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11 Shadows of Eternity (1)
“ Sion Agnes… … .”
Oh Princess Diena Agnes, also known as the ‘Fairy Princess’, muttered the name of Sion, which she had seen in the former palace of the people.
‘It has definitely changed.’
Thinking like that, Diena remembered the last time she saw Zion.
shrunken shoulders.
His eyes fluttered in uneasiness and continued to look around.
Even the body that looks weaker than the woman herself.
Of course, there was no trace of training, and he could not even make eye contact with himself.
The figure of a loser who did not fit the Agnes imperial family.
‘ But not this time.’
I felt it from the moment it first appeared.
that something has changed.
The calm eyes that looked straight at her and other members of the royal family, and the strange atmosphere that naturally grabbed the surroundings.
In particular, in the scene where the wizard was killed at once, Diena could not hide her surprise.
It was a scene that was absolutely impossible for Shion she knew.
‘ And even unconventional movements that break common sense.’
With him, Diena recalled the events that had happened in the audience room a while ago.
Whenever she or someone else tried to take the lead in a situation, Zion always took the initiative in a way that others did not expect.
Therefore, Diena felt frustrated at the situation that did not go the way she thought at the time.
What the hell has happened in the meantime?
Did Agnes’ blood really wake up late as rumored?
“ Even so, I didn’t know if I would accept an offer to solve one of the seven great catastrophes… … .”
Truly a shock to a shock.
Surely, Shion’s answer like that was beyond Diena’s thoughts, but Diena thought this side was better.
I don’t know what he was thinking when he accepted the offer, but he thought it was something that could never be resolved.
But from the depths of Diena’s heart, some kind of anxiety was rising.
‘ It’s not enough to put it in the checklist yet, but… … It’s well worth checking out.’
After thinking like that, Diana gently raised her hand, and a fairy who was standing behind her approached her.
“ I need to know a little bit about our youngest brother. Focus on recent events rather than the past. as detailed as possible.”
“ I see. Third leaf.”
A fairy man who politely bowed his head and answered him.
“ After all, there is not enough information. information… … What’s going on with the ‘eye’ search?”
Diena asked the fairy.
An intelligence organization called the Eye of the Empire.
Even as a princess, she was recently aware of its existence.
An organization that exists secretly within the Imperial Castle and possesses an overwhelming level of information that no other can compare.
It was also the place she was looking for the most these days.
If I could only get my hands on this place, I could not only fill in the missing information, but also because I was able to hit a few steps ahead of the current competition for the throne.
“ I caught the tail now, but… … No further progress has been made.”
“ The tail… … .”
Diana, who muttered like that at the man’s words and tapped the table with her finger, continued.
“ Then let’s light that tail on fire.”
Usually, if the tail caught fire, the next action was one of two things.
Cut off the tail and run away.
Or the body reveals itself.
“ I wonder how it will turn out.”
With those words, Diana smiled slightly.
In contrast to her smile, her eyes were shining coldly.
* * *
Agnes Imperial Castle boasts a vast area that can almost be called a single city.
Therefore, there were not only the people’s palace and other major buildings where the royal family stayed, but also other miscellaneous places like the stars in the sky.
The Imperial Library, the Imperial Cuisine Research Center, and a temple dedicated to various gods, etc.
‘ It’s the first time I’ve seen anyone without one.’
The place where Zion is now was the Agnes History Museum.
Unlike the Imperial History Museum that exists outside the Imperial Castle, the Agnes History Museum here deals with the history of successive emperors and imperial families, not the history of the entire empire.
Therefore, when Zion entered the museum, he saw portraits and statues of successive emperors, as well as objects related to them, lined up in a row.
bum bum, bum bum.
Has most people already been there before?
Or is there no one who honors the past emperors anymore?
Sion slowly walked through the museum, where even a strange feeling was felt because no one was present.
‘ The number of past emperors is not as large as I thought.’
Four hundred years was a long enough time for humans, but wasn’t it too long for the successive emperors who had already risen to the ranks of superhumans?
There were not even seven emperors in the museum.
As he was walking around the museum looking at the portraits and statues of successive emperors, something unusual caught his eye.
‘ This is… … .’
A portrait is a drawing of a human face.
However, the portrait in front of Zion now did not have a human face drawn on it.
just a dark background.
Zion knew whose portrait this portrait belonged to.
Eternal Age.
In this novel, the first emperor who founded the Agnes Empire and a mythical figure who unifies the world.
Similarly, the statue of the Eternal Eternal Emperor next to the portrait had no eyes, nose and mouth, but was painted black.
Shion lowered her eyes and checked the name of the Eternal Eternals.
Orrelion Khan Agnes.
It was a familiar name.
I had no choice but to do so.
Because this name was the name when Zion was originally the emperor of the world.
‘ I expected it… … .’
Even after confirming that the founding father of the world in the novel had the same name as him, Sion’s eyes were still.
It was something that did not appear in the Chronicles of Flosimar.
It was something I had already guessed to some extent since I discovered Iklaxia in ‘Dream of the Stars’ .
Shion remembered that as he approached Iklaxia, Veila, who was the warehouse keeper, said that it was a weapon of the Eternal Age.
‘The question is, what does this mean?’
Just as the name of the Agnes Empire was put in the chronicle, did the person who just wrote the chronicle use Zion’s own name?
If not… … .
It seems to have a contour, but it is hazy as if it is foggy.
‘ I need some more clues.’
It was when Sion thought so and looked at the faceless statue of the Eternal Eternals.
“ The Eternal Emperor, who founded this empire and unified the world, hated writing anything about himself.”
a voice coming from the side.
A young man with long hair tied in one impressive came into Sion’s field of vision as he turned his eyes to the side where the voice came from.
A gentle smile on the corners of your lips and eyes that are softly curved as if you were smiling.
Overall, he was a young man with the impression that a librarian would suit him.
“ Therefore, very little is left other than the achievements you have built. That’s why portraits of the Eternal Age don’t exist either. The statue as well. What… … I hung up these faceless portraits to fill the assortment, but it doesn’t really mean anything.”
With those words, the young man who had been looking at the portrait of Eternal Eternals, which only existed in the background, bowed his head toward Zion.
“ I’ll see you. His Majesty Prince Zion. My name is Thierry Illones, who manages this Agnes History Museum.”
Thierry, a young man who used Agnes’s surname as if he already knew Zion’s identity, was polite and natural.
Zion looks at such a young man with drowsy eyes.
“ I did not know that Your Majesty would be interested in the history of the Agnes family. The other members of the royal family did not visit again after they came here.”
Was this your second visit?
Thierry raised her head again and opened her mouth with a happy smile.
“ I think most do. There is not much to see here.”
“ Haha, I agree with you, but… … I believe that this is not simply a place where the objects of successive emperors are displayed, but a place where you can infer and imitate their lives through the records they left behind. There is actually a lot to learn.”
Saying that, Thierry glanced around the inside of the museum.
“ Perhaps His Majesty Zion also came to this place again for that purpose. Isn’t it?”
“ I didn’t come to learn, I came to acquire.”
To that question, Shion answered with a grin.
“ Are you here for knowledge? Haha, that’s a really good answer. If you have any questions while exploring the museum, feel free to ask me. Oh, it’s also good about the history of the empire.”
“ Yeah? Then I have a question for you.”
“ What?”
Thierry looked at Zion as if what it was.
“ Shadow.”
“… … Yes?”
“ I want to know about the shadow of the emperor.”
“ If it’s a shadow… … Are you referring to an organization that is active in cancer without being exposed to the front? Surely the Emperor of the Empire might have such organizations.”
Shion looked at Thierry with a curious look as she took off the shichimi without changing the color of her face.
Shion knew the true identity of the young man in front of him.
Thierry Illones.
The Emperor’s Eye and the head of the Empire’s highest and last intelligence organization, ‘Shadows of Eternity’.
There is a saying that if you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest.
who would have known
The fact that the head of the most secret organization in the Empire is operating in this way, revealing his face in the imperial castle.
Perhaps Zion would have had a hard time finding it if he hadn’t described Thierry in the chronicle.
“ Shadows of Eternity.”
“… … .”
” I’m here to get the shadows of eons.”
Thierry was silent at the exact name that came out of Shion’s mouth.
A cold light soon began to flow from within his softly curved eyes.
Did you see Zion’s eyes that seemed to know everything already and thought that hiding it was meaningless?
“ Follow me.”
Without even asking how she knew it, Thierry spoke briefly, then turned and started walking.
Shion followed him slowly.
Thierry did not leave the building.
Thierry walks through the walls with portraits of successive emperors and places his palms on the empty wall.
Wow!
Then, a magic circle of intricate patterns appeared on the wall where he had touched his hand, and a passageway large enough for two people to pass through appeared.
“ Actually, since His Majesty the Emperor appointed His Majesty as his successor, I had been guessing that he would come here. There was no reason other than this to point out His Majesty so suddenly.”
Thierry quietly continued his words as he walked through the dark passage where no light entered.
“… … His Majesty Zion, we are the most secretive and brilliant eyes of the Empire. It only listens to the Emperor’s orders and has the right to refuse even if it is judged against the prosperity of the Empire.”
The inherent right of the shadow that has been passed down from the time it was founded by the Eternal Age.
“ We have been watching your Majesty since before you thought.”
“… … .”
Shion silently followed Thierry’s back and looked around.
It was difficult to grasp the structure of the passage and the building as if it had been subjected to a special magical treatment that disturbed the senses.
“ However, the recent changes and actions that have taken place have been difficult for even us to understand.”
bum bum, bum bum.
“ The two raids and the demonic incident at Chimseonggung, the ominous power of the unfamiliar supreme power that no one can learn, and the fact that he recently went out of the castle without anyone knowing and brought a woman who used blood magic. And to the brutality that he continued to show in the audience at the people’s palace. All of this would have been absolutely impossible for His Majesty Zion, as we have been able to figure it out.”
Thierry’s footsteps finally stopped.
“Your Majesty Zion, did you say that you came to obtain the shadows? Then prove it before that.”
Shion felt the sudden expansion of the space around him.
“ Sion Agnes that you are not a demon.”
The moment when Thierry’s presence in front of him completely disappeared.
Suga, go, go!
Dozens of swords poured down towards Zion.