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Tarti and the Eastern warriors cleared the way, and Sir Tentia and I ran into the cave.
'Hey! Follow me closely!'
'Yes, Your Majesty.'
Sea giants that were so tall they reached the ceiling, crab warriors carrying giant sea snails on their backs, octopus guardians of the fish-people, and other high-ranking fish-people rose up to block our path, but Sir Tentia and I managed to shake off all of the monsters and make it down here.
The mermaid's sanctuary held the mystery of a sanctuary.
There was a ring-shaped lake formed by seawater flowing into a huge hollow, and an island made of white coral sand.
There were high-ranking fishmen and mermaids in Lake Gorey, and Governor Carlon and his soldiers on the coral sand island.
A pillar of light descended from a large hole in the common ceiling, and in the center of the pillar of light sat Shuv Ardella.
I looked at Governor Carlon's face and smiled.
“……That’s what happened. Governor.”
He twitched his moustache.
He had an expression on his face like he didn't know what was going on.
“……If the Grand Duke had set sail from the port at the end, he should have contacted me.”
I laughed like a villain explaining all the plans.
“I didn’t set sail from there. I ran on the water, got to the ocean, and then caught a passing ship.”
With every step I took across the salt water lake, ripples formed on the surface.
Carlon and the soldiers groaned as they watched the scene.
“This island is not a place you can get to by passing boat.”
“There happened to be some famous pirates on that ship in the East. They were incredibly good at steering the ship.”
"pirate?"
Carlon looked back at Shuv Ardella.
The mermaid princess let out a sigh.
As it was her job to guard the Southern Seas, if seven large ships had appeared, the Cheonchang Fleet would have had to search and inspect them.
But the mermaid princess, who was on the verge of being freed from her thousand-year-old shackles, would have thrown away her duties as the enemy admiral, and thanks to that, Tarti was able to enter the depths of the southern sea without being detected by anyone.
Carlon shouted at Shuv Ardella.
“Princess! This is a breach of contract!”
Shuv Ardella gritted his teeth.
The next moment, the energy of the dragon flowed out from her body, strangling her neck and digging between her scales.
“Ugh!”
The turquoise eyes constricted and blood flowed out from between the scales.
The water inside the shell she was sitting on was already dyed red.
I know because I've been hit by Cariosa many times, but for the water to turn that color, it was a significant amount of bleeding.
I raised the spirit of the verb.
Saaaaah-.
“Let’s stop here. We’ve done enough.”
A small golden vortex appeared above my palm, and it flew away, stopping as it entangled with the dragon's energy that was about to penetrate her body.
Squeak, squeak!
There was a sound like someone was slamming a glass window.
Although we couldn't release the contract right away, we could stop the punishment that was currently in progress.
Shuv Ardella looked at me with her eyes as clear as the southern sea.
Just as I was trying to win her favor by smiling brightly, Han In-young came between me and her.
“Valencian? When did you grow so big?”
He had blue hair, golden eyes, and a mature look.
His actual age seemed to be much older than mine and Jaylilith's.
He was tall and stocky, and had the inhuman aura typical of the Dragon Blood Royal Family.
If he had not been born in a time when the royal family was treated as a potential heir to the emperor, he would have definitely become a strong man who would leave his name in history as a high-ranking imperial officer knight.
But these were the times.
I smiled bitterly and shrugged my shoulders.
“It seems like this is our first meeting, but you know my name?”
“His name is Licention. He was once ranked 12th in the line of succession.”
Licention made a face as if he wanted to say, "Behave yourself."
I repaid him with insults that were tantamount to swearing.
“That’s an old story. You know it, right?”
He frowned.
“You? How about calling me hyung? If I were married, I would have a son like you at an age like that.”
I shook my head leisurely and climbed up onto the coral sand island.
Brim, brim.
Carlon's private soldiers aimed their swords at me with wary eyes.
I raised my chin arrogantly without even giving them a glance.
“Licention. Know your subject.”
“What!?”
His face hardened.
Even if you were a runaway member of the royal family, this would be the first time you've heard such abusive language.
It will be even more so since it seems that he was demonstrating his worldly skills quite well.
So I provoked him with even stronger words.
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“You are a criminal who has been stripped of your right to inherit, and I am the second in command of the Empire. Do you now understand the gap between us?”
His white face turned bright red.
“How dare you!”
Behind me, Sir Tentia came running splashing across the salt lake.
“Your Majesty Valen!”
There was a certain determination on the faces of Carlon and Licention.
“Hit!”
The next moment, the private soldiers and five royal family members rushed toward me.
I laughed heartily and grabbed the handle of the magic sword, Typhoon.
“Fools.”
* * *
Licention came to this island with the four royal families, and they were strong men who had long trained in dragon language, magic, and swordsmanship.
Led by Licention, a young boy, a bearded middle-aged man, a short-haired girl, and a long-haired woman drew their swords and cast spells.
“The whip of pain!”
“Tie up the author and lock him up!”
Choaaaah!
From their left hands, red-hot chains shot out and aimed for Valencian's arms and legs.
At the same time, a young boy rushed forward with a sharp longsword and a blue mana blade wrapped around it.
“This damn bastard!”
Tadadadada!
The boy's footsteps as he kicked the ground were so fast that it was almost impossible to see, the tip of his sword did not waver at all, and his eyes were fixed squarely on Valencianus' neck.
“You killed my sister and brother! My mother died by the hands of your twins! Now it’s your turn!”
Valencian answered with a wild laugh.
“You are a living witness to my laziness. If His Majesty finds out, my throat will snap, so I will send you to them without saying a word.”
Taat!
The boy lunged, but Valencian was first to respond with two chains.
Wedge! Wedge!
Tsk tsk tsk!
By covering the body with scales, the resistance to heat and physical force is raised to the limit.
Charrrr!
The chains tightened madly around Valencian's right arm and left foot.
Cheeeeeing!
Orange sparks flew everywhere.
It was an attack that could have worn away even the most heavy armor and burned the body of the person inside, but the scales of the Grand Duke of Mangnani held out firmly.
The short-haired and long-haired princes frowned, and Valencianus swung his arms and legs and pulled the two of them like paper dolls.
“Whoa!”
“What power-!”
Saaaaah-!
At the same time, he poured mana into the magic sword Typhoon to pull out the blade of wind, and surrounded it with flames to complete the sword of the flame typhoon.
By then the boy was already jumping towards him.
“Dieee …
Tsukaaaaak-!
The boy's powerful slash left a blue line in the air.
Now, if you try to block the sword, you will only be pushed back.
In front is a boy, behind is water.
It seemed that all Valencian could do was put up a half-hearted defense.
widely!
He pulled his right foot back and planted it firmly on the water, while simultaneously raising the sword of the Fiery Typhoon.
Hurrrrr!
'It's late!'
The boy sensed victory, but a sadistic smile still appeared on Valencian's red lips.
Thud-!
The sword of the Fiery Typhoon clashed with the boy's sword, and a fierce backlash occurred.
Cheeeeeing-!
Sparks and mana blade fragments flew everywhere.
For a moment, the boy's face distorted.
'I'm a swordsman who can even cut down a cliff… …?!'
He leaped up with all his body weight and slashed down, but the archduke was able to block it with just one hand.
Thud-!
There was another backlash, and the boy leapt back, kicking the air.
“Revenge!”
And the moment his feet touched the ground, he kicked the ground and ran again.
Sack, evil, saaaak, saaaak!
The boy's sword spread out as if it had grown to eight and was about to slash at Valencianus' body.
“Go to your older sister who left first and whine and tell her!”
However, the archduke blocked the boy's sword by swinging his blazing sword like a pinwheel.
Chaeng, Chae-Aeng, Che-Ae-Aeng! Che-Ae-Aeng!
Meanwhile, he twisted his body strangely and used the boy's back as a shield to prevent Licention and the bearded middle-aged royal from launching ranged attacks on him.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
'Why is it that your swordsmanship isn't that sophisticated?'
The boy realized with confusion that he had been cornered, and then realized that Valencian's sword had grown by more than two spans from its original length.
“Hey, you coward!”
Valencian laughed heartily.
“Do you understand now? All of my siblings are like that. They would have all died by my hand!”
“How dare you-!”
“There are only three people in the Empire, including Your Majesty, who can say that to me!”
The flames burned fiercely from his sword.
“Pull!”
"shit!"
The short-haired and long-haired royals screamed.
Kwakwakwakwa-!
The magic sword Typhoon spewed out long blades of wind, creating a whirlpool, and the mana blades and flames were swung around in the whirlpool.
It was a technique that burned and killed hundreds of starfish on a breakwater where waves crashed on a rainy day.
The eye of the firestorm.
"no!"
In an instant, the short-haired prince let go of the chain he had created and grabbed hold of his sister's chain, pulling it.
Squeak-!
Valencian's right hand twisted slightly, and the powerful whirlwind missed the boy slightly.
“Ugh!”
The boy prince flew into the air with a sigh.
Valencian looked at him with his pupils moving vertically.
There was a bitter sneer in his eyes.
Her red lips parted, revealing eerily neat and white teeth.
'Fire. Burn. Throw. Away.'
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A fireball the size of a person appeared out of thin air, and then transformed into the appearance of a giant horned demon.
The fire spirit rushed forward with its arms outstretched.
pop!
The boy's body was engulfed in flames in the air.
“Kwaaah!”
He tried to use his magic resistance to buy time and put out the fire with the power of the dragon's tongue.
'Huh, huh?'
The flames of Valencian easily cut through the resistance of the same Dragon Blood Emperor and burned him to the bone.
Whoosh whoosh!
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhh-!”
The boy's body fell to the floor.
Plop!
At the same time, it turned to ashes and scattered.
The Licention and the bearded young prince let out a sigh, and the two women bit their lips.
“Ugh.”
Valencian absorbed the glove on his left hand into his hand, and with a small growl he wrapped scales around his left hand.
Stop!
And he immediately broke the chain that bound his right hand.
He lifted his chin and looked at Licention.
Even though he was clearly standing far below, he seemed to be looking down on me.
“If you want to hear what your brother says, I’ll do it.”
“!”
“Brother. Let’s stop resisting unnecessarily and end this quickly. Then I will send you to beheading and build a tomb for you in the cathedral.”
* * *
While Valencian confronted the imperial family, Tentia dealt with Charles and his private soldiers.
“Stop it! Stop it!”
“It’s absolutely impossible!”
“I’m a Platinum Knight from the capital! Our kids are no match for him.”
“Ahhhhh!”
The situation was so one-sided that it was embarrassing to even use the word 'opponent'.
Thud!
The swords the soldiers stabbed into Tentia's armor were easily deflected, and Tentia cut a soldier in half with each swing of her sword.
She called out to Carlon in a commanding voice.
“Governor Carlon!”
“fu*k! fu*k! These rotten fish! Like the city council members!”
The enemy knight climbed the sandbar, and Carlon retreated in a panic.
“Pay the price obediently! His Majesty does not like the system of collective punishment, so now, with just your head, I can save my family!”
For a moment, Carlon saw that his nearly hundred soldiers were reduced to a handful.
“Hahahaha.”
He admitted with a hollow laugh that he had encountered an insurmountable variable.
'We've already… … set sail. We must either return with full cargo or die at sea.'
He took a bluish-blue trumpet out of his bosom and blew it.
Phew!
Shuv Ardella opened her eyes wide, and the dead soldiers stirred.
It was the mermaid's treasure, the 'Trumpet Shell of Servitude', which enslaves dead sailors.
“Krrrrr!”
“Crunch!”
The corpses' teeth became sharp, their skin turned pale, and coral grew along their spines.
The surviving soldiers trembled.
"dismissal?"
“Me, Nari!”
“What is this blasphemous…….”
Tentia nodded.
“I understand.”
She wrapped the mana blade around her waist.
Saaaaah-!
A wave of blood-red mist rose up.
“I will kill you until I die.”