Chapter 205
“A Fallen? Isn’t that too out of the blue? Judging from the current situation alone, it seems more fitting to call you a Fallen.”
“Save your nonsense for when you sleep.”
Slash!
Slicing a knight, Kalias immediately grabbed the guy by the neck and asked.
“Where.”
“W-What do you mean!”
“I am asking where Cedric is. Apostle of the Horned God.”
“N-North... I-I cannot tell you.”
“So it’s the north.”
Swish.
Everywhere he passed, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood unfolded.
There was no hesitation in the sword he held.
Even solid armor has seams, and Kalias easily thrust his sword into those small gaps.
Boom!
Bang! Crash!
Seeing the massive body crash down, shattering the floor, Kalias’s gaze shifts.
“Fight!!”
As the Troll General’s figure silently disappears, a man wearing armor twice as massive appears.
“The Colossus Soldier of Rumfard.”
The Colossus Soldier of Rumfard.
Among the three Masters residing in Rumfard, the one in the middle was a Master possessing an armor with the ability to enlarge.
Possessing a size and strength easily a head taller than a troll’s, he was effortlessly annihilating the trolls.
“The Colossus Soldier has appeared...”
“What should we do? He is a known powerhouse, outstanding even in Rumfard.”
“There is no need to fight him. Cedric comes first. We didn’t come here to take down Rumfard in the first place.”
Moreover, if there is a Fallen here, draining our strength in a battle against him is strictly forbidden.
The Master called Rumfard’s Colossus Soldier wouldn’t fall easily.
Clack clack clack.
“Ugh!”
“Keuk!”
“Eok!”
Watching Kalias advance by stepping on the soldiers’ heads, Helena gripped her spare sword and followed him.
‘When did he become a Master?’
Even while stepping on heads, his swordsmanship that slaughtered soldiers with brilliant movements seemed to have already reached the heavens.
However, seeing that he wasn’t using Stella’s swordsmanship, it seemed he was extremely wary of the Fallen he had mentioned earlier.
Helena thought.
‘Is it okay to do this?’
It felt like he was acting without thinking of the consequences.
While she worried about what would happen if this sparked a war between nations, remembering how Rumfard had arbitrarily imprisoned them made her feel that this was still deserved.
Moreover, if a Fallen had extended their evil clutches into Rumfard as he thought, this would merely be the start of a new war.
She couldn’t help but feel anxious.
“Why all of a sudden?”
Coming to a halt, Kalias plunged Bitan into the ground.
Immediately, a pure white chill spread like ripples across the area, freezing the soldiers’ feet.
Then, drawing the Fire Dragon Sword, he shouted.
“They said Cedric is in the north, so it must be over there.”
The tower in the very center of the spires forming a triangle must be where Cedric was imprisoned. If so, there was no time to delay.
“K-Kalias, wait a moment!”
“Breath of the Fire Dragon.”
Kwaaaaang!!
Rumfard’s spire collapsed.
* * *
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As doors opened one after another, the queen threw off her shoes and untied her corset.
Tearing off her dress as well, she swallowed a gulp of saliva without a single thread on her body.
Her footsteps, which had stopped before she knew it.
Before her was the door where He would be.
Creak.
As soon as she opened the door.
Thud.
Prostrating herself naked on the ground, the queen shouted toward something in the darkness that had its eyes closed in the massive hollow.
“Oh, Great Lord of the Skies!!”
In her voice, which naturally conveyed emotion, there was only agitation and outrage; there was no dignity.
With a face flushed red and lips full of ecstasy, she possessed no dignity as a nation’s queen; she was nothing more than a mere slave.
[You dare to recklessly open the door to my chamber, you lowly bitch of an inferior race.]
“I-I apologize! But the kingdom is shaking, so please...”
Scales stained red.
Vertically slit pupils.
Massive fangs revealed as its maw opened, and wings slowly unfurling from its back.
What resided in the kingdom was something that genuinely resembled a reptile.
A dragon, called the emperor of the sky.
A Dragon.
[Hmph. You threw away those disgusting human clothes. I will commend that and let this incident pass.]
“T-Thank you...”
A humiliation she could never feel as a nation’s queen.
The shame of lying prostrate naked.
All of those swirled within the queen, resulting in a minute tremor.
Amidst the trembling, unsure if it was shame or ecstasy, the queen thought.
A few months ago.
The dragon Erbiwe suddenly appeared and killed the king of Rumfard.
His appearance, snapping the king’s neck even while bleeding, bestowed upon the queen a despair and terror she had never felt before in her life.
The sudden appearance of the dragon.
With that, the queen’s life was utterly turned upside down in an instant.
A wounded dragon.
Yet, even with such a body, it possessed the power to annihilate the nation, and Rumfard had to secretly create a space for it to hide and follow its commands.
During that time.
It showed great interest in divine artifacts. The Holy Armor, Rumfard’s divine artifact, had already fallen into its grasp, and Cedric, the believer of the Horned God who visited as an envoy, also fell into its clutches.
[What is it, you bitch trying to protect your petty ambitions with that worthless body.]
“What could be the reason they suddenly invaded Rumfard! That priest of the Horned God was originally under Carpe. Therefore, they must have come to rescue him, must they not? Oh, Great One...”
[You insolent wench, dare you slight me.]
“N-No!!”
The buttocks of the queen, who prostrated herself once more, quivered.
[Begone.]
“B-But...”
[I will do it myself.]
It was then.
Suddenly, a red energy swirled around him, enveloping his body.
The energy said to be used by dragons.
Dragon Power.
The mighty Dragon Power swirled, and soon the shadow within it gradually shrank.
The shrunken shadow soon took on a human form, and upon seeing that appearance, a flush spread across the queen’s cheeks.
Though it had a human body, it was a striking figure with horns on its head, scales on its limbs, and membrane-like wings sprouting from its back.
“Ah...”
[Nothing could be more humiliating than this. If only my body were intact, I wouldn’t have done such a thing. Damn the old fogeys of ‘Icarus’.]
Cough!
Coughing up a mouthful of blood, the dragon immediately evaporated the blood and clicked its tongue.
[Come.]
As he gestured, the armor hanging to one side approached as if alive and snugly clung to his body, equipping him.
This was the divine artifact that established Rumfard.
Rumfard’s Holy Armor.
Upon donning the pure white Holy Armor, his energy was influenced and turned red.
The power held by Rumfard’s Holy Armor was healing.
And solidity.
[Hoo...]
This was the reason the wounded dragon insisted on wearing Rumfard’s Holy Armor to the point of taking on a human form.
In the olden days.
Even during the Dragon-Demon War, the hero of Rumfard, while fighting against the Fallen and Dragons, fell and fell yet rose again immediately like an immortal.
Like Romian.
[This is somewhat better.]
“Even the God will consider it a blessing to have someone as great as you as an apostle...”
[Hmph, just because I take the power of some god, do you think I will serve that god? Dragons serve no one.]
Dragons do not serve anyone.
Dragons are a complete race in themselves.
A race with such immense pride that they could be called the epitome of arrogance.
“T-Then...”
[Guide me to the one called the Apostle of the Horned God. I will devour the divine artifact he possesses.]
And.
[I will become the new god.]
It was exactly then.
Kwaaaaaaaang!!
Suddenly, a dragon’s breath directly struck the location where he was.
The spire was blown to pieces, and the intense heat incinerated everything around.
[Kreugh!! Who is it! The Black Dragon of Icarus! Who dares to attack me, the eldest son of the Fire Dragon!!]
Struck and blown back by the breath, the Fire Dragon Erbiwe was greatly enraged.
The spire was already half-destroyed and collapsing, and as he fluttered his wings and hovered high in the sky, there was no one around him.
It was clearly a breath that attacked him.
He thought another dragon had appeared and was pursuing him, but there was no dragon.
Then whose maw did this breath come from!
Erbiwe thought.
‘This breath. Come to think of it, from somewhere...’
It was a quite familiar Fire Dragon’s breath.
As if.
A Fire Dragon’s breath similar to his dead son’s.
[No way...]
Erbiwe’s eyes turned bloodshot red.
And immediately, a human standing on the ground caught his eye.
Among the humans swarming like ants.
The only human possessing a delicate yet sharp ki.
One who had transcended humanity and was hiding an energy similar to his own.
And the single sword gripped in his hand.
A sword that was cooling down, yet clearly harbored the Fire Dragon’s energy.
The moment he saw that sword.
[Kraaaaaaaaaa!!]
Erbiwe’s reason went berserk.
How could he not recognize it.
The energy his son possessed.
[Die!!]
Kwaaaaaaa!!
A beam-shaped breath fired immediately.
Kalias immediately drew Bitan and pulled up the residual energy.
“Damn it.”
His single strike blocked the fired breath.
Kiaaaaang-!
Upon blocking the breath, it split and bent like taffy, and the Fire Dragon’s breath flew to various parts of Rumfard, destroying and burning everything like a laser beam.
“Kuaaak!”
“Save me!!”
“I-It’s divine punishment!!”
Jiiiiing!!
Kwaaaaaaaaa!!
With just a single strike.
Merely blocking the Fire Dragon’s strike caused all of Rumfard’s fortress to collapse.
“This is a bit dangerous.”
Kalias’s hand trembled.
The hand gripping Bitan turned red hot.
Bitan, which had always been cold no matter what, had its blade glowing red hot today of all days.
Clank.
Dropping the sword, Kalias gripped Roas.
Then, looking at the grotesque dragon hovering proudly alone in the sky.
He clicked his tongue.
[The Fire Dragon’s revenge begins.]
- A dragon’s grudge lasts a lifetime.
The Fire Dragon Erbiwe will not forgive you, the criminal who killed his son.
Escape is only temporary. He will curse and chase you for the rest of your life.
[Subdue the Fire Dragon Erbiwe, who was banished from the Dragon Tribe and took the power of a god.]
Reward - [???]
“A dragon wearing the Holy Armor.”
The first armor, Rumfard’s Holy Armor.
Kalias swallowed a groan as he looked at the Fire Dragon wearing it.