Emperor of Steel

The place where the expeditionary troops landed wasn’t much far from the site where the Crete palace was located.

As a result, Belfair looked everywhere, feeling nervous.

“You don’t need to be so restless, Belfair. Nothing has been detected yet.”

“I know that, but…”

Despite Luke’s word, the anxiety and nervousness didn’t disappear from Belfair’s face.

In fact, even Luke was feeling a bit anxious.

If there was a demon, who was around the level of Demon King, and the place where the Lich Vessel was stored, some kind of dark energy or evil Magi had to be felt, but somehow, nothing could be felt.

Somehow, everything felt empty.

“Dad, something feels wrong.”

“Yes. I feel that too… I came here to make him pay for his debt, but this is something I didn’t think of.”

“You really seem like you are about to pay the debt.”

“I speak what is there.”

He looked around more, but Luke did have to pay a debt.

Over 500 years ago, when he was Saymon, he did all sorts of chores in the Veritas Magic Tower.

At that time, some of the elders in the Veritas Magic Tower were secretly taking away money, that too from the mercenaries and young wizards.

‘I saw so many things which I shouldn’t have back then… Ugh, this isn’t the time to think of the past.’

Luke shook his head to clear his mind and ordered Hwang Bo-sung and Scarlet to search the surrounding areas.

It was because the landing and unloading were going to take some time, so they had to figure out the area.

Hwang Bo-sung and Scarlet, who left under Luke’s orders, returned shortly after.

But it wasn’t just the two of them who came back. They were running with a bunch of bizarre monsters behind them.

Golem like giants, large flying beasts that looked like a mix between wyverns and bats, and beasts that were a mix of wolves and lizards.

‘They are the demons of the Devildom!’

Goliath, Raptor, and Lacerta.

When he had gone to the Devildom during his time as Saymon, he had seen the demons in groups.

“Dad, they…”

“All forces get ready!”

Karen’s question got buried under the command of Luke.

Luke summoned his Avenger from the subspace and rushed toward the monsters, and Gregory and Philip followed him with their Gigants that had been unloaded.

“Your Majesty!”

“The assault of the Saint Guard’s begins!”

Around 30 Gigants, including Avenger, clashed with the monsters.

While they were fighting the group of those which resembled Golems, the group of Raptors and Lacerta rushed to the expeditionary troops.

“Where are you going?! Stone protect!”

“Stay back! Lightning Shower!”

Karen and the other wizards built magical barriers at the same time to stop the demons from moving ahead, and the zen users like Jo Mimi used lightning to stop the Raptors.

“Burn!”

“Don’t stand still and load those cannons!”

Pop! Bang!

The fleet’s battleships began to support them from the sea.

The shells passed through the place where their allies were and fell right on the group of the monsters.

Bang!

Kwang!

The baptism of the large and small shells quickly colored the land with the black blood of the demons.

The demons, which had attacked the troops, were unable to withstand the aggressive attacks of the Gigant unit, magic, zen, and shells after 30 minutes.

On the ground covered with volcanic ash were countless corpses of demons that were taken down.

“Hahaha! We won!”

“It wasn’t much for a handsome one like me!”

Shouts of joy and laughter echoed from the expeditionary troops.

There were no casualties, and apart from the demons, there was no damage too.

However, despite the great victory, Luke’s expression didn’t brighten.

“That is weird.”

“What is so weird?”

Brushing off the blood from his sword, Philip asked, “We came to the enemy’s place, but the defense here is too weak, isn’t it?”

“Right.”

“This is very weird… Are our enemies too weak that they could only gather these much? It seems like all the strong ones were brought into Bless.”

“It could be as you said. But…”

Neither the sulfur fog nor the whales in the sea were as threatening.

Even though many forces weren’t met, it was as if the enemy had let go of the battle.

“It seems like he hopes to gain some time.”

“Gain time… The guy called Arsene is a Lich, so he is trying to bounce back with his Life Vessel?”

“Maybe. But with his kind of personality, he wouldn’t do this.”

If he was planning to escape, he would have emptied the base and run away.

There was no reason for him to summon monsters from Devildom.

‘Arsene is definitely on the island. There must be something keeping him here.’

The moment Luke felt convinced, the island suddenly began to run wild.

Rumble! Rumble!

Wheeeing!

With purple lightning flashing in the grey sky and waves raging on the sea, the earth shook with violent earthquakes.

“Wh-what is this?!”

“Is there any chance that the volcano will erupt now?”

“No, it is Magi… There’s a lot of Magi over there!”

Wizards and zen users looked at one side with astonished faces.

The direction they were looking at was the Royal Palace of Crete.

The place that had been neglected for a long time, a place of ruins, suddenly shone with a black light that reached the sky.

Luke’s expression hardened when he saw the black light pillars in the distance.

‘What are you trying to do, Arsene?! Wasn’t all the mess you did till now not enough?’

There was a reason why the island didn’t give out any energy.

It was because something else was being done. Something that directed all the energy from the island.

Luke was scared to think what that means, yet he commanded the Knights who were looking at him.

“Forces! Follow me at full speed!”

As Luke’s Avenger ran toward the palace, the other Gigants and troops followed him.

They weren’t sure what it was, but they all knew that they had to stop whatever was in the palace.