Chapter 289 – 283 Helumen, City of Heroes
That afternoon, while Anne and Yurpa went out to pick up the carriage and the queues parked at the Hotel Helumen, Isilite was called for a meeting.
The situation where the inflection point for the current situation occurred, it was to talk to Isilite first to confirm her intentions.
“Isilite. From now on, I hope you don’t think about others when I ask you, ask yourself what you want to do, and then answer carefully.”
=Yes, Master.=
“The first thing I learned from talking with the lord of Siha during the day was that the lord would not harm you. Even if he fails the entrance exam, he will not give a big penalty considering his relationship with me.”
There were remarks that unnecessarily provoked Hwanin’s temperament, such as saying that he was going to send a few chasers in the middle, and there were times when he acted as he pleased because this side went out in a low profile, but Hwanin endured it for the time being.
She said that she was going to send the killing party because it was before she and Isilite met, and from the middle of her conversation, she was talking to Isilite, not herself.
She ignored herself and rather laughed inwardly at the part where she made comments about what to do with Isilite’s treatment.
That’s how you hold her on her own ankles.
‘It’s only natural that I’ve never had a human relationship with an overwhelming superiority based on my status and abilities.’
Anyway.
The lord will not punish Isilite if she fails her test.
The most likely thing to happen would be that she captures Isilite, who has failed her test, as her normal knight, and then makes her continue to take the test until she passes it.
Of course, she will not allow unlimited testing. It must be limited to once a quarter or once a year.
=Is it to keep the master in Hellumen for a long time…… ?=
“Okay. I think it’s because I read that I won’t leave Helumen without you. In the meantime, if he somehow conciliates me, he must have thought he could have both you and me.”
That intention is revealed in trying to decide on Isilite’s treatment without caring about Hwanin.
Thanks to Hwanin’s easy-to-understand explanation, Isilite made an angry expression after reading the lord’s intentions.
It doesn’t matter if she makes herself a hostage. However, trying to trap a master who continues noble sexual misfortunes is, after all, the majority of powerful people are ugly.
However, that was short-lived, and soon the tips of her eyebrows drooped and became sullen.
After all, all of this happened because of his own theft. Because she herself is the culprit.
Hwanin, who had been staring at Isilite for a while, opened her mouth.
“Do you know why I tried to negotiate with the lord of Helumen?”
=Because the 8th level barons are quasi-royal…… ? The influence is too strong to ignore or ignore…… I think =
“That’s true, but if you don’t solve the problem with Lord Helumen and leave it unattended or postpone it, it will be a bomb roll.”
Now is the right time to address issues with Isilite.
If your reputation is higher than it is now, there may be a reaction.
‘Youngseong-nim’s soul article. He said he was the one who tarnished the name of the great hero of the Wirt family, an 8th-class baron?’
‘I didn’t see Youngseong-nim like that for trying to cover up his mistakes because he was a woman, but maybe he’s the kind of person who messes things up for self-interest.’
Not only that, but they will be tagged wherever they go.
Things like the gossip of going around with a former thief-turned-spirit knight and living as he pleases without liquidating his won.
Just don’t worry about it and do your own thing. However, he was a Hwanin who wanted to exclude as much as possible anything that could be an obstacle to his greatest goal, his return to Earth.
Above all, people are very attached to the past.
As long as Isilite holds the embers of the past in her arms, this is a problem that must be resolved someday.
These problems may become intertwined, and when snowballing starts due to an event that you did not calculate, you may have to push the block with a hoe with a tractor.
Because of this, Hwanin did not want to make as many enemies as possible.
The best way is to make them allies before they become enemies, or to destroy them before they can build their strength.
There is also an article related to Sun Tzu’s Warfare.
First of all, if there is someone stronger than me, don’t try to fight as much as possible. If you’re going to fight, end it quickly. Equip yourself with overwhelming power to finish quickly. If that doesn’t work, don’t fight.
If it wants to be an enemy, it will be smashed in a form that is not revealed in advance. This part is Hwanin’s psychology itself that even his parents couldn’t correct.
Because of this, he did not hesitate to kill Giles = Bexle and Jeha = Mesha, kill Aldhelm and end Staeta’s life.
Because the enemy
But the lord of Helumen has a problem.
Behavior becomes subtle only with those who are not enemies, neutral, or goodwill relations due to the passionate education of parents.
Furthermore, the relationship with the lord of Helumen is a situation where there is some fault on this side, and a person with a sense of justice and goodness to some extent.
Because of this, the teachings of my parents became a psychological break, and I went out somewhat low-key with calculations for future activities.
Of course, there are factors that take into account the status, power, and military power of a 8th-class baron.
The location of the great heroic family of the 8th class baron. It is known that there are many 8th grade occupations in the family, and there are hundreds of 5th grade or higher occupations.
As long as you are holding the unknown weapon of mixing, you should be able to smash it if you run into it, but not only will your life and activities on this side be destroyed, but the achievement of your top priority goal will also become unclear.
= Is it a bomb roll? ?=
“Okay. The fortunate thing about the current situation is that the lord of Siha feels goodwill and favor towards us. To be precise, it means that he harbored a dark heart for me.”
=…….=
“Here, Lord Siha made a mistake. If you use it, you can easily solve this problem without taking the test.”
=What mistake?=
Siha = Saiji patronized Isilite by saying that she would guarantee her freedom of movement if she joined the Heroic Knights, but upon closer inspection, the Wirt family was greedy.
Among the youngest soul knights of spirituality, there is a knight belonging to the Wirt family’s heroic knights!
If rumors spread in this way, reputation points would be accumulated in real time for the Wirt family. It’s because it’s a benefit, not a loss.
There is no problem even if you fail the entrance exam. Because the Wirt family can process and spread rumors based on facts as they please.
The heroic knights of the Wirt family are so strong that incumbent soul knights take entrance exams!
… Like this.
Watching Isilite frown on her face, Hwanin opened his mouth with the smile he had behind Siha = Saiji.
“That is Lord Siha’s biggest mistake.”
Error? That is?
If the lord of Siha had been polite and went through Isilite’s skill test and had him join the Heroic Knights and then come out like this, Hwanin would have agreed and accepted it.
For Isilite, an orphan with no career, acquiring the status of a knight of the highest order of an 8th-class noble family would be one item that would build her honor and pride.
‘But Lord Siha, you were too greedy.’
This side should have been treated more like a polite visiting tiger than a pumpkin that had just rolled in.
However, Siha = Saiji did not.
“As I said in our conversation earlier, stealing under the name Isilite is itself a crime, but using the name is not a crime. If you add the words of Lord Siha to this, you can make a story like this.”
The green saint visited the Wirt family to clear up the past of the woman who made him a spirit knight and ask for forgiveness, but the Helumen’s Wirt family tried to use the green saint and the spirit knight to raise the family’s honor.
As Isilite listened to her story, she felt her headache creep up the back of her neck.
The owner tells me the situation, but I feel like I don’t understand even half of it.
Still, thanks to her constant listening to her master’s words, she managed to get her point across.
= You mean Lord Siha lost his sword hilt while being greedy? =
“Okay. It is true that her name, Isili Terra, belongs to a revered hero in Radsea. It is true that the Wirt family is also using their hands in various ways to maintain the honor of the name, and that fact is widely known.”
However, if you ask whether this side has committed a sin to die for, that is not the case.
This side even brought a sick body to come and apologize, and Hwanin and the others have been doing righteous activities in Radseah. Even so, the lord of Helumen tried to use his superior company of souls for his own family gain.
To tarnish a name is a form of defamation. The lord of Siha did not ask for his opinion and tried to do what he wanted to do with Isilite, who even introduced her as her soul knight and her lover, so that also defamed her reputation.
Even if it is a proposal based on goodwill, if the content is like that, there will be resistance. When her third party learns the exact details, she’ll shake her head, saying, ‘Oh, that’s a bit much.’
If it wasn’t for Isilite’s sake, Hwanin would have ended her game at that moment.
The proof and background of a 7th-level noble family, the background of being a cardinal of the main body of the Order of the Land God, and the background of the cause of receiving an invitation from Yeongdo and visiting it.
If you combine the three powers into one and put that fact together, the door to solving the situation will have opened.
However, this time it was for Isilite, so she postponed the decision to respect her opinion.
“Now, here is the main point. Isilite, what do you want to do?”
If the purpose is simply to clear up the past of stealing, it has reached a situation where it is possible without taking the test.
Although his relationship with the Wirt family would become a little worse, that was tolerable. If he is in a bad mood and starts messing around, then you can feed him the taffy in earnest.
You don’t have to be swayed by the other side’s intentions.
Isilite, who struggled to analyze and think to understand what she heard from her phantom in her own way, answered in a small voice with a half-weeping face.
= I don’t know……. I want to move for my master, but now I don’t know what…….=
When the lord of Helumen asked her to take an entrance exam to the Heroic Order, Isilite said, ‘The Heroic Knights are a very prestigious order. If she goes in there, she will be of help to the master, too,” She said, without hesitation.
▶When you join, you become a knight of the famous knights of the 8th grade noble family and your status rises.
▶ It is helpful to the owner.
She is also forgiven for using her name indiscriminately.
▶Dog gain.
Thought so.
She tried to threaten and appease the lord in a somewhat rude way, but she was an Isilite who had seen even more barons than him, so she recognized her as a relative angel.
However, when they said that forgiveness was a problem and that sin was a problem, the story of honor came out and it became said that they defamed each other. Then, did the lord make a mistake out of greed?
Isilite was only thinking of entering the tyrant dragon’s labyrinth, growing up, and passing her entrance exam.
Her phantom held her Isilite’s hand and lay down on a chair like the ancient Greek lectus, pulling her Isilite into her arms as well.
“Isilite. I think that stupidity of yours is the charm.”
Uh, stupid? What is an idiot…… Stupid but pretty? Stupid but beautiful… ?
Isilite, confused whether it was a curse or a compliment, embraced in the arms of her phantom, shuddered at her whispers that flowed into her ears.
“Of course it is a compliment. You could say she’s an idiot, but it’s closer to the meaning that she’s cute when she’s young.”
=…….=
“Isn’t that the first thing I said? Don’t think about others, think about what you want to do.”
=Ah.=
Isilite, hiding her blushing face by burying it in the nape of her phantom’s neck, she whispered, wanting to get into her mouse hole.
= I don’t want to take the test. I…… I want to become the master’s only soul knight.=
“But there is a lingering lingering feeling on your face.”
= It’s because of the desire to rise in status……. It was a chance for a girl born under a sewer to become a knight of the famous heroic knights of the continent. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t regret anything…….=
“Is it. Then let’s test it.”
= Yes? Ha, but.=
“It’s like taking a test and showing off. Of course, she does not join the Knights. She proved that she has the qualifications and ability to join the Hero Knights, but she refuses and chooses the image of being with the Spirit Knights.”
The lord will feel like he’s vomited up a pumpkin he’s almost swallowed, but he won’t say anything.
Because she and she will realize that she was too greedy and ruined.
Isilite wrapped her hair and pondered for a while before she answered.
=… I still don’t know, but I’ll do as the master said.=
“There is still a month left, so take it slow and think about what you would like to do.”
After saying that, Hwanin felt Isilite’s warm body temperature and stroked the back of her head.
When her girlfriends returned, Hwanin told Isilite and her conclusions.
=A little bit, I felt bad about what Lord Siha said. No matter how much he is a 8th-class baron, this is also a high-level soul, so it felt like he was ignoring it.=
=I thought he would get angry at that time, but since he stayed still, I thought he had something else~.=
=That was the case with me too, but Lord Siha’s reaction is moderate, as Doryeong speculated. If you had a beggarly temper, you wouldn’t be here right now, right?=
“If I had that kind of temper, I wouldn’t have come on my own.”
Cheating and Lutia = They must have tried to solve the situation using Aslid. Even if he knew that it was to pay off his debt to the Farghist lord.
= Well~ I think my decision was right. If he had avoided Helumen, he would have had bigger problems and trouble later because of the baron’s unique pride. Did you avoid our city even though you came this close? Do you have something on your mind? And.=
= If you are a noble family, it would be natural for you to think that way. There is no guarantee that Yeongdo is a definite ally.=
“Okay. The reason we are going to Yeongdo right now is to confirm it.”
Hwanin, who was eating the sweet honey tea and chocolate that Isilite had given her, nodded her head.
I’m already in a bad condition, but after using my hair again, I feel like my physical condition has deteriorated again.
Hwanin lay down on the thigh of Yurupa, who was sitting next to him, and closed his eyes.
“Anyway, this will solve Isilite’s problem without much trouble. After taking the exam in a month, we can set off for Yeongdo…….”
His ultimate goal is to return to Earth. The current journey is just a basic activity for that.
Hwan-in, who was more relieved as the path to pass without making useless enemies was open, looked back at Anne’s hesitant call.
=…… Doryeong.=
“Well.”
=We’ve thought about it before, but if you could go back to Earth, would you go?=
Hwanin couldn’t answer right away at the look in his eyes that showed anxiety and fear.
=Are we going to leave everything behind then?=
“It may sound selfish, but to be honest, I want to go with you guys.”
It is said that Nionebreth laid the foundation for a comfortable life, but this world is a difficult place to live in one way or another.
Mysteries and supernatural powers do not exist on Earth. Although it may be possible to die in a natural disaster or accident, there is no such thing as a sudden catastrophe.
Compared to that, Nionebreath is a world where you don’t know when or where death will come.
Typhoon or storm? Riot? A crime caused by the ill will of the people?
This also happens in Nionebreath.
The problem is a mystery and a superpower that doesn’t exist on Earth. The existence of labyrinths and heterogeneous species. The existence of a monster hostile to humans.
And up to the five gods that exist in this world.
The fate of the village can be cited as an example without looking far.
If you’re lucky, you’ll survive for decades or even hundreds of years, but if you’re unlucky, Nionebreath is a place where it’s not strange to be destroyed by a rampage of monsters and heteromorphic species overnight.
Also, it can be pointed out as a problem that the difference in power between individuals due to superpowers is ridiculously widening.
There can also be crazy situations where you fight thousands or tens of thousands of people alone with a cold weapon. If caught up in it, an individual’s will and life are no different from a candle in front of a strong wind.
Excluding all of these, there is an incomparable difference in convenience between Earth and Nionebreath, even in terms of daily life.
Since there are no supernatural powers or mysteries, movement and travel are free, and it is not difficult to visit other countries.
As long as you work, you can live and eat without worrying about dying of starvation, guaranteed the minimum standard of living.
Although status is determined by money, in principle, all people are equal under the law. It means that even an ordinary citizen, with the right amount of money and brains, can afford to treat the highest class of society with taffy.
Considering, analyzing, and judging these and other factors, Nionebreath is a place worth living for a few years of experience by Hwanin’s standard, but it’s not a place you want to live for the rest of your life.
=Sounds like a very peaceful place.=
“Because you and Isilite need permission from the state just to possess weapons. It is such a peaceful country.”
=And.=
=That’s great.=
The girlfriends who were in admiration looked at Hwanin and wiggled their fingers or twisted their bodies little by little.
= If, really if. If something happens that you can’t take us and you have to go back alone…… What are you going to do? =
“I do not know.”
It is an honest feeling without prejudice. More details will be known at that time.
The women were slightly relieved by Hwanin’s honest answer. Because there was no answer that he would leave coldly.
The reason why Hwanin couldn’t give a definite answer was because the uncertainty of the current situation was so strong. And there is also a reason that the current situation is not peaceful enough to focus on it.
There is also the issue of the leadership that is unsure of whether or not it is friendly to you, and there is also the issue of the subject who summoned you, waiting in the tribal union country.
Both are problems that are judged to require complex calculations and judgments that cause severe headaches.
In the yard where such a big problem awaits, it was Hwanin’s mind that he wanted to avoid the bomb burning out and exploding by putting off the immediate problem.
As long as you are in Radsea, if at least the 8th-level barons want to play, you can mobilize other barons as much as you like.
There are only four countries in this world. Here, the 8th-class barons are of a high class enough to influence the capital city and the palace where the king lives.
No matter how respected and respected a place and profession are, the spiritual master and the spiritual leader, but the truth is that if politics and military power are inserted, they will inevitably become humble.
It is not a good thing for the barons to be on the same page as the 8th level barons, as they are not blindly afraid of the death of spirits like ordinary citizens and villagers.
A further problem is that it is not limited to one place in Radsea.
All four countries of Nionebreth are organically connected and have established their own cooperative relationship. If you harbor evil and try to disturb it, it can affect Heathrond, the Tribal Alliance, and Beltical.
Considering all of this, the number of possible outcomes is roughly in the hundreds.
From the time he received the invitation from Bjalux to the time he arrived at Helumen after receiving the invitation from Yeongdo, most of his thoughts were simulations of how the world situation would change after passing through or avoiding Helumen rather than Issilite’s problems.
As you continue to grow as a high-ranking spiritist and your reputation increases, what will happen to you and the elements around you, How your actions will change friendly relations, and so on.
Here, depending on how the problem between Lord Helumen and Isilite goes, there are thousands of other results, so even the Hwanin couldn’t stand it and stretched out.
In fact, Hwanin prefers to resolve the situation through violence rather than dialogue. It is his preference to slash the back of a defenseless opponent and stick a knife in the back rather than brain war using his head.
However, the 8th class baron is not a weight class that can be solved well in that way. There is a high possibility that simple formulas will not work even if terrorism is committed because there will be a countermeasure against confusion.
Because of that, I used my brain to not make a strong enemy, but the situation worked out better than I thought because of the one path Isilite showed me.
Hwanin closed his eyes for a moment as he watched his girlfriends chatting about information about his world.
