Episode 53
Number 1 seemed to be acting as a sort of final boss on this floor.
“I didn’t think all the numbers would be taken away by you.”
“I should have educated you better. Or maybe you should have been stronger than me.”
Number 1 immediately swung his sword at my provocation.
Suddenly thinking of Cynthia and Chen, I smiled and struck our swords together, thinking that it would be the first time in a long time that we had a proper fight.
Number 1 swung a series of attacks without stopping.
When his sword collided with mine, it felt like a small wave at first.
However, the wave did not stop and began to gradually increase in size.
False form
Red wave heart sword
Eventually, the wave grew so big that it ate up the entire world.
Just like that, his sword became a complete wave.
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lightning flash
At that moment, lightning flashed.
The waves that had swallowed the world were broken and land was revealed in its place.
【Class B sword length is in effect.】
My eyes turned dark yellow.
With the path of the class sword, I was able to penetrate all of the sword’s tracks, and Number 1’s eyes widened as he noticed this beyond the breaking waves.
His excellent swordsmanship was able to pierce my swordsmanship.
Now it was my turn.
Transplant (two types)
Lightning red ship
A bolt of lightning pierced through his broken sword skills.
And as the next series of attacks continued to flow, this time the number 1 side began to defend.
Like that, the sword strikes continued along the track, and Number 1 clenched his teeth and continued to hit back.
However, my aurors are all attributes.
As the current exploded every time it hit, the number 1 aura blocking it was gradually being chipped away.
Plus, my momentum was rising even more.
He must have sensed that I could become stronger than this, so he tried his best to break my swordsmanship.
It was that moment.
When he drew his sword from bottom to top, it fell like a waterfall, like a huge dragon falling down.
False form
Yongchu depth charge
A waterfall pouring from the sky oppressed my sword.
As soon as Number 1 stopped my swordplay, he immediately wrapped the auror around his sword.
With the aura he had gathered wrapped around his sword, he slowly but unstoppably drew a line in the air while embracing silence.
False form
Clear rain
Raindrops fell in the silence.
Before I knew it, blood had formed on my chest, and it soon began to slowly drip down like rain.
However, the body of Number 1, who made the attack, was cut along with space.
Lightning formed between the cut spaces and soon engulfed it.
Five types
Intangible cerebrum
When the lightning that engulfed space disappeared, diagonal marks appeared on his body, and soon he slowly collapsed.
I lowered the sword, tracing the blood on my chest with my finger.
Since the opponent was a guy who had reached the level of Grand Sword Master, there was no strength control.
‘Chen or lower, Cynthia or higher.’
He looked a little disappointed as he recalled the swordsmen he had met most recently.
Although the Sword Path has been activated, this level of experience does not increase the level of this class.
‘As expected, I’d like to meet someone at the Sword Emperor level.’
As I clicked my tongue and put the Star Heaven Sword into the scabbard on my waist, all the people who had barely fainted from my aura behind me were frozen and unable to move.
Even though they had seen with their own eyes the sight of the Empire’s proud Six Sword Emperor being defeated by a single person without even making a single sound of breath, they still seemed in disbelief.
Tap, tap, tap.
At that time, Rush walked out amidst their astonishment.
He followed me to the side and then approached the emperor.
It was time for Gratia’s new history to begin.
As soon as Rush stood in front of the emperor, there was a guy who jumped out.
That person is Duke Rochaine.
The Duke must have been stronger than he thought, so he didn’t faint. He stood in front of Rush, cold sweat rolling down his face, looking 10 years older than before.
There was a fear of my appearance in his eyes that transcended humanity.
Sweet.
His body continued to tremble.
However, they are blocking our path with the sole determination that the position of emperor should not be handed over to us.
A person steeped in madness can overcome fear.
‘It’s just as I heard from Number 3.’
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What I heard from Number 3 was what the Duke of Rochaine had done in secret.
The peace that lasted for 20 years was not pleasing to Rocheanne.
He believed that the empire could grow bigger than it is now and become the best nation to rule the world.
War monger, currently 62 years old. It was a nickname given to him after witnessing war for the past 40 years.
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“Roshia, you must protect the country. “This country will one day become the best country.”
“Rochian, it’s war. It’s war again. Take a good look. War is a stepping stone. The best justification for our strongest Gratia Empire to devour other countries. The empire has never lost a war. So, one day, we will definitely become the best country.”
“The empire is superior. The people of the empire are all superior people. Remember. Rocha, an empire is a country created to rule the world.”
This was something the Duke of Rochaine had heard from his father since he was a child.
For Duke Rochaine, the words “strongest empire” were the truth and were always right.
In fact, as he watched countries collapsing one after another due to the empire’s overwhelming inaction during the war, he was once again reminded that his father’s words were right.
40 years like that.
The empire won one after another in a war that started when he was one year old and lasted until he was 40 years old.
Until the crowned emperor said there would be no more war.
“This is ridiculous! Your Majesty! The Empire continues to rack up victories! If things continue like this, isn’t it clear that it will devour all countries and become the world’s first unified nation?”
“Rosheane, I know. The army of the empire is greater than the armies of other countries. But look at the reality. The people continued to be wasted in the war. They are not created infinitely. “If the war continues like this, the empire will eventually collapse.”
“The empire is collapsing? That can’t be possible! The Empire is always right. Isn’t it right for the people to also sacrifice their bodies for the empire? “All citizens of the Empire would hope so!”
“Please, come to your senses, Rocha. Your ideas are too dangerous. Do you know what the world is calling you? He’s a warmonger. Warmonger. You have been consumed by war for too long. Now come back to reality.”
The emperor who ascended the throne had very pacifist ideas, unlike previous emperors who were active in war.
Until his first accession to the throne, the emperor fully supported the war.
However, as soon as he ascended to the throne, he changed his mind and started saying nonsense that the war must be stopped for the good of the country.
Of course, it was expected that there would be opposition to this, but the emperor was more meticulous than expected.
He expressed his thoughts to the nobles who were exhausted from the war without Rosia and other war-affiliated nobles noticing, and as a result, he abruptly declared a truce without their consent.
Rochaine, a warmonger, opposed the idea until the end, but it was already decided.
In the end, they stubbornly insisted that a truce should be established but that the conscription system should remain in place, and the emperor agreed to it in order to pacify the hardliners.
And for the past 20 years, the country has maintained peace.
As peace continued for 20 years, the nobles who advocated war gradually disappeared, and instead, they began to transform into selfish people who only cared for their own gain.
Individualism, without even the slightest thought for the nation, began to overflow.
Rochaine let out a vomit.
The money that would have originally gone into the military was taken out as bribes by nobles who only wanted to benefit themselves, and the iron-blooded army that the empire was proud of was reduced to a group of trash subject to labor exploitation.
Due to stupid nobles, the money that should have been invested in the war was leaking out to unexpected places.
Above all, he was disgusted with the sight of nobles treating the military like slaves.
So he decided to change this rotten country.
And that’s when I got my chance.
At a drinking party I happened to attend, I learned of the existence of Number 1 and confirmed that his skills were at the level of Geomje.
A light appeared in Rochaine’s mind after establishing a friendly relationship with him.
How to start a war again and make the rotting empire the best nation again.
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“After messing up the country, did it feel good to have another opportunity to go to war?”
Rochaine’s mouth quivered in response to Rush’s question.
But the eyes did not die.
“This country, this country, is the country that will become the best country! All preparations for war have been completed! But you, you guys showed up!”
The Duke, who was grinding his teeth, began to shed bloody tears.
His thoughts, which had been stained by the war, were not something that others could change.
“Are you planning to kill the emperor? If you kill the Emperor, it is treason. The guy you brought in named Rush will never be able to sit on the emperor’s throne! “Are you planning to kill the emperor even after knowing that?”
“I heard it from Number 3. “They say Number 2 has necromancer magic that disappeared a long time ago.”
When I opened my mouth, the Duke’s shoulders flinched and trembled once.
“The emperor is really sick. That was true. But the emperor died earlier than you thought. As a result, the power struggle between the royal families, which should have been planned to kill off the emperor before he passed away, began much sooner, and became bigger than you thought. And as the struggle for power began in earnest along with the division of nobles into factions, a situation would have arisen in which the royal families would kill each other. Still, you should have been fine up to that point. “Anyway, his intention was to kill the royal family with his own hands, make the country look chaotic, induce invasion by other countries, and then start a war.”
The Empire has no reason to start a war.
If you break the peace and start a war, you will be condemned by the whole world.
That’s why Rochaine deliberately showed a loophole to other countries and led them to attack the empire.
But the results were more devastating than expected.
Perhaps because they took care of the country but failed to take care of their children, the emperor’s bloodlines grew as they wanted in the 20 years of peace, and as soon as the emperor died, they bitten each other as if they had been waiting for it.
The life-and-death fight for the emperor’s position continued, and when only the second prince remained, Rochaine ordered Number 1 to kill the second prince, the emperor’s last bloodline, even though the situation was already different from what he had expected.
But the problem did not end there.
Even after the death of the royal family, the nobles’ struggle for power did not stop, and they began to viciously erode the country in just two years.
Besides, other countries were not fools either.
They thought each other would attack first to take over the empire, but they used their experiences in the old war as a lesson to form an alliance.
From the very beginning, when a bloody internal war broke out between the royal families, his plans were shattered.
Originally, he had intended to spread it to each country as if it were top secret information that the royal family had died one after another and the country had no representative, leading them to rush in to devour the empire first.
However, the plan failed when the conflict between the royal family grew and the information even reached a single intelligence guild.
However, he did not admit his mistake and kept pushing forward.
The result is what it is now.
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