Chapter 304: Following Your Instincts (4)

Chapter 304: Following Your Instincts (4)

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The dark blue arrow instantly engulfed Honte’s body.

“No!”

The Empire’s knights flinched at the fierce shout.

Imperial Prince Adin shouted with a rare sense of urgency.

“We, we have to save Honte!”

He then paused and raised his voice.

“He is one of the pillars of the Empire’s future! Mages, go help him!”

However, his shout was in vain.

Cale broke out into laughter at Imperial Prince Adin’s shout as he looked at Honte.

“It’s too late.”

The dark blue arrow struck Honte.

Baaaam!

The deafening sound of the impact was heard.

Dust, gray smoke, and light burst out from the explosion.

The scale of the smoke was large enough to engulf not only Honte, but also the black skeleton bird.

“Ugh!”

The smoke slowly subsided and a collapsing person could be seen.

“Cough!”

“Ugh!”

Some of the battle leaders of the Alchemists’ Bell Tower who had been near Honte with the intention of protecting him were unable to withstand the explosive power and threw up blood as they collapsed.

The Captain of the Empire’s Mage Brigade’s hands were shaking. It was because he felt the vibrations of mana from the explosion that just unfolded.

He shouted to Imperial Prince Adin as he saw the smoke start to subside.

“Your highness! Honte is important, but you must escape! The enemy’s attack is beyond our expectations! I think the necromancer can even use magic!”

The Captain thought that Imperial Prince Adin should escape before the smoke completely subsided and before he ran into Commander Cale.

The fire that Cale used felt like divine judgment delivered by a god.

It was at that moment.

“As I thought, it’s too soon.”

“...Your highness?”

Adin drew a smile and the Mage Captain could see it.

“Huh?”

Someone could be seen cutting through the subsiding smoke.

The person had black mana around him.

It was Honte.

There wasn’t a single scratch on his body as he shot up into the sky with his hand outstretched and got rid of his shield.

That wasn’t all.

There was also another existence that cut through the smoke, no, that blew it away.

It was the black skeleton bird.

“It seems like that wasn’t enough.”

Cale drew a smile on his face that was pale from being driven to his physical limits. His hand moved and the black skeleton bird headed straight for Honte.

The black skeleton bird shot towards Honte who was rising into the air.

A battle began in the sky.

“Young master-nim.”

- Human!

Cale let out a laugh.

“Fine, I’ll do as you guys want this time.”

Cale began to move in accordance with Mary and Raon’s will.

Mary immediately straightened herself up on the black skeleton bird’s spine. She revealed her hand that was laced with black spider web-like scars.

Honte and Mary.

Both of their hands were aimed at each other.

The corners of Honte’s lips curled up. He stared downwards and opened his mouth once he knew that nobody else could hear him.

“The thing that had been extinct has reappeared.”

Black mana rose up from his hand.

Black mana also rose up from Mary’s hand at the same time.

Honte spoke in an amused tone as he saw Mary in her black robe.

“You necromancers have had that hideous appearance since long ago. How foolish.”

He then looked toward Cale.

“I was barely able to get rid of the necromancers and the Dark Elves you know. I thought that I had annihilated them all.”

Cale’s eyes widened. A chill rose in the air at the same time. There were many hidden happenings that were going on in the background regarding the punishment that the Church of the Sun God carried out against the necromancers as he had expected.

Cale realized something at the same time.

‘That bastard is the Tower Master.’

The Tower Master who had lived for a long time.

He was probably able to live so long by taking over other people’s bodies.

Honte spoke cheerfully despite receiving Cale’s sharp gaze.

“The Queen of Death must be very sad. She would have been glad to see someone following the path of a necromancer once again.”

The cheerfulness then disappeared from Honte’s face.The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

Contempt took its place instead.

“Too bad you’re going to meet your end and die like her.”

He continued to look at Cale as he continued to speak.

“I suppose that wind is also one of your ancient powers?”

Honte had not missed the power that Cale had used to grab the Imperial Prince’s neck.

“Your plate is weak, but very big. Very very big.”

He then licked his lips.

Cale felt uncomfortable seeing Honte’s expression.

‘What is with this bastard?

Could it be?’

Honte started to speak when Cale’s eyes caught his moving corpse’s body. His eyes contained bloodthirst as he gazed at Cale.

“I want it as my next body.”

‘Is he crazy?’

A chill ran down his back the moment Cale thought that.

‘Behind me.’

- Is he crazy?!

“He is crazy.”

Cale ducked the moment he heard Raon and Mary’s voice.

Another small arrow grazed past him again.

Baaaaang!

An explosion occurred.

Cale raised his head. He saw a black arrow flying towards Honte once again.

It was from Mary. She started to speak calmly.

“Please be quiet.”

She spoke with her usual calm and composed voice. However, the energy from the black arrow that came from her outstretched hand was anything but that.

Oooong-

The dead mana gathered together again and again. Cale looked at Honte who was unscathed.

- Human! That guy is as skilled as I am!

Cale could hear Raon’s serious voice as Honte’s mouth opened.

“Hahaha, you just keep firing those arrows. However, necromancers can’t use dead mana just like magic, isn’t that right? All they can do is move things that are already dead.”

Cale flinched.

Boom. Boom. Boom.

His heart pounded again.

His heart was pounding despite the fact that he couldn’t afford to use any more of his ancient powers.

‘This is dangerous.’

- Human, his power is no joke!

It was at that moment.

Honte opened his mouth.

“See you at the capital.”

‘What?’

It happened before Cale could even ask back.

The black mana flashed and the spell activated.

Oooong-

The spell soon appeared.

Imperial Prince Adin.

The area around him began to glow. Honte had used magic on the Imperial Prince.

Cale shouted out of reflex.

‘Teleport.’

That is teleportation magic.

“Raon!”

- I know!

Raon moved to block the teleportation magic.

Raon could cast magic faster than anyone else after learning the fast casting skill during his battle with the Dragon half-blood.

Choi Han hastened his speed as well.

It was because he noticed the glow of the teleportation spell.

Cale shouted at the same time.

“Mary, speed up! Shoot the arrow!”

They just had to kill Honte who was casting the spell.

Then the spell would stop too.

It was the fastest method.

The black skeleton bird would soon bite Honte’s neck.

It was at that moment.

Cale and Raon heard a scream that caught their attention.

It was from a person who felt that something was strange a bit differently than Raon.

She shouted as she was the only one who realized the source of the strangeness.

“It is an explosion!”

Mary shouted emotionally unlike her usual emotionless self.

Her voice was full of fear.

‘We must not attack it!’

Mary realized that.

‘We, we must not attack that.’

“It, it’s suicide bombing!”

Raon flinched.

Choi Han, who was on the ground and couldn’t have known the happenings of the battle above him, also flinched as he passed by the Knight Captain. The Imperial Prince was now right in front of him. He could see the Imperial Prince’s expression change.

“Ah, what a shame.”

Imperial Prince Adin felt that it was a shame as he stood above the teleportation magic circle.

His demeanor changed as if he had never shouted for Honte to be saved.

Choi Han could also see that some other people had received Honte’s teleportation magic in addition to Adin.

The leaders of the Empire, the leaders of the Lion Tribe who had escaped far away, and the people of the Caro Kingdom all received Honte’s teleport magic.

“W, what is this?”

“This suddenly appeared!”

“Did Honte do this? This, this is on the level of an archmage!”

It was teleportation magic that simultaneously teleported a large number of people standing in different locations. It would have been considered extremely difficult even if only a few people or people standing in the same area were teleported.

However, Choi Han did not flinch because of that.

“Oh well.”

It was because of Imperial Prince Adin’s strange reaction.

“What a shame.”

‘What is?’

Choi Han had several questions, but still tried to catch the Imperial Prince.

It was at that moment.

“Stop!”

Cale’s voice could be heard through the amplification magic that was on him.

He heard Raon’s voice in his mind at the same time.

- H, how could this be!

The young dragon was astonished.

‘What is it?

What is going on?’

However, Choi Han did not stop, and he could see Imperial Prince Adin mouthing something.

‘What a shame. They’re all going to die. It’ll take a lot of time and money to raise them all again.’

Adin looked at Choi Han and laughed while saying that it was a shame. However, his expressions showed that it wasn’t his business despite what he felt.

‘What?

Everyone will die?

Raise them again? Raise what?’

Choi Han turned his head and looked up at the sky.

He then saw the black skeleton bird suddenly retreating.

Cale looked at Honte as Mary retreated the black skeleton bird.

Honte was laughing.

“Kuhahaha! Not bad for a beginner necromancer.”

He spread open his lifeless body.

“ ‘I’ am in the capital. ‘This’ is just a shell.”

Then his body started to fall.

It plunged downward like a puppet whose strings were cut.

The body was dropping toward Toonka and the Whipper Kingdom’s forces who had come to support Cale, as well as the Empire’s forces who were holding them back.

The body was falling without stopping.

The life that had been in Honte’s eyes slowly started to grow dim.

That, ‘thing,’ spoke to Cale one last time before the life completely extinguished.

“It’s a gift. It’s a gift for your necromancer. Consider it just a taste.”

He then snickered.

“I’ll give you this gift of dead mana from all of the people here.”

Crack.

The last glimmer of life vanished from Honte’s eyes and his heart area started to open up.

Something black could be seen through the crevice.

Two beings responded to that.

“No! It is immense!”

- No! That’s similar to a golem’s core! It’s actually more dangerous!

Raon and Mary’s voices.

Cale saw the scene on the ground as he watched the body of the real Honte who had died unfairly plunged downward along with the disappearance of the Tower Master.

He could see the escaping Imperial Prince.

He could also see the Whipper Kingdom’s forces and Empire’s army.

“Damn it!”

Cale grasped the reins of the black skeleton bird.

He then flew straight downward.

He turned his head to the side.

A lifeless corpse.

He could see tears of blood streaming down from Honte’s eyes.

His body shook at the same time.

“Damn it!”

Cale stretched out his hand downward as veins bulged on his neck. A silver light started to pour out.

The bomb within Honte’s body exploded at the same time.

Booooooooom-!

People went momentarily blind and deaf in that instant.

An ominous black light struck down like Cale’s Fire of Destruction, except it was aiming for people instead of the golems.