What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 754

The Vessel of the Divine Nation (1)

With an expression of disbelief, he stared blankly at the severed arm lying on the ground.

The dawn’s jest was truly cruel.

-Whoosh…….

“……..”

Like a third-rate actor’s lie. As if everything from the beginning was fake.

The divine substance that had filled his empty right arm was turning into black graphite powder, scattering in the wind.

Ice-cold air swept past the severed surface of the man’s right arm.

In an instant, pain that resonated through his bones scraped through the inside of his skull and gums, offering a terrible sensation.

“Haa… Keuk, that was….”

A creaking voice erupted from the staggering body of the Royal Secretary.

His whole body trembled like an aspen tree.

His bloodshot eyes frantically searched through a memory from the recent past.

‘Do not worry. The creation of the Main God can never kill Your Highness… Schneider will not fall before the Temple of Boundaries comes to the Royal Capital.’

‘The revelation is steadfast.’

“That senile wretch, that foul brute, that decrepit fiend….”

‘God is watching me. I have received God’s blessing.’

‘Yes.’

He had clearly answered that way.

“That deceitful quack who deserves to be torn to pieces… How dare… How dare!”

How dare he utter a lie? No sooner had the doubt arisen than such a question reared its head in one corner of his mind.

Verner ground his teeth so hard they seemed about to shatter.

The old woman had asserted without batting an eye that he was a being chosen by God.

And not only that, but she had bestowed upon him a new arm and leg, and even cloaked him in darkness like a curtain so that he could escape the eyes of Martier.

Furthermore, the red edge of the black scythe she had handed him drained the life force from anything it touched, drying it up and killing it.

Verner had never seen such a powerful weapon in his life.

‘But esteemed one… For what reason are you failing to fulfill your role?’

Therefore… It was absurd to use such a thing merely for a puppet show.

Moreover, he had also gifted Verner a rag that could conceal his appearance.

Although its effect had been erratic since it was torn by some cat-like creature in the black market….

In any case, he must have been a truly special being.

No matter how he thought about it, that was right.

“Huk, heok, hoo….”

Verner squeezed his eyes shut and then opened them, looking down at the handle of the cart coiled around his waist like a snake.

The memory of that day flashed through his mind like lightning.

‘Who are you?’

‘….Bozena.’

The thing that a woman named Bozena had given him.

He now roughly knew what its role was as well.

The blue cart with three wheels was, so to speak, a guide.

He didn’t know the exact principle, but if he pulled it around, the man would ‘never’ die.

Simply put, he would not encounter monsters or assassins, and specifically, he could go without food for a week and still be mentally sound.

Even after days passed without a single drop of water, his body did not break down, so it could indeed be called the work of the Main God.

In the meantime, his skin had aged and his bones and skin had become tightly attached, but that no longer mattered.

He had a goal.

A goal that was fixed in one place and never wavered, shining on him more clearly than ever, like the sun.

The woman who was the fundamental cause of all this and who had carved out his heart.

-Clatter

“……..”

Kristina. The one who first called the name Verner Beatrix Venetian.

He put down the cart and looked at the fortress shrouded in the distant mist.

Even in the unyielding phantom pain, he was out of breath.

The Royal Castle at dawn was as blue as a dream.

“….Mommy!”

-Clang!

At that moment, someone nearby discovered the Royal Secretary and screamed.

Verner snapped his gaze over like a hornet.

“Ah, I didn’t see anything!”

‘I’m just, just on my way to boil laundry!’ The man, who had dropped the laundry basket he was carrying at his waist, was trying to soothe the baby in the swaddling clothes, not knowing what to do.

Verner scanned him from head to toe like a hyena that had been starving for a long time.

The Royal Secretary was clearly dressed like a beggar, but no one who had found the man so far had treated him disrespectfully.

He seemed to be a madman with a weapon, and at the same time gave the impression of having been raised in a noble family.

Either way, he was a very dangerous being to ordinary people.

“Uwaaah, heuaaah….!”

“Le, let’s go! Our daughter, shh. It’s okay. Let’s go!”

“Wait.”

Abruptly. As if it were a magic spell, the baby’s father stopped in his tracks.

Verner turned to look at him, creaking, and moved his lips.

“….Whose servant are you?”

Then the man jumped in place.

“I, I am not anyone’s servant, sir! I’m just, the husband of a shoemaker who runs a shop around here!”

“Shoemaker….”

Verner’s empty brown eyes slowly scanned the old signs of the village.

The man was trembling with fear but was struggling to soothe the crying baby.

However, the baby had been screaming since the moment he discovered the Royal Secretary.

This was something that could not be stopped by human effort.

“Uwaaaah, kkeuaaah….!”

“….Then you must belong to a guild. State the name of the guild and the guild master.”

“Ye, yes?”

“Heuaaah, euaaaah!”

“Insolent thing! Do you know who I am to make me ask twice?”

“Hiek! Gi, guilds like that no longer exist! I’m sorry!”

As he urged him with a cracking voice as if cursing, the man bent over, terrified.

Verner was displeased with his dawdling and raised the scythe in his left hand even higher.

Then the shoemaker’s husband shed tears and hurriedly said what he knew.

“Mo, most of the guilds in the Royal Capital have either disbanded or suspended operations!”

“….What?”

“I, I don’t know the details, sir. I swear on the Main God, it’s the truth! But something big happened in the Royal Capital, and the high-ranking people all ran away in carriages, and most of them went south, I heard it second hand.”

“……..”

“The rumors, the rumors are very ominous. It’s more ominous than it was in the early days of the war! Now there are hardly any people entering the Royal Capital. Really, there are only people running away in the middle of the night….”

“Even if it’s wartime, you are lowly and ignorant and believe all sorts of nonsense.”

“……..”

Verner scorned him. Then the man hid the baby in his arms and shrugged his shoulders.

The Royal Secretary ordered him with an overbearing attitude, pushing him away.

“Get a carriage and bring plenty of liquor and food.”

“Ye, yes? A carriage?”

“I will enter the center of the Royal Capital. I belong to the Royal Castle.”

“Yeee….?”

The baby’s father and the baby both quieted down for a moment and looked at him.

That was because Verner at the moment was the person who looked the furthest from the Royal Castle to anyone.

He was wearing rags that were worse than rags and was barefoot, and the clothes he was wearing inside were tattered and torn here and there, making him look shabby.

He was pulling an empty cart with a skinny waist and holding a terrifying scythe in his left hand, and this, combined with his unwashed and disheveled appearance, created a truly bizarre and funny sight.

How much should he believe the words of a strange foreigner….

“Are you going to humiliate someone who has returned alive from the battlefield?”

“Heok! I, I didn’t know you had such circumstances. I’m sorry for not recognizing you!”

But his momentum was so fierce that his head dropped automatically when he made eye contact.

The baby’s father bent down again to pick up the laundry but stammered.

“But, but the Royal Capital’s downtown area…. There are rumors that dead corpses are revived and roam around breathing fire, and the coachmen don’t want to go in there….”

“You are hastening your own death.”

“Ah, no, sir. It’s true that the Royal Capital is turned upside down!”

The man, who had hurriedly picked up the basket, wiped his nose.

The baby in his arms was crying with him.

“After the rumor spread that Princess Elysee had gone mad, the whole city really froze like winter land….!”

“What?”

A cold question returned. The man trembled and looked at him.

Verner’s empty eyeballs rolled as if they would flow out.

“….Who went mad?”

*

The fear of dawn, which seemed like it would never end, passed, and we were finally standing at the crossroads of morning.

We decided to have the last meeting at the highest peak of Memphis and then part ways.

One side to the Rose Garden of Count Roseharder, the other to the Royal Capital, the vessel of the Divine Nation.

-Chirp chirp….

“Everyone calm down, everyone calm down.”

My friends and I sat down roughly on our butts in various places in the forest.

However, only Ms. Gain was an exception, and she was standing on the highest rock to gather the opinions of the confused group.

Cedric, leaning against a tree, was displeased that his partner’s view was higher than his, but he let it be for now.

Ms. Gain pointed to Jibril Diop with a sharp gesture.

“Lord of the Palace kidnapper, to summarize last night’s situation?”

“Ms. Gain, it really wasn’t a kidnapping….”

-Auk

For reference, the Duke was beaten terribly on the back by Ms. Gain from the morning for taking me on patrol without prior notice.

Tete’s flipper feet and Lofi’s cotton paws also hit his cheeks. I felt a little sorry for no reason.

“There’s nothing to summarize. A ‘madness’ occurred in the puppeteer’s Cheonro [a district or area], and according to the puppet elders, it’s certain that two earth-attribute cardinals lost their lives. The battlefield will be devastated by now.”

“Not long after, I felt a strong aura. It seemed like His Majesty Frederick had unleashed his power.”

Sir Johan added calmly.

Ms. Gain glanced at him once like a skilled auctioneer and then looked back at Diop.

“Lord of the Palace abductor, what is its impact?”

“Hey, who’s the abductor—”

“Answer the question?”

“….The impact is obvious. The front line will rapidly retreat to the Royal Capital. There can be no survivors in the land where His Majesty’s obelisk is erected. The war may end in as little as three or four days.”

“If you take it long?”

Sant, sitting in the carriage doorway, asked, feeding Lynn a snack. His face was very uneasy.

This time, another member of the Imperial Family gave the answer instead of Diop.

“It will be a period that no one can guarantee.”

“……..”

I looked up at Cedric with a worried face, then hugged Demi, Leah, and Perry in my arms—the children had been trembling since dawn without getting a wink of sleep, and they seemed to be greatly affected because they were the same earth attribute as those who had passed away—and looked at His Majesty Hanan next to me.

The Elder seemed to have a lot on his mind.

-I wondered how much of that blood would remain even if they were descendants of Lazar…. I never thought they would inherit the ultimate skill.

-The name of the current emperor will outlive the Liester Empire.

“……..”

We were silent for a moment.

His Majesty Frederick had hated war all his life due to the influence of his grandfather, but how would he accept this evaluation of His Majesty Hanan?

He used such a skill, so how is his body?

However, there was no room to continue leisurely thoughts.

“….Then we must solve the problem of the Royal Capital before His Majesty. Before he leads the army to the capital of the Divine Nation. We can’t even contact him right now, so.”

I said solemnly. My friends’ eyes quickly gathered here.

“We must completely neutralize the ‘summoning circle’ of the Royal Capital to prevent all future attempts at killing God, so we will infiltrate the heart of the Royal Capital, the Royal Castle, to carry it out. As my brother advised. There is no major change in our operation.”

“……..”

“We can’t go back to Cheonro now, and there’s even less reason to do so if His Majesty has gained the upper hand. He wouldn’t want us to retreat either. And….”

I glanced at Ms. Gain and Cedric.

The two people’s red and blue eyes were sparkling like jewels in the morning sunlight.

“The Blessing of the Sea, the Wise Sword of Mars, the Heart of the Four Dragons. These are the only three special ether artifacts we are taking to the Royal Capital. Isabel will take the Ice Silkworm’s vault separately. Then, since there is no air or earth attribute among the four attributes, there will be no major problems even if we enter the summoning circle.”

My friends quietly exchanged glances. I nodded.

“….Even if Princess Elysee’s golden spear arrives, there is still no earth attribute. So, if it goes according to plan, it will be fine.”