21. Save the chaos of Seonghwangcheong (1)
The party made maintenance on the banks of the Tigris River.
At that time, Deus caught a sight.
There was a magnificent waterfall upstream of the Tigris River.
A huge amount of water poured down against the backdrop of a steep cliff about 200 meters high.
The broken streams form fog,
bloom rainbows, and converge into a crashing roar.
“What is the name of that waterfall?”
Deus asked, looking back at Skathul.
But Scatul’s expression was strange.
He also watched the waterfall blankly and opened his mouth after a while.
“…There are no waterfalls here
.”
“Then what is that?”
“It appears to have been caused by last night’s earthquake.”
“Is that possible?”
“Nature is scary.”
Deus looked at the mountain range.
Something kept bothering me. But I couldn’t quite remember what it was.
“What happened? “Let’s leave right after breakfast.”
“All right.”
The carriage rolled along the road again.
Zeke said no more words of humility.
The closer I got to Seonghwangcheong, the more I worried about my younger brothers and I couldn’t bear it.
That ominous heart tremor began to take on a concrete form as it passed the Tigris High Pass at the headwaters of the Tigris River.
A red river flows.
It was clearly lava flowing with heat and sulfur fire.
There is no way there is a volcano in the Jose Mountains.
It has stood there gently for 60,000 years, only occasionally turning the passing wind into rain.
Except for the land of giants beyond the rugged Canine Canyon, the Jose Mountains
were a comfortable haven for shepherds.
But… If
that thing rising high up there right now and spewing out black smoke is not a volcano, then what is it?
Deus bit his lip.
“Alex you crazy bastard.”
After hearing the words leak out, Yulgeum shook her head and sighed.
For Cadenza, an investigator at the Holy Hwangcheong Office and the Knight of the Zodiac, today will be remembered as one of the most terrible days. Absolutely.
Just investigating the village of noisy fellow Oridon and the undead was a headache, but the identity of the monster that suddenly appeared was unknown.
“It wasn’t an ordinary earthquake.” Oridon clicked his tongue, swinging the bastard sword like a one-handed sword.
What the two Zodiac Knights were dealing with was a flame giant.
The giant was made of black volcanic rock, and its joints were filled with lava.
Everything it touched burned and melted.
It let out an eerie roar as it destroyed the carbonized forest without any hesitation.
Cadenza frowned.
“What on earth is that?”
“There’s no way you wouldn’t know. “Aren’t you the most knowledgeable of the Zodiac Knights?”
“Because I can’t trust my common sense. That… is a monster that shouldn’t be here.”
“Are you a giant of Io?”
“It’s a monster from the demon world. “It’s a monster that can only exist in this world if it uses the Demon King’s path once every 100 years!”
“What do you know about my identity? “I guess we have to deal with it first,
right?”
Cadenza bit his lip.
“Are you saying that the demons broke the promise of the 666th century?”
“Anyway, you never made that promise face to face, right? “That’s just what we think.”
Oridon twirled the Bastard Sword and soared into the sky.
Zodiac Knights were the strongest warriors in the human world, showing outstanding skills in both sword and magic.
Although the giants of Io were said to be as strong as dragons, the Zodiac
Knight had no reason to be afraid.
Oridon’s sword struck down the giant of Io, creating a storm.
Cadenza, who was watching the scene with many thoughts, sighed and joined the battle.
“you are right. We have to get rid of it first. “That is the mission of the warrior ministered to God.”
It wasn’t just Pobesbee Village.
The Jose Pine Mountains run across the center of the Jose Continent. A huge volcano erupted right in the center.
If it were a natural phenomenon, you would blame God, but the nature of this volcano was extremely suspicious.
The ground collapsed, steam rose, and numerous holes opened in the ground.
And through the hole, monsters from the demon world began to climb steadily.
Humans on earth called all the monsters of the demon world demons, but strictly speaking, only intelligent races were called demons.
The ones causing trouble on the ground now
were monsters from the demon world.
The demons treated the monsters like livestock, but more often than not, they had a hostile relationship with them, just like humans.
In particular, monsters living outside the boundaries of the demon world, called mugwort monsters, were a nuisance to demons.
A long head like a hammer and a streamlined body measuring about 20 meters.
With just those two things alone, the Sperm Dragon, who was extremely picky, was also a mugwort monster. Just by
waddling around with its short, fin-like front legs,
jumping up, and slashing with its entire body, about 10 troops, including the knight and his servants, were crushed.
“Stop it! Shoot an arrow or something! If this place is breached, all the way to Seonghwangcheong is Muju Gongsan!
The knight captain’s desperate cry echoed across the mountainside.
However, the scented demon dragon’s skin was covered with thick dead skin cells.
The shell, which had a barnacle-like feel, was capable of deflecting even the large arrows of a ballista.
The knights fighting the perfumed demon dragon there were cathedral knights belonging to the Seonghwangcheong.
As a village guard, it could not be said to be elite, but it was not comparable to the knights in other villages.
Nevertheless, he was helpless in the face of the demonic dragon’s power.
“Hero…
the knight captain muttered.
Unfortunately, because the warriors of Seonghwangcheong left for a distant place on urgent business, there were no Pure Bloods left in the knights.
The knight captain himself was half-blood, but there was a wall between pure and half that could not remain.
Fear grows.
I wanted to run away.
If I just escape this situation, I will be able to live a comfortable life again.
It seemed like there would be no other option than death to deal with that monster anymore.
It didn’t take long for the knight captain’s anxious feelings to spread to the knights around him.
Everyone felt the same way.
What difference will it make if we protect the walls that have already collapsed?
Besides me, there were hundreds of other knights.
It didn’t seem like having one more person would make a big difference in the situation.
It wasn’t just the driver who was scared.
Next to the knight were ordinary villagers holding only a servant and a spear.
The fear they felt was incomparable to that of a knight wearing steel armor.
It was a one-sided slaughter of a monster that could not resist.
The Scented Demon Dragon seemed more like a natural disaster than an enemy.
Like a volcano rising over there.
Such as frequent typhoons or heavy rains.
The correct human attitude in the face of disaster would be obedience, not rebellion.
“Wouldn’t it be the right strategic choice to step down now?” The magician of the knights cautiously spoke directly.
The knight captain was angry.
“Look. “If we withdraw, who will protect the fortress city of Neuekan?”
Neuekan was the name of the city where Seonghwangcheong was located.
I was angry as hell, but it was just an emotion I let out because I had been hit right in the face.
The knight captain also felt like wanting to step down.
He must be half-blood because his distant ancestors were warriors. I prayed and prayed to the ancestor whose name and face I did not know.
Please give me a very small amount of courage. If that’s not possible, send a hero
!
Bang
An explosion occurred on the head of the Scented Demon Dragon.
It was dark magic. But there was no evil energy.
When everyone noticed, a boy was there.
He was wearing blue-black armor and held a blue sword in his hand.
About fourteen or five?
It wasn’t big. I couldn’t even feel intimidated.
But…
the moment he appeared, the air changed.
“The hero Sieg van Holy Bitch! Everyone, please trust me and stay where you are!”
The cry became courage and spread to the people.
And the courage resonated and was amplified.
It didn’t take long for the ragtag group of people waiting for death to become warriors fighting against death. The
knights shouted and the soldiers
adjusted their spears.
The knight commander offered a prayer of thanks to God.
When he opened his eyes again, the sense of defeat and defeat hidden in his eyes had completely disappeared.
The warriors rose up in anger to face the monsters of the demon world.
Anyone there could tell.
we win Deus
, who was sitting on the rooftop of a carriage far away, whistled as he
realized that the only thing facing that monster of hell was the fate of death .
“Wow, is that the power of a hero?”
“He who gives courage. “Because that’s the closest thing to the definition of the name warrior.”
Yulgeum received Deus’ words with his arm outstretched at the window.
The servant Sadimus and the butler Skatul intervened among the knights to secretly help Zeke.
The only thing that should stand out is the hero. Deus and Yulgeum
decided to
stay behind and watch the situation .
Deus saw the Sperm Dragon.
“You even invite the mugwort monster. “If this bastard, Alex, returns, he will be permanently expelled from the Demon Duke.”
“You call it the mugwort monster.”
“huh? Oh, that damn woman knows quite a bit about things in the demon world, right?”
“No, I don’t know. “Because all the borders of the world connected to the demon world were closed 666 centuries ago.”
“Was it open before then?”
“In the Silver Age.”
“So you’re saying it was the demons who started the era of chaos
?”
“I guess it’s almost like that.”
“But knowing about the mugwort monster does that mean it’s a monster that’s been around since the Silver Age?”
“That’s not a monster.”
“hmm?”
“whale. “It’s a sea creature called a sperm whale.”
“ocean? “That bastard just running around?”
“Because over 70,000 years of evolution, the front fins were transformed into feet. Still, the basic shape
doesn’t suit the ground, does it? “It’s too fat, its body is streamlined, and it doesn’t even have hind feet.”
“You really lived in the sea? “Then why are you running around on the ground like a crazy person?”
“Because of mugwort.”
“What is mugwort?”
“You said so. “It’s called the mugwort monster.”
“It’s just because everyone calls it that. “What on earth is mugwort?”
“It was the cause of the destruction of the Golden Age.”
“The Age of Gold? Does the story go up there?”
« o ha o’.
Deus thought about the time he had recently gone to the country of the short charcoal men.
There, Yulgeum operated a machine that was said to be a relic of the Golden Age.
“The golden age. “The name is plausible, but humans failed to find balance in that era as well.”
“What balance?”
“How not to perish.”
“Are you saying it was destroyed by mugwort?”
“The mugwort is a remnant of the weapons made during that era. At first
it seemed like we were going in the right direction. We lowered the risk of war by sealing weapons and disarmament. But destruction came too easily, just by the appearance of one or two madmen.”
“Are you saying they used a sealed weapon? “Is that mugwort?”
“They say it takes 1,000 centuries for the toxicity to decrease.”
“100,000 years?” o ” Hmm.
“War…wasn’t it meant to take over the other person’s land?”
“yes.”
“But you used a weapon that rendered the land useless for 100,000 years?”
“Humans are infinitely foolish creatures. It is not an unreasonable logic for God to come to that conclusion. He erased the possibility of growth leading to mugwort’s weaponry, and instead, God gifted magic to humans.”
“So that’s the Silver Age?”
Yulgeum nodded lightly.
