Chapter 146 – Chapter 146 ― Just Bad Luck (6)
Episode 146 ― Just Bad Luck (6)
Roan perfectly understood what the duke was talking about by ‘listening’ and ‘politics’.
But I had to ask again.
“Pollution… I mean No way, the land… Is it because?”
“Yes.”
Vice-captain, Yurus’ screams seemed to tear everyone’s eardrums. A long scream of pain, like a beast caught in a trap.
But frighteningly, the duke with a cool expression took out his sword after answering the emperor.
“… You must kill them.”
The song of the Duke reflecting the bright moonlight that will soon be full moon. The silence of the knights surrounding them was heavy.
It was Roan who grabbed the arm of the Duke who was about to raise his sword without delay.
“… Your majesty.”
“Wait for a sec.”
The Eastern Hwangryeongju looked at the emperor blankly.
“If you go this far, there is no going back. A quick kill is good for everyone.”
However, Roan bit his lip for a moment before opening his mouth. He didn’t let go of the Duke’s arm.
If coughing was his prognostic symptom,
Maybe my magic…
It may be able to alleviate these symptoms as well.
“Only once… Catch Yurus.”
“Your majesty.”
The Duke’s eyes, glowing yellow in the dark, narrowed.
The vice-captain himself, the duke, and the knights.
Over time, it will only cause pain for everyone.
The duke clicked his tongue inwardly.
Is he trying to say that he wants to be merciful because he is an outsider he does not know well?
However, the hesitant duke eventually followed the emperor’s order.
There were times when his emperor gave absurd orders that he readily entered into, but he still gave miraculous answers.
With the slightest hope that perhaps his lord might save the life of the knight he had been with for several years, the Eastern Emperor lowered his sword-wielding hand.
“Hold on to Yurus.”
When the Eastern Emperor commanded in a low voice, several knights rushed at Yurus at once.
The vice-captain, unable to get up after cutting his ankle, struggled to get himself up. However, it is also the knights who try to capture him.
It was not enough to withstand the force of many strong men.
“Kuuuuu… , Ah… !”
The sharp screams were filled with pain.
Roan hurriedly lowered his body to a seat.
‘Is this correct?’
No matter what kind of magic he didn’t reveal, he spoke quickly. It’s only a matter of time before this gets to anyone’s ears.
It would be a strange sight for a demon to heal someone.
What if someone catches you? What if it is attacked as a weakness? Am I ready to unleash this power?
What if there is no treatment?
Are you acting too impulsively and without thinking?
While sitting next to the knight,
Various thoughts ran through Roan’s mind.
‘… Hey. Wake up, Kim Yong-cheol.’
‘Will’ wrapped around Roan’s body.
Roan took all his heart.
It’s just the possibility of an embarrassing situation to me, and even if it does, I’ll find a way to avoid it somehow. Will try so
I didn’t want to hide the power that might be the only way to save him, just to be safe. I don’t want to do that.
After all, wasn’t it because I tried to be strong in order to be free to do what I wanted?
Variables can be blocked in front of overwhelming force.
A light of determination flashed in Roan’s eyes.
The moment the decision is made.
Recite the start words in your heart to gather your will and convey your strength.
Star blessing.
The brilliant light slowly moved from Roan’s hand to the knight.
The light was bright, but not dazzling.
Would it be like this if you saw the starlight right in front of you, which seems faint from afar but never loses its light because it is always there?
“… ?”
“What… ?”
“No…”
Admiration from everywhere.
The Eastern Emperor’s eyes widened.
“Your majesty… ?”
Not only the dukes, but the knights on the field were those who had seen human priests, paladins, and wizards on the battlefield.
But no magic they had ever seen emitted such a warm, holy light.
Dong Hwang Ryong-joo slowly knelt down on her knees without even realizing it. I had a feeling that if I didn’t do that, I would pollute this light.
And all the knights surrounding Roan began to kneel following the Duke one by one.
The sound of burning torches and the beastly roar of knights could be heard in the silence.
The few seconds that passed felt like an eternity to everyone.
Roan gritted it.
Much more power was consumed than usual, and the light emitted while casting the blessing was unprecedented.
Still, the knight couldn’t stop screaming in agony.
Roan removed his hand from Yurus’s arm with a bitter expression. The expression of the duke and the knights also showed bewilderment.
The power they felt through the light was a holy power that seemed like they could do anything.
But the moment Roan all stood up.
“… Big… Ugh…”
The knight’s struggle began to subside.
He drew in a heavy breath as if trying to swallow his pain.
“… Vice-captain?”
The voice of the duke calling the knight was filled with astonishment.
Roan looked at the knight with his eyes wide open.
The howl, which had grown lower and lower, had now become as low as a moan.
“Right… Ugh…”
“Vice-captain Yurus! Are you out of your mind!”
The knight holding the vice-captain’s arm quietly called Yurus’ name. Then, the vice-captain, who had been moaning low, moved his head slowly at his words, surprisingly.
“… Mommy. Hey, why…”
His voice was so calm that his animalistic demeanor from just a few seconds ago seemed like a lie.
Roan’s fists trembled.
However, the surprise he felt was too simple compared to the emotions felt by the people of the Eastern Emperor.
“Your majesty. What… Did you…”
It was an imprudent question that I would not normally have asked.
The duke asked Roan in a pained voice.
“How, how… This… That it could be better… ?”
The Duke’s voice was trembling.
Roan was taken aback by the explosive emotion contained in his murmur.
With feeble joy,
Shock, sadness, anger, pity, embarrassment.
The emotion the Duke is feeling is chaos itself.
Perhaps he didn’t want an answer, but he didn’t know what to do with his overflowing emotions, so he instinctively sought an answer from the emperor.
At least he deserved to ask questions, he was on the better side.
All of the knights were glaring at the vice-captain, who had started to come to his senses without even asking a question with horrified faces.
“Why… So, ugh…”
The vice-captain, embarrassed by the unfamiliar atmosphere and trying to get up, noticed that he was wounded.
It’s pretty bad too.
“Huh, a sword scar on my back… Ankle… Do… ? Me, please…”
There was not a lot of bleeding.
The knight’s voice sounded desperate when he realized that his ankle had been severely cut to the point where the tendon was severed.
“Duke, I… Are you contaminated… ?”
The article asked in a nervous voice as if it would break soon. The duke, who had been staring at him intently, nodded his head once without saying a word after a while.
“Sorry… Your Majesty, Duke…”
The knight struggled to get up, but he couldn’t even sit up by himself. In the end, the knight lay on the ground and barely raised his head to apologize to the emperor and the duke.
As if the vice-captain’s voice broke the spell. Only then did the surrounding knights begin to move one by one.
Someone ran to get a stretcher ready, and someone helped Yurus sit down.
“Duke.”
Roan called for the Eastern Emperor, who still couldn’t take her eyes off the vice-captain.
“… Yes, Your Majesty.”
The duke, who was distracted for a while, replied a little late.
“I want to hear an explanation.”
“…”
The duke looked at Yurus, who was sitting up. Noticing his gaze, the vice-captain of the Knights lowered his head with a resigned expression.
Dong Huang Ling-ju struggled to open her mouth.
“The corrupted land not only makes the land waste, but also makes people waste.”
In the darkness, his yellow eyes shook with anxiety.
“If you spend a long time close to the East or a long exposure to the desert… At some point, those who change like this will appear.”
Roan frowned at him.
“Did you say contamination?”
“Yes.”
The knight, convinced of his condition by the duke’s words, swallowed his groan.
Both the duke and the knight knew.
The fact that this is the disgrace of the Eastern Emperor.
And in the end, to a person outside the Eastern Emperor,
He even got caught by the emperor.
“The tribes wandering the desert, the knights and soldiers who periodically go out on patrol, the merchants wandering the cities and towns… Anyone who has to walk long desert roads is exposed to this danger.”
Roan couldn’t help but nod his head. An evil will that is tangible enough that in just two days he went closer to the East than Virectum.
A threat that the demons could not handle was eating away at the people of the Eastern Emperor.
“The closer you get to the Fallen Lands, the greater the danger. Aggression is amplified, and hatred becomes uncontrollable. Over several days, you fight that will like a seizure, and every time you do, cough symptoms appear.”
Roan bit his lip.
As Fiora said,
Is ‘greed’ really sleeping under a failed seal in the land beyond?
“But Yurus hid it.”
The duke looked at the knight with his cool eyes.
I felt compassion in his words, but
I couldn’t find such a sign in my sharp eyes.
Hiding emotions,
The Eastern Hwangryeongju said calmly.
“Yurus is a person who knows the rules of this land, but as a knight and a person in charge of escorting the emperor, he did not fulfill his duties and tried to hide his flaws. He cannot be forgiven.”
Roan looked at the lord with sad eyes.
The knight with the scarred face was already enduring his pain, anticipating the punishment he would receive.
“If it’s the way it was… What will happen if the contamination continues like before?”
When Roan asked quietly, the Eastern Emperor replied.
“You lose your senses and become like beasts. In the end… They hate all living things and attack them. They say humans call us monsters. I see the end of that contamination… I think it really turns us demons into monsters.”
There were no unnecessary accusations or intense emotions in the Duke’s words.
However, Roan could overhear the tiredness in his voice by ‘listening’.
A painful secret that no one knows except those who live in this near-desert land.
Knowing that they can change suddenly when exposed to the eastern desert, the people of Evirgio will of course look at them with colored glasses.
Just because their ancestors made their home in the East, they are paying a heavy price.
“I have seen hundreds of such people. No matter how long we kept them locked up, in the end, there was no other way but to kill them.”
The Eastern Emperor’s words were full of remorse and surprise.
“But His Majesty… You healed him.”
