The Strongest Person in the World Has Been Summoned

54. Abyss Corps Commander (3)

“Yoo Eun-ah! You were so cool! Did you know that all those people are staring at you?”

Hana indifferently turned around and caught up next to Yoo-eun, chattering.

“..I’m not interested.”

To Yu-eun right now, the safety of people who are in crisis right now is more important than the eyes of people who are not supposed to.

-Nuna, what should we do now?

On the way out of her father’s funeral with her brother when her mother collapsed,

How she suffered as she looked at her sister’s face as she asked, holding her by the sleeve.

Just as her own home was destroyed in an instant,

Even at this moment, the screams of countless people were echoing throughout the capital.

‘I can’t let innocent people suffer.’

“Flora, come here for a while…”

“Yes? Where are you hurt?”

Her eyes, which had developed abnormally from the wreckage of the destroyed building, read her faint aura of life force, and swung her sword at the wreckage.

-Cheonma Singong(天魔神功)-Facheon(破天)

Black energy flowed from her body like ink, and the wreckage of the building in front of her dissipated.

“Mr. Yueun? This is…?”

Before Flora could express her question to Yoo Eun, who suddenly called out to her and swung her sword at the building,

“Ah..!”

Hana disappeared like lightning while looking at Yueun.

After a while, Yueun and Hana came out with a man with her body drooping in her hands as if she had lost consciousness.

“I’m still alive, treatment…”

Flora couldn’t hide her surprise at the sight of Yoo Eun carefully putting her down in front of her.

“Idun! How did you find the person inside?”

As the startled Flora looked up after examining the condition of her citizens,

Flora smiled bitterly at the sight of Yoo Eun running away before she knew it.

“My party is so nice that I’m going to have a ride..”

Unlike the heavy damage in the beginning, Manaheim, outside the palace, quickly built a blockade with the cooperation of numerous adventurers and the capital’s defense forces.

The imperial palace, where the commander of the Abyss Corps was located in the sky, could not calm the confusion even though it had superiority in terms of quality.

Beeping–

Suddenly, a red laser passed by and as if a sword had straightened the ground from above, the deep furrows were blazing and emitting heat.

Of course, it was needless to say that the various organisms caught in the trail were melted in an instant by the tremendous heat.

“Keuuugh…”

Heinkel, the magician of the 7th circle whose left hand had been blown off while reciting a spell from a previous blow, swallowed his saliva.

No matter how mage he was, he couldn’t stand the blazing pain, so he temporarily distanced himself from the corps commander.

[[[[ᚹᛁᛏᚾᛖᛋ..

Then, as if that level of killing wasn’t worth it, the corps commander chanted the blasphemous spell again on the spot without putting an end to him.

“Keuuugh… The head…!”

“Wooooow!”

As soon as the spell resounded, those who fought in the imperial palace complained of pain and began to transform into abyssal monsters.

“Yes Ino Ohm!”

-Flare

Enraged at that appearance, Heinkel couldn’t even control his body and rushed at him with flames wrapped around his still intact right hand.

Guuuong-

However, like an inanimate object without feeling any inspiration, he was a military commander who calmly condensed the red laser toward Heinkel.

Kwaaang–!

Beep–!

Unlike the sky above the imperial palace where fierce battles were going on, there was a chilly silence in the sun palace, the center of the imperial palace and where the emperor resided.

Rebecca spoke from within the blue shield that surrounded his body.

“..Marquis, do you think this is the right thing to do?”

The top floor of the Palace of the Sun.

For generations, Rebecca, the Emperor, and Marquis Heinkel were confronting each other in this place where only a very small number of people could enter as a place where ‘Heavenly Advent’ was conducted.

“It’s unavoidable, the 1st princess. A great cause requires sacrifice. Anyway, one member of the royal blood is enough. The shield isn’t infinite, so enjoy the last reprieve..”

As if he had sold his respect for the imperial family, the marquis, who had abandoned his honor, aimed his sword at the princess.

Rebecca couldn’t believe that Marquis Heinkel, the center of the empire, cooperated with the Abyss Church, which served the Abyss, even if her stupid brother was not.

“You don’t know what it means to hold hands with the abyss! Does Your Majesty think so too!”

The emperor watched without being surprised by the sudden surprise attack of the marquis at her words.

After his dark eyes turned to the Marquis, he opened his mouth.

“..Heinkel, have you made up your mind?”

“…hahahahaha! As expected, Your Majesty! You already know me too well!”

At the emperor’s words, the marquis remained silent for a moment, then laughed out loud.

The Marquis, who had been smiling for a long time, soon distorted his face.

“Did you know…?”

When the Marquis gritted his teeth and asked, the emperor silently nodded his head.

“Father!!”

Startled by her Emperor’s answer, Rebecca, forgetting her title of honor, she shouted at the Emperor.

“Why…Why didn’t you stop it?”

Turning around at the Marquis’ question, quiet words flowed from the mouth of the emperor with his hands behind his back.

“In the end, if it’s your choice, Robert, the boy, and Heinkel, we have no choice but to respect it…”

At the Emperor’s words, the Marquis shouted, clenching his fists.

“Only!! Only! Is that why you said you watched me make this choice!”

At the cry of the Marquis filled with resentment, the Emperor turned around and met the Marquis’s eyes.

“Heinkel.. I am a coward. I am a coward afraid to lose my children, my subjects, and even my empire.”

The eyes of the Marquis and Rebecca opened wide at the words of the emperor, who had never shown weakness before.

“Father…?”

“That…What…?”

Leaving behind the reaction of the two, the emperor continued.

“As much as you do for me, there are many things I cherish. Even though I couldn’t tell from the emperor’s point of view.

It must have been after I was defeated that you began to crave power. Until then, you who wanted to retire with me.”

As if caught off guard by the emperor’s words, the marquis murmured as he sat down.

“Did you know… From then on..”

The emperor nodded his head and looked back at the scenery outside the window while holding his hands behind his back.

“I’m telling you now, but I’ve lived my whole life wearing a mask. Just like the emperor did, I put on the mask of a perfect ruler and turned away.

I was also angry that I was defeated by her Heavenly Demon (天魔). How could I not be angry?”

The emperor touched the catalyst used in ‘Heaven’s Advent’ and continued.

“If I hadn’t given up at the last moment, even if I couldn’t win, she wouldn’t have been fine either. But rather than my petty pride, I think of the face that I’m almost certain to die if I fight her, so I couldn’t bear to do that. You were among them.”

In the Emperor’s heart, Marquis Heinkel trembled with his clenched fist and said.

“Are you hesitant just because of that reason?

You messed up everything with such a weak heart!!

You should have killed him!!

Even if I died and tens or millions of people sacrificed themselves!!

Imperial sun had to be forever..”

At the words of the Marquis, who spoke in a bloody voice, the Emperor nodded.

“You have a point. That’s why I couldn’t stop it all the more. After being defeated, what qualification do I have to stop you…”

The marquis, who seemed to have made up his mind while watching the emperor speak bitterly, slowly rose from his seat.

“…It’s not too late. Your Majesty, join me and I’ll put the Empire to the top again…”

Just as the Marquis was about to say something, the Emperor cut him off.

“Stop it, I have no intention of sacrificing my own child for strength. If you need a stigma, use me as a sacrifice.”

Looking at Rebecca, who was taken aback by the Emperor’s words, the Marquis hardened his face and said.

“…In the end, you don’t understand my feelings. If so, I will do as I wish for the first and last time in my life following Your Majesty’s will.”

The Marquis approached Rebecca, who was beside the Emperor, holding a sword with a blade wrapped in a black-blue aura.

“I don’t have any personal grudges…But you have to sacrifice for the greater good. Princess…”

As if Rebecca’s artifacts had run out of power before she knew it, she said as she watched her marquis try to break her faded shield.

“Even if this goal is achieved…It will never be as you wished…”

The Marquis, unable to say anything while looking at Rebecca’s shining eyes, struck down his sword.

Booooong–

That moment when she stared at the sword that fell so fast that she couldn’t even see it.

Chwaaang–!

The Marquis stopped the sword wielding the dagger from the human figure that appeared above the head of the Marquis as he struck down the sword.

“Twilight…! Your Majesty! Are you really going to interfere!”

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Unlike the Knights, the shining swords of the Emperor who rules the empire, the Assassins of Twilight are always the Emperor’s hands and feet in the dark.

Always known to be by the emperor’s side, they did not notice even Marquis Heinkel, who was close to the Grand Master due to their special skills.

Chang! Cheak-

The Marquis was unable to move even a single step from the spot due to the assassin’s attack, which quickly disappeared from around the Marquis wielding a sword and poked at the Marquis’ gap.

Dumb-