Episode 66. Invasion
A few days passed since then.
Even while taking private lessons, he did not stop practicing.
Of course, Baekgol continued to gather the information I needed and kept a close eye on Sylvia and Ceylon’s movements.
[I found a nice place.]
That evening, after several days, Baekgol finally found a good place.
“How good is it?”
[With a 30% chance…]
“Are you getting caught?”
[Not being caught.]
“Then you’re saying I’ll just get caught?”
Then Baekgol said with an annoyed look on his face.
[This is the best. I say this because I don’t know how fierce the security is there. This is the path I found out while learning the Dokdo method that is not even in the fortune! If you don’t like it, don’t go! I don’t want to look at the map anymore either!]
“Well, I said I was keeping Sylvia under tight surveillance.”
It’s said that most of the people inside are people brought from their maternal side, so it’ll be difficult to get in.
[What are you going to do?]
“What should I do? I have to go in and take a look.”
[What if I get caught?]
“Well, I guess he won’t die.”
[Are you sure?]
“About half?”
Honestly, I couldn’t guarantee it.
The reason why the Sword Master that Ceylon brought last time just retreated is because you were the one who started a fight and came into my territory first.
But this time, I couldn’t be sure what would happen since I was going to pick a fight and go to that area.
“Surely you would try to kill someone who is your blood relative?”
[But aren’t you a bachelor? Even when you met me, you confidently declared that you were a bachelor, but you don’t know how precious your life is.]
That’s true.
But there was one person I believed in, and that was Duke Aizen.
“If you can just figure out that it’s a yellow gem… there’s a way. Don’t worry.”
[Even if it is true that it is a yellow jewel, wouldn’t the Duke not know if he is surrounded there?]
“Well, if you’re the Duke, you’ll know that I’m surrounded, but you won’t come to my aid.”
But if it’s a yellow gem, there’s a way.
“You can just use the bird.”
[If it’s a honey bird, it’ll be hard for them to convey something because they’re weak. They have a hard time even lifting a single flower petal.]
“Don’t worry, there’s a way. Anyway, tell me quickly.”
[Are you going now?]
“Oh. Let’s just do it right now, and pull out the bull’s horns while we’re at it.”
I changed my clothes one by one.
But since I’m going anyway, I should change my clothes.
‘But I don’t have any black clothes?’
Most of my clothes are prepared by Tesrun, and since I have a lot of bright-colored clothes, I decided to just wear the darkest ones out of them.
Fortunately, they gave me permission.
***
The place that Baekgoli found out through the birds was a mountain path.
[They say that this is a place where there is no royal rites for servants at all. Sometimes the servants go to the back and chat, but they say that they don’t come in the evening.]
“I guess so. But the Duke’s house is really big.”
‘It’s a small park, though.’
I don’t know how big the dukedom itself is, but the small mountain where the hunter was was also included in the dukedom.
However, the mountain where the hunter was was located behind the duke’s house, so it wasn’t too far from the house where I was staying.
The residential area where Sylvia was staying was quite a distance from me, and there was a small hill next to the residential area.
As we climbed up the mountain, we saw a wide garden in the residential area, just as the King of Heroes had said, and in the middle of the garden, we saw a table that looked like someone was drinking tea.
I imagined myself sitting at a table, drinking tea while looking at the various flowers blooming on the mountain and the trees arranged differently depending on the view.
‘There is….. no surveillance.’
If something had occurred, “super intuition” would have been triggered.
I briefly looked out over Sylvia’s residential area from the small hill, and then I collapsed on the spot.
[Aren’t you going?]
“There are still a lot of servants wandering around. Let’s wait a little longer for now.”
My eyes could sense the natural energy within the body of an opponent no matter how far away it was.
There, the sense of touch felt on the skin and the hearing that reacted to the sound of people’s bodies moving were already sensitive to the energy of nature, so I knew that there were still people walking around in that mansion.
[What if the number of people doesn’t decrease?]
“I should go right then. By the way, do you know which room Sylvia is staying in?”
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[I’m staying on the 3rd floor. By the way, even if you’re a layman, the difference in the houses is… really big.]
“…..What the hell.”
[It’s nothing. The place we’re staying is worse than the houses that commoners stay in….. Ahem.]
However, it was not really worse than the houses where commoners stayed.
However, my house had a slightly unique living space.
There were several doors on the outside of one house, and the kitchen, servants’ rooms, storage, and my room were all separate, so rather than moving around the house, it would be more accurate to say that you moved to another room through the yard.
“Just sleep, what does home have to do with it?”
[Well. That’s true too…..]
“Anyway, it would be difficult to invade if it’s that wide. There’s that flaw.”
Through the natural energy visible to the eye, I learned that the Sword Master I had seen before was also staying in the mansion.
In addition, there were quite a few strong people who could not be ignored, other than the Sword Master.
‘The knights that Duke Aizen carries around have a different vibe from nature.’
Depending on how you collect mana, the color and shape of the natural energy will change.
Compared to the knights who secretly escorted Duke Aizen, he had a natural aura close to sky blue.
‘Is he a knight brought from the Kingdom of Pratz, or a knight brought from the Goatan Empire…?’
Anyway, it seemed like the area up to the current location was within the Sword Master’s service area that I saw last time.
“If we go any further than this, we’ll get caught right away.”
[Then are you going to wait until the Sword Master falls asleep?]
“No? I told you before. I’m going to wait until there are fewer employees.”
The Sword Master’s ability to provide a presence is dangerous, but it only affects opponents with mana or those who have a will to kill.
Even ordinary servants have mana, so even if I, who have nothing, were to enter the service zone, it would be easily detected as it would be obscured by the servants’ mana.
“By the way, did you find the red jewel?”
[The birds might have missed it. No matter how many you release, not many birds will see this place.]
“Well, it’s fortunate that I was able to find a yellow gem… But, who would you use something like a yellow gem for?”
The one I am most certain of is Sylvia’s.
With Sylvia’s spirit sealed, it could be that he covets the talents that reside in her body, or that he desires the body that will awaken in the future.
“It’s so damn complicated. Can’t those with jewels use things like resonance?”
[…..Don’t expect too much. If you used resonance, wouldn’t 2142 have recognized Luna as soon as he saw her?]
“That’s true too. It’s getting complicated.”
[Didn’t you say that if you look at your eyes, you can tell if someone used the yellow gem?]
“That’s because you can’t see it.”
When you wear a yellow gem, you can see its unique black aura vaguely embedded in your body.
Should I say it’s like another soul?
But it was not visible at the moment.
“You might be able to see it if you go inside the mansion.”
As time passed, the number of servants in the mansion decreased and only the scouting knights remained.
“let’s go.”
-Tweet tweet tweet-!!!!!
I led the honey birds towards the mansion.
***
I brought honey birds the size of my finger, so that they wouldn’t get caught, and had them hide in various places in the mansion to scout out.
I heard this from the King of Heroes, but in the strategy games I had seen in the past, such as “Fool’s Sigh”, reconnaissance was the most basic thing to do, so I especially asked the Honey Birds to do it.
Let me know even the smallest things.
[…..I hate to say this, but as soon as you enter, you get the feeling that the gap between the rich and the poor is severe.]
“……shut up.”
11pm, the time when employees go to bed.
The servants are said to open the storage window at the back of the mansion before going to bed to ventilate it.
As soon as we entered the warehouse, we felt that the gap between the rich and the poor was severe.
[It’s just a warehouse where we keep things we don’t need to manage the yard, but it’s all made of iron… We don’t have many things made of wood, so the maids had to clear the yard with small shovels. It’s really sad.]
“……”
[It’s pitiful that these maids have to suffer like this because they’re the sons of the employees. Tsk. They’re the kind women who give me vegetables. Take good care of them from now on. A rich guy is so petty.]
“……”
Since I was receiving money from the organization, I had to take care of other people besides myself.
-Squeak.
I carefully opened the warehouse door and went outside.
[They’ve embedded those expensive magic stones all over the mansion. And they only have light magic engraved on them.]
‘If you take one of those… no.’
Even though you have money, try not to think about poverty.
[Then I won’t need the ability to see in the dark. It’s so bright.]
‘……shut up.’
I walked around the mansion with all my senses on edge.
I had to cover my body because of the servants passing by, and I had to use my hero powers to avoid being caught by the knights, but I was still able to move around with ease.
However, there was one strange thing.
‘Something feels strange.’
[What are you talking about?]
‘I wasn’t paying attention to the Sword Master so I wouldn’t get caught… No, I guess I was under the pressure of the Sword Master’s energy so I didn’t pay attention until now?’
[What are you talking about?]
‘Everything is gathered in one place.’
Unlike the knights guarding the mansion, the energy of those whose bodies contained the compressed energy of nature that I had been wary of was all gathered in one place.
‘In Sylvia’s room, I mean.’
The reason I could feel this was because as I approached Sylvia’s room, I could feel the powerful energy gathered inside it through my skin.
[…..Then isn’t it dangerous?]
“I don’t know. But I know what I have to do.”
I got this close to Sylvia’s room, but there was no response.
Doesn’t that mean you’re focusing on something?
“There’s nothing more refreshing than breaking a labor pain.”
I stood in front of Sylvia’s door and raised my sword.
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