Chapter 151 – Tear the Chrysalis and Become a Butterfly (01)
Consciousness sank to the depths.
I was just quietly waiting for my time in a place filled with darkness, not knowing how time passed or what happened to my body.
“Cluck, little slut. Aren’t you overconfident in your abilities?”
Because he did not come to me in a state of clear consciousness like before, the guru did not have his proper form. Instead, he appeared as if he was speaking directly to my lying head and was laughing at me.
“One hand cannot overcome ten hands. Even if you were capable of handling a hundred men, did you think that you could solve everything on your own, just as if one hundred and fifty more men attacked you, would you inevitably fall? “
I didn’t answer.
No, I couldn’t answer.
Because I had no strength in my mouth, I couldn’t even do the simple task of inhaling and exhaling using my voice.
“Thanks to that, I ended up in the worst possible situation. Without even being able to die cleanly, I would continue to live this miserable life and then die of weakness.”
“…”
After feeling something touching my body for a moment, the old man continued speaking again.
“This body can no longer be used now. Some of the girls you knew could even heal these wounds, but they won’t be able to come to you in the current situation.”
Before I knew it, the voice of Taoist Master was ringing above my head.
“Or, if you’re really lucky and your body is found by the women of that religious group, how will you be able to save it? Of course, you won’t be able to fight, and it will be a bit uncomfortable , but you will be able to act as a pillar.”
Of course he thought I wouldn’t accept it, so Master Gyeongtae quietly took out the next bait.
“However, it does not mean that there is no way.”
There was something about the old man’s voice that sounded joyful.
“Let’s see.” I think it’s possible to melt your body and rebuild it on your own in a little less than two years.”
If you go the academy route, it will be two years to gather strength and build power under the Cylians.
If you go down the treason route, it will be time to persuade and attract questionable forces to Sailian, who is young and was intentionally excluded from the line of succession.
It was the most important part of the war.
I couldn’t answer.
But, very slightly, I was able to open my eyelids.
“Good. “Raise the Five Elements and Ignorance and Mindfulness Method.”
I didn’t know how to pull it up, but the remaining sexual energy in my body started rising from my lower abdomen and began to surround my whole body.
“It is to abandon the irreversible body and be born in a new body.”
The energy of the other five elements also spreads through my body little by little.
Although it was weaker than the large amount of negative energy absorbed, the basic ability that formed my body and raised my abilities reorganized my entire body and dragged my consciousness deeper.
“The little slut. He didn’t want his girls getting hurt, so he hid it and put it away as much as he could and got greedy…”
Even though he clicked his tongue in frustration, the old man somehow seemed happy.
“But, I like that behavior.”
Even the old man’s voice became distant, and I lost consciousness again, feeling like my whole body was freezing cold.
“Just like a chrysalis, reorganize your body and become a butterfly. Fly up with your own wings.”
* * *
The Duke of Renellian rebelled, and the kingdom was burning in the flames of war.
In a surprise attack on the royal palace, the old king, the crown prince, the first heir to the throne, and his family he was killed, and the second son and his wife were also thoroughly assassinated.
There were knights of the royal guard protecting the royal family, but they could not handle the thoroughly prepared elites of the dukedom. Above all, they, who were so immersed in peace, did not expect that they would attack them on a large scale, so the royal palace was occupied by thousands of dukedom troops who entered. It was burned.
There was chaos as the royal family collapsed, but the nobles were not very shaken in the beginning.
It was thought that the royalist troops would deal with the Renellian Dukes, and in fact, Sir Andre of the Dnevarine family, a master of swords, dispatched his disciples to the Renellian Dukes’ troops, and the royalist soldiers were also killed one by one . They joined and formed a large army.
However, the Dnevarin family, who had mobilized with great vigor, was unable to move properly due to the information that they were securing new recruits for their youngest daughter, Vivian Dnevarin, who was kidnapped during the uproar at Celestial Academy, and Marian Dnevarin, who had gone missing, and was about to bite the swordsmen of the famous family again. They had no choice but to do so, and when Sir Andre, the sword master who was commanding them, withdrew, the soldiers fell into confusion, but the commanders believed in the superiority of their troops and entered the territory of the Duke of Renellian.
About 1,000 private soldiers of the dukedom, and over 10,000 soldiers of the royal faction.
Anyone could see that they would take their time by staging a sit-in, but the Duke took their soldiers and began to break through head-on.
A battle fought with a force of 10 to 1.
And surprisingly, the result was a landslide victory for the dukedom, which consisted of 1 in 10.
The duke’s private soldiers, who had sharp teeth and sharp nails that could kill soldiers with their bare hands, and knights who were as strong as monsters and had horns sprouting all over their bodies, overwhelmingly cut down knights who were said to have eaten them with their swords, turning the direction of the battlefield. .
The surviving royalist soldiers cried out for surrender, and about half of the surviving troops threw down their weapons and bowed their heads in front of the dukedom.
The magnates thought that a massacre would occur because they judged that the duchy did not have enough food or detention places to handle their number of prisoners. However, the ducal family used the food they had accumulated so far and attacked other fiefdoms that did not comply with them, so they planned to attack them not long ago. They used any means to make all the soldiers loyal to them.
The soldiers loyal to the Duke’s family gradually began to turn bloodshot and non-human, but they devoted their lives to being loyal to Duke Renellian, and no matter how dull, weak, and downtrodden they were, they showed strength equivalent to that of an elite soldier. Br〉
The commanders leading the royalist forces gradually began to waver without a central point, and attempted to turn the shaky situation around by appointing the remaining royal family as the next king.
However, for a long period of time, in order to ensure a stable succession to the throne, the crown prince thoroughly controlled the marriages of members of the royal family and repeatedly executed them for even the slightest crime, so when the prince himself died, there was no power that could properly inherit the royal family. There was none.
The bodies and deaths of the crown prince, the second prince, and the crown prince’s young daughter have been accurately confirmed by the Renellian duchy, but the body of the third prince, Cylian, has been torn to pieces and cannot be properly identified, and Some knights are wondering if it is possible. There were suspicions that Rado was still alive, but the theory of the 3rd prince’s survival was gradually collapsing as he did not appear even after a year had passed.
Sir André Dnevarin, who was emachiated and worried about his daughters, continued to hope, but soon despaired when he heard that his youngest daughter, Vivian, had become a servant of the dukedom and wielded her sword.
In the royal faction, the Dnevarine family was given the derogatory name ‘cowardly family’ because they did not participate out of concern for their daughters, even though they were the representative power of the royal faction. In fact, there were signs that some of the swordsmen of the Dnevarine family were leaving due to disappointment with Sir Andre. It was visible.
The [Shadow Family] May have abandoned their family tradition of not taking orders from those in power, but they unilaterally took sides by assassinating nobles who cooperated with the Duke’s family. However, they took a belated action because there were more nobles who had already defected to the Duke’s faction than those who were assassinated by them. They even assassinated nobles who were concerned about their position, so much so that they were even given the derogatory name ‘murderer family’.
In such a situation, the [Golem Factory] Took advantage of the unstable situation to manufacture battle golems or war golems fused with siege weapons and sell them to the royalists and Dukes, earning them the derogatory name of ‘merchants of death’ and keeping them. . On their side. Both forces were making efforts to bring them in.
Meanwhile, an incident occurs where the villa in the original ducal domain, which was thoroughly protected by the ducal family, collapsed after being bombarded by a siege golem during the war between the royal faction and the ducal faction.
However, due to the siege golem’s bombardment, the villa collapsed and several descendants of prominent families imprisoned there escaped, returning to their families and royal faction and providing important information.
The personnel held in the Duke of Renellian’s house and the children who were captured by the Duke’s family but escaped before that time were currently organizing the Resistance to oppose the Duke, and the Duke’s family, concerned about their rescue attempt, deliberately moved them to a location other than their original territory. They say it was transported to.
In particular, it is said that the Resistance, mainly composed of graduates of the Celestial Academy led by Marian Dnevarin, the eldest daughter of the Dnevarin family, was secretly continuing its activities within the duke’s domain.
Among the nobles of the royalist faction, who had been devastated by the news, it was thought that Sir Andre would return to the battlefield, but since his eldest daughter was a member of the royal faction and his youngest daughter defected to the ducal faction, he remained neutral and lost great credibility.
As time passed and the battle lines between the royal faction and the ducal faction entered a lull, the ducal faction broke the royal faction’s battle line by making a spectacular appearance of their successor, the magic princess Ophelia, who had fluttering red hair and could control the blazing flames. Br〉
She is so powerful that we can’t handle her daily wage her, which is over 100,000.
The ugly horns sprouting from her head, and the eyes shining with an emotionless dull gold.
With red hair that symbolized her flames, she was considered to be so alluringly beautiful, but she boasted of her majesty by tearing and burning to death the elite knights assigned to capture the duke’s heir.
In the end, the front line created by the royal faction collapses, and the power of the ducal faction trapped in the dukedom and surrounding fiefdoms breaks out and begins to engulf the entire kingdom.
At a time when the royal family and the capital were already occupied and the royal faction was collapsing, Marian Dnevarin, who could no longer participate in resistance activities, returned to the collapsing Dnevarin family, a famous sword family, and became a swordsman for the A famous family in place of her father, Sir Andre. He began to lead the people and gathered forces.
Her reputation built through her resistance, and her skills that are certain to rise to the level of sword master in place of Sir Andre.
Her cold, ruthless expression she was a flaw, but as a commander she had overflowing charisma, and her beautiful appearance and the fact that she had not yet married anyone stimulated the greed of royalist nobles, and she became a new focal point in place of the king. I started to go.
At that time, it was two years since Celestial Academy was attacked and burned down, and its students disappeared.
Exactly two years since the incident of that day.
A silver-haired boy with jade-colored eyes opened his eyes.