20demayo Chapter 116: A guy who will be especially cute
Chapter 116: A guy who will be especially cute
Arthur staggered back a few steps and then collapsed.Blake was frozen in the same position as when he was captured by Arthur.
His mouth seemed ready to burst out in a scream at any moment, but there was no longer any sign of life from him.
He was completely dead.
“Are you alive?”
Arendt wiped the corner of his mouth and turned his gaze to Arthur.
As they stood facing each other, they couldn’t even laugh.
“That’s what I was going to say, you punk. I thought you were dead, so I was surprised. What happened?”
“I almost died, but I survived thanks to Count Stadler.”
Arendt rolled up his sleeves and showed the item to Arthur.
He noticed the bracelet that Arendt had used to subdue Warren. He activated it in a split second, and it partially countered Blake’s self-destruct attack.
“What about you, senior? There’s a hole there.”
“It’s okay. It wasn’t that deep of a stab.”
The way he was waving his hands was obviously a bad sight to anyone. In particular, the bleeding from his side, where he had been stabbed last, showed no signs of stopping.
Arthur clicked his tongue, perhaps because he didn’t find it convincing, and took out the tourniquet he always carried and bandaged the wound tightly.
Arendt, who saw that sight, finally snorted and turned around, walking unsteadily. His destination was the passageway that Blake had been blocking.
Before he could get very far, Arthur got up and followed him.
“What is it? Why are you following me?”
“I’m afraid I’ll have to clean up the bodies of the people who are dying.”
There wasn’t much time to argue.
Arendt had to move quickly before they all activated. He could feel the ghouls waking up one by one in the darkness beyond the stairs.
It was difficult if the number of enemies here increased.
Not only Arthur and himself, but also Laius and Richt, who were fighting the dragon from above, would not have the strength to fight the others.
Finally giving up on trying to leave Arthur, Arendt limped along as fast as he could.
After a long walk down the stairs, a rotten smell that had become quite familiar to him hit his nose.
He also felt a strong, ominous magical power that was incomparable to anything he had ever felt before.
The stench and the magic were so bad that it was hard to breathe.
At the end of the stairs, a thick door greeted the two.
Instead of opening the door right away, the two just stood there.
They had an intuitive feeling that the source of magic existed just beyond that.
Arendt stepped forward as he saw Arthur draw his sword without saying a word.
Squeak.
The thick door was pushed open with a creepy sound without much resistance, and the moment they checked inside, the two people couldn’t help but harden their faces.
In the pitch-black darkness of the space, numerous beings turned their heads toward them.
Dozens of pairs of unfocused, pure white eyes stared blankly at the knights. There seemed to be more of them than the ones they had faced outside the temple.
The magic stone pillar was emitting an eerie light from the innermost part of the room.
In short, it meant that they had to break through all of them to destroy it.
“Crunch.”
Those that had found their prey began to move stealthily. They slowly approached with their teeth exposed, as if they were about to pounce on them at any moment.
Arendt and Arthur simultaneously took up a fighting stance, but the next moment,
The back of their heads felt cold.
“Bow down!”
As soon as they lowered their heads, a sword of tremendous power passed above.
Boom, clang!
The black magic stone was struck right in the middle.
The magic stone lost its light and the magic energy that had been floating around like fog disappeared in an instant.
The ghouls that had been displaying a menacing aura also stopped moving in an instant, and soon, one by one, they began to fall down on the spot.
He barely managed to turn his motionless head to check behind him, and his eyes met with Laius’, who was still in the same position as when he had thrown his sword.
“Are you okay?”
“That…”
To be honest, he was scared.
He was more horrified than when he discovered a new group of ghouls.
Arthur must have felt the same way, as he just opened his mouth wide and made a sound like, “Oh my god.”
When the two men failed to answer immediately, Laius hurriedly ran down the stairs.
“What’s wrong? Is there a problem?”
“…”
“…”
Laius was the cause of the trouble from the beginning to end, but looking at his face dripping with worry, Arendt couldn’t bring himself to say those words.
Only Richt, who had been following behind, averted his gaze and gave a short cough.
When they came out and checked each other’s appearance, it was more miserable than they thought.
Laius and Richt had no choice but to exclaim after seeing Arendt, who had not a single particularly clean place.
“You were walking around like that?”
“What does it matter how I look? As long as I’m handsome, that’s fine.”
Even though he couldn’t stand up properly and had to sit down, his mouth wouldn’t stop.
Arthur, who had been glaring at the back of the bastard’s head and secretly clenching his fist, soon relaxed his grip, because if he hit him now, he felt like he would really die.
“…For now, it seems like any further activities will be impossible. Fortunately, there is a house nearby, so I can go there and find a place to get treatment.”
“No. I’ll go, so you go and rest.”
Laius, who had stopped Richt who was about to leave, started running towards the city visible on the other side before even hearing an answer.
Richt, who had been staring blankly at the captain’s back as he went further and further away, lowered his gaze again to look at his two juniors. Perhaps because they had relaxed, they were all lying down, unable to move.
“Hey, are you alive?”
“…Please don’t talk to me. It’s hard to even breathe.”
Arendt somehow managed to drag himself up and lean his back against a tree stump, closing his eyes.
Richt, who was looking at that sight, couldn’t help but let out a short sigh.
“Rest. I will be the one standing guard.”
“Senior, you’re also raggedy, what can you do?”
“You’re right.”
Arthur joined Arendt.
This time, Richt’s fist tightened for a moment, then relaxed again.
Arendt opened only one eye slightly and glanced at Richt, then turned his gaze toward the sky.
The night sky was full of stars as the sun set.
Fatigue washed over him like water.
‘Blake was killed.’
He must be fighting with Vincent in the afterlife right now.
The ghoul dens that appeared in “The Blue Knight of the Holy Sword” have also all been annihilated.
The dragon ghoul that was the most troublesome were taken care of, and Diana and Kendrick, who were each dispatched to different places, each took charge of taking care of one of the monsters.
He didn’t think there would be any problems with this in the future…
‘What are they?’
A ghoul that is intelligent and not controlled by magic stones.
Certainly, the ghouls that have appeared now were much weaker than described in the novel, having not been touched by Vincent and Count Stadler.
In that case, it would be safe to say that the development of the ghouls have stopped.
‘I guess I’ll have to dig around over there.’
Maybe that was the reason why all the existing ghouls were moved at once.
Since it was already a failure, they’ve already consumed it in large quantities, and from now on, they were focusing on developing new ghouls.
‘It would be a shame to lose the dragon’s corpse, though.’
Surely they never dreamed that Laius would cut it down.
“Ah…”
His head kept spinning.
Arendt simply leaned back and closed his eyes again.
Count Stadler would soon be investigating, and any information the knights need to know would come out of his mouth naturally.
There was nothing he had to do right now.
“…”
As Arendt became quiet, Richt and Arthur, who had been silent, made eye contact in the air.
“That thing isn’t dead, right?”
“He’s sleeping. Leave him alone.”
Arthur, whose manner of speaking had changed considerably, stopped thinking after he saw the wave of Richt’s hand.
Arthur, too, could no longer endure sitting up, so he just lay down on the floor and sighed.
“What kind of a mess is this… whenever something happens, it’s always a major accident. The ghouls alone are amazing, but I never imagined that the day would come when I would get to see a dragon in person.”
“There will be more things like this in the future.”
It was something no one had said out loud yet, but now he was certain of it.
“So we need to prepare.”
The murderous intent the cult harbored was directed at all living beings under the protection of the God of Light, Luce. Not only the imperial family, but all the people who remained under the protection of the empire were their targets.
All the things that have happened so far, if left unattended, would have obviously resulted in countless civilian casualties.
Looking back, it was a miracle that there have been so few victims so far.
‘Thanks to you, we suffered like crazy.’
It’s all that cheapskate apprentice’s fault.
There were enemies, but at this point, the most enigmatic was Arendt.
‘What kind of guy is he?’
He couldn’t shake the conviction that the order that suddenly came down from the imperial palace must have been influenced by that bastard.
But Richt shook his head to shake off the thought.
‘If His Highness the Crown Prince believed that guy’s words, then that would be enough.’
There must have been some basis for that, of course.
If the Crown Prince had also decided to stay silent, then there was no room for the knights to interfere further.
Thinking about it that way made him feel a lot better.
The Crown Prince was a more helpless person than he could have imagined, and Richt could not have known that he had completely fallen for Arendt’s trick.
The already noisy palace was turned upside down once again by the sudden appearance of the dragon’s remains.
Count Stadler, who had returned to the palace after receiving the call, began to fret and said that he would leave for the scene immediately, and Cantares readily complied.
In addition, he quickly finished preparing and rushed to the scene where the dragon appeared, accompanied by Jereon.
Count Stadler looked at the remains of the giant dragon and his eyes sparkled like a madman…
People from nearby cities also flocked to see the dragon bones, and the scene almost became a mess.
This was the news that Cantares himself had relayed.
Arendt looked at the Crown Prince who was telling such a story in front of him with a look of blatant disapproval.
“Are you so free? You came all the way here.”
“I’m so busy thanks to someone, but I still have to come and see for myself.”
Because dragon bones were harder to see than a living dragon.
While the captain, his seniors, Count Stadler, his assistants, and even the Crown Prince were running around like crazy, Arendt was forced to stay in his quarters.
Even Arthur, who he used to rest with, left two days ago saying he had to work, so he couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.
At that moment, Cantares barged in and started saying this.
“We have decided to transport the remains to the palace for now. How they will be used will be decided later.”
“Sell it or do whatever you want. If you have any money left, give me a generous amount.”
“How much money did you already gain?”
Cantares responded as if he found it ridiculous.
“You have to earn it when you can.”
“Yeah, figures.”
Anyway, thanks to the Crown Prince’s attendance in person, things were going smoothly.
“That’s not what’s important.”
Cantares changed the subject.
Arendt frowned slightly as he noticed the sudden change in the Crown Prince’s gaze directed at him.
“What is it?”
“I’m just asking out of personal curiosity.”
Cantares’ eyes narrowed and he frowned. He blurted out his curiosity and doubt without trying to hide it.
“You, did you know there was a dragon ghoul here?”
“…Ha.”
Now that he thought about it, this person wasn’t the type to be easily overcome.
Realizing that fact anew, Arendt put his hand on his forehead and let out a short sigh.
“Oh my, sighing in front of the Crown Prince? How disrespectful.”
“…”