Chapter 264
“Uuuuuuh . ”
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Hesul sharply shook his entire body .
He was overflowing with vigor when he was reforming the hex legion alone in the Grain Mountains’ cheerless cave .
He thought that him being beaten by Roan was merely due to him having bad luck .
He had the confidence to absolutely win if faced again .
But as he looked at Roan boldly standing before his eyes right now, his breath stopped cold .
The insuperable might and strategies that annihilated Simon and the hex legion floated up .
No, from the start, the air and pressure shooting out from Roan right this moment crushed his entire body like boulders .
‘T, this bastard has already achieved the presence of a king . ’
It was the air of a king that he hadn’t felt even from Simon .
‘A, a real monarch has appeared . ’
Hesul forcibly put strength to his frantically trembling knees .
It felt as if he would powerlessly collapse if he did not .
At that very moment .
“Did you actually come alone?”
Bekeil who had greatly panicked looked around them .
The defeated look slowly disappeared and a bloody smile fully spread out on his face .
“Kukuku . You must have gone mad from climbing up to that high place . To dare appear alone in front of such a monster army . ”
He quickly turned his head and looked at Hesul .
“Please hurry and order the monsters, sir! Now really is the time to rip apart and kill Roan!”
A knavish and sly voice .
“Hhm?”
Only then Hesul, who was becoming endlessly small, began to grasp the surrounding situation .
Kkweoaoaoaoang! Chhruk! Chhruk! Chhrururuk!
The howls of ogres and goblins pierced into his ears .
Tens of savage monsters surrounded the Delphin Gorge .
Compared to that, their opponents were only two .
Of course, he couldn’t relax even so .
‘I, if I incant the hex and call all the rest of monsters together too……’
If he continuously attacked and attacked Roan again without a rest, even he would eventually tire and collapse .
‘There’s no need to be scared!’
Hesul steadied his weakening heart himself and gathered his hands .
As he whispered the unintelligible words, soon a dark light flashed along the shape of his hands .
Simultaneously, the monsters surrounding the Delphin Gorge threw up an even more savage howl .
Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!
Hearts powerlessly dropped and goosebumps rose on the entire body . [A Korean saying to show excitement and fear at the sametime . ]
‘A, amazing . ’
Bekeil instinctively swallowed dryly .
It truly felt like they could crush and shred Roan .
Furthermore .
Kkukung! Kkukukukung! Kkukung!
A ground-shaking sound was heard from afar .
A moment later, the trees and grass fell to the sides and an incredible number of monsters showed up .
Hesul had dragged together everything including the nearby hex legions as his final move .
Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!
The number of ogres reached almost one hundred .
The number of goblins, werewolves, redrabbits, breggar and so on exceeded hundreds .
In fact a size larger than a single troop .
Furthermore, even those that move through the ground like the venomous vipers and flying monsters like the twinhawks showed up .
However notable Roan and Murray’s strengths were, the Delphin Gorge’s topography was so rough and rugged that it wasn’t easy to confront the monsters .
No, it didn’t seem easy .
“Kukukuku . You scare? Hm? Scare?”
Bekeil looked at Roan unable to freely move and let out a crazed laugh .
A base expression and voice .
Murray turned livid and tried to immediately pounce, but laboriously cooled his anger at Roan’s restraint .
Roan quietly stood and looked at Hesul and Bekeil .
“I will give you a last chance . ”
“What? What chance?”
Bekeil snorted and shook his head .
Roan added on with a composed voice .
“Kneel down and beg for forgiveness now at least and I will spare at least your life . ”
“What?”
Bekeil shook his head with a dumbfounded expression .
‘This guy, is he really insane?’
A sneer fully floated up on his face .
In contrast .
“Hhm . ”
Hesul instinctively shrunk back .
‘Is there perhaps a reinforcement?’
But even when he meticulously combed the Delphin Gorge’s vicinity through a hex, there wasn’t a one more presence that could be felt .
‘Bluff? Or has he truly gone insane?’
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Hesul clenched his teeth .
Whatever it was, it was more advantageous to quickly finish the job if him showing up alone for the rescue was true .
‘It will become problematic if I were to perhaps drag on the time and meet the Crimson Legion . ’
Hesul quickly pressed his hands together .
Unintelligible words twisted through his lips and flowed out .
Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!
The monsters exploded out howls and poured out incredible pressure .
Roan felt the thick killing intents whirling like a storm and shook his head with an emotionless expression .
“In the end, you truly throw away even your last chance . ”
His eyes deeply sank down .
He had finally made his decision .
He lightly raised up his right hand .
A motion seemingly without any meaning .
Roan held up clearly just his forefinger .
Unlike the usual, an old ring was worn on his right forefinger .
It was a truly shabby ring .
But .
“Huhph!”
Hesul looked at that ring and gasped empty air .
No, it wasn’t just the degree of swallowing empty air .
He stiffly froze with his eyes wide like a stone statue .
“W, what’s wrong, sir?”
Bekeil saw that look and asked with a nervous expression .
Hesul merely blinked his eyes soundlessly instead of an answer .
Roan faintly made a smile .
“Do you recognize this ring?”
A quiet voice .
Hesul unconsciously nodded his head .
There was no way he couldn’t recognize it .
The old and shabby ring worn on Roan’s forefinger was originally his .
‘The ring I gave to Michel……’
The ring he passed before Hex Vice Master Michel marched leading Simon and the Hex Legion .
It was the very mark of the hex master, a treasure among treasures, the Ring of Divine Arts that numerous valuable hexes were etched in .
The color of Hesul’s face turned pale .
‘The Ring of Divine Arts has the power to command and control the hex legion . ’
Gulp .
He dryly swallowed .
If not careful, the entire monster legion could fall over into Roan’s hands .
‘N, no . That’s impossible!’
Hesul spat out a long breath and shook his head .
He forcibly calmed his shocked heart .
‘C, calm . ’
There was no need to be particularly shocked like this .
‘The Ring of Divine Arts is a divine artifact one can’t use unless one is a hexer with a high amount of divine power . ’
Even if one learned mana, developed divine power, or learned spirit arts, it wasn’t a tool that one could simply use .
‘Only those who mastered a high level of hexes can u……’
The moment his thought reached about that point .
“Acquiring this was right after cutting off Simon and Michel’s heads, but……”
Roan’s voice rode the wind and pierced into their ears .
He lightly shook and showed his forefinger .
“I strangely couldn’t use it at all . ”
At those words, Hesul’s expression turned bright .
‘I knew it!’
It was as expected .
Color blossomed again on his bleached face .
At the same time, a long sigh flowed out .
‘If the bastard can’t use the Ring of Divine Arts, then there is no no need to be afraid any longer . ’
A bloody smile hung on his mouth .
Tragically, Hesul completely did not know .
Of the fact that Roan had already absorbed the memories and hex abilities of hexers a long ago .
“The Ring of Divine Arts isn’t an artifact a bastard like you can use . ”
Hesul thunderously shouted with a cold voice .
At those words, Roan faintly smiled and shook his head .
“I also thought that too . But after I kept practicing……”
The smile hanging on his mouth turned even thicker .
Suddenly .
Paat!
A dark and dreary light poured out from the Ring of Divine Arts .
“Y, you actually……?!”
Hesul widely goggled his eyes .
An expression that absolutely couldn’t believe, no, didn’t wish to believe .
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Roan, as if he had been waiting, fully opened his right hand .
The light flowing out from the Ring rode his five fingers and extended out in every direction .
“Now I can use the Ring of Divine Arts . ”
A calm voice split the monsters’ howls .
Simultaneously, the monsters sharply shook their bodies and soon stiffly froze like stone statues .
Ggiick! Ggiick! Ggiiiick!
Completely paralyzed appearances as if caught in a snare .
From the Ring of Divine Arts the light continued to pour out .
Amazing . ’
Roan was inwardly greatly surprised .
This time was the first that he used the Ring of Divine Arts .
Until now, he couldn’t carelessly use it because the level of divine power accumulated in his body was low .
Only now, thanks to tirelessly training hexes while repeating the wars and battles, he could activate the Ring of Divine Arts .
However, his level still wasn’t high .
‘My divine power is draining rapidly . ’
Roan collected his breath and laboriously calmed his boiling divine power .
His gaze headed towards Hesul and Bekeil .
“I have clearly given you the last chance . The ones that threw that away are you . ”
A cold voice echoed the Delphin Gorge .
“W, what? Wh, what does……”
Bekeil couldn’t properly grasp the situation .
He looked back and forth between Roan and Hesul .
“W, what are you doing, sir? Why do you stay still? Hurry and give orders to the monsters and kill the bastard Roan!”
His urgent voice noisily rang out .
Hesul tightly bit his lower lip .
Already, he was pauselessly incanting and incanting again the spells .
However, the monsters did not even twitch .
‘He actually knows how to properly use the Ring of Divine Arts . ’
The color of his face dyed black .
‘Roan Lancephil……’
Hesul spat out a long breath .
He already gave everything up .
‘The hex legion that I painstakingly prepared too has gone over to him . ’
There was nothing left in Hesul’s hands .
Even if he were to exhaust all his divine power and fight, he couldn’t face a troop level of monsters alone .
‘And the backwoods hunter brat wouldn’t even be a help either……’
His deeply sunken eyes turned towards Bekeil .
Bekeil looked at the somehow limply depressed Hesul and creased his brows .
“J, just why are you……”
The moment his words reached about that point .
“It’s all over . It’s all over . Even the monsters have already gone over to Roan . ”
“J, just what’s……”
Bekeil waved his arms with a disbelieving expression .
Hesul finished his words with a despondent expression and voice .
“Everything is over . Everything is……”
He, like that, closed his eyes .
“Th, that’s impossible……”
Bekeil shook his head with a half-soulless expression .
He looked back and forth between Roan and Hesul, then soon collapsed down .
‘I went out of my way to beg and stick to that weird man, and……’
In reality the one that grasped his life became Roan .
‘Kuuk . I’ve poured down all sorts of curses and awful swears……’
His eyes lost their direction and rapidly shook .
‘I, I can’t die like this!’
Bekeil clenched his teeth .
A foul light flowed in his eyes .
“Y, you son of a bitch!”
A sharp curse echoed the Delphin Gorge .
Surprisingly, his cold gaze was headed towards Hesul .
Hesul, who was closing his eyes, let out an astonished laugh at Bekeil’s abrupt action .
“Do you really want to live even like that?”
At the lightly asking words, Bekeil turned his head instead of answering and looked at Roan .
“Y, your majesty! P, please spare me . I, I’ve done a foolish act because I was stupid and lacking!”
A desperate and dire voice noisily rang out .
“P, please give me just one more chance! I’ll find you the Bow of Piscis if you save me!”
“Bow of Piscis……”
Roan faintly smiled and shook his head .
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“There isn’t something like the Bow of Piscis in the first place . ”
“Eh? W, what does……” I definitely heard the words that Adjutant Murray was……”
Bekeil’s face that spoke out to that point stiffly froze .
“T, then perhaps you intentionally from then……”
At those words, Murray who was staying quiet formed a bright smile .
“Y, you son of a…… . kuuk . ”
Bekeil forcibly swallowed the curse that rose up to his throat .
He once again lowered his head towards Roan .
“P, please spare me . Y, your majesty, no, Roan! My friend! W, we’re friends that grew up in the same village . P, please save me!”
Bekeil appealed to their old friendship .
However, Roan’s expression showed no change .
“Noisy . ”
A quiet voice rode the wind and flowed .
A displeased look floated up .
‘There isn’t a room to look on further either . ’
The divine power within his body was slowly showing its bottom .
Paat!
The light spewing out from the Ring of Divine Arts became slightly brighter .
Instantly, the monsters that were frozen all turned their directions and glared at Hesul and Bekeil .
Roan began to slowly gasp the right hand he had fully opened .
“Kill yourselves and perish . ”
Finally, a cold command fell down .
Kkweoaoaoaoang!
The ogres and the monsters exploded out howls and stomped the ground .
Few among them broke the necks of their nearby allies or bit apart their bodies .
Kkweoaoaoang! Chhrururuk! Ggiieeeck!
Horrid screams echoed on the mountainside .
“Uah!”
Bekeil screamed at the thick blood splattering everywhere .
“S, save me! Save me!”
He began to squirmingly crawl towards Roan .
No, he tried to crawl .
But before he knew it, ogres and goblins blocked his front .
“R, Roan! No, your majesty! Please save me!”
Bekeil looked at the monsters closing in towards him and screamed .
Roan quietly stared at that sight and spoke in a low voice .
“I have never taken in a retainer like you . ”
They were words directly returning back Bekeil’s words that he never served Roan in the first place .
“Roan! Please!”
Bekeil’s sharp voice pierced the sky .
Roan once more spoke in a quiet voice .
“Nor have I ever taken in a friend like you . ”
He had already given enough chances .
“Y, you, you……”
Bekeil clenched his teeth .
An ogre’s shadow fell above his head .
“Roan!!!!!”
A shout filled with anger hit the ears .
At the same time with that, the ogre swung its giant arm .
Puuuck!
With a horrid sound, Bekeil’s head exploded out .
A vein death .
Bekeil who repeated betrayal after betrayal solely for his own gain lost his life at an ogre’s single swing .
‘Bekeil . ’
Roan looked straight at the headless corpse .
There wasn’t any regret .
No, it was a moment he had wished so much for since his last life .
‘Even so, if you had kept your promise with me……’
He had thought to spare at least his life .
But he, even just a moment before, had tried to kill him as if it was nothing .
Roan’s patient emptied out at that moment .
‘It’s a more painful homecoming than I had thought . ’
The taste in his mouth was bitter .
At that very moment .
“Roan Lancephil . ”
Hesul’s voice was heard through his ears .
Roan turned his head and looked at him .
Hesul’s appearance was one surrounded by ogres .
“Were you also learning hexes?”
He asked in a low voice .
Roan shortly answered .
“Of course . ”
At those words, Hesul let out an amused laugh .
“You bastard must really be……”
The tip of his voice sharply shook .
“Planning to become a god or something . ”
That was the end .
Ogres’ fists flew down from every direction .
Hesul, without even particularly thinking of blocking, closed his eyes .
Pbubububuck!
His head shattered and his entire body mashed .
Hex Master Hesul, who dreamt of revenge on the world, met his end like that .
Roan looked at his powerlessly collapsing body and spoke in a quiet voice as if to whisper .
“I don’t even wish for something like a god . ”
His eyes flashed and shone with light .
“The thing I wish is only to become a good monarch . ”
His calm voice rode the wind and flowed .
In that time, the monsters bit apart and snapped necks of each other and fell down .
After who knew how long, the ones now left were merely five, six ogres .
Roan lightly drew his Travias Spear at his waist and swung .
Fwooosh!
A dark red flames pierced the ogres’ bodies .
Kkweoaoaoang!
Monstrous screams echoed the mountainside .
Kkdung .
Together with a dull sound, the ones that stood to the end fell down .
Finally, the last members of the hex legion were erased clean .
“Murray . ”
Roan withdrew his spear and called Murray .
“Yes . Your majesty . ”
Murray kneeled down on one knee and lowered his head .
Roan looked at the Delphin Gorge full of corpses and spoke in a small voice .
“Let’s go back . To our home . ”
Home .
It wasn’t merely a hometown .
It was their home .
That place was not the Lare Village .
Murray, in a resounding voice, answered .
“Yes sir! I will lead the way!”
A slightly excited voice .
Tat!
Soon, Murray kicked off the ground and exited out of the perilous Delphin Gorge .
Roan, with soft and relaxed movements, followed his back .
And exactly two weeks later .
A group showed up at the west of Amaranth Kingdom’s capital, Mediasis Castle .
A giant flag waved at the group’s front .
Next to that, two smaller flags showed off their majesty .
And .
Finally, Roan had ended the long war and had returned to the Mediasis Castle as the monarch of a kingdom .
“Huu . ”
Roan stood at the lead and exhaled a long sigh .
The tally rising castle wall was clearly seen .
He, so that the Amaranth Taemusa Troop’s soldiers could all hear, spoke in a loud voice .
“That very place……”
The tip of his eyes slightly trembled .
“Is our home . ”
It truly was a perfect return .
No, it was a homecoming .
PR Note: This chapter was TLed but not PRed for a while now . I am hoping to start posting more chapters soon™ .
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