Episode 111
The Barzai sect went into hiding. Since they had no clear power to begin with, once they decided to hide, it became impossible to find the group of high priests including the sect leader.
-There is no such thing as a religious sect without substance. Those who are obsessed with desire, don’t spend a single penny and just pray? That’s something a passing dog would laugh at. Find a place where money is abnormally collected. There will be a Barzai cult leader there, or a low-level facility related to the cult leader.
The Lord of Hebron’s judgment was correct.
After mobilizing the entire information network to search, we were able to pinpoint the eastern part of Zeno.
Author Dario.
We also investigated the noble families connected to the House of Dario, and found out that priests of the Barzai cult were dispatched throughout Zenon’s kingdom.
“How many ledgers did you make?”
“You said five copies, but I made two more just in case.”
“Good job. The more you have, the more places you can use it. Did you write the content a little differently?”
“Yes, even if you majored in accounting at the Royal Academy, it would be difficult to uncover the fiction in this ledger. I couldn’t figure it out at first either.”
The ledger contained the secrets of the count Dario.
Where taxes were missing was marked in red. This alone would have been enough to send out a special auditor to the royal family of Zeno, but unfortunately these ledgers were not of any use as evidence.
Because they were made in Hebron.
The ledgers were to be distributed evenly among those who were identified as the main culprits of the conspiracy, including Viscount Dario and the Prime Minister. They would either flee in the middle of the night before being discovered, try to prove their innocence, or remain silent out of caution.
In any case, it was clear that it would rot from the inside out.
“Shall I send it?”
Amy couldn’t answer right away. She thought for a moment. It was up to her to decide when to act. If she delayed, the people involved would run away in large numbers, and if she did it too early, there could be a backlash.
“What’s the news, my lord?”
“Not yet.”
Amy looked anxious.
The success or failure of this matter depended on the Lord of Hebron.
The Lord of Hebron headed to the Jade Barondom, east of the capital, not to the Viscounty Dario. The Jade family was a baronial family, but they were wealthy thanks to their iron ore holdings and had excellent military power, so there were rumors that they would soon be promoted to the Viscounty.
Amy’s eyes sharpened. She looked out the window. There, Hebron’s soldiers were lined up, heavily armed. Their eyes were sharp as if they were going to advance at any moment.
“Send it.”
“Yes, Prime Minister.”
Even when everything else was uncertain, Amy was certain of one thing.
‘The lord does not fail.’
To increase the success rate of this operation, Amy established ‘Brecha Education Centers’ throughout Hebron. While there were only two Brecha temples, there were ten training centers, and they were large in scale. In addition, each Brecha temple distributed a loaf of ‘Brecha Bread’ every morning.
It was natural that the people’s trust in Brecha increased. As a result, Hebron was no longer deceived by the delusions of gods such as Barzai and Armos, and the hungry from all over the place flocked to Hebron in search of the merciful Brecha.
“Once you’re done, go to the Haryan Temple.”
“Yes, Prime Minister.”
Ryoma didn’t ask why. He just guessed from Amy’s serious expression that something quite dangerous might be happening.
It wasn’t just Ryoma. Hebron’s immediate family had long ago been sent to the Haryan Temple.
Also, in the inner chamber of the Haryan Temple, there was a councilor named Raphael.
The person in charge of the Haryan Temple was Priest Edelgard, but she told Edelgard about Raphael’s identity in case of an emergency. When Edelgard faced the former High Priest of Haryan, Valancia, she fell flat on her face in thought.
‘I’ve done everything I could to prepare. Now all that’s left is to seek God’s grace.’
Amy was left alone in the Prime Minister’s residence. She stood at the window and looked down at the fluttering Hebron flag.
“Phew… … .”
Amy took a deep breath. She used the training methods she had learned from the Count of Hebron to discipline her body and mind.
A handful of aura gathered in Amy’s danjeon.
She opened her eyes, feeling the solid aura.
Amy called the maid to change her clothes. Unusually, she dressed formally.
‘I am a soldier of Hebron.’
Amy will lead the Hebron army as a military officer. As commander-in-chief of the army without the Viscount of Hebron, she plans to attack the nobles of the southern region of Zenon, who are revealed to be connected to Barzai.
‘My lord, is that okay? If you fail, we will become rebels.’
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-Your Majesty Gaius, please help me on my way to the capital.
-Do you wish to see His Majesty?
-No, I have work near the capital.
-I am not the porter who carries you.
-It’s for Xenon.
-I’ll go with you too.
-I beg you. Please leave this matter to me. I have another favor to ask of Special Inspector Gaius.
Gaius, who had transported me to the capital with a teleportation bracelet, left for the territory of Dario.
As soon as the falsified accounting ledgers were leaked, the vassals of the Dario family entered into a sudden death game for survival. Some of them grabbed Amy’s outstretched hand and fell into a deeper swamp.
The vassals of the Dario family were divided and slandered each other, and in the midst of this, a serious crime surfaced. Although it was a crime without evidence, just spreading rumors was enough to shake the Dario family.
I rode a swan and headed to Jade Barondom, more than 120 kilometers east of the capital. If it weren’t for the iron mines, this territory would have long since fallen into ruin under the pressure of the surrounding lords.
‘Even if we can’t take over the Jade Barondom, we should definitely take care of the iron mines owned by the Baron. If we just sell the iron mine operation rights, we can easily make tens of thousands of gold.’
We stayed on the ridge overlooking the territory for two days. After about forty hours, we noticed some busy movement in Jade Baron’s territory. A carriage loaded with luggage and a horse that seemed to be trying to convey news began to gallop away.
After the commotion, Jade Barondom became much quieter.
I approached the Baron’s territory. It was difficult to find me without a keen eye. It was thanks to the dark spirit Dimes.
As I continued to advance, I squinted my eyes. When I checked with my eyes, I saw an artificial flow of mana around the Jade Barondom.
It was defensive magic.
“I wondered where all that money went. It was all spent on setting up a magic circle.”
The Barzai sect made astronomical amounts of money. They collected small amounts from their poor followers, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, but because they had so many followers, they had wealth that surpassed that of Hebron.
However, while the Barzai sect collected a lot of money, it spent little. I thought that the sect leader and the high priest were just accumulating wealth, but there was a magic circle behind it.
The magic circle was concentrated in a corner of the hunting grounds on the outskirts of the territory, not in the Jade Lord’s castle.
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‘A 6th class protective magic circle? Was it made by request from the Magic Tower?’
Unfortunately, Hebron’s information power did not reach the Magic Tower. It was impossible for the secretive wizard to reveal who had commissioned him. Also, judging from the composition of the magic circle, it was made at least a century ago and seemed to have been recently modified.
The protective magic circle consists of at least three types of magic.
‘Alarm and shield. What’s the other one?’
I could only detect two of the three spells. Although I was well versed in magical theory, I did not understand all of the sixth-class spells.
‘I think I’ve seen it somewhere.’
Even if we couldn’t see through the magic circle’s identity, we could at least infer it.
Finally, I opened the Samryunan.
Things I had never seen before came into view, and my brain worked faster. It was complicated, but in the end, the root was the same. All magic could not escape from ‘basic magic’. Compared to creating 6th class magic from basic magic, the opposite was quite easy.
‘Let’s think about it calmly.’
I was pressed for time.
Although he trusted Amy, he had no idea how the surrounding lords would react when the Hebron army moved. Nevertheless, the reason he was able to start this operation was because of the ‘Southern Commander’s Flag’ that the king had given to the Hebron army.
‘It is certain that there is an ancient temple of the Barzai cult here.’
The protective magic even disturbed my three-wheeled eyes. That’s why I designated this place as the center of the Barzai cult. The fact that they were trying so hard to hide it meant that the value of what they were hiding was enormous.
During the royal research and deciphering of ancient documents, the existence of an ancient temple of Barzai was discovered. Afterwards, the location of the temple was traced, and the closest location was this one.
‘It looks clean on the outside, but it’s all an illusion.’
The hidden truth was revealed in Maan and Samryunan. The inside of the magic circle was filled with Voltails floating around like dust. They had created an illusion of an ordinary hunting ground, but it was shockingly surprising how they had hidden the stench inside.
Beyond that, a building built in an ancient architectural style was vaguely visible.
“Everything is gathered here. I will take this opportunity to push out Barzai and Armos. Let’s go, Syang.”
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The swan charged forward with its strong horns thrust forward.
With a whoosh, a translucent barrier appeared and disappeared.
The magic circle surrounding the forest consisted of an alarm, a shield, and a transmission.
As soon as the presence of the intruder was known, monsters began to appear one by one inside the magic circle.
Some even rose from the ground.
‘Is it the curse of hibernation? I heard that it was lost since ancient times, but the gods are indeed different.’
The God of Curses unleashed his full power. However, the defensive magic circle was not within the domain of Barzai and Armos.
“Inferno, inhabit my sword.”
A flame formed on the sword borrowed from the royal family of Zenon. Serenade was a great treasure, but it was nothing compared to the royal sword.
‘I’ll have to return it after using it for a while.’
The sword swallowed my aura, but it didn’t even emit its name.
Just in case, I blew more aura into it, and only then did it react with a golden glow.
Before it became a royal family member, the sword Bradiorusium, known as Stormtail, released a sword energy that curved in a spiral. The trajectory might be somewhat twisted, but it was a magical sword that eventually pierced its target. The sword energy also protected the arm, preventing it from even being scratched by most attacks.
To the untrained eye, it would appear as a gigantic sphere covering the area, but to my eyes, it was a condensation of magic made up of countless strands. They flowed tightly, filling in the gaps, but as multiple layers of magic were applied, a limit was bound to appear.
Louis Fencing 1 second vertical slash.
Suwaaaaaaaah!
As if opening a zipper, the protective magic spread wide to the left and right.
In the meantime, sparks of mana poured down like a shower.
“Let’s go in.”
Baaaaaaaaa!
As if he wasn’t afraid of anything like a shower of sparks, Syang stepped into the gap without hesitation. At the same time, he felt a rush of heat.
The fever started from within, not from without.
‘It’s terrible. I didn’t think even the Holy Grail blessed by the Pope could stop it… … .’
They attacked the headquarters of the Barzai cult even after making thorough preparations. They borrowed the royal sword and were also given the Holy See with the Pope’s blessing.
At one time, the Haryan sect supported and supported the Barzai sect, but when the Barzai sect began to recruit lower-class nobles, the Haryan sect began to suppress the Barzai sect.
