knights and beasts.
knights and beasts.
Terzio sped his tiny legs and raced through the prison corridors.
The guards who stood guard looked around to find the cause of Terzio’s squeaking sound as he ran, but of course they couldn’t imagine that a metal knight the size of a palm would be infiltrating Beatus’ prison to find Jamel. .
Shasha shak.
everything went smoothly Terzio calmly examined all the prisons on the first floor. Unfortunately, however, the place where Jamel was confined was not on the first floor.
– hmm.
Terzio, the size of the palm of his hand, stood in front of the stairs and pondered seriously.
Stairs going up and stairs going down. Two steps pointing in opposite directions were in front of Terzio.
Which one is the right one to search first?
Tergio’s metal head snapped and started to spin rapidly.
Did the guards, who had properly listened to Princess Dacia’s request, imprison her in a relatively comfortable upper-floor prison in order to treat Jamel well, or did the princess, who had no real power and no special support base anyway, listen to the words of the princess with one ear and go to the basement? would you have imprisoned her?
– It’s difficult.
It was not a question with an easy answer. Terzio lacked information about this place to make an accurate judgment.
The time when Tergio was serious.
jjik.
A huge uninvited guest appeared.
A saliva that dangles from its sharp teeth. A body that could have been four times Tergio’s. Black hair full of greasy, dirty luster.
The black wild mouse showed its yellow teeth and showed a strong wariness toward the steel knight who roamed its territory.
Facing the bright yellow beast’s eyes, Tergio silently drew his sword.
He sensed that he could not avoid a fight to the death with this gigantic monster. The whole Immortalium sword shimmered in the light of the orange torch.
The enemy bared his teeth. After assessing the situation, the field mouse let out a purring cry and decided to drive the unappetizing intruder out of its territory.
Crispy!!!
The first to move was the black field mouse, who had given itself to its instincts. The black field mouse, kicking back on all fours, rushed toward Terzio with lightning-like speed.
– Where!
Terzio calmly evaded the wild mouse’s attack by leaping his body, and stabbed the rat’s body with a sword the size of a toothpick.
Chiyiyi profit!!!
However, the difference in size between them and the opponent was too great. The immortalium sword, the size of a toothpick, successfully cut through the body of a field mouse, but it only scratched the thick hide of this huge field mouse.
Jjiik!!!
The thick tail flew like a whip and hit Tergio’s body. Tergio, who couldn’t overcome the power of his tail, let go of his sword and ricocheted off, crashing into the wall like beans. He suddenly fell to the floor and rolled over, then jumped up and brushed himself off.
– this.
This ‘reduced’ technology achieved by divinity, magical power and science was perfect in every way, but it had fatal flaws because it was perfect in every way.
Most of Ceylon’s technologies work along a similar path.
Along the most efficient route weaved using science, the magical power that serves as fuel runs at full speed, manifesting the laws of physics, and finally, the divinity twists the laws of physics to produce results that cannot be achieved in the present world.
As a result, the mass of Tergio, which had shrunk to the size of the palm of his hand, was only about the size of his current body.
Just enough to get hit by a rat’s tail and bounce off.
Terzio glared at the gigantic field mouse and declared in a stern voice.
– How dare you interfere with the plans of the heir! I will cut you here today!!!
Crispy!!!
The roars of the metal knight and the field mouse intersected, and the two rushed at each other without hesitation.
Sharp teeth opened to bite Terzio in one bite. Beyond the red throat of the giant field mouse, only pitch black darkness was full.
Of course, the metal knight wasn’t afraid of the monster’s teeth in front of him. He brandished his Immortalium fist unstoppably to bring true justice to the rude field mouse that dared to devour him.
And then.
“ah. Why is the rat running around so much today? under. It’s really embarrassing. He should report to the upper management and catch me and release the rat poison. really. Every time I work, ‘squeak squeak! Squeak!’ and don’t cry! all off! You rats!”
Crack?!
– What?!
The nervous shouts of the guards, who were so enormous that they dared not compare with the two, reverberated through the hallway. The eyes of a giant guard giant appeared from across the hallway and focused on the black field mouse and Tergio. He let out an embarrassed voice when he saw the sparkling silver light.
“uh?”
Tergio’s body stiffened as he met the guard’s eyes. A gap formed in the middle of rushing towards each other. The gigantic beast seized the gap and rammed its teeth into Tergio without hesitation.
take?!
Doesn’t chew at all. The field mouse, genuinely surprised by this unfortunate fact, chose to run away from the human in front of it rather than chewing on the Tergio that was full in its mouth.
Cheeky support!!!
Terzio was then bitten by a giant field mouse and taken to the basement of the prison.
“hmm?!”
The guard, unable to fully comprehend the situation that had just unfolded in front of his eyes, muttered in a bewildered voice.
“Something like a doll made of metal seems to be shining… Am I mistaken…?”
***
Jamel asked in a trembling voice.
“I’m… a traitor…?”
Giselle, a woman with dark hair that was lusciously disheveled, stared into Jamel’s bright green eyes and said sharply.
“okay. You traitor! huh? I was worried that you might have died from falling apart from the ruins, but in the end it was all meaningless?”
A look full of contempt locked on Jamel’s body.
“While we were struggling to get out of the ruins, you just hung out with that priest named Marnak and had a very comfortable time, right? huh?”
Silver soldiers pouring out. The mechanical soldiers boasted of their cold bodies and constantly charged at Giselle and Jarn. It was a miraculous thing that they managed to overcome the relentless pursuit and escape the ruins.
At least for Giselle to feel.
In fact, their escape was successful thanks to Jamel’s clinging to Marnac, but of course Jarn and Giselle had no jaw to know that fact.
Jamel quickly responded before Giselle finished speaking.
“Oh, how unfair! It’s so unfair! How hard I tried back then to save them both! If I hadn’t asked Priest Marnak, both of you would have been dead inside the ruins!”
Giselle laughed at Jamel’s excuse. She assumed that Jamel must be muttering haphazardly now that he is cornered. Because Jamel’s argument in the first place was not convincing at all.
“So you’re saying that the priest named Marnak, who came in later than us, was actually able to control the weapons of the ancient empire pouring out of the ruins?”
Jamel’s face brightened as he thought his words were communicating.
“That’s right! Giselle! I can explain everything! really!”
Giselle crossed her arms, leaned against the wall behind the bars, and spoke casually.
“Then, explain yourself.”
Of course, I didn’t trust Jamel. I just wondered what words the traitor would pick up.
“Because the ruins moved arbitrarily, I’m here after I got separated from you, right? I found the excavation people we were looking for? But suddenly, silver soldiers are pouring out! So I asked the people from the excavation team, so I helped them anyway by letting them die! But I was a little weak on my own, and just when I was in danger, Priest Marnak suddenly appeared and eliminated those silver soldiers with me!”
While listening to Jamel’s words, Giselle slightly frowned and blurted out a question.
“You said earlier that the priest named Marnak could control the Silver Soldiers? Doesn’t the back and forth match? Why the hell did that man named Marnac fight those machines with you?”
“That is yet! It was before Priest Marnak gained control of the ruins! listen de! After that, a silver knight, big enough to be twice as big as Jarn, jumped out with a huge sword raised while talking about putting in a higher level aircraft? But that silver knight is perfect! He looked at Priest Marnak and dropped his knees! Then he knelt down and said, ‘Heir!’ While doing this, he led us to a room with a huge mechanical eye, where Priest Marnak is actually the princess of an ancient empire…” “
Stop! Just go there!”
A sharp word cut off Jamel’s explanation. Jamel, who had been explaining with gestures and footsteps, stood tall and asked cautiously.
“why…?”
Giselle glared at Jamel and said.
“Did you think me and Jarn would be fooled by such a brilliant lie? what? Princess of an ancient empire? and its successor? A giant mechanical eye? He’s talking wildly, but he’s too bluffing. I just realized today that Jamel is such an imaginative girl. really. Usually, ‘Don Don’ every day. While doing so, he revealed only the money and gave out all the bleak tidbits.”
“lie…?”
Jamel had a very poor imagination. So I didn’t have much talent for lying. She patted her chest as if it was unfair.
“No, everything is real! It’s real!”
“Yes, yes. Assume that what you said is roughly correct. Then why the hell didn’t you join us after getting out of the ruins? huh? Why did you keep hanging out with that man named Marnak?”
“That’s…”
Strictly speaking, Jamel was a traitor to the libertio.
And Jamel himself faced the truth that he had been ignoring for a while through Giselle’s questioning.
Giselle glared at Jamel with cold eyes and said.
“You have nothing to say? huh? Are you this traitor? Do you think we can just blindly call you a traitor? We’ve been monitoring you since the day you walked into Beatus with that brazen face on. Then it was very spectacle? That man named Marnac was completely careless and left you unattended. You had dozens and hundreds of more chances to escape, but you followed him around with a big smile on your face. is not it?”
Giselle was right. Jamel shrugged his shoulders. He was a ‘traitor’ as he was without controversy.
Jamel looked at Jarn and Giselle and spoke cautiously.
“Yeah! You all stick to Priest Marnak’s side! Priest Marnak is a true golden rope! Besides, he’s a very kind person, so if you two reach out your hand first, he’ll be happy to accept it!”
“under!”
Giselle let out a vicious sneer.
“Now, betraying alone isn’t enough, so you’re trying to drag us in too? Are you very traitorous? right? And what do you see, stick to that Marnak nerd. you don’t know but here Beatus is already under the grip of our ‘Liberatio’. ‘Fallen God’ is already here…”
“Enough. I won’t allow you to talk any more. Giselle.”
To Jarne’s low warning, Giselle responded in a nervous voice with a snort of excitement.
“You didn’t mean to say more? Don’t order me to do this or that.”
Giselle gave Jarn a sharp shot, then glared at Jamel and said:
“You know very well that no matter how much we grew up eating together, we can’t look out for a traitor, right? Liberatorio will not tolerate traitors under any circumstances.”
She took out a gun-shaped ancient artifact from her bosom. The black muzzle was pointed at Jamel’s forehead. Giselle said in a cold voice.
“Still, I’ll let you go at once, thinking about our old friendship. Ah, don’t try to stop it by using authority. This is in the middle of Beatus, and if you use the authority, there are dozens of annihilation squadrons that will feel the divinity and rush to you right away. do you know If I get caught by them, I’d rather die from me and end up in a more miserable situation to the point of regret…”
“Shoot quickly. Giselle. The words are too long. If you won’t do it, I will.”
Giselle bit her lip at Jarne’s sudden declaration. Being from the same orphan family and growing up with Jamel since childhood, it was not entirely comfortable for her to shoot Jamel.
‘Why did this fucking idiot betray me!!!’
When Giselle couldn’t pull the trigger easily, Jarn, who was worse off, stepped forward.
“Get out of the way. Giselle.”
“uh?!”
Before Giselle had time to react, he snatched the ancient artifact from her hand and aimed it at Jamel. Jamel sighed, closing his eyes tightly and crouching down.
“I don’t want to die!!!”
“bye. betrayer.”
A thick finger pulled the trigger without hesitation.
bang!
The jet-black muzzle spewed bullets.
And then.
– dare!!!
Crispy!!!
A silver knight riding a wild rat appeared through the rat hole and galloped away. The silver knight kicked off the back of the field mouse that had picked him up and jumped up to release the ‘shrink’.
Tergio, who had grown to a size of 2 meters in an instant, swung the Immortalium Greatsword without hesitation.
empty!!!
The trajectory drawn through the air accurately halved the bullet. A split bullet grazed Terzio’s body and pierced the wall.
Blue flames flew through the silver knight’s helm. Tergio shouted in rage.
– How dare these outrageous things try to touch the successor’s colleague!!!
