Originally, there were nine pillars in the Audience Hall of the Imperial Palace, each carved into a different monster posture, corresponding to the sinner who held the fragment of the Emperor's soul. However, as Ban and his party defeated the nine sinners one by one, all these pillars had collapsed, and Emperor Didos XVI had lost his immortal power.

Since it was not clear whether the soul fragments on the nine sinners would be returned to the furnace by the emperor for re-refining, Ban and his party did not dare to return to the ground to recuperate, and rushed over for a decisive battle as soon as possible with a little recklessness.

It's okay -

"Do you want to take my throne! After another thousand years, ten thousand years, the throne will belong to me alone! Even the Ancestral Emperor doesn't want to take it away! "His Majesty the Emperor, who sat on a monstrous throne and carried out group attacks with various magics, has fallen into a big disadvantage in the four-person fight.

"Misunderstanding ~ We have no interest in becoming an emperor of zombies and ghosts~!" Rabon stood up to the thunder magic cast by the emperor, the Heavenly Thunder Array, and jumped high and slashed down with a sword.

This is an iron sword!

As the name suggests, the cheap longsword bought at the blacksmith sliced the magic sword in the emperor's hand, which was infinitely close to a staff, and then landed on the rotten body wrapped in a ragged purple shirt.

"Well done, old man!" Paris slammed the Emperor from his throne from the side with a fluttering gesture that was not so much a sword skill as a flying move, "Nilou, the chair is handed over to you!" ”

"Look at me!" Nilou lifted the sledgehammer she had received from the palace armory and slammed it on the seat.

The throne, which didn't have much attack power, only jumped around to open up the distance for the emperor, and under the huge impact, the four metal arthropods stretched out, and the base slammed into the ground. As it trembled on all four legs and tried to get back to its feet, Nilou's next blow came, smashing it to its stomach again.

Theoretically, the Throne, which had completely lost its athletic ability, would be smashed in half by brute force in the loop, but this did not ultimately materialize, as the battle on the other side ended much earlier.

The "............" squad appears in the dead end of the field of vision as an assassin, and two daggers are pierced into the emperor's body from behind, and the wound is torn open with a unique technique when the knife is collected.

It was originally a move that tore the wound and caused the target to bleed to death, and it didn't work well against the undead creatures, but the two inserts were the last straw that crushed the emperor.

The Emperor's golden crown of thorns fell to the ground, and the throne was reduced to metal shards due to the loss of its owner's power.

The mummy-parched face turned, and maggots crawled unhindered in the hollow eye sockets, but everyone knew that the emperor was watching Ban, and the broken body was trembling, and he made a hoarse voice with difficulty: "...... Ignorance...... Thou art the same as I ...... after all."

"I'm not like you! I will never be a puppet of Didos! Ben shouted.

The emperor's body began to crumble, and the sound of bones peeling off seemed to mock Ban's incompetence: "It's useless...... Even if he escaped to the outside of this nightmare, he would only be captured by the Ancestral Emperor's even greater dream...... No one can escape ......"

"Wait!" Nilou cried out, "Does this mean that the incident is not over yet?" ”

Paris also reacted and asked loudly, "Hey, how can I wake up Qiuna...... Those crystallized children! ”

"The Ancestral Emperor does not die, and there is no end to everything...... O sad kindred, I am waiting for you in the tomb......" After speaking, the emperor's body turned into smoke and dust and dissipated.

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The news that the Lord of the Demon Palace in the depths of the ruins was defeated by Ban and his party quickly spread among the Holm Territory, but the monsters continued to pour out of the ground, and the victims of the lethargy event continued to crystallize. The only result is that the curse in the palace area disappears, people who die in the area no longer become walking dead, and zombie, skeleton, and ghost enemies are gradually reduced.

Lyle didn't expect the incident involving the ancient ruins to be easily resolved, so after a hasty circle around the palace, he continued his exploration through one of two corridors leading to different new areas.

"Wow~It's a forest~" Although the view is obscured by a thick white fog, you can only see the near place, but whether it is the cold and humid air mixed with the refreshing scent of plants, or the trees that replace the stone walls around it, they all match the impression of a "forest".

Fran didn't understand and asked, "Young Master, we shouldn't have left the underground, why did we come to the forest?" ”

"Seeds, water, sunlight, soil, it's not difficult to meet the conditions for the forest to appear." Lyle looked up at the sky that was firmly obscured by the fog, "...... The hardest estimation is to maintain an artificial sky for thousands of years, right? ”

"Artificial sky?" Kiria frowned.

Lyle smiled and said, "I can fly up with you, I bet with you with three months of maid work, and I can definitely touch the boundary of the 'sky' with my hands." ”

"Who bets on you like that." Kiria grimaced the gamble she was bound to lose.

"Disappointment...... Hey, Ada, don't run around, these mist are magical and can be disorienting. Lyle, who found the dragon girl running away, hurriedly shouted.

Under the fog of nature, as long as you admit death and walk straight in one direction, you will not deviate too much, but under the fog of magic, even the cognition of the front and back and left and right is disturbed, and it is possible to walk hard for a long time and return to the same place.

There are many ways to deal with it, but in fact, Lyle can walk over without doing anything, and with his soul strength, he can ignore such a low-level illusion magic, as long as his companions don't make stupid mistakes...... Of course, he himself did not have this self-consciousness at all.

"Mist?" Ida tilted her head, took a deep breath, and yelled into one of the mist-shrouded passageways, "Lok-Vah-Koor! ”

The fog in a large area was dispelled, revealing a winding path surrounded by intricate trees.

"...... this?" Kiria subconsciously looked at Lyle instead of the person who was using her new skills.

"It's actually the legendary dragon's roar......" Lyle has played with dragon bones, dragon blood, and dragon skin in the academy, but the living dragon has seen one in the ruins so far, and it is still an enslaved mad dragon, so naturally he has not seen the dragon's roar, "The essence of the dragon's roar is the dragon's language, and special effects are activated through short syllables, which can be considered to be the dragon's way of performing magic." ”

"Dragon's Magic...... Is it? Indeed, if you only have dragon breath, you always feel that you can't match the power of the legendary dragon. Kilia looked at the little dragon girl and muttered.

The dragon's breath is about equal to spitting, even if the dragon's saliva is relatively strong, the force is still low.

Lyle shrugged his shoulders and guessed irresponsibly: "Personally, I think it is possible that humans can also use the dragon roar, unless the magic generated by the dragon soul is fundamentally different from the magic generated by the human soul, and they do not follow the same world rules." ”

As for which is more powerful, human magic or dragon magic, which has more development potential, that's another topic.

"I see." Kilia nodded, she had studied spells in her hometown for a few years, but it was not an orthodox magic profession after all, and it was over after listening to the popular science of professionals.

Compared to the dragon's roar, Fran was more concerned about other things: "So, Ada, do you remember your past life?" ”

"Past life?" Ada's eyes widened, and she was bothered by her instinctive dragon roar.

Lyle walked over and patted the little dragon girl's head and comforted, "Don't care, just let it be...... Come, let's help dispel the fog before leaving, and then I'll eat you three raw chicken legs. ”

"I'm going to eat five chicken thighs in one go!" Ida left her worries behind in a split second and walked happily forward. (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)