Margrave’s Bastard Son was The Emperor [EN]: Chapter 568

“Waaaaaah!”

The soldiers, who had been waiting for the wall to collapse, rushed forward with fierce shouts, seizing the moment.

They stumbled over the remains of broken golems and half-destroyed bricks, but quickly regained their balance and leaped towards the wall they could climb.

“The wall has fallen!”

“Climb! Climb and push back the Burgos!”

“No need for ladders! Just crawl up!”

“Hahaha! Finally!”

Boom! Crash!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Continuous aftershocks and unexplained explosions followed, but the soldiers couldn’t hear them. Their eyes were fixed on the gap in the wall like racehorses, and they ran, only letting out thunderous shouts.

Only the Bariel camp, a step away, sensed an unusual energy.

“Something is strange.”

“Small explosions are continuing inside the collapsed area. Are they all right?”

“…Don’t worry. They are not the type to die easily.”

Simon, one of the three commanders, replied with a stiff jaw. He knew the Emperor’s intentions and was fully aware of the current situation.

Now was the time to step over them, rather than clearing away the rubble and rescuing their comrades. That was the shortcut for Bariel to achieve victory.

“They’re pouring in! The Ba, Bariel soldiers!”

“Damn it! To the second gate! Hurry!”

“The entrance is twisted because the wall collapsed! We can’t enter through the north entrance!”

“Turn back! Turn to the other side!”

“Aaaah! Bariel soldiers!”

“Advance! Keep going! Run straight ahead!”

“Waaaah-! We’ve come to claim victory! You bastards!”

Swish! Swish!

Bariel soldiers and Burgos soldiers, facing each other at the collapsed wall, shouted as they pointed their swords at each other.

A battlefield where hot groans and cold death were intertwined. Bariel soldiers standing on the rubble quickly looked around.

“There aren’t many Burgos soldiers!”

“Are they all buried below?”

“Then it’s a blessing!”

Swish! Swish!

Thud, thud. Thud.

“Close the formation.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“We will press harder on the collapsed side! Yah!”

Jin watched this and lightly kicked the horse’s flank. The white horse, raising its front legs, let out a majestic cry and then began to gallop, its mane flying.

The high-ranking officers of the Imperial Defense Department also followed, and the Imperial Guard squeezed between them, maintaining a close distance with the Emperor.

Tap tap!

Jin Berocion. This was the first war he was leading since ascending to the throne. As it was significant, there was something he had to show to deepen its meaning.

Swish!

“Ugh!”

The Emperor’s sword being stained with the blood of the enemy.

Furthermore, not just the blood of Bariel soldiers, but writing glory together with the Emperor’s blood-stained sword.

Jin cleanly cut down the neck of a Burgos soldier who had fallen behind, and the group following him rushed forward, pushing the corpse aside.

“Your Majesty! This is a good spot! It’s dangerous to go further!”

At Tweller’s shout, Jin pulled on the reins. They were already at the bottom of the hill. It was a point where the wall looked even bigger, a distance where they could be hit if arrows were fired.

Jin and the other leaders’ horses stopped, but the soldiers following behind passed them and charged straight ahead.

“Waaaaah!”

“Go! Erase Agiar from history!”

“Once the 11th Legion enters, I will also go in!”

“Yes, Your Majesty. We will prepare.”

Jin said this and covered his nose with his sleeve. The dark blue smoke seeping from the collapsed wall had a more toxic smell than he had expected. What was this? The concentration was getting so thick that even the soldiers who had been caught up in the excitement were gradually noticing it.

“Your Majesty!”

Then, Ian’s shout came from above.

“The Gypsy is dying!”

Was this a phenomenon caused by the Gypsy’s death?

Rutherford had finally stabbed her in the stomach.

If so, there was a possibility that Bonita and the Imperial Guard had also been affected.

“So, don’t approach-!”

He was about to shout that it would be better to observe the situation rather than advance, but then-

Ian felt a chilling sensation in his chest. He couldn’t explain it, but it felt like an unknown stimulus was caressing the area below his heart.

And then-

Boom!

Crash! Crash!

A tremendous explosion occurred below the collapsed wall.

The explosion was so powerful that even huge piles of rubble were thrown into the air. The bodies of the soldiers who had been on the wall were torn to pieces and scattered in all directions. It was meaningless to distinguish between Bariel and Burgos soldiers.

“Your Majesty!”

Whoosh!

As house-sized boulders flew in all directions like a volcanic eruption, the Imperial Guard summoned their magic swords and cut in half the ones falling towards them.

Thud! Thud!

“Aaaah!”

Soldiers were crushed, torn, and blown apart by the wall debris raining down like rain.

Beep beep-

Jin grabbed his ringing ears and just looked up at the sky. What a sight. It was as if the stars that had been wandering in the night sky had all fallen here and lost their light.

“Your Majesty! Duck your head!”

Zing! Zing!

Crack!

“Ugh!”

Some of the Imperial Guard members who were cutting down the debris flying towards Jin were hit in the head by the falling rocks and collapsed.

It is said that humans become powerless in the face of nature’s power, but to be unable to move just because rocks are flying around. Jin clung to the rumbling ground, hoping that God would look down upon him.

Zing!

Swish!

Then, Ian descended next to Jin and created a huge shield. The things that had been pouring down relentlessly were blocked by an invisible wall and flowed down, and a new wall was unintentionally erected in front of the Bariel camp.

“Wh, what is that!”

“I, is it a monster?”

“Look up! Up there!”

But that wasn’t the problem.

The real problem was-

Kaaaaaak!

“Wh, what is that?”

“Plug your ears!”

“Ugh, da, damn it.”

It was a human form created by the dark blue smoke. It was a gas that had taken shape with the explosion, and it was dozens of meters in size.

Next to it, various things poured out urgently, and it was as if they knew where they were going, scattering in all directions.

Kiyaaaaak!

The screams they let out were deafening. Everyone covered their ears and cowered. Only Ian stood upright, facing the dark blue form.

“Your Majesty.”

Because of the commotion, Ian’s murmur was hard to hear. Jin frowned deeply and turned to Ian, who took a light breath and continued.

“The Gypsy is dead.”

“What? Sir Ian! I can’t hear you well!”

“Those are all, each of their secrets.”

The thousands of forms were the secrets of someone that the Gypsy had hidden in her stomach. Now that they had torn through her stomach and come out into the world, those decayed things would try to return to their original owners.

However, the problem was that their forms had changed a lot.

“I felt an unknown stimulus with the explosion. It’s an instinctive feeling that the secrets will return.”

“Sir Ian!”

“And perhaps that is, my secret.”

He could barely understand the other words, but he heard the last words clearly. That dark blue thing, dozens of meters tall, was Sir Ian’s secret.

Kiyaaak!

“It’s coming! It’s coming this way!”

“Eek! Stab it!”

Even in that chaos, large and small things were moving busily to return to their owners.

The soldiers, thinking they might be harmed, dodged or swung their swords, but due to the nature of secrets as thoughts, they could not inflict or receive any physical impact.

Thud.

Ian took off his robe and muttered.

“Secrets reclaim their owners and create chaos in the world.”

The way they were returning wasn’t pretty, but the Gypsy’s words were roughly correct. He had wondered how things rotting in her stomach could bring chaos to the world, but with such forms, it was understandable.

“Your Majesty. Please wait a moment.”

“Sir Ian! You mustn’t go! Attacks don’t work!”

“That’s because you’re not the owner of the secret. I can tell.”

It was too huge. It was so powerful and hot that it could be understood as a demon king.

Conversely, did that mean that Ian’s secret was so huge that it could cause such a great shock to the world? His real name and all the events that had happened in the abyss.

“I will reclaim my name.”

Tap tap!

Ian ignored the throbbing pain in his stomach and ran slowly. While everyone else was running away, the golden-haired boy was going against the flow. He was so radiant that everyone there took it into their eyes.

Swish!

The huge secret reached out as if longing for Ian, and he lightly flew up and jumped onto its arm.

The Idgal [a type of magical energy] that was being generated from his hand contrasted with the dark blue thing, shining even more brightly, reminding them of a small star rising into the sky.

“…Holy, shit.”

“S, Sir Ian.”

The battle between Lusweena and the Bariel mages was interrupted by the Gypsy’s explosion, the Burgos soldiers barely survived the brink of death and touched the ground, and the Bariel soldiers stared blankly at the sky, watching Ian’s reverse movement.

“What is the current situation?”

“Stones have piled up in front of the Bariel camp! It seems to be due to the mages’ shields!”

“What about our casualties?”

“Most of the debris from the explosion fell on civilian facilities, and most of the soldiers on the wall are injured due to the explosion.”

“While the Minister of Magic is in charge of the other side, now is our chance! Bring Lusweena’s dragons!”

Meanwhile, behind the Agiar wall, movements were underway to understand and rectify the situation.

The thousands of whispering screams had disappeared, and the Bariel side had lost their vigilance, so if not now, when would be the chance?

Swish!

At the commander’s order, huge dragons flew up from behind the wall shortly after.

Seeing this, Minister Tweller drew his sword and fiercely rebuked them.

“Are you not members of Gaia? There is a clear Dragon Sanctity Agreement, so how can you bring dragons into war!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Once you’re dead, everything is useless! And wasn’t it you who first mobilized them for battle? Stop with the nonsense that they’re not for killing! Even if it wasn’t intentional, if the help of dragons led to killing, then that’s how they were used!”

Tweller shut his mouth tightly and turned to Jin. They had already discussed the current situation in the Imperial Palace.

“The dragons we have are not purebred. Therefore, there is no violation of the Sanctity Agreement. These are gifts sent from Lusweena, so their country will guarantee it.”

“What?”

What nonsense was this?

Bariel was laying the groundwork for the aftermath of the war, but the Agiar commander, unaware of this, only looked puzzled.

But what could they do? There was no turning back.

“All troops-!”

The surviving Burgos soldiers staggered and slid down the wall. Now the direction of power had changed. Instead of Bariel rushing at Burgos, Burgos was rushing at Bariel.

“Advance!”

Swish!

At the same time, Lusweena’s dragons flew in at high speed. The mages also came to their senses and began to draw magic circles to bind the hands and feet of the Bariel mages in front of them.

“They’re coming!”

“Everyone, take up your weapons!”

Clang!

The only force that could stop the dragons here was the Imperial Guard. They took out the special weapons made by the Dera tribe and focused on the dragons approaching at high speed.

-Kuuu!

Crash!

And then-

Kyu, ramming into them with all his might.

The Lusweena dragons hurriedly raised their tails and changed direction, but Kyu bared his huge fangs and chased them to the end.

Swish!

The surroundings were darkened by the dark blue smoke. A war between extraordinary humans and spiritual beings was taking place in the sky.