NOVEL NEXT chapter 16
16 – Council of Lords (3)
“You want to test me?”
I looked at Ariel with my arms crossed.
“Yeah, isn’t that bad?”
“No. Does not matter.”
It is a process that must be passed in order to become a monarch anyway.
There is a sense that the time has come a little faster, but it didn’t matter.
“Are you serious?”
“Anyway, aren’t humans like that?”
In response to the whispers of the monarchs, Ariel said firmly.
“Yes, you said you would take responsibility yourself. You should give it a chance.”
“Overlord-! Are you kidding me? It wouldn’t be cool to tear him to death, so what a test!”
The Lord of the Black Sea jumped up from his seat with a disapproving face.
Ariel chuckled and opened her mouth.
“The monarch is thoroughly meritocracy. Whether it’s a human or a demon, as long as it’s strong, it’s okay. Or, do you really think that Gerard will pass the test unconditionally?”
“You are talking nonsense. How does that uncivilized person pass the exam?”
“So, give it a chance.”
As Ariel smiled, she sat down again, as if the Lord of the Black Sea couldn’t.
“That sounds like fun. It’s good that I was bored.”
The lord of Cheollong said while stroking his beard.
The 1st and 3rd monarchs also joined in.
“Well, as long as you are strong, it doesn’t matter if you are a human or a monkey. It wouldn’t hurt to give it a chance.”
“Let’s fight! Let’s fight!”
I spoke as if I had been waiting.
Actually, important information was left out.
“What exam are you taking?”
“Because I don’t like complicated things. How about simply dealing with the kids here?”
“Can I point out the opponent?”
“Well, you can do that. Do you have a particular monarch in mind?”
“Hmm.”
I touched my chin and examined the faces of the monarchs in the seat.
Most of them had faces that wanted people to choose them.
As expected, it’s like a demon crazy for fighting.
‘As expected, there is only one person.’
Actually, the answer has already been decided.
The result is the same no matter who I choose against as the one tool for defense.
So, if you’re going to choose…
I pointed at someone without hesitation.
“Overlord.”
“… Huh?”
“I want to fight the overlord.”
“?!”
She was the only one.
Everyone in the seat looked shocked.
It made sense.
All monarchs must work together to be equal to her alone.
However, it was not unreasonable for a mere uncivilized human to make such a statement to the sky.
“Wow… It’s also beyond expectations. Gerard. I didn’t know you would say the same thing as the Seven Lords.”
Ariel looked at me like an excited child.
Then she bit her lips in regret.
“Thank you for choosing me, but that’s still not possible. Am I the evaluator?”
‘He’s lying.’
I know very well why she refuses.
Her power is so strong that it is difficult to control it.
That’s why, they were afraid that the Postia Islands would be erased from the map.
‘Sorry.’
I didn’t want that either.
Island is a place I will need in the future.
“Good, then I will personally test him.”
At that time, the Lord of the Black Sea joined the conversation as if he had been waiting.
“… You are? Are you sure you won’t kill me?”
“No.”
“I hear that, Gerard? What do you think?”
I clicked my tongue and opened my mouth.
“I hate it.”
“Why? Don’t you like it?”
“Hmph, I don’t like it. The guy is scared. You don’t have the confidence to deal with me.”
The lord of the Black Sea shoots with devouring force.
I drank a glass of wine and said.
“To do a test with a guy like that. Isn’t that cheating?”
“Does that mean the lord of the Black Sea is not satisfied?”
I nodded.
“What-?!”
He came up to me with bloody eyes and pushed his face.
“Don’t act like a guest, human. Can’t you judge where you are right now?”
“Clear your disgusting face.”
He smiles madly at my attitude.
Then he looked at the monarchs as if making a proclamation.
“I will deal with this guy. If there is anyone who gets in the way, I will tear everything apart, whether it be the monarch or not!”
It seemed that he was very angry at my provocation.
“Suddenly, you start to like that person?”
“Puha-! You also? Actually me too It’s the first time I’ve ever seen someone who scratches the black sea lord’s temper like that.”
“Shut up that mouth?!”
At the whispers of the lords, the lord of the Black Sea shouts.
Ariel smiled and opened his mouth.
“Everyone seems to agree. Gerard can’t help it.”
“If that’s what the overlord wants, then we can’t. Instead, I will only block.”
One of Ariel’s eyebrows went up.
“That won’t work, will it? This is a test You have to do your best.”
I sighed.
“Then can I kill him?”
“Huh?”
“Because I don’t know how to fight delicately.”
I pointed to the corpse of a demon in front of me.
Ariel is startled.
“Hmm… That’s a bit difficult.”
“Then I will do as I please. Because I can’t make one more vacant position for the monarch.”
Ariel put on a worried expression.
I opened my mouth soon.
“Okay, I can’t help it.”
**
The monarchs stared at a distant place with curious faces.
A large garden, two standing to the left and right.
It was a primitive method, but there was nothing more fun than this.
“Rosaria, who do you think will win?”
The 6th Lord twisted the ring and asked.
“Of course Gerard will win.”
“Are you calling me by name already? It’s not like you.”
“I think we will become close friends in the future.”
“You used to hunt humans as a hobby? Fuhahahaha-!”
“Shut up.”
It was when Rosaria and the 6th Lord were bickering like that.
“Okay, you can start now!”
Ariel, who had finished using his defense magic, transmitted it to two people.
“I can finally tear you apart.”
The Lord of the Black Sea stretched out his right hand as if he had been waiting.
“Respond to the call. Magicians.”
A huge door appeared in the air with an intense purple light.
After a while, the door opened and thousands of monsters began to pour out like water draining from the dam.
“You idiot, you only want to block me? In the first place, you can’t even reach me.”
The lord of the Black Sea raised his lips at the scene that would take place in a moment.
He will beg for help and will backtrack unsightly.
There is no human who survived the tidal wave of the giant monster.
“?”
However, Gerard rather walked forward.
It is stepping into the mouth of a beast with its huge jaw wide open.
“If you want to die so quickly, I won’t stop you.”
The four-eyed wolf bit his body violently.
However.
-Kaegaeng!
Suddenly, the wolf gnaws and runs away.
“?”
A moment of doubt.
The devil, who cuts through steel like paper, tried to sever Gerard’s neck with a scythe.
However, the demons threw the scythe to the floor as if they were annoyed.
“What are they doing?”
One eyebrow of the Lord of the Black Seas raised.
The monsters who were supposed to follow their orders showed a strange reaction.
“You assholes! Kill him!”
He has a heavy body and punches down a man with a fist the size of a rock.
When he reached out, it was too easily blocked.
Soon after, a giant centipede twists his body and attacks him.
The man took it with his bare body without even blocking it.
Rather, the centipede’s body explodes.
“… What?”
The pupils of the Lord of the Black Sea began to tremble little by little.
He really wasn’t making any attacks like he said earlier.
He seemed to be blocking it, and he was getting closer and closer to him.
“You savage bastard!”
The lord of the Black Sea bit his thumb with his proud look on his face.
A drop of blue blood fell to the floor.
“Come out, colossus-!”
In an instant, the earth began to vibrate, and the ground beneath the feet of the Lord of the Black Sea cracked.
Followed by terrible screams and cries, something slowly rises from the ground.
-Quaaa!
The body of the Lord of the Black Sea rose higher and higher into the sky.
At his feet, a giant in the shape of a man stood holding a bow.
“Oh, that doesn’t work.”
Ariel, who was watching this, murmured.
A single attack by the giant was powerful enough to wipe out an entire kingdom.
No matter how much defense magic was spread around the castle, there would be quite a lot of damage.
“What, it’s a pity.”
She shrugged her shoulders and looked at them again.
“Kill.”
The giant began to draw the string of his bow tight.
A huge storm rages.
The daytime sky turned dark in an instant, and only the giant’s arrow shone like a flash.
“If you get this far, I won’t hold back my praise-!”
As the Lord of the Black Sea beckoned, the titan let go of the bowstring.
With the sound of the air ripping, the giant’s white arrow quickly flew out.
The arrow pulverized thousands of monsters in its path, dented the surrounding terrain, and rushed at Gerard.
-Wheeyeee!
And then, when the arrow touched his body.
A thick fog rose with a loud roar.
.
.
.
“It’s bloody?”
“Are humans safe?”
“He must be dead. How do you stop that?”
The monarchs did not think he would be alive.
Even if it can stop the waves of monsters that come like a tidal wave.
You will not be able to stop the attack of the giant who can wipe out the entire Black Sea.
How much time had passed like that?
The fog slowly began to lift.
“… Look over there.”
“Nonsense!”
And the monarchs saw.
Gerard, who was making a arrogant expression as if nothing was wrong even though he directly hit the giant’s attack.
“I-I’m alive after being hit by that thing?”
“Only humans?”
The monarchs looked at him in horror.
I felt awe beyond admiration.
Even they couldn’t take that arrow with their bare bodies.
However, a mere human endured the giant’s arrow.
“… That guy isn’t human You are unbelievably strong.”
“Where the hell did you get this guy? Why haven’t you shown up yet?”
There are many strong people in the world.
From sword masters to high-ranking wizards.
However, no matter how much they flew and crawled, they could not overcome a single lord.
But what does that person mean?
The monarchs were stunned and opened their mouths.
**
‘Wow, I thought you were searching.’
The attack just now was terrifying enough to send chills down the spine.
I know the defenses are applied, but can I really stop them? I was about to think that.
Once again, I felt how strong the monarch was.
“Is that the best?”
However, the words that came out of my mouth were quite the opposite.
Pretending nothing was wrong, I slowly approached him.
“… This is a lie.”
The titan was reverse summoned, and the Lord of the Black Sea, who descended to the ground, muttered in dismay.
“Your bastard couldn’t eat me earlier, so he was anxious.”
Suddenly, the distance between him and me is less than 5 meters.
“… On human subjects.”
“Shut up.”
I used maximization to speed up.
Then, I clenched my fists and hit him in the face.
His head slightly bends.
“… Are you hitting me intentionally? Are you trying to trample on my pride?”
He smiled dejectedly and opened his mouth.
I hit him in the face with my fist again.
-f*ck!
“Stop.”
The lord of the Black Sea said, clenching his teeth.
Okay or not, I swung my fist again.
“Stop!”
He shouts and grabs my fist.
‘!’
I was taken aback for a moment.
I didn’t expect him to grab my fist.
“I lost….”
“… So, no more insults than this.”
I glared at him like I was going to kill him.
I’ll do that too.
‘… He hit me so damn hard.’
I hit him with full power.