#45
“The Archduke will already know about the power gap with the invading country. However, the reason he did not surrender was because he decided that it would be better to die while resisting.”
“Are you saying it is so important to the Archduke that he has to slaughter people and sacrifice his race?”
“Unfortunately, it’s not just the Kural people, it’s all the races in Elix. I try to fight by choosing pride over humiliation… We make sacrifices. Of course, I am not defending the Archduke. but… “I also don’t know what the right thing to do is.”
Kwak Jeong-han’s surprised eyes turned to Se-hyeon. Kwak Jeong-han’s eyes, filled with countless emotions, eventually turned away from Se-hyeon. know. What does he want to say? However, because Kwak Jeong-han did not have an empire, he was able to assert his own justice.
It was like that in Sehyun’s empire. While the Grand Duke was obsessed with the continuation of his race, he mercilessly beheaded Sehyeon if he became a subordinate or showed signs of surrender, protecting the pride of his race. Although he hoped for the revival of his race and empire, he never begged for his life.
By forcibly changing the archduke’s race, he deserved to be hated. Now I realize what a big mistake that was. How much he wanted to kill.
“Is surrender the only answer?”
To Kwak Jeong-han’s words, Se-hyeon quietly glanced at the residents and answered.
“For now, that’s it. The Grand Duke will imprison the village chief to prevent his surrender. What an invading empire needs is not the number of vassals or the life of the king. In the end, the village chief’s life… “We too will be in danger.”
“Then I will stop it.”
Unlike Kwak Jeong-han, who tried to stop it, Baek Do-hyun and Lee Jae-young looked disapproving. His face, covered with rainwater, was frowning as if he didn’t feel like it.
“Brother, there is no need to count the barbarians.”
“If it’s something you can’t take responsibility for, it’s better not to show unequal tolerance. In fact, this town is already finished. Is there any reason to waste time here? “I don’t think so.”
know. I knew everything. This town is over. There is no need to help, and it is not a place where there is enough hope to come forward and provide relief.
“So are you saying we should ignore these many residents now?”
“Mackerel’s head is a flower garden again.”
Baek Do-hyun showed a cold smile towards Kwak Jeong-han. Kwak Jeong-han also revealed this to Baek Do-hyeon. As Jaeyoung Lee and Dohyeon Baek said, there was no need for anyone to shoulder all of this. No, it might have been wiser to remain silent and then escape and take refuge if a riot broke out.
The end of this village had already been decided, and there was so much division that there was no way to overcome it. It was a situation where once the invasion began, there was literally no other way than defeat.
And yet.
“Well, what should we do to survive?”
“It doesn’t matter who is right, just tell me how to live!”
“Cho, the village chief said we… Is it true that you were trying to sell it? ? “You really tried to abandon us?”
“While sitting in the most comfortable position… haha… Even us… “You were trying to sell it out?”
Through the fog, Sehyeon saw the eyes of the residents gradually becoming more sinister. The frightened and exhausted faces were showing their trust in the Grand Duke, not the village chief.
The Grand Duke spoke to the residents again, showing his white teeth.
“If you turn your back on the king, you will have the opportunity to escape. If you do that, you can leave right away and go somewhere else. We don’t know when the invasion will begin, but it won’t be very long. However, if that happens, you must never come back. “Find your own way of life.”
“What does it mean to turn your back on the king…? The village chief… You don’t have to kill me… ? We didn’t go that far… .”
“You tried to hand us over to the enemy when there was a way to survive? Ha, f*ck! “We were all going to die together!”
“I will do anything to survive… ! “I don’t want to die!”
“Everyone, let’s calm down. “It hasn’t been fully revealed yet!”
“No! It’s obvious just by looking at the village chief keeping his mouth shut! Or are you also on the same side as the village chief? “Are you trying to sell us out with that bastard?!”
“okay… I thought it was strange. I collected a lot of magic stones, but I was wondering why the village wasn’t expanded more… I had completely given up. I had given up… .”
Nevertheless, I could not pretend not to know Kim Gap-jun, who had been fighting alone.
Se-hyeon’s eyes passed by the residents and turned to Kim Gap-jun, who was standing there gritting his teeth. As much as I hated him, I felt sorry for Kim Gap-jun standing there without anyone he could trust, and it was just sad to see him turned away.
“… “I’ll have to take the village chief.”
Se-hyeon’s whispering voice was transmitted through the sound of rain to Kwak Jeong-han, Baek Do-hyeon, and Lee Jae-young. It didn’t matter what happened to other people. Se-hyeon decided to take Yoon Je-ha and save Kim Gap-jun.
“So I just…” “We’ll see.”
“What is that… .”
Kwak Jeong-han immediately refuted, but instead of answering, Se-hyeon made Kwak Jeong-han look around. Between those who lose their reason and run wild, and the weak who tremble with anxiety. Among them, there were people who tried to stop them but were hit here and there and pushed back.
“Mr. Kwak Jeong-han. I have no intention of denying your right. however… Anyway, I am a person who thinks that there are stones that need to be filtered out. That’s right now. So I’m trying to filter this through riots.”
“… okay.”
Kwak Jeong-han bowed his head with a long sigh. His fisted hand was shaking. But in the end, he could not deny Sehyun’s words.
“We are the Kural people, a great fighting race! Even if I have to die in front of pride, I will never surrender. For our country and people!”
[Residents’ dissatisfaction has reached its peak. Dissatisfaction figure: 86%.]
[The ‘riot’ condition has been met.]
“Everyone who wants to live must rebel against the king. “That is the only way for you to live.”
Shouts directed at the archduke and cries directed at the village chief poured out through the sound of rain. Among the people who only had the instinct to live, Sehyeon waited quietly. And he engraved his eyes on each and every weakling, filled with despair.
The Archduke probably has skills. A skill that can ‘incite’ people. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to cause a riot so quickly. The precursors to riots actually happen slowly.
The agitation accelerated rapidly, and after a while, the news of the riot that the Archduke had longed for appeared before everyone’s eyes.
[The ‘riot’ has begun. The villagers begin to escape.]
[The current total number of residents is 93.]
[The current total number of residents is 84.]
[The current total number of residents is 68.]
Kim Gap-Jun’s eyelids gradually drooped as he looked at the decreasing number of residents. He closed his eyes, as if resigned, and heard news of riots an unknown number of times.
[The riot has begun. Would you like to escape the village? Yes No]
System news about the riot was posted right before Sehyun’s eyes. Se-hyeon pressed ‘No’ and turned to follow the men who were attacking the village chief. He then took out a bow from his inventory and swung it wide at the legs of the men reaching out to the village chief.
The men who had been hit on the leg with a thud groaned and fell to the ground. Sehyeon stepped on their backs, took out an arrow, hung it on the bowstring, and pulled hard.
There was an absolute rule that residents within the village should never kill each other. Of course, you should never kill it, but it doesn’t mean you can’t kill it.
The reason it was an absolute rule was because ‘murders’ between residents brought great losses to the village and growth restrictions. Many things were inevitably suppressed, starting with a decline in the trust of the residents, a decline in the founding level of the empire, restrictions on expansion, and refusal of instructions from vassals.
And it took quite a long time for all those regulations to be lifted. Therefore, the king had to calm the residents’ agitation and eliminate anxiety by determining the justification for the ‘murder’. Perhaps because of this, when a murder occurred, the king’s power was transferred to ‘absolute power’.
The king could execute a citizen who committed murder, and even the archduke could not say anything about it.
The reason for saying this at such length is that in the current situation, even if Sehyeon goes crazy, the Grand Duke, who is keeping the king in check, will never kill Sehyeon.
Aside from the Archduke, the others were not that difficult of an opponent for Sehyeon.
Of course, there were criteria for constituting murder. An example of this was the escape. Residents could kill those who escaped. Of course, Se-hyeon is not currently a resident who escaped.
bang-!
The arrow that bounced through the teeth of the comb hit the shoulder of the Kural tribe member holding Kim Gap-Jun’s arm. As soon as the Kural tribe was injured and collapsed, Sehyeon pulled the bowstring again and fired the arrow to the shoulder of the Kural tribe on the other side.
“brother!”
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Jaeyoung Lee’s shout came from behind me. When Sehyun turned his head and looked to the side, it was already too late to avoid the outstretched hands.
The person who passed through them was Lee Jae-young. A grotesque hand, enlarged ten times its size against his tanned skin, scratched mercilessly across the Kural’s abdomen.
“Ugh!”
“evil… !”
The Kural people, whose flesh had been torn off by the monster’s claws, rolled around on the floor and vomited blood. Sehyeon’s gaze moved to Lee Jaeyoung, who passed by me.
Lee Jae-young’s hands had become monster-like. Lee Jae-young laid down on all fours on the floor and growled like an animal, baring his teeth. His eyes turned red and were torn apart.
“Don’t touch my brother.”
