Chapter 110
“What is this?”
Before Zeke could use his purification power on the insects, hundreds of them burst out from various parts of the Mage’s body.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
The emerged insects instantly wrapped around the Mage completely and began to devour him.
Zeke quickly used his purification power toward the insects.
WOOOONG!
The insects touched by the golden light screamed in agony, vomited black liquid, and died as their bodies burst.
KUEEEK!
But it seemed too late, as only sticky black bodily fluids remained where the Mage had been.
Through the dead Mage, Zeke learned that a place called ‘Abyss’ was connected to the ‘Book of the Dead’.
“Abyss, Book of the Dead. I didn’t hear of either of these in my past life.”
Since the Mage was dead, he couldn’t find any more clues about Abyss right now.
He had no choice but to figure out the connection to Abyss through the ancient Mage and Dario Totlino.
‘I should get out of here first.’
Zeke approached the motionless Guardian.
[Guardian’s emergency power supply has ended.]
[Activity will be suspended until self-charging is complete.]
[Would you like to register the Guardian as a summon?]
“The Guardian can be registered as a summon?”
[Intermediate administrators have restrictions on Guardian function usage.]
“What restrictions?”
The system showed a list of restrictions.
Zeke read the content and frowned.
“With these restrictions, it can only walk.”
[Would you like to register the Guardian as a summon?]
After contemplating, Zeke registered it as a summon, thinking it might be helpful anyway.
[Guardian has been registered as a summon. Please give it a name.]
After thinking, Zeke spoke the Guardian’s name.
“Let’s call it Horus.”
Horus was the name of a legendary Bird tribe warrior he had heard about from Kaisir.
[Guardian Horus has been registered. Entering hibernation for self-recovery. Summoning is not possible during hibernation.]
As the message window appeared, Horus was sucked into Zeke’s shadow.
‘Like Gurab, where do these guys go?’
Zeke tilted his head at the sudden curiosity.
He couldn’t tell where the summons went or came from, including items stored in the inventory.
Only Nahuel’s location was known when not summoned, but even Nahuel’s summoning method itself was mysterious.
Since the system itself was a concept beyond Zeke’s understanding, there were still too many mysteries.
‘And I can’t ask anyone either.’
Even if he asked, no one came to mind who would know.
Then someone crossed Zeke’s mind.
His master from his past life who had passed down the Soul Technique.
That person, who was well-versed in ancient knowledge, might know about the system.
‘But still, I don’t want to face that person again.’
Zeke had trauma from the harsh training he received in his past life.
The fact that he broke the oath made with his master also weighed on his mind.
Though the oath would have disappeared with his regression, the fact still remained as an unsettling feeling in Zeke’s heart.
‘If it’s fate, we’ll meet someday.’
Zeke shook off the memories of his master and slowly walked toward the temple entrance.
Standing at the temple entrance, a massive door firmly blocked the way.
It somehow felt familiar.
‘Could this be…?’
Zeke reached his hand toward the door.
And raised his mana.
[Opening the Sky Folk’s Tomb.]
Along with the system message, the firmly closed door slowly opened.
“Sky Folk?”
He remembered the dead Mage calling the Guardian a sky golem.
‘Is it related to that?’
Zeke slowly entered through the door while harboring doubts.
Unlike the outside, bright light illuminated the space inside the temple.
Bird tribe’s unique patterns and carvings decorated the walls and pillars.
But the structure and shape of this space felt familiar somewhere.
“It’s similar to the Dragon Slayer’s Tomb?”
Zeke continued to move inside.
Like the Dragon Slayer’s Tomb, the inner space had coffins stacked in wall spaces over twenty floors.
Zeke approached and opened a coffin.
Similar to the Dragon Slayer’s Tomb, there were armor, spears, and shields instead of corpses.
[Sky Folk exclusive equipment discovered.]
Zeke examined the armor while reading the message.
It looked distinctly different from the equipment marked as Dragon Slayer exclusive.
Zeke examined the two holes in the back of the Sky Folk exclusive equipment.
“What comes out of here?”
He still couldn’t tell what it was.
Just in case, Zeke stored one piece of Bird tribe exclusive equipment in his inventory before proceeding further inside.
Surprisingly, the inside had a similar structure to the Hero King’s Tomb he had seen before.
One difference was that unlike the Hero King’s Tomb, there were no separate storage rooms or chambers.
Zeke stepped onto the altar at the center of the circular space.
Bright light was shining down from the ceiling toward the altar.
Zeke slowly stood at the altar.
Then a message window appeared.
[Administrator System Access]
[Code Confirmation]
[Terakan Draker’s Successor Title Confirmed]
[4th Defense Base ‘Bird Tribe tomb’ Administrator Authority Acquired]
[1 Administrator Record Video Available]
[Playing Record Video]
As the video played, new iMages instantly overlaid the space where Zeke was.
The space he thought was just a tomb was filled with hundreds of people moving busily.
‘What is this?’
People wearing Dragon Slayer exclusive equipment, Bird tribe wearing Bird tribe exclusive equipment, as well as Elves, Dwarves, and Beast-kin ,all races were equipped and preparing for battle.
Throughout the space were weapons for war, as well as supplies and magic weaponry stacked everywhere.
Zeke could finally understand why this was called a defense base.
Looking around with a dazed expression, Zeke discovered something like chaotic screens and letters floating above the altar where he stood.
It was like the magic video devices used by Delphoic Mages, but the display was much more detailed and three-dimensional.
Then someone approached Zeke.
Judging by the robe, they seemed to be a Mage.
They spoke to Zeke.
“Commander. Scouts have spotted the enemy.”
Zeke was startled by the sudden address.
But then a different voice flowed from Zeke.
“The enemy’s scale?”
“Ten large-scale, twenty medium-scale, four hundred small-scale. As for monsters… we can’t count the exact number.”
“Any dragons?”
“Fortunately and unfortunately, no dragons.”
The man on Zeke’s side was silent for a moment, then spoke again.
“Divide ten red, fifty blue, and one hundred purple into five units and deploy them to key points. The Mages will support the knights with long-range weapons from inside the base.”
The Mage nodded.
“Understood.”
That’s when it happened.
An armored Elf came running urgently.
“Commander! A dragon, a dragon has appeared!”
The Mage asked in shock.
“Damn! Size and color?”
The Elf shouted loudly.
“Red with adult-class, one pair of wings!”
The Mage spoke through gritted teeth.
“Commander, if it’s adult-class and red…”
“Seems like it’s Reto.”
Zeke spoke while moving his body regardless of his will.
“I’ll handle Reto. Other members handle the magical beasts as instructed.”
The Mage nodded at his words.
“Understood.”
KWAAAANG!
KUGUUUNG!
Suddenly the entire temple shook with tremendous impact.
The Mage shouted to the members.
“Enemy attack! Get to your positions! Heine! Select members for deployment! Ten red, fifty blue, one hundred purple! I’ll lead the Mages myself!”
The Elf beside him answered.
“Understood!”
As the Mage and Elf went somewhere, the man housing Zeke raised his wrist.
Then the bracelet shone and summoned a divine beast.
Woong!
A winged horse was summoned in front of the man.
A message appeared before Zeke’s eyes.
[Divine Beast Heavenly Horse Pegasus has been summoned.]
“Pegasus, let’s go.”
The man mounted the divine beast called Pegasus.
The man on the winged horse rose straight up to the temple ceiling.
[Opening the 4th Defense Base ceiling.]
Ziiing!
The ceiling door opened and Pegasus flew outside quickly.
Zeke experienced it like reality, dwelling in the body of the man riding Pegasus.
And the sight he saw outside the temple was unbelievable.
The sky was filled with red clouds blocking the sun, and on the ground countless monsters swarmed like an army in black.
Among them appeared enormous magical beasts.
GOOOOO!
Ten large magical beasts like moving mountains were approaching the base.
That’s when it happened.
Zeke discovered two huge flames floating in the sky.
At first he thought there were two suns.
But looking closely, they weren’t suns but the enormous eyes of a dragon.
KAAAAA!
When the dragon roared, even the monsters and magical beasts trembled in fear and stopped their advance.
But the man on Pegasus showed no agitation facing such a dragon, and drew the sword on his back.
Then he unwound the chains wrapped around his wrist.
He drove Pegasus toward the dragon.
“HAAAAAH!”
The man launched a powerful sword strike toward the dragon.
Zeke could tell what sword strike the man was using.
‘It’s Dragon Slaying Technique. And it contains the key points of True Dragon Sword Technique…’
In the world, only one person besides Zeke had properly learned the True Dragon Sword Technique.
‘Terakan Draker?’
Zeke finally realized he was dwelling in the body of the Dragon Slayer Terakan Draker.
Terakan Draker stretched his left hand toward the dragon.
Then the chain wrapped around his arm extended infinitely.
The extended chain wrapped tightly around the dragon’s body.
The dragon twisted its body to break free of the chains.
KAAAAAK!
When things didn’t go as planned, the dragon opened its mouth wide toward Terakan Draker.
And from that mouth, an enormous flame arose.
Whoosh!
The dragon breathed out a breath of flames toward Terakan that seemed like it would burn the entire world.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Even Zeke, who was inhabiting Terakan, felt like his body would burn from that breath.
“Ughh!”
It was at that moment when Zeke tried to turn and avoid the pain.
“Huh?”
The sight of the dragon breathing fire disappeared, and Zeke had returned to the original space.
“Phew……”
He was completely exhausted from how real it felt, as if he had actually fought with a dragon.
Zeke realized that this was the defensive base of the allied forces that Terakan Draker had led.
He was confused by the historical records that differed from the Dragon Slayer legend he knew.
“I only knew that the evil dragon Bahamut led monsters to invade the human kingdom, but I didn’t know such a large-scale war had taken place.”
There were too many untold secrets in the Dragon Slayer legend.
Zeke once again resolved to find out what secrets the Draker family was hiding.
“Wait, come to think of it, even when I was Terakan Draker earlier, the system window definitely appeared?”
Whether it was because of Zeke’s inhabitation or because Terakan Draker was also a system administrator, the system message had definitely appeared in the records.
“Does this mean I’m not the only system administrator?”
If there were other administrators who could use karma points besides himself, he might be able to find out what the system really was.
‘Before that, I hope they’re not enemies.’
Zeke scanned over the altar just as Terakan Draker had done.
In the records, screens had been floating chaotically like magical video devices, but now it just looked like an ordinary circular table.
When Zeke placed his hand on it and drew up mana just in case, something responded from the table.
[Terakan Draker’s Heir Title Confirmed]
[Inheritance Procedure in Progress]
WHOOOOOM!
Suddenly, the table split into four parts with a crack.
Then from inside, a sealed box emerged.
“What is this?”
Zeke slowly opened the sealed box.
And he was shocked by what was inside.
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