Episode 158
A few minutes ago.
“Cheeky bastards.”
The report has already been heard.
Even though he knew their location, he arbitrarily attacked himself without saying a word.
“Because he’s an ambitious guy, he was someone who would move the knights on his own at any time.”
The one who doesn’t even know my subject.
The 12th Spear of the Empire.
Quillode snorted as he walked.
Wearing red armor, he passed through Voltan’s gates single-handedly.
What he held in his hand was a spear.
Emblem of the empire engraved on the chest.
The number 12 written on the cloak.
That being said, preparation was sufficient.
“Even though I was surprised by the appearance of a dragon that suddenly appeared, it was only one dragon.”
Cullord whipped himself out of fear and encouraged him.
“You have nothing to fear. He couldn’t have been injured anyway. The dragon of the Dragon Demon War was a being that even non-master knights could hunt. But if you’re even injured, I have no reason to be afraid.”
Kwak.
The rolled up spear trembled as if responding to Quillord’s spirit.
Master Quillord.
The twelfth spear that received the title of chanter.
Yeonchang (連槍).
A title bestowed directly by the emperor to quillord, who is skilled in endless spearmanship.
The period when he became the spear of the empire was short, but his skills could not be said to be short either.
Because he was a master, and his skill was the spear of the empire that no one could underestimate.
“I am the Spear of the Empire.”
There is no need to tremble at just one dragon.
Tonight.
I become like the ancestors of old.
dragon slayer.
Become a dragon slayer!
“Whoops! under!”
He takes a deep breath and shoots.
Accelerate to the point where the new form of the quillod is blurred. accelerate again
The wounds from the dragon’s surprise attack throbbed, but if you were going to cry at this level, the title of the spear of the empire would cry.
Fain!
Physical abilities that transcend humans add acceleration to acceleration.
Yeonchang quill road.
His spear is simple.
Controls the wind and reduces resistance.
This soon leads to an acceleration in speed.
The reason why it was called Yeonchang is because of the unique ability of the spear and the spearmanship using it.
Approaching an unknown forest, an arrow stuck in the dirt came into sight in the eyes of the quillord, and he immediately caught something in his senses.
But it soon disappeared.
‘trap? No, it doesn’t matter.’
It may have been a beast.
The feeling I felt quickly disappeared.
He must have felt his own energy and ran away.
Yes, I am the spear of the empire.
A strong man who instinctively runs away.
Have you ever been afraid of yourself?
does not exist.
There is only one person in this world who will bow his head.
‘Only His Majesty the Emperor!’
Fain!
accelerate more Acceleration! Acceleration! Acceleration!
No one will stand in my way!!
It was then.
I felt an unprecedented power.
“…!”
great fire.
An intense aura added to it.
Quillode’s thoughts shrank for a moment at the bizarre momentum that something else was mixed in there.
“This…!!”
The energy that spread out in an instant engulfed the area, and the sense of fear rising from the tip of my toes knocked on my whole body.
Right then.
Quillord’s eyes lit up.
What I saw at the moment was red.
However, something black and then gray struck his whole body.
“Come!!”
It was what I was hoping for.
If it were his spear, he would even sever the dragon’s breath!
“Suck!! Kuck!”
But the world was not so kind. I threw out the window, but it didn’t help.
A strange gray color with tremendous heat turned the spear into powder.
It’s the same with yourself. Without even knowing what this covering him was.
The twelfth spear of the empire.
The chant quillord has disappeared from this world.
* * *
Voltan is the Empire’s premier entertainment city.
The defense of public order was almost perfect from their point of view.
An imperial nobleman with a lot of money.
All of the vagrants who were aiming for a fortune sought bullets according to their own goals and objectives.
But just today.
Voltan’s citizens trembled in fear.
“Did you hear that? The Spear of the Empire to the dragon’s breath…”
“I heard that too. You mean the ‘Forest of Dragons’?”
“A dragon lives next to Boltan…”
The twelfth spear of the Empire, Quillode, who had stepped out for the safety of the Empire, died.
And that, too, with a single blow from the fire dragon’s breath bursting out of the forest!
The rumor was already spreading throughout the empire.
An imperial spear that only the Master can climb.
An incident in which the person who wore that title was vaporized by the dragon’s breath blow.
It was truly an unprecedented event.
last thousand years.
The dragon disappeared due to the Great War of the Dragon Horse, and now it is a story in legend.
It was on the verge of being dismissed as a story in oral tradition and folklore, but the dragon suddenly appeared and proudly revealed that he was the loser of the sky and a disaster that stood at the pinnacle of species.
The proof is Voltan and the Spear of the Empire.
It was the death of Quillode.
Citizens of Voltan as well as the people of the Empire murmured about the dragon.
A dragon coiled in the Empire.
Their presence alone was enough to deny the empire the sweat and blood it had been through.
“The heavens are angry with the many wars! The Empire must atone!”
“The Empire is doomed! The dragon is coiled, and the Empire will turn to ashes on his breath, leaving no trace!”
As if it was a golden opportunity, not only the luxury men, but also anti-imperial aristocratic factions criticized the current emperor and revealed the real state of the empire.
Although unintended, the results came beyond what Colliers hoped for.
“I see.”
Caang! Caang!
Aldu is beating up the knights who charged into the forest unknowingly by turning them into ingots.
And on the other hand, Philo and General Garcia are sparring.
The one who turned the nameless forest into the ‘Forest of Dragons’.
Colliers sat in his chair and pondered.
“hmm.”
“But what are you looking at?”
Aldu, who was hitting the ingot on the anvil, stopped hammering and asked.
Only then did Colius raise his head, but his expression was not at all displeased.
“I got something amazing.”
As if he didn’t care what the rumors were or not, Callius passed something he was holding in his hand to the dwarf Aldu.
“What is this? Is it a tree root?”
“hmm. As you can see.”
Tree roots cut in half.
Originally it must have been a seedling, but it looked as if the top had been cut straight off.
This is the special reward for killing the Imperial Spear in one blow.
[Cut down sapling of Lactus]
Lactus, the creator.
It is his cut down sapling.
This was something that even Colius did not know.
I had no choice but to worry about it.
First of all, I had no idea what it was for.
Since it was a product of Lactus, it was assumed that it had divine power, but it was not like that.
It was just a dry tree root.
Of course, the system judged it as a reward, so it must not be an ordinary item.
Besides, it’s the spear of the Empire.
It is a reward for defeating a Transcendentalist in one blow.
It will never be something common.
“You understand?”
“I don’t know. Wouldn’t it be better to ask Serena rather than me?”
I already asked.
I passed it to the elf Serena and the elven gray knights, but the answers that came back were all the same.
“He said he didn’t know.”
“To me, it looks just like a tree root. Why is it special?”
“Hmm… Hit that thing with a hammer.”
“Isn’t it precious?”
“Because it’s okay.”
Aldu, dubious, struck down with a hammer.
Quaang!
Aldu’s hammer had the character of a spirit, so it was exceptionally hard and destructive.
If you hit it with a hammer like that, only tree roots will disappear without a trace.
“Eh?”
However, contrary to expectations.
The tree roots were intact.
There wasn’t even a dent anywhere.
It was an amazing strength.
“Awesome. Is it like a world tree?”
“It is a bit different from that. It is said that the world capital is solid, but it is not this orderly. Anyway, it’s also a tree.”
The World Tree, the parent of the elves.
There is a tree that is the foundation of the world, but even so, a tree is a tree.
It is different from this cut seedling.
“Let’s plant it, though?”
Callius shook his head.
“Because I don’t know what will happen.”
I don’t know what kind of phenomenon it might cause.
If it causes an ominous phenomenon, it can be planted in the empire, but if it shows beneficial results, I did not want to plant it here.
If you plant it once and dig it up again, the effect could be halved or done.
‘Besides, this belongs to Lactus.’
A sapling with the name of the creator Lactus engraved on it.
Something with the name of God.
have to be careful
Things are too precious to make an uncertain choice.
‘It would be better to put it on hold for now.’
probably later.
A holy relic of the church that Esther found after arriving in Carpe.
Berah’s ring.
If that’s the case, you might find out what the seedlings are for.
“What you are making is going well.”
“As always, I just do my best. Don’t worry, your knights will create something that’s good enough to use.”
“I will.”
The weapons of knights were not unified with swords. The type of weapon used in life depends on what each person used.
Some have sword spears and maces.
Some were sickles and shields, hammers and bows, and others armor itself as weapons.
However, Callius is a swordsman.
All he can make is a sword.
So, Callius asked Aldu to improve the skills of the knights more smoothly.
I want you to make weapons for the generals.
So Aldu asked him for a promise, and Colius agreed.
‘Save the dwarves of the empire.’
Looking at the elves he rescued this time, Aldu hoped as well as Serena did.
Most of them died at the same time as the empire launched a policy of extermination of heterogeneous species, but there are still those who are played like toys.
in the name of slavery.
Of course, dwarves are better used than elves, but even so, slaves are slaves.
So Aldu hoped for salvation.
Of course, he did not wish for the salvation of all his compatriots in the vast empire.
I hoped that even some of them would rescue them.
So, Colius agreed, and in return, Aldu decided to make weapons for the knights to use.
“But then why did that azure-haired swordsman come to the Empire?”
“Ah, I heard that while looking for clues about the holy relic, they became interested. She must have also heard the story of the saintess of the empire.”
It’s not such a great story.
Since she was also a candidate for a saintess, it seemed that she felt a sense of self-pity while hearing about the saintess of the empire.
“How much longer than that?”
“Well, it will be over by today.”
One month after testing the fire dragon sword.
Callius stayed here for about a month, reviewing the battle with the dragon and applying his new realization to his swordsmanship.
It wasn’t a huge success, but it was necessary.
‘Because the future battle with the dragon will be unavoidable.’
What was regrettable about fighting the fire dragon.
It was very important to remind them of their weaknesses a little more clearly.
The more you think about it, the fewer mistakes you make and the more effective your swordsmanship will be.
“It’s a little disappointing that the spear of the Empire has perished.”
The spear he had and the corpse of the quillord had completely disappeared, so he couldn’t make it into a corpse.
Of course, the more the rumors flowed, the more strangers came into the forest, calling the dragon and wanting to do it.
They were all sorted out on their own along the lines of their colleagues and the Gray Legion, so it wasn’t really like this or that.
Of course, thanks to them, the skills of the knights belonging to the Ashen Legion are unparalleled.
Originally, I was just trying to get my skills back when I was alive.
Anyway, a month in Gan Forest was beneficial and useful in its own way.
“Mourning is still asleep. Roas is coming soon.”
it’s time to move again
“How about Niall Sword?”
[This is an excellent sword. It might be a little too much for me.]
Niol is a knight who uses a sword.
Originally a knight who uses a sharp sword, it went very well with the Fire Dragon Sword.
When the Fire Dragon Sword is charged with firearms, it’s good for Callius to use it, but when it’s not, I decided to leave it to Niol.
Even if he couldn’t use the Fire Dragon’s breath, the Fire Dragon’s sword was quite fierce and sharp.
After using Fire Dragon’s Breath, some heat remained.
Cudangtang!!
“Ah-oh! Do one more round!”
Filo, who was sparring with Garcia, was rolling on the dirt floor and jumped to his feet.
General Garcia’s spearmanship slightly exceeded Philo’s.
‘If Filo’s spearmanship is defensive, Garcia’s is offensive.’
The anomalies are not prolific or fast. Rather, it is a spear of defeat that is recklessly honest and not afraid to get hurt.
But that’s why Philo’s spear can’t block Garcia’s spear.
Philo has such a tendency.
defense only defense again.
He’s a dragon-type guy who uses spearmanship like a tortoise.
A spearmanship that strikes a blow when an opportunity emerges after blocking and blocking again.
But to Garcia, the spearmanship was of no use at all.
Because he was the type to attack mercilessly, as if to stop me, without taking care of myself without resting, as if asking me to stop more.
“Did it develop into that kind of spearmanship because he knew he wouldn’t die anyway?”
The nobles, Niol and Garcia, were originally death knights for over a thousand years.
Now that Colius is the owner, the appearance has only changed a little.
Its essence is not different.
They don’t die and don’t get tired.
Technological progress has no choice but to be made in a way that takes advantage of it.
‘I could grow more.’
No, you have to grow up.
Only then will he be able to deal with the strong men standing in front of Colius in the future.
“But how long are you going to hide?”
Suddenly, Callius shouted.
Then, when he sparred with Aldu, who was hammering, Filo, who had been begging him, stopped abruptly.
Soon, the bush that Colius’ gaze reached.
A giant appeared through the place.
“You knew.”
Full body armor and cylindrical helmet.
Huge kite shield on the back.
And a small shield on the wrist.
up to Buckler.
But only a shield, no weapons.
He is a shield soldier by anyone’s eyes.
He was a worshiper of the god of the shield.
Callius’ eyes narrowed.
“You managed to get through the forest.”
In the forest, there are scattered elves and Serena who rules them.
It means that you have enough skills to hide in the border area of the elves without difficulty.
“I have trained since I was young to hide my presence.”
“I guess so. Beast races are a developed race, and it is also a special feature of the god you serve.”
“You knew that, too.”
Taking off his helmet, he looks like a beast.
It was like a baekgu with white fur.
He had a mild-mannered face, but a large scar across his eye gave a glimpse of the path he had walked.
“I don’t think you came here because you heard about the dragon. Did you come to see me?”
“yes. I came to meet the savior pointed out by the prophecy.”
“prophecy?”
“yes. You are the savior of our clan, ordained by the Saint of the Shield.”