Chapter 34.2 (2/2)

There was something wrong with that man, something that she never felt before. The hooded figure didn’t strike her like a normal human. It was like he was… something entirely different. Her legs froze and were about to fail at any moment.

「「Your Majesty, please raise thy head. Rather than a simple seed, shall I bestow something even better upon

better upon thee? As long as this thing is being kept in thy possession, I shall bestow you enough power that even dominating the whole continent will not stay merely a dream」」

「S-such a thing exists!?」

The whole continent! Enough power to make my dreams come true!

The emperor believed him without any shred of doubt. Meanwhile, Fuiria was surprised when she saw her grandfather prostrating himself to such degree. But the fear that came from hearing those words greatly overcomes her surprise. For Fuiria, who lived her whole life without knowing the terror of war and battlefield, knowing someone having such power scares her more.

「G-g-grandfather… I must… umm… ah- S-shall I excuse myself……?」

She made haste to the exit. Quietly. In panic and absolute terror. Her action was very impolite. She might even get into trouble afterward, but she didn’t want to stay in the same room with the hooded figure any longer.

「「I’m afraid not. The beautiful flower suits thyself the best, after all」」

「Eh……?」

The hooded figure then released a tiny black mist and contracted her with the seed. She felt a sharp pain as her body was flung into the air. She tried to understand the situation, but suddenly a flower bloomed from her chest.

After that, a large number of th.o.r.n.y ivy suddenly grew and covered her entire body, it even began to erode the room.

「Fuiriaaa!!? You… How dare you!!!!」

The emperor took the ceremonial sword hung on the wall and swung it to the hooded figure. The strength and speed of the sword were comparable to when he was young, when he was fighting toe-to-toe with the King Roland from Saint Drag Kingdom. It was powerful enough to slash through steel like melting b.u.t.ter. And yet, a fingertip is all the hooded figure needed to stop the attack. The emperor put all his strength, even his life, onto that attack but the hooded figure just brushed it off like nothing.

「「Didn’t I say it previously? Enough power to dominate

power to dominate the whole continent. This beautiful flower shall devour all life on this land, and then, it shall consume the entire continent」」

「Then… Then I don’t need that kind of power! Release my granddaughter!!」

「「That is not something I can decide. Because you, your majesty, are now nothing more than fertilizer」」

「d.a.m.n yoー…! *cough* no…… my c-country… Fuiria…………」

The th.o.r.n.y ivy that appeared from Fuiria had corroded the room and encircled the emperor. It all happened before the emperor could realized it himself. The moment he realized it, the ivy had pierced him and sucked his life out. Nothing remained. Not even the blood, the flesh, or the bones. His body was completely absorbed by the ivy monster.

The th.o.r.n.y ivy destroyed the office door and corrode the entire castle in a terrifying speed. The ivy monster didn’t discriminate. The maids, knights, servants, slaves, and prisoners were all killed and absorbed as nutrient. Not only the castle, the ivy grew and spread and corrupted the entire imperial capital.

「Uwaaaa!!」

「Somebody help!!」

「There’s too many of these d.a.m.n things! I need a hand here! Somebody come and he-Aaaaa!!」

「H…helb…… zomebody please…」

The growth became faster with each person it consumed. Not long after, the whole imperial city was covered in ivy. The church summoned a barrier and prevented the advancing ivy, but besides the church, everything else was destroyed. Even the army was crushed and consumed by the sheer number of th.o.r.n.y ivy.

Meanwhile, the soldiers, merchants, and fishermen who were at the dock noticed that something was wrong and boarded their s.h.i.+ps in a hurry.

In the middle of the sea, they all looked at the royal capital, the place where they all spent their whole lives up until that moment. Not one of them could even speak a word. In the place where the royal castle should be, there exists something, the thing had spelled the Empire’s demise.

It was an ominous and s.h.i.+mmering gigantic tree, standing tall and towering above everything else.

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