I Am the Monarch – Chapter 78: Overflow (2)

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2,000 .
The number of Istel kingdom’s army was 2,000 .
And among them, there were ten knights that knew how to use mana .
Because Rinse kingdom received a loss close to annihilation, the number of the force wasn’t bad by itself .
However, Daniel fell in a kind of despair the moment he saw the youth in front of him .

‘We are not his opponents . ’

He was famous as a commander who didn’t know what fear was .
But this time was different .
He lost his breath at the nasty fear of Roan .

“Grrrrrrrr . ”

The youth let out a cry that resembled a beast .
He had red hair, red eyebrows, and red eyes .
He was Roan .

“Kuaaaaaa!”

A cry exploded out .
Daniel stepped back and pulled his sword out .

“The knights are to face that **** with me . ”

He spoke in a calm voice .

“The normal soldiers are to escape without even looking back . ”
“Corps commander!”

The soldiers yelled with a surprised expression .

“It’s an order! Flee!”

It was an order close to despair .
Daniel charged forward and ran towards Roan .
Abel and the knights followed his back .

‘A moment, if we can tie him up for a moment………’

When he thought up to there .

Paat!

Travias spear split the air .

Swush!

At the same time, the spear became larger than before .

“Hup!”
“Impossible!”

Daniel and the knights looked at the spear that became three or four times larger and ground their teeth .
They swung their respective weapons and tried to block Roan’s attack .

Cheeng!

A heavy sound of metal clashing was heard .
At the same time .

Boom! Booboom!

Daniel and the other knights were flung to the sides .

“Kugh . ”
“Cough!”

They rolled on the ground .

“Kuhuhuhu!”

Roan laughed strangely and then charged the ground .
He arrived in front of the knights that were on the ground in an instant .
As he held the spear upside down, the long spear shrunk to the size of a long sword .

Stab .

The spear pierced the chest of the knight like that .

“Grr . ”

The young knight couldn’t even fight back at all and died .

“Die!”
“Get him!”

Daniel and the other knights raised their intent .
Roan crushed the head of the dead knight with his right leg and lightly jumped .

Swush!

At that moment, the spear became larger .
Roan then jumped ino the air .
Daniel and the knights just blinked while having lost their objective .

‘That spear is maybe…… . ’

Daniel looked at the spear that changed length as it wished and frowned .
As he remembered, there was only one spear like that in the world .

‘Travias spear?’

Then, the enlarged spear shrank quickly again .
It became the size of a normal spear in an instant .
Roan twisted his body in the air and balanced himself .
It was a soft and fluent movement .

He arrived at the back of the knights .
The backs of the knights were exposed to Roan in an instant .
Roan instinctively swung his spear and tried to cut off their heads .
Strength was put behind the wrist and palm by its own .
When Travias spear was about to split the air again .

“Kuhk!”

Roan suddenly bent his back and let out a strange sound .
Because he felt a sickening pain inside his body .

“Kuuuuuu . ”

A groan was heard .
The red color of his hair, eyebrows, and eyes became even more dense .
On top of that, even his skin started to turn red .

“Cough!”

Every time he coughed, flames appeared from his body and then disappeared .
Roan wasn’t normal right now .
The cause was that he had operated the Flamdor mana technique unreasonably to save his allies .
Meanwhile, the heat in the plain entered his body and the balance of his mana collapsed .
As he saw the 7th corps and rose troop getting massacred in front of his eyes, his emotions stirred .
In that really short instance, he lost control over his mana . But that short moment was the problem .
The mana started to overflow on its own .
And the overflowing of the mana made his emotions shake even more .
Thanks to that, the overflowing became more and more severe the more time passed .
In the end, Roan lost himself to the mana .
Now, there was no way to control the mana that was jumping everywhere .
If this state continued even a little bit more, the overflowing mana wouldn’t be able to bear it and then his body would explode or split apart .

“Cough!”

Small flames appeared as he coughed .
Daniel saw that and raised his sword high .

“This is the moment! Kill him right now!”

They realized that Roan’s body wasn’t normal .
Daniel and the knights ran towards Roan .
A blue light flowed along the sword .

“Die!”

The knights yelled with all their strength .
Right before the sword was about to tear up Roan .

“Kua!”

Roan swung his spear and let out a strange noise .
At that moment, his surroundings were set on fire .

Cheng! Checheng!

A clear sound of metal clashing rang out .
The knights couldn’t pierce through the path of fire .

“Press him down!”

However Daniel didn’t fall back .
He thought that this was the last opportunity to kill Roan .

Cheng! Checheng! Cheng!

The sound of metal was heard continuously .
Sparks and fire appeared along the path of fire .

Spat!

Finally, Daniel’s swords sliced Roan’s wrist .
However, it was a really shallow wound .

“Kuaaaaaa!”

Roan let out a cry and held his spear .

Stab .

At that moment, the thickness of the spear became that of a wrist .

Woong . Woong . Woong .

A heavy sound sounded out .
Travias spear split the air .

Puk!

The knights were bounced off along with a loud sound .

“Kugh!”

Although they had raised their swords and blocked the blow, the strength behind the spear was too amazing .
Roan swung the huge spear as if it was nothing .
And every time he did that, the knights were flung to the sides .
At that moment .

“We will also help!”

A group of people appeared alongside the loud yell .
They were the veteran soldiers that had been with Daniel the longest .
Approximately 200 soldiers raised their weapons and appeared .

“I told you to retreat!”

Daniel yelled while swinging his sword .
The soldiers pushed back Roan without giving him any rest and replied in one voice .

“We are the rearguard army! Originally, the rearguard doesn’t have a life!”

This was their resolution they wouldn’t escape even if that meant death .
Daniel clicked his tongue .

“Stupid **** . ”

But he was quite proud and gratified .

‘I didn’t teach them wrongly anyways . ’

He felt that strength was put into his limbs .
He yelled with strength .

“Fight with the resolution to die!”
“Yes! Understood!”

Anyways, the role of the rearguard army was to block the chasing of the enemy .
They just had to buy enough time for their allies to safely retreat .

‘Even if he seems to be a monster, a human is a human . ’

He won’t be able to face all these soldiers and knights by himself .
No, even if that was possible, he would end up exhausted or get small and big wounds .
On top of that, Roan also wasn’t normal .

‘In the first place, we didn’t even hope for victory . ’

Daniel was just planning to buy time .
That much was enough .
He charged the ground and ran towards Roan .
A blue light flowed along the sword .
Although it was faint and didn’t have a good shape, the strength of it was felt clearly .

Cheng!

Roan’s spear clashed with Daniel’s sword .
Below him, the other knights swung their swords .
Roan turned his body and swung his spear .

Cheng! Chencheng! Cheng!

Sparks appeared along with with the sound of metal .
Every time he turned his body, a red light appeared in his spear .
However, it was unreasonable to look at that as mana .
The red light became even more dense and it transformed to become a path of fire in the end .
Travias spear became a line of fire from the blade to its body .

“Damn! Is it fire again?!”

Daniel yelled and flung his body backwards .
And the other knights also did the same .
In an instant, only Roan was left alone .
Above that, the arrows the rearguard army fired poured down .

“Kuaaaaa!”

Roan let out a cry and spun his spear above his head .
No, he spun the line of fire .

Pubububung!

The rain of arrows exploded the instant it touched the line of fire .

“Keep firing! Keep firing!”

Abel yelled as if he had fallen in despair .
The archers fired arrows without stop .
However, not one of the archers could pierce through Roan’s spear wall .
Then, Roan lightly rolled his foot and got in between the soldiers .
The spear that caught fire split the air and attacked .

“Monster like bastard!”

Daniel, who had fallen back, attacked while resolving himself to die again .

Cheng! Checheng!

However, their attacks were too easily blocked .
Roan fended off all of their swords with his spear and then swung it once more .

“Uaaaaak!”
“Kuk!”

The limbs of the knights were cut off cleanly .
The spear kept moving flexibly and then attacked Daniel’s neck .
At that moment .

“Cough!”

Roan coughed with a painful expression .
He wriggled for a moment and then threw his spear away .

“Kuaaa!”

A scream mixed with pain .
An amazing fire surged up from all over his body .

“Die!”

Daniel and Abel brought all their last strength and stabbed him .
The moment the swords were about to touch Roan’s body .

‘Kug!’

An amazing repulsive force was felt at the tip of his hands .

Bang!

The path of fire exploded along with a loud sound .

“Kuhuk!”

Daniel and Abel couldn’t endure it and were bounced off .
Their swords were half melted and there were flames on their elbows and shoulders .

“Damn it!”

Daniel and Abel fell back and after putting out the fire, they looked at Roan .

“Kuaaaa!”

Roan was still struggling while screaming .
The fire that emanated out of his body made a huge pillar of fire .

‘There’s nothing we can do . ’

Daniel clenched his fists .
Even the sword with mana behind it was useless .
He made eye signs to Abel and started to slowly fall back .

“We are retreating . ”

The short order was sent to the soldiers .
The soldiers just nodded without saying anything .
They started to step back really slowly .
And fortunately, Roan didn’t show interest in them .
No, he wasn’t able to .

“Kuaak!”

Because the mana that was overflowing in his body had started to reach the peak .

‘It seems like the mana is overflowing…… . ’

Daniel looked at the pillar of fire emanating out of Roan’s body .

‘It would be good if he died like this . ’

Those were his honest feelings
For a monster like that to exist in Rinse kingdom was a horrible thing and a disastrous devil for Istel kingdom .
When the rearguard army was getting farther from Roan, contrary to them, the 2nd rose troop was running towards Roan .

“Troop commander Roan!”

They also saw Roan absorbing fire .
And of course, the look of his hair growing and turning red .
They felt awe at the look of battling the rearguard alone .
However, they realized that Roan’s situation wasn’t normal quite late .

‘We are saving the troop commander ourselves!’

When the 2nd rose troop moved quite close to Roan .

“Kuhok!”

Roan’s screams stopped .
At the same time, the fire pillar that was burning fiercely died off .

‘Di, did it turn fine?’

Austin looked at Roan with uneasy eyes .
Then, wind blew at his back .
But it wasn’t the west wind .

‘This?’

Austin and the soldiers opened their eyes abruptly .

Swaaaaaa!

The wind blew towards Roan .

‘Kuk! Dangerous . ’

Austin realized that something wasn’t right .
He made a sign towards the 2nd rose troop .
They laid down on the ground as if they had practiced it .
At that moment .

Baaaaaang!

A huge explosion occurred with an amazing sound .
The wind that was blowing towards Roan started to spread towards the sides again .
Alongside that came the huge fire .

“Kugh!”
“Don’t raise your heads!”

The members of the 2nd rose troop buried their faces onto the ground .
And fortunately, the fire surged over the ground .

“Kuaaaaa!”

Roan cried out one more time .
He was burning his mana currently .
No, precisely speaking, he was sucking the heat scattered in the atmosphere and burning the mana above his abilities .
Because of that, the mana hole and the mana road inside his body ripped and regenerated, and repeated doing that .
If this continued, it was obvious that his entire body would explode .
But there was nothing that could be done .
Roan had lost his sanity and there was no method in which others could approach him .
At least, there was nothing a human could do .
Then .

Spat!

The fiercely burning fire was split up .
And among that split space, a beautiful woman appeared .
She had blue hair and really transparent skin .
She, who was wearing a sky dress, was barefoot but that was meaningless .
Because she was floating in the air just like a cloud .

“In the end, you became like this . ”

She had a beautiful voice .
She was the woman that was looking at Roan inside Biate’s place .

“Although I don’t like you, I can’t go against Biate’s will . ”

The woman approached Roan who was covered in fire and shook her hand .
At that moment, a huge orb of a blue light covered her and Roan .
The fire that was spreading out was caught inside that orb .

“The one who has my tear . ”

The expression of the woman was kind of stifled .
She softly covered Roan’s cheeks with her hands .
The red flame escaped her hands and fled .
The woman whispered with a clear and pretty voice .

“I, the water elemental king Ellaim, have come to rescue you . ”

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