◈ 460. [Side Story] Battle of the Empire (5)
“Let’s organize our mission.”
The five gamblers put their heads together and pondered.
“Open the ‘back doors’ throughout the imperial capital and let the citizens escape. This is our mission.”
“But it’s been difficult from the start.”
“It’s the back door. No matter how you open it, all the citizens have a taste for it. Will things work out just like this… … .”
After a moment of thought, Violet opened her mouth.
“Each one moves.”
The rest of the members saw Violet. Violet had a very nervous face, but gave the order.
“Each person moves to the next ‘back door’, awakens the hypnosis of the people in the area, and induces them to escape out of the ecliptic. This is the fastest way to accomplish our mission.”
In addition to the original mission, an unexpected additional mission was created, including de-hypnosis of citizens.
In order to complete the operation within the estimated time, they had to move more efficiently—in other words, forcefully.
“Each of the five places… ?”
“Certainly effective, but… .”
“Can we?”
Everyone was not confident, and Violet herself was the least confident. but.
“There is nothing difficult about it.”
Violet pretended to be strong for no reason.
“When did we play cards because the odds were 100? isn’t it?”
At least in this case, there is a basis. There is also a clear purpose. This alone makes hand counting easier.
In the end, everyone agreed and the five finally found the most effective way to awaken hypnosis.
As a result of the test, Mind Reader Orange’s mind-reading perfume was the most effective in awakening hypnosis.
Orange took out all the orange tea he had and gave it to his colleagues.
“I worked so hard to make this much… .”
“I’ll buy you a lot of oranges later, so make a new one then and give it to me, unnie.”
After sharing the nostalgia for reading minds, the five gamblers exchanged eye contact with each other and parted ways toward their respective destinations.
“Let’s finish quickly and safely go get the money.”
“Everyone take care of yourself!”
“Don’t overdo it! Because our lives matter first!”
After watching her fellow gamblers heading to their assigned mission destination, Violet looked back.
“Ugh… eww… .”
“Where is here… ?”
“How many days have you been asleep?”
“We are still alive… ?”
The hypnotized people began to wake up one by one.
Violet threatened the citizens.
“Quickly wake up your family, open the back door, and run out of the ecliptic, idiots!”
Violet waved her hands at the citizens who looked at her with blank eyes.
“Don’t melt away while trying to gain eternal life, hurry up!”
***
The gamblers scattered in five directions headed for the ‘back door’ of the back alley organization where each had a kite.
The imperial capital, New Terra, was a vast and old city, and these back doors hidden everywhere were unable to control even the imperial family in the world.
The five gamblers went around the perimeter and woke up the hypnotized people.
While asleep, the people who had been subjected to Fernandez’s dream brainwashing came to their senses one by one.
“Escape quickly!”
“There is no time! Fernandez intends to kill us all!”
There were still many people who believed that it was safe within the Hwangdo and wanted to board the ark led by Fernandez.
But there were far more people who were fed up with the series of events.
“We have to escape!”
The man who first woke up in the slums woke up to find his wife, and people who had fallen asleep began to wake up one by one like dominoes.
“If you stay in this city, everyone will die!”
“First of all, I’ll just take my emergency money and jewelry… … !”
“Is money an issue now?! I have to get out of my body first!”
The streets became a mess.
Those awakened from hypnosis broke the board blocking the door and jumped out, breaking the board next door and waking up the people inside.
People running away, people escaping from the city, thugs trying to collect back door tolls in the middle of this, big guys who fight with those thugs, people who steal other people’s houses in this gap… … .
“Fernandez-sama will put us on the ark and lead us to paradise.”
Even those who prayed while looking at the imperial palace without any intention of escaping.
“Because we are the chosen subjects of the Imperial Empire… With Fernandez… … .”
Confusion spread inside the city.
Fernandez’s hypnotic magic had a mechanism to weave the minds of citizens together and brainwash them together.
In order to enchant a huge number of people at the same time, this kind of linkage structure was indispensable.
So, when a few people started to wake up from hypnosis, everyone started to wake up from hypnosis simultaneously and serially.
This is where the awakened people fight and cooperate with each other and struggle to get out of the ecliptic.
“Stop!”
Aegis task force appeared.
Aegis task force members appeared and raised their weapons at every back door that created a bottleneck as citizens rushed to get out.
“Didn’t I tell you to stop!”
“Those who try to escape from the ecliptic through an unacceptable path will be judged immediately!”
Clap! Clap!
The task force members rushed in and aimed their crossbows and horse guns forward.
“Can’t you hear us?!”
“Everyone go home! hurry!”
“It is Hwangmyeong! If you ignore the warning, I will shoot you!”
A fierce silence fell.
The stopped citizens glared at the Aegis task force with eyes glistening with anger.
However, the task force members did not retreat even a step, even while sweating from their backs.
A few seconds after such a bizarre confrontation. As some of the citizens become disgruntled and try to move towards the task force –
“I told you to go home! Are you rebelling!”
One of the task force members fired angrily into the air. bang-!
At the same time,
“Ah!”
A shrill scream was heard.
Citizens and special task force members were surprised and looked that way.
A girl in a red cloak collapsed on the floor screaming. Red blood was leaking from the chest of the girl who was holding on.
“I shot… ?”
Citizens looked at the Aegis task force with astonished eyes.
“Now this child… did you shoot?”
Anger raged among the people like fire.
Embarrassed, the Aegis task force flinched back.
“Oh no. Obviously shot into the air… … .”
“These bastards!”
“Did the emperor order you to shoot a child?!”
“Let us shoot too, you motherfuckers!”
Enraged citizens rushed and the Aegis task force had to flee in front of waves of citizens.
In the midst of this commotion, the Little Red Riding Hood girl who had been shot stood up slowly and silently.
“It’s easy, it’s easy.”
Scarlett, a young girl who sprayed red paint on her chest and acted like she had been shot, stuck out her tongue and disappeared into the crowd.
A similar thing happened with the other back doors.
“What is this doll… … ?!”
“That’s fake! Look ahead!”
“Aagh!”
Citizens attacked the Aegis task force, whose eyes were suddenly focused on the doll that rushed from behind. It was Cobalt’s puppetry.
Lime used clairvoyance to find a weak spot in the bridge the task force was on and destroy it.
Orange used mind reading to convince the Aegis task force to surrender.
Finally, Violet said,
“Ahh! Aaaagh! Your Majesty!”
“Please save me, Your Majesty! Please save your life!”
In the realm of phantasmagoria, the task force was shown the fantasy that each of them feared most in their hearts.
‘I don’t know why everyone is afraid of Fernandez the most.’
It was Fernandez who was deeply feared by the task force.
Inside the illusion realm, all the members of the task force rolled on the floor begging for forgiveness from Fernandez.
Although the appearance was a little creepy, the operation was a success anyway.
The Gamble Club subdued all the special forces in five locations, and the citizens began to escape smoothly again.
Violet sighs with a sigh of relief that Violet has completed the mission-
“You’ve got a very boring disease.”
Suddenly a voice came from the sky.
“?!”
Frightened, Violet looked back and, at the same time, Reina fell from the sky creating a wind.
While inspecting the situation on the flagship Alcatraz, he discovered Violet, who was emitting unusual magical powers, and descended naked to capture her.
Fuck!
“Huh?!”
Reina, who fell off, crushed Violet and slammed her to the floor.
Reina growled as she clutched the back of Violet’s head, who had collapsed in a prone position, with her gloved hands.
“Are you the rat that Prince Ash planted? Looking at the clothes you’re wearing, you’re a remnant of the 1st Corps. So, does that bastard Metallic have something to do with it?”
“… .”
“You only choose very cunning things. It’s a citizen escape. Do you believe that I am doing the right thing?”
“Justice… ? What do you know about that?”
A sneer formed on Violet’s lips.
“People on the street like us always want the same things. To eat full today and fall asleep happily. eternal life? I won’t take anything like that.”
“A rat is a rat. It seems that you don’t even have any intention of understanding the cause of the emperor.”
“I just don’t want to be victimized by the whims of a high-ranking person who is a bigot and can’t understand.”
Realizing that the conversation would no longer work, Reina threatened.
“What exactly is Prince Ash up to?”
“If I were serious enough to know that, would I be sent on a suicide mission like this…?” … .”
“Answer me! What is the purpose of Prince Ash!”
Reina pressed the back of Violet’s head harder toward the floor. Violet, who was moaning in pain, smiled.
“Anyway, why are the patterns of hukou puppies all the same?”
“What?”
“It is said that it is designed and only after it is robbed until it becomes dog hair, it screams and loses its temper. It has already been sucked until there is no more dust on the bottom.”
“… .”
“His Highness Prince Ash’s purpose? What are you going to do now?”
Reina’s eyebrows narrowed violently. Violet giggled.
“The game is already over, you bastard.”
***
Ecliptic New Terra is a port city.
The world’s trade and logistics center that touches the continent’s inland sea.
The port of this city cuts into the center of the ecliptic.
In other words, if you can move through the sea, you can easily move to the center of the ecliptic.
Of course, the sea road leading to the port has been blocked for a long time. Of course, access is not possible in the usual way.
But on this side,
bubbling… … .
There are mermaids.
shoot it… … !
Right in front of the harbor inside the city, raising wild foam – we rose.
Through Poseidon’s power bubble diving, the mermaid king, our infiltration team members moved through the sea and came here.
‘There is a non-empty ship, but there is no such thing as a submarine.’
I grinned as I stepped out of the giant bubble and into the harbor.
“Hey~ It’s been a while here.”
Not far away, I could see the building at the top of Wintersilver. I took a deep breath and smelled the air of the ecliptic. It is the unlucky smell of hometown that I still cannot adapt to.
“Looks like the operation went well. There is absolutely no defense this way.”
Yes.
All of the strategies that have been unfolded so far have been completely deceitful. It was a smoke screen for blinding.
The main force that struck the castle wall, and the fake key gamblers who infiltrated the non-empty ship Geronimo, which drew attention from the sky, and provoked citizens into a frenzy –
all fake.
It was a trick to lure the enemy.
Our main force heading to the ecliptic approaches from the sea.
All of Fernandez’s army was fished out of the ecliptic by the main forces, and
the airship fleet was also caught by Geronimo, and
all the Aegis task forces were caught by gamblers and put into the outskirts of the ecliptic.
The navy belonging to the ecliptic is only guarding the entrance of the strait from the open sea to the inland sea.
Now, there is no Fernandez army to stop us here.
“From here, the imperial palace is right in front.”
Looking at the pointed roof of the Palace of Thorns in the distance, I said.
“Let’s go at once.”
“Still, isn’t it a bit far for the captain to walk?”
Quylan asked in puzzlement, so I silently raised my hand.
“don’t worry. Because I brought my own car.”
In my hand was a ring I got from a box a while ago.
“Let’s show the people here a little taste of how terrifying the monster’s invasion is.”
I said, concentrating on the ring.
“Summons!”
name the monster.
“Kraken!”
Flash!
The [Kraken’s Ring] on my hand emits a dark blue light, and the next moment.
oh oh oh oh!
Summons an incredibly gigantic cephalopod monster.
Best squid… … no octopus? Anyway, the monster was summoned and the control authority passed to me.
“… .”
“… .”
“… .”
My heroes opened their mouths with angry expressions. I was the only one who laughed and climbed onto the body of this squirming monster.
“Now, then, let’s run mid-air toward the headquarters of the Empire.”
“Riding this monster?!”
“Then do you think you will ride a sea monster across the imperial capital twice in your life? It’s something you can’t do with money. Don’t talk, get on quickly!”
The Kraken stretched out its legs and forcibly grabbed my heroes, who clearly disliked it. Everyone screamed and was forced to sit next to me.
“Let’s go then!”
Summon a monster and run through the central streets of the country where I was born.
Anyway, even if I think about it, I was trolling quite a bit.
‘That’s probably the case, too, because from the beginning, Kim Ash was the main specialty… … !’
The Kraken ran toward the imperial palace, stretching its long legs in all directions and overturning all the beautifully polished pavement blocks of the imperial palace.
Yay, that’s exciting!
