Imperial War (6)
Kurleung—!
Don’t fall!
Dark dark clouds covered the sky, and the barrier surrounding the capital screamed and sparked.
And in that end-of-the-century landscape, Hans, who had achieved a set of goals, was slowly collecting his subordinates and preparing to leave.
[Then, let’s stop here for today. Then I’ll be waiting for you with a happy heart!]
“The Immortal King!”
The undead were engulfed in darkness and disappearing, but perhaps thanks to the two hostages in his hands, the humans could not act recklessly and just grinded their teeth.
‘Actually, the princess wasn’t originally planned.’
Hans looked at the two royals floating in the space next to him, bound by dark magic.
In fact, from the beginning, they only targeted the crown prince, and the attack coincided with the time he used the gate.
To the time when he, who departed from the Great Temple of Jeron, could not have reached the imperial palace.
‘A high-ranking official worthy of being a hostage. At the same time, you can easily find out what happened, and above all…’
“Eup-up-!”
Hans’ gaze turned to Prince Simon, who was wriggling like a caterpillar.
Even in a situation where his body and mouth were suppressed, he glared at the imperial knights and applied silent pressure.
Please save yourself as soon as possible.
He really couldn’t have been a human being.
Fuck!
“Quack!”
“Woe, Your Highness the Crown Prince!”
“Immortal King! What are you doing!”
The prince, who passed out as it was, with an undignified deathbed from the mass of black magic hitting the back of the head.
At that, the knights started going crazy again, but Hans didn’t even care about that.
‘I didn’t like this guy the first time I saw him.’
From his first impression to what he did, everything he did was hateful.
On top of that, he also played a part in all sorts of corruption prevalent in the empire, so it should be considered fortunate that he wasn’t killed right away.
‘Because it’s worth using.’
I can’t say for sure what will happen after its usefulness runs out.
Soon, his gaze moved to Princess Riley.
Even in this situation, the bright blonde beauty repeatedly took deep breaths and tried to keep her cool with sharp eyes.
Of course, her heart was beating wildly and her eyes were constantly shaking, but she took care of herself so thoroughly that it was not easy to notice the agitation at first glance.
‘I hear you’re not even twenty yet, but that’s great. I happened to pick it up, but there are corners everywhere that can be useful.’
Unlike the crown prince, this side had no special supervisor, so I had no intention of holding it for too long.
Just a cameo for dramatic effect in one episode…
‘yes?’
At that time, Hans’ gaze turned to one side at the sudden feeling of a subtle difference.
He was able to sense cause and effect because he had perfected the status beyond transcendence, so it was an abnormal situation that was not normally possible.
‘Issea?’
At the center of this abnormality is the Awoken person who is the same Earth as him.
In the heavy air surrounding her, her karma wriggled and her presence slowly expanded.
Her eyes move calmly.
It was as if he was reading something that floated in front of his eyes, but, of course, the air was just empty.
However, each time the series of processes were repeated, she was getting stronger.
By then, the situation was clear.
‘Come to think of it, Seah Lee was in her 8th year. In addition, a great magician with the status of an imperial aristocrat. You must have already accumulated enough karma to return to. no way···.’
Karma required to return is 1 million.
I don’t know how many more they had on top of that, but one thing is for sure…
Now she had lost the sure means of saving her life in case of danger.
No, I cut the lifeline myself.
To use that line for other purposes.
As if he had no intention of running away.
As the reinforcement continued, the karma consumption also increased, so her act did not last very long.
But the momentum she embraced was markedly different from before.
‘No way, are you going to jump? In a situation where the princess was taken prisoner?’
However, as if that thought were true, she immediately began to act as if not thinking about the future.
gooh-
Enormous mana instantly escaped from her body and concentrated.
It was not a phenomenon created by gathering mana from the surroundings.
It was refined from the beginning and burst out in an instant like a dam discharged, clearly out of the way of this world.
‘Is this enough… to transcend? No, not quite yet.’
And Hans just stared at the miracle that appeared in an instant.
While carefully analyzing her strength.
Compressed mana is deployed, arranged regularly and further amplified, constructed as planned in advance to build a foundation, processed with will, and leads in direction.
The whole process happened in a matter of seconds.
“What?!”
“Viscount Pristine?”
It was so fast that the people around him who reacted belatedly only then showed a look of bewilderment.
However, Isae did not respond to him.
He calmly released what he had prepared.
Chiyiing—!
Accompanied by a sharp noise that seemed to rip the air, the cold rays of light from the magic circle in front of her pierced the air.
It landed at the same time as it was ejected, and it was a lethal blow that could never be blocked unless prepared in advance.
The ‘Bingryong’s breath’, compressed to the limit, tore it apart as if ignoring the black magic barrier that the opponent had hastily created.
Acrich Dwell, which was the target, and the undead surrounding it were completely covered.
Damn it!
[Cheuk! This, young things to the end…]
Feeling the condensation of mana a step late, he hurriedly prepared, but that alone was not enough.
In the end, his voice, which allowed an unexpected attack, was cut off in the middle, and the frozen body slowly crumbled and began to scatter as ice powder.
Along with the undead who stayed by his side and became ice statues together.
Of course, Hans had the source of Acrich, so he could be resurrected later, but the burden that Dwell had to bear with this incident wouldn’t be too small.
“hahahaha-.”
Right after the attack, the unusually quick magic spell made Isea’s pale face even more drained of blood.
“Viscount Isea Pristine!”
“What is this!”
But the others only gave her a look of bewilderment and bruised her.
It wasn’t that they didn’t do anything for nothing.
The captives are the two closest to the right of succession to the throne, and the hostage taker holding them is the Immortal King.
If you go against his planting, you don’t know what kind of trouble will happen.
Right now, he had no choice but to promise the future, hoping that the Immortal King would keep his word.
“…it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just that there was a game that we couldn’t finish earlier.”
“That’s right now…!”
A knight under the prince’s command uttered an angry voice, but she didn’t reply and looked back at Hans.
“I apologize if you were offended, Immortal King. It’s because I’m the type of person who can’t live without suffering.”
With an expression of no regret, she opened her mouth calmly.
She seemed to have grasped Hans’ tendencies at some point, as well, and seemed to have decided that this level of work would not harm the prisoners.
‘But why? A meaningless resentment? He didn’t seem to have such a frivolous personality.’
She’s right, but did she even need to act like that?
Hans wondered at him and observed her…
I could see that Seah Lee’s gaze was not on him, but slightly to the side.
To the 5th Princess Riley.
Also, in his senses… he could feel the beating of the princess’ heartbeat and rough breathing gradually calming down.
‘Huh, please. Was it for the sake of the 5th princess?’
He finally understood why she had done such an outrageous thing.
and as he thinks.
Lee Se-ah was looking straight into Princess Riley’s eyes.
Contrary to his calm appearance, he silently waited for his trembling turquoise eyes to gradually calm down as time passed.
‘···wait.’
In front of the captive Riley, Isea’s attack pulverizes the Immortal King’s men.
It wasn’t just an outburst of anger.
It was an expression of conviction, and at the same time a signal from her to Riley.
As Seah Lee built up a bond over the years, she told Riley everything about herself.
About the existence of unique skills and karma points, and also about the fact that you have to go back someday.
Riley, who is intelligent, rather worked hard in many ways to make it easier for her to collect karma points.
We thought together about the usefulness of her skills and helped her become stronger faster.
In the belief that Se-ah Lee would not leave him without a word, even though he knew that it could hasten their separation.
‘wait!’
As much as there had been such a time, Princess Riley was clearly aware of Isea’s realm and the limits of her abilities.
It was. Until before.
Just now, Isea had shown her determination and convinced her by launching an attack far beyond the self Riley had known before.
That now there is no retreat for himself.
I will rescue you no matter what, and I will never stop doing it.
Even if that opponent is the immortal king who is the despair of this world.
So, trust me and wait.
Don’t give up or despair.
‘Until I find you!’
And the brilliant Princess Riley recognized the signal right away, as Isea intended.
Her eyes reddened and her throat twitched as she had kept her cool even in the most extreme situation, but she gritted her teeth and swallowed them, just nodding her head quietly.
Her heart, which had been beating furiously in fear, was beating quietly as usual.
[Keukkeu— that’s funny. well, that’s it This can also be called entertainment. Rather, it feels good to find another interesting guy.]
Hans, looking at the unspoken bond flowing between them, quickly took control of the situation, and this time, he took the prisoners and floated through the gap in the torn barrier to leave for real.
It was delayed for a while because of the ad-libs of the supporting actors, but now it was really time to leave.
Since all the undead still remaining were stored in the sound dimension space, they could leave with only two prisoners.
Of course, I still felt uncomfortable enough to wonder if I could go on like this.
‘Sweet, this makes me feel like a bad guy.’
No, it’s not because of my mood, but objectively and subjectively, anyone can see that the bad guy was right.
It was also a very typical villain itself, cheap to eat double curses.
…The problem is that it is you.
Thus, the Immortal King disappeared from Jeron with the two captured imperial families.
Leaving only one new drama left.
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Click! Click!
The sound of mouse clicks echoed in the room, where cheerful music was playing.
“Five? finally.”
As usual, after working out at the gym inside my house, I was able to find a very interesting piece of information in the process of checking the latest news on the Internet.
-New) Auterica Dimension.
It was announced through the World Returnees Association and officially posted on the website of the Korean branch—it was information about a new dimension.
‘Let’s see, there are two confirmed returnees so far. Besides… there’s nothing special about the information itself.’
All of the brief summaries of the dimensions were already known.
The information provider who lived in the republic must have cooperated quite actively with the association, although it had a strangely eastern feel.
‘It looks like the Immortal King appeared and ran away in a hurry as the madness broke out.’
There, as a matter of note, a warning that the current situation is dizzy and requires considerable attention was emphasized.
With a short phrase that the demon king has descended and started to invade the world.
“Hmm…”
And after checking all the information calmly, I leaned against the back of the chair and gently closed my eyes.
‘Being a party is something fun. How long will it take for the latest information to be updated?’
It was said that if the information was officially recorded, it would be after cross-validation was completed immediately after two or more returnees were found.
Considering the time difference between dimensions, it means that it is bound to be quite outdated information.
Still, it was quite interesting to see the evaluation of his actions from the perspective of other earthlings.
‘Oops, it’s already time to patrol. There aren’t many guys who cause big problems these days, but you still have to check periodically… Oh, come to think of it.’
He hesitates for a moment while trying to transform into Hans through 「Individual Projection」.
To say that Auterica’s information was starting to become known was like saying that as time passed, the possibility that information about the Immortal King would become known to Earth also increased.
There probably aren’t many people who would consider them the same person, but it’s probably something they don’t know.
‘···Since it is already known as Hahoe Mask on Earth, should we at least change the mask we will use when working in Auterica? Because the mask was broken.’
Or it wouldn’t be bad to wear a proper Hahoe mask only on Earth and only wear broken pieces as fashion items there.
I liked it because I felt the same way when I saw it.
‘Well, let’s think about it slowly.’
It was a very minor concern.
Compared to the political situation of the Azerion Empire, which began to fall into chaos because of what he had done.
