Chapter 981 – 981. The Lion and the Four Dragons (2)
Erin, who was heading to the palace after beating Marius, muttered inadvertently.
“Hyuna…”
“Why?”
Eunhyeon, who was running at a fast pace in front of her, answered the call of Erin who was following her.
“Mr. Anies… “Are you okay?”
“… Are you okay. I will win. And I’ll join right away.”
Anyes had no doubts about his victory.
His confident attitude firmly stated that he would defeat the giant evil dragon and the necromancer and join them.
“But…”
I didn’t think Anies was weak.
Erin couldn’t help but be worried because she only knew about the abilities and power of the crazy necromancer named Marius.
He was crazy.
The ideology was distorted and did not make sense.
It was impossible to judge him with the common sense and judgment of an ordinary person.
So I couldn’t even imagine what he would do.
It was a completely different issue from knowing the limits of one’s abilities.
A madman who has no hesitation in burning not only parts of his body but also his soul for his own purposes.
Marius, as Erin judged from reading her emotions, was that kind of person.
“Are you very worried?”
“That’s right. And Eleanor and Illyana will both be sad.”
No, his friendship with S was not that deep.
However, she is Eunhyun and Illyana’s friend, and Eleanoa’s senior.
Whatever happens to her, maybe Illyana or Eleanor will be sad.
As Erin imagined it, her heart ached even more.
“Hyun, is everything okay?”
“Of course not.”
Kiaaak!
Eunhyeon felt calm and frustrated as he cut down the charging ghouls while scratching his rotten vocal cords.
She moved forward, dealing with the undead who instinctively rushed to bite the flesh of the living.
“I also have no intention of leaving Anies to fight alone.”
“Yes? But…”
Erin tilted her head after hearing Eunhyun’s answer.
They were advancing towards the royal palace, leaving Anies alone to face Marius’s deadly dragon.
“Are you okay. “Because I was prepared.”
Eunhyeon literally had no intention of leaving Anies to fight Marius alone.
The situation she finds herself in now is similar to the situation she found herself in 20 years ago.
Forced to send her comrades forward and fend off the remaining rearguard alone.
‘Maybe this is what it felt like.’
At the time, she thought it was for the best.
She thought that in order to take down the Emperor of the Empire, it would be most efficient to send all six members of her team, excluding herself.
So Eunhyeon remained alone and single-handedly held off tens of thousands of demonic beasts that invaded the imperial palace until her companions defeated the emperor of the empire.
Anies’ current situation is different from then, but it’s not completely different either.
At least, Eunhyeon was feeling the feelings of her colleagues who had to move forward and leave her behind back then.
Although he said he left Anies behind due to personal feelings, financial support, and practical issues, he couldn’t help but feel anxious.
Quaaaaang!
A loud roar echoed behind her, reaching Erin’s ears.
Erin, startled, tried to look behind her for a moment.
“Don’t look back.”
Leo De, who was walking ahead of her, stopped Erin.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t understand why she was worried about the battle between Aes and Marius, but her worries about Erin were of no help in this situation.
“Just look ahead. What role do you have to play? “Think about it.”
“…”
Could it be that she has no concerns about the danger of her colleagues?
How could he say this so coldly?
But Liod was not the only one who maintained that mindset.
Eunhyeon, Gerard, and Alice all had stiff expressions but were only looking at their destination, the royal palace.
It’s not that they weren’t worried at all.
They had already lost a precious colleague 20 years ago.
That party was also included.
They just thought faithfully about the role they had to play, giving it more priority.
“… Yes.”
Erin realized that and gave a small nod of her head.
As a member of this expedition, the one who lacked determination was none other than herself.
“Sorry. Hyuna! “I’ll focus!”
“Huh.”
Eunhyun gathered her thoughts and smiled back at Erin who was following her, she thought.
‘I wish you would write it without hesitation.’
With that in mind, Eunhyeon led the expedition team to the royal palace where the Void Stone was supposed to be.
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Quaaaaang!
The evil dragon’s paw and the golden lion’s gauntlet collided.
The foul energy of death and the divine power that instantaneously purifies it collide to create an enormous storm.
The storm swept around in an instant, hitting the evil dragon, the golden lion, and Marius and Anies.
A terrible storm of death that deteriorates the atmosphere and human bodies.
Even after being engulfed by it, Anies broke through the black smoke.
“Haha!”
Marius burst out laughing as he saw Anies coming out of the smoke unharmed and staring only at him.
Anies took a deep breath and twisted his upper body.
“Hmph!”
He planted himself firmly on the floor and pulled his arms back.
With all the force he could muster, he twisted his waist to expand.
He thrust his fist straight forward without losing any of his strength.
[Anies Basics]
[Criticizing the regime]
As if responding to her movements, the golden lion that was protecting her moved.
Without the slightest error, she executes the movements she made exactly as she made them, and without shedding any of her strength, her fierce fist is extended in front of her.
However, at the same time, the power of her fist, which was unleashed with the golden lion’s gauntlet, which had an enormous mass, showed twice the power of her fist, which already had terrifying destructive power.
Kwaaaaang!
The gauntlet’s blow, which tore through the air and struck the jaws of the gigantic evil dragon, was like the limit of the blow that created a massive explosion.
Extreme violence created as a literal ‘miracle of the goddess’ that can never be matched by human physical power.
The golden lion’s gauntlet, like a bombardment, struck the evil dragon’s chin.
The body of a dragon that had already met death once suffered such a heavy impact that not only did its head shake, but its entire body shook.
Marius, who was perched on top of the evil dragon’s head, was completely unfazed even when the evil dragon, who had become his servant, received fatal damage.
She laughed rather cheerfully.
“Haha! That’s amazing! “That miracle!”
She was amazed as she saw the miracle bestowed by the goddess.
On the other hand, contrary to his happy reaction, Anies frowned.
“… “Is it fun?”
“Tsk tsk! Isn’t it obvious? “I realize how great the miracle of the goddess you are showing me is!”
It is a necromantic art developed by stealing tens of thousands of lives and souls.
How could it not be surprising that a single individual could overcome his own territory, created by accumulating such enormous karma, with a miracle?
A great being who can truly be said to be an example of a hero.
“… “It’s terrible.”
Anies immediately understood the true meaning of Marius’ admiring reaction.
On the surface he sounded nothing but praise for himself, for her goddess’ power and divine power.
However, when the words come out of Marius’ mouth, their meaning is completely reversed.
These were words full of sarcasm and ridicule, not praise and admiration.
Wow!
The evil dragon’s face, which was staggering, was covered with dark death energy.
The evil dragon’s chin and cheek, which had been torn and destroyed by a direct hit from the golden lion’s gauntlet, were instantly restored to their original shape and let out a wild roar.
As if to represent the emotions of the master of necromancy who revived him, his red eyes glow menacingly, glaring at the golden lion who stands as his opponent and the small blonde girl who is protected by the river god.
As long as its owner, Marius, is not destroyed, the evil dragon quickly recovers from the damage.
Anies asked.
“Do you hate me that much?”
Even though he didn’t bother to ask what he hated, Marius answered.
“Ah, I hate it. Okay. I hate you. “Everything!”
Marius hated everything in this world.
You who accused yourself and the people of the village you lived in as heretics.
You who deceived Ness using yourself as bait and inflicted shameful violence on him.
You guys concealed that fact so carelessly.
You, as a priest, hoped for salvation, but received no answer.
You who drove your close family, friends, and villagers to starve and miserable deaths in cold prisons.
Meanwhile, you are living a happy life in this world, laughing and chatting without knowing anything about yourself.
“Hate. I hate it so much! “I hate you all so much!”
By ‘you’, Marius meant all living human beings in this world.
I and the people I valued met a miserable end in that prison.
Why are they okay?
Why is he making a happy face?
Why did all the misfortune fall only on them?
In Marius’s ears and in his soul, the voices of the orphanage and village people he cherished continue to cry out for help and to save him.
It’s constantly repeating itself in this hell.
The sound of them laughing and talking happily, the auditory hallucinations, and the waves of emotions are so unpleasant to hear, disgusting, and irritating.
“This place is hell.”
For Marius, this world is hell.
For Marius, who had lost everything precious and was living in eternally recurring auditory hallucinations, this world was no different from hell.
“I hate you so much for holding me in this world.”
Marius laughed.
Although his eyes were full of intense anger and hatred, the corners of his mouth were curved into a smile.
The already exhausted mind wore down and broke the heart.
That is now ‘evil’ itself in human form.
“… Okay. I see.”
That ‘evil’ is a terrible ‘evil’ created by one’s own mistakes, no, the mistakes of the entire temple.
Coo coo coo coo!
The ground shook once again.
Through the cracked ground, undead who had resisted death slowly crawled out and appeared.
The undead that emerged from the ground were originally the citizens of this capital, but were different from the ghouls who had become undead after being attacked.
Ghosts whose souls have been taken over by a necromancer and are bound to this earth and the world.
They had no reason whatsoever, and were no different from puppets, driven only by their desire for the living.
The evil dragon that emerged from the cracked ground was also a similar case.
Therefore, it suffered damage despite the golden lion’s blow from Anies, but recovered.
It is real, but there is no clear reality.
A collection of necromancy consisting only of necromancy and death energy.
In other words, it appeared as the corpse of a gigantic dragon, but in reality it was a monster created by the condensation of numerous ghosts.
“I will kill you.”
Marius had maddened eyes, yet spoke calmly.
“I will deny the power of that damned goddess and erase all human beings from this world.”
It seemed that only then could he escape from the auditory hallucinations and hallucinations that tormented his soul.
That is the rest that a mad necromancer with a broken heart can give himself.
Hundreds of thousands of ghosts appeared from beneath the ground along with a huge evil dragon.
Anies, who faced the huge army of ghosts alone, muttered briefly.
“Did you hear everything?”
[… Yes.]
The voice I heard from the earring made me swallow my sleep.
After hearing all the words of a madman pouring out his passionate emotions, I fell silent with feelings of pity, sympathy, anger, and responsibility.
“That is ‘our’ sin. ‘We’ must punish and save them.”
[I know.]
Albern, who had been hearing everything through the communication artifact, answered briefly.
[Gate. Open.]
Behind Anies, countless holes appeared in the air.
It is a number of passages leading to different places.
The next place is the temple where Anyes resides.
It was the main school of the Holy Kingdom of Erenia.
Slam! Slam!
Countless knights and priests crossed over from beyond the gate and revealed themselves.
Paladins armed with dazzling silver armor and weapons and countless priests illuminating the surroundings with pure white divinity, lined up in unison to show off their presence.
“Thank you. “Mr. Anies.”
Eleanor, who appeared with numerous paladins and priests, bowed her head.
“You didn’t do it alone, you invited us.”
“I only wrote it because your husband told me to.”
“I’m still happy.”
Eleanor laughed.
The enormous army of ghosts that confronts us before our eyes, the disaster that unleashes them, is a monster created by the temple as a mistake that cannot be washed away.
It was a heavy responsibility that had to be borne not by Anies alone, but by the entire temple.
That’s why I was so grateful to Anies and Eunhyun for their consideration in making this event possible.
“Ha, haha, haha!”
Even counting the number of paladins, priests, and holy soldiers coming through the numerous gates, the number was over 2,000.
It was undoubtedly the most elite unit of the main temple.
Marius couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
From his point of view, the dirtiest filth in this world that he wanted to erase so much appeared before his eyes.
I can’t even put into words how happy this moment was.
“It’s time to clean up!”
“I will begin salvation.”
The words of Marius and Eleanor, who were staring at each other, were mixed.
The purpose and actions of the two are a vicious battle of extermination to extort each other’s lives.
However, the expression used to describe the action was different.
Necromancer Marius and the Dead Dragon
3,000 ghost army.
The next Saint Helena and Archbishop Anies.
2,000 elite troops from the Holy Kingdom.
Obliteration and salvation.
Although the expressions were different, a war to exterminate each other began.
