Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 231

The Three Kings’ Disciple (232)

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A Sword Master or a Great Magician of the 7th Circle.

They are elevated from the Silver realm to the Hwagyung realm [a realm of mastery].

A Grand Master or a Sage of the 8th Circle.

They are elevated from the Silver realm to the Hyunkyung realm [a higher realm of mastery].

Lastly.

-The Ultimate Master, a Great Sage of the 9th Circle.

They are.

Kwaaaang!

Elevated from the Silver realm to the realm of life and death.

Shhh!

Irohan stepped back.

Across from him, red eyes and blood-red lips could be seen slightly curling up.

‘The realm of life and death.’

They were the strongest masters, rare even in the Silver realm, where power had inflated due to the Soul Devouring Pill.

Also, they were.

Taat!

Comparable to the head of the Hui [a powerful organization], who dominated the Silver realm.

Krim kicked off the floor.

His body rotated, emitting streaks of red aura blades.

The moment it collided with Irohan.

Kwaaaang!

With a massive explosion, a part of the castle was cleaved away.

Saaa.

Heat radiated from Irohan’s entire body.

“It’s not just an aura blade.”

Irohan said.

“Did he infuse the magic of Hell Flame into the aura blade?”

The intense heat felt when the aura blade collided, followed by the explosion.

Krim’s aura blade had.

‘Attributes.’

Attributes using magic were infused into it.

“Ultimate Master, huh.”

Krim chuckled playfully, gnawing at his fingernails.

“And a Great Sage at the same time.”

Krim Vladimir.

The Duke who had etched his name in fear in Einheart was not just a simple Ultimate Master.

An Ultimate Master and, at the same time, in the realm of life and death.

If converted to the Silver realm….

‘Nothing.’

He was an existence without comparison yet.

Of course, there were realms beyond the realm of life and death, but.

‘It’s not enough to compare him to that.’

Reaching the pinnacle in two abilities could be superior to mastering just one, or it might not be.

In the Hyunkyung realm, one plus one could be two, or even more.

‘But not in the realms beyond that.’

One plus one could simply be one.

The utilization of abilities.

The combination.

No matter what he was, as long as he had a human form, his body was only one.

To contain power beyond the realm of life and death, a single body was nothing more than a limitation.

“Still, if I had to say….”

Krim flinched at Irohan’s words.

“About one point three.”

One point three.

“How dare you-!”

Krim’s face, which had been playful, contorted so much that it was hard to remember what his original face looked like.

“How dare youuuuu-!”

The power erupting from Krim’s body.

Shhh.

Irohan’s body was pushed back.

Kwaaaang! Bang!

Petus and Rondo, who had been keeping their distance while fighting, were thrown back and crashed into the wall.

Goooo!

The power emanating from Krim’s body was incomparably more destructive and intense than before.

Gooong!

As if the circle [a core of power] was overloaded, it was spinning madly, pouring out everything he had.

“How dare youuuuuuuuu-!”

The world darkened.

In that darkness, only Krim’s screaming mouth and lowered eyes were visible.

“To… evaluate me?”

Even his voice had changed.

It echoed gloomily, as if multiple voices were overlapping.

It was a mix of a man’s, a woman’s, and some kind of monster’s voice.

“Evaluate.”

Irohan said, adjusting his stance.

“Well, you could say it’s similar.”

Kwaaaang!

Irohan’s hastily extended arm and the aura blade Krim shot collided directly.

Kwaaaang!

The aura blades that poured out one after another were as relentless and numerous as a 7th Circle Great Magician casting 1st Circle Magic Missiles.

Kwakwakwakwang!

The single-minded determination to tear Irohan to shreds.

It was being visualized and striking Irohan’s entire body.

“I acknowledge it. That you’ve endured this much.”

Krim’s onslaught subsided, and his voice could be heard.

“But in the end, you will become my prey.”

The exposed arms and legs of Krim began to split.

Shhh.

Dozens of mouths appeared on his arms and legs, drooling.

“Hmm.”

Irohan stood up again.

Unlike before, he was injured, with blood flowing from various places.

“Not bad.”

“……!”

What was?

This time, Krim looked at Irohan without exploding.

He could tell that he had evaluated him.

But what he was feeling now was something else.

Swaaak!

Krim’s back began to split open.

What appeared from there were wings.

Wings that seemed to be a mix of a wyvern’s and a griffin’s.

“How dare youuuuuuuuu-!”

Krim rose from the floor.

Shwaaak!

His body, as if it had become an arrow, tore through everything and pierced towards Irohan.

Kwajik!

In the end, both of Irohan’s shoulders were pierced by the bones that had sprouted from Krim’s shoulder blades, which were imbued with aura blades.

Kwakwakwakwang!

Krim did not stop.

In that state, he broke through the wall and continued to move.

Kwaaaang!

He took Irohan all the way to the sky above the castle.

Kakang! Puhuhung!

The traces of battles taking place all over Petus Castle.

As if it had nothing to do with that.

“Youuuu!”

Krim, who was holding onto Irohan, shouted.

“Me…!”

Irohan evaluated Krim.

How strong the strongman of Einheart, the Duke of the Empire, was.

He examined and evaluated just how much power the existence called the Duke of Massacre possessed.

But.

“Are you testing me-!”

Irohan was also testing him.

Throb!

A sharp pain was felt deep within Krim’s chest.

It was different from when he first met Irohan.

At that time, it was just that Irohan’s kingly mana made his body react on its own.

But that did not control Krim, and it had led to the current situation.

But even so.

Throb!

His chest, or rather, his circle, was resonating.

The difference from the first time was.

“Did you just realize that?”

That his circle was getting out of control.

That was clearly the power of the king’s ring.

Right now, Irohan was.

“You’re a complete idiot.”

He was searching for the king’s ring’s wavelength.

Kwaddeudeuk!

The bones that had torn through Krim’s entire body pierced into Irohan’s body.

“I’ll devour you!”

Krim shouted, opening his maw.

***

It was as Krim had said.

Irohan had evaluated Krim.

‘One point three.’

That was the number he had given when evaluating Krim’s total power.

One point three times stronger than the realm of life and death.

Krim Vladimir, who was both an Ultimate Master and a Great Sage.

Even so, he had only received a score of one point three.

Kwaddeudeuk!

It was also as Krim had said.

Irohan had tested him.

By colliding with him, he had continuously stimulated Krim’s circle.

Krim’s circle was.

-The Ring of Devouring.

But within it, the covenant made with the king’s ring was clearly alive and present.

Irohan had already tested the king’s ring on the Crow and Count Obura.

Whether the king’s ring’s power of domination still worked in the present.

The answer was.

‘It doesn’t work.’

The contract was twisted, and the covenant was transformed.

The original he possessed did not work on the current beings.

He had tried testing it on the Crows to match the wavelength, but the covenant, which was layered and protected, was not only difficult to touch but also difficult to find its essence.

Then….

-The Duke of Massacre is one of the oldest Dukes in the Empire.

If it was the oldest existence in the entire Empire?

‘Then….’

Kwaddeudeuk!

“If it was someone who had experienced both the king’s domination before it was transformed and the current king’s domination at the same time?”

The bones of Krim that had pierced through Irohan’s entire body.

That.

Tududuk!

They began to break and scatter.

Krim’s eyes trembled.

In contrast, Irohan’s eyes were calm and languid.

“You don’t even feel pain?”

“There’s no better subject to test on.”

A subject that could clearly compare the changed covenant with the previous covenant.

The Duke of Massacre.

It didn’t matter if he was an existence that had plunged the Empire into fear and taken thousands, tens of thousands, or more lives.

The Duke of Massacre, reflected in Irohan’s eyes right now, was.

Jjik! Jjijik!

Just a lab rat.

Kwak!

Irohan’s hand reached out and grabbed Krim’s neck.

The wounds on Irohan where Krim had pierced him.

Krim had imbued all of those bones with aura blades, simultaneously casting dozens of curses such as bleeding, wound aggravation, and poisoning.

However.

Sssueuk.

As if everything was just Krim’s delusion, Irohan was healing his wounds.

“Thank you for showing up.”

A red aura surged from Irohan’s body and spread out.

It was denser and deeper than what Krim had emitted.

Kkumulkkumul.

The aura moved like a living creature, grabbing Krim.

“Thanks to you, it seems it will be easier to inherit the Empire.”

Krim’s eyes began to tremble.

And.

Puhuhung!

His body exploded.

Hudududuk!

Flesh falling down.

“Are you running away?”

Irohan was smiling faintly as he watched it.

* * *

Hudududuk!

Krim’s body, shattered by the explosion.

It began to fall like rain in all directions.

However.

Kkulreong.

Krim did not die.

If he were to die this easily, he wouldn’t have suffered so much from the curse of immortality.

Krim was.

“Uwaaaaaaaa!”

He roared back to life in the rain.

“I will kill you! I will kill you!”

He didn’t know how long it had been since such emotions had awakened.

He wasn’t happy about the revived emotions.

What dominated his mind was just murderous intent.

And.

Paruru.

It was fear.

Krim was a created human, a homunculus.

Not an existence born from a mother’s womb, but an existence born in a flask.

That was the first memory Krim had.

And.

“…….”

After that, the first thing Krim realized was pain.

He had no mouth to speak, and no arms or legs to move.

What Krim, who was looking at the parents who had created him in the flask, understood was.

-We need to observe the reaction to confirm if it’s a success.

-Can it feel pain?

Experiments on pain.

They stabbed, burned, and drowned him, experimenting on him.

‘Uwaaaaaaak!’

He wanted to scream and run away from the pain he was experiencing for the first time, but the small existence in the flask could do nothing.

-There is a reaction.

They experimented again and again.

It was something that had happened a long time ago.

Krim had hidden it deep within his inner self.

But.

Kwaddeudeuk!

Those eyes had awakened it.

Two languid eyes with no emotion.

Eyes that looked at him with a terribly emotionless gaze, not as a living being.

That.

“I will kill you.”

Awakened Krim’s sealed memories.

Kaddeudeuk!

The number of lives Krim had devoured so far exceeded ten thousand.

Among them were human and non-human lives.

As all of that began to manifest, merging with Krim’s emotions.

Kwak!

Krim’s neck was grabbed once again.

“Resist as much as you want.”

Irohan, he was holding Krim’s neck again.

Krim, who had been seething with anger until just now.

Paruru.

He began to tremble again.

Those eyes.

Those eyes that made him feel the fear that had been imprinted on him since birth.

“Because that’s the best consideration I can give you.”

-Kuaaaaaaa!

Krim roared and pierced Irohan’s shoulder with his arm that had come out of his chest.