<h4>Chapter 304: Following Your Instincts (4)</h4>
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The dark blue arrow instantly engulfed Honte’s body.
“No!”
The Empire’s knights flinched at the fierce shout.
Imperial Prince Adin shouted with a rare sense of urgency.
“We, we have to save Honte!”
He then paused and raised his voice.
“He is one of the pirs of the Empire’s future! Mages, go help him!”
However, his shout was in vain.
Cale broke out intoughter at Imperial Prince Adin’s shout as he looked at Honte.
“It’s toote.”
The dark blue arrow struck Honte.
Baaaam!
The deafening sound of the impact was heard.
Dust, gray smoke, and light burst out from the explosion.
The scale of the smoke wasrge enough to engulf not only Honte, but also the ck skeleton bird.
“Ugh!”
The smoke slowly subsided and a copsing person could be seen.
“Cough!”
“Ugh!”
Some of the battle leaders of the Alchemists’ Bell Tower who had been near Honte with the intention of protecting him were unable to withstand the explosive power and threw up blood as they copsed.
The Captain of the Empire’s Mage Brigade’s hands were shaking. It was because he felt the vibrations of mana from the explosion that just unfolded.
He shouted to Imperial Prince Adin as he saw the smoke start to subside.
“Your highness! Honte is important, but you must escape! The enemy’s attack is beyond our expectations! I think the necromancer can even use magic!”
The Captain thought that Imperial Prince Adin should escape before the smokepletely subsided and before he ran into Commander Cale.
The fire that Cale used felt like divine judgment delivered by a god.
It was at that moment.
“As I thought, it’s too soon.”
“...Your highness?”
Adin drew a smile and the Mage Captain could see it.
“Huh?”
Someone could be seen cutting through the subsiding smoke.
The person had ck mana around him.
It was Honte.
There wasn’t a single scratch on his body as he shot up into the sky with his hand outstretched and got rid of his shield.
That wasn’t all.
There was also another existence that cut through the smoke, no, that blew it away.
It was the ck skeleton bird.
“It seems like that wasn’t enough.”
Cale drew a smile on his face that was pale from being driven to his physical limits. His hand moved and the ck skeleton bird headed straight for Honte.
The ck skeleton bird shot towards Honte who was rising into the air.
A battle began in the sky.
“Young master-nim.”
- Human!
Cale let out augh.
“Fine, I’ll do as you guys want this time.”
Cale began to move in ordance with Mary and Raon’s will.
Mary immediately straightened herself up on the ck skeleton bird’s spine. She revealed her hand that wasced with ck spider web-like scars.
Honte and Mary.
Both of their hands were aimed at each other.
The corners of Honte’s lips curled up. He stared downwards and opened his mouth once he knew that nobody else could hear him.
“The thing that had been extinct has reappeared.”
ck mana rose up from his hand.
ck mana also rose up from Mary’s hand at the same time.
Honte spoke in an amused tone as he saw Mary in her ck robe.
“You necromancers have had that hideous appearance since long ago. How foolish.”
He then looked toward Cale.
“I was barely able to get rid of the necromancers and the Dark Elves you know. I thought that I had annihted them all.”
Cale’s eyes widened. A chill rose in the air at the same time. There were many hidden happenings that were going on in the background regarding the punishment that the Church of the Sun God carried out against the necromancers as he had expected.
Cale realized something at the same time.
‘That bastard is the Tower Master.’
The Tower Master who had lived for a long time.
He was probably able to live so long by taking over other people’s bodies.
Honte spoke cheerfully despite receiving Cale’s sharp gaze.
“The Queen of Death must be very sad. She would have been d to see someone following the path of a necromancer once again.”
The cheerfulness then disappeared from Honte’s face.
Contempt took its ce instead.
“Too bad you’re going to meet your end and die like her.”
He continued to look at Cale as he continued to speak.
“I suppose that wind is also one of your ancient powers?”
Honte had not missed the power that Cale had used to grab the Imperial Prince’s neck.
“Your te is weak, but very big. Very very big.”
He then licked his lips.
Cale felt ufortable seeing Honte’s expression.
‘What is with this bastard?
Could it be?’
Honte started to speak when Cale’s eyes caught his moving corpse’s body. His eyes contained bloodthirst as he gazed at Cale.
“I want it as my next body.”
‘Is he crazy?’
A chill ran down his back the moment Cale thought that.
‘Behind me.’
- Is he crazy?!
“He is crazy.”
Cale ducked the moment he heard Raon and Mary’s voice.
Another small arrow grazed past him again.
Baaaaang!
An explosion urred.
Cale raised his head. He saw a ck arrow flying towards Honte once again.
It was from Mary. She started to speak calmly.
“Please be quiet.”
She spoke with her usual calm andposed voice. However, the energy from the ck arrow that came from her outstretched hand was anything but that.
Oooong-
The dead mana gathered together again and again. Cale looked at Honte who was unscathed.
- Human! That guy is as skilled as I am!
Cale could hear Raon’s serious voice as Honte’s mouth opened.
“Hahaha, you just keep firing those arrows. However, necromancers can’t use dead mana just like magic, isn’t that right? All they can do is move things that are already dead.”
Cale flinched.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
His heart pounded again.
His heart was pounding despite the fact that he couldn’t afford to use any more of his ancient powers.
‘This is dangerous.’
- Human, his power is no joke!
Raon felt it as well.
- But I don’t understand the principle behind it! It’s just different from magic that is from nature! I don’t know what kind of spell he is gathering his energy to cast.
Raon did not know the purpose of the energy that Honte was gathering.
That was how Cale was able to realize what that energy was. It was an energy that deviated from thews of nature that dragons understood from birth.
“It’s ck magic.”
Honte shrugged his shoulders.
“I don’t have to control the dead like that hideous girl there. I can use magic and can just kill instead of just using the dead.”
His shoulders shook as heughed. Then he continued to speak.
“I’ll get rid of the Dragon, the necromancer, and you. I’ll get rid of all of you.”
The wind was blowing.
Cale could feel the wind that was slowly gathering in the air.
A great force was gathering towards Honte.
Boom. Boom. Boom.
His heart was beating harder and harder.
“Mary, Raon.”
Cale called out to them. He also motioned to Clopeh to have the white skeleton birds withdraw before continuing to speak to Raon and Mary.
“Hurry.”
They needed to kill Honte before the spell waspleted.
However, Cale realized his party’s will the moment he spoke.
The ck skeleton bird began to move, but it wasn’t because of Cale.
“That’s right. I handle bones the best.”
Mary was making it move.
She continued to erge a ck arrow as she controlled the ck skeleton bird at the same time. Then she threw out a remark.
“My teacher once told me this.”
“What? Your teacher?”
Cale asked and flinched. A puzzle arose in his mind.
Thest necromancer before Mary was a person who was known to have made the desert of the Caro Kingdom into the Land of Death before disappearing from the world.
Mary was someone who was born again as a necromancer in the Land of Death.
‘Could it be?’
Cale had a thought briefly graze through his mind, but Mary refuted that thought as she continued to speak as calmly as ever.
She was merely talking about the necromancer book that she had received from the mayor of the Dark Elves, Tasha’s father.
“I think of the former owner and author of the book that I self-studied from as my teacher.”
Cale was hearing all of this for the first time.
Perhaps these were the stories, no, the lives of the characters that Cale didn’t know of because he had only read up to volume five of, ‘The Birth of a Hero.’
Oooong-
Honte’s magic continued to growrger.
However, the body of the ck skeleton bird also started to shine more and more with a ck light. The ck arrow was also growingrger at the same time. The ck skeleton bird quickly shot toward Honte.
Mary started to speak to Cale.
“My teacher wrote on the first page of that book that necromancers were weaker than ck mages and that necromancers would suffer their whole lives due to dead mana.”
Necromancers had to live a life of suffering despite being weak from dead mana.
“However, ck mages stop feeling pain the moment they take in ck magic.”
ck mages were stronger than necromancers and didn’t feel pain like them.
The Dark Elf mayor had read the contents of the first part of the necromancer book to Mary when he had first exined about ck mages and necromancers to her. That information still lingered in Mary’s mind.
The reason why she chose to be a necromancer came out of her mouth for the first time.
She had already suffered through a lot of pain and even death when she was just ten years old.
That was why the words left by the owner of the book were deeply imprinted in her mind.
“To ept dead mana is to bear the sufferings of the dead and the yearnings for life that they have. That is why necromancers are always in pain and also the reason why necromancers...”
Mary still couldn’t forget her mother’s voice telling her to run first through the desert.
“...Are grateful to be alive and feel gratitude toward the dead. It is something that necromancers will remember forever through the pain.”
Mary chose to be a necromancer as soon as she heard that sentence.
She has never regretted her decision since then.
She then heard Cale’s voice.
“Your thoughts are the right answer. Do as you please.”
‘I know.’
Mary replied inwardly and started to move her hands. Her hand swung beautifully through the air as if she was a conductor.
Cale heard a scream-like shout from down below at that moment.
“No! Save Honte!”
Cale looked down. It was the Imperial Prince’s voice. It was such a strong order that Cale flinched, but he soon turned away.
It was because Imperial Prince Adin couldn’t afford to only look at the ck skeleton bird.
A person appeared before the Imperial Prince as Cale expected.
“Did you forget about me?”
He saw a ck aura.
The ck envoy approached Imperial Prince Adin as he easily cleared through the knights and mages. The corners of Choi Han’s mouth curled upwards as he approached the Imperial Prince.
“Your highness! You must escape!”
“Activate the shield!”
However, Imperial Prince Adin continued to speak to the voices that told him to escape.
“Save Honte.”
“Your highness!”
“You must save him!”
Adin did not look at Choi Han.
He only looked up into the sky.
He stared into the sky despite the chaos around him from his subordinates copsing after trying to block Choi Han.
Ooooong-
Honte’s massive spell looked like it was about to strike.
Therge ck skeleton bird and therge ck arrow approached the spell at that same moment.
“Hahaha! Yes,e!”
Honte stretched out his arms as he summoned more and more ck mana and condensed it.
Oooong-
Cale leaned down.
The surrounding air vibrated as Mary and Honte approached closer to each other.
Something happened at that moment.
- Human! Don’t use your shield! I know you’re weak! I’ll do it!
A silver shield surrounded the ck skeleton bird.
Mary started to speak at that same moment.
“We are about to crash into him.”
“Go!”
Honte’s ck mana transformed into a nine-headed snake and shot towards them.
Hiss- Hiss-
The snake’s heads hissed threateningly and tried to devour the ck skeleton bird while revealing its sharp fangs.
The ck skeleton bird’s beak and ws aimed at the snake’s neck.
Boom! Boooom! Booom!
Cale frowned at the explosion. ck smoke and light burst from all over. However, the ck skeleton bird gradually approached Honte without being stopped.
Crack.
Parts of the shield broke off while the ck skeleton bird’s bones began to crack and break.
However, it did not stop.
It was at that moment.
- Human, something’s strange!
“Something isn’t right.”
‘What?’
Mary and Raon spoke at the same time.
Cale’s eyes widened.
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The beak of the ck skeleton bird could bite and rip off Honte’s neck if it went a bit farther.
However, he saw something strange.
‘...He’s still wrapped in ck mana?’
He still had a lot of ck mana despite having made the nine-headed snake.
It was as if he was about to cast more spells.
It was at that moment.
Honte opened his mouth.
“See you at the capital.”
‘What?’
It happened before Cale could even ask back.
The ck mana shed and the spell activated.
Oooong-
The spell soon appeared.
Imperial Prince Adin.
The area around him began to glow. Honte had used magic on the Imperial Prince.
Cale shouted out of reflex.
‘Teleport.’
That is teleportation magic.
“Raon!”
- I know!
Raon moved to block the teleportation magic.
Raon could cast magic faster than anyone else after learning the fast casting skill during his battle with the Dragon half-blood.
Choi Han hastened his speed as well.
It was because he noticed the glow of the teleportation spell.
Cale shouted at the same time.
“Mary, speed up! Shoot the arrow!”
They just had to kill Honte who was casting the spell.
Then the spell would stop too.
It was the fastest method.
The ck skeleton bird would soon bite Honte’s neck.
It was at that moment.
Cale and Raon heard a scream that caught their attention.
It was from a person who felt that something was strange a bit differently than Raon.
She shouted as she was the only one who realized the source of the strangeness.
“It is an explosion!”
Mary shouted emotionally unlike her usual emotionless self.
Her voice was full of fear.
‘We must not attack it!’
Mary realized that.
‘We, we must not attack that.’
“It, it’s suicide bombing!”
Raon flinched.
Choi Han, who was on the ground and couldn’t have known the happenings of the battle above him, also flinched as he passed by the Knight Captain. The Imperial Prince was now right in front of him. He could see the Imperial Prince’s expression change.
“Ah, what a shame.”
Imperial Prince Adin felt that it was a shame as he stood above the teleportation magic circle.
His demeanor changed as if he had never shouted for Honte to be saved.
Choi Han could also see that some other people had received Honte’s teleportation magic in addition to Adin.
The leaders of the Empire, the leaders of the Lion Tribe who had escaped far away, and the people of the Caro Kingdom all received Honte’s teleport magic.
“W, what is this?”
“This suddenly appeared!”
“Did Honte do this? This, this is on the level of an archmage!”
It was teleportation magic that simultaneously teleported arge number of people standing in different locations. It would have been considered extremely difficult even if only a few people or people standing in the same area were teleported.
However, Choi Han did not flinch because of that.
“Oh well.”
It was because of Imperial Prince Adin’s strange reaction.
“What a shame.”
‘What is?’
Choi Han had several questions, but still tried to catch the Imperial Prince.
It was at that moment.
“Stop!”
Cale’s voice could be heard through the amplification magic that was on him.
He heard Raon’s voice in his mind at the same time.
- H, how could this be!
The young dragon was astonished.
‘What is it?
What is going on?’
However, Choi Han did not stop, and he could see Imperial Prince Adin mouthing something.
‘What a shame. They’re all going to die. It’ll take a lot of time and money to raise them all again.’
Adin looked at Choi Han andughed while saying that it was a shame. However, his expressions showed that it wasn’t his business despite what he felt.
‘What?
Everyone will die?
Raise them again? Raise what?’
Choi Han turned his head and looked up at the sky.
He then saw the ck skeleton bird suddenly retreating.
Cale looked at Honte as Mary retreated the ck skeleton bird.
Honte wasughing.
“Kuhahaha! Not bad for a beginner necromancer.”
He spread open his lifeless body.
“ ‘I’ am in the capital. ‘This’ is just a shell.”
Then his body started to fall.
It plunged downward like a puppet whose strings were cut.
The body was dropping toward Toonka and the Whipper Kingdom’s forces who hade to support Cale, as well as the Empire’s forces who were holding them back.
The body was falling without stopping.
The life that had been in Honte’s eyes slowly started to grow dim.
That, ‘thing,’ spoke to Cale onest time before the lifepletely extinguished.
“It’s a gift. It’s a gift for your necromancer. Consider it just a taste.”
He then snickered.
“I’ll give you this gift of dead mana from all of the people here.”
Crack.
Thest glimmer of life vanished from Honte’s eyes and his heart area started to open up.
Something ck could be seen through the crevice.
Two beings responded to that.
“No! It is immense!”
- No! That’s simr to a golem’s core! It’s actually more dangerous!
Raon and Mary’s voices.
Cale saw the scene on the ground as he watched the body of the real Honte who had died unfairly plunged downward along with the disappearance of the Tower Master.
He could see the escaping Imperial Prince.
He could also see the Whipper Kingdom’s forces and Empire’s army.
“Damn it!”
Cale grasped the reins of the ck skeleton bird.
He then flew straight downward.
He turned his head to the side.
A lifeless corpse.
He could see tears of blood streaming down from Honte’s eyes.
His body shook at the same time.
“Damn it!”
Cale stretched out his hand downward as veins bulged on his neck. A silver light started to pour out.
The bomb within Honte’s body exploded at the same time.
Booooooooom-!
People went momentarily blind and deaf in that instant.
An ominous ck light struck down like Cale’s Fire of Destruction, except it was aiming for people instead of the golems.