“I’ll finish all five of you in seven seconds.”
The battle began with the handing of Akirea, who had been sleeping on his back, to Cassena.
Ganiaxa Billid, who caught a glimpse of fear in the action, put his hand on the harp, but in an instant the boy’s eyes flashed, time and space disappeared from the world, and only the binary number 0101010101 unfolded frantically.
This… … hallucination?
Didn’t you see me too easily?
“If you pluck that string, you will die.”
Billid, who tried to shake off his mental delusion and play the harp to release magic, felt goosebumps running through his entire body the next moment.
what is this… … ?
Apparently, the fire arrow magic he had just tried to activate was aimed at him. If he had finished calculating the coordinates by flicking the strings, by now he would be… … .
“Dooms!”
Perhaps thinking that his colleague was hallucinating, Duums swung his mace fiercely and charged… … In an instant, sparks flew wildly, and the sound of rebars cracking was heard.
“Humans really don’t have the slightest hint of politeness.”
Kirik, Kirik… … Dozens of serrations spun frantically on the surface of the gauntlet, which was crushing the iron as it could not hold on to the mace.
It was Eldwig.
He, the 5th ranked gold adventurer, was also safe in the previous surprise attack with the help of Rain. The time when he was about to go on the offensive, pushing back the mace.
“wait for a sec!”
The leader, that is, the leader of the Red Ilhong Adventure Team (Red Ilhong did not give the title of leader to anyone other than the first leader), Chungwoon Fren, stepped forward with her blue hair flying.
“I think we misunderstood something… … I never dreamed it would be you, Eldwig. Really.”
He was a young man with a tattoo unique to the thieves guild under his eyes.
“If I were to compensate for that surprise attack with money, I would compensate as much as possible within common sense.”
Then Eldwig’s disapproving voice came out as a mechanical sound from within the optical helmet.
“What kind of ridiculous excuse is that to suddenly take your life?”
“I definitely have nothing to say about that, but shouldn’t we see that it’s also your fault for moving as if you were leading them in front of the beasts?”
“What do you mean?”
“What do you mean… … Didn’t you hear from me?”
“I didn’t get it.”
“They say a traitor is crossing the road with a group of prisoners. All adventurers are told to gather at the Far West Branch and spread the defense line? The emperor even put a bounty on it.”
Cassena and I had no choice but to stare blankly at each other.
A traitor announced by the emperor… … .
I had expected that things would grow inside the empire, but I never imagined that it would be on such an enormous scale.
“Ah, Abba, ah-baat!”
Exactly 11 seconds had passed when Aki, who was frantically struggling in Cassena’s arms, burst into tears.
You’ve grown by as much as 4 seconds… … .
Before she got excited and pulled her tail out of her clothes, she quickly took Aki from Cassena and patted her on the back to comfort her, and the crying gradually stopped.
“And those two of you… … .”
Fran, who was stunned at the scene, said in a half-doubtful voice.
“Aren’t you Prince Lane and Lady Cassena by any chance?”
Could it be that our disappearance was such a big event that even adventurers knew about it? The fact that Red Sun Red knew his name for sure, Cassena seemed very happy about that.
“that’s right! I’m Casena Page! And this is Lane Ludwig!”
As Cassena arrogantly crossed her arms and nodded excitedly, Fran let out a blank breath.
“her… … What Bart said was true.”
“Bart? Is it Bart?”
It was me who reacted to it. In an instant, even a dizzying trembling rose in my heart.
“Black iron Bart? I know?”
“We got to know each other while exploring the 4th floor with the Moby Dick adventurers. We broke up after leaving the Moby Dick Adventure Team during the Sunspot Crisis.”
“Are you quitting? why?”
It was incomprehensible.
These are the guys who expected the Moby Dick Adventure Team to be a stepping stone for growth.
“I said I was going to find Confucius. He said he would definitely be alive.”
For a moment I couldn’t say anything. I could feel my heart beating loudly. To the point where my voice trembles without power.
Those idiots… … .
I told you not to worry, because you can do well on your own. But why did you spurn this great opportunity because of me… … .
“But I can’t believe that it wasn’t that he disappeared, but that he escaped love… … Uhm, I’m late, but congratulations on your safe delivery.”
?
Beside him, Duums shook his head.
“Dooms.”
The red one-pointed archer, Skael, also looked at me and Kasena and Aki alternately and smiled.
“Well, in the past, even at the age of 15, you got married and had a baby. I heard that a woman’s body can best give birth to a baby in her mid-teens or late teens?”
“Dooms dooms.”
“But when black and light purple are mixed, does red come out? Billid, if you mix the paint, will it look like that?”
Cassena’s face was so red that she couldn’t even open her mouth, so I raised my hand to calm the wave of illusion.
“Wait, wait, wait… … Now you are making a huge mistake.”
“Dooms?”
“How could you become a gold-rated adventurer when you’re so ignorant? How do you view this as our daughter?”
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Then, the red-reds tilted their heads, saying, “Why are you asking something so obvious?”
“Yeah… … Because they look exactly like the two of you.”
The resemblance is a b*tch, and just when he was about to protest violently, a procession of prisoners appeared. At that moment, the emotions that came to the eyes of the red sun-reds were… … I got in between them.
“wait for a sec. I can explain everything. That the beasts are not enemies.”
“What nonsense is that… … Then, could it be that Confucius was the traitor?”
The red crimsons took a step away from me and returned to combat posture.
In an instant, the situation turned nasty… … I was dumbfounded and dumbfounded.
I wanted to have a friendly conversation, but suddenly turned so hostile, and I didn’t listen to a single explanation.
“Eldwig, why are you together? Don’t you know what’s going on?”
Lorenz asked cautiously, his face covered with confusion rather than hostility.
“It is the name of the captain. i just follow Guide the prisoners to the far west branch.”
“The captain’s order, then, does that mean that Frisvia participated in this? If this goes to the Emperor’s ears, you won’t know what kind of conflict will arise between the Empire and the Three Kingdoms… … .”
“I don’t know what he’s thinking. I just know you guys are blocking his will right now.”
In a land where the logic of power dominates everything, is the prestige of the platinum ranking really overwhelming?
As if they didn’t even have the heart to listen to my intentions and Frisvia’s intentions, they chose to keep their distance.
As they disappeared into the fog of Trident Point, the voice of Fren was heard one last time.
“You two say it’s not treason, but will the emperor really know that?”
“… … .”
“I wonder what will happen to your two families in the Empire because of this… … we don’t know We have to draw the line here.”
In fact, I was vaguely expecting it, but I was able to know for sure at this moment.
Adventurers won’t welcome us. And he had to overcome such adventurers to be able to cross the sea with his beastmen.
This is a lawless land where the sword is closer than the law, a land where power rules everything.
* * *
A giant ship arrived at the docks of the Far West Alliance branch.
Somehow, even the famous adventurers with high noses due to pride in their power had no choice but to fall to their knees in a strange thrill.
The crest elegantly embroidered with silver thread on the military flag fluttering heavily from the bow was the Hyeonmu (玄武) bearing the Holy Grail.
“If it is Hyunmu, the Eijin family crest… … .”
“And the Holy Grail is only for the families elected as emperors… … !”
If this ship had simply been the emperor’s envoy, he would not have shown such extreme courtesy.
Who are the adventurers? Aren’t they the ones who follow power, seek power, and obey power… … And this is Trident Point, there are no gossips.
People with magical powers and brilliant prestige enough to bring them to their knees stepped on the planks lowered from the boat to the wharf and walked out.
“It’s the Yellow River Office… … .”
“Former Platinum No. 2, Sagan Wolf Blado, and Leoren, who was No. 6… … !”
The dignity of the crown prince, Raida Eijin, who led them, was unimaginable for a 16-year-old, but it was blurry in front of the majesty of the two.
Sagan and Leoren were beings with completely opposite human images.
Sagan of the Madose clan was ruthless and meticulous like a northerner, while Leoren, a descendant of the royal palace Keith, was relaxed enough to be complacent in everything.
“Ah, to come to this terrible land again.”
Leoren, who was blowing her green-colored hair, yawned and grumbled.
Siren was expressionless. The fluttering dark red hair was terrifying, like the blood that gushed out when an artery was cut.
The apparel and leather boots of a prince under Blado were also dark red, and all of them made her look extremely seductive as well as the most son-in-law of a woman.
It had to be, because Sagan’s mood wasn’t bad right now, it was the worst.
‘It’s not enough that my beloved younger brother was accused of being a traitor, so I’m going to take care of it… … .’
Perhaps this was a test given by the emperor. Asking about the innocence and will of the Vlado family… … It was at this point that the life and death of the family was put on the edge of a knife.
“I was waiting for you to come back after receiving a call from the Griffin rider.”
The deputy managing director of the Far West branch of the Alliance bowed his head respectfully.
“It is still peaceful. Looks like the traitor hasn’t arrived yet?”
“There are reports of sightings coming in one by one at the mouth of the third finger, but… … .”
Then, with a creak, the lidar stopped, and the corroded board of the dock groaned ominously under its weight.
“There have been so many sightings, so why are they still alive?”
At the moment, the deputy manager, whose eyes were wide open, knelt down on one knee and said,
“Because accurate information has not yet been delivered to all adventurers… … ! For now, only the current situation and the order to gather at the Far West Branch have been sent.”
The deputy manager who deals with adventurers with a tough personality as much as he is strong (the branch manager is currently absent due to labyrinth exploration support) was also quite talented, but what can he do in front of a prince with two of the strongest warriors of the present age?
“If that’s the case, that’s fine.”
The prince, who had been looking down at the deputy manager with his eyes narrowed as if to judge, eventually turned around while flapping the hem of his coat.
“The fleet will come in an hour or two. Five thousand Imperial troops aboard. Get ready to greet them.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
At that moment, blisters seemed to boil at the mouth of the harbor where the swamp merged into the sea, and in an instant, a huge shadow was cast over the harbor.
In an instant, pure white confusion ran through the minds of the adventurers.
“No, that guy… … !”
“A-rank Neptune Demon Beast Gilatin… … ?!”
“You idiot, the dock manager, forgot to close the barrier… … ?”
In the midst of the chaos, the prince and Samurai maintained their usual facial expressions. No, rather, I glanced up at that ancient monster as if it were funny.
“Sagan, you take care of it.”
“yes.”
A blade suddenly sprouted from the steel ring Sagan was wearing on his left thumb. As he cut his palm deeply with the blade, fresh blood trickled down.
The moment when the bloody water was sprayed with a restrained motion on the monster body that rushed at it with its terrifying mouth open, and then signed the seal of blood kinship.
──It disappeared.
The space itself where the blood was sprinkled by an unknown force… … .
“Your Highness the Crown Prince!”
“Avoid!”
“Back, behind!”
Even when Gilatin, with holes all over his body, couldn’t keep up the momentum of his charge and collapsed onto the pier, Sagan’s movements were full of composure.
I was just walking again.
following the prince.
The plume of water soared fiercely at the fall of the indescribably huge body, and soon the water droplets flew like rain, pouring out a faint smell of water.
“… … ?!”
“… … ?!”
“… … ?!”
Surprisingly, however, the three of them were fine. Not only them, but also the port district of the far west region and even the military ships anchored there.
The adventurers who stared blankly at the scene and grasped the situation soon felt their eyes shake in awe.
that… … It was truly the realm of art. There was no other way to explain it.
‘The holes in Gilatin’s body… … .’
‘Ripped exactly in half… … .’
‘I didn’t attack the dockside and the military ship… … .’
Blood and intestines ooze out of Gilatin’s body, which had been brutally torn in half, and a stench lingered.
Sagan did not show any reaction even though he subdued the A-class Sea King Demon Beast, which had been a source of pride for several years, when gold ranks were stumped, and if they were lucky enough to subdue it.
As if this result was natural, like the rising and setting of the sun and moon… … The adventurers swallowed dry saliva.
‘This human is the sorceress Sagan… … .’
‘The strongest battle mage of the current generation… … .’
‘Whether it’s a prisoner or a traitor, I can’t even take a bite… … ?’