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8 Succession Expressions (4)
There are five palaces in the palace that look like they surround the people’s palace in the center.
Except for the people’s palace where the emperor stays, the palaces are the most magnificent.
The top floor of Hyukseonggung Palace, which is the most red among such palaces.
There, a man with dark gray hair hanging out casually was sipping a car and looking out the window.
how much time has passed
“ The sabbatical night is gone?”
The man opened his mouth to the wizard who had been standing behind him for some time and politely clasping his hands.
“… … That’s right. It was completely erased overnight.”
The wizard bowed his head and answered.
“ Except for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors where guests stay, no traces of people were found from the upper floors. The strange thing is that there are traces of the battle, but no bloodstains at all.”
“ There was no blood… … Were you involved from the Blood Tower side?”
“ We are looking into it now.”
“ If they were the original ones, they should have been put into the succession ceremony, right?”
“ Yes.”
The man tapped the window sill with his finger as if it was annoying.
“ I never expected to lose such a useful hand.”
night of rest.
It was a hand that could be used up at any time, but at least it was not a hand to lose now.
“ Recently, the results of things related to that Zion are not very good.”
Zion Agnes.
The man’s own half-brother.
I was just trying to get rid of it because I didn’t know the fountain and was nauseous, but it was getting out of the way like a loach.
The man didn’t like having someone else intervene on the board he had already made everything on.
Especially if he didn’t even qualify.
In addition, if Shion passed the succession ceremony and officially became one of the candidates for the emperor, a change could occur due to the maternal family of that guy.
“ Are you lucky? Or really… … Is there something?”
The man muttered like that and looked out the window at the Baekseong Palace again.
“ If you survive this succession ceremony, you may have to watch it again.”
But the man thought it couldn’t be.
The succession ceremony he had prepared this time could never have been escaped by luck alone.
* * *
Degur.
In the overseer’s office, which was suddenly stained with silence, only the sound of the mage’s head rolling after the severed resounded echoed through the room.
“ How… … .”
Lambard’s fluttering eyes.
His eyes were fixed on Sion standing behind the wizard’s corpse.
The appearance of a person who should never be here began to slowly start to show embarrassment and astonishment in the eyes of the other supervisors.
“ Kill!”
At that moment, Rambard, who had quickly grasped the situation, glared at Shion and shouted.
I didn’t know how I got here, but I had to kill Prince Zion at this succession ceremony anyway.
The supervisors here are also those who are not too far apart by force.
If they attacked all at once, I didn’t know if I could handle it lightly.
‘ Rather, it went well. It’s better to come to my feet like this than to miss it.’
But that’s what Lampard thinks.
Kwajijijik!
In the next moment, it completely changed.
Without any warning, the heads of the two overseers next to Zion explode.
“ Attempts to assassinate the immediate imperial family, and succession-type manipulation. I’m sure you both know that they’re both going to be summaries.”
Shion speaks insensitively through the blood pouring from the bodies of the overseers who have fallen with their heads missing.
ride it!
The other overseers, who just woke up at that moment, began to rush towards Zion.
Shion easily evaded the sword attack of a middle-aged knight who reached the first place just by stretching her body.
Quad Duck!
The heart was pulled out of the knight’s chest at once.
Blood gushing out with him.
To the back of Zion, who took one big step forward, covered in such fresh blood.
Kwagwagwagwang!
A ball of fire is thrown, smashing all the surrounding screens.
Using the aftermath that flowed from him, Shion, who increased his speed even more, rushed to the front of the wizard who fired a ball of fire.
“ What… … !”
A sorcerer who was bewildered by the incomprehensible speed, but quickly wrapped his body in a shield of flame.
The flame was so horrendous that it could turn a human body to ashes the moment it touched, but Shion didn’t stop and held out her hand towards the flame shield.
The darkness that was densely condensed by Zion’s hand.
Soon after, the moment when Shion’s hand and shield collided with each other.
Shrek-
There was no explosion.
There was no sound.
A shield that just disappears as if it didn’t exist from the beginning.
“ Mitch… … .”
Quazy!
The head of the wizard, who was shocked by the incomprehensible scene and spit out abusive language, was smashed as it was.
With him, blood and brains burst out everywhere.
Zion knew.
The most effective way to deal with a large number is to impress an overwhelming fear in the minds of the enemies so that they cannot move properly.
So, Sion was taking the lives of the supervisors more brutally than usual.
“ What a devil!”
Supervisors who tremble at the sight but do not stop attacking.
However, they had already lost their momentum and could no longer be Zion’s opponents.
Kwaduk, Kwadduk!
Exactly one move loses one life.
A movement that cannot be found as a clutter.
All of them had a position enough to allow access to the imperial castle, but there was no mercy in Zion’s hands.
From the time he was an emperor until now, Shion had never saved an existence that tried to kill him.
no matter who it is
“ What the hell is this… … .”
Lampard stared blankly at the scene.
The supervisors gathered here now, if not the most outstanding, were powerful enough to lead a small group one by one.
In the first place, in the succession ceremony that emphasized the importance of force, there was no way for those who lacked force to be appointed as supervisors.
However, such people were being torn apart like a piece of paper in the hands of only one prince, Zion.
‘ Didn’t he show everything even when he was dealing with the Death Knights?’
I couldn’t believe it.
The reality of being slaughtered by one person who is called the shame of the Agnes family.
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Monster.
A word that comes to mind when you see a direct line of blood that is rich in Agnes’ blood.
Lampard was seeing such a monster in Prince Zion right now.
“ Sah, save me… … Whoa!”
“ Sir Zion, please have mercy… … Gagging!”
A battle that takes place in the room.
No, it couldn’t already be called a battle.
unilateral slaughter.
The overseers beg for their lives from Prince Zion, who without hesitation takes the lives of those overseers.
“ How can you kill something like that? … .”
Suddenly, looking at Prince Zion, who took the lives of all beings in the room except for him, Lampard fell to his knees in dismay.
can’t kill
It was decided from the beginning.
As water flows from a river to the sea.
bum bum, bum bum.
Shion, slowly approaching such a lambard with an ominous darkness, opens her mouth with a small smile.
“ Perhaps you, too, had someone do this for you. You are probably the ones you give your all to, and the ones you fear the most.”
“ Ah… … .”
The eyes of Shion and Lampard meet.
Rambard felt as if Zion’s eyes were digging into his own heart.
“ But that’s it. It is not him that you should fear.”
There was no need to gossip about it.
Even if you didn’t say it, you would have known it already.
hey hey!
Together with him, the darkness gathered in Zion’s right hand again.
Lombard, who felt an indescribable fear in the ominous darkness, cried out urgently.
“ I will tell you! I’ll tell you everything about the person who made this happen, so please save your life… … .”
Either way, life must be saved.
Lampard thought so.
In the first place, it must have been in order to hear information that he had saved himself to this day.
However, the words that came out of Zion’s mouth once again exceeded his expectations.
“You can’t speak.”
“… … yes?”
“ Because you already know.”
“… … !”
With those words, Shion smiled and slammed Lampard on the head without hesitation.
Kwajik!
Lombard’s head rolled on the floor with eyes full of questions.
After staring at her head for a moment, Shion opened her mouth as she looked at one of the corpses lying everywhere.
“ How long are you going to be like that?”
A strange situation to talk to someone who is already dead.
It was normal that there should be no answer, but there was a certainty in Zion’s eyes that an answer would come.
and.
“ Did you hear it too?”
A neutral voice soon followed.
with him.
Woodduck!
One of the corpses of the wizard, whose chest was open, jumped up and began to turn into something while twisting his body.
A body similar to that of a human, but in a different proportion, with the vivid horns protruding from the forehead.
Close to black skin and white pupils.
The dark magic that flowed out with him was telling him that it belonged to the devil.
demon.
Among the demons living in the Demon World, it is the closest to humans and the most difficult to deal with.
‘ I think he’s a higher level entity than the guy I saw last time.’
I didn’t know it when I first entered the control room, but I could tell that Shion was a little bit of magic that flowed out when that demon broke the human heart in disguise a while ago.
In addition, that clever pronunciation and well-organized appearance were telling us that it was a higher level existence than the monsters dealt with in the old Chimseonggung.
‘ Well, I was in Chimseonggung, but it’s weird not being here. Rather good.’
It was an opportunity to recognize the power of the demons, so Shion quietly smiled and raised the Black Star.
In the meantime, the demon, who had completely changed to his true form, opened his mouth as he looked at Zion.
“ I never thought it would turn out like this. The imprisoned prince was hiding such power.”
Asmodian, Delikes was really surprised.
It was an unexpected scenario even for him who had been hiding in the Imperial Castle for a long time.
I never dreamed that my true identity would be revealed in this way.
over there
“… … Aren’t you surprised to see that there are demons in the Imperial Castle?”
Delikes’s eyes, which had a surprising expression on his face as he looked at Shion who didn’t wiggle an eyebrow even after looking at himself, gradually turned colder.
It was natural for beings who did not belong to the demon to be embarrassed or startled the moment they saw the existence of the demon.
Because monsters were enemies of the whole world, including mankind.
But there was only one thing that showed such a reaction.
“You already knew.”
How far do you know?
What do you mean you are a demon?
Or even other beings that permeated the Imperial Castle?
Dark magic energy begins to flow from Delikes’ body.
“ I was just about to go… … I changed my mind. There was something I wanted to ask you.”
A Magi whose purity is so high that it cannot even be compared with the monsters she has seen before.
For a normal person, just being close to him would have turned his face white.
“ It’s not up to you to decide.”
But still looking at Delikes with still eyes, Zion muttered quietly.
“ I decide.”
Cyrillic!
Soon after, darkness like Zion’s thread began to leak out with the sound of scratching the blackboard from both of Zion’s hands.
* * *
The second floor of the Qualification Palace.
“ Where the hell did you go?”
A member of Hermes, one of the top expeditions with only five teams in the world.
And Renette, who was also a collateral blood relative of Agnes, was searching for Prince Zion, who had disappeared before his eyes.
‘ If you want to survive this crazy succession ceremony, you have to stick with Prince Zion.’
The suspicion of Prince Zion’s unknown power has long since been put off to the other side.
Because I had to survive here in order to solve such a suspicion.
If you were next to Prince Zion, who had dealt with the four monster-like Death Knights in an instant, your chances of living would rise even a little.
‘ But the problem is that I have no idea where Prince Zion has gone.’
Although she had a knack for tracking as an expedition team, she could not find any traces of Prince Zion, who disappeared right in front of her eyes.
‘ Should I give up?’
It was a moment of youthful embarrassment in her eyes.
jerk.
The sound of footsteps coming from the corner of the maze right in front of you.
Suga Gak!
As soon as he heard the sound, Renette drew a crescent-shaped sword and swung it towards the sound.
Because if it was a Death Knight, I was going to give it a shot and jump right away.
However.
“ Aren’t we supposed to at least check whether it’s a human or a monster and wield it?”
Wow!
With a familiar voice, her sword was blocked by a steel shield.
A man immediately catches Renette’s eyes.
It was the veil of the steel tower.
The condition of such a veil was not so good.
Blood was still oozing from the deep cuts from the shoulder to the side and from the sword that seemed to have stopped bleeding quickly all over the body.
“ Are you still alive?”
“ I thought you were going to die on the first floor.”
The good news that comes and goes with him.
“ Did you not see Prince Zion?”
After that, Renette opened her mouth as she took a closer look at Veil’s hemostasis.
“ Prince Zion? didn’t see I think I might have died sooner.”
“ No, I am alive. And you have to find it.”
“ What do you mean?”
The veil asked him with questioning eyes.
“ You also know that this succession formula is strange right now, right?”
“ Yes.”
“ To survive this succession ceremony, we need to find Prince Zion.”
“ So what does that mean?” I asked.
“ Because he is the strongest.”
“ No, what nonsense… … !”
It was the moment when Bale was about to get angry at Renette’s unfamiliar words that continued.
aa
The palace of Qualification began to shake with a loud explosion from above.
With him, the magic circles that controlled the entire palace lose their light, and the tests on each floor begin to stop one by one.
“ What else is this time?”
The moment when an embarrassed cry came out of Renette’s mouth at the unexpected situation.
——-!
Renette and Bale, they could feel it.
Along with the creepy magical spirits extending from the upper part of the palace, the dense darkness that engulfs them.