Episode 236
Episode 89. Rugal Raijin (3)
As soon as he reaped something, it seemed that Rugal’s pain was over.
However, as if the shock did not go away easily, Rugal was gasping for breath while lying flat on his huge body.
The thick saliva flowed down his sharp fangs and dripped onto the floor.
A gaping mouth and a long, drooping flat stomach. Yuma couldn’t imagine what kind of pain the dragon would have to look so ugly.
It seemed that Rugal did not even have the strength left to be wary even if Yuma came close to him. It seemed that he would not be able to defend himself even if he stabbed his neck with a black aura right away.
Of course, he had no intention of killing Rugal on the spot. Although Rugal seemed to be trying to kill himself, Yuma wanted to talk to him a little more. Whoa, the god of hunger and emptiness. Does Rugal have something to do with its existence? Amanjo seems to be the same.’
Hwa’s power did not directly affect Rugal.
According to Rugal’s expression, because of Amulla, Rugal was simply ‘exposed’ to Hwa.
Still, to the extent that Black Dragon collapsed so miserably.
When he thought of the transcendence of the existence of ‘God’, Yuma felt somewhat distant.
But there was one strange thing.
Rugal, a black dragon, was in pain enough to drop his scales like a sick chicken, but for some reason, he, a human, felt dizzy for a moment and stumbled.
‘Looking back, there were quite a few strange things. Even when I fought Amanjo, his mental attack didn’t work on me, and the power of the Spirit King was the same. The first time I rode the Tulka, and even when I absorbed Amura…
Somehow, I didn’t feel afraid at all.’
This time, even though he was exposed to some of the power of Hwa, there was no big shock.
And Rugal had just told Yuma that you and the like would not know how great the blessing of being a human outside the realm is.
As if I was very envious, as if it was a power that an inferior being like you shouldn’t have.
Yuma often felt the emotion of ‘fear’ when he saw powerful humans like Hugo or Duran.
On the other hand, for some reason, when I faced transcendent and unknown forces, I only felt that I was easy.
Until now, I just thought that my personality was like that. In fact, even during her time as a eunuch, Yuma had been told that she was quiet but had the guts and had a hostile personality.
But in fact it wasn’t like that.
The reason why Yuma has been able to run amok in front of transcendent beings so far is because of the speciality of ‘existence outside the realm’.
It is a privilege given only to beings outside of God’s providence.
Yuma could now vaguely perceive it.
“Rugal are you okay? No, why do you make me use a demonic sword by swinging my front paws?” [Heavy mandible …. child
to eat …!]
I will not attack you when you are defenseless. Instead, you will have to keep your promise.”
[Khehehe. Cuckoo! He brings out the sword of death from this dimension and stimulates Hwwa, and he is so carefree… Humans are human.]
“As you said, I am a human, so I don’t know much about the realm of mythology.
The important thing to me is to get my comrades back from you. Swear that you will be sure to keep your promises.
Before summoning Amula again.”
Rugal opened his big amber eyes and looked at Yuma.
It seemed that even dragons had facial expressions. From Yuma’s point of view, he had such a bewildered expression that the back of his head tingled.
[Every oath… Kahak! I swear.]
“Good. Why don’t you also ensure the safety of me and my colleagues?”
[As long as you own Amoula… I can’t kill you anyway.]
“I like most of what you said today. But is that because of Hwa?”
Was Amurra such a great sword?
Yuma felt that Awolla was of a similar grade to Orihalcon’s sword, Marlon’s Yurix. It meant a sword that fell slightly rather than the steel sword Ascalon of Serukaze.
It was not unreasonable for Yuma to think that way, since he was completely unaware of the essential nature of Amula.
[If you were not a human outside the realm, and if Amulla had all of its natural powers, you would have been sucked into the realm of absolute nothingness as soon as you touched the sword.
] A sword made by collecting all the deaths that occurred over time.
That was the identity of Amulla.
Although it does not show as much destructive power as it did in the underworld after crossing over to the human world, originally Aquila was not something that humans could dare to own.
Not only humans, but even the same gods could not recklessly use Amula.
Just as the god of light controls light and the god of hunger controls hunger, only Amanzo, the demon of death, can control death.
Yuma only thought that such an amoula would be very useful as a secret weapon because it was easy to carry and could use the black aura.
But a sword that could harm a god? That was also to Hwah, the most puzzling being among the gods.
– Remember Yuma. Hwa is far more dangerous than Aman Joe. Even among the gods, no one can know the true intentions of Hwa. He is the only god who exerts more power the fewer people believe in him.
It was the story Kriesha told me the last time I found the golden tower.
-The ‘Hwa Day’ that humans enjoy
is a festival that prevents Hwa from having more power. On the verge of losing his powers due to his being himself, Zeil, the god of light.
Kriesha also added:
A god who exerts more power the fewer people believe in it. A much more dangerous existence than the drunken Amanzo.
Yuma tried to sort out his thoughts for a while while Rugal calmed down.
Maybe Hwa is related to the dragon horse war?
‘The less people who believe in him, the less people who know of his existence, the stronger the god’s power… If so, isn’t the benefit to Hwa the more humans die and the less intelligent beings exist in the world?’
It was not an issue that could be resolved quickly. But when he thought of that, Yuma felt his heart sink.
Yuma knew that the reason for the outbreak of the Dragon Horse War was the grudge between the demons and the dragon.
It was only then that the fact that the demons kidnapped the offspring of the dragons was revealed in ancient times, long before the Kyle Empire was established, and the war began.
Because the demons visited the dragons residing in the human world and killed them first, the two races clashed in the human world.
Other than the human world, there was no space for the two races to wage war.
At that time, humans were simply in a position where shrimp’s backs exploded in whale fights.
If good and influential dragons such as Mahatrisha and Krisha Ainu had not stepped forward to protect humans, humanity would have been destroyed without fail.
In particular, the demons believed that dragons would definitely help mankind and relentlessly hunted humans.
They invaded the human world through demon caves spread all over the world, set traps, and caught and killed dragons when they were urgently dispatched.
Thinking of those terrible days, Yuma’s teeth gnashed involuntarily.
‘It was not known at the time, but somehow it seems that Amanzo and Hwa also had something to do with the dragon horse war. Before the dragon horse war begins, I’ll have to take care of Amanjo’s pup and Hwa.’
Hwa, not to mention Amanzo, was a contractor for ‘Shram’, a black magician who helped Heize and Winstelting turn Zishka into a traitor.
Even now, he must have been preparing to wreak havoc on the world by using the Marong sealed in Tejiz in the West.
Judging from the fact that even after torturing Winslting so much, he couldn’t find out any information, it seems that Winslting wasn’t in a position to use Shiram, but was in a position to be used by Shiram.
Yuma suddenly regretted having killed Heize like that. I should have kept him alive in some form and tortured him over and over again to spit out information.
A human who was adopted by Radion Po Viang under the name of Hudin, and now an apostle of Hwa and uses the name Shiram.
Yuma repeated the name to himself, then opened his mouth wide as if remembering something.
‘Hwa tried to wage a war using Winslting and Heize! By lending one’s own black magic and encouraging those who seize the hegemony of the world’s most powerful country!’
There was no method that consumed human life as quickly and reliably as war.
Shiram knew exactly what his mission was as an apostle of Hwa, and he was putting aside his vengeance against Phobian in order to carry out that mission.
More war more death more void.
That was Shiram’s purpose and the reason for his existence.
After the strategy using Winslting and Hayes failed, Hwa was preparing to wake up the demon dragon seal.
Why is Marong called Marong? Isn’t it a name given to killing living things indiscriminately? This, too, was very much in line with Shi Lam’s purpose.
‘If this assumption is true, Hwa is the one who benefits the most from the dragon and horse war. Besides, His Majesty Hela, who went mad after the Dragon Horse War…
prepared for another war.
At the time, Empress Hella Rose had announced plans to purify the 3 families as treason before the Kyle Empire could be properly rebuilt, and immediately start a war with neighboring countries.
It was 30 years after the end of the Dragon Horse War.
The world was still unable to overcome the scars of the Dragon Horse War.
Unlike now, Varys Cannon was alive and serving as the head of the Imperial Guard. It meant that there was a possibility that Shiram had existed in the shadows behind the map until then.
Or, he was controlling Hella’s mind with black magic.
“Rugal! There is something I want to ask you.”
[Say…]
“You just said that you cannot kill me because I have a sword that can harm Hwa. What exactly does that mean?”
The fact that he took away the body of the emperor of the East, concentrated all the power of Kantra in himself as the ruler, and activated the slave market in the dark.
There was a feeling that Rugal’s actions overlapped with the warlock Shiram’s actions to some extent. For tyrants love war and slavery.
If Rugal was Hwa’s nemesis, Yuma was going to summon Arilla again and torture him.
Rugal didn’t answer and just stared at Yuma.
“Answer me.”
During the long silence, Yuma did not stop staring at Rugal.
After a while, Rugal gave Yuma an unexpected answer.
[It would be better to say slave…]
“Slaves?”
[Yes. After Geil lost his power, I naturally became his slave.]
Rugal continued as he removed a piece of scale from his body.
[I didn’t have the means to resist him. Until I met you today.]
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