Neither was Zalwarn's side sitting back and watching Gandia's invasion. Nagrasia had a defensive force in place.

It's not limited to Nagrasia. Each city in Zalwarn had a garrison of troops called the Dragon Scale Army from the first to the seventh, and cooperation between each city should have been robust.

Most importantly, it was not true that Zalwarn's army was not sufficient.

It was only a few days before the invasion of Gandhia that we detained Nares-Ragnahorn. Nares gained the trust of Mirelbus and, as a military master, had reigned at the apex of the Zalwarn army. He was also in charge of the military personnel.

Regardless, it must be Mirell Bus who makes the final decision, and it must be Mirell Bus's fall that failed to spot his thoughts.

A poison named Nares-Ragnahorn wielded fierceness and bullied out the inside of the Zalwarn army. Even though it was cleverly hidden to deceive Mirelbus' eyes, it was a fatal failure to grasp the reality of the army.

It was all too late, though we detained Nares and took all the authority away from him.

Gandia attacked me before the poison could heal. Nagrasia instantly fell and even the intractable Bahandar fell. Malwale was also dropped by Zeol.

Of course, the Dragon Scale Army is not the only force in Zalwarn.

I hit Gandia with the demons that were releasing me from the basement for the battle ahead. However, Ginarvy-Ryburn, Fay-Vlidia, fought and died in the Longhi River against the Gandhian army.

Miliu-Libaien, Crude-Fabruneia and Zain-Vridia were defeated by the Gandian army in the plains near Reuben, while Crude and Zain were killed in battle, and Miliu was apparently captured by the Gandian army.

The demon dragons raised by Orian-Lebaen on hand salt never answered his expectations. The armed summons he taught with all his heart was defeated before the armed summoners of Gandia.

The Phantom Training Institution called Dinobot Cave, which had been in the dark of Zalwarn for more than a decade, could be considered completely destroyed by this.

As a Mirell Bus, I have no intention of surviving or reason to rebuild it. He had one of my beloved sons, imprisoned in Dinobot Cave. I couldn't be less shocked by how Ginarvi turned out with him.

But at the same time, I was going to understand that I had to rely on the creatures created that way. That's why we put Ginarvi on the front. As a result, his son died.

Immediately before his death, Mirelbas was also dismayed by reports that he named Ginarvi-Wyburn and married Fay-Vridia on the battlefield. Ginarvi may have cursed Ryburn's house and hated the blood.

Maybe he was desperate for his father, who had dropped him into Dinobot Cave and never reached out for salvation.

Most importantly, Mirell Bus has a reason for Mirell Bus. In the days of Marcias, who had no choice but to offer Ginarvi, Mirelbus had no power whatsoever. He was just the head of the Ryburn family, like he floated in the sky.

There was also a promise to Orian that Marcias would die and that he, who stood on the throne of the lord of nations, would not immediately abolish the Dinobot Cave.

I owe Orian.

To repay that debt, the existence of the Dinobot Cave was essential. The decade in which he reigned as commander-in-chief of the Dinobot Cave is also the history of the development of Zalwarn's foreign laws. His research led to a rare change in Zalwarn's foreign laws.

One of them would be resuscitation drugs.

Crude-Fabruneia, who should have died in the battle against the Gandhian army, is resuscitated by the effects of the resuscitation drugs that Orian was administering, making him immortal and at the bottom of the land of the Dragon House.

Zain-Vlidia was also dosed, but Zain's body did not retain the prototype. Resuscitation pills, as their name suggests, resuscitate the dead. Apparently it won't work until you restore damaged flesh. That makes it a worthy substitute for God's cause.

(No...)

Mirrelbus shakes his head. He is no longer stepping into the unknown realm. The man who studied armed summoning by the red demon Azmaria-Altemax and was struck by Marcias-Vridia with a foreign law is no longer beyond Mirelbus's control.

It wasn't under his control.

"You were here"

Mirrelbus was not otherwise surprised by the voice that suddenly jumped in. The door between the heavens was open. If you're a human being like him who can't even make footsteps, it'll be easy to sneak up.

Orian-Lebaen was approaching with the same footsteps as usual. One thing that hasn't changed for a long time was a man named him. The look, the trick, the figure, what one.

It wasn't until a few years after I got to know him that I realized that was an anomaly. By then, Orian had become something that had to be done for Mirelbas.

Nothing can be done, such as letting go of the shadows.

"It's an inadvertent thing. What if Gandhia was even letting go of the assassins"

"That would be the time"

That said, I don't really think so. Besides, there is no way that Gandhia could have reached the Heavenly Wheel Palace for letting the assassins go.

Not to mention you have to scratch the eyes of a radiant dragon everywhere in Heavenly Wheel Palace to dive into the midst of the Lord's Heaven.

In the first place, the Gandia army has not even been able to attach itself to the walls of the Dragon Mansion. There will be no need to worry about assassination. At least, Gandhia's breathtaking assassin won't be able to target Mirelbus' neck much longer.

He said he was safer in the Dragon House than he heard about the anti-Mirel Bass faction breathing back.

I guess that's what Mirelbus thought seemed clear - Orian catches the edge of his mouth.

"You're not in the mood to be a national lord."

"I wonder how many times this will preach to you."

"I don't know. I guess I scolded you more than I could count."

"... I had a dream"

Mirrelbus went quietly. His voice echoes in a space where no one else is but the two of them. It's a big, lonely room. If you consider glory to be the remains of the dreams of an extreme dictator, it may be natural.

Marcias' ambitions crushed in the middle of the road.

Mirelbas and Orian pulled the curtain. I had to. If the Mirelbuses hadn't moved, Zalwarn would have pushed his way to ruin.

I have spared the way of doom and have searched for new ways. Maybe the road is about to break again.

"I dreamed about the day I first met you"

Summer riverside.

It was the ghosts standing in the shadows of the woods that were Orian-Lebien. It was only a few years after his reunion that Orian remembered the fact.

What Mirelbus forgot is the intensity of the changes in the situation, but he can't even remember clearly about the person who disappeared like a pneumonia. And just because the ghost by the river was him, it didn't particularly surprise me either.

It was before he still named Orian and it was long after that that he entered the Revien family as his son-in-law.

"I miss you. You were just a kid then."

"Oh...... Zalwarn is everything in the world and I didn't doubt it because I believed that Ryufu is the pillar that supports heaven and earth"

Mirrelbus narrowed his eyes.

From his childhood to his boyhood, he believed how enormous a country was called Zalwarn, and that there was no such thing as a shoulder for Zalwarn.

I believed innocently in the founding myth of Zalwarn, and I was even proud to be born of the Pendragon clan.

In the process of taking off my boyhood and growing up to be a youth, I left that kind of innocence somewhere.

"He's just an old man now."

"... you and I are old"

"You?

Mirrelbus smiled. I can't help but think of one stomachache, such as Orian behaving like a human being. His appearance hasn't changed since then. If my hair doesn't get thinner, my skin won't drip off. The same sarcastic look on the face of the phase seemed as if only his time had stopped and it seemed like proof that he was outside.

Orian gave an out-of-heart look, but Mirelbus didn't fit in.

"More than thirty years stand since then. Our position has changed, as has the surrounding environment. It's just a story where a child becomes a national lord and a vagrant summoner rules the darkness of the country - unusual, unthinkable, too much could be done. It's all because of you."

"Not really. Mirrelbus. If your vessel was crap, something that wasn't enough to take, this wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have been able to. I would have driven you to doom as far as I could see."

"But without you, it's also true that I wasn't here right now."

"I won't deny that. But, with or without me, you would have become the lord of the land and wielded your spicy arms. It could be argued that such a scheme was more inevitable than moving this country"

"Where I waved my spicy arms, how loose was that which drew my will"

"Am I the one who drew your will, some human beings and agents of an enemy country...? Isn't that wonderful?"

"Right...... maybe so"

Mirelbus did not deny Orian's sarcasm.

It was my dream to change Zalwarn from the ground up.

Colored by the legend of the dragon, the country is ruled by the pedigrees called the Pendragon clan. The military power that suppressed the national territory and the surrounding countries, which boasts its size there within the small group of nations, grew the pedigrees and gradually decimated the thought. A country that is corrupt and just waits for doom.

Even in a country like that, it's a country where you were born and raised. I loved you, and I hated you. If you can, it will be the humans who want to save you.

He was going to do what he could for it. He praised the lord of the land for doing all he could for the atrocities, and when he found out it was futile, he asked Orian to help him. All means were used and various methods were used. Even if this hand stained the blood, I didn't mind trying to be defamed of evil.

I believed that everything was an action for the future of this country because of its ideals.

That's how we got here.

I can't go back. There's no way you can regret it. Then I am sorry for what has been scattered for his benevolent ideals.

(That's right. Many things died. For me. for my ideals. for the future of this country)

What died with an ideal is still good. Those sacrificed as sacrifices to build a true Pentagon died without knowing what had happened.

Many of them did not understand that they would be sacrificed. Everyone should have believed the morning was coming, frightened by the impending enemy army.

You can say you trampled on that thought and betrayed it.

His other son, too, was sacrificed. It became an element that made up the guardian dragon. It was a force to summon. Naturally, Mirelbus hasn't even explained it to my child.

Xenorut was the eldest son of Mirelbus and the person who was supposed to be the head of the Ryburn family in the future. He had the talent and strength to carry the expectations of Mirell Bus and his surroundings all by himself and only to meet those thoughts.

That is why Mirelbus set him in Heavenly Admiral. With his experience as Heavenly Admiral, Mirelbus thought that he would be able to survive a radical change in Zalwarn's system in the future. It was kind, and I didn't even know Orian would mock Mirelbus.

A series of actions from before and after the Gandia invasion may have meant throwing away the sweetness to that family.

Merrill's house arrest with Nares' detention. Ginarvi's putting on the front line. And sacrificed Xenoroot.

for this country.

for the future of this country.

"Do you want to win until then? Do I have to win?

Orian narrowed his eyes. Mirrelbus held his breath as if he were looking through this chest.

"Yes."

Affirms.

Otherwise, a country called Zalwarn will perish. It disappears from this earth. It disappears from the history of Illus Valle, from the continental map.

Everything can disappear and lose like a dream.

"So you took a ghost bill named Me. That day, that time, in that place, you made a pact with me. I have become your shadow, and you have become my light. I am you and you are me. I have always fulfilled your wishes. I've got my hands dirty for you and painted on my blood. You have prepared everything for me. Research costs, research facilities, research materials... that's the deal. That's the deal."

Orian was more rap than usual. His spirit may be daunted by the fact that a number of studies are delivering what he thinks they are.

There is no objection to the content of his words. I'm not even going to overturn it. I don't even need that. I'm just taking it for granted.

"The Dinobot Cave has been defeated, but there is a true five-way defense team. The Guardian Dragon also beat Gandhia's black spear. It's not a miscalculation that I took it all the way to your turn."

He laughed sarcastically, but Mirelbus did not. Rise from the throne and look into Orian's eyes.

"... if it's time."

To move forward, we have to pay the corresponding price.

That is the logic of this world of war.