Duke’s Quadruplets Are All Overpowered Chapter 1

One

A great blessing has come to the Duke of Reinberg. The blessing of pregnancy came 20 years after the Duke of Libera Quartz Reinberg and the Princess of Demenia became husband and wife.

A grand festival was held for 266 days in the Quartz territory ruled by Duke Reinberg. The news of the birth of a successor to Duke Reinberg, the blue pillar of the empire, became the talk of the entire continent beyond the empire, and many people visited Quartz Castle to congratulate Duke Reinberg, a venerable imperial noble and the best spiritualist on the continent.

As the birth date approached, even the Duke of Reinberg could not help but become nervous.

In particular, the wife’s swollen belly was twice as big as that of other pregnant women, so she was worried that something might happen, so she invited a prominent god with the blessings of the spirit beast and waited for the birth under the priest’s blessing.

However, as if mocking the Duke’s anxious heart, the moment of blessing did not come even after the birth date passed.

266 days had passed, and 300 days had passed.

When an ominous feeling begins to hang over Reinberg Street.

Finally, fortunately, the Duchess went into labor.

The Duke of Reinberg ignored his vassals’ requests to save face and tried to share the pain by watching the birth by the mother’s side.

Argh-!

Demenia, the princess of the empire and nicknamed the unbreakable flower. She, firm and strong as she is, lets out her scream in pain. She had known thirty years. She was always confident. The Duke of Reinberg felt his heart break at seeing his wife’s weakness for the first time.

“I feel like my whole body is falling apart, Reinberg! I can already see how much trouble our child will become, haha. Bullying my mother… “Ahh!”

“Madam, this is none other than our child. Since he is the child of the empire’s best spiritualist and wise man, he will definitely become the star of the empire. Oh, if only I could suffer for you!”

“Would your mother have felt this way? If it’s for the child, I… … .”

“Don’t think like that! “I am there.”

The Duke of Reinberg was still nothing more than a commoner and a psychic, and the two had been in love ever since Lady Demenia was criticized for being the princess of the empire and the child born after killing the queen. Their love has not changed for decades.

Duke Reinberg was anxious. He had not had children from her for a long time, knowing that her label as ‘the unfortunate child born after killing her mother’ tormented her. Does this mean that misfortune continues?

‘If you are listening from the underworld, please forgive me. She deserves to have children!’

The duke held his wife’s hand tightly and imbued her with the energy of a transcendent beast, a spirit beast. She hoped that if the queen hated her child, she would please relieve her anger. She even promised that if he took her to her death, he would chase her to the afterlife and avenge her.

The labor continued for a day. The Duchess lost consciousness several times, but woke up to the Duke’s sincerity. When experienced midwives predicted death for both mother and child, the Duke threw all his strength into saving his wife’s life. In one day, the best spiritualist in the empire who could handle transcendental beasts became as dry as a monk who had fasted for several days.

“Reinberg… … .”

“Demenia.”

“The child… “I think the baby will be born.”

Was the heavens impressed by the sincerity of the two?

On a dreary early morning when the cold wind was blowing, a miracle occurred.

“midwife!”

Two midwives rushed to receive the child, and the priest waiting outside the door recited a prayer and the doctor began to take out medicine in preparation for an unexpected situation.

The mother’s stomach, which had been quiet, begins to twitch due to the child’s struggles. Her wife poured out all her strength, and the Duke of Reinberg hoped for the most earnest hope of his life.

Finally, the newborn was lifted into the hands of the midwife.

“Congratulations. “He is a healthy boy.”

Mite!

“Huh.”

The duke, who felt resentment toward the child who was harassing the mother, shed tears as the child cried loudly. The midwife carefully handed the child, wrapped in her clean blanket, into the woman’s arms.

“My child. “Sweet baby.”

“This guy bullied his mother so much. The biggest baby I’ve ever seen was born. Let’s see if he wants to become a captain.”

It was when Demenia looked at the child with a benevolent smile.

Suddenly her expression hardens.

The midwife also noticed the strange thing and shouted.

“The blessing of conception has not yet passed.”

Was the unusually large belly a sign of twins?

The Duke of Reinberg was taken aback by the unexpected situation, but the birth of his second child went smoothly.

“Oh, congratulations. “This is a baby girl who was born healthy.”

The duke now laughed with genuine joy. After all this heartache, blessings are coming in layers! However, the wife’s stiff expression remained and as the midwife moved around, she noticed something strange.

“W-what happened?”

Argh-!

At that time, the mother’s ear-piercing cries began and the midwife began to move hurriedly.

“Three, my third child was born. She is likewise a healthy baby girl.”

I was happy. It was definitely joyful, special, beautiful, and happy.

But now I slowly felt a different emotion.

Puzzling.

Triplets?

At that time, the loud crying sound of a child that caught the duke out of his wits was heard again.

Mite! Mite!

“The fourth child is a boy.”

“Midwife, have you seen your twins?”

“Is this a presumptuous thing to say…?” “I’ve been a midwife for forty years and I’ve never seen one.”

Four twins were born to the Duke of Reinberg.

* * *

When it became known that the birth of quadruplets was unprecedented in the long history of the empire, the Vatican dispatched a black priest to the Reinberg family. Since ‘4’ symbolized the most unlucky number in the empire, the reason was that there might be a devil’s child hidden among the quadruplets.

The Duke and Duchess of Reinberg politely refused the Vatican’s investigation, but the Vatican again requested permission, and no matter how much the Duke of Reinberg, a pillar of the empire, could not ignore the authority of the Vatican, which surpasses the royal power.

In the end, the quadruplets were placed under the watchful eye of the Black Priest under the condition that they refrain from acting arbitrarily.

The babies, who were now a month old, were bathed in holy water every morning, kept a silver cross by their side, and even their mother, the Duchess, was not able to hold the children as she pleased, except for one hour of visitation a day.

The quadruplets are the Duke of Reinberg’s first blessed children in decades. As precious children were suspected of being the children of the devil, the patience of the Reinberg family vassals and the duke himself was reaching its limit.

Fortunately, the Black Priest’s surveillance was over, and the red skin and black horns, evidence of the devil, did not appear in the children. However, through the priest’s testimony at the dinner party, we learned that all four children had unusual habits.

The Black Priest said to Duke Reinberg:

The first child glared at him so much that his eyes, which had just begun to open, turned red and bloodshot.

The second child babbled non-stop, as if he were talking.

The third child never cried even when bathed in holy water or put a cold cross on his body.

“That’s amazing!”

The bride’s remark was intended to cause discomfort to the duke who had treated her poorly, but the duke and his wife were delighted, saying that they were extraordinary children.

“Did your youngest child have any special habits?”

Even the youngest child asked the bride in hopes that she would be special.

The Black Priest shrugged his shoulders and answered the Duke’s cheerful attitude.

“The youngest master was like an ordinary child.”

The priest suddenly thought of something and was about to add something.

‘He had some strange habits. Even when giving him a bottle or changing a diaper, he always looked at me with his middle finger raised. ‘I felt strangely bad.’

It could not be said that the duke’s youngest master’s habits were unpleasant.

* * *

Our four twins were as normal as other kids their age. Of course, the existence of quadruplets was special, but it wasn’t like we had any extraordinary power or special talent. As time passed, the rumors about the quadruplets became less significant. The notoriety of having a hidden child of the devil has disappeared, and it has become just as commonplace as ‘The Duke of Reinberg has four twin heirs.’

So, until ‘that day’, even though we were all special, we did not cross the line of common sense.

For example, the title of being the youngest son of the Duke of Reinberg, a ducal family of Kunkan, the most prosperous empire on the Eastern Continent, and a family of spiritualists who control the mysterious power called ‘spirit beasts’, is common sense, although it is special.

However, in fact, the fact that the youngest son was a soldier on a planet called ‘Earth’ in a past life and a person with strange powers, and that he recalled all the memories of his past life is both special and far outside the line of common sense.

From now on, this is an area where the line has been crossed into the realm of non-sense.

Just one person who remembers their past life is enough, but in fact, if both twins are monsters who remember their past lives and even wield their power, the existence of the ‘quadruple twins’ and the ‘Rainberg family’ becomes ordinary again.

“Little master! The great master is looking for… … .”

“I told you I wasn’t there!”

“yes? “You are here, right?”

“Stupid maid!”

The Reinberg family’s quadruplets actually remember their past lives.

* * *

Unlike other noble families, the Duke of Reinberg does not have a deep legacy. The first head of the family and progenitor was my father, the war hero Duke Libera Quartz of Reinberg.

The family’s vassals were all veterans of the Great War who were directly appointed by their father, and most of the knights were also commoners, so even though they were great nobles with the title of duke with a duchy, they were the family that had the least connection to the politics of the empire.

However, this is not a family that is looked down upon. When a great war broke out, no one dared ignore the mere presence of Duke Reinberg, the great hero who saved the empire and the spiritualist who still shows off his power.

Well, in words he is a duke, but in reality he is no different from a margrave. The Quartz Territory, a duchy, bordered the land of the demi-humans and was also a defense line for the empire.

Thanks to this, the family culture was free and generous, so I lived happily until I was ten years old. My siblings and I, including myself, were sane and normal kids back then. As the youngest son of a prosperous family, with a free and leisurely family tradition where there would be no fight over the successor, he would have been able to live comfortably in the duchy without any hassle.

However, the incident occurred ahead of the ‘Rite of Artemis’.

The Duke of Reinberg, who deals with the power of transcendent beings called ‘spirit beasts’ and beasts with special powers, held an annual thanksgiving festival to appease Artemis, the god of hunting and the god of spirit beasts. As a child, I thought the sight of knights participating in the Thanksgiving Festival was cool. When he turned ten and became eligible to participate in Artemis’ ritual, he excitedly practiced hunting.

It was a time when I was learning how to shoot a bow, how to chase game, and how to find traces.

I suddenly realized.

What I was in my past life.

It was so unexpected that I burst into laughter when I remembered my past life.

“Oh, I remembered. Kim Chang-sik, 29 years old.”

* * *

It’s not that there were no signs.

From the time I learned the language and was able to communicate to a certain extent, I would suddenly think of words that did not exist in the Kunkan Empire.

Words like ‘ramen’ and ‘stew’ that were difficult to pronounce in Kunkan language came to mind, and surprisingly, I also realized that they were food.

I heard that when I was younger, I habitually raised my middle finger when I saw people.

However, it was when I was ten years old and ahead of the hunting festival that I remembered my past life.

It was at this time that we, who were as normal as other children our age, suddenly changed, and it was also at this time that I recalled memories of my past life. The other twins probably recalled their past lives around the same time as me. Amid the confusion, the result I came up with was simple.

Hiding.

Knowing about your past life doesn’t change anything.

I got a new life. A very noble life, too.

When I remembered the disgusting and dirty things I had experienced in my previous life, I felt that my current life was more precious.

There won’t be any problem.

That’s what I thought.

Damn, how can this be?

* * *

I participated in the thanksgiving festival while keeping it a secret.

Even though they are the duke’s children, they are still only ten years old.

Of course, he did not engage in excessive hunting, and with the help of his knights, all he did was rejoice in the game he accidentally caught while shooting from a distance with a bow or arrow.

“The first Confucius has disappeared!”

“what? Live? “What are the escort knights doing?”

The moment I caught a rabbit and walked up to my father and boasted about it, the knights who were guarding my eldest brother suddenly came rushing in and said something like that. From then on, I gradually felt that something was wrong.

The duke’s eldest son disappeared during the family festival. As a huge commotion broke out, the hunting festival was stopped, and not only the knights but also his father, a psychic, went out to look for his brother. The search for the family began unexpectedly, but the scale of the search was so great that it could be called Cheonnajimang. However, despite a thorough search, no trace of the fragile ten-year-old boy was found. The situation became so serious that even rumors were raised about kidnapping by demi-humans taking advantage of the festival.

“The master is back! He said he went hunting alone, but… “You caught a white spotted mammoth.”

“what? mammoth? “Mammoth?”

The older brother, who was lost, returned to his feet a few hours later and caught a white spotted mammoth. Hearing the unbelievable news, my father went straight to see his older brother, and I quickly followed him.

“Are you here, father?”

I still remember my brother waiting for us in the tent at the hunting ground with a relaxed smile that was unusual for his age. The tone of speech suddenly changed. The ten-year-old boy, who had been hunting for several hours while avoiding his family’s search, was covered in dust but had not even the slightest wound. The size of the mammoth ivory that his brother presented as evidence was taller than my height.

“Nothing, there are no injuries. Ha, can you explain how this happened?”

“It’s no big deal. “I was chasing a deer when I saw one that was bothersome, so I caught it.”

“Are you saying there was a mammoth nearby?”

During the thanksgiving festival, the duchy’s hunting grounds are completely controlled.

Absolutely no beasts as ferocious as the mammoths that inhabit the land of the demi-humans will enter.

First, the knights in charge of controlling the hunting grounds were disgusted by Confucius’ words and began to make excuses.

“The hunting grounds were under complete control. There is no way the mammoths of the northern lands are in the hunting grounds!’

“It is not an issue that should be overlooked. A proper investigation must be ordered… … .”

“No, father. “There really were no mammoths in the hunting grounds.”

My brother smiled and said (with a relaxed smile that I had never seen before).

“On the hunting grounds.”

A ten-year-old child captured a mammoth that was too much for even knights who had learned Auror skills on their own.

Of course, everyone, including my father, was shocked. This is another level of nonsense that completely destroys common sense. If my brother hadn’t been the child of Duke Reinberg, the monster of the Empire, something more serious would have happened. Things like black priests coming out of the Vatican and dissecting my brother.

It was time for everyone to seriously worry about the truth or truth of Confucius’ words.

Now, the second lady’s guards came and told her father, who was unable to come to his senses.

“The Second Lady suddenly disappeared!”

“These bastards. I told you so early that I suspected an outside operation! “Are you still knights of the dukedom?”

“I don’t mean to make excuses, but really… It disappeared before my eyes.”

“Does that make sense? “A ten-year-old girl disappeared without the gaze of dozens of knights?”

The first mammoth hunt was only the beginning of the legend.

One after another, the second sister disappeared, and now, within an hour, a huge crocodile called the ‘Neron River Crocodile’ has been caught. What is surprising is that a ten-year-old girl somehow managed to catch a crocodile, a predator that only lives in the Neron River, a few hours away by horseback from the hunting ground. Moreover, unlike her older brother who brought only mammoth tusks, she brought a whole giant crocodile. How on earth the giant crocodile was moved from the Neron River to its resting place is still a family mystery.

My father did not ask his second sister, who caught the crocodile, how she caught it. He must have been scared to hear any answer. He asked instead why he had caught a giant crocodile from far away, and his sister answered:

‘Because I don’t want to lose to that guy.’

The situation that day was chaos itself.

On a day when the children of a duke’s family showed off a series of extraordinary acts and their father, who had a gentle personality, lost his temper in an unbelievable situation, the third older sister decorated the finale of the festival.

Unlike the first and second sisters, the third sister did not suddenly disappear or catch a huge animal. However, while the Reinberg family was in a panic, they went around the hunting grounds as if taking a walk and looked for game, but the problem was… … .

“Ah, the Third Lady is now bringing the animals from the hunting ground!”

“Bring it with you? “The beasts?”

Dozens of rabbits, deer and wild boars followed her.

He lives well, naturally, as if he regards his third sister as his master.

The sight of her basking in the warm sunlight, surrounded by beasts, was even sacred.

“They are all children who received the moon’s protection! Oh, Artemis!”

The cry of an old maid, Jean, who believed in superstition.

This was the moment when the legend of ‘the quadruplets who received the moon’s protection (even though I was only a hunchback)’ was born.

Hell, if I knew who he was, I wouldn’t have said something like that.

What is the moon’s protection for the evil people who wanted to destroy the world?