THE GREAT KINGS
Chapter 9's

The battlefield was filled with piles of corpses and filled with former battles.

The crows ate the carcasses of the dead soldiers.

The cries of a few soldiers who lost their friends and brothers and echoed filled the place.

A knight who was covered in blood and lost his right hand, with all his last strength, he drew a spirit summoning magic emblem.

"Kumo-hon comes.", with pain.

The magic emblem glowed reddish and then turned white.

Then came a man with silver hair and eyes like beautiful snow crystals.

The man stared at the knight under his feet, who was lying on the ground.

"So you called me?, tell me what I want!".

"So you showed up, that means we still have hope!" Said the knight.

"Don't cut out my words and make me repeat them again, say what you want?".

The dying knight was frightened by the pressure exuded by the man before him.

"A.a a-. I beg you please take our revenge-".

"Then what would you give me instead, because I don't want to do boring things like without a fair pay, you know?".

"A?, will I give you nyawak-?!"

"I don't need your filthy life, I want something that excites my whole body and soul, if only life doesn't affect you or some of your friends it won't excite me".

"Then what should I give you so you can help us?".

"If it's your own mind".

The knight began to despair with the statement of the man he called.

And suddenly the already very desperate knight got a crazy idea to persuade him.

"How about... I give you the golden mystic pearl?".

Instantly the man gasped and looked towards the knight seriously.

"Huh? You think I'll believe your words, you can't even stand up right now, and also such a rare item can't be in you-". While lifting the knight's collar.

"However I can really give it to you, if you want".

The silver-haired man used lie-detecting magic, and discovered that he was not lying.

"Then why don't you use it to fight?".

"That's because, her pearl container isn't ready for a real fight yet".

"Hmm, so he's a kid-".

"But I know that the pearl is transferred to a stronger container, then the actual power will appear, especially if a creature like you uses it, I'm sure you must have been looking for that thing, right, because creatures like you will grow and develop further and further if you eat golden mystic pearls".

While directly strangling the knight's neck and lifting him up.

"If you lie, not only your death but also your entire nation I'll finish off" with the men's menacing face lifting the already limp knight right around his neck.

"Say where are the people you want to die?" he added.

"A. I want him to kill.n you kill.mem.kill that guy, I want him to feel-", the knight suffocated to death before finishing his words while crying and pointing towards the rising sun.

"Huh?, (that person?), so you mean you were defeated by one person only?, Khukhuku... You guys are really, really weak human beings".

Upon learning of his target, the man threw the already lifeless knight into another pile of corpses.

He walked towards the place he had pointed to earlier, where there was a pile of corpses that was very high and someone was sitting at the top.

The blood all over his armor and the jet-black stick that rested on his shoulder, signaled that he was the one who fought against over 100,000 troops and defeated them.

The man was a 13-year-old Key with his armour and wore a crown of long feathers on his head.

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"So you're the one I have to kill?".

I turned my face back and saw the silver-white-haired man with snow-crystal eyes calling out to me.

Then I faced her while still sitting in my place.

"Khukhuku I never thought there was a human like you this strong, that power should not be possessed by humans. The two arrows that stuck in your back and the spear that pierced through your stomach didn't even affect your life".

"Well, this isn't enough".

"?!".

The man saw me standing together with the sunlight that rose behind me, he seemed amazed for a moment to see my figure standing on top of this pile of corpses.

And instantly his mind came back to kill me.

Then I pulled out the spear that pierced my stomach and threw it away.

Without warning the man attacked me with magic that cast a luminous rope with thorns.

"Hmp, no magic chant yes"

Nah!

I caught the rope with one empty hand right in front of my face.

"Heh!", the man smiled cunningly.

Then a sizable lightning magic came out of the rope in my grasp with its madness.

But my face was like there was no wound, but it was like burning.

"Lumayan, it turns out that humans like you are able to withstand it".

The man's eyes then glowed as both of his hands took out a diagram-shaped magic emblem.

"How about this one, let's see where you can go?!".

When he was talking to me I wasn't where I was before.

"Where?!".

Just as he turned his face away, our eyes met very close.

My body drifted slightly as I stared at her with both of my hands behind.

The man was surprised to find out I was behind him.

And directly use his back kick to me.

But I lowered my head a little as he attacked.

And I retaliated with a proper kick to his waist to make him thrown.

"Ughhh!".

As well as the fire magic that burns it, without neatness.

Seeing that I also hit the ground with my stick and made the foothold of the crystal wave become chaotic and change its direction.

"Ha?, you must be kidding me, I'm afraid this one human makes me excited!".

With a wide smiling face the man used a strange magic again.

"Spaces and Darkness Unite In Despair~ GateDark!".

Five black holes appeared above and beside me.

The holes absorbed various objects that were nearby without exception.

It makes the whole body feel in pull from all directions.

He also inserted crystals shaped like swords and spears to attack me, which emerged from inside the black hole.

"Give up man, you're just going to waste energy, GateDark is a hole that will suck anything into the endless darkness and make it dust. A human like you can only accept it without a fight".

Hearing his words, I left my cane stuck on the ground and allowed it to attack me openly.

"Forward.." with open arms.

"Huh-I was wrong, it turns out that you are as arrogant as your race".

After that GateDark sucked with a very strong pull, even the corpses in that place were drawn into it and then disappeared.

"What's just this?".

"!?".

"I still have to get stronger. Hey, use everything you have and attack me as hard as you can"?.

The man was furious now until veins appeared in his head.

"If this is the case then regret that you are too arrogant".

Hisapan GateDark was getting stronger even to the point of splitting the ground and destroying it.

Even so, to me this is just a gauge for my current strength.

That's why I caught the stick I stuck on the ground while flying towards where I was standing.

And with a flash smashed all those GateDark with a single swing of the cane.

"Pulp!".

The silver-haired man's eyes were shocked as his mainstay stance was smashed and added because the effect of the attack caused him to bounce far back.

"Nowaggh!".

I flew over it while holding a stick behind me.

While emitting a pitch-black red aura almost covered the entire battlefield.

The man who saw my figure from under where he was lying looked like he had been looking for something all this time, with tears beginning to come out he said.

"What an existence that no one can rival, this person is like a form of arrogance, which is unstoppable".

In the moments when he looked up at the sky where I was floating, I walked up to him without stepping on the ground.

"So this is the end, do what you want".

"You think I'm stupid?-".

"Ha, what do you mean?".

"You think you can fool me with a cheap fake body, you've never been in this place".

Hearing my words the man was a little surprised and then started laughing.

"?!, Khukhuku..hahaha.., turns out you can find out, since when?-".

"From the beginning, when you showed yourself. Besides, your magic doesn't show that you're unleashing all of your abilities. And let me make it clear that I don't like to fight with half-and-half".

"..., Hmp maybe that's why you're never serious".

"So you're going to fight seriously now?".

"Haha...maybe even if my original self is against you I will still lose, and it's useless, because once I meet a strong person then it's more to retreat".

Seeing her face that had resigned made me no longer interested in being here.

But just as I was about to turn around, the man called out to me.

"Hey...may I follow you?".

Those words stopped me from leaving and turned to her.

"It's up to you, but once you step in with me, you can't look back, to be honest I hate traitors so much. Camn it".

Turning away left the man with his right hand covering his satisfied face with a smile, as his body was still lying on the ground.

Then I stopped and asked him.

"By the way, what's your name?".

"....I've never had anything like it..".

"Hmm it'll be troublesome if you don't have a name".

While pointing at my own eel I thought of a name suitable for her,

[I'm actually really bad at naming things, even in my previous life when I wanted to name my game character, it took me 2 hours].

Then I looked at his body from head to toe,

"Hmm?!".

And that's when I found the right one for her.

["From now on your name is Diagra, put it on your head"]. With a distinctive tone of the great king.

Diagra received the name proudly while kneeling knight-style.

"If I may know what this name means?".

I turned back to her and thought for a moment.

"Absolute loyalty, that means. Don't ask anymore".

"Haa what a great name, is a lowly creature like me worthy of his bearing?".

[Chaa... Don't overdo it, are you stupid?. To be honest, I just wanted to give it a name, Diagra said, I took it from the word diagram in her eyes, that's all, so stop acting that way. What absolute loyalty is I just want to look cool while saying that, lest he find out or I'll lose face. I hope he doesn't betray].

That was the beginning of my meeting with Diagra and the beginning of a disaster that we will create in the future.

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