Chapter 109: Get Out

Chapter 109: Get Out

Gulp!

Ian swallowed the fragment.

The man screamed in a fluster.

“C-crazy! What are you doing!”

Ian smirked.

“I told you it’s mine now. Rather than seeing it taken away by someone, I’d better eat it.”

“...”

“If you really want it, go ahead and cut open my belly.”

“!?”

The man gnashed his teeth.

“If you want to see blood that badly... I’ll gladly show it to you.”

Shhh.

The man gestured toward the floor.

Then people rose from the collapsed palace. Most of them were wearing black masks.

Ian felt that even they looked familiar, similar to the man.

‘Somehow, they resembled the Secret Special Force.’

Of course, they might be similar, but there were subtle differences between them.

A strange power emanated from them, different from the Secret Special Force, who valued magic tools and ancient artifacts.

The man opened his mouth as Ian fell into thought.

“I’ll give you one last chance. If you spit it back now, I’ll forgive you.”

“Forgive me? Who do you think you are?”

“I bet you don’t have any strength left after fighting Jealousy, right? I know very well that even the power contained in this palace will not be able to be used for a while.”

It was as the man said.

Ian seemed relaxed, but in reality, he had exhausted all his strength due to the fight with Jealousy.

Even Faith couldn’t speak anymore.

The power of Humility, which could only be used once, was over.

‘If only the fragment of Jealousy gave me power.’

The fragment of Jealousy that he just ate refused to hand over his power as if rebelling against him.

Now all Ian could do was fight against them head-on with his childish body.

Nevertheless, Ian laughed.

“I don’t know. Is that true?”

Still, he straightened his back with a confident look.

He sat on the throne and looked down at the man with as arrogant a look as ever.

The man’s eyes slowly turned sharp.

“Attack him! And bring back the fragment from his stomach!”

In an instant, the men dashed toward Ian, each and every one of them carrying a series of hideous weapons.

They were ready to yank Ian off the throne and cut open his stomach.

When Ian didn’t move from his throne, let alone fight, the man, judging he was frightened, sneered.

“That’s why you should have listened to me earlier.”

It would have been better for everyone if Ian had just calmly handed it over, but instead, he chose to provoke and create unnecessary conflict.

Didn’t he go through all that trouble for naught?

However, Ian smiled.

“!?”

The man tilted his head.

He didn’t understand what made Ian so confident.

But right at that moment.

Bang!

With a loud noise, the masked men fell in all directions.

Startled, the man opened his eyes wide.

“Y-you are? No way!”

He had no choice but to be surprised.

A man who fell from the sky and guarded Ian sitting on the throne.

He was Galon the Invincible. He had clearly flown here unscathed with his Oath.

The man was greatly perplexed.

Could it be that the knight entrusted himself to the catapult and flew?

But his thoughts did not last long.

“I’m sorry I’m late, Your Highness.”

“No, you came at the right time.”

“What about them?”

“Unfortunately, they are not allies. They are the ones who say they will cut open my belly.”

“!”

Galon the Invincible, who also fought against the Guardian, started to look at the men with an incredibly ferocious look. No, it wasn’t just his expression.

“How dare you target His Highness!”

Galon rushed at the men.

The masked men were also taken aback. Despite that, they set their weapons straight, still intent on getting the fragment of Jealousy in Ian’s stomach.

But there was an overwhelming difference between the two sides.



Clank! Claank!

An unyielding Oath.

Galon’s Oath, unbreakable by anything, was once again unfolding. In front of Invincibility, the weapons of the masked people did not work. Galon began his rampage like a beast that had infiltrated a flock of sheep.

“M, Master!”

“Aaargh!”

In no time, the masked men were down. With overwhelming force, Galon completely crushed the enemies.

The man shouted in haste.

“Don’t deal with Sir Galon! The fragment of Jealousy comes first! Aim for the prince first!”

‘Sir Galon? Prince? Could it be that he knew who I was?’

Ian’s eyes flashed at the man’s words.

He knew not only Galon’s name but also Ian’s position, which was still unknown in this foreign land.

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But now the problem wasn’t the man.

“Attack the little one first!”

“Tie the knight’s feet!”

The problem was that the masked men turned toward Ian.

Even it would be impossible for Galon to protect Ian against a considerable number of masked people.

Yet Ian shouted in that state.

“Sir Galon! Don’t mind me, and deal with him first!”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

Galon did not turn his eyes away from the man in front of him. Rather, he growled ferociously like a beast.

“You’re the master of these guys.”

Then he rushed at the man.

The greater the risk, the greater the power, and it was difficult for others to possess. Ian wanted to have all that power for himself.

Just like the First King who unified the continent in the past.

But right now, there was something more important than that.

Ian shouted at the knights.

“Announce to the soldiers and the people of Bahara that Ian Kaistein has conquered Bahara’s capital!”

“Yes, Your Highness!”

“And tell them that this Bahara is now mine!”

“Understood!”

The knights bowed to Ian, who was seated on the throne.

The Northern Expedition was finally over.

That’s also thanks to Ian’s overwhelming performance.

The perfect winner who didn’t even need to sort out his merit. That was Ian.

***

The moment Ian declared his conquest of Bahara.

The crown prince of Cantum was lying comfortably, sipping wine. Then, the advisor next to him smiled.

“Those foolish Kaistein people. A lot of them might have died by now.”

Cantum certainly opened the first battle. Since then, however, they had only pretended to fight drawn-out battles. It was to send Bahara’s elite soldiers back to their original positions.

That way, they engaged Kaistein in a fight and thus drained the power of both countries.

The crown prince even had a justification.

“What are the Bahara soldiers doing?”

“They’re still confronting us. We are planning not to fight in the future.”

The thing was, Bahara’s resistance was too tenacious.

They didn’t lose any soldiers, but they were confronting each other as if a fight were taking place anyway.

By the time the blood of Kaistein and Bahara flowed into a river.

‘Cantum will come forward and unify the two countries.’

It was truly a great plan.

A chance to get two countries without lifting a finger if he succeeded.

The eyes of the advisor, a close aide to the crown prince, gleamed.

“As expected of Your Highness to kill two birds with one stone. With this, the controversy over Your Highness’s eligibility, which has been circulating in our home country, will surely end.”

“Of course. At the end of the day, I will be the emperor who will unify the continent.”

“I will always follow you, Your Highness!”

Of course, it wasn’t without any hindrance.

It’s Ian Kaistein.

Although only for a brief moment, the man who became his older brother was a problem.

‘No one can be the older brother of the man who will become the emperor of Cantum. Never!’

He even persuaded other Kaistein princes to kill Ian.

He would do the same even if it was a person from a prophecy of the future. Anyone who tarnished the pride of the crown prince of Cantum would never be spared.

That was when his eyes glinted viciously.

“Your Highness! It’s urgent!”

“What is it! Can’t you see His Highness resting?!”

“Th, that!”

The messenger handed over a letter while sweating profusely.

The insignia of Ian Kaistein, the seventh prince of Kaistein, was stamped there.

The crown prince and the advisor let out a sticky smile.

“Finally, he’s here? But how unfortunate.”

“Pardon?”

“The prince is currently asleep and hasn’t seen this message. No, the letter didn’t arrive here at all.”

There was no need to look at the contents.

It’s probably a call to request for help.

With a glance from the prince, the advisor tore the letter to shreds.

Riiip!

“Y, Your Highness!”

The messenger shouted in shock. However, the crown prince didn’t even give the torn letter tossed to the ground a second glance.

The advisor grabbed the messenger by the shoulder and guided him outside.

“You go to Cantum as it is. This message never arrived from the beginning. Got it?”

“...”

Only then did the messenger realize the prince’s scheme.

In other words, he intended to cover things up by saying that the message never came in the first place. But that was a bad idea.

“No, Your Highness! You have to look at that letter quickly. It’s urgent!”

“How dare you, a mere messenger, say that!”

As the advisor beckoned, soldiers rushed in from outside and grabbed the messenger’s arms.

“Drag him out! Lock him up so no one can see him!”

“Y-Your Highness! Please don’t do this! If you do this, Your Highness will be in trouble!”

“Huh! What trouble!”

The advisor turned around with a snort. The crown prince also sipped his wine in indifference.

This was the end of Ian Kaistein.

‘This is also the end of Bahara and Kaistein. Now I am to be an unprecedented emperor.’

But it was then.

Boom!

A great explosion hit the prince’s barracks.

The advisor screamed in surprise.

“S, soldiers! What’s going on out there!”

“Enemy! The enemy is attacking outside!”

“What?”

It was impossible.

The same was true even if this place was Bahara’s land. His army and Bahara’s army did not tacitly attack each other.

It was because they knew it was to their mutual benefit.

There was no way they would attack them so suddenly.

But it was then.

“It is not only Bahara’s army that attacks us. Lavaltor, Kaistein’s duke, is also attacking us!”

Surprised, the crown prince and the advisor rushed out.

Boom! Boom!

And, indeed, the armies of both sides were attacking them.

In particular, Duke Lavaltor’s “Tempest” was blowing and destroying everything.

Then the crown prince remembered something.

“The letter! Where is the letter now!”

It was to find the letter that the advisor had just torn. Something must have been written on it.

And he could see.

[Get out of my land.]

The true meaning of Ian’s letter.

Rather than shedding blood, Kaistein and Bahara found themselves united under one name.