Chapter 576 – Predestination and Muscles

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When Cleon and Quon came out of the temple, the sun had already gone over the horizon and the moon had risen instead.

The sky began to darken, and little by little, it was dyed indigo so that the stars could be seen twinkling.

“The time is already like this.”

As Quon removed his bangs and looked up at the sky, Cleon stood beside him and nodded his head.

“Ah. Since Tokoyo insists on being purified… I can’t help it. I’ll go to the palace and meet Tenchi tomorrow.”

“Yeah. I think that would be nice.”

Quon laughed bitterly while talking, but she seemed to be somewhat fortunate.

After hearing all of today’s events, I could n’t help but worry about Cleon’s physical condition of her.

As Quon, I want Cleon to not overdo it as much as possible and to rely on them a little more.

Now, first of all, I was satisfied with the fact that we could somehow go home together today.

The street market in the Eastern country, walking with Cleon, was still full of people.

Some go home after a day’s work, while others enter the bar saying, ‘About a drink…’.

Or, there are merchants who open the door while turning on the light of the store that was off as if it was the beginning of their daily routine.

Besides, decorations that were not there before began to stand out little by little, and it was a fact that both of them heard from Herti that they were being prepared for the Festival of the Five Elements.

“The Five Elements… Less than a week left.”

Quon opened her mouth as if she had suddenly realized that when she came to her senses her, that much time had passed.

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, a delegation from the kingdom will arrive in this eastern country, and if that happens, a search for Amelia may unfold, so Cleon’s party had to be a little more careful.

Of course, the relationship between the Eastern countries and the kingdom is always an alliance.

As long as it’s not a vassal state, the only thing humans in the kingdom can do is cooperate with the investigation.

It would be impossible to forcibly search the building or conduct an investigation beyond their discretion.

“The few days before the festival starts are the most dangerous…”

After the Five Elements Festival begins, the streets will be full of people, and it will be difficult to freely use troops to escort delegations participating in official events.

Even so, I’ll do my job, so I can’t be careless.

“When the Five Elements Festival is over, we will finally explore the ruins in the Dragon Mountains… Leviathan. If that happens, we will inevitably come to an end with the regressors.”

“…Then, again to El Cerdo?”

When Quon asked a little anxiously, Cleon shut his mouth.

To tell the truth, the answer to the question of when to return to El Cerdo was not given to Cleon either.

The regressors, the Exiled Church, and the royal family and kingdoms ruled by Adam.

Even if all of that power was combined, considering the potential hidden battles, this side’s numbers were thirteen repetitions.

The artifact called Leviathan is powerful, so even if it becomes a powerful force in the decisive battle with Adam, no one knows if it will be the key to the reversal.

However, what is clear is that the ‘ceremony of the selection holy sword’ will begin soon.

“When the ritual of the selection holy sword begins, Adam’s intervention and actions will become explicit. And… When the ritual ends successfully, Adam will be unstoppable.”

“Yes…”

Fortunately, there were still reliable companions in the kingdom.

When the trend of the beginning of the ceremony is visible, the portent will be conveyed to the Eastern countries as well.

“But- it’s clear that it has to be stopped. Adam’s plan doesn’t go as he wants, but…”

As Cleon says so, he looks around.

There, the daily scenery of the people of the Eastern country was spread out.

For those who live hard every day, everyday life is more natural than anything else, but it is a precious thing that should never disappear.

It is the same for the citizens of the kingdom.

“On the day a war breaks out between the kingdom and the eastern kingdom, the destruction of the continent will be out of control this time.”

Thirty years have passed since the war with the Empire left a huge scar on the continent.

Some say it’s already been 30 years, while others say it’s still 30 years.

Even as a beauty dyer, he would think that an all-out war with the kingdom must be avoided, but that was only the case when Adam left them alone.

If you think of the East as a hindrance, launch a preemptive strike, or act hostile, you need to act to protect the people even as a beautiful dyer.

That, of course, would not end at the level of protest.

“Yes… I see. Yes. Just as Cleon said.”

Quondo listens to Cleon and nods his head.

Cleon felt that her shoulders were shaking a little.

Then, her quon her raised her broad hand on her shoulder her, encouraging her.

“It’s all about possibility, so don’t worry about it. Quon…We’ll definitely stop it. We’ll do it.”

“…Yes!”

As if to put her mind at ease at Cleon’s words, she smiled and nodded, and at some point the two of them passed the marketplace and passed on the straight road to the store.

When the light on the ground diminishes at once, and the only light is the moonlight pouring from the sky.

Naturally, the vibrancy that surrounds them diminishes and they become quiet in an instant.

“Is it okay to walk this road alone at night? Isn’t it scary?”

Suddenly, Cleon realizes again that Quon has been passing this road alone every day and asks her a question.

It felt like it wouldn’t be strange no matter what happened on a road that was so sparsely populated.

“Ahaha… It’s okay. I can protect myself too.”

Quon smiles as he scratches her cheek a bit embarrassed.

Actually, if she’s just a robber, she’ll be able to put her to sleep using sleep magic.

“Besides, even though it looks dark and few people around here, it’s pretty safe, Mr. Herti… “

As Quon says so, he looks in front of her and walks away, but when her words her start to stop, Cleon looks in front of her in the same way her Quon sees.

Then there-

Huge muscles stood up.

“Eh.”

“…”

It was made of iron and chains that looked like a straitjacket wrapped around the body centering on the neck, and it did not look like a normal person at all.

His head his was bald, with no body hair visible, but tendons and veins could be seen rising.

He wore a half-naked upper body and a tattered cloth covering important parts of his lower body, and his face his was covered with a mask engraved with the history of Geumgang, which symbolizes supernatural power.

However, thanks to that, the sound of rough breathing resounded on the quiet street, perhaps because of breathing difficulties.

Most of all, what stood out was the strangely distended muscles of the whole body.

Each part, swollen enough to think that it might have been used with some kind of special medicine, was burning red and exhaling something like steam in the cold night air.

“…”

Once again, thinking that there was silence between Cleon and Quon and those muscles-

Quon opened his mouth wide-

“Rice, pervert!!!”

A voice like a scream reverberated through the quiet alley.

Of course, if Cleon pulls out Galatea and wraps around Cuon-

“What!? Where are you!?”

The muscular man turned his head in confusion as if he hadn’t even imagined that he had been called.

“…”

Of course, seeing that, Cleon looked at him again as if he was dumbfounded.

The muscular man, after holding his mouth shut for a moment, points at himself with his finger.

“Ah. Is it me?”

He scratched the back of his head as if he had just realized it.

“What are you?”

When Cleon couldn’t stand his bewildered appearance his and asked him a question, the muscular man said “Hm”And corrected his posture, then took a fighting stance.

“As you can see, the young man of the dark horse. He is an assassin. His name is ‘Darma’.”

To him who spreads his arms out and poses as if he were welcome to my home, Cleon replied with a frown on his face.

“You’re confident… But seeing as you can talk, I don’t think you’re a ‘sweet horse’.”

“Ohhh. Do you know that far? Let’s just say that we are partners.”

When Cleon puts the name of Yeomma, he nods his head and crosses his arms. It was the same attitude.

“Did Enrai send it?”

“Well?”

“There’s no way I’ll be honest. Then I’ll have to catch him and torture him.”

When Cleon’s eyes sharpen, Dharma also takes a fighting stance.

“Let’s do it, Quon. If we catch this guy and take him to the Beauty Painter, we might be able to bring down Enrai.”

“Yes…!”

At Cleon’s words, Quon took out the amulet from his bosom and prepared to support Cleon from behind.

“Is the strategy meeting over?”

“Ha, did you wait?”

“Of course. Because there is no possibility of losing even 1:2.”

When Cleon frowned at his confident words his, the next moment.

When he thinks that his body has disappeared from his sight, his gaze, his naturally turns to the sky as the shadows over his head.

There, Dharma was falling towards Cleon with his right arm raised and his fist clenched.

“Uracha!”

Along with a savory cry, a shock as if a meteorite had fallen hit Cleon.

Fortunately, it succeeded in raising Galatea and blocking it, but the vibration from the blow made Cleon’s entire body vibrate.

“Kuh…!”

“To block my blows, that’s a lot!”

When Cleon frowned at his attitude as if he was praising Cleon, black energy gathered in his hand his and sparks flew from Galatea’s blade hers.

“Shock Blade!”

An even stronger electric shock turned into a sharp blade and attacked Dharma’s body with his.

Cleon’s unique shock magic, which paralyzes the target’s magical organs, originally should have stopped Dharma’s body as well.

Even as the black lightning disappears and smoke rises, Dharma’s body does not stop.

“It’s magic! But it’s a pity, it doesn’t work on me!”

“What…!?”

In a completely unexpected situation, he slapped his fist into the face of Cleon, whose judgment slowed down in an instant.

Quaang! It was not a sound that could come out of a punch.

If such an attack had been to the face of her, it would n’t be strange if the head of her exploded.

“Cleon!”

Cleon’s body bounced off Dharma and got stuck in a tree planted on the street.

Naturally, the impact caused the tree to break in the middle and fall backwards.

“Hmm… The battle of masters is originally determined by the first meeting. The young man wasn’t bad either. Is it because I didn’t know that magic doesn’t flow through my body?”

Actually, Dharma himself, who made Cleon like that, felt something incongruent and opened and closed his hand…

He turns his head towards Quon, who was standing next to him.

“The client told me to bring the girl next to that young man.”

“Sssss…! Go to sleep!”

When Quon immediately unfolds the amulet and tries to put Dharma to sleep with the sleep-type spell that put Layla to sleep before, Dharma utters a hoarse voice while staggering his body in sudden dizziness.

“It’s quite a spell. Are you a disciple of Daemunyeo? I heard you’re from the kingdom…”

He bent his head as if it was strange that Quon was using witchcraft, and then he let out a breath.

It is to hit the left side where the heart is with his right fist that he hit Cleon earlier.

Thud! When the sound echoed again, Quon was surprised by the sudden self-harm for a while.

The spell cast over his body had just been blown away and scattered into the air.

“Eh!?”

“I’m sorry. The same thing doesn’t work with witchcraft.”

Shaking off her all her sleeping energy her, he approaches her kuon and tries to grab her.

The next moment, the sound of chains clattering echoed, and his arms stopped in the air.

“… Yes?”

And, looking down at the black chain wrapped around his right wrist his, it was different from the chain he was originally wearing.

“Hoo.”

And, moving his gaze her along the end of his chain her, Cleon, who is normal when his head her explodes after being punched in the face, leans against a tree and stretches out his arms her to hold on to his chain her.

“Was it alive… Yes. That should be enough to scare the yeomma guys.”

Rather, Dharma raised the corner of his mouth as if he liked Cleon, then turned his gaze back to Cleon from Quon and pulled the chain that Cleon had stretched out.

“But isn’t a handshake supposed to be a strength fight?! You don’t look stronger than me!”

Whiik! And when the chain is dragged along, of course Cleon’s body her, which was holding on to the chain, comes along.

Dharma put on a strange expression on his body his, which seemed to be weak, but he swung his fist and hit Cleon’s face with his fist again.

Dismissal.

The next moment, Cleon’s body her was not there.

“Well!?”

I checked the part where the black spark splattered, but Dharma’s expression changed, as if he thought it was magic that moved faster than his eyes.

When the presence felt right below him, his gaze her, rather than the moving fist, followed Cleon and turned towards it.

There was Cleon, crouching on the floor, holding a sword and looking up at Dharma.

And on his face her-

“Hmm!?”

Something covered the left half of his face.

“Is that—!?”

But before he could finish his words, he saw Cleon’s sword being swung up toward his body her.

Awesome! A clear slashing sound was heard.

The blood that gushed out, of course, belonged to Dharma.

In Quon’s eyes, Cleon’s sword, which cuts through flesh and muscle, seemed to have changed to a slightly different shape than usual.

A little longer, a little thinner, with a lopsided blade.

It’s like, a sword similar to Rubera’s sword.

“Ugh!”

When I thought that the first saliva flowed out of Dharma’s mouth, the forearm of his left arm had been severely severed, leaving the bones inside visible.

It was the arm he used to defend himself while stepping back, but thanks to that, he could have avoided getting a vital cut.

Even so, the amount of blood protruding and the depth of the wound were unusual.

Dharma somehow distanced herself from Cleon, looked down at her wounded arm her, then returned to Cleon’s face her.

“…Young man. That face is-“

“Haha…”

As if exhausted, Cleon took a deep breath while breaking out in a cold sweat.

However, what Dharma saw earlier was no longer there.

Darma, who was looking at Cleon with his eyes narrowed, and he tore off the few pieces of cloth from his body her and wrapped them around his wounds her.

“Somehow… There were too many things I didn’t know about the young man.”

“What…?”

Cleon raises his sword and aims at him, frowning as if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

Darma was to distance himself from Cleon by stepping backwards.

“Come again next time. That interesting power. Use it properly, not to save your life like today.Haha!”

“Wait!”

When Cleon tried to pursue Dharma by using magic once again towards him, Cleon’s body collapsed from his knees to the ground due to the pain running through his whole body hers.

“Cleon!”

When Quon approached and examined Cleon’s body his, Cleon tried to get up from his seat while confused by his own body that did not move like his heart his.

“My body… Kuh…”

“Are you alright? Cleon. Face…! It’s good, you defended properly…!”

“Defense…?”

As Cleon put his hand on his face at Quon’s words, he recalled how earlier he had been hit in the face by a muscle punch.

Clearly, he himself was unable to cope with what had happened so quickly.

The moment his fist met his eyes, he was prepared for ‘death’.

“…”

However, as a result, there were no scars left on his own face.

Even so, he had no memory of defending with Galatea.

“How did it happen…”

“Cleon…? As expected, did you get hurt somewhere…?”

When Quon tried to raise Cleon by using healing magic on his hand his, Cleon felt a sudden rush of fatigue and slowly fell forward.

“Cleon? Wait, Cleon! Wake up!”

As he listened to Quon’s voice, Cleon’s consciousness slowly faded away.

What can be seen in Cleon’s blurry gaze?

Earlier, he was a white piece of wood scattered at the base of the tree he had been blown over.