Episode 217. Kill the Dragon.
Strange’s three brothers, who bullied Verdin when he was young, are now the core of the Ruines Academy students hiding within the royal capital.
“So the commander of the Imperial Corps named Tristan asked you to deliver this letter to me?”
Tony, the eldest of Strange’s three brothers somewhere in the underground city, asked as he received the letter from him, leaning against the wall.
The white-haired old man who handed him the letter answered without raising his head.
“Is there anyone following you?”
“doesn’t exist. “I walked around the street where our members were located three times to see if someone from the Imperial Army had been captured.”
“… It’s strange that he knows my location in this situation. “I don’t understand why he even bothered to look for me.”
“So do i. “The identity of the people here now has been moved without anyone knowing.”
“That’s your opinion. “The imperial military’s intelligence network is much more powerful than we think.”
“No matter how many of the students of Ruines Academy live in the underground city, the merchants who trade here are connected to the surface, so there is no way that rumors about us won’t spread.”
Tony slowly opened the sealed portion of the letter and motioned for the white-haired man to leave.
Whatever content was written in it, it was clear that the relationship was not one of high trust, judging from the fact that he did not want to see it.
Tony smiled slightly after checking the contents of the letter. He then showed it to his brothers Johnny and Ronnie and then burned his paper.
“Are you sure that the person who gave this letter was Tristan, commander of the Imperial Legion?”
When Tony asked the question, the old man lowered his head and nodded slightly.
“Then what should I do if I can’t send you away alive?”
“?! “What do you mean by that?”
“His message said to kill the person who brought this letter.”
“It can’t be! When I read it, there was no such content-”
Tony, who was talking, smiled brightly and strongly grabbed the old man’s hair.
“You read the letter?”
The old man answered with his eyes on the floor and rolling his eyes.
“… Ah, no, that’s not it.”
“This is why I didn’t want to talk to lowly bastards. Ha, indeed!”
As Tony sighed, Johnny giggled and kicked the old man in the stomach.
The old man rolled around on the floor, holding his stomach and groaning.
“You man, do you think nobles just send letters without thinking about them?”
“Ugh… . Oh, no, master. “I think there’s a misunderstanding, so if you could give me some time to explain-”
“Shut up you old man. “It’s an explanation, and you can’t survive anyway once you find out what’s inside.”
“!!!”
Ronnie, who had been quietly observing the collapsed situation, shook his head and walked up to the fallen old man’s side and spoke.
“Hey, old man. Nobles usually use two devices when sending letters. The first thing is to drop candle wax on the letter paper and seal it with a seal.”
“that.”
“You know, right? Yes, if you don’t know, you’re a fool. Unless you’re blind, you can see it. “Then do you know what the other one is?”
“… “I don’t know.”
Ronnie responded with a big shrug of his eyebrows.
“You’re sending it with your Aura on letterhead. That way, the moment the seal is broken, the aura disappears, so you can tell whether someone has touched it or not.”
“I don’t know where the contents of the letter were leaked, but since you know the contents, you should die. Right? “Tony.”
Tony answered, pulling a dagger from his belt and approaching.
The old man responded, waving his hands in the air with a frightened expression.
“Hey, my lord, please just spare my life! “I will never tell anyone else about this!”
“… “Who opened this letter first?”
The old man answered with his lips trembling.
“Well, I don’t know about that. I was just curious on the way home, so I secretly opened it… . “The person who delivered the letter to me before that was a knight named ‘Oilan,’ the adjutant of Tristan, commander of the Imperial Corps.”
“What is oil?”
“Yes, he is a knight who led the South Gate Guard in the past.”
Tony glanced at the burned letter, then stomped on it and continued asking questions.
“Then, from the hand of Tristan, to that knight named Oilan. From Oilan to you. Are you saying that there were no more hands going through it than that?”
“I think so.”
As soon as the conversation was over, Johnny took his older brother’s dagger and stabbed the old man in the neck, knocking him backwards.
“Ugh, wow. “Knock.”
Johnny asked Tony, brushing off the blood stains on his clothes with his palm.
“Brother, I think I should tell Director Veratir about this.”
“Yeah, I thought so too. Because Verdin’s orders are too difficult for us to handle on our own.”
Ronnie, who was listening to the two of them, nodded his head sharply and kicked the sword stuck in the neck of the old man who was lying on the ground.
At the same time, the old man’s neck was cut and he fell to the ground.
Grumpy.
“Okay, so let’s both finish it off properly. “If you leave it like that and it comes back to life, things will get complicated.”
Tony grinned at him and responded by patting his back.
“As expected, the youngest is the best at handling things.”
“Brother, are you going to follow Verdin’s orders?”
“Then what should I do? “That’s the only way for us to survive now.”
“How about betraying Verdin and joining hands with Rothschild?”
“With Rothschild?”
“Yes, after joining hands with them and dealing with Verdin. “We are going to capture Strange again.”
“I have a way to contact them.”
“So what’s in this letter?”
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“If you trust me and leave it to me, I will handle it neatly. Rather, through this incident, we will be able to create an opportunity to take revenge on Verdin who took our position.”
Ronnie de Strange.
The youngest of the three brothers and the older than Verdin, he wore armor with the Ruines Academy emblem on it and visited the tavern where Cynthia was staying. This place was no different from other adventurers’ lodgings, with the first floor being a tavern and the other floors being an inn.
Sigh.
As the clanking sound of poorly oiled hinges spread throughout the store, the eyes of the adventurers seated near the entrance turned to him.
Who on earth is wandering the streets of the royal capital at this time when darkness covers the streets?
And that too, on a dangerous street called ‘Black Street’. The noisy tavern suddenly became quiet with Ronnie’s appearance.
“I’m looking for a room where a colleague is staying.”
In response to his question, the tavern master, who was cleaning glasses, shrugged his shoulders.
“I’m sorry, but this is not a place where a noble family’s master would come to hang out. Please go back.”
“I came to play?”
“Yes, just looking at the Ruines Academy emblem engraved on the armor. “You can tell that no one stays at this shabby inn.”
“I don’t know where or how great a family you come from, but I don’t know what you’ll face if you mess with unknown adventurers at such a late hour.”
The Master’s answer sounded like a warning. It’s as if they won’t let you go if you make a fuss here and now.
Ronnie, who didn’t want to make a fuss, knew what he meant and asked politely again.
“Two women must have come here not long ago. What I do know is that one of them is a nun and another wears the silver armor of the Holy Knights-”
Someone hit the table hard with their fist. When she turned her gaze, she saw a large furry man glaring at Ronnie.
“Hey, kid. “Didn’t you hear the Master just a little while ago telling you to get out of here if you don’t want to be followed?”
“If you mess around here at this hour, you’re a noble and all. I can just tear you up and throw you in the river.”
“So, if you don’t want to be left behind, just go while the adults are smiling. huh? “Stop buzzing next to me to ruin the taste of alcohol.”
The soft sound of the wind tickled the ears of the adventurers gathered at the tavern.
As Ronnie slowly turned his gaze and looked around at the people in the tavern, their heads fell to the ground one by one, and blood poured out like a fountain.
The master who was cleaning the glass was startled and took a step back. Then, with a ‘thud’ sound, he leaned his back against the wall and looked terrified.
The only thing that could be heard in the momentarily quiet tavern was the sound of his teeth chattering.
“Tell me where my comrade is.”
The Master answered, looking at the stairs with trembling eyes.
“It’s in the last room on the fourth floor.”
“okay? “Thank you.”
Ronnie smiled brightly, gave the Master a gold coin with Strange’s symbol engraved on it, and walked up the stairs.
At the top of the World Tree, Ardyn, who guards the place, took on the form of a dragon and guided us to a secret location.
This was a place that could never be accessed through normal means, and could only be entered through his mouth.
After entering Ardyn’s mouth, Valkyrie and I passed the long stairs and came across a large iron door.
Before arriving here, I was told that this door had a special device that prevented it from being opened even by a man called God and the owner of the tower.
“I’ll open it.”
The red-haired woman placed her palm and gently pushed, and the dragon’s face carved into the iron door began to glow and open.
Drurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The part that touches the floor makes a very soft sound, as if it didn’t encounter much resistance.
When the iron door opened, I felt a strange, unidentifiable smell and a strong energy that made me feel goosebumps all over my body.
This is neither an auror nor a mana, but the same type of killing technique used by dragons.
I lightly gripped the handle of the sword and took a fighting stance and asked the red-haired girl.
“Do you know what’s in here?”
“Hourglass and its keeper.”
“Guardian?”
I already knew about the hourglass before coming here, but this was the first time I heard of the fact that there was a ‘guardian’.
“Who is that?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yes, I haven’t met you yet either.”
There is no way she would come and tell lies now.
“How did you know there was someone guarding the hourglass?”
“I don’t know that either. But I know that the guy in there is watching out for us.”
“Us?”
“huh! I feel like they are going to kill me if I approach them like this. What should I do? Should I go out again and ask Ardyn who that guy is?”
I felt there was no need for that. No matter who is in there, we will have to meet them anyway.
“Then just go in?”
“Okay, I’ll go in first and figure out the situation instead. “You must follow behind.”
“Wouldn’t it be safer if I took the lead?”
It’s not a question of whether it’s safe or not. The priority is to find out who the life coming out of the door is directed to.
“Wait, I go first.”
With these words, let me take the first step inside the iron gate.
The flames were so intense that my eyes were covered in red.
‘… ‘It was you.’
Lord of Calamity.
Red Dragon.
fantasy,
