Chapter 495 – 495. The Moment of Reunion (2)
Hearing the roar that shook the air, someone stiffened from the pressure, and someone trembled their hand holding the hilt so that it could be drawn at any time.
In that instant, only the nine-tailed fox began to move.
Amidst this chaos, there were only three people in total who started taking action besides the nine-tailed fox.
Riod belatedly took action at the swift movement of the nine-tailed fox charging towards Ortas, who occupied Prince Damian’s body with an angry expression.
And Eun-hyeon and Gerard, who sensed Riod’s actions, also move.
She gets in the way of a nine-tailed fox running madly by expressing her anger, and settles down to protect the royal family, who are no different from her target.
Although he heard the story of the nine-tailed fox and his first king, Ortas, he is the leader of the Artia Knights in the Kingdom of Pernias, and his role in this expedition is to guard the royal family.
Lyod had to do his part.
She immediately drew the sword from her waist and tried to block the nine-tailed fox’s charge, but what he faced was his old colleagues who appeared like illusions using Lee Hyung-hwan’s stomach.
Seeing Eunhyeon and Gerard approaching faster than the nine-tailed fox and blocking him, Riod hesitated for a moment.
In a very brief moment when his determination for the mission assigned to him was shaken, Leo and Eun-hyeon met each other’s eyes.
“…”
Eunhyeon shook his head as he saw Rio de blocking their way.
Even though they didn’t talk to each other, Eun-hyeon’s glances and actions meant ‘don’t block it’, and she fell into more trouble.
After thinking with his eyes closed, Riod relaxed his grip on the handle of the sword he wore around his waist.
In his own mission and Eun-hyeon’s words, he decided to trust Eun-hyeon.
There was always a reason and a cause for his plans and actions, and he decided to believe in his thoughts that led to the situation without being considerate of himself.
As she removed her hand from the handle of the sword, Eun-hyeon replied with a bitter smile of sorry and thankfulness, and immediately looked back.
Eun-hyeon, who met eyes with the nine-tailed fox, who was expressing his anger, pointed with his chin at Prince Damian, who was behind Riod.
What it means is very simple.
‘Let’s go.’
‘… A sly fellow.’
The nine-tailed fox finished his brief thoughts about Eun-hyeon and jumped vigorously by putting strength into his legs.
Together with Eunhyeon and Gerard, he jumps over Riod, draws a parabola, lands, and runs again.
“No, stop it!”
A knight of Artia came to his senses belatedly and hurriedly drew his sword from his waist and shouted.
Under the pressure of the energy flowing from the body of the nine-tailed fox, which was galloping at a terrifying speed, the knights drew their swords at once and formed a camp to protect Prince Damian as well as the surrounding royal family.
“Stop!”
Despite the knight’s cry of warning, the nine-tailed fox did not stop, and the Arthia knights other than the guards swung their swords at the nine-tailed fox in unison.
“Joy!”
The nine-tailed fox snorted as if it were ridiculous and avoided all of the knights’ sword attacks.
Twisting his waist and lowering his upper body, dodging the sharp blade that just barely grazed his cheek, the nine-tailed fox, instead of slowing down, accelerated faster and overtook the knights.
What she is staring at is Prince Damian, the owner of the gaze that is still staring at her.
To be precise, it was Ortas who occupied his body.
“Shit… !”
Nagi spat out disgust at the nine-tailed fox, which continued to evade attacks and broke through the siege.
The fact that such articles were annoying was also the same with gumiho.
‘It’s annoying.’
Normally, those who would disturb him would have mercilessly pressed down and wiped them away, but this time the nine-tailed fox was unable to do so.
-Got it. Are you Miho? Never hurt them! All of the knights are Lord Riod’s precious subordinates! Especially if you hurt Eira-sister, I will never forgive you! I’m really going to get mad! It’s not just words! Okay!?
“… Tsk.”
Recalling Erin’s threats, warning her several times and making demands on her, the nine-tailed fox clicked his tongue.
It was laughable at how young, young, only 20 years old, dared to warn anyone, but I couldn’t pretend I didn’t hear Erin’s request.
Besides, it was none other than Eun-hyeon who created this situation.
‘… A sly fellow.’
The nine-tailed fox once again spoke gossip about Eunhyeon.
Eun-hyeon knew the truth about Ortas from the beginning.
-Didn’t you say that revenge isn’t all about killing and taking everything?
-Yes.
– Then, that other way of revenge that can satisfy me. Is it possible for you
-I’ll do my best to prepare a situation in which Ortas can be fed.
This is the conversation and promise he had with Eun-hyeon a long time ago, when he tried to take revenge on the kingdom of Pernias by stealing the body of a young girl.
There is a high possibility that Eunhyeon had assumed this situation from then on.
The nine-tailed fox could not have imagined that he had intended to directly take revenge on Ortas himself.
Since she was betrayed and killed by Ortas, her remains were buried in the ground, and she has spent hundreds of years as a thought body that has become a remnant of the magic that remained in the remains.
It was unknown what became of Ortas afterward, and he was thought to have died at the end of his lifespan.
The person who betrayed him is already dead, and what he left behind is none other than this country.
So, the nine-tailed fox, full of hatred, tried to turn Pernin, the capital of the Pernias kingdom, into a sea of fire when he took Erin’s body, but the attempt was foiled due to Eun-hyeon’s intervention.
Why didn’t Eun-hyeon tell her right away that Ortas took away the bodies of her children and is still living an incomplete eternal life?
Of course.
Had he known that, the nine-tailed fox would have gone on a rampage, threatening to burn down Ortas and the royal palace.
It was no different than a handshake for Eun-hyeon, who wanted to create an opportunity and a situation in the direction of minimal damage to this kingdom.
‘It’s the best.’
The gumiho smiled.
At that time, listening to Eunhyun’s words, believing in his unbelievable promise that he would provide an opportunity and a place for revenge someday, it seemed as if the time he had endured had been rewarded.
As if pouring out all the emotions he had suppressed up until now, the nine-tailed fox all at once released the mana that had been restored so far, shaking his air.
“Nice… Ugh!?”
The vicious force of magical power, which contained the emotion of anger as it was, choked the Artia Knights who were blocking the nine-tailed fox.
Leaving behind the knights of Artia, who were crushed by the magic of the nine-tailed fox, she finally closed the distance with her enemy.
“Ortas!”
Once again, the spirit of the nine-tailed fox, which let out a roar that made the air reverberate, boasted a mighty majesty that would overwhelm any comparison with any beast.
“Oh no, dear!”
In order to protect her son from the divine beast that scattered her terrifying life, Queen Diane screamed as she was caught between the nine-tailed fox and Ortas, who took over the body of Prince Damian.
However, with her normal female physical abilities, it was impossible for her to block the movements of her transcendent divine beast.
Before Queen Diane could even intervene, the nine-tailed fox took out a small marble from her bosom and thrust it into Ortas’ chest.
Ugh
The orb, which receives the magical power of the divine beast and starts to work, creates a small resonance.
“Demian!”
“…”
Queen Diane’s voice trembled violently, calling her darling and her son, with her despair in her young face, but the child did not answer her mother’s call.
Ortas, who stole his body, had his eyes only on the nine-tailed fox he had longed for in the past, but had betrayed him once.
Ortas naturally accepted the marble that the nine-tailed fox had landed on his chest.
Not knowing what it was, he didn’t resist at all, as if he had the conviction that he wouldn’t kill himself like this.
The magical energy emitted from the marbles swirled around the nine-tailed fox and Ortas, creating a small magic circle, and once the artifact started working, the two standing in the center of the magic circle disappeared without form.
Diane’s expression completely collapsed as she stared at the spot where the two disappeared in an instant.
“Ahhh… ! Damian… ! Damian!”
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Paperweight!
The nine-tailed fox and Ortas, who appeared from the sky with sparks, fell to the ground, attracted by the force of gravity.
As he plummeted down through the air, the nine-tailed fox gripped Ortas by the collar and held it firmly in place.
“Huh… !”
Fuck!
She swallowed her breath, gathered all her strength, pulled the other arm back, and punched Ortas in the face with all her might.
Then, his head snapped violently from the strong impact, and he threw his body to the floor with his hand holding Ortas’ collar.
Thud!
Although she has the appearance of an ordinary woman, the physical ability of the nine-tailed fox, which has strengthened her own body using the power of a divine beast, naturally overwhelms most knights.
As soon as she landed on the ground, the nine-tailed fox rode on top of Ortas’ body, which had been tossed and pinned to the ground, and assumed a mount position. Then, the nine-tailed fox swung his fist once again and mercilessly beat Ortas in the face.
Puck! Fuck! Fuck!
Not just one, but two, four, and eight times, her fists were covered in Ortas’ blood, and the blood splashed around stained the floor and grass.
“…”
While providing one-sided violence to the fullest, the nine-tailed fox made an expression that he did not like it and stopped the beating.
I even thought about it in my head.
‘Why don’t they fight back?’
Even with her lips parted, her teeth cracked and her face turned to paste, Ortas offered no resistance at all.
As the familiar energy that came up from the ground belatedly began to surround Ortas, the nine-tailed fox jumped backward and distanced himself from Ortas, who was lying on the ground.
“This energy…”
The nine-tailed fox, noticing the identity of the power flowing from the ground, hardened his face.
Ortas’ face, which had been turned into dough, slowly regained its original shape.
Her blood bursts and the swelling of the bruises that have been swollen red go away, and her broken teeth grow back to restore her body.
Realizing that the whole island has the power of a divine beast, like the ‘Sacred Tree of Fernias’, which buried the remains of a nine-tailed fox, where only a part of the power of the divine beast remained, and planted a tree on it to grow, the nine-tailed fox killed himself. Later, Ortas realized how he used his fox marbles.
“… You buried my fox marbles in this land.”
“That’s right.”
Ortas calmly confirmed the nine-tailed fox’s guess.
The fox orb, which now supports Ortas as a new vessel and new owner, was buried in the ruins of this island of Orbis.
The island of Orbis was created as a result of Ortas seeking a way to use the magic of the divine beast condensed in the fox marbles he took from the nine-tailed fox while minimizing the risk.
Because the human body could not handle the fox beads themselves, they made the entire island into a medium that could hold the power of the divine beast.
By burying the bodies of successive kings he had used in this place and at the same time filling his new body with the power of divine beasts, he has lived an imperfect, yet eternal life.
“Miho.”
Ortas quietly called the nine-tailed fox by name and held out his hand.
“Let’s start again.”
“… What?”
The nine-tailed fox wriggled his eyebrows and asked.
Now facing the nine-tailed fox’s face, an expression that he couldn’t believe he had heard correctly, Ortas continued.
“Beating you was an inevitable choice. We were too weak, and if I hadn’t done that, all my people for whom I was responsible would have met a miserable end.”
“…”
“I don’t know how he was able to resurrect. I am really glad that you are resurrected.”
The nine-tailed fox made an absurd expression.
It was shocking that it was none other than Ortas who was saying that.
The existence that betrayed the one who believed in him and took away the fox orb, which was nothing but everything he had accumulated over the years, was so hateful and hateful that he felt like going crazy.
“I promise I will never betray you again.”
“… I’m sure You are broken.”
From the time he betrayed himself, Ortas was broken.
Before coming here, the nine-tailed fox had been given advice like a warning from Eunhyeon at a hotel in Tiernis territory.
– It’s probably already broken. So don’t expect, don’t be disappointed, don’t get angry. Only Shinsoo will have a hard time.
At first, the nine-tailed fox, who did not know that Ortas was still alive, could not understand what Eunhyeon meant.
But now I realized what he meant.
The current Ortas has gone mad.
Eun-hyeon gave a brief warning about what a human being who lives an immortal life beyond the limit of a possible lifespan is like.
The nine-tailed fox’s head, which had been filled with boiling hatred and anger, cooled down the moment he remembered Eun-hyeon’s words and regained his composure.
“Are you done talking?”
“…”
The nine-tailed fox expressed his intention to Ortas, who stared blankly at him without answering.
He clenched his right fist and raised it so that the back of his hand could be seen, and smiled at Ortas, pointing only at his middle finger.
Presenting the now-disappeared “Earth-style curse,” The nine-tailed fox responded to Ortas’ invitation.
“Eat shit. You son of a bitch.”
