Chapter 479 – 137. The One Who Saves the Royal Knight (2)
Drawtail Gorge.
The Demon Knights gathered there were in a quandary.
“At this rate, we cannot join forces with Remiel-sama’s headquarters!!”
One of the knights shouted. It was an adjutant.
High Knight of the Royal Knights listening to the report. The elven knight, Krien, bit his lip.
“Damn the devil!!”
Shoot aaaaa-
Heavy rain was pouring all around.
The terrible downpour made the surroundings difficult to stand on the spot.
Although they hurriedly retreated from the canyon river.
A new river that could be called a tributary was forming due to the pouring rain.
‘Wherever I go, it feels like I’ve entered a stream.’
So, the corps under the Royal Knights, who should have joined forces earlier.
Now, it looks like it has been torn apart in places and destroyed individually.
Kwak Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam-
It was midday now, but it was dark as just before sunset because of the rain clouds.
Every time the lightning strikes, the beasts can see the death of their subordinates.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“No! Damn the devil! Kreen!! There are too many monsters!!”
There were not only elves, but also dragons who had turned into dragons and wielded swords.
The monsters they are dealing with are at least Type 2. Because the bloody Type 1 Witchbeast created an empire-level nest, there were also quite a few Type 1 Witchbeasts.
No, not a few, but many.
His unit had about 100 members in total. Those 100 troops were now being sacrificed in real time.
“At this rate, it’s a one-sided massacre!”
His subordinate knight was right.
I never thought of this type of underwater warfare.
Above all, the well-known Blue Dragon Aquarite.
That blue dragon has now become a monster and attacked the Royal Knight. It was the worst.
‘Really… Is Unir abandoning us?’
That Aquarite became a Witchbeast.
It means that the old dragon was killed by the demon. A magical power sufficient to kill that famous old dragon.
Undoubtedly, the Keiatic Gate of the Demon Kingdom. It must be that Plutia’s apostle.
That apostle now made Aquarite his servant. In other words, he was created as a new high-ranking magic beast.
“For now, do not scatter and join me as the center! The canyon terrain is messed up now! If you run away with Jung-gu heating, you will be engulfed in water and become fish food! Wake!”
Even now, even if an enemy worse than that has appeared. You can’t give up.
‘Yes. The Royal Knight is… The ruthless shield that protects His Majesty’s will!’
The Royal Knight’s special unit, the Cold Shield, who serves as Krienne’s vice-captain.
The name cold-blooded is the title of Lucifer, the former demon king.
The name of the unit bestowed directly from the Dark Lord is the Cold Shield.
They did not even acknowledge Ustina, the modern demon king.
To those who are full of loyalty.
The only Demon King they are loyal to. Because it was only Lucifer, the ruthless demon lord.
“Lucifer’s protection is with you! Fear not! Even if you become a fish, you have to stop the bloody beast! We must protect the Demon Kingdom!”
Krienne encouraged her men to the end.
Then, with his great sword, he decapitated the Type 1 Witchbeast rushing forward.
Shashasak-
He is a 7th tier Aura Master.
He is practically as good a swordsman as Remiella, who has become the new leader of the Royal Knights.
He was strong enough to occupy 5 seats in the ranks of the Royal Knights.
And, it was also a swordsman who used a great sword, which was rare for an elf.
‘Haha…’
But no matter how much a master has gone beyond the limits of demons.
Even on flat ground, the water is so high that it exceeds your ankles. She had been fighting for several hours in the downpour, evacuating her men.
She had no stamina left.
‘No. I still have to endure.’
If the Master himself is having a hard time.
Her subordinates are already living as water ghosts.
‘Hey Unir. And the ruthless Demon King. You are our master…’
Once again, his greatsword gleamed silver. He cut the wrists of the beast that was trying to devour his subordinate.
“Captain Crienne!”
“Unir is still with us! Hold on longer! You may retreat! But gather around me! I will make a way!”
He desperately tried to gather his men together.
However, since the Great War. Even his own troops who served as Lucifer’s soldiers.
In this ever-growing gorge on the verge of a flood. There was no way out of the situation at all.
‘Do I really have to prepare for death like this?’
In that case, he had to kill at least one more monster before he died.
If there was Lucifer in front of him.
He scolded him for recklessly risking his life. Rather, His Majesty would throw himself in to save the soldiers.
He’s already been missing for a long time. No, it was as if death had already been confirmed.
And, sadly, he was the one who ran hard after him.
Even he, the Master, couldn’t save all the cold shields like this.
‘Your majesty. But I will never back down until the end!’
That is the mighty sword possessed by the ruthless demon lord. Royal Night.
As a member of them, full of loyalty and patriotism, which is rare among the demons. As the High Knight, Krienne prepared the final blow.
“I’ll open the way, so those who survive must somehow join Remiel-sama’s headquarters!”
“Oh no! Captain Creen! Quit it!”
After giving the final order like that, I was about to throw myself at the high-ranking Witchbeast swimming in the water.
For a moment, Krienne felt an unfamiliar sensation.
***
‘What happened? Silence…’
Suddenly, I felt the world go quiet.
Heavy rain pouring all around.
Demon beasts who opened the stomachs of demon knights and checked their internal organs, shining red eyes full of madness.
Even that commotion disappeared all at once.
The darkness of the dark clouds that covered the sky. It felt like it was disappearing at the same time.
Moment. The entire scene surrounding Krien was covered in pure white light.
‘What. This feeling. I’m sure I’ve experienced it before.’
And it was creepy. That is, obviously, a warning hidden in the instinct as life.
Krienne could see what followed behind this great flash.
‘This is white! The ultimate aura used by that Lion Grand Duke Wilhelm. Dangerous! It’s far more dangerous than Aquarithe, who became the witch!’
A terrible despair overtook him.
I don’t know what kind of English it is. I didn’t even know that the Demon Beast Army and the White Night Knights were holding hands.
They were enemies who fought against the Demon Kingdom 20 years ago. It wasn’t impossible to become enemies again.
‘No. Still, the people of the Midnight Sun are those who know the meaning of the word justice. They were never corrupted to the point of conspiring with the Witchbeast.’
His master, Lucifer, always paid respect to Marshal Wilhelm and the Knights of the Midnight Sun.
In particular, the ultimate aura created by Marquis. White night.
Even Lucifer, who is said to be the strongest among the previous demon kings, was seriously injured in that midnight.
‘No way. Did that Lion Grand Duke die to the Witch Beast and become a new Witch Beast, like Aquarithe!’
But now there was no time to think about it.
Krienne shouted.
“Everyone, get away from the place where the light spreads! Each of those flashes is a Grand Master level Aura!!”
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-
As he said, the midnight aura soon took over the entire area.
And when the light goes out
Krienne was shocked.
“Everything, a large number of demons have been extinguished!”
I barely came to my senses at the call of the adjutant.
The swordsman using that white night. You attacked a non-royal knight.
And when a man appeared in the vanished flash.
Cold Shield. There was a great uproar among the knights.
“Lu, His Majesty Lucifer has returned!!”
I couldn’t believe it.
But the moment Krien’s eyes turned to the man.
He can’t help but react the same way as his men.
“His Majesty Lucifer!!”
And a cold shield. All of the knights knelt at the man in unison.
***
They were mistaking people.
Lucifer.
The previous demon king and cold-blooded lord who once drove the empire to the brink of destruction.
At the same time, Riel is a genius bard who hid his identity. He’s my brother
‘Is that why I resemble my father?’
Whether in the White Lion Palace or the Pantheon.
My mother, Agnes, could be seen countless times before she was alive.
She was the great saintess of the empire.
But I didn’t know my real father’s face properly.
The period of activity in the Empire under the pseudonym Riel was very short.
She hid her true self to some extent. Still, if you look at them mistakenly, they look quite alike.
‘As Remiella said before. It looks like you haven’t told me about my true identity yet.’
Well, what kind of repercussions will it bring? It will never be less She had talked to her beforehand.
But I put my thoughts on my father aside for a while. Focus on the current situation.
“It’s not all over yet! Don’t stop, everyone retreat!”
My friends and I joined in.
The current battlefield was overwhelmingly unfavorable to the Demon King’s army and his party.
In the midst of storms and floods.
And that storm is not of nature.
An artificial disaster created by the highest-ranking Demon Beast that created the Empire-class nest.
So even the rain that was falling now was heavily mixed with magical energy.
Of course, demon power leaves fatal damage to the demons as well.
At my cry, the knights who had kneeled at me stood up at once.
They seemed to have a lot of things they wanted to ask me.
Once they followed me. Looking at his movements and eyes, he was not an ordinary knight.
‘They are elite. They are probably special knights among the Royal Knights.’
If so, their sacrifices must be reduced.
‘But if it’s like this, I’m in trouble too.’
Although I have reached the state of the midnight sun. Can’t stop the rain falling
‘No. I can do something similar.’
The advantage that demon beasts have through the rain and flood right now. There is a way to temporarily disable it and rescue those Royal Knights.
I looked back at my companions.
“Looks like it’s time for the four of you to cooperate. Lucia follows me and finishes killing the Witchbeast. Eirin and Cecilia can save those Demon Knights. Think of the best water route.”
The two of them immediately understood what I was saying.
“Are you saying that you will artificially control the flood?”
I nodded. And looked at the other two.
“If it’s Chloe and Rosette. Maybe we can create artificial structures to change the flow of water. Then please! Let’s move, Lucia!”
Their bodies moved quickly.
And also my lovers were very good.
Although no specific instructions were given. No, it was a fairly unreasonable instruction.
They immediately understood what I meant.
‘Eirin and Cecilia immediately came up with the best waterway.’
Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo-
At the same time, the Demon Knights shouted.
“Ta, the ground is suddenly rising!”
“The water is changing!”
And Chloe and Rosette. Alchemy and magic created a new structure on the ground as Cecilia instructed.
Land that rises from the ground. And ice magic that makes the land solid.
The structure was attacking the knights. The flow of the flooded river changed all at once.
Then, the elven knight who seemed to be the commander urgently gave instructions.
“To retreat! A retreat is being made! Cold Shield! Unit members, move along the retreat route in unison!”
The knights moved.
Shasasa Sasak-
And instead of the knights whose stamina was already exhausted.
Lucia and I hurriedly dealt with the Witchbeasts pursuing them.
Thus, a brief retreat ensued.
“Ha… Ha… Ha… “
And when I got out of that hellish battlefield safely and with minimal losses.
Towards me, those knights rushed all at once.
And they got down on one knee to me once more.
“You great lord! Your Majesty saved our lives once again!”
Perhaps they still thought of me as my father.
I was greeted by them once.
And an elf knight standing in front of me on behalf of the knights. I stood face to face with him, who seemed to be the unit commander.
“You are misunderstanding. I am not His Majesty Lucifer.”
At those words, the expressions of the unit commander and the demon knights hardened all at once.
“Your majesty? It can’t be! To save us like this… To come back from a long secluded life… “
I shook my head. And said
“My name is Julian von Reinhardt. He is the heir to the Margrave of Essenmund and the Earl of the Marshal Harsen. I am not the master of that cold heart.”
All of them put on dejected faces.
“No, that is nonsense. No matter how you look at it, Lucifer is dead… How… Could he be the successor of that lion grand duke!”
And I answered that.
“But I have another identity. I am the real son of Her Majesty Lucifer.”
At those words, all the knights turned into astonished expressions.
