TAPGB - Chapter 143
The Abandoned Prince's Ghost Bride
“Now let’s stop this boring sparring, right? In the end, it will just be a battle without a winner.”
“You can’t do that. Do you know what kind of nonsense you would do to those two and let them go?”
Caesar's scaly hand and Leon's scythe clashed.
Caesar, who had now figured out the rules of the soul contract to some extent, offset Leon's coercive power by asking the other person to do a favor.
They tried to use Caesar to divide the opponent, but it ended up being the opposite.
‘There is only one thing I wish for.’
Leone, avoiding Caesar's attack, focused on Lucian in the distance.
A boy who hatefully stays by Leah's side and monopolizes her love.
He will kill that bastard and break Leah's foothold.
Whether Leah was suffering or not, he didn't care anymore. Because he knew that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make her his own.
Now the only emotions left to him are resignation, anger, and a desire for destruction.
It could no longer be called love.
“If you turn a blind eye, your nose will get seriously hurt?!”
Leon turned his gaze, which had been focused on Lucian and Leah, directly to the front.
Caesar was baring his teeth and making a selfless attack.
When Leon saw that, an idea occurred to him and he raised the corner of his mouth.
Phew!
“...What!”
Caesar's sharp claws sunk into Leon's shoulder.
Caesar, who naturally thought that Leon would avoid him, could not help but be taken aback.
As if he had been hit intentionally, Leon stumbled and coughed up blood.
“If this is the case, can I say you tried to take my life?”
Sure enough, Caesar's new form hardened, perhaps because the soul contract judged that Caesar was threatening enough to kill Leon.
“Tsk...!”
Seeing him unable to move, Leon wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. Caesar's teeth chattered at the sight of him smiling bitterly.
Leon, who had dealt with the biggest obstacle, leisurely turned his head.
And in an unexpected situation, he made a loud noise.
“Don’t you know that your strength is no match for me?”
Lucian stepped forward with his sword raised.
“I certainly don’t have the talent to withstand your monstrous strength. But I only know what’s long and short by looking at it.”
Mana spurted out from Lucian's body. Lucian wasn't that weak either.
At the young age of 23, he has already reached the 5th circle and possesses swordsmanship that will not be inferior even if he spars with Dio.
He can easily eat two servings on his own.
‘If I want to achieve Carcerine’s plan, I have to do it even if I can’t.’
Lucian struck first at Leon, who approached leisurely. Leon was a bit surprised by the explosive power and reckless attack.
Taking advantage of his momentary hesitation, Lucian activated the magic formula he had prepared in advance.
Kugugugugugung-!
Leon frowned, suppressed by the gravity pressing down on his entire body.
“It would be best not to look down on me. Even after all this, I learned magic from witches and dragons.”
“...So sweet.”
Leon frowned and began to respond in earnest. The playfulness disappeared from his face as if he was trying to stop belittling Lucian.
Soon, a black electric current flowed through his body, and Leon's body began to move little by little as if trying to resist the gravity magic.
Lucian, who was maintaining a poker face, sighed inwardly at the sight.
‘What a monster. Even Caesar can’t move for 3 minutes.’
He resisted the magic faster than expected, but it wasn't something he had planned on.
What Lucian is actually trying to do is not deal with Leon, but hold him on his feet for a while.
In the distance, Leah and Carcerine could be seen approaching Caesar.
“We’ll see how long we can afford it.”
Fortunately, Leon didn't notice anything. This happened because the person he hated the most was right in front of him.
If it had been anyone other than Lucian, this obvious provocation would have been easily recognized.
Lucian barely managed to keep his gaze moving to the side and smiled crookedly.
Suddenly...
The hem of Leon's clothes was cut cleanly, and blood appeared on his side.
“You just lived your mouth. It seems like you fight with your mouth, don’t you?”
While Lucian taunted Leon and drew his attention, Leah and Carcerine reached Caesar and caught him.
“Leah!”
“Shh, be quiet. If Leon finds out, he might try to control you again. How are you feeling?”
“It’s loosening up little by little.”
“How long do you think it will take?”
"1 min."
At his words, Leah and Carcerine exchanged glances and nodded. Soon, Carcerine took out the dragon's heart from Caesar's arms with magic. And then he thrust it in front of Caesar.
- Eat.
"What?"
-Dragon Heart contains the essence of mana that its owner achieved during his lifetime. You don’t know how to use white flame yet, do you?
Caesar trembled. The yellow-white flame he uses. It is a backwards-compatible version of White Flame that was created in-house because White Flame cannot be cast.
- Having such vast black magic power means that Leon’s soul is corrupted. It will definitely be possible to purify Leon with white flame.
“...In other words, does that mean you can kill that guy?”
- Yes.
Seeing Carserine without the slightest hesitation, Caesar looked at the yellow dragon heart floating in front of him.
Then suddenly he had a question.
“What happens to you if you eat this?”
- Go back to where I originally was.
In other words, it means that it is now gone forever.
Leah, who had heard the story in advance, lowered her head and pressed her lips, and Caesar could not forget her words.
“...Don’t you ever want to meet your family?”
Even though Carcerine was his past life and he inherited his memories, Caesar considered himself to be a separate entity from him.
That's why he felt sorry for his family who still miss the dead Carcerine.
Carcerin was speechless as he clearly knew his feelings. But soon he had a stern look in his eyes.
- Even if it’s disappeared, my being here is against the natural order of things. In the first place, I died 300 years ago. I don't know what you're worried about when you're my soulmate.
“...”
- More than anything, I know that you will take better care of your family than me.
“...It’s a natural thing to say.”
Caesar snorted his laughter. Carcerine smiled for the first time. Caesar, having made his decision, poured the dragon's heart into his mouth.
Usually, people suffer because they cannot withstand the massive mana of the Dragon Heart or because the essence does not fit their body, but Caesar is the reincarnation of Carserine. Je absorbed all of the Dragon Hearts into his own.
As soon as it was absorbed, Carcerine's new form gradually disappeared.
- Aria and I were happy to be together, and I'm sorry for not being able to protect Odell.
Leah shook her head with tears in her eyes.
“I am... The days I spent with you were fun and happy. Thank you for protecting me until the end.”
Carcerine smiled and closed his eyes. After he was completely gone, Leah shed a single tear and Caesar clenched his fists.
Now, all of Carcerine's memories and powers were naturally engraved into his body. Also, a huge amount of mana at its peak.
Caesar raised his head. Pure white flames surged from his entire body.
“Let’s go, Leah.”
"Huh."
After making their decision, the two approached Lucian, who was dealing with Leon alone.
Upon seeing Leon's face, Caesar was faced with a whirlwind of turbulent emotions.
Affection, doubts, anger, sadness, frustration.
As much as he trusted Leon more than anyone else, he couldn't dare describe his feelings of being betrayed by him in one word.
But he will have no pity. Because he knows that if he doesn't stop him here, this fight will continue forever.
“Lucian!”
The tips of Caesar's hair turned white. Lucian, who was dodging Leon's attack, raised the corners of his mouth.
“I waited!”
Caesar rushed towards Lucian, who was dodging backward. Leon winced at the sight of Caesar's mood changing 180 degrees in a split second.
For the first time, cold sweat ran down his back.
Kwaang-!
Caesar's fist, clad in white flame, and Leon's arm, clad in black flame, collided.
“Ugh!”
Leon coughed up blood and winced. It was even more of a shock than if he had been attacked on purpose.
It felt like the inside of his body was shaking and the black mana couldn't come together and was scattering.
“.. Ugh! Would this be a breach of contract?!”
"It's okay. I’m not trying to kill you, I’m trying to purify you.”
One of the blind spots of the soul contract.
A contract places more importance on the process than the result. And if the process involves feelings of harming the other person, it reacts sensitively and restrains the person involved.
But now, Caesar had no intention of harming Leon. He's just trying to purify him to get him back to normal.
As Leon, feeling frustrated, tried to quickly leave the place, an invisible curtain unfolded behind him.
“Where are you going to run away?”
It was a tent that Leah had spread. Just as Leon was about to scream, a sharp blue sword blade passed before his eyes.
This time it was Lucian. It wasn't just Caesar that Leon had to deal with, it was everyone here.
The eyes of those who dealt with Leon with a sense of duty rather than anger or negative emotions were extremely clear.
It contrasted sharply with the fallen Leon.
Light and darkness, good and evil. They stand at opposite ends, unable to reach each other.
He could see the faces of Carcerine and Odell overlapping in their faces, and it seemed as if they were telling him that he could never go back to those days.
Leon quivered his lips.
"No no... No! I’m not wrong!”
Anxiety began to sprout in Leon’s heart. That sprout broke the composure that had been maintained throughout and created a loophole.
When Leon roughly reached out to Leah, Caesar and Lucian blocked it.
“You can’t even lay a finger on Leah.”
“Your opponent is us.”
Caesar and Lucian joined forces to attack Leon.
The two people, who had been together for 10 years and regarded each other as good brothers, became each other's hands and feet without any hindrance and pushed Leon forward.
While Caesar took charge of the long-range and blocked Leon's escape route, Lucian took charge of the close range and gradually inflicted scratches on Leon's body with magic and swordsmanship.
Leah didn't stay still either. When Leon tried to use a wide-range attack, she quickly nullified his magic.
They were literally cutting off Leon's hands and feet, suffocating him little by little.
“Aaaah!”
Sensing that he had no chance of winning, Leon made his final struggle. Along with the black flames, jet-black electric currents splashed in all directions. He couldn't predict the attack because it didn't have a pattern.
“Leah, Lucian! Unfold the barrier!”
When Caesar, who quickly assessed the situation, shouted, Leah moved quickly.
As soon as the barrier unfolded around the two, Caesar spewed out white flames without hesitation. It was a force strong enough to envelop everything around it.
Leon, who knew better than anyone else that he should not touch the white flame, hurriedly tried to offset it with his own black flame, but Caesar's purification began to consume Leon's power.
In front of the pure white flame, Leon's black flame became shabby and slowly withered away. No, more accurately, it was closer to purification and extinction.
When the black flame that was protecting Leon completely disappeared, the white flame touched his body.
“Kwaaaaaak!”
Leon screamed in pain.
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