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Surprisingly, I didn't have many dreams before my regression.
But once I dreamed it, it was so vivid that I felt like I was back in that time.
The wind blows along the path made by the storm.
A school of bloodthirsty eastern sharks swarmed the heart of the imperial and central armies.
“Where is His Majesty the Emperor!”
An officer shouted loudly.
Messengers came from all directions, bringing desperate news.
“Sereiraji appears in the central rear! Creating thunderclouds.”
“Tentia is holding back His Majesty the Emperor through guerrilla warfare. He cannot come now.”
“Justinian and enemy light cavalry appear behind our rear. It’s the traitorous prince!”
“Helena is injured. Our heavy cavalry is falling back!”
“Cariosa is coming! Breakthrough 1, breakthrough 2!”
“News from the Northern Front. The Black Iron Knights led by Lord Barbatos have been defeated in a battle with Northern Prince Severic.”
While the friendly forces are being torn apart, I am sitting like a sack of barley borrowed from the command center's luxurious barracks.
There's no use for a punk like me when the war is going on normally.
But now the battlefield is in chaos, and the moment has come when a move is needed to turn it around.
“Archduke Valencian?”
“Your Majesty. It is dangerous.”
I pushed my way through the dissuading knights and officers and looked at the enemy forces.
A school of sharks from the east were tearing through our ranks on waves of their own making.
“Bring me the Bronze Crown and the Lich’s Staff.”
"yes?"
All the knights gaped in amazement at my words.
“That’s a black magician’s magical tool!”
“This is not an item that His Highness would use.”
“This is a magical tool that turns anyone, regardless of their status, into an undead. May the fallen soldiers who fought for Your Majesty rest in peace!”
“The priests will be terrified. Your Majesty, a long-term handshake… … .”
I resisted all dissuasion and wore the bronze crown.
“Shut up! You are honorable and priests, and I want to live.”
“All of your soldiers are faithful followers of the Light! If Your Majesty uses the undead, morale will drop.”
“I would be happier if I could obey His Majesty the Emperor even after death!”
While talking nonsense that is truly like a dog's tail.
I held off a pack of hungry sharks with a wall of corpses and lasted for three hours.
Knowing that Cariosa was obsessed with the white-haired, golden-eyed royal family, she acted as bait to buy time.
Eventually, an emperor wearing black armor flew down from the sky, and a red head fell down.
A cheer went up from the command center, and the sharks from the east scattered and fled in all directions.
When I see that head, I feel more regret and sadness than relief, and I wonder why I feel sad when the enemy Sword Master dies.
“Bell? Wake up. Bell!”
I wake up from a nightmare.
* * *
“Rudy?”
His green eyes were trembling, his voice was filled with urgency, and he was holding the twin guns, Kaspar, in his hand.
“They say the Marquis Cariosa has arrived in front of the main gate of the palace. He’s shaking off the guards and everything and coming this way. You should run away.”
I raised my head and looked around.
This is a conference room in the main palace, and around it, police chiefs, guards, and platinum knights are running around busily.
“Coming!”
“Where is His Majesty the Emperor!”
After finishing his mission yesterday, he came back, washed up, and reported, then came here to hear about the situation before falling asleep.
My shoulders and back were sore, maybe because I slept sitting up.
“Your Majesty Valen. Excuse me, the situation is urgent.”
A fully armed Tentia Lord strode over to me and lifted me into his arms.
She whispered softly in my ear.
“His Majesty has informed Sereraji of the situation. The Marquis of Cariosa has come under the pretext of meeting His Majesty, so he will not be able to enter the palace. For now, please take refuge in the Red Moon Palace.”
I shook my head, looking at the sad and dignified red eyes beyond the raised visor.
“No way. If I run away, it’ll be no different from confessing. Let me down.”
“What is that… …! Your Majesty!”
Tentia Sir tried to grab me, but I slipped through her gauntlets as easily as a loach.
I could feel the blue-gray mist rising in the distance.
"flaw."
A hunter who single-handedly slaughtered dozens of knights, one heavy cavalryman, and dozens of warlocks before returning.
He was the conqueror of the East, a descendant of Summerlin, and the Marquis of Cariosa.
Instead of running away, I went out to the main gate of the palace and stood halfway up the marble stairs and waited for Cariosa.
At that moment, people started to gather around me one by one.
“What’s going on, everyone?”
I asked with genuine bewilderment, and the senior attendant of the main palace answered.
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“How can I just sit back and watch when an impudent person tries to violate a member of the royal family?”
“!”
“Although His Highness the Grand Duke has acted as if he has thrown the name of the imperial family and the dignity of the imperial family into the gutter, we cannot treat His Highness like that.”
What I'm saying is that we can't give up on you just because you're a loser.
I smiled arrogantly, as if I knew it.
The attendant gritted his teeth, perhaps taking it as some kind of blackmail.
Platinum knights and elite soldiers stood by my side one by one.
Sir Tentia placed her hand on the handle of the firearm, and Rudy took cover behind the flower bed and trees by the stairs and took aim at Kaspar.
As Sereraji recited a spell on the rooftop, dark clouds gathered over the palace sky and thunder rumbled.
Boom! Boom!
Cariosa approached with the sound of thunder in the background.
His hair was rough but tightly tied, he wore a silver-grey armor that resembled shark scales, and he carried two swords.
Perhaps because of her tall stature or because of the murderous aura that rose up like a mist, the guards and platinum knights surrounding her looked small.
Our eyes met for a moment.
A black vertical pupil asks.
Did you plan all this?
I laughed like a fool.
He laughed arrogantly and shamelessly.
“What kind of rudeness is this!”
The senior imperial attendant ran out.
Cariosa turned her gaze to the harsh and firm voice.
But the wrath of the great nobles goes against not only man-made laws, but also the laws of nature and physics.
As Severic brings down snow, Cariosa also summons a storm.
She pushed the attendant away as if she were passing by an ant without stepping on it to death.
This time, it was the guards who blocked her way.
They were all elite, and there were many mana users.
The white captain of the royal guard stopped Cariosa.
“Your Excellency the Marquis of Cariosa. His Majesty the Emperor is still asleep. I do not know why you have requested an audience at this hour of the morning… … but remember that it is a high crime to enter the palace armed. You are now committing a great offense.”
It was a good response.
It would have worked even if the opponent was just an ordinary knight.
But Cariosa laughed as if the guards were nothing.
“Then try to stop me.”
Baring shark-like teeth.
“I am tolerating this rudeness out of consideration for Your Majesty’s dignity, but-.”
“‘Tolerance?’ Don’t you know who is tolerating whom right now?”
“!”
“Know that it is an honor for generations to come that you stood in my way and were not beheaded.”
Cariosa pushed the guards away.
However, the guard who had been ranked in the top 10 of the Academy's swordsmanship department for several years did not back down so easily.
Because you've been listening to the teaching assistants, professors, captains of the guards, and the platinum knights you still admire for 10 years.
[Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome fear.]
[It is the honor of a guard not to run away from a stronger opponent.]
[We fight until the day we die for the royal family.]
You shouldn't laugh at such words.
Ultimately, people try to explain or support their lives with words, and it is at the most desperate moments that they reveal themselves.
“Arrest Marquis Cariosa Summerlin Asenorta for trespassing on the palace! Kneel down and prostrate yourself immediately.”
I smiled with satisfaction and looked down at the guards and the Marquis of Cariosa.
The Marquis Cariosa smiled at me.
It was the laughter of a bloodthirsty hunter, a mixture of elation and excitement.
“Just wait.”
The next moment, four guards rushed to subdue the Marquis of Cariosa.
“Catch him!”
pop!
The windbreak rose, lifting four guards higher than an adult before tumbling down the stairs.
The plate armor made a thud sound as it hit the steps.
“… … I am Korzen of the Platinum Knights.”
“Cariosa of Asenortha.”
“That’s enough of the official statement.”
Sir Korzen took off his visor and jumped down the stairs, swinging his sword down.
The blue mana blade glowed fiercely, and a sword strike that could split even a cliff swept forward.
The next moment, two longswords were pulled out of Cariosa's hands at an invisible speed.
In his right hand, a thick, dark blue blade and a rough-feeling sword were the storm.
In his left hand, a sword with a thin, turquoise blade and a soft feel was the tailwind.
It was a pair of swords that slaughtered several imperial troops before the return.
Boom!
First, a storm blew up and blew Sir Corzen into the sky.
He pushed away the attacker who had thrown his body weight while jumping up using only his arm strength.
And through that gap, a tailwind blew in.
It was a tailwind of blue-gray and navy blue mana swirling in a spiral.
The plate armor of the platinum knights was double and triple-layered, so there were no gaps in any direction, up, down, left, right, front, back, left, or right, but Sunpung managed to squeeze through the iron plates that were as strong as a castle wall and pierced Sir Corzen's right armpit.
Red blood flowed between the metal plates, and the platinum knights leapt forward in unison.
I watched the scene silently.
* * *
Cariosa now looked at Valencian, who was not even thirty paces away, and smirked.
From a young age, she was very fond of the appearance of those royals.
A haughty face, platinum blonde hair, and inhuman golden eyes.
'I really wanted to live with at least one person. I guess I could receive the throne along with it.'
A crooked smile appeared on Cariosa's lips.
By now, the other nobles of the East are probably celebrating amongst themselves, laughing at her foolishness in taking on the most powerful emperor in humanity.
Full of hopes of dividing her fleet, her plains, and her harbors.
But the eastern great white shark never goes after prey it can never defeat.
'The Emperor never comes out. He is not a monster anymore.'
The hunter's instincts are at their most acute when stalking prey, and over the past year of observation, she has noticed how the person known as Jaylilith has changed.
'Whether it was voluntary or not, he wanted to change from a tyrant to an emperor. Planitis, Freyat, and Gremorius all tried to resolve the issue as quietly as possible. They provided food even though they knew that the central people were afraid of the northerners, and they donated to the church and even met with saints.'
That gave Cariosa confidence.
'Now, Jaylilith is not a monster that chooses between killing or sparing life.'
'I don't have any children yet, and I'm an only daughter, so the strategy of killing me and putting a new marquis in the throne is impossible.'
'No matter what I do, I will live. There is no other noble who can stabilize the East. Will the Emperor kill me and then come to the East himself, and while feeling the sea breeze, search over 10,000 islands to subdue pirates and fishmen?'
During the first year of her reign, Jaylilith went on a rampage, while she remained hidden beneath the surface.
Because it seemed like he was just going to kill her, whether she died or the East became a paradise for the fish people.
But not anymore.
She now aspires to become the Emperor of the Empire, and Cariosa is also a vassal of the Empire.
This means that it is something that must be protected and used.
In the end, it's all about using the other person's mind.
It's about biting into the weakest part to make it bleed, chewing it up and draining its strength, then knocking it down and stranding it.
'If you come out in person, you have to kill me for the sake of prestige. But if you kill me, there will be no replacement, so you won't come out in the first place.'
If there is no substitute, you have no choice but to watch the bullying of those below you with your eyes wide open.
So, even at a loss, Asenortha has been protecting the ports of other great lords in the East.
If they cannot raise their own navy, the Emperor will feel that there is no house to guard the seas in Asenortha's stead.
If you do that, no matter what you do, they will turn a blind eye to it.
The platinum knights flocked in.
The second most powerful swordsman in the empire raised his sword with a predatory grin.