‘It won’t break through now.’
Imperial Palace Wizard Generic was confident as he worked on the barriers of the palace.
Twice the barriers were breached, and his qualifications were disputed. But thanks to that, Generic was able to more perfectly complement the barrier.
‘I thought there would be a vulnerability.’
Vulnerability of the barrier.
Vulnerable parts were found in some parts of the mana seam.
However, they are all tied together more tightly than before, so there will be no chance of them being pierced again.
Only 100 wizards were mobilized to supplement and repair this barrier.
“Generic. It is so perfect that there is no need to touch it anymore.”
“Even if a demon king or dragon attacks, they won’t be able to break through the barrier.”
Seeing the completed barrier, Generic’s disciples scrambled to praise it.
It was the result of the high-circle wizards and his disciples who applied from other magic towers working together and staying up all night.
It is surprising to see the human resources involved, but the physical resources are beyond imagination. Only the top-notch magic stones to sustain mana cost as much as several years of other countries’ budgets.
Demon King or Dragon?
Even when their grandfather came, they couldn’t break the barrier.
‘I’ve been humiliated twice, but not the third time.’
Quickly, I grinded my teeth.
It was the first time she had been humiliated like this since becoming an imperial palace wizard.
When the spirit first penetrated, I thought it was because it was a ‘mystery’ and passed on.
However, after being penetrated by the second ‘Divine Lord’, controversy over his qualifications ignited.
However, when it comes to barriers, generics are the best. There is no one who can cope with him.
‘You’ve dug into your weaknesses exactly. Damn the holy lord.’
How did you dig into a weakness you didn’t even know about?
However, thanks to that, I was able to fully grasp the barrier’s vulnerability.
Generic was looking at the barrier happily.
However, that happy expression quickly turned to astonishment.
“What is that…?”
“Why is the water burning?”
Woo-woo-!
Warning towers built around the walls of the capital sounded warning of danger. The capital of the empire was under attack.
Walls are torn down and cities are burned.
A huge flame that could be seen from the palace was eating away at the city.
Such a sudden attack.
It is impossible. Attacking the capital of the empire without going crazy?
Even if I did, I should have known before reaching the capital.
Generic shouted after noticing the identity of those who attacked the capital.
“Monsters… the monsters are invading!”
*
“A large number of monsters from the Locari Mountains came?”
When Emperor Deus heard the report, he frowned.
The Rockari Mountains adjacent to the Empire are a land called the paradise of monsters.
The border dividing the north and the empire.
It is an unknown world untouched by human hands.
The demons constantly reproduced, but they did not come down the mountain.
The Rockari Mountains also provided abundant food, so there was no need to fight for territory with humans.
“Yes, Your Majesty. The estimated number reaches 5,000, and it is estimated that there are monsters that use magic.”
“It’s a strange thing. Haven’t there been cases where monsters have descended from the mountains in the past hundred years?”
“Maybe it has something to do with the disappearance of the Red Hood bandits a while ago.”
More than ten days ago, the Red Hood bandits evaporated.
The top of the mountain was devastated as if it had been bombed.
The monsters were stimulated by that incident, and the opinion was that it would not attack the capital.
Deus said rebukingly.
“What was the lord of the Locari estate doing?”
In order to keep the monsters in the Lokari Mountains in check, Lord Lokari was guaranteed a lot of military authority.
There was no news from the territory that should have been known and stopped first.
The knight carefully opened his mouth.
“I apologize for not telling you, but it is said that the Lokari Territory was wiped out last night.”
“The Lokari Territory, which has the duty of defending the border, has been wiped out? Only for monsters?”
No matter how peaceful it is, it is a place where there is an obligation to protect the border.
In particular, Lord Locari was famous for his thorough self-management.
The soldiers and knights he trains deserve to be called elite.
A place like that was wiped out in only half a day?
As a rough estimate, five thousand is a number that would have passed. It was normal to endure for several days just by putting on a castle and defending. By that time, the reinforcements would have left.
“According to the survivors, they were wiped out by a Lord-level monster…”
The reporting article’s words were spectacle.
Lord-class monster.
It is literally a monster that can crowd monsters.
Lord-class monsters had to be destroyed.
This is because if left alone, the colony may continue to be called and become a large army of tens or hundreds of thousands.
“Bring the survivor.”
“Shortly after reporting, he had a seizure and died. your majesty.”
Even the last survivor died.
Anger bloomed in Deus’ eyes.
A monster like that dared to attack the empire. the capital too.
“Exterminate the demons with all your might. Not a single one of them should be spared.”
*
“Help me!”
“Please, please let me go inside the palace!”
“Everyone will die at this rate!”
People were flocking to the front of the palace.
Aristocrats living in the capital also knocked on the door of the palace, leading a large number of wagons.
It is unusual for the capital city to be attacked by monsters.
The primal fear of monsters frightened them.
“Relax! Prince Raunel and Prince Kazan personally led the soldiers and set out to stop the monsters!”
“Open the door! You mean you know who I am!”
The soldiers shouted as they watched the citizens crowding in front of the closed gates of the palace.
The number that had reached hundreds quickly grew to four digits.
Since the walls of the capital were breached, it seems that they decided that it would be safest to stay within the walls of the palace.
However, even thousands of monsters cannot completely penetrate the walls of the capital city.
The capital city is made up of four layers of walls.
Wall of Protection, Wall of Patience, Wall of Wailing, Wall of Immortality.
What the monsters have been attacking now is the ‘wall of protection’, the outermost part of the capital.
And people wanted to evacuate inside the Immortal Wall, the last resort to protect the imperial family.
The heart of the capital, the immortal wall, had never been breached in the thousand years since the empire was founded.
And now, most of the people in front of the gate were nobles living in the safe zone inside the Wailing Wall.
Even though the wall of protection has not yet been completely breached, they are excited.
“Commander. His Majesty the Emperor says to open the door.”
“Okay, I get it. Open the gates.”
Indeed, he was like an emperor called Seongwang.
Soon after, the city gates opened, and people from outside the city began to enter the water.
And among them was Balmung.
‘It’s easier than I thought.’
The inside of the last wall has a strong barrier.
Only the gate side was not fenced.
So he chose to incite people and mix with the crowd and sneak in.
The result was successful.
‘There is an epic of detection inside the imperial family. But before that…’
Balmung looked up at the sky.
A barrier that surrounds the entire castle.
That barrier was interfering with the hand signal to find the detection epic.
‘I’ll have to get rid of the barrier first.’
So, from the barrier, it is made useless.
A simple task that requires only breaking the barrier stone that maintains the barrier.
The barrier was intended to block enemies from the outside, but once inside, there was nothing to stop them.
Balmung approached the place where the mana of the barrier was condensed without hesitation.
*
Eugene shuddered.
Although he couldn’t pinpoint the dragon’s location on the map, Eugene had no choice but to instinctively notice the dragon’s presence once he got close to it.
“Wow, here you go. This guy… Balmung is here.”
Balmung.
He is the enemy who killed Bella.
It’s okay to tear him to death, but he couldn’t help the primal fear of dragons.
I said looking out the window.
“Know.”
I managed the monsters to distract them, and I infiltrated with the people inside the palace.
I was expecting it to be used this way.
It is impossible to break the barrier from the outside. Even if they woke up, there was a high possibility that they would not be able to achieve their goal because their eyes were focused on them.
There was no way the dragon, who was extremely reluctant to expose itself, would come to the fore.
‘That’s a lot of confidence.’
Balmung’s actions were unstoppable.
The strong men who were said to be strong took advantage of the empty palace and infiltrated in an instant.
Now that the infantry division and magic corps are mobilized to evolve the monsters.
Thousands of monsters will be completely suppressed within a few hours.
‘I have the confidence to take away the Epic of detection within it…’
But you probably don’t know the exact location of Eugene.
If I had known, it would have been normal for him to appear in front of me by now.
This means that there is work to be done in the palace first.
[The Mugunghwa No. 18 transmits the enlarged image.]
Soon after, a picture was sent in front of my field of vision.
This is a picture taken by Mugunghwa No. 18 of people entering the palace.
A total of 1,090 copies.
One thousand ninety people came in, and Mugunghwa 18 scanned them one by one and sent them.
‘There is a balmung in there.’
You can’t come in with your face covered.
There is Balmung among those over a thousand people.
‘Which of the people currently gathered has disappeared?’
The personnel who entered the palace were gathered together and the soldiers were managing them.
This is because they cannot be allowed to stir the inside of the palace to their heart’s content.
[The person in image ‘657’ has disappeared. Your location is being tracked.]
A zoomed-in photo of the 657th person entering the palace.
‘found.’
That guy is balmung
It wasn’t a dragon that inherited Beta’s face like Malfiel or the dragon of the Holy Land.
However, having identified the face, it would be easier to find.
You may not even have expected that wide-area scanning will be possible using artificial satellites.
Soon, Zero spit out the tracking results.
[As a result of scanning the entire palace, the final destination of number 657 is a place 1,260m north of here.]
[Sending the image.]
The transmitted guy’s last destination was not here at the Yellow Dragon Palace.
It was a completely different place.
If it’s located 1km north of where I am…
‘A barrier stone.’
This is where the barrier stone is.
Heart of the Barrier. It can’t be dealt with from the outside, so it seemed like they were planning to destroy it from the inside.
It’s a place that only a few people know about, including the Imperial Palace Wizard, but the opponent is a dragon.
A monster that can handle mana instinctively cannot fail to recognize the heart of the barrier.
“Arel.”
“Yes.”
“I’m going to the Eternal Palace.”
Eternity Palace, the northernmost part of the Imperial Palace, where the 4th Empress and 4th Prince live.
The heart of the barrier was there.
*
Kiek!
The ice bird howled.
True to its name, the bird, which looks like a piece of ice, glared at intruders and warned them.
It hasn’t been long since hatching, but the momentum wasn’t unusual.
However, many knights were dead around it.
Between the corpses, Balmung’s eyes lit up as he gazed at the ice bird.
“Amazing. Why is the extinct Divine Beast here?”
The ice bird is a divine beast like a dragon.
It means a beast created by God himself, and it was an existence from the past that has now disappeared.
A beast created by one of the Twelve Gods.
But it’s gone.
Because they were less smart than dragons, and weaker.
Unlike dragons, they could reproduce by laying eggs, but that was all.
A beast of misfortune that was exterminated after being defeated in a war against dragons.
I heard that even those eggs were destroyed, but it seemed that there were still eggs left.
Ice bird eggs could hatch even thousands of years later if the conditions were met.
It was the first time I had ever seen Balmung in person.
“ah······.”
Behind the ice bird stood a child frozen in terror.
He was the 4th prince, the owner of the palace.
Even with his own ‘dragon’, that child endured. The ice bird made the dragon escape. Blocking the dragon, he deserved to be called a divine beast.
I just had to call it.
Tsk. Balmung clicked his tongue.
“If this is all, it is very disappointing. He must have been a Shinsoo who was once called the dragon’s rival. Is it because he’s still a baby?”
Ayeek!
The ice bird flapped its wings and the room froze.
The steam froze and formed an awl, but could not reach it.
As Balmung approached, the ice bird shrank.
The reason she didn’t run away was to protect the human child behind her.
It was infuriating.
God protects humans.
Messed up….
Balmung grabbed the ice bird’s wings.
Then the ice bird began to melt.
Seeing this, the 4th prince reached out his hand.
“Oh, no······.”
“It is very cumbersome to have to grow up from a baby. That’s why I hate offspring, regardless of race.”
Dragons do not have a growth period.
It is because it is a complete being from the beginning.
Memories of childhood and cubs did not exist for the dragon.
what wasn’t What doesn’t exist.
Dragons hate such things.
Especially human children are even more difficult.
“Don’t kill the ice tooth…!”
The 4th prince gathered courage and rushed at it.
However, he kicked the 4th prince who rushed at Balmung.
“Cuck!”
The 4th prince rolled on the floor and vomited blood. Balmung frowned as he looked at his feet after kicking the 4th prince.
Why do human children get goose bumps just by touching them?
“die.”
The dragon has been activated.
Without the protection of the ice bird, you will die instantly.
But.
“…?”
live.
The 4th prince, whom the knights and the ice bird desperately tried to protect, does not die.
The word didn’t work.
If there is no mana barrier, why?
‘Come?’
Only then did he notice that the child’s whole body was covered with a blue aura.
her. It was absurd.
So, are you saying that child is a sword master?
Because the sword master who wore the aura was able to resist dragon words.
Shhh-!
Instantly, I felt a huge wave of mana.
If the energy is as refined as this, it is an aura.
Balmung raised a sword made of his own bone.
Chun!
I bounced it off, but my wrist felt numb.
A sword fell to the floor.
Someone shot it with an aura.
Balmung wrinkled his forehead and looked around.
“Who are you?”
There was one human man who approached without being caught by his detection.
The man, Reinhardt, answered Balmung’s question.
“The dragon hunter.”
＜ Dragon Hunter ＞ End