novelraw Chapter 107 : Chapter 107
Chapter 107 : Chapter 107
Chapter 107: Chamber
“Hey, you there! Was your name Poi? Why are you playing around! Come here and carry this!”
A worthless, utterly worthless man was pointing a finger at him.
Irritation welled up.
He wanted to use a poison that would twist his insides and make him cry for his life while vomiting blood, but.
“Yes. Yes. I'm coming!”
Now was the time to bow his head.
‘You're a lucky man, you know that…….’
In the past, he would have already spread a latent poison that would induce seizures around the time of the assassination, but.
- Eliminate only the target. It would be troublesome if the 3rd Prince, a leading contender in the war of succession, were to be eliminated early on. The organization's plan…….
An irresistible command was embedded in his soul.
At times like this, he even regretted becoming a Magic Knight.
But that was only very rarely.
- Why is a 4-Star Corporeal Arts user so weak?
- Anyway, how strange…….
- But is he…… really a knight? Why is his evolution like that…….
- To think a 4-Star knight loses to a 3-Star and fights on equal footing with a 2-Star, how pathetic…….
The contempt that had been poured on him, a superhuman who had gone through four evolutions.
The contract with the Outer God was what allowed him to 'justifiably' unleash the anger he had accumulated over dozens of years.
- You have a special talent. An evolution that accumulates gas or liquid inside……
- With just one more evolution and a little adjustment, it will become a very special ability.
After the contract with the Outer God, he achieved his fifth evolution.
And when he finally unleashed his righteous anger.
- You, you dare…….!
- The grace of taking you in……!
- S-Save…….
- Worse than a beast…….
The sight of the worthless things dying miserably gave him an unparalleled thrill.
Therefore.
‘I'll endure it.’
“Vegetables to the first warehouse! Meat to the second! Why are you so slow!”
I'll endure it.
He suppressed the anger that was building up in his chest again.
“What are you glaring at? Can't you hear me!?”
I'll kill…….
‘No. That’s not it.’
I'll endure it.
“I'm sorry. I'm a bit slow.”
I'll smile.
“You little shit, fix your eyes. I almost beat you up.”
……And you almost died.
“Heu…….”
He turned around and let out a small sigh with a hardened face.
This really didn't suit him.
But he had to endure it.
‘Now, what kind of expression will you show me?’
Chamber smiled wryly, imagining the target writhing in his poison.
‘Why would you be any different?’
A kid who awakened before even coming of age and reached 3-Star in just half a year.
And he even used Spirit Arts.
Was that all?
The genius knight of Drasen.
The natural enemy who catches magicians.
The Black Knight.
The rumors spreading within the Iron Kingdom were enough to make Chamber's blood boil.
The more he heard about the kid, the more curious he became.
The humans who discriminated based on social status.
The knight-wannabes who swaggered around just because they were good with a sword.
The way they died from poison was always the same.
- S-Save…….
The sight of those so-called great ones crumbling miserably from the poison he had casually sprinkled.
It gave him a more thrilling catharsis than anything else in the world.
Therefore.
“I hope you'll be the same, Mr. Genius Knight.”
“What did you say?”
“No, it's nothing. I'll be on my way then!”
Dadadada.
As he pushed the cart, he suppressed the anger building up in his chest by imagining the screams the kid would let out.
Then he saw the mark.
‘Who……?’
The signal they had agreed to leave when there was a problem with the plan, meaning a discussion was needed.
The moment he saw it, he couldn't help but frown.
He and that woman were the only ones who used poison.
The rest were just supposed to create an escape route to disappear quietly when the chaos erupted.
What went wrong?
“These fucking morons……”
“What did you say, punk?!”
“Ah, it's nothing. I was thinking of other people.”
He hurriedly made an excuse and was about to turn away.
An idiot with a fierce look who seemed to be quite strong picked a fight with him.
“Ha, you……. Look at this. You, with the dirty eyes. I've got my eye on you. Be careful.”
At that moment, Chamber, in a fit of anger, unconsciously reached out and grabbed the bastard's collar.
“You, crazy, ugh!? Uuugh!?”
Udeudeuk.
“Ack!?”
And with his other hand, he broke the arm of the bastard who was trying to struggle.
“Guuuu…….”
“I clearly said I was talking to someone else. Didn't. I?”
“Ack, ugh. U-uh. S-Sorry…….”
“Let's watch our words, to each other.”
“Ah, okay. Th-This, please…….”
Tak.
The idiot with the dirty look hurriedly lowered his eyes as he let go of his arm and glared at him.
Why do insects that haven't even awakened pick fights with other people?
He still couldn't understand the thoughts of ordinary humans.
And his companions, who couldn't even solve such a simple matter and were looking for him, were just as pathetic.
‘If it's nothing important, you'll die first, you know that.’
Hoping there was a reasonable reason, he followed the mark.
‘The meeting place is…….’
Warehouse #3, which required crossing the largest courtyard of the 3rd Prince’s palace.
“Move quickly!”
“The party time is almost…….”
Deureureureureuk.
Dudada.
At some point, as he was scurrying towards that direction, watching his surroundings amidst the bustling movements.
He saw a knight in black armor walking somewhere from the opposite side.
‘That bastard!?’
Chamber stood still for a moment and stared blankly at the target.
Why was that bastard here at this time?
A very brief pause, which he himself would consider a mistake.
But at that moment.
Paaaang.
A small arrow grazed past his eyes.
A deadly arrow that would have pierced the place where his head would have been if he had kept walking.
‘What the!?’
There was no time for rational thought.
His survival instinct, which tingled at that moment, made him move his body quickly, forgetting that he was acting.
Pabak.
He ran back the way he had come, and just as he was looking for cover to block the incoming arrows.
Pushyuk.
“Guk!?”
An arrow lodged itself in his right thigh as he was running.
“What, what is it!”
“Shut up!”
He soon pushed aside a passing servant while enduring the intense pain, and the moment he hid behind the large cart the bastard was pulling, his reason began to function again.
‘Arrow, sniper, at me now…….’
The calculation came out quickly.
“You damn fucking bitch!!!!”
The moment he unconsciously shouted and glared at the sky beyond the cart.
An arrowhead, curving sharply downwards from above the cart, came into view.
And, right in front of his eyes.
“You……”
Pushyuk.
“……son.”
A hot sensation flared up near his head, and then it felt as if a cool breeze was blowing through his mind.
Soon, his body began to lose control.
His body, slowly collapsing to the ground.
Only at that moment did he realize what had happened.
‘Me, I'm going to die so meaninglessly?’
He couldn't believe it.
And the anger that had been building up in his chest his entire life began to boil up again.
There were still so many bastards in the world to kill, and I was going to die so futilely?
‘That can’t…… be!’
But the light of life was already fading from his helplessly collapsing body.
Teolseok.
“Kyaaaak!?”
“Uwaaaack!”
“A person, a person!”
The commotion unfolding around him.
His consciousness slowly fading within it.
Even then, his fierce anger and poison clung to a corner of his fading consciousness.
‘I'm not dying alone.’
Chamber instinctively let out the demonic energy and poison inside his body.
Kureureureureureuk.
‘Everyone, together, we die…….’
Kuluck.
The moment he spat out blood with his last breath.
A blackish-green mist that bloomed from his mouth began to spread rapidly in all directions.
“What, what is it? What is that!?”
“We-We have to…… avoid it.”
“It’s too fast!”
The people around, who had been frozen by someone's sudden death, couldn't move even as they saw the rapidly spreading blackish-green mist.
No, even if they had run away, they probably wouldn't have been safe.
The blackish-green smoke spewing from Chamber's corpse began to cover the surroundings several times faster than an ordinary person could run.
“Aaaack!”
“Ggggh. M-My breath…….”
“S-Save…….”
Screams erupted from all directions in an instant.
Just a few seconds after Chamber's death, the blackish-green mist, not only filling the courtyard of the 3rd Prince’s palace but spreading even wider.
At that moment.
“O wind!!!!”
A clear voice rang out, and the wind that blew in began to roll up the spreading mist into the sky.
The mist, which had been about to spread from the courtyard into the palace, was scattered wide and thin into the high sky on the wind.
And.
“Did you expect this?”
“No, that’s not it, but……”
A slender, blue-haired woman walking into the place where the black mist had been asked, looking back.
The knight in black armor who followed her shook his head with heavy eyes, looking around.
“Priest! Call a priest!”
“Damn it!”
“It's a terrorist attack!”
Muno frowned, looking at the surroundings that were starting to get noisy.
‘That would have been really dangerous.’
His sense of smell, which was particularly sensitive among his keen senses, was telling him.
How dangerous the original poison would have been.
Of course.
‘If just the remnants of the poison are this potent, I don’t think I would have missed such a strong smell.’
At the very least, if he had been directly hit, it would have been a deadly poison whose survival he couldn't guarantee.
And that fact led to one conclusion.
- Rauel can be trusted.
Of course, he already understood it with his head, but in the depths of his heart, he hadn't been able to erase his suspicions about her.
It felt as if that piece of doubt was finally completely scattering.
Muno waved at Rauel, who was holding a bow in the distance.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah, no. It’s nothing. Anyway, it's really fortunate that I happened to meet you……. Sister. Things could have gotten worse.”
It was hard to say it was very fortunate, seeing that seven or eight servants had been sacrificed.
But considering the worst-case scenario that could have happened, it was a good outcome…….
“You were about to call me an old lady, weren't you?”
“Ah, no. Of course not. I was about to say you are a very beautiful sister.”
Rasmia let out a hollow laugh at the lie he had uttered without even batting an eyelid.
“Well, it wasn't a coincidence.”
“Pardon?”
“Of course, we came for the Grand Princess's escort, but it was also to see you.”
He tilted his head, not understanding her words.
“Have you forgotten? His Excellency said he would reward you before.”
“Ah……!?”
“Yes, we were looking for you to deliver that reward when we met. We didn't know you would be here beating up the servants of evil as well.”
“I see……”
It was definitely good news, but.
“S-Save…….”
“Hold on a little longer. A priest will come soon!”
“Romero!”
“No!!”
He couldn't be talking about such things at this moment when groans and shouts were erupting from all sides.
Moreover.
“Sir Muno!! What happened! I didn't hear about this……”
Orlando even ran out of the palace with knights.
“……Let’s talk about that a little later.”
“Yes. We should.”
Just as even Rasmia bit her lip with a sigh.
A familiar voice was heard from nearby.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t expect him to struggle until the moment he died……”
Where he turned to look stood a disguised Rauel.
“Oh, Muno. Who is this young lady?”
“Um, that is……”
How do I explain this……?
She was originally with the guys who caused this mess, but she defected…….
Muno, who was racking his brain, scanned the screaming people again.
……In this situation?
- Muno!
- What on earth is this……!
Seeing Rasmia, who immediately turned her attention to him, and Klarm and Chloe, who were approaching from beyond her.
Muno broke out in a cold sweat.