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8 Succession Expressions (3)
“ Heh, heh heh!”
A huge maze that exists on the 3rd floor of the Palace of Qualification.
Renette was running down the winding road, breathing heavily.
Her eyes were tinged with embarrassment.
Such Renette was constantly looking back as if she was running away from something.
“ Something is wrong.”
It was from the moment she reached the first floor of the test that she felt it.
Hundreds of thousands of poisonous insects flock to you as soon as you enter.
It was by no means a level of testing to be applied to succession.
If it wasn’t for her ‘fairy tale’, a technique that hides everything from the opponent, it would have melted without leaving even a bone.
And it was from the moment he got to the next floor that Renette’s doubts became certain.
– Whoa!
The Death Knight rushed towards her with a scream.
It was surprising that there was an undead in the middle of the Imperial Castle, but what was even more surprising was the power of the Death Knight beyond imagination.
In a clear form of how good a knight he was while he was alive, the morale that covered his body made Renette run away without even thinking of fighting.
“ aah!”
“ Too strong… … Alas!”
“ What the hell is this… … Gagging!”
In her ears, the screams of other participants started from beyond the walls of the maze.
‘ Is there any succession ceremony like this?’
No, it couldn’t be.
Because this seemed to be nothing but an intention to kill all the participants.
A succession that is never normal.
How long did you run to avoid the Death Knight that was chasing you like that?
“ Crazy!”
A swear word of embarrassment flowed out of Renette’s mouth.
A large space in front of her.
Because four Death Knights were waiting for her in that space.
No, it wasn’t exactly what I was waiting for.
‘ What are you fighting?’
The Death Knights she couldn’t handle even one were fighting with only one person.
And that person is right there.
“ Zion… … Prince?”
It was Zion.
The Prince of Zion who deals with the Death Knights while wearing an ominous darkness just by looking at them.
Such Prince Zion did not move even an inch.
‘ No, it’s not about not being pushed. Rather, I’m grabbing the win. How… … .’
Her eyes slowly fell into the movement of Shion facing the Death Knight.
Zeng! Wow!
It’s not flashy, but it’s precise.
and it’s weird
There was no meaningless movement, not even a gesture or a toe movement.
As if watching a dance move, the darkness that spreads around Zion.
Quajik, quajik!
Every time darkness flowed, the Death Knights were receiving huge effective hits.
A movement that goes beyond natural and even beautiful.
‘ I can’t see how it moves at all.’
It didn’t mean that the movement itself was invisible.
I couldn’t understand the principle even when I saw the movement.
Just like a beast that lives on the ground, looking at the stars, but not knowing what it really is.
“ I’ve been hiding my skills all this time.”
That was the only thing that made sense.
Because that level of force and proficiency like participating in hundreds of battlefields could never be built in a day or two.
was deceived
Everyone in the world, including Hwangseong, was deceived by that man.
In order to achieve his purpose, he endured such harsh persecution and insults, but never showed his strength.
‘ For what the hell… … .’
With such a misunderstanding, Renette lost her mind and looked at the battle.
‘ It’s an undead, so it won’t die even if you take a half hit. It must be completely crushed.’
Shion was slowly preparing to finish this battle.
storm night.
An attack that completely erases the opponent’s buff with one of Black Star’s skills.
A little while ago, the storm of darkness that started from Zion’s feet was that, and the storm completely blew away the energy of death that covered the Death Knight.
After that, victory was also gradually leaning this way, but Zion did not intend to delay any longer here.
– Strong… … Goa.
Seeing the Death Knights spewing out a word or two to see if they were gradually regaining their sanity, Shion strongly clasped her right hand.
Quad Duck!
Heuk Seong-ha, cohesive with him with Zion’s fist.
Perhaps they felt the power he felt was unusual, the Death Knights slashed at the same time from different directions and swung their weapons towards Sion.
However, since it was Shion who had been watching all such movements from the beginning with a sharp eye, he did not panic and immediately began to respond.
Whoops!
One of the Death Knights’ Halberd passed by just over Shion’s head, who took a big step forward and bowed his head.
Sion did not stop avoiding it like that, but immediately digs into the arms of the Death Knight who wielded a halberd.
Aww!
Behind Shion, the attacks of the other Death Knights that were missed in an intermittent car smashed the floor.
As if he had gone through numerous battles while alive, he immediately abandoned Halberd and drew a dagger from his waist and wielded it towards Shion who was digging.
hey hey!
The energy of death gathers with the Death Knight’s dagger, creating another blade.
Seeing the dagger being swung towards him like that, Shion rather increased the speed of digging.
At that moment, the Death Knight’s dagger approached Shion’s neck.
Bullfight!
Shion’s fist, which came up from below, slashed the dagger.
The dagger twisted its orbit due to the impact and scraped Shion’s neck slightly.
In the meantime, the fist on the other side of Shion, where the Black Star was concentrated at its peak.
Quad Duck!
It pierced through the armor and chest of the Death Knight at once.
The Black Star that exploded from Shion’s fist stuck in his chest began to devour all the magical energy that existed in the Death Knight.
Even an undead resurrected from the dead is ultimately born by necromancy magic.
So, if you erase the magical power that was the source of it, death would be the same.
thud!
Like a lamp that has grown in power, the Death Knight, whose light has disappeared from his eyes, lies on the ground.
at that time.
– Me too… … glorious… … death!
Behind Shion like that, one Death Knight smashed down at a speed that couldn’t even be compared to before and slashed the great sword.
A blow that is so relentless that it can easily destroy even any building.
“ I will accept it.”
Did the excitement even rise?
Until now, he would have shed or avoided such a blow, but this time, Zion did not do that.
With a small smile on his lips, the owner of Heukseongha stretched out a hand towards the approaching greatsword.
“ Woah, danger… … !”
A huge sword wrapped in the embodied aura of death and a bare hand without any energy.
It looked so dangerous to Shion that a voice came out of Renette’s mouth, who was hiding and watching.
Finally, Shion’s hand and the great sword collide.
However, the result was completely different from Renette’s expectations.
Kwajizijik!
Shion’s hand that simply smashes the great sword and blows away the Death Knight’s head all at once.
In Zion’s hands, the power to deny everything, Heukseongha, was in the form of an awl.
Shion, who smashed the two Death Knights in such an instant, immediately ran towards the Death Knight with the spear.
The darkness that stretched behind Zion like that.
Its appearance was like that of a god of death.
Tuoung! Kwajijijik!
Similarly for the third Death Knight, Shion simply reverses the direction of attack by striking the spear, then digs into it and finishes it with a single blow.
The Death Knights who suffered the same pattern were not weak.
Zion, who succeeded in all of the patterns without any error, was so incredible.
Aww!
“ Whew… … .”
Soon after, Shion, who destroyed even the last remaining Death Knight in an instant, cleared his breath and glanced at Renette, who was hiding.
‘You ‘re out of luck.’
All those who participated in this succession ceremony, including that woman, had bad luck.
Because all the nonsensical things that are happening in the palace of qualifications right now were meant to kill Zion himself.
They just got caught up in it.
But I had no intention of helping.
It was their choice to participate in the succession ceremony in the first place.
over there
‘ I have to finish this from here.’
Thinking like that, Sion raised her head upwards.
‘They’, who are watching all this from somewhere, hope that Zion himself will die while taking the test in the palace of this qualification.
Therefore, Zion had no intention of moving them as they wished.
And finally.
“ It would be better to smash it to the head.”
The moment when a small voice came out of Shion’s mouth.
Shrek-
The new form of Shion disappeared without a trace on the spot.
* * *
“ What the hell is this… … !”
On the 9th floor of the Palace of Qualifications, there is a control room that can control the entire exam and other exams.
It was in such a control room that Lambard, now the successor-type superintendent, was located.
Numerous screens fill the walls of the control room.
Such screens were illuminating the entire Palace of Qualifications without exception.
But there was little embarrassment in Lampard’s eyes as he looked at the screen.
Because the most important person was not properly captured on the screen.
No, the signal was being picked up.
But the signal… … .
4th , 5th, 6th floor… … .
It was soaring upwards, breaking through the floors at a terrifying speed.
A speed that only makes sense when passing through the floors in a straight line.
Could there be an error in the magical equipment that sends the signal?
Zion Agnes.
The protagonist of this succession ceremony, a person who must be killed at any cost.
‘ Things are going awry.’
Rambard felt that way from the moment such Prince Zion entered the first floor of the trial.
In fact, all of the supervisors, including Lambard, thought.
Prince Zion would die without even passing the first test.
It was because Prince Zion was the one who had abilities that were inferior to those of ordinary people, let alone a low-ranking knight.
Even if you were really, really lucky to survive, you should have died right on the second floor.
Because the trap they had planned was originally created with the assumption that the current immediate imperial family would have the power to hold the succession ceremony.
However, Prince Zion shattered all their expectations.
‘ I’ve never seen or heard of such a power.’
Darkness that burns every wave of poisonous insects.
The image of Prince Sion walking slowly while scattering the darkness was so overwhelming that just seeing it through the screen gave me goosebumps.
And it was on the second floor of the test that the astonishment of such supervisors peaked.
The Death Knights were made of the corpses of knights so powerful that even they could not guarantee a one-on-one match.
Prince Zion faced such four Death Knights at once and achieved a perfect victory.
It was never the image of Zion Agnes, who was called the imprisoned prince.
No, there was no prince or princess who left such a strong impression in any succession ceremony that Lombard himself had ever seen, let alone the imprisoned prince.
“ What happened? Has Agnes’ blood finally awakened? Or was he hiding his power? If so, when… … .”
Lampard clasped his confused head in his hands.
Everything I had planned went wrong.
If he fails at all, he and all the supervisors will fall outside the eyes of ‘him’.
If so, there was only one result left.
‘ I have to pay a number somehow. If it doesn’t work, even if we come forward!’
Rambard, who had quickly organized his thoughts, asked the wizard manipulating the screen in the control room.
“ Where did Prince Zion’s signal come from?”
But there was no answer from the wizard.
“ Cardo, don’t you ask where are you? why no answer… … .”
It was at that moment when Rambard nervously called the wizard’s name again and asked.
“ You mean him?”
An unfamiliar yet familiar voice.
A voice that should never be heard here.
Lambard’s head, who had stopped talking, slowly turned to the side where the voice came from.
soon after
Tuk, Degur.
With the wizard’s head rolling down the floor in his eyes.
The figure of Shion, who was smiling broadly toward this side, came in.