Episode 228
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As expected, I collapsed.
Sure, the continent was starting to boil over because of what I had done, but that didn’t worry me too much.
Because we have Aveiro on our side.
And actually, to be precise, it would be more accurate to say that I don’t have the capacity to care.
Now, as before, I was facing in my dream ‘something that happened in my past life’ as if it was inevitable.
‘I’m going to go back.’
But I thought I had the hang of it after experiencing it two or three times.
Something is different.
It was really something different.
ocean.
What was clearly visible before my eyes was the sea.
To be exact, it’s a city on the beach.
Judging from the architectural style and various other aspects, it was clearly a trading port belonging to the Teslan Kingdom.
A place that was formerly ruled by the Count Maurice and is now ruled by his older sister.
Now the city was burning.
Countless corpses strewn everywhere.
and.
Wagjak- Wagjak-
Even a monster I’ve never seen before chews on that corpse.
Everything was questionable.
I’ve been all over the continent and I know, but this is the first time I’ve seen a creature like that.
It had thorns all over its body and four eyes on what appeared to be its face, which were constantly rotating.
Is that all?
Its black skin seemed impossibly thick, and even though it was clearly ‘eating’, mana was seething throughout its body.
I guarantee it.
That one.
It’s at least master level energy.
That’s beginner level too.
I slowly turned my head.
The number of ‘thorn monsters’ that I can see is exactly 9.
They were each chewing on the corpses strewn all over the place.
A group of people were seen looking at it with angry expressions.
Their clothing, of course, was familiar.
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Clothes that a common knight would wear.
Then my eyes opened wide.
‘Oh my god, what am I seeing wrong?’
Clearly, the chest area of the armor worn by those knights had an image of ‘a roaring eagle.’
Oh, that’s a familiar pattern.
In fact, I couldn’t help but get used to it.
A symbol that I always had engraved on the chest of every outfit I wore in my previous life when I was determined to seek revenge.
The original was a crimson eagle, the symbol of the Marquis de Valantier, but the emblem simply shows a single red-tinged eagle with its head bowed.
The symbol I wore was a black eagle, not bowing, but roaring, and my symbol reverberated throughout the continent, becoming almost a symbol of fear.
But why are they engraving that on their armor?
I’ve never collected my luggage before?
That was when.
A man slowly raises his hand.
It’s a familiar face.
He is the chieftain of the orc tribe living in the Demon Forest, and he is someone with whom I strangely get along well.
Now the owner of golden mana.
And the strongest talent of the Orcs who will become the owner of red mana within the next 10 years.
Black Man.
Tone Green Hill.
He shouts.
“charge-!!”
At that command, numerous orcs and humans who had been hiding began to run out.
Towards the nine thorn monsters.
That’s how the war broke out.
It was definitely war.
Blackman fought the monster wearing blood-stained armor.
When you kill one, then another, then three.
Of the five thousand orcs he had with him, two thousand were killed.
At that moment, Akmun Blackman was about to kick the seat again.
Stop!
Blackman stopped in his tracks.
To be exact, I had no choice but to stop.
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Not only Blackman, but everyone stopped in their tracks.
The same goes for the thorn monsters that were being attacked.
Is that all?
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-Kyaarrrrrr.
Strange sounds come out of the monsters’ mouths.
I was convinced as I watched the situation.
That sound is definitely laughter.
Blackman turns his head to the back.
I, too, turned my head backwards, following Blackman.
A broken house.
In that place that looks like a hill.
A black shadow was slowly raising its head.
no.
It wasn’t just a shadow.
Just a black monster.
There were countless black monsters.
There weren’t a total of nine thorn monsters.
Because right now, on that hill, there were nearly a hundred thorn monsters raising their heads.
Blackman laughed hollowly.
The humans laughed, and the orcs laughed.
That was before.
And the emptiness about the situation.
It was all compressed laughter.
I was looking at Blackman with a slightly lonely expression.
He was a very generous and free-spirited man.
The purest and most orcish orc I’ve ever seen in my life.
He gripped the double-edged axe he was holding tightly in his hand.
I know.
That appearance is one of preparedness for death.
An expression that made it clear that he was certain that he would die in this very place.
Blackman muttered softly.
“If ‘he’ had lived… … things would have been different.”
The black orc smiled bitterly and looked at the flag with the black eagle engraved on it with very hazy eyes.
“Are you waiting? I’ll be there soon.”
Black Man.
A crack sounds from the palm of Grunhill’s hand.
“I have so much to talk about.”
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That was the end.
I came out of the dark world after that scene.
A familiar ceiling appears, incongruous with the horror we had just seen.
Is there anything new to say?
This is the ceiling of my bedroom in the villa.
That was when.
[I guess I saw a scene from my past life again.]
He turned his head slowly.
As usual, the Master was sitting at the head of the bed and looking down at me.
He laughed playfully.
“My disciple just woke up from a faint, and what were those first words he said?”
[… … .]
First, I got up.
“Your expression looked so serious, so I just played a prank on you.”
Without saying a word, the teacher extended his hand toward my face, that is, toward my nose.
The Master’s finger, which had brushed the tip of my nose, was stained with red blood.
Hey? Coffee?
[You didn’t feel it?]
To be honest, I didn’t feel it.
I didn’t feel it even after I came to my senses, not before I lost consciousness.
He slowly raised his hand and lightly clenched it into a fist.
hmm.
[Why are you doing that?]
“I still feel sore. It’s only been a few days since I passed out. Is that right?”
The teacher nods.
[Only two days have passed.]
You woke up really early.
Than that.
“Master.”
[Speak.]
“I guess.”
[I guess?]
“It seems like there’s something quite interesting on the Eastern Continent.”
That’s what makes the world a funny place.
There was more than one thing to think about here.
Are those monsters the only ones on the Eastern Continent?
If there were only those monsters, how on earth did they cross the sea?
By the way, do you have an assistant?
Or is there someone in the Eastern Continent who uses that?
And so on. That’s what makes it fun.
No, it’s fun when you think you know something and then suddenly something you don’t know pops up.
[Is there anything interesting?]
“yes.”
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I am.
“I just saw something ridiculous.”
Chapter 3
What happened in the Kingdom of Teslan.
This was a much bigger deal than I thought.
The Demon Forest Expeditionary Force had an internal dispute over naturalization, which escalated into a war, with each side pointing their swords at the other.
In that situation, Jack Valantier heard the news and simply killed the punitive force.
They even tortured them, but 99 of them survived and are now said to be traveling across the kingdom.
As the saying goes, it was just citizens fighting among themselves and citizens killing citizens.
It’s almost a comedic situation.
There are a whopping 60,000 troops.
To be exact, it’s 58,838, but what’s the big deal?
It didn’t matter even if it was 60 thousand.
This is not half, but two-thirds of the total forces that the Teslan Kingdom can muster.
The fact that it was more than that and all of it died means that Teslan’s power is weakened.
But no one seemed worried about this.
There was no one aiming for it.
Because that was the situation on the continent.
But there was something everyone had in common.
The Teslan kingdom will soon self-destruct.
That’s a whopping 60,000 troops.
The fact that that power has now been quietly killed means that it could be the starting point for the resentment of the families of those who were part of the punitive force to explode all at once.
In the past, this was called an uprising, and in modern times, it is called a civil war.
It would be strange if a civil war or war did not break out at any time.
How on earth do I handle this?
Everyone was worried.
In that situation.
Aveiro, Jack’s closest aide and de facto right-hand man, was smiling.
“That’s interesting.”
The situation is really strange.
Depending on how you look at it, what Jack did could either make him a true hero, or a piece of ridiculous trash worse than the tyrant of the century.
It was a very funny situation.
“Are you laughing now?”
Aveiro just chuckled at Philip’s beating.
Philip, who was looking at that smile, shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t win.
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This gentleman, this must have happened once or twice.
“Is there a way?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t know him very well, but you’re not trying to manipulate him or anything, are you? If you do, you’ll be found dead in the mountains soon.”
It would not be an exaggeration to say that the organization called Nameless already ruled the Teslan Kingdom.
The one who ruled over such anonymity was Aveiro, and to put it a bit exaggeratedly, Aveiro could have been seen as a great traitor, holding the symbol of power called Jack in one hand and the anonymity of all the information of the kingdom in the other.
But there was no way Jack would have made just anyone his own.
As it turned out, Aveiro was able to come up with one way to overcome this situation.
It was just, very simple.
“Oh, you’re not trying to manipulate me?”
“yes.”
“Am I crazy? Why would I do something like that? Our lord would never do something that would make him ashamed. Manipulating someone like that? That’s just too much.”
Aveiro, sitting leisurely in his office, drinking tea, seemed like a liberated person.
“So what is the method?”
“It’s simple. Just change direction.”
“Direction?”
“First, spread the truth about everything that has happened, the state of the kingdom, and why the punitive force made that choice.”
Philip tilts his head, as if a little surprised.
“Is that the end?”
“Of course not.”
“Please stop being so quiet and speak. Can’t you see that I’m so anxious right now that I can’t even drink my tea?”
Aveiro’s gaze lingered for a moment on the teacup in front of Philip.
It’s been a while since I came out, but I can tell he’s still anxious because he hasn’t had a single sip.
Aveiro asked with a smile.
“You know what?”
“What?”
“People only believe what they want to believe.”
“… … What are you suddenly saying out of the blue?”
“Now, let’s think about it. Naturalization, that’s the key. How many of the punitive force have any lingering attachment to the Teslan Kingdom?”
“Well, I heard that he didn’t bother to distinguish them one by one, and just killed them all because he knew who he wanted to kill. He only identified 99 people, and since they were the last, I don’t know who chose to naturalize.”
That was when.
Aveiro just snapped his fingers.
“That’s it, that’s it.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know who naturalized.”
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“… … ?”
“It doesn’t matter whether 20,000 or 40,000 of the 60,000 troops chose to naturalize. What matters most is this.”
Aveiro raised his index finger.
“Who are these people who did not choose naturalization?”
hmm.
Philip thought for a moment and then answered.
“… … Those who have a longing for the Kingdom of Teslan?”
“That’s right. People who have families in the kingdom usually don’t naturalize. There’s no way around it. You have a family to protect, so you abandon them to live on your own? How can that be possible?”
