Chapter 411 The Fall of Cronus (2)
A little while ago.
The Marquis of Memphis, who had been moving hurriedly after hearing the explosion, heard an unbelievable report from the capital’s guards.
[The Marquis of Memphis! Roman Dmitri has raised his aura and brought down the walls! Since the cracks in the castle wall have spread throughout, it is impossible to proceed with repairs by wasting time. The Nongseong operation was a complete failure. Please come to the scene and give us a new order.]
I stopped.
A cool aura permeated his entire body, and the Marquis of Memphis reflected on the report.
“… The wall collapsed?”
It was shocking.
Cronus prepared everything for this day, but the wall collapsed while he was away.
It was an incomprehensible situation.
According to the report, Roman Dmitri was strong enough to break down the wall at once, and the Kronos Empire faced an unavoidable crisis.
Klopp.
I swallowed dry saliva.
He did not know the true nature of the operation that Dmitri attempted.
It was unthinkable that workers would have been used to break down the wall, and what was certain was that the sit-in was no longer possible.
All operations came from the soundness of the walls.
However, a fundamental question arose as to whether Cronus would have a chance if the castle walls had collapsed from the start.
It was impossible.
The war is over.
He was terrified at the fact that the monster that had killed Alexander and demolished the walls was coming to kill him.
‘If Cronus is defeated like this. Will I be able to survive?’
maybe.
There was a high probability of being executed as an example.
Roman Dmitry was such a person.
At least those in command who had expressed their intention to fight him had never survived.
Marquis of Barco Benedict, Emperor of Valhalla, and so on.
I don’t know if he accepted it when he allowed room for compromise, but the earnest pleas of those who lost the war didn’t work.
What mattered to him was a clear precedent rather than popular sentiment, and thus all of Roman Dmitri’s enemies died.
‘It’s as if the war is over. If there is no way to deal with Roman Dmitri in a situation where the castle wall has collapsed, everyone will die due to that one existence in the end. Joining the walls is pointless. There is no reason for me to sacrifice my life to save them for the fallen Kronos Empire.’
“… Marquis?”
The family knight asked with a puzzled face.
looking at him
said the Marquis of Memphis.
“We are not heading for the walls.”
“What do you mean?”
“You can’t even see the current situation?! Roman Dmitry knocked down the walls. I mean, Dmitri’s demons are running at us with lights in their eyes, threatening to kill us! Right now, there is no point in resisting to the death. For now, you have to survive somehow to plan for the future.”
“… All right. But where are you going to run to? There is no retreat for us.”
then
Faced reality.
The only way out was through a secret passage.
If they moved with Emperor Cronus at the forefront, they would have been able to escape through that place, but thinking about it, they gave orders directly and sprayed poison gas on the escape route and closed it.
Dmitri’s operation was intentional.
It sent smoke to the secret passage to disperse power and at the same time made a plate so that Cronus could block the escape route on its own.
I got goosebumps.
how.
How far did Roman Dmitri plan?
The Marquis of Memphis chewed his lips carefully with an anxious face as his breath was gradually tightened.
I had to think.
how to survive yourself.
From the magic communicator, I heard the word that I wanted a response, and some of the knights who followed me looked at this situation with disgust.
But those issues didn’t matter at all.
The Marquis of Memphis, who was racking his brains, suddenly remembered the place that Emperor Cronus, who was possessed by Alexander, often visited.
“Yes, the secret room! That’s it!”
I was sure
in order to survive.
The only way was to hide for a while, not to fight against the storm that came upon Kronos.
* * *
It was a terrible reality.
At the fact that the Marquis of Memphis had escaped, Alvaro, the head of the capital’s guard, gritted his teeth with a face in which the world collapsed.
“You bastard who can’t even be like this. To abandon the country to live alone.”
It was dark before my eyes.
In his field of vision, he saw soldiers being slaughtered unilaterally, and he couldn’t come up with a way to solve this problem.
To be exact, I completely lost my confidence when I faced him directly.
At first, he believed that if he didn’t give up and fought, he would have a chance to win, but as he dealt with Dmitri’s soldiers, he admitted that Dmitri could no longer be called a weak country on the outskirts.
It was strong.
Dmitri’s powerful soldiers seemed to overwhelm even most knights.
It was then.
“Are you the commander?”
Bubbly.
someone.
approached him
When I looked up, I saw sharp eyes and impressive blonde hair, and it was not difficult to predict that it was Dmitri’s flash from the bloody spirit that radiated from it.
For a moment, I felt as if my blood was drying up.
I never wanted to deal with a guy like Chris, but I thought it wouldn’t be a bad picture if I was in a situation where I was driven to the edge anyway.
“Yes, I am Alvaro, the captain of the capital’s guard.”
closely.
I gripped my sword tightly.
Even if you die.
I wanted to leave behind the past.
If Alvaro, the head of the capital’s guard, killed Dmitri’s flashlight, he will leave a name even if he dies miserably right here.
His eyes flashed fiercely.
Emperor Cronus was Alexander’s puppet, and the Marquis of Memphis, who led Cronus, cowardly ran away.
This country is over.
Alvaro, who was closely watching his opponent, instantly exploded his aura as Chris took a step closer.
“And the man who will kill you!”
pod.
Qurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It was explosive.
It penetrated the space in an instant, and the aura erupting from Alvaro’s sword spread as if to engulf the world.
It was an overflow of aura. In exchange for his own life, Alvaro collected all the mana spread throughout his body.
kill him
I will die too.
He intended to prove with his own strength that Cronus was an empire that conquered the continent.
And that’s it.
Flash.
puck.
It was the last memory of Alvaro.
Chris didn’t dodge the attack, but dug into a sharp gap and blew off the opponent’s head at once.
Ilseom (一閃).
It got faster.
While imagining Ares and imagining Kevin, Chris polished himself.
For the sake of Roman Dmitri, he happily accepted the growth of his colleagues, but he had no intention of encroaching on his territory.
Martial arts is not just about training the body.
As Chris’s mind entered a new realm, Alvaro was unable to properly capture his opponent’s attacks until the moment of his death.
Chris took a step back.
My throat is burned.
More than Kevin.
He wanted to reveal himself.
* * *
Cronus lost his fighting spirit.
From the start, the walls collapsed, the Marquis of Memphis was nowhere to be seen, and Alvaro could no longer give orders.
They only fight because they are driven to the battlefield. They did not show a strong desire to win this war.
They knew too.
The fact that there is no chance of winning.
And Roman Dmitry keenly captured the rapidly changing flow of war.
‘I still don’t see the Marquis of Memphis. In a situation where it is revealed that Emperor Cronus is a scarecrow, the fact that the person with the strongest commanding power is not visible means that he has given up on the war and fled.’
No explanation was needed.
It was visible.
The confusion of the enemy who lost their commander.
If so, Dmitri didn’t have to continue fighting until he was ready for damage.
‘Heavenly Sword.’
up to the sky.
Aura surged.
People’s eyes focused on one place, and as if God’s judgment fell, the space in front of them was swept away at once.
Quaang!
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!
Qurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It was an overwhelming sight.
People who looked at me in awe, people who ran away to try to survive, people who raised their auras to fight back somehow, and so on. was suddenly destroyed.
The indiscriminate eruption of the aura is not a very powerful method against individuals, but the people of the Cronus Empire could not handle its destructive power just by being swept away by the aura.
out of the sky.
transcended human limits.
In the momentary silence, Roman Dmitri raised his voice.
“The war is already over. Your commander, the Marquis of Memphis, has fled and no one will come to rescue you. I will ask you. It is a battlefield where neither Emperor Cronus nor the commander to lead you exists. What are you guys fighting for?”
asked a question
Moment.
The war has stopped.
People with bloodstained faces looked at Roman Dmitri with fascinated expressions and reacted with confusion at the Marquis of Memphis’ flight.
They didn’t know that.
They were just fighting because they wanted to fight, and they had no way of knowing that the Marquis of Memphis had abandoned them.
So the shock was great. Kronos’s soldiers looked at each other, hoping someone would explain this confusing situation.
“The Kronos Empire used black magic. Alexander proved that fact, and warlocks were mobilized in the battle just now. Is that really what you want this country to look like? Are you willing to sacrifice your life to the end for those who want to seize power even by using black magic that drives humans to ruin?”
they.
You have no right to decide on war.
Because they were forcibly driven to the battlefield, they were given the last chance to end the war.
“If you want to fight for Kronos to the end, I will kill all of them without leaving a single prisoner of war. choose You are the only chance to choose your future.”
at that point.
people are confused
At a time when they were at a loss as to what to do, a man walked out among the crowd.
“Can I just ask you one question?”
he is.
was a common soldier.
An ordinary commoner whose name was not known, he stepped out in front of the people.
* * *
said the soldier.
“I heard that you never give a second chance. We missed our chance to surrender, and a moment ago we were very determined to kill your people. But are you really willing to give us a chance? Knowing that a man named Roman Dmitri has shown absolutely no mercy, what can we trust to lay down our weapons?”
It was a desperate voice.
for him.
I couldn’t trust beings with power.
While preparing for this war, the Marquis of Memphis emphasized a fact to the soldiers.
“Roman Dmitri is a battlefield demon. Have you ever heard that he saved an enemy’s life? The Kronos Empire has already been classified as an enemy to Roman Dmitri. So, in order to survive, you have to win at all costs.”
that word.
imprinted in my mind
Kronos’s soldiers swung their weapons to the end with fear-stricken faces at the fact that they would have no choice but to die if they did not defeat Dmitri.
In a situation where you are driven to the edge of a precipice anyway.
Rather than running away to survive even for a minute or a second, I firmly believed that it was right to fight by clinging to the slightest possibility of victory.
however.
The commanders have fled.
In a situation where even the hope he believed in was gone, the soldier who stepped forward represented everyone’s position with a pitiful gaze.
said Roman Dmitry.
“If you were the decision makers who could decide your own future, I unequivocally would not have given you a second chance. It is the domain of decision makers to not allow precedent. People like the emperor of this country and the Marquis of Memphis, who drove you into battle a little while ago, belong to that realm.”
It is not intended to be merciful.
What is precedent.
You need a clear target.
If he could set a precedent by killing everyone in this room, Roman Dmitri would be willing to commit a massacre.
However, all those in command who drove them to death fled.
The precedent set by the cruelty of the battlefield by slaughtering them all did not help.
Eventually.
It is a land to rule.
Just as they accepted people from other powers in the process of conquering Murim, they were also beings who would become the people.
“The reason I am giving you a chance is clear. I need people who will live for me in this land as well. When you can decide your own future, if you accept my existence, you will have a chance to live a new life.”
that.
It was the answer that the ruling class wanted.
The mere fact of giving them a chance to live in the future had no reason to fight any more as ordinary soldiers.
Took.
“I will surrender.”
abandoned the weapon.
he was the start
Fighting.
Clink.
one two.
Throwing away weapons from all sides.
It spread like an epidemic in an instant, and the soldiers of the Cronus Empire knelt down and bowed their heads.
“I will surrender.”
“Please save us.”
A long bad relationship with Kronos.
It was the moment we were finally approaching the end.
* * *
Things have been sorted out.
Kronos’s soldiers completely surrendered and Lucas reported the current situation.
“As expected, the Marquis of Memphis seems to have run away. A chase team is being sent to investigate the traces, and no circumstances have been found for Emperor Cronus to have left the imperial palace.”
“i get it. Be sure to find the Marquis of Memphis.”
“yes.”
Lucas backed off.
now.
It was their turn to occupy the imperial palace.
Roman Dmitry moved on.
After that, Chris and Kevin followed, followed by a procession of Dmitri’s soldiers. It was a breathtaking sight.
They were on their way to Kronos’ imperial palace, but no one blocked their path.
It was empty.
There was no one to keep.
Actually, it was expected.
Castro and the Imperial Knights.
The beings guarding the imperial family were Alexander’s dogs, and since he was dead, there was no one to fight for Emperor Cronus, who was only a puppet.
It was truly bloodless.
I thought that perhaps the dispossessed Emperor Cronus might have already vacated his seat and fled in the static revolving space.
like that.
You have reached your destination.
When I opened the huge door and went inside, I saw an unexpected sight in front of me.
“Did the capital fall in just one day?”
Emperor Kronos.
He, with a thin and sickly face, did not escape alone and sat in the emperor’s seat.
