Duke’s Quadruplets Are All Overpowered Chapter 70

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A chill stronger than the winter wind seems to grab the back of my neck. Beyond the fog, there existed a huge city that was beyond understanding.

That wasn’t a ‘ground’. It was not destroyed and broken, nor was it swallowed up by distant times and collapsed. It was a healthy and prosperous city that could still be seen on maps. The old empire, located deep underground, where not a single ray of light enters, was softly bright, like the dawn of dawn, with an ominous blue glow.

Geolsi’s eyes widened at the sight of the majestic city. Gulshi, who was running excitedly towards the city beyond the fog, soon realized and hurriedly retreated back. Gulshi didn’t see ‘things’. However, if you are alive, you are always on guard against death. It was natural for him to feel fear and disgust at the city overrun by death. As Gulsi hid behind me with a pale face, Dalbi climbed on her shoulder and chewed Gulsi’s hair.

“I… What’s all that about? Weird. Even now, the city is clean and looks like people would live in it, but the people are… anybody there.”

“It’s just that the owners of the city are not people.”

Even though Quartz Castle is the largest castle in the Kunkan Empire, it cannot be compared to this place. Does it have to be the Kunkan capital to be comparable in majesty? The old imperial city remained dormant underground, with only the flame of life extinguished, retaining its glorious heyday. Roads, buildings, walls, everything is intact. How can we think of this city as being destroyed? Isn’t life still intact from thousands of years ago?

Arched bridges, long roads, well-maintained roads and statues, a square large enough to hold a banquet, magnificent buildings, and a castle similar to an old castle on the Western Continent, but taller and sharper than a blade. If this city becomes known to the public, many adventurers, artists, architects, and bards will dance with joy.

But still.

This is a city that deserves to be buried forever.

Devil worship.

Those who committed egregious and horrific acts were punished accordingly.

The destruction of a country overnight is only the beginning.

I don’t know if it’s the devil’s curse, God’s divine punishment, or a side effect of a failed ritual.

But I could see it clearly with my own two eyes.

An ominous blue light surrounds the city.

They are the ones who shine.

“I’ve never seen so many will-o’-the-wisps.”

“Hi! Speaking of will-o’-the-wisps, you mean Miss Melissa’s garden… … .”

“Well, it’s similar. Girl, you said there’s nothing to be afraid of?”

“but… but… “Gulshi can kill werewolves, but she doesn’t know how to kill ghosts!”

I sighed and slowly looked around the city.

I don’t lose my footing easily.

“how… … .”

Ghosts are much harder to see than you might think.

To be precise, they are ghosts with ‘intelligence’.

Traces of the dead.

Although spirit forms can be easily seen on the battlefield, there are no ghost soldiers who speak in human form. I don’t know how the soul has intelligence and can speak. All we know is that the dog-eyed can see them, and that they are very rarely seen. And even if you see a ghost, most of them stay for a short time and then disappear. It is said that when one’s bitterness is extreme, one becomes a ghost. It really might be so. Maybe the emotions left behind after death take hold of the soul. However, the dead person’s emotions are as meaningless as bubbles and are easily extinguished.

But what on earth is this place?

Dozens, hundreds, thousands.

Damn, the fallen old empire was a den of countless ghosts.

* * *

The blue light emitted by the ghost dazzles the eyes.

The sound resonates unpleasantly like noise.

This is my first time seeing so many ghosts.

In a past life.

Even the scene of the disaster where hundreds of thousands of people died was not like this.

Those guys are ghosts from thousands of years ago. If we remember that the ghosts who failed to attain Buddhahood and that the ancient empire served the devil and was destroyed by the devil, there was a high probability that they were ‘evil spirits’ like the ghosts of the manifest devil.

At most, they were ghosts without a body, but I hid myself and watched their movements.

“What are you guys doing?”

As I watched the situation nervously, I noticed that the ghosts were behaving strangely. They acted like the living. There were people talking to each other (even though it sounded like a terrible joke), sitting next to empty stalls, pretending to sell goods, touting customers, there was a musician playing an unstringed violin in the square, and workers running busily on every street corner.

“I’m repeating myself. Are you unable to forget what life was like when you were alive? “It’s not like there’s no awareness.”

“… Don’t talk to yourself. Girl, I’m scared.”

The ghosts kept repeating the same actions. When the performance is over, the performance begins again. While talking, the ghosts part ways, take a walk around the alley, and meet again to talk. Thousands of ghosts behaved differently, but they never deviated from the pattern.

This is a movie where the same scenes are repeated over and over again.

Ghosts were everywhere in the city, and it seemed virtually impossible to avoid their gaze.

I see a ghost. And it has the power to kill. So ghosts are no longer unknown and unpleasant. I stepped into the city of the dead without hesitation. There is no fear experience. Even if the ghosts are hostile, all you have to do is hit them with a pata and achieve Buddhahood. The Exorcist, Physics. Now, even if I encounter an evil spirit that makes my head spin, I can defeat it.

I walked through the city with great strides, carrying the power of the ball in Ramel Star.

Gulshi was trembling and clinging to my back, holding on tightly to the hem of my clothes.

It’s clearing! It’s clearing!

Crumble.

“Crumbling? what.”

Dalbi barked at the ghosts with a scary look on his face (closer to the cute side). Dalbi barks. Could it be the effect of a hyena that preyed on a farmer’s field? It was a very strange sight to see a deer barking, but in the first place, Gaegane Street was a deer, so there was nothing strange about it.

“hmm.”

A few dozen minutes after entering the city of the dead, I wondered if I had overdone it. The ghosts seemed curious or uncomfortable with the uninvited guest, but instead they just avoided them, and there were many that didn’t pay any attention at all. I passed by ghosts imitating the lives of the living and walked toward the towering castle in the center of the city, emitting an unusually deep blue light.

* * *

It’s a sight to see up close.

Collapsed castle walls, broken castle gates.

The left castle tower is completely destroyed.

“It’s foreign.”

The city itself is like a majestic metropolis, except for the ghosts. However, this last name was incongruously odd. First of all, there is no watchtower. The area where the soldiers had to stand guard was covered with a pointed roof. What about the castle gate? A moat existed, but there was no access road or drawbridge. It wasn’t destroyed; it looked like a structure that had never existed before. Because of that, I had to carry Gulsi on my back and cross the moat in one go. The outer wall has collapsed and there is no inner wall. After passing through the broken castle gate, I saw a hallway leading directly to the inner castle. Clearly, there was a high probability that this needlessly tall and large castle was the royal castle where the king lived. However, in a city of this size, it is a royal castle with no defense facilities.

Unless it’s where the naked king lives.

This means that there was no particular need for soldiers.

Before entering the castle, I looked around.

This is the only place that has been destroyed.

As if to tell us that the cause of the tragedy began here.

A collapsed castle in the center of an intact city.

I am not an explorer. I have no interest in what happened here thousands of years ago. There was one goal. Something that radiates so much power that it makes your eyes sting. A strange power rising from the basement of the castle. If the thing holding those countless ghosts is not the devil, then some force felt in this castle may be the cause.

I passed through the castle gate and walked down the hallway.

It is also a strange place. There was no sign of devil worship in the city. However, as soon as I entered the castle and saw the numerous demon statues decorated on both sides of the hallway, I was convinced. This castle is a hotbed of devil worship. Perhaps, just as believers gather in churches to pray, the city’s devil worshipers could have gathered in this castle to worship the devil.

After passing through a hallway filled with all sorts of signs of idolatry, I opened two huge wooden doors that had not yet rotted. Unlike Gulshi, who kept her mouth shut and was filled with fear, I had no hesitation in my actions.

Wow!

A door that had not been opened for a long time was opened. The loud sound of hinges screaming echoes through the once quiet castle. Castle, Great Hall. It was that moment when I faced an impressive, spacious hall with a marble floor and a chandelier filled with blue light.

[It’s been a long time since I’ve been a guest!]

I pretended to be calm and didn’t change my expression, but inside, my heart was pounding. Suddenly a ghost appeared and spoke to me. If I hadn’t been trained by my sister Ushasu, I might have screamed. Unlike the ghosts in the city, this is a male ghost with a hideous face whose face is rotten and crawling with slugs (even though he is a ghost). The guy spoke to him, stroking his mustache from a distance close enough to touch his face.

[Young, fresh, beautiful, cool. These guests are worthy of my last name. Let’s see, has it been roughly a few thousand years? Guestbook… Hey, Matheson!]

“It got cold. ear… “Has a ghost appeared?”

I didn’t see or hear the guy walking. Dalbi kept swearing at her ghost, but the ghost didn’t pay any attention. As if she couldn’t see. Could it be that even ghosts can’t see Youngsu?

[Yes~! Lord Begison Castle. Did you call the chief deacon?]

[Where did I put the guestbook?]

[Who would look for the dead? It’s probably somewhere, but I don’t know where! Ho Ho.]

[Useless guy. Anyway, it’s been a long time since I’ve been a guest, so I should treat you well. My fiancée, say hello!]

A ghost that fell from the ceiling.

A ghost in the form of a noble lady wearing a white dress greets me in an old-fashioned way.

[O stranger. Consider it an honor to meet you on the day you become Lady of the Beggisons! Since you’ve been my guest for a long time, I’ll give you the honor of kissing the back of my hand.]

The ghost held out the back of its hand, but I ignored it and walked on.

[Hohoho.]

[ha ha ha.]

[Hehehe.]

The three ghosts played along with each other and even sang a song.

I pretended not to see, but the ghosts seemed to think I couldn’t see them.

[Oh, Begison’s fame spreads throughout the world, so who is the greatest demon wizard?]

[Begison! Begison!]

[Even the great devil will kneel, the devil is Begison’s slave, Begison’s slave.]

[Hohoho. The young bitches in the capital say Benja is crazy. I repay you. A rat in panties, a spider in a corset, a devil in the shadows, family at the graveside. Ho ho ho.]

Ghosts running around the living room.

What was it, in a past life, a musical movie?

It was a Halloween-themed animation featuring a long-legged skeleton gentleman.

Trying not to get involved, I ignored it and looked for places where I could feel ‘power’. The castle was quite complex. Plus, they followed me wherever I went. While telling jokes from the side. When I passed by a noblewoman’s bedroom, a female ghost invited me into the bedroom, and I fought with a male ghost called Begison by the hair. After passing through the kitchen, the butler ghost introduced the dinner menu, and in a room that looked like servants’ quarters, Begison cried out loud.

But everything felt like a joke.

The climax was in the dungeon.

I ended up reacting to the demons who were running amok in the dungeon, where there was a lot of evidence of devil worship. Although they only made eye contact, they were excited and screamed.

[I think the customer saw us?]

[It can’t be. There will be no one who can see us because we are cursed.]

[Hehehe. Unless you’re the devil!]

[Can you see me?]

[see? see? see?]

I finally couldn’t bear it.

“Aren’t you going to get rid of the Ssangpandaegi?”

Jjanggu, Danbi, and Dooly seemed like they were having fun right next to me.

“I’m going to rip off your snout.”

The ghosts’ eyes widened at my words.

It looks like I need to attain Buddhahood.

“I’m sorry. “I’m a brat.”

Only the girl who didn’t know the situation was in tears.

fantasy,