Night of the Soulless Heathens – 149



#149. Quartz Throne 3

Still the fact that Jebeck began to feel skeptical about discipline was only the first step.

“Well that’s good. So I talked to the King.”

“You mean you had an audience with Ancestus IV in person?”

“Yes. Ancestor IV must be desperate right now. He will talk to anyone who will be on his side even if they are a soulless blasphemer.”

Azadin also shared the story he heard from Ancestus IV.

“They say that the throne in Coral Sahar has its roots exposed in the underground passage of the palace. If we listen to the king he must have approached there and done something. That’s what I think.”

When Azadin asked that Shati snorted.

“The king here is shameless. Is it not his own lack of character that has weakened the light of the crown but whose fault is it?”

“That’s not true. At least it’s definitely not a question of character.”

Jibek shook his head with a bitter smile.

“Ancetus IV may not be the best at governing but most kings are similar or worse. At least Ancetus IV is not a cruel person.”

It was considered blasphemous for the King’s Paladin to objectively evaluate the King’s policies or character.

Just by the fact that Zibek said this you could tell that he was no longer a staid knight and was beginning to change.

“Hehehe. It seems like Mr. Paladin has a lot of new inspirations.”

When Shati heard that he was furious with Jibek.

“Well as Jibek said the light of the royal flower has been activated to some extent even if the kings have not been so selective. It has never been so weak that a magical storm can hit the royal palace.”

Azadin took out his bone wand and showed it to me.

“Shati. Use this to track the New King’s Book.”

“uh.”

Shati looked at Jibek’s expression. This bone wand was a type of evil magic for the knights of the King’s Church.

“Do it.”

Shati simply activated the Bone Wand to chase after the nearby Shinwangjinseo.

however….

Aren’t the flames of the bone wand blooming in multiple ways?

“There are so many of them so close?”

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“Really? I thought so.”

Azadin nodded.

“If the copy of the Shinwangjinseo is the light of Wanghwa itself and has fused with itself to strengthen the weakened light of Wanghwa then in other words if you can pour in and take out the copy of the Shinwangjinseo… like building sandbags in a dam and then taking them out… wouldn’t it be possible to specifically weaken that part?”

“It’s possible Captain.”

Scott nodded.

“If you return the copy of the New King’s Book to the light of the King’s Flower the light of the King’s Flower here will become stronger for a while… and then it will be leveled out throughout the kingdom. If you take out the copy of the New King’s Book at that time the light of the King’s Flower here will become weaker and if you do something like summoning that Nether being you can cause this to happen.”

“You think so too?”

“But you would have to be a great wizard. Finding and extracting a copy of the New King’s Book from the light of the King’s Flower is quite a task even for me. If it is difficult for me as an orc it is almost impossible for humans whose average intelligence does not even reach the tip of an orc’s toes.”

“….”

“Is there a woman named Arael here?”

Scott sighed.

“This will be a tough opponent. I have no choice but to use my handsome side here. It is a terrible insult for a beautiful and noble orc to mix blood with an ugly human but when I think that the captain might become my brother-in-law it’s not so bad.”

“Hold on. What kind of handsome guy are you? What kind of handsome guy are you….”

Azadin stopped Scott whose self-affirmation was reaching its limit.

“Well I’m only half joking.”

“If it was half a joke was it half serious?”

“It’s an inescapable fact that I’m handsome. Anyway Captain I think we need to investigate the underpass. If we’re going to use the copy of the New King’s Book to temporarily weaken the light of the King’s Flower we’ll need to approach the throne.”

“The problem is that the subway is flooded so there’s no way to get there if you just go in. I don’t know if the inside will be flooded all the time or if I have to swim a little to find a space to breathe. If I go in without thinking I could suffocate to death.”

As Azadin spoke Scott looked around found a pile of trash and began to rummage through it.

“What? Are you so hungry that you want to eat trash?”

As he listened to Shati’s grumbling Scott picked up a fish bone from the trash pile. The pieces were pieces of food that someone had eaten and thrown away.

“Ugh!”

As Scott tied the knot and breathed life into it a bluish glow formed on the bone and it began to move like a ghost of a fish.

“….”

Jibek’s expression is not good.

“Are you okay?”

Scott had already done it and asked Zibek later.

“Hmm. It’s okay. Go ahead. It’s necessary for the greater good.”

“By the way that’s amazing. Can you even turn food waste into undead?”

“Actually this is a bit difficult for me even though I’m a genius of the era. It takes a lot of magical power concentration and mental power. But I guess I can investigate the inside of that water with this right?”

Scott sent a ghost fish underwater to investigate the pitch-black flooded tunnel.

“There is space in the middle.”

“Really? That’s fortunate. What about the monster inside?”

“I can’t really see it but it seems like there are people. I can hear voices. Huh?”

Scott clicked his tongue.

“The crocodile ate my ghost fish.”

“Is that a crocodile?”

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The good news is that the flooded subway wasn’t flooded and that you could swim your way through it for a while but the scary news is that there was a crocodile inside.

“They’re not that big crocodiles. There don’t seem to be many of them. And the water temperature is quite cold so even crocodiles would swim very slowly.”

“Okay. Well then. Let’s try entering while being careful of crocodiles. Can you use underwater breathing?”

“of course.”

“If Nagaga can’t use it it won’t work. Even if he’s a dry land bloodline.”

“I can also use underwater breathing magic.”

Scott and Shati Zibeck both nodded.

“That sounds good.”

Azadin felt a little envious of his group who despite not being able to use magic seemed to have no problem breathing underwater.

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The water in the flooded subway was so dark that its depth was unknown.

Moreover when I touched it it was as cold as ice. Even if I had the magic of underwater breathing I wouldn’t dare go in.

The surroundings are dark and there are sunken pieces of wood and stone so you don’t know what the water looks like. Even crocodiles appear so it’s not a place you would normally go into if you had the courage.

“Ugh it’s cold just looking at it.”

“Is everyone good at swimming?”

“I’m going out!”

Shati released her human form and returned to her true form as a Naga.

“Even though I’m from the dry land tribe I’m confident in swimming.”

“What about Scott?”

“Um. I’m a bit confused Captain.”

Regardless of whether you can swim or not you probably don’t want to swim because it builds muscle.

“Shati! Tie a rope around Scott’s waist and pull him.”

“Huh? What are you talking about? This guy is complaining because he wants to build muscle. Are you going to listen to him complaining like that?”

“Considering what Scott has done so far let’s give him some of that whining. He’s probably out and about so let him have some energy.”

“Tch. Okay.”

“Then what about Lord Jibek?”

“I have some swimming skills. Since fishing is my hobby it came naturally.”

“Okay let’s go. Wow. The water is as cold as ice.”

Azadin grumbled as he entered the water.

There were so many foreign substances in the water that it was impossible to keep one’s eyes open and move around. However Azadin did not have eyes so he could see well into the water without worrying about water getting into his eyes.

‘There’s a crocodile.’

Although their body length is less than a foot crocodiles are deadly enemies to humans. They are even more terrifying when encountered in the water.

Perhaps it was a good thing that the crocodile was slow in the water as cold as ice? However the crocodile seemed to be able to withstand this level of cold water and it was moving slowly as it approached Azadin and his group.

It certainly looked like it was rushing towards prey. Its movements showed its intent to hunt.

‘If you come I’ll kill you.’

Azadin threatened the crocodile but the crocodile could not understand such a threat.

Shati was closest to the crocodile but she swam in a naga form and leisurely avoided it.

Eventually the crocodile approached the nearest Azadin.

‘shit.’

Azadin grabbed the snout of the slowly approaching crocodile and wrapped his arms around it tying it up so it couldn’t open its mouth.

The crocodile tried to twist its body with great force but Azadin overpowered it with his strength and stabbed the Wendigo dagger into its spine twisting it.

The crocodile’s life was cut off with a single blow.

“Phew! Wow so cold!”

Shati screamed and jumped out of the water.

“I told you there were people there so be quiet… Yeah?”

There were people shivering in the cold inside the subway. They must have been Aragasa since they all had moon-shaped palaces.

But isn’t everyone embarrassed when they see Azadin and his group?

“Me out?!”

“What? Are you a colleague?”

Since they were already working with the Nagas they did not seem to consider the Naga Shati as an enemy when it emerged from the water.

Then Azadin followed Shati and emerged from the water.

“What? You guys? You don’t seem to be messengers.”

“We are the Corasar Bobusang Guild.”

“Are you a servant of the Etar bloodline? You all may know my name but I am Azadin the 108th messenger of the Emperor.”

“You are that…..”

“Azadin of Muan!?”

Even if we didn’t know Azadin’s face we all knew about him through rumors.

Herald Azadin born from the curse of the traitor Acre is cursed with no eyes.

Although it’s not a very good rumor he’s a famous person that Aragasa would know.

‘Wait a minute. If it’s Azadin didn’t you say he was definitely from the Senate?’

‘You are Arael’s younger brother but you reject Arael’s grace?’

The servants looked at Azadin with confusion.

‘Is it the enemy?’

‘Then what is that going out?’

Besides Azadin’s attitude was very confident.

“So. What happened? Why did you all… Oh. You were on a mission to wait here and it rained so hard that it flooded?”

“Yes that’s right. There are crocodiles in the water and I don’t know how deep it is.”

They felt embarrassed as they said that because they didn’t know how to deal with Azadin.

‘What should I do?’

‘I heard that you should never harm Arael’s younger brother…’

‘But the master said to kill him as soon as he saw him.’

The elders of Sion Ethar and Sebali who controlled the Korasaar trade union and other leaders of the Arael tribe wanted to eliminate Azadin without Arael knowing in order to avoid future problems.

But those who remain now cannot decide that at will.

Since there is no one with the authority to make the decision and the other party is Arael’s younger sibling it is an ambiguous relationship so it is impossible to meddle in it.