The Knight King Who Returned with Gods: Chapter 77
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
Episode 77 Drifting
"Wait...!"
A voice stopped Reynald, causing him to turn his
attention toward the direction of the source of the sound.
There, the two major S-class hunters and raiders of the
Phoenix Guild were standing.
“Lee Yong-wan-ssi, Hayuri-ssi. You’re both safe.”
Reynald stopped extending his hand toward the statue.
"What do you think you're doing, touching that thing?"
Reynald clicked his tongue at the sight of Lee Yong Wan
of the Phoenix Guild coming from the other side.
'I
didn't expect them to come so soon, such quick judgment.'
[If it's them, where's that bastard?]
The vigilance of the Jewel of Wisdom about Leon was
almost obsessive.
Meanwhile, Reynald spoke nonchalantly about the statue,
"Didn't you two Korean hunters also receive a quest
to break this statue?"
[Explore the island and destroy the 'Great Rakshar
Statue'. 0/3]
-Great Rakshar Statue Destroyed: 0
Quest received after entering this gate. Naturally, they
checked right away.
"......."
But Lee Yong-wan recently had doubts about the ‘quest’
given by the gate and system.
Like the Jeju Island Gate before, the quest at the red
gate was clearly 'Stop the massacre and defeat the Majestic Geobrick'.
But when he looked back, I realized that Geobrick wasn't
the enemy to kill.
'This
information... I'm not quite willing to share yet...'
There's an ulterior motive behind the gate's quest. At
least, not something to be taken at face value.
“Let’s leave it aside for now. It’s not clear whether
this is the statue of Raksha or not.”
“…What do you mean?”
Reynald's gaze narrowed. Lee Yong-wan was uncomfortable
when he met the gaze of the so-called archmage, but it was not comparable to
Leon or Geobrick.
"If this isn't the statue said in the quest, there
may be traps in store for us if we destroy it. Shouldn't we make sure we know
exactly what 'Raksha' is first?"
"......."
Reynald remained silent, unable to answer.
'Not
that it doesn't make sense.'
[Stand back. It will be difficult for you to deal with
these guys alone.]
Reynald flashed a businesslike smile, having come to an
agreement with the Jewel of Wisdom.
"Then why don't you join me at the beach there, some
of the the Maverick Guild raiders are there."
For the time being, he felt like I had to wait for the
opportunity.
* * * *
"Hwah...! Finally got it done!"
“Noona, you worked hard.”
Hari and the cadets of the Pantheon gathered on the beach
after repelling the monsters that had attacked them.
“Suho. Is anyone hurt?”
"We are all fine, Noona."
Hari patted the Academy juniors as they regrouped, then
walked over to the soldiers, where Gu Dae-sung was also gathering himself with
them.
"Hunter Park Dae-sik! Hunter Gu Dae-sung! Are there
any injured?"
"All is okay, Deputy Han."
Park Dae-sik, a Men-At-Arms 1st Gen, waved his hand with
a friendly smile. Gu Dae-sung, on the other hand, wore a serious expression.
"Hunter Gu Dae-sung?"
".....off."
"What? What is it?”
"His Majesty's aura has been cut off."
"Ah......."
Leon had all sorts of passive buffs for his army, like 【 Aura of Lion's Heart 】 and
【 War Knight's Blessing 】.
These buffs increased their power by as little as one
level and as much as two.
Hunters who were only Class D could stand toe-to-toe with
orcs.
"T, this is a big deal. I’ve benefited from your
Majesty’s buff a lot…”
The guild members naturally looked at the blurry islands
in the distance.
"Could His Majesty be on one of them?"
"The distance doesn't seem too far..."
Gu Dae-sung shook his head at those words.
"I've conducted an experiment at His Majesty's
suggestion before. How far His Majesty's aura can reach."
For a certain distance, buffs were common among legionnaires.
But there was a limit to that distance.
"The widest range was for the 【 Terror of the Demonic Race 】 buff, up to 30 kilometers. However, none of us are
currently under that buff."
"And that's because?"
"There's a chance that His Majesty... isn't even on
one of those islands."
Not on one of those islands? There are no more islands
around here. Then where is he?
"Perhaps His Majesty is at......."
Words were carefully chosen. But everyone threw up their
hands and shook their heads.
"His Majesty could not possibly......."
As if Leon was the kind of person who would suffer
misfortune in a place like this. In the midst of this natural denial, only Han
Hari revealed a serious expression.
[Han Hari, the connection to the Lionheart King has been
severed.]
"......."
Hari pursed her lips tightly and didn't say anything. She
feared that her anxiety would be contagious to others.
"Let's... let's gather around and talk about this
first. We need to check who's present."
Once the cadets and soldiers were gathered together, they
called out each other's names and took a head count.
"I don't see Jim Do-han."
“I can’t see Jaehyuk.”
There were missing people from both cadets and soldiers.
And.......
-Hello, Koreans. This is Michael.
-Ooh~ The girl who was attached to the mast. Why did you
do such a crazy thing?
The hunters from the Maverick Guild of America, sent as a
raiding party for the alliance. Their number was roughly ten.
"Oh, yes. You're the Americans."
Hari recognized them by their appearance, not by the
language they spoke.
After the cataclysm, awakeners and system windows
appeared. And that also overturned the language barrier between awakened
people.
Similarly, the survivors could speak the language of
Earthlings once they crossed over.
Therefore, communicating with members of the Maverick
Guild was not difficult.
"Hello, I'm from Maverick Guild, call sign Mistral.
What's the pretty girl's name?"
"Uh, uhm... I'm Han Hari. Mist… That Mistral?!”
Hari's eyes widened at the man's call sign. He was a
famous S-class hunter, the sixth ranked hunter in the Maverick Guild.
"Are you really Mistral? That Allen Taylor?!"
"What's the point of having a call sign if you're
going to call me by my real name?"
"Ah! I'm sorry."
Hari bowed, and the cadets looked on in admiration at the
arrival of the world-famous S-class hunter.
"I didn't realize you are on this raid."
“Wasn’t there any sharing of information? Well, we left
in a hurry without having time to properly brief. But where's your Guild
Master?"
"His Majesty is not here......."
"Well, I'm sure everything's fine, except for a few
people who got swept away by the waves."
"I don't think so."
"Huh?"
Allen looked puzzled at Hari's declaration.
"The God of the Sea said they were protected, so I
don't think anyone died from the waves."
The turtle on Hari's shoulder poked his head out in
confidence.
“And… if His Majesty had wanted to find us, he would have
found us a long time ago.”
"You are right, Noona, because His Majesty has a
pegasus."
“Then are we just left to fend for ourselves? Even though
he raised us to be strong to begin with….”
"????"
Allen gave a puzzled look as he listened to the
conversation between Hari and the members of the Pantheon Guild.
God of the sea? A legendary winged beast? This is too
absurd to be a joke.
“Anyway, our job on this island is simple.”
Allen's gaze flicked to the air. The system window that
all hunters have.
Upon entering the gate, it announced the quest they had
to fulfill.
[Explore the island and destroy the 'Great Rakshar
Statue'. 0/3]
-Great Rakshar Statue Destroyed: 0
In short, destroying the three statues would close the
dungeon.
However, Hari and the other members of the Pantheon had
other ideas.
"Let's explore the island first. We’ll search for
the statues, but hold off on destroying them."
"Yes, I don't think it's a good idea to just destroy
them. Let's make sure we have a clear picture of the gate."
"I agree."
"Hmm?"
Allen scratched his head at the Pantheon Guild's
reaction.
Hunters only need to comply with the closing conditions
of the dungeon gate.
As long as they obtained all the resources inside, they
could close it coldly.
However, the response of the Pantheon Guild was different
from that of ordinary guilds.
“Well… it’s still finding the statue anyway.”
But just then──
[The first wave begins.]
"Huh?"
"Wave?"
A system window was announcing a warning. They don't even
have to ask what it means.
“Kraken? It’s sea monsters!”
A giant monster arrived on the sandy shore on a wave,
followed by a bunch of other monsters.
"An A-grade field boss right from the start, huh? So
tough."
Pantheon and Maverick Guild. They raised their weapons
against the advancing group of Kraken, swinging their huge tentacles.
* * * * *
In the abyss of an endless ocean. So deep that not even
the sun can reach it. At the bottom, there wa a luminous body that emitted
brilliant light.
Even the pressure of the vast depths was pushed back,
forming space and creating air.
A safe haven for land creatures in the middle of the
ocean. The creator of the impossible miracle opened his eyes.
“You’re in trouble.”
Leon opened his eyes and stared at the deep-sea fishes
swarming in from all directions.
Something like a lantern angler, was drawn by the intense
light and looking for prey, while others, like the giant snakefish, up to 100
meters in diameter, bared hundreds of teeth.
In the wild, predators and prey would never stare at one
another so nonchalantly, but here all these deep-sea fish were looking at him.
There's more. This deep sea wasn't just the bottom of the
sea.
There were structures of buildings that still held their
shape under the immense pressure of the deep. Traces of civilization... This
place was evidence of a destroyed world.
"Hmm......."
When the boat overturned, Foma's powers were cut off,
albeit temporarily.
More precisely, his power was diminished in the sea,
which was not his domain.
Who would temporarily cut off a god's power and pull them
out of his body and bury him in the depths of the ocean?
Only a being of the same divine nature, or an
extraordinary demon of a different nature, could do such a thing.
“Reveal yourself, evil thing.”
-Kugugugugung!!!
Leon's words moved the sea. Or so it seemed.
The bottom of the abyss cracked open and a massive
presence emerged from within. The mere act of movement caused the entire ocean
to rumble, and the lightest of gestures crushed, divided, and destroyed the
area.
Even the anglerfish, with its fearsome teeth, or the
abyssal fish, with its hundreds of meters of length, or the whale, seemingly
the largest creature in the world, froze in instinctive fear at its movements.
The very ground on which Leon stood was the palm of its
hand, yet how could such an immense being be called a creature?
[Lionheart... The fierce dog of the gods with the heart
of a lion. Descendant of the Dragon Slayer. The one who has killed more demons
than anyone else.]
A booming voice echoed through the water. What was
revealed was only hundreds of tentacles. But even a tentacle was larger than
the largest creature in these waters.
[A knight among knights. King of kings. The defender of a
kingdom that once stood in all its glory, now stood before me bereft of his
armies and diminished in strength.]
"Do you know me?"
[Who among demons does not know the Lionheart King? You
are a renowned hero even amidst us.]
The tentacles slowly approach, their size so great. The
existence before his eyes was the most irrational violence in this world.
[Many heroes and heroines have come to this place, but
none have been able to defeat the great evil. Are you any different?]
Each tentacle looked straight at Leon as if it had eyes.
"You filthy creature, speaking nonsense to me. Did
you not know that there is a heaven above the heavens?”
A giant tentacle that looked like it could crush Leon at
any moment grabbed the whale and squeezed it.
Padeudeug! The whale vomited out its innards and fell to
the floor, dying a horrible death. The impact was heavy enough to even reach
Leon.
[Lionheart. Dragonia. Yes, your very existence is the
shame of demons!]
The tentacle slapped the floor. It was a resounding thud
that could not be compared to that of the whale's carcass, an impact that shook
the earth, sending huge waves in all directions.
[However, I am grateful to you. Lionheart.]
"What?"
[Thanks to you defeating Malus, I also got a chance.]
"Malus......."
Malus, the Demon Lord of Chaos. Is this one related to
that kind of evil?
[I have spent a lot of boring time here for the past five
hundred years. But that too is over now. The time has come to end this long
slumber.]
Dozens of tentacles stretched out in all directions in a
grandiose display.
The giant deep-sea fishes, unable to escape, were seized,
torn, and devoured by the tentacles.
From the place where the giant tentacles carried away the
large catches, a rippling voice was directed at Leon,
[After eating only fish for five hundred years, I got
bored. I wonder what the knight of the gods will taste like.]
An Archdemon... No, there's something more to it.
Leon was face-to-face with a behemoth demon staring down
at him.
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