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Although it was shabby to be the last of the existence of a rod-class demon.
The power of evil spirits was concentrated in the body of the demons who were forced to unite.
At least the magnitude of the power in the demon’s body overwhelms all beings on the battlefield.
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Nevertheless, the knights of the Empire marched towards the demons without the slightest bit of agitation.
Soon, the battle began.
If the skills and cunning that had been accumulated over many years of the Lord-class demons remained intact, the imperial contingent would also have to suffer enormous damage. Rod-class was such an existence.
However, the demons who had lost their ego were just a mass of power running wild.
Although it took some time, the Imperial contingent finished the battle without much sacrifice.
Rei, who was moderately helping the contingent, smiled as she watched the mass of demonic corpses oxidize.
Rey was in a pretty good mood right now, but the Imperial contingent could not easily erase the serious expression on the world.
As soon as they crossed the gate, they encountered a strong enemy that had to cling to the entire contingent, so even those who were courageous had no choice but to raise their awareness.
Moreover, everyone did not know how much damage would have occurred if the demons had been in a ‘normal state’.
Anyway, the battle was over, and Rey made contact with the Imperial contingent.
Delid Frieslan, who has not yet recovered his lost arm, has pretended to know him first.
“Lay.”
“Hello. Nice to see you here. Nice to meet you too, Sir Shay.”
“I’m glad you’re safe.”
“Well… Thanks to you, my life was saved.”
Royal guard Dakhaus approached Rey, who smiled lightly.
Aside from the words and deeds Dillid and Shay showed Rey, most of Rey’s shattered weapons belonged to Ernst, so Dacaus could not be rude.
There was no way Ernst would allow such weapons to be shipped overseas in large quantities unless it had built up a tremendous amount of trust.
“Is this the spy sent by Your Excellency Marquis Frislan?”
“Uh… yes, yes.”
“If you have any information on the current situation, please share it.”
Rey explained what had happened by adding the distortions she had pre-tuned with Luna.
After hearing the explanation, Dakaus made a face that was very hard to believe, but it wasn’t up to him to judge the truth of Ray’s statement.
“I’ll escort you to the rear for now.”
The first task that Dachaus had to prioritize was gathering information.
In order to prevent a situation like this from happening again, it was imperative to find out what made the sky open.
As the most important witness to reveal this was Ray’s party, it had to be protected.
*
Gilland pondered what to do after Meteor’s aftermath subsided.
Communication with the superior was cut off, and there was no communication, which only added to the frustration.
The capital of Alimo must have been unharmed from Meteor, and communication artifacts were also normal.
“Whew…”
He couldn’t keep looking for a superior who couldn’t be contacted.
Except for the Knights Templar, the only survivors of Rioshko were a few wizards, priests, and comets.
Gilland ordered those seriously injured to be treated and those left to search for more survivors.
The performance was not good.
Considering the power of the aftermath from Meteor, ordinary people could have survived by hiding in a very solid structure, but Riosko’s structure was not very strong.
It was only after they searched all the vicinity that they could barely rescue the Count Gyllenhaal and five or six others seriously wounded.
Fortunately, we were able to secure quite a bit of material during the search process.
Most of them were obtained by scouring the collapsed underground warehouse.
In the basement warehouse, several bodies were usually found together.
After meeting with the knights, Gilland decided to take a break to recharge his stamina and retreat to the rear.
There was no guarantee that a retreat in the direction of Alimo’s capital would be safe, but everyone believed that Meteor would not fall in a row.
Gilland looked around the Templar among the survivors and spoke.
“Is there anyone who will search the Forbidden Forest with me? I’ll take up to 3 volunteers.”
“leader!!”
Leoni vomited a voice mixed with irritation and anger.
“Are you really crazy?!”
“The search period is one day. If we do not achieve results within one day, we will return immediately.”
“No, it’s only been a day or two, so why go back there again?!”
Leoni didn’t say much, but it wasn’t long before three members of the Silver Cross Knights volunteered for the search operation.
It was the same as all the knights owed their hearts to ‘Leon’.
Gilland turned to Comet just in case.
“What are you planning to do? Are you going to go to Fruy with the others?”
“f*ck…”
Comet mumbled a swear word filled with frustration.
Leon dismissed it as bullshit even when he spoke face-to-face about things that could destroy the kingdom.
The demon worshipers could be a little dangerous, but I thought Leon was exaggerating the dangers of the Forbidden Forest.
‘I was sick.’
It was Comet himself who judged the situation like a fool in his ease.
Comet smirked and looked at Gilland.
“Let’s go together. If we’re lucky… we might find a living Leon.”
Comet knew the decision was impulsive, but he did not withdraw.
Right now, I felt like I wanted to do something.
Then, when the break was over and it was time to move, Leoni squawked once more, irritating Gilland.
“Because we’re just going to go back!! You barely came out of it, and you wanted to die, didn’t you?!”
“It’s what you have to do.”
“Chief!! I-san, if that’s the case, then I’ll go too!!”
“…I won’t allow it. Sir Leoni’s capacity is not enough to engage in such a small operation.”
The reason that Leoni was given the title of vice-captain was not because of his strong military power.
Of course, even if Leoni’s abilities were sufficient, Gilland had no intention of taking Leoni.
The moment when Leony steps towards Gilland as if he is about to rush.
Gilland felt a presence in the distance and raised his arm.
The knights reflexively drew their swords.
Kaga River!
“…”
While everyone waits in silence.
A series of swarms made their way to Rioshko, through the dust in the air.
Many of them wore armor engraved with imperial and imperial designs.
Among them, Rey, who disguised herself again, pretended to know Gilland.
“Ah, I see you here again, Commander. Fortunately, it seems that you escaped the Forbidden Forest before being surrounded.”
“Leon…?”
After waving her hand, Rei looked at the shattered Rios.
It wasn’t a very long time, but Ray experienced how many people live here and how they look.
But now there was only the smell of dust, burning, and blood in the Rio Shukou.
Rey frowned once and then opened up his brows to relieve the miscellaneous emotions, and then turned to Comet.
Comet was wearing a disguise, but the look of something unsatisfying made him recognize who he was.
“He was still alive, too.”
“under…!”
Comet burst out laughing out of absurdity.
Seeing Meteor returning alive from a remote area and hanging up the Empire’s most elite forces, I could only laugh.
Even now, when I think about how I fell in love with a guy like that the first time I met him, I was still in a cold sweat.
Meanwhile, Gilland looked at the imperial contingent and asked Dakaus.
“Did Your Highness agree to the military operation of the Empire?”
I wanted to make a very inflexible sound, but it was a part that had to be confirmed from the point of view of a knight in the kingdom.
Dakhaus answered calmly without showing his emotions.
“The King of Alimo, after confirming the existence of Meteor, evacuated to the Empire through the gate.”
There was a lot of condensed content in that one sentence.
Sighs erupted here and there, and Gilland couldn’t argue anymore.
It was right to avoid the situation where the leaders were annihilated, so it could not be argued that the king’s judgment was wrong, but the feelings felt by the subordinates were different.
After checking the energy of mana flowing in the air, Dakaus looked back at Rey.
“Now that we’ve entered the safe zone, we’ll return to do the rest of our mission.”
“Thank you. Good luck.”
“Go to the gate near Prua. The Imperial Army will be guarding it now.”
After giving such advice, Dakaus ordered that the squadron’s power be split a little and escort Rey’s party.
Rey’s party set off for the gate with the survivors of Rioshko.
Rey, who felt that the work had been completed to some extent, whispered to Luna, who was carrying him.
“You’ve worked hard, Luna. I… I think I’ve been out for too long. I wish I could go home now.”
*
An unprecedented event called the Meteor Clash occurred.
The Empire was also in crisis, meanwhile, Ernst asked Phoebus to stand alone.
Phoebus accepted the request for a solo session and smirked while waiting for Ernst for a while.
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Not long ago, Ernst asked Phoebus that the Empire would put pressure on the realm to rescue one of his spies.
The external justification for oppressing the kingdom is ‘the concealment of the existence of the underground city’.
Phoibos accepted this, and gathered many of the Empire’s high-ranking forces near the gate.
It was close to a gesture to show off the kingdom of Alimo.
When the kingdom of Alimo lowered its tail, Phoebus was going to take measures so that it could send additional kingdom or imperial troops to the Forbidden Forest.
‘It was a job that I did to the Marquis of Frislan to pay off debt…’
But suddenly, Meteor fell into the kingdom.
At Ernst’s request, high-ranking imperial forces were gathered near the gate, so Phoebus was able to launch a military operation with an elite force in a short time.
Had it not been for Ernst’s request, the Empire would have had to spend much more time organizing a contingent in an urgent situation.
‘It would be difficult to consider that I owed a debt to the Marquis of Frieslan.’
Phoebus pondered a little regret.
However, after reading Ernst alone, all those thoughts were blown away.
“…haha.”
Phoebus laughed as he looked at the silver-white sword that Ernst had offered.
He had to protect his dignity as an emperor, but the laughter flowed freely.
“The Emperor was wary of the Marquis, and he trusted him infinitely as much as he was wary. I think he understands his feelings.”
Ernst did not hesitate to devise for the sake of his own interests, but he was always careful not to harm the Emperor and the Empire.
Ernst always put the emperor and the empire first.
Except for the case of the assassination of the second prince.
“Is it the new sword of the Empire…”
When Phoebos injected a little mana into Moros, the shining blade became brighter.
It was an unacceptable felony unless it was immediately revealed that another nobleman possessed the Imperial Sword.
It was necessary to apply the standards of the Sword Master to the Sword Master.
It took a while, but Ernst returned Moros when Phoebus needed the most legitimacy.
In this way, Phoebus was able to offset his greatest weakness and obtain the power source to lead the empire.
Although Ernst never spoke first.
If Moros were genuine, this debt was very expensive.
Still, if that was all, Phoebus could laugh happily and move on.
However, there was one more problem.
After reading the report set before him, Phoebus looked at Ernst with suspicion.
“This is… an exaggeration…”
“I swear by my family and honor. No exaggeration or distortion.”
Participated in the Locust Subjugation War.
As an apostle, he killed the 1st prince who turned away by himself.
He stopped the expansion of the demon worshipers of the Rubyha Kingdom.
The greatest contributor to the ‘Battle of Albemina Warp Gate’, which prevented Eridanus, who would have cut the empire in half if successful, and the rebels’ attempts to retake the Warp Gate.
And, if the testimony is true, this time, he prevented Meteor’s clash in the center of the Alimo Kingdom and reversely annihilated the power of the demon worshipers who nearly devoured the Alimo Kingdom.
Finally.
The age of the person in the report.
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Nineteen years old.
If you write a storybook for children to read in this way, you will be cursed.
After re-reading the report from the beginning, Phoebus took a deep breath.
“This is so… difficult .”
