Chapter 417 – Karma’s End

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An uproar on all sides of the royal castle.

The nobles were escorted by the kingdom’s soldiers and knights, and they were able to safely return to the castle without hurting anyone.

In a situation where it is difficult to return to their respective families’ mansions until the situation calms down, the nobles raise their voices to investigate the cause of this incident.

“Why did this happen on such an auspicious day! Apparently the assassins were on the move too! What were the kingdom’s guards doing!”

“It must be that the assassins were moving had something to do with the imperials! Besides, I heard that even Princess Amelia became strange… She, too, was wrong for allowing her even the slightest bit of freedom. How are you going to handle this situation?”

“First of all, strengthen the guards in the capital city, and in case the imperial people or Princess Amelia may head this way… “

Aristocrats pass on responsibility to each other and think about their own safety.

Lee Gent looks at the aristocrats with a devastated heart, then looks at his old friend his, Percy, who is now lying down by his wife’s side his.

Although the two families do not show closeness in public due to the long-standing confrontation, the two were comrades who fought together against the Empire in the previous Great War.

As shields and as prime ministers responsible for the lives of the people of the kingdom, the two saved the country from the greatest crisis since its founding.

‘That’s right, now you are lying down against the remnants of that empire. …What the hell is going to happen to this country.’

Regent was sitting on the stairs with a tired face, not even thinking about quelling the noise of the nobles.

Meanwhile-

When the characteristic sound of footsteps of plate armor clattering was heard, the voices of the aristocrats fell silent and their eyes turned to that direction.

There, Crown Prince Cassius, who returned with a dark face after moving his father Lucius into the room, and Drake, the dragon knight who followed behind him, stood there.

As soon as Duke Regent sees Cassius returning, he gets up from his seat and approaches him.

“Your Highness the Crown Prince. Your Majesty…”

“As soon as he lay down on the bed, he fell asleep as if he had fainted. Otis… You must have been quite frightened by him. He must have been mentally exhausted as well.”

As for the bad relationship between Otis and his father, Cassius had heard of it before, and Cassius also acknowledged it.

“Now there is something more important than that, Duke Regent.

“That’s right. …Now that His Majesty Lucius and Sir Percys cannot give orders, Your Highness has the military authority to give orders to the kingdom’s army.”

Cassius nodded slowly, looking at the nobles below him looking up at him.

In order to save these people, the soldiers came all the way here, leaving most of the commoners behind.

Thinking of that, Cassius let out a sigh and first spread his hands and spoke.

“In order to protect the capital in chaos, dispatch the kingdom army and knights waiting in the castle. Rather than subjugate the enemy, I will order you to focus on rescuing citizens and preventing secondary damage.”

“Huh, but. If the soldiers leave the castle, who will protect this castle?”

When a certain aristocrat raised his voice like that, the answer “Yes” Came from everywhere.

“The royal castle’s treasury has famous swords and armor on display. I’ll lend it to you, so take care of yourself.”

“That, like that…!”

After hearing Cassius’ words, the nobles try to shout something, but Kung! An earth-shaking shock rang from Cassius’ side of him.

As if to calm the commotion, Drake struck the ground with his spear and silenced the nobles.

Cassius first needed to accurately grasp the situation outside.

All I heard while moving to the capital under the protection of Regent was that something had happened to Amelia.

Resentful of Li Gent for not opening his mouth on exactly what it was, Cassius imbued his ring with his magic his.

Then, with a whirring sound, another female knight in black plate armor appeared as if falling from the ceiling of the castle.

He lands right next to Cassius and falls to his knees.

Like Drake, her figure her, clad in her armor of animal form after her own nickname her, resembled that of her ladybug her.

Seven black circles of family crests engraved on a red cloak that splits into two.

And, like an insect-like exoskeleton, she clung to her body and showed a lighter impression than other plate armor, she was also a knight close to Cassius.

“Ladybug Knight, Marikita. Here. Did you call, Your Highness Cassius?”

“Marie. You must have been looking at the situation outside.”

“Yes. Without exception.”

She was also a knight who became the eyes of Cassius, using her unique light body movements and her excellent eyesight.

“Princess Amelia caused a runaway of dark magic. Currently, the horrors that are happening in the capital seem to be centered on Amelia-sama.”

“…Amelia!?”

Cassius couldn’t believe her words easily.

Amelia is the Saint Princess who has protected this royal road until now.

She, who is protected by the Holy Spirit and wields divine magic to protect people from demons, why is she?

Besides, if that had happened, Cleon, who was nearby, would have done something about it.

When Cassius asks Marie about the details of the matter, she answers everything she has looked for.

After Cleon was stabbed, Amelia became strange.

And, that Amelia absorbed her magical power and life force from some of the kingdom troops that had been dispatched to respond to the people of the kingdom.

Aruru, and even the battle with her maidservant her, the dark horse clan.

“Currently, there is a black barrier in the Kingdom Square. Perhaps, within it, the clan of black horses hired by Her Highness her are blocking Princess Amelia.”

“Couldn’t it be that Princess Amelia was born with dark magic … Didn’t she inherit the power of her mother, who was said to be a holy family …”

When Regent, who was listening to the story of Ladybug’s knight by Cassius’ side, said that, Cassius looked at Regent quietly and then shook his head.

“…Everyone has a darkness in their heart. It may be us rather that it stimulated that darkness.”

“…”

After Cassius says that, he thinks he must stop Amelia.

However, there was a high possibility that the battle itself would not be established with ordinary knights or soldiers in the first place.

As Marie said, if her power spread throughout the capital.

Cassius slowly turned his body and looked at the strongest knight in the kingdom who stood behind him like his shadow.

“Sir Drake.”

When Drake says his name, he takes a step back and gets down on one knee.

“Please wait, are you thinking of sending Lord Drake?”

Regent is embarrassed by Cassius’ behavior and tries to stop him.

“Sir Drake must protect His Majesty the Immobile King. If the Dark Giant appears again-“

“Duke Regent. While my father can’t give orders, I have command of the knights and army. It must be you who said that.”

“…”

Regent shut his mouth at Cassius’ words.

Cassius took that as his understanding his, turned his head, and ordered the dragon knight to kneel before him.

“Please help my friend, Mr. Cleon. He will protect this royal road with him.”

Drake heard Cassius’ command his and at the same time nodded his head, got up from the spot, and quietly walked towards the main gate of the castle.

It was like a doll with no emotions, but if it was the power it possessed, it would surely be of great help to Cleon.

“…Your Highness Cassius. I have something to discuss about the punishment for Princess Amelia.”

“…”

At Li Gent’s words, Cassius felt his mind and his go blank.

“Punishment of the one who didn’t get caught? Duke Regent. I think I can already understand why that kid did this.”

“… Even if it is. It is a ‘necessity’ for us.”

At Regent’s quiet words, Cassius gave a bang. He slammed the doorknob where he was standing.

His arm his, twisted by the magical power of the rift in another dimension, easily bent the iron handle.

“Do it in moderation, Duke Regent. Do I have to point out your incompetence in creating a country that could not be sustained without the sacrifice of a girl like Amelia?”

“…”

Li Gent quietly shut his mouth at Cassius’ words.

‘Maybe it’s all karma. The current twisted kingdom itself, which drove Amelia, hunted the remnants of the empire more than necessary, and in addition to that, nobles justify killing people with assassins in the name of maintaining order.’

After thinking so, Cassius spoke to his knight once again.

“Next, keep an eye on the royal capital. If anything changes, report it.”

“…Yes, Your Highness.”

After saying that, Marikita lightly jumped up and soared towards the ceiling.

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“Haha!”

When the sound of shouting resounds again, a flash of light pierces through the black crystals.

The sound of metal and crystal clashing loudly, and the sound of them breaking into each other.

Seeing such a sight, Amelia tapped her index finger at regular intervals in her annoyance.

“Pandora…!”

And, following that flash, a magical slash like a black curtain unfolded as if chasing after.

In a single blow, dozens of Black Crystal soldiers who had flocked to surround them from all sides were shattered.

Lilim and Sasha had been dealing with the forces of the Black Crystal, holding out for much longer and tenaciously than Amelia had expected.

“Why aren’t you dying… You bitches…!”

The next moment, an arrow flying toward Amelia.

Amelia blocks it with the tail of the black crystal without even showing the movement of her hand her.

“Quit…”

Sasha voiced resentment at being blocked this time, but even her attempt her felt like an irritating struggle to Amelia.

She has only one reason for not killing them right away.

As desperately as possible, and painfully.

Giving her time to scream, she had to show Cleon a helpless death.

Only then, what Cleon had been protecting her as a colleague and family until now had no value.

Just, after imprinting firmly that he was only holding his ankle her.

Because he had to nourish the despair, sadness, and anger he felt so that the seeds planted in him could grow.

But what is the situation now?

Although the soldiers of his Black Crystal his, of course, have powers that do not reach the original, but even so, it is an item that has been adjusted to the level that it will be difficult to deal with one unless it is as strong as Cleon.

In particular, regarding her doll of her that imitates her of Lubera of her, it is a soldier who has raised her level of perfection to a fairly similar level based on her memories of her that Amelia herself has.

I couldn’t help but feel shock and humiliation at how that girl with beast ears did it with only a bow and arrow.

“Are you nervous?”

At that time, Cleon’s voice came from the side.

He was still clinging to the black crystal cross, and blood dripping from his stomach His dripped … Dripped … To the ground.

Already, his sword, Galatea, was covered with a black crystal and thrown into a corner.

What he could do with her without her her magical powers her… No, she doubted whether she could even try something in the first place.

Even so, the two of them went from being seriously injured to almost killing themselves in a state of almost depleted magical power.

Even if the boundary is sufficient, it will not be insufficient.

However, the words he put in his mouth he bothered me.

“…Are you nervous?”

Amelia contorts her face.

Fret? Why does she need to fret herself?

This man knows nothing.

He knew that if he put his mind to it, he wouldn’t have to hang out with these ‘battle games’.

“Don’t you see? It’s me who’s wasting time! Even if you’re near death, you’ll listen to me. The moment the blood runs out like the contents of that hourglass.”

Cleon shook her head as if tired of her words her.

“That’s what makes you different from her – Amelia. Empowered and conceited, you keep trying to lose your victories. …Let me tell you, she’s more greedy for victories than I am. She For me, the things I need to protect … The number of lives I carry is different.”

“…”

Cleon’s words sounded like nothing more than an excuse for her losers.

But for some reason, as she continued to talk with this man, the mark engraved on her chest her throbbed.

Amelia, with her hand raised to that part of her, tightly clenched in her fist, puts her rushing irritation into her black magic of her.

“Okay… If you talk that far, those two right now. I’ll blow your throat right in front of you…”

After saying that, she spread her hands, and vibrations spread through her air.

A harbinger of great magical powers gathering.

Guided by her arms her, which move as if commanding the battlefield, magic is woven.

“The existence that touches my eyes becomes a swamp of despair. The existence that touches my arms turns into an abyss of sorrow. The existence that touches my breath turns into a temptation of betrayal. My will only leads because of me, and all rightness reverses in the face of infinite darkness. To be denied.”

When the incantation resounds like her singing voice her, a huge mass of dark magic power changes its shape in front of her body her.

It was a huge door.

Like a door leading to hell created by a sculptor who had been imagining what “Hell” Would be for a long time, there were carved images of several humans clinging to the light in despair, hoping for salvation.

When the remaining black magic power that formed the door spreads like mist, the door falls to the ground with a thump.

Obviously, the thickness of the door itself is not that wide, but it does not fall to either side.

Both Lilim and Sasha looked in that direction as if they were surprised by the door that suddenly appeared.

I had a feeling that something was not right.

Amelia seemed to like that embarrassed look so much that she twisted the corners of her mouth up, clenched her fists, and finished her chant in a low voice.

“Therefore, darling. Sinful being. Abandon all hope before me.”

The next moment, with Lilim and Sasha, and the forces of the Black Crystals surrounding them, the gates of hell open.

What jumped out of there was a wave of huge, terrifying specters.

The eyes, mouth, and irregularly protruding hands form a huge mass wriggling, pouring out like waves and heading towards Sasha and Lilim.

Even the soldiers of the Black Crystal in between were devouring them greedily.

“Wow…!”

Sasha sees the wave and recoils from her instincts her.

Even Pandora’s shield, such a large amount of water pouring all at once- if it was the same black magic, there was a high possibility that it would be swallowed up unilaterally and the defense neutralized.

“Okay! Get swept up in the waves of darkness, show your ugliness and die!”

Amelia utters lines like witches, confirming the defeat of Sasha and Lilim.

But, next moment.

[There is no doubt.]

When the holy sword Caliburn, which moved by itself as if pulled out of Sasha once again, changed into a human form.

Like an angel descending with powerful light, he descends to the ground and stretches his arms forward.

Then, a platinum-colored barrier is deployed to protect Lilim and Sasha.

“Ka, Mr. Caliburn!”

Sasha’s voice resonates with her, and soon after, Ruben hands Sasha her voice with her.

[Don’t be idle by! Destroy that door! Hang the arrow of the last remaining flower!]

“Sss… Yes, yes…!”

Sasha, who barely came to her senses at Ruben’s cry her, arrows she created with her magical energy her-

The arrow of the flower followed by the arrow of the eye and the arrow of the moon was put on the string and the hunter’s imprint was set on fire.

‘As for the trajectory, make sure that it is not affected by the waves as much as possible… If you aim for the weak part of the spell that makes up the door accurately and shoot-‘

The rapid rotation of her brain her, and the next moment when her arm muscles swelled to the point of hardening as she held on to the string pulled to the maximum—

Ping! With the sound of plucking the strings, the arrow imbued with great magical power draws an honest trajectory and flies toward the gate of hell that Amelia has summoned.

“Ah~ Ah~ What are you going to do with those arrows? That’s my magic? Could such a physical attack work-“

But the next moment, as Sasha fired an arrow that hit the centerpiece of the upper part of Hell’s Gate and ricocheted out, Amelia shut her mouth.

‘Did it crash?’

Magic and physical arrows?

And at the same time, the imprint of magical power contained in the arrow bursts out.

Just like standing under a flower tree in full bloom, the area around the gate to hell is filled with flying petals.

“Petal…?”

Amelia, who actually saw that figure, looked at it as if she was dumbfounded for a moment, and then-

“Ha-ha-ha! I don’t know what it is, but with that, my magic-“

“Flower of Fire, Last Dance.”

If Sasha’s mother tongue was delivered like that.

The magical energy contained in each scattered petal vibrates greatly and causes an explosion.

The number of them was absolutely not small, so the ground Amelia watched was filled with a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

“What, what!? What the hell…!”

The next moment, the black crystal gauntlet wrapped around her hand her cracked.

“Kuh…!?”

‘Eh, as the soldiers of the magic and black crystal were forcibly removed… The rebound… The mana ran out in an instant…’

When the sentences for judging the situation are forcibly raised in her head, she tries to draw on the magic of her spirit vein in order to somehow make up for the lost magic.

However-

Flashing, she thought, a golden light flashed past her own her.

It was a blow.

Amelia’s eyes rolled slowly, she couldn’t figure out what had happened.

“Uh-?”

A faint voice rang from her throat.

Just like before, there was Lilim, who jumped up using her mana as a driving force.

And in her hand her, of course, a huge demonic sword-Pandora-

Didn’t exist

Rather, what she holds in her hand is a golden holy sword that has returned to the form of a sacred sword before she knows it.

Caliburn.

[I told you? I’m Cleon’s trump card…]

If you think you can hear Caliburn’s laughter, what they cut off is Amelia’s horn all the way to her right arm.

As if drawing a full moon in the air, the trajectory of the sword drawn while making a single rotation caused blood to spurt from Amelia’s arm her.

He even rescued Cleon from being tied to the cross.

“Kuh…!”

Amelia quickly turns her face into fury, and she wiggles her tail her, which she could still move.

If this happens, catch Cleon before he falls and-

However, as if he had read even that, Lilim let go of Caliburn this time and changed the direction his body was facing through her magical energy her in the air.

Kwajik! It was to protect Cleon’s body by extending her legs and arms as if protecting Cleon, with a blow so strong that it could be heard.

“Sa, sha!”

And when she calls the name of the girl on the ground, Sasha quickly runs and takes Cleon’s body instead of her falling to the ground.

“Catch, catch!”

Sasha also took the body by the edge.

“Kuk, Lee, Lily!”

The next moment, Amelia lets out her shrieking rant, unable to admit the sudden turn of events.

And at the same time, she swung one hand of her own – the sharp claw that was still left of her –

It was to severely slit Lilim’s throat in her.

‘…Ah-‘

Lilim had no choice but to accept it, thinking that even this was her job.