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9 The Dream of the Stars (2)
In front of the main gate of the majestic Agnes Empire Imperial Castle.
There was a woman looking at the castle gate with a strange expression on her face.
An attractive woman with hair black as chestnut and eyes red as blood.
It was Liusina Bloodwalker who became Shion’s subordinate.
“ Hmm… … I didn’t know I’d be coming here.”
Following Zion’s order to enter the imperial castle after dealing with the assassination organization ‘Sabbatical Night’ and tracing behind the scenes, Liusina was now standing in front of the main gate of the imperial castle.
Since she was born, she had no connection with the lord of the countryside, let alone Hwangseong, so it had to be awkward.
But apart from the awkwardness, Riusina was in a good mood.
‘ I’m sure the promise I made back then wasn’t a lie.’
Since I came to the capital, I have only followed Zion’s instructions, but I have killed the largest number of people in recent years.
It wasn’t quite satisfactory yet, but Riusina thought it would get better over time.
According to the owner, Zion, it hasn’t even started yet.
“ Ummmmmmm~”
It was when Liusina, humming like that, was about to pass through the main gate of the Imperial Castle.
“ Please present your identification card or imperial pass.”
The soldiers guarding the front door stopped her and opened their mouths in a clerical voice.
“ Isn’t there anything like that?”
Riosina responded as if it was natural.
One of the soldiers, who looked at her as if embarrassed by her so proud words, shook her head and said.
“ Then you can’t go in.”
“ No. Did the owner tell you to enter the Imperial Castle?”
“ Master? Do you mean someone you know? Can you tell me his name?”
“ Um… … .”
A look of embarrassment appeared on Liusina’s face.
Come to think of it, she had never heard of the owner’s name.
“ I don’t know his name, but he’s a scary person with a skinny body and his eyes open like this… … .”
I appealed to him by imitating Shion’s bored eyes, but even the seeds didn’t work.
“ Please go back.”
One of the soldiers answered with a firm voice, squeezing her shoulder, arguing that such a Riusina was the truth.
That moment.
Aww!
The soldier’s body, with his hand on his shoulder, bounced backwards at a speed that could not be seen properly, and was thrown into the wall.
A momentary flow of silence.
and.
“ I didn’t do it, he just threw it away… … Won’t you believe it?”
Riusina made excuses by pressing the head of the beast that was about to pop out of the shoulder the soldier had touched, but it was already too late.
“ It’s an attack! Get ready for the battle!”
The soldiers and knights began to rush towards her with a loud cry.
“ If that’s the case, you have no choice but to break through.”
A blood-red energy began to flow from Riusina’s whole body as she looked at those who were approaching her.
“… … Such an evil energy!”
“ Never let them enter the Imperial Castle!”
The knights who felt that energy expressed their hostility with a startled cry.
“ I’ll try not to kill him for now… … Wouldn’t it be possible to accidentally kill a few people while fighting?”
The witch’s eyes looking at them had low expectations.
* * *
‘ Even if it’s time to die, there’s no way that power will disappear in an instant.’
Heavenly Sea.
The world’s strongest power that can only be used by direct blood relatives of the Agnes family.
Sion nodded as she looked into the eyes of Emperor Urdios, which were filled with such natural stars.
The old man in front of him was the monster among the monsters who had mastered the natural sea to the limit when he was young, trampled on all his brothers and sisters, and became the ruler of the world.
No matter how old or sick he was, his strength could not disappear in an instant.
No, it would be more strange to disappear.
“… … You are never Zion.”
Looking at Zion like that, the emperor continued.
It was a fact that could be known just by looking into his eyes.
The eyes of a ruler that can only be acquired from birth.
Obviously, Urdios’ own son was not born with that eye.
However, the eyes of Zion Agnes who were looking at him now were the eyes of a ruler like himself.
And one thing more certain than that.
“ Sion cannot feel and accept mana. It’s a congenital celestial type. Therefore, neither magic nor swordsmanship can be learned.”
It was a fact that only a few, including the emperor, knew.
The same is true for not being able to learn the heavenly sea.
However, in the depths of Zion’s eyes that the emperor was looking at now, two black stars were clearly swirling.
A power similar to the natural sea, yet completely different, an alien and terrifying force.
When Urdios looked into those eyes, he could feel his whole body shudder involuntarily.
“ Who are you?”
The emperor, who forcibly pushed that feeling away, looked straight into Shion’s eyes and asked again.
Shion asked with a smile.
“ Who do you think it is?”
It was a fact that he knew from the moment he entered, such as a body that cannot feel mana.
But it was no obstacle to Zion.
After all, it was a completely different power from mana, which is the basis of this dark world.
“ The devil… … Yeah, all I can think of is the devil. Otherwise, you would never have eyes and power like that. Did you come to pick me up?”
It was not a metaphorical expression.
The emperor really thought that Zion might be a demon.
It certainly wasn’t wrong.
He was also among the nicknames for Zion when he was a former emperor.
“ I’m going to die soon anyway, so what are you going to do?”
Shion responded with a cold smile to the emperor’s question.
The person in front of him was the father of Zion Agnes, the original owner of the body, and the emperor who ruled the world.
Zion showed no respect or affection for him.
It was natural that he had no respect for the emperor from the beginning, and Urdios had never shown himself as a father to Sion Agnes.
No, that wasn’t enough, and it was Urdios who was responsible for keeping Zion Agnes in the castle and treating him as a missing person.
‘ Well, it doesn’t matter now that I’m here.’
Shion had no feelings for the old man in front of him.
I just had to get what I needed.
“I have more questions than that.”
Shion, who leaned more towards the emperor, opened his mouth.
“ What is it?”
“ Who made you like this?”
It was a natural story.
Those who have reached a certain level can reconstruct their bodies and maintain their heyday, as well as increase their lifespan.
However, the fact that the emperor who had reached ‘heaven’ by force became like this had to be an external factor.
Shion had roughly guessed the external factors, but he thought it was accurate to hear directly from the emperor’s mouth.
“… … Ha ha ha ha ha!”
The emperor, who looked at Zion with blank eyes for a moment, suddenly burst into laughter.
Zion looked at the emperor with calm eyes.
“ Aren’t you on the same side as them? I did. i was mistaken It’s a different power, but you thought it was similar. Cool!”
Urdios, who had been muttering such meaningless words, gave a dry cough several times before continuing.
“ Since the establishment of the empire by the first emperor Agnes four hundred years ago, there has been only one country in the world. And with him, the era of the full-fledged human race began.”
The unified empire embraced all local cultures, ushering in a glorious era of mankind.
The progress made since then is indescribable.
But that time did not last long.
“ The southernmost tip of the continent. Because nothing exists, one day, a demon appeared suddenly in a place called ‘the end of the world’.”
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Magic station.
Literally, a world where only demons live.
As if something was born out of nothing, it appeared in an instant at the ‘end of the world’ where life could not be found.
“ I didn’t know how or for what reason the witchcraft came into existence. Demonic beings tried to rule out all living beings, and we were desperate to stop them.”
Numerous wars took place.
A war against the demons, led by the Demon King, and all other living beings united around the Empire.
“ Innumerable heroes have appeared and disappeared, and countless lives have been lost. That’s how he defended his empire. However, about a hundred years ago, the demonic abruptly stopped all invasions. I didn’t know why. Still, mankind rejoiced and began to feel relieved. Because the long history of war has finally come to an end. However… … So it didn’t happen.”
With those words, bitterness lingered in the emperor’s eyes and disappeared.
Looking at the emperor, Shion quietly opened his mouth.
“ Because the devil didn’t stop the invasion.”
The emperor, who looked at Zion for a moment with his eyes wide open as if surprised by that, answered.
“… … did you know Yes, the magic spell only changed the method of the invasion. Instead of bumping into each other head-on, it quietly and surreptitiously crept into the realm of humanity, the Empire. And slowly over a hundred years or so.”
In this way, the monsters spread throughout the empire like a spider’s web.
So secretly and precisely that no one will notice.
And Hwangseong was no exception.
“ When I found out, it was already too late. It was after the body had reached this point due to the magic poison they secretly administered.”
Urdios said so, raising his finger and pointing at his body.
The emperor’s arm trembled with just that action.
His body was already damaged beyond repair.
“ I couldn’t do anything.”
I just die every day like this.
“ It seemed that the empire would be destroyed in an instant if we were to sift through them, and there was no way to pinpoint them. Of course, I didn’t even know the guys who gave me the poison.”
overwhelming helplessness.
The enemy had entered the depths of the empire, but there was nothing the emperor could do.
“ Is that why you haven’t named a successor yet?”
Shion, who was listening, looked at the emperor and asked.
Just because the emperor designates a successor doesn’t mean that heir will unconditionally become the emperor.
By having legitimacy, it plays a role in suppressing competition and fighting to some extent.
Still, there was no reason other than this for not designating it.
“ Yeah, because I didn’t know who had contacted them. No, there may be some who have already become demons.”
To that extent, demonic beings had already entered the imperial castle.
And the fall of the empire was near.
At least, Emperor Urdios thought so.
The emperor’s eyes, which had sighed with regret for a moment, looked directly at Zion again.
“ You mysterious being who wears the mask of Zion Agnes. What the hell are you trying to do in the Imperial Palace?”
A question filled with power and dignity as the emperor of the Great Agnes Empire.
“ I will swallow it.”
Zion’s eyes, responding to him, draw arcs.
“… … What?”
“ I will devour this people’s palace, devour the Imperial Castle, and devour this empire. There are no exceptions.”
It’s absurd and unnecessary to even respond.
However.
“ Ha ha ha ha ha ha!”
The emperor burst out laughing.
For some reason, I thought that it might be true if it was an existence in front of me.
“ Yeah, it would be better to be swallowed up by the devil than to destroy this empire by the devil.”
The demon that had already spread throughout the Empire could not be stopped as a human being.
So it would be right to leave it to the devil.
The emperor, who had been giggling like that, opened his mouth again to Shion.
“ There is one ‘eye’ in the Hwangseong. In preparation for such an event, they are the last watchers handed down from ancestors, and they only listen to the Emperor’s orders.”
A shadow group that exists in the darkness of the Imperial Castle and freely handles all information in the world behind the Empire.
The emperor was convinced that if they were them, the demonic beings would not have penetrated them yet.
“ Find the ‘eyes’. Perhaps they, too, are already aware of this situation and are preparing for it. From the moment I became addicted, I cut the link, but you will be fine.”
It was something Zion already knew.
Eternal shadow.
One of the best intelligence groups in the Plosimar Chronicles, it was a place that would later be paired with the ‘Eye of the Moon’.
It was also the place that Zion himself tried to acquire first after entering the people’s palace.
Even if you know the future because you read the chronicles, you don’t know everything.
It was information that filled in the missing part.
“ I do.”
Even if I didn’t say it, I was going to find it anyway, so Sion immediately turned around after giving a short answer.
There was nothing more to gain from the emperor, and he had to go to the ‘Dream of the Stars’, the true purpose of coming to the people’s palace today.
“ Even if you do find it, it may be difficult for you to deal with. So let me help you a little.”
The emperor’s low voice came from behind such Zion.
Sion left the sick emperor’s bedroom without answering him.
rumble.
So again, only silence and darkness remain in the bedroom.
“ I look forward to it.”
There the emperor closed his eyes and muttered quietly.