bookpower Chapter 99 : Chapter 99
Chapter 99 : Chapter 99
Chapter 99 - MainEverything was perfect.
It was like that when he was young.
“Excellent, Your Highness. You are a very fast learner.”
“It’s thanks to the Administrative Grand Officer’s good teaching. Hahat.”
He devoted himself to his studies with Administrative Grand Officer Charles, one of the nation’s foremost intellectuals, as his teacher.
He learned history, learned mathematics, accumulated knowledge, and studied the art of kingship.
“Your Highness. A good monarch does not require separate qualities or talents. Just with this mind. And with this heart.”
Tak tak.
The Administrative Grand Officer’s fist tapped the chest above the heart.
“Please understand the hearts of the kingdom’s people, and embrace not only the people of the capital you see, but also the people of the distant domains and the soldiers on the boundary line.”
“Okay. I’ll keep that in mind.”
He said he understood, but it was still a difficult concept for a ten-year-old child.
Charles smiled and spoke gently.
“Even if it doesn’t fully sink in now, you will feel it someday. Because you are a warm person, Your Highness.”
A person who was more of a father than his own father.
Administrative Grand Officer Charles was such a person.
Instead of his busy father, he would give him piggyback rides, play with him, and teach him.
If he was curious about something, even if it was a shepherd’s work, he would not laugh and would cheer him on.
Then his younger brothers were born.
“First Prince. Starting today, the Second Prince and the Third Prince will also be studying the art of kingship.”
“…Why?”
Perhaps for the first time.
He questioned his teacher’s words.
“I’m going to be the king. Why are my younger brothers learning the art of kingship?”
Charles wore his characteristic flexible smile.
“First Prince. The art of kingship is not simply for the monarch alone. It is what is necessary for a leader, someone who leads.”
“Such a leader is─”
“Also.”
His mouth was shut.
The official, who now had wrinkles starting to form around his eyes, bowed his waist.
“The king has entrusted me with the education of all the princes. I cannot show favoritism, and so I cannot provide different education.”hat could break through even if a knightly order stacked their shields.
“That’s still just a curse.”
Chiiik─
The royal curse couldn't even pierce a single piece of flesh.
“H-heuaak…!! Heuaaaak!!”
The First Prince stumbled backward and, even as he fell, kept flailing his hands.
Curse. Curse. Curse.
He pierced and pierced without end.
But it was meaningless.
Kian stood with his hands behind his back and did not flinch.
“Opening the gates of hell and letting something out, I thought the Scripture of the Dark Wheel would catch the scent faster than expected and it would be difficult.”
Deobseok─
He grabbed the thin ankle of the prince who had fallen on the cold earthen floor.
“Heueuk…!! Let, let go!”
“So I devised another method.”
Deudeudeudeuk─
He grabbed the ankle and dragged him as he was.
He carefully dragged him to the altar prepared for only one person.
“Create a subject connected to the altar, so that it becomes the altar itself. It’s better to create a moving altar, literally.”
“P-please…!!”
While he begged, his arms were spread to the left and right, and his body came up onto the altar.
It was like a fish on a cutting board, but this was strictly a coronation ceremony.
A coronation ceremony to place the crown.
“Your Majesty will then go to Krawl, which is in the midst of mourning.”
“E-Elder Kian, please…! I will do anything you ask…!!”
“Every time you move, you will scatter Yin energy like an altar. The capital will become like a demonic realm, and Your Majesty will become infinitely close to a demon.”
Right now, the ribs and teeth were closer than the crown.
The open chest approached his head and embraced it.
And was placed on his head like a crown.
“─!!”
A voice could no longer be heard.
Just a loud buzzing noise.
“You said you would do anything I asked. Didn’t you say you wanted to leave your name in history like that? Be eaten quietly.”
The thing that had grown bigger after eating the Military Affairs Grand Officer.
It lifted the captured arms and slowly put him in.
As if knowing it was a precious prey.
It chewed him up thoroughly without spilling a single drop of blood.
By the time it had cleanly savored him down to the tip of his little toe.
The monster that had eaten three people grew three heads, and the First Prince’s head extended from its left shoulder.
Its size and the power it possessed increased dramatically.
“Though it’s a sorcerer, it didn’t just eat a person, its power has multiplied. The increase in power is at a tremendous level.”
I was just going to use it once and be done with it.
But maybe it’s worth researching.
Then I should give it a name.
What should it be?
He looked at the First Prince for a moment, rested his chin on his hand, and after contemplating, he nodded.
“Main will be fitting.”
A demon-like person.
It was truly a fitting name.
One of the Main’s three heads kept gesturing somewhere with its eyes.
It was the First Prince.
And Kian knew that direction well.
The capital Krawl. The royal castle. The place where the crown and scepter were.
“Even in this state, you still want to become king that much.”
An obsession that could only be laughed at.
The desires he had harbored in life became even stronger.
The one with the most bloated ego among the bodies he had eaten.
The First Prince’s desire was moving the Main’s body.
Kian nodded.
“Yes. Go ahead and run wild as you please. But you mustn’t drag it on for too long. This is merely a rehearsal for the stage called Eclipse.”
The Main, for whom the name ‘person’ was now a misnomer, dashed out like a beast.
With every step it took and every breath it exhaled, the land and air changed their form.
Violently. And coldly.
It changed its exterior and interior.
And not long after, in the capital where that breath would arrive.
Someone with skin paler than the Main waited for that breath.