A Dragonslayer’s Peerless Regression – 485



Episode 485

Beep beep beep

A loud whistle blew from somewhere.

The Silver Knights and Black Sword Knights who were facing off in front of Winterkeep were startled by the sudden warning signal.

At that moment one of the members of the Silver Knights who had rushed over whispered something to Carly.

Carly nodded with a hardened face and went straight down into the Winterkeep dungeon.

Upon seeing this the members of the Black Sword Knights stepped forward roughly.

“What happened!”

“The lord is below! Get out of the way immediately!”

The white knights blocked the black sword knights who were trying to push in.

A confrontation between two knights with no room for retreat.

Then Duke Draker came out from inside.

There was a fierce anger in his eyes.

The Duke pulled out the gale sword he used when he was a Black Knight and spoke softly to the knights of the White Knights.

“Get out of the way now. This is your final warning.”

The knights of the Silver Knights gulped at the warning of the young Duke.

However they too were knights who moved under the orders of their lord Kali.

He held his sword and did not back down enduring the Duke’s killing intent.

Their attitude caused a gust of wind to rise from Duke’s body.

Wooooowoong―

Just as he was about to rush towards the Silver Knights something flew at him at high speed.

Boom!

An old sword was stuck in the floor between the knights of the Silver Knights and the Duke.

The Duke immediately recognized the sword’s identity.

‘Bernas.’

None other than the sword of the Sword King Bernas.

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Soon Bernas appeared among the knights of the Silver Knights.

The Duke frowned as he looked at Bernas who was holding his old sword stuck in the ground.

“Your Majesty what are you doing now?”

Bernas just stood there silently holding the sword in his hand that was stuck in the ground.

I knew he was Kali Draker’s mentor and patron but I never thought he would help her in this situation.

Moreover although Bernas had few contacts within the Draker family he was close enough to the Duke to share a drink with him.

The Duke knew full well that the Sword King had no interest in politics or power within the Draker family so he found his current behavior incomprehensible.

And even though the Duke raised such doubts Bernas still stood still without drawing his sword.

The Duke noticed something when he saw Bernas like that.

‘no way…?’

He locked eyes with Bernas for a moment then took a step back.

Then he put the sword back in his hand.

“…I’m stepping back for now.”

On the surface it seemed as though the Duke was scared away by Bernas and was backing down.

But at least the knights of the Black Sword Knights knew that the Duke was not that kind of person.

I figured if he had asked to step down there must have been a reason.

The knights of the Black Sword Knights slowly stepped back glaring at the Sword King and the Silver Knights at the Duke’s words.

Only after the Black Sword Knights had completely retreated could the White Knights relax.

Even though the Black Sword Knights had retreated King Bernas still stood his ground.

This was because Gareth the Scarred Knight who led the Black Wolf Troops appeared as soon as the Black Sword Knights retreated.

Gareth’s face hardened as he saw the Sword King and the Silver Knights standing guard at the entrance to the dungeons of Winterkeep.

“Sir Bernas. An alarm has been sounded indicating that an intruder has entered the Four Seasons Castle. Please step aside so that we can investigate.”

Then this time Bernas pulled out the sword he had stuck in the ground aimed it at Gareth and said:

“It is not permitted.”

It was a short statement but it had special weight because it was said by King Bernas.

Bernas was completely unscathed in his confrontation with the Black Wolves led by Gareth.

It was difficult for Gareth to push further as long as Bernas the Black Knight and the current strongest member of the Draker family was blocking it.

But then Carly Draker came up from underground.

She slowly opened her mouth as she looked at Gareth leading the Black Wolf.

“Sir Gareth. There has been an ambush in the underground memorial chambers of Winterkeep.”

Carly continued speaking with a calm expression.

“I have confirmed that Sir Zeke Draker who was attending the funeral was ambushed by Siemens’ assassins.”

* * *

The news that Zeke Draker a direct descendant of Draker and Knight of Salvation had been ambushed in the middle of the Four Seasons during the funeral rites of his master quickly spread across Atlas and the entire Central Continent.

His death has not yet been officially announced as his body has not been found but judging by the traces of blood left on the walls and floor of the memorial hall his death is almost certain.

But for the slightest possibility all of Draker’s knights were mobilized to search the entire Atlas for the missing Zeke Draker.

While they searched all over Atlas the black men under Howard’s orders were moving Zeke’s body through an unknown underground tunnel.

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Few knew of the existence of this ancient underground waterway which secretly connected the underworld of Winterkeep.

Even the Draker family didn’t know about it as it was a facility built during the Holy Empire era before Atlas became the center of Midland.

Howard’s men followed the familiar path of these labyrinthine underground passages.

thud!

They placed the casket containing Zeke’s body somewhere.

As soon as the men in black left Zeke appeared in the darkness where there was no one.

Ss …

The Zig in the box was a fake he had created as a shadow clone.

The real Zeke was hiding his true form and watching Howard and his men the whole time.

They kept a ghost soldier behind Howard to keep an eye on who he was meeting and discussing things with.

Zeke planned to use this opportunity to find out who all the rats hiding inside Draker were.

What was unexpected was where Howard came in dragging Zeke’s dead body.

In fact from Howard’s point of view the safest way was to leave traces of Siemens’ assassins on Zeke’s body and immediately announce his death throwing the family into chaos.

If he had been caught holding onto Zeke’s body for no reason and his actions had been discovered the situation could have been completely turned around.

‘There must be a reason why they dragged my body here.’

Zeke looked around the room where the chest was placed.

It seemed like a space that was completely sealed off on all sides created for the purpose of blocking off the outside world.

‘It doesn’t seem like a prison. What is it?’

Zig planned to go out while hiding in the shadows to properly understand the true nature of this space.

As we stepped outside the space a long dark hallway continued on.

There were many forks in the road and the structure was almost the same making it difficult to tell where was where.

The purpose of this designed space was one.

‘Ultimately it’s a structure that makes it difficult to escape from inside. Even if you can escape the room you’ll end up getting lost and wandering around and then end up going further inside.’

Zeke who was slowly looking around decided that this was not the Ankana secret space that Howard had created.

Even though Howard was a member of Draker’s Cross it was impossible for him to create and maintain a space of this scale on his own.

Even if it were possible there would be no reason to create such a space.

‘Then that’s where Howard joined hands. That would tell me where the bastard’s trusted backer is.’

In his previous life Howard sided with the Empire and played a major role in the Draker family falling into the hands of Abel Draker and the Mad Emperor.

In this life the Mad Emperor is dead and the empire is torn in half so he must have made different choices than in his previous life and he must find out who the target of his betrayal is.

‘It’s most likely either Siemens or the Abyss.’

There were no other places in Atlas where an underground facility of this scale could be built without anyone knowing about it.

At that moment Zig noticed them walking down the hallway and followed them without showing any sign of coming into view.

The robes they wore seemed to indicate that they were wizards but I didn’t sense any magical energy from the warlocks of the Abyss.

‘So is it like a secret Siemens research lab?’

Zeke leaned a little closer and listened in on the conversation between the two wizards.

“Now that chimera research has reached a near-stability stage our achievements will be acknowledged by our superiors.”

“Don’t judge too hastily. It can only be considered a real success if we grant the test subjects bloodline abilities and complete the functional testing.”

“The bloodline ability enhancement and transfer experiments are almost a success. We have reached the heights you have been hoping for.”

Zeke overheard the conversation between the two wizards and realized that this was a chimera research laboratory.

‘Could it be that this is a chimera research lab…?’

Come to think of it there was one more place besides Siemens and Narak where you could create a secret space like this.

‘Nostra Family.’

They were a mafia that had been around for a thousand years. They had set up this horrible laboratory in the basement of Atlas and were secretly creating chimeras as if mocking Draker.

Zeke realized that the people Howard had joined hands with were the Nostra Family.

When I realized this my anger towards the Nostra Family’s bold actions and Howard for joining hands with these guys soared.

‘Did Howard just join hands with criminals to try to control the Draker family?’

As in his previous life Howard betrayed Draker in this life for his own benefit and power.

This was an opportunity to root out all the traitors and dangers in the family including Howard.

‘If you leave an enemy inside you may get stabbed in the back of the head later.’

It was a golden opportunity to wipe out the internal enemies that were revealed on the surface.

Zeke calmed down and looked at the situation again calmly.

‘Howard might have tried to make up for his lack of manpower by making a deal with the Nostra family. He could eliminate me and put Sister Kali in the family and then control the family from behind the scenes.’

But Howard’s force is not enough to subdue the Knights of Kalina Baek.

So it seems he planned to enlist the help of the Nostra Family to put a ban on her and make her do his bidding.

It was a dark and mean scheme to shake Drake’s direct line in his hands.

‘Wait a minute but a small-time person like Howard wouldn’t have openly joined hands with the Nostra family.’

Howard was a mean and loyal dog who followed Arthur Draker’s orders.

‘Could it be that Arthur Draker didn’t know that he was in league with the Nostra Family?’

Moreover it was difficult to understand that he did not know the identity of this laboratory connected to the Four Seasons.

‘Rather it is more likely that the deal was made with the Nostra Family under the leadership of Arthur or Baron.’

As Zeke was figuring out the situation he guessed that Howard had acted as a middleman in the deal and had made a new deal with the Nostra Family after Arthur’s death.

Moreover in the case of the Nostra Family they had lost several test subjects to Zeke including Dario and Six so their resentment must have run deep.

It seemed that this was a chance to dispatch bloodline power users to deal with Zeke with Howard’s help.

Thinking that far Zeke felt a chill at the thought that Arthur Draker might also have had ties to the Nostra Family.

‘How many secrets was Arthur Draker hiding?’

He followed the two wizards into the laboratory with sunken eyes.

The two wizards stood before a large black door and simultaneously placed their hands on two crystal orbs on either side.

Woohoo!

A light appeared from the crystal ball and the black door slowly opened splitting in two.

Zeke couldn’t help but be surprised at what was hidden behind that door.

Inside a giant glass case a turtle-shaped demon was floating with its entire body bound in chains.

Zeke realized what was inside the glass case.

‘A deadly disease?’

It was Dool one of the four evil spirits.

We already knew that the Nostra Family’s test subjects were chimeras created using Dool’s blood.

However I did not know that there was a place under Atlas where the corrupted blood of Tao was extracted.

The wizards observed the drops of black blood dripping into the bottle next to the glass chamber where Dool was trapped.

At that the chief wizard shook his head.

“Compared to before both the quality and quantity of blood are woefully inadequate.”

“Well it must be because it took quite a while to pull it out. It may be a great trick but there must be a limit to it.”

The chief wizard clicked his tongue and put the collected blood of Dool in a bottle and put it in his bosom.

Then as I was about to close the door and leave

“hmm?”

It was as if someone had sent him a magic message.

The wizard next to him tilted his head and asked.

“Why are you doing that?”

He said as he looked at the senior wizard.

“Howard’s side contacted me to say that the body of the pureblood slayer they had promised had arrived.”

The chief wizard said with a faint smile.

“This is my chance to do the final experiment.”