The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

At my call, the golden coffin where the king’s mummy was lying began to shake and even crack.

“Wow, even after thousands of years, an apostle is still an apostle.”

The soul of the greatest king of the druid kingdom was so vast and overwhelming.

It was not for nothing that his wisest subject had made and dedicated a magic tool that could hide the power of the soul.

It felt like my whole body was being crushed by a power that was not even half of what it was, unsupported by the power of the flesh.

I took a deep breath, blew mana into the golden laurel crown, and shouted,

“King! Rise! Descend upon this place!”

Crack- Kwang-!

As that vast soul was summoned into the king’s mummy, the magic golden coffin that protected the body couldn’t withstand the power and burst open.

-Aaargh-!!

The huge king’s soul screamed in pain. The body he settled into was just a shell from which his subordinates had diligently extracted power.

It was far too lacking to support the soul of a great apostle.

“Amazing. Still, it’s enduring that soul because it was an apostle’s body.”

In human terms, it was no different from a state where all the bones in the body had disappeared and blood was gushing out.

Nevertheless, Chilling’s mummy accepted and settled the soul.

Fortunately.

It was a good thing I stopped the king’s direct warriors before they completely sucked out the apostle’s power from the mummy, otherwise we might not have been able to summon the king’s soul.

Then that lost soul would have headed to the real mummy where it originally was, and the awakened King Chilling would have gotten angry and hanged everyone in the area where the royal tomb was buried upside down to make human sacrifices, and then come to kill me.

“That was close.”

Jade looked at me with reproachful eyes and said.

It was certainly cutting it close when I Precia Fressia to attack King Chilling’s direct warriors.

“But we succeeded. Imagine if that guy could properly wield even a bit of his body’s power.”

“That would certainly be terrible.”

Right now, King Chilling’s body was collapsing, unable to handle that huge soul.

If there had been even a little leeway, he could have used that power to attempt recovery, so we had no choice but to extract power until it was cutting it close.

The opponent was an apostle of one of the seven major gods, even though he was dead.

-Aaargh!! What is this! My eyes! My bag of tricks! Explain right away! Explain! You damn wobbling duck!

Chilling screamed with anger and pain, searching for Gromit.

I watched that sight for a moment, then grinned as I thought of something fun.

“What’s with that uneasy smile?”

“You’re not thinking of something strange, are you?”

Jade and Fressia looked at me with anxious eyes.

“Shh. Let’s finish this quickly and go. Prepare for battle when I give the signal.”

Even though he was about to die, he was still an apostle, and the collapse of his body was too slow compared to my expectations.

So I was thinking of accelerating it a bit more.

“Ahem!”

I cleared my throat, took a couple of steps forward, and said,

“My king! My king! Your humble servant is here! Your eyes and bag of tricks, the commander of the Eastern Front, the protector of beasts, the clever sea duck is here!”

-Ugh…! It’s strange, why can’t I see the color of your soul?

At Chilling’s question as he staggered, clutching his head in pain, I answered with a serious expression.

“It is because I am wearing the golden laurel crown I dedicated to you.”

-Laurel crown. Yes, the beginning of the great cause was for my eyes, who first awoke from death, to wear the golden laurel crown connected to our souls and awaken us. But why is it so painful!

At Chilling’s angry voice, I answered as if it were obvious.

“That’s because I usurped your power, my king. That body has become too insignificant to contain the king’s soul.”

-…What?

Chilling trembled in pain but still looked at me as if my words were quite shocking, even stopping his pained groans.

“I… no, I said I usurped your power, the declining and fallen king. I have gained a new living body and will become the great king in your stead.”

At my calm declaration, Chilling was perplexed at first, then began to get angry.

-Gromit Aukunsway! You, you bastard! How dare you betray my grace and try to become king?!

Anger amplified the power of the soul and even released the remaining power of the body.

As a result, the collapse of the withered mummy’s body accelerated.

“That’s right, failed king! You have plunged countless people into sorrow! You failed to prevent the invasion of foreign enemies! In the end, you even caused the destruction of the country!”

-…The country, the country has fallen?

“That’s right! Incompetent king! Do you not even guess what the cause of that destruction was! Is it not all the result of your delusion!”

The druid kingdom ruled by Chilling, an apostle of the Goddess of the Earth, was a powerful nation.

However, it was far from being the strongest nation in the world.

To the south, far from the druid kingdom, there was a nation ruled by the son of the Goddess of the Moon, and the neighboring nation to the east was also a nation ruled by an apostle of the God of the Sea.

In the early Mythical Era.

At that time, the blood of gods was so common that it could be kicked around like trash, and demigods were not that rare either.

In such a situation, how great could it be to be a mere apostle of a god?

No, to be precise, being an apostle of one of the seven major gods was better than the children of most lesser gods.

If one tried hard enough to die, one could even ascend to the divine realm as a lesser god.

But that didn’t mean they were the strongest.

As I said before, the son of the Goddess of the Moon had established a great empire.

Moreover, that demigod is now called the God of War and Terror.

So Chilling and his thirteen direct warriors prepared their souls and bodies that could be resurrected as undead in the royal tomb for a future time.

Everything was for their own kingdom.

But they never woke up until the end of the Mythical Era.

Perhaps it was because they were caught up in the Labyrinth of Constellations.

-That can’t be! You bastard! Duck! Where are you wagging your cunning tongue!

“You just don’t want to believe it! And don’t call me a duck! I am a noble and free sea duck!”

-Even if what you say is true, that doesn’t justify your betrayal! My eyes! My bag of tricks! Weren’t you the one who led the kingdom with me!

That’s true.

Honestly, Gromit did more for the druid kingdom than Chilling.

Chilling, to put it nicely, played the role of uniting everyone with his charisma, and to put it badly, he was a proxy owner.

-If anyone should take responsibility for the fall of the country, it’s you right after me!

The enraged Chilling relentlessly unleashed a huge soul arm from his body despite the collapse of his body.

Since there was no strength in his body, he had no choice but to use the power of his soul, which was all he had left.

As I leaped back and gave the signal, Precia ran forward.

“Die obediently! Old specter!”

A distinct sword pressure formed on Precia’s sword and slashed the apostle’s soul.

-Aaargh! How dare you!

Since the soul could only be protected if there was a body, the huge part of Chilling’s soul that protruded from the mummy took damage directly.

As Chilling’s soul arm swung to crush and kill Precia, Jade drew out his mana to the fullest and froze his soul.

-Do you think you can restrain my soul with this kind of magic!

Crack-!

While Jade’s ice shattered, Precia didn’t miss the opening and aimed at Chilling’s mummy.

Chilling was already in a poor state and couldn’t exert his full power, so he hastily blocked Precia.

“Play with me too! Senior!”

Sophia raised wooden vines with divine magic to restrain Chilling’s soul again and cast various support magic on Precia.

-More trivial than the previous magic!

Sophia’s divine magic only made him falter slightly and had no significant effect.

However, Precia, who received Sophia’s support, didn’t miss that brief faltering moment and slashed Chilling’s soul.

-Kwaaak!

The soul, unprotected by the body, suffered countless wounds from the sword pressure mixed with divine power.

Chilling swung his soul arm to strike Precia away, but Precia lightly stepped on that arm, leaped high, and placed her feet on the burial chamber ceiling as if standing upside down.

Then, as if bouncing, she jumped at Chilling again and slashed his soul.

-You fly-like thing!

Precia chipped away at Chilling’s soul, bouncing off the walls and ceiling here and there like a pinball.

Chilling tried to wield druid magic while swinging a huge soul fist to deal with Precia, but each time, Jade and Sophia’s interference caused the magic to unravel.

-Aaargh!!

As mana fluctuated at the furious soul’s scream, the four of us were pushed and slammed into the wall.

“Cough!”

My fragile body couldn’t withstand the impact and vomited blood.

Judging by the slight shortness of breath, it seemed my lungs were injured.

If I hadn’t quickly formed an air layer around my whole body with the power of the wind spirit to protect myself and my friends, we would have been seriously injured.

“Damn, it’s not easy. Is an apostle still an apostle even in death?”

At my grumbling, Jade wiped the nosebleed with his sleeve indifferently and said,

“But his mana has decreased a lot with that last scream. It’s chilling to think that’s only a tiny fraction of the power he had when he was alive. What fraction of his living power do you think it is?”

At Jade’s question, I chuckled.

“Who knows? Maybe only about 1/20th?”

“Then he was 200 times stronger than now.”

The more the total amount of power increased, the more means there were, and the more diverse the means, the more it meant one was capable of dealing with situations.

If one had 20 times more power, it meant it became 200 times more difficult to deal with them.

“Well, that’s when he was alive and if I hadn’t manipulated him, otherwise it might have been about 50 times?”

It’s hard to get a sense of it since it’s a novel, but the power I felt was roughly that much.

Ah, that was also the power he exerted with a body much more weathered by time than the fake mummy inside the ruins, so would he be even stronger here?

This place had much less weathering over time thanks to faithfully embodying the environment of the Mythical Era.

“Stop chatting and do something about it!”

Sophia, who was sweating cold sweat, shouted as powerful divine power fluctuated from her.

It was proof that she was using power to the point of surpassing the power of the gloves that concealed divine power.

Precia was moving at ultra-high speed, engaging in fierce battles, and Sophia was supporting Precia with divine power, dealing with Chilling’s final struggle.

“You said that, so are you ready?”

At my question, Jade said, “One moment,” asking me to wait, and after about ten seconds, Jade’s magic staff began to glow.

“It’s all done.”

“Good, Precia!”

At my shout, Precia unleashed a full-power strike and retreated.

-Aaargh!!

Chilling, with his fragile body, couldn’t avoid the attack that could shatter mountains and had no choice but to counter it with all his might.

“Activate device technique.”

The technique stored in my device drew a function again and unfolded a magic circle to seal the soul of Apostle Chilling.

“And thus, pure white time shall penetrate! The whisper of winter!”

Before the magic circle was completed, Jade’s mana penetrated Chilling’s body and released extreme cold.

-This, this can’t be! The great cause! My people are waiting…!

Crack-!

The mummy froze and shattered into pieces.

As the mummy disappeared, the mana crystals that made up its body fell to the ground.

And the sealing technique of my device bound the soul of the great druid king and apostle of the Goddess of the Earth and sealed it.

“Sophia.”

“Yes! Understood!”

Sophia, looking a bit tired, mustered her strength to extract the power of the treasures scattered on the floor and the apostle’s power contained in the magic crystal, and reinforced the seal over the original seal to make it sturdy.

Although we had diligently chipped away at the soul, the mana crystals from which the apostle’s power had been drained were too insufficient to seal that soul.

So we sealed it first, then blew the apostle’s power back into the mana crystals to make it sturdy.

The newly captured soul struggled to escape from the mana crystals for a while, then quieted down not long after.

I picked up the mana crystal that had fallen to the ground and shouted like a hunter.

“Chilling, you’re mine!”