Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 233

“Hamaye! Hamaye!”Petus shouted, running towards Hamaye.Thud.Hamaye collapsed.Petus barely managed to catch him in his arms.Wooong!He cast a barrier spell.Kaang!He felt Rondo’s sword strike the barrier, but that wasn’t important.”Hamaye!”Petus called out to Hamaye, his eyes trembling.”M…my Lord….”Hamaye was dying.He had chosen death himself.He had broken the circle. “No! You can’t give up like this!”Petus held onto Hamaye.Hamaye was not just a knight to Petus.-He will be your knight in the future.A close friend who had been with him since he could remember.”You are the only one left… my family!”Family.Knight.Territory people.Everything Petus had lost.Hamaye was the only thing Petus had left.”My Lord….””Hamaye!””It’s not just you who lost….”Hamaye said with a bitter smile.”They were… family to me too, friends, and comrades….”The Red Bat Knights.They had shown fanatical loyalty to Petus.It wasn’t because Petus had done something for them in Bland.It was the loyalty they had since childhood.And.”We are… the same.”Because they had experienced the same sorrow.-Revenge.That was what everyone wanted.And Petus was the only one who could do it.Unlike themselves, knights created at their limits, Petus had reached that level on his own.”Your desire for revenge… devoured ours….”Petus had devoured everything.That’s why the Red Bats didn’t have to live for revenge.They could live a life for Petus.They could live as knights.That was the reason for their loyalty.”Be complete.”The power Petus had gained from Krim.It was thirst.And gluttony.Like Krim had, he devoured.And stole that power.Thus.-Be completed.With Irohan’s help, the incomplete had become complete, but the unfinished was not completed.That was the curse deep within Petus’s circle.-Your completion….Irohan had also said.-I cannot do it for you.Even Irohan said he couldn’t help him complete it.This was not the realm of the body.It was the realm of the mind.The realm of the soul.-I will not force you to complete it.After all, Irohan had the power.However.”Are you truly going to leave everything to him…?”Hamaye said.”Do it yourself. Isn’t that what you want, my Lord…?””Hamaye….””Do it… yourself….”Hamaye said with a smile.”Please complete our revenge….”It was then.Jjeeeng!The barrier Petus had hastily cast shattered.Thud. Thud.Rondo was approaching without hesitation.The beginning and the end.All the same gait.A gait that a human could not do, only a doll could.”If this continues, you will become like him. I will protect you.”With death.”I will not leave.”As a spirit.”I will make sure the Count does not become a doll.”Protecting him.That was what Hamaye thought was a knight, chivalry, and loyalty.”Hurry….”Everything about Hamaye was scattering.”Hurry!”As it was, he would just die, not even becoming anything.Petus’s eyes wavered.”I will not forget you.”Petus’s mouth opened.”I will achieve your revenge.”His mouth went towards Hamaye’s shoulder.”I am your lord.”Kwa-jick-!Long fangs pierced and embedded into Hamaye’s shoulder.Saaa.Everything Hamaye had was seeping into him.Shweeek!Rondo’s sword came down towards Petus.But the sword failed to achieve its purpose.Kwaaaaaaa!Once again, a pillar of blood shot up.Kwakwakwakwang!The pillar, which had broken through the Count’s castle, soared up to where the clouds hung.In that massive vortex, Rondo’s sword lost its path.Saaaa!Even from outside where the battle was taking place, lines of blood flowed in towards Petus.Everything was united.What had been scattered became one.That was.-Completion.It was completion.Kwaddeudeuk!A hand emerged from the pillar of blood.It pierced Rondo’s chest.The pillar of blood subsided, and the completed one revealed himself.Long black hair.Blood-red eyes.Petus, who had been middle-aged, had regained his youth.He had regained his life.He had regained his soul.It was completion.”I am Bland Petus.”It was regression.”I am a revenger.”* * *The day the Duke of Carnage came to Count Petus’s territory.Jureuk.All that flowed was blood.Petus’s family, knights, friends, all of them had died.In return.-I will give you a gift.Krim had embedded something deep within Petus.A power called magic essence.A power that humans could not have, nor should have.And.-My Lord!Hamaye had awakened him in the ruins.-Hamaye…!In the tragedy, Petus had said.-You… should be dead?Hamaye, and the Red Bat Knights.They were also those who had died at the hands of the Duke of Carnage.-How are you…. -What are you saying! My Lord! My Lord!At that voice, Petus had run away.Leaving behind the vaguely emerging truth, he thought this was reality.-I will stake everything on my Lord’s revenge.The knights’ will was united.They would stake everything for Petus’s revenge.Because it wasn’t just Petus who had lost family and relatives in the massacre of Count Petus’s territory, but them as well.-My Lord.Their loyalty was different from before.Everything Petus did was right, and there was no opposition to Petus’s will.’I knew it.’He knew it.The truth he had vaguely felt.’You had already met your deaths that day.’The massacre of Count Petus’s territory.In that event caused by the Duke of Carnage, it would have been wrong if the Red Bat Knights had done nothing.The Red Bat Knights fought for Count Petus’s territory and Count Petus.-Your loyalty is high? But I need to get rid of the useless ones.That day, they all died.-Hamaye.-Yes, my Lord.He knew it.The Hamaye before his eyes was not a living person, but a dead one.A ghost.And that they.-You must not leave my side. Until the day revenge is complete, until the day I die, you must be with me.-We pledge our loyalty.He knew that they were ghosts originating from him.The power the Duke of Carnage had given him in exchange for losing everything.Throb.It was the power to raise false ghosts.A power that sucked up the living, absorbed them, and raised them.Throb.An unforgivable power.-You seem to have noticed, but you still don’t want to accept it?Irohan had said.-Well, you should do as you wish. But in the end, you will not be able to be completed.Irohan had said to Petus.-Because in the end, you are in pieces, you can change the incomplete to complete, but as long as you are in pieces, you cannot be completed.To do that, they had to become one.Hamaye.’I knew it.’He already knew it.That they were already dead, ghosts.And that they were illusions revived by his blood and memories.And so, what had been divided.Throb.They become one again and unite.That was completion.And.”I am.”It was evolution.”A revenger.”Petus’s fist, which had pierced through Rondo’s belly, was throbbing as if the bulging veins were alive.Rondo, who had boasted near-immortal vitality.He was drying up, stopped like a broken doll.At his neck, which was trying to resist.Kwa-jick!Petus shoved his teeth in.It flowed in.The enormous life Rondo had.It flowed in.All the memories Rondo had.Screams, screams, screams.And.Thud.Rondo fell.-The power you have is the power of a vampire that was extinct even in Gehenna [a place of torment or hell].Irohan had said.That they.-Vampires.Were called by that name.* * *”No….”Krim’s eyes trembled.”Nooooooooo!”He cried out.Rondo.He was like the relationship between Petus and Hamaye.A being whose minds were connected and were as one.”Rondo…! Rondo!”The only thing that had meaning to Krim.That was.”Rondo-!”His child.Krim was a created human.A small human in a flask, a homunculus [an artificially created human].Naturally, he was not given the ability to reproduce.To propagate offspring was the essence of life, but that was a power not granted to him.For that long time.He was alone.-Duke.-Duke.-Duke.Numerous people had passed by his side, but none of them could fill Krim’s emptiness.That’s why he was angry and frustrated.It was from then.”Rondo….”That he dreamed of rebellion.A being born to be loyal.That dreamed of rebellion.That was Rondo.The culmination of his will, and its finished product.”The doll outside the Emperor’s Ring has died.”A being outside the Emperor’s Ring, not loyal to the Emperor, but only loyal to himself.That was Rondo.For over thousands of years, the only being Krim had created with all his effort was Rondo.That had died.Gooo.A boiling energy.Krim was about to pour out everything and burn this anger.”Is that your blessing?”Irohan’s words were correct.A privilege only a duke could enjoy.It was something that could be achieved by making a wish to a divine being beyond human, a guardian dragon.Krim had dreamed of rebellion, but he had wished for a child.That was Rondo.Gooooooo!It boiled even more.”You have failed.”He looked at Irohan.-Slaughter. That is your name.The Duke of Carnage.He was thinking of exploding everything he had and taking revenge.But.”You’re pretending to be angry.”Irohan said.”You were not given emotions. Just as you were not given reproduction, emotions are also something a created human cannot have.””…….””Everything you have is just what the fragments you devoured had. Or it’s just you acting out what you’ve seen and heard from watching humans for a long time.”Gooo.”Was it Rondo? Your doll.””…….””It is no different from you.”Krim looked up at Irohan.Thud, thud.He was stepping down, using the air as stairs.”I will not teach you a way to live.”The energy that had been boiling in Krim began to subside.”You will die today.”Immortal.A being who wanted to die but could not die.He was saying he would bring death to such a being.”I’ll say it again.”Irohan was now facing Krim.It was a distance where if Krim reached out his hand, he could grab Irohan’s neck, and if he extended a blade, he could cut out his heart.”I will not tell you a way to live.”An irreversible being.That was Krim.That’s why.”I can take your revenge for you.”The energy that had been boiling in Krim subsided.And.Wide open!He opened his arms wide.”Devour me. Successor of the Empire.”Krim said.