Chapter 226 Witch Hunt (1) (1/2)
Team: HH, thursdays, Yahiko
Hwak!
Marquis Caliburn entered a new space through the portal. It was the outer sections of the Tower. Unlike the 23rd floor, this was full of hot air, and the thick scent of blood wafted around him.
His face hardened at the sight in front of him.
Everything was in ruins. There were destroyed buildings and traces of a violent battle.
For a moment, Marquis Caliburn wondered if he opened the wrong portal.
That was because the place that he had entered coordinates for was the Kelat Auction House. Nowhere else in the Tower had flourished like it, so of course he would wonder if he arrived at the wrong place after seeing the ruins.
But the moment he saw the subordinates of the Blood Land sitting on top of the remnants of the buildings, he realized that he was at the right place.
“What happ…..!”
“You’re here?”
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Marquis Caliburn was about to shout at the subordinates, but a familiar voice spoke up from behind his head. It was the voice of Duke Ardbad. The marquis turned his head and unwittingly gasped.
“Sir…..!”
“Don’t make a big deal out of it. The underlings will become uneasy.”
Duke Ardbad waved his hand like it was nothing and plopped down next to his subordinates.
His right sleeve was empty. The toned and muscled arm was gone.
“What…..happened?”
Marquis Calirbun pushed his anger down. As the Blood Land rose, he battled his way through countless battlefields, but he had never seen a bloodied battlefield like this.
Because he had been staying on the 23rd floor after the Demons’ Forest was destroyed, he wasn’t up to date on what happened.
Duke Ardbad took a big bite from the bread he was eating and spoke nonchalantly.
“The Red Dragon went crazy.”
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“That means…..?”
“You’ve heard about that thing called the Trigmegistus’s tablet or whatever, right?”
“Yes.”
“In the auction house it was being sold, the Red Dragon made a fuss. I guess they weren’t satisfied with just turning the Magic Tower, the magnate’s people, and the Bureau into their enemy. Humph!”
Marquis Caliburn felt like he knew what happened after that. It probably meant that they had turned all the other clans that had participated in the auction into their enemies. He could guess what went down.
The confrontation of Red Dragon, who was trying to steal the tablet, and people trying to stop them. Red Dragon had won.
To be honest, it wasn’t that surprising. It was a bit humiliating, but even the Blood Land was no match for the Red Dragon. Those guys were strong even to fight against the entire Tower without even blinking an eye.
However, he couldn’t believe that they had taken one of Duke Ardbad’s arms.
The Duke Ardbad he knew wasn’t someone who would easily lose to someone, unless it was the Gluttony Emperor. No, even the Gluttony Emperor wouldn’t have been able to attack him one-sidedly like this. Ardbad didn’t symbolize ‘power’ for nothing.
But he lightly waved his hand like he didn’t want to walk about it.
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“Aside from that, how did it go with the Hoarder?”
“We received a promise that he would come visit the capital. Also, with Baron Lao…..”
Marquis Caliburn explained what he learned. Duke Ardbad nodded his head, since it was all things they had guessed.
“I see. With this, the Emperor will be put to ease a little. Anyway. The Elohim, those bastards must have gone crazy too.”
Duke Ardbad’s eyes were burning up.
From Red Dragon to Elohim. He didn’t know why there were so many people after them.
“Everyone in this Tower is nothing but a parasite to burn up. I don’t know why it’s so hard to regain our promised land.”
Duke Ardbad muttered with annoyance.
“Caliburn.”
He called for the marquis.
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“Yes, Your Grace.”
Marquis Caliburn quickly bowed, kneeling. In a battlefield, the commander’s orders were equivalent to the Emperor’s. The marquis’s eyes shone.
“We’re going to prepare our military. Get ready.”
It meant that the parasites who tried the Emperor’s will would be swept away. It was a declaration of war.
Marquis Caliburn’s body trembled. The peace that a group called Arthia had created through their death was finally about to crack.
“Yes, at once!”
***
A long time after Duke Ardbad and Marquis Caliburn left with their subordinates, a new red portal opened, and Yeon-woo and his party appeared.
“It’s a mess.”
Brahm looked around the Kelat Auction House, or what was left of it, shaking his head in disbelief.
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Even if it was understandable that they turned their backs on the other clans, what about the Bureau? On top of that, touching the auction house meant that they had turned several mysterious merchants’ unions into enemies as well.
It was hard to know the exact power of the Guardians from a player’s standpoint, especially the 12 Zodiacs, the greatest Guardians that even the gods and demons couldn’t touch.
If they stepped up, the Red Dragon wouldn’t be able to avoid damage.
And the unions of the mysterious merchants? They couldn’t step up and fight against the Red Dragon like other clans or the Bureau.
However, as large as the Red Dragon was, they needed that many more supplies. If the unions cut them off, it would be hard for them to fight.
There was no way the Red Dragon wouldn’t know something that even a child knew.
Did they have something to back them up? But since they were being this arrogant, it seemed like they were just leading everyone, including themselves, on the road to destruction.
“That’s how rushed they are right now.”
“I guess. If their queen dies, everything’s over for them.”
Brahm calmly nodded his head at what Yeon-woo said.
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If the Summer Queen died, the power that they had would cave in like a sandcastle. Thinking about it now, it was like they were dangling off the edge of the cliff at the moment.
“If they’re kicked about one to two times more, they’ll fall straight into the abyss.”
“It’ll be fun to watch if something that big falls.”
Yeon-woo smirked and looked into his shadow.
“Boo.”
Checheche—
As the shadow stretched out, a robed Lich appeared.