< Chapter 69 - Intensification #4 >
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“This way!”
As the shelter collapsed, Uther and Cordelia could hear Princess Daphne’s voice.
She stood in a long hallway with her hands against the wall.
Another secret passage located within a secret passage.
As Princess Daphne waved her hand, the wall split apart, revealing a staircase leading down, and the sound of royal footsteps descending the stairs could be heard beyond the pitch-black darkness.
“hurry!”
At Princess Daphne’s urging, Uther and Cordelia went down the stairs instead of saying anything.
Princess Daphne swallowed dry saliva and followed the two men.
The stairs were much longer than I thought.
It was only after descending for several dozen meters that I was able to reach the bottom.
“ah!”
Cordelia, who had been in Uther’s arms for a while, opened her eyes wide and let out an exclamation.
Because they realized where they had ended up.
‘Suhojin’s room!’
The center of the barrier covering the royal capital.
A place that can be called the heart of Suhojin.
In the middle of a wide, circular space with a diameter of about 50 meters, a pillar of blue light rose up, and around it was an extremely complex magic circle.
‘That means······.’
Cordelia looked more closely at the pillar of light. The blue light was so strong that it was hard to see, but she could make out the silhouette of a beautiful sword at the center of the pillar of light.
‘Holy Sword Clausolas.’
Sword of the sun god Solari.
The heavenly innocence she left on earth.
‘It’ll be awesome, right?’
It was none other than the archangel of heaven – the sword wielded by none other than the sun god Solari himself.
How much attack power will it have?
What about the additional effects? I guess the ultimate move is built in as well?
Just by equipping it, your abilities will go up?
Although it was a weapon that did not appear at all in the original work, there was plenty of room for imagination.
Although it wasn’t a sword used directly by the Archangel, several celestial weapons appeared in Heroes Chronicles 2.
‘I want it.’
If you keep one of those in your inventory, it’ll be really handy.
If you give us Yuder, I think it’ll really come true.
It’s not like he doesn’t use Landius, but he carries the Solar Blade, which is so cool, so shouldn’t Uther do the same?
Our Yuder should have a good sword too. He should.
Cordelia’s eyes, which had started to sparkle with greed as her gaming brain began to turn.
[Cordelia.]
[ok?]
[Take care of yourself.]
[Huh? Oh, yeah. Mind.]
Cordelia, freed from her delusion thanks to Uther’s message magic, closed her eyes tightly and shook off her distracting thoughts.
And I realized one thing, it really worked.
[Give it to me.]
[Huh? Ah… It’s so light that I forgot I was holding it?]
[joy.]
I tell you, every time you open your mouth, you lie?
Cordelia glanced at Uther, who smiled slyly and put Cordelia down.
“Wait, wait.”
The Fairy Queen, who had been sitting on Cordelia’s chest, flapped her wings and moved to sit on Cordelia’s shoulder. She could have gone back alone, but since she had come here, it seemed like she intended to stay with her for a while.
And right after that.
Princess Daphne came down the stairs and closed the passage door, and Uther and Cordelia looked back at the royal family gathered on one side.
“Baron Bayer. And Baron Chase.”
It was a neat and dignified voice.
Queen Justia stood upright and looked at Judas and Cordelia. Prince Dion stood next to Queen Justia with his mouth shut, and Princess Darien, who seemed to be hiding behind Prince Dion, looked anxious and didn’t know what to do.
And the 2nd and 3rd queens.
They sat next to Henry II, who had completely lost consciousness and collapsed, and, unlike the first queen, they looked visibly frightened and exhausted.
Unlike the second queen, who had the capacity to care for Henry II, the third queen looked anxious and as if she would burst into tears at any moment.
“Your Highness the Queen.”
As Judas and Cordelia bowed, Princess Daphne passed them by and stood beside the First Queen.
And in the course of a series of events, Uder thought.
‘I’m willing to listen to what you have to say.’
They were royals who were one step ahead.
If he had wanted to, he could have hidden here without telling Uther and Cordelia.
But Princess Daphne stayed behind to show them the way.
It was proof that he did not view Uther and Cordelia as enemies.
‘That doesn’t mean I completely view them as allies, though.’
But it was important that there was room for dialogue.
Moreover, Queen Justia was different from Henry II. Unlike him, who was so deeply devoted to his protector that he was incapable of rational thought, she was able to look at the current situation calmly.
‘I can convince you.’
It wasn’t a time-critical situation like when I was in the shelter.
Even if he was a patriot, it was unlikely that he would know that there was another secret passage within the secret passage.
‘If I knew, I wouldn’t have come here.’
While he was designating the Duke of Guk as his enemy, it was not the Queen and Princess Daphne who were hiding in places he would know.
‘Okay, now I just have to kill time.’
The Duke of Guk-gong had done a great deal, but it was not enough to overthrow the palace itself. The Knights Templar would soon put an end to the situation, and his father and father would come to find them.
If it’s the only variable, it’s the best.
If he had ever broken his father-
Uder gritted his teeth. It was painful, but he still assumed it and soon came to a conclusion.
‘are you okay.’
No matter how great the sword was, he could not occupy the palace alone.
Even if the Guardian King and his disciples were there, they would eventually have no choice but to leave the palace.
‘Because I have the Chilsal Sword.’
Besides her, there were many strong people in the capital city, including the commanders of the Royal Magic Corps, who were not easily seen even by the best swordsmen.
And this was a story that assumed the worst.
It may have been Father who broke the First Sword.
‘The Sword of the Wind.’
Yuder swallowed dry saliva and stopped thinking. He looked back at reality and heard the voice of the first queen.
“Explain. What you said and did.”
At the soft command, Cordelia turned to Uther, and Uther slowly opened his mouth to answer.
“As Cordelia said, the Duke of Guk is the mastermind behind this incident. He planned this to wipe out the royal family, and he has already harmed many of them.”
Uder explained the situation step by step.
He revealed the plan of the Guardian King to gather the royal family in a shelter and then annihilate them, as well as the royal family members he had already killed, and played the voice recorded on the magic stone as evidence.
“National Guardian, you traitor.”
“I know all about your plan! You plan to cut off the royal blood and nullify the barrier of the royal capital!”
“Is it as they say?”
“It’s the end.”
Following the voices of Uder and Cordelia, the soft voice of the Guardian King flowed out.
Cordelia looked back at the magic stone in Uther’s hand in surprise, and Uther gave her a wink.
‘I did it on purpose.’
The word traitor was not used simply to infuriate the Guardians. The plan also included securing a means to persuade the royal family.
‘Our Uder is smart.’
Cordelia looked at him with admiration and a look of praise, and Uther smiled slightly and continued playing the voice.
The voice of Jeilgeom followed the words of the patriot who seemed to admit rather than deny his crimes.
As the magic stone’s regeneration was complete, the first queen tightly shut her eyes. Princess Daphne and Prince Dion also clenched their teeth with angry faces.
It was a natural reaction, considering that two of the Ten Swordsmen, the national hero Hogukgong and Jeilgeom, the first sword of the Swordsmen, had betrayed the royal family.
“Okay, I understand what you’re saying. But we need to do one last check, Daphne.”
“Yes, my goodness.”
Princess Daphne softly answered the queen’s call and looked back at Cordelia.
“Baron Chase, come closer. I must find out the truth.”
“Crown Princess… Your Highness?”
“The direct line of the Seilun royal family possesses special abilities. I can tell whether someone I come into contact with is telling the truth or a lie.”
It was the first time I heard this story, but it was also something to be expected.
Princess Daphne is more of a background character, so she never displayed royal abilities in the original work.
“All right.”
There was nothing to be afraid of because I was telling the truth from the beginning.
Cordelia answered calmly, looked back at Uther, and then walked towards Princess Daphne.
“Come a little closer.”
“Yes, Your Highness the Crown Princess.”
As Cordelia approached her quietly, Princess Daphne touched her forehead with Cordelia’s, closed her eyes, and spoke.
“Say it again. Is the Guardian King the mastermind behind this incident? You were just taking action to stop him?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Did he murder the royals? Did he actually see the bodies of the royals?”
“Yes······It’s all true.”
Cordelia was a bit flustered because their faces were so close, but she answered calmly, and Princess Daphne bit her lip.
Because everything Cordelia said was true.
“Two people of destiny······.”
Princess Daphne, who had been mumbling very quietly, raised her head again. She turned around to tell the First Queen what she had confirmed.
But it was at that very moment.
“It’s coming.”
The Fairy Queen, who was sitting on Cordelia’s shoulder, suddenly spoke, and everyone in the room looked at her. Especially Princess Daphne and Prince Dion, who knew that she was not an ordinary fairy, but the queen of the summer fairies, immediately became serious.
Even though it was the Fairy Queen’s words that cut off both the front and the back, it was possible to infer just from the words that she was coming.
“He’s coming straight at me. He’s so angry. He’s so alive.”
At the end, the Fairy Queen looked back at the entrance with a completely frightened expression on her face.
And Uther and Cordelia could hear it too.
Beyond the stairs.
There was a sound of the door breaking down.
how.
It was somehow understandable that they had broken through the collapsed shelter, but it was difficult to understand why they had approached so immediately, and through a hidden passage at that.
‘In the original, it was the devil’s followers who retrieved Clausolas.’
He was not a patriot. He did not know the exact location of this room.
‘No, even if I knew.’
How did you get here right away?
Even if they knew of the hidden passage, it would have been an easy choice between the exit leading outside the palace and this place.
And that was exactly when it happened.
The queen suddenly searched through the arms of the fainting Henry II, took out a small trinket with a blue gem, and offered it to Prince Dion.
A look of disappointment spread across Prince Dion’s face.
“It’s a tracker.”
It was a similar type of item to what Uder had given to Count Bayer and Count Chase.
Perhaps Henry II himself handed the opposing tracker over to the Duke of York.
For him, the Patriot was a hero he could trust and rely on at any time.
“It’s coming.”
This time it was Cordelia who spoke. The footsteps were approaching quickly from beyond the door. There was no time to delay any longer.
Uder looked back at the first queen and shouted urgently.
“We will stop you! Run away!”
Save the royal family. Catch the foot of the Guardian here and give the royal family time to escape.
Even if it was weakened, it was still a ten-sword tiger.
It was clear that he was a tough opponent.
But even so, I had to fight.
Uder looked back at Clausolas and the Guardians. He opened the five gates of the Nine Heavens and Nine Gates and began to use the Ultimate Sun God’s Power. Cordelia also unleashed the powers of both an angel and a witch and transformed into a fallen archangel.
“Join!”
Princess Daphne shouted sharply and pulled out the sword she had hidden under her skirt.
Prince Dion cast various auxiliary spells on Princess Daphne one after another, and the first queen did not hesitate. She picked up the unconscious Henry II and ran towards the opposite exit.
The most important thing was the king’s life. If the king and the other queens remained here, they would only be a hindrance to the four people.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The stairs rang. The second queen ran, embracing Princess Darien, and the third queen followed behind them, weeping.
And right after that.
A dark blue sword tore through the door.
The Guardian King has appeared.
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