Chapter 514 – Corruption
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Emerson took Cyrus with him and headed to Crea territory.
She was asked by Bianca to protect Cyrus only until she could come up with her own measures, and Emerson could not refuse her request.
Emerson, who arrived in Crea, asked Franz, the small lord of Crea, to prepare a hiding place for Cyrus.
It was something that Bianca instructed me to do in advance.
Emerson asked Franz, but she was anxious. Because it was quite dangerous for her to hide Cyrus.
What kind of person is Cyrus?
She was a human being chased by the Church of Terra.
Contrary to Emerson’s worries, things went as Bianca said.
“Huh… Lord Emerson. I will prepare a hiding place for you on the outskirts of the city. Never let him out of the house. Do you understand?!”
“I understand.”
Although Franz was quite displeased, he eventually accepted Cyrus, who was no different from a walking bomb.
Although he didn’t know why he was taking this risk, Emerson could only guess that it was Bianca’s resourcefulness.
Life in hiding was not very satisfactory for both Emerson and Cyrus.
The hiding place was a small house near a slum.
Aside from the fact that the house was shabby, there were no maids to maintain secrecy, so Emerson had to look after Cyrus alone.
And Emerson also got an eerie feeling from Cyrus, who talked strangely in his sleep at night.
While we were somehow enduring this life, we ran out of food.
Emerson decided to go out to get food.
“Cyrus, you must never go outside.”
“Lord Emerson! How many times have I told you this? I am not a child. I understand enough! Go ahead!”
Cyrus became irritated by Emerson’s repeated nagging.
“Yes… Then, I will come back.”
Emerson left… Cyrus, who was irritated, rolled his eyes as if he had never done that before.
When Cyrus was imprisoned in the Church of Terra, he thought he had no wish but to escape.
But didn’t they say that people’s desires are endless?
As time passed, the luxurious life of the past was fading away. And the fact that he had to live like this for the rest of his life made him feel even more depressed.
I thought I would go crazy from frustration if I continued to live like this, only eating the food Emerson brought me from home.
Cyrus prepared to go out.
I felt like I had to go to the downtown area and look at people to buy something.
As he was about to leave, an artifact placed on the table caught his eye. It is a location tracking artifact given by Bianca through the unidentified monster who helped her escape.
It was thanks to that artifact that Emerson found himself.
Cyrus’ hand, which was about to reach for the artifact, stopped.
I felt like I would be quite annoyed if I was interrupted by Emerson while I was having fun.
After leaving his hiding place, Cyrus entered a gloomy, narrow alleyway in the slums that he thought was a quick route.
Cyrus, who grew up well, had no idea that he should avoid the dangerous slums.
Even though it was daytime, I didn’t realize how dangerous it was to walk down the alleys of this slum.
And Cyrus, wearing clean clothes, was good prey for robbers in the slums.
As expected, two dirty-looking robbers blocked Cyrus’s path. One person had a long scar on the lip and the other had a long scar near the eye.
They showed their yellow teeth and smiled viciously at Cyrus.
“Ruthless! Get out of the way!”
It was Cyrus who still couldn’t understand the situation.
“What? What is this? This crazy guy.”
“Crazy?! You guys—! You know who I am!”
“Who is it?”
The lip scar robber asked with a grin, as if he thought Cyrus was cute.
“Well, that is…”
Cyrus was speechless.
He himself was being chased by the Terra religion.
He could not reveal his identity.
The lip scar robber’s fist struck Cyrus’ abdomen mercilessly.
“Gagging!!
“Let’s get started after getting hit for a bit.”
“If possible, don’t hit the face. It looks pretty. Don’t you think it would be nice to sell it as a slave?”
The robbers beat up Cyrus, smiling at the long-awaited, salty harvest.
“Ah! A million! Now, wait a minute!!”
As Cyrus crouched down and was beaten by the robbers, he realized he was screwed.
I also left a location tracking artifact in case Emerson came after me.
If this continues, he may fall into a hell worse than being sold as a slave and captured by the Terra Church.
《Do you need power?》
At that time, I heard the devil’s voice in my head.
It was a voice I had heard consistently since I escaped.
Cyrus instinctively felt that if he succumbed to this devil’s temptation, he would become a real warlock.
If that happens, he really can’t turn back.
“Chulleup… Shall I taste it before I sell it?”
The intensity of the lip scar made him lick his lips and smiled sinisterly.
“Dirty bastard…”
“It’s because you don’t know anything. This is a delicacy in its own way.”
Cyrus felt her body turn over.
Her face fell to the ground. She was horrified when she realized that her ass was rising and her pants were coming off.
“Oh, no!!”
“You look so ugly. Wow… Look at this skin. Anyone who sees it will think you’re a noble master.”
Cyrus felt like he was going to faint from her dirty hands stroking his ass.
“Ugh!! Someone, someone! Help me!”
Cyrus desperately asked for help, but there was no way anyone could help him deep in the back alleys of the slums.
《Do you need power?》
At that time, the devil’s voice echoed in my head.
“Ah, okay, give me strength!!”
《Give it? Your tone is arrogant. I’ll have to think again…》
“Please, please! Give me strength!”
The two robbers looked puzzled when they saw Cyrus suddenly start talking nonsense.
“Why is this guy acting like this all of a sudden? Are you crazy?”
“Huh? You shouldn’t go crazy… The price is going down.”
Cyrus felt hot magic radiating from her heart. And the idea of how to use that magical power came to her mind.
The wave of power that arose from Cyrus’ body sent the bodies of the two thieves flying.
“Gagging!”
“Ugh! What, what?”
The two robbers, who flew about 2 or 3 meters and fell on the ground, shook their heads and quickly stood up, probably because the shock wasn’t that big.
A dark sphere rising with ominous energy comes to mind in Cyrus’ hand.
The faces of the two robbers who saw this were filled with astonishment.
“W-Wizard?!”
They were not knowledgeable enough to realize that it was black magic.
Would they ever see a wizard while robbing in the back alleys of the slums?
-Pump!
A dark sphere stuck in the heads of the two robbers as they tried to run away.
Cyrus’ body trembled, feeling an unknown pleasure from the life force flowing from the dead robber.
And soon his face became distorted.
This is because I thought that they were not people who could be easily killed like this.
“You bugs! Why give me such shame?!”
Cyrus twisted his face viciously and kicked the robbers’ corpses.
-Puck. Puck. Puck. Puck.
“Whoop! Whoop!”
Cyrus, who was so excited and vented his anger on the corpse, belatedly felt that his lower body was cool. It looks like a small pepper.
Cyrus then picked up his pants that had fallen near Juseomjuseom and put them on.
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The incident that occurred at the Helena Information Management Department surprisingly did not receive much attention from the upper echelons of the Zephyria Army.
Normally they might have been interested, but now they had no time to worry about such trivial matters.
Zephyria’s army was now facing an important action.
This is because a large-scale attack against Panthera is just around the corner.
Zephyria.
Panthera Recovery Operation Command.
The operation room of the Panthera recovery operation command center was filled with numerous screens.
You can see various data graphs… And a screen that reflects numerous places.
Below, the hands of the operators were busy manipulating the hologram screen.
In the center, a bushy-bearded demon man with his arms crossed was looking sharply at the screens floating in the operation room.
He was Geoff, commander of the Panthera Recovery Operation Command.
Numerous screens floating in the operation room showed status data and images of the Slover Labyrinth and the vicinity of the Labyrinth.
Zephyria’s army discovered that the dimensional wall of a place called Slover Labyrinth was thin.
And as soon as I found out, I made a plan.
A plan to invade Pantera from the labyrinth… No, to restore it.
Originally, I had planned to take advantage of the opportunity within the labyrinth with time to spare, but… Luckily, I observed a strong energy response from the satellite where Panthera’s owner, Terra, resides.
The Zephyria army knew that Terra was preventing alien beings from invading Panthera.
The fact that a strong energy response was observed also meant that an invader so powerful that it was difficult for Terra to pay attention to the ground had appeared.
It seems that the Slurver Labyrinth was also created by Terra to stop her alien invasion… But it gave Zephyria a chance.
The enemy’s crisis is an opportunity.
While Terra was unable to reach the ground, Helion and Zephyria decided to quickly use the labyrinth’s special properties to create a gate in Slover.
“Light the gate.”
Following Geoff’s instructions, a large screen illuminates the entrance to the Slover Labyrinth.
Slover, a once thriving city, has become a ruin.
A huge oval-shaped gate was being built where the Slover Labyrinth was.
It was almost 80 percent complete.
And a thick and huge castle wall surrounding Slover.
Numerous Panthera troops were gathered on top of the castle wall.
Although it was only around the gate, being able to see the Panthera in person here at Zephyria was proof that the gate was nearing completion.
Once the gate is completed, Zephyria’s elite troops will pour into Panthera in an instant.
And more than anything, it was important that Hellion, who would be dealing with Terra, would be able to demonstrate her full power on her Pantera.
It is different from the past.
There will be no defeat against Terra this time.
It was the Hellion and Zephyria forces that worked hard to defeat Terra over the past years.
“Commander. This is an attack by a punitive force.”
Chief of Staff Duncan woke Geoff out of his thoughts.
“What about Hellion?”
“He’s already with me.”
You can see the Hellion avatar walking leisurely.
Hellion’s avatar was over 4 meters tall and had a bizarre appearance with half of her face different from each other.
And, centered around the middle of her body, half of it had brown skin and half had light-toned skin.
Felix was an avatar created with great effort by a warlock.
Perhaps he was a warlock with better abilities than expected… It was an avatar that contained the greatest amount of Hellion power ever.
An elite punitive force led by Holy Knights of Terraism was rushing towards Hellion’s avatar.
