My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 156

#156

Rebellion of the Empire (6)

Rumbling—!

Absolutely!

Black dark clouds covered the sky, and the barrier surrounding the capital continued to scream and sparks.

And in that fin-de-siècle scenery, Hans, who had achieved a set of goals, was slowly gathering his men and preparing to leave.

[Then let’s stop here for today. Then, I will be waiting with joy!]

“Immortal King!”

The undead were disappearing in the darkness, but perhaps thanks to the two hostages in his hands, the humans were unable to act rashly and just grinded their teeth.

‘Actually, the princess wasn’t originally planned.’

Hans looked at the two royals floating in the space next to him, bound by black magic.

In fact, from the beginning, they only targeted the crown prince and attacked him at the time he used the gate.

To the time when he, who departed from the Great Hall of Zeron, could not have reached the imperial palace.

‘A high-ranking person worthy of being a hostage. At the same time, you can easily find out their whereabouts, and above all….’

“Eup-eup—!”

Hans’ eyes turned to Prince Simon, who was wriggling like a caterpillar.

Even though his body and mouth were suppressed, he was glaring at the imperial knights and putting silent pressure on them.

Rescue yourself quickly somehow.

He really couldn’t be anything other than an ugly person.

Pow!

“Gyeong!”

“His Royal Highness Crown Prince Hua!”

“Immortal King! “What are you doing?”

The crown prince faints with an undignified death from a lump of black magic hitting the back of his head.

The knights started going crazy again, but Hans didn’t even care.

‘I didn’t like this guy from the moment I saw him.’

From first impressions to everything he did, he was a hateful person.

In addition, since he played a big part in all the corruption that was rampant in the empire, we should consider ourselves lucky that he wasn’t killed right away.

‘Because it has value.’

After its usefulness expires… I can’t guarantee what will happen.

Soon his gaze moved to Princess Riley.

Even in this situation, the bright blonde beauty was taking deep breaths and trying to keep her cool with sharp eyes.

Of course, his heart was beating loudly and his eyes were constantly shaking, but his self-control was so thorough that it was not easy to notice the agitation at first glance.

‘I heard you’re not even 20 yet, but that’s amazing. I happened to pick it up, but there’s something useful everywhere.’

Unlike the crown prince, this person doesn’t have a special master, so I didn’t plan on keeping him there for long.

Just a cameo for dramatic effect in one episode…

‘Huh?’

At that moment, Hans’ gaze suddenly turned to one side due to the subtle sense of heterogeneity he felt.

Since he was able to feel cause and effect by completing the level of transcendence, what he was able to sense was an abnormal situation that could not normally occur.

‘Isea?’

The person at the center of the incident is an awakened person from the same Earth.

In the heavy air surrounding her, her body was writhing and her presence was slowly expanding.

Her eyes move calmly.

It was as if he was reading something that appeared before his eyes, but of course the air was just empty.

But each time the series of processes was repeated, she became stronger.

By then the situation was clear.

‘Now that I think about it, Ise-ah was in her 8th year. In addition, he was a great magician with an imperial noble status. You must have already accumulated enough karma to return. No way….’

The karma needed to return is 1 million.

I don’t know how much more she had, but one thing was certain…

she was now without a means of saving her life if it became dangerous.

No, I cut the lifeline myself.

To use that line for other purposes.

As if he had no intention of running away anymore.

As the reinforcement continued, the karma of consumption increased, so her actions did not last very long.

However, her spirit was noticeably different from before.

‘Are you really planning on attacking me? In a situation where the princess was taken prisoner?’

However, as if that belief was true, she immediately began to take action as if she did not even think about what happened next.

Gooooo—

an enormous amount of magical power comes out of her body in an instant and rushes in.

It was not a phenomenon created by gathering mana from the surrounding area.

It was purified from the beginning to suit its intended purpose, but suddenly burst like a dam releasing water. It was clearly outside the laws of this world.

‘Is this… transcendence? No, it’s not that much yet.’

And Hans just watched quietly as the miracle appeared in an instant.

While calmly analyzing her power.

Compressed magic power is unfolded, arranged regularly, further amplified, and composed as planned in advance, laying the foundation, processing it with intention, and leading the direction.

The entire process took place literally in a split second.

“What?!”

“Viscount Pristine?”

It was so fast that the people around them who reacted late only then showed signs of confusion.

But Se-ah Lee didn’t react to that in any way.

He just calmly released what he had prepared.

Jjiiiing—!

Along with a sharp noise that seemed to tear the air, a beam of cold brilliance started from the magic circle in front of her and split the air.

A fatal blow that lands upon ejection and cannot be blocked unless prepared in advance.

The ‘Bingryong’s Breath’, compressed to the extreme, tears apart the opponent’s hastily created dark magic barrier as if ignoring it.

The target, Acrich Dwell, and the surrounding area were completely covered with undead.

Damn it!

[Wow! This young thing… until the end…]

I felt the concentration of magic power a little late and quickly prepared, but it was far from enough.

In the end, his voice cut off in the middle of an unexpected attack, and his frozen body slowly crumbled into ice powder and began to scatter.

Along with the undead who were by his side and turned into ice statues together.

Of course, since his origin as an Acrich was in Hans, he could be resurrected later, but the burden that Dwell had to bear due to this incident would not be that small.

“haha-.”

Immediately after the attack, the anti-magic spell was activated abnormally quickly, causing even more color to disappear from Isea’s otherwise pale face.

“Viscount Isea Pristine!”

“What is this!”

But the others just looked embarrassed and scolded her.

It was not for nothing that they did nothing.

The prisoners are the two people closest to the throne, and the hostage taker holding them is an immortal king.

If you go against his wishes, you never know what might happen.

For now, all he could do was hope that the Immortal King would keep his word and promise for the future.

“…There is no particular meaning. “It’s just that there’s a match that hasn’t been completed yet.”

“That’s what I’m saying now…!”

One of the knights under the Crown Prince let out an angry voice, but she did not respond any further and turned her gaze to look at Hans.

“I apologize if you were offended, Immortal King. “It’s because I’m the type of person who can’t just live with what happens.”

She calmly opened her mouth with an expression that did not seem sorry at all.

She seemed to have figured out Hans’ tendencies at some point and decided that this amount of work would not harm the prisoners.

‘But why? Meaningless anger outburst? ‘He didn’t seem that careless.’

She was right, but was it really necessary to show such behavior?

Hans looked at her curiously and observed her…

until he realized that Ise-ah’s eyes were not on him, but slightly to the side.

Directly to the 5th princess Riley.

Also, in his senses… he could feel the princess’s loud heartbeat and rough breathing slowly calming down.

‘Huh, no way. Was it for the 5th princess?’

He finally understood why she did such an unreasonable thing.

And just as he thought.

Isea was looking straight into Princess Riley’s eyes.

Contrary to his calm appearance, he could not hide it, so he waited in silence as his slightly trembling blue-green eyes gradually calmed down as time passed.

‘…wait.’

Isea’s attack that pulverized the Immortal King’s men in front of Riley, who was taken prisoner.

It wasn’t just an angry outburst.

It was an expression of belief and at the same time a signal she was sending to Riley.

As their bond grew over many years together, Isea told Riley everything about herself.

About the existence of unique skills and karma points, and about having to return someday.

In fact, intelligent Riley worked hard in many ways to make it easier for her to collect karma points.

We thought about the usability of the skill together and helped her become stronger faster.

Even though he knew that it could hasten their separation, he believed that Ise-ah would not leave him without saying a word.

‘wait!’

As there was such a time, Princess Riley clearly knew about Isea’s state and the limits of her abilities.

…It was like that. Until before.

Just now, Isea showed her resolve and gave her confidence by launching an attack that far exceeded Riley’s previous knowledge.

That there is no escape for me now.

I will definitely save you no matter what and I will never stop doing that.

Even if that opponent is the immortal king who is the despair of this world.

So trust me and wait.

Don’t give up or despair.

‘Until I find you!’

And the brilliant Princess Riley immediately recognized the signal as Isea had intended.

Her eyes, which had maintained her cool even in extreme situations, became red and her neck twitched, but she gritted her teeth, swallowed them, and nodded quietly.

Her heart, which had been beating violently from fear, was now beating quietly as usual.

[Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. What happened? This could also be called entertainment. Rather, it feels good to have found another interesting person.]

Hans, who was looking at the unspoken bond between them, simply took care of the situation and took the prisoners with him and launched himself through the gap in the torn barrier to leave for real this time.

There was a brief delay due to the supporting cast’s ad-libs, but now it was really time to leave.

All of the remaining undead had already been stored in the negative dimension space, so all they had to do was take the two prisoners and they could leave with ease.

…Of course, the uncomfortable feeling didn’t go away to the point where I wondered if I could really keep going like this.

‘Use this, I feel like a bad guy.’

No, it’s not because of my mood, but objectively and subjectively, I think he was a bad guy.

He was also a very typical villain who was willing to go through double insults.

…The problem is that it is you.

In this way, the Immortal King disappeared from Zeron along with the two captured royal family members.

With only one new drama left.

***

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Click! Click!

The sound of a mouse clicking rang out in a room where exciting music was playing.

“oh? at las.”

As usual, after working out at the gym at home and checking the latest news on the Internet, I was able to discover some very interesting information in the process.

-New) Outerica dimension.

Announced through the World Association of Returnees and officially listed on the Korean branch’s website, it was information on a new level.

‘Let’s see. There are two returnees confirmed so far. Besides… the information itself is nothing special.’

The briefly summarized information about the dimensions was all information I already knew.

Although the informant who lived in the Republic cooperated quite actively with the association, it had a strangely strong eastern feel.

‘It looks like they ran away in a hurry when the Immortal King appeared and madness broke out.’

There, as a matter of note, a warning was emphasized that the current situation is chaotic and requires great caution.

With a short phrase that the devil has descended and begun to invade the world.

“Hmm…”

After calmly checking all the information, I leaned back on the back of the chair and gently closed my eyes.

‘It’s kind of fun to be a party to it. ‘How long will it take for the latest information to be updated?’

It was said that if information was to be officially recorded, it would be after various cross-verifications were completed immediately after two or more returnees were discovered.

Considering the time difference between dimensions, this means that it is bound to be quite outdated information.

Still, I couldn’t help but find it quite interesting to see the evaluation of my actions from the perspective of other Earthlings.

‘It’s already time to patrol. These days, there aren’t many that cause big problems, but you still have to check regularly… Oh, come to think of it.’

He tries to turn into Hans through “object projection” but pauses for a moment.

Saying that information about Outerica was beginning to become known meant that as time passed, there was a greater possibility that information about the Immortal King would become known on Earth as well.

There may not be many people who think they are the same person, but you never know.

‘…Since it is already known as Hahoe Mask on Earth, should I at least change the mask I use when working in Outerica? The mask is broken.’

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to wear a proper Hahoe mask only on Earth and only wear the broken pieces as a fashion item there.

I felt like I was being welcomed, so I secretly liked it.

‘Let’s think about it slowly.’

It was a very minor concern.

Compared to the political situation of the Azerion Empire, which was starting to fall into chaos because of what he did.