Dragon Maken War Chapter 194 - Message (1)

When Reygus started to scratch his head, Kayalia giggled.

-You don't have to understand it. I’m just an illusion, but I’m able to converse with oppa.

-Yes.

-It is simple. In the Great Darkness, there are countless fragments of thoughts. There are experiences and thoughts of others. I’m there.

Kayalia was an illusion that wasn’t affiliated with this world. This was why she couldn’t touch anything.

Kayalia was part of the world called the Great Darkness now. Anything within the Great Darkness was real to her.

Both Kayalia and Reygus existed within the Great Darkness. However, Kayalia chose to stay within the Great Darkness. Reygus chose to step out into the world within the body of an Undead.

-That is why I’m sensitive to the problem more so than you.

-Yes.

Reygus spoke. He knew that he won’t be able to be revived again if his body was completely destroyed.

Kayalia was closer to the Great Darkness than Reygus. That is why she was able to feel the problem more sharply.

-The pillars are being destroyed.

-These are the pillars making up the Great Darkness. It isn’t just one that was destroyed. I’m the only one that sensed it, but another pillar is being destroyed right now…. This will create a great imbalance in the Great Darkness.

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The activities of the Dragon Demon king wors.h.i.+ppers were extremely reduced.

They had been causing confusion all over the continent, but they had no choice to abandon their political maneuverings. Even their lowest ranked political agents were called in to defend the waypoints of the Road of Emptiness.

This didn’t mean the confusion caused by them were gone.

Of course, there were problems that arose even when things were supposed to settle down. The Dragon Demon king wors.h.i.+ppers had already set the fire, so the intense conflagration of society continued to occur.

This was the case in the Dailan kingdom.

To be precise, their problem stemmed from the fact that the king was killed before the heir could be chosen. In the end, a civil war had occured.

The civil war was getting so intense that the members of the Guardian Shadows affiliated with the Dailan kingdom couldn’t do anything. No, the members had to stand by their political affiliation and they had to fight each other.

As members of the Guardian Shadow, they were supposed to protect humanity by fighting the Dragon Demon king wors.h.i.+ppers.

However, they were also n.o.bles of the Dailan kingdom. They had to choose a new king before they could end the civil war. They had to bring stability to their kingdom.

“…I’m not sure we can interfere with matters involving another country.”

Kairen grumbled as he shook off the blood from his sword.

The corpses of Dragon Demon king wors.h.i.+ppers were strewn about, and the Undeads were ruthlessly destroyed. They were the forces placed here to protect this location by the Plain of Darkness.

Azell and his party didn’t have high hopes that the Guardian Shadows of Dailan would mobilize to help them. In the end, Azell’s party had to attack the waypoints.

Leticia spoke.

“From their perspective, they did the best they could do, so I can’t fault them too much.”

“I’m not complaining about them. I’m complaining about the situation itself.”

The members of the Guardian Shadows in the Dailan Kingdom couldn’t partic.i.p.ate in battles, but they had done much to support Azell’s party.

They gave Azell’s party places to rest. They also sent supplies and healers to them. Since Azell’s party was continuously moving as they fought, their help was invaluable.

Each member of Azell’s party was strong enough to make their name known even if they were back in the Dragon Demon war. However, they possessed living bodies. They couldn’t free themselves from fatigue and wounds.

After the party entered into the Dailan kingdom for a fortnight, they were able to destroy nine waypoints.

If there were easy fights, there were also dangerous fights. Leticia, Arrieta and Yuren were wounded in different battles. They had to sit out one battle each.

‘Our fatigue has to be taken into account. For a while, we’ll have to avoid fighting. We have to focus on rest.’

Kairen came to that decision.

The biggest burden possessed by the party was the Vitan’s Chalice.

They couldn’t rest in one place, because of the Vitan’s Chalice. If they stayed in one place too long, Almarick and Reygus would lead their elite forces against Azell’s party.

Kairen asked a question towards the nearest Guardian Shado/

“Please check if it is possible for Azell to contact us.”

In the next moment, Kairen got his answer.

「I’m still fighting.」

“We finished faster than him? I guess that location was much more dangerous than expected. Let us retreat for now, and we’ll wait for Azell to contact us.”

Azell and Laura were moving separate from the other party members.

They were moving separately, but their objective wasn’t the destruction of the waypoints. Their objective was a bit more important.

Azell contacted Kairen after three hours. The Guardian Shadow spoke with Azell’s voice.

「We were successful.」

“It seems you had to fight a very hard battle. You took a very long time.”

「Atein’s monsters were placed here as guards. They were quite annoying.」

The goal of Azell and Laura was to destroy the pillars of the Great Darkness. These locations possessed transcendent beings that Atein had been unable to kill.

Carlos had found out where all the pillars were located when he became affiliated with the Great Darkness.

These beings might become unsealed like Belrun, so Azell had no choice. He had to destroy them. When he came to this judgement, he decided to move independent of his party. He only took Laura along with him, because he predicted he would need a magician.

When he arrived, he found out that the seal wasn’t left unprotected by Atein.

“You were able to destroy it without suffering any loss, but it seems it would be better if we move together.”

「I agree. I underestimated them too much.」

Azell readily admitted his mistake, then he asked a question.

「How did it go on your side?」

“We were able to neatly wrap things up here. We suffered no injuries, and the loss to the Guardian Shadows were minimal.”

「I’m glad.」

“The problem is….”

Kairen decided to speak to Azell about a problem that had been weighing on his mind.

“What do you think?”

「I believe the duke’s judgement is correct. We need the rest, and we need time to be able to teach the Dragon Soul to the princess.」

It had been 20 days since Arrieta had joined the party.

In this time frame, Kairen had been trying to teach the Dragon Soul to Arrieta. However, they were too busy fighting and moving. This was why it was difficult for Arrieta to make any progress.

Reshoo was the founder of the Dragon Soul, and even he needed over a month to teach Kairen and Leticia. Moreover, they were able to focus on their training, since their enemies wouldn’t attack them within the forest. They were also able to avoid major pitfalls thanks to Saibein’s ability, so their progress had been fast.

In comparison, Arrieta’s environment was too poor to learn the Dragon Soul.

“For the near future, we’ll avoid battles. We can decrease our traveling speed as we rest…...”

「I just had a good idea.」

Azell cut off Kairen’s words. Kairen was puzzled as he asked Azell a question.

“What’s your idea?”

「I’ll travel with Laura for a while. Then you guys will be able to rest.」

“Mmm. What about you?”

「I have the Storm Dragon’s Wing and the Crying Phoenix. We’ll summon the Vitan’s Chalice in a distance location, and when our enemies come to confront us, we’ll dodge them. If it is just one person, I can move with her.」

“Understood. Let’s do that.”

Kairen decided to follow Azell’s suggestion.