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Chapter 43

43The Queen and the Knights

It was a look that took my breath away..

The black clothes on the body, the elegant expression, and even the dress cannot hide the ‘color’..

"Hello, driver. Shall I call you Your Majesty the Lionheart King??"

She is a dangerous woman. Even the beautiful fingers covering the mouth with an eye smile exude a sense of charm..

Innate coquetry, the cause of conflict that gives off color just by its presence. The state of poverty is a harbinger of corruption..

'It's beautiful.'

At first glance, the purple eyes reflecting the moonlight are filled with endless darkness so that no light can enter..

An ordinary man would have drowned without even noticing that he was submerged in that deep abyss..

"Beatrice Alighieri Spero. I am the queen of this small kingdom.."

"I am Leon Dragonia Lionheart, the Lionheart King of the Lionheart Kingdom.."

Leon politely kissed the back of the woman's hand. Still, I'm wary.

'How can I not notice this?.'

Could something like that happen? Leon is not the type to be conceited..

No matter how much weaker I am compared to my prime, I can't believe I'm fooling myself by blocking the invasion of countless assassins and demons.?

"Hehe, don't be too cautious. I just wanted to say hello to the benefactor of the kingdom.."

"Not a good time for a modest lady to visit.."

The moonlight was still past dawn. Waking up early in the morning and training yourself is a knight's virtue, but it is not a royal virtue, much less a lady's virtue..

"Because I am being watched."

"surveillance?"

Leon looked puzzled at Queen Beatrice’s words..

"Watching the queen? who the hell?"

The queen smiled bitterly and spoke of the forces imprisoning her..

"The general and his knights are watching and imprisoning me.."

"The general?"

Leon remembered the general who had shown loyalty to the queen. He didn't seem like the kind of person who would commit such disloyalty..

But you don't know people's true intentions. Sometimes a loyal knight covets the king's wife, and sometimes a poor priest accumulates wealth..

"Majesty Lionheart. I have something I would like to ask your Majesty.."

The queen's hand held Leon's hand. Even if you just hold hands, you can feel the coquetry that is mind-boggling..

"I will listen and judge."

"Please kill the general and the knights. If you do that, I will give you everything in the kingdom.."

"……."

Leon did not hastily accept the offer. It's because it was so suspicious..

The Queen didn't seem to know this either, as she whispered with a smile on her face..

"Explore the basement of the royal castle. There's something the general is hiding there.."

It was then. Footsteps are heard in the hallway, and the mood is loud. It was the sound made by armor and military boots..

"Lionheart, Your Majesty! Sorry it's late at night, but I'll open the door.!"

There was no time to wait. The people who burst through the door are the general and his knights..

"What kind of rudeness is this, breaking into the royal bedroom with military uniform on?!"

"……I know it was rude, but the situation was urgent and I had no choice.."

The general apologized with a nod and looked around the room. Queen Beatrice, who was in front of Leon just a moment ago, is no longer there..

"hmm……."

The general sensed the energy in the room and had a hunch that the queen was here. But he didn't ask Leon if he had met her.

"I met Her Majesty the Queen.."

So Leon attacked head on..

"Is that so?."

"The queen of her country is out for a walk at night, but she doesn't ask questions.."

"……Because that’s the kind of person he was.."

"under…!"

How could the knights leave the royal family out for a night walk? Even Leon carries his bodyguards and soldiers with him wherever he goes..

"The royal family was left alone in this situation where demons roamed around.?"

"……Demons don't invade at night."

"gibberish."

Since when did demons cover day and night? Right now, there are hundreds of things hiding in the castle disguised as people..

You're not an idiot who doesn't know that. There's no way a fool like that could have become a general..

"It looks like you're 'convinced'.."

"……."

The general tried to turn away without answering. A word from Leon that stops him.

"The Queen says you guys are imprisoning her.."

At those words, the gazes of the general and the knights became sharp..

"……It's not a matter to talk to outsiders.."

"Did you say Lord Burns? It would be better to be honest about what you are hiding.."

Ricardo Burns. The general of the Kingdom of Spero turned away as if there was no need to answer..

After they are gone, Leon strokes his chin and asks a question..

"It's suspicious, it's suspicious."

both the queen and the general.

Their actions had hidden details that could not be seen as simply a defense quest to block the forces of demons..

"In any case, do we need to investigate underground to find out the truth??"

But I'm not ready now. As dawn broke, Leon had to face the demonic army that had begun to move..

* * * *

The devil's army advances.

An army of ugly lust advances, corrupting all living things and filling them with pleasure..

-Rape them. Cut off my head and make me see my body being played with!

-Corrupt it! Make me rape my daughter! Let's have an orgy in the square.!

-Cut up the child and feed it to the parents! It would be nice to see!

Quite a few thousand. No, an army of evil exceeding ten thousand. The air changes in front of the advance of evil that pursues raw pleasure and corrupts living things..

A strange tickling sensation and squishy skin. It tempts living things by crossing the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch..

"Androgyne spoke! He said he would grant one hundred slaves to the first person to cross the wall.!"

The naked soldier, who accepted even pain as pleasure, brandished his whip and shouted. March on.

"Kihihi! Let's corrupt the humans."

"Let’s marinate ourselves in pleasure so that we can’t even think about it.!"

"Corrupt it! Corrupt it! with pleasure──"

At that moment, the devil at the forefront stops. It was so anxious to tie up humans with rope right away that it witnessed something and trembled..

"what? I'm not going fast?"

"Idiot slut! There's nothing blocked in the back──"

1The fever stops. Therefore, row 2 stops..

3Column, row 4… … All demons who come into view of the castle walls stop in shock..

-Kyooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo──!!

It was a scream.

No, the scream itself is familiar to demons. The problem is the subject of the scream..

-I'm thinking about it, I'm thinking about it……

-Zukosiciana… Zukosidziana…….

It's a scream.

It's a scream full of pain.

It's despair before death.

A strange and horrifying scream that cannot be heard from humans. But that scream is as vivid as a human being..

The battlefield is frozen.

Those who were more accustomed to screaming than anyone else and made them scream, turned to their screaming compatriots..

At the end of that gaze.

There are hunters who light firewood. They were supporting the devils with wood..

""?????""

What does that mean?.

Ha, is it like torturing the devil??

The devil is a mental body anyway. The body of this world is nothing more than a vessel. When you die, you just return to the garden of evil.──

"False lives that do not know death."

On the castle wall, there is a cavalryman carrying Dawn on his back and shining with brilliant light. It shows off a golden sword that shines as if it has absorbed the dawn light..

"You don't know. How would animals that pursue only their primal desires, like insects, know?."

The golden sword cuts down the hanging demon. The knight holds the severed head. and threw.

-Degurrrrrrr

The throwing power was so good that the head rolled over 2km and landed in the middle of the devils..

A black soul leaks out from the demon with its head cut off. Since the vessel has been lost, the soul that should return to its original body is sucked into the rider of the castle wall..

It was easy to understand its meaning..

Demons who live immortality witness death.

I look at the demon butcher who performed an impossible miracle.

"Listen, you dirty bugs. This lion-hearted king! I, Lionheart, represent the pantheon! I will teach you evil servants the importance of living only once.!"

Come, you lowly things!.

your fear is here.

Confusion, fear, despair.

Demons who regarded the material world as their playground scream in front of the preciousness of life taught by the Lionheart King, the very fear of evil species..

The fear of death spreads uncontrollably among not only low-level demons but also middle-level demons..

They were more familiar with destruction, carnage, and fear than anyone else, but that was only from the perspective of those who did it..

Since it was natural for them to return as a mental body even if they died anyway, demons are not used to fear..

They have no idea that they will die, so when they see death, they begin to self-destruct..

The army disintegrates.

An immortal army that knew nothing of death collapsed after discovering an impossible death..

"Hey, you idiots! Where are you running away?!"

"Stop! It means don't run away.!"

The high-ranking demons saw their subordinates collapsing so easily that they tried to stop it..

But there are too few central demons to stop them..

"Damn it... ! Corpse harvesters! If only they were there!"

"Where on earth did the fallen beasts go?!"

The mid-level demons that Leon and Yappy thoroughly hunted during the night. Those who died without a word are the middle leaders of the army..

Since they died in droves during the night, there was bound to be a shortage of mid-level executives to whip the low-level demons..

"You stupid things! Turn here──"

-bang!

The mid-level demon was about to shout something when a javelin flew from somewhere and pierced his torso. A demon being torn apart from top to bottom without even having time to scream..

The last thing he saw as he was falling due to gravity was a horseman charging towards him while wielding a holy sword..

"To Lion Heart! Glory be to you!!"

A one-sided slaughter begins in pursuit of the escaping demons..

Third day at the gate.

Instead of doing the defense he was told to do, the demon butcher started massacring..

* * * *

I slaughtered more than a thousand demons..

The hunters who went on the chase, including Koo Dae-seong and Manager Kim Jin-su, were filled with skepticism, wondering if a devil could die so easily..

"At the end... There were even people who committed suicide.."

"Even though we can't use sacred laws like your Majesty,……."

The escape of the demons was truly spectacular..

As if they don't know the act of running away, they become like a father and trample on each other and run away in all directions to live alone..

All the hunters did was kill the fallen demons one by one..

"these guys… Is this your first time seeing your Majesty? What did they do on the first day??"

"what… Maybe it's because the army is so big that there aren't any rumors about it.."

At that time, Leon spoke from behind the hunters' backs..

"Not really.."

"lung, majesty!"

This morning, the cruel Lionheart King, who ordered the demons to be tortured on display in plain view, laughed at the demons' despicable behavior and said,.

"They're all selfish and don't stick together. People who only fulfill their own needs and not for the sake of the group don't even look at them. I calculate how much benefit I can gain from what only I know.."

"Is that that much??"

"Well, there might be something like that, but since the only demon I killed on the first day was a troll, there might be something I didn't understand in the chaos of the battlefield.."

Koo Dae-seong recalled the demons who even committed suicide to avoid dying by their hands, and predicted that they would not be able to rally easily..

"This is why you captured the demons alive.?"

"That's right. They commit more atrocious acts than anyone else, but they themselves have no tolerance for it. Trash maggots are trash maggots wherever they go.."

Leon gave an additional command while kicking one of the demons captured by the hunters..

"Capture him alive and bring him back. Their screams will make a good symphony."

The Hunters didn't say that it was just that Leon was a blind demon hater and wanted to see the demons suffer as much as possible..

ah! Our Lionheart King, His Majesty, had deep intentions.!

I decided to just give up on the idea..

"By the way, where has Lord Yapi gone? I didn't see you during the battle.."

"Lord Spinner is doing what Jim tells him to do.."

"???"

They were hunters who had doubts about it, but decided not to ask any questions..

'Are you torturing demons??'

'The water torture was brutal..'

'Just hearing that you are uncooperative gives me goosebumps..'

At that time, the captured demons trembled..

"Please save me! Please save me, Nari.!"

"Yes, no. go back."

The demons did not have sympathetic faces. Some hunters, who had slightly high expectations because it was a demon of pleasure, relieved their disappointment by hitting the devil on the back of the head..

* * * *

Contrary to the hunters' expectations, the destination Yapi is headed for is not prison..

Yapi took advantage of the attention focused on the battle and infiltrated deep into the basement of Spero Castle..

"huh? Did something just pass by??"

"I didn't see it?"

Yapi, who moves upside down across the ceiling and does not make sounds above a certain decibel level, easily eluded the soldiers' surveillance..

Occasionally, a knight with a keen sense of humor would stare, but Yapi's camouflage is perfect. Yapi headed deep underground and found a group there..

"General Ricardo! I understand you are in command of the battle, but what are you doing here??"

Ricardo Burns.

It was he, the general of the kingdom, and the knights who followed him..

"An outsider will take care of it. The problem is the seal. The seal must be working well.?"

seal.

Similar terms yap have been heard for millennia..

Because it was Yakt Spinner who sealed the Jewel of Wisdom, hid it, and protected it from anyone else..

"Yes, but… no, no."

A soldier is trying to say something but shakes his head as if it doesn't mean anything. General Ricardo passed by his soldier to confirm that it was a seal..

"It won't be long. Just a little more patience and your hundred-year wish will be fulfilled.."

The tent is pulled back and the sealed thing is revealed. Yappy's wide-angle lens clearly captured it. and──

-Kikluk?

It was surprising even to Yakt Spinner, a strong artificial intelligence..