recalled the information about the monster corps to be subjugated this time, and at the same time remembered the ‘it’ that exists in the center of the monster corps.
The key to Utecan hunting and the biggest reason for choosing the monster army.
‘ it’, you will have a much greater advantage than now when fighting Utekan.
‘ Still, it would be difficult if the Heukseongha could not be raised to more than 4 stars.’
After receiving the treatment of the last monster and improving her body, the status of Heukseongha soared to the very end of 3 stars.
However, the wall leading to the 4 star had not yet been penetrated.
Shion was determined to break through such a wall through the battle of the monster corps.
Because, no matter what anyone says, the most important thing in raising the field was actual practice.
Now that the physical limitations are almost gone, if you break down the 4 castle wall, it will be much easier to climb after that.
‘ In addition, we will learn how to use the newly obtained dragon bomb spear.’
amplification and expansion.
These two powers contained in the Dragon Storm Spear seemed to have many uses in the future.
‘ The first thing that comes to mind right now is the degree of connection with the Frost Spirit… … .’
That was then.
“ Master.”
Liusina, who was next to him, quietly called out to Zion.
“That place… … Is that your destination?”
A huge fortress is visible at the end where her fingers are pointing.
It was a steel fortress.
But the condition of such a fortress was strange.
Kwagwagwagwang!
Whoa!
From within the fortress, the endless explosions and the cries of monsters can be heard.
With him, from the outside of the fortress, numerous waves of monsters were flowing inward like an additional wave.
“ Did you have fun?”
First, Riusina, who intercepted Zion’s lines, looked at Zion with eyes full of anticipation.
I’m going to ask for permission to quickly jump into that Abigail Hwan.
‘It would be good to reduce the number in advance.’
At that moment, when Shion nodded with a grin,
“ Hey haha!”
Paan!
Her new model began to bounce towards the fortress with terrifying speed.