Chapter 86
86Mars Relic Convoy(1)
It was the 96th year of Leon's reign..
「Your Majesty, it is said that a holy relic was discovered in a barbaric land where beast gods are worshiped.!」
holy relic.
An object containing divine power that is only available to the highest-ranking priests such as Holy Grail Knights or Priests..
Since the emergence of the Lionheart Kingdom, there have been numerous holy relics, but not all of them were intact in the Lionheart Kingdom..
The Kingdom of Lionheart, which claims to be the protector of all intelligent beings, has fought evils all over the world, winning some and defeating others..
The discovered relic is a relic lost 900 years ago when the 12th Lionheart King died in the barbarian war in the north..
The relic was discovered by relic seekers looking for lost relics..
Leon immediately organized a convoy of relics and attempted to dispatch them to the land of the barbarians..
However, there was a big difficulty here: to head to the land of the barbarians, you had to cross the border of the empire..
The Empire, which had been a strong ally for a long time, became an uncomfortable neighbor in Leon because of the 'Great Demon Summoning Incident'..
35An incident in which Leon, the youngest Holy Grail Knight and active as a War Knight, killed the Great Devil and the 14th Lionheart King Arhen Majesty Lionheart passed away..
It was an incident that occurred on the outskirts of the empire and was carried out by warlocks sponsored by one of the empire's 13 elected princes. The great evil was defeated, but a great deal of resentment remained between the empire and the empire..
Not only was the Lionheart Kingdom trespassing on the border as soon as the demon summoning was detected, but it was also because the Elector Queen, the main culprit of all this, was burned at the stake..
The Empire was so angry that even the Emperor came forward to condemn it, but the Kingdom of Lionheart ignored it..
「There can be no tolerance when it comes to the devil! You should be ashamed of not being able to solve it yourself!」
From then on, the relationship with the empire remained a strained neighbor, and even to this day, imperial troops were stationed along the border..
As a result, even after 60 years, the empire still harbored resentment and refused to accept a large-scale convoy of holy relics. In the end, it dispatched a small elite force of 500 people inside and outside the convoy, and eventually succeeded in the search..
In the process, 2,000 orcs and seven barbarian tribes were burned to death, but the search for the holy relic seemed to be completed successfully..
'But Sir Zereah did not return..'
I didn't know the exact process. This is because no one escorting the relic survived and returned..
When Leon finally fought the final battle against the demons and the gods took refuge in Lion's Heart, he met Lord Zereah in paradise, but he also did not have any special testimony..
However, he only said that he was attacked by a powerful orc and did not seem to know what happened after death..
Eventually, two years later, the whereabouts of the holy relic remained unknown until the Imperial Emperor sacrificed 3 million Imperial citizens to summon the Demon Lord of Chaos..
'If I had known I would come here, I would have gone to paradise and collected the testimonies of the soldiers who fought at the time..'
No, what can I do about what has already happened?.
The time that Leon, a living person, can spend in the world of the dead is not long..
Even though I was able to see Lord Zereah's face once on the way, it was not easy to meet the soldiers one by one..
'Where are the others??'
When Leon opened his eyes, there were only soldiers and knights around him. The people who came with me were nowhere to be seen..
It looks like they were all scattered when they entered..
'Does this mean that the gate cannot be completely dealt with?.'
This can also be adjusted through experience and data..
Leon headed towards the still noisy front..
"fight back!"
"We can't leave these orcs behind.!"
Baltaric Legion.
Commonly known as Baltaric Orc Crusher.
They are the leaders of orc hunting, making accessories made from ground orc bones..
""WHAAAAAAAAA──!!"
Green beasts that were twice the size of the orc crushers, made up of strong men, rushed at them, swinging axes and clubs..
However, the Orc Crusher easily blocks this. They blocked the orcs' attacks with their shields and calmly stabbed the orcs to death..
Although there were only about a hundred orc crushers, they could handle four orcs alone..
And there was a separate power that protected them..
-Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…!
Black smoke emanating from the orc crushers. The orcs who drank it picked it! and falls down.
"Sir Zereah's dreamland has been formed! step back!"
"Regroup after retreating twenty steps!"
Orc crushers retreating in perfect order from a place filled with black smoke. In front of him was a knight with a rapier, who was skewering an orc's head with a handsome beard..
"Hmm… The orcs' spirit is unusual.."
"Lord Zereah!"
"Beverlick Company Commander."
Company Commander Beverly pretends to get down on one knee.
"Lionheart King Leon Dragonia Lionheart His Majesty has come to reign.!"
"what? That can't be possible. Why is he……."
Zereah was astonished when he saw the familiar blonde Lionheart King behind Beverlick. Jereah gladly knelt down and bowed to him..
"Agent of Divinity! Welcome to Ariana's first article!"
Leon looked down at the aged Grail Knight bowing his head in front of him..
The moment the Holy Grail Knights drink the holy water of the Holy Grail and awaken, their bodies are reconstituted in their prime..
In the case of Leon, it was an unusual case that he became a Holy Grail Knight at a very young age, but the Holy Grail Knight in front of us is an unusual case in the opposite sense..
Jereah, a ten-year-old ascetic knight. Clueless Zereah.
The oldest acolyte and the oldest Holy Grail Knight.
Even when he drank the holy water, his body did not reorganize. In other words, this old and decrepit body is his prime..
"It’s still the same… You."
"……?"
The knight with a stylish mustache and sophisticated style was puzzled, but did not raise his head and maintained the courtesy of a lord..
"wake up."
Zereah stands up awkwardly as the voice comes down. He raised his head. The one in front of him is definitely the Lionheart King.
The youngest War Knight and the youngest to become a Holy Grail Knight, he is a legendary figure who broke through an army of demons and defeated the Great Evil..
How can he who should be in the royal castle be here? Although he had many doubts, Zereah did not doubt the divinity before his eyes..
"I will explain it later. Lord Zereah, could you explain the situation?."
Leon first tried to compare what he knew with the situation the relic convoy faced..
"Yes, Your Majesty. We recovered the holy relic as planned and were on our way to the imperial border.!"
The convoy of holy relics that recovered the holy relics from the land of the barbarians headed straight to the border of the empire. Although the relationship has deteriorated into a strained relationship, the empire and kingdom are neighbors with a long history of alliance..
It takes less than three days by horseback to cross their border and reach the border of the kingdom..
Therefore, once you reach the imperial border, your mission to transport the holy relics is over. But something strange happened.
"The orcs attacked with the cultists of the beast god. They are probably orcs from the northeast.."
Orcs frequently traverse the country, waging war. Therefore, coming here is not that strange. But what's strange is their behavior.
"Even though Orcs are cultists, they have joined hands with humans. It's not common."
Leon does not distinguish between orc beasts and cultists, but they reject and distinguish between each other on their own terms..
In the first place, the orcs destroyed everything that was not their colonial race, such as goblins or trolls..
But the cultists and the orcs joined hands.?
It was unusual and shocking, but…….
'It was common during the last war.'
Leon remembered the corruption of the empire and the rebellion of other races that began in the 98th year of his reign..
Orcs enjoyed war with demons and cultists, but sometimes they also cooperated. It was truly amazing that those stupid animal brains knew the word cooperation.──
'What happens happens.'
Leon thought it was something that could have happened before 1998. Just two years later, the Emperor of the Empire summons the Lord of Chaos..
"Lord Zereah. So what did you do with the holy relics??"
"Yes, we left only infantry and a few knights to stop the orcs here and tore the relic into five pieces and escorted them away. Since the cultists of the Black Eagle God were chasing me through the air, I had no choice but to tear it apart as much as possible.."
It was a reasonable conclusion.
"then… Where is the convoy containing the ‘real holy relics’??"
Jereah said without hesitation.
"Convoy 5 South-West. This is a convoy led by my ‘past’.."
* * * *
"Mmm……."
Beatrice drooled in a way that did not match her usual soft and seductive voice..
When I opened my eyes as soon as I entered the gate, all I could see in front of me was a desolate canyon, and my companions were nowhere to be seen..
"Calculate... Looks like you did it wrong."
Gate magic is a type of magic that she has never used before..
It was good to specify the coordinates and open the entrance, but the arriving coordinates were scattered..
'Missed calculation? That's a little strange..'
Even though it was her first time casting magic, she, who was called the magician queen of the Kingdom of Spero, could not make such a mistake.?
Before that, Beatrice was at a loss as to what to do in this wide canyon. It was her first time seeing her, she just didn't have anything to do with Leon..
Just when she was thinking about going on on the horse she brought first, a commotion sounded in her ears..
-Kieeeeek!
-Keep running! Don't let them catch you.!
It was the pursuing beasts and the pursued cavalry..
A few knights, presumed to be knights, and light soldiers armed with light armor rather than heavy armor appear to be commoner cavalry..
Even if they didn't know their identities, those pursuing them did..
"The descendants of the beast gods."
We may not know whether the cavalry is our friend, but our enemy is clear. Beatrice stretched out her beautiful fingers and performed magic..
-Quang! Kwakwakwak!
Rays of light cut through the sky and thunderstorms shook..
Wild boars were struck by lightning and roasted to a crisp, and black eagles were pierced by rays of light..
Each and every one of the magic tricks unleashed by the Magician Queen becomes fatal violence and sweeps over the beasts..
absolute queen of death.
That's how she must have appeared to the animals now..
And it was the same for the cavalry.
"Who are you?!"
"Are you an imperial wizard?!"
The knights took the lead and stood in front of the queen. They seemed wary of her with her veil covering her face, but they did not hide her favor from those whom she saved..
"If you ask who you are... Can this prove it??"
Beatrice raised her sexual power to prove her identity and to make it easier for knights to recognize her..
The divine power possessed by Fl, the goddess of dreams and death, had a dark purple color..
"Like Lord Zereah... ! Are you a goddess from FL??!"
"No, unless you are at the level of a priest, your holy power is as clear as that.……."
While the knights were confused, Beatrice smiled and asked.
"Rather, knights? Could you please explain your situation for a moment??"
Gathering information comes first..
* * * *
"Ugh…."
My bones hurt. Koo Dae-seong realized that he had been hit by something like a blunt object..
I never would have thought that I would be beaten as soon as I entered the gate. Will other people be okay??
"Hey! Look!"
A voice repeatedly tapping my cheek. When Koo Dae-seong opened his eyes, there was an old man with an impressive mustache in front of him..
"Hehe, this guy opened his eyes. He was so anxious that he threw himself in front of Cheolwoong.?"
"Mmm……."
Cheolwoong? Did he think it was a bear that hit him? Koo Dae-seong was horrified to see a large bear corpse with fur as stiff as steel in front of him..
"Wow…!"
He took a step back and looked around. The surrounding area was full of corpses, as if they had been attacked by beasts, and on the other side, a familiar girl was leading her horse with a cavalryman..
"Ah, Koo Dae-seong Hunter… ! You're awake.?"
The girl with red pigtails clapped her hands as if she was worried and looked at Koo Dae-seong's condition..
"one… Sir? That person?"
The cavalryman leading the horse felt the gaze and answered..
"Ah, my introduction is late. My name is Bion and I am from the Scout Cavalry. Sir, speak low.."
Why do you call yourself a knight? The question was answered by an old man called Lord Zereah..
"By the way, how did the knights of pilgrimage come to this land? I didn't know there was someone else besides me who would do something crazy like this.."
A knight of eccentricity? It seems they mistook themselves for knights of pilgrimage..
Koo Dae-seong opened his mouth to fix the error, but then a system message flashed before his eyes..
[Help Lord Zereah of Twilight escort the Relic to the Lionheart border..]
"Holy relics… convoy?"
"That's right. Now we are retrieving and escorting sacred objects from a barbaric land.."
"Is that so??"
"Is it a bit late to hear from you? Well, it's only natural that he's a knight-errant who sets out to seek fame even in remote places like this.."
"Sorry, Twilight… Lord Zereah?"
When I called him the name that appeared in the system message, Jereah chuckled and shook his head..
"That is the honor that my future self has achieved. Now I am simply a knight (questing knight) on a journey of asceticism.."
"yes?"
Koo Dae-seong tilted his head..
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