Chapter 726 - End of Baroque Empire 2 (1/2)

The world around him was turning round and round as if moving in a whirlpool.

Rudolf’s mouth was wide open, and his eyes dizzy.

“Kuakk! Here I go! I’m going into the past to change my fate!”

He was going back to the past to achieve what he wanted!

And in the great world he was going to make, he decided to build a temple for the Great Mother, Belize!

When Rudolf was feeling elated, the whirlpool stopped, and a blue planet appeared in front of him.

‘Is this the Middle earth where I used to live?’

As he went down through the atmosphere, the continent of Rhodesia appeared and soon, the capital, Nemesis.

‘Huh, have I finally come to the past?’

His eyes opened wide, thinking that he had arrived at the Imperial Palace ten years back.

However, he saw something that shouldn’t have been in the Imperial Palace at that time.

The dome was created two years ago to restore the remains of the time travel device.

‘This, how did this even happen? Obviously, the dome was built after the underground ruins had collapsed…’

Rudolf couldn’t understand.

Either it was a memory or not, his body that was full of the light blessed on him by the Goddess began to get dragged somewhere.

He couldn’t help but feel astonished when he saw where he was getting dragged.

Rudolf and Luke were exchanging fierce strikes at each other in the ruined Imperial Palace garden.

“This is it, Rudolf!”

Luke, using his Clock-up sword, rushed over with the Holy Sword Valiant.

At the same time, Rudolf merged into his body as if his body was sucking back his soul.

The words of the gentle Goddess resonated in his ears.

“I want to make it happen, even if it’s just a little.”

“Did you say you wanted to go to the past? I will accept your wish.”

The great Goddess didn’t break her promise.

She clearly sent him back to the past, but it was just a matter of a few minutes.

“Ahhh! You cheated me, Belize!”

Rudolf screamed as he watched Valiant come for him.

Cang! Slash!

A noise his ears had already perceived once.

However, the result was different from the past.

In the past, because of his desperate response, only his left arm got cut off, but this time, Rudolf was blinded in anger and frustration, so Luke’s sword went through his heart instead.

Rumble! Bang!

“Your Majesty!”

Rudolf, whose heart was hit by Luke’s blow, flew through the dome where the time travel device was located.

Shocked, Count Ruff ran for him, but soon, Arch Duke Gregory’s sword changed the fate.

And it was no different from the other Knights of Guards who ran to help Rudolf.

“Majesty! Please wake up!”

“Kuak! I was… tricked…”

Red blood was oozing out of Rudolf’s armor that got cracked.

Bang Bang!

The moment when Rudolf, who lost his energy, tried to say something, Karen went ahead and broke the time travel device with heatwave magic.

The domes opened too closed off along with the dimensional gap.

‘Ahh, it is over. It is over…’

It wasn’t the end.

Rudolf’s dying eyes saw Luke approaching him.

“Protect His Majesty!”

“Strike the traitor Luke de Rakan!”

The remaining SS knights rushed to Luke and his men who were getting close to Rudolf.

However, their resistance was grim when compared to the past.

Luke was strong, and Rudolf’s defeat had instilled an unknown fear in the hearts of the SS.

“I won, Rudolf.”

“Y-you… won? Cough! No, you didn’t.”

Before Rudolf lost his consciousness, he decided to take a dig at Luke.

“Damn it… Those gods… choose you… That’s…”

At Rudolf’s words, which seemed to deny Luke of winning, Karen and the other men frowned.

However, Luke admitted what Rudolf said.

“Yes, as you said, I may have been the choice of the Gods and the reason for my win could be them.”

More than 500 years later, he got reincarnated as the descendant of the enemy and was still able to come to the point not because of the ability he gained in this life but because of the help of his past life’s memories.

But…

“But what I mean to say is being chosen by a god too is a skill. That means that you didn’t have that ability.”

“Chosen… Karma…”

Rudolf recalled the words of El Kassel.

He said that Rudolf didn’t get to touch the power of time because of the Karma he gathered.

Would Luke de Rakan too have such Karma?

Rudolf’s thoughts stopped there. It turned tough for him to maintain a straight mind with such grave wounds.

But before his sense got cut off, he had work to do, using every last bit of his strength, he pulled off the golden chain from his neck.

On the golden chain, the emperor’s scepter, the shape of a dragon was there.

The scepter, carved out of rubies, was an item that should have never been stolen by invaders.

It was because there was a hidden secret, not just a simple object of authority as the ruler of the empire.

It was a very dangerous secret.

‘This is your victory, Luke de Rakan. However, I will not let you enjoy your victory.’

With a sly smile, Rudolf struck the scepter on the floor.

Swoosh!

The moment a rumbling noise started around them, Rudolf’s neck got cut clean.

Luke, who seemed suspicious of his last action, did it in a hurry.

It did seem like the vain act of the man going to die, but Luke didn’t like it.

The man couldn’t be separated from his greed even after being defeated in the battle.

“Oh, god!”