Chapter 222 – Battle for the Throne

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The huge, thick walls surrounding the throne room where the altar was located seemed impenetrable to any attack.

It could be said that it was a natural facility as the king was resting and the holy sword was stored.

Excluding the ceiling pierced by the scarab, there were countless cut scars on the walls and ancient letters engraved here and there.

Considering that it was the Sun King himself who created all of these things, it can be said that the process and history of her being engulfed in madness for thousands of years are inscribed on this wall.

But no more, they didn’t come into her eyes.

The only thing her eyes were looking at was the body of a girl who had lost consciousness to the point that she wouldn’t open her mouth anymore.

There would still be a little more time until her memories of her were fully synchronized, but there was nothing the girl could do as her limbs were restrained and she couldn’t even use magic.

Until time solves everything, the moment I tried to change the life of this physical body as a machine, which is not long now, into the sand of time and let it go.

Thud! With a shout, the huge door leading to the throne opened.

A Crusader of the Church wearing full armor.

Mejai betrays the king he is supposed to serve and cooperates with the strangers.

And, the holy sword and the demonic sword. A black-haired swordsman with two opposing power swords strapped to his waist.

“I’ll be honest. Jim is feeling ‘astonished’ right now for the first time in a while.”

Horus felt a headache caused by a freeze in the circuit that processed the received visual information.

“No. To be honest. I expected you guys to appear again. Especially that swordsman. I haven’t seen ‘giving up’ in your eyes yet.”

“…”

Horus spoke, pointing at her Cleon with the tip of her staff, and Cleon glared at her and drew her Galatea and Caliburn.

Her posture was her with her silence her was her answer to her her.

“I have been merciful and tolerant of you. Because I admired the noble ‘sacrifice’ of the bowl girl lying on her altar, even though she offered her her body and dared to indignantly intimidate her.” .”

Horus continues, her eyes still on the three, but Cleon only slowly, slowly approaching her with two swords in his hands her.

“You and your comrades, each of you will have a life, a life. It would have been possible to judge that it would be reasonable to use the barely saved life a little more usefully. ?”

As she went on, her voice grew louder and louder with anger at the actions of such fools.

“It’s not arrogance, it’s not bravado. It’s just a ‘waste’. My time and your lives. It’s like trash for nothing.”

And finally, Cleon is at the altar in front of the throne. She stopped in front of Quon.

Above it, you can see Galatine floating upside down, but Cleonon and Horus also knew that they would not be able to touch it because of the barrier they felt around them.

After looking at Quon, who is breathing with her unconscious, making a leaking sound, Cleon’s hand moves.

The right hand her, which moved at the speed of lightning, pulled out the black dagger hidden in the waistband her while holding Galatea and threw it at Horus.

At the same time as the sound of clicking her tongue her is heard, a large group of scarabs move to protect her body her.

The next thing to activate was the ‘Sun Spire’ connected to the throne.

The object, which looked like a human eye, glowed red and fired thin heat rays toward the place where Cleon was standing.

Of course, it was necessary to avoid getting scratches on Quon’s body, so the power had to be reduced a bit, but it wasn’t like melting a human body as easily as melting snow and breaking through a direct tunnel.

Cleon evades it with a quick backward step, but there is no limit to the output of the sun spire, and the heat rays of death follow Cleon and change its trajectory her.

That- the Crusader had to jump forward with her shield to block it.

Staring at the shield in the rays of the sun spire, the Sun King twitched his eyebrows.

“That shield… I wondered if it was made of Orechalcos material. In the time of Jim, only the artisans of the palace could process it, but now the strangers on the continent use it.”

Of course, its hardness is comparable to Mithril, but if Mithril is light and has excellent resistance to magic, Orechalcos was a metal with strong resistance to heat and cold enough to symbolize ‘immortality’.

Therefore, its processing difficulty was considered higher than that of Mithril, and in the era of the Sun King, it was an item that could only be processed using the best facilities in the palace.

“Has the human race outside caught up with this realm a bit? How about something to say? Crusader.”

However, the armor was able to withstand the heat rays without making any sound.

The one moving at that time was Mejai, who was waiting in the back.

As she ran in a straight line towards her Horus her, with her broken staff in her hand her, the Sun King waved her hand annoyedly at her and used her scarab to wrap her around. He did.

Of course, Mezai didn’t make any preparations either, so she threw away her now useless staff and threw the black shield on her back her-

Soul Eater Generates heat by infusing soul power into equipment made of metal.

While buying time by blocking the scarab with that heat, Cleon held a sword made of the same material and ran toward the throne where Horus was sitting.

“Did you think that if you diverted your attention, something would work?

The spire’s high-heat beam moves along Cleon.

The Crusader also follows the beam and protects Cleon.

But, of course, having two people moving in sync means you can’t move fast.

In addition to the heat rays, a horde of Scarabs, still overwhelming in numbers, fell from the sky to the ground and attacked Cleon and the Crusader.

Soon, when the two figures are completely swallowed up like being buried in sand, silence arrives.

The Sun King is `heung`… ‘ He laughed at the two fools and stopped the sun spire from firing.

“You guys are next. A traitor to the royal family.”

Saying that, she sent all her remaining Scarabs to Mezai’s side of her, just as she was about to finish her off.

Hard-! And if you think something is grinding.

Crimson flames erupted as the crusader and Cleon broke through the pile of scarabs that had engulfed them both.

`Flame…? What happened-`

In an instant, a sense of incongruity overtook the Sun King, but before he could think deeply about it, the black sword in Cleon’s hand flew towards the Sun King like the dagger from before.

“Chi-it…! Persistent guys…!”

She quickly withdraws her own limbs and tries to block the rush of her sword, but the heat remaining in her blade after she leaves Cleon’s hand melts and penetrates the walls of the scarab. It was

However.

Caang! With a clatter, her staff her swung, and her sword her lost momentum and fell beside her.

The Sun King glanced down at the cooling sword at his feet, then turned his gaze back to Cleon.

“I have read the memories of the woman in the bowl to some extent. Magical swordsman of the foreign land… You are a dangerous being who can’t let your guard down.”

The next moment, Cleon’s feet her were restrained by something.

Looking down at his feet, he saw the tight bands of scarabs holding Cleon’s feet in place.

“But. The four of you who can’t use magic right now are just men who know how to wield a sword a little. You, who can’t use a holy sword or the power of a demonic sword, don’t have the power to save this girl.”

The reason why the feet were tied was the same for the crusader next to Cleon.

The two of them were in a state where they couldn’t move, and Mezai, who looked at them, seemed to be devastated, and dropped the black shield she was holding to the ground.

“Hmph… Stupid guys. Really stupid guys.”

Horus rose from his throne.

Then he slowly descended the steps, stood in front of the altar, and stretched out his hand toward Quon.

Cleon, seeing more of her visions of her and memories of her being instilled in her, made her angry face, but Horus quickly clenched her fists and withdrew them.

“The strangers who came seeking the power of the holy sword… How much more mercy must I show to you who are mere grave robbers? And… To make her betray. You must have deceived her.”

“… She helped us out of her own will.”

Entering this throne room for the first time, Cleon opened his mouth.

Horus looked at Cleon and twisted the corner of her mouth her.

“Hoo?”

“She said she would help us for the sake of the village on the surface. Sun King… I didn’t know you were still around.”

“Even so. No, therefore. It upsets her stomach when you think of what kind of flattery you seduced her, and what mean words she roasted.”

Saying that, Horus glanced at Mejai, who he was no longer worth fighting for.

“Now, I will not show you the mercy of the Sun King. All that remains is despair and death. Strangers. I will obtain a new body and rise to the surface to rebuild the kingdom with my people. To avenge the kingdom. I will go.”

At Horus’ declaration, Cleon was silent for a moment, then she answered.

“If she dies, the descendants of your people left on earth will not follow you.”

“…What?”

Cleon looks at Horus and talks.

“This is her village her, which she has devoted everything she has to protect. If you kill her, will the people of the earth really listen to you? Her return her will be when the ancient king took away her human body her and brought her back to earth. It’s just the frightening fact that I came looking for you.”

“Your boy…”

At Cleon’s words, Horus’ anger grew once more, and the scarab began to creep up all over his body.

“You made a high sacrifice for Quon. However, she is also a human who sacrificed herself to fight for the people of the earth. She chose the body of a machine herself, and now it seems like she is trying to take over a human body again… You are a mass of contradictions. Rogun Sun King.”

“Shut up! Are you talking about what you know about sacrifice!”

Now, Cleon’s body her is covered up to his upper body her with that vicious weapon.

“Any ordinary person knows about it. How pitiful it is for people who sacrificed themselves for a human like you…!”

In the next moment, the sun spire shone with an intensity that was incomparable to that of earlier.

“I won’t leave a handful of ashes, I’ll burn them all… Even the soul!”

“…”

As the heat enveloped the entire temple, it felt as if the temperature of the room rose in an instant.

“Yes. It would be easier if we burn it again like that. Me too. ‘She’ who fought for the precious people of now.”

And Cleon’s gaze turned to ‘Mejai’.

Horus paused the staff he was about to swing at Cleon’s words, and twitched the corners of his mouth.

“Hmm… I don’t know what you’re aiming for. Didn’t you suddenly become quite eloquent and defend Mejai? Your acting is poor. A foreign swordsman. If you put it that way, do you think Mejai will tell me to save the lives of two people?”

“…”

Horus said that and looked at Mejai who was sitting on the ground.

“Mejai. I will give you one more chance after you once betrayed the Sun King. Come to me and swear allegiance to the royal family again. Then, after killing the strangers, I will make you my subject again.”

As the Sun King so declared, a heavy silence fell over the throne room.

As her gaze focused on her Mejai, she seemed to think for a moment, then slowly rose from her seat and, without even picking up the dropped shield, she slowly walked towards the Sun King.

“Ahahahaha!! Look stranger! This is what a wise human being does. And, it has been proven that what you said was a ‘false’ in the end! She will forever be by my side, and protect me like an old friend – ‘Anubis’!”

Mejai arrives before the Sun King declares her victory over her.

Then, on her knees, she bows her waist, as if bowing her head before her king.

The Sun King looked on with satisfaction, then turned his attention to Cleon and tried to execute him.

Until the next moment, she felt something completely unexpected touch her own metallic skin her.

It was a sharp branch.

In order to use it as a slightly effective weapon, it was seen that the tip had been shaved off a little.

It was an object that could still feel life even though it had been separated from the original tree and was cut that way.

“What-what, why, you doing this.”

And, the moment it touched his body his, Horus’ soul his trembled at the sensation of being pierced through his body by something sharp that he should n’t have been able to feel.

Horus knew this.

Because I read Quon’s memories.

If he had it, he thought it was Cleon or the Crusader’s side, so he was more wary of that side.

In the first place, ‘Mejai’ can’t catch this.

If Mezai, a human who has no resistance to `magical power` because she does not have magical power since birth, just like herself, if this is caught.

She would n’t have been able to move her body her, being engulfed in a huge shock that vibrated her entire soul like she was now.

However, to have stabbed this in myself now.

The owner of the hand holding the branch-

“…Ah…?”

Horus’ unspoken words flowed from his mouth.

With a crash, all the emergency circuits in the body are cut off and consciousness is blurred.

All the power of the soul that was stored is drained from the body, and the Scarab and the Sun Spire are also incapacitated.

Mejai slowly removed the cloth she was wearing, revealing her face.

Sweating, her ‘pink’ hair her fell down as she stared at the Sun King.

“You…”

“Cleon!!!”

Disguised as Mezai, she called out the man’s name in a loud voice.

The next moment, the man who was able to move her body her thanks to the scarab falling off her body her sprinted-

Just as it is, swing two beautiful swords as if crossing them—

Horus’ mechanical object was destroyed.

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Is it fortunate or unfortunate for Horus?

Her vital organs of her were concentrated on the side of her head of her, even in her separate torso and head of her.

For example- like the ‘core’, the nucleus that contains the soul.

However, the parts in charge of controlling the scarab and the organs for connecting to the sun spire were concentrated in her upper body her, even because of its size her.

With only her head her left, she should have stopped at the level where her mind her barely returned.

Get off the ground and roll over and over again.

Even if it didn’t cause motion sickness because there was no sense of balance, it didn’t feel good to have her eyes spinning around.

Rolling down the side of the altar over and over again, her spinning unstoppable even as her artificial hair coiled around her head.

She made a blank, goofy noise and stopped by bumping into the foot of her armored figure.

“Yes, those guys… Dared to… Despise me… And deceive me…!”

Her brain her, which had come out of her mana saturation and started working again, had finished analyzing her visual information her.

Standing next to Cleon and Berastol in oversized, revealing clothes.

Then, she screamed at Medjed, who took off the crusader-helm that lifted her up kindly, revealing a brown-skinned girl.

“I’m sorry, Your Majesty. However, the kingdom no longer exists. Today, El Cairo is just a small town, and everyone is living ‘now’ even if it is difficult.”

“…”

Looking at her mejed her as she spoke, Horus tried to spit out her curse words at her.

Her gaze her is right, until she sees her expression her on the verge of crying.

“It is time for Your Majesty to rest in peace as well. You have spent a very long time in solitude and madness. The reason you remained in this world is not for the sake of resurrection… It must have been to prevent you from handing over the ‘Holy Sword’ to someone you don’t fit in with. No see.”

And at her words her, Horus shut her mouth.

At some point, the absurd remarks of ‘Tindalos’that had been ringing in her ears her stopped.

“J-Jim… I-“

My brain gets confused.

What have I done in this world, in this graveyard, separated from friends for thousands of years-

Horus – What is the significance of the sun king remaining in this world –

“…With this, the mission is complete. Let’s retrieve the Quon and the holy sword.”

Leaving Horus behind, Vera Stoll looked down at herself with his face blushing.

The size didn’t fit at all, so if you move a little, you’ll be able to see even the parts that shouldn’t be seen by others.

Cleon does n’t care about that, but he nods and frees the restraining spheres from Quon’s arms and legs with his hands.

“If a gallatin is caught by an unsuited person, he burns him.”

Then, Horus once again opened his mouth and warned.

“If you guys want that power, you’ll have to think carefully.”

As if she didn’t know whether it was a curse or a warning, she looked back at Medjed and thought about something.

The eyes of Cleon and Verastol meet.

Originally, it would have been ‘Verastor’ who would be entrusted with this holy sword.

Because she was a crusader and had the status of being a candidate for the hero.

“…”

After a silence ensued, Vera Stoll slowly approached the altar, reaching her hand toward the handle of her holy sword her, Galatin.

However, when she looked at Quon in the corner of her gaze her, her hand her wouldn’t stop shaking.

Cleon was about to say something while looking at Verastol.

Above – The part that was blocked by the scarab had been punctured when Horus was incapacitated and opened again.

And- the next moment when I thought that countless eyes flashed beyond it-

The maw of Tindalos, vast beyond the number of all the scarabs, emerged from beyond, devouring all within the throne room.