equity.
equity.
How long is this damn guy going to sit here?
A member of the Arras Liberationio, collectively known as ‘Spiper’, a man in charge of managing members hiding in the Imperial Sewage Treatment Facility. He stared intently at the knight sitting in front of him.
The knight, wearing a splendid red cape over his shiny silver armor, tilted his teacup very leisurely despite the fierce eyes directed at him.
The wing pattern drawn in the middle of the red cloak indicated that he belonged to the ‘Emperor’s Left Wing’, the royal guard of the Emperor of the Northern Empire. If the emperor’s spiders were the emperor’s hidden power, the emperor’s left wings were the emperor’s revealed power, which only obeyed the emperor’s orders.
Knight Hasta, who drank all the tea in the cup, put down the empty cup and shrugged.
“The tea doesn’t taste very good.”
this kid
A thick wrinkle formed on Arras’ forehead.
“The tea doesn’t taste good, so why don’t you go back to the ground soon? Isn’t this dark and stale sewer a suitable place for bright knights?”
“but. This is not a very suitable place for someone like me.”
Hasta’s thin lips curled.
“It’s a very suitable place for worshipers of evil gods like you.”
In each light word, there was clear hostility that even a small child could notice.
Arras, who suddenly became the target of sarcasm, was just full of energy.
That guard knight, for some reason, even though his master told him to help them, every time he ran into them, he grabbed the horse’s tail and put medicine on people. It’s as if he wants you to attack him once if his words offend you.
No, if it hadn’t been for my master’s order, the tip of the spearhead he was carrying behind his back would have been pointed at his neck right now.
Arras writhed in his heart as he writhed through the muscles all over his body. I wanted to throw the table away right away and fight properly and teach that royal guard who was on top and who was on the bottom, but as the day the great task was to be completed was gradually approaching, I didn’t want to cause friction with the imperial family of the Northern Empire.
Moreover, he believed that it was his mission to repay the trust that the merciful prophet trusted him and entrusted him with this position.
Arras laughed heartily, moving his large muscle-covered body.
“Like Lord Hasta said, I really like living here! You know what? Because the sewer across the wall is so hot, every day is just pleasantly warm without doing anything else? I am always deeply grateful to His Majesty the Emperor for lending me such a precious place.”
“That is perfectly normal. If you don’t even know how to be grateful, you’re no different from ticks that cling to the body of an animal.”
According to your analogy, if we are ticks, are you saying that the emperor who lent us this place is a beast!
A reply came out of his throat, but Arras managed to swallow the words he was trying to say using his thick throat muscles.
“Isn’t it time for Lord Hasta to have dinner soon? The food we eat here is too shabby to serve to Lord Hasta, so if we dare to serve it, it will only spoil Lord Hasta’s appetite.”
It’s a euphemism for today to disappear because I don’t have a single spoonful of rice to give you. However, the sky did not listen to Arras’ earnest wishes.
The guard knight looked at Arras with eyes as thin as lips and chinned.
“That’s an area for me to judge. Do you guide me to the restaurant? A knight who has left the battlefield for a long time has to eat it, no matter how tasteless and disgusting it is, if he can shove it into his mouth.”
Since when did the emperor’s guard go to the battlefield?
The current emperor of the Northern Empire had never had a single family affair during his reign. Accordingly, of course, the royal guards protecting the emperor had never been seen on the battlefield.
To Arras, who knew that fact very well, the knight’s words were simply absurd. But I didn’t bother to point it out.
Even if he had never been on a battlefield where armies faced off against each other, the skill of that guard knight was ‘real’.
The ‘Emperor’s Left Wing’ is an organization that selects only based on skills, regardless of social status. It was as absurd as saying ‘meow’ after stabbing a mutt in the neighborhood to say that they were weak among the outstanding talents gathered from all over the empire.
“I will guide you as directed.”
“okay.”
Arras bowed his head deeply and made a firm resolution that if the plan was over and luck came to him, he would gladly do so if an opportunity came to him to punish the cocky royal knight.
No matter how strong the Royal Guard knights were, one guy like that was enough to defeat him alone.
profit.
When Aras took the lead in opening the door, a hallway filled with soft light and calm air greeted him. The silence that had fallen was much quieter than usual, and it was rather appropriate to describe it as desolate.
“Don’t move, what are you doing?”
A small sense of incongruity instinctively raised his head in the silence, but the cheeky words of the guardsman who followed him covered it up.
“Yes yes. going.”
Arras remembered the grace he had received from Havas of his blind faith, suppressed his growing irritation, and moved on again.
Only the sound of their footsteps echoed through the long hallway. Hasta, the Royal Guard Knight, did not feel a reason to talk to Arras, who was ahead of him, and Arras was just grateful that the Royal Guard knight was silent.
bruises.
It was quiet. No matter how far I walked, it was still. Hasta opened his mouth when the sense of incongruity that had grown in size secretly lifted his head in Arras’ mind.
“From what I remember, I don’t think this place was this lonely. Isn’t it?”
A slightly hoarse voice. Unlike before, the ridicule and hatred that had been generously contained disappeared, and sharp vigilance took its place.
Hasta hates the worshipers of evil spirits like pests, but that hatred can be put aside for a while at any time in front of His Majesty’s order, which is the most important thing than anything else.
Therefore, since the emperor ordered us to watch over this place and provide help in case of emergency, we had to follow his will and protect this worshiper of evil spirits.
“Go behind me. Arras. If an enemy appears, use your authority to support them.”
It was a somewhat strange picture of a knight trying to protect a muscular man who was a head taller than a normal person, but the two people involved were not in a situation to care about such a thing.
And then.
Why aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
A clear howl of metal, not a human, was heard. The knight and the worshiper of the evil god, who briefly exchanged glances, ran in the direction from which the sound came.
After running like that, the two arrived at the second largest space in the Imperial Sewage Treatment Facility. Right in the dining room where the personnel of this facility eat.
The restaurant we arrived at was already in disarray from the aftermath of the battle.
Tables and chairs all broken, with no sound left. Food strewn on the floor among broken dishes and shards of dishes. Bloodstains splattered everywhere.
But there were no bodies anywhere. Instead, in the middle of the messy room, a man in jet-black armor stood alone. He stared blankly at the guardsmen and worshipers of evil spirits who had stormed into the restaurant.
“Looks like you’re the last one. When you see that you can no longer hear the sound of running towards this place.”
The knight’s eyes shook with anger at the announcement that they had killed everyone except for themselves. The author was the seed of a traitor who distorted the will of His Majesty the great and wise Emperor.
“Who are you!!!”
The black armor tilted its head at the frost-like shout.
“If you were going to tell me who it was, you wouldn’t have come wrapped in armor like this. But actually, it doesn’t seem to matter much if I tell you. Both of you are going to die here anyway.”
At the extremely cheeky words, Hasta’s anger, which had risen to the top of his head, quickly cooled. When anger vacated, a clear murderous intent filled the vacancy. He declared, putting the helmet on his side.
“He’s a guy who can’t tell the difference between heaven and earth and runs rampant. It’s like he’s arrogant that he’s only caught a few worshipers of evil gods. I will teach you what the real sky is.”
Marnak, a man in black armor, chuckled and replied.
“What about this? You have to be really, really high to be my sky…”
“You son of a bitch!!! You bastard and dog-like Ho-ro bastard!!!”
Furious Arras’ muscles twitched violently. Marnak, who had been overpowered by the sudden swearing, blinked his eyes behind the helmet in surprise.
A sharp wind of blades gathered over Arras’ muscular fists. A manifestation of the authority bestowed by the ‘elegant fresh breeze’. he shouted without hesitation.
“Did you really kill all the people who were here!!! This baby !!! why!!!”
“I didn’t expect to be asked such a question in that tone of voice… but since you asked something, I’ll give you a special answer.”
Marnac glanced over the messy restaurant and smiled behind the helmet.
“After thinking about it above, I realized that this was an opportunity to gather a lot of divinity just right. So I just killed them all.”
“what?!”
Gather divinity? Arras couldn’t understand what the black armor was saying.
“Since you answered one, let me ask just one. Are you the ‘stopper’ that manages this place?”
“That’s none of your business!”
Quaang!!!
As Arras spurned his seat, the explosive wind gently pushed his body. to go faster and stronger.
The distance narrows in an instant. Arras threw out his fist without delay.
“Fuck off!!!”
The winds of knives that covered his fists were claws and saw blades that rip apart everything they touched.
“I feel like I’ve lost a bit because I was the only one who answered this.”
Why hey hey hey hey!!!
Against the intangible saw blade, the Immortalium saw blade screamed shrilly. I wanted to get information about the key by scraping it gently, but judging from the other person’s condition, it was already too late to get a proper answer.
Marnak decided to just kill them both and search through their belongings.
a raging wind. Marnak slammed the butcher into the blizzard without retreating an inch.
“First of all, ha…”
Caang!!!
The sound of the wind and metal clashing and not being able to fly. A silver spear blade struck the butcher’s spinning blade. A clear sound echoed as metal collided with metal.
Marnak’s eyes quickly found the culprit. Red tassels on top of a flying red cloak and silver helmet. The culprit was a knight.
Hasta, who successfully knocked out the butcher, was very embarrassed. The previous blow was intended to destroy that strange sword.
It was a blow that should have broken the strangely shaped sword, but the fact that the weapon did not break even when it collided with his own Immortalium spear…
“That sword is made of Immortalium.”
“Doooooooooooo!!!”
Arras pushed his power into the gap created by Hasta.
clap.
The four muzzles protruding from the back of Marnak’s right hand spewed out mana.
Kwaaaaang!!!
The sword wind swept away by the magic cannon disappeared without a trace. Marnak stepped back and opened the distance. Unlike the worshipers of the evil spirits who had been slaughtered before, those two were properly engaged.
“It’s not fair to say it’s joint work.”
There was no answer. Aras and Hasta silently left their seats and attacked Marnak from different directions.
“Then you have to guess the numbers.”
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! ! !
Kwaaaaang!!!
The space was distorted and a huge protruding fist struck the knight. Hasta managed to release the power contained in his huge fist. Swept away by the force that could not be completely blocked, the knight flew through the air and landed on the ground. The knight who bounced up like a spring stared blankly at the huge fist.
“What the hell is that…”
Arras’s eyes were filled with amazement when he saw the huge fist. From the giant’s fist, divinity flowed continuously. As if he had no intention of hiding the divinity of the evil god.
“You bastard!!! You too were a worshiper of evil spirits!!! But are you really completely crazy!!!”
Arras had been controlling the power of his powers only to the point where his divinity did not leak out within the limits allowed by his necklace.
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ! ! !
But those huge hands were different. That authority was already of a kind that went beyond the range that the necklace could hide.
“All the priests who sensed your divinity will rush here!!! If that happens, in the end you will never be able to get out safely!!!”
“How is that?”
“what?”
Marnak, who openly used his authority, smiled brightly.
“How are you? This is the hideout where worshipers of evil spirits hide.”
“no way?!”
Realizing Marnak’s intentions, Arras’ face turned white.
The madman who openly used the powers was sure to have a plan to kill himself and Hasta and to blame all the powers he had used on the work of the Liberatorio.
“Do you have a lot of things you need to go back and clean up right now?”
“…”
The author was right. Evidence proving the connection between the emperor and the libertio was piled up all over the facility. And they had to get rid of the evidence before all the priests in the capital rushed here.
Marnak snapped the butcher in his hand.
“Since each other is in a hurry, let’s kill each other quickly. Fairly two-to-two.”
A gigantic fist stuck in the air twitched violently, and a gigantic roar echoed through the distorted space.
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! ! !
***
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! ! !
At that time, when the giant’s roar resounded, a round hole pierced the ceiling of Arras’ room, and the four women who sent Rekkles to the ground first landed on the floor.
The four women who sneaked in were Giselle and Dakia who came to their senses, the mother of corruption and Jamel, who were originally fine.
“Looks like it started.”
Dacia quickly added.
“As planned, while Priest Marnak fights, we do our own thing.”
Jamel nodded vigorously.
“Everything that looks like a key is to be shaken off!!!”
