Chapter 832 – 832. A Tyrant For You
“Imperial soldiers! Did you see it clearly? The despicable man who puts a woman forward is the lord you serve! Do you truly believe that he is qualified to stand above you!?”
The morale of the Imperial army, which was already plummeting, sank to the depths. The soldiers couldn’t flee because they were wary of the knights’ glaring eyes. However, even those knights were wavering now.
“I will say it again! Imperial soldiers, drop your weapons! Our only goal is the head of the tyrant who is ruining the Empire! Once we achieve our goal, we will immediately return to our homeland! If it is difficult to drop your weapons, then step away from the Emperor! I will give you 10 minutes! Exactly 10 minutes!”
The soldiers began to look at me. I remained silent. Some of the soldiers began to flee. A knight on horseback chased after a soldier and swung his sword, killing him.
Unable to watch any longer, Luteon shouted to the soldiers.
“Do not be swayed by the enemy’s words! The enemy’s words are nothing more than deception to divide us! Raise your weapons for His Majesty the Emperor! Do not back down for the Empire! We are honorable Imperials, and the enemies are the Twin-Winged Tribe who came down from the mountains. The enemies have invaded the Empire and reached the capital! If we are defeated, all the humans of the Empire will be violated. Will you allow your families to be violated by the invaders?! We will drive out the invaders! Do not doubt His Majesty the Emperor!”
The Grand General gave a speech to the soldiers. The power in his voice pushed back the soldiers’ fear. But that was all. The situation was still the worst. The soldiers’ morale was still low.
‘…I can’t understand it. Does Luteon really have no intention of betraying me?’
From the time I was cursed by the Great Witch until today.
I deliberately showed openings. I even pretended to be suffering from the curse and acting sickly. The nobles were hooked. From those who sent assassins to nobles who directly gathered soldiers. Because of the tax issues, the nobles were dreaming of my death.
However, Luteon did not reveal this to me. There was no sign of betrayal. As my loyal subject, he killed assassins and brought nobles who were plotting rebellion to their knees before me.
If I ordered him to massacre a village, he would lead the army and massacre the village.
If I ordered him to bring the young lady of a viscount, he would bring her without objection.
Coming this far, I had no choice but to admit it. For some reason, Luteon was truly loyal to me.
“Grand General.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Just manage the soldiers. Kill those who flee without mercy. I will deal with Harmel’s army myself.”
“…I know Your Majesty’s strength, but the enemy army is 300,000 strong. Also, Your Majesty is currently under the curse of the Great Witch.”
I let go of Raplea’s hair, which I had been holding in my hand. I slightly loosened the top of my uniform. Through the gap in the top, blackened skin could be seen. Half of my upper body was stained with the curse.
“Are you talking about this curse?”
[Activating Heavenly Heart. Lasts for 1 minute.]
The effect of Heavenly Heart is physical enhancement and immunity to status ailments. It also cancels out existing status ailments. In other words, the Great Witch’s curse that had been eating away at my body was easily lifted.
“…Your Majesty! The curse…!!”
“Grand General. Manage the soldiers. Witness my greatness with the soldiers!”
I used telekinesis on my body. My body rose into the sky according to my will.
“Stormbreaker. Hwaryeon Bido.”
I summoned two weapons. The two weapons collided with each other and became one. It was the combination ability of Stormbreaker. It had the effect of enhancing the abilities of the weapon combined with Stormbreaker.
Stormbreaker, combined with Hwaryeon Bido, disassembled and covered my body, becoming armor. Crackle, crackle. Red lightning sparked around the armor.
I stretched out my hand. Arondight flew from the ground.
“…Emperor! You…! Was the Great Witch’s curse a lie!”
“The curse was just cured. Didn’t you see it with your own eyes?”
“That’s nonsense! There’s no way the Great Witch’s curse would disappear so easily…. No, was the Great Witch’s curse never there in the first place? You despicable man. It was all an act!”
“I don’t even want to talk. Think whatever you want. You’re going to die here anyway.”
“Even if the Great Witch’s curse is gone, the situation will not change! The sky is the domain of me and my soldiers! Soldiers! The Emperor has dared to rise into our domain, so let us gladly welcome him with feathers and spears!!”
Harmel’s soldiers moved. They surrounded me, aiming their spears. 300,000 enemies were emitting murderous intent to kill only me. Their wing flaps were so powerful. I felt like I was in the center of a storm.
“You are mistaken. This is the Empire. All the land of the Empire is mine, and the sky of the Empire is also my domain. You are merely invaders. I will take the price for invading my sky with your lives.”
“You dare to covet the sky without wings! You foolish man! I can no longer tolerate your arrogant behavior! Kill the Emperor!!”
Harmel’s soldiers threw their spears at me as if they had been waiting for it.
Countless spears flew.
‘Telekinesis.’
I grabbed the flying spears with telekinesis. The spears stopped as if they were caught in mid-air. I grabbed all the spears, roughly 2,000 of them, with telekinesis.
Thousands of spears flew again. I grabbed them again. The enemies did not stop throwing spears.
I reached my limit. The spears I had grabbed with telekinesis fell weakly to the ground.
“……It’s hard with over 10,000.”
Thousands of spears struck my armor. The spears could not pierce the armor.
‘If I stay like this, the armor will eventually be pierced.’
Even if the hard steel plates of the armor blocked the spearheads, they could not completely block the shockwaves. Even if it was a shock at the level of throwing a small pebble, if it was repeated thousands or tens of thousands of times, even I would be in danger. Especially since some of the spears were loaded with aura.
‘I think I roughly know how much power the Holy Grail has. With the power of the Holy Grail alone, I can face tens of thousands of people alone. But anything more than that would be difficult. When I get back, I need to eat all the elixirs in the Imperial Palace warehouse.’
I had roughly finished grasping the power.
I used lightning.
Crackling.
Red lightning sparked on my armor. I increased the output with all my might.
Rumble!
With a thunderous sound that seemed to tear the eardrums, red lightning spread in all directions. The enemies who were electrocuted by the lightning could not even scream and fell to the ground as corpses. The number alone was over thousands.
Rumble! Crackle! Boom!
Thunder constantly erupted in the sky. Not only from my body, but red lightning fell from the sky, electrocuting and killing the enemies. Red lightning flashed incessantly.
“This crazy…. He controls lightning…? Kill the Emperor! Kill the Emperor before more of our allies die!!”
Gircong, the king of Harmel, shouted. His relaxed attitude had already disappeared.
I used the corpses of the fallen enemies as stepping stones and ran towards the enemy. Bang! A shockwave occurred, and the corpse I used as a stepping stone exploded.
There was no need to use telekinesis to fly. Now that there were enemies in the sky, they could be used as stepping stones.
I plunged into the enemy and swung Arondight. Every time I swung my sword, it was accompanied by the sound of thunder. Hundreds of enemies were cut down by the flying aura blades.
‘I have a good idea.’
I swung my sword indiscriminately. I grabbed the numerous aura blades flying towards the enemies with telekinesis.
I spun the aura blades in all directions like a mixer with telekinesis. The enemies who touched the aura blades were literally ground to pieces. Severed limbs and blood dripped down. If you looked at it from afar, there would be no better spectacle.
I killed and killed the enemies again. Every time I swung my sword, hundreds of enemies died, and when I stretched out my hand, red lightning stretched out into the sky like dry twigs.
“There are still too many.”
I spread out my left hand, which was not holding the sword.
[Activating Genius Time for 10 seconds.]
Red lightning gathered on my palm. The lightning rotated, forming a circle.
This was the second time I had used this technique. Before, I had compressed thousands of lightning bolts into this small sphere, but this time, I compressed tens of thousands of lightning bolts into the sphere.
Thunder Star.
A compressed lightning storm in my hand.
I clenched my fist and detonated the sphere.
Tens of thousands of red lightning bolts spread in all directions. The red lightning burned everything and decomposed everything. If this had fallen on a city, it would have wiped out the city without a trace.
Soon, the lightning storm passed.
Some of the enemies who had filled the sky disappeared, revealing a clear sky.
Roughly over 200,000 enemies were annihilated in one go.
“C, crazy….”
“I, is the Emperor a god….”
“K, kill the Emperor? It’s impossible…!”
“Your Majesty…!”
The enemy trembled in fear. Gircong, the king of Harmel, was also flustered and afraid. But he could not admit defeat and retreat here.
“Do not be afraid! The Emperor is exhausted! Now is the perfect opportunity! Kill him!”
I’m exhausted?
It is a little difficult. It is impossible to use Thunder Star consecutively. But it is already enough to kill the remaining guys in succession.
‘If necessary, I can use full recovery.’
Rumble!
Red lightning continued to fall on the enemy, and my sword steadily reduced the number of enemies.
In less than 10 minutes, the number of enemies had fallen below 50,000.
“Emperoooooooor!!!”
Gircong shouted and flew towards me. He must have decided to kill me directly, taking advantage of the gap in my momentum. His spear and entire body were covered in red aura. He charged towards me like a comet.
He was stronger than the former commander of the Imperial Guard, whom I had faced in the past.
Bang!
Gircong pierced my side. The armor shattered. But the spearhead did not touch my body.
“I will praise you for breaking my armor. But that’s it. You are not enough to kill me.”
“Damn it! Why did the Heavenly God give the Holy Grail to a guy like you!!”
“It was not me, but the first Emperor who received the Holy Grail from the Heavenly God. I just took the power of the Holy Grail. It was fun enough. Now die.”
Swoosh!
Gircong’s body split apart. His corpse fell to the ground.
I did not even glance at the ground and glared at the remaining enemies.
‘About 30,000, I guess….’
I had no intention of letting them live.
I flew into the sky to finish them off.
•••
I came down to the ground.
I stood upright, stepping on the blood-soaked ground. I hid my rising breath and looked at my own soldiers with indifference.
Awe-filled gazes were directed at me. They were not looking at me as a fellow human, but as a monster or a god. The soldiers and knights who witnessed this battle would not even dream of rebelling against me now.
“Your Majesty! We congratulate you on your victory!”
“We congratulate you on your victory!”
Led by Luteon, the nobles, knights, and soldiers all knelt before me.
“It is a natural victory.”
I took off my armor.
I saw Raplea, who was staring at the battlefield with a vacant look. Judging by her expression, she seemed like she was about to commit suicide.
‘If I threaten her by mentioning the queen who remains in the Kingdom of Harmel, she won’t be able to think about dying.’
I’m hungry. And I’m also horny.
“Your Majesty!”
Luteon called me in a loud voice. His attitude was different from before. It was not a voice that feared me.
“What is it?”
“Please issue a conscription order! Now is the time to punish and conquer the Kingdom of Harmel! Please leave it to me! I will conquer the Kingdom of Harmel and offer it to Your Majesty the Emperor!”
Luteon’s eyes were burning fiercely.
I finally understood.
Luteon was not loyal to me, but to the Empire. Luteon wanted a more glorious Empire, a more perfect Empire, a more magnificent Empire.
“Very well. I will issue a conscription order. The commander-in-chief of this conquest is the Grand General, you.”
“Your Majesty’s grace is boundless! I will surely show the dignity of the Empire to the entire continent!”
“Do not disappoint me.”
The king was dead, and the 300,000-strong army was annihilated, so the future of the Kingdom of Harmel was as good as decided. If it was a Grand General like Luteon, he would conquer the Kingdom of Harmel without difficulty.
I passed him, got into the palanquin, grabbed Raplea’s hair, and violated her.
