Surviving As The 5Th Prince Of Hellman Kingdom [EN]: Chapter 162

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Michael.

The name I gave to the Titan disguised as an apostle of God.

Its first owner is, of course, me.

“Kuaaaaaaa!!”

Yom, with a third of his upper body, including his chicken wing-like left arm, severed, let out a scream of agony.

I wanted to cut him in half with a single stroke from head to toe…

‘Was it too much?’

I savored his scream and raised Michael’s body.

It felt a little awkward.

‘Is it because of the wings?’

The Titan follows the oldest and most common method of golem control.

That is, sensory sharing with the owner.

In simple terms, the Titan becomes another body of the owner. It sounds easy, but knights who ride the Titan for the first time experience considerable difficulty.

Wizards, who choose the brain as a place to store mana, have more developed brains than others.

Wizards who have reached the realm have the multitasking ability to skillfully handle one or two golems like their own bodies while moving their own bodies.

But knights are not like that.

They are the ones who have focused on fully controlling their own bodies for their entire lives. Suddenly, it is not easy to control the heterogeneous body of the Titan.

That is also why Titans are overwhelmingly humanoid, unlike golems of various shapes.

In that sense, I may be the only one who can properly control Michael, who flutters his wings, without a long period of training.

‘Thanks to that, it’s perfect for disguising as a real apostle of God.’

Officials from the great powers who are developing the Titan will suspect Michael fluttering his wings as a Titan, but they will think again.

It was another reason for adding cumbersome wings that could not be used to actually fly.

‘But let’s fold the wings for now.’

Fluttering, I folded my wings beautifully.

The awkwardness disappeared.

What had been messing up my sense of balance turned into a sensation similar to carrying a heavy backpack.

Satisfied, I looked at Yom, whose bleeding had stopped in this short time, and opened my mouth.

“O demonic beast born from the seeds of sin and living in the dark night, why have you broken the ancient covenant? I am Michael, an apostle who follows Danarr, the god of time and fate. According to the will of the one who has protected this land since the beginning, I will judge you.”

Unlike my original voice, Michael’s voice, full of magnificent tremors, echoed across the battlefield.

It was a roughly made-up story to look good.

Interpretation was the job of the priests of the Pantheon [a temple or building dedicated to all the gods of a religion] who heard the statements of those who witnessed this spectacle today.

Kugukung! Kugugugung!

The ground rumbled as if an earthquake had struck.

It seemed that Frost, whom G-Dragon had dragged into the ground, was resisting fiercely.

I wasn’t worried.

It was G-Dragon who had played with the 7-star mythical beast, Chilmiho [likely a reference to a powerful mythical creature]. Frost and Yom were scary when they were together, but if they were separated, they couldn’t be opponents.

So.

“Kuaaaaaaa!”

I can concentrate on dealing with the guy in front of me who is angry at my sermon.

“Kuaaaaaaa───!!!”

Whirr, whirr.

Yom’s body was engulfed in a raging fire, and an arm made of flames rose from his severed left upper body.

“Kuaaa!!”

When he swung his fiery arm, a house-sized fireball was fired at me. Just looking at the energy felt equivalent to a 6-star magic.

I quickly used magic power.

The mana flowing into the engine, which can be said to be the heart of the Titan, is explosively amplified and reaches Michael’s shield.

Paat─!

A shield emitting a brilliant golden light.

Swoosh- Kwang!

When I knocked away the fireball Yom threw, the fireball that bounced off with a sound like a bomb exploding flew towards the direction where the demonic beasts were.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

“Kkieeeeeek!”

“Kkaeaeng! Kkaegaeng!”

Just by the sound, hundreds of demonic beasts were eliminated at once.

“Kua! Kua!!”

Perhaps because of his severed left arm, he couldn’t easily approach and kept firing fireballs from a distance.

A guy much bigger than Michael.

Kwang!!

Kwang-!

Kwaaaaang─!

I mainly deflected the fireballs with my shield, and sometimes with my sword. All only towards where the demonic beasts were gathered. In an instant, the surroundings turned into ruins covered in flames.

“Kkaegaeng! Kkaegaegaeng!”

“Kiiiik!”

The demonic beasts hesitated.

Even though it was the last night with the red moon, when madness had reached the marrow, they seemed to realize that getting caught up would mean a dog’s death.

Naturally, the royal army also took a breather for a while and focused on the fight between me and Yom.

‘If he doesn’t come, I have to go.’

I kicked off the ground.

“K, Kua!”

Yom with a flustered look.

Soon, crimson flames flickered on his intact right arm.

It seemed that he had learned from losing his left arm in my first strike and decided not to trust the hardness of his body.

‘I wonder how hard it is.’

I looked forward to it and infused aura into my sword.

Gooooooo-.

A golden aura, the same as my aura, raged from Michael’s sword.

The engine of the Titan amplifies the mana of the riding knight and manifests it. It is the essence of magical engineering, like turning a small match flame into the flames of a furnace.

“Kuaaaaaaa!”

Yom, engulfed in crimson flames, also charged at me.

Swoosh─

The guy’s right arm was swung without any skill.

Kkaaaaaang─!

A loud noise echoed as it collided with Michael’s sword.

Kkaang! Kkaang-! Kkaang─!

Three or four exchanges were made in an instant.

“Kuaaaa!”

Confidence rose on his face.

‘Tsk.’

The right arm engulfed in crimson flames was harder than I thought.

Sss─

The guy who missed the attack took a deep breath.

It seemed he was thinking of spewing breath from close range.

That’s annoying.

If I don’t block it properly with the shield, the Titan’s outer armor, which is currently weak, will rot. It means that Michael’s identity, disguised as an apostle of God, may be revealed.

But.

‘The gap is big.’

I smiled inwardly.

Evan-style Lionel Emperor Swordsmanship 2nd Form, Sky Cut.

A golden line was drawn in the dark sky where the red moon was rising.

“Kueeeeet!”

Peesh─

Yom’s neck, which was about to spew out breath, was cut in half.

I tried to cut it off completely, but it wasn’t completely cut off because Michael’s reaction was slower than I thought.

Chwaaaaa!

Blood gushed out of the guy’s cut neck along with smoke. I thought it would be impossible to block it with just a shield, so I spread all four pairs of wings behind my back to cover my whole body.

Cheek- Cheiiiik!

My heart pounded at the sound of blood-stained wings melting. It was because I was afraid that it would be revealed that I was a fake apostle of God.

I quickly stepped back, scattered the blood, and folded my wings again. And I checked the condition of Yom, whose neck was cut.

He was trying to hold and fix his head, which was dangling halfway cut, with his right arm and an artificial arm made of flames.

“Kueu? Ku?”

It didn’t seem to work well.

The sight was truly bizarre.

I don’t remember where I saw it, but it felt like watching a chicken running around with its neck cut off.

It seemed better for him to let him rest as soon as possible.

Evan-style Lionel Emperor Swordsmanship 1st Form, Destruction of Heaven.

The guy didn’t even think of avoiding or blocking it, perhaps because the bird brain lost the power to think while dangling.

The guy’s body, which was cut in half as it was trying to reattach his head, collapsed with a loud thud!

Cheek- Cheiiiik─

The ground melted and black smoke rose from the guy’s blood soaking the ground.

‘I didn’t know the blood would be so toxic.’

I suddenly became worried about G-Dragon dealing with Frost underground.

Kugugugugu.

Just in time, the ground rumbled.

It was the sound of my cutie coming up.

“Geooooooo!”

Here and there on the golden helmet and armor were covered with white ice.

The area around his mouth was a sight to behold.

Smoke like that from dry ice was billowing out. When I looked closely, it was coming from a bluish liquid.

It looked like Frost’s blood.

Did he chew it up?

Just as Yom’s blood had lava-like properties, Frost’s blood seemed to have liquid nitrogen-like properties.

G-Dragon roared again towards the direction where the demonic beasts were gathered.

“Geooooooo!!!”

The demonic beasts, whose madness from the red moon had reached their marrow, began to retreat hesitantly. Watching the scene, I looked at Yom, who was split in two.

7-star demonic beast.

Originally, a 6-star knight’s aura could only make a small scratch.

It’s not like that anymore.

The magic realm, a headache for countries around the world.

In the next ten years or so, the perception will be reversed to the point where it is just a collection site where you can get various rare materials.

The Titan makes that possible.

Those who were here today have seen the opening of a new era.

-Oh God.

-Danarr, the god of time and fate.

-I’ve never heard of him before…

Of course, they don’t know.

There’s no need to know yet.

***

There was nothing special after cutting down Frost and Yom.

When my cutie charged towards the hesitant group of demonic beasts, most of them ran away.

Afterwards, I rode on G-Dragon’s back and moved towards the Twin Forest. I avoided people’s eyes and went to the place I had promised with Gillud and Fran.

The two people who had come riding the Black Wyvern.

When they saw Michael’s appearance, which was messed up with Yom’s flames and blood, they looked at me as if I were a criminal.

Especially Gillud.

“…It’s completely ruined. Especially the wings, I can’t even recycle them.”

He didn’t say anything about how I should have made the shield bigger, or that the outer armor was still not good enough to withstand the high temperature emitted by Yom.

In this case, a simple apology was enough.

“…I’m sorry.”

“Tsk.”

Gillud didn’t say anything and looked at Fran, who was working in the cockpit.

“Fran! Are you done yet?”

“It’s done. Just wait a little bit.”

Soon, she came down with three or four fist-sized magic tools. It was the Titan’s combat video and data.

“Fran! Play the combat video first.”

“I know, so stop rushing me.”

When Fran manipulated the magic tool, it started playing from the moment I jumped down from the Golden Dragon towards Yom.

“Oh! He started by blowing off Yom’s left arm from the beginning. Fran, can you check how much the amplification rate of the aura was at that time?”

“Let’s see… It was 13.72 times.”

“I’m a little disappointed considering I put in three top-grade magic stones. It’s much lower than I expected when I went into actual combat.”

“You have to consider that I was blocking the breath of a 7-star demonic beast with my shield.”

I silently watched the combat video among the two people who didn’t care about me. It was quite different to observe from a 3rd person perspective what I had seen from a 1st person perspective.

Gillud, who had watched all the combat videos ending with Yom being split in two, stroked his beard and opened his mouth.

“But the movement feels strangely choppy. Especially in the part where he cuts off Yom’s neck.”

Gillud’s sharp eyes caught the phenomenon that knights would commonly call ‘lag’ later on. There are various causes.

It could be a problem with the riding knight, or it could be a problem with the machine. In this case, it was clear which side was the problem.

“Is it a problem with Michael rather than the rider…?”

As Fran said.

It was the Titan’s lack of performance.

Even though I was controlling it according to Michael’s machine ability, lag occurred at important moments.

“Is it a problem with the magic power superconductor?”

“I don’t think it’s just one cause.”

“Really? Do you see something in the data?”

“In my opinion…”

The two people completely forgot about my existence. It seemed better to go to the royal army that was subjugating the remaining demonic beasts.

***

Rico returned safely from the western expedition.

He was reading a newspaper in his room.

『Mythical beast and apostle of God appeared during the western expedition!』

『Danarr, the god who sent the mythical beast and apostle who annihilated the rulers of the Twin Forest in an instant. What kind of god is he?』

『Pantheon announces that it will dispatch an investigator to the appearance of a new god』

The kingdom was in an uproar over the appearance of a new god.

The Pantheon and countries around the world were less interested than that. It was because there were gods who promoted themselves by consuming divine power, although not entirely.

Rico closed the newspaper and looked at the sky outside the window.

-I am Michael, an apostle who follows Danarr, the god of time and fate.

The apostle of God who fell from the sky and cut off Yom’s left arm, one of the rulers of the Twin Forest, with a single stroke. His magnificent voice still seemed to be heard in his ears.

I knew it right then.

Who the god he had been looking for was.

The problem is…

‘Where the hell do I have to go to hear his words?’

Out of frustration, Rico sighed deeply.