The Count’s Youngest Son Is A Player - Chapter 88

Episode 88

‘It’s effective.’

The combination of flash magic that mimics a flashbang and explosion magic may be shocking to those experiencing it for the first time.

Not only ordinary people but also knights could be affected if they did not know about it in advance.

Even when wearing power armor, the protection against indirect magic rather than direct magic was not perfect.

「How do you think of my skills?」

「Excellent. “Is it really reliable?”

Ravel’s magic was excellent, without any unnecessary details.

In fact, among the circle magic, there was no such thing as flash magic or explosion magic. The label created this effect by modifying the 1st circle magic ‘Light’ and the 4th circle magic ‘Explosion’.

And since he succeeded in taking out the royal family through Blink (short-distance teleportation), which was activated in the midst of the confusion, it goes without saying that Ravel’s joining was a great help to Raoul.

“Could you please treat the royal family first?”

I thought it would recover on its own over time, but I didn’t want to listen to the backstory.

“Leave it to me~.”

Ravel approached the royal family, who were unable to come to their senses with his wings flapping, and gesticulated with his hand and chanted a spell.

“Recovery Woon’s pain, go far away~.”

A green light enveloped them, and not only did the Four Princes’ thighs heal, but their eyes and ears returned to normal.

“Hehehehehehehe. “What about you?”

The Four Princes opened their eyes and were surprised to see Raoul.

“Are you awake?”

“Lord Raoul, why are you here?”

“I put the 6th prince in a safe place and followed him just in case. “I’m glad it’s not too late.”

“Oh, I was foolish. “I should have listened to Gerard… I’m sorry, Sir Raoul.”

4th Prince Jonas bowed his head and apologized.

“no. “It was my big mistake for not noticing it sooner.”

‘He wasn’t a helpless guy.’

Raoul, who smiled at the sight of him apologizing without hesitation, stood him up and said,

“For now, stay in the back for a while. I have to hold these guys accountable. Homer, take responsibility and protect the royal family!”

“Yes Master. Please leave it to me.”

In the First Knights, aside from the executives, the person who achieved the fastest was Homer. Since he was an expert intermediate knight and a D-class power armor user, he would be enough to protect them.

‘Then shall I try to move too?’

Raoul jumped towards the enemies with a bit of excitement as he wondered what the skills of the knights of the Royal Guard, the best knights in the Kingdom of Ruben, were.

* * *

‘Holy shit….’

Boom!

As the ferocious sword energy collides before my eyes, mana fragments fly.

My grip throbbed from a strong rebound force that I hadn’t felt much in a while.

I thought that if I showed off my skills, it would be worth a try with the Commander of the Guard Knights, but where did this guy come from?

‘The Earl of Ashton. Should I have dealt with it first?’

“Hoo. After all, is it any different if you are a senior knight of the Royal Guard? “You have enough time to think about random things during battle?”

Clang.

The sword energy suddenly turned into a sawtooth and bit down on No. 1’s sword energy roughly.

“Ugh.”

The sword held by the saw blade-like sword was pushed back little by little until it reached right in front of my eyes.

‘What the fuck. Is it okay to be an ogre? ‘What kind of ridiculous power is this?’

Boom~.

Number 1 forcibly exploded the mana injected into his sword, widening the distance between him and his opponent.

“Why is someone as talented as you in such a new knighthood? “You probably don’t have the skills to clean the poop of a noble family, do you…?”

At Number 1’s words, Philip, leader of the First Knights, smiled cheerfully and struck down his sword.

“ha ha ha. Why do you use your great skills to serve the crazy emperor of the empire? “I can’t understand why you would swing a sword for that crazy guy who doesn’t see humans as humans.”

Quagwagwang!

“Shut up, you are not the kind of person who dares speak out! “There is no way an ordinary person like you could understand His noble and noble intentions.”

Dozens of conflicting agreements erupted in an instant.

The competition was fierce as both were confident that they had reached the end of expert level.

Philip had the upper hand in strength, and No. 1 was slightly faster in movement.

However, since No. 1’s power armor was a B-grade luxury item issued to upper-level guards knights, and Philip’s was a C-grade standard power armor received from the Golden Bear Knights, No. 1 was expected to have the upper hand in a long-term battle.

‘damn. I need to get out of the way at this point… If I had known this would happen, I would have just dealt with the royal bastards quickly.’

I felt like I stepped on shit because I was being greedy for no reason.

Even at this moment, his men and soldiers were falling one by one.

Even though we did not have the strength to push back in vain, the situation was escalating strangely quickly.

‘That brat!’

As expected, the problem was a guy named Raoul.

Contrary to the information that he had barely reached expert level, he had already surpassed the mature intermediate level.

In addition, he was so skilled in melee that he was running around the battlefield like a mercenary on the battlefield for decades.

The blade he was throwing was as if it were alive, finding any opening and annoying his subordinates, and his swordsmanship was so expert that he was playing with it as if he could predict the opponent’s swordsmanship.

And, crucially, the difference in the number of armor users on both sides was painful.

‘Where on earth did you get so much money?’

No matter how cheap it was, the number of 20 people could not be ignored. Twenty-five, including the five knights guarding the princes.

However, there were fourteen here, including the imperial knights who were in ambush.

All the horsemen and general agents had already fallen, and it was clear that the armor users would also be wiped out the moment their mana ran out.

Number 1 blocked Philip’s aggressive attack and looked for an opportunity to escape.

But no matter how I looked at it, it was impossible to exit through the entrance I came in from.

‘I can’t help it. I’ll probably hear a shout, but…’

Number 1, who was secretly watching and trying to time the situation, blocked Philip’s sword with his shield and at the same time threw the small bottle he had taken out of his pocket onto the floor and broke it.

Fu Chemical!

Black smoke rose like crazy from where the bottle broke and covered the lounge.

‘Is it poison? What a useless thing…’

The poison did not work on armor users wearing power armor.

However, when Philip reflexively took a step back, No. 1 was running away.

“Follow me!”

Whiuuung~.

Raoul used his telekinesis to instantly compress the rising black smoke and ran away, and Philip also began to chase after No. 1.

“Jake will take responsibility for finishing the battlefield. Pierce follows and secures the escape route.”

“Yes, Master!”

Unlike other agents of the Imperial Hound, Jose did not use black mana.

And since he didn’t activate his tattoo even while being pushed back, it seemed like he didn’t even receive the emperor’s imprint.

That meant that if you could capture them, you could obtain enough information about the enemy.

‘I won’t miss it.’

Raoul ran down to the basement of the palace, following the traces of No. 1.

* * *

‘What’s so deep?’

It seemed like we had already gone more than 10 floors underground, but the stairs were still continuing.

Rolling.

And the vibrations that had appeared intermittently became more intense as they went down, and now the entire space shook as if an earthquake had occurred.

And finally, the stairs ended and a long passage appeared.

“There was a place like this in the basement of the royal palace. “This looks like a temple?”

The passageway was made entirely of marble from floor to ceiling. There were carvings engraved on the wall at regular intervals, but the contents were unrecognizable, perhaps because they had been chipped away over time.

Raoul first slowed down his steps.

Jose ran away so quickly that even though it was a straight passage, his back was not visible.

‘There may be a trap, so let’s be careful.’

Meanwhile, the three of them, including Pierce, moved carefully along the passage.

And after some time.

In the space that appeared at the end of the passage, a huge temple-like building reminiscent of the Parthenon greeted them.

“What does this place do?”

“well. What is clear is that something is going on in there.”

Even though I was outside the building, I felt an enormous amount of pressure.

“How about we stop tracking the master here? “I think it would be too dangerous.”

Even if it wasn’t Philip’s words, I fully felt that it was dangerous. But it was still sad to go back like this.

Ugh.

At that time, the space near the entrance to the temple distorted and something came out.

“Demon species!”

What appeared were about 20 hellhounds and imps that had been seen in the inner castle.

Grumble, rumble, rumble!

They seemed to have noticed Raoul and his group and attacked them with all their might. However, no one was embarrassed by the C-rank monster.

Raoul, who cleared away the monsters in an instant, made a decision.

“Since we’ve come this far, I think we should check it out first. “If you go in and think it’s dangerous, then you should retreat.”

The moment he said that and was about to enter the temple entrance, another message appeared before Raoul’s eyes.

-[Warning] A forced scenario is currently in progress. Players cannot enter.

-[Warning] This is an extremely dangerous area. To ensure safe data preservation, we recommend leaving the area.

‘You can’t enter?’

When Raoul stretched out his hand, an invisible barrier blocked it.

“Pierce. Would you like to go in first?”

“Yes Master.”

Pierce casually entered the temple.

‘Hmm…’

Raoul, who was lost in thought with his arms crossed for a moment, asked Ravel.

“Could it be possible to stop the connect system for a moment?”

“Um… I can’t stop the whole thing, but the auxiliary system is possible.” “

Then, please just give me a moment.”

“Okay~.”

Then, all the augmented reality interfaces displayed in Raoul’s field of vision disappeared. disappeared.

Raoul took a deep breath and held out his hand again, and this time he was able to pass by without any obstruction.

‘It’s just as I thought.’

Raoul was both a player and a resident of the Connect world. So I wondered if the restrictions placed on the player would act differently, and my prediction was correct.

In fact, there was something suspicious about the battle that took place in the lounge a little while ago.

After entering the forced scenario area, some characters had an [Invincible] mark on their heads.

The target was the royal family that had been specified to be rescued in the quest.

‘But I was influenced by flashes of light and heavy drinking. If you’re invincible, it shouldn’t be effective.’

We still need to see how the system works, but what is clear is that Raoul is free from the restrictions placed on regular players and NPCs.

‘I can use this. ‘Maybe…’

I didn’t know if I could twist the forced scenario that I thought could never be changed.

One thing that was disappointing was that even though I entered the restricted area, I couldn’t turn on the auxiliary system.

System menus, including the inventory status window interface, did not work.

“It seems like the connect system is also limited here. Fortunately, there is no problem with the skill encyclopedia.”

Even though I had to have a conversation with the label in person rather than in my head, I was able to take this much of a penalty.

Anyway, unlike other players, Raoul uses skills by embodying them, so his combat power does not drop significantly even if he does not have support from the system.

‘Then shall we go in?’

Raoul carefully walked into the temple with the two knights.

(Continued in the next part)