The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 253

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Part 2, Chapter 100

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With the three people gone from the campfire, Garo downed more honey wine.

“Garo. If you’re going to use aura to clear your head anyway, why do you keep chugging it?”

Terrence scolded him.

“Actually, if it weren’t for Her Highness the Princess today, I would have been a dead man, so I’m wondering what right I have to be sitting here thinking.”

Late at night, borrowing the sweet scent of honey wine, Garo poured out his inner thoughts.

“I was just, surprised. This forest isn’t as easy as I thought—”

He hung his head.

“So I felt fear for a moment. We’ll have to face the evil dragon soon, but can I be of help? Even if Her Highness the Princess knows this forest inside and out, can we eliminate the evil dragon?”

Garo’s fingertips trembled slightly.

“On one hand, I’m also excited. It’s been so long since I’ve risked my life and thrown everything away like this, I can’t even explain it—”

“This is land that even seasoned rangers aren’t familiar with. Your reaction is extremely emotional and human.”

“Hmph, you talk as if you’re not human just because you’re a mage—”

Whoosh—!

At that moment, Garo glared into the darkness and threw his axe like lightning.

The sharp metal flew through the air, cutting the wind threateningly.

However, the hand axe didn’t even graze the masu’s chest, but was caught in the opponent’s hand like a child’s toy.

Garo’s brow furrowed seriously.

Bipedal. A humanoid masu that could use its hands, and one that could hide its presence until approaching very close—

Just as Garo was burning with energy to draw his sword.

“Our Highness, are you here?”

A sharp, deep voice flowed from the black silhouette.

The dim light of the campfire illuminated the opponent’s chest.

On the chest where dark red blood and leaves were dried and stuck messily, the symbol of Agema was carved—a galloping horse emblem.

“Captain Diangel?”

Silverend dropped from Neryl’s hand with a thud.

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The next day, perhaps thanks to the World Tree sap and Silverend, Medeia woke up refreshed for the first time without any nightmares.

“Peleus sent you?”

However, making that refreshing feeling meaningless, when she discovered a familiar silhouette among the expedition members, she pressed her forehead.

“Yes, Your Highness. But how could you leave out your god when going to catch an evil dragon?”

Diangel, who had already heard all the future plans from Kensington, expressed his disappointment to Medeia.

“Your Highness, that’s why I said we should definitely bring the captain. Look even now, finding us by breaking through this forest alone without a guide—that’s not ordinary madness.”

Tom inwardly clicked his tongue.

‘That human might not even be human…’

“How did I get here? I followed human traces. Who else but you would go this deep? Otherwise, it would mean a fight.”

“What did I do about the masu? What do you mean what did I do, I just killed them.”

This was why Diangel was covered in masu blood when he first appeared.

“But this is indeed like our Highness. Of course, I thought there was no way the strong and unbreakable Valdina bloodline would just run away.”

Diangel turned and bowed to Facade and Chezare as well.

Though it was regrettable that the one Her Highness Medeia had asked for help was a prince of the Kazen Empire…

“Valdinians never forget grudges or favors. This hand you extended to our Highness, I will not forget. His Majesty will feel the same.”

Of course, these were words spoken without Peleus’s consent.

Diangel looked again at 1st Prince Chezare, who not only helped Medeia materially and spiritually but even joined the expedition targeting the evil dragon.

‘Not just anyone would risk their life for others in a fight with unclear victory. Especially with their subordinates’ lives too.’

The 1st Prince had even revealed his identity hidden under Facade’s mask for decades.

Diangel, who had constantly crossed the line between life and death on battlefields, knew this fact all too keenly.

“I too will do my utmost to help complete Princess Medeia’s mission.”

Thud.

He planted the sword he had carried on his back into the ground.

“On behalf of His Majesty.”

Medeia, recognizing Peleus’s sword, hesitated.

“…Is Peleus okay? Isn’t he worried about me?”

Diangel swallowed the countless words Peleus had told him to convey and said only one thing.

“Yes, he is waiting for Your Highness.”

Thus, 10-star knight Diangel joined the expedition.

Diangel’s joining spurred the expedition’s movement even more.

“Where’s the time to rest? Even now, those Holy Kingdom brats are getting closer tick by tick!”

“Tom, get up. Do you want your butt to catch fire? What camping here, we can go another hour.”

Garo learned the secret behind the mobility that crossed the vast plains.

One-sided threats and whips.

Perhaps the Agema being strong wasn’t by choice.

“We need to advance by even a day! We don’t know what variables there might be in defeating the evil dragon!”

“A masu appeared? What avoid, just smash into it! Endure with your body!”

Diangel now seemed to have forgotten that Chezare’s group were foreigners, mixing formal and informal speech.

“Boss, say something. We’re Facade, not Agema. How about the 10-stars establish a hierarchy first?”

Garo, unable to endure it, subtly tried to persuade Chezare, but Chezare crossed his arms and snorted.

“I like it.”

Also, the simple Diangel didn’t take Medeia’s foresight too complicatedly.

“Has everyone forgotten who our Princess Medeia is? The one who saw through battlefields thousands of miles away and saved Valdina from the hands of the corrupt?”

And just this much?

“That’s true. Come to think of it, I’ve gaped at news about Her Highness several times.”

“They say a true pioneer walks through darkness where not even an inch ahead is visible as if it were broad daylight.”

Diangel snorted.

“The continent elevates the Saint as the goddess’s representative, but hmph, that’s only because the Holy Kingdom hides and covers all her wicked schemes. Our Highness is much more virtuous and pious than her…”

If that were true, the oracle wouldn’t have designated me as the evil dragon’s sacrifice.

“Stop it, Diangel.”

Medeia restrained him.

They were moving to higher ground to confirm the path leading to the gorge where the evil dragon’s lair was located.

The dense trees gradually decreased and the view widened. It was a place high above sea level where they could see to the other side of the forest.

Then, silver light flashed from the mountain range on the opposite side that was clearly visible. Even in broad daylight, it sparkled like silver tassels spreading out, dazzling the eyes.

At the same time, they could see the trees around it swaying like waves while multicolored smoke erupted explosively.

“Flash grenades.”

Human items rarely seen in natural forests.

That meant there was another group of rangers exploring the forest in those mountains.

The moment she heard those words, Medeia froze solid.

Silver tassels with small leaves fluttering above. The rainbow-colored smoke visible from afar—Medeia knew it well.

‘Shadow Tentacles.’

The smoke emitted when the parasitic masu Shadow Tentacles die.

Shadow Tentacles were top-tier parasitic masu that lived only in this Pitch-Black Forest, growing fat by absorbing darkness.

Like darkness, they had no substance and couldn’t be cut by swords, blades, or any weapon, and poison didn’t work on them either.

The only way to eliminate this masu legion was with light.

However, in the dense forest that even blocked the sky, the way to completely eliminate those giant tentacles was,

‘Detonating all the flash grenades and using that light to annihilate them.’

This was the method Medeia had discovered in her past life after losing five members.

The existence of shadow masu and their solution only became known to the continent after the expedition defeated the evil dragon.

So right now, in this life, the only person who could use that method was.

‘Jason.’

Medeia glared at the hilltop on the opposite side.

I could tell instinctively.

‘So you’ve finally returned as well.’

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