The Crown I Will Take From You - Chapter 261

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Part 2, Chapter 108

“This is not a suitable strategy for the current situation. While searching for secrets hidden in the Land of Protection, whether it’s the Philosopher’s Stone or whatever else, how many more people will be devoured by the hordes of magical beasts…”

Rachel looked around at those seated at this round table.

She made particularly long eye contact with the small kingdoms.

“Kazen may be a great power capable of bearing the repercussions, but the rest of the continent cannot. As a representative, this is extremely concerning.”

“Exactly! Emperor of Kazen, how far do you intend to exploit the continent’s blood! If you two unite for profit, we too shall treat you as enemies until the very end and never stop!”

As the denunciations grew louder.

‘Dea, why have you returned.’

Peleus didn’t even turn his gaze toward Medeia, as if turning away.

However, the hand that unconsciously gripped where his greatsword should be at his waist trembled slightly.

He slowly closed his eyes.

“…”

He had hoped she would abandon both Valdina and all her duties and fly away freely.

He had been like a solid stone wall that never retreated despite countless pressures and criticisms. This was the first moment that barrier wavered.

“Our Kazen shall lend its strength to Valdina. If both empires join forces, what could we not accomplish?”

“What do you want?”

“Just one small, shining thing will suffice.”

There was no way Kazen, historically an enemy nation, would try to protect Medeia without any reason.

But whatever their scheme, if it could save his sister’s life.

‘I would even grasp a rotten hand.’

He made eye contact with Count Montfort.

Count Montfort, understanding the Emperor’s intention, smiled broadly and was about to rise from his seat.

“The Goddess can reveal Her will through divine oracles as much as She pleases. However, that should not become an excuse to evade responsibility as leaders.”

Medeia walked step by step toward the round table.

“When the continent is being devoured by magical beasts, can you truly say, swearing by the Goddess, that you have done everything you possibly could?”

“…”

“Haven’t you used the oracle as a shield to deflect all blame onto me? Is this truly the attitude of those who follow divine oracles?”

An uncomfortable tension lingered at Medeia’s pointed criticism.

“While you all persecuted my homeland and me, branding us as deserters, I headed to the land of death to find clues to save this continent. To find the very calamity the oracle spoke of and its source—the Evil Dragon.”

Medeia gestured with her chin.

The knights respectfully placed something on the round table.

Under white hands, the sound of leather straps being untied echoed through the space.

As the heavy leather was peeled away layer by layer, the Evil Dragon’s sharp and pointed fangs wrapped within were revealed.

“And I slayed the Evil Dragon.”

An eerie gleam flashed from the tip of the fang.

“Since the medium of the oracle has disappeared, the Goddess’s wrath will no longer strike the continent.”

“That’s, that’s impossible…!”

“What are you saying right now!”

The kings shot to their feet. People doubted their ears.

‘…Evil Dragon?’

Peleus also widened his eyes.

It felt like hearing his heart fall off a cliff.

Medeia—his sister hadn’t fled but had left to deal with the Evil Dragon?

“The Goddess commanded me to become the Evil Dragon’s bride. However, since the Evil Dragon that was to be my companion no longer exists, the oracle can unfortunately no longer be fulfilled.”

Medeia pronounced the word ‘companion’ clearly.

Directed at those who had urged her on, knowing she was actually a sacrifice despite being called a bride in name only.

“That can’t, that can’t be…”

“The Evil Dragon has disappeared…”

“Didn’t you notice even while looking at the map? That here, in the Evil Dragon’s lair, no magical energy appears anymore?”

She pointed to a place at the edge of the map.

Death’s Gorge, the region where the Evil Dragon had been, was a clear blue color.

The high priests who remembered it was originally a deep black color hesitated.

“Now, you want us to believe that? That you, the Princess of Valdina, have defeated the Evil Dragon?”

“What’s the problem with that?”

“That’s ridiculous! Even our Holy Kingdom didn’t dare touch the Evil Dragon, so how could a mere princess—!”

High Priest Paulo shouted in disbelief.

“Wasn’t it that you couldn’t dare touch it?”

Medeia replied coldly.

“That place was also where continental people lived, but I saw hell there. Different species of magical beasts flew in constantly, and the Evil Dragon’s poison spread.”

The faces of those who knew the Holy Kingdom’s past of being unable to do anything about the Evil Dragon’s lair turned pale.

“Why was that place alone excluded from the Goddess’s protection that spreads throughout the continent, unless the Holy Kingdom deliberately chose to turn away from only the land of death?”

Medeia turned toward Paulo. She raised her eyebrows as if puzzled.

“That’s why High Priest Paulo’s words crying out about the continent’s suffering sound even stranger to me. If the Holy Kingdom doesn’t selectively listen to only certain screams, how could you leave it so cruelly abandoned?”

“This inso, insolent—”

“Of course, that’s not what’s important right now.”

She lifted the Evil Dragon’s fang.

Sharp tension climbed up the spines of those present.

“Impossible!”

“Your Highness the Princess—. But, it can’t be possible, I heard you’re not even an aura user, so how could you accomplish what even the continent’s most renowned couldn’t dare—”

People didn’t believe it.

No, they couldn’t believe it.

“How will you prove this is the Evil Dragon’s fang? None of us here have ever seen the Evil Dragon, so how will you prove you’re not lying, that you actually dealt with the Evil Dragon!”

“Isn’t this a confession that the subject of the oracle refused to follow its content?”

Disbelief soon led to condemnation.

What people saw was a princess who, though noble, was fragile and beautiful.

Such a person had targeted and defeated the Evil Dragon that even they didn’t dare approach?

They couldn’t believe it. They didn’t want to believe it.

If that were true, what had they been doing all this time?

Wouldn’t the princess’s accusations of incompetence and cowardice become fact?

Anxiety quickly spread into anger.

“How dare you bring a fake here to insult the divine!”

“Are you not even afraid of the Goddess’s wrath? How far do you intend to deceive us!”

“Fortunately.”

Medeia smiled slightly.

“I’m not the only one on this continent willing to take responsibility for its fate.”

As people raised their eyebrows trying to understand her cryptic words.

At that moment, an ear-splitting bird cry echoed from outside the temple.

The moment everyone reflexively looked up at the sky—

Kwa-aang—!

A massive Loke flew in, nearly grazing the temple’s roof.

People didn’t even have time to scream.

Loke released the massive object it had been gripping in its talons, dropping it like throwing it down.

Thud—!

With the impact sound, the marble floor of the Grand Temple shook roughly. Silver candlesticks on the round table fell to the floor.

The sharp sound of bones breaking. The thick smell of blood seeping to their noses.

The moment people confirmed the mass Loke had dropped, they froze.

“Ah, ah…”

The king of a small nation trembled his lips.

The syllables “Evil Dragon” couldn’t come forward and were swallowed.

The severed head of the Evil Dragon was rolling in the center of the temple.

A jaw gaping open hideously like a roar. Black scales stained with blood.

Malicious yellow eyes filled with hatred glared at them as if pouring curses toward the Temple.

“Hah, haah….”

They couldn’t dare meet those bulging eyes. Not even screams came out.

At that moment, a man trampled on the Evil Dragon’s head and leaped down gracefully above the chaotic groans.

A thick voice laced with mockery echoed as if crushing the soundless terror.

“Will you still insist this is fake too?”

Golden eyes gleamed sharply through disheveled hair.

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