Chapter 880 – 880. Hero Academy (6)
Leila started by introducing herself.
She herself was the princess of the empire, and she herself had her older brother and sister, the prince.
The prince grew up and became a pharaoh, the seat of the imperial emperor, but it is said that the problem arose when he became pharaoh.
The prince who became pharaoh accidentally acquired a divine relic, and he began to use the relic for tyranny.
Leyla and her loyalists, who had abdicated from her power, fought the pharaoh with all their might.
However, he had already gained great strength and immortality using the artifact, and Leila had only one choice at the time.
That’s right…
“It was to seal me and my brother together.”
It was to be sealed alive.
“How did you seal such a strong guy?”
“As if God hadn’t abandoned us, I was able to find a relic of God too.”
Luckily, Ray also found a divine artifact that could counter the Pharaoh’s power, and that was an artifact related to the seal.
Leila made herself her sacrifice like that and sealed the pharaoh, and this place is…
“In other words, this is a sealed place, itself.”
“Accurate.”
“But the fact that we came in means that the seal has finally been lifted, right?”
From the moment the entrance to the dungeon was created, it became a story that the seal was eventually lifted.
But Leila shook her head and continued her explanation.
“The reason you were able to come in was because my brother’s power was weakened.”
Leila explained that this sealing place continues to be maintained based on the power of the pharaoh.
The life of an immortal pharaoh seems infinite, but on the other hand, it is not infinite, she said.
“If the soul is weakened, no matter how immortal the body is, it will gradually decay.”
“You?”
Come to think of it, Pharaoh said immortality, but seeing that Rayla was still alive, I wondered if she was also immortal.
There is no such word written on the temperament window…
“I fell into an eternal sleep at the same time as I sealed it. And it’s supposed to wake up if someone breaks in.”
“Isn’t Pharaoh asleep like you? Rather, isn’t it replenishing your stamina when you’re asleep?”
“No. My older brother, unlike me, only his body is asleep and his mind is fine.”
Lie still for hundreds or thousands of years with your mind intact… It didn’t seem strange even if his mind was rotting.
I’ll get to know the situation at once.
This place is maintained based on the power of the pharaoh, and as the pharaoh’s body weakens, the seal is released.
In such a state, when outsiders invade her, Leila wakes up and summons them before herself…
“It was a test to see if he was a person who could fight. Will I be able to stand against my brother’s power…”
However, when I listened to Leila, there was a part that I did not understand.
“But aren’t there only two of us here?”
Leila said she had definitely summoned an intruder here.
However, it was only Lena and Moonjua who arrived here, and even I was the case that I set foot here myself.
The rest of them seem to have been transferred inside the sealed door earlier…
“That… It’s my fault I couldn’t believe my sealed brother would use that much power…”
Leila planned to call all her people here to test them and defeat the pharaoh together.
But Pharaoh was the first to use her hand.
Seeing how he exerted his power outside even in a sealed state, it was clear that he was stronger than Leila.
“Actually, there were intruders even before you came in, but… All of them were taken away by my brother. Since I had just woken up, I was aiming for a moment of distraction.”
“Her…”
I guess I knew roughly who I was talking about.
It must have been the tower’s advance party that had entered before and the members secretly sent by the church.
“I couldn’t lose to my older brother this time either. So, the goal was to summon people with the strongest abilities as much as possible.”
“Ah, is that why you called these two?”
“… It was originally three different people. But my older brother seemed to have the same thoughts as me, so I couldn’t properly summon him because he interfered.”
I had a rough idea of who those three were.
‘For now, the two are Yeriel and Seongsuah.’
Seong Soo-ah was a woman with the ability to beat Mun Ju-ah if she showed her true skills.
Not to mention Yeriel…
And the other one seemed to be me.
After failing to summon those two, Leila chose Lena and Moonjua as her next targets.
‘I thought the teleportation gimmick was triggered too often, but that woman and that pharaoh kept using it.’
Once we figured out the cause of the anomaly.
The problem is in the process…
“Your brother took all the other intruders with you.”
It was the fact that Pharaoh had taken the rest of them away.
I pointed to the mysterious creature waiting patiently and asked.
“Then what are they?”
Leila shook her head in response.
“My brother is not interested in the dead. In contrast, I… I am interested in the dead.”
“Interest?”
“I have the ability to lead the dead.”
Lion dog.
That ability she had was the ability to lead the dead.
It looked similar to my guide’s eyes, but…
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Lion dog
The ability to manipulate undead or corpses within a range of 100 meters.
Control is released when out of range.
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‘Compared to the light in the eyes of the guide, it’s much lower.’
It was a sub-compatibility.
Even Leila’s ability did not include the soul, which is a spirit system.
However, there was one thing better than the guide’s eyes.
‘You control the corpse? So, is it close to a necromancer?’
The guide’s eye light has the ability to control the undead and spirits of the spirit system, but it can’t control even immobile corpses.
In comparison, the lion dog could control not only the undead, but also corpses.
‘Armonia, please keep it because I might use it later.’
[All right.]
I focused on my conversation with Leila again.
“In the end, I had no choice but to summon the dead like this, whom my older brother was not interested in.”
“And you used those monsters to check the skills of the two of you?”
“Exactly.”
“But there are only two of them. If a guy called Pharaoh is that strong, aren’t two of them enough?”
Leila nodded her head with a calm expression.
“The bodies of my loyalists from the past are left in this room now. I intend to get their help as well.”
Leila had the ability to silence even a dead body.
She intended to completely kill the Pharaoh by borrowing the power of herself, the corpse she prepared, the monsters that invaded, and those she summoned.
Once I knew the circumstances before and after.
But…
“Doesn’t it seem like no one will easily listen to your request?”
It was an absurdly excessive request to do in a relationship that was unfamiliar.
No matter how beautiful the request was, it was not a request that could be granted without compensation.
After hearing my words, Leila nodded her head and replied.
“You are right. So I offered them a condition, and they both accepted it.”
“Condition… ?”
When I turned my head to check Lena and Jua Moon, they answered me in turn.
“He said he would hand over the wealth Pharaoh has.”
“I will give you a treasure. So I agreed and saw it.”
If you think about it, Lena and Moon Ju-ah fought fiercely, but it didn’t feel like they were fighting forcefully.
There was a reward, so he responded appropriately.
Still, the doubts did not disappear entirely.
“But were you both that interested in money?”
The Lena I knew was not the type to be interested in wealth.
And it was the same for Moon Ju-ah. She was a woman whose priority was fulfilling her own needs rather than money.
Well, having more money should be nice because there are more ways to satisfy her needs…
When I expressed my question, Lena and Moon Joo-ah answered in turn.
“I agreed because I thought there might be something useful for the master.”
“Me too! No, I agreed first! I was wondering if there was anything I could do to help you… !”
“…”
Unknowingly, a smile came out of the two people’s answer.
After exchanging conversations with the two women, Leila, who was on her podium, opened her mouth.
“Looking at the trust these women have so much… Your skills are not average either. No… Even if it suddenly appears, it doesn’t seem normal…”
Leila seemed already satisfied with Lena and Moon Ju-ah’s skills.
And when the two women who were so satisfied showed infinite affection towards me, it seemed that I was beginning to covet my existence.
Not as a man, but as a talented person…
“Would you accept my offer too? If this is successful, I will share the treasure.”
“What about distribution?”
“I will give you everything. I am… Completing this task is rewarding enough.”
There seemed to be no lies.
Even in the temperament window, there was no particular disposition to lie.
‘Honestly, he wouldn’t be greedy enough to use his own body as a sacrifice to seal it.’
I thought so and started asking questions.
“Where is the Pharaoh you are fighting for?”
“Your brother is trapped by the sealed door. When my skills are proven, I will go and open it myself, and then go in together and deal with my brother…”
I got a headache in an instant and cried out loud.
“You should have said that first!”
“Why are you screaming all of a sudden?”
I replied, wrapping my throbbing forehead with her right hand.
“I already opened the door.”
Of course, I knew that Leila would be surprised and taken aback, but…
“… Nice to see you, you’re a funny guy.”
Far from being surprised, she rather started to see me as a pretentious man.
“It looks like you’re mistaken for opening any door, but the sealed door I’m talking about is not an ordinary door that you push through with force.”
“Know. It’s a fucking big door. There is the sun and the moon, and the animals beneath them… And a door with two eyes at the bottom.”
After hearing my explanation, Laira began to change her expression for the first time.
He asked me with a look full of bewilderment.
“Uh, how do you know that?”
“Because I opened it…”
“No, that is nonsense! That’s not a door that normal humans can open! It’s an existence that can only be opened with my own ability!”
A door through which those who connect the sun and the moon with the weight of death can pass.
I already knew the explanation Laira had given from the words written on the sealed door.
I asked urgently as I looked at Leila with a despairing expression on her face.
“First of all, that’s not what’s important. What if the door opens?”
If the existence of the door was just a reference point dividing the space, there would be no particular problem.
If you’re going to open the door later anyway, it means it won’t be a problem if you open it a little earlier.
“Bo, if you open the sealed door, your brother’s body will be unsealed too!”
“You mean you can just move?”
“Okay! But that’s the biggest problem!”
“?”
“My brother has the ability to subdue the living! At the same time as the sealing door opens, he will be able to move his body and slowly begin to subjugate those he summoned!”
“I’m going crazy…”
I wasn’t worried about the other guys at all, but I was worried about Sung Soo-ah and Yeriel.
It was said that no matter how capable the two were of flying and crawling, the other had the ability to manipulate the living.
Certainly, there must be conditions or restrictions on manipulation, but the fact that it is dangerous has not changed.
The desire to immediately ride the warp to the sealed door and fly towards the two was like a chimney.
However, if you go blindly without knowing the opponent’s ability, you will face a rather bad situation.
I forcibly grabbed the string of reason and asked Laira.
“No more? Like a way to get rid of it.”
“Fortunately, my brother has the ability to subjugate the living, but he is rather weak against the dead.”
As soon as I heard Leila’s words, I checked the monstrous creatures standing quietly around me.
The monstrous creatures did not even make a sound in their throats and were just quietly waiting.
It was an ironic situation.
The monstrous creatures that have been bothering us until now are helping us again…
“Is there anything else? There are not one or two people who have been transferred to that area right now, aren’t there enough numbers with this?”
Leila nodded her head in response to my question.
“There is.”
“Oh, I see there is a way. What?”
“I just need to use my abilities.”
“… ?”
Leila’s only special ability was a lion dog.
The fact that she weakens the Pharaoh with that ability…
“My brother obtained the ability of immortality, but because of that, the curse of the dead dwelled in his body. Using my ability won’t disable it, but it can temporarily weaken it.”
