I lost what I had gathered so hard. Thinking about the precious care and time I had put into each one, losing them was a tremendously frustrating experience.
How did it come to this? How did it end up like this?
But losing composure in the middle of a battle is a foolish thing to do.
“Your Majesty!”
Carlos was immediately slammed into the sandy beach with a thunderous sound.
A giant hole was pierced on the coast. Imperial knights could only stare at the hole without daring to approach it. Several members, entangled in that force, writhed miserably and became corpses.
One of the major axes of stolen power had completely escaped.
Carlos, realizing the moment with an “Aha,” counterattacked without missing a beat, knocking Dragonlord down and pouring flames into the hole he created. Of course, he didn’t forget to taunt.
What have you gained purely through your efforts? A way of leeching off others?
The flames unleashed by the Dragonlord, however, turned back toward him.
The giant dragon quickly retreated with flapping wings. Carlos, whose clothes were untouched, stood up and glared at him. He no longer had any intention of responding.
“For now, I have to take away that guy’s power.”
Carlos ground his teeth. Rolling in a sandpit was a humiliation that had only happened once in several hundred years.
What a disgrace in front of those serving him! Swearing never to suffer such humiliation again, Carlos had sworn, but that damn Dragon constantly blocked his way.
If he lost the power of the Western Sage, he could replace it with the power of the Eastern Sage. Melphias, who had maintained Perseta for 430 years, enduring and surviving, would be better than the weakened Ophelia.
But, but.
“How did it break?”
How did Ophelia escape from his hands?
Carlos, who had planned to reinforce Ophelia’s curse, somewhat shattered this time, couldn’t come to his senses due to the sudden events today. The remaining large curses had all disappeared.
‘What about Rustica?’
He reflexively checked the most important and precious curse. The ‘head’ of Rustica was still there. It hadn’t changed at all.
‘I need to hurry.’
The most important thing is to bring Rustica with me.
“Capture that monster!”
“Protect Her Majesty!”
To do that, I have to tear apart the prey in front of me.
Carlos laughed oddly. The Dragonlord saw his revealed mouth strangely distorted and enlarged. After the flames Melphias had spewed out entered through that mouth.
But after the black smoke at the end of the flames passed, it returned to a beautiful face.
‘Is that his true form?’
Melphias immediately understood the situation. Doing what he shouldn’t, a sorcerer who had only survived by taking away the power of others was breaking down.
If such a person reveals his ugly form, it means that things are quite urgent now.
Sure enough, after absorbing the flames, Carlos, without missing a beat, sent a shapeless, enormous heat toward Melphias.
It distorted the air but wasn’t visible. However, the heat was as powerful as the flames Melphias had spewed.
Is it just heat? Carlos reached out to grab Melphias, the Dragonlord and the Eastern Sage’s power.
His hand, like a hook, blackened. Emerald curses followed, cutting through the air along with the heat.
‘Like this.’
Melphias deftly avoided curses that seemed to cut like bright threads, but he couldn’t keep avoiding forever. He avoided 430 years ago, but not now.
Immediately, a formidable force imbued with a deadly energy seized Melphias’s wings. Joy spread across Carlos’s lips.
“I got you!”
It’s over once he touches him. From the moment of contact, his power absorbs the opponent, entwining and draining them, a method that evolved considerably before the counterattack.
It was a moment when he could sense Melphias’s power escaping and was about to express his annoyance.
Now, was he extracting the power of the Dragonlord, who would inevitably have to withdraw forever? Carlos rejoiced and promptly raised his left hand to block the incoming attack.
Thud!
The casually blocked fingertips tingled.
“All forces, focus on the left!”
“Enemy spotted at 9 o’clock!”
What on earth happened to the kingdom where these monsters roam? Imperial knights turned their direction toward the enemies appearing on the left.
Once again, the airspace was ruthlessly cut. Inside, new enemies and a new terrain unfolded.
“Who is this?”
Carlos smirked provocatively. The reddish soil and dry air didn’t match the golden sandy beach and blue sea.
Moving to the west and facing Carlos, Ophelia, without bothering to respond, immediately attacked the Imperial knights and Carlos.
Of course, Melphias was not idle either.
“Agh!”
Short screams were drowned in the noise. As Carlos reached out once again towards the Dragonlord, the space where lights flashed and cut off expanded.
Thud!
The Eastern coast, where the Dragonlord had burned the ships with flames, was pushed back. The Imperial knights and Carlos, still with the Kartat walls behind them, faced the West this time.
“All forces, attack!”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
