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17 Agnes State Council (2)
A dark room with only a faint light emanating from a small lamp hanging in the middle.
A man was tied to a hard iron chair in the middle of such a darkroom, his face covered with a black cloth.
“ Whoop, whoop!”
The sound of harsh breaths flowing through the fabric.
His body trembling with him showed how anxious he was.
how much time has passed
When the harsh breathing reaches its peak.
sh-
The black cloth was peeled off by someone, revealing the man’s face.
A man with thick eyebrows with a strong overall impression.
Berkel Izart.
One of the hundred members of the Gwangseong Council and the vice-head of the Isart family, who ruled the entire Flans region of the Empire, was a man.
“ Heh heh, heh heh!”
Buckel takes a quick breath and looks around with a sudden open view.
He couldn’t understand why he was here.
As I was returning home from work at Hwangseong, my vision suddenly went dark, and when I opened my eyes again, it was here.
at that time.
profit!
With an unpleasant noise, someone dragged an iron chair from the darkness of the darkroom, put it in front of Buckel, and sat down on it.
A gentle-looking man with long hair tied together.
It was Thierry Ilones, the servant of Zion and the head of the eternal shadow.
Thierry’s face, with darkness on half of his face, caused a strange fear because the light of the lamp did not shine.
“ What are you doing? Do you know who I am?”
Buckel looked at Thierry like that and asked in a voice filled with anger and anxiety.
“ Isn’t that Berkel Izart? Or please tell me Then I will release him right away and give him an apology and compensation.”
Thierry answered him with a soft smile.
Of course, he could only say that because he was 100% sure that Buckell was right.
“ Dare you… … Do you think it will be okay even if you do something like this?”
“ Haha, of course. It looks like you’ll be fine, so why not show your face like this?”
“ The knights of the family must be moving to find me now. It’ll only take you an hour to figure this out. Even then, I wonder if you will still be able to smile the same as you do now.”
“ It probably won’t happen. If the knights find this place, you will send it back yourself.”
“ What… … ?”
Burkell’s eyes were stained with deep doubt at Thierry’s words.
Buckel couldn’t understand what Thierry was talking about.
“ I think it would be better to read it once and have a conversation.”
In front of him like that, Thierry held out a piece of paper he took out of his arms with a leisurely motion.
“… … !”
Buckel’s eyes, as he slowly read the contents of such a piece of paper, went beyond doubt and began to color with astonishment.
All the corruption, corruption, and criminal records that he had been doing since he was a teenager several decades ago were all written on the paper.
If even one of them is revealed to the world, his image of integrity he had built up so far will be ruined, as well as being dragged into the imperial dungeon as it is.
That’s why most of the details were taken so that only he knew about it, but Buckel couldn’t figure out how it was written on that piece of paper.
“ Aren’t you curious to see what will happen to you, Buckel, if this is revealed to the world?”
Thierry asks such a Buckel in a pleasant tone.
The most important thing in the world for Berkel Izart was his own honor and reputation.
Since he showed content that would completely destroy the two, his reaction to follow was quite natural.
“… … What do you want from me?”
Buckel asked in a weak voice with his head bowed.
A thick arc line was drawn on Thierry’s lips.
* * *
Jeokseonggung is one of the five palaces surrounding Baekseonggung.
bum bum, bum bum.
3 Prince Enoch was walking down the hallway in the basement of the Jeokseonggung Palace with an indifferent expression.
After Rgan Ursula lost his life by Zion, he has been visiting the underground a lot.
“ aah!”
“ Please stop… … Big bang!”
On both sides of the glass walls of the hallway Enoch was walking in, people who had been grotesquely deformed by black magic and other forbidden experiments were screaming horribly.
Enoch’s eyes did not move even the slightest tremor.
Because he was the one who made this facility in the basement in the first place.
In order to maintain a cooperative relationship with that ‘being’ and to increase Enoch’s own magic skills, such an experiment was an essential element.
“ Her Majesty Enoch.”
A woman with a cold impression who was following Enoch quietly called to him.
Without stopping, Enoch turned his head slightly toward the woman.
“ The next three days, the government meeting will be held at Baengseonggung.”
“ I know. Why?”
“ I think Prince Zion might be able to attend the meeting.”
“ How? Wouldn’t there be no legislators supporting you?”
Enoch’s eyes were dyed with doubt.
At least ten members of the legislature needed the support to attend the meeting.
“ Maybe they are recruiting members from the neutral side of cancer.”
“ Ha… … !”
A sigh of exasperation came out of Enoch’s mouth at the woman’s words.
“ How dare such a bastard dare to even attend a government meeting… … .”
There are a total of eleven members who claim to be neutral.
Recruiting ten of them in such a short period of time was close to impossible in common sense, but Enoch thought that it might be possible if it were Zion.
I really didn’t want to admit it, but so far, Shion has accomplished everything he thought was impossible.
“ Then it would be right to use your hand from this side.”
I could never see that unlucky face even at a government meeting.
“ Make sure you have all the information on the neutrals until I get out of the basement.”
“ I see.”
Enoch looked at the woman who answered and bowed his head for a moment, then pushed the iron door that existed at the end of the hallway he had arrived at.
profit!
An iron gate that opens with an awkward sound and a terrifyingly enormous magic device that bursts out of it.
Without hesitation, Enoch pushed himself through the iron gate through which such magical energy flowed.
* * *
A small terrace at the top of Chimseonggung Palace.
‘I’m sure this is the best view.’
There, Zion looked at the moon illuminating the world with a soft light and thought.
It was not known who made this terrace, but Zion assumed that it was made for viewing the sky rather than for viewing the Imperial Castle.
“ Sir Zion.”
At that moment, Thierry, who had suddenly approached the back, politely bowed her head and called for Shion.
“ All acquisitions are over.”
“ Yes.”
Shion responded briefly to Thierry’s words.
It was certainly surprising that he had so many legislators that he was able to attend the state affairs meeting in a week, but there was little excitement in Sion’s eyes.
He had already prepared for him even before subjugating the Phantom Army.
It was too easy for Shion to figure out what the other person values the most and use it.
If you value honor, you hold on to reputation, and if survival is your top priority, you hold onto your lifeline.
The character of a big brother is thoroughly crushed, and if he is afraid, he instills more fear than that.
It was something he had been doing countless times since he was the original emperor of the world, so it was more familiar than anything else.
“ The other one?”
“ There is no movement yet. It seems that he is probably out of his mind because of the preparations for this national meeting.”
“ Is that so?”
“… … yes?”
Thierry’s eyes were stained with doubt at Shion’s words.
But Zion did not answer the question and waved his hand to signal him to go down.
Because I have work to do here today.
‘ Raising Heukseongha to 3 stars.’
So Thierry went down and on the terrace left alone, Shion looked up at the starry sky again.
Up until now, Shion has always used the underground gymnasium that is blocked off in all directions when training for Heukseongha, but today, she was planning to do it here, especially on the terrace with a view of the night sky.
The essence of the Black Star was something alien that did not fit into anything that existed in this world, but if I had to choose the closest one, it was darkness.
So, Sion was planning to challenge the 3 stars in this place full of darkness.
‘ If it’s not today, it should be postponed until after the National Assembly meeting is over.’
It couldn’t be.
If everything goes according to Zion’s own thoughts, something that could change the game of the Imperial Palace will happen soon after the National Assembly is over.
If I didn’t get to 3 stars by then, there was no choice but to have a big problem with what I was trying to do.
self-
Slowly, from the whole body of Sion, who was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the terrace, darkness began to flow out and color the surroundings.
The pure white stars that bloom in such darkness.
In the chronicle, there is a common feature between the Cheonseonghae (天星海) used by the imperial family and the Heukseongha (黑星河) used by Zion himself.
In both cases, each time a star was opened, the user’s power increased incomparably with the previous stage.
Does it really have to be said that the level of existence is different?
It wasn’t just going up to the next level, it was opening up a whole new world, so it was natural in a way.
Instead, it was difficult and difficult to open one more star.
Perhaps it would have been impossible to challenge 3 stars in such a short time if Sion had not already climbed once.
Whoa!
The black stars that start to appear in the middle of the small universe that Zion has unfolded.
One, two, and three.
Unlike the other two stars, which rapidly increase in number by sucking up the surrounding stars, the third star was still faint.
The third black star flickers as if it would disappear at any moment.
at that time.
‘ Now.’
At the same time as Shion, who was sitting cross-legged, opened her eyes.
pounding! pounding! pounding! pounding!
Zion’s heart started beating like crazy.
A blood vessel that beats at the same speed and amplifies the black stars flowing through the body.
lunar meal.
Now Zion was using a lunar eclipse.
Due to the two lunar eclipses used so far, the walls of the three castles were already cracked, and Zion thought that if it was used again here, it could be completely destroyed.
In fact, using the lunar eclipse to contemplate oneself and express the stars outside was like suicide.
It was the same as releasing an uncontrollable beast inside a still weakened body.
However, there was no hesitation in Shion’s eyes.
‘ If it’s not like this, you won’t be able to break through.’
Whoo!
A storm under the Black Star that begins to run rampantly in its body.
Zion did not dare to control it.
It just gives directions where to go.
There were a total of two paths for the Black Star to flow in Zion’s body.
Blood vessels flowing with blood.
And the dark circuit where only the Heukseong River flows.
For the Black Star to rise to the third star, it was like breaking through all such dark circuits.
thud! thud! thud! thud!
Following Zion’s guidance, Heukseongha begins to break through the circuits that have been blocked in her body one after the other.
Zion’s body vibrates whenever a circuit is broken.
It was a dangerous situation that the circuit itself could be torn apart at the moment of even a slight twist, but Sion did not collect a lunar eclipse.
No, it was amplified even more.
It is truly a miracle, like drawing a perfect picture with paint that spreads indiscriminately on pure white paper.
‘ Now the last.’
The moment when Shion thought so while feeling the black star slashing upwards on the circuit.
Aww!
The last wall of the circuit collided with the soaring black star, creating a huge explosion inside her body.
A stream of blood flowing down Zion’s lips with him.
Without being able to wipe away those bloodstains, Shion pulled Heukseongha upward again.
Because the wall hadn’t completely broken yet.
Quang! Quang! Quang!
After that, the last wall that didn’t break through no matter how many times I bumped into it.
‘ There is only one chance left.’
His fragile body could not stand it any longer, and he was creaking and screaming.
Sion, who lit up his eyes coldly, absorbed all the black stars scattered around him, and cohesive them like the black stars in his body.
hey hey!
And the terrifying turn that follows.
Soon after, the spear of the Black Star created by Shion using all the means she could be fired once again.
The moment you finally hit the wall of the cracked circuit.
——————!
Thierry and Fredo, who had been looking at the upper part of Chimseonggung, where a foreign energy was felt from a certain moment, with curious eyes, and everyone living in Chimseonggung could see it.
“… … !”
Chimseonggung Palace means the place where the stars have sunk.
As the name suggests, the scene where the stars in the night sky all sink into the eerie darkness that extends from the top of Chimseonggung Palace.