Chapter 148 – Adria Battle (9)
Adria Battle (9)
Yuno felt his feet touch the ground after falling almost three stories.
“Why is it so deep? What on earth did you hide here so tightly?”
I went downstairs and only after walking down a long passage did I see the door. Curious as to what secrets were hidden inside the door, Yuno took a deep, nervous breath and opened the door wide.
“Ugh, the smell… What is this smell?”
There was a tremendous odor in the room, but since it was a basement with the lights off, Yuno could not see anything inside even with his eyesight.
Yuno thought it must not be a trap since he could not catch anything despite activating the energy, so he used mana to ignite a piece of cloth caught nearby and threw it inside, lighting up the secret room.
“This… Is this?”
As the room lit up with light, Yuno couldn’t believe his eyes as he saw the terrible scene he was seeing from inside.
Inside the room, there were numerous corpses of children who had died horribly, along with all kinds of torture devices, strewn about, giving off a foul odor.
Most of the bodies were girls, but there were quite a few bodies of boys, and the dried tears on the children’s faces suggested that they had suffered terribly before they died.
“Heinrich!!! What has this crazy guy done!!”
As Juno looked around his room, venting his anger at Heinrich, the culprit who had created this situation, a note that seemed to have been written down on his plan caught his eye.
‘This is…’
A quick look at the note revealed that the things Henry had planned and carried out to become emperor and the names of the nobles and merchants who had cooperated with him were listed? When Juno saw him, he had to become angry once again.
‘Heinrich… Even if Brother Prinz forgives me, I will definitely kill you… Very cruelly… I will make you pay for all your sins.’
Then, Yuno’s ears heard the faint sound of a dying person breathing.
“Haa… Haa… Keueuuuuu… Are? Are? Is? Are? Are?
As soon as Yuno heard the faint moan, she immediately calmed down her anger and flew towards the place where the moan was coming from.
There, a small girl was holding her stomach, blood flowing from how many times she had been stabbed with a knife.
Although the wound was severe, not much blood came out, indicating that the bleeding had already progressed significantly. As proof of this, there was a pool of blood underneath her and a dagger covered in blood, and next to her were several children in a similar situation, breathing with their last breath. He was scratching.
‘Holy shit!! I was so close to dying that I couldn’t even feel it!!’
“Are you okay? Guys!! Come to your senses!! If you lose your mind like this, you’ll die!!”
“Ah… I need… Please… Help me…”
Yuno thought that he had to somehow save the children, so he took out all the emergency potions he had brought and poured them on the children’s wounds.
Cheeeeek!!
Smoke was billowing out and the children’s wounds could be seen healing.
The children’s expressions seemed relaxed as the wounds healed, and the pain stopped, but Yuno’s heart became even more anxious because their pale complexions did not recover because they had lost too much blood.
“This can’t go on… If we leave it like this, they’ll definitely die… We need to get Jennifer and take her kids back to our base and ask her mother for it.”
The only people who could directly restore the vitality of nearly dying children were the saints of the Holy Kingdom of Johannes and Yuria, who received the power of the World Tree.
‘If you move while killing your presence, you have no choice but to move slowly. But then we don’t have enough time. Those children could be in danger… Now that things are like this, I have no choice but to break through the royal palace guards head-on, bring Jennifer and Catherine here, and escape with the children.’
“Guys, just wait a moment!! If you wait, I’ll come right back and save you!! Got it? You just have to hold on for a little while?”
Despite Yuno’s question, the children had no answer, perhaps because they had already fainted.
Seeing those children, Yuno gritted his teeth and quickly ran out of the main gate of the second villa and looked at the garrison guarding it. The imperial palace guards, who sensed that he was popular, recognized Yuno and rang an emergency signal.
“Emergency!! It’s the Third Prince!! The Third Prince has invaded!!!”
Yuno looked at the garrison, which was quickly forming a suppression formation, with eyes full of anger.
“Due to the nature of the garrison, I understood that they had no choice but to serve Heinrich, who had ascended to the emperor, so I tried to finish it off by stunning them without causing any harm to the palace garrison members… However, you who guard the second villa are here. You guys knew all about the tragedy that happened, right? You can’t just ignore it…”
Yuno drew mana with all his might from the two mana holes in his lower body, forming a huge fist.
This was the first time something like this had happened to Juno, who had studied under Catherine, who pursued efficient combat, but Juno was now so furious that he could not see anything.
“Bring the magic tool!! Activate the entrapment spell!! The enemy is the master!! Don’t give him distance…?”
The voice of Baek In-jang, who was commanding the garrison, was trembling.
A huge light emanated from Yuno’s fist, gradually increasing in size, and the life contained in it was so strong that even soldiers who did not know mana could feel it, so they fell in fear.
“I want to make you all just like the children inside… But be glad that I don’t have time. So, just be gentle and accept the death I offer you!!”
As Yuno’s fist stretched out powerfully, the mana forming a huge fist was released.
Kwahiah Ah, Ah !!!
The huge fist created by Yuno spewed out, creating a huge dragon fist wind.
A huge Dragon Fist wind stretched forward and attacked the soldiers of the Imperial Palace Guard. The soldiers who witnessed Yuno gathering energy quickly responded by layering their shields, but the Dragon Fist Wind tore apart the shields and bodies of the soldiers who blocked the way in one go. It continued to gush out.
Wow
After a while, the dragon fist wind created by Yuno stopped its momentum and turned into a gentle wind. However, there were no longer any soldiers blocking Yuno’s path, and only pieces of meat that had been torn into pieces and turned into blood clots were the only thing that showed that the Imperial Palace Guard was here.
“Hehe… I feel refreshed, but… This is not the time… Let’s hurry!”
After destroying the garrison, Juno quickly moved to where Catherine and Jennifer were.
Thanks to the explosion sound of Yuno’s power, emergency signals were going off all over the imperial palace, and additional garrisons could be felt gathering, but fortunately, it seemed that it was not only the garrison that heard the explosion, so Jennifer and Catherine ran first and joined Yuno.
“Yuno!! What on earth is going on? They said they sneaked in and will be back soon… What should I do if they cause such a commotion?”
“There were circumstances. Did all the children escape?”
“Yes. They all escaped. We checked everything until the end and closed the passageway again, so there won’t be any trouble.”
“Good job!! Jennifer, follow me quickly!! There’s no time!”
“Huh? Yes, master!!”
Yuno personally picked up Jennifer and ran to the farewell palace with Catherine. As soon as they arrived at the farewell palace, Yuno led them to her underground secret room.
Catherine and Jennifer, who saw the devastation in the underground secret room, were also speechless at the gruesome sight, but came to their senses when Yuno shouted that they had to take care of the living children.
“Jennifer! What is the secret move you mentioned earlier? Is it a move that even the children can escape from?”
“Oh… No. I tried to get all the children to escape through a secret passage… Originally, I was planning to feed the triple Hellfire to the main palace and escape. The main palace is protected by a powerful magic defense that I created, but… It’s a different story if it’s a Hellfire triple stack.”
‘… I was truly fortunate to have Jennifer on my side… Triple Hellfire…’
Even though he was in the middle of a body change, Yuno had experienced Hellfire once in person, and he was well aware of the power of Hellfire recorded in literature, so even in this urgent situation, Yuno couldn’t help but admire Jennifer’s skills.
‘That’s the skill I still have even though some of the magical power amplified by Life Drain was lost… Ugh~ It’s really a long way for Isabella to catch up with me.’
“Anyway, then is there a way to escape from here? We have to get those kids back to the base quickly, so they can survive.”
“Wait a moment, master… I’m connecting with Her Highness Isabella.”
After communicating with Isabella and talking about something, Jennifer began drawing her magic circle.
“Hmm? Are you trying to use space movement magic? But there is no corresponding magic circle at our base, right?”
“Right now, Her Highness Isabella is making it on the spot at the main base. It only takes 10 minutes for me… But Her Highness Isabella takes about 15 minutes, so you have to buy that time!!”
“Damn, I understand!! Ah! And after the magic circle, save the miserable appearance of this room with the image save magic. I need to show this directly to the people!! They, too, need to know the truth about Heinrich!!”
“Yes! The image save magic doesn’t even require much magic power, so it doesn’t matter!!”
Once Jennifer accepted her orders, Juno went back out with Catherine to the main gate of the Farewell Palace.
The garrison troops were gathered there, and their number was over 300.
“Well, if you want, you can blow it up like before, but…”
“You! Don’t do that again! Then, if you run out of mana, what if an unexpectedly strong enemy appears? If you’re doing it because you want to see your teacher die from heartache, then do it again! Do you understand?”
“… Yep. Master… I’m sorry. I’ll be careful…”
Yuno returned to teacher mode after a long time and bowed his head in apology to Catherine, who was scolding him. He then looked at the garrison that had begun to confront him.
“Surrender! Third Prince!! This place is already surrounded!! If you surrender obediently, your life will be guaranteed!!”
“Hmph!! Do you guys know what happened here and say things like that?”
At Yuno’s words, the garrison soldiers tilted their heads and looked at each other.
“What are you talking about? That’s the second palace, right? It’s a palace that no one is using right now!”
“… Come down later, and you’ll know what I’m talking about!”
“I don’t understand… Are you saying that you have no intention of surrendering? In that case, we have no choice but to use force. Even if you are a master, you won’t be able to avoid all the magic tools of our garrison!!”
“Come as many times as you like!! But you all know that at least 90% of you will die!! The first one who comes in, I will immediately crush his head!!”
The garrison soldiers’ complexions turned pale due to Yuno’s threats.
This was because in front of their eyes, Yuno was seen clenching his fists and emitting vital energy, and the woman next to him was also emitting energy from his fists.
“Damn it… How can we stop two masters…”
In fact, the garrison commander who was threatening Yuno knew very well that if he was careful, he would be annihilated without being able to catch Yuno.
Therefore, he was unable to give the attack order hastily, and while the breathtaking confrontation took place, Jennifer relayed a signal to Yuno that space movement was ready.
“If you don’t want to come, go here first!! Take advantage of my full power!!!”
“Block!! Use the barrier magic tool!!!”
As Yuno tried to swing his fist, the soldiers overlaid shields with defensive magic and closed his eyes tightly to deal with the pressure that might pour down on him.
However, when nothing happened after a few seconds, they cautiously opened their eyes, and when Juno and Catherine, who had been lying in front of the front door, disappeared without a trace, they only realized that they were in trouble.
“Whew… I was fooled… But in a way, I’m glad no one died. By the way, does the Third Prince say there’s something hidden here?”
The soldiers, who were curious about Yuno’s words, searched the second villa as Yuno said, and were unable to keep their mouths shut at the terrible sight they saw there and had to shed tears of anger.
“This… This is crazy!! I can’t believe the rumors were true!!”
“Well. Then the 2nd Palace garrison stationed here also knew about this?”
“Crazy guys… The Third Prince didn’t kill them for nothing!!”
“I can’t believe that the reason I’ve been protecting the palace all this time was to protect the emperor’s crazy behavior!!”
“Captain!! We will no longer serve the emperor!!”
“Me too!! An emperor who does things like this is not an emperor!! Let our garrison also come under the command of His Highness the Third Prince!!”
The garrison commander also nodded to the opinion of the garrison soldiers.
“… Damn it… I think so too. I think the Third Prince let all the children escape… Without the hostages, the citizen army confronting His Highness the Third Prince’s rebel army will be disbanded. So now we are the Third Prince. I follow you!! If we keep quiet, this fact won’t be reported to the authorities! Let’s fuck that damn emperor, Henry!”
After seeing the terrible scene in the basement of the second villa, the imperial palace guards began to harbor extreme hostility towards Emperor Henry, and they decided to switch their flag to Juno’s side.
Therefore, in the morning, Heinrich, who asked about the details of the commotion that broke out early in the morning, received only a simple report that the intrusion of the troll that had escaped from the cage and caused the disturbance was suppressed.
*The girl dying after being attacked by Heinrich
