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64 Underground (2)
A slum in the outskirts of Hubris, the capital of the empire.
It was a place where dozens of large and small crimes took place every day because the security was barely out of reach compared to the central area.
In addition, was it because it was more important for them to make a living right now than the crisis of the world?
Various crimes were taking place in the slums even at this time when the war was just around the corner.
Even in such a slum, a shantytown where the poorest people live.
Kwajik!
There has been a great commotion there since morning.
Dozens of adult men who relentlessly break through the door of a shack and sack the furniture inside.
Among them was a little girl trembling and trembling and a boy in his late teens hugging her as if protecting her.
“ Hmm… … I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pay off my debt with this.”
A man in his mid-forties, who seemed to be the head of the men, looked around the house and murmured as if he was in trouble.
The man’s name is Nordic.
He was a very infamous person among the loan sharks in the slums who were willing to do illegal things if they had money.
“ Maybe.”
Nordic, who had been looking here and there for a while, asked, turning his ugly face covered in knife marks toward the boy.
“ Do you have any valuables hidden in the house? jewelry, or gold. Better if you have cash.”
“ No. Because your guys have already taken them all.”
The boy, Belid, glared at Nordic and opened his mouth as if chewing.
The background that brought him into this situation.
If it was obvious, it was an obvious story.
To get out of the difficult situation, the parents who set up a store by borrowing money died in some sort of accident, and the loan shark, Nordic, immediately began to collect the money forcibly.
At an unbelievable rate, too.
“ This is a bit difficult… … ah!”
Nordic stroking his chin for a moment at Belid’s words, then snapped his fingers as if he remembered something.
“ There are still things left.”
Saying that, the loan shark’s eyes turned to Belid and his sister.
human trafficking.
It was forbidden under the Imperial Law, but he was not a Nordic to care about such things.
Did you notice his thoughts?
“ You crazy bastard!”
Belid quickly tried to get out of the room holding her brother, but could not escape the thugs who had narrowed the siege.
A boy and a girl who are immediately suppressed and fall to their knees.
“ Big… … Please think like this from the beginning!”
At Belid’s words, Nordic, who smiled with his yellow teeth exposed, pushed his face toward the boy.
“ You think your head is flying? I think you can get a decent price if you put it up on the underground auction house. Of course, so is your brother.”
At those words, the boy’s face turned to contemplation.
“ Oh, no! Please Illyaman!”
Belid, who bowed her head and pleaded with all her pride, was very desperate, but Nordic’s gaze did not change at all.
If I had been shaken by something like this, I wouldn’t have even started from the beginning.
The men moved by Nordic’s glance began to drag Belid’s sister first.
“ Aww! Brother, brother, brother!”
“ Turn it off! You bastards like dogs!”
It was really a dog life.
He struggled and struggled to escape from this hellish poverty.
I prayed and prayed to God to give me just one chance.
But the more he struggled, the deeper he went, and God did not hear his prayers.
A hole where not even a single ray of light can reach.
He existed in it.
‘ But please… … Just once. If there really is such a thing as a god… … !’
It was a moment when Belid, who reached out to her younger sister, who was being dragged by her red-red eyes with a burst of blood vessels, cried out in her heart.
Tickle!
The door to the half-broken shack swung open.
And beyond that, knights with long-looking eyes, who did not fit in with the slum here, began to enter the house.
“ What are you guys doing… … !”
Some thugs who didn’t notice rushed at him, but
Scratch!
One of the knights with their swords pulled their heads straight off.
A knight who shakes his sword as if it had been stained with dirt.
In the frozen silence that began with him, the middle-aged knight standing in the front opened his mouth as he looked at Belid.
“ Belid Frost? And Illya Frost?”
“… … Yes?”
“ I’m going to Hwangseong right now. to prepare.”
Contrary to the bloody appearance he showed as soon as he entered, the voice of the knight speaking to the boy and girl was not only soft, but also polite.
At that time, did he even sniff the money?
“ Hello. knights. My name is Nordic.”
Nordic, who was watching from one side as if grasping the situation, opened his mouth with a subtle smile.
“ Are you going to take them to the Imperial Palace?”
A knight looking at Nordic without saying anything to him.
“ Then how about talking to me first? Their parents owe me a debt, and they died a while ago, so the debt now belongs to them.”
“… … therefore?”
“ Until the debt is paid in full, I think I will have to manage everything, including their identities. so… … .”
“ Now.”
Before Nordic could finish speaking, the knight opened his mouth with a cold voice.
“ Are you saying they belong to you? Slavery in the Empire must have been banned long ago. Are you even a poet in front of me for violating that? and… … .”
Scratch!
With a sudden silver flash, Nordic’s right arm fell off as it was.
“ Ouch!”
“ If I hinder the execution of the order one more time, I will blow off the neck, not the arm.”
A screaming Nordic, grabbing the spot where his arm had fallen off, and a knight looking at him with emotionless eyes.
“ Dude, hey! Whose name is it!”
The knight spit out a single word at Nordic’s shout that sounded like a groan.
“ We are the Knights of Agnes.”
With that one word, all the questions were solved, and the eyes of the people there began to flutter.
Because there was only one person in the world who could give orders to the Knights of Agnes.
“ Belid Frost.”
The knight who turned his head towards Belid again in the shock of being filled with that much.
“ The Emperor Zion Agnes is calling you.”
He opened his mouth as if to declare.
* * *
‘ The ordeal of the Eternal Age?’
Feeling the sight dyed in bright light, Shion raised a question in his head.
The voice of an artificial spirit that suddenly echoed in my ear was also a voice, but the word of the ordeal of the Eternal Age was absurd.
First of all, I have no memory of doing anything like this.
‘ Then the guy who is the owner of the ‘realm’ made it, or the past me made it after I entered this body… … .’
Soon after,
Whoa!
Through the sight reflected in his returned vision and the voice of an artificial spirit that echoed in his ear again, Sion knew that the latter was true.
[ You have entered the ordeal of the Eternal Age.]
[ Now you are under siege. Survive the attacks of beasts and fairies.]
A very simple message.
‘ Is it possible that I knew how to visit the ‘region’ and made it in advance?’
Shion thought so and looked around.
Hundreds of subordinates standing in a circle wrapped around them, and a group of beasts and fairies surrounding them from afar.
Zion knew very well what the current situation was.
One of the crises he faced while traveling across the continent to devour the world when he was Orrelion in the past.
‘ Is the conquest of the giant giants almost over?’
Perhaps they felt a sense of crisis at the enemy’s army advancing at a speed far beyond their expectations, Jeong Jeong-rim and Su In-hae formed the Allied Forces and then mobilized all their powers to target Shion, who was moving with a small number of troops, and that is the situation right now.
‘ Originally, I wouldn’t have caught it… … Things were weird. As if the world itself was a hindrance.’
For one being to devour the entire world, it could not and should not exist.
A reverse heaven that goes against the rules.
Therefore, the world gave Zion the fate of defeat, and this battle was one of the battles in which that fate was most strongly displayed.
The only thing that can deny this fate is the Black Star he has.
So this could be seen as a kind of proof test.
A test to prove who you are.
at that time,
“ Your Majesty! You must avoid it!”
One of the men, who was watching the forces of Su In-hae and Fairy Rim, who were getting closer as they gradually narrowed the siege, shouted to Shion with an urgent face.
‘ Long time no see.’
Shion looked at the man who looked like Lucas Ascalon and smiled.
Sword Saint Ian Ascalon.
He was one of the Five Kings who supported Zion in the past and the one who founded Ascalon, one of the five great families.
It was just a reproduced world, not the real thing, but nonetheless, I couldn’t help but feel welcome.
“ Even if we give our lives, we will make a way, so get out of there!”
Whoa!
Even at a young age in his late twenties, where his skills were not yet ripe, from Ian Ascalon’s sword that shouted like that, a stream of light that seemed to tear even the world apart was emanating from it.
“ I would have told you not to overdo it, but… … Things don’t seem right now.”
On the other side of Ian, a beautiful woman dressed as a wizard looked at Zion and said:
“ Your Majesty, how about doing what Ian said this time?”
It was Liswell Ozrima, one of the Five Kings and who later became the ancestor of the Ozurima family.
If Ian was fire, Liswell was water.
Her voice was very calm, like her personality, but even she couldn’t hide the young anxiety in her eyes.
At that time, did you even listen to them?
———————–!
The whole earth shook with a sound so loud that the human ear could not hear it.
With him, the earth that existed on the side of the fairy army’s camp rose upwards and began to form a giant giant that had no end in sight.
The spirit king of the earth, Diotne.
He borrowed the form of the earth and manifested in the world.
That oh oh oh!
As if to do their best from the beginning, the giant of the earth where the king of the spirits resides begins to run towards Zion at great speed.
DDDDDDDDDDED!
In addition, the earth shakes like crazy as if there was an earthquake.
“ Lung, Your Majesty!”
Seeing this, Ian Ascalon called for Sion with a more urgent voice as if there was no time.
It was still impossible for him to face Diotne.
“ Your Majesty, once we make a way in the opposite direction… … .”
Liswell also said the same to him, and it was a moment to put the recipe in both hands.
“ No.”
A low voice came out of Shion’s mouth.
Shion slowly walks with him.
The place the steps were headed was towards the approaching King of Spirits.
“ Your Majesty Orrelion!”
Hearing Ian’s voice calling to him from behind, Shion reached out and grabbed the air.
Shrek-
Iklaxia held in my hand as if waiting for it.
In fact, if you think with common sense, it could be said that it was the right decision to hold on and wait for reinforcements or to escape through one side of the siege.
Not only was the difference in power incomparable, but Sion himself at this time had not yet reached the 7th star, so he couldn’t deal a proper blow to the Spirit King.
But nevertheless.
His present answer and Orrelion’s answer in the past had already been decided.
The only answer that will never change even if we face a hundred or even a thousand crises, and the way that Zion has always proven himself so far.
slowly.
Sion’s sword is slowly drawn towards Diotne, who slams his fist with a shriek that seems to tear the sky.
That one sword (一劍) was very strange.
Is it clearly drawn from top to bottom even when looking with both eyes?
Or is it drawn from bottom to top?
Or is it drawn from left to right?
I couldn’t quite figure it out.
A sword that steadily advances at the same speed even in time that is rapidly slowing down with the negation of space and senses.
Finally, the spirit king’s fist, which had fallen like a meteorite, burning the atmosphere, stopped completely in front of Zion’s head.
With him, the moment when the tip of Sion’s sword perfectly reaches the end point, Tuhwa hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
As the time to return to normal again, the enormous friction sparks that exploded covered the entire atmosphere surrounding the battlefield.
In the sight that has turned white because of that,
Soo much
The spirit king of the earth crumbling down with two exact sides.
In that mythical scene,
“ From now on, it will dig into the center of the enemy and smash its head.”
Shion gave a soft command to Ian and Liswell, who were looking at them with blank eyes.