Return， Control， and Eat 165

Chapter 165 – The Last Fight

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Gray’s attack arrives.
You could twist your body to let it pass, but if you did, the armor would be completely shattered.

The King of Akmun Parryun took the attack with both arms and deflected it.
It was just a change of direction, but the forearm bones in both arms were broken and the intestines screamed from the tremendous impact.

“…!”

The King of Fair Wheels, who spat out dark red blood, distanced himself from Gray.

Broken bones and bruised guts regenerated in seconds.
I don’t know how many years it’s been since I’ve been hurt from the front.

A person who has both defensive power that makes it impossible to attack even if mana is amplified with strengthening magic, and offensive power that even the King of Fair Wheels has a hard time letting go of.
Continuing close combat is tantamount to committing suicide.
If it weren’t for her, the most powerful warrior on earth, she wouldn’t have been able to hold on until now.

Of course, you couldn’t fall too far to increase the distance.
If he did, Gray would be able to turn him around and return to the Emperor.

It took time, a little more time.

“There is no invincible warrior in this world. The same is true of Gray. Even after continuing to attack for a certain period of time, his spirit falters for a few breaths. It is said that he has strengthened his body with miasma, but he is too weak to take in the magic power of a million people. The inability to use one’s unique magic, teleportation, must also be a side effect.”
“What are you doing, King of Fair Wheels? Am I easy enough to not have to focus all my attention on the battle?”
“Even if it looks like this, I’m concentrating.”
“Then, first of all, it would be better to let go of the attachment to the armor. What are you doing to get hurt while protecting the armor?”
“This is Jim’s special prize. Is there something wrong?”
“…Yes, I remember. The armor your father wore. Is it so precious?

Gray began to approach.
He seemed quite impatient, as if he wanted to return to the emperor as soon as possible.
This is because the King of Fair Wheels evaded numerous attacks and endured tenaciously.
Gray was an opponent whose magic power was dozens of times greater than hers, but she did it with her seasoned combat experience and bestial instincts.

But even that soon reaches its limit.
If more time passes without any special method, the body side may be broken.

Overwhelming the enemy with unparalleled mighty power is a tactic favored by the King of Fair Wheels.
He never dreamed that the day would come when he would be overwhelmed by his power.

When life is in danger, the heart of a warrior, not a king, begins to beat.
The moment when the King of Fair Wheels, driven into a corner, laughed wildly like a beast inside the helmet.

“…Ugh?!”

Gray staggered over him.

“You finally made it. I really thought I was going to die.”

The King of Fair Wheels shines in his eyes.
It has finally achieved its purpose.
Until the moment when the source of Gray’s infinite power is cut off.

They succeeded in holding out until the moment when Eleonol cut off the emperor’s backup.

“What is it? This is…”
“You look bewildered.”

Gray was very upset.
His mana, which flowed like a huge waterfall, had noticeably diminished.
There must have been a problem with the emperor’s backup.

Undermining the emperor’s control over the people?
Insulting 500 years of history?
It was incredible.

But the reality is grim.
The well, which had been pumped to its fullest, began to show the bottom.
The power that seemed infinite was reduced to less than half in an instant.

‘Among a million to about 400,000 people.’

The King of Fair Wheels quickly analyzed his strength.

“How is that, King of Fair Wheels? I am still dozens of times stronger than you. Nothing has changed!”
“It’s completely different. Until now, the attacks didn’t work at all, so there was no chance of winning. But at this point, somehow, if I raise all my strength and stab your weak points, I think I might be able to hurt you.”
“It looks like it could hurt you? That’s not a chance!”
“That’s not true, Grey. What was not even a chance in ten thousand is a chance, even if it’s only one in a hundred. That’s enough for me.”

After speaking, the King of Fair Wheels smiles.
A beautiful smile that was revealed after completely throwing off the half-shattered helmet.
Seeing this, Gray felt his whole body go cold.

‘How can I laugh in a situation like this?’

Even if you recover quickly, you cannot easily tolerate the pain of broken bones and ruptured blood vessels.
Besides, it’s still downright hopeless.
I would have expected a dusty face distorted by despair and pain.

Gray remembered the King of Fairies’ father, whom he had seen decades ago.

His powers were as far apart as Gray’s and heaven and earth.
Even so, he succeeded in assassinating Gray and the emperor with his incredible power.

Even if it was accomplished by surprise, he did what he thought would be absolutely impossible.

At that time, he too had the same expression as the King of Wheels.
Like a beast with its fangs exposed.
Defeat the formidable enemy and win the victory.
The smile of a true warrior.

‘Dangerous. It would be better not to approach him easily.’

The reduced magic attribute was not the only downside.
As the burden on his body was further reduced, he could afford to use Gray’s inherent magic to some extent.

Teleport.
Magic that creates a portal and transfers people or objects to a desired location.
Of course, it is also possible to send the enemy flying to another location.

Although it has shrunk, it still has enough magic attribute.
It is impossible for anyone other than Gray to break through the King of Wheels’ transcendent magical resistance and cast magic directly.

“This?”
“I’ll send you on a trip to the other side of the world. By the time you return, everything will be over.”

As Gray clenched her fists and turned to the King of Fairies, the space shuddered and the next moment her figure disappeared.
She flew away to the other side of space.

I didn’t want to use this kind of trick because it left a huge variable called the king of charades, but it was inevitable.

Let’s think about the latter later, and now let’s go back to the emperor.
The moment Gray decided to turn her body around.

– Damn it! Wow Jangchang!

There was the sound of something breaking, like a window glass breaking.
A hole is pierced in the air with a sharp punch.

It wasn’t a neat aisle like Gray had made it.
Jagged edges peeked out as if beaten with her fist.

The view beyond the slightly peeked aisle was bleak.
It is broad daylight now, but it seems like a night sky.

‘Could it be on the other side of the globe? If that’s the case, then I can’t believe he did something like this…!’

“The King of Fair Wheels! Is it your fault!”
“I never stop until it’s all over.”

The one who appeared in the crack was, of course, the King of Fair Wheels.

“It’s just as written in my father’s journal. After using your magic, the space becomes unstable temporarily. I thought that if I attacked that place with strong power, I could use your magic against you.”
“It’s a strong force…”

If so, she came back after smashing the space.
It was amazing.
The words are simple, but who would think of such a thing and put it into practice?

The king of charades glared at his gray and tightly clenched his fists.

“I am the strongest and never shaken.”

It was the first chant the King of Parryun uttered in his life.
A chant is a self-suggestion for pouring out all one’s strength.
Her incantation was only one word because she was confident in her own absolute strength and victory.

She raised her strength with all her might.
As she gathered all of her mana and even the miasma borrowed from her princess, her right arm glowed with black aura.

– I’m going to go to the middle of the day!!

It was just the gathering of mana, but strangely, a sharp metallic sound rang out.

That thing was even more terrifying.
It felt like facing a rolling tsunami.

Gray immediately created a portal to avoid her body.

One layer is not enough.
Interrupt the pursuit by moving to another place immediately after the movement is over.
The flurry of flight was caused by Gray’s survival instinct.

I am sure that the author’s blow will reach the nape of his neck.
That certainty terrified him.

Gray disappeared in the blink of an eye.

However, the King of Fair Wheels was not shaken and shot out to the place where he was.
And he threw out his fist with all his might.

-Changgang!

-Changgang! Cheng Kang!

As the King of Fair Wheels shot out like a meteor leaving a black tail, the sound of the cracked space being destroyed rang out one after another.
Like dominoes made of glass falling all at once.

The places where Gray fled beyond space were all unfamiliar places.
Probably not inside the Empire or the Kingdom of Ratel.

In the fragments of the collapsing space, the King of Fair Wheels saw burning sand mountains, surging seawater, dense jungles and seething magma.
They crossed deserts and seas, crossed forests and underground, and even passed through empty and cold outer space.

And go beyond all of that.
Finally, the King of Fair Wheels caught up with Gray.

“Grey! I can’t run away from your sins any longer!”
“Keugh!”

Even though I had been to so many places, the final destination was close to where I was originally.
The place where ‘Dances with Wolves’ and Rudy are struggling with machines.
In other words, it was right in front of where the emperor was.
Is it Gray’s last will to return to the Emperor?

The King of Fair Wheels attacked along with the fragments of the space he had smashed.
As she said, she couldn’t run away any longer.
Beautifully shining shards like shards of glass flew, and between them, the two most powerful warriors on the ground faced each other.

When she reaches out to attack, Gray blocks it.
Gray’s counterattack is also stopped by the power of a desperate sacrifice that doesn’t care about the body.

Temporary stalemate, a state of power struggle holding each other’s hands.
It was the first defensive posture Gray showed, who had not even taken motion from any attack until now.

Gray broke out into a cold sweat for a moment, but he soon calmly grasped the current situation.
He’s been pushed back by the momentum, but that doesn’t mean things have changed.
He still possessed magic power dozens of times that of the enemy.

The King of Wheels is doing everything in his power to block Gray’s movement.
On the other hand, Gray still had some leeway.

If time continues like this, the first person to do their best will be the King of Fair Wheels.

“Is this what you were hoping for, King of Fairlords! How long do you think this stalemate will last? Do you think you can defeat me by force!”

But the moment he saw the sky-blue eyes of the King of Fair Wheels, he felt it.
Death to come.

“You’ve already lost, Grey.”
“…What?”
“Didn’t I tell you at the beginning? Jim is a familyFieldHe said he came here to avenge his enemies.”

The moment the brief declaration of victory fell.
Gray opened his eyes wide.

Inside the armor of the King of Fair Wheels, something protruded from a small space that could probably hold weapons.
Black hair and black eyes.
She was a woman with fluffy ears and a tail.

It’s kang jiah

‘Unbelievable. The space distortion magic inside the armor…’

Gray’s face contorted.

The image of the king of charades sacrificing even her own body to protect her armor and the scene she muttered as if relaying the situation outside flashed through her mind.
All the behaviors of the King of Fair Wheels, which were considered strange, were for the sake of the assassin in his pocket.

Kang Ji-ah raised her dagger, the size of her palm, high.
Now that both of her hands were seized by the Immortal King, Gray’s chest was defenseless.
She hadn’t even thought in her dreams that an assassin would spring out of her armor.
She was unable to dodge or defend against her attacks.

‘But what does this mean? No one like Jiah Kang can pierce my defense. Even if a miracle happens and I die, I will be resurrected soon anyway. Is this just your plan?’

“It’s insignificant, Kang Ji-ah! You are no threat to me!”

It’s about her dagger attack. If she receives it with her body, and Jia Kang ignores it and waits until the power of King Parryun runs out, she is victorious.
She was sincere though she expected so.

-Hook!

“Gagging!”

The moment Kang Ji-ah struck her dagger down, everything she expected was wrong.
Her swung dagger easily tore through Gray’s skin.

“Oh, uh…”

A chilling blade pierced her flesh and bone, stabbing deep into her chest.
Moreover, this aura that dwells in the blackened blade…

“Do, Dokki… Kang Ji-ah, how can you be like that?”
“Will you understand the effect of strengthening magic? You’ve gone one step further from sensing and feeling miasma, and you’ve reached the level of dealing with miasma. Of course, as the master said, ‘one page’ is the limit.”
“Such nonsense…! A mere human like you, who is not even a warrior of fate, wields miasma…”
“Shut up.”

Kang Ji-ah poured the miasma from her dagger into her gray body.

“Ahhh…!”
“It’s not me who’s killing you, it’s my older brother. My older brother, who saved me that day when you massacred my family and made me what I am today. You are not a destined being, but die by the will left by an ordinary child.”
“Unbelievable…”
“You wouldn’t even think I existed until you saw it. You forgot. The last person you killed left behind. Me, who said he would kill you and avenge your family. I hate that guy pretending to be a victim too. Now shut up. Don’t say a word and die slowly. By the time you are completely dead, there will be no more emperors.”

The miasma, delicately controlled by Kang Ji-ah, permeated her gray body.
In front of the refined miasma of the princess, the miasma and magical powers received from the emperor were of no help.

A terrifyingly neatly compressed miasma shattered Gray’s body.
It didn’t kill him instantly, but to the extent that he couldn’t move a finger any more.

I couldn’t even stand up any longer.
He let go of the hand of the King of Fair Wheels and collapsed.

A conversation between two women congratulating themselves on their victory goes through the darkness.

“You finally avenged your enemies. It was great, Kang Ji-ah.”
“It would have been an unthinkable operation if His Majesty had not persevered. Are your wounds okay?”
“Well, this is no problem. And even without you, this operation wouldn’t have been possible. You’re the only one among us able to handle the miasma directly. You can be proud of it.”
“…Will I stop having nightmares now?”

Defeated.
Even with Miasaki and the Emperor’s backup, all of that.
To two women who aren’t even warriors capable of defeating the emperor…

Although he wanted liberation through death, he did not wish for this disgrace.
What was even more miserable was that Ji-ah Kang and the King of Fair Wheels, who had defeated him, were now not paying any attention to Gray.

‘My, are you saying that I’m only that much of an existence?! Don’t ignore me on the subject of mere humans!! I killed the family of four years old. You put the father of four years into despair…! Look at me, the most powerful servant of the emperor..!!’

No matter how much I try to shout, my lips tingle and no words come out.
No thought is meaningless if it only comes and goes in your head.
As the king of charades said, the dead are silent.

Gray’s cry never reached them.

“What, now? Where did you fall from?”
“It was so shiny and pretty.”

Then ‘Dances with Wolves’ and Rudy approached them.

It seems that the two of them have defeated all the killing machines in a wonderful joint battle.

Unlike the first meeting, which was not good, the two of them got along very well.
Of course, the Rudy now is not the Rudy then.
In a fierce battle, he consumed all the miasma he received from the princess, but this was a well-deserved victory.

“You guys are all right. It’s a good thing. It’s too long to explain, go to the princess first. After all, our goal is the emperor.”
“Okay. We can talk after the talk.”

That was right.
Defeating the emperor will make it easier for the Grand Duke of Siberia, who is enduring her attacks.

Nodding their heads, they united and headed for the emperor’s office.
He didn’t forget to grab onto one of Gray’s legs and drag him along like a burden.

The battle between the princess and the emperor.
It wasn’t that I couldn’t trust the princess who was so confident like never before, but I couldn’t help but feel anxious.

You’re dealing with someone who has ruled the empire for as little as 500 years.
Of course, there was no one among them who would hesitate now.

They went forward with determination in their hearts.