Chapter 756 - Pursuit and Counterattack 3 (1/2)

The time of darkness filled with silence.

Pitch darkness filled over the sky of Bless, the capital of the Holy Empire.

Suspicious human-like figures were appearing one after another in the dark sky as if they all belonged to the Devildom.

The last one to make an appearance was a warlock in grey robes with gold leaf patterns.

It was Arsene, who was leading the Undead legion.

“Kuek, is this the capital of the Holy Empire?”

It was a place he had never set foot in his entire life.

The Divine power was trouble for black magic, and even Arsene, the strongest warlock on the continent, found it had to go against the High-priests and the Saint Guards.

“But all that is only till today! I have advanced Undead who won’t be affected by Divine power!”

In addition to the advanced Undead, Arsene had the Dragonian power.

There was no longer any need for him to fear the priests.

‘The reason why Bless was the scariest place was because of the Divine power holders present in it. Each of its temples and sanctuaries are enshrined with relics, and they bring together faith and exert power.’

But what good does the relics do?

Since Bless was a place where humans live, it was natural for humans to lose faith, and the Divine power wouldn’t even fill the streets with loss of faith in people.

As an example of that, the Holy Empire hadn’t been given even an oracle for 300 years.

And as the oracles didn’t come, the cardinals began to elect their Pope through conclave.

But, Veronica III, the current Pope was crowned without even going through the conclave, and civil war broke out due to the injustice and confrontation of some other denominations.

It was the zombie disease that was spread by Archbishop Constantine, which created a loss of faith.

During the spread of disease, Constantine got tricked by Arsene and secretly spread the zombie disease, and referred to himself as the God’s chosen one.

Calling himself the savior of humans and choosing one of the God, he gathered followers.

Although the event failed to shake the Holy Empire as it was supposed to, Arsene was convinced. That the Holy Empire would fall.

Ever since that time, Veronica III had implemented reform policies to stabilize the livelihood and national power of the people, but the faith and belief of the people didn’t increase.

In the past, even the warlocks who were killed right away in the Holy Empire were being taken under the wing of the Holy Empire.

In other words, the Holy Empire was working like any other ordinary nation.

And to put a stop to the history of the fallen Holy Empire, Arsene decided to end it.

“My faithful ones! Destroy the followers of God and cut the breath of Luke and that stubborn Pope!”

Arsene, who ordered them descended towards Bless with Advanced Undead.

The reason he tricked Luke was because of Reina.

It was necessary to deal with her as soon as possible, she was called an Angel because of the Divine power she held and the mysterious power which was able to cure the zombies back to humans.

Most of all Veronica III’s identity was Princess Reina, Luke’s lover.

That fact alone made her into the 1st target for Arsene, and the opportunity was right in front of him.

‘I should have killed that woman long back… well, now isn’t too late either. By killing that Pope bitch, Luke will go crazy! Kuekkk!’

No, just killing didn’t seem to end it.

He planned on making her into an Undead just to see how Luke would react.

Arsene, who descended to Bless, accelerated the Black Circle to unfold magic.

He prepared a gorgeous yet powerful one to announce his emergence in the city and the existence of the Undead.

Wheeing!

The moment the Black Circle was rotating in his head, a bullet of light flew in from the ground.

‘No!’

In a hurry, Arsene canceled the magic and tried to deploy the shield.

But, there was someone who was a lot quicker in movement when compared to him.

Bang-!

A bullet of light exploded on the shield of the Lich and soon turned into an explosion.

The light was so intense that some of the lesser Undead around him melted away.

“Kue, no…!”

Arsene, who managed to escape the crisis in a slight difference, frowned.

Thanks to the Lich who threw himself in front of Arsene, he managed to survive out of it.

However, shield magic had melted because of the light, and the Lich which was hit directly by the light turned into ashes.

If it was a normal attack, not just an Advanced Lich, but even an intermediate Lich would have survived.

Which meant that the bullet had Divine power.

And from what Arsene knew, there was exactly one person on Middle-earth who could use such a skill.

“Luke, you!”

Just as Arsene was screaming in anger, Luke appeared in front of him.

“Welcome to Bless, Arsene.”

At Luke’s sarcastic words, Arsene yelled.

“It was you! Thought you would have gone to Brandon right away!”

“I must look very easy to fool, Arsene. If you were really trying to trick me, you shouldn’t have left that note in Angara.”

If Arsene hadn’t left behind that note to provoke Luke, he wouldn’t have had any idea where the next target was.

However, Arsene left the note and gave Luke a reason to find out his real target.

At Luke’s words, Arsene’s frown only went deeper.

“You are reckless. What if I really attacked Brandon?”

Brandon was the political center for Luke.

No matter how sure his reason was to move to Bless, to abandon the place was like a badly placed bet.

Luke laughed.

“I know you aren’t that kind of a person. Because of your inclination to sadism and harass people as much as possible without punishing the person who troubled you.”

“Kuk, I can’t deny that.”

As Luke pointed out, Arsene would always hinder the lives of those who caused trouble to him and his plans.

Emperor Rudolf was the best example of it.

When it was discovered that the Veritas Magic Tower was secretly studying black magic, Rudolf temporarily cut off his relationship with the tower, even after having a relationship of 500 years.

Arsene, who felt resentful, killed the Emperor’s children by cursing them with black magic.

That led to Rudolf turning half-mad and turned into a ferocious and cruel person.

As the Emperor changed, the Baroque Empire fell and perished without even having a chance to get revived.

“Well, call me damned! I never thought that you would know me this well.”

“I have no choice but to know you. Because you took away the most precious person from me and drove me to the point of death.”

Arsene laughed at Luke’s cold response.

“Are you talking about your parents? That and even almost killing you in the Gigant accident, that was a work of the Baroque Imperial family. It is true that I put a curse on your heart, but it is too much to blame me.”

“I am not referring to the Rakan family. I am talking about Katarina.”

“Katarina?”

As Arsene couldn’t seem to remember, Luke’s eyes turned a lot colder than before.

“You don’t seem to be able to remember. Well, it might not have been worth remembering for you. It was something which happened 520 years ago, the thing which made me die because you tore apart a man and a woman who promised to spend their lives with each other.”

“What the hell are you talking about? 520 years ago?”

In Arsene’s memory, nothing special had happened 520 years back.

Rather, many incidents took place in 500 years.

Devil King Saymon appeared and for some reason he intensively attacked the Veritas Magic tower and the Baroque Duke, so they had to recreate Saymon as the destroyer of life.

And when Saymon died in the hands of the stupid warrior, he secretly stole the body and the black magic books which Saymon had.

Learning the Black magic from the book, Arsene turned into the best warlock of all time.

‘There was a rumor that the Devil King Saymon was originally a disciple of Veritas Magic tow… that can’t be, right?’

Arsene’s mind kept trying to think.

Srrrng!

Luke, brought out his Holy Sword Valiant and spoke.

“Whether you remember it or not, I will let you feel the resentment and anger of those who have been hit by you.”

Woong!