I Became the Father of a Degenerate Emperor

Episode 10. The dream place was wild

Episode 10. The dream place was wild

The morning that swallowed the night is the time when the entire world is colored with brilliant gold.

Jeobeok- Jeobeok-

I was walking down a dark corridor in the dungeon of the Imperial Palace.

A guide was in the front, and several soldiers acting as escorts were accompanying them in the back.

Perhaps because of the uproar yesterday, there was no place in his body that did not get stabbed.

Maybe that’s why, even the dream seat was very ferocious.

I had a dream in which the princes with wooden swords took turns striking me, but it was really to death.

Perhaps because of the troubled dream, I had an ominous feeling as if something bad was about to happen.

I’ve already thought about it dozens of times, wondering if it would be better to go back now.

But no matter how much I thought about it, I had no other options.

We have to keep going like this.

The interior of the dungeon was gloomy.

The torches hanging on the walls were struggling to push the darkness away, but I couldn’t see the faces crouching behind the bars.

With a limping step, I slowly progressed toward deeper depths.

The final destination was a solitary cell located in the innermost part of the lowest floor, but the person confined was not an ordinary person as the location was the location.

“Open the door.”

A soldier snapped a bundle of keys with trembling hands and opened the tightly closed iron door.

Ki Ying-

As the door slowly opened, ferocious eyes unseen by humans shone menacingly in the darkness.

It was a terrible killing that would be like this if a beast of prey were extremely excited.

“Lux, you damn bastard!”

At the sound of thunderous shouts that followed, the soldiers took a step back, startled.

“I definitely told you not to come back!”

Cheolgruk-Cheolgruck-

A large man, confused as to whether he was a man or a bear, suddenly lunged at me.

Clap!

However, he was caught by a thick chain attached to his neck and limbs and could not come any further.

“Kuhup!”

A man frowning all his arrogance from being strangled, but still trying to come forward.

Looking at me, his teeth clenched.

If he had taken just one step closer, he might have bitten his throat.

“If you just get out of here, I will kill you first!”

It sounded like vomiting blood, but I calmly turned back.

“Torches.”

As I reached out, a soldier obediently handed over a torch.

“Everyone back down.”

After taking a look at me, the soldiers exchanged glances and nodded. Unlike when he came, he withdrew very quickly.

It seemed that a tacit agreement had been reached that if the mad emperor died, it would be all right.

When I turned around and looked closely, I saw this beastly man clad in tattered rags, his long hair and beard bushy.

In a word, he was so miserable that even a beggar who had starved all day would gladly decide to join the enemy.

“What trick? Why are you here? Now you just want to kill and then kill yourself? Come on, you son of a b*tch, if you come one step closer, I will break that neck bone in one breath.”

The name of this man spewing bloody death is Max Crawford.

He was an academy mate with the emperor and the leader of the disbanded imperial knights.

“What kind of face did you come to again? Why? Orlik, are you bragging about killing that crap? When I said that bastard’s eyes were strange, he didn’t even pay attention, so why are you blaming the back drum now?”

He seems to have been listening to the soldiers well even while being confined to solitary confinement.

“Are you a human? How could you do this to me? It’s not anyone else, but Lux, how did you treat me!”

In the novel, Max was the only person who sincerely wept for the dead emperor to his son.

And in the distant future, he was destined to lose his life while protecting the emperor.

So at first I tried to get Max out as quickly as possible. According to the contents of the novel, you will definitely be loyal to me.

But not too long ago, when I actually came to the dungeon and met him in person, the person who wanted to kill me the most in the Kratus Empire was this man named Max.

At that time, just looking at En Max’s eyes took his breath away, so he couldn’t stand it for less than a minute and returned right away.

In addition, Lee Ja was a sword master.

Although he was injured now, he was the strongest in the Empire next to the emperor in good condition.

He said that if he put his mind to it, he could cut me off with a single gesture.

“Didn’t I say I would give you my head, so I didn’t ask you to please don’t touch my family. But why the hell did you do that, you rotten son of a b*tch!”

Clap! Clap! Clap!

The chain, which was already taut, let out a terrifying scream as it flew sparks.

I remember deeply sympathizing with Max’s anger and resentment while reading the novel.

After being poisoned, the first thing the emperor did was subdue Max, the leader, and then disbanded the Imperial Knights.

At the time, the erosion of the miasma was not severe, so it was possible to finish without killing anyone.

But as a result, the Crawford family lost their earldom and even their property and lands were confiscated by the Imperial family.

His entire family had no choice but to be driven to the streets.

Of course, the empress had prepared a place for them to live without the emperor’s knowledge, and would have been protecting them until now.

However, the sword master, who had a bright future, suffered a fatal injury and even suffered the stigma of treachery.

That wasn’t enough, and he was locked up in a dungeon for nearly five years.

If it wasn’t for the strong mental strength and physical strength cultivated through rigorous training, it would have been impossible to keep alive until now.

Anyway, Max’s resentment and anger toward the emperor would have been difficult to imagine unless he was the person involved.

As a result, it was hard to shake off the thought that they would try to kill me first as soon as they were released.

“Come one step closer. I will definitely rip your neck off. Why? Do you think you can’t?”

Seeing that even now, with such a bloody expression, they were making horrifying threats, the desire to release them was on the verge of disappearing.

But I needed his help if I was to survive.

He was the only man who could rebuild the Imperial Knights.

I’ve been putting it off for a while, but now I’m about to go out. I couldn’t put it off any longer, so I finally made a decision this morning.

Anyway, I’m in a situation where it wouldn’t be strange if I died anytime.

Although there would be a fatal risk in freeing Max, if Lee directly stepped forward to rebuild the Knights, my survival rate would dramatically increase.

The Imperial Knights were the strongest knights in the Empire, who roamed the battlefield with the emperor, who was a sword master.

Loyalty was also high enough to pierce the sky, so if the scattered knights could be gathered again, there would be no worries at all when a rebellion broke out.

Of course, I didn’t mean to just release Max.

First of all, I needed to fully convince myself of the situation I was in.

I planned to fully explain that everything had been unavoidable.

Swoop-

As he slowly took off his shirt, Max let out an angry roar.

“What the hell is this crazy bastard doing right now? You mean you came here before the ceremony to show off your naked body? If you want to do that, don’t dirty my eyes and go to the brothel right away!”

Ignoring the angry Max, I shined a torch on the poisoned area.

The skin, which had been eroded by the miasma and turned black, looked exceptionally black under the flickering light.

“You chose to commit evil things and ended up getting sick?”

Max put on an expression that said he was so sorry, and I wanted to clear up the misunderstanding somehow.

“This is an extreme poison called paralysis.”

“After killing so many people and incurring resentment, the end will be poisoning. Ha ha ha! It’s really cool inside.”

However, it was not easy to convince me of my innocence because the hatred was so deep. It was as if an insurmountable wall stood in the way.

“Because I was poisoned by this poison, I have been continuously manipulated by demons for the past five years. Believe it or not, all the evil I did was because of him.”

Hearing that, Max’s mouth fell open.

This time, he certainly looked very surprised.

“What nonsense is that…… So, your sudden change was all because of that demonic or something?”

“Yes.”

At that moment, tears began to flow from Max’s eyes.

Perhaps the persuasion seemed successful.

His taut chains sagged as Max stepped back.

“You motherf*cker, how did this happen?”

“The culprit is Olric Desapio. It was because his unrequited love for the empress festered and burst.”

Looking at Max crying, he seemed to understand my situation.

“I knew that trash would do that in the end… ….”

I was slowly nodding my head as if I finally realized the situation I was in.

So wouldn’t it be okay if I let them go now?

Max asked, crying.

“Then did you come to bring me back?”

“Yes, I want to entrust the rebuilding of the Imperial Knights to you.”

“Then, hurry up and free me from these damn chains.”

Looking at Max’s expression, there was no reason to hesitate any longer.

I took out a golden key from my bosom.

“I’ll release you right now.”

The restraints on Max’s body had a special ability to suppress the circulation of mana.

Because the purpose was to seal away the use of magic or aura, even Max, the sword master, could not escape his restraints.

I inserted the golden key into the keyhole.

Clap-

First, I loosened the strap around my neck and then loosened the strap on my right wrist.

Clap-

But as soon as my right hand was free, Max’s violent palm gripped my neck mercilessly.

Gasp. Kwak-

And I lifted myself up with one hand. Very lightly It was great strength.

“Kuu!”

I was so choked up that I couldn’t breathe at all.

Max’s face was steadfast.

The facial expression of a lion angry at having his nose hair ripped off wouldn’t have been so bloody.

“You seem to be very needy. I think there will be a rebellion, so I need the knights, but everyone avoids you, so now I’m needed. Yes?”

“Keugh… ….”

“What? Mad poison? Did you really think that such a ridiculous lie would work? Your expression and tone of voice now are not at all different from when you swung a sword at me.”

Consciousness was rapidly fading from the vicious hand that tightened more and more.

Max spoke in a low tone, like the growl of an angry beast.

“If you’re going to lie, shouldn’t you have decorated it a little more plausibly? How many loyal subjects died at your hands, and how many courtiers? How many people do you think died because you only listened to the vassals? The tears I shed are for them. They are tears of mourning for the person who gave up his life believing that a man who was only telling such lies would change.”

“Big!”

“You evil bastard. You should have taken your own life before you freed me. Wouldn’t that be fair?”

If I continued like this, I felt that I would suffocate within seconds.

As expected, I wanted things to be solved so easily.

A belated regret that I shouldn’t have come here rushed over me, but now it really seemed too late.

Max smiles at me with a relieved expression.

“Asmodians? Even those demons in mythology would stick out their tongues when they saw you? I’d rather die right now before I do anything worse. Please just die, you motherf*cker!”

With just a little more force, my neck bones would easily break.

But there was no more power in his grasp.

Tears were still flowing from his eyes.

Perhaps he was hesitant to kill me.

The explanation in the novel that he was truly for me was not wrong.

At that moment, a sharp voice pierced the air.

“Max, what are you doing! I can’t let go of that hand right now!”

It was a very familiar voice.

Max asked the owner of the voice with a surprised expression.

“Esteel? Is it you Is it really you?”

The empress hurriedly ran and glared at Max.

Unlike him, who looked pleased, she growled like an angry beast.

“If you don’t let go of that hand right away, I will kill all of your family with my own hands.”

“Esteel, Lux has completely gone mad. I have to kill him now. That’s the way to truly care for this child. If you don’t, you might do something even worse.”

“Lux is not crazy. He was just being manipulated by an addiction to horse poison!”

“Esteel, do you really believe in such absurd lies? A smart kid like you?”

“If you don’t believe me, go with me right now. It’s because it’s storing the corpses of demons. You can’t help but believe it when you see it. So let go of this hand right now!”

Push-

In the end, the strength in Max’s hands gave way, and I fell to my side as soon as my feet hit the ground.