Kill the Queen 91

Chapter 91 - 9. Hyacinth (1)

Bernhard Brühllin, the shadow hidden in the city called glory.


Iron-blooded The flesh point is also like that. It is not a waste to say that this place, where dozens of people die every second, is literally a public hell. Guns, knives, fists, magic and alchemy are all jumbled together, creating a mess.


That's how the underground gambling hall, where the sun doesn't shine, was reborn as a battlefield.


Thump, thump, thump!


My heart was beating wildly. It was the pulse he always felt in a life-or-death fight. Just as I had heard earlier when discussing the plan with Adele, Gisele Schneider's blood magic was a power that could not be ignored in terms of shape and majesty.


Charleureuk!


The form of dark red magic took a physical form like scales. Soon, the layers interlocked and were reborn as hands that did not know whether they were beasts or monsters. As it is, it fuses with Gisele Schneider's shoulder blade and becomes something that transcends the physical body.


Her blood magic, her kingdom's long-standing ban on expressing her blood as her vehicle, was thus creating a synergistic effect between her vampire and her.


The characteristics of vampires in this world are immortality and longevity. And as far as I know, Gisele Schneider was Bernhard's last pureblood vampire.


She gains permanence in exchange for drinking the blood of others. It was a gimmick that disappeared with bats or blood fog, compared to that, it was ridiculous.


Wedge liquid!


The conversation is cold. Even lightly scratching the air would be powerful enough, but the ensuing magical energy cutting through space is truly terrifying.


"Why are you looking like that?"


I thought that a group of wizards would be vulnerable in close combat, as is usually the case. However, Giselle was a more versatile battle mage than I thought.


"Seo Jeong-woo!"


She jumped on top of her hold'em table and rushed toward her arms. Lowering her stance like that, she unleashed a devastating wave of attacks.


Wedge, Wedge, Wedge!


Hard metal and dense wood were cut away like chunks of meat. Even though it cut through the air, it had such a tremendous cutting power that it left scratches on the floor.


A blow is a fatal blow!


But in this melee, even stepping back was a gamble. On such a tangled battlefield, I never knew when a blind bullet would pierce me.


"Where did the high-spirited figure go!"


I couldn't help but be afraid. But she couldn't even run away. Because there was so much involved in this fight.


I had to promise.


...... The dark past will end here today!


"Hurry up and try to knock me down!"


She sighed and cast her spell again. She made the quiescent flames soar once more with fear, and fired back, scattering them with her arms.


Roaring, boom!


An explosion erupted from the tip of her clenched fist. Dozens of sparks flew and burned hotly.


"Come on, good!"


After that, I, who took over the government, moved on. I competed with her, who was attacking one after another with the momentum of tearing her blades apart, and our hot flames and black-red mana collided, devouring each other as if wiping them away.


Bang, kwa-gwang, kwa-gwa-gwang!


The form of magical power follows its essence. Although I once accepted the forbidden, I was not an idiot who sympathized with the sin inherent in it. I have always adhered to the belief that I will not trade life under any circumstances.


"You're clumsy, male prostitute!"


Giselle, on the other hand, was my antipode.


"Did you think you could defeat me just like this!"


The magic she handles is blood magic, which has been forbidden for a long time in the Kingdom of Bernhard. According to Adele, she was an immoral person whom even in those days she had been neglected. Giselle, who committed such a sin, accepted it as a grudge that united at the end of her fall.


"Anyone who is weak!"


Naturally, my pure strength and her cunning strength are at odds.


"They will only be exploited until they fall!"


Instead of using mana that was easy to control, I was able to produce just that much honest power. It was her suicidal act to go head-to-head with a woman who could show her stalwart strength instead of her irrepressibility.


"It doesn't seem to matter what happens to those two years you cherished?"


But I still had to fight.


"...... Dare!"


I know what it takes to force. But what do you mean? As with all things in the world, the magic and the struggle that comes with it here is a mysterious law.


"How dare you touch Elizabeth!"


No matter how insignificant the odds, I will choose struggle instead of resignation and despair. I will carve out my own destiny.


"Her her, her her, and her them!"


Even if that fate is the road to ruin!


"Do you think I will be taken away by a corrupt person like you again!"


Tung! Giselle was hit by the flames she was about to stretch out her twins. It was a firepower that surprised even myself. So, I believed that the scenery I would soon see would be the end of the great leader whose whole body was burning.


"...... How dare you?"


But to my surprise, what I came across was her figure coming through the flames. After wrapping my whole body with my own magical power and protecting it like a reinforced suit, I grabbed my neck in a fiery grip and squeezed hard.


"You are the one who dares to express my grudge stained with blood and soul!"


The skin from the bottom of her chin to near her collarbone sizzled. Giselle had comparatively less power with the mana that wrapped around her, but it was all the same in terms of being burned by heat. However, as long as my past was the past, that big boss looked down on this guy called Tong-Gak even more than I did and didn't care.


"The kingdom perishes, and we take to the streets!"


Quack! More force was applied to Giselle's grip. It had the momentum to crush my neck bone at any moment.


"We said that birds that fly high fall even louder!"


"Kuh, uh...... !"


"She rolled across the street with her bare body!"


Pick! My eyesight started to turn red. The blood vessels around the eyeballs could not stand the pressure and began to burst.


"But it was good! My husband who was like everything to me, and because he was my child!"


It was painful. The heat of the flames and the grip on my neck led me to my death moment by moment.


"Even if I was pushed by the waves of the times, I wanted to live by adapting!"


I couldn't stand it any longer. I decided that it couldn't go on like this, so I decided to risk my life in a gamble that was no different from a judge's game.


"By the way, do you know what the girl who is obsessed with you did to us? Tame as a beast, not a human! They took on even the dirty work and made us slaves who were just barely getting a place!"


In my fading consciousness, I barely opened my eyes and cast a spell in my heart. Raising the mana of his whole body, he earnestly and silently cried out. I don't want to repeat the same mistakes I made in my previous life. This time, he said he must protect Elizabeth.


So, in an immediate situation, he tried an unspoken magic he had never tried before.


...... Thunderbolt, please.


...... I'll beg you


...... So answer my call!


Rumble, I heard a thunderclap somewhere. It was a loud roar that made the people who were busy killing each other stop.


However, its power was still lacking. Furthermore, some time difference also had to be calculated.


So I called more desperately. Even in the midst of the end of the breath, the veins were erected and the body was shaking. As it was, the body was put into the compressor and at one end, as if squeezed, it finally descended to the top.


Glare!


Blinding, intense light flashed in all directions. It was absolutely impossible in the basement without sunlight. Well, of course, there was no lack of lighting due to the gun barrel glowing every time a bullet was fired, or the torches scattered here and there, or the resulting fire.


However, such a dizzying brilliance was something that no one on the battlefield could carelessly create.


"...... !"


The reason is, it was a thunderbolt.


Rumble! Kwagwagwang!


Thousands of punishments descended like branches over the realm of sinful karma. No matter how solid the ceiling was, it had no choice but to collapse in front of a lightning bolt with this much physical power. I don't know how deep underground this place is, much less, but everything was useless in front of lightning pouring down like a pole.


"Get off!"


Kwakwang! One of the lightning bolts hit Giselle's essence with precision. The rest were used to help those who were at risk, following my sight and the will of my fingertips. Of course, I, who was caught by her, couldn't escape her electric shock, but fortunately, her heart was unharmed.


"Ah!"


"Giselle!"


"This bastard...... !"


Thanks to that, I was able to shake off her trembling hand. After wrapping the lightning around her hands, he even grabbed her by the neck. This time, it was my turn.


"This is it...... !"


"Kuh, geu, kyaaaaak!"


A burnt smell wafted all around. It was the smell of my and Giselle's hair, skin, and burnt blood. However, I had one secret plan after cutting off the flesh of my upper body early on.


Protection magic.


The membrane, weakly covering the exposed dermis, managed to block the threat of lightning from the heavens. She also wore her magical powers like an enhanced suit, but there was one crucial difference.


It was the composition of magical power.


My pure magic was based on intangible energy. On the other hand, Giselle's blood magic was based on a distinct substance called human blood. That is why her blood-drenched body served as an excellent conductor at this moment.


Damn it!


The magic power that interlocked in the form of solid scales began to break. At last, the armor that was comparable to the reinforced suit began to crumble. If there was an element that could decide the difference between victory and defeat in a tight battle with the big boss here, it was it.


"Are you afraid that something like this will collapse...... !"


The deaf eyes entangled me. It was an unspoken warning not to even have the slightest thought of defeating oneself just like this.


But couldn't miss it.


Due to the magic I used just before, my mana was already exhausted. I had never wielded such powerful magic before in my life. Even with the teachings of Amman Beatrix, these lightning strikes and electric shocks were clearly beyond my limits.


"So much!"


So, this was my last chance.


"I stood here after enduring such a deep humiliation!"


Soon, the lightning that struck the battlefield died down. After the paralysis was lifted, we immediately moved our bodies to subdue each other, and even to annihilate them.


"Family was more precious than anything else!"


There was a cross between reversal and reversal. It was truly an unpredictable match. But that's why I was able to turn a disadvantageous fight into something worth fighting for.


"The dignity that should have been given!"


Of course, the great leader of Saxony was not an idiot who just watched the crossroads in front of him. On the contrary, she did not get discouraged even in such a boiling situation, but boldly took a step ahead.


"Even the duty to be followed as a human being!"


It was amazing. That a woman who would not have undergone any military training made such a decision.


"I am disproving! To those who praise this cruel world, he is a being who shows what the hardships and trials of life truly are!"


Giselle threw her arms back. As it was, she collected her remaining imperfect magic power and sharply caught her off guard.


Puck, puck!


Successive regimes hit me. Again, it was a vicious attack. It was like being hit with a heavy hammer. Even though it dripped from her shoulder and even caught it with her wrist.


However, it was certainly not comparable to her power at the beginning. Just looking at the fact that it was applied in the form of pressure, not cutting force, I could have guessed enough.


Gradually, the fact that she is getting weaker.


"Blood calls for blood, and you will finally reach the end of your life...... !"


It was blood that had considerably evaporated her moisture from the preceding sparks and lightning. It was the same just because it was so sticky that it couldn't even be called blood anymore.


Not to mention she had nowhere to get new blood. It was impossible to attempt vampirism while leaving the opponent right in front of him in such an intense melee.


"You and yours all die here today!"


In the end, the war continued into the Middle Ages.


"...... Gibberish!"


There are no weapons. Her magic power is worn out or weakened. Being here is just pure struggle.


"Even if my body breaks down, I won't let them do that!"


A battle of will and will.


"So, Giselle!"


The bitterness carved into her heart and the bitterness of resentment deep into her bones.


"You will die!"


A melee battle ensued. It was a fierce battle that caused blood to splatter and skin to tear.


"Feel heavy! The fact that today is your last day!"


I was once a soldier, a man who had killed countless people without a blade. Even more so, he had the ability to take the life of a defenseless person in the blink of an eye. That's why every move I made was a possibility towards death.


"I am strong! I am the owner of this power that I finally achieved after a long period of humiliation!"


Giselle, on the other hand, was an aristocrat. He was such a gentle and quiet lady that it was hard to believe that he was so strong and evil in the past. But on the other hand, because of that, this broken woman was able to confront me with her own grudge as her motivation.


Even a handful of mana was used as a great power, like a booming firebox.


“You can't beat me!”


"No...... !"


Her fist, which had turned into that of a hideous monster, collided with mine, already tattered. She repeatedly splattered her flesh with blood she did not know whose it belonged to and exploded.


"Win."


And I declared


"Because I am strong enough to surpass you."


With a product that I don't know if it was a ruse or a coincidence.


"Because it's real enough to surpass even that Beatrix Adler!"


Flash! A ray of light shone through the dark sky. It was the vanguard that emerged after the darkness before dawn had gone and the clouds that had condensed to summon lightning dispersed. Soon, he was the first apostle of the sunlight pouring down simultaneously as if illuminating a cruel battlefield.


"This, this......."


"Boo...... !"


Everyone couldn't help but be confused. He was embarrassed and ashamed, as if he had committed a terrible sin in a place where the sky could not see even if there was light, and later found out his ugliness.


"Giselle!"


"Seo Jeong-woo!"


And even in the midst of that, Giselle and I kicked the ground with her fists in front of whoever said it first.


"Final winner...... !"


Ending with screams that no one knows whose voice it is.


"...... It is me!"


Progressed towards the end.



* * *


Every minute, every second.


With each inhalation and exhalation, more than ten people died.


It was a war after all.


So Julich Renner put aside his flirtatious personality for a while. Just as he always looked when life and faith were at stake, he and the shooters who followed me shot and neutralized the enemy in sight. I did everything in my power to injure as few as possible.


"Ensign Freger."


"Yes, Lieutenant."


"How many were injured?"


"All shooters are safe."


"We are."


Freger shut his mouth. The battlefield, which had been tangled up like this, collapsed by dozens of people while they were having a conversation like this. Less than a minute had passed since the fierce battle between the Prime Minister and the Great Leader had begun, but half of the people standing here had already fallen to the ground.


"It is unfathomable."


"Damn it, now I really have no choice but to leave it to the captain......."


Yulihi wiped his face with a miserable feeling. In the meantime, I shot those who approached us, and also shot someone who was trampling on our allies from afar.


Of course, that didn't make me feel any better.


As you can tell from the way he treated Freger, who was his elder than me, Julich was extremely serious now. That's why I felt like I wanted to throw myself into that crucible of chaos right away. So, I wanted to save as many of my colleagues as possible.


But I couldn't. The reason is because there was someone who must be protected.


"How are you, Mr. Schneider?"


Yulihi turned his head to the side and opened his mouth. In the midst of this confusion, he asked the woman who was looking at the battlefield with calm eyes with both hands airlifted.


"Can the captain win?"


"It is difficult as it is now."


Adele Schneider, the woman who could be said to be the root of all this, shook her head. He commented that, objectively, the match between the two would end in a one-sided victory for one side.


"So what now? The captain told me not to rush into battle unless the opponent does it first."


"It is not that there is no way."


Hearing those words, Julich became bright.


"What is it?"


To lose after such a great sacrifice would mean that everything he had done so far would be for naught. So he waited for the next word even while reloading and firing the gun in his hand.


Clap, Bang!


And that was when one of the nearby gunners finished reloading for the last time. As she quietly watched her time, she suddenly reached out and held out her hand. She continued by asking her to hand me the bullets in her gun for a moment.


"Do you know about yeonseongtan?"


"Isn't it like magic bullets made with alchemy?"


Julich answered instead of the shooter who handed over the bullets, confused and ignorant.


"That's right. Please select the six people with the best marksmanship."


"Rest of it?"


"You just have to keep covering it."


Before long, six gunners approached Adele. Since they knew each other's skills so well, it didn't take too long for them to be selected.


"Everyone has gathered."


"From now on, I will forge a special bullet."


Julich, Freger, Rudolph, Caspar, Matheus, Karl-Heinz and Ruprecht.


"I have the materials ready in case something like this happens. However, as the situation is urgent, it will only be 18 feet. Six of these must never miss."


"Don't worry about misfires."


"Can I trust you?"


"I will make sure not to miss a single step."


"All right. Then everyone, please hand me the extra bullets. And whatever happens next, don't panic and try to neutralize as many enemies as possible."


The six shooters looked at each other in puzzlement. I was wondering if there was anything else to be embarrassed about in this mess.


"Guys, we don't have time."


"I will do as you say."


Julich took the lead and answered.


"It would be a difficult sight to see with both eyes open. But don't get carried away by it. You must promise to do so."


Even so, Adele did not respond and threatened. For some reason, she had a determined gaze that surprised even her gunners gathered here.


"I will keep that in mind."


In the end, only after all the shooters nodded did Adele move. With the chalk she didn't know where she got it, she quickly drew a uniform figure, as if measured with a ruler on the uneven floor.


Star symmetry with five rhombuses in a large circle.


Dot to dot, but irregular harmony.


So, a bullet inside a figure that looks like a human head and eyes.


"What kind of bullet are you converting?"


Now all that was left was to activate this Yeonseongjin. And around that time, Julich, who couldn't contain his curiosity, asked, so the Saxon trainer replied in a cold voice like this.


"...... It is their nightmare."


He said, this is a nightmare.