I am the Monarch

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Druid.

A kind of shaman who summons an animal or a plant or uses its power in his or her body.

High levels of druids were even possible to transform directly into animals or plants.

However, the majority of druids accepted some of the power of animals and plants into their bodies or interacted with already existing animals or plants.

It's hard to find a druid of that level at the moment.

No, it was precisely a difficult situation to encounter the Druid itself.

Because of the Human vs. Elf War 500 years ago.

Humans were rapidly expanding their power with the development of magic and technology.

Elves, on the other hand, lived a life in harmony with nature through the Gran Mountains, which penetrated the center of the continent.

Humans building villages and castles as they expand their power.

Elves who value a tree and a grass and are satisfied with the life given them.

The two very different races were forced to clash.

Humans attacked the Elves of the Grain Mountains to dominate the entire continent, and the Elves fought back to stop the humans trampling on forests, mountains, rivers and earth.

At that time, among humans, there was an incident involving Elvish druids who loved animals, plants, forests and the earth.

Humans tremble at the betrayal of the druids.

< When the war is over, I will execute all the traitors! >

Rage did not subside easily.

So the war between humans and Elves lasted more than a decade.

And finally, the war ended with a human victory.

No, the war ended when Elves, who were watching the earth and forest get sick, gave up their homes and hid into a huge forest located south of the continent, precisely.

Humans cheered, and since then, the history of the continent has become the history of humankind.

And as I assured them throughout the war, they branded the druids as traitors and executed them or imprisoned them in prison.

Scarcely running or hiding, the druids have lived with their identities hidden.

Hating humans who execute or imprison themselves freely and elves who abandon themselves as devoted partners.

As more than 400 years passed, the druids no longer appeared.

It has now become a thing of history.

But Clay introduced himself as a Druid without fail.

“The Druid?”

“Druids?”

Janice's officers, as well as Amaranth's men, looked surprised.

Clay glances at the officers of the Janice Informants with a smile.

‘I reveal my identity.......’

My heart was racing.

‘It means going out into the world. ’

When he died as a child, his grandfather and father lived in hiding his identity as a Druid.

People's hatred for the Druid has long since vanished, but the historical facts and stigma of betraying humans are not easily erased.

‘Cowards.’

Clay hated that life.

Druids have only made choices based on their values.

Rather, I was abandoned and persecuted by both humans and elves.

"If I'm going to be the hero of this world..."

At that time, people's perception of druids will completely change.

‘If that were the case, the druids who are still breathing will come for me. ’

It will be another of its own forces, its foundation and its power.

But to do that, I had to be in a great position on my own.

Why Clay was looking for someone to take him to.

Why I was looking for someone to recognize and value my abilities.

Along with the individual's eternal life, it was to heal the painful wounds in the history of Druids.

‘Everyone should be able to look up. ’

I wasn't even going to start if I thought I was going to get in a straight position or just be that person.

"Baron Tail, at least..."

He could be a big step forward in his success or a big supporter.

‘Or maybe he can really devote his whole life to it. ’

That was Clay's decision.

He points to the executives of the Janice Informants with a clear-headed cough.

“Well, then. Let's get this over with. ”

The Amaranth troops, who were terribly stunned by Clay's words, move quickly.

With their swords and spears forward, they pressurize the officers of the Janis Informatics, and soon they kneel with their hands lifted.

They are powerless against the Amaranth forces.

Clay smiles faintly at the officers lying flat on the floor.

‘This established my first specialty. ’

Ascension point.

‘I will surely win. ’

I will pile up and pile up my specialty and make a big name for myself.

Clay's thin, long eyes tremble.

When I thought about it, my heart fluttered.

It is unclear whether or not it carries loyalty to Roan.

But at least now he needed Roan.

* * *

“Yes?”

Clay was embarrassed.

My attitude had always collapsed as confident and overcome.

When Roan attacked Janis Intelligence headquarters, he took the Amaranth troops aside and blocked the four secret escape routes.

Thanks to this, I was able to capture all the executives of the Janis Informants who were on the run.

Among them were a lot of frightened faces.

But...

There's no Hooker? ’

Somehow, I couldn't see the Master of the Janis Informants, Hooker, who was never to be missed.

The Amaranth troops have searched the basement maze, but have not seen him anywhere.

‘There's another secret passageway only the Hooker knows about. ’

Clay frowns.

I heard Austin's voice.

“I've dispatched scouts to the gate. ”

As a royal, we couldn't just shut down the gates.

Instead, you send a surveillance team to thoroughly check the identities of the commuters.

But you can't rely on the surveillance force alone.

“Find a secret escape route first. ”

Everyone nods at Roan's words.

I couldn't just sit still and spend time.

Clay, who was sitting in a panic, wakes up.

“I'll see what I can find. ”

“Mr. Clay? ”

“Yes.”

Clay nods coldly.

‘Hmm.'

Roan looks at Clay's eyes with a calm gaze.

The embarrassing aura disappeared.

"The Druid….."

Roan also received reports from Amaranth that Clay was a Druid.

‘I've never seen it before in my life. ’

Even for Roan, who was living two lives, Druid was a very strange creature.

‘I've seen an Elf a few times. ’

Elves hiding in the vast forest of the southern continent begin to reveal themselves a little over the next decade or so.

Of course, it was not voluntary.

The whole continent was swept over the phone, and the aftermath of that was when the Elves showed up again to protect their lives and forests.

‘Since the arrival of the Elves, the age of war has become more violent. ’

The Human vs. Human battle has spread to the interracial battle.

“Then please. ”

After clearing his mind, Roan nods at Clay.

Clay takes three steps back and pulls a small stick out of his chest.

It was a kind of wand used by druids, made of oak.

Originally, it had to be much larger and longer, but the length was shorter than the length of the forearm while hiding the identity.

Clay grabs a stick with his right hand and wraps it around his left hand.

At the same time, I closed my eyes slightly and muttered the unknown words.

It sounded like the cry of a similar-animal.

After a while.

Chop, chop! Chop!

Through the small cracks and holes in the maze, the black rats began to reveal themselves.

They whirl around Clay, weeping little.

Flash.

Clay opens his closed eyes for a moment.

No, it was tall, but it was hard to determine whether it was even there or not.

However, I could see the eyes glowing green where the slight gold rose.

Is that the Druid's pupil? ’

Roan never misses his appearance.

Meanwhile, Clay reaches for the rats with his left hand.

Then one of them climbs up onto Clay's palm.

Chop, chop! Chop!

Clay and the rat whisper as if they were talking with their eyes closed.

After a while, Clay drops the mouse back on the floor, and he shakes his head and tail at his colleagues and starts running quickly along the maze.

Chop, chop!

It's the same with the other rats.

Dozens and hundreds of rats began to run, filling the maze.

Clay looks at it once and then at Roan.

“Just wait a little longer and you'll find a hidden escape route. ”

“What an amazing ability. ”

Roan nods admirably.

Clay smiles faintly and replies.

“It's one of the fundamental abilities of a Druid. ”

At that, Roan asked in a small voice.

“Was it through the Druid's abilities that you uncovered inside the Janis Informatics? ”

“Part of it is, but that's not all. ”

Clay shakes his head.

He waved his horse with a regular oak stake.

“The whereabouts of the Janice informants and their conversations were determined using animals and plants, but the interior of the headquarters or the secret escape route was found in a different way. ”

“Any other way..."

As Roan's question continues, Clay's wooden stick, which was moving regularly, stops just in time.

He glances at Roan and smiles.

“I think I found a secret escape route. ”

Then I turned around and started walking.

Armand's forces, including Roan, Austin and Harrison, quickly pursued him.

Clay strides hard to follow the sounds of rats in his head.

As I went deeper into the maze, a dead end appeared.

Chop, chop! Chop!

A solid wall extending to one side of the space.

Rats gathered in front of him and cried loudly.

Clay stares at Roan without a word.

His mission was to find a secret escape route.

After that, it was Roan's.

‘The Druid's power is truly remarkable. ’

Roan leans up against the wall and sticks his tongue out.

If I had sent out a search party, it would have taken days to find it.

Ugh.

Roan reaches out and searches the walls, but there are no devices or grooves that feel right.

He frowns and takes a step back.

“Stand back, everyone. ”

Austin and his team of Amaranth stand at a distance on short notice.

Clay also takes a step back.

The same is true of the rats that were adhering to the wall.

“Huff.”

Roan raises Mana in his right fist using the Flamdor Mana technique.

At the same time, he unravelled the foundation of the regime, the foundation of the Reid Act.

The swollen muscles burst.

Wrists, elbows, and shoulders were gently rotating, with perfect stretching.

A hard fist and a hard wall collided.

Boom!

With a loud bang, Roan's fist burrows inside the wall.

“Huff!”

“Wow!"

Clay and Amaranth's men have their eyes wide open.

The scene of breaking a hard wall with a bare fist was truly overwhelming.

Roan pulls his right arm and carefully pulls out his fist through the wall.

Moment.

Kugu Palace.

The wall that was struggling falls down.

At the same time, a dark passageway that could not be seen for an inch appeared.

A small, cramped passageway that could barely move a single person.

After looking down the corridor, Roan took a step without hesitation.

“Ah! My Lord! We'll take the lead!”

Austin catches up later, but Roan is already deep inside the passageway.

Roan's tears allow her to walk through a dark hallway without fail.

As I walked along the winding path, a dead end appeared.

Suddenly, you see a perfect blockage, but a tiny crevice above your head.

Roan carefully raises the space over his head with both hands.

Yuck.

Along with the sound of wooden hatches, there is an entrance that will allow one body to escape.

Roan rolls his feet lightly and leaps up the aisle.

Pot!

You pull Mana up just in case, and quickly look everywhere.

Crawfish tools and rubbish piles everywhere.

"Is it a waste….."

Spider webs run through the ceilings and walls.

There, the wall on the right and back collapsed halfway through, giving you a full view of the outside alley.

“Oh no. Narrow it down. Narrow.”

“What a dark place. ”

After Roan, Amaranth's troops follow a secret escape route.

Roan takes a step forward, regardless.

‘I can't see the Hooker. ’

It was clear that they had already fled to another place.

Yuck!

I opened a door that didn't look like a door and stepped out, and the familiar smell pierced my nose.

Even though it's much lighter, it still smells intense.

‘Could this be……? ’

Roan crosses a labyrinthine alleyway in front of the house and heads out to the main road.

“I knew it…..”

A familiar landscape opened before my eyes.

“What a street. ”

Hooker's secret escape route.

It was the town of Aran, a slum in Milr Castle where the Roan and Amaranth troops had been staying for a while.

“My lord.”

“This is Aran Street. ”

Austin and Harrison, who followed behind, shake their heads in disdain.

They sigh, gazing at the massive crowd that fills the streets.

“Finding Hooker here won't be easy. ”

Thousands of slums and random buildings.

There is no place on Aran street more suitable for a fugitive to hide.

‘It's hard to make an escape route to the outside of the castle, so you've made a passageway towards the favelas where you can hide your best body. ’

He takes a deep breath and bites his lip.

Later, Clay shows up.

He sighs as he looks at Aran Street, which is filled with people.

“If Hooker escaped to Aran Street, using the Druid's technology would take a long time to find him. ”

If it was to search for confined spaces, the distance was too large.

Roan frowns.

‘Creating an escape route here means that there are other ways to escape. ’

You could have missed Hooker forever.

‘We should search the entire unit. ’

It was about that time I gave the order.

“Hmm?"

Roan's face changes strangely.

His gaze is on the favelas, looking back and forth.

They gladly show their faces, but do not come any closer, as the Loan and Amaranth troops who helped them so much.

However, I wandered around the same place in an awkward motion.

What is it?

Weird camouflage.

At that time, a low elasticity poured out of Roan's mouth.

‘Ah.......’

At the same time, there was a bright light in both eyes.

It was like the eyes of an adventurer who discovered a treasure.

Roan steps forward smiling faintly.

It was the step of a man who knew where to go.

* * *

"Why do you keep talking about this shit? ’

Hooker frowns as he pulls the overhead giant slap.

And now his goal is infinite.

My head was splattered and my face and skin were covered with ashes to make me look black.

The clothing was torn, punctured, and ragged.

It looks just like the Aran street people who are slapping their shoulders and passing by.

It was a perfect cover.

Hooker makes swift strides to the safe house deep in Aran Street.

The location, or existence, was known only to the Hooker.

A place even the officers of the Janis Informants, including Baba, don't know.

‘Dammit, that's ridiculous. ’

Hooker crosses a narrow alley and grips his teeth as he reaches the inside.

"I've located the headquarters, but..."

Come to think of it, it wasn't just one or two strange things.

‘Baba was supposed to keep an eye on the Baron Tail, and the hunter's traps would be watching closely…..’

It is hard to believe that no one noticed that Roan and Amaranth's troops were plotting to take over the station.

‘However, there were no reports of abnormal signs. ’

That's why I was having a meeting with the executives while I was relaxing.

Hooker's eyes calmly subside.

‘There is only one time when my eyes and ears go dark like this. ’

My face was distorted.

‘There is a traitor inside. ’

My heart was beating fast.

My face is red.

My eyes and tail tremble with anger.

‘No, no, no. Now is not the time to be angry. ’

Hooker thought he could control his rage.

He looks around and opens the door to the safe house.

Luckily, I didn't feel popular.

Hooker squats in an inner corner.

‘We must get out of Castle Mills for now. ’

As soon as I got out, I was confident I could raise the Informants again.

Right now, there is information in his arms that is extraordinary, among other things.

‘If you sell this to the nobles and the codes.......’

You'll get a pretty penny.

It should be enough to set up an intelligence agency.

It was annoying to have to start from the beginning, but it wasn't that difficult.

‘Cause I was Janice Intelligence pretty soon anyway. ’

I had a smile on my mouth.

There was also a way out of Castle Mills.

‘I bribed the guards and the sexual managers just in case. ’

I was able to find the symbols that were touching the lines and hide myself in the merchandise.

There were many ways out of the castle.

Baduk.

Hooker sharpened his teeth.

‘Roan Tail. I'll never let you down. ’

Roan's face flickers in front of you.

The day that the information of the Rhine Kingdom is once again in your hands.

That's when the vengeance will begin.

‘I may not be able to deal with it myself.......’

If you let the other nobles fight, Roan is confident that he will fall easily.

“Roan Tail. Wait a little longer."

My voice trembles with anger.

“I must kneel before you.......”

When the horse goes on like that.

Heave-ho!

The door to the safe house, which was tightly closed, opened.

“Huh?! ”

At that moment, Hooker's eyes widened.

He trembled with an unbelievable expression.

Because in a place I never thought about, at a moment I never thought about it, someone showed up I never wanted to meet.

“Ro, Baron Roan Tail......? ”

The person who opened the door to the safe house.

He was none other than Roan.

Roan smiles brightly and thumps at you.

“Master of the Janice Informants, Hooker. ”

He looks directly into Hooker's eyes.

“You are under arrest for the murder of a nobleman of the Rhine Kingdom. ”

A cool voice slaps Hooker in the ear.

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