Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 226

“You’re going to catch the Duke of Carnage?”

Phile asked, following Irowoon as he moved as if patrolling Petus’s territory.

He couldn’t say it there because of the solemn atmosphere and seriousness.

“You’re serious, right?”

This is crazy.

Phile had decided to follow Irowoon’s words without question, if possible, but.

‘This isn’t right.’

He had to double-check this time.

“What’s your plan…”

Finally, Irowoon stopped at the continuous questions.

“The Duke of Carnage…”

Gulp.

He waited for Irowoon’s words.

“I’ll catch him.”

“……?”

With those words, Irowoon started walking again.

“Pleease…”

Phile was now making a crying face.

“It’s a completely different matter than catching the Crimson Duke!”

The Crimson Duke’s goal is assassination.

Since he exists secretly, hiding his identity, it’s not easy to think that someone will find him.

If you aim for that gap and assassinate him for sure.

‘There’s a possibility.’

But the Duke of Carnage is different.

His personality is different from the start.

He was a being who was not afraid to reveal himself and was the target of much resentment.

As his nickname ‘Carnage’ suggests, he lives in resentment.

It was said that he lives every moment prepared for it.

‘Assassination is impossible.’

That means…

“You have to go to war.”

There is no other answer but a full-scale war.

Would Irowoon not know?

No, he would know.

“Are you okay, really?”

Phile asks again.

“Haa.”

In the end, Phile stepped back.

But he had to say this much.

“Give up on the Crimson Duke.”

If you’ve decided to catch the Duke of Carnage, give up on the Crimson Duke.

“Why?”

Irowoon, who had stopped again, asked.

“There are two dukes.”

Crimson, Carnage.

Irowoon is aiming for both of those dukes.

It would be a bigger problem if he failed, but it would be a bigger problem even if he succeeded.

“If two of the Five Dukes disappear in an instant, what will be the Empire’s position?”

It cannot be dismissed as a simple problem.

“It’s the overthrow of the Empire.”

A historic rebellion aimed at overthrowing the Empire.

“The Empire will go all out to target you in the first rebellion. So give up on the Crimson Duke.”

If you must catch the Duke of Carnage, catch him.

She will take responsibility for what happens if she fails to catch the Crimson Duke.

Everything is.

‘It’s for you.’

Phile swallowed those words.

“I’ll do it myself.”

“What the…”

But Phile closed his mouth.

Phile, who had made eye contact with Irowoon for the first time since he said he would catch the Duke of Carnage.

His eyes were only languid.

He could see something in them.

“Why are you doing this? It would be easier if you followed the original plan.”

Now, instead of stopping him, he wanted to hear the reason.

“Let’s call it a whim.”

A whim.

“And, because it’s necessary.”

He didn’t explain in detail, but it was quite an explanation for Irowoon.

Only then.

“I understand.”

Phile completely agreed.

“I will do my best to help. Even if the end is destruction.”

It’s close to impossible to stop this man.

And for some reason.

‘I want to.’

He also wants to follow this man’s will.

That’s enough.

***

“I’m reporting the results of the investigation.”

Kanehlich and Goliath returned.

They were surprised that Phile and Irowoon were in Count Petus’s castle, but first, reporting was their priority.

“There was nothing suspicious.”

As a result of the investigation into Petus’s territory, they did not feel anything suspicious.

“The voices praising Count Petus are high.”

The people of the territory praise Count Petus and worry about him.

It could be said that this was not common in the areas ruled by Einheart.

Because the lord was always an object of fear and a ruler.

But Count Petus was different.

“It seems that the Petus family has been ruling the territory well since the past. But they have never created any special incidents.”

Phile nodded at Kanehlich’s words.

“However, the suspicious point is…”

He listens carefully.

“Decades ago, there was a visit from the Empire. Many people died and were injured at that time.”

He flinched.

“I couldn’t find out the details. They keep their mouths shut, so it seems to be related to the Empire.”

He heard about Count Petus’s general situation from Hamaye.

-I’ll think we’re on the same boat.

Revenge, anger.

The easiest thing to happen because of that was that the arrow of revenge was directed at the wrong place.

Madmen who are blinded by revenge and do anything for revenge.

If not, things like realizing that revenge is practically impossible and venting their anger on those around them.

Petus was neither.

‘He’s upright.’

The direction of his revenge was upright.

“……”

Irowoon was not good at expressing his emotions, but if he had emotions.

‘I understand.’

It was to the point where his choice was understandable.

“So, what happened?”

Now it was Kanehlich’s turn to ask.

“The plan… has changed.”

“Plan?”

“Originally, the plan was to prove Count Petus’s rebellion and execute him, right?”

“That’s right.”

Kanehlich also seemed to feel uneasy.

“But…”

Phile smiles.

“It has been changed to catching the Duke of Carnage.”

“Ah. That’s…”

Kanehlich’s face began to turn pale.

“Whaaat?”

Kanehlich, who usually doesn’t lose his composure well.

But the words he just heard were not something he could easily ignore.

“Are you, are you crazy?”

Words he wouldn’t normally say.

That’s how serious Kanehlich was.

“He’s a duke of the Empire, the Duke of Carnage. Don’t you know what that is…”

It’s Phile.

The commander of the Batella Knights.

There’s no way he wouldn’t know.

‘Then…’

Would he not know?

Irowoon, did he change the plan without knowing anything?

Kanehlich thought with his mouth shut.

Kanehlich plays the role of a staff officer in the Batella Knights.

His role was to give advice to her when Phile could not find an answer.

When Kanehlich thought about it.

‘He wouldn’t not know.’

He hasn’t seen Irowoon much.

But there was something he could feel just by seeing him a few times.

He still doesn’t know his end, his true nature, what he has.

Whenever he thought this was the end, there was more, and when he defined this as him, he broke through that definition.

“It might be possible…”

It makes sense.

“Anyway, it would be impossible for the commander to stop him.”

Phile nodded with a bitter smile.

“Then it’s a good thing.”

Phile’s expression also brightened a little at Kanehlich’s words.

“The Duke of Carnage is also an enemy of the Church.”

He knows.

“The carnage he committed, and the traces of the demon summoning ritual, etc., the Church was already suspecting and investigating the Duke of Carnage. But…”

“Because he was a duke, there was no progress.”

If they touched him wrong, a full-scale war between the Empire and the Church could break out.

“But isn’t it clear?”

The Duke of Carnage’s sin.

That is something that can never be tolerated.

“If he steps up and defeats the Duke of Carnage, you may not even need to catch the Crimson Duke.”

“……!”

Why didn’t he think of that?

The problem was that his thoughts were shallow because he was surprised by the huge name of the Duke of Carnage.

“Kanehlich…”

It was always like that.

Kanehlich kept his balance when Phile couldn’t find an answer.

“Goliath, what about you?”

When Phile asked Goliath for his opinion.

“As the commander wishes.”

He answered briefly.

That was enough.

“What will the other members think?”

He grins.

Kanehlich and Goliath smile.

And this time, Goliath spoke first, not Kanehlich.

“They’ll be waiting for the commander.”

He has to help Irowoon.

With all his might.

Phile began to move quickly.

* * *

Deep underground in Count Petus’s castle.

“This is the place.”

Count Petus guided Irowoon there.

Woo-oong!

Deep underground, a small bead was floating in the middle of numerous magic circles.

That’s it.

“It is the core of Count Petus’s territory.”

The core that maintains this world.

Count Petus began to chant a spell, spreading his hands.

Thump! Thump!

Something started to bounce and break loudly.

The color of the magic circle begins to fade.

The magic circle disappeared soon.

“……”

Irowoon reached out his hand towards the core of Count Petus’s territory.

[You have contacted the core of Count Petus’s territory, a fragment of Einheart.]

As expected, a system message appears.

[Warning: Count Petus’s territory already belongs to the Damian Empire.]

A message he’s seeing for the first time.

[If you merge Count Petus’s territory, this news will be delivered to the owner of the Damian Empire.]

Irowoon’s eyes twitched.

This meant that the moment he merged Count Petus’s territory, a hostile relationship with the Empire would be declared.

As Phile said, it would be the same even if he killed the two dukes, but it was too early now.

“It won’t work.”

Not yet.

Irowoon took his hand off.

But as if he thought of something.

Squeeze!

He grabbed the core of Count Petus’s territory tightly again.

Woo-oong!

As if recognizing the threat, the core began to tremble.

Irowoon closed his eyes and rotated the Ring of the Emperor.

[Count Petus’s territory temporarily acquires independence.]

A system message appears in his closed eyes.

[The power of the beings belonging to Count Petus’s territory is strengthened.]

[This will last for thirty days, after which it will return to its original ownership.]

[The owner of the Empire will not know this.]

As expected.

And.

[Would you like to set a Keeper?]

He grins.

What he wanted appeared.

“Blandro Petus, I set him as the Keeper.”

The moment Irowoon’s words ended.

Whoosh!

A bright light poured out from the core of Count Petus’s territory and began to fill the basement.

“What…!”

Count Petus seemed startled for a moment, but he closed his eyes as he saw the calm Irowoon.

The light from the core began to be absorbed into his rising body.

‘Setting a Keeper is my unique authority.’

They seem to have found a way to integrate the power of the world in the Empire, but they did not have the power to set a Keeper.

A Keeper is a being that protects the core.

Petus is.

Twitch.

He will become stronger.

“Mana…”

Petus, who had fallen, had red mana surging around his body.

Now one thing has been settled.

“You can’t be satisfied with that.”

What they had to hunt now was the Duke of the Empire.

Especially the Duke of Carnage, who is known to be.

-Ultimate Master.

He has reached a level beyond Grand.

-Dukes have special abilities.

They have special abilities that only dukes have.

-They are even blessed by the Guardian Dragon.

It is said that they are blessed by the Guardian Dragon.

When Irowoon heard that, he thought.

‘So?’

That doesn’t matter.

However, it is possible that there is something more than that for him.

-The Duke of Carnage never moves alone.

That he is not alone.

-The Knights of Carnage.

They need people to face those knights.

That is.

“You want to complete that power, right?”

That is their role.