Episode 180
[Are you planning to use the dragon as an instructor?]
“no.”
[no?]
“Yes. No.”
Using a dragon as an instructor… … Honestly, there’s nothing he can’t do.
But not now.
“There is a business I am planning to start.”
[business?]
“General Rommel told you about my sister, didn’t he?”
[That’s right.]
“If the inspiration hadn’t told me, I probably would have figured it out pretty early.”
[That would be right too.]
I think the most important things in this world are information and money.
I’ve created an information organization that I’m not familiar with, and as I reorganize the Adventurer’s Guild, I’ll gain new members, but it’s not enough.
To be exact, I should say that I don’t like it.
too.
late.
I want to hear all the information in the world while staying here in the villa.
“I realized this while making the magic communication device. It seems possible to inscribe some additional magic into it.”
[Some magic?]
Slowly, I sank into the sofa.
“Do you know how much one magic communication device costs?”
[You’re changing the subject.]
You may have felt that way.
Probably not.
“The price of one magic communication device is about 8 million gold. Even if only a ‘master magician’ who can use magic circles and create artifacts can make it, it is still too expensive.”
The teacher looks at me quietly.
“Among all the nobles on this continent, there are far more who cannot afford to have a magical communication device within their domain than those who do.”
[so?]
I turned my head and met my teacher’s eyes.
“Magic communication devices, with that level, you can make at least ten of them a day. Naturally, the performance is better than the magic communication devices currently on the market.”
[so?]
“If we could lower the price from millions to hundreds of thousands, wouldn’t the nobles of the continent be very happy?”
My words.
At first glance, it sounds like a very ‘aristocratic’ thing to say.
But the expression on the teacher’s face as he listened was serious.
I guess I should say that he instinctively knew what I was going to say next.
“It’s cheap and its performance is good… … Then naturally, the magical communication devices that were used in the past, worth millions of gold, will be discarded. Then, the communication devices I made will spread throughout this continent. But what if I inscribe ‘some magic’ on those communication devices that even the users don’t know about?”
[… … Do you know what I’m thinking right now?]
Even without saying a word, you can tell what the teacher is thinking and feeling just by looking at his expression.
“Yes, I know.”
[… … .]
“A spell that is engraved into a communication port. I can’t think of a good word for it. Eavesdropping? Eavesdropping? Hmm… … I think it would be better to call it eavesdropping.”
I hear a gurgling sound.
The source of the sound was not the Master, but the Death Knight, Kronos.
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The guy’s heart, or rather his body, trembled on the spot.
(……oh my god.)
Kronos sensed the repercussions of my words and the weight of my words.
It would have definitely hit home in the Chronos era, where information is handled and strategies are devised.
hmm.
Still, some more research would be necessary.
if.
If this works.
Just being in the Academy gives me access to all the happenings on this continent.
Even if war breaks out.
I will talk to you through the magical communication device that I have spread throughout the world, and if that happens, I will.
You literally become the ruler of this world.
[You truly intend to reign in this world.]
He laughed silently.
* * *
I didn’t think that way from the beginning.
I just needed information, and I needed people who would act as my hands and feet, so I brought in people who fit those criteria.
If that were all, then the pledge would have been truly irresponsible.
Let’s imagine doing this and that with Aveiro and his informants.
just.
You just become like everyone else.
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Are you satisfied with just that?
Other people might be satisfied, but not me.
I have people I am responsible for and people I have to protect, so being satisfied with that is not just irresponsible, it is incompetent.
So I thought.
How can we collect valuable information?
How can we see all the information in this vast world at a glance?
How can we collect all the information of the continent in a limited space?
That’s how I found it.
Few people communicate with each other through magical communication devices.
Because it’s expensive.
But what if we distributed it cheaply to the noble world?
Everyone will cheer.
Even the wealthy commoners will cheer.
Talking from a distance like that will become routine.
In that situation.
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What if you could eavesdrop on all those stories?
That is the end of controlling public opinion and the final stronghold of espionage warfare.
It has to be at least that level to be able to say out loud that you rule the world.
Of course there are problems.
[It’s a double-edged sword.]
I shrugged my shoulders as I ate the meal Guinness prepared for me for the first time in a long while.
[In terms of information power, you may be ahead of anyone in the world, but if it is unethical and it is revealed that you are wiretapping, all the blame will be on you.]
It goes without saying that everything involves risk.
Everyone turns their arrows toward me… … In other words, those who were the targets of my wiretapping are now pointing their swords at me… … .
Of course it doesn’t matter.
If it’s a risk that comes with having a monopoly on all the information in the world, then of course it has to be that much.
I’m confident I won’t get caught.
I’m really good at that one thing.
“I don’t plan on doing anything right now. I have a lot of things to take care of, including the issues that need to be taken care of.”
I turned my head slightly.
The entrance to the villa reflected on the window side.
There, Gray, the head of the swordsmanship department, and Galadiner, who was originally the head instructor of the military department but caught my eye and became the head of the military department, were entering.
I can see your serious expression.
this.
I guess something happened again without me knowing. What kind of kingdom is never at peace?
Oh my.
* * *
“Majar Teslan has been imprisoned.”
Could it be an illusion?
A piece of meat that I was chewing on felt very sweet.
“They said there will be a succession ceremony soon. In a month at the longest, or within two weeks at the shortest.”
I swallowed what was in my mouth and then asked.
“Nothing much. But don’t you eat meat?”
“……yes?”
“If you’re not going to eat it, give it to me.”
Gray hurriedly shakes his head with a dumbfounded expression.
“No, this is my first meal of the day.”
What are you trying to show off?
“Are you on a diet? How can you work without eating?”
Gray looks at me with bewildered eyes.
It’s an expression that says, ‘How can you say something like that after giving me so much work?’
“It’s a joke, and that’s the end of it? Magyar is dead… … No, he’s been locked up, you know, in prison?”
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“No. He’s locked in a annex on the outskirts of the castle, and the area is guarded by the knights like a steel fence. He probably won’t be able to take a single step out of there.”
“Really? It’s nothing special.”
Gray and Galadiner look slightly dazed at my insignificant remark.
“Haven’t you heard?”
“what?”
“It is said that Crown Prince Agares Teslan gathered the nobles together and said this.”
“What are you talking about?”
I guess this was the real point.
“The name of Tesla Academy has been changed to Milos Academy.”
“And revise it?”
“Creating a new faculty.”
Gray stops talking and glances at the Master sitting on my shoulder.
And then he said this.
“It is said that he declared that he would actively support the Academy, saying that we should not forget the great hero of the past, Valentine Milos.”
I ended up shaking my head quietly.
Seriously, there are all kinds of kids out there.
[I heard that you are alive and now I will come and benefit from it… … That is what it means.]
“Yes, Your Majesty Valentine, you are right. The fact that Magyar Teslan was imprisoned means that General Rommel abandoned him and chose Agares, and the fact that Agares mentioned Your Majesty Valentine’s name publicly.”
“What is it?”
“I’m sending a message.”
Dean Gray.
It’s new, but he’s quite capable.
He is really quick-witted, regardless of the fact that he was demoted from the position of Commander-in-Chief.
To sum up.
“Please help our country, cooperate with us, I’ll give you at least the Academy as a piece of cake, so please help us somehow. Let’s join hands… … That’s what you’re saying, right?”
“……yes.”
I turned my head and looked at our teacher. Even though he looked like a doll, I knew what he was thinking right now.
I didn’t say anything.
Our teacher.
I really hate this kind of thing.
In this situation, the first thing that Agares or Teslan should have done was not to cry out for help.
He should have gotten down on his knees, bowed his head, apologized, and vowed to correct the mistakes of his predecessors, telling that idiot Julius had made a very big mistake, and that it would never happen again.
If only that were the case.
If that had really been the case, the lifespan of the Teslan Kingdom might have been extended by a few more years.
So on the one hand.
“I feel a little bit relieved.”
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[What good news?]
“If only the Master didn’t look like a doll right now.”
[If not?]
I stabbed the meat with a fork.
“I think quite a few people died today. At the hands of the Master.”
“… … .”
[… … .]
He continued talking, dipping the meat in the sauce on the plate.
“You don’t need to touch the Master. You don’t need to get angry. Just.”
[just?]
“Just trust me. I will handle it so that you won’t regret it.”
The teacher laughs as if he can’t handle it.
[I feel reassured when I hear these words from my disciple who claims to control all information in the world.]
That was the end.
I don’t want to talk about this topic any more.
The meal continued like that.
It continued.
It went very well.
The gala dinner, which has a rather dark expression, takes a while.
Gray, I, and the Master didn’t say anything when we were talking, and judging by his continued silence up until now, he seems to just be thinking of sitting next to me.
The expression wasn’t just dark, it was extremely dark.
I can’t let this pass me by again.
“Gala dinner?”
“… … .”
Are you thinking of something else?
He picks up the meat and eats it without even answering.
hmm.
“Gala dinner??”
When I call him twice, he responds. He also jumps up from his seat.
“Oh, yes!”
“That’s a surprise. Sit down first.”
The gala dinner guest, who was seated, swallowed hard and looked at me.
Rather than saying he had something to say, I should say he just looked like he had made a huge mistake.
Oh, really.
How do I appear in other people’s eyes?
“Why are you looking at me like that? Who is eating me?”
“… … I’m sorry. Please forgive me.”
It’s a little embarrassing.
Was he always like this?
