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38. The beaten prince.

Gradually my sword moved closer to the prince’s neck.

Now, if you approach any further, you have reached the distance of the actual veil.

Naturally, the prince’s face turned pale.

And then I opened my mouth.

“You just have to answer my questions well from now on. Then I will release you safely.”

“Well, that is…”

The prince appeared to be out of his mind. It seemed like it was so sudden.

In times like these, it was important to push harder.

I moved the sword deeper.

The head was completely cut off.

Fit.

Soon a sound as if something had been cut was heard.

And immediately, blood began to flow from the prince’s neck.

“Huh…! Blood, blood…!”

The prince’s face turned even whiter.

And then his face started to become colored with fear.

Now I’m finally in a position to answer some questions.

I looked at that and asked a question.

“Why did you ask me to steal this sword?”

This was the question I was most curious about.

And upon hearing this question, the prince immediately seemed to come to his senses.

He began to quickly roll his eyes left and right.

It was definitely right to be afraid.

But he was a prince after all, and even in his current state, he was thinking of something.

I moved the sword cutting his neck deeper.

Pussut-!

Then more blood began to flow from the prince’s neck. Visually, it looked very scary.

Only then did the prince stop rolling his eyes.

“Ah, okay!! Yes, I’ll tell you!”

Even the prince’s life was in danger. I had no choice but to listen to myself.

“So why did you request this sword?”

“Uh, it’s a very important sword.”

I showed it last time, but I was able to figure out the truth and lies to some extent.

And what the prince said just now was true.

Of course, the answer was missing an important point.

“So why is it important?”

He looked worried for a moment in response to my question. But when my sword tried to move again, it responded immediately.

“ is the family’s precious sword!”

“If you say family… do you mean the royal family?”

“Ugh…”

This too was true.

“Sa, it is actually the sword of the first ancestor who founded the Kingdom of Aachen.”

“Hoo… is this?”

“Yes. So I tried to get it back. It’s a sword that has a very important meaning to me…”

I nodded. Then I punched him in the stomach with my left hand.

Wow-!!

“Kwaaak!”

It was a fist filled with mana. Probably, he would have suffered tremendously.

In reality, he was holding his stomach and twisting his body. It seemed like quite an unbearable pain.

No, since you are of noble birth, is this perhaps the first time you have experienced pain?

“Where do you lie?”

“That’s not a lie…!”

“It’s probably not all lies. The story of our ancestors is true, right? What happens after that is the problem.”

“Well, that is…”

“You are trying to find a sword by paying a lot of money for that reason? That’s nonsense.”

In fact, there was no need to figure out truth and lies. Just by hearing the story, I could tell it was a lie.

I opened my mouth again and spoke to him.

“Tell me the real reason. The real reason I ordered you to steal this sword.”

“Ugh…!”

He trembled under my pressure.

It was like I was reminded of the incredible pain I had just experienced.

But strangely, he didn’t want to tell his secret.

‘what? ‘What’s the reason…?’

It was then.

Woe!

Suddenly the sword I was holding began to glow.

“The sword…?”

“Okay, that’s enough…!”

A faintly bright light flowed from the sword. It was as if an old light had been turned on. It was a completely unexpected situation.

‘what? Is it because it’s covered in blood? But have you tried all of these?’

I did all sorts of experiments with this sword. I tried scorching it with fire and smearing it with blood. I even tried using various types of magic.

But I couldn’t find anything strange at all.

But now it has started to shine like this.

I couldn’t figure out the reason at all.

‘It wasn’t like this when my blood was on it… Wait! Could it be because it’s the prince’s blood…?’

At that time, one reason came to mind.

It was said that this was the sword of the ancestor who founded the Kingdom of Aachen. Then it might have something to do with royal blood.

“Is it because it’s your blood?”

I pretended it was no big deal and asked him a question.

Then I saw his shocked face. It seemed like it was true.

“It is a sword that reacts to the blood of the royal family…”

It was definitely not an ordinary sword. However, compared to the effort put into it, the sword’s abilities were not great.

‘You have to feed this much blood to shine like this? It’s not efficient.’

It didn’t seem like the sword itself had any power. It seemed right to do something different with this sword.

I raised my fist again.

He then struck the prince in the abdomen.

Whoops-!!

“Aaagh!”

“Were you hiding something like this? If you don’t want to get hit again, you’d better tell everything.”

“Keuuk…!”

Perhaps because he was a prince, he didn’t seem to be used to being hit.

Soon the prince’s mouth opened and information flowed out.

“That’s… to call someone…”

“Calling someone?”

It was then.

“Did you call me?”

Suddenly, I heard the voice of a man I had never heard from behind.

‘who…!’

I felt quite embarrassed.

‘I didn’t feel any presence?’

Right now I was focusing on the prince. Still, I couldn’t sense the other person’s presence.

There was only one case like this.

‘Third Awakening!’

Tension welled up.

It was definitely correct to see him as a 3rd awakener.

But I erased my embarrassed face. And then he calmly turned around.

In times like this, you need to calm down. It was a truth I realized after experiencing countless chaos.

I soon turned around and saw a man wearing a robe like me.

He was smaller than I expected, but strangely enough, I couldn’t feel his presence.

‘assassin…!’

And I knew this existence well. This is the appearance of assassins who make assassinations their business.

Also, what if the assassin is capable of surprising me…?

‘There is only one being.’

The king of assassins called the King of Death.

‘King of Life Marcel…’

He was the most dangerous and secretive assassin in the world. It was a situation where even I had to worry about my life.

In fact, it was like that just now. If he had attacked me first, I would have been pinned down.

However, he didn’t seem to have any intention of attacking me.

He was looking at the sword in my hand with a strange face.

“The situation is very different from what I thought?”

It seemed like he knew information that I didn’t know.

I first tried to talk to him.

“You are the king of life…?”

“Hoo, did you recognize me right away?”

But it was that moment.

“As the owner of Nageling, the Sword of the Covenant, I command you! According to the blood covenant, kill this person immediately!”

Suddenly the prince let out a loud voice.

For a moment, I felt defeated.

‘Could it be that it was a sword that could control that king of flesh at will?’

I quickly prepared for battle.

If I had known this would happen, I would have covered the prince’s mouth.

It seemed that the owner of this sword could give orders to King Sal.

‘I’m joining the King of Sal?’

It is known that King Sal was also the third awakened person. Of course, he was not an easy person to meet.

If I were to secretly attempt to assassinate you at night, I would also be the victim.

But the situation was different now.

There was a good chance of victory in a head-on confrontation like this.

I was ready to unleash all my power immediately.

I had to bring out my all-out battle and attack them in an instant.

Hiding one’s identity wasn’t important right now.

But my expectations were wrong.

“Why me?”

Unbelievably, King Sal had a crooked attitude and refused to listen to the prince.

Of course, the prince couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

“That… I-I called you…”

“You are not the master of the sword?”

He pointed to the sword.

The sword was actually held in my hand. The blood was that of a prince, but the sword’s owner could be seen as me.

“Ah, no…! This is…! If you take it away like this…!”

The prince immediately tried to take the sword from me.

But there was no way.

I immediately dodged the prince’s hand and tripped him.

Uddangtangtang.

“Ugh…! Wow, how can a wizard move like that…!”

“Because I am not an ordinary wizard.”

I put my sword to the neck of the lying prince. Then the prince’s movements stopped again.

As I watched it, I asked a question to the king of flesh in front of me.

“Can the owner of this sword give you orders?”

“Did you call me without even knowing that?”

“Is it okay if I don’t know?”

“Well, there’s nothing that can’t be done. Just once, the owner of that sword can order me to kill.”

Fortunately, he showed a pretty cool side.

Of course, the situation was not as good as expected.

It was nice to be able to give him orders. But where he appeared was the problem.

‘This is near the dormitory. And the fact that he appeared right away…’

The guy appeared as soon as his sword shined. It was a situation that was only possible if you were nearby.

It seemed like he was living in a dormitory.

To put it simply, it meant that he was also a student at the Royal Academy.

‘Crazy… King Sal is attending the academy?’

It was a situation I could never have imagined.

I felt quite embarrassed. It was fortunate that his face was covered with a robe.

Anyway, I shouldn’t panic now.

I quickly shook my head.

‘It’s not good to make a surprise attack. If it runs away, there’s no way to catch it.’

King Sal was also famous for his quick movements.

The moment he refused to fight and ran away, I could have said my life was over.

I will probably be afraid for the rest of my life and not be able to sleep well.

‘Rather… let’s give orders.’

They said they could definitely order him to be killed.

And there was someone I wanted to kill. To be exact, he was someone I wanted to kill for a long time.

“Can anyone do it?”

“Yes, I can kill anyone I can kill.”

At that time, the prince below shouted.

He was such a persistent guy.

“Duke! Ask them to kill Duke Philip! You must kill him!”