The Returned Sword King Decided to Become a Tyrant Chapter 97
The Unsolved Mystery (6)
Well, I intentionally left that point uncorrected and left the other familiars behind.
Perhaps they had no choice but to stop here to retrieve their remaining familiars.
If the identity of the ‘place’ they were relying on was revealed, it would certainly cause huge repercussions beyond simply revealing the existence of a warlock.
‘Of course, there must have been an intention to deal with the priests here.’
Perhaps you thought that you only needed to catch a few priests and paladins?
You would never have imagined that all the priests from the Holy Land would be here.
I walked leisurely towards the protagonists of the story.
The guys seemed familiar with this place as they walked along the mountain path.
yet…….
Jeokbuk-
“oh?”
The surprised voice of a woman wearing a black robe followed as she saw me blocking her way.
Then I looked around and realized that there was no one around, confirming once again that my purpose was them.
“Can we see? How?”
“… … .”
“First of all, it doesn’t seem like you came with good intentions.”
I didn’t answer her question. I just pulled out Elvern and left her with a questioning answer.
At that moment, the man standing next to me frowned for a moment, then calmly opened his mouth.
“Silver hair, red eyes… … There’s no doubt about it. That man is the first prince of Esteban.”
“That guy? Really? Wait, why is that guy here?”
“I don’t know. Maybe they followed the priests.”
There was a sense of familiarity surrounding the warlocks who spoke like that.
Mana of the negative dimension that spreads out gently.
Didn’t they say that humans want to turn away from negative things?
Perhaps that serves to hide their presence.
But now, more than that.
“How cheeky.”
… … I didn’t like those warlocks even more, who dared to talk nonsense in front of me.
ping-!
“Huh!”
“hmm!”
A freezing murderous aura gripped the guys.
Then, the negative dimension mana flowing out of their bodies disappeared like a firefly in front of the sun. It helplessly twisted its tail and disappeared in the face of a stronger force.
Now that they understood the situation, the guys quickly pulled out their wands, erasing the leisurely conversation they had been having.
“… … Roy, what was that just now?”
“… … Perhaps it is a kind of murderous aura that knights exude.”
“That’s ridiculous. The knight’s will nullifies the power of the black magic we created? What is this…?”
“They say the first prince has great talent in swordsmanship… … so it might not be impossible.”
However, the swordsmanship of the ‘First Prince’ known to the world is said to be only at the level of handling Aura.
Considering that he is only approaching twenty-one years old, that alone is an outstanding talent.
But, that means, in other words, that even so, it is still not possible to deal with high-level magicians, and there is a limit to the output that can be produced right away.
They would never be able to muster enough strength to block or forcibly destroy the barriers and magic they have deployed now… … .
In that case, there was only one correct answer.
Bam-
The man bit his lip lightly.
“You were hiding your strength.”
“……okay.”
The guys talked quietly, wetting their dry lips.
Of course, there was no conversation I couldn’t hear on that street.
‘Roy.’
My eyebrows rose slightly at the familiar name.
“Roy and Adele, the two warlocks leading the hardliners? If so, the female one would be Adele.”
“You, you, what are you? How on earth do you know that?”
The woman in the black robe, whose identity was revealed in an instant, muttered in confusion.
It was understandable that the prince knew that they were warlocks.
Even now, he still exuded the dark aura characteristic of a warlock, but it was hard to believe that he was a ‘hardliner’.
That was an expression used only by a very small number of people, even within the same warlock class.
On the contrary, my lips, which had become convinced of their identity, were distorted crookedly.
“Unfortunately, I got caught up in things that didn’t help my plans.”
“what?”
“Well, it’s fine anyway. It means that it doesn’t matter if you’re not breathing while getting information.”
“… … !”
“Watch out, Roy!”
Crunch-!
“Ugh!”
Just as a woman’s scream-like cry was heard, a sword swung in the blink of an eye and cut off the man’s arm.
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Roy’s face was contorted in pain.
“When on earth did it happen… … .”
Invisible movement.
But it seemed like he wasn’t just going to get hurt, because he was seen moving his mana quickly while looking at his severed right arm.
Of course, I wasn’t the one who would just sit back and watch.
Snap-
Kwajik-!
“Ugh!”
The man’s head, his mouth gagged with his left hand, was slammed hard into the tree.
At the same time, I felt the mana that was moving around dissipate.
The simplest way to prevent the use of a spell was to stop it, either intentionally or involuntarily, before it could be cast.
It was literally the simplest and easiest method.
However, the guy’s magical achievements were better than expected, and unfortunately, the mana that was gathering from his severed right arm did not stop and continued.
The magic had already been activated.
Kukukung-!
My right arm began to swell, and then began to contract into a single point with a loud vibration.
It was like looking at a powder keg about to explode.
‘It’s a black magic that blows up part of the body.’
I didn’t know they would activate something like that until the moment they were cut off.
If it were normal, it would have been quite threatening.
Yeah, if it were normal.
‘Eat it up.’
I stared at the sight absentmindedly, then immediately released the magical power stored in the magic seal.
Paat-!
Then, the magical power that spread out like a wave touched the guy’s detached right arm and began to erase it.
Slowly, it destroyed the structure bit by bit, as if it was eating away at the host.
The right arm that had shrunk to a point. And the negative energy that had made this possible.
He started to devour all of them greedily, as if he was hunting down prey.
It was the activation of a magical power control that nullified all magic within the radius.
“… … !”
Roy, who had thought that the attack would definitely work, could only stare at the sight with his eyes wide open in a dazed state after hitting his head.
This is a situation that makes no sense, where magic that has already been activated has disappeared.
And the price for that failure was that the guy was left with one arm.
Crunch-
“If you thought that nonsense would work, you were mistaken.”
“Big!”
thud!
The guy’s two arms disappeared completely below his shoulders. I threw the guy’s face, which was still being held, to the floor.
The boy was already dead from excessive bleeding and pain.
A cold voice descended upon the corpse lying so coldly.
“I guess I’ve got one.”
Adele, the woman in the black robe, had long since left this place.
Not only was he not specialized in ‘one-on-one’ combat in the first place, but he seemed to have judged that he had no chance of winning since he had already defeated one of them.
If not, then maybe their loyalty only went that far.
‘Well, I guess you can tell the level.’
I shrugged my shoulders leisurely and looked in the direction the woman had run off to.
And that direction was… …coincidentally, it was the direction where the priests and knights were gathered.
Of course, it didn’t matter. It was me who led them to run away in that direction.
“… … I think she was the puppeteer Adele.”
I wish you guys would show me what I want.
My eyes widened with interest as I recalled memories from before my regression.
* * *
Ugh- Ugh-
Adele was running madly through the mountain path. Her face was so pale that she looked like a corpse.
The reason she ran away with such effort was simple.
‘Ro, playing with Roy… … .’
Unlike other magicians of the Yangji, there was no hierarchy among the fallen warlocks, but she knew how powerful Roy’s magic was.
A level of magical power that even a Guardian-level wizard can handle like a child.
And the magical power that is not pushed back in close combat even by knights, who are called the natural enemies of all magicians.
The man who lived only with the emotion of anger was more aggressive and destructive than anyone Adele knew.
But Roy was defeated in an instant without even being able to mount a proper counterattack.
She couldn’t even guess how she had been treated.
In the blink of an eye, one of his arms was ripped off in an instant.
Even though it wasn’t a full-out fight, it was difficult for her to understand how she could be defeated so easily based on her common sense.
So the fear that was now eating her up was nothing but something that came from the unknown.
‘… … The first prince knew us.’
Suddenly, her body began to tremble as if she had a chill.
Is it really true that he is running away from the First Prince?
Could it be that even these struggles are moving within the palm of his hand?
All sorts of thoughts consumed Adele.
Now, it seemed to me that even this escape was nothing more than a futile struggle.
But I couldn’t stop. What on earth had I been holding on to this vicious life for?
Before she knew it, she had a small pill in her hand.
‘We have to recover the trace somehow.’
And somehow you have to escape alive.
That way, at least we can hide the traces of the ‘hardliners’.
Only one thought began to linger in her confused mind.
……living.
Adele swallowed the pill in her hand hastily, her eyes widening.
An indescribable, terrible aura rose around her.
This pill was a last resort given to the hardliners.
* * *
Paladin of the Holy Empire, the holy knights approached Roland.
“The First Prince of Esteban orders you to prepare for battle.”
“I know. Yes, I told you to maintain your battle formation in advance and prepare a sanctuary to prevent damage from the engagement.”
“Yes.”
“Well, does he have any idea how much effort and resources it takes to maintain an alternate sanctuary?”
Roland responded curtly, expressing his displeasure.
From the beginning, he didn’t like this situation.
‘A small country like that is being manipulated by a great country.’
It was Roland who swung his sword solely for the sake of Roena’s power.
There is justice under the light.
With that single-minded determination, he became a knight, and with his talent, he eventually rose to the glorious position of Paladin.
But what does it look like now?
What is it about such a small country that they have to send so many high-ranking healers to take care of this and that, feeling sorry for it? Why on earth did the high priests allow such a thing?
Since he was unaware of the two countries’ dealings regarding Shin Sung-cheol, it was only natural that he would think that way.
And even before we set off, I didn’t like that aspect.
Even in Esteban, where they had arrived, the first prince treated the priests and knights as if they were his servants, giving them orders as he pleased and even sending them to remote areas.
He acted arrogantly and presumptuously, as if he was receiving something that was rightfully his.
The priests didn’t have much resentment because it was an extension of their original work, but he was not one of them, as he was full of pride.
Even to show such an arrogant attitude in front of the saint… … .
‘On the topic of thunder and nakedness.’
Cadduk-
Roland gritted his teeth and muttered.
“I can’t even tell the difference between the traces of a warlock that I found by chance… … .”
“What should I do? First, would you please follow the instructions?”
“That’s nonsense. There’s no way that lowly warlocks would dare attack the knights of the Holy Empire. Even if they were crazy and attacked, there’s no need to go all the way to the sanctuary. We’ll deal with them as usual.”
Yeah, that was confidence.
The confidence that no one can stand against the Holy Nation, as it has always been.
The same goes for the black magicians. They are merely targets for the Holy Nation’s destruction, and will never be its opponents.
… … Yes, just like it has always been.
“Then, as usual, we will split into groups of two and chase down the runaways, while the priests rest.”
“Let’s do that.”
After dismissing it like that, he turned around. But at that moment, a creepy sensation suddenly began to creep up on Roland’s skin.
“This is… … .”
