Chapter. 14. One Empire, Three Legends (3)
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– takealook: It popped out! Professor Park’s inner evil has finally come out into the world!
– Heungan Mandu: Professor Park, when that person dies, I will definitely crush his head. If there is that level of ego fragmentation, it would 100% be a type 3 variant, right? Oh, it’s already done, right?
– Jokass: There are two Professor Parks. We’re done now. Our fragile world isn’t strong enough to contain two of those lunatics.
– Speed Wagon: Hmm… I’ve only been in a relationship once in my life. There are now two men.
– Roe Drug: Miss Dana, are you saying that all male cubs are wolves? They say they’ll give you your liver or your heart, but if you dig deeper, you’ll find they’re hiding everything. Later, I’ll invite Holly and Levitt, and let’s have a drink together. When I fled this time, I ended up living in a refugee zone.
– Jokass: Again and again. Saying strange things to innocent people. Dana, you may believe everything the world says, but don’t believe that person. Even if you eat a truckload of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil every day, you will be less corrupted than if you listen to a single word from that person.
– Noru Drug: Oh my~ I’m talking to someone else. Who lived there and lured the neat and innocent me into their home?
– Speed Wagon: Ah.
– Heungan Mandu: !!!!!
– Holly: Oh my!
– Namba Three: !!!!
– Jokass: Hey, if I say that here…!
– Noru Drug: Why, honey~ are we shy? I whined a little in the chat room about how difficult it was to live in the refugee camp and how dangerous it was. I sent a private message saying, “If you’re having a hard time, come and take care of me. I’ve been working as a cleaner recently and saved some money by selling mutant by-products, so I can cover at least you.” It rang desperately~
– Holly: So, so? Did you find it?
– Roru Drug: Yes! He made me drink too much and I attacked him! Wooheehee. We lived together from then on. He’s good at cooking and cleaning.
– Jokass: f*ck.
– takealook: I salute your sacrifice, Jokhas. Thanks to you, the world has relieved a huge burden.
– Jokass: I don’t know, dude. Why did I agree to help that crazy woman? When you have time, come to Refugee Camp B-21/58. I should at least drink alcohol, but I’m afraid I’ll get eaten if I drink in front of that woman.
– takealook : B? You really live quite well, right? If you’re buying it, feel free.
– Heungan Mandu: I’m jealous… I want to live together… Someone please send a rescue team… There are people at the top of the mountain in District 40… I want to join them too…
– DOOMgay: If you have a wireless signal, tune it to channel 317. If I have to go near area 40, I’ll stop by.
– Heungan Mandu: Really? That’s a real promise! Yes Shiva! I had connections too! I am Professor Park’s best friend. Best friend! Save me! please! If I don’t have a job, I’ll escape by making something! All it takes is one landslide and all the mutants in the neighborhood will wake up and move around like they’ve invaded a beehive!
– DOOMgay: It’s very annoying.
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The chat room is activated and this is the best part. Being able to obtain real-time information in real time. Jokas and Noru from the chat room in District 47 came to live together, and Heungan Mandu, who was stranded in the highlands because he could not escape, was lucky enough to catch Ian’s eye and have a glimmer of hope.
Problems such as Twin Head Professor Park and Dual Personality Professor Park, which were unfortunate in their own way, sank below the surface for a while. Good. I’ll have to talk to Dana separately later.
Pudduk-!
While I was idly watching the outside news, the rope I was holding was pulled taut and began to shake left and right. A faint scream like ‘Aaaah-‘ was heard from above.
“Hey professor! slowly! Gently! Pull so you don’t get caught in the tree! “If it breaks, you’ll be in big trouble!”
“Well, it’s not as easy as it sounds!”
Pop!
As I delicately adjusted my strength and pulled the rope toward the sky, I heard a girl’s voice say something and the leather balloon began to come down little by little.
When I listened closely, I heard that it was asking me to put it back on the road.
“I haven’t checked properly yet! “I just wish it was a little higher!”
“You’re saying the same thing higher! Yay! If I miss this, you will be lost in the wide sky! “What kind of kid has no fear!”
“I’m starting to be afraid of that now! A letter really came from the imperial palace! It wasn’t even to the family, it was to me personally! “Stop talking nonsense and raise your voice a little more!”
“Ugh, the kid is going crazy….”
In the distance, high in the sky, Lucilla cackling on a magic leather balloon.
I was crazy, but I was crazy in my right mind.
30 minutes ago. After receiving the letter with the Emperor’s seal clearly on it, Lucilla fainted, and when she came to her senses not long after, she demonstrated exactly what perfectly controlled hysteria was.
‘Just take out the luggage for now. ‘I’ll sort it out.’
‘Hero, you said you were making a cart, right? The nearby tree species seem to be fine, so please start right away.’
‘With the money I have now for dresses, accessories, and shoes… I have no choice but to cash it out in a nearby city, even if it means losing some money. One week in a straight line from the southwestern part of the empire. It’s been a week… Map! Find me a map! hurry!’
‘Uh oh. Hey, hey! If you release that, all the instruments will fly… Lou, Lucilla! You rope! I’m tangled in the rope! ‘I’m being dragged away!’
‘Hold me! ‘I’ll have a quick look from up high!’
‘Hey, hey hey hey!!!’
That’s how he ended up hanging under the leather balloon.
When I pulled the string carefully in case it broke, Lucilla, her hair scattered in the wind, came down with the leather balloon. Lucilla, who had roughly brushed her hair with a drop of Ottman’s far-sighted magic, immediately unfolded her map and began drawing rough lines with her charcoal.
“First of all, I landed in a better place than I expected. First of all, it is certain that it is in the northwest of the empire. Since the Blue Line Mountains are vaguely visible, you can consider that you have almost crossed the empire. Assuming that the spire faintly visible at the edge of the horizon is the monument to Osman Peter… about this. “It’s not that far from the capital.”
widely!
Lucilla’s finger pointed to the northwest city on the empire map.
“First of all, the nearest city is here. It looks like Haunuman. Um… I saw the trees shrinking in the direction where the sun rises…”
“There will be a road soon. By the way, what are you going to do there?”
“…Well, anyway. Ready for battle. “Prepare for battle to face the greatest opportunity of your life as a noblewoman and a merchant!”
With burning eyes, Lucilla took out the red dress from among the luggage arranged behind her. The lace was falling off, the silk was tattered because it had been pulled out in a wet state, and the dress was covered in stains, making it unusable.
“Of course, you won’t be able to get a top-of-the-line dress like this from your family right away, but it has become so worn out that the moment you wear it, it will be considered an insult to the royal family. Fortunately, Haunuman is a vassal territory incorporated into the empire, so there are many exotic and unique fabrics and accessories. He may not be perfect, but he will be able to prepare to a certain extent to avoid it.”
Lucilla, who had folded up a map with a messy route, spoke to the group one by one with earnest eyes.
“I know what’s going to happen. The warrior and his party are on a very important mission that may change the fate of the world, and there is no time to turn back. I am extremely lucky that I was able to meet the warrior and his group in the Blue Line Mountains and come all the way here. “I know it very well.”
“Lucilla. Hey. that….”
“Otman. for a moment.”
Lucilla interrupted Ottoman’s words and spoke while looking straight into my eyes.
“Haunuman. Please just go with me to Haunuman. You won’t have to go back that far, and your group will have time to regroup. “I’ll take care of it from then on.”
A request for support that involves practicality and calculation, not an appeal to emotion. Of course, he must be making such an earnest request because he knows that this alone will not be enough to delay the mission of his party, who are saints and warriors.
[What are you going to do? Of course, I felt quite affectionate, but… Extending the journey here means that the number of soldiers dying on Roderick’s Western Front will increase.]
‘yes.’
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[Personally, I think it would be better to just bring Borka or Notum together and take them all the way to the city, then join them again. There are also two leather balloons with spirits in them. Emotions are good, but let’s look at it from a macro perspective. Just looking at him, he seems to be a smart kid and can at least take care of things on his own.]
‘It’s macroscopic… hmm…’
The professor looked back at the group with his arms crossed. The fact that they are all looking at me probably means that it is the party leader’s role to decide the party’s course, so they will leave it to me. The fact that Otman and Notum were squirming made it seem like they wanted help, but they were also waiting for my choice in silence anyway.
When Lucilla bit her lip at the sight of me not responding, she finally opened her mouth.
“good. “Let’s go together.”
“….really?”
“okay.”
“Thank you! Actually, I didn’t say anything because I was afraid it would be a burden, but even though it’s been a long time since they became a vassal state, the Haunuman people are still independent and violent, so it’s actually hard to go alone-”
“Not only will we go to Haunuman, but we will also go to the capital of the empire. “All of us.”
“….to? yes?”
Lucilla gave an ambiguous expression, as if she was both pleased and skeptical at the completely unexpected reaction.
“To the capital together…? In order to buy those clothes at Haunuman and buy the things necessary to maintain your dignity, you have to sell some of the things you have, and then the time needed for the warrior’s mission….”
“Uh huh. Lucilla Aedran. What does it mean to like a colleague? “I may have lied a lot, but would I deceive you in front of you, in such a serious moment?”
“Then… are you really going with me? because of me?”
“Oh, of course it’s not just because of you. “It’s not like you go in bare-mouthed.”
“…Then that’s right. What is it this time? It is said that support for Roman Gachia Manson has already begun at the family level. Is there anything else you need? Gold Geyser bonds? food?”
“no. Just a little bit of cooperation?”
“Cooperation?”
As Lucilla tilted her head, tying up her wet hair, the professor took out two more letters from his pocket, decorated with the same decoration as the letter Lucilla was holding, and bearing the emperor’s seal.
“As I was organizing the letters, more came out. It’s all yours. “You haven’t even read the first letter you received yet, right?”
“Wow, there are three letters from the imperial palace….”
“Open it. “I have a vague idea what it is.”
Hearing my confident tone, Lucilla carefully opened the seal of the letter and unfolded it.
Similar content. It is full of gratitude for her dedication to the empire as a foreigner, her outstanding beauty, and praise for her wisdom and courage that enabled her to move quickly in an urgent situation where an ordinary lady would have fainted. At the end, she received an invitation to her small party or tea time. There was something to say.
[In the name of Keslik Rom Agdan, 1st Prince of the Great Baltin Empire, to Lady Lucilla Aedran who came from the far west.]
[To Lucilla Aedran, an amazing lady who crossed the continent in search of a relationship in the name of Titania Rom Agdan, the first princess of the Great Baltin Empire.]
[In the name of Cheracion Rom Agdan, 3rd Prince of the Great Baltin Empire, to Lady Lucilla Aedran who came with winter.]
“Not from the emperor… but from the prince and princesses?”
“No matter how interested you are, it is a bit low-class to receive a personal letter from the emperor. At least, that’s what they think.”
I glanced at the letter Lucilla had opened, and as expected, my guess seemed to be correct.
A letter from three imperial families who are fiercely competing for the position of emperor.
“The emperor is old, and his children have grown up, each forming their own faction and snarling at each other. In this situation, the old emperor said, ‘I especially want to eat apples today.’ “What do you think will happen if I slip the same words?”
“That’s right… since you want to impress the emperor, you’ll probably try to save him faster than anyone else, right? With the best stuff?”
“Okay, then look in the mirror. Is this the legendary lady who sent letters so loudly that news was delivered directly to the emperor? Did the Emperor himself grant your request by issuing an order? what? There’s even a rumor that it’s a legendary thing? “The emperor, who always talks about being bored and is nicknamed the ‘lazy lion,’ would be very happy to see him, right?”
“Then, it’s not that you want to see me… you’re trying to instigate a fight for the throne?”
The professor nodded loudly at Lucilla’s vague voice.
“When you become a high-ranking aristocrat or royal family, even your hand gestures and the way you speak can be seen as having political meaning. Think about it from the emperor’s perspective. Beyond those mountains, a fierce battle with monsters is taking place to the point where a country collapses, and it has even been revealed that they are poking around on the outskirts of the empire. Of course, when the power of a huge empire gathers, it can exert a power that is incomparable to that of the small eastern countries, but now the empire has become rusty due to a long period of peace, and the nobles are divided into the forces of various princes and princesses and cannot unite. It’s a situation. He probably even let slip a story about you. ‘If you show that much wit and care for the empire, it would be a good idea to bring it into the arms of the empire…’ Well, wouldn’t you have muttered something like this?”
The emperor is not a fool. He is just waiting to see how he can use this situation to benefit the empire.
The battle that occurred at Wuthering Heights and Lucilla’s fame served as a good tool for the emperor.
“It seems the Emperor has slowly become aware of the threat of Mute. The royal family must be thinking of ending the battle for the throne early by giving each other some friction. “Once the next crown prince is chosen, the regime will be stabilized, and the nobles who need to impress the crown prince who will become the new emperor will follow orders without making a fuss, even if only for a moment.”
“Then, I…”
“okay. It was chosen as one of countless apples for the emperor. I guess I should congratulate you in advance. Hipsters with backgrounds so great that they can’t even be compared to that idiot of the Margrave will come to you with a carriage full of bouquets. “The emperor will give points to your formation depending on who introduced you to the emperor.”
Lucilla was a clever girl. Familiar with her political physiology, she immediately understood what I meant, and knew that she was not simply facing the royal family or the emperor, but had entered the middle of the thin ice-like battle for the throne, against her will.
“Mo, I can’t. Not because of my family, but as an individual, I have to choose one of those three… If I make the wrong choice and another royal family member is selected as the next emperor, not only me but the entire Aedran family will be hated by the empire. It will work! You will no longer be able to raise the flag atop the Gold Geyser anywhere in the Empire! I, I…. Heep! “The lives of our entire family… Hi!”
“Go to sleep, take a deep breath, and write – hoo! That’s right, you’re good at it. “So, it doesn’t mean we’ll go together.”
“Yo, hero?”
“okay. I. “How reassuring are you?”
Suddenly, the professor sat down next to Lucilla and patted her on the back, and the slightly more genuine Lucilla looked at the professor with suspicious eyes.
“Didn’t I tell you earlier that you can’t bareback?”
“Uh…yes. “We need cooperation…”
“okay. Miss Lucilla Aedran? The Professor’s Hero Party’s proposal is as follows. Although we have a long way to go, we decided that it would be too dangerous to leave the legendary Lady Teldrat, the greatest trophy in a man’s life, alone in an empire full of all kinds of dangers, so we accompany her to the capital of the empire. step! In return, Lucilla Aedran….”
The professor took the royal family’s letters from Lucilla’s dazed hands and waved them gently as if fanning them.
“By announcing in front of all the nobles of the empire that you are a member of the ‘Professor’s Hero Party’ in name and reality, we cooperate so that an invitation to Lucilla as an individual can be an invitation to our ‘Professor’s Hero’s Party’. “Because the party leader has the right to interfere with party members’ actions, residence, and events.”
“Isn’t that… a customary right? Of course, it’s an old custom, but with the authority of the party leader, you can’t just invite the royal family like that-”
“-I have enough power to insist. “As long as there is a justification, that is enough.”
He is a saint who is so popular that he can destroy a magic device with just letters from believers.
The point is, it ultimately meant that I would wear a hunchback when going to meet the royal family.
‘In order to meet the prince and princess of the empire through formal procedures, you must complete an eye-watering amount of quests. But if you call me from over there, I can meet you directly right away, right? Even though she didn’t invite me, she invited my party members, so if Lucilla is a little more accommodating, it will be possible to add one or two more people to the party. Aldrich is a warlock so it doesn’t work. I can’t take Notum and Borka because they are in front of people who divide people into commoners and nobles. Lucilla, who was invited, as well as me, a saint from the two major churches, and Idrasil, an elf, could join in.’
An invitation to Lucilla -> It is secretly buried as an invitation to the professor’s warrior party. Right now, even if it’s a noble party, if you invite the head of a certain family, there will be knights who support their children with the purpose of introducing them here and there. Everyone else aside, I can now be considered a leader in the religious world. There’s nothing wrong with knowing, so we can meet as long as there’s a reason, right? maybe?
[oh. Did you just think of that? As you remember, there was no such plan.]
I could hear Hyde clapping inside. Well, I really just came up with this, so even if I shared my memory, I wouldn’t have known it.
This isn’t because I’m a genius or because I thought about all possibilities and carefully weighed the risks of failure and the rewards of success before deciding. Just ‘it’s an event!’ With that thought in mind, I immediately bit down on it. I don’t usually do that, but I can do that now.
because?
Luckily, I ended up in a forest with no cities or villages.
Luckily, just as I was hungry, there was a wild boar nearby, so I grilled it and ate it.
Luckily, Notum found a letter with the imperial seal in a pile of letters he was planning to burn.
Luckily, our location is not too far from the capital.
This is all a coincidence? No, that can’t be possible. This is part of the effect given in return for being hit with bad luck Lv.15 by system break.
Grants Luck Lv.7 for 24 hours.
Lv.15, full level misfortune means that even if the player dies and wakes up, whatever he was doing is ruined. In my case, I went straight to the elven forest to negotiate, and the journey, which was supposed to end with me meeting the World Tree, ended up going round and round in a strange way called a letter attack. A normal person could have fallen and died.
Half of that, if you have Lv. 7 level luck, it may not be at a level where everything goes well, but it is enough for good opportunities to constantly come to the player. This means that if you make good judgments and make the right choices, things can work out in ridiculous ways like the attack of the letter dragon.
So, while I was waiting with my eyes open to see what was going to happen, one of the party members said something like, ‘This is an event no matter who sees it~’?
So I quickly grabbed it. Even though I have no ties or activities in the imperial aristocratic world, I can face the royal family that is fighting for the throne, and that too with only one card given to me. If this isn’t luck, what is it?
“So. What’s your answer? Will you cooperate?”
“Uh… um… when I go to meet the royal family, I go with the hero… and the hero meets the royal family… um…”
Lucilla seemed seriously conflicted, but ultimately decided that it was impossible to go to the capital alone, so she accepted my handshake.
“Okay! You must cooperate, absolutely! No matter what happens! If you break the promise you made to the Saint of Mercy and Light, you will be labeled a heretic by both major religious denominations!”
“What on earth are you trying to do by holding me so hard!”
“It’s insurance, insurance. Hehehehe.”
Looking at the professor’s sinister smile, Lucilla seriously wondered if she had made a pact with the devil. A contract that serves her purpose but ends up making her unhappy in the end.
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