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8 Succession Expressions (5)
Chwiseonggung (?星宮) is one of the five palaces surrounding Baengseonggung.
Evelyn Agnes, the owner of such a brittle palace, was walking around in her room.
The expression on her face as she went back and forth like that seemed a bit uneasy.
“ Sir, please calm your mind.”
A middle-aged knight with a diagonal scar on his face, Diorned, looked at Evelyn and quietly opened his mouth.
“ I am calm enough. No, I have never been anxious in the first place.”
Evelyn shook her head in response to this, but Dirned knew.
Exactly what he has been doing since he heard the news that Prince Zion was heading to the Palace of Qualification.
Perhaps Prince Zion was a little worried.
“ Did Zion enter the Palace of Qualifications well?”
Soon after, Evelyn asked Diorned a question.
“ Yes. Now you have asked for the fifth time.”
“ It is.”
Evelyn took a long breath with the answer, and sat down on the chair as if burying herself.
She knew how dangerous it was, as she had already experienced succession ceremony once.
Evelyn couldn’t imagine the scene where Shion, whom she had seen so far, passed the succession ceremony.
‘ Of course, I know that something has changed compared to before.’
The last time I saw Zion, I felt that fact and knew that it had some hidden power, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t worried.
In Evelyn’s memory, Shion was always her weak little brother.
If it wasn’t for the unwritten rule that only those involved in the exam could observe, they would have headed to the palace of qualifications earlier.
“… … Have you seen anything from the eyes you put on?”
“ Yes. Since the last time I felt the magic in Chimseonggung, there was nothing unusual. Prince Zion, as usual, stayed in the palace until the succession ceremony.”
“ If it’s Magi… … The warlock’s attack?”
“ Yes.”
In fact, Evelyn was very interested in the case.
The traces of the incident and the testimonies of those around them all pointed to the actions of the Warlock.
She couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something more hidden in the event.
“ Zion… … .”
It was the moment when Evelyn approached the window while calling out Shion’s name in the center and looked at the palace of Qualification, which was close to her.
——-!
Explosive sound in my ears.
It was so small that you could not hear it unless you listened to it, but it was definitely a sound coming from the palace of qualifications.
With him, her complexion began to harden.
A subtle energy felt with the explosion.
“ Magi… … ?”
I couldn’t even feel it if I didn’t concentrate, and it disappeared quickly, but it was definitely Magi.
“ Let’s prepare the knights right now.”
“ I see.”
Dear Ned, bowing her head without questioning Evelyn’s instructions.
“ I will go by myself.”
Saying that, the urgency in Evelyn’s eyes as she put on her cloak was young.
* * *
Zion Agnes.
A person of no importance at all, neither being monitored nor contacted.
That was the evaluation made by Delikes and the monster group he belonged to so far.
But Delikes felt that the assessment should be revised.
The appearance of Zion Agnes at the succession ceremony today was completely different from what I had heard and seen until now.
‘ And we are aware of our existence. how?’
Have you already encountered other demons?
I had never heard of any contact with Prince Zion.
However, even if they came from the same demon, there was a good chance that Delikes himself did not know all the demons hiding in the Imperial Castle.
‘ If they made contact, what would happen to that demon… … .’
Such Delikes’ thoughts did not continue there.
Crazy!
With a creepy sound, the dark thread wrapped around Zion’s hand was shot aiming at his whole body.
Amhonsa (暗魂絲).
Originally, it was the ability of the Black Star that was used to track the target, but depending on whether it was used or not, it could be applied to an attack sufficiently.
Whoa!
In response, Delikes clenched his fists lightly, and the surrounding magic was attached to his whole body, forming a form of armor.
tee tee!
Shion’s dark soul that bounces off without piercing through Magi’s armor.
‘ I didn’t expect to have this level of power… … .’
Delikes, who had dug into the midst of the female souls that were thrown out in all directions, pulled her right hand back.
Duck!
Delikes’s hand transforms into a long awl shape accordingly.
‘ Even if it is, you cannot be my opponent.’
Destroyed the Death Knight and slaughtered the Overseers, but what do you mean?
It was something that Delikes himself, who returned to his original form, could easily do.
If that’s all Prince Zion has shown so far, he wouldn’t even be an opponent.
Tuoung!
With the sound of the condensed air exploding, the right hand of Delikes, transformed into an awl, is shot towards the heart of Zion.
A powerful attack that instantly burns the surrounding atmosphere.
The moment when such an attack is about to pierce Zion’s heart.
Cyrillic!
The female souls that were thrown out in all directions lined up like a net and attacked Delikes from behind.
Were you aiming for this from the beginning?
Poop Phu Phu!
Unlike a while ago, the black thread that pierced Delikes’s magic armor and slipped through his body at once.
“ Aww!”
Delikes stopped attacking and screamed at the shock he felt.
As if not to miss the gap that was revealed by that, Shion grabbed the hand that was outstretched toward Delikes as it was.
Quad Duck!
According to the gesture, the net of the female Honsa gets tighter and digs inward.
“ Wow! You worm-like human!”
Delikes let out a cry stained with anger and pain.
Fuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Soon after, the dark magic that burst out like a momentary explosion from his whole body tore apart the nets of the female soul.
However, as if he had already been seriously wounded, the blood flowed from Delikes’ whole body.
‘ He’s stronger than the lower class I met last time, but… … Compared to the intermediate described in the chronicle, it fell apart. Isn’t it a completely intermediate object?’
Sion, who had roughly guessed the strength of the opponent in that one clash, raised Heukseongha.
The alien darkness that descends around Zion with him.
Shion had no intention of prolonging this battle.
If the battle is prolonged, they will surely come to notice and come from the outside.
‘ Before that, you have to finish it.’
It was not yet the time to inform people about the existence of demons in the Imperial Castle.
“ Dare you… … .”
The monsters who hide into the human world are trained on the skills they need to have.
This did not change the basic disposition to despise humans.
So Delikes was feeling great anger at this situation.
As a demon himself, he couldn’t tolerate being subjected to something like a human.
Dedede!
An incomparable amount of ferocious magic flows from Delikes and begins to fill the entire control room.
Quajiic!
Screens that cannot withstand the power and are smashed.
Soon after, I wondered if the new type of Delikes in the middle of such a magi would disappear.
Whoops!
It appeared right in front of Zion.
A speed that is reminiscent of moving through space.
Using that speed as its driving force, Delikes’ fist pierced Shion’s head as it was.
No, what I was trying to pierce through was right.
Shrek-
Because the new form of Shion that was pierced was scattered on the spot like an illusion.
Heukseongha’s representative movement technique, the dark flow (暗流).
Soon after, the scattered Zion gathered from behind Delikes again and held out a hand.
hey hey!
Zion’s hand advancing, absorbing all the surrounding light.
However.
“ I already knew it would come out like that!”
Delikes, who immediately turned 180 degrees as expected, smiled wildly and exploded the magic storm he had prepared in front of Zion.
black swamp.
As one of Delikes’ most powerful skills, it is an aggregation of magical powers with enough destructive power to blow away even a palace the moment it touches it.
At this distance, it cannot be avoided or reacted.
‘ Don’t let me leave even a body behind.’
Soon after, the moment when Delices’s eyes met with a young rapture, Magi’s storm and Zion’s hand.
“ It’s the same with me.”
Zion’s eyes were curved like crescent moons.
black water.
It is the most basic technique of the Black Star, and one of the techniques that captures the essence of the Black Star.
There was no explosion, no light, no sound.
As soon as it touches the blackened hand of Zion, the storm of magic disappears as if it did not exist in the world from the beginning.
“… … !”
Sion’s hand pierced the upper body of Delikes, who was shocked by the scene that could not be understood by common sense.
Quad Duck!
Hands digging in, lightly ignoring the magical armor that surrounds the demons.
Immediately, I thought that darkness like a flame would burst out of Zion’s hand.
Aww!
With a huge explosion, Delikes blew up half of his upper body.
“ Okay… … .”
Even so, Delikes, who was groaning that he had not stopped breathing, began to stagger and slowly regenerate his body.
However, the speed was significantly slower than that of Liusina that Shion had seen.
‘ Is the comparison target wrong?’
Shion stopped thinking for a moment and immediately began to attack Delikes.
Shion had no intention of waiting until all the demons in front of him were regenerated.
“ Shut up! Like this dog!!!”
In response, Delikes forcibly moved a body that had not been completely regenerated and struck back Sion’s attack as if in a frenzy.
But the victory was already leaning.
quagga gag!
As the battle continued, the eyes of the demons instilled despair.
He couldn’t even see a way out, let alone winning.
All your movements are blocked, and all of your opponent’s attacks are put at a critical point.
Are you even reading the future?
‘ No, that’s not it.’
Why didn’t I know in the first place?
Only now Delikes knew.
That there was a huge gap between him and that monster named Zion from the beginning.
‘ Even when I was dealing with the supervisors, I didn’t show all my strength.’
No, not only that, but even now it didn’t seem to show completely.
Even if his body had been fine, the result would have been the same.
perfect joke.
dump.
Finally, feeling the body no longer regenerating, Delikes knelt down.
In the eyes of such demons, the image of Zion approaching to finish himself is reflected, lighting up darkness all over his body.
Its figure looked like a reaper.
“ Blood of Agnes to be cursed.”
An empty voice came out of Delikes’ mouth.
soon after
Kwajik!
Darkness engulfed his head.
‘ The blood of Agnes to be cursed… … .’
Sion’s eyes turned black while looking at Delikes’s disappearing corpse for a moment.
Using bright eyes to find the transmission nucleus inside the corpse.
‘ Here you are.’
Soon after, Zion, who discovered the transmission nucleus, destroyed it.
Aww!
It was a very important task because it was necessary to prevent the leakage of information about himself yet.
Shion’s head, having finished neatly to the end, returned to the entrance of the control room.
‘ Those guys… … .’
Since when?
The door to the control room was suddenly open.
And beyond that door, two men and women who seemed to be the participants of the succession ceremony were standing with their mouths wide open, looking at this side of the door.
‘ It seems that the entire system of the palace has been paralyzed by the battle that took place here.’
That’s why I could have skipped the exam and came straight here.
Shion, who glanced at the completely destroyed control room, slowly walked towards the two of them.
bum bum, bum bum.
The same steps as when Sion first appeared in the Palace of Qualification.
But, looking at those steps, Renette’s eyes fluttered so much that it could not be compared with that time.
‘ It was just… … .’
After the examination of the Palace of Qualification stopped, she recklessly moved towards the place where she felt the magic and darkness with the veil.
Because I thought that nothing could be solved if I stayed there.
The moment I opened the door to the control room I finally found while climbing the test floor.
Renette could see.
The bodies of overseers filling the control room.
and.
Quad Duck!
In the center of the darkness, Prince Zion is at war with a being that emits a dreadful magical energy.
No, it wasn’t a battle.
just one-sided violence.
Renette knew.
The only beings in the world that emit such magical energy are the beings of demons, and each of those beings has strength that far exceeds that of humans.
How strong do you need to be to destroy such a monster like that?
‘ And how is the existence of the devil here… … .’
It was a huge event that was different from the undead I had seen a while ago.
in between.
jerk.
Shion, who approached right in front of Renette and Veil, looked at them with languid eyes.
Unable to bear the ominousness in their eyes, the two unknowingly shook their heads and bowed their heads.
Is it true that the person in front of you is the one who was called the imprisoned prince?
I couldn’t believe it.
at that time.
“ You are second.”
Shion opened her mouth, pointing her finger at Renette.
“… … Yes?”
Renette questioned with a bewildered expression on the endless words.
Ignoring her question, Shion pointed at the veil next to her with her finger.
“ You are third. Congratulations on passing the succession ceremony.”
Even after those words, Zion passes by the two who are still standing blankly.
Soon after, Shion, who was walking slowly, looked back at Renette and Veil as if he had remembered something, and opened his mouth.
“ And what you just saw is a secret.”
It’s a low voice, but it’s a voice that can never be denied.
Seeing Shion smiling with him, the two of them nodded impatiently.
After saying those words, Shion turned his head again and left the control room that was almost destroyed.
The knights were approaching from afar.