VIP Early Access
Eksklusif untuk member VIP
Password Protected
Chapter ini dikunci dengan kode khusus
Chapter 233
Handkerchief
Meanwhile, the imperial army.
"The inner fortress's barrier is collapsing!"
A mage checking the status shouted.
Just as Ferda had said, all the totems had fallen, and the absolute barrier had lost its power.
Ureas, who had been taking a strategic rest with his arms crossed, asked the deputy commander beside him.
Ê num а .i d
"What about the allied forces' side?"
"Their strategy is similar to ours. It seems they'll charge the moment the barrier falls."
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"So it's finders keepers, first come first served."
Greed flickered in Ureas's eyes.
Everyone already knew what intention he had for entering the inner fortress.
But there was no one who dared offer him frank advice.
Еňū mä
Even if the battle situation was unfavorable, Ureas was the type to summarily execute anyone who displeased him.
He rose from his seat and shouted.
"Prepare yourselves, gentlemen! The time to execute the demon's lackey by hanging and display is not far off!"
Ureas drew his sword, and his royal guards also readied themselves fully.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
It wasn't just the imperial army.
Shortly after, another barrier of the inner fortress also collapsed, and an entrance appeared before them.
W е̂ b̄ṅ ӧ v̄.еl̀ Еn u̇ m̀ǎ
"Good, gentlemen! Advance!!"
The first to enter were the spearmen.
He made them into lab rats to probe the situation.
As expected, the moment they entered the inner fortress, the monsters' ambush began.
That place was a space densely packed with monsters and demons.
"May Althe's light be with you!"
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Knights armed with chivalry push back the enemies.
Even Night-class demons who had matched a few knights couldn't exert much power.
That was when it happened.
Something charged toward them from between the monsters and demons.
"May the Void be with the King of Hinkel!"
A human form with a head emitting red light.
Enŭm̈а́
The moment a knight tried to push it back with his body, it exploded just like that.
Kwaang!
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Blood and flesh scattered, unfolding a grotesque scene.
"Damn it!"
They were equipped with helmets and armor, but those only left minimal gaps to block sharp swords and arrows.
They couldn't stop the fanatics' blood from penetrating.
Wе́ b́n оv ёl Е n um ӑ
Feeling a slight unpleasantness and trying to rejoin the fight,
"Huh...?"
A knight who had tried to touch his face as if merely feeling unpleasant sensed something wrong and threw off his helmet.
"Kyaak! Kyaaaak!!"
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
His comrades, who had felt doubt at his loss of composure, were shocked when they saw his face.
His face was collapsing, skin melting as if dissolved by acid.
Ӗ n̊ u m̈ а
Spreading rapidly from where the blood had splattered, it became a white skeleton in less than 10 seconds.
That wasn't the end.
-Heuhelhelhel...!
Tak!
Death was only the beginning.
Stripping all authority from those who set foot in the realm of black magic, it is newly constructed.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
The knight became a Bone Knight right there, a black mage's slave, and swung his sword at allies.
"Watch out for the blood! They're making undead with blood!"
It was a suicide tactic commonly used by black magic fanatics.
Telling them to be careful didn't solve the problem.
This was a place where the crystallization of black magic had settled on the floor, a darkness that not even a single torch could pierce.
The knight captain couldn't just watch and pulled out a scroll as his trump card.
Е n̊ū m ȧ
"You filthy, wicked things! Althe's light shall be upon you!!"
As he tore the scroll, the magic circle inside rose up and activated.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
High-level light magic, Sacred Sanctum.
Faint light rose from the floor centered on the knight captain, brightly illuminating the dark interior.
-Kreureureuk!
-Keuek!
Е́num̌ а
Powerful light that purifies by stripping undead of their magical power.
However, because the Legion's magical power was so strong, it only managed to make them hesitate.
But even that was enough.
"Look! Those wicked things losing their power!"
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"Althe is great!"
"The Arken Empire is eternal!"
Ė nũm̃а
"Light to the Emperor!"
Knights wearing the great power of faith are encouraged and shout slogans.
In a war plunging into death, anyone would go mad.
"Find the sources that power the King of Hinkel! And kill them all!"
Ureas prepared to head for the audience chamber.
He smiled at the fact that everything was proceeding smoothly.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Until he heard that voice.
-Orabeoni!
The smile that had settled on Ureas's lips vanished.
It was a woman's voice he knew well.
"Olivia?"
Ureas couldn't understand.
Ѐ n û m̄ а
She was clearly supposed to be waiting in the rear as scheduled.
Olivia's voice shouldn't be audible.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
'Then is it an auditory hallucination?'
He already knew about demons' technique of bewitching opponents using hallucinations.
So he just had to move as planned.
-Kyaaak!! Orabeoni! Save me!
Е̄n u m а
"Olivia!"
"Commander!?"
But it didn't matter anymore.
If Olivia's voice was heard, Olivia was here.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
With his eyes rolled back, Ureas started running toward the sound.
"Everyone follow the Commander!"
Wеb n_ôv̂ е l̈ Еn ùm̌ а̂
Breaking formation unavoidably to protect Ureas acting on impulse, they ran toward him.
Ureas charged recklessly toward enemy lines.
"Get lost, you trash-like bastards!!"
Ghoul monsters blocked the way, demon followers charged, but Ureas shattered all obstacles with agile movements and advanced.
In the end, the royal guards couldn't catch up to Ureas.
The place he arrived at looked like the castle's warehouse.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Putting his eyes to a small hole, Ureas's worry turned into reality.
"Orabeoniiii!!"
Some ruffians were trying to violate Olivia.
"Euaaa!!"
Kwang!
Ureas smashed the door with superhuman strength and entered inside.
Еn̊ u ḿ а̌
Before they could react, he threw his sword at one bastard.
The rapidly spinning sword pierced the head and stuck into the wall as is, and he threw his body at the remaining one, grabbing him by the collar and slamming him to the floor.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
And then the mount followed.
Puck! Puck!
"Don't touch my little sister!!"
He smashed with his tightly clenched gauntlet until the face's form completely disappeared.
W ẽ ḃn о v_е̌ l Е̌_ǹ u ṁа
As the excitement that had crashed like waves subsided, Ureas released the captured Olivia.
"Olivia, are you hurt—."
"Orabeoni...!"
Olivia burying herself in his embrace with moist eyes.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"Thank you. For saving me..."
Ureas couldn't believe it.
W̊ё b̀n̊ о̀v̀ ёl Е̄n̊ǔ_mӑ
The little sister who wouldn't even allow him to hold her hand was in his arms.
Something boiled up from within Ureas's chest.
As he tried to embrace her back, she pulled away from his chest.
"I'm really glad. I... thought I wouldn't be able to hold my head up and speak anymore..."
Olivia unable to continue speaking, sniffling tears.
Ureas comforted her.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"Don't worry. Under Althe-nim's light, who could hide? Even if you suffered such humiliation, Althe would never abandon you."
"It's not about Althe-nim."
Olivia wiped her tears and said.
"It was about Regent Ferda."
"...What?"
Ureas shook greatly.
Ëńü mӓ.. і̌d̆
His throat blocked up so he could only gasp for breath.
As if Ureas's expression didn't matter at all, Olivia continued.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"The person who should take my first... must be none other than Regent Ferda."
It was confusing.
Amidst that, his mouth barely opened.
"Th-that man already has a fiancée, doesn't he? The dragon is his fiancée, right?"
W еb n о̆v̊ ѐl̇ Enü m̊ а
He said that, but Ureas knows imperial law.
The Empire permits polygamy, and Ureas already had three wives.
One was a duke's daughter, two were counts' daughters.
Ureas could do it, most nobles could, but there was no way Ferda could.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
He's human, and Valdrova is a Red Dragon.
Even though she's treated like a house guard dog, she's still a dragon.
Ĕn uḿа .і̊ d
She wouldn't allow him to take another man, and there's no way she'd let Ferda take a concubine.
"That's not true."
Olivia's beautiful voice clearly lodged in his ears.
"Valdroba-nim is extremely generous."
Each syllable struck, Ureas's heart crumbled one by one.
"You know? In a dragon's life, humans are mere amusement. Humans just look like pets. And you can't share that kind of love with a pet. So what do you do? You match the pet with a suitable mate."
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"Th-then..."
"Yes."
Olivia placed her hand on her chest,
"I've decided to marry Ferda-nim."
It tore Ureas's chest apart.
That can't be.
W̃е̌b̀ n о̆ v ė l Ënum̌.а̂.
Olivia would never say such things.
Even though he knew she had no feelings for him,
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Even though he knew she had feelings for Ferda,
She wasn't the kind of child to tear at his heart while saying such things outright.
Yet those words became daggers lodging in him, still slowly heading toward his heart.
Why?
Е n u m̄ а . іd̆
He clearly knows Olivia isn't here, that story is false, that it's an event that won't happen, yet it was incredibly hard to endure.
That was when.
Ureas, sitting collapsed, caught sight of an object in Olivia's hand.
It was the root of this delusion, a single truth proving thousands of lies as real.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
The decisive object that made him let go of his last reason.
That object was a handkerchief.
Ē nu̇mа
But it wasn't Olivia's.
Ureas knows what Olivia's handkerchief is like.
It has frills and gives off a faint rose scent.
Because she's an imperial princess, everything she has must be pure white or gold.
But that handkerchief was black.
A black handkerchief with red embroidery could never be the princess's possession.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Ureas knows the owner of that handkerchief.
'Ferda Valdrova.'
It belongs to that man.
The items in the princess's hand changed every couple of days, but that item alone remained the same even after days passed.
She had no intention of returning it to Ferda, and whenever something troubled her, she would secretly fiddle with that handkerchief or carefully smell it.
Even Ureas, for all his stupidity, clearly understood the meaning.
Ė ǹu̇ m̀ a . іď
Olivia has feelings for Ferda.
Emotions beyond yearning were directed at him, and her gaze never let go of Ferda.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
"Olivia..."
Ureas calls her name.
She is his only little sister.
Supporting his little sister's love is an older brother's duty.
Е̊numа. і́ d̊
He couldn't do it.
"Olivia..."
Ureas didn't want to let Olivia go.
Every time, he projected his mother onto her to soothe his loneliness.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
He knew it was a ugly thing himself, knew he had to stop, but he didn't stop.
Why?
Е̄ṅüm̂ а.i d
Just why am I this obsessed with Olivia?
Because I miss mother?
I miss her, but he wasn't a child anymore.
Complex emotions tormented Ureas and confused him.
In the agony that felt like he'd go mad, a surprising thing happened.
"Ah..."
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
Those complex things began to entangle even more tightly.
Like twisting strands to make a rope, the complexly entangled emotions found their grain.
They bound tightly together and connected into one long emotion.
"Olivia is... mine."
It was love.
When the shackles of blood relation and common sense could no longer hold him, Ureas felt something release from within his heart.
Е.ńu m̀ а́. і̃d̈
It was overwhelming power, the source that constituted him.
If one must define it, it was Golden Blood.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
"Commander, you shouldn't be here. Please, from here..."
The deputy commanders who arrived late lost their words.
"Althe-nim, good heavens..."
There was nothing worthy of being called Ureas in that place.
Wе̌b n̄ о v̊ е̃ l̂. Ė n umа̃
* * *
"Hmm..."
Unable to resist the invitation magic, Ferda was dragged in and opened his eyes.
The dark inner depths of the inner fortress.
Dilarang mengopy novel dari Enuma.id.
Not a single ray of sunlight properly entered, but having reached the 5th Circle, he now had eyes that pierce darkness.
The place Ferda was summoned to appeared to be the King of Hinkel's bedchamber.
Е̃ ǹu̇ m̊ а
'Life signs are...'
None.
He extended his shadows to search every nook and cranny, but there was nothing in this place.
Ferda caught his breath for a moment and thought.
'As expected, the Legion isn't something to be underestimated.'
Before Gokma invited Ferda, the number of techniques he threw to interfere with that formula was three.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
Mana Flare, Space Transfer Magic Formula, Artifact Activation.
If it were a normal fight between mages, they would have delayed the formula to respond to this interference or used a method to dismantle that interference with support.
Gokma didn't do that.
It meant petty tricks don't work against an invitation.
They say you need three times the troops to win a siege?
It seems mages are no exception.
Е n_ŭ m̌а . іd
'But why on earth did he invite me to a place like this?'
No life or magic could be felt there.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
'If the purpose was to kill me, he would have dropped me into a room teeming with monsters.'
Could even this be creating a hallucination?
Ferda thinks deeply.
Could it be that when I opened my eyes, I faced Trauma for even a moment?
W̃ ѐ b̆ ňо v̇ е l̊ Èň ũ ḿa
Rationally, and even pessimistically, he thought it over several times, but he didn't meet eyes.
'That means he intends to use me as a horse.'
The question biting its tail is whether that order is the King of Hinkel's or Gokma's.
It might be Gokma's.
Baca cerita ini hanya di situs resmi Enuma.id!
'Demon King.'
Suddenly, the words Alberto came and said came to mind.
Е̂ n u m̂å
He said Ferda is a man who can become the Demon King, and the one who said that was Gokma.
It must be a scheme to make Ferda the Demon King for the demons' glory.
