Chapter 129: |
Unfortunately for Michael, Leonis and his knights were monsters that could survive a fall from a height of five stories. The hollow under the palace is about three stories high. The collapsed wreckage could be slashed with feet, fists, or knives.
If they hadn’t been able to stand this much in the first place, they wouldn’t have taken them into Michael’s trap.
Entering the palace were the five dukes, high-ranking nobles, their privates, and elite knights. The vassals and closest aides of the Cardian family had to wait outside the palace ‘unwillingly’ because they stood behind the procession.
Because the line was so long.
Leonis was an excellent knight, but not all dukes and high-ranking nobles were like him.
Most of the people caught in the trap seemed to have lost their lives in the recent fall. Those who remain…
Grwaaa!
In the flames that monsters posing as dragons were spewing, the knights each hid themselves behind the debris. Only Leonis was able to survive the flames with the help of the armour that the divine beast had transformed.
Those that could not fly and were not even real dragons were no match for Leonis. What Leonis was aiming for was not this fake monster, but Michael.
There’s no way a guy whose body is the most important thing would go to a place like this. So…
‘Somewhere, there must be a wizard who transmits this image to Michael with a crystal ball for communication!’
He had to find out where Michael was, as well as what he had done to him—either killed him or brainwashed him. The only way this can be ended is when the real Michael is beheaded.
Leonis slashed the dragon’s flames with his red eyes shining in the helmet of shining armour. He jumped up, stepping on the rubble and remaining pillars that were all around him, and swung his sword, causing blood to pour from the body of the fake dragon.
The poisonous blood, unable to penetrate through the gaps in the armour, burned with a sound of ‘Clink!’. The knights around them were in a hurry to defend themselves.
The knights of Leonis tightened their grips on their swords and gritted their teeth. Those who hold the master’s ankle are not qualified to become Cardian’s knights.
They intended to return alive to the arms of their families and lovers.
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The divine beast flew up into the sky, waving his wings of light. He was scouring the area in the sky in the direction that Celia had pointed out, using the brilliant head that God had given him as a blessing to try to detect the suspicious aura.
With the ability to sense the energy around him, the divine beast was superior to Celia, a half-blood goddess of destruction. However, given that he is a man who possesses evil energy to the point where he can control monsters, he thought he could feel it too.
As long as the distance is close.
That was why he was flying so low that the tip of its tail was brushing against the roof of the building, scanning its surroundings.
The place Celia took refuge in was a small town. Even though they were staying in the fortress of the lord, they were in the middle of a city that was filled with mansions in close proximity to one another.
So, the mansions were lined up quite densely, so he had to look through them all.
‘Why are there so many houses!’
Dozens of monsters flew to the side of the divine beast as it was looking over the tops of the mansions and becoming increasingly dizzy. When the divine beast saw the gathering of harpies, he became annoyed and vomited lightning at them.
― Don’t disturb me, you scoundrels!
When Lucy saw a shaft of light slicing through the cloudless sky, she immediately hunched her shoulders. The light of lightning in broad daylight was a way to feel the divinity of the god of the sky.
‘The divine beast? That must be a divine beast fighting, right?’
Lucy revealed that she wanted to be a force, but Zeppel refused. Originally, she was supposed to pass through this city and go down to her place of origin.
She was even given an exorbitant amount of money for her settlement for this, and she was also introduced to a mercenary and a guild that would take her to her hometown.
However, Lucy secretly moved to another inn to avoid their eyes. The personnel already monitoring her had been withdrawn.
They showed their loyalty by giving a huge amount of money for settlement and attaching a person who could safely go back. In fact, it belonged to a lot of convenience.
‘But I want to see Michael ends up in the gallows!’
At least she had to spit on his severed head to relieve her stomach. Zeppel told her to go back to her hometown, but to Lucy, her hometown didn’t sound very warm.
A being who only exploits Lucy for being a parent and brother. It is her existence that extorted her labour power unilaterally and drove her away without feeling grateful.
Lucy knew what she would face if she returned to her hometown.
Knowing that she has come with a large sum of money, her father and stepmother will pretend to welcome her and then extort Lucy’s money.
They would be happy if they only took her money, but it was clear that she would either be thrown out or, in the worst case, sold somewhere.
Her stepmother was that kind of woman, and her father was the kind of person who acted like he didn’t know her.
‘That’s why I don’t want to go back to my hometown.’
Rather, if the viscount who took her in, it would be her hometown. However, she wondered what would be the use of returning to the family and working again now.
Lucy’s childhood, the happiest of all, was the time she spent with Amelia as a nanny at the concubine’s palace.
‘If, if the Duke of Cardian would do anything to make a tomb for the Princess……’
She will lay flowers on the grave. Then she wanted to make plans to leave somewhere. No matter how hard she tried, there would be no way for her to return to that place of the concubine.
However, when she really thought about it, all she could think about was Michael’s death. The word “enemy” that cannot hold the same sky has not come out differently.
‘The fact that the divine beast is over there… … It must be that something big is happening somewhere.’
People seemed to be evacuating there after hearing that the monster had appeared, but on the contrary, guards and soldiers were actually running there. Everyone knew that the Duchess of Cardian had taken refuge in the lord’s castle.
She wanted to care what happened to the duchess when the master she served died, but she was the wife of the Duke of Cardian.
Still, she tried to pull her out of the palace and let Princess Amelia out.
‘Perhaps they used the princess and let her go without a hitch.’
Lucy had the wishful thinking that this was the case, even though she knew that it was such a flimsy, childish expectation. Currently, he is the enemy of Prince Michael, and there is no other person like him.
So Lucy, who was concerned that there might be something that could be of use, ran towards the area. Even though she has a fear that if he encounters a monster like that, she won’t even be able to get away from him.
It was for this reason that she was peeking from an ambiguous position, neither very close nor too far.
“Oh!”
While watching, the divine beast, who became completely invisible due to the black monsters, crashed onto the roof of a mansion.
He wouldn’t be of much help if he went there, so Lucy stomped her feet.
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The door, which had reclined more and more inward, finally began to open. The monsters went wild as if they had smelled something through the gap.
Growl!
The monster that rushed in screaming loudly hit the door with its whole body. The knights shouted and retreated left and right, while Miline and the escort knights covered Celia and escaped to the corner of the room.
Growl!
The door came off and ricocheted off the wall and landed on the floor. As the monster stumbled into the room unable to overcome the impact, the knights rushed at it.
It was a monster in the form of a leopard with a hard helmet on its head. The knights Leonis attached slaughtered the monster in one fell swoop.
Crea……Creaaak……..
It was then that monsters in the form of bats with eyeballs all over their bodies rushed into the room. The knights gritted their teeth and slaughtered it, but there were too many of them.
“Madam!”
The monster ignored the people gathered in the room and frantically moved its pupils to find someone. Even though she was hiding behind the tall Miine, thousands of pupils caught Celia.
“I, fou…nd it…..Kreuk….”
As soon as he saw a strange sound coming out of the monster’s mouth, one of the knights cut it down. They were knights with excellent skills, so it took less than 10 minutes to slay all monsters.
Miline turned around to face the knights as if she could sense an unusual aura.
“I think you better get out of here! It seems that the Madam’s location has been reported to someone!”
The knights seemed to have the same idea. The red-haired knight stepped forward as if to open a road, but there was a thud.
A monster with the head of a crocodile and the body of a lion was entering the room.
The knights readied their swords and charged at them, but a flash of red light suddenly appeared in the floor. Everyone was puzzled by the fact that magic letters were engraved around the circle in an exact circle.
‘Huh?’
As if the floor suddenly disappeared, Celia’s body plummeted. It wasn’t that the floor of the real stone chamber had disappeared. Only she was sucked into the magic circle.
Miline, who was right next to her, let out a scream as she brushed away.
“Madam Celia!”
