A Dragonslayer’s Peerless Regression – 571



Episode 571

Bathory Basarab.

She was none other than the daughter of the enemy king Count Vlad Basarab.

Bathory gripped his axe tightly as he glared at Zeke.

“…Zeke Draker. You….”

“I ask again. Why did you intervene in this war? Was it really on the enemy king’s orders?”

Zig spoke in a low voice and took a step closer to Bathory.

Then the knights who were tied up behind by the dragon tried to step forward with great effort.

“Ugh! I have to protect His Majesty the Count!”

“Your Majesty! We will go!”

They were trying to force themselves out of the dragon language for her sake without any thought of their own bodies being destroyed.

Zeke stuck out his tongue when he saw this.

“The knights’ loyalty is amazing. I want to show it to our knights as well.”

At Zeke’s words Bathory bit his red lips and then spoke in a low voice.

“You filthy brood of Drakers. You intend to humiliate me and kill me but it won’t happen as you wish.”

A sharp blade protruded from her wrist.

Bathory glared at Zeke with eyes full of hatred and disillusionment and shouted.

“I will curse you in hell Zeke Draker!”

At the same time she tried to stab herself in the neck with a blade.

Chae-Ang!

But before the blade could reach her neck the shadow Zeke had created wrapped around her neck and arms.

Because of the power of the shadow Bathory was unable to stab his own neck.

“Ugh.”

The blade that protruded from his wrist was eaten by the shadow and slowly disintegrated and disappeared.

Bathory looked despairing when he saw this.

“…Are you trying to humiliate me without even allowing me to die?”

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Zeke looked dumbfounded when he heard Bathory’s words.

“I have no idea what you’ve been talking about since a while ago.”

He never showed mercy to his enemies but he never massacred innocent people or abused others.

But Bathory was treating Zeke like the most evil spirit in the world.

She screamed as she was bound by the shadows.

“Do you think the evil deeds of Draker will be hidden for the rest of your life? Not only did you kill your father and kidnap the guardian dragon of your family but you also killed innocent people! And then you used Draker’s power to erase this fact!”

Zeke furrowed his brows at Bathory’s words.

“Look I’m sorry but I never did that. Why would I invade the Basarab territory and kill the enemy king? And the guardian dragon? Are you saying there were still living dragons in the Basarab territory?”

The words that poured out of Bathory’s mouth were completely unexpected.

At Zeke’s seemingly absurd reaction Bathory glared at Zeke and spoke in a fierce voice.

“You dirty Draker. I saw with my own eyes that you put a sword through my father’s heart and put chains around the guardian dragon’s neck and you deny it? Denying your actions won’t make the facts disappear!”

Zeke sensed Bathory’s vivid anger and realized something was wrong.

‘no way?’

As he gestured the shadows that had captured Bathory moved in front of Zeke restraining her.

Bathory squirmed as he looked down at Zig.

“No matter how much you insult me! The spirit of Basarab! The spirit of the Knights of Dracula will never be subdued!”

“You’re saying things that could be misunderstood by anyone who hears you. Just stay still.”

Zeke took off his gloves and placed his fingers on Bathory’s forehead.

When the Knights of Dracula saw this they cried out in tears of blood.

“The demonic Draker is about to unleash his evil powers upon Your Majesty!”

“We have to stop him!”

“Your Majesty! Just hold on a little longer! We’ll do whatever it takes…!”

Hearing the desperate voice of the Knights of Dracula Zeke clicked his tongue inwardly feeling as if he had become a real villain.

‘I guess I should first find out what happened.’

Zeke pushed aside his unpleasant feelings and used his dragon’s wisdom to look into Bathory’s memories.

Wooooow!

Memories of Bathory flowed into his head.

“father!”

The enemy king whose heart was pierced by a sword fell to the floor in front of Bathory.

The man with the sword turned his head and looked at Bathory.

He was none other than Zeke whose eyes were shining.

“Are you the blood of the enemy king?”

As Zeke stared at Bathory and pulled the chain he was holding in his hand the red-haired girl who had fallen behind him was dragged out.

Bathory looked at her and shouted.

“Eos!”

She was Eos the guardian dragon of the Basarab family.

Eos spoke to Bathory with a chain around his neck.

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“Bathori… Run away run away!”

Zeke who was looking at the two sent a lightning bolt through the chain.

Phage crackle!

Eos could not withstand the force and fell to the floor groaning.

Zeke turned his head and spoke to Bathory with cold eyes.

“Bathory Basarab. My name is Zeke Draker. Remember this day well. And fear this power.”

At the same time a black energy rose from Zeke’s body and seeped into Eos the guardian dragon.

Eos’s eyes turned black and her body began to change.

Kookookookookook!

Eos returned to her original form emitting a powerful dragon’s aura.

Klarararararara!

Eos who had returned to the dragon’s body still had the chain that Zeke had wrapped around his neck.

As he climbed onto Eos’ body Bathory cried out in anger.

“I will take revenge on you Zeke Draker!”

“That’s interesting. Let’s wait for that day to come.”

With Zeke’s laughter Eos opened her mouth wide and unleashed a powerful breath that blew away the wall.

Kookookookookook!

Zigg rode his dragon and disappeared leisurely and the place he passed by was as if a disaster had occurred. That day the entire land of the people of Basarab was destroyed.

Zeke frowned as he read Bathory’s memories.

‘Did someone manipulate the memories?’

He looked closely at Bathory’s memories.

Then I discovered something subtle but embedded in my memory.

He spoke straight to the system.

‘Analyze what the system has overwritten in memory.’

[Interpretation is performed according to the user’s request.]

Soon the system finished its analysis and a message appeared in front of Zeke’s eyes.

[Analysis complete. Memory contamination point found. Would you like to purify it?]

Zik immediately ordered the purification through Haeju.

[I will cleanse the pollution with the power of purification and normalize the memory.]

Wooooow!

An aura of great purification flowed out from Zeke’s body.

A golden wave spread out and passed through the bodies of Bathory in front of him and the Dracula Knights who were shedding tears of blood behind him.

Tsk tsk tsk tsk―

The atmosphere changed as a golden halo passed by purifying Bathory and the Knights of Dracula.

“…This is?”

Bathory’s memories quickly came back to me.

The one who holds the sword that pierces the heart of the enemy king.

The memory that had been overlaid with Zeke’s face slowly changed.

A man wearing Draker’s attire and holding a black sword similar to Zeke’s.

Zeke also clenched his teeth as he recalled Bathory’s new memories.

‘Arthur Draker.’

Arthur Draker who was believed to be dead had plunged his sword into the enemy king’s heart kidnapped Basarab’s guardian dragon and carried out a merciless massacre.

At the same time he manipulated Bathory into directing her wrath toward him by blaming Zeke for the heinous crimes he had committed.

Zeke shuddered at Arthur Draker’s meanness even though he knew full well how he had maintained the Draker family’s power all these years.

At that moment Bathory who had regained his memories through the power of purification opened his eyes in surprise.

“Oh how is this…?”

Of course she couldn’t help but be flustered by her normal memories suddenly returning.

Zeke released the shadow that was holding Bathory back and extended his hand towards her.

“Count I think we have something to discuss.”

* * *

Zeke entered the Dracula Knights’ camp set up inside the canyon.

As Zeke sat inside the barracks waiting for Bathory to come in he was amazed at the thorough schedules and flyers posted everywhere.

‘You prepared all of this just to catch me.’

Count Vlad known as the Red King and the guardian dragon that protected the land have disappeared.

Although the Knights of Dracula were one of the most powerful men in the Central Continent it was difficult for them to protect the autonomous city of Basarab without the Red King the black knight.

It was difficult enough to just recover the ruined city so they couldn’t afford to further increase the chaos.

In the end Bathory had no choice but to hide the death of the enemy king and use Hersion who was imbued with the power of the dragon to imitate the enemy king and protect his territory.

‘And that method worked to some extent.’

Even Zeke had no idea that she might not be the enemy queen until he confronted her directly.

Bathory’s power which fully utilized the power of the dragon was actually so strong that others could not tell the difference. However Zeke was able to notice it because he possessed the heart of the Elder Dragon.

‘If Bathory is capable of creating an artifact with the same level of power as the Hersion he was wearing then it is highly likely that he is a dragon that survived the war of liberation.’

It seemed like a dragon similar to Hades or older.

It was not a good sign that Arthur Drake had captured such a dragon.

‘I killed the enemy king but I took the dragon alive. It means that I can use it somewhere else.’

Arthur Draker’s traces were also found among the homunculi that attacked Sieg in Siemens’ Labyrinth.

From the King of Heroes’ Homunculus to the Elder Dragon’s Heart and Living Guardian Dragon.

I don’t know what Arthur Draker was up to but it certainly didn’t seem to be for the good of the Continent.

As I was sighing and gathering my thoughts in the midst of a difficult situation Bathory came into the barracks.

Hersion which had been broken by Zeke’s attack seemed to have regenerated over time and returned to its original form.

Bathory sat across from him with a wary expression as if his memories had returned but he still couldn’t completely trust Zeke.

She said looking at Zeke.

“I still can’t trust the Drake clan itself.”

Zeke nodded at those words.

“I’m glad you think the same way as me.”

Zeke also agreed that it was not easy to trust Draker’s bloodline so he responded nonchalantly.

Bathory paused slightly taken aback by his unhesitating answer before opening his mouth.

“Zeke Draker if you haven’t re-fabricated my memories then it must be Arthur Draker who murdered my father kidnapped the Guardian Dragon and slaughtered the people of Basarab.”

“Yes I just purified the polluted memories. I didn’t manipulate anything at all.”

Although it was the truth that Jikook told it was difficult for Bathory to believe it.

He shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t help the seeds of distrust that Arthur Draker had sown and got to the point.

“Why did Arthur Draker kill the enemy king and kidnap the guardian dragon?”

Bathory furrowed his brows in response to those words.

“That’s what I want to ask. My father has always maintained neutrality and declared that he would not intervene anywhere as long as the autonomy of the territory was respected. It’s also incomprehensible to us that the Drakers attacked first. Aren’t you guys trying to deceive the people with some kind of ulterior motive?”

Zig shook his head at Bathory’s words.

“As you know Arthur Draker is officially dead. The current Draker matriarch Kali Draker seeks to right the wrongs of the past Drakers.”

Bathory said with a look of complete disbelief on her face.

“The first thing Carly Draker did after becoming the head of the household was to gather allied forces and attack Jupiter. It was different from Arthur Draker but it was similar to what Draker had been doing until now. Conquer and subdue.”

It was difficult for Zeke to refute Bathory’s words for a moment.

Although there were many complicated circumstances on the surface Bathory’s words were correct.

“…I have nothing to say when you say it like that. However there is no denying that the previous emperor of Rom and Siemens caused a lot of trouble. In any case I hope you understand that we chose the lesser of two evils to prevent the worst outcome.”

Bathory said as he looked at Zeke.

“You have chosen the lesser of two evils. It is a good excuse for the conquerors.”

Zeke shook his head at those words mixed with laughter.

“If we don’t stop them even more fearsome conquerors will rise from below.”

Bathory was impressed by his words.

“What do you mean?”

“The Demon King. The Demon Lords are trying to resurrect the Demon King. If that happens there will be a war between the Demon World and the mortal world. And then…”

Zeke said looking into Bathory’s eyes.

“The one who is trying to start that terrible war is Arthur Draker.”