There was no path left for Aldren but to die a painful death of dissolving in the venom. Just the thought of that would make anyone shiver with fright.

Let alone him, who used that skill on others before.

Of course, Aldren wouldn't stay here to let himself die a painful death.

Even though he knew he couldn't leave this place, he could at least die by himself before that happened.

"Young man, you are good. Haha…you are quite unique. Sigh…no wonder he is trying to kill you."

Before committing suicide, though, Aldren looked at the dull eyes of Lucien and confessed,

"I-I shouldn't have taken this mission. I never knew Goldveil had such a mysterious heir. Someone…even I can't understand."

He reluctantly regretted his decision, extremely so. In this entire fiasco, his role was just a side character used as a pawn.

Even after having a Weaver rank, his death was so miserable. Of course, he regretted it.

"Scrreeechh…"

But those hoards of Crimson ants, ready to explode as soon as they came near and dissolved his flesh and bones into Venom, didn't give him a choice.

"Sigh…Young man, remember that I am not your true enemy. There is someone else who wants your life."

Finally, Aldren looked at Lucien with a bitter smile and warned,

"And that person seems to be related to demons. Be careful!"

Weirdly, Aldren actually warned Lucien to be careful. He didn't seem to hold him accountable for what he was doing to him.

"Who is he?"

Lucien was a little surprised to see the Viscount's reaction.

But when he mentioned an unknown person, his heart skipped a bit all of a sudden.

All this time, wasn't he on guard just for that?

Now, with Aldren's words, it was clear that there was really someone out there who wanted him dead.

Of course, he was interested in knowing who that person was.

Fortunately, Aldren didn't die in suspense as he feared. Rather, he suddenly smiled at his curiosity and sent a thought into his head.

'Morvain… Duke Morvain of the Kingdom of Serenthis wants your life. Young man, with this, I hope you don't let this grudge spill over onto my family.'

With that, he immediately severed his soul thread, officially committing suicide on the spot.

He might be the most useless Viscount ever, dying in such a miserable way.

"Screechhh!"

"Bang!!"

Just as the Viscount severed his own soul and collapsed, countless Crimson Ants suddenly leapt onto his body all at once, forming a crushing enclosure.

Then, without waiting for a moment, they immediately attacked his body in perfect unison, their razor-sharp mandibles tearing at flesh, their venom searing through muscle, destroying large portions of Aldren's defenseless body almost instantly.

"BOOM!"

And they didn't just stop there.

Rather, a massive swarm surrounded the body, moving as one, delivering a relentless barrage and erupting together in a cataclysmic explosion.

Suddenly, a flood of toxic venom corroded everything in its path; not even bones remained.

The area around him was reduced to smoldering ashes, becoming a wasteland.

The explosion was so immense and devastating that even if Aldren had survived the initial assault, he would have been cooked alive.

There was no escaping this annihilation.

'Damn, Swarm Convergence with Queen's Mandate skills are this strong? No wonder Aldren died on his own with no struggle.'

Lucien thought while backing a little, as he didn't want to get touched by those sizzling venoms.

To be honest, he was a little skeptical about this Viscount Aldren's way of suicide. After all, that guy was a Weaver Rank Early realm anyhow.

Why would he die so easily?

But seeing how powerful Crimson BroodQueen was, he was relieved.

'Duke Morvain…Serenthis Kingdom… Who is he? And why does he want my life?'

Now that one issue had been resolved, another came. And this time, it was from someone he had no idea about.

'Forget it…let's ask Grandpa after leaving this place. First, let's clear things here first.'

Although Lucien was curious about who that person was, he didn't delve much.

For now, his first priority was to kill everyone here in this chaos.

Fortunately, due to Hugo's method, no one could leave this place unless they had a teleportation bead like Viscount Aldren.

So, he was a little relaxed.

"Go and help me clear all the people here. Make sure to do it cleanly and don't go near the main fight."

Lucien looked at the massive Crimson BroodQueen and ordered.

"Don't worry, there will be a reward after this battle is over."

At last, he even promised a reward to his new beast companion that was in a higher realm than him.

Lucien could feel that the Crimson BroodQueen was quite intelligent. Although due to the system, she became his beast companion, and followed his order unconditionally, that pure blood lust he saw on her for Aldren was real.

No matter what, she was a beast who killed her own master.

Although thinking like that was extremely hypocritical and unjust, Lucien still decided to be on guard for a while.

"Screeecchhh..!"

After Lucien gave the order, the Crimson BroodQueen looked at him with those pitch-black, pupil-less, intelligent eyes for a while, as if in some thought.

Fortunately, Lucien didn't feel her murderous intent anymore. She seemed only curious about her new owner she inexplicably got without her knowledge.

After she looked at him for a while, she finally screeched in high pitch, her jagged mandibles clattering and her massive pincers twitching in rhythm, the tremor rippling through her body as her wings shivered.

And when she gathered all those remaining Crimson Ants on her command, she immediately disappeared from her position, melting into the darkness of demonic energy, beginning her hunt as Lucien ordered.

Lucien looked at the huge ants disappearing with her army of tiny Crimson Ants, just like Sovereign guiding her swarm.

Only when her figure had fully vanished, leaving nothing but the darkness behind, did he lower his gaze at last and murmur softly.

"How long are you going to look?"

He suddenly said, seemingly to no one. With Aldren dead and the swarm gone, the place was now empty with no one close.

At least until a figure suddenly emerged from the shadow right behind Lucien.

A figure of a maid.

"Tsk… so you already knew I was here?"

Clara tsked playfully at Lucien. But if Lucien were to look at her right now, he would see the shock in her eyes, clear as day.

After all, she saw everything that happened here from the beginning. From how Kurma got killed by Balthor, to Hugo's appearance, she was at least calm.

But when she saw how Lucien killed a Weaver rank early rank Viscount so easily with his own Beast Companion, she was extremely surprised.

Even she, who was a Lord, didn't have any method to forcefully sever the Soul Link of a Beast Tamer, let alone so sneakily without the owner's knowledge.

And Lucien didn't just sever the link, but even tamed that beast out of nowhere.

'Didn't Sera say he is a Mage? Dual Class? Or did he awaken something unique?'

Even Clara was completely confused, let alone Aldren.

To be honest, him getting caught off guard again and again, losing the fight so embarrassingly, wasn't all that strange.

Someone was outright cheating; poor Viscount, how could he possibly react?

"Did Sera send you to help me?"

After seeing Clara getting out of the shadows, Lucien turned around and asked.

To be honest, he really didn't know Clara was hiding before. Only when he collected debt and officially crossed 500 points on perception alone did he notice her.

Even then, he only noticed her faint presence, nothing more.

'Is she really only in Lord Realm?'

He couldn't help but think like that as he looked at the ordinary maid smiling at him lightly.

Even now, with all his attribute points crossing a whopping 500, he still couldn't see through her disguise.

'Maybe, if I activate my physique, I can see through her?'

He thought for a sec before shaking his head. Unless necessary, he didn't want anyone to know about his Dragon King's Physique.

He wasn't stupid enough to give away his secret just to satiate his curiosity.

"Yeah, she just won't listen. Honestly, what did you feed her? You didn't do anything to her, right?"

Clara nodded at Lucien's query and then suddenly asked with squinting eyes in full suspicion.

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