Episode 136 Identity Revealed (4)
Arriving at the office, as expected, Iriel was there.
Is there anything else going on because the war is still in full swing? The office was empty, with only sunlight streaming in pleasantly.
Iriel looked at Zeke with a hard face.
“Are you awake?”
“Meet the saintess.”
Iriel said as he looked at Sieg, who got down on one knee in moderation.
“What I called is no different.”
After a moment’s pause, she continued.
“Zeke. You leave the battlefield and go to the Holy Son.”
“yes?”
It is rude to throw up at the words of an adult or ask back.
However, Sieg had no choice but to act in response to Iriel’s incomprehensible words.
Are you leaving the battlefield?
If he was missing, it would be a huge loss of power.
No matter what anyone says, it means losing the power of one sword master.
Uncharacteristically, the rather flustered Zeke asked.
“Excuse me, but may I ask why?”
Seeing him not knowing what to do, Iriel sighed and coldly shot at him.
“You are weak. In this situation, it is only a burden. Are you in danger again and want the Holy Son to come and rescue you? I and my three families will be in charge of this place, so you should leave.”
At her words, Zeke was shocked as if he had been hit hard in the back of the head.
weak.
become a burden
It was a word I had never heard in my life, but what she said now was not wrong.
Compared to Iriel and Eucliwood, he was the weakest among the three.
He was only pushed out of the fight with the Sword Master, but did not help on the battlefield.
His lips trembled as if he was about to say something, but then they fell silent.
“… I take orders.”
“Get out. That is the only business.”
When the congratulatory order fell from her, Zeke left the office.
Somehow, the strength seems to have disappeared from my shoulders.
When he disappeared, Iriel, who was left alone in the office, let out a small sigh.
“Haa… Is it okay, Holy Son? You always make me do bad roles.”
It was something she didn’t want to say, but she couldn’t help it because it was a request from Ray.
I don’t know what he’s thinking though.
* * *
“Aagh! stop! I mean quit!”
Despite the necromancer’s screams, Ray didn’t even pretend to hear them.
The implantation of the intraocular lens after forcibly opening the eyes is truly the pinnacle of pain.
However, the procedure was not very long because the person who performed it was called Sinui.
It is so skillful that it injects tiny water droplets from time to time to keep dry eyes.
time that only lasted a few minutes.
A lens was inserted into the necromancer’s eye.
Then he was able to close his eyes.
The pain in his eyes was still there.
So much so that I couldn’t open my eyes.
he said sobbing.
“I will tell you! Please let me speak!”
Seeing that, Ray nodded and said.
“okay. Well, this should be enough.”
The necromancer said quickly.
Even under torture, I always measured the timing to say these words.
So that you can speak directly at any time.
“The true identity of Proxia is the Mage Tower!”
“…the magic tower?”
Ray frowned at the unexpected answer and asked again.
Is it a magic tower?
Why did the mage tower, which had never appeared since it collapsed with the age of sorcery, pop up again?
The Necromancer quickly continued.
Don’t miss an opportunity to speak.
Because you never know when the crazy guy in front of you will do something crazy.
“It is known in the world that the Mage Tower disappeared during the Magic Age, but the truth is a little different…
”
The person who had done the torture, not the torture, pressed the story.
“…There were five magic towers in total. It was black and red, blue and gold, and yellow. The rest are just towers without roots derived from each other. We played a role in correcting the magical order between countries while maintaining balance with each other.”
“huh?”
Something was out of the way.
Just listening to the story now doesn’t mean that they just did their job and lived in harmony.
The Necromancer gritted his teeth and said.
“But those bastards…! Sensing a sense of crisis at our large power, the allied nations of the continent attacked the Mage Tower. We gathered our troops and fought on our own. The Black Tower raised the undead, and the Red Tower destroyed numerous kingdom buildings.”
“Certainly, in the process, the age of sorcery…”
“Yes. In the Black Tower, he used magic that shouldn’t be touched after all. Have you ever heard of a bone dragon? Clinkle cluck…”
I didn’t hear it, but caught it.
“As a result, it is said that the Age of Magic and the Mage Tower perished… but in fact, the Mage Tower did not perish. I just hid and waited for the day of revenge. And the union of those mage towers is Proxia.”
“…”
Ray was speechless.
In the end, isn’t it the continent’s allies that closed the age of sorcery and created a super-giant organization called Proxia?
He made his own way to die, so he had nothing to say.
However, he did not intend to let them destroy the continent.
Ray thought for a moment and said to the old man.
“Then why is Proxia aiming for the holy kingdom? As it is now, even in the age of magic, the Holy Kingdom would not have been an allied nation, right?”
To his question, the old man answered easily, as if asking something like that.
“Because the Holy Kingdom is the Holy Kingdom.”
Ray could understand that ambiguous answer.
Proxia wants revenge.
If so, wouldn’t it be right to eliminate the most threatening sacred power in achieving that goal?
Eliminates the undead and heals the injured instantly.
In a way, divine magic that was similar to black magic would have been a thorn in Proxia’s eyes.
If he had tried to do the same, he would have attacked Seongguk first.
Ray, now able to understand their actions, shook his head.
“okay. So, where is Proxia’s headquarters?”
“Clack-clack… I admit that you are strong… but you probably won’t be an opponent.”
“huh?”
“There is a black mage who can summon the Bone Dragon. Of course, it takes a lot of money… but we were finally able to gather it. It wasn’t long before rivers of blood would form on the continent. Heh heh heh.”
At the sound of the old man’s sullen laughter, Ray laughed sullenly as well.
I got some really good information.
If so, doesn’t that mean you can’t summon the Bone Dragon anymore!
The dragon the old man was talking about had already been caught a long time ago.
In order to summon it again, you will have to collect the wealth again from the beginning.
In addition, in the case of the Black Tower, it seems that the black mages are the main tower in terms of the flow of the story.
If you eradicate such a place at once, the future will be quite comfortable.
Ray was delighted with the unexpected harvest.
“So where? Hehehe.”
The necromancer, slightly frowning at his smile, told me the location.
Even if I told you anyway, would you do anything other than go and die?
He perfectly believed that they still had the dragon they had seen.
“It’s the Grencia Mountains.”
“…Grencia?”
It was a place that Ray had also heard of at least once.
It is the first mountain range in the entire continent where dwarves and elves coexist.
Of course, that doesn’t mean they’re good friends.
Dwarves like to dig veins and make armor, but elves don’t like their atrocities of destroying nature for their own desires.
Because we don’t get along well, there are always fights.
So even though it had good soil and mineral veins, no one lived around it.
Moreover, it is not a mountain range designated by any one country.
To be precise, it did not belong to any country.
It’s like a few neutral areas.
If you think about it, there is no place like a neutral area for Proxia to raise troops and organize.
After that, the questions and answers continued.
The size of Proxia’s troops or the number of advanced personnel it possesses.
Where does the money to raise the troops come from and what kind of influence can it have on each country?
Ray, who was able to hear most of the answers he wanted, escaped from the dungeon where the necromancer was.
Almost anything that can be asked is asked.
I didn’t know that Necromancer would even tell me about Proxia’s stronghold.
I got a lot more good information than I expected.
What he would do now was decided.
Make a thorough plan and get rid of them without leaving a single root.
There’s nothing I can’t do, like going there and dropping a meteor, but if that happens, even the countries around the elves and dwarves will get caught up in it.
He wanted to avoid the death of innocent people as much as possible.
After hearing the story of the necromancer, the only thing they believe in is high-quality personnel.
Despite the number of troops, fifteen sword masters and seven 6th circle great mages were all gathered in Proxia.
Of course, it was only natural that the books containing all the visions of the Dark Ages were in the hands of Proxia.
Even the Lessian Empire seemed unable to withstand the high level of troops produced through systematic training.
In addition, there is a 7th circle great mage who is said to be the first human being since the age of magic.
It was necessary to further strengthen the boundaries.
Since the Bone Dragon is dead, they won’t rush at you, but there’s nothing wrong with being careful in advance.
Ray thought with a hard expression.
‘It’s going to be a tougher fight than I thought.’
Continents were created to perish before medical reform.
* * *
Zeke immediately mounted his horse.
He defeated the direct knights and guards who were trying to follow him, and left alone.
Follow the designated path and enter the forest.
I was heading to Selonia, but I ran down a road that had no name.
Soon after, he encountered a group of orcs.
Of course.
The monsters couldn’t help but smell him as he ran into such a deep forest with a horse that looked so appetizing.
Fortunately, Zeke’s horse was quite a master horse.
Just because monsters came out, they didn’t abandon their owners and run away.
Without saying a word, Sieg pulled the sword from his waist and cut the throats of the orcs. With
a
sharp sword, the orc’s head fell to the ground.
There was no way a monster living in a village could withstand the sword master’s aura.
Even with a single sword, three or four orcs were knocked down.
Due to the overwhelming difference in strength, the number of over 30 orcs quickly decreased to less than 20.
“Chwiik! Run away!”
“human! Chwiik! strong!”
The panicked Orcs tried to run away, but they couldn’t stop him from making a determined attack.
Zeke, who slaughtered them without a drop of blood on his clothes with an emotionless face, put his sword into the scabbard only after all the orcs had died.
The surroundings were truly horrifying.
The blades of grass and trees where the blood and corpses of the orcs were born were instantly stained with the blood of the orcs, and the clear air in the forest was erased by the scent of blood.
Zeke knelt down there, covered in the blood of the Orcs.
“I am…strong…”
He grabbed his chest tightly.
My heart was too heavy.
A severe sense of shame had been hitting my head like crazy from earlier.
He was just a guardian to be protected.
“Ugh…”
Hot tears flowed down his eyes, which had never seemed like tears in his life.
