The World of Masks

Grumpy.

The final health follows the magic circle's line and enters the crystal. The last drop of ferocious crystal shook lightly, either returning the taste or exhaling a satisfactory groan. The gloomy, dull light from the crystal was already elevated enough to take over the whole square. I felt like I was going to be insulted just by looking at it. Unlike the rays of the castrated crystals, the rays of the sorcerer that have been raging so far were slowly killing it.

Glug.

The Magic Team has begun to shrink. With all the vitality drained from the capital and its existence no longer exists, even the magical circle of life began to recover. The lines of the sorcerer who maintained a vivid blood glow that seemed to be beating vigorously immediately withered darkly as soon as the new life force that powered the sorcerer disappeared. Soon, the dust gradually fades, scattering red debris into the air.

It took quite a while for all the enchantments across the capital to disappear. Jack folds his arms and quietly waits for that moment.

The enchantment, which had spread beyond the walls of the palace, had finally shrunk to the inside of the palace. Red particles rising into the air all around us. It was yet another spectacular sight, as the ruins of the sorcerers were scattered from all over. The sorcerer shrinks to the bottom of the crystal just beyond the ground where Jack steps, then completely covers his tracks. All that was left was satisfied crystals and the ruins of the capital covered in corpses.

Jack touches the crystal in front of his eyes with his sympathetic eyes. I can feel the pulsating vitality surge. It was different from the first time I saw him inside the altar, locked in silence without power. It was now a treasure with immense life force reaching 200,000 feet.

'With this.'

I feel like my first button is finally sewn up.

The king's murder also enjoyed the devastation of the capital. But Jack's true purpose was this crystal before his eyes.

'You must have made a lot of money.'

I had a really overwhelming pleasure. It was like the excitement of my old first love. When I thought about it again, I felt goosebumps all over my body. That was touching, that was.

Jack puts the crystal in his bracelet. With this amount of life, Jack's abilities could be tremendously enhanced, but the crystal has already been used.

There's nothing to see here anymore. Jack begins to walk out of the palace.

* * *

Shut up. Shut up.

You hear the sound of bones colliding somewhere. The white bones were walking by themselves without nerves or muscles. Scattered with a see-through naturalization down the eyehole of the skull, Skeleton, holding a torch in one hand and dragging a large sack in the other, traces the sack in front of a house. You hear a rumbling sound from the sack to make sure the water is there. The skeleton pulls out a damp white object. It was Baek Lin.

Cheers!

Skeleton throws a burning backbone into a perfectly healthy house.

Bloop!

After a while, the house caught on fire. Skeleton turns his head as if enjoying the view with his teeth clenched. You often move to a corpse that has a rapid life force around it, grabbing its feet and dragging it. Then he throws the body into the house of fire. You use the dried corpse as firewood to make the fire more powerful. The skeleton repeats its behavior until no bodies are seen around it. Skeleton grabs the sack again and begins to move as soon as the body is roughly gone. Then I threw the white Lean into another building.

This scene was happening all over the city. Quite a number of skeletons used backrines and torches to clean up this lost city.

As Jack passed by, he saw this scene.

Halt!

Skeleton makes a bizarre move, discovering Jack and stopping. He turns his head toward Jack and looks at him as if watching. Soon, however, he decided that he was not the enemy.

Upon arriving at the very outskirts of the capital, a completely ruined wall greets Jack. Only the crumbling stones are crowded where the gates were. You see Callie near where the gate was, unable to perform her duties as an entrance.

"Oh, my Lord!"

Callie starts jumping cold to see if she found Jack. I could see him waving his tail hard.

"We've done a lot of cleanup around here."

I was very cute with a sparkle like a compliment. Jack turns around and looks inside the open capital. The explosion has stopped, but the flowerpot is still burning the capital. No, it was more roughed up. You see another flame rise from afar. Callie's released skeletons seem to be continuing her work. You turn your head toward the wall, and now you see a collapsed rock forming a cliff. Bodies piled up like mountains are on fire nearby. A few skeletons roam around and toss the remaining corpse into the flames. Every time a new firewood was added, the flame twitched and trembled.

A few of the other skeletons roamed between the houses and set fire back to a barely ablaze building.

"But there's too many of them. I'm sorry, but I don't think we can handle this perfectly."

Where did that bright expression go? This time, I bow my head loudly. I felt ashamed that I could not fulfill the Lord's command like heaven. I had a funny look on my face.

'Course he is.'

Jack didn't pay much attention to Callie's failure remarks. I didn't look forward to having Callie take care of it in the first place.

Two hundred thousand dead bodies. Not even a handful or two. '

I've mobilized skeletons, but there's a limit to that. When the capital became a sea of fire, a considerable number of bodies were damaged by the fire, but the remaining number alone was enough to make the eyes pop.

"Don't worry. I knew it was too much."

Jack tiles Callie. There was a soft voice that doubted whether it was the same person as the frenzied earlier. With Jack's encouragement, Callie glances up at him, noticing.

"Then isn't it dangerous?"

The Demon King is the enemy of the entire continent. A dead body that has been drained of life and twisted is the Devil King's testimony. If other Humans see the catastrophe in this capital, they will be stunned by the foam. The Demon King's resurrection is quite a disaster. It was obvious there was an emergency. It can't be sweet for Jack. To try and stop it, all I could think about was burning corpses that could be said to be direct traces of the Demon King. However, it was also impossible because it was large. Once the visible bodies were burned and the skeletons in the house were burning again, it would only slow them down.

"Dangerous. That's why I'm running away from the kingdom."

"Run away?"

"Yes. As soon as I leave the capital, I'll head north."

"To the north, we're finally going to the Demon King's stronghold?"

"Yes."

Callie glares at Jack's answer.

Their identity is unknown anyway. It's just a two-way trip. He wore a mask, so if you're headed north on an unusual route like a mountain, it's impossible to tell if you're specific about a human named Jack and Callie.

"Burning all the visible bodies will buy us enough time to escape. And if it doesn't, there's no choice. It was done, and it was necessary. If we find out early, we'll have no choice."

Jack spoke plainly. You can see a new flame rising from a few distant places. Skeletons have performed fairly diligently on the skeletal bones that appear to be poor.

"And I used my other hand. If things go according to plan, we won't be working on this for a while."

"Well, good for you."

Callie sighs in silence. Jack grins, clutching Callie's head in a cute way. On top of the two who were emitting a warm atmosphere, the black smoke emitted by the burning capital gradually expanded its power.

* * *

The Grand Duke nervously tapped the handle of the chair. It was already a mess around here. The expensive ceramics were sharpened and torn by a rug on the floor, and the decorative swords were stuck in one corner, and all the paintings made by the famous painter were merely paint paintings on small species jogars. The guards waiting outside were frozen as if they had detected an unpleasant wicket.

"Dear Duke,"

You hear the acolyte outside. The duc's eyes scatter with ferocious energy toward the door.

"Khh, Earl Krifnaph is here."

Qajik!

The handle of the chair was ripped out of the Grand Duke's hand. Hard wood crumbles from the duc's hands.

"· · · · · · · Tell them to come in."

You press down on your anger and hear a growling sound. The servant opens the door in a hurry.

The Grand Duke stares at the Earl walking in front of him. The knights at the entrance were coming in with us just in case, but only the Earl shined in the eyes of the Grand Duke. As he walked silently with his expressions, the patient anger rose unchecked. Eventually, you throw the piece of the handle, which is crumbling from the ledge, to the Earl.

Oh, shit!

The debris hits the Earl's left head and bounces off. Blood runs from the Earl's head. Perhaps it wasn't enough, the Duke jumped out of the chair and walked to where the weapons he had thrown on one side were rolling around. You pick up a sword and approach the Earl.

Bang, bang!

You twist the Earl's collar and put the sword around his neck.

"Make an excuse."

A cold, sharp blade makes a red solid line around the Earl's neck. Blood runs out. However, the Earl's expression was solemn. An ordinary duke would have noticed something strange here. It was not always the Earl who trembled when he met the Grand Duke. But now the Grand Duke was too excited. There are many unexpected and disadvantages to the Grand Duke. And in the center was the Earl before his eyes.

"I handed you over to that traveler's bastard to keep an eye on him. No, even if you didn't mean to, the whole capital is on fire, and you have the audacity to come back alive!"

A thunderous whistle blows from the Earl. The rope of blood protrudes as the hand grabs hold of the collar.

"That's unacceptable, too. Take my orders and give them an attack order! You really are crazy!"

The kingdom was now a chaotic crucible. The capital became completely ashen, spreading at a rapid rate throughout the kingdom. Of course, I began with the Grand Duke and was astonished by the nobles, the commoners, and the slaves. The survivors were zero. The rumor that the Grand Duke had already sought the king's life and was about to pray for an assassination, so all suspicions were naturally directed to the Grand Duke. Of course, the Grand Duke wanted the king dead. But I didn't want it to be this big. The royals were furious, and the nobles of the Grand Duke were shaken. Considering the measures, the Grand Duke began to question the Earl in order to find out what had happened.

Then another news hit the Grand Duke.

Earl Krafnaf impersonated the Grand Duke and ordered a gunshot. Of course, since the order was empty, most nobles first asked the Grand Duke if it was true. The problem was the fact that Krafnaf was a nobleman who could be confronted with the Duke. Most nobles began to move the troops just in case it was said by someone with some scholarship. The wave of kings who thought a civil war had erupted in a massive maneuver on the air marched together, which soon led to tension.

Worse, how many nobles thought the Earl was full of crap and attacked the royal family? Of course, the Kingsguard reacted. However, after the death of the king and the duc, the royal faction was unable to respond organically. Although the raiders were not hit by the royal wave themselves because some of the nobles were lacking in situational awareness, the two directly confronted armies were close to annihilation. Once this happened, no one was able to stop the civil war. The wheels of blood begin to roll.

Of course, the duke who heard the news began to hunt down the Earl who had dared to impersonate his orders. And today, the Grand Duke went on a rampage with the possibility to completely destroy the throne room for the fact that one of the great powers, the Horse Tower, is fighting towards the royal wave. It seemed like the destruction of the capital led to the participation of the Horse Tower. In the meantime, the Earl, who was the cause of all this, came.

"Well, if you came looking for me yourself, you must have something to say. Tell me."

If it can lead to a situation in his favor, there is no law against forgiving him. To be honest, the Earl's behavior was a bit overwhelming in the sense that it was normal. You might have something in mind.

"· · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·."

But the erl was something. The Grand Duke's gaze grows worse and bloodstains from his forehead. It was time for the Grand Duke to raise his fist high to strike the Earl.

Bloop!

Inside the Earl's robe, the burning flame of the ignition ships touches the gunpowder.

Kuaang!

There was an explosion. Jack had a special bulk in it, and he shoved it into a ball of steel to boost his killing power. That power is incredible. To write like this, the other knights were literally shaved, but left as intact as the Earl. Jack's readiness was a perfect fit.

The nearby duc, as well as the knights with sharp eyes, are caught in the explosion in case there's a situation behind him. They are torn apart without even knowing the cause of their deaths.

"Hee hee hee hee!"

An outdoor acolyte rushes into the explosion and screams at the horror within. He sits motionless on the ground, staring at the scattered flesh. The Grand Duke's mansion is in a state of emergency and knights are rushing in. But all they could see was the dazzling acolyte and the Lord's Flesh they were serving.

At the beginning of this day, the kingdom itself began to go mad. The king, the Duke and the Duke were all dead, and the kingdom was already at war. On a mountain without tigers, a fox reigns, and those who normally had ambition, but were pressured by the Duke and the Grand Duke, stand up in unison. Even the surrounding country did not stand still. Since the head of the Tiaren Kingdom, who exerted immense influence around it, was slain at once, some countries who wanted to escape the influence of the Tiaren Kingdom, directly and some, indirectly, took action to cut down the power of the Tiaren Kingdom. Not many people paid attention to the destruction of the capital in this chaos. The kingdom itself is in great confusion, and the events in the capital are pushed to the forefront of everyone. Thus, the Kingdom of Tiaren gradually began to walk the path of collapse.