Badum badum.

His heart suddenly started pounding and then, it raced like it was about to explode. Without realizing it, the 1st Prince grabbed his chest as he plopped down.

It felt like his blood was boiling. The prince lost consciousness from the feeling of his entire body burning up. 

Who knows how much time passed like that before the prince finally came back to his senses.

“Ughh…”

Although his heart wasn’t pounding like it was going to explode anymore, it was still beating wildly. He couldn’t understand why. 

“What on earth…”

Confused, the prince gripped his head as he tried to somehow understand the situation. However, the palpitations and the heat didn’t dissipate and continued to distract him.

“Keugh.”

It finally felt like his head was clearing after he took a deep breath. Once he came back to his senses, the prince looked at the battlefield in the distance. “Ah.”

The prince froze. The Gradus Knights and the magic mounts of the Imperial Panzer Knights had marched into the battlefield, confident of their victory, but now, they were nowhere to be seen. All he could see was the ghastly sight of scrap metals and chunks of flesh that were once human.

In the middle of all that was a monster he had never seen before. 

Brilliantly shining golden scales, gleaming eyes, and a vicious snout spitting out fire - the monster was both familiar and unfamiliar.

The prince quickly realized where he had seen that...