Grave Keeper of the Fallen Kingdom

Climbing the stairs through the thick darkness, all you see is a dark sky and sparsely shining stars.

Below it lies only a quiet sandy desert.

‘Damn it, what is it?’

It feels like an ominous sensation is groping all over the body.

I’ve never had a good thing happen every time like this.

“Ren, why?”

Louise looked at my hardened expression and asked.

Can I talk about this sensation that is still just a feeling?

‘No, rather than not being vigilant… … .’

That’s when you try to organize your thoughts and open your mouth.

ssssss-

The sand on the ground moves.

If you concentrate, you can even feel the vibration.

It wasn’t just me, but the other five also didn’t look good, probably realizing that.

“Something is coming.”

“It’s not serious.”

“I think we should evacuate quickly.”

The knights spoke to Louise in a worried tone.

Louise gritted her teeth and looked at me.

“Ren, what the hell is going on? Judging by the look on your face, you seem to have known it from the start.”

Something is firmly mistaken.

What do you know? I don’t know anything.

I just felt uneasy for some reason.

‘What do we do? Should I go back to the graveyard? Or run away? behind?’

I don’t even know what’s going on, so I can’t do anything about it.

But it’s kind of hard to tell Louise that I don’t know anything.

“first-.”

“what?”

A thin voice suddenly heard.

For a moment, while trying to hide the shock in her heart, she turned her head and looked at the source of the sound.

A man walks out from behind a tall sand dune.

There, a bald man with a long face, wearing a black robe, was looking at this place.

“Since when have you been there?”

“Damn it, isn’t it the same clothes as that guy earlier?”

The knights’ faces hardened rapidly.

Anxiety crept into their voices.

‘Status Window’

[Nigermann]

– Attribute: Devil’s Brand

– Skill: Dark Magic Intermediate

– Strength: 5.0

– Agility: 5.5

– Stamina: 6.3

– Sense: 5.1

– mana: 22.5

Contrary to his fragile appearance, his terrifying abilities.

It has higher magical power than the Kaiden we encountered earlier.

“Hooray? Kayden must have been after you, but he’s still alive? Could it be that Kayden is dead?”

A creepy smile creeps across his face.

The joy of discovering an interesting toy.

Looking at the grotesque twisting of the facial muscles makes me sick to my stomach.

“Louise-sama, run away with the knights.”

Louise and the knights frowned at my sudden proposal.

A few frowned to the point where they looked bad.

“Are you telling us to abandon you?”

“wren! Are you ignoring our chivalry!”

“It’s not like that, don’t you know?”

I calmly persuaded them.

“He is stronger than that warlock from earlier. It’s hard for me to win with this body.”

“You’re stronger than that guy?”

One of the knights gaped at the enemy warlock. He was no match for Kaiden, but if he was stronger than him, there was no answer.

“Then shouldn’t we help more?”

A mustache knight approached and asked.

“I can’t win even with help.”

I said emphatically.

If you drag your time with things like this anymore, you won’t be able to make porridge or rice.

The knights also feel that they will not be of any help and bite their teeth.

“Shouldn’t we protect Louise-sama? go first If I am alone, I will be able to get out somehow.”

The eyes of the knights wavered at my final persuasion.

They think this is the best way.

“No, Ren. Even if you are my secret escort, I will not abandon my people. It’s impossible for you to run away by yourself now that you’re pretty badly hurt.”

At Louise’s words, I reflexively held my mouth open.

Looking at his resolute eyes, it seemed that nothing he said here would work.

Maybe the fact that I revealed that I was a secret escort already made me ready to die.

“You said Ren was a secret escort?”

“I see. Yes, meeting Ren after the raid of the desert boss was strange.”

The knights nodded and recalled the past.

No, now is not the time for that.

“Okay, is the meeting over?”

Purple magic is entwined over his staff.

“Try running away. Because catching those struggling is more thrilling.”

I ignored his words and spoke to Louise.

“Just one minute please help me. I need to make the hemostasis on the side stronger. Could you please take some time for the rest?”

“okay.”

“I will help you.”

The Mustachioed Knight stepped back with me, and the four, including Louise, stood in front to block the warlock.

“Be patient. I’ll tie it tight so that the intestines don’t shake.”

“Keuk… … !”

It was so tight that I thought my intestines would burst in an instant.

It may seem like I am not breathing well, but on the contrary, my body feels more at ease.

“Is it okay?”

“yes.”

“Then I-”

“Wait, I have a favor to ask you.”

“ask?”

“Yes, that… … .”

* * *

Facing the warlocks, Louise calmly catches her breath.

I felt the gap in the two magic rooms that seemed to have been lightly spread by the black magician earlier.

In the first place, normal wizards and those who differ from the arc.

It was a very tough fight for the knights who hadn’t even had a chance to fight against the wizards.

‘There must be a way.’

A little while ago, watching the fight between Ren and the warlock, I got a bit of realization.

Now, I can be a little more helpful than before.

‘Ren is in a state where he can’t fight with all his might, so I have to create that opportunity.’

Louise sees an opportunity with her blue eyes twinkling.

“That’s strange… … . How did these guys kill Kayden? Haven’t we met?”

The warlock’s head tilted, then he cast his gaze toward Ren, who was standing over the knights’ shoulders.

“ah… … , okay. Do you see that guy? The same goes for talking like you know me. Kick kick.”

What’s so funny about it, the black magician, who had been laughing so hard, cuts the air with his staff.

The dark magic power spreading forward from the tip of the staff spread like fog and landed on the ground.

“what’s this?”

“Everyone be careful! You never know what will come out!”

The black mist that slowly swims over the sandy desert obscures the bottom of my ankles.

Sensing something ominous, Louise kicked off the ground and jumped up as soon as the mist settled down, and the knights opened their eyes at the feeling of their feet rapidly disappearing.

“What, what? My feet won’t move.”

“Oops! why! why… Whoops!”

One of the knights, who forcibly moved his legs and lost feeling in his feet, fell face down and his pupils trembled.

Entering the black fog, it is because all sensations in the body have begun to disappear.

Louise, who threw herself in advance and took refuge on top of the mound, grabbed her sword and rushed toward the warlock, seeing the four knights who were instantly incapacitated.

Blurred blue swords formed over the sword.

It was definitely a swordsmanship that took a step forward from when he fought Kayden.

“Clumsy. Kick.”

Nigerman, who glanced at Louise coming in from the left, raised his left hand and unleashed his magic power.

A square shield that unfolds just by lightly sweeping the air.

aaang!!

A roaring sound echoed with light laughter.

Louise stepped back, frowning at the recoil of the stabbing sword.

coo cooo coo… !!

As Nigerman’s expression hardened as he tried to finish off Louise, the sandy bottom rose rapidly.

“Keugh… … !”

Louise groaned and hardened her expression.

I almost got hit by the black magician, but that was the problem.

I saw a waterfall of sand that tumbled down the side of the ground and rose up suddenly.

A strong wind of sand was blowing in all directions, and a huge amount of sand was flowing down from the sky.

“Desert Boss… … .”

dump.

Fortunately, the sand acted as a cushion, so he wasn’t seriously hurt, but his muscles seemed to have been ruptured in the aftermath of a failed attack.

Louise, who couldn’t move for a moment, lay there blankly and stared at the black silhouette.

A huge dark-colored earthworm appeared through the sand.

“Prince!”

As Nigerman’s black magic was lifted, the knights who regained their senses hurriedly rose from their seats and ran towards Louise.

“Fortunately, he’s aiming for a warlock. We have to run away through this gap!”

The mustachioed knight raised Louise up and said in an urgent tone.

Louisen dazed, then came to his senses and looked around.

“What about Ren?”

“They say they will break through the escape route first.”

Louise, who had her mouth shut at the words of the mustache knight, nodded and turned around.

Yellow dust rises behind them as they run.

After running for a long time and coming to the point where they can’t be seen, I let out a sigh of relief.

“ha… … .”

“You’re finally out of this hellish place.”

“I feel like dying.”

Sitting leaning against a huge rock, the knights grumbled with sighs.

“By the way, where is Ren?”

Louise looked around with a hard expression on her face and asked the mustache knight.

Only then do others feel strange and look at him.

“… … .”

The faces of the knights who looked at the hardened face of the mustache knight turned pale.

Louise gnashed her teeth and hurriedly stood up from her seat.

“Prince!”

“Move! Khalid!”

When Louise, who roughly pushed the mustachioed knight’s shoulder, was about to return to where she was.

He knelt down on the sandy ground and sat down.

“It was Ren’s earnest request.”

“… … .”

Louise, who stopped her steps at Khalid’s earnest voice, clenched her fists.

“You have to judge rationally. If I had the skills, I would have taken the time, not Ren.”

“Are you abandoning the comrade who saved us?”

There was indescribable anger in Louise’s cold voice.

The knights were also tricked by Khalid, but had no intention of blaming him.

If they were in that situation, they would have made the same choice.

“For us, the prince comes first.”

“Please kill me.”

“no. me-.”

“stop! stop… … .”

Louise’s lost gaze moved back and forth and then headed to the place where the warlock was.

‘wren… … .’

The anger he felt was directed at himself, not at the warlock, the desert boss, or the knights.

Powerless.

Knowing how tenaciously and tenaciously this one word torments people, I tried hard not to collapse.

“Wake up.”

After saying that to the knights kneeling next to Khalid, Louise sat down next to the rock.

“Wait for Ren to come.”

“Prince… … .”

There is even a desert boss in the warlock.

Even worse, Ren was injured.

The knights knew that the odds of Ren returning alive were low, but the knights couldn’t stop Louise.

It was because there was no way Louise would not know that.

‘Be sure to come back alive.’

At the end of Louise’s line of sight, a pure white star in the night sky was just about to fall.

* * *

“Tsk, did you think I would have run away too?”

I never thought that the giant earthworm would suddenly attack me like this.

If I had known this was going to happen, wouldn’t it have been okay if I had just sneaked out with the group… … .

I love you so much!!

Dark magic arrows rushing through the sand that spread like fog suddenly rushed in.

“Great!”

Sensation that soared up sensitively moved my body automatically and barely avoided it.

Targeting me while being attacked by that boss.

‘A b*tch ran away, if I had gone with him, I would have just been targeted.’

It seemed that the target he was aiming for was me, not Louise.

Or maybe it’s because of the confidence that you can catch the rest of me even if you catch me and chase me.

aaagh!!

Every time the earthworm wriggles, sand bounces in all directions.

From the outside, it seemed like a close match, but the warlock kept me in check while pushing the worms little by little.

If he continues like this, he will be taken away by the black magician, and I will be captured and killed.

‘Will it become a spiritual power now?’

A lot of spiritual power was consumed by Zalatan’s command earlier.

Also, if you command Zalatan, either the command is resolved sooner or my head is freed, one of the two will inevitably happen.

wheeiyi profit!!

Caan!!

This time a stone flew towards me.

Did it accidentally bounce during combat? But I soon found out that it wasn’t.

It was because Nigerman’s blue eyes were looking at me.

“sh*t… … .”