I Am a Low-Class Aristocrat of a Perishing Country

15 – Protagonist (4)

Thump. Thud. Thud. Thud

It was a dark passageway without a single moonlight. Every time I breathed, I felt an unpleasant feeling of moisture entering my lungs. The floor is uneven, so if you step on it wrong, you will fall hard.

I was running through such an anthill-like aisle without hesitation. This was possible thanks to the enhanced sense of sight, hearing, and touch through sensory activation. Now I can observe the pores of the white jade-like skin of the IrLP with the naked eye.

I can still feel the presence of Charles. A number of crypts came out, but I didn’t care at all. All you had to do was carefully tear down all the walls in the straight path.

Of course, even if you’re careful, it’s accompanied by a considerable roar, so the naturalists’ movements became urgent. They probably thought that Ir Elfi had given up on the emperor and empress.

‘What is this sign?’

While walking through the endless aisles, I stopped for a moment when I felt the presence of a human. At the fork in the road, a man was holding out. The hat is tightly pressed down, so the exact impression is not visible.

The man who stood in the way was clearly taken aback. He spoke first

“I thought that if there was a pursuer, of course the white knight would come… What an unexpected guest.”

“The person who will be the doctor for the white knight will come.”

The man who heard me immediately agreed.

“Ohhh, the rumored guy… After all, the monster’s companion is a monster.”

He was a man who nodded as if he could understand it in his own way, but I couldn’t understand anything. Who is whose partner and who is the monster?

In a fit of rage, I reflexively yelled.

“Don’t be ridiculous, put someone on that Godzilla! At least I’m not out of line?”

It is trivial that Netionpeace’s body deviated from the laws of nature. Compared to that twenty-six-year-old irrational creature.

The man seemed to be at a loss for words by unintentionally pressing the seizure button on me.

“Uh, uh… Yeah.”

“Okay, give me the sha. Do you know who the kid you kidnapped is?”

It was a dignified request, as if he had come to find his belongings. Then, a fishy smile appeared on the corner of her man’s mouth.

“Of course. You know very well! Aren’t you the illegitimate daughter of a whore-like empress?”

“It’s enough to know. I’ll take responsibility for sending you to IrLP.”

“I guess that’s when it’s possible.”

The man lowered her and held her in position. It was an unspoken compulsion to allow only body-to-body conversation.

I kicked off the ground and ran towards her man. I am not familiar with martial arts, but I am confident in Netion Peace’s physical abilities. If you are a normal human, you can subdue it at any moment.

“Haap!”

It was right after I punched out that I realized that my expectations had gone awry.

The man then brushed her arms, then let her fist flow lightly and lifted her elbow, striking her on the chin.

Fast action far from normal.

It is a systematically trained movement even to an outsider. It is unknown whether they are Duke Peita’s henchmen or a separate group. What is certain is that if a man like this were common, he would not be a formidable force.

“Kuk.”

I lost my balance for a moment and let my knees relax. Even though the body is immortal, it was because the brain shakes when the jaw is hit.

However, the possessed body was too strong to lose consciousness by allowing vital points. In an instant, I came to my senses and threw myself with all my might.

The man reacted late as if he hadn’t guessed that I would recover so quickly after taking a hit.

Quang!

“Hey…?!”

It was just a blow to the body, but the effect was significant. It was possible because Netion Peace’s physical ability was itself a weapon.

The man woke up from the hollowed-out wall.

“He’s terribly tough because he’s corrupt. This guy has been well hidden until now.”

“Oh, I thought it was fermenting because I hid it too well.”

It is a body that has been meticulously hidden for hundreds of years. It wasn’t that he hid it well, it was a problem because he hid it too well.

I bluffed and wiped the blood from the corner of my mouth. Blood came out because the tongue was chewed hard when the jaw was hit.

Of course, he played it right away, but he had no way of knowing. If I drag it out like this, eventually he will get tired, and I can win.

‘Of course I can’t!’

It is an urgent situation where every second is a waste. For Charles’ safety, a swift action is necessary.

‘If I could handle cheating, I wouldn’t even care about tidying up a guy like that.’

Among the things Netionpeace gave me, there was also a method to use fraud. It was a very attractive option because Netion Peace’s abilities only show their true value when combined with morale. It was clear that it was actually a method passed on to seduce me.

However, activation of morale affects the body’s initiative fight. Therefore, it was a power that should never be used, and it was worth considering at least once when there was no back.

I shook off my thoughts and leaped toward the man.

“Creepy!”

It was my scream. Like a machine, the man let out an attack and landed a blow to the face at the shortest distance. I can’t win with my physical abilities, so I focus on avoiding me.

He was a master of hand-to-hand combat. He knows exactly how to fill the gap in overwhelming power with technology.

The wounds never threatened me, but being tied up was annoying. Continuing to deal with him made me feel like a new born child whose physical abilities were far too strong.

“Kuh…? Cool!”

The man’s moan involuntarily escaped his lips. At that time, I notice the man’s agitation. Clear doubts came from within. I could easily guess the meaning of the moaning.

‘That’s absurd. It bleeds even if it gets hit, but it doesn’t show any sign of tiredness.’

The important thing is that there are no scars because it is restored quickly. It’s just that it’s covered in blood and you can’t see it properly.

Besides, he was already shaken inside because I crashed him. This is a fact proved by the rough breath of the man’s blood.

I was very worried because it was at this point where a speedy battle was important, but it seemed that the internal injuries suffered from the torso headbutt were much greater than expected.

The man may have acquired a far-skilled combat sense through training, but the difference in racial specs was too great.

“Heo-eok, heo-eok. Are you even immortal?”

“You don’t have to… Know that!”

f*ck!

I easily find a gap in a tired opponent and put a fist into the abdomen. The feeling of the ribs crushing and collapsing was so vivid.

“Uh… Billion… Kuh…”

Her man spilled a horse’s blood, and she fell down without a single scream.

That was the first murder I ever committed.

I didn’t like the aftertaste of the sloppy victory that I took with my physical specifications.

“…Well.”

I stared blankly at the man’s corpse. Bodies with eyes closed are strewn about. I didn’t think anything of it even though I killed a person I didn’t know.

I don’t know if I haven’t realized it yet, or if it’s an urgent situation and I don’t have time to feel guilty. If that’s not the case…

‘Am I originally this kind of human? Or because it’s the body of Netion Peace?’

I really don’t know.

I pride myself on being an extremely ordinary person, but the situation is far from normal. But for this moment, it’s rather good.

If you were buried in a sense of guilt when you had to save Charles even for a moment, that would be a stupid attitude.

I left the man’s body behind and followed Charles.

“I proudly said that I would take you in front of Ir Elp… Tsk, I can’t be a great man either.”

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“Haa…”

Elfi let out a deep sigh. Her sorrowful expression under the moonlight highlighted her pitiful figure. She was conflicted in a corner of her heart.

‘Was it the right thing? It’s not a category of work that I can be responsible for.’

Charles is kidnapped and the Empress panics. And as an escort for the emperor and empress, I was sealed. The red dome became a fetter for the invited nobles, so they couldn’t even break it.

She was, at least, if she had been a member of the Nelf Lugia Knights, she would have acted directly. For some reason, the knights didn’t even show their noses, and only the privates of Duke Peita had a disturbing look in their eyes.

But the likes of them pose no threat to Illelpi. There was only one creature she had ever seen that she considered worthy of a threat.

Nephi Alteon. No, the nation’s nobility, Netion Peace. That man was truly a threat to the Empire. And now he left the side of the Illelpi and the reins were loose.

“Fortunately, ‘Holy Memory’ is maintained, but it’s on the verge…”

It’s to suppress that kind of fraud. When rough acts such as armed conflict are repeated, it is in an instant to break. The fact that the holy memory was maintained, albeit unstable, was proof that Nefi was acting in moderation.

If you really had a dark mind, you would have run away and released Holy Memory’s restraints.

‘It’s no use worrying about it any more.’

Illelpy was also a human.

A person who sometimes judges a situation with emotions rather than reason. She is just a possessor of enormous energy, but in reality she is a woman with ordinary sensibilities.

When Nephi bent her back and asked, Ir Elfi saw Nefi’s eyes. Eyes like jade, full of sincerity and no wickedness anywhere. His attitude made me question whether he really was a cruel aristocrat.

It was as if a good human being had taken over Netionpeace’s body.

At the time of their first meeting, they were clumsy and unbecoming of a founding aristocrat. It was the complete opposite of the legend of Netion Peace, which had been passed down as a secret.

Irelpi judged as a person who went through all of that. I wondered if I could trust him at least once…

Ir Elfi chose for her friend, younger brother Charle, and for her only blood relative, Mirren Justiha.

“Come quickly… Please don’t make me nervous, Nefi.”

Looking at the ominously glowing bloody dome, she murmured.

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I finally got out of the crypt and faced the scenery outside. It was a forest path where the starlight embroidered under a clear sky could be seen without filtering. If you turn your head, you can see the red dome covering the Duke Peita’s residence from afar.

I said, spitting bloody saliva in my mouth.

“I found it. Charles!”

There were three figures in front of my eyes. There is Charles, who barely makes a sound of crying, and a large man carrying her on his back.

But what I’m concerned about now is not the two, but the other one.

A man with a small physique wearing a hood. There is a prayer that is incomparable to the man who engaged in a hand-to-hand combat even at first sight.

The moment I met him, I felt a sense of déjà vu. An intense sensation, as if the whole body was being rubbed by numerous blades and the soul was about to be blown away… It was clear.

‘It’s the same as when I received the killing blow from the Elf head on!’

Are there other people of this caliber? As this is the point before the story of Begins, it is not strange if any of the characters appear.

The problem is that among those characters, who else can have such a sense of intimidation?

‘Even if I infer, nothing will change. In the end, they just collide!’

It was a time when I was shaking off such complicated thoughts. Hood’s man quietly got lucky.

“I was relieved that it wasn’t Iru Elpi Yustiha. I’m sorry that it seemed like I was mistaken.”

It was an apology to the huge assailant carrying Charles on his back. Then the gigantic monster spoke calmly.

“Give me an order.”

“Nothing will change. I will follow you soon, so go first.”

“Okay.”

The large assailant nodded plainly and turned his back with Charles on his back.

“Don’t miss it!”

I leaped towards Char with all my might and threw my fist at her, but it was blocked in vain. My knuckles collided with the hooded man’s sword face and were distorted unsightly.

In the dungeon, the blood that had flowed from being beaten with excitement spattered on the man’s hood.

“Kuh!?”

“Hmm!”

I groaned as my fists were blocked, but the hooded man also vomited admiration at the unexpected power. In fact, her man landed dragging the ground by the recoil after blocking it with the sword.

“There must have been a reason Ilea suffered. He would have been killed in one blow. Especially if he was careless with his delicate physique.”

It is probably the story of the man who tied me up in a hand-to-hand combat. To be precise, it was a distance including a headbutt, but it was an accurate decision.

I deliberately provoked you with bravado.

“Do you think it’s different for you? I’ll get along with you right away.”

“hahahaha. Interesting, on the topic of extras.”

“If you tell me who will be the extra, you’ll know.”

“It’s unexpected that someone like you exists, but now is not the time to be curious.”

In an instant, the man’s momentum changed to chauvinism and overwhelmed the whole area. The wind brushing my cheeks felt like rusty metal scratching, and the grass bugs stopped crying as if they were trying to hide themselves.

I also straightened my posture and stared at him without blinking.

Soon, the new type of man disappeared.

“What…!”

I quickly corrected my misunderstanding.

It was because he approached quickly, lowering his body like a beast seeking prey. I only expected the man’s bleakly shining sword blade to find an opening and bite it.

“Damn it!”

All I could do was jump up in all directions and roll unsightly down the dirt road. Even so, I had to roll over and over again to avoid the flying fragments of the sword.

I tried to block the enemy’s view by retreating to the forest road, but even that was useless.

Hooung! Whoo!

Every time the man’s sword blade roamed the air, thick old trees inevitably fell like willow leaves. The concept of cover did not seem to work for him.

‘Crazy. It’s not as good as the Elfie’s intangible sword, but I have the skills to defeat it…!’

In the first place, it was a fight that would have been thoroughly tossed if Netionpee hadn’t hit and nailed the use of sensory enhancement.

I could hold out a little longer like this, but the timeline was tight. Even more frustrating than that was the truth that popped up in a corner of my heart.

Even if time wasn’t running out, even if I put immortality first, I didn’t have the confidence to beat him.

This is the unchanging truth and reality.

It was the limit of a criminal who happened to be possessed by a strong body.

It was around the time I was thinking of ways to overcome the difficulties. The man grabbed his sword upside down and plunged it into the ground.

“This side is also running out of time, so I’m going to die without dragging it.”

It was a dry sentence. A man’s incantation followed.

“Servant of the heroic spirit running through the land.”

At this, I was startled. It was because he was already familiar with everything he had been reciting from the first words of the chant.

You shouldn’t hear it here. If I misremembered, I would shake my head up and down and understand.

My pupils shook violently as the man continued to sing. A speech I will never forget. A skill that is like a symbol you’ve heard countless times. A mantra that any player would know came out of the man’s lips.

“You, you…! How to do that!”

I instinctively ran towards the man. I’d rather run away, I don’t know why.

When I ran up close to the man, I met his eyes.

The ruby-like eyes of each other exchanged glances. The only difference was that I had an unsightly twisted eye, and the man looked very calm.

At that moment, the man’s chant suddenly cut off, and the earth cracked apart, with golden pillars rising from the gap reaching the sky.

The man’s hood fluttered in the rough updraft. I saw her man’s face clearly even as I was surrounded by golden pillars.

There was a person there who shouldn’t be here more than anyone else. I growled and called out the name.

“Why are you here, Siegharun!!!”

“Huh!”

The man in the hood – Zeke Harun’s eyes turned strange. My body melted into the brilliant golden light and could no longer function, but only the desperate cry continued to ring around.

“I bet you knew me. You must have seen me for the first time today…”

Zeke Harun retrieved his sword and left before the golden pillar even sank.

“… I’m dead, so that’s okay.”

The identity of the golden pillar was a huge heat ray. It is a broad-scale annihilation period that condenses and raises the geothermal heat flowing deep underground, devastating the area. It is impossible to endure with human durability.

As time passed, the area where the pillar of light had completely subsided was a wasteland. The forest was blazing with fire, and the ground cracked like a pot lid, reminiscent of a natural disaster.

At the scene of the one-sided massacre, where no sign of life was lost, only one lump of cloth remained intact.

A body of sin that is the only one of all things in the world to evade the providence of death.

It was netion peace.

“Ah… Ah…! Why did he…”

As I tasted the sensation of each and every cell in my body slowly ripening, only one question was engraved in my mind.

Nobody but me couldn’t have known.

For me… No, it’s a character that anyone who has played the game can help but be more familiar with. He is the central axis of this world that leads the narrative.

The 3rd generation main character of , Siegharun Misrach.

It was the true identity of the man in the hood I encountered.

“Damn… Damn, Damn! aaa!!!”

The appearance of the original protagonist was the first extreme wall of incompetence he encountered. The miserable feelings come like a big wave.

A roar, stricken with a sense of defeat, shook the members.