Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 227

The Three Kings’ Disciple (228)

228

Petus Castle training grounds.

Kwaang!

With a huge explosion, the wall enclosing the training ground shattered and scattered.

“Keuhuk!”

From there, a Red Bat Knight groaned, spitting out a mouthful of blood as he fainted.

“……”

An indescribable tension filled the entire training ground.

Swish.

A strange pressure made even moving a single foot difficult.

The entire Red Bat Knight squad and their commander, Hamaye.

And Count Petus of Blandro.

They were.

“What are you doing? Not coming?”

Only one person, Irowoon, was surrounded, swords pointed at him.

“If you don’t come…”

Irowoon’s eyes flickered.

A red line was drawn.

It was an afterimage left behind because he moved too fast.

Kwaang!

Another explosion rang out.

Another knight flew away and fainted on the spot.

This couldn’t go on.

“Charge!”

Hamaye took the lead, raising his aura blade and rushing forward.

“Haaap!”

Flames erupted as he hit the ground.

Hamaye swung his sword with all his might towards Irowoon.

Whoosh!

But his sword only cut through Irowoon’s afterimage.

‘When!’

Moreover, he had lost track of Irowoon.

A chill ran down his spine.

“……!”

A presence was felt from behind.

Hamaye tried to turn his body quickly, but it was already too late.

Kwaang!

Irowoon’s fist slammed into his side.

“Keueok!”

Hamaye’s body lurched, losing his balance.

He felt the pain of his insides rupturing, and blood seemed to be forcing its way out of his mouth.

“Kuek!”

Hamaye regained his balance and stood straight.

“Good tenacity.”

A small evaluation, but this was not the time to be happy.

Hamaye rotated his body and swung his sword again, but.

“………”

Irowoon was already gone.

Over there.

Clang!

He was clashing with Blandro.

The edge of his hand collided with the sword.

The edge of his hand collided with the aura blade.

Logically, the edge of a human hand should have been cut off.

Clang clang!

But the sound was that of metal clashing against metal.

Sparks flew.

Thud.

Count Petus’s body kept getting pushed back.

But then.

“Hell Blaze.”

Flames gathered in front of Count Petus’s eyes, and then.

Fwoooosh!

They exploded.

Thick smoke.

Whoosh!

Count Petus, without letting go of his sword, tried to cut through Irowoon along with the smoke.

Flicker.

A pair of red eyes flickered within.

Thud.

Count Petus’s sword was caught in Irowoon’s hand.

“Do your best.”

Irowoon lifted Count Petus up with the sword.

And.

Kwaang!

He threw him straight into the wall.

Irowoon slowly turned his body.

It was almost back to square one.

The only difference was that, unlike when everyone was standing, about half of them were now writhing on the floor, unconscious.

“Count…”

Hamaye called out to Petus.

“Don’t worry about me. Are you alright?”

Petus and Hamaye stood together.

The knight squad stood beside them.

“I’m fine.”

“Your appearance is a mess, but as he said, you have good tenacity.”

“You too, Count.”

The two laughed together.

The two had been together since childhood.

They had trained together under the previous Count Petus and the previous commander of the knight squad.

Time had passed, and the appearance and emotions of that time had disappeared, but.

“My heart is pounding.”

The feeling of that time was coming back after a long time.

“Me too.”

The two smiled at each other.

“Hahaha!”

The others were the same.

But.

“……”

When they looked at Irowoon, whose red eyes were flickering in front of them, their smiles disappeared.

“Is he really a monster?”

Count Petus and the Red Bat Knight squad, the best of the Count’s territory, had attacked him at the same time, but he had not suffered a single scratch.

Rather, he seemed to be handling them with ease, as if they were children.

‘If it’s him…’

Maybe it really is possible.

But that didn’t mean they could rely solely on him.

Proof.

They wanted to prove to him that they were useful too, that their efforts so far had not been in vain.

“We’ll do it.”

“……! Count!”

“There’s no chance of winning right now.”

“………”

Hamaye looked at Petus with worried eyes.

“Don’t worry about me when I lose my reason, just aim for the opponent’s openings.”

“But…”

“Didn’t you see?”

Count Petus said.

“The way he ended my rampage without any effort.”

Hamaye finally nodded.

That was why he had decided to follow that man’s will, wasn’t it?

“Then… I’m counting on you.”

“Is the strategy meeting not ready yet?”

“It’s ready now.”

No sooner had he finished speaking.

Teng!

Count Petus dropped his sword and changed his stance.

“Haa.”

Red smoke flowed out.

Along with it, Count Petus’s appearance began to change.

His appearance, which had been that of a refined middle-aged man, began to change as if he were a monster.

His nails grew longer, everything turned red.

His skin turned pale.

“Kiyaaaak!”

He roared like a beast and rushed towards Irowoon.

Smirk.

Irowoon smiled slightly at the sight.

Kaka kaka kang!

Count Petus’s nails attacked Irowoon like crazy.

Irowoon could feel the intent to tear him into a thousand, ten thousand pieces.

Tap!

It was amazing that Irowoon was blocking them with his hands, but Count Petus, who was losing his reason, was even more relentless.

Whoosh!

The wind blew from all directions.

And.

Fwoosh fwoosh fwoosh fwoosh!

Dozens of fireballs engulfed Irowoon and Petus at the same time and exploded.

And the scene that was revealed was Petus, who was scorched by burns and cut by the explosion, and.

“Crazy…”

Irowoon, who was unharmed.

If there was any good news.

Swish.

Count Petus was also recovering not too late.

In that injured state, he pushed Irowoon again.

“Now!”

The Red Bat Knight squad began to rush in, aiming for openings.

Guwoong!

The aura emanating from Irowoon became even clearer.

Kwaaaaang!

Following explosions.

Smoke filled the training ground, and the once neat training ground was a mess.

When the smoke cleared.

“Keuhuk!”

Only three were standing.

Irowoon, Petus, and Hamaye.

But among them, Hamaye wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed and lost consciousness right away.

“To protect the Count…”

They were standing only with the determination and will to protect Count Petus.

Thud.

But in the end, even Hamaye collapsed.

“Kkieeeek…”

Petus was strange.

His wounds were healing, but he kept retreating as if he were terrified.

“His instincts are afraid.”

Irowoon approached Petus.

“Kiek! Kiek!”

Petus gestured as if telling him not to come closer.

Thud!

In the end, he sat down and looked at Irowoon with empty eyes.

Irowoon was already standing in front of Petus.

This training.

Today was not the first time.

They were repeatedly breaking their bodies to the limit and then recovering them.

Especially.

‘Blandro Petus.’

To solve his problem, Irowoon had pushed him even more harshly.

Petus’s problem was one.

-An incomplete mana core.

A created mana core was lodged inside his body.

Because of that, he was not being controlled by the mana core, but had lost his reason and turned into a beast with only instincts left.

The only way to solve that was one.

‘Make it a complete mana core.’

Leaving aside the question of whether there was a being capable of doing that, it was also a problem whether his body could handle a complete mana core.

It was different from Viper’s case.

Viper’s was a real mana core from the beginning, not a fake one, and he had grown the mana core sequentially and evolved by absorbing the original, but.

‘There is no original for Petus.’

But Irowoon seemed to know the method.

“If it fails…”

Irowoon looked down at Petus and extended his palm.

“I promise I’ll get revenge for you.”

Even though he didn’t bring anything, his palm split open and blood droplets gathered.

“Heeek!”

Petus opened his mouth as if he had been waiting for it.

Drop.

The blood droplet fell and entered Petus’s mouth.

His pupils dilated.

“Huuup!”

Before he knew it, Petus was running towards Irowoon and sucking on the wound on his palm.

Glug, glug.

Petus’s Adam’s apple moved non-stop.

How much time had passed?

Petus, who had been staggering as if drunk, stepped back and spread his hands.

“Kuaaaaaa!”

With his roar, the change began.

A clear red pillar shot up from his body.

“Count…”

Hamaye, who had regained consciousness, called out, and Petus, who was flickering with blood, looked at him.

“To me too… that power…”

Hamaye shouted.

“To me too, the power to protect the Count!”

Saa.

Only a red line remained.

Petus had disappeared before he knew it.

He lifted the fallen Hamaye with one hand and.

Crunch!

He shoved his teeth into his neck.

* * *

It was, how should I put it?

A strange sight.

A group dressed in all black was entering Count Petus’s territory separately.

Their appearances were all different, but for some reason, they felt like one.

“………”

Their presence was faint even though they were facing each other.

“Those are…”

Hamaye said, swallowing hard.

“Crows…”

The Imperial Family’s direct subordinates, a group that only the Emperor and the Imperial Family could command, and that acted only for the benefit of the Imperial Family.

They were the Imperial Family’s secret agents, who monitored everyone in the Empire and coordinated everything from the shadows.

It was said that ordinary people, or even high-ranking nobles of the Empire, would have a hard time seeing them directly even once in their lifetime.

Such Crows.

-Ten.

There were ten of them.

“To actually… command the Crows.”

Hamaye clenched his fist again.

Irowoon had said that he had received the help of the Crows himself, but he had thought that it was just that he was being sponsored by some member of the Imperial Family.

But it wasn’t.

Step.

The Crows approached Irowoon.

“We greet the successor.”

They were the ones Irowoon commanded.

Glup.

That meant only one thing.

-Imperial Family.

It meant that Irowoon was a member of the Imperial Family who was qualified to represent the Imperial Family.

“Is it okay for the Crows to move like this?”

A worry suddenly arose.

If this many Crows were moving, wouldn’t the Emperor know?

If that happened.

“Absolute trust, unyielding obedience.”

That was what the Crows were.

“Because we believe in that, the Crows are beings that are free from surveillance.”

They were only used when needed, and if they didn’t do anything too obvious, no one would know.

That could also be said to be the advantage of the Crows.

“You’ve probably heard the story.”

Irowoon said, looking at them.

“The plan has changed.”

“It seems so.”

Eyes scanning Count Petus’s group.

“Instead of subjugating Count Petus for treason, we’ll catch the Duke of Massacre.”

Glup.

Tension rose again.

The opponent was none other than the Crows, and in front of them, he had declared that he would hunt down the Duke of the Empire.

This was a clear act of treason.

Even though the Crows only worked for the Imperial Family, the Duke was a member of the Imperial Family.

In a way, this was an act that would be detrimental to the Emperor, but.

“What should we do?”

Irowoon said.

“The Duke of Massacre…”

The corners of his languid mouth curled up slightly.

“Call him here.”