I Became the Prince in the Novel
Chapter 9's
5 Depletion (4)
A forest in Hwangseong, some distance from Chimseonggung.
Knight Alex, who was secretly keeping a distance from Chimseonggung under the orders of Evelyn Agnes, suddenly put on a wondering expression at the red light emanating from Chimseonggung.
” What is it?”
The light came out from the dance hall and gradually covered the entire palace.
Maybe because of the color?
Alex's brows were slightly wrinkled due to the unpleasant feeling from that light.
” I don't know. It looks like magic..... I don't think there's an attack.”.
The lieutenant who listened to Alex's words responded by listening to the voice coming from the side of the palace.
If there was an attack, there should have been some sounds of battle, including the clash of weapons, but nothing was heard.
“Um.... .. Do I have to report?”
So Alex was hesitant to report to superiors.
It was a report that went into the ears of ‘Princess Lion’.
I don't want to bother him with useless content.
But his mind was immediately changed by one voice.
hey hey hey!
The echoes were filled with a frightening feeling as if the lungs themselves were cut off.
Did the demons that came out of hell make this sound?
Alex, who shook his hand due to the instinctive rejection he felt, opened his mouth to the lieutenant.
“Note top level now.”
” I understand.”
The lieutenant immediately lowered his head, thinking he could not delay the time.
Alex who stared at the lieutenant's back for a moment also started moving towards Chimseonggung.
* * *
colored patches.
The effect of the magic circle that Shion had completed with Priscilla was simple.
It reveals the true form of ‘enemy’ within a certain distance.
Two years later, before the outbreak of full-scale war, humans developed this magic circle to deplete the ‘enemy’ that had mixed with them many times and saw its effectiveness.
wah ah's.
Shion, who was looking at the group of people who were gradually emitting red light, opened her mouth at Priscilla who was standing beside her with a confused expression on her face.
“I need your blood.”
“.... .. Yes?”
Starting with the magic-circle, Priscilla asks Shion, who only makes an unfamiliar voice, but she does not answer.
“One drop is enough.”
Just look ahead with shining eyes.
After shaking her head a few times, Priscilla made a small incision on her fingertip and dropped a drop of blood in the middle of the magic circle.
That time.
hey hey hey hey hey!
Horrible screams came from where the servants were gathered.
As Priscilla took a step back due to her instinctive rejection.
“I found it.”
A low voice came out from Shion's mouth.
In Shion's eyes, it was Baren, Chimseonggung's deputy head.
No, it was originally Baren, and roared with a sad face that was no longer considered to be human.
Tentacles exploded from his body and his arms and legs were strangely bent.
“I, what is it...... What?”
” Enemy.”
Shion gave a short answer to Priscilla's paled question because of the instrument the monster emitted.
That is ‘enemy’ is actually from the chronicles of the heroes of Flosimar, including mankind.
Monster (f).
It refers to all beings inhabiting the demon realm, such as demons, demons, and humans, and exudes enmity to all living beings except demons.
The one who served the Demon King and destroyed the world.
“I'm also here.”
The monsters in the Flosimar Chronicle are very precise.
Decades before the war, he hid in the world on the orders of the Demon King and slowly ate up the human race.
Demonic techniques were very clever, and that was why the human race swept over them and killed each other without even realizing it until before the war.
In the end, humanity chose the path of self-destruction and the world was destroyed.
‘One of the bottom ranks.’
Seeing the devil in his true form, Shion thought.
Since Chimseonggung had almost no influence from the start, it was likely that only one low-ranking demon was planted.
No, it's true that you should be surprised by the precision of the magic that has planted monsters to date.
hey hey!
At that moment, the screaming monster started running towards Priscilla.
“Why, why me... ..!”
Unlike him, who made an embarrassed expression, Shion calmly began to light up the darkness.
The devil is going to attack him.
His blood, which was named the Magic Blood ( ⁇ ), was like a heavenly potion to demons.
One year from now, Priscilla is kidnapped by a demon because demonic blood flows through her body, and then becomes unable to live or die and supply blood.
It is for that reason that she is called ‘Princess Kesialan’.
If you mix Priscilla's blood like that, the Red Circle effect that would normally only look for low-level monsters becomes maximal, and even medium-level monsters can be detected.
So, there was no way a low-level monster could hide its identity.
ahh!
The monster that seemed to have only seen Priscilla, ignored everyone around her and rushed towards her.
“Protect Prince and Priscilla-sama!”
The knights who woke up late quickly blocked the front of such a monster.
Suga, go, go!
That's disappointing.
Dozens of tentacles that grew from monsters moved at high speed and cut through the entire bodies of the knights.
“Hey, sword!”
“Ahhh!”
It didn't even take a minute for all the knights who rushed to death or became helpless.
That monster.
Monsters with extraordinary strength that even the lower classes could not compare to humans.
‘I mean, there are many such people in the magical world.’
With that thought in mind, Shion, who raised the corner of her mouth, slowly twisted her legs.
With him, I wondered if Shion's statue would melt into the darkness that appeared after sunset.
dunk
it appeared right in front of the monster.
Clearly, unlike the one he had handled so far, the monster immediately recognized Shion and moved its tentacles.
The tentacles shot to Shion's vital point with terrifying slash strength.
stuttering gaga!
Shion's entire body penetrated through it.
“Si, Your Highness Zion!”
As Fredo, who was watching the scene from behind, shouted urgently.
ourselves-selves
The pierced form of Shion spread out as if it had dissolved in water.
At about the same time, Shion reappeared from behind the monster.
I wonder if darkness will form in Shion's hands.
Quad Duck!
The monster that twisted its body while screaming in pain.
Meanwhile, Shion, who had thrown away the tentacles that had been plucked, continued to reach the revealed monster's vital point.
The crack!
As if instinctively feeling it was dangerous, the monster with a stiff neck gathered all the tentacles to survive Shion's attack.
On top of such monster tentacles, a young and ferocious magician.
However, when Shion's hand touched it.
“… … !”
Such magic disappeared as if it was washed away.
As if it wasn't there in the first place.
Quajiik!
Shion's hand, which easily shattered the monster's defenses whose eyes changed in surprise, pierced one of the monster's hearts.
ahh!
‘Do you have two hearts?’
Shion's eyes didn't stop there and looked for his next heart.
At that moment, the demon spirit subconsciously and desperately gathered all the remaining magical energy and released it out at once.
Tuquaangs!
Since it was not yet possible to annihilate a magic of this magnitude at once, Shion widened the distance to avoid the magic explosion.
As a result, the demon, who took a moment to catch his breath, glared at Shion.
“... .. how.”
A faint human language that flowed from a place that was considered to be the mouth of a monster.
20 year.
20 year.
When the devil hides in the human world and is here in Chimseonggung.
There's never been anything like this before.
There is nothing similar.
Stupid humans don't recognize their identity and think they will continue to do so.
By the way… … .
“I, magic circle, what is it?”
As he watched the red light seep out from the magic circle, his desire to release the human skin he was wearing appeared unnoticed.
And when Princess Priscilla dripped her own blood on it.
he's lost his mind
The only thing that filled his head was Priscilla's longing for blood.
There is something more incomprehensible.
“Dan, what's that power?”
The darkness that destroyed the magician without a trace as he touched it.
I haven't seen or heard anything like it since I was born.
And I can't believe that all this happened to Prince Shion, who has been watching for over 10 years.
” Who are you?”
The man standing in front of him right now was not Prince Shion at all.
That is the conclusion of the devil.
“Enemy.”
“... ... What?”
There was a small question in the monster's eyes over Shion's sipping answer, but that question didn't last long.
The new version of Shion, who was moving with the horse, quickly climbed into the darkness and came right in front of them.
Kia!
The monster is made like a giant drill by gathering all its tentacles, screaming and shooting towards Shion.
It might instinctively realize that it was the latter, and it was an attack on a different level than before.
‘If this is enough, I can break through that darkness......’.
But at that moment, Shion's hand that had only destroyed everything until now made a strange change.
Shion's hand gently dug under the drill of monster tentacles that shot like snakes swimming in water.
The moment when Shion's hand moved at a strange angle and slowly lifted up.
Tuo!
The monster tentacle drill soared upwards as if it had been struck by lightning.
” How.... .. !”
Shion, who was directly digging through the crack that appeared with him, stretched out his hand without hesitation towards the heart that he had found some time ago.
Kwajik!
A crackling sound that boomed.
With both hearts broken, the last thing the monster saw, whose life was dying, was Shion's eyes bowed as if happy, and one black star floated within.
‘It will be difficult if Heuk Seong-ha does not rise to 1 star.’
The monster species hiding in the human world did not leave behind any corpses in order not to leave any traces even when they died.
So, looking at the corpse of the monster that disappeared, Shion thought.
robust.
The first monster I encountered was very powerful.
If a lower rank was like this, how many people were above them?
So I'm looking forward to it.
The stronger the opponent, the higher the wall, the stronger Shion's interest.
‘ I think it might be like this.’
After staring at the corpse for a while, Shion raised his hand and stabbed him in the neck of the monster that had not disappeared.
Aww!
Then you hear the sound of something breaking.
The Demonic Demon took two steps against the monsters hiding in the human world.
One was the extinction of the corpses that was happening now, and the other was the transmission of information.
The moment the monster died, all the information the monster saw and heard was sent to the demon station, and Shion had just destroyed the core responsible for that transmission.
“What happened...... Did it happen?”
A trembling voice rang out in Shion's ears, who had refined it to the end.
Shion's eyes turned to him, and Priscilla looked at him with swaying eyes.
Not only that, the appearance of the knights with pale faces and servants sitting on the floor, who had suffered their soul blows by the Magi, also entered.
He looked like he could not understand what had happened.
“More than that, which just disappeared......”.
It was time for Priscilla to open her mouth again towards Shion, perhaps unable to resist the question.
Quang!
“Your Majesty Shion!”
A group of knights hurriedly rushed to the gymnasium, opening the outer gate as if it was about to break down.
Knights with high levels of prayer could not even compare to knights in Chimseonggung.
They were probably the escort knights that Evelyn had secretly inserted near Chimseonggung after her last visit.
Among them, a man who seemed to be the head of the knights came to Shion and lowered his head when he realized that his work had been completed.
” Hello. Mr. Shion. My name is Alex from the White Lion Knight. May I ask what happened?”
Shion's mouth slowly opened as she stared at Alex like that with eyes that did not understand what he was thinking.
” Nothing.”
“.... .. Yes?”
“I just thinned out the enemy.”
A question was added to Alex's eyes, but Shion's mouth was no longer open.
‘ Not.’
Can't reveal it yet.
If this fact was known, the hidden monsters would dig deeper into the shadows.
‘Not like that.’
Until you hunt them all down.
Thinking so, Shion's eyes turned to the people's palace, which looked like a dot in the distance.
