Chapter 160 : Chapter 160

Chapter 160 - The External Enemy

The Youngest Son recognized the necklace held in the First Son's hand.

The amulet, made by weaving carved bones and using them as a string, was also made of bone.

The important thing was whose bone it was.

“Is that the Bone Dragon's amulet?”

“You recognize it.”

“I thought the only thing Older Brother would pull out at this moment would be a gift from the Family Head-nim.”

As he answered, he fiddled with the Ghost Ship ring on his finger.

Its essence was now bound to his soul, and only the ring remained as a symbol, but it was still a gift from the Family Head.

That amulet was the same.

“Are you planning to summon the Bone Dragon?”

“……”

The First Son was silent.

His mouth didn't move, but his eyes looked up at the Magic Dragon with flame thunder in its mouth.

The Magic Dragon he first saw when he reached the summit of the Ash Mountains was a truly fearsome being.

He had felt an unfathomable power and thought that it would never submit to anyone, even in death.

He had surely thought so, but the youngest had brazenly brought the Magic Dragon and appeared at Pandemonium Hall.

Jalgeurak─

He looked down at the amulet in his hand.

A treasure made by melting the scales and heart of the Bone Dragon before it became the Bone Dragon.

It was essentially no different from a spatial artifact for storing only the Bone Dragon.

If he infused magic power into it, and after a moment of dizziness passed, the Bone Dragon would be summoned.

However….

“If I summon the Bone Dragon now, I will have to fight you with my life on the line, youngest.”

Sreureung─

The wyvern bones fell from the blade, and the clean gray blade found its home.

Chiiiiiiiiii─

The flame thunder was also extinguished by its master's command, leaving only acrid smoke outside.

“Aren't we in a situation where we can't point our swords at each other right now? You value the citadel, and I value my life.”

He had the Bone Dragon, but the problem was that it was the first casting.

The first time is always bound to be clumsy, and if it was the Bone Dragon, the variables would increase even more.

The First Son was not a fool who would bet his life on a future full of variables just based on emotion.

The Youngest Son also knew that and acted boldly, so he bowed his head slightly.

“Thank you. For understanding the situation.”

“Don't provoke Jamie like this. That one would really bring a giant.”

“He's already brought one a few times. He's restraining himself now.”

“Yes. You seem to be on good terms.”

The First Son remembered the Daughters and the Fourth Son who had defended the youngest at the banquet.

He also remembered the Family Head's declaration, which he had presented as a new succession competition.

“It's clear that you're the only one who can unite our siblings and bring them before Father.”

The Youngest Son also calmly agreed.

“I think so too. Older Brother and Older Sisters are quite stubborn.”

“Yes. I agree with that too.”

The family's youngest and eldest chuckled slightly, and then the eldest continued.

“It seems you've come from a fierce battle with the Magic Dragon.”

There was a wound on the Magic Dragon's abdomen below its chest that had just stopped bleeding.

The scar left after piercing the scales was clearly no ordinary matter, and it was obvious who had made it.

“The attack that subdued the Magic Dragon must be your trump card, youngest.”

“That is correct.”

“Did you meet the Queen and receive her teachings?”

“I did meet a kinsman, but it was not Mother. The meeting itself was a coincidence.”

Whether he believed it or not, the First Son obediently nodded.

He then took out the Bone Wyvern and mounted it.

“Youngest, what do you think Father wants? He seems to be encouraging us to join forces while making us antagonize each other.”

If he had wanted one of the new generation of blood relatives to overwhelmingly rise to the top, he wouldn't have given the amulet.

Because the Bone Dragon was a power that checked the Magic Dragon and balanced the forces.

The Youngest Son let out a small laugh at his older brother's question.

“I see why Second-oldest brother calls you an egoist, Older Brother.”

“…An egoist?”

“The Family Head-nim only gave gifts to me and you, Older Brother. You stand in a high position, yet you don't look down.”

“Are you saying I speak while mistakenly thinking that others are like me?”

“That's right.”

It was, so to speak, an insult without malice.

He himself had no malice, but it was true that the listener's blood boiled.

So the Family Head's words were not difficult either.

“The Family Head-nim wants you and me to fight and check each other and quickly grow stronger. The Bone Dragon is also for that purpose.”

“…He's doing something uninteresting.”

“Actually, didn't you put more effort into training and development than in the mountains, Older Brother? This is the same for Second-oldest brother and Older Sisters.”

“Yes. Your existence, youngest, has changed not only the Family Head-nim's mind but also the succession pattern.”

The First Son let out a hollow laugh and spread the Bone Wyvern's wings.

“You're a truly un-fightable being. You are, youngest.”

Hwoooook─

The First Son flew up.

The Undead Knight Legion also disappeared, and only a single large crow followed the wyvern's tail.

“Main body.”

“Good work.”

The clone that was behind the Magic Dragon slowly walked out.

I knew about the pain transfer, but the clone was still a mess.

His external and internal injuries were healed by his regenerative ability, but his clothes were in tatters and covered in dirt.

“Take the Magic Dragon to Eclipse, and then you'll have to go to the Forest Witch.”

“I will.”

“You've worked hard.”

“We both did.”

The clone left only a short word and flew away with the Magic Dragon.

When the Magic Dragon disappeared, a huge empty space was left.

Filling that space were humans and wolves, much smaller than the Magic Dragon.

“Youngest Son-nim!”

“Dante!”

“Red Wolf.”

Edwin, Cailin, and Remus ran up in order.

But the Chairman was not in sight. The reason could be seen from the Old Wood Staff in Edwin's hand.

“So you've become the chairman, Edwin.”

“It's all thanks to you, Youngest Son-nim. I am also grateful for the help of the Wolf Brigade.”

“What did we do? We just provoked the First Son's temper.”

“Usually, if you provoke the First Son-nim's temper, you die, Remus-nim.”

Hunter Werewolf Remus laughed heartily and patted his daughter's shoulder.

“This father will go on ahead. When you're done talking, come to the forest.”

“Yes!”

Cailin answered energetically, then stopped at the Youngest Son.

Then she kept sniffing the air.

“What is it?”

“What's wrong?”

“I can't smell myself! Instead, I smell a strong scent of clean snow. How is that possible?”

“…What's so important about that? We should focus on the fact that we achieved our goal without anyone dying.”

The Youngest Son's eyes moved to the Old Wood Staff.

In fact, what he wanted was not this staff. The staff served as a symbol, but it didn't stop there.

“Edwin. Follow me.”

“Can I go too?”

“It doesn't matter.”

“Yay!”

The three of them walked through the ruined Pandemonium Hall.

Originally, there should have been a door leading to the basement, but not only the door but the building itself had been completely blown away.

So they had to clear some of the building debris.

“Cailin. Grab that side.”

“You want to move this?”

Deudeudeudeudeuk─

A piece of building debris the size of a carriage was lifted up.

Edwin's jaw dropped, but she herself was excited.

“Wow! There's a basement space underneath!”

The debris soon tumbled around like pebbles.

As Cailin had said, under the debris was a stone staircase leading to the basement.

He balled up Bloodflame, floated it in the air, and went down the stairs.

“H-how do you know about such a staircase, Youngest Son-nim?”

“This is a space that only the chairman can enter through the staff. If you had ascended to the chairmanship through the normal route, you would have known naturally, Edwin.”

So how do you know about it?

He wanted to ask, but the space below the basement was so vast that he forgot what he was about to say.

Only a single bridge existed in the bottomless pit, and there was something at the end of the bridge.

On a stone pedestal carved with the emblem of Dusk Citadel was a helmet.

The helmet, which looked like it would be worn by knights, had small snakes carved on it like a crown.

“Dusk Citadel is a land of Millesdusk that was even allowed to use the name Pandemonium Hall. If you think about it, it's like the relationship between a king and a lord.”

“Ye-yes. That is certainly true.”

“Do you think the king of Millesdusk would have bestowed a territory without giving a single gift?”

“…!”

Even the powerful figures of Millesdusk, like the councilors, did not know about that gift.

What they knew stopped at the staff, and they did not know about this basement space or the object beyond the bridge.

“What you see there is the citadel's holy relic. ‘Twilight’.”

The helmet, called Twilight, had a purple eye-shine shimmering from the visor's slit.

It had a dangerously beautiful appearance, but the chairmen could not easily touch the helmet.

“…What on earth is that object used for?”

Because Millesdusk had only given Twilight, they had not told them how to use it.

It was a foolish reason, but it was also the most realistic one.

Edwin knew that too.

“It looks like you'd have to be prepared to die to use it….”

“The yin energy it's emitting is enormous!”

Cailin spoke lightheartedly, but the owner of the house could not.

He was horrified to think that such a thing had been under his feet all this time.

On the other hand, the Youngest Son said calmly.

“That is one of the keys to the 2nd stage of the Dark Elixir process.”

“…A helmet?”

“Because the one who wears that helmet gains special eyes.”

As he said that, the Youngest Son's bloodshot eyes looked at Edwin.

They were the exact same eyes as when he told the Forest Witch that she would manage the Blue Flame Spirit.

“You wear it.”

***

The Undead Knight Legion returned to the Skeleton Giant Horse.

It was their second defeat after the First Son's descent from the Ash Mountains.

All of them were humiliations recorded by the Youngest Son.

Chief Secretary Luda approached his master, who was sitting on the top of the horse's head again today.

“Youngest Son-nim.”

“What are the damages?”

“It seems the power of Exploding Bone has increased compared to before. Not only the Skeleton Soldiers but also the Undead Private Soldiers exploded, so the damage is double that of before.”

“Is it to the point where they can't recover?”

“All the sorcerers in the faction are on it. It's not to the point where they can't recover, but it is believed that it will take time.”

The chief secretary bowed his head as if he were ashamed.

“The youngest is always one step further away when I think I've caught him. This is the first time I've felt this way.”

“…That does not mean your skill and genius are dead, Youngest Son-nim. You are still you.”

Chief Secretary Luda took out a letter he had received before coming to the horse's head.

“Also, we have received information from the collateral branches of the Potion Development Department that we have bribed.”

“……”

The First Son received the letter.

“…While fighting me, the youngest was busy with underground work for the next step.”

“Is it perhaps preparation for the 2nd stage process?”

“That purpose is not absent, but it does not seem to be the main purpose.”

The letter said.

Within the Potion Development Department, a new drug called a ‘Purification Potion’ was recently being developed.

Here, development was improving what was already there, and improving it now seemed out of the blue.

Chief Secretary Luda, who saw the letter, also thought so.

“Then why are they suddenly touching the Purification Potion? I don't see anything for the Fifth Son-nim to gain here.”

“The only thing to gain would be perception. The Potion Development Department is a family public service institution that also manufactures other potions besides the Dark Elixir. The same thing.”

But there was no one in the family who didn't know that.

Even if they did something a little out of line as a public service institution, what the Dark Elixir had brought was too much.

Not only the family sorcerers but also the blood relatives would not be able to say a word, but the youngest suddenly put on a mask.

We are a family institution. We do not have the purpose of only selling and researching the Dark Elixir.

To whom was he appealing so earnestly?

The First Son's eyes flashed.

“Chief Secretary. Look into Wisdom's movements right now.”

“W-Wisdom, you say?”

He was momentarily taken aback and asked back, but Luda's head was also spinning.

There was no one in the East who didn't know about the Dark Elixir.

This news would reach Wisdom, and they would absolutely not be able to ignore it.

The reality that something impersonating the Elixir, which they praised as God's tear, was rolling around in the market.

I now knew where the youngest was looking.

The succession competition of the new generation of blood relatives hadn't even ended yet, but the enemy was not only within.

“The youngest is predicting that the war with Wisdom is near.”

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