The Newbie Is Too Strong's
203. Reunion with the Evil Necromancer Leader
“Trang, trang, trang.”
In that open hall, the sound of a sword rang out against a static rhythm.
“Come, Boy. Did you get here just your ability? Show me even better!”
“Uncle, gini-gini let me small, I have reached the age of 15 years.”
Apparently, the one fighting was Luca against Hendric, the captain of the emperor's protective forces. Luca is in preparation training in the final days leading up to his tournament.
“Is that? I'm sorry I didn't realize it because you were just like a newborn baby. Oh yeah, by the way, I'm not Uncle, but Brother. Our age difference is not more than 10 years.”
“Is that? Sorry, I didn't realize it, Uncle, ah, I mean Big Brother, because Brother looks older than his real age.”
“Bokah brash.”
Of course our protagonist has absolutely no bad intentions in saying that. However, no matter how the sentence is translated into modern language, no one will believe that it is not a mockery. Apparently, Luca's sharp mouth had not changed at all.
“Ah, I'm tired. Though I was very confident in my own physique, but apparently it was up to here only my limit for now. If this were my real body, it would be even better.”
“Hmm? You say something, Boy?”
“I told you to call me Luca. For Brother, I will give you an exception. But by the way..”.
Luca did not speak anymore, he just stared inside Hendric Albatarma.
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Name: HENDRIC ALBATARMA (Lv. 78)
Race: Man
Age: 24 years
Gender: Male
Occupation: Swordsman
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“Already expected, my original body level is superior to 3 levels from Kak Hendric. Hm. If it was my real body, surely I would have won easily from him.”
Luca involuntarily smiled himself in a blunt manner in front of Hendric. Hendric quickly felt a strangeness and was slightly offended by Luca's attitude. He half-jokingly asked Luca.
“You sure you didn't say something, boy? Or maybe you're swearing at me behind ya?”
Hearing the words of Hendric that actually seemed just a joke, somehow Luca responded sensitively then snapped, “How could it be like that, Brother. I could not have done the deplorable deed that Mother had forbidden. Instead, let's just continue practicing the match. My body is already a bit better.”
“Good if a young boy is excited, Dik Luca. But rest is no less important. Let's have tea together first.”
Not Hendric, but the Emperor Cecilia who said that to Luca who suddenly came to the training ground of the soldiers.
“Is that? Alright. The words of the Emperor have a point as well. Nuvuukh! Beyond a doubt, my back is pretty tense as well.”
“Yes right? What would happen if you didn't remind me. Exercise is important, but overwork is not good either. Here, join Brother first for a while.”
Luca joined Cecilia and followed her to the tea area. Hendric and some of his men followed them from behind.
“By the way, Brother Emperor, when can I have a day off to watch over the northern border area?”
“That, seems difficult, Dik Luca. Especially in critical times now.”
“But I also need to improve my ability.”
“Didn't you always just leave by leaving the young dragon running your errands?”
“I could have gone by myself. But no matter what I look for, I still can't find what I want. The only way is to come take Aura with me to look for her together.”
“Kakak does not know the details about what Dik Luca wants to do, but I hope Dik Luca can be patient a little longer until the state of the northern border a little calmer.”
“But... I also need to raise my level. If this continues, I will never reach the level of a high-level veteran.”
However, not even Luca had time to sit down and drink tea brewed directly by the emperor, the ground suddenly rumbled.
“Master, this is critical. A large-scale zombie attack just happened. Some are able to move quite quickly. I seem to need Master's help here.”
“Alright, I get it, Aura. I'll be there soon.”
Thus, Luca also failed to accept the kindness of Emperor Cecilia and then rushed to the battlefield.
‘This is weird, not a demon, but a zombie that suddenly just did a massive scale attack? Is this not near the land of death? Where did those necromancers obtain enough energy to summon a zombie horde? No, it's not that. From the very beginning, were there still many evil necromancers left in the group? Though it feels like I've pretty much finished them.’
With various thoughts, Luca accelerated his pace and a few moments later finally reached the northern border.
“Master!”
“Aura.”
“I leave the back on the Master yes.”
“Cih, this is more than I imagined.”
Luca looks panicked. However, he did not let his panic lessen his calm. Immediately, he re-arranged his feelings and then took out his moon crescent weapon and faced the zombie horde.
“Luca!” Soon, Lia, Andra, Raia, Chika, Diana, Areka, Egi, Silvia, Kirana, and a trio of lazy seniors arrived at the scene.
Luca gathered all the people he could contact back then to help him in guarding the defense of the northern fortress of the Lalania Empire due to the difficulty of the current state which was filled with zombie hordes.
Thanks to that additional power, the northern defensive fortress of the Lalania Empire was able to be defended.
However, Luca's expression remained shriveled. He felt something was still wrong.
‘It's really weird. However thoughtful, their actions this time around were extremely inefficient. Usually they only arrived in small quantities to harvest the death energy in this northern land. Even the current death energy was not enough to gather, but they were summoning many zombies at once which consumed a lot of their death energy.'
'Either if it's on the border of the land of death, where the harvest of death energy is decent. But here, they won't get anything. Although many citizens of the city will die and donate death energy, but this is close to a sacred union. That death energy, will only be neutralized so that the result will be the same as zero.'
'What are they going to? Whatever it is, for now, we can only survive. Thanks to my comrades as well as the soldiers from the imperial palace, this zombie horde seems to be about to be stopped soon. Holdin…'
'If the soldiers are almost all deployed to the border area because they follow the instructions of the capital's defense manual, it means that currently protecting the Emperor's Brother in the capital, only Kak Hendric and his men remain…'
'No, I have a bad feeling. I have to make sure immediately that Brother Emperor is fine.'
Luca immediately ran towards the imperial palace by entrusting the zombie horde to his friends. The feeling is so bad.
He recalled a little of his conversation with Phineas, the leader of the evil necromancers a while ago.
At that time, Luca concluded that Phineas had come to see him about him successfully uncovering the crimes of Duke Trashio, Phineas' important ally that caused his important plan to be hampered.
Luca though innocent, he was actually very sensitive to feeling the aura of one's hatred. And he could sense very well that what the object of Phineas' hatred back then was the imperial family.
Therefore, he could not help his worry about Emperor Cecilia being guarded only by Hendric and a few of his men currently in the palace.
Luca was hopefully worried that hopefully what he was thinking right now was just his delusion. As soon as he arrived, the sight of his beloved Emperor Brother drinking tea in the greenhouse was all he would get.
However, just entering the palace gate alone, his hope had been betrayed. The two guards guarding the gate had already lost their lives.
Luca's instincts immediately allege that Phineas was the culprit behind the incident. He also sharpened his senses to immediately catch the stench of Phineas' existence which he had unexpectedly used to be very similar to him, except for his disgusting death aura.
And bingo.
The existence of Phineas was actually detected near the place. On the roof of the palace.
Without a second thought, Luca immediately ran and jumped towards it.
“Damn it! Apparently you really are the culprit, Phineas!”
In the presence of Luca, a faint Emperor Cecilia is seen, held as a princess by the evil necromancer leader, Phineas.
“Yo, Luca. Long time no see.” His greeting to the black-haired boy before him who had emitted the color of those heterochromic eyes. Seen fine hair black gold-hit the leader of the necromancer was fluttering because hit by the breeze from the roof of the palace.