chapter 38
38 – 37.
‘Damn it.’
Giel, the leader of the Hwangyeong Knights, ran while trying to calm his nerves.
‘Too late.’
As if he had no intention of hiding it anymore, beastmen appeared from time to time and tried to catch him.
Master One Expert Twenty.
Even if you include the Hero or the Duke of Pale, you don’t have more than five Masters on top of you. As a confident Giel, he cut down the beastmen without difficulty, but it was undeniably true that it took quite a bit of time.
‘I hope it’s not too late.’
Giel, who ran towards the academy with all his might after covering his entire body with a shadow, was able to arrive at the academy before long.
‘Over there.’
After stepping into the academy, I felt that the two with strong presence were fighting.
‘One must be a beast, and the other a Count Darhan?’
He didn’t have the energy of the count he knew, but other than him, there was no other master at the academy.
I was a little puzzled, but there was no time to delay, so Giel ran to the place where he felt the energy.
Giel, who arrived at the place where the battle was taking place in an instant, couldn’t help but panic.
‘Cadet… ?’
The man he thought was Count Darhan was actually an academy cadet.
As Giel looked around to grasp the situation, the princess Rael, who was watching the battle between the prisoner and the cadet in a panic, came into Giel’s eyes.
‘I’m glad you’re all right.’
Since the princess is safe, other trivial matters have been solved.
Now all I have to do is hit that beastman and kill him.
Giel drew his sword, and dozens of shadows stretched out and attacked the beastman.
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The chieftain of the Mae tribe was beyond admiration and was even feeling joy.
Obviously the girl in front of me wasn’t such a great opponent.
Even though all of my comrades died, my unbreakable will
It’s commendable, but I thought his skills couldn’t support him.
So after letting her live in her place, I was expecting her to come a few years later to avenge her.
Even as she continued her thoughts, the girl’s sword struck fiercely.
It’s not yet dangerous enough to be called, but it’s not a level that can be ignored.
I never thought you’d grow like this in a short moment, in a time that wouldn’t be lacking even if you called for an instant.
‘What should I do?’
Now that it’s like this, you can’t kill the princess while leaving the girl alive.
If this had been an act of his own accord, he would have left saying, “It’s okay,” And so on, but unfortunately, this was a mission given by the leader.
‘It’s a pity.’
Years, no. Even if only one year was given, that girl would have grown enough to compete with herself.
Feeling that the situation of not being able to see him was truly ruthless, Soo-in gained momentum,
The moment you instinctively cut down the girl who shrunk her body.
Dozens of shadows fell upon the chieftain of every tribe.
‘This is dangerous.’
The chief soared into the air using his two wings, moving around like an acrobatic stunt, avoiding the shadows and knocking some of them off.
The power of each branch was not lacking compared to the blow of a fair number of masters, but the chieftain avoided or knocked out all such shadows.
After taking a breather, he looked down at the ground and saw a knight covered in black armor and shadows where he had been standing before.
‘The leader of the knights Hwang Young.’
Before embarking on a mission, I was given a list of the masters of the empire who needed special attention, and Knight Commander Hwang Young was one of the knights on the list.
“What is your name?”
Clearly, he was closer to the princess than that knight, but the knight asked for his name first rather than blocking the relationship between him and the princess.
However, he had a premonition that even if he rushed at the princess, he would be blocked by the shadow, so he couldn’t move easily.
“Perus. That is my name.”
So, the chief decided to reveal his name.
“Suin, Ferus. I will treat you as royalty and promptly punish you for attempting to do so.”
“If you can, try it.”
The wings of Ferus fluttered and dozens of feathers flew like arrows, and the shadow of Giel struck them all off, and the battle began.
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“Since returning to the Islands, this is my first contact.”
From the other side of the communication port, a voice sounded very angry.
Ah, come to think of it, I couldn’t contact you.
“Don’t you know the situation here?”
After reaching the realm, I was able to confirm the Grand Duke’s magic planted throughout the imperial palace.
I can clean it up easily now, but now that I think about it, if I didn’t have those magics, when my descendants were in danger, the Grand Duke would find out and help me, so I left them alone.
So, even the Archduke should know what happened in the empire right now.
“Hey, I don’t think there was time to contact you.”
“… That’s right.”
I’m sorry the Archduke, but I don’t have time to delay over trivial things like this.
“Master.”
I could feel the Grand Duke’s voice loosening up when he used the title of Master instead of Grand Duke.
“Yeah, why?”
As soon as the softer voice returned, I immediately brought up the matter.
“The beasts attacked the empire. Their detachments have already shaken the empire, and their main force will move everywhere as well. Master, please stop them.”
“Hmm… A prisoner.”
Hearing that he was a prisoner, the Grand Duke seemed lost in thought.
That dragon wouldn’t be afraid of beasts, why?
“This is a bit unexpected. Even if the elf moved, I thought that the beast man wouldn’t move.”
“Is there any reason why the beast cannot move?”
“Do you know who the king of beasts is?”
The King of Beasts… ?
It was a Seon dialogue that started suddenly, but whenever this dragon spoke like this, something important always came up, so I obediently responded to the Seon dialogue.
“Isn’t it the leader of beasts?”
“Not so. He is literally the leader. He can be a leader, but not a king.”
“We confirmed in the last war that all prisoners follow the leader.”
“It is because their king is absent.”
The king is absent?
“Then, Master thought they would not move.”
I couldn’t see it because it was over the communication port, but I could see the archduke nodding lightly.
“Yes, how can those without a king go to war?”
“But they moved.”
“Yes. That’s why Bonnyeo fell into her thoughts. There are two things I can think of here. One is that they betrayed their king… “
After talking that far, the archduke paused for a moment before continuing.
“Second, the king of beasts must have returned.”
“Ira, the king of beasts.”
Actually, when I heard the name, I didn’t feel anything big,
That’s true, wasn’t it on the way to meet the elven queen a while ago?
She was definitely strong, but if you didn’t consider the World Tree and Green Dragon behind her, she wasn’t that scary.
“Is the king of beasts that strong?”
“Not strong. A lot.”
I wondered if I had heard it wrong, but the Archduke’s voice as he answered my question was trembling slightly.
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In the past, there was a wolf.
Since he was born, he was far bigger than his own people, and he knew he was special.
The trolls who hunted the wolves for food and the ogres who played with them were no threat to the wolves.
Wolves were born in a nameless forest.
The forest where the nine-headed hydra reigned as its owner came to be called the Wolf Forest less than ten years after the wolf was born.
As the news spread across the continent that there was a wolf that ate a hydra, various people came to the forest to see the wolf.
Some knelt down in front of the wolf and swore allegiance, while others tried to hunt the wolf with spears.
The former was a beast, and the latter varied.
Wolves cherished beastmen who resembled themselves. That’s why they accepted them, and that’s how the Beast Man Alliance was born.
Wolves did not tolerate those who challenged them. Be it a human or an elf. Even if it’s a giant. I swallowed it all.
The wolves continued to devour their enemies, increasing their power.
When the conquerors of the continent who reigned high up took an interest in wolves, wolves were already bigger than the biggest giants.
“He is truly the king of beasts.”
After the dragon lord who came to see him was so unreasonable, the wolf became the king of beasts.
Whether it’s a Beast or a Beast. Or just a beast.
Everything that could be called a beast followed the wolf.
At some point, the saying, ‘If there are whales in the sea and dragons in the sky, there are wolves on earth,’ began to spread, and dissatisfied young dragons came to kill the wolves, but were bitten to death by wolves.
“I want to see how far you grow. You do not touch the wolf.”
The elders of the dragon dared to punish the wolf for killing their descendants, but they had no choice but to leave the wolf at the Lord’s command.
With the most powerful dragons as a race silenced, the wolves were no longer afraid.
The wolf roamed all continents, devouring everything in sight, continually growing stronger and larger.
The elves, giants, and humans decided to form an alliance to subdue the wolves, and even those called gods began to feel tension from the wolves.
The wolf, which has grown taller than the highest mountain, has turned its attention to those who are called gods.
“What will you taste like?”
The first place the wolf headed was the forest of the beginning.
It was to eat the world tree, the god of life.
When the wolf headed for the forest of the beginning, all the beasts followed him.
So the king of giants and the first knight also headed to the forest of the beginning, and the queen of elves also prepared to greet the wolf with them.
Even the silent dragons moved.
The Dragon Lord hasn’t changed its meaning yet, but dragons that are strong enough to ignore the Lord’s will or are friendly with such dragons also step forward.
The former was the green dragon Arvo and the black dragon Pluto, and the latter was the white dragon Artemia.