Chapter 721 - Luke VS Rudolf 1 (1/2)
Chapter 721: Luke VS Rudolf 1
Once the activation of the Aether was over, all the magic circles engraved on the time travel device began to shine, a fist-sized point appeared right in the center of the round ring.
The size gradually grew, and a person could fit in it.
Through the gap, something of a dark black mist was coming out, the wizards who saw it began to exclaim.
“Oh, oh! This is!”
“Isn’t that the dark matter that exists only in the dimensional gap?!”
In the beginning, the universe was made into different dimensions.
The dimensions weren’t interlocked and had numerous gaps between one another.
And the magic that used such a gap was the subspace magic.
The gaps in the dimension were filled in with dark matter, and the appearance of the dark matter meant that the time travel device was working properly.
As the theories left behind by the ancient wizards unfolded into reality right in front of their eyes, Marquis Kepler, who was worried sick, sighed and smiled.
He approached Rudolf and said.
“Your Majesty! The ruins are working.”
“Really? I can time travel now?”
“Yes, the coordinates have been set correctly, so soon, the dark matter will get cleared and the passage would open.”
“Is that so? So it means that there isn’t much time left, right?”
Rudolf looked at Marquis Kepler with a dull face and suddenly raised his hand.
At that moment, a short scream erupted from the place where the Elder Knights seemed to gather.
“Kuak!”
“Kuk!”
Startled, Kepler looked back and saw the SS Knights, who were the escorts of the emperor, were attacking the Elder Knights.
Even if the Elder’s were wizards of 7th to 8th magic circles, it was impossible to avoid a surprise attack from the SS Knights who reached Sword Master.
In an instant, more than 30 elders were slaughtered.
“Your, Your Majesty! What the hell is being done here?!”
Kepler’s eyes were red as he shouted at Rudolf.
However, unfazed, Rudolf shrugged and replied, “I just erased the elements who would interfere in my actions.”
“I beg your pardon?”
Kepler never even thought about it, but Rudolf seemed to be concerned about them and him jumping into the time travel device.
Once the time travel device was declared to perform normally, it was possible that someone else would use it.
‘Even if I go back to the past, it will take some time to eliminate the enemy. In such a situation, history might change if another person from the future would change the time by using the device. No, it might turn out even horrible for me…’
Thinking that way, Rudolf had issued orders to the SS knights when the Aether was being activated in the ruins.
It was to kill the wizards the moment he raised his hand and to destroy the ruins after Rudolf used it.
“Don’t worry about wealth and fame. Today’s merit, I will make sure to give it to you in the past that I’m going to.”
Rudolf pulled out his sword with the speed of lightning.
Slash!
The movement was so fast that Marquis Kepler wasn’t even able to unfold defense magic and ended up getting hit.
Watching the scene unfold, Count Rolex fled.
“Ugh! S-save me…!”
Slash!
The moment a golden light flashed, Rolex’s body got slashed in half.
It was a vain death of an archmage who once represented the Baroque Empire.
“Hiik!”
Count Voltas, the only one that survived, except for the SS Knights, screamed in terror.
As Rudolf’s gaze turned on him, with a pale face, he asked.
“… I will be killed too?”
“You are no wizard, so there is no reason to kill you.”
Speaking coldly, Rudolf turned.
Voltas went down on his knee and begged.
“Your Majesty, please take me with you!”
“Take you? To the past?”
“Wouldn’t you want someone to help you out? There could be me from the past, but he won’t be as knowledgeable as the me in the present!”
“Hm… That is true.”
Going to the past alone and getting rid of all his enemies would be difficult.
If he tried to kill Luke and the lords of the nobles and remove Arsene or the Veritas Magic Tower, there would be too much backlash about Rudolf hurting innocent men, and things might not turn so great?
He would need men who understand him, and those who would follow his decision without question.
“I will allow you to accompany me.”
“I will work for you, Your Majesty.”
Voltas lowered his head.
Rudolf smiled thinly at the sight and turned to the time travel device.
Just as Kepler had said, the dark matter had gradually lifted and the passage appeared.
‘Now, all the variables can be removed. As long as the path is known, and I can go back to the past…!’
The moment when hope was rising in Rudolf’s heart as he moved closer to the time travel device, a huge noise came over from outside.
Well, it wasn’t just noise.
He heard noises, screams of people, and the machine sounds of Gigants.
“What is going on? Find out what is happening.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
The captain of the Knights of Guard, Count Ruff, went outside.
And he returned right away to report.
“Your Majesty, it was said that there is an intruder in the Imperial Palace and battles are happening.”