episode_0134

10 hours.

The time Solar spent inside the celestial gauntlet, which repelled all physical forces, was 10 hours.

She had once tried to break out with a lightning spell, only to be bounced around by the lightning, causing herself to suffer.

But enduring 10 hours wasn’t that difficult.

She had endured even longer.

There were times when she had to endure for days in places without water or food, even places lacking oxygen.

She had to endure that much to become a knight of the Holy Empire.

But that alone wasn’t enough to make her this angry.

For 10 hours, she could resist all urges like sleep, hunger, thirst, using only her mental strength.

But there was something humans could never endure.

The kind of urge that, if suppressed, would lead to internal illness and death.

Solar couldn’t bear it to the end.

In the end, she had to relieve herself.

After doing so, about a minute later…

The celestial gauntlet was released, and a pile of dirt fell from above, covering Solar.

An indescribable anger filled Solar’s insides.

Thud!

Solar’s gauntlet emerged from the dirt floor.

Pushing the ton of dirt with her back, Solar’s body began to rise.

Solar’s eyes, burning with rage, rose to the surface after 10 hours.

Seeking her target for revenge, her eyes were filled with madness.

“Mi-jeong. Mi-jeong, come out. I’ll kill you.”

The one who impersonated the Four Kings and buried me in the ground.

Moreover, he knew that I had sided with Draken.

He must not be left alive.

Before he could expose my betrayal to the church, I had to catch and kill him.

“The knight seemed strange. Suddenly asking me to kill an innocent child. The demons I’ve seen were more noble.”

When you think about it, Mi-jeong seemed suspicious from the start.

Even if the Four Kings were hostile to the papacy, testing me by killing civilians?

The demon woman who came to propose the position of the Four Kings seemed much nobler and aristocratic.

She seemed far from the evil that ruthlessly slaughtered enemy children.

The Four Kings must at least have some common sense and decency.

Solar believed that.

“Just a moment, Solar. Shall we talk?”

“Is that your last wish?”

Her pants were still damp.

Suppressing her excitement, Solar walked towards the man lying on the ground, exhausted from magical fatigue.

Until he was surrounded by that powerful shield, he seemed much higher than me, but now I was sure that wasn’t the case.

If he had no magic, he clearly couldn’t do anything.

“I’m curious how you found out about my identity and the Four Kings, but you’re too dangerous. I have to kill you.”

“If you kill him, make sure to hand over the black bead to me, Solar.”

“Who are you?”

Glancing back, Solar furrowed her brow.

A giant spider-like monster was blocking the path.

Around its head, white flesh resembling human skin was slightly protruding, but it was cut off and bleeding profusely.

Its entire body had a grotesque appearance with eyes scattered all over.

It looked like a monster created through someone’s experiment.

“Haven’t you heard from Velfegor? Your senior, the Four Kings’ Kallida.”

“You’re a Grand Druid? That’s a joke. I heard that Grand Druid Kalli is known as the benevolent mother of nature, balancing the world with her compassion. Not a spider monster like you.”

“Ahaha… I do know it well, but you see, I’m not in my right mind at the moment. If I obtain the Sahon, I can return to being the Mother of Nature. No, that’s not it. Aren’t you also harboring hatred towards the Undecided?”

“That’s right.”

“If our goals are the same, we should join hands! I also hate the Undecided! I want to kill that girl and devour her piece by piece!”

“The girl…?”

At the strange discrepancy in perception, Solra’s eyes narrowed.

A girl?

Was the Undecided not the man lying behind me right now?

“What did that girl do?”

“She insulted me! She turned me, a mere bloodsucker with a stick, into a fool who is mocked by a mere human!”

“Is that all? Just because you felt slighted, you hold such a deep grudge? Are you really a Great Druid?”

The description he heard from the Archdemon was quite different.

This is why the Mother of Nature, Cali, seemed clumsy and wicked like a murderous fiend.

Even his repulsive appearance did not match that image at all.

“Of course not. That guy is just a spider monster impersonating Cali, Solra. I am the real Four Kings.”

“Don’t lie! I won’t believe you no matter how many times you say it! The seat of the Four Kings, excluding mine, is filled with the other three!”

“You’re slow to catch up. The Great Druid Cali is already dead. No, didn’t Velfegor tell you?”

“What?!”

“I’m sure you know the name of the former Four Kings, Transilvia. I followed in his footsteps and took over the seat left by Cali’s death. I sealed you because I thought you might attack me before explaining Cali’s death to you. Forgive me.”

Seizing the opportunity, Eugene began a hasty explanation.

The spider monster was taken aback, but finding a flaw in that explanation was not easy.

It was a fact that Cali had died.

So which was more convincing, taking over that vacant position or Cali coming back to life?

Surprisingly, the resurrection was the correct answer, but whether Solra would believe it was a different matter.

“Damn it! I must rip that girl’s jaw off!”

In his anger, he even considered killing the man lying unconscious from magical exhaustion right past Solra.

But as the spider monster passed by Solra, an illusion of a sword cutting him in half flashed in his mind.

The spider monster stumbled to a stop.

“Future sight?!”

The ability to see one’s own future one second ahead.

The ability to show another person their future one second ahead.

That was the function of Future Sight.

Before he knew it, Solra was blinking with empty eyes, pushing Future Sight into them.

“Give back the Future Sight you stole. Telling me to kill the child and burying it in the ground was a kind of test. You passed. I will soon promote you to the Four Kings.”

“Don’t deceive me! I am the Four Kings! I am Cali! I have come back to life, how could that guy have taken my place! It’s a blatant lie!”

“A creepy monster like that is the Four Kings? Come on, don’t be ridiculous.”

“Aaargh! You insolent brat! I can’t even torment you in death, you damn little human!!!”

Solra’s hesitation disappeared.

Strength filled the hand holding the sword.

It was now clear who the real Four Kings was.

“Die! You spider monster who kills people for trivial reasons!”

“No! Stop! The Sahon is right in front of me! Ah! Aaaah!!!”

Crash!

Solra leaped at the speed of light.

As his bound blond hair was released and scattered, his double-edged sword shot out.

“Aaah! Aaah! Aaaah!!!”

“Even if you stab them over and over again, they keep regenerating. Poor monster. How dare it impersonate the Great Druid like this?”

“It’s me! It’s me, this child!”

“I’m not falling for it!”

If it continues to regenerate endlessly, it will end up being cut down until it dies.

Stabbing and slashing at the eyes one by one, the spider monster’s body was soon covered in blood.

There was nowhere left for the eyes to regenerate.

The spider monster tried to resist by accelerating to its fastest speed, but it was futile in front of Solra.

Even with numerous legs coming down, Solra easily dodged them and destroyed them all.

In fact, even without Solra’s magic, the spider monster’s reaction speed could never catch up to Solra.

“Wait! Let me tell you something interesting! You seem to be a skilled swordsman, and I know the location of a legendary sword! It was believed to only exist in legends-”

“Not necessary!”

The only thing that mattered was his younger brother’s life.

Nothing else was needed.

Whether it was a famous sword or a cursed sword, Solra had no interest in them.

“Aaargh!”

Solra’s sword once again began to attack the spider monster.

Breaking and cutting every time the legs regenerated.

Cutting, slashing, breaking.

After endless repetition, the regeneration speed of the spider monster gradually slowed down.

No matter how tenacious the regeneration was, it was not infinite.

Having exhausted all its energy, there was no more energy left to regenerate.

“You’re a tough one. If you go to the afterlife, ask for forgiveness from the Great Druid. They are a merciful being and may show you some mercy.”

“You foolish creature!”

Thud!

Solra’s sword cut the spider monster in half.

Unable to regenerate anymore, the spider monster was split in half and its legs twitched in post-mortem rigidity.

It was completely dead with no way to resurrect.

“Well done.”

“Don’t touch my shoulder. Damn it. That creature may not be Kali, but that doesn’t mean I completely trust you as the Four Kings.”

“You should trust me. If I weren’t one of the Four Kings, I would have already informed the Papal Court of your betrayal. But I didn’t. I even returned the mana.”

“That’s true, but…”

Solra couldn’t help but look at the man’s body with suspicion.

No matter how you looked at it, he seemed weak.

Even considering the mana depletion, he seemed too weak.

When they met before, he definitely felt much stronger than this…

Perhaps it was an illusion spell.

A spell that could reverse a person’s perception.

And a seal that couldn’t be broken no matter what.

With this level of ability, he definitely seemed to have the power of a Four King.

“I believe you. You are indeed one of the Four Kings. The Great Demon I met was definitely a noble being. There’s no way such a vulgar, monster who values human life lightly could be a comrade of the Great Demon.”

“Well, that’s true. You’re right.”

Solra and Eugene shook hands.

A relaxed smile appeared on Eugene’s lips.

There was no worry about how to handle the aftermath.

The one who would handle it was coming closer now.

Footsteps could be heard from behind.

Solra gripped his sword and turned to look, on guard.

“Solra! What have you been doing all this time!”

“Luna!”

At that moment, Nicholas, the necromancer, appeared from around the corner.

Luna, the necromancer, was the Four King that Solra served.

“And what in the world is this mess…?”

“One of the Four Kings, Il-ik, met with Mijung and me. This spider monster was impersonating the Great Druid Kali, so Mijung and I took care of it together.”

“What the hell are you talking about! You just said that this monster freak killed Kali! You just killed the Four Heavenly Kings! You son of a bitch!!!”

“Um…?”

Sola blinked stupidly.

Ignoring Luna, who was hopping around in anger.

Sola looked around and noticed that the man named Mijeong had disappeared with the caravan.