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48 Floating City(13)
A cavity that exists in the deepest part of the Tomb of Sorrows.
– Was it me, not you, who adorned the throne? … .
At the center of such a void, a being wearing armor made of bone and leather was slowly disappearing.
It was Calletus, the king of sorrow, the owner of the tomb.
The name is not known because he never used his power properly, but as he was given the title of ‘King’, he possessed the highest level of power in the demon realm.
“ Wow… … I really thought I was going to die.”
In front of the disappearing Calletus, Lane threw the spear that had been broken during the battle to the side and lay down on the floor as a giant.
She wasn’t very good at that.
No limbs were blown away, but there were no sores all over his body, and there were also wounds that could endanger his life if he went even an inch deeper.
“ It’s all because of the lack of practice. Train harder in the future.”
Turzan approached the side of the stretched Lane and opened his mouth bluntly.
As he said, his injury was no different from Lane, but no one disputed it.
Because he was the one who received most of the attacks from the King of Sorrows from the front.
Nevertheless, the fact that the overall skill level was similar to that of the intermittent Lane was nothing more than disproving how much Turzan’s body had been trained.
“ What are you going to do now?”
Tyrian, who looked at Elesis who was treating the two of them for a moment, turned his head to Claire and asked.
There was little surprise in his eyes.
Unlike Lane and Turzan, Claire had almost no scars on her body.
Despite fighting at close range with them, the injuries were minimal compared to Tyrian himself, who provided long-distance support.
A figure that indirectly shows how high the level of force she possesses.
‘ Are you really a warrior?’
at that time.
“You have to treat only the fatal injuries and get out of here right away.”
A calm voice came out of Claire’s mouth, who was staring at someone other than the party.
What she was looking at was a gigantic rage that erupted from a distant place beyond the void or the grave.
Even though the distance was beyond recognition, the power felt from the owner of that anger was making Claire’s body tremble.
“ Now one of the Archdukes will come here.”
Jellies, Archduke of Jealousy.
It was as if he knew immediately of his son’s death.
‘ You can’t deal with Jellis now.’
There was a reason he had to fight with the other archdukes, but it was also an enemy that could not be dealt with in the first place.
4 Archduke.
As the four strongest beings other than the Demon King, their strength was beyond imagination to the extent that they could not even be compared with other demons.
In addition to that, since each of these Grand Dukes has the ‘fate of the destruction of the world’, their rank and level were higher than that of the previous Grand Dukes.
It is enough to say that each of them has already reached half a body.
One of the four Grand Dukes was Jellis, Grand Duke of Jealousy.
‘ But later… … .’
Feeling the force approaching this way at a terrifying speed, Claire decided to do so and turned around.
Now was the time to step back.
* * *
Selfie Woodheart.
Her role in the chronicle was not very large.
Like Zion Agnes, he died as soon as he appeared.
It was also because of the assassination of the devil side.
Selfie Woodhart was assassinated because of the magical qualities she had from birth.
There is only one unique characteristic that is specialized only in anti-mono warfare.
‘ Perhaps the lack of magical aptitude is also because all abilities are concentrated in that characteristic.’
Shion thought so and looked at the pale pink-haired woman who was still staring blankly at her.
It seemed that he did not fully understand the current situation.
And it wasn’t just her, it was everyone in the classroom.
“ What do you mean, Your Majesty Zion? The student in front of His Majesty right now… … .”
“ Selfia Woodhart. This safe is a disgrace to a wealthy city that failed even basic magic and failed a magic school. is not it?”
Shion answered, interrupting the headmaster who opened his mouth with a puzzled face.
“ That’s right. But why are you saying that? If we need talent, we will recommend students who maintain the highest grades in the school.”
There was a reason the principal said this.
It was true that Prince Zion, who is being considered as a potential candidate for the next emperor, would come to his school and take the students himself, but the problem came after that.
If it becomes known that the student is of poor quality, Safe School will be ridiculed of the whole world beyond the city.
Leaving it out in the first place, I couldn’t understand why Prince Zion would dare to take a failing student.
‘ I… … Need it?’
And it was the same with selfies.
As I just said, Selfie herself was a failing student at this school and a disgrace to the city.
So there was absolutely no reason why Prince Zion needed him.
However.
“ No, we don’t need guys with such low standards. All I want is this one guy.”
Even with such words and thoughts, Sion still answers without taking her eyes off Selfia.
“ Ha, but… … !”
“ I don’t like to say the same thing twice.”
Shion, who made the principal’s mouth shut at once, refusing with quiet but irresistible words, opened his mouth to Selfie.
“ You go to the Hwangseong with me. I know I will have to get out of town next year anyway, so I guess I can think of it as a little bit of a move ahead.”
Rejection was an unthinkable word.
An extremely arrogant way of speaking that completely ignores the opinions of others.
But at the same time, it was also a way of speaking that was very suitable for Zion.
“ I’m leaving the city tomorrow, so be prepared.”
“ Yes, yes!”
Selfia nodded her head involuntarily at the strong scent of the ruler that came from that voice.
‘ If we take him to Hubris, we can naturally protect him from additional assassination attempts.’
This completed the second task to be solved in the wealthy city, but in Zion’s eyes, there was still a lot of trouble.
‘ Should I organize it all over the place?’
It was the demons hiding in this school to assassinate Selfia.
Their level was very good, so even if the assassination failed, there was a high possibility of harming the wealthy city in the future.
Since Zion himself would never come back to this city after this was over, it might have been difficult to thin it out if it wasn’t now.
“ How long has your wine been improved?”
Zion asks Ahmad.
Even though he didn’t say what the magic was about, the Archmage, who understood the meaning of Zion’s words, answered with bright eyes.
“ It’s about saving. Now is the time to give it a try.”
After making the decision, Shion smiled and turned to the people who still did not fully understand the situation.
“ I’ve come all the way here, so I can’t just go.”
People’s eyes are dyed with doubts at those unknown words.
“ Where is the biggest lecture hall in the school?”
Among them, a quiet question flowed from Shion’s mouth, who met the principal’s eyes.
* * *
Saferan Magic School, one of the few higher education institutions in wealthy cities.
A large number of people were gathered in the lecture hall of such a school today.
All students in the school, including professors and staff.
“ Is that really true?”
Their faces were strangely excited.
It was because of Prince Zion’s lecture to be held here in a little while.
“ You’re giving the theory lecture here?”
Even though the lecture was given by Prince Zion, who was not versed in magic, there was a reason why people had such low expectations.
A procedure based on the ‘Relationship between space distortion and time according to gravity-based magic’ written when Prince Zion visited the Imperial University Tower at the beginning of this year.
The procedure was a new paradigm that was different from the magic theory of the past.
For this reason, Adegripa, who had crossed over the procedure and received it, once had a huge repercussion, and some of the wizards were shocked and even overturned all the research they had done until now.
It was natural to expect that the original author of such a technique would give a lecture.
The fact that Prince Shion offered to recruit Selfia Woodhart, who was a failing student at school, was simply buried.
“ I didn’t say exactly that theory, but maybe it is? Other than that, there is nothing that Prince Zion can give a lecture on. I didn’t even learn magic.”
“ Wow, that’s great. Can’t we just leave it as a video?”
“ It said no. When you enter the classroom, you take away all the related items?”
Beside the people you talk to with such a reminded expression.
‘ What the hell is this… … .’
The demon Histon, who was disguised as one of the students of Saferan Magical School, quietly furrowed his eyebrows.
As a demon with power that is almost the highest among the upper classes, he was commanding the demons hiding in this school to carry out his mission.
‘ Now the mission was just around the corner.’
The content of the mission was the assassination of a person in the school.
In fact, it was incomprehensible that so much effort was put into the assassination of a student, not a professor, and a target called a failing student.
However, since it was an instruction from above, he proceeded with the plan steadily without questioning him, and tonight was the moment when it finally came to fruition.
However, everything was turned upside down by Zion Agnes, who suddenly appeared.
‘ If the target leaves after Zion Agnes as it is, the mission is a failure. Before that, I have to kill him somehow.’
But right now I couldn’t move.
As if they were aware of their plans, Prince Zion had gathered all the students and professors in one place.
In addition, the unknown pressure emanating from Prince Zion, who was slowly ascending to the pulpit, was preventing him from moving.
‘ You’re really annoying. I can see why the above is so restrained.’
Histon’s eyes are young with frustration.
‘ But… … Why are you giving a lecture all of a sudden?’
The Prince of Zion, judged by the Magician, was a person who never moved without meaning.
Therefore, this action must also have a hidden intention.
The problem was that I had no idea what the intention was.
There was also a question in the eyes of the demons when he was young.
“ Let’s start right away.”
An emotionless voice came out of Shion’s mouth when she arrived at the center of the pulpit.
It was very small, but a voice that could be heard clearly in the ears of everyone there.
As a result, the lecture hall was naturally colored with silence, and everyone’s attention was focused on Zion.
Receiving such people’s gaze, Shion began to write something on the large blackboard in the back using magic chalk.
The anticipation of the wizards went up even more with him.
But soon their expectations began to turn into doubts.
“… … Magic circle?”
What Shion was drawing was not a magic formula, but a huge magic circle.
You might think that the gravity magic was transformed into a magic circle, but if you were a high-level wizard, you could tell the moment you saw that it wasn’t like that.
For that reason, the fundamentals of drinking were so different from the beginning.
As if specialized in finding something… … .
at that time.
“ There are too many rats in this world.”
Zion’s voice continued to the ears of such wizards.
“ It hides all over the place and tries to gnaw at mine, but it’s hard to see, so it’s not a hassle to deal with.”
Was it instinct?
Or was it intuition?
Asmodian Histon felt an ominous feeling as if his heart was beating at the voice of Prince Zion.
One memory flashed in his head like a lightning bolt with him.
‘ It must be said that Prince Zion has the ability to distinguish us.’
However, there are various limitations to its abilities, and the devil’s judgment was that it was all about uncovering a small number of nearby demons.
Otherwise, I would have eliminated all the demons hiding in the Imperial Castle.
But if… … .
‘ What if that judgment was wrong?’
In addition, what if that ability was further improved and developed?
With the alarm ringing in my head, my heart starts to pound even more.
It wasn’t because of anxiety.
Prince Zion’s magic circle is rushing towards completion.
It was because of the bright red light emanating from the magic circle.
“ Today’s talk is about how to spot those rats.”
Shion mutters in a low voice as if seeing through Histone and the state of the other demons.
“ Oh, no! Come on get out of here… … !”
The moment when Histone, who could not stand it any longer, was about to run out.
“ It’s already too late.”
With Shion looking at him exactly like that and smiling sympathetically.
aah!
Finally, the auditorium began to fill with bizarre weeping and ugly magic.