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The chimera spread its six wings and flew straight towards the Empress.

Only then did the spectators, who thought this was just part of the game and were cheering, realize that something had gone very wrong, and their expressions hardened and they became agitated –

-Kwagwagwang!

“Aaagh!”

“Your Majesty.. Your Majesty!! Your Majesty!”

-The moment the chimera invaded the head table where the Empress was, everyone screamed and jumped up from their seats.

“Heo Eok.. Heo Eok…”

“Your Majesty! Are you okay?!”

Empress Solaria, who was barely able to avoid the attack with the help of the guard captain who immediately rushed out, looked at the chimera growling in front of her with a white-faced expression.

Still, should we say that he preserved the emperor’s dignity by not raising his voice and screaming?

-Grrr…

Of course, there was no way the chimera would care about such things, so several pairs of eyes rolled around and quickly scanned her.

The monster stuck out its tongue and licked its teeth, then took a step forward and tried to approach its prey.

However, the Royal Guard, who had immediately erected a wall with spears and shields, stepped in front of the Empress and blocked it.

It was so angry that its meal was interrupted that it tried to remove the obstruction by striking the shields with all its might.

However, like the shield that protects the emperor, the Royal Guard did not back down even though it had a hard time accepting the impact, and instead held on by thrusting the spear it was holding into the guy’s torso.

When one of them pierced its barely healed eye, the chimera howled in pain and anger, opening its mouth wide and baring its teeth at the guards.

Until a spear flew out and stuck in the roof of his mouth.

-Keeee!

The moment the bastard, whose mouth was pierced by the spear of the royal guard that I had picked up and threw, took a step back in surprise, swallowing a scream, the guard captain Lenoria, who had rushed out to protect the Empress, drew her sword and charged at the bastard.

She lunged at him with the ferocity of a lion or a leopard, moving her sword straight like a wild beast swinging its claws, and slashing the entire left side of his face in one fell swoop.

The chimera stiffened for a moment, clutching the wound with one of its front paws, as if recalling the memory of having received a large cut in the same place as Emma.

“Hurry and take His Majesty to a safe place!”

With her eyes still fixed on the chimera in front of her, Lenoria shouted loudly and ordered the rest of the guards.

However, even as the rest of the royal guard was busy following her orders, the Chimera’s wound healed in an instant, just like the wound inflicted on its leg by a centaur bestiari earlier.

As the pain disappeared, the animal lowered its front paw covering the wound, and as if it understood the situation, its eyes slowly filled with anger and revenge.

Even though he was a dull mind with only the instinct to kill, he understood that the wounds he had sustained would continue to heal, and that it was okay to rush in without any hesitation.

And the fact that if all the wounds of the past have healed, you can do the things you did before again.

It began to breathe heavily.

It’s as if he can block himself with a shield, but he won’t be able to block the fire he emits.

“Damn.”

Lenoria, who saw the flame beginning to flicker beyond the guy’s dark throat, took a deep breath and aimed her sword straight, preparing to rush in and stop the guy in any way possible.

If she had allowed him to start spewing fire now, not only would she and the guards have been in danger, but if the fire had been unlucky enough to spread, the audience gathered here and even the Empress Solaria could have been in danger.

The moment she ducked and hit the floor, a purple flash of light shot towards the Chimera.

In an instant, the two sword lines drawn on the chimera’s face turn blood red and rip out its eyes.

Even if it was a wound that would heal quickly, and no matter how many times I had experienced it, the pain of having my eye cut out was too strong to be suppressed with the comfort of knowing that it would heal in a little while or that I had already experienced it.

The moment the creature, unable to overcome the pain, raised its head high and tried to breathe fire, the sword in Lenoria’s hand dug deep into the nape of the creature’s neck and stabbed it.

The guard captain, who stabbed the sword with his entire body, twisted the sword with all his might and cut into the inside of the wound, trying to prevent the creature from spewing out more fire.

However, despite her great dancing, unfortunately, the length of the blade was slightly insufficient to suffocate the chimera.

The Chimera, who had already regained her sight through regeneration, hung Lenoria and her sword around her neck and unleashed the fire within her to burn everyone.

If she had been the only one who rushed at the chimera, it would have definitely happened.

My spear overlapped right above the sword she had thrust into the guy’s neck, and with its mass and length at the tip of my lunging hand, it dug in toward the target without hesitation.

-Krrr…

The guy whose neck was pierced by the spear I threw my whole body into couldn’t even properly roar in anger as the air escaped.

He just lowers his head and glares at me like he’s going to kill me with his eyes.

It seemed like he finally remembered me or the spear that had ripped off his wings earlier.

I don’t know how long that memory will remain in his mind.

The moment he tried to create fire beyond his throat and spit it out, the flames that pierced his throat wide and had nowhere to go exploded inside him, burning at least half of his neck and head.

-Ugh…

Ignoring the man’s moans of pain, I grabbed the pole, twisted it with all my strength, and plunged it deeper once more.

The chimera, which was shaking for a moment with its half-intact head lifted upwards, soon fell backwards, shaking the floor with its large body.

“Heo-eok… Heo-eok…”

Even as I looked at the Chimera lying backwards and motionless, I still didn’t take my hand off the window and tried to catch my breath again, breathing heavily.

“…What about the Empress?”

“You escaped safely.”

When Lenoria, who was out of breath similarly to me, asked, one of the guards immediately gave an answer.

“Phew…”

Only then did I and Lenoria breathe a sigh of relief.

The audience, who were startled by the sudden change and tried to get up and run away, also stopped and cheered and applauded when they saw the chimera fall.

“Should I use a bigger weapon next time?”

Lenoria said with a smile as she pulled out the sword that was still stuck in the chimera’s neck, and I responded by trying to pull out the spear as well.

“Okay. I think that sword would be more effective in cutting down assassins rather than monsters like these.”

“Ha, I guess so… wouldn’t it be better to avoid it quickly? I think it would be quite annoying if the audience recognized you.”

“Yes, that would be good. First of all-”

-Wiggle.

It was a relatively small muscle movement, but it was clearly visible because the creature was so large.

As soon as we saw the omen, both she and I were ready to move.

I don’t know what they did to make him still not dead even though half his head was burned off, but if he gets fatally wounded again before he fully wakes up-

-Kwazijic!

However, whether it was intentional or just a seizure, its tail struck the cracked floor and destroyed the structure, which was already weakened by repeated impacts.

The balcony that had been specially prepared in the Colosseum for the emperor began to split and fall.

Fortunately, it was built so strong that only part of it collapsed.

The bad thing is that of course that was the side the chimera was lying on, so it fell with us.

In the arena, the seat where the emperor of the empire sat was naturally at the top, and its height was at least 40 meters.

If I had been able to use a spear, I would have stuck it into the wall and stopped its fall, but unfortunately, my spear was still stuck in the chimera’s neck and it had no intention of coming out.

In the end, I leaned close to him, using the chimera as a cushion to reduce the impact as much as possible.

I hope this is enough.

As the chimera’s massive body hit the floor of the circular arena, making a loud noise, shaking, and dust sweeping all around, it was unclear whether that would be enough.

Before I could check, a shadow fell on me from above and rolled me around.

“…Rubia.”

She trembled as she held me tightly in her arms, even though her usual composure and slyness were all gone and she was covered in dust, rolling on the floor.

“Haa… haa… Please don’t run out so suddenly…”

“…Sorry. At that moment, I just thought it was the best.”

“…Yes. It’s because we are slower than the master.”

Rubia also knew that if I hadn’t rushed at the chimera and stuck my spear in it, everyone would have been in a different direction than now.

“No… I didn’t mean that…”

Of course, I didn’t say those words with the intention of making them blame themselves, so I continued speaking in embarrassment.

“I know… Just be a little more careful. You almost got seriously hurt.”

Luvia let me go only after I nodded repeatedly in her trembling voice.

“Owner. Are you okay?!”

The height of the Colosseum was too high for even a centaur’s jumping power to climb in one go, but Emma also jumped from floor to floor and landed, coming towards us.

“I’m fine! Lenoria Guard Captain?!”

“It’s at the top! When it collapsed, she seems to have held on by sticking her sword into the remaining part.”

She finally landed near me, and just like Luvia, she jumped at me and started checking me for any injuries.

“It was really dangerous just now, master.”

“Yes, if it wasn’t Luvia, it would have been at least a serious injury. thank you. Rubia.”

“…I hope this is the last time I feel lucky that I became a vampire.”

But when I remembered that I couldn’t just stay like this forever, I quickly got up.

“Thank you all so much, but let’s talk about the rest after we leave this arena. It’s too noticeable as it is.”

Thanks to the fact that the chimera that was about to cause trouble was subdued earlier than expected, there were more than tens of thousands of spectators who had not yet left the Colosseum.

And of course, we who fell to the floor of the arena along with the chimera’s body were exposed to the gaze of tens of thousands of people.

Looking at the reaction, it was fortunate that most people did not notice that Luvia was a vampire because it happened so quickly, but in the first place, she came to the Colosseum hidden in the crowd to meet the Empress secretly, so she drew attention as much as possible. Because it will have no meaning whatsoever.

But I may have been mistaken about something.

I should have known that things were about to go awry from the moment the chimera, whose wings had been torn off, suddenly started flying with its regrowed wings and lunged at me.

-@#%#@%!

Rather than a roar, the sound heard this time was closer to the screams of someone in extreme pain.

Because the source of the pain was located in the neck, not even a scream could come out, but it was still alive and moving.

“…So that’s why I was able to keep playing it.”

The chimera that started moving again looked terrible in many ways.

Hundreds of large black worm-like things were writhing and forcibly moving the chimera’s body, scorched by fire and bursting open from the impact of the fall.

The previous appearance was a bizarre mixture of various living things, but it was nothing compared to now, where it is being eaten alive, covered in parasites of unknown origin.

Who on earth stuffed those things into that monster’s body?

At least that chimera seemed to think that I was the culprit, and glared at me with its still remaining eyes, filled with anger for all the pain I had suffered.

‘…shit. The first time I thought about running in the Colosseum again, it wasn’t like this.’