I can see the Emperor's stats-Chapter 79
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Accompanied by a gloomy voice, black smoke began to fill the inside of the arena. The fog spreads in an instant and covers the VIP seat where the emperor is.
The Marquis Carlos, who led the Royal Guard Knights, was so surprised that he quickly blocked the Emperor's path and erected a solid barrier.
"your majesty! Are you okay?”
thud!
“… … !?”
A rather heavy shock pierced his barrier. At the same time as the fog settled, a group of people wearing turbans began to surround the VIP seats.
Each of them wields a half-moon sword and attacks the VIP seat guarded by the knights of the Royal Guard.
'What about this black mist and that outfit?'
At the same time, a thought passed through the minds of Marquis Carlos and other nobles.
'Kalihara Kingdom!'
'This is Shahar's tragedy... … .'
The nobles breathed in vain and hurriedly began to take refuge next to the knights of the Royal Guard.
“Those crazy fanatics of Kalihara!”
"It's really crazy to raid the capital!"
It was safe to say that the southern desert kingdom of Kalihara was the only country currently hostile to the Empire. The reason was indeed spectacle... … .
“Unlike the pigs of the eastern desert, we have no dealings with the heathen.”
It wasn't that there were no pseudo-religions on the continent, but there was a reason that almost everyone believed in the three major denominations.
That is the existence of its own [sacred power]!
The Church of War literally possessed the holy power to fight. Needless to say, the Church of Healing was endowed with the most common holy power due to its healers, and the Church of Wisdom was also considered one of the three major churches because it was able to use holy power differentiated from other churches.
Only the priests or knights who were consecrated by the church could convert the force into holy power.
However, Kalihara was the kingdom that did not have this power but rejected the infidels for religious reasons.
Kalihara believed in their own independent cult, but since it had no holy power, other denominations did not recognize this kind of god.
However, the problem is that about half of the southern desert is sympathetic to this Kalihara kingdom. The leadership of the Kalihara kingdom were so-called religious fundamentalists.
Unlike the kingdoms of the eastern desert, which accumulated wealth through trade with the empire early on, they clashed with the empire from the beginning.
Among them, the most famous incident was 'Shahar's Tragedy' thirty years ago.
At that time, Shahar, a large city considered the core of southern trade, was turned into ruins where no one lives due to this incident.
According to the testimony of the few survivors at the time, black smoke covered the entire city, and the city's inhabitants were brutally slaughtered by desert warriors attacking from all sides.
After this incident, the empire tried to exterminate them by sending huge forces to the south, but it was too difficult to catch them, as the majority were nomadic tribes moving around in the desert.
Eventually, the southern front, located in the desert, became one of the problems of the empire along with the northern front, which had been resolved a while ago.
'Black smoke and shouts of holy war!'
These two elements symbolized the Kalihara kingdom's terror.
Of course, the black smoke wasn't because they were endowed with any power, it was just a gimmick. However, Carlos, who has superhuman senses, felt something strange.
'This act is not just a gimmick, as you've heard. It's degrading the senses of the uninhabited.'
And everyone was surprised and couldn't tell them apart, but if you look closely, it's more like thick black fog than smoke.
'I'm worried about the damage to the knights and nobles.'
Emperor, he guards me ironically, so there should be no problem at all. However, in this fog, he received numerous attacks, so he could not help but worry about the damage.
'I want to run right away, but then who will escort His Majesty the Emperor?'
However, that concern was surprisingly easily resolved.
“Get out of the way!”
Awesome!
There was a person who easily cut down the warrior who got in his way and threw his body.
The movement was so fast that only Carlos noticed that he had moved.
“His Highness the Grand Duke!”
“I’ll deal with the small pikes down here.”
The Grand Duke speaks coldly, but to be honest, because of the outcome of the martial arts meeting and Julius' provocation, he was angry like an active volcano inside. It was this raid that fueled it.
'I'd like to help cut the emperor's throat, but I can't... … .'
Who would be most suspicious of the emperor if anything happened here? It was the Grand Duke himself. In addition, the majority of these VIP seats were the nobles of the grand duke faction led by him.
In other words, in order to preserve power and avoid being accused of treason, the Grand Duke had no choice but to do his best to protect the emperor.
How heartbreaking would that be on his part? When he thinks of venting his anger properly, the war situation changes at once.
Swoop.
His sword lifted lightly and was pointed at the assailants who were about to pounce on the nobles. It was a distance of several tens of meters, but it didn't matter to him at all.
Puffup!
“Ouch!”
“Aagh!”
This is a true assault sword. It is on a different level from the clumsy attack that Dmitri showed off. every time his sword is pointed. The bodies of the assailants are strewn with air holes large enough for an adult's fist to pass through.
Defense by the Force, shields, and hiding behind obstacles were of no use. The place where the Archduke's sword was aimed at was easily smashed and blood splattered, whether it was an iron pillar or armor.
The Archduke looked at the situation calmly even as he carried out the massacre.
'I think I've removed almost all of them, but I don't know why these small pups are attacking the emperor?'
* * *
'huh?'
A black fog covered Julius' vision as he was about to step down from the arena.
'What about this fog?'
Tring!
[You are under the influence of 'Dark Veil'. The senses and mental power are lowered.]
[Additional information about the quest 'Church of the Forgotten God' is unlocked.]
[Unlocked Items: Dark Holy Power, Church of Heimdall]
For a moment, Julius put on a really annoying expression.
'I don't know what kind of grudge these guys have against me from the previous life.'
It was a fog that obscured vision and degraded the senses, but at the level of Julius, he was able to see through the fog.
'The fog started from the VIP seat, but it's clear that it's targeting me.'
Wedge love!
Before he could finish that thought, a dark object flew towards him from the darkness.
In an instant, Julius widened his distance and evaded the object. Its identity was a mace that emitted a faint black light. Seeing that, he made a puzzled expression.
'Looking at the speed and momentum, the force-injected weapon seems to be correct, but is there a case where it glows black?'
In general, Force-enhanced weapons have a bluish tinge. However, if there were exceptions, it was the superhuman secret skill or the red torch, the power of the Holy Knights of the Church of Mars.
However, they wielded weapons that were not red, but dark black, and their power was unusual.
'Could it be because it's called a denomination?'
Awesome!
From the beginning, Julius started to wield the sword with all his might. In the first place, since the opponent covers his surroundings on his own, he can rather display his skills to his heart's content.
“… … !?”
The monsters at the forefront were instantly decapitated by the intangible sword. However, they didn't stop at all, formed formation and surrounded Julius in an instant.
'I guess these guys are a bit different from the assassins back then?'
The attacks of the assassins who had attacked him before were irregular, but they smelled strongly of knights trained in some orthodox way. No matter how different the level is, if these people form a group and deal with them, it is quite difficult to beat them all in a short time even if they are superhuman.
'how will we do it?'
While enduring their attacks for a while, Julius fell into trouble.
His skills are more advanced than during the Northern War, so there is no great difficulty in enduring like this.
The problem is, if you wait a little longer, the Knights, who think it's strange that he hasn't returned from the field, will come running to save him.
In such a situation, the sacrifice of ordinary knights could have been great.
'wait… order? aha!'
Finally, a good idea popped into Julius' head.
Kwaaang!
An explosion erupted, and two monsters were thrown back. Taking advantage of that gap, Julius' presence was erased in an instant.
“… … !?”
Observing from a distance, Gideon was horrified when Julius suddenly disappeared. It was because it was a car that I was curious about because the prince held up much better than expected without an escort.
'There was a reason Zamir failed several times.'
This veil of darkness had the effect of lowering the senses of the enemy, but rather, it had the effect of increasing the power of the holy power and speeding up recovery for the people of their church.
In this situation, even though they made a siege with a large number of high-ranking Paladins from their tribe, they still hadn't caught Julius.
However, the disappeared Julius suddenly appeared several tens of meters away from them.
“Follow me!”
Gideon, who was leading them from hiding in a corner of the arena, became impatient. He had to catch the 1st prince somehow while the small puppets in the VIP seat were still wasting time.
He instructed them to use all of their reserve forces to pursue Julius.
However, Julius avoids their pursuit at a close distance, and runs toward the outskirts of the arena.
And where he finally jumped in!
"what's the matter?"
“Your Highness, First Prince?”
The place he jumped into was the waiting room of the Golden Lion Knights who were still staying in the arena.
Quaang!
At the same time, the door to the waiting room was broken and monsters in black jumped in. And rushes at the knights to catch Julius.
“What is it?”
The knights of the Golden Lion Knights pulled out their swords in fright. It was only natural for the monsters that Julius seemed to have fled to ask the knights to escort him.
visor! visor!
Quadduk!
“Aagh!”
In an instant, the waiting room turned into a mayhem. Surprisingly, the knights of the Golden Lion Knights, said to be one of the best in the empire, were being pushed back.
It was also because of the skills of the monsters, but the biggest problem was that the overall power was so low that it could not be helped because a large number of executive-level knights suffered serious injuries in the previous game.
Another group intervened here.
"majesty! Are you okay?”
It was the elite of his knights, including Haines. They too have joined the fight.
Julius smiled.
"You're welcome. Cooperate with the Golden Lion Knights and defeat them.”
The Golden Lion Knights and the monsters had already suffered considerable blows because they were jostling with each other. Julius didn't help them much as he rudely fled here and there with his counterarguments.
However, now that his knights have arrived, the reaction is different. In order to protect his knights, Julius began to fend off the monsters, making strange moves.
“Damn it… Paladins tell them to retreat quickly!”
Gideon had no choice but to give the order to retreat with tears in his eyes. The senior Paladins were a power that their tribes had devoted their hearts and minds to raising.
It doesn't matter if you can catch the prince, but since there is no way to catch Julius, who is already surrounded by knights, conserving power is the wise choice.
The priests who were secretly spreading the fog had already started withdrawing quickly.
When the fog disappeared, the VIP seats were also nearing completion thanks to the grand duke's unintentional and active (?).
The emperor had a puzzled look on his face.
'There is surprisingly little damage?'
The warriors of the kingdom of Kalihara, which Gideon sent in as bait this time, were numerous, but most of them were mere small fish.
A few nobles were seriously injured, but other than that, there were no fatalities, and there was no attack, except for fog covering the general audience.
“Anyway, the Grand Duke did a great job. I have a separate reward for this... ok?"
“… … .”
The emperor had seen him for decades, but it was the first time in his life that the cold-hearted grand duke made such an expression. The Archduke was staring at the arena as his body trembled, unable to overcome his rage.
The emperor naturally followed that gaze and turned his head.
“… … !?”
“Call a therapist quickly. There are many injured!”
Julius was requesting first aid with an urgent expression. But the injured... … .
after a while
"So you're saying that the attack was aimed at both me and Julius?"
The emperor nodded his head as he received the report. Of course, Julius was also with him.
“My life would have been in danger if it had not been for the proper support of the Knights of the Golden Lion.”
Here, Julius bowed his head to the Archduke with a sorrowful expression.
“Archduke Wilhelm, I am really sorry. Because it was such an urgent situation, they and the Golden Lion Knights collided first as they were being pushed back like crazy.”
At this moment, the archduke felt as if his blood was gushing backwards.
'1st Prince, this guy is really... … .'
“I'm glad it was helpful. Then I'll just leave.”
The Grand Duke barely answered and left the VIP seat. His Knights of the Golden Lion suffered a devastating blow this time.
Dozens of ordinary knights were killed, and many officers were also seriously injured. The biggest problem there is that his apprentice, Dmitry, is injured beyond recovery.
However, it was not that uncommon for an accident like this to occur when martial arts matches were overheated. At least, if Dmitri was a knight of high reputation, he could protest, but no matter how strong his power was, he couldn't pursue the imperial family just because of a single knight.
'1st Prince... Don't forget this!'
The Grand Duke had no choice but to promise the future while grinding his teeth.
Looking back, Julius laughed inwardly.
'Among the words of the players, there's a word like this.'
It means using the enemy to hit the enemy. This result was just that. The unintentional intrusion of the enemy brought better results to him.
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