Emperor (1)

I climbed a spiral staircase painted with unpleasant murals to reach the top of the palace.

As he got closer to his destination, Seo Mun-yeop felt tense as he recalled old memories.

Finally, they arrived in front of the emperor's residence.

"Are you ready?"

"uh."

Seo Mun-yeop raised his shield and spear and took a combat posture.

Pietro explained.

"Calling a spirit is similar to contacting a spirit. Just like connecting to the spirit realm and finding a spirit, the task of finding a wandering spirit must be preceded."

"Can't you find it?"

"I can't say for sure. Just as a spirit disappears, a spirit slowly loses its presence and disappears without a body. But I don't think the soul of a person obsessed with life that much has been extinguished."

"Okay, anyway, I'll be dealing with the emperor, so you find the emperor's soul and call it out."

The two opened the door and went inside.

It was the residence of the emperor.

It is surrounded by glass walls on all sides, so you can see the view of Maninreung at a glance.

The Emperor was sitting on the sofa.

A typical underground person with pale skin and large pupils.

The physique was not particularly large either.

He was armed with gorgeous golden armor, and his red cloak was also embroidered with gold patterns.

The emperor rose from his seat.

Pick up the two greatswords that are across the table.

There were no words.

Just when the enemy appears, the emperor raises his weapon and prepares to fight.

The Emperor, who was just a cloned body without a soul, was just a typical final boss mob in a dungeon.

"Where, let's see how much skill is implemented?"

Seo Moon-yeop attacked without hesitation.

A quick stab with a spear!

kang!

He struck the spear with the greatsword in his left hand.

The successive stabs continued to unfold. The emperor slapped them off with his two great swords.

and momentarily.

Dig!

The emperor attempted a 360 degree turn with two great swords.

He quickly closed the distance and put Seo Moon-yeop within the range of the greatsword.

The greatsword in his left hand reached Seo Moon-yeop first.

Quaang!

A great sword loaded with a white aura hit the shield.

A loud roar.

Despite taking a stable defensive posture, Seo Moon-yeop's new model was shaken by the force.

After a while, the greatsword in the right hand flew in succession.

However, in that short moment, Seo Mun-yeop also recovered the new type that had been shaken.

Wow!

hit in a row.

Seo Moon-yeop's new model was shaken again.

'So far, this is perfect skill.'

The angle of the second attack was slightly different, so Seo Moon-yeop, who had been preparing, almost lost his balance again.

The emperor's style of shaking with one strike and knocking it down with two strikes was certain.

Without delay, the emperor pushed his shoulders one after another and started a physical fight.

It was an intention to completely break Seo Moon-yeop's balance.

at that time.

dump!

Seo Moon-yeop sat down on his right knee to avoid the torso headbutt.

Then he stretched out his left foot and kicked his heel exquisitely in the hamstrings.

The emperor staggered with his knees bent.

In the gap, he got up and distanced himself.

As soon as there was distance, fix the spear with a throwing grip and grab it.

Pod!

threw!

as slowly as possible.

At the moment of throwing, it was scratched with the fingertips to generate rotational force.

The spear that flew at the slowest speed bent its trajectory to avoid the emperor's great sword.

It was a short distance, but the speed was so slow that it was enough to bend due to the rotational force.

The spear that was dropping and aiming for the bottom.

Daang!

It was blocked by another greatsword.

It was a javelin with extreme changes, but the emperor read the trajectory and responded.

'For a clone of only the body, it was useless and well made.'

Seo Moon-yeop clicked his tongue.

Accurate technique and agility are top-notch.

Seo Mun-yeop, who took out another spear, continued to exchange attacks with the emperor.

While the two were exchanging workshops loaded with high-level techniques, Pietro went to work with a magic circle floating in the air.

Pietro's mind, immersed in deep meditation, was wandering around the old site of time and space, where the Tomb of Mankind actually stood.

Numerous ghosts were wandering around.

The spirits of the people and servants who were buried with the emperor and suffered with their souls captured.

The commander of the expeditionary force that attacked Maninling and was defeated.

Even the humans who participated in the attack and died.

It was the hell of the spirits who all complained of pain and resentment.

Since the form was unknown, Pietro had to listen to the resentment and cries of the spirits one by one.

The consumption of mental power was quite a big deal, but Pietro endured it.

He himself was one of those spirits, so he might have gotten used to it.

'Let's find someone who says something different, not resentful, not painful.'

The pleading of pain and the perpetual uttering of hateful words were proof of weakness.

The emperor was not weak.

It was wickedness itself, without the slightest weakness.

The worst tyrant who defended the throne regardless of the rebellion of his servants, personally trampling on the people who rose up from unbearable pain.

The emperor with the devil's heart was fundamentally different from other spirits.

You have to find it.

A special command.

If even he was screaming in anger at the destruction and extinction of Maninling, finding the emperor among these many spirits would have been a very difficult task.

'It was difficult for me too.'

Pietro, that is, the high priest, was also like that.

The sin of dreaming of vain glory, but ultimately driving civilization into the pit of ruin.

Shame in the face of the ugly truth of oneself.

Without reaching the Heroic Spirit, he had spent a painful time.

Even the great priest, who was the greatest genius among the people of the earth at the time, was like that.

However, he believed that the Emperor of Maninling would be different from himself.

'It's not an ordinary devil. If sin is at this level, it is a belief that goes beyond desire.'

If you succeed in realizing your twisted beliefs, it will probably look like the Tomb of Mankind.

Pietro searched for an emperor who had succeeded in persuading himself of false beliefs similar to his own.

It was then.

[My duty.]

I found something different.

Pietro listened to the commander's words.

[It can't be me. Only I can.]

Innate arrogance was the word that should be the foundation.

[Only my reign can bring peace and security to the world.]

'found!'

Pietro felt the ecstasy.

[Only I can defend my people. Only I can rule and reign.]

Pietro stuck out his tongue.

To be able to say such a thing while wandering around as a ghost, in a sense, was a truly great person.

[who are you.]

The emperor also noticed the approach of Pietro's spirit.

It was also a reaction that could not come from a normal commander.

'As expected, the emperor is certain.'

It was completely different from the soul.

It was a soul that could have become a hero who could save the world if he had the right beliefs.

[who are you.]

'Come here.'

[You're cheeky. Who are you to call luggage?]

'Here is your body.'

Pietro began guiding the emperor's command with a magic circle.

It was the same method as the Heroic Spirit Strike. It just guides you into an empty body without applying an aura.

[Jim's body!]

The emperor reacted strongly.

'That's right, it's here.'

The Emperor was guided to the magic circle by Pietro's guidance.

Passed the magic circle.

It naturally permeated the emperor's body.

In an instant, Pietro woke up from his meditation and shouted.

"Get off!"

Seo Mun-yeop quickly shook off the emperor's attack and retreated.

The emperor's body trembled.

-Keugh....

A voice from the wave of aura came from the emperor.

"Are you successful?!"

"As you can see."

"You didn't bring the wrong commander, did you?"

"It was clearly the emperor of Maninling."

The emperor stumbled, unable to keep himself steady.

However, as if he had gradually adapted to his body, his movements stopped.

The emperor looked at his hand.

He saw his hand holding two familiar greatswords.

The familiar tactile sensation of holding a weapon.

Even his own eternal city with a familiar air.

-I'm back. Jim!

The emperor murmured in rapture.

It was an exclamation of joy.

However, two strangers who invaded his dwelling were annoyed.

human?

They were uncivilized apes receiving the benefits of the earth.

Even both of them were exceptionally intrusive.

Even though they were insignificant human beings whom they hadn't seen before, they were somehow not unfamiliar to each other.

The emperor looked at Pietro.

- You have a strange presence. Are you a human or a relative?

"Nothing."

Pietro answered.

It was self-deprecation, a hybrid, neither human nor underground.

- Well, this voice. yes you brought me back to life

"Right."

-This is something that only priests of the same race can do. What are you?

"I was once a listener of the words of the light in the beginning."

-Ho?

The emperor's expression showed interest.

- Yes, it's you. Became the ruler of posterity who sent a reckless expedition.

"Right."

-Hehehe, now it's like entering a human body. What a tool.

"It's a long story, so to speak. So that's about me."

-Ah, even if you don't tell me, I know.

The emperor laughed.

- I would have destroyed myself. Humans have been suffocated, but in fact you would have destroyed yourself.

"How do you know that?"

Pietro asked, his eyes bright.

The emperor laughed.

- Do you have a chin that you don't know about repeating the same history?

same history.

When the ancient history of Jijeoin, which he wanted to hear from the emperor, was mentioned, Seo Mun-yeop held his breath.

I stayed as silent as possible to avoid being noticed by the emperor.

'Keep talking. Don't recognize my face.'

When Maninreung collapsed, it was Seo Mun-yeop who dealt a fatal blow to the emperor and destroyed it.

If the emperor recognized Seo Moon-yeop like that, the important story could not come out.

- You attacked this place by mobilizing a bunch of monsters with genetic manipulations, didn't you?

"Right."

-The foolish ancestors had to abandon their home and run away after doing such a thing.

Pietro's eyes widened.

It was a story of an abandoned world known only as a legend.

Because records have been erased and the language has been practiced, even oral traditions have not been made, and the far-flung ancient history has been erased.

It was a story of a time when humans on the ground had not even achieved civilization yet.

- A monster made only for malicious purposes symbolizes the wickedness of the society that created it. Do you think that such a society can return to normal without going to extremes by controlling malice?

"That's right."

Pietro gritted his teeth after being harshly pointed out for his mistake.

-Isn't that what happened in the era right before me?

"Are you saying that you repeated such a thing in the old, abandoned world?"

- Don't you know?

"I don't know."

-You forgot again, you guys.

The emperor suddenly burst into anger.

-You again erased and forgot the history that Jim commanded and brought back to life! Are you saying that if you cover it up like that, the sins will disappear!

The emperor's wrath was directed straight at Pietro.

- Dirty priest bastards. Because it claims to represent the light of the beginning, you must always be right, and you must hide your mistakes without admitting them! They eradicated it so that they could never touch politics again, but they came back to life and ruined the country!

Pietro closed his eyes tightly.

In the end, it seemed that it was the priests like himself who left out the history.

'I guessed.'

-They couldn't handle the monsters they created, so they had to abandon the ground and run away. That is the reality of the abandoned world. That's what the ancestors you're looking for did!

After hearing the story, Seo Moon-yeop remembered the moment the last dungeon collapsed.

The monsters that had been released from the control of the underground people had run amok.

The abandoned world looked ruined like that.

But that was then.

-You look familiar.

The emperor's gaze had moved to Seo Mun-yeop before he knew it.

"I saw the wrong person."

Seo Moon-yeop denied it for the first time.