Chapter 511 – Walls of Fire and Fortifications

000

Joining the group, Cleon watches as the barrier is overlaid on the borderline spread by Tamamo.

The ones who open that barrier are the old Yohos, including Tamamo.

The talisman engraved with the incantation to cause flames was attached to the floor and walls, like a gold chain.

The barrier came down like a curtain, covering a part of the brothel.

“With this, he must have noticed our movements.”

When Cleon said that, Layla, who was watching from the side, nodded her head.

“Well. Maybe, he’s been watching your movements since before that. Because Cleon has a lot of stalkers.”

“It’s not exactly what I want, though.”

Cleon frowned at her words, but the next second, she turned her head when she felt someone from behind.

There, I saw three figures wearing black blankets and hats.

“Cleon-sama.”

And, when the woman standing in the middle of them quietly raises her mouth and lowers her head, Cleon nods her head and recognizes them.

“Ah. It’s you.”

Anti-gwidae. Although they were the Eastern country’s covert mobile force, they were the ones who provided the information to pursue Poltuk this time.

“Through the information that Cleon-sama gave us, we have finished the arrangement of the government forces ‘outside the brothel’. Not even a single insect will be able to escape from the brothel.”

At her words, Cleon nodded her head saying it was as she had asked.

And, Layla, who was watching the anti-ghost together with Cleon, raised her voice as if she was a little interested.

“Hmm. It really has magic mixed with something similar to that of nobles.”

“…Sorry.”

As if Aine’s gaze and words were a bit awkward, Aine, the leader of the half-ghost squad, stood back behind her while covering her face with her hat on her.

“Ah, ah. No, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to blame or make fun of it… I just did it because it was a bit strange.”

“Because he’s like this, forgive me.”

When Cleon also bowed her head as if to apologize on behalf of Lyla, Aine shook her head.

“No. We know very well that our existence is heterogeneous… But even so, don’t worry. We will do our best to repay the promise.”

Cleon scratches his cheek at their words, but Amelia listens to their conversation and pricks her ears.

Though she blushed a little and didn’t look back, Layla would squint her eyes and look at Cleon.

“Pay?”

“…I’m talking about the pay for this job.”

“Huh-“

Layla’s voice drops as if she doubts Cleon’s answer to her.

And when they talk like that in the calm before the storm.

“…Done.”

When Kuzunoha’s voice was heard, the barrier descended to the ground, completing the barrier surrounding the Dream Tower.

Cleon confirmed the sight and turned around.

“Caliburn.”

“Yes~”

At the same time, Caliburn held in hand.

When Tamamo, who has descended from the sky after completing the barrier, meets her eyes with Cleon, she talks.

“I can explode the ignition unit right now.. Are you guys ready too?”

“Of course. …Before he thinks of a countermeasure, we’d better start the operation quickly.”

“Yes. If the ignition unit covers the Dream Tower with fire, he has two options left. Burn to death. Run away.”

And Tamamo took out an eye-shaped orb from above her hand.

“Wherever they go, you can find them by looking at the sky with this orb. Catch them from the Tower of Dreams and kill them.”

At Tamamo’s explanation, Cleon nods her head.

And, looking back at the party while holding the Caliburn-

Nod.

“…Let’s go.”

In an instant when Cleon did that, Tamamo snapped her fingers.

A sound like firecrackers exploding flowed around the Tower of Dreams.

Roaring! Then, a wall of intense flame exploded and spread around the Tower of Dreams, then slowly burned inwards and inward as it was.

“Lyla!”

“‘You, in my protection, be unscathed by the flames’. [Resist Fire]!”

When Lila finishes her chant with her voice her, a translucent red curtain spreads over the bodies of those who enter.

An anti-fire shield created with Lyla’s magic.

If you have it, you can operate without any problems even in this intense flame- that was Layla’s story her.

“With this, you can move in the fire.”

Amelia looks down at her own arm her in wonder and Layla nods her head, but she says ‘ah’as if there’s one more important fact.

“She’s just relieving the heat enough that you won’t get burned. Be careful because you can’t do anything to get hot.”

“Ugh…”

As if she didn’t like the heat, when Sasha said that, Cleon took the lead and approached the barrier.

“Poltuk…”

The man who remained in Cain’s memory was the one who was looking forward to the new world Cain would create more than anyone else.

A person with such an innocent, maddening thirst for knowledge—

The man who used that talent to destroy the continent, just like Lesia did.

He heard the holy sword, and he himself said that he had to cut it down.

In this situation that feels like a well-organized destiny.

Cleon put power into the hand her that held the caliburn.

Then he stepped out and walked into the continuation of a fiery hell-like texture.

001

The remnant of the Empire, Poltuk, came to the East without properly telling his colleagues about the situation, and took root in the brothel.

The reason, of course, was his desire and loyalty to be the first to meet the new emperor, and to become the number one contributor to build an empire once again.

The Tower of Dreams, obtained after killing the fairies, was a suitable dwelling place for him.

He is an invincible fortress that no one can come to this place without his permission.

Analyzing this technique, the imperial castle, which had no choice but to be captured by the previous hero, may never make such a mistake again.

“Everything went as planned… I bought time by using the ghosts, and in the meantime, I obtained the elixir of evolution.”

Sitting by the moonlit window, Poltuk looked at the black elixir in his hand and smiled contentedly.

Using this medicine, you can turn Cleon into Cain.

“Otis guy… He acts like he’s the only loyalist of the Emperor… I’ll break that proud nose this time.”

Recalling his colleague’s nasty face, Poltuk twitched his lips thinking about the future.

When the preparations are complete, we will go to meet His Majesty the Emperor from here.

There will be resistance, but you also have a secret weapon.

Using it, he wouldn’t be able to defeat himself, no matter how old the emperor was.

‘But…’

But there is one thing that worries him.

Right away, at some point, the appearance of Cleon, who continued to monitor, was not observed.

‘According to her time her… Right after she met her and harassed her.’

Her her by her her was none other than her her own nemesis her, Darwin, her former teacher her.

A shadow of himself sent to her carriage.

It was this shadow that was used to keep an eye on Cleon, but after returning to the Tower of Dreams, the shadow stopped capturing Cleon.

‘Did she put her hand on something? No. She wouldn’t have had time for that.’

Besides, if Darwin did something, it’s strange that he himself doesn’t notice.

He and she were clearly in a relationship of master and disciple, but he was confident that his side of her was superior when it came to technical skills.

No matter how much he said he had a gap of 30 years, he saw Darwin as a hag with no progress compared to 40 years ago, not 30 years ago.

‘There’s no way I could have suffered something from such a criminal… If I readjust the shadow and send it back-‘

Thinking so, the moment I tried to resume my research happily today.

“──What is it?”

Something, the surroundings felt so quiet.

I had felt that ominous silence before.

In the midst of an attack on the research institute, he recalls the memory of the time when the warrior Lesia and her party invaded through a passage he had never expected.

“No-no way. The hero Lecia is no longer in this world.”

Thankfully, the Exiled Church has managed to eliminate its most dangerous foe.

But right after that, Poltuk, feeling the barrier spreading around the Tower of Dreams, couldn’t help but frown.

‘Are you trying to imprison me? But what are you thinking? After opening something like a barrier, it’s impossible to come this way… And it’s impossible to attack the Tower of Dreams.’

If that was possible in the first place, I would have done it a long time ago.

Did he intend to stop me from escaping now?

Poltuk thought so and seemed to be thinking about something, but he soon treated it as a ‘meaningless struggle’and let the barrier go down.

It would have been possible to release his pet wyvern and tore all the casters out of the air before the barrier fully unfolded.

Responding to meaningless things is also meaningless.

As he thought so, he laughed at the demons and was about to head to the laboratory.

Following the full opening of the barrier, the sound of something exploding rang out.

No matter how relaxed Poltuk was, he had no choice but to be mindful of that.

That is, a wall of flame that surrounds the area around the Tower of Dreams and burns greatly.

And the fact that the wall was slowly approaching the tower he was in.

“Under?”

Seeing such an absurd sight, he involuntarily let out a stupid sound from his mouth.

If he wasn’t dreaming right now, would the ghosts have set their stronghold on fire themselves?

“What stupid bitches…”

Poltuk clicked his tongue thinking so, but the momentum of the burning flame was not something he could do with the equipment he had now.

“Cheet…”

There Poltuk discovers the intent of the flames.

All attacks and movements aimed at this tower are blocked by magic.

The flames that do not have such intentions and spread naturally reach this tower before long as they spread without such magic.

No matter how great the magic, it is protected, but in the end it is a building made of wood and stone.

If you touch those flames, you’ll be caught and burned by uncontrollable flames.

“Did you want to get rid of me that much. Yoho guys! What did I do to you guys!”

If there had been another yoho here, he might have been speechless because of his shamelessness.

While saying that, he summoned a wyvern and tried to escape by flying through the air, but-

When he looked up at the sky, he involuntarily closed his mouth at the spreading barrier.

‘…Are you saying you can’t escape!?’

Okay. Just as he thought, it was too late to run away.

At least if he had lessened his conceit a little and prevented the barrier from unfolding.

He might have been able to escape at least a little.

But he didn’t.

No, would it be better to say no?

His own pride and pride His did not allow it.

Like Yoho, reacting to the actions of a defeated race.

“Bill, what to eat…!”

There, Poltuk, intensely remorseful for his own mistake his, bang! And slammed his window frame.

Compared to the amount of knowledge stored in his head his, his body his was too weak, and his hands his were swollen red from such an action.

“…Calm down Poltuk… At this level, it’s a much better situation than when the hero, Lesia, came. First, let’s go underground… If we build up time there, Otis will-“

After saying that, he felt that his pride was being ripped apart in a mess at the fact that he was trying to get help from Otis, whom he had tried to look down on and ignore.

“I don’t think they have any intention of maintaining the barrier forever… The moment the barrier is released, they use the wyvern to move at full speed. Is this the most realistic method… “

In the end, Poltuk changes his plan to not get help from Otis.

At that time, I felt a huge sense of intimidation enter the barrier I was in.

“This, this sign… Your Majesty the Emperor…!!?”

Even before his death his, after his death his, and even after he was resurrected, he never forgot his own demonic sword emperor.

I felt that the presence close to Cain was gradually growing in size.

“No- no no. It’s a vessel from my previous life. I see. It means that you won’t give me the time or space to run away…”

But soon, he felt the difference between that presence and the current emperor’s.

That is, unlike Emperor Cain, who was always noble and beautiful, and felt like a single being.

One of Cleon’s strengths was the fact that many of his friends were with him.

“As expected, the vessel from the previous life is just a vessel. How can you say that you are the emperor when you are carrying around trash called colleagues?”

Poltuk gnashed his teeth, cursing at Cleon’s way of being her.

“If I don’t restore it to normal… Please wait a moment, Your Majesty… I will free you from things that are meaningless and unscientific, such as bonds with colleagues and trust to protect each other.”

With madness in his eyes his, he jumped from the window of the Tower of Illusion.

Then, as if waiting, a wyvern appears and catches him.

Then, he flew to find Cleon on his side.

002

‘Has it started.’

Darwin, of course, was watching the scene from a little distance in the corner of the brothel.

He hasn’t changed in 30 years.

Manipulating the shadows without Poltuk knowing was a difficult task, but even that technique was an application of a technique he had learned from himself.

If so, there was no reason why he couldn’t interpret it, and there was no reason he couldn’t get his hands on it.

‘Thanks to that, I was able to drive him into the most predicament, but-‘

The problem is, Cleon’s hostility toward them.

Even if you get close to a battlefield like this, you will unilaterally consume resources without gaining anything.

“If I could somehow sneak closer-“

While saying that, Darwin carefully moved his feet and tried to enter the barrier.

But then.

“There.”

Several of her spirits appeared to surround her.

“…”

“I came because there was a guy with some suspicious magic… What are you doing here?

“…It would be better to tell Tamamo-sama. I should go with you.”

Seeing the Yohos talking like that, Darwin slightly narrowed his eyes.

“Ah. That’s right.”

And raise both hands.

As with Cleon, it was a sign of surrender.

“Then, can you guide me? To where your chief is.”

‘Even though it’s a gamble – is this the fastest way?’

Thinking of something, he moved his feet.