Chapter 264

“Uuuuuuh . ”

Hesul sharply shook his entire body .

He was overflowing with vigor when he was reforming the hex legion alone in the Grain Mountains’ cheerless cave .

He thought that him being beaten by Roan was merely due to him having bad luck .

He had the confidence to absolutely win if faced again .

But as he looked at Roan boldly standing before his eyes right now, his breath stopped cold .

The insuperable might and strategies that annihilated Simon and the hex legion floated up .

No, from the start, the air and pressure shooting out from Roan right this moment crushed his entire body like boulders .

‘T, this bastard has already achieved the presence of a king . ’

It was the air of a king that he hadn’t felt even from Simon .

‘A, a real monarch has appeared . ’

Hesul forcibly put strength to his frantically trembling knees .

It felt as if he would powerlessly collapse if he did not .

At that very moment .

“Did you actually come alone?”

Bekeil who had greatly panicked looked around them .

The defeated look slowly disappeared and a bloody smile fully spread out on his face .

“Kukuku . You must have gone mad from climbing up to that high place . To dare appear alone in front of such a monster army . ”

He quickly turned his head and looked at Hesul .

“Please hurry and order the monsters, sir! Now really is the time to rip apart and kill Roan!”

A knavish and sly voice .

“Hhm?”

Only then Hesul, who was becoming endlessly small, began to grasp the surrounding situation .

Kkweoaoaoaoang! Chhruk! Chhruk! Chhrururuk!

The howls of ogres and goblins pierced into his ears .

Tens of savage monsters surrounded the Delphin Gorge .

Compared to that, their opponents were only two .

Of course, he couldn’t relax even so .

‘I, if I incant the hex and call all the rest of monsters together too……’

If he continuously attacked and attacked Roan again without a rest, even he would eventually tire and collapse .

‘There’s no need to be scared!’

Hesul steadied his weakening heart himself and gathered his hands .

As he whispered the unintelligible words, soon a dark light flashed along the shape of his hands .

Simultaneously, the monsters surrounding the Delphin Gorge threw up an even more savage howl .

Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!

Hearts powerlessly dropped and goosebumps rose on the entire body . [A Korean saying to show excitement and fear at the sametime . ]

‘A, amazing . ’

Bekeil instinctively swallowed dryly .

It truly felt like they could crush and shred Roan .

Furthermore .

Kkukung! Kkukukukung! Kkukung!

A ground-shaking sound was heard from afar .

A moment later, the trees and grass fell to the sides and an incredible number of monsters showed up .

Hesul had dragged together everything including the nearby hex legions as his final move .

Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!

The number of ogres reached almost one hundred .

The number of goblins, werewolves, redrabbits, breggar and so on exceeded hundreds .

In fact a size larger than a single troop .

Furthermore, even those that move through the ground like the venomous vipers and flying monsters like the twinhawks showed up .

However notable Roan and Murray’s strengths were, the Delphin Gorge’s topography was so rough and rugged that it wasn’t easy to confront the monsters .

No, it didn’t seem easy .

“Kukukuku . You scare? Hm? Scare?”

Bekeil looked at Roan unable to freely move and let out a crazed laugh .

A base expression and voice .

Murray turned livid and tried to immediately pounce, but laboriously cooled his anger at Roan’s restraint .

Roan quietly stood and looked at Hesul and Bekeil .

“I will give you a last chance . ”

“What? What chance?”

Bekeil snorted and shook his head .

Roan added on with a composed voice .

“Kneel down and beg for forgiveness now at least and I will spare at least your life . ”

“What?”

Bekeil shook his head with a dumbfounded expression .

‘This guy, is he really insane?’

A sneer fully floated up on his face .

In contrast .

“Hhm . ”

Hesul instinctively shrunk back .

‘Is there perhaps a reinforcement?’

But even when he meticulously combed the Delphin Gorge’s vicinity through a hex, there wasn’t a one more presence that could be felt .

‘Bluff? Or has he truly gone insane?’

Hesul clenched his teeth .

Whatever it was, it was more advantageous to quickly finish the job if him showing up alone for the rescue was true .

‘It will become problematic if I were to perhaps drag on the time and meet the Crimson Legion . ’

Hesul quickly pressed his hands together .

Unintelligible words twisted through his lips and flowed out .

Kkweoaoaoaoaoang!

The monsters exploded out howls and poured out incredible pressure .

Roan felt the thick killing intents whirling like a storm and shook his head with an emotionless expression .

“In the end, you truly throw away even your last chance . ”

His eyes deeply sank down .

He had finally made his decision .

He lightly raised up his right hand .

A motion seemingly without any meaning .

Roan held up clearly just his forefinger .

Unlike the usual, an old ring was worn on his right forefinger .

It was a truly shabby ring .

But .

“Huhph!”

Hesul looked at that ring and gasped empty air .

No, it wasn’t just the degree of swallowing empty air .

He stiffly froze with his eyes wide like a stone statue .

“W, what’s wrong, sir?”

Bekeil saw that look and asked with a nervous expression .

Hesul merely blinked his eyes soundlessly instead of an answer .

Roan faintly made a smile .

“Do you recognize this ring?”

A quiet voice .

Hesul unconsciously nodded his head .

There was no way he couldn’t recognize it .

The old and shabby ring worn on Roan’s forefinger was originally his .

‘The ring I gave to Michel……’

The ring he passed before Hex Vice Master Michel marched leading Simon and the Hex Legion .

It was the very mark of the hex master, a treasure among treasures, the Ring of Divine Arts that numerous valuable hexes were etched in .

The color of Hesul’s face turned pale .

‘The Ring of Divine Arts has the power to command and control the hex legion . ’

Gulp .

He dryly swallowed .

If not careful, the entire monster legion could fall over into Roan’s hands .

‘N, no . That’s impossible!’

Hesul spat out a long breath and shook his head .

He forcibly calmed his shocked heart .

‘C, calm . ’

There was no need to be particularly shocked like this .

‘The Ring of Divine Arts is a divine artifact one can’t use unless one is a hexer with a high amount of divine power . ’

Even if one learned mana, developed divine power, or learned spirit arts, it wasn’t a tool that one could simply use .

‘Only those who mastered a high level of hexes can u……’

The moment his thought reached about that point .

“Acquiring this was right after cutting off Simon and Michel’s heads, but……”

Roan’s voice rode the wind and pierced into their ears .

He lightly shook and showed his forefinger .

“I strangely couldn’t use it at all . ”

At those words, Hesul’s expression turned bright .

‘I knew it!’

It was as expected .

Color blossomed again on his bleached face .

At the same time, a long sigh flowed out .

‘If the bastard can’t use the Ring of Divine Arts, then there is no no need to be afraid any longer . ’

A bloody smile hung on his mouth .

Tragically, Hesul completely did not know .

Of the fact that Roan had already absorbed the memories and hex abilities of hexers a long ago .

“The Ring of Divine Arts isn’t an artifact a bastard like you can use . ”

Hesul thunderously shouted with a cold voice .

At those words, Roan faintly smiled and shook his head .

“I also thought that too . But after I kept practicing……”

The smile hanging on his mouth turned even thicker .

Suddenly .

Paat!

A dark and dreary light poured out from the Ring of Divine Arts .

“Y, you actually……?!”

Hesul widely goggled his eyes .

An expression that absolutely couldn’t believe, no, didn’t wish to believe .

Roan, as if he had been waiting, fully opened his right hand .

The light flowing out from the Ring rode his five fingers and extended out in every direction .

“Now I can use the Ring of Divine Arts . ”

A calm voice split the monsters’ howls .

Simultaneously, the monsters sharply shook their bodies and soon stiffly froze like stone statues .

Ggiick! Ggiick! Ggiiiick!

Completely paralyzed appearances as if caught in a snare .

From the Ring of Divine Arts the light continued to pour out .

Amazing . ’

Roan was inwardly greatly surprised .

This time was the first that he used the Ring of Divine Arts .

Until now, he couldn’t carelessly use it because the level of divine power accumulated in his body was low .

Only now, thanks to tirelessly training hexes while repeating the wars and battles, he could activate the Ring of Divine Arts .

However, his level still wasn’t high .

‘My divine power is draining rapidly . ’

Roan collected his breath and laboriously calmed his boiling divine power .

His gaze headed towards Hesul and Bekeil .

“I have clearly given you the last chance . The ones that threw that away are you . ”

A cold voice echoed the Delphin Gorge .

“W, what? Wh, what does……”

Bekeil couldn’t properly grasp the situation .

He looked back and forth between Roan and Hesul .

“W, what are you doing, sir? Why do you stay still? Hurry and give orders to the monsters and kill the bastard Roan!”

His urgent voice noisily rang out .

Hesul tightly bit his lower lip .

Already, he was pauselessly incanting and incanting again the spells .

However, the monsters did not even twitch .

‘He actually knows how to properly use the Ring of Divine Arts . ’

The color of his face dyed black .

‘Roan Lancephil……’

Hesul spat out a long breath .

He already gave everything up .

‘The hex legion that I painstakingly prepared too has gone over to him . ’

There was nothing left in Hesul’s hands .

Even if he were to exhaust all his divine power and fight, he couldn’t face a troop level of monsters alone .

‘And the backwoods hunter brat wouldn’t even be a help either……’

His deeply sunken eyes turned towards Bekeil .

Bekeil looked at the somehow limply depressed Hesul and creased his brows .

“J, just why are you……”

The moment his words reached about that point .

“It’s all over . It’s all over . Even the monsters have already gone over to Roan . ”

“J, just what’s……”

Bekeil waved his arms with a disbelieving expression .

Hesul finished his words with a despondent expression and voice .

“Everything is over . Everything is……”

He, like that, closed his eyes .

“Th, that’s impossible……”

Bekeil shook his head with a half-soulless expression .

He looked back and forth between Roan and Hesul, then soon collapsed down .

‘I went out of my way to beg and stick to that weird man, and……’

In reality the one that grasped his life became Roan .

‘Kuuk . I’ve poured down all sorts of curses and awful swears……’

His eyes lost their direction and rapidly shook .

‘I, I can’t die like this!’

Bekeil clenched his teeth .

A foul light flowed in his eyes .

“Y, you son of a bitch!”

A sharp curse echoed the Delphin Gorge .

Surprisingly, his cold gaze was headed towards Hesul .

Hesul, who was closing his eyes, let out an astonished laugh at Bekeil’s abrupt action .

“Do you really want to live even like that?”

At the lightly asking words, Bekeil turned his head instead of answering and looked at Roan .

“Y, your majesty! P, please spare me . I, I’ve done a foolish act because I was stupid and lacking!”

A desperate and dire voice noisily rang out .

“P, please give me just one more chance! I’ll find you the Bow of Piscis if you save me!”

“Bow of Piscis……”

Roan faintly smiled and shook his head .

“There isn’t something like the Bow of Piscis in the first place . ”

“Eh? W, what does……” I definitely heard the words that Adjutant Murray was……”

Bekeil’s face that spoke out to that point stiffly froze .

“T, then perhaps you intentionally from then……”

At those words, Murray who was staying quiet formed a bright smile .

“Y, you son of a…… . kuuk . ”

Bekeil forcibly swallowed the curse that rose up to his throat .

He once again lowered his head towards Roan .

“P, please spare me . Y, your majesty, no, Roan! My friend! W, we’re friends that grew up in the same village . P, please save me!”

Bekeil appealed to their old friendship .

However, Roan’s expression showed no change .

“Noisy . ”

A quiet voice rode the wind and flowed .

A displeased look floated up .

‘There isn’t a room to look on further either . ’

The divine power within his body was slowly showing its bottom .

Paat!

The light spewing out from the Ring of Divine Arts became slightly brighter .

Instantly, the monsters that were frozen all turned their directions and glared at Hesul and Bekeil .

Roan began to slowly gasp the right hand he had fully opened .

“Kill yourselves and perish . ”

Finally, a cold command fell down .

Kkweoaoaoaoang!

The ogres and the monsters exploded out howls and stomped the ground .

Few among them broke the necks of their nearby allies or bit apart their bodies .

Kkweoaoaoang! Chhrururuk! Ggiieeeck!

Horrid screams echoed on the mountainside .

“Uah!”

Bekeil screamed at the thick blood splattering everywhere .

“S, save me! Save me!”

He began to squirmingly crawl towards Roan .

No, he tried to crawl .

But before he knew it, ogres and goblins blocked his front .

“R, Roan! No, your majesty! Please save me!”

Bekeil looked at the monsters closing in towards him and screamed .

Roan quietly stared at that sight and spoke in a low voice .

“I have never taken in a retainer like you . ”

They were words directly returning back Bekeil’s words that he never served Roan in the first place .

“Roan! Please!”

Bekeil’s sharp voice pierced the sky .

Roan once more spoke in a quiet voice .

“Nor have I ever taken in a friend like you . ”

He had already given enough chances .

“Y, you, you……”

Bekeil clenched his teeth .

An ogre’s shadow fell above his head .

“Roan!!!!!”

A shout filled with anger hit the ears .

At the same time with that, the ogre swung its giant arm .

Puuuck!

With a horrid sound, Bekeil’s head exploded out .

A vein death .

Bekeil who repeated betrayal after betrayal solely for his own gain lost his life at an ogre’s single swing .

‘Bekeil . ’

Roan looked straight at the headless corpse .

There wasn’t any regret .

No, it was a moment he had wished so much for since his last life .

‘Even so, if you had kept your promise with me……’

He had thought to spare at least his life .

But he, even just a moment before, had tried to kill him as if it was nothing .

Roan’s patient emptied out at that moment .

‘It’s a more painful homecoming than I had thought . ’

The taste in his mouth was bitter .

At that very moment .

“Roan Lancephil . ”

Hesul’s voice was heard through his ears .

Roan turned his head and looked at him .

Hesul’s appearance was one surrounded by ogres .

“Were you also learning hexes?”

He asked in a low voice .

Roan shortly answered .

“Of course . ”

At those words, Hesul let out an amused laugh .

“You bastard must really be……”

The tip of his voice sharply shook .

“Planning to become a god or something . ”

That was the end .

Ogres’ fists flew down from every direction .

Hesul, without even particularly thinking of blocking, closed his eyes .

Pbubububuck!

His head shattered and his entire body mashed .

Hex Master Hesul, who dreamt of revenge on the world, met his end like that .

Roan looked at his powerlessly collapsing body and spoke in a quiet voice as if to whisper .

“I don’t even wish for something like a god . ”

His eyes flashed and shone with light .

“The thing I wish is only to become a good monarch . ”

His calm voice rode the wind and flowed .

In that time, the monsters bit apart and snapped necks of each other and fell down .

After who knew how long, the ones now left were merely five, six ogres .

Roan lightly drew his Travias Spear at his waist and swung .

Fwooosh!

A dark red flames pierced the ogres’ bodies .

Kkweoaoaoang!

Monstrous screams echoed the mountainside .

Kkdung .

Together with a dull sound, the ones that stood to the end fell down .

Finally, the last members of the hex legion were erased clean .

“Murray . ”

Roan withdrew his spear and called Murray .

“Yes . Your majesty . ”

Murray kneeled down on one knee and lowered his head .

Roan looked at the Delphin Gorge full of corpses and spoke in a small voice .

“Let’s go back . To our home . ”

Home .

It wasn’t merely a hometown .

It was their home .

That place was not the Lare Village .

Murray, in a resounding voice, answered .

“Yes sir! I will lead the way!”

A slightly excited voice .

Tat!

Soon, Murray kicked off the ground and exited out of the perilous Delphin Gorge .

Roan, with soft and relaxed movements, followed his back .

And exactly two weeks later .

A group showed up at the west of Amaranth Kingdom’s capital, Mediasis Castle .

A giant flag waved at the group’s front .

Next to that, two smaller flags showed off their majesty .

And .

Finally, Roan had ended the long war and had returned to the Mediasis Castle as the monarch of a kingdom .

“Huu . ”

Roan stood at the lead and exhaled a long sigh .

The tally rising castle wall was clearly seen .

He, so that the Amaranth Taemusa Troop’s soldiers could all hear, spoke in a loud voice .

“That very place……”

The tip of his eyes slightly trembled .

“Is our home . ”

It truly was a perfect return .

No, it was a homecoming .

End .

PR Note: This chapter was TLed but not PRed for a while now . I am hoping to start posting more chapters soon™ .

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