Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 151

Chapter 151

What Zeke discovered was the sun emblem that had been engraved on Agamemnon’s mask.

“To think I’d find that emblem here.”

While it was impossible to know when this ruin was built, there was a high possibility it was created before the Golden Age.

Zeke examined the part where the sun emblem was engraved carefully.

“Hmm.”

The sun emblem was floating at the highest point, and below it were carved countless falling stars.

“What does this mean?”

Unlike the bird tribe’s murals that were like historical records, this abstract and symbolic relief mural was difficult to understand.

‘I should record this and ask the Hermit of Stories later. He might know what this means…’

Zeke passed by the relief mural and discovered a door.

“Do I have to go much further?”

Zeke opened the door and went inside.

The inside looked like an ancient temple or royal tomb.

Various patterns were delicately carved on the walls and pillars.

‘What exactly is this place?’

Strangely, this ruin was not recognized by the system.

When the door first opened, it only recognized the title Knight of Light, but unlike other sanctuaries, it didn’t register as an administrator.

“Does this mean it’s an even older temple than that place?”

Just then, Zeke saw something moving in front of him.

‘What’s that?’

KUGUUUGU!

Surprisingly, a golem approached Zeke.

[Security system activated.]

[Administrator authentication failed.]

[Golem will remove unauthorized personnel.]

Message windows popped up noisily.

KUGUUUUGU!

The golem’s body made entirely of gray stone looked completely different from Guardian who had become Zeke’s summon.

Its size and appearance were similar to a barbarian.

DUDUDUDU!

The golem ran toward Zeke.

As it got close, the golem raised both fists and swung at Zeke.

KWAKWAKWAKWANG!

Zeke lightly deflected the golem’s fists with his palms. It was Infinite Chain Formation left behind by Fab Valencia.

‘A golem with simple attack patterns. A good opponent to practice techniques on.’

WUUUUNG!

Infinite Chain Formation – wielding sword techniques without a sword.

Zeke decided to face the golem barehanded without his sword.

KUUUUU!

The golem expelled steam from its back.

Then it thrust its fists continuously at Zeke at high speed.

DUDUDUDUDUDU!

Heavy stone fists poured down at an invisible speed.

Zeke avoided the golem’s fists through Shadowless Step while deflecting punches with his palms and looking for an opening.

BUUUUUU!

The golem expelled steam from its back again.

Zeke dove into that opening.

His legs and waist created an axis as his whole body rotated, focusing the power into his knife hand.

Infinite Chain

Rotating Strike

Knife Hand Cut

His knife hand, empowered by rotational force, cut off the golem’s arm.

KUNG!

The golem with its severed arm hesitated for a moment before backing away.

Zeke advanced forward again.

Infinite Chain

Charging Strike

Finger Pierce

KWADUDUDUK!

Zeke’s fingertips pierced into the golem’s heart.

WUDUDUK!

Zeke’s hand that had pierced through pulled out the core from the golem’s heart area.

PISHUUUK!

The golem without its core collapsed.

Zeke caught his breath while looking at the now motionless golem.

“Whew. The Infinite Chain… could be useful once I get used to it.”

It was especially perfect for targeting vital points after inducing carelessness by appearing unarmed in duels against knights.

Zeke put the core extracted from the golem into his inventory.

Ancient golems had much better performance than golems made in magic towers. Skilled mages could use the cores to create and use new golems.

‘If I give this to Sir Feinan, making a new golem might be possible.’

Past the golem, through the corridor, stairs leading underground appeared.

It got darker as he went down, but Zeke could see dark places as clear as day with his dragon eyes.

Zeke felt that this ruin had a very different atmosphere from the ‘sanctuaries’ he had discovered so far.

The sanctuaries gave a strong impression of being systematically managed through the system while waiting for a new administrator.

But the holy relic ruins felt like a place thoroughly guarding and defending against anyone entering.

Zeke recalled what the Hermit of Stories had said.

‘They said Terakan Draker returned the holy relic here.’

He thought that perhaps Terakan had set up the system to prevent anyone from entering to prevent the holy grail from being misused.

After going down the cave for a while, Zeke discovered a huge cavity on the map.

“What’s this?”

Zeke carefully headed toward the cavity.

Upon entering the cavity, Zeke was shocked.

“What is this?”

An enormous crystal cave spread out before Zeke.

Huge crystals the size of people jutted out from the ground, and the cave ceiling was also full of them.

Zeke was momentarily speechless at the spectacle presented by the massive crystal cave.

After being dazed for a moment, he soon came to his senses.

‘This isn’t the time.’

As Zeke began examining his surroundings again, he discovered traces of what appeared to be an ancient waterway, suggesting water had flowed through here long ago.

“Water in Death Valley? Does this mean this place wasn’t always a land of death like it is now?”

Zeke went deeper inside while passing through the beautiful crystals.

Just then, something was detected by Zeke’s dragon eyes.

He approached the wall made of crystals.

And he discovered something inside.

“An ark?”

A ship several times larger than Draker’s warship was embedded in the crystal wall.

Like an avant-garde art piece, the ark was stuck in the crystal wall with only its bow protruding out.

Having an ark in an underground cave in Death Valley where not a single drop of water existed felt extremely out of place.

Zeke climbed up the crystals and headed toward the ark embedded in the wall.

Up close, the ark gave off a mysterious feeling.

Despite the long time that had passed, the ark’s surface was clean without a single scratch as if newly made, and in pristine condition without any blemishes.

While he couldn’t tell what material it was made of, he could clearly tell it wasn’t made of ordinary wood.

“Is the holy relic inside here?”

Zeke reached his hand toward the ark.

That’s when it happened.

[Detected demonic energy in the surroundings.]

‘Demonic energy?’

Seeing the system’s warning message, Zeke quickly used his stealth skill to hide.

Hidden between the crystals, Zeke summoned a dragon warrior to scout.

Through the dragon warrior’s vision, Zeke discovered a group approaching while emitting an ominous aura.

‘That’s…’

THUD! THUD! THUD!

Dozens of armored skeleton knights were marching in formation.

Behind them was a black knight riding a ghost horse with blue flames for a mane and glowing blue eyes, and beside him floated a lich wearing a rusted crown with jewels embedded in its eyes.

‘What is that?’

An undead legion clearly different from Richmond was approaching, bringing death with them.

Just then, the black knight on the ghost horse pointed toward where the dragon warrior was.

『I sense the power of a heretic!』

At his cry, the skeleton knights charged at the dragon warrior with glowing eyes.

CLANG!

The dragon warrior swung its sword at the skeleton knights charging with speed surpassing that of skeletons.

Then the lich in the back chanted a spell, and an ominous energy poured out from its staff.

WHOOSH!

Black fireballs flew toward the dragon warrior.

BOOM!

The impact must have been great, as the dragon warrior’s summon was forcibly dismissed.

Zeke felt that strategy was needed against the formidable power of this undead legion.

He drew out the Cloud Iron sword, gripped the handle, and called out to Arataso sealed within.

‘Arataso. I have something to ask.’

Arataso didn’t answer.

Clicking his tongue softly, Zeke infused holy fire power into the sword.

‘AAARGH!’

Arataso’s screams echoed from within the sword.

‘Answer quickly.’

Arataso answered while wailing.

‘Damn! You cursed spawn! How dare you do this to me, the great Arataso, a knight among knights of the demon realm…’

‘A black knight with an ominous aura is approaching, leading skeleton knights and a lich. Who is he?’

Arataso remained silent at Zeke’s question.

When Zeke infused holy fire again, Arataso hurriedly spoke.

‘D-Death Knight! A fallen knight of death!’

‘Death Knight?’

Death Knights were beings that only appeared in storybooks.

They were described as beings as terrifying as plagues, where fallen knights’ souls become knights of death through demonic power and eternally wander battlefields bringing ominous death.

‘At my castle in the demon realm, I have thousands of powerful Death Knights under my command…’

Arataso started rambling about how amazing the Death Knights under his command were. Having resolved his curiosity, Zeke let go of the sword and put it back in his inventory.

Then he summoned Richmond.

“Huh? My lord. What’s the matter?”

Zeke asked Richmond.

“Richmond, do you remember when you threatened to turn me into a Death Knight before?”

“D-Did such a thing happen?”

Richmond rolled his eyes and denied it.

“I’m asking if you’re capable of creating Death Knights.”

Richmond shook his head vigorously.

“Th-That was just a bluff. Even among dark mages, the possibility of creating Death Knights is heavily debated.”

“So ordinary dark mages cannot create Death Knights?”

“I’m not even sure if magic to create or summon Death Knights exists in the first place. Unless perhaps ancient dark mages who made direct contracts with demons…”

Hearing Richmond’s words, Zeke nodded.

‘So it might be possible if they contracted with demons.’

If dark mages who directly contracted with demons holding constellation names rather than being mere servants existed in the abyss, their power would likely be beyond that of ordinary dark mage clans.

Zeke said to Richmond.

“An undead legion led by a Death Knight will soon be upon us.”

Richmond was shocked at Zeke’s words.

“An-An undead legion led by a Death Knight?”

“Yes. We need to prepare defenses before they arrive here. Summon as many undead as you can.”

Despite being a demi-lich himself, Richmond was terrified at the mention of an undead legion.

Though afraid, he was a summon bound to Zeke and could not disobey his orders.

Richmond transformed into his demi-lich form.

Then he took out a staff and looked at Zeke with a determined expression.

“Since it’s come to this… I’ll show you the results of my recent research.”

“What do you mean by research results?”

“You told me to research the staff brought from the Giant Mountains, didn’t you?”

“Ah.”

Zeke had forgotten about the task he himself had assigned.

Richmond held one of the staffs brought then and slowly floated up into the air.

Once he reached a certain height, Richmond began waving the staff in the air.

Richmond controlled the power of the ‘Herald of Blood and Madness’ sleeping within the staff and summoned something.

KIGIGIGIK!

The ground trembled and dark red skeletons began emerging from below.

About 40 skeletons lined up in formation.

Richmond wore a proud expression as he looked at the skeletons summoned with the power of the Herald of Blood and Madness.

“How is it, my lord? Isn’t it reassuring?”

“Richmond, how many more times can you summon this same number of skeletons?”

Richmond was flustered by the unexpected question.

“Uh, th-that… with the same number, maybe two or three more times?”

“That’s too few. Train harder.”

Richmond hung his head low at Zeke’s firm words.

Regardless, Zeke took out magic bombs one by one from his inventory and placed them in the skeletons’ hands.

Then he summoned dragon warriors, gave them Fire Giant’s Breath potions, and positioned them throughout the crystal cave.

“Richmond, position the skeletons in front and hide them underground.”

“Y-Yes, understood.”

Richmond buried the skeletons underground as Zeke ordered.

Afterwards, Zeke summoned Gurab.

GRRRR!

Gurab, who had grown as large as a basilisk, showed affection by rubbing his cheek against Zeke.

“Gurab, go and lure them here.”

GRRRRRR!

At Zeke’s command, Gurab howled long and ran quickly toward where the legion was.

Zeke and Richmond hid behind the crystals and observed the situation.

The tension gradually built up.

That’s when it happened.

GRRRRRRRR!

‘They’re here.’

THUD! THUD! THUD!

The undead legion revealed themselves.