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1 Thinning (1)
“ Look at the magic lights here.”
“ It seems that only the nucleus was cleverly damaged. What happened?”
“ You don’t know? I’m shivering, but last night here… … .”
The palace is busy erasing the traces of the raid that happened last night.
“… … .”
Unlike the busy servants, Fredo Nogisa stood still and looked at the door.
His master, Prince Zion, was beyond that gate.
From last night’s raid by unknown assassins, his master went into the bedroom and never came out until evening came.
“ The Prince… … .”
In Fredo’s mind as he murmured, the events of last night began to come to mind again.
The tip of the sword stopped in the air.
The assassin’s head explodes.
Even the figure of Prince Zion looking at the scene with his still eyes.
Such a figure was so foreign that even Fredo, who had been with the prince since birth, felt goosebumps.
It’s like seeing a completely different person.
‘ What the hell is going on… … .’
Did the Holy Blood of the Agnes imperial family awaken even late?
If not… … .
There was little concern in the eyes of the old knight looking at the door.
* * *
He became a character in a novel.
It’s hard to believe, but it’s a conclusion I’ve come to after collecting and thinking about information from last night until now.
‘ I don’t know who this is or why… … .’
Thinking so, the emperor looked in the mirror.
What he saw was not his original form, but a man with dark gray hair and translucent white skin.
The emperor knew who this man was.
Zion Agnes.
He is one of the princes of the Agnes Empire in the novel as a character who appears in only a few lines at the beginning of the ‘Chronicles of the Heroes of Plosimar’ that I was reading.
She has a weak personality that cannot kill even passing ants, and a sickly body that makes her breathless just by walking.
Besides, because he did not have a single force to support him, he was pushed out of the battle for the throne and was almost imprisoned in a separate palace on the outskirts of the imperial castle.
The reason why only a few lines of Zion Agnes appeared was simple.
Because he died as soon as he appeared.
A person who is embarrassed to even say that he came out.
‘ If it was normal, I should have lost my life in the raid that happened yesterday.’
The emperor, who became Zion, thought so and remembered what happened yesterday.
‘ The Chronicles of the Heroes of Flosimar’ to the end, I closed my eyes for a moment and then opened them to see an assassin wrapped in black cloth slashing his sword at him.
If it had not been for his power, ‘Black Seongha (黑星河)’, which was more affected by the soul than the body, he would have lost his life just like in the novel.
‘ Still, I have to train. It’s such a bad body.’
Shion looked at his body, which seemed to break if hit, for a moment, then lightly tapped the table with his finger.
‘ If this world is really the world in ‘Plosimar Chronicle’, it will be destroyed in 3 years.’
‘ The Chronicles of the Heroes of Flosimar’ deals in detail the time spanning three years from just before the appearance of the hero to the destruction of the world by the devil.
The death of ‘Sion Agnes’ in the novel is the subject of the beginning of the chronicle, which means that there is still enough time left in this world.
‘You have to change it.’
Zion was feeling it intuitively.
It may take a long time to figure out the identity of the guy who put him in this body and how to get back.
It would be difficult if the world was destroyed before finding out.
‘ To do that… … .’
The division of the empire was the biggest reason for the destruction of the world.
I had to solve it.
‘ Two years later, the full-scale war between mankind and the devil will begin.’
impossible.
It was impossible to resolve the division of Agnes, the great empire that ruled the entire world except for the Demon Demon.
Plus, it’s an extra that isn’t the main character, especially if it’s a three-line minor role with a lesser presence than air.
However, in Shion’s eyes, what was young was not anxiety, but interest.
The original world was free to Zion.
Because there was nothing to achieve and nowhere to go.
So, Shion liked the world in this novel.
It was so much fun to be in the current desperate situation of having to turn the impossible into possible.
The higher and harder the wall that stood in front of him, the greater the heartbeat he felt.
There was no fear of not being able to achieve it.
king of the world.
It was Zion who had already achieved a transcendental achievement that no one had ever achieved.
If you make up your mind, just put it in your hand.
‘ I’ll have to clean up the surroundings first.’
After looking at the list on the table, Sion got up and left the bedroom.
The magic lamp that had already been fixed was illuminating the fortress, which had already become dark as the sun had set.
“ His Majesty the Prince!”
Did you keep waiting at the door?
As soon as Shion stepped out of the door, Fredo greeted him with a smile.
Nogisa looked around Shion’s body to see if she wasn’t relieved even after taking a good look last night.
There was a deep concern in the old knight’s eyes.
“ Are you all right?”
Shion, who gently nodded toward Fredo, began walking down the hallway slowly.
“ Sir Zion, where are you going?”
Fredo asked, chasing behind Shion as she was walking.
“ Have you ever been like this before?”
Without answering that question, Shion looked back at the knight.
“ Yes?”
“ It’s an attack.”
At Shion’s words, Fredo’s expression changed strangely.
Did you lose any memories from the shock from last night’s raid?
Fredo answered, clearing the thought.
“… … This is the first time an assassin has entered the palace so openly.”
That means, if not explicitly, that similar attempts have been made several times before.
‘ You’re going out more than you think.’
Shion thought so and smiled.
The ‘ Chronicles of Flosimar’ did not list those who instigated yesterday’s attack, but I could guess.
Chimseong Palace, where Zion is currently staying, is too far away to even call it a suburb, but it was still included in the Imperial Castle.
There were only a few people in the Empire who could send an assassin to such a palace and even take charge of it.
“ I will report to the Imperial Palace to further strengthen the escort here… … .”
“ No.”
“ Yes?”
“ You don’t have to.”
Nothing would change unless the underlying problem was addressed anyway.
The same situation as yesterday will happen whether the number of the palace escort knights increases by one hundred or one thousand.
Therefore, Zion was planning to take the first step to solve the fundamental problem from now on.
‘ First of all, the eyes.’
Shion thought so and looked at the main gate of the palace seen from the end of the hallway.
Like other palaces, it looked like the main gate with a grand scale, but there was one difference.
A normal main gate has escort knights on the outside to protect the castle from enemies.
However, strangely enough, the main gate of Chimseonggung had escort knights on the inside.
It’s like blocking the inside.
“… … .”
Even when they saw Zion approaching them, the knights guarding the main gate did not even raise their heads, let alone salute.
I just stare at Zion.
Their attitude towards their master is unbelievable.
As if it was not once or twice, the actions of such knights were so natural.
It was when Shion, who had not changed a single expression as if it didn’t matter, passed those knights and tried to open the front door.
“ Where are you going? His Majesty the Prince.”
One of the knights guarding the main gate reached out and blocked Zion.
“ I’m bored, so let’s get some air.”
Shion, who was looking at the knight’s arm standing in front of him, calmly opened his mouth.
“ The sun has already set. It’s dangerous, so stay inside the palace.”
“ I think the palace is more dangerous.”
With those words, Zion took another step forward, but the knight did not withdraw his outstretched arm.
“ I have been commanded not to let the Crown Prince go. You cannot leave.”
“ Who ordered you?”
The corners of Shion’s lips rose slightly.
“ You are under my command. But I don’t remember giving such an order.”
“… … You cannot leave.”
The knight, who repeated the same words like a parrot, blocked Prince Zion with his body and narrowed the distance as if pressing.
Here, Chimseonggung was like a prison without bars, and Prince Zion was a prisoner imprisoned in that prison.
There was only one charge.
The sin of being born as a prince and having no qualities or power.
And it was a great felony.
‘ I thought I knew my situation well, but… … Wasn’t it?’
The eyes of the knight looking at Zion begin to be colored with irritation, annoyance, and contempt.
“ Fredo.”
A low voice came out of Shion’s mouth, who was looking at the knight’s eyes.
“ Yes.”
“ As far as I know, the supreme punishment for the imperial family is the true sentence, right?”
“… … you’re right.”
To that question, Fredo, who was behind him, answered with a puzzled voice.
Zion’s question goes on without regard to it.
“ What is the negligence of the imperial family escort?”
“ It’s true.”
“ Who stands by to assassinate the imperial family?”
“ It’s true.”
Slowly, the eyes of the intercepted knight begin to change.
“ A conspiracy to assassinate the royal family?”
“ Truth… … no see.”
Zion’s eyes are curved.
“ What now… … !”
The moment when an urgent voice came out of the knight’s mouth.
Scratch!
A single line was drawn in the air.
and after that.
Tuk, Degur-
The knight’s head fell off the body and rolled on the floor.
It happened really quickly.
“… … .”
The voices from the mouths of everyone who watched the scene stopped.
I didn’t understand what had happened.
He was Prince of Zion, who had never even learned the art of self-defense, let alone swordsmanship.
That Prince Zion beheaded the knight with his bare hands?
Is it that easy too?
A sight that cannot be understood.
In the silence created like that, Shion, who had shaved off the hand that had cut off the knight’s head as if nothing happened, opened the front door and went out of the palace.
You can feel the fresh night air as soon as you step out the door.
“ Also, here… … .”
Sion, who looked up at the sky while breathing in the night air, murmured.
Red Moon.
The moon, which had a completely different color from the blue moon of the original world, showed that this was a different world.
ride it!
“ Sir Zion! What the hell are you doing now!”
Soon after, Sion’s eyes caught the sight of knights running toward this side from within the palace with bewildered voices.
With him, the corners of Shion’s lips slowly rise.
“ If you come in front of me with my feet, it’s me, thank you.”
The raid took place last night.
It was an attack that would never have been allowed in its original form.
If there was no sympathy within the palace.
So Zion thought.
Who really sympathized with the attack on Chimseonggung?
There was only one conclusion to him.
‘ Everyone who was in the palace last night, except for the dead and Fredo.’
In particular, the knights did not even have an excuse.
Therefore, even if the prince himself was attacked, the palace could have been as quiet as a dead mouse.
Last night’s attack must have been the work of several forces, not just one.
The list of knights who stood on the night guard last night that had been obtained in advance in Shion’s head begins to come to mind.
The list also included the name of the knight who had just been decapitated.
‘ Usually, it must have played a role in delivering information from inside the palace to the outside.’
This was an opportunity.
An opportunity to remove all the eyes and ears that were plugged in from the outside in Chimseonggung.
The cause was overflowing because it wasn’t enough.
No, I couldn’t miss this opportunity even if there was no justification.
‘ Also, check your current physical condition.’
Darkness began to vibrate like a haze around Zion, who looked at the approaching knights.