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65 Assault on the Imperial Castle (1)
The Imperial Castle, the center of the Agnes Empire.
Among the structures of such a yellow star, there is one special thing.
The five palaces that surround the Baengseonggung Palace.
These palaces, which are now used by candidates for the throne, were built abruptly after the end of World War I, and it is unknown for what purpose they were built.
One peculiar thing.
If you connect the lines between these five palaces and the people’s palace at the vertices, a huge magic circle of unknown meaning appears.
– Excerpt from the Wonders of the Imperial Castle
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Chimseonggung Palace.
Whoo!
There, a woman with silver hair had been wielding a sword since early morning.
The woman’s name is Claire Flosimar.
He was called a warrior.
The sword she swung was simple, but on the other hand, her eyes as she wielded the sword were very complicated.
“… … after.”
Why is she sighing again, who has been looking for stability recently.
just helplessness.
Claire knew.
The final war is near, and the story of this world is almost at an end.
Still, he was very helpless.
Not to mention the Demon King, even the Archduke below him could not handle it.
Of course I knew.
Compared to before the return, the current grand dukes have so much power that it is impossible to think of them as being the same.
However, he also returned and had acquired all future information.
Even so, I couldn’t help but feel helpless that there was still such a gap.
‘ Without Emperor Zion, not even a single Archduke could be dealt with… … .’
The only way to solve this helplessness is to become stronger.
However, the wall that stood in front of Claire was not collapsing.
‘ A little more… … You have to work a little harder.’
With that thought, it was time for her to give strength to the hand holding the sword.
“ It’s an attack!”
“ I need more support!”
There was a commotion outside the palace.
At that, Claire’s eyes were dyed with doubt.
“ What’s going on?”
She goes out of the palace and asks one of the busy knights.
“ The demons have attacked the Imperial Castle.”
“ What? How many?”
“ One… … . One.”
Claire’s expression changed strangely at that answer.
There was only one demon attacking the Imperial Castle, the center of the empire.
Incomprehensible situation.
“ However, the demon’s power was so strong that they were asking for support.”
“… … Let’s go to where he is first.”
With those words, Claire’s new model quickly followed the knight.
“ Claire, did you hear me?”
Next to her, Lane and others began to join her one by one.
“ Yes.”
“ At this point, I thought that the demon might move first, but only one person attacked the Imperial Castle… … . Something is strange.”
The party quietly nodded at Tyrian’s words, who opened their mouths with their eyes shining.
how far would it go
They could be seen from the center of the imperial castle, which had finally arrived.
“ Hee hee, hee hee hee! Wow, the king is calling me!”
A demon looking up at the sky blankly smiling like crazy.
As if a battle had already taken place, her surroundings had turned red with the corpses and blood of knights.
In addition, something unpleasant emanating from Serkia’s whole body was dyeing it dark red again.
At the same time, the concentration of magic in the atmosphere is rapidly increasing.
“… … Serki.”
It was the moment when Claire recognized the identity of the demon, and a hard voice came out of her mouth.
Whoops!
Serkia’s body burst out laughing at the hero, and all the blood in it gushed upwards.
In such an instant, a huge amount of blood that soared up to the sky above the people’s palace begins to draw a huge magic circle in the air.
“ I, that one!!!”
Tyrann noticed something in the appearance of such a magic circle and immediately performed a disarmament technique, but it was sloppy!
It was already too late.
A blood-red line begins to be drawn along the center of the magic circle large enough to cover most of the Imperial Castle.
Wow!
The space that splits along the line drawn like this and the dark abyss revealed beyond it.
Kiaa
From such a void, huge waves of monsters begin to pour toward the ground, with no end known.
Truly a hellish sight.
However, despite the unprecedented situation, everyone in the Imperial Castle, including the warriors, looked at the abyss hole in the sky, not the monsters.
“ Ah… … .”
No, to be precise, the black eyes that filled those holes and looked down at them.
It was correct to say that he was looking into those eyes.
I couldn’t take my eyes off of it.
As if the fate of the world forced me to look into those eyes.
He couldn’t turn his head or move his fingers.
Under such a transcendent pressure that they can’t even breathe properly, all they can do is open their eyes, which they can’t even close.
‘ Such a being… … Our enemy?’
Amidst the world tinged with madness and despair, and the screams of demons resounding like crazy, the owner of the eyes declares.
– Get up.
That moment,
DDDDDDDDDDED!
The five palaces surrounding the people’s palace all collapsed,
—————-!
Things that should never exist in this world began to arise.
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‘ The master of trials? Then the country of the past… … .’
With a questionable expression on his face, Shion expressed his intention to accept it.
There was no need to stay in the ordeal that had already ended.
Whoa!
The world changes with the bursting light.
First, the subordinates and the enemy’s forces, who had a blank expression around them, disappeared.
After that, the sky and the earth disappear, and darkness fills their place.
So many stars that rise in a world covered in darkness so dark that even the direction cannot be distinguished.
Its appearance resembled the night sky, no, the universe.
In fact, Shion felt as if her body was floating in the air rather than standing on something.
And from the center of such a universe, a giant dragon looking at this side quietly.
The appearance of such a dragon was unusual.
A body that endlessly disperses and agglomerates as if no form exists, and a faint presence that can’t be compared to saying that it cannot be felt.
Hummy Dragon Gragias.
It was the longest-lived among the dragons that exist on this earth, and it was an ancient dragon with transcendent powers.
And after losing the battle with Zion himself in the past, he was thrown into the basement of the imperial castle.
– Has time passed already? Long time no see, Emperor of the Black Castle.
The dragon of nihilism, who recognized at once that Zion was an eternity, quietly greeted him.
Zion’s eyes shone strangely at him.
According to the chronicles, Gragias at this time was half mad with madness.
But there was no such madness in the dragon’s eyes that he had seen with his own eyes.
“ Are you the master of trials?”
With such a question in mind, Shion asked Huh Moo-ryong.
– Yes. To be precise, you took over the ownership of the ordeal from the past you.
“ That means… … Did you know in advance that I would be here?”
The reason why Zion thought so was simple.
The ordeal just before is an ordeal to prove that Zion is himself.
That’s why it was an ordeal of no use if he didn’t come here.
Gragias nodded his head slightly as if Shion’s thoughts were right.
– I’m not sure, but I think I was guessing.
“ Then why did you create such an ordeal and wait for me to come?”
Zion’s questions continued.
The dragon, who had been looking at Zion silently, slowly opened his mouth.
– You seem to have a lot of questions. If so, how about asking the person directly?
“… … ?”
It was the moment when a question appeared in Zion’s eyes at the unfamiliar word.
Shrek
Gragias, who had repeatedly gathered and scattered, disappeared.
With him, the stars that lit the universe lost their light, and black stars with a light darker than darkness began to appear one by one.
and.
jerk
The familiar footsteps echoed in Zion’s ears.
Shion turned his head to see a man in his eyes.
A man with dark gray hair and dark eyes like himself.
The appearance of the man in the black robe was similar to his own, but it gave him a sharper feeling.
Shion knew who that man was.
No, I couldn’t know.
Because that figure was the former Orrelion himself.
Even the aura of Heukseongha felt the same.
“… … Is it ‘ remnant’?”
A low voice came out of Shion’s mouth, who had been looking at her in the past with curious eyes for a moment.
Like Shion, the man with languid eyes nodded his head.
“ Yes, ‘I’ is the ‘remnant’ left behind to welcome you who will come here.”
dregs.
It literally meant
The residual will left by a high-ranking entity to convey its will to someone else, such as a message magic or an illusion.
“ Why did you create an ordeal and leave you in a place like this?”
Zion immediately opened his mouth as if he knew how to ask such a question.
“ I used to think. As I went to the future without any information, I would constantly question the circumstances around me. And I thought that one day I would come here to answer that question. Heo Moo-ryong here has a relationship with me in the past.”
The remnants were created for Zion to come.
To be precise, a being created to solve some of Zion’s doubts.
“ Once I appear, I disappear immediately. That is why such a trial of proof was inevitable.”
Zion, who immediately understood the situation, asked the following question.
“ So you mean you can answer all my questions?”
“ Not all, but it can answer the most questions of any other being in the world.”
I had no choice but to do so.
Because the remnant in front of him was Zion himself.
He also has all the memories of his past.
“ I don’t have a long time to exist, so let me ask only the essential questions.”
At the remarks of such a remnant, Shion opened her mouth with a grin.
“ Contract.”
The first question has already been decided.
“ I want all the details of my contract with the gods.”
Why did you sign the contract and what kind of contract did you make?
And what happens when the contract ends?
Zion wanted to know all of that.
Jaan, who was looking at Zion with eyes unable to understand his thoughts, slowly opened his mouth.
“ Do you remember your state as Orrelion before coming here?”
Shion nodded.
Infinite boredom felt only by the Absolute, who has nowhere to climb.
At that time, he was tainted with such boredom.
“ At that time, even though Heukseongha was an 8-star, I didn’t dare go up to a 9-star. Everything in the world was already under my feet, and even if I reached the ninth star, nothing would change anymore.”
With those words, Remnant, who was looking at the eight black stars that floated on the palm of his hand, continued.
“ But at that time, he changed his mind when he was fighting a war against a demon that was not known to the world. Because I knew that there was a new world that was not the world we live in now.”
“ A new world?”
“ Yeah, a completely different world where neither my touch nor my dominion can reach. The moment I knew that the world existed, I thought.”
Even if he didn’t have to listen to the backstory, Zion knew.
“ I’m going to have to swallow it.”
The boredom and freedom that dominated his body.
The past self must have thought that there was only one way out of them.
“ But there was no connection between that world and ours, so we needed a special way to get over it.”
“ That’s it… … .”
“ Yeah, the Heukseongha reaching the 9th star. And ascending to the Godhead.”
Remnant’s eyes begin to emit a strange light.
“ That is the way.”