episode_0151

Kwajik-!

The sound of flesh and bones breaking echoes around.

After a while, the astonished old man fell to the floor without even being able to utter a single word.

Although he was a seasoned and intelligent man in the underground city, he was nothing more than a helpless old man in the face of overwhelming force.

“Using strange techniques.”

The monster, which looked strangely like a turtle, only swung the sword it was holding once.

Originally, only the hollow sound of cutting through the air should have been heard, but the result was unexpected.

The black sword flew in with a quick and strange movement and pierced the old man’s heart exactly.

“I have no intention of fighting you head-on.”

“From what you say, I guess you already know quite a bit about me.”

As the guy gestured, the black afterimage that had been embedded in the old man’s body returned to the guy’s hand.

It wasn’t just an afterimage caused by being fast, it was magical, and the strange movements made it difficult to predict the attack.

He took on a wary stance, like a wild animal preparing for battle, and a sharp murderous aura spread around him.

“Warrior Eugene. The one who is the greatest obstacle to the great Demon King’s plan. You must die here.”

“It seems like you guys are starting to dislike me too. I didn’t know you’d welcome me so grandly.”

As I approached the guy, carefully drawing my sword, the door behind me closed with a bang.

Judging by the guy’s attitude, it was clear that my coming here was a trap he had set for me.

But things I didn’t understand kept popping up in my head like unpleasant noises.

‘How on earth?’

Even if it was discovered that he was hiding his identity with an artifact, it wouldn’t have been easy for him to be here.

Judging from the merciless killing of the old man and the way the old man acted, the two were not even in a cooperative relationship.

How did the Demon King know that I was in the underground city in the first place and how could he target me with such precision?

Among the many complex hypotheses, the first one that came to mind was a traitor.

“It seems like the noble behind it is more corrupt than I imagined.”

Of all the thoughts that came to mind, only one could explain everything.

One of the nobles of the Kingdom of Lumis has joined hands with the Demon King.

Otherwise, it would have been impossible to greet me so confidently.

“You understand quickly. As expected, the Demon King wants to get rid of you quickly.”

“You didn’t plan on meeting this old man and coming here, did you?”

I glanced at the old man’s body, which was cooling down, and the man shook his head with his usual calm demeanor.

“It was a perfect opportunity since I was joining up with the guys I was trying to get rid of anyway.”

“That means it was already discovered before.”

Judging by the condition of the corpses strewn around, it was unlikely to have been a pre-planned trap.

Perhaps they had been monitoring my movements and thought this was an opportune time to raid this place first.

“So··· nobles··· ”

If you think that being sent to the underground city was a trap in the first place, it would fit the current situation perfectly.

If you knew I was coming and were watching closely, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable for you to respond so quickly.

“Don’t worry, the fact that you died here will soon be widely known to the world.”

“That’s such comforting words.”

The guy was closing the distance slowly and carefully.

The guy’s movements felt somehow uneasy, but his instincts were calm.

Just using strange swordsmanship wasn’t even a threat to me anymore.

No matter how fast and flashy a technique is, it requires a certain level of skill to be effective against the opponent.

But the strength of the guy that I felt from my trained senses was at a level that I could suppress.

“I need to get you out of here as fast as I can and twist that noble guy’s balls.”

As I leisurely drew my sword, the guy smiled coldly.

“If you can, try it.”

“I’m going to do it even if you tell me not to.”

Instantly concentrate mana into your legs and move your body forward as if exploding.

Although it wasn’t flashy, the guy couldn’t even react by swinging his sword due to the overwhelming speed.

Even before the swordsmanship could be unleashed, the sharp blade pierced the man’s heart and a strange sensation was transmitted through his hand.

A simple feeling like stabbing a meat pouch.

For a moment, I felt as if all the hair on my body stood on end, a sense of discomfort that was completely different from the feeling of my heart beating hard to sustain life.

“Now!”

Even though his heart had been pierced, the words that came out of his mouth were not screams or moans.

Instead, the guy used his large body to hold onto my body, and his once calm instincts were now sounding loud warning lights.

pitfall.

It was a trap set by the guy, not only to greet me here, but also to get stabbed by the sword himself.

Wheeek―

What I felt in my senses, which were quickly activated by my survival instinct, was the sound of something falling on my head.

“Whoever wants to do it!”

Swing your sword upwards with a generous amount of mana.

The sword embedded in his heart easily cut through flesh and bone and collided with the falling object.

But the sound I heard was far beyond my expectations.

As the sound of a glass bottle breaking was heard, an unidentified liquid was sprayed all over my body.

“What is this···”

Red liquid on clothes and skin.

My body reacted faster than I could rationally judge what it was.

“Huh···! ”

A sensation like a very small, sharp sword digging into the skin.

I kicked the thing that instinctively clung to me because of the pain caused by the liquid seeping into my body, but the sensation I still felt was not that of a living creature.

“You got caught.”

The voice heard in extreme pain was not that of the guy who had flown away.

I looked up, enduring the pain as much as I could, and there, a person was coming down from a hidden passage in the ceiling.

A middle-aged man with grey hair.

He landed leisurely on the floor and glared at me, sending a chilling murderous aura around him.

“We’ve seen each other’s faces, but this is the first time we’ve talked in person like this.”

The man standing before my eyes was someone I knew well, even though I am not interested in politics.

Sorian, the man with the most power among the nobles of the Kingdom of Lumis.

His face, dressed in an old-fashioned black outfit, had a twisted smile on it.

“Really··· I’m so unlucky.”

Even in the midst of the pain that felt like the organs inside my body were being turned over, his appearance was shocking.

I expected that there would be a noble behind it, but I never imagined that he, who had the most power among the nobles, would join hands with the Demon King.

“This is actually our first meeting, but I feel a little sorry that we ended up meeting like this.”

Before I knew it, my mouth was starting to taste bitter because of the blood rising from deep within my body.

A feeling spread through my entire body, as if my body was slowly losing its functions and being destroyed.

The mana inside his body was going out of control to the point where it could not be used for detoxification, and his physical body was rapidly falling apart.

“I don’t understand at all··· ”

“Um··· What don’t you understand? I’ll kindly explain it to you as a gift before I die.”

The smile on Sorian’s face was full of genuine joy.

He hummed a tune as he looked at me with amusement, his face contorted in pain.

“What on earth could you gain by joining hands with the Demon King?”

“Hahaha! It’s quite funny to hear that from you. To be exact, it’s because of you.”

“I don’t remember doing anything to deserve a grudge against you.”

In the first place, it was my first time having a conversation with him.

But his blazing eyes were filled with intense anger.

“I should be more precise. Everything you’ve done while working with the Queen is an obstacle to my power.”

His words hit me like I had been hit in the head with a hammer.

As the Queen strengthened her power, the power of the nobles weakened, and their anger towards her turned to me.

It was so unfair, but right now, I needed a way out of the crisis rather than protesting it.

“What the fuck··· As I live, I end up incurring resentment over trivial things.”

“As expected of a noble in name only, his mouth is rough. Of course, that mouth will close soon.”

Sorian pulled out the sword on his waist and aimed it at me.

His refined posture and sturdy physique showed that he was a capable prosecutor.

On the other hand, my body was in such a bad condition that it needed immediate treatment.

“You’ll die even if you leave it like this, but it’ll be better if you kill it for sure. Hey!”

As Sorian shouted behind him, the monster that had been flying away slowly got up.

The inside of the body, visible through a wound that extended from near the heart upward, proved that the guy was not a living creature.

Undead.

It was clear that the guy had become undead for this trap.

He must have died recently, too, to hide the fact that he was undead.

Even the rotting flesh is hidden with great care.

I was sweating profusely with the clear intention of killing me.

“Plague··· Is this why people should never let their guard down?”