TAPGB - Chapter 142

TAPGB - Chapter 142

The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride

Tung-!

Leon jumped up from his spot and the new figure disappeared in an instant.

Everyone was taken aback because it was a speed that even the dragon's eyes couldn't follow, but they immediately came to their senses.

“Protect Leah!”

At Lucian's cry, the three of them, with Leah at the center, turned their backs to each other, making sure that there were no blind spots. It was only for a moment that they were so alert.

“Khaak!”

“Caesar!”

Caesar suddenly lowered his upper body and groaned. Soon Lucian found out why.

Puck-!

A force so strong that it made his brain tremble hit his cheek. Lucian stumbled.

Leon was attacking from an unseen place. He felt his blows in various places, including his face, chest, solar plexus, and abdomen.

It was as if he had swung it with the mace and it brought a powerful impact.

-Shit!

Carserine was just an afterimage, so physical attacks had no effect on him.

Is it because of that? There were many attacks for Lucian and Caesar to handle.

As if he thought it couldn't go on like this, Carserine unleashed his power.

A ring of pure white flame was created around the four people. Only then did Leon's attacks stop and he could no longer get closer.

“Huh, oh oh...”

“Wow, it hurts so much...”

“Is everyone okay?”

Leah cried and covered Lucian and Caesar's faces. In that short time, both of their faces became messed up.

It wasn't until Leah used her healing magic that the two were able to breathe a little.

Still, Leah couldn't calm her mind. Because of her, she didn't want to see any more people get hurt.

“It’s me you want! Don’t bother the kids and tell me if you want anything!”

As Leah expressed her anger and tried to escape the ring of fire, Lucian and Caesar desperately tried to stop her.

“No, Leah. It’s dangerous to go out!”

“Didn’t you see that guy’s eyes? You no longer put your safety first. You might die too!”

“Then you’re telling me to just stay like this?!”

As Leah struggled with tears in her eyes, Carcerine, who had been holding her still, clenched his fists.

“Now I don’t want to hide using you as a shield.”

The moment Leah shook off the two's touches and was about to leave, Carcerine blocked her path.

Leah's eyes wavered as she finally saw Carcerine up close.

-This is my job. You are here quietly watching.

Leon should have been killed on the spot 300 years ago.

At the time, all he did was seal Leah away because he couldn't get it over his head that Leon had betrayed him, but now it's different.

No, it must be different.

When Carserine, who had strengthened his resolve, showed his back, Lia flinched.

He closed his eyes for a moment and his eyes shined menacingly at her.

His gaze, which had been staring straight ahead of her, shifted to the left. At the same time, Carcerine's magic shot towards the direction he was looking at.

Bang! Quagwang!

Leon, who had been hiding, appeared with a cloud of dust flying around.

“It’s pretty good, but... At best, you are just a ghost from 300 years ago!”

Hahahaha!

Leon let out a bizarre laugh and swung the huge scythe made of mana at Carcerine.

Because it was a physical attack, Carserine just pretended to dodge backward.

“Carserine!”

However, at the sound of Caesar's screams coming from behind him, Carserine found his abdomen split open.

-Ugh!

Carcerin, whose body shape was momentarily lost, hesitated but then noticed a scythe coming down on his head and quickly dodged it.

As expected, it was no illusion that the attack worked.

“How did you come to occupy this body?”

Leon's sneer was heard over the confused Carcerine.

“Even though you are a dragon, I have more knowledge about the soul.”

In addition, since many of the powers that a warlock deals with are anti-human, knowledge related to the soul cannot match that of a warlock. Especially if it has been around for over 300 years.

“It’s better. I will devour your soul, every single one of it, and make it mine!”

Carcerine frowned and dodged Leon rushing towards him.

Carcerine showed more strength than when the battle took place in the beginning, but Leon's strength was stronger than that.

Moreover, the Carcerine who was here now was not even a soul, but only what he had left behind while he was still alive.

Its strength and solidarity were bound to be significantly lower than that of his soul.

Caesar gritted his teeth as he saw the Dragon Heart glowing unsteadily and cracking.

“Just keep going like this! If you're my past life, try your best!”

“...Caesar!”

-This idiot...!

Lucian was taken aback by Caesar's sudden behavior, and Carcerin muttered a curse.

Leon, who was about to grab Carserin's neck and take his power, stopped and looked back at Caesar.

“Hoo? A past life...?”

-Where are you looking?!

Carcerine, feeling a sense of crisis, attacked, but Leon's attention had already focused on Caesar.

-Shit! Take that guy and run away!

"Hey! I'd rather be the opponent...!”

Caesar was speechless. No, it would be correct to say that it cannot be done precisely.

“Ugh... !”

Caesar groaned, clutching his left arm. He felt a heat sensation strong enough to burn the dragon's thick skin.

He tore off his clothes and found that an unfamiliar pattern had been carved into his left arm.

“No, this is...”

It was a very terrible symbol stuck in Carcerin's mind, not Caesar's.

“For some reason, I was told that I couldn’t absorb the soul from Carserine, so I guess he was reincarnated. If that’s the case, I can understand.”

The same pattern as Caesar's was also engraved on Leon's left arm.

Seeing that, Leah muttered without realizing it.

“Soul Contract.”

A contract that Carserine made with him for the safety of Leon before the war broke out.

They cannot betray each other, cannot kill each other, and cannot be freed from the contract until one of them dies.

This contract also played a role in Carcerine's failure to kill Leon in the past.

If Carcerine had violated the soul's contract and attacked, the repulsion would have put a great deal of strain on the soul.

Although Leon suffers the same side effects, other races cannot imagine the cunning of humans.

When looking at dragons and humans, it is a fact that anyone can tell which is weaker.

Because? Because a dragon can kill a human with just a small amount of force. Therefore, this contract is infinitely disadvantageous to the dragon.

A dragon's small actions can cause great harm to humans, so there are great restrictions on its actions, while humans are relatively free from restrictions because no matter what they do, they cannot cause a big blow to the dragon.

Although it is an equal contract, in a way, this is the same as giving humans the power to control dragons at will.

A contract ends only when one party dies. But that doesn't mean termination.

They don't know how long it will take for them to be reincarnated, and even if they are reincarnated, the probability that the two will remember their past lives and meet again is close to impossible, so they are just saying that if one of them dies, the contract ends.

But now, those impossible odds have happened right before our eyes.

"Shit! Go away!”

Caesar scratched his arm, but the pattern already engraved did not disappear. Even if he cuts out the flesh, it will not be able to cancel the contract already engraved on his soul.

“That’s not how contracts are used.”

Leon grinned and snapped his fingers. Then, Caesar's body became stiff and began to move as it pleased.

Caesar, losing control of his body, felt a red light ringing in his head and released his aura, pushing away Lucian and Leah who were by his side.

“Don’t come near me!”

As he pushed the two people away, his arm became menacing like a dragon's and swung towards where Lucian was.

“Kill Lucian. And bring Leah to me. It doesn’t matter what happens as long as she lives.”

This was just the beginning. Leon, who had completely taken control of Caesar, treated him like a puppet and attacked Lucian and Leah.

“Ugh! Do not be ridiculous! Do you really want to suffer like this?”

Caesar tried with all his might to ignore Leon's orders, but all was in vain.

“Leah!”

At Caesar's shout, Leah opened a barrier and blocked Caesar's attack. She could see his crying expression beyond the barrier.

However, since she could not just defend like this, Leah avoided Caesar with Lucian.

“Isn’t it an equal contract? How can Leon control Caesar as he pleases?”

“It looks like they found a blind spot in the contract. When we sign that contract, we put each other’s requests first.”

It is okay for contracting parties to fight each other, but they must not attack with the will to kill.

Perhaps this is why Caesar's attack did not work on Leon in the beginning, and only Caesar was hit one-sidedly.

“...If Leon can do it, Caesar can do it too.”

Lucian screamed as he watched Caesar struggling to break free from Leon's restraints.

“Caesar! Don’t refuse and try to control Leon!”

"Control...?”

Should they tell him to self-destruct? No, that would be self-harming and a violation of the contract. What does it mean to release this restraint? In some ways, that would be like rejecting Leon’s proposal, so it wouldn’t work.

‘It’s so fucking complicated.’

But there will definitely be blind spots. Just like Leon did.

Even while his head was rolling, his body steadily pursued Leah and Lucian. As the intensity of the attack grew stronger, Caesar came up with a trick.

“Leon! Let’s spar with me!”

Leon clicked his tongue. Naturally, Leon's body appeared in front of Caesar, and he received the attack that would have been aimed at Lucian and Leah.

"Bingo."

“You really got your head around the lizard topic.”

Leon lightly grabbed Caesar's arm. However, Caesar continued to bloom with yellow-white flames all over his body.

As soon as he touched the yellow flame, Leon felt his strength disappearing. He remembered the white flame and widened the distance.

But there was no way Caesar would miss it.

“Why do you run away when I say let’s spar?”

Contrary to his smiling face, Caesar fired the yellow-white flame without hesitation. Leon, who was unable to avoid it and was hit head-on, frowned.

But soon a look of puzzlement appeared on his face.

“Ahahaha! Do you think you don’t have the strength to run away anymore?”

Caesar, who had not yet noticed anything strange, threw the yellow-white flames at him once again. This time, Leon did not avoid it and caught it with one hand.

Chiiiik...

The sound of the lights going out was heard, and Leon's palms were slightly scorched.

But that was all. Unlike other warlocks who were hit by yellow and white flames, it was a dull reaction.

“I thought the color was subtly different, but it looks like it’s not white flames. If you think such a trivial attack will work against me, you are mistaken.”

Leon grinned and created a black flame bigger than Caesar's yellow and white flame.

The black flames coalesced into one and looked like a small sun. Soon, the black sun flew toward Caesar with fierce force.

Caesar, feeling threatened, rolled around on the floor to avoid it. It was on a completely different level from the black flames of the bishop he encountered in the basement 13 years ago.

Normally, light drives out darkness, but it is like a more powerful darkness swallowing up light.

Yellow and white flames can never keep up with white flames and cannot compete with black flames.

The tide has changed again.

“You can never win like this.”

“I must have a secret trick.”

Lucian, probably thinking the same thing, agreed with Leah.

“...But I don’t know if that monster has a weakness.”

He was worried about how to defeat Caesar, or even Leon, who had greater power.

As he was rolling his head, the two men were approached by Carcerine.

“... You."

-I don't have much time left.

Carcerine's new model was much more transparent. Since he has already used a lot of strength and has been attacked, he no longer has the energy to maintain it.

Leah instinctively knew that if he disappeared like this, he would never see him again.

-There is a trick. Will you listen to me?

Determination and confidence were visible in Carcerine's eyes which were repeatedly blurring.

It was by no means the last struggle.

Lucian and Leah nodded and listened to Carcerine's words. 

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