The Archangel of Death - Chapter 358
358: Death is coming I 358: Death is coming I Chapter 358 As I arrived at the imperial palace, all eyes turned to me.
From servants to officials, everyone was staring at me.
Well, aside from me being completely different from before, my power was something else as well.
The power I was giving off was almost equal to that of a divine rank.
My END was naturally in the Divine rank but the rest of my stats were barely at the SSS rank.
But with the skill [Archangel’s blessing], there would be no divine rank in the world who’d be able to stand against me.
Of course, unless some special circumstances were involved.
The one to welcome me was none other than Lucius, the second prince of the Lux Imperial family.
Along with him was a platoon of shadow gourds, the hidden platoon of the imperial family.
The one that carried out the dirty work of the imperial family.
But that wasn’t the surprise.
The surprise was the man standing next to Lucius.
Well, young man to be exact.
You guessed it right.
It was none other than the dear protagonist of this world.
“You are under arrest,” Eric said, taking great pleasure in saying that sentence.
But he shouldn’t have.
Standing next to me, Rose blew away almost everything in the vicinity and covered everything in lightning as she took a step forward, intimidating everyone in the hall where the teleportation circle was.
The material of the room was something else though since it didn’t even tremble from Rose’s power.
As for the people, well, they were an entirely different story.
Basically, no one was spared.
Eric took a step backward and so did Lucius.
Even he was taken aback by the power of Rose.
The shadow guard wasn’t a group of ragtag.
They were very low in numbers but each and every one of them was at the SSS rank.
Even all of them were taken aback but the result of the fight wouldn’t be in Rose’s favor.
She’d lose.
Why?
Well, that was because of the man in the wheelchair behind everyone else.
Zarden was also in the hall and as his mana shook everything in the surroundings, Rose’s mana disappeared like it was nothing.
Of course, I used [Celestial guard] to protect her from the mana wave.
It was still something else though.
It was very strong though.
Not the typical mana of a divine rank blessed but a lot purer.
While I couldn’t wield mana, I could very well feel its effects.
“Follow me,” He said while looking at me and turned to Rose, “Control yourself, young lady.” Well, Rose was also at fault there.
I mean, what was she planning to do?
Go on a war with the imperial palace?
Had Zarden not appeared, I would have calmed her down before.
Anyway, I followed Zarden through the hallways of the palace and kept my gaze on him.
He seemed to be getting worse.
Whatever Michael had done to him wasn’t normal at all.
His situation was getting worse as time passed by and now, it was showing its effects.
“Do you know how many times we have called for you?” Zarden spoke, a little angered from his tone.
Well, I did promise him that I’d have him healed but I hadn’t done so yet.
He knew his condition was worsening so it made sense if he was angry or something.
“I was training,” I replied.
“Hmph!” He harrumphed angrily before he said, “Do you know how on edge of a war we are?” And what did that have to do with me?
I wasn’t the one engaging in their wars so they shouldn’t drag me in theirs as well.
[You almost started most of them] ‘…’ I had no comment on that.
Well, granted that I almost started a war with the elves and the vampires, but those weren’t my faults so I had nothing to do with them.
“And who are having the war with?” I asked.
“The elves,” Zarden replied.
Now that was strange.
Elves wouldn’t start a war on their own.
Even if they wanted to teach humans a lesson who enslaved them for a long time, they wouldn’t do that solely on their own power.
And no matter how eager the other races were as well, they wouldn’t go to war before they were sure of their victory.
The Allied races wouldn’t move so soon so it was clear someone was pulling the strings from behind.
My guess was the demons but it could have been a third party as well.
After all, that organization had yet to make a move.
Ever since I came to this world, they didn’t do a single thing.
With how quiet they were, they must surely be cooking something.
What it was though was a mystery.
Even in the novel, they remained hidden to the point almost no one knew about them.
“And why would they suddenly want to go on a war in which they’d have no supporters?” I asked.
As I said, the allied races wouldn’t join.
If they didn’t, the elves had no chance of winning.
“Apparently the world leader had their elders assassinated,” Zarden replied.
Yep, definitely a third party involved.
However, they must have covered their traces.
If it was foul play, the humans would have tried to clear the misunderstanding.
If things were still dire, then it must have failed.
“What do you want me to do?” I asked.
That still didn’t explain why I needed to be here.
I mean, I needed to be here but what for was the question.
“To attend the crown ceremony,” Zarden replied.
Oh, so they decided to make me the emperor.
Well, convenient, ain’t it?
Dump all the responsibility on the new emperor.
Of course, they didn’t mean to do that but that’s exactly what it meant.
But I had my own plans for that.
For now, I simply needed to stall for time.
It wouldn’t be that difficult once we’d have to deal with this issue.
~~ The situation was direr than I expected.
Skirmishes occurred on the border several times and many outposts of humans attacked and burned.
There weren’t just the elves but demons mixed in as well which told me a lot about the third party.
Clearly, the demons were behind this and the most targeted spot was the… “Rivera kingdom,” Monica replied.
“Why would they be targeting that place?” Ronal asked.
“It’s obvious, isn’t it?” I said.
Not only was the Rivera kingdom the perfect entrance to human territory, but it also contained something else.
“They contain the souls of the lost,” I said when everyone was looking at me.
Souls of the lost.
An item from the ‘Dungeon of Diamonds’.
No one could process it so it was unclaimed and it was a target even in the novel so that was the demon’s target.
The question was, why?
As I said, it was unprocessed.
So, it was not only unclaimed, but no one had the means of processing it as well.
Among many things from the ‘Dungeon of Diamonds’, souls of the lost were left unclaimed and just considered a trophy.
“We’ll leave for Rivera kingdom in a few days.
We’ll see what the deal is about,” I said before the meeting was agreed upon and dismissed.
As the meeting ended, a man approached me and said, “Are you Prince Adrian?” “I am,” I replied.
Everyone was still present when he came to me.
Everyone was looking at each other, wondering why he was talking to me.
It looked like they knew who he was and he seemed to be someone of great importance as well.
But I didn’t know him so I didn’t know how to treat him as well.
“You must kill that child!” He suddenly did a one-eighty and leaped at me.
I was fast enough to react and caught him which worried others.
Before I could say anything, he began to yell, “You must get rid of that child in the saint’s belly.” “It will bring disaster upon this world!
Disaster!!!” He seemed scared.
And not just scared as in scared for his life.
His very being was scared of something.
Well, he was pretty annoying so I was about to throw him away when he said, “If you don’t!
Death will come for us all!
Death will come!!!” I grabbed him and pushed him down before I looked into his eyes.
One look in my eyes and he was quiet, but the same kind of fear he showed before didn’t appear.
“Now, my friend, I don’t know who you are but I’ll ask you this,” I pulled him closer and asked, “What do you mean by death is coming?” “Does it mean we’re all gonna die a horrible death?
Or…” “Is it someone else?” He looked at me, fear of me still not as strong as the fear from before, and the earlier fear was coming back as well, “Coming!
He’s coming!
Death is coming!!” “Death is coming!!!!!” “Ahhh!!!” A scream fell in my ears.
A familiar scream.
I didn’t know who it was in my hands but I threw him away and ran towards the source of that scream.
“That child is a curse!!!
Kill him!!!!!!!!!” I could hear him speaking gibberish behind me but I didn’t care.
I was more worried about that scream from before.
It belonged to Alicia after all.
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