Chapter 163 – The Last Fight
The emperor’s office is still there.
Surprisingly simple for an emperor’s residence, it was a home for a world-weary artist or a rich old man to recuperate.
The only thing that has changed is that the surrounding landscape, which used to be a beautiful garden, has been transformed into a barren field.
The moment the princess, Eleanor, ‘Dancing with the Wolves’ and the four Rudys reached the place, metal sounds rang out from all directions.
Dozens of heavy equipment used for building construction seemed to rumble.
Feeling that the ground itself was shaking somehow, the princess looked around and started her vigilance.
“Something feels strong… When did you ever hear this feeling?”
“Princess, be careful. The ground is opening up. And it’s definitely not a good feeling.”
“You, Elroy?”
“Don’t you remember? You’ve felt this way before at the Seoul ruins. You were seriously injured then.”
“…I guess that’s it. It must have made me feel bad.”
When the shaking of the earth came to an end, a great change occurred near the emperor’s office.
A huge hole began to open in the ground like a bottle cap being opened.
I don’t know how the device works, but the purpose seems to be to bring out something stored underground.
And that something was the feeling of the princess and Eleanor.
“The imperial people strictly forbade the study of ancient civilizations, and they set up a very junk shop under their feet. He’s a great emperor.”
“…Princess. What are those things? They look like humans, but they don’t feel like humans at all.”
“It’s a murder weapon left by ancient civilizations. It builds barriers and shoots machine guns. You can think of it as a robot from a movie.”
“There really was such a thing? That’s awesome.”
‘Dancing with wolves’ shook her head, and the princess commanded Rudy.
“Rudy, build a barrier around you. Make it as hard as possible.”
“Yes! But I can’t make it as strong as Eunseo unnie’s, but it won’t last long.”
“Just in case, it only takes a little while.”
“All right!”
What appeared was a lump of iron in the shape of a human.
It is similar to what I saw at the Seoul ruins.
It was a mechanical device that elaborately imitated a human being.
Twenty machines were as beautiful as dolls, but each looked unnaturally similar, and somehow I felt a strange revulsion.
Among them, a machine in the shape of a young woman licked her lips and let out a mechanical sound.
[Detect danger. Found four uncontained beast disease carriers. As a result of radio wave measurement, it was found to be a first-class risk factor. Disinfection treatment begins immediately after isolation. Citizens, please evacuate within one minute. Disinfection is extremely dangerous. Safety within a radius of 200 m cannot be guaranteed once work has begun. In case of injury or death while working, our company cannot handle insurance, and we will not be held legally responsible […
“Does he talk? The guy I saw at the Seoul ruins didn’t say anything.”
“It’s been neglected for over a thousand years, so it must have malfunctioned. On the other hand, they seem to have been pretty carefully maintained. They look like new.”
“I’m glad I completely destroyed the one I saw before. Otherwise, I’d have another enemy.”
At the words of the princess who spoke calmly, Eleanor remembered the image of him being shot through the stomach.
She pursed her lips and took a step forward.
“…It won’t be like that time. I’ll blow them all away with the power you gave me. I won’t let any of them touch you…”
-Boom!!
Eleonol raised his mana and struck him with a thunderbolt before a loud noise rang out in his ears.
It was the shooting of ‘Dances with Wolves’.
When the single-action revolver, which she boasted of to the princess, spewed fire, a machine that had been in standby was shocked and shattered.
In terms of a human being, he was pierced between the eyebrows and fell backwards.
[… Magic power@#$$ barrier penetrated@#$$! Damage@#$ also exceeds 36%@#!$!#$ Self@##@ cannot be repaired]
[Critical damage has been done to aircraft number K2I4H5N. Please stop hostilities immediately. If you do not comply with the quarantine measures, a sapsaree will be issued without warning in accordance with Article 14, Paragraph 2 of the Beast Disease Prevention Rules. In that case, these aircraft have the right to arbitrarily disregard all rights of citizens who are considered to be quarantined.]
Looking down at the crackling machine with sparks, I pulled down my hat for ‘dancing with wolves’.
She turned to her Eleanor.
“Earl Greypoint, you agreed to use your powers on the emperor. You are the most important striker along with the princess. Don’t waste your power on these small puppets.”
“That’s right, Elroy. If the emperor shuts himself away while defending himself with magic, I’ll be in trouble too. I need your strength.”
“…That’s right. I almost lost my cool for a moment. Thanks to you, I came to my senses.”
‘Dancing with the wolves’ behind Eleanor, who quietly nodded, drew her pistol with both hands.
“…Princess, you told me. The true enemy of westerns is not the leadern. You will take me to fight the real enemy.”
“Did I?”
‘Dances with Wolves’ sent words of infinite trust to the princess, who was pretending.
“I stand by the backs of those who defend the people of the Empire. It is the greatest honor for me to draw a gun in a fight like this. You have kept your promise. So I must live up to your expectations.”
“Limit your expectations…”
“Your opponents aren’t machines like this. The scene where the main character is active is the best scene in a movie.”
“Leave you here? Are you okay?”
-Boom!!
Instead of answering ‘dance with wolves’, he fired another bullet to confirm and kill the downed aircraft.
As a non-human machine, the creature did not completely cease functioning even with its head pierced.
The second round fired cleanly through the barriers created by the machines, completely shattering the steel body.
It was the effect of the strengthening magic that ‘Dancing with Wolves’ received.
Although she herself does not become stronger, an effect that makes her gun’s firepower dramatically stronger.
It is a magic that is perfect for the gunman ‘Dancing with Wolves’.
– Took!
The shattered portion of the lower jaw rolled across the ground to stop in front of them.
The bare-bones jaw stuttered and then completely stopped moving.
[User %#, if you want $%, say the command@##@@$. I@$$ is your friendly voice assistant, Smalls!#@#B@#. If you want to specify a command @#$, say ‘Hi, Smalls@#!B’ @#%… Jikjik]
“Go quickly! The one-minute waiting time they said will be over soon. No, I don’t know if they’ll move right now.”
“Okay. Then, Rudy, you stay and help Wolf Dancer. I’ll free all of your spirits during this fight.”
“Yes, knight! I will do that.”
When the princess ordered, ‘Dancing with the Wolves’ protested.
“Princess! It’s your side that’s important. Your side needs a little more power, so you have to take Rudy!”
“It’s dangerous, so I couldn’t bring your horse. Rudy will supplement your mobility. Wouldn’t it be cool to be a gunman? No objection.”
“…”
Even though she said that, there was no way she didn’t know that the princess was worried about her safety.
Even if you have powerful attack power, it is difficult to guarantee victory against dozens of machines with unknown functions at the same time.
In that respect, it would be a much more stable battle if she teamed up with Rudy who would make up for her lack of mobility.
It wasn’t for nothing that the Imperial Army’s formation had at least three basic units.
‘Above all, who can stop that stubbornness?’
When the princess is determined, it is impossible for anyone to change her opinion.
‘Dances with Wolves’ was well aware of that fact through experience.
“…Do whatever you feel like.”
“Okay, don’t worry and wait a minute. I’ll finish it soon and come back.”
The soft-spoken princess kicked the ground with Eleanor.
As soon as they ran very fast and entered the emperor’s office, the machines started operating with their eyes shining all at once.
The limbs of the machines transformed into terrifying weapons with the low, subtle sound of motors running.
[Continued hostilities are detected. Judged to be refusing to comply with quarantine measures. These 19 aircraft in that location will start disinfection immediately.]
‘Dancing with the Wolves’ standing behind Rudy didn’t say anything.
Because there was nothing to answer the machine.
-Kiririk!
She crossed her hands and drew the thrust of her pistol.
Finish time is noon.
They started a 19-2 duel.
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The emperor’s office building was also a structure that was deformed like the floor outside.
The inside of the house had turned into an empty warehouse.
When I opened the door, I saw an elevator and stairs going down to the basement.
The Emperor seemed to be locked in an underground air-raid shelter-like space.
“Elevators are rather dangerous in this situation. Let’s go down the stairs.”
“There doesn’t seem to be any trap. What are you thinking? Did you lose your mind?”
“Princess, such carelessness…”
“I’m kidding.”
“…”
While Eleonor hesitated, the princess led the way down the stairs.
It was only about fifty steps.
It is the depth of the 1st or 2nd floor of the basement at best.
Walking down the stairs, they found a wide space like a plaza waiting for them.
With the emperor.
A green-haired woman stands with a sullen expression next to a hunk of metal larger than her own.
The princess opened her mouth first.
“Hi.”
“…”
“I wanted to meet at least once after I found out that there are other people besides me who deal with miasma. It was just interesting to say the least.
“Hmph! Shut up, you vulgar thing!”
The emperor didn’t seem to have any intention of saying goodbye.
She snorted her snort and began to speak.
“Incompetent bastards. I clearly ordered not to let intruders into the palace… But you can’t even spend your life to buy time properly!”
“Your men worked hard. My girls must be competent. …So you gave up on them all? Because you couldn’t stop me from coming?”
“You gave up? You must have misunderstood something. You guys were defeated. Didn’t you see this?”
The emperor pointed to the streamlined lump of metal he was leaning on.
Sunfish made of iron. It looks like an over-starved sunfish.
Where did you see that shape?
After thinking for a while, the princess immediately remembered her answer.
It is an object that often appears in the war movie genre among the movies of ancient civilization.
It is very similar to weapons called missiles and nuclear warheads.
“Isn’t that a bomb?”
“It’s a terrible thing that drove an ancient civilization to extinction… When I miraculously found it in a ruin, even I shuddered.”
A bomb that drove an ancient civilization to extinction.
Gongju-in recalled what the King of Parryun had been eagerly explaining.
An ancient civilization driven to the brink of destruction by beast disease caused a war to monopolize the few remaining resources, and destroyed itself with a ‘bomb splitting the continent and boiling the sea’.
To be honest, I didn’t listen, so I couldn’t remember the details.
“It will have a completely different power than the bombs you know. It is a Stone Age class bomb that uses a hydrogen bomb as a detonator to cause an explosion. True to its name, it returns civilization to the Stone Age, and its firepower is a whopping 2 million megatons of TNT.. .”
“Yes, I understand. The bottom line is let’s explode it and die together, right? You and Gray will be resurrected.”
“Listen to what others have to say, you rude bastard! …But you’re right. You got it right.”
“If it explodes, all the inhabitants of the ecliptic will die.”
“I guess so… So what’s that like?”
Even if half of the humans die, the human species itself will live on.
There are many people to rule.
And if the resurrected emperor puts the blame for the explosion on the princesses and the others, they will naively believe it.
To be born and die with unchanging loyalty to the emperor forever.
For a creature called human, that is enough.
The emperor grinned.
There were only three minutes left before the explosion.
The downside of the Stone Age bomb is that it takes at least 10 minutes because there are so many procedures to go through to explode with so much power.
There were no big problems though.
This is because the Stone Age bomb was modified so that it could only be controlled by the emperor’s miasma.
‘Even if you try to break the bomb by applying a shock from the outside, it will only accelerate the time of the explosion. If that happens, the power will be incomparably weaker, so I won’t shock you on purpose…’
“It’s two minutes! Princess, in two minutes everyone will be dead! You and your girls!”
“…”
“Of course you will use that magic. That magic that twists the axis of time and reverses cause and effect. But don’t forget. I, only I, can sense that magic! And if you guess when you turned back time, today You can prepare for the surprise of the .”
“It would be if I used that magic.”
“In the twisted flow of time, only you and I will share the same time.
“…”
“It’s a good idea to attack me. No matter how broken my body is, no matter how many times you kill me. I’ll keep reviving here. Only me…”
“Can you deal with me?”
Suddenly, the princess speaks in a cold voice.
It was a cold voice.
The emperor was taken aback.
It was because of the emotion in his voice.
In this situation, it would be normal to react to despair or anger.
But the princess was different.
He was showing feelings of disappointment, not despair or anger.
Is it just an illusion?
“Of course. The only thing that can stop a miasma user is the same miasma user. Don’t you know that well?”
“Ha.”
“What is it? What was that sigh?”
When the princess suddenly sighed, the emperor as well as Eleonol looked at him with absurd eyes.
He spoke to Eleanor, not paying attention to the gaze directed at him.
“Elroy, do your thing.”
“What about the bomb?”
“I told you. You don’t have to go back to the past. I’ll take care of that, so don’t worry about it.”
“If you say so… I get it.”
Eleonol followed the princess’s words without hesitation.
The emperor could not help but fall into confusion.
‘A person who doesn’t have to go back to the past?’
According to her words, the princess wouldn’t use the magic of returning to the past.
The time of the explosion is now on the alert, so what can he do?
‘No, more than that…’
He brought Eleonol here because he had something to do, I didn’t know what he was talking about.
Although she is a mighty strategic wizard, she is only a human.
She doesn’t have 10 million mana, and she can’t control her miasma.
Eleanor cannot lay a finger on the emperor.
That is a clear fact.
But…
“Listen to me!”
Cried Eleonor Greypoint.
“I am the spokesman of the righteous, he who strikes down the wicked. He who gathers ten desires and wields a hundred might! If my voice reaches you, break your chains and rise up and stab the tyrant, strike the mace at unjust contracts! With great will Fight evil and regain your freedom!!”
Eleonol raises his arms towards the sky.
Originally, natural disasters such as thunderbolts and storms were feared by humans and regarded as divine punishment.
It is proof that lightning can be found in the myths of any civilization by the power of God.
Eleonol’s magic is the ability to manipulate mana by uniting human minds.
It was similar to the shamans and priests of ancient religions, who exercised authority by tying human origins, fears, and hopes together.
There is no better talent than Eleonor to lead and unite the hearts of millions.
And it was that sensitivity that she was strengthened by her princess.
It touches people’s unconsciousness, captures their hearts with a shining figure, and guides the people to the right path.
To free those held captive by the tyrant.
The moment Eleo Nol squeezed all of her own magic, the black tattoos all at once glowed and disappeared from her body.
