Episode 182
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As the Shadow Lord, he has gained the loyalty of the two Elf Lords and the Blue Tower, and the ‘Black Prince’ of Saxony has finally returned to his domain.
With the elf Sepia, who once took refuge in the Saxon family.
That day, in the office of the Duke of Saxony.
When his son returned, it was not the Black Ball who was unaware of the cold chill that permeated Dale’s body.
“… … .”
A very heavy and disturbing silence fell.
“My son.”
After a moment of silence, the black ball opened its mouth.
“Yes, father.”
“Isn’t it painful?”
Dale didn’t answer right away but remained silent.
No matter what, Dale is his son to Black Gong. The family he built with his younger sister Lize after giving up being a monster.
However, the ‘Black Prince’ willingly claimed to be the Shadow Lord, and his body bore the darkness of antiquity and the coldness of the apocalypse, and it was impossible for him not to know what that meant.
“……okay.”
The black ball smiled indifferently.
“But sometimes, when what you are enduring becomes too painful, please feel free to tell me.”
“… … .”
“Am I not your father?”
Dale smiled quietly in response to his father’s expression, which seemed unable to hide his concern.
“The things I carry are never things I carry alone.”
After gaining a second life in the Saxon ducal family, Dale’s possessions were not something he had built alone. They were acquired through the help and connections of his father, the Duke of Saxony, Lord Helmut, Sepia, and countless others.
“Father, even now, always carries many of the things I carry on my shoulders.”
So nothing changed. The brief conversation between the two rich men ended there.
Soon Dale left his office, and the Black Duke, left alone, turned his head. Beyond the glass windows of the Saxon duchy, the cold and dusk were settling in. But nothing in this frozen land could compare to the cold flowing through his son’s body.
The fact that he had no choice but to watch that fact was an indescribable pain to him as a father.
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“Brother!”
As soon as they came out into the courtyard of the Saxon Duke’s Castle, young Lise found Dale smiling brightly.
“Yes, Lize. You’ve been practicing magic diligently while I’m away, right?”
“yes!”
Lize smiled brightly and closed her eyes. She focused her consciousness on the current of mana flowing through her heart, and quietly stretched out her arms.
A blast of cold air swirled along her arms, but it was too weak to constitute proper magic.
“Wow, that’s some really cool magic.”
Still, Dale smiled and stroked Lize’s hair, and Lize smiled proudly.
“How is it? It’s really pretty!”
“Yes, it’s very pretty.”
“Then show me more!”
Lize processed the magic power into a piece of circle that could not even form 1 circle, and the magic power began to shine like crystal, imbued with a sharp coldness.
It’s not magic, it’s just the result of the process of releasing magical power and fusing with the atmosphere. But who would expect anything more from this child? For example, the optimal military killing formula for killing people.
Seven-year-old Lize was not the ‘Black Prince’ who was once called the greatest genius in the empire. And that fact was very fortunate for Dale.
The ‘frost’ that Lize unfolded spread around, emitting light in the twilight of the evening.
“The magic is really pretty.”
Dale spoke bitterly, looking at the sight. Even now, he was leaving behind the frost of the end that was swirling inside the dark-blooded body.
“It’s really pretty and beautiful.”
“Thank you, brother! I’ll work harder!”
Dale tilted his head for a moment at her bitter smile, but Lize smiled brightly without really understanding.
It was just as he said. It was so beautiful and pure, it was so mysterious that it was difficult for Dale to even look at it straight.
“You know, Lize.”
“Yes, brother!”
Dale said after seeing the sight.
“You will become a very great wizard.”
“Like your brother?”
“As I said, I’m not as great a wizard as Lize thinks.”
“No, everyone in Saxony is proud of you! My father and mother were too! When I grow up, I will become a great wizard like you!”
Lize puffed out her cheeks and Dale laughed silently.
“Then shall I teach you how this guy became so great?”
“yes!”
After laughing, Dale asked, and Lize nodded cheerfully.
“That’s because I have a really great teacher.”
As he said that, Dale turned around. From a distance, Dale’s old master was watching the two of them.
But Sepia was no longer Dale’s teacher.
“Sepia!”
“Lize, you’ve grown into a fine lady already.”
“It’s nice to see you again!”
It was Sepia, a member of the Saxon family, and Lize knew her too. Sepia smiled and patted Lize on the head, and Dale spoke.
“From now on, Sepia will teach you magic.”
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“and!”
At those words, Lize smiled brightly like a child her age.
“Come with me and let us discover the magical path you must take.”
As Sepia had once told young Dale, young Lize’s new teacher was there.
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“Oh, shit. There’s nothing in the world as good as peace.”
At that moment, the shadow high court was relying on the Duke of Saxony.
“I don’t know what these little bastards are so good at that they go to war and lie down.”
Master Baro sipped his beer with both feet on the table, while the Shadow Saint smiled beside him.
“Until the end of the world, the struggle between gold and shadow will never end.”
Not as a lady of knights, but as a saint who serves the Shadow Goddess.
But it wasn’t just their number that was guarding the shadow court.
“It really is a cold place.”
There was a copper-skinned shadow wearing a hood. An enforcer of the Elven society’s divine orders, an assassin of the mountain.
And these are not the ones on the borders of the Empire, but the strong ones who carry out their duties in the deepest parts of the Empire.
Shadow Court and the Mountain Assassins.
Since they all claimed to be riders of the shadows, it was not at all surprising that the mountain assassins would borrow the power of the Saxon family to operate in the empire.
“This is not a climate that dark elves are used to.”
The Shadow Lord spoke, and one of the Mountain Assassins knelt.
In addition, the two leaders of the Shadow Court, Master Baro and the Shadow Saintess, as well as the court’s assassins, were there.
“As long as the Elven kingdom remains loyal to the ancient covenant, I too will fulfill my duty to you as a Shadow Lord.”
Dale said.
“Isn’t that so, Blue Curtain?”
Furthermore, along with the two organizations known as the masters of undercover operations, the final piece that would unite them was there.
Blue butterflies flew up.
“The Shadow Court, the Mountain Assassins, and the Spiderweb of the Blue Tower… … We each carry out our own missions, but at the same time, there is no reason why we should not willingly cooperate for the sake of one duty.”
Dale said.
─ The time has come. We, the Blue Tower, are also willing to break our silence for the Shadow Lord.
A voice came from somewhere, and Dale nodded absentmindedly.
“It will be a massive undertaking to unite me and the organizations loyal to me, and to establish a web that will extend throughout the Empire.”
For example, in the case of the Supreme Court, which claims to be the leader of the shadow court, they are not aware of the scale of their entire organization.
The ‘Little Courts’ are a guild of assassins who operate in the form of a sectarian organization, and who value human lives as nothing more than a few gold coins. In a sense, they are like a bunch of uncontrollable criminal organizations.
That is why it is important to unite and control the secret organizations that are scattered throughout the empire and active even now.
Furthermore, it would be a grand task to merge the Mountain Assassin, the Blue Tower’s Spider Web, and even the ‘Spider Web of the Sun’ scattered throughout Guild City. There was no need to even think deeply about the benefits that the result would bring to Dale.
Like the Grave Guard, the highest bodyguard directly under the Duke of Saxony who swears a vow of silence and serves from the shadows.
“Ultimately, they will all be reborn as one intelligence organization that organically cooperates in both the bright and dark sides.”
As a 《Grave Walker》 who is loyal and works in secret only for the ‘Shadow Lord’.
“Haha, are you trying to suddenly become the king of the night or something?”
Master Baro said with a hearty laugh, and Dale answered with a tilt of his head.
“Then is there anything that can’t be done?”
At the end of one journey, Dale had acquired countless things. And with them as his foundation, it was time to start a new journey.
But the stage for the next journey was not the Margraves beyond the Duchy of Saxony or the lands of the heathen in the Far East.
Because it was the entire country, the empire that I hated so much, the night streets and shadows of that country.
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In the night streets and shadows of the empire.
“Child, hurry and call out the name of the goddess.”
It was a man’s voice that was extremely gentle. However, to the boy listening to the voice, the man’s presence was nothing but the devil itself.
In the shadow of the empire, an immeasurable darkness lurks.
The value of life is so low that no one would care if a couple of people in the city disappeared. That is why this fact was like heaven to Gilles de Rais.
It has been quite some time since I left the island of Britannia and joined the devil worshippers of the Empire.
With his laboratory overflowing with materials, and the achievements of their Lodge, Kangma’s consciousness began to progress rapidly.
There is no such thing as God in this world. That was what I realized that day, when the Virgin was burning and falling in the frozen soil of Saxony.
But the absence of God does not mean the absence of the devil.
“Please wait a little longer, Virgin… … .”
There is no such thing as a goddess of mercy and compassion in this world. There is only an evil god, and proving the existence of that devil was Gilles de Rais’s final mission.
“The betrayal you once felt, the despair of not having a God… … I will make this Gilles de Reggae clear to everyone in the Empire.”
Gilles de Rais laughed ecstatically as he slashed the child’s Adam’s apple with his sword as he cried out for the goddess’s love and mercy.
Blood spurted out.
