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The greatest nobles of the empire gathered in front of the imperial palace.
Standing at the very front was Cariosa, leading a flag bearer carrying the Great White Shark flag.
“The armor suits you well. Right. You must have been waiting for me, right?”
She wore a coat of stingray skin beneath her iron armor that resembled shark scales, and she carried two magical swords.
As she laughed carnivorously, her sharp shark teeth gleamed in the darkness.
Her pupils were torn vertically and her thin lips were trembling as if they would burst into laughter at any moment.
"that is……."
I looked at her and the group behind her with an awkward smile.
“Friend, I’m here. Sorry I’m late.”
Sword Master, Northern Prince Severic.
“You don’t have to say thank you.”
Signine, the head of the Freyaite family who led the Knights of the Heavenly Kingdom.
“… …Because I’m different from you.”
Grace, the head of the Gremorius family who led the Golden Knights.
“I wish we had something to do.”
Cesar, Marquis of the Assassins, the leader of the southwest who brought the Assassins and the Dreadbird cavalry.
“I have prepared an airship, but it doesn’t seem like I have any plans to escape on it right now.”
Marcus, who leads the mechanical knights and is also armed with mechanical armor.
Cariosa snuggled up next to me and put her arm around my shoulder.
It was a very natural movement.
“The foreign objects and eroders are all swarming in droves.”
"haha."
“It seems difficult for the imperial family to suppress it alone, so should we, the great lords, lend a helping hand as vassals?”
"ha ha ha."
Calculations were running rapidly in my head.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
For the past month, we have been negotiating with them to make them swear allegiance.
It was last night that a compromise was reached that everyone could accept, even if it did not satisfy everyone.
But in this situation, you reach out to them again?
I had no idea what more they would ask for in exchange for the soldiers' blood.
At this point, they're going to try to suck the very backbone of the royal family.
They won't want a few gold coins, but the rights, mines, and lands that the royal family holds.
And when you think about the money needed to rebuild a completely devastated capital, if you reached out to them here, you could end up as a real vegetable royal family, dragged around by the great lords.
Some may ask why we should be concerned about such things when a person is dying.
It was my job to figure this stuff out.
With the Imperial Family being dragged around by the Great Lords, Jaylilith's plan to thoroughly root out the intruders through imperial connections was derailed from the start.
It takes about five years to build a large city, but it takes decades to overturn such an agreement, so it might have been less damaging to just kick out all the citizens, drop a meteor on the city, and then build a new one.
“No, Cariosa. It’s okay. We can handle it ourselves. You can just go up to the wall and look around.”
“And yet, so many people are dying? Hey, another elite soldier just got bitten.”
“I can't see it.”
“Look. You’ve hurt your eyes, so what about the soldiers? They’re saying that because we’re helping them. Just accept it. My White Rin Knights are trained by fighting the Mermen every single day. They can wipe out those eroders in an instant.”
Cariosa grinned from my left.
Severic came to my right and placed his hand on my right shoulder again.
“Archduke Valencian.”
“Severic.”
“Our North does not want anything more than a floating port. Don’t worry and ask for help.”
To my left, Cariosa raised her voice.
“Floating port? You’re not going to take it from me and give it to me, are you?”
Grace, wearing a black iron crown, strode toward me and pointed.
“People are dying like this, and Your Majesty, are you still only calculating profit and loss?”
There was genuine anger in his voice.
I raised the corners of my weak lips and smiled shamelessly.
“You can’t regret it later when the safe is empty, right?”
“The safe can only be filled again if people survive.”
“Once the safe is empty, sharks will come and eat it, so how can you fill it again?”
Cariosa laughed loudly.
I said with a deep sigh.
“The situation is urgent. Once you’re here, you can’t be kicked out, and you can’t question your self-defense actions in the midst of a disaster. However, I will deny all your wars and achievements. Officially… … that is.”
Since blood was shed, something must be given.
But don't even think about eating it all.
That's what I meant.
Cariosa licked his lips with a predatory grin.
“That’s how it should be.”
Fortunately, it seems like he understood.
It seemed strangely noticeable to me, but I must have been mistaken.
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“Kill them all! Don’t spare a single one!”
Cariosa ran out, shouting like a pirate from a fairy tale.
As the last of the moonlight fell, the scales of his iron armor shone like a school of fish, and the light of mana sparkled from the thick belt tightly tied around his waist.
It was a magical belt that became even stronger under the moonlight.
Following the fiercest of the great whites, the eastern sea warriors, a pack of bloodthirsty sharks clad in iron armor, ran.
“Hahahaha!”
“Get out of my way, you filthy little monsters! Daughter of the Storm, descendant of Summerlin, master of the eastern seas, conqueror of the three archipelagos, scourge of pirates and fishmen, has come ashore!”
What stood in their way was a fully mutated, fire-breathing wolf-like eroder.
“Awww!”
Its shoulder height was as high as a four-story building, its body length reached 30 m, it had four scorpion tails, and a double chin like a dragonfly could be seen between its gaping mouth.
“Throw it!”
Wedge!
Eastern men threw javelins with barbed ends.
The spears, spelled with sharpness, sturdiness, and penetration enhancement, pierced the limbs of the eroder, and the eastern men ran in all directions, throwing the eroder off balance.
“Pull!”
thud!
The sharks' arms tightened, and the predator wolves fell like deer on ice.
“Keep on, Ke-eung!?”
The eastern knight rushed towards the fallen eroder.
Knock, knock, knock!
The knight's leg strength was incredible as he fought by jumping from ship to ship, and he flew through the sky like a bird and landed on the head of the invader even though he was wearing dozens of kilograms of armor.
Tsukaaaaak!
The Eastern Knight swung his longsword, the blue mana blade of which shimmered, and cut off the bastard's head.
“I got one!”
“Well done!”
“I caught this too.”
“Me too!”
Cariosa was at their forefront.
She swung the fierce magic sword Tempest and the slender magic sword Tailwind.
“Ah-hahahaha!”
Any eroders who reached there died with their limbs falling off.
“Shiieeek!”
A spider as big as a house rushed at me, spewing venom and webs.
Tsukaaaaak!
Cariosa kicked the ground, cut the spider's body in two, and ran beyond it.
“Let’s go, guys!”
“Yes! Your Majesty!”
Severic Hysis Septentrios smiled faintly at the sight.
A vivid sense of triumph rose on his glacial cheeks.
“I thought only our northern knights were brave, but I guess I wasn’t.”
thud!
Adjutant Rushena, standing next to him, tied up her black hair neatly and pleaded with him.
“Don’t overdo it and don’t draw too much attention.”
“I know, Lucena.”
thud!
“Kill the enemy at least twice. If you take him down in one go, he’ll be alert. Just make him look a little stronger than the Marquis of Cariosa, no, the Duke.”
thud!
Severic turned his head and looked at the giant devourer approaching the palace.
“Wooooooo!”
The giant had purple skin, six tentacles growing out of its back, dozens of people protruding from its neck, screaming, and was as tall as a ten-story stone building.
“That sounds difficult.”
“Why are you here?”
“I also want to show off in front of my friends.”
Severic walked out, sweeping his North Sea-blue hair back.
“I will take care of it.”
The black iron knights of the royal family who were being pushed back recognized him and were terrified.
“Three, Your Highness Archduke Severic?”
“Sword Master!”
Before he knew it, he was holding a longsword made of northern silver iron in his hand.
Saaaaah-.
The longsword was as sharp as frost, and whenever it touched the air, the moisture in the air froze and formed a frost.
The Black Iron Knights and the Platinum Knights felt the surrounding temperature drop noticeably.
Woohoo!
Severic's sword glowed with a dark blue light.
The platinum knight opened his mouth wide and let out a gasp.
“… … Aura Fire.”
Severic smiled and raised his sword.
Tsukaaaaak!
The blue light of the aura soared into the sky along the sword's trajectory, and the sword wind swept in, creating a blizzard in the area.
thud!
The invader, who was approaching as if he was going to crush the palace, fell down, cut in two from the shins to the crown of the head.
* * *
“You guys really don’t seem human. I need to hurry up and get better too.”
“That’s true. It’s just fortunate that the Duke of Cariosa doesn’t look west.”
Signine and Grace, the two young lords, looked out over the battlefield while chatting away.
Unlike their tone of voice, their eyes were cold and settled.
The Knights of the Heavenly Palace and the Golden Knights followed their orders and headed towards the South Gate and West Gate to help evacuate citizens and secure the main road.
“There’s a big one!”
“Get the news out!”
“It’s heat resistant. Bring a magician who specializes in ice!”
Grace looked at Signine with an unexpected look in her eyes.
“I didn’t know you would step forward to help with the evacuation.”
Signine spread out his fan and covered his mouth.
To hide the rising laughter.
“This is also an important battle. Besides, we cannot allow our knights to shed blood for the sake of other people’s subjects. Rather than charging at the giant alien, it would be less damaging to provide a rough escort.”
“You are truly twisted.”
“It’s our job to value life. I don’t know, but you’re a high lord who’s relatively close to the royal family. You never know when Archduchess Helena might come with her knights. Learn to show off while minimizing your expenses.”
Grace neither nodded nor shook her head.
“I am the lord of a mining town. Unlike you, I am not a natural born warrior.”
"hmm."
“So my battlefield is not here, but on paper. I will make treaties and agreements, and create alliances of good faith. I will live a life of great power in a peaceful world. Both Archduke Valencian and Emperor Jerilis will want my help.”
“Let’s wait and see if it will be the seed of disaster or the seed of revival.”
They ended their conversation and turned their attention back to the battlefield.
“Third Avenue is cleaned!”
“Enter the sweep battle on 5th Avenue!”
“65% of the resident introductions at Nammun are complete.”
A glimmer of hope was slowly appearing.
* * *
“This can’t go on. Of course you know that.”
Chew, chew!
Marcus gave the order to his machine gunners and machine gunners to secure the central column.
He rolled his prosthetic eye and his good eye separately, looking at the foreign object standing in the center of the city with his prosthetic eye and at Valencianus with his good eye.
“After all, if he makes one more mental wave, we’ll have to do this again. And this time outside the walls. This fight won’t end until we get there and take him down.”
“Marcus is right. We have to go.”
Mateos agreed with Marcus, though his voice suggested he was not very keen on it.
As a saint of the church who had shaken hands with both Marcus and Valencian at one time or another and had also struck the back of the head with both, it could not have been comfortable to see both of them at the same time.
Valencian nodded and looked up at the sky.
“Please wait a little longer.”
Matheos thought he was still seeing the magic mirror where the emperor had disappeared, but Valencian's gaze was directed higher.
Wheeing-.
A damp night breeze blew.
A huge, black mass loomed in the sky, blocking out the moonlight and stars.
“Your Majesty. Now.”
Yellow and blue flames flashed and raced through the huge thundercloud.
“That’s-”.
Woof!
"yes."
The aura felt there was so threatening that even Marcus, who was called the most dangerous lord in the West, Saint Mateos, Sword Master Severic, and the Eastern loser Cariosa all felt threatened.
“When Sister Sereraji comes down, I will charge then.”