Chapter 772 – 763 Elwydris, the Arboreal City
It was late at night after the information gathering of the knights who had become cheongyeong had ended when Lord Elwidris returned.
Buzz buzz—…
Kue…
%@^#&…
Hwanin, who had been sitting on the sofa concentrating his mind, meditating, which had been changed for the purpose of establishing and reconfirming the complex situation of the current situation and organizing the collected information rather than for the purpose of improving spiritual art these days, woke up to the noise outside and stood by the window.
A group of riders crossing the drawbridge of Yeongju Castle, and the castle maids and servants who greet them.
The knights riding the Que dismount and the maids disappear one by one with the Que demanding grooming.
Servants then assisted in removing the knights’ equipment, but all of the knights’ equipment was soaked in blue liquid or shattered and torn, with clear traces of the fierce battle.
Among dozens of such knights, there was a man in an exceptionally neat and tidy uniform.
Unlike the aura of common professionals, the aura of an intense haze that stands out.
Armed with a bow that seemed to have been made in the image of a light fall, a golden-haired man with an aura that could only be seen in the scorching sand desert at noon passed the bow to head butler Miria and raised his head.
Fleur’s beautiful appearance goes nowhere, and the thin man’s gaze meets Hwanin standing by the window.
‘That man is the lord of Elwidris.’
Beyond the level of not having any flab, he is thin like an anorexic patient, but his eyes are shapely.
Lord El Widris, who exchanged glances with Hwanin for a while, turned his head when Miria opened her mouth and entered the castle first.
“Isn’t that man the lord of Elwidris?”
At Hwan-yeon’s question about seeing the same thing on his shoulder, the women look back at Hwan-in.
However, Hwanin did not answer and concentrated on combining the information brought by the spirits of the Elwidris knights.
It wasn’t ignorance, it was that I was so focused on my thoughts that I missed what Hwanyeon said.
“… Isilite, Anne. Prepare for a meeting with the lord.”
=Yes, Master.=
=Yes.=
While the girlfriends were tidying up their clothes, Hwanin put on the Cheonleung uniform and coat that he had taken off and waited while watching the blue full moon outside the window.
Considering the etiquette, the visit will be held tomorrow morning, but judging from Lord Elwidris’s face and eyes, it seems unlikely that he will follow that manner.
Thinking so, when I rotated the core of the Light Spear ten times.
Smart smart
A knock echoed quietly through the living room.
As Imorel quietly opened the door, Miria, the head butler, stood in front of her and bowed her head nervously.
= Mr. Seongje. Please forgive my late visit. The owner of Elwidris, His Excellency Count Psud Oul Elwidris, has just returned.=
“It’s an early return.”
Maybe it’s because Hwanin’s expression and answer aren’t bad. Head butler Mi-ah carefully brought her to the point.
= You came back in a hurry by advancing the schedule when you heard that a distinguished guest had visited. The lord hopes to have an interview now, but if the priest does not want to, he said he will postpone it until tomorrow. =
“I’m fine too.”
As Hwanin moves, Isilite and Anne follow. As the escort accompanied her, Miria’s chief butler briefly kissed her lips, but she guided him to the lord’s office without saying anything.
The office of the lord of Elwidris was nothing special or special, and it was only as far as one would imagine if it were the office of a noble lord.
The wall behind the desk was a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the city of Elwydris.
The left and right walls were filled with bookshelves full of books, and a large magic tool chandelier on the ceiling illuminated the room with soft light.
The floor was covered with intricately patterned carpets, and the lord’s desk was in the middle of the room.
The overall color scheme is a dark oak tree color, slightly dry and profound.
When Hwanin entered the office with two escorts of spirit knights, he could see the back of the lord looking down at the city immersed in darkness.
=Hwanin Seongje His Majesty has arrived.=
Hearing the quiet voice of head butler Miria, who had entered the room with Hwanin, a man with rich but frizzy blonde hair in short ponytails turned around.
=You worked hard to bring Seongjenim. You should go and rest.=
His appearance is skinny like a skull and his complexion is swarthy, but his voice is clear and clear.
=…=
Head butler Miria pursed her lips with a face full of emotions toward such a lord… Seeing the lord quietly shaking his head, his white gloves clenched his fists enough to make a noise and bent his waist deeply.
=Please sit over here.=
When the head butler walked backwards and left the office, the lord of Elwidris, Psud = Oul = Elwidris, showed Hwanin to a sofa in the corner of the office with an expressionless expression.
Hwanin and Yeongju sit facing each other, and Isilite and Anne stand behind Hwanin.
Afterwards, the maid pushed the cart in, unloaded her favorite tea, and left a cup in front of the lord and the holy rite.
= Please understand that hospitality is neglected. Since I’m pouring all of my family’s spare money into rebuilding the city, I have nothing to treat.=
A cup of tea with no accompanying dessert. It has oxidized as if it had been stored for a long time, giving off a very faint burnt smell.
Hwanin, who is not particularly fussy, answered while holding up such a car.
“I guessed from the fact that the dinner for the servants and maids of the lord’s castle was a piece of black bread with a little bit of meat in the soup.”
=…=
After a moment of hesitation, Earl Psud quietly emptied the car without a word.
As if it were the last, last drink, while savoring the aroma and taste.
And the Count, who put the empty teacup down silently, closed his eyes as if he had made up his mind and said.
= Your resolve is over. I don’t think that this one neck will allay the anger of the Holy Emperor. However, please be merciful and spare the innocent citizens of Elwidris, the collaterals of the family, the knights, and the soldiers.=
Hwanin looked at the lord who was prepared for death indifferently, then crossed his legs and stood up with his elbows on his armrests, saying in an attitude that revealed his arrogance.
“Earl Psud is like a model for an incompetent lord.”
=…=
“As a lord, he repeats choices he shouldn’t have made, and when he needs to be clear about his identity and punishment, he creates a big controversy by covering it around, and he doesn’t pay attention to such a topic, so he invites disaster. But if you ask if he was a good father, it’s not like that. The result is the downfall of the family.”
As he picked his fingers and pinched them one by one, Count Pesud’s face showed faint traces of pain.
“How can you win the respect of citizens and knights by being good at fighting, but other than that, you’re terrible, so in reality Elwidris is more than 90% responsible for putting you in this state. But to think of taking responsibility with death and running away to the Garden of the Gods? It’s pitiful.”
=… Will do… No words.=
One more question from Hwanin flew to Earl Pshud, who struggled to answer.
“Did you know? Not a single letter of apology from you has been delivered to me.”
=… !?=
“It was stolen by spies attached to you. Not knowing that, the lord went on a subjugation that did not require him to step in and neglected the management of the surroundings… Are you a lord or a warrior? Are you aware of the position of lord?”
He really didn’t know that all the letters he had written were stolen.
“There is a limit to being stupid, but as I looked into it, I went beyond the limit and started using my hands to the point where I didn’t want to use my hands for fear of getting them dirty.”
Just like that, Hwanin snapped his fingers once, and Lia Myam slowly appeared beside Hwanin like a ghost.
Earl Psud, who widened his eyes at the vivid mixture, jumped to his feet.
=Name Lia!=
“Sir Seongjae. Father is not an idiot. He’s just a coward.”
Name Leah, who neatly ignored the count’s cry, covered her half of her face, which had hardened from her madness, with her hand, and poured out cold criticism with her half-face, which was at least intact.
She said, “The woman I loved was murdered, but I couldn’t even punish her severely for fear of collusion and resistance from her elders. In the meantime, even when my daughter was kicked out for being a lowly mongrel, she left the beast subjugation, and even though she knew that a civil war would break out, she couldn’t make a decision and pushed her situation to the worst.”
Fortunately, her family, the lieutenant who assisted her, and the aristocratic family and family who followed him were massacred, and when the civil war intensified, did they massacre the elders who were the culprits?
Even after all the important people around her had died, she moved as if pushed, so it’s strange that Lia, who learned everything based on the information gathered by her knights, made her tremble at Count Psud. Not.
Hardened by her daughter’s shocking appearance and harsh criticism, Count Psud couldn’t turn his head away from Hwanin when the story began.
“There were several times when I came here and thought it was strange. Even though it is a count family, it is a prestigious family with a history that goes along with Merianol, but it is a family that has Wisdom as a blood line ability, but the series of reactions should be called stupid…”
It was like a headless lizard, with its limbs and tail moving wildly.
The hands and feet move in a messy way, but it’s like the body follows.
“There is no head, one limb of the elders, the other limbs of the princess, and the body of the Elwidris family. Since there is no main body, the limbs act arbitrarily and stab in all directions to create enemies. It is only natural that the Council, stimulated by that, would have the idea of eliminating Elwidris.”
Thanks to the usefulness of wisdom and monopoly, the Elwidris family had many enemies from long ago.
For these reasons, the council decided to cut down El Widris’ power during the reign of Count Psud, who was unable to properly control his forces.
The first step was that Elkata had awakened as a spirit master.
The elders insisted on the return of Elkata, but Earl Psud took time to think about it, and in the meantime, Elkata met the spirit knights of Yeongdo and left for Yeongdo.
The sparks of conflict were then born.
And the small fire began to burn in earnest when Elcata saw the future with her vision.
The summoning of the Crown Prince of the Elwidris family, who was staying at the jewel palace in the capital city, became an opportunity, and the contents were known to the council.
Personally, I ordered an aide to investigate Elkata’s identity, and it was known to the elders that Elkata awakened to the blood system and was the person who saw the vision.
If it’s a mistake, it’s a mistake, and if it’s manipulation by the council, it’s manipulation, but it’s the incompetence of the Count who can’t take it out or leave it out.
The council, which identified the feud between the family head and the elders (Elkata mother and daughter), secretly stimulated the elders to promote the assassination of the emperor, while instigating civil war by alienating both the Gongnyeo faction and the Elder faction.
The detonator was triggered when Count Psud emptied the city to subdue the overflowing Nagas.
Because of the distrust of the lord due to the alienation of the council, and the crime of killing and expelling Elkata’s mother and daughter, the elders, whose distrust and anxiety reached their peak, became a catalyst for the pressure of the Gongnyeo faction and called in troops to protect themselves.
In the midst of that, the council’s gangsters pretended to be an accident and openly killed the princess side, and the gongnyeo faction, which was still tense, raised a prepared knight and tried to subdue and eliminate the elder faction…
“The duchess house in the aristocratic town started to be swallowed up by an explosion. People were embarrassed and angry, and in the midst of the chaos, I was harassed and killed by an elder disguised as an elder. Before I breathed my last breath, what formed on my retina was a burning symbolic number. From then on, the madness would not stop like a cart rolling down a slope. This side had her princess murdered, and the other side was falsely accused of murdering her princess.”
Name Leah’s hand opened the blood-soaked part of her well-swollen upper cleavage, revealing a knife-scarred heart.
=…=
The story of Hwanin began when Earl Psud’s face hardened.
“I know you have been working hard to defuse the situation somehow. However, efforts that do not produce results are bound to lose their meaning.”
When Hwanin snapped his fingers once more, the door to the office opened wide, and several spirits of Elwidris knights brought in by Hwanin.
Four men and women who were beaten in a mess, but healed enough to barely recognize who they were by Ah-yeong’s sexual technique.
“I am a spy assigned to you by a secret group hidden from the council and capital. Is this a familiar face?”
= Yo… Han, Amilla! Slat! Vincia! How do you… !=
Earl Psud, who was already like a skeleton, shook his fist with a white face.
Lia laughs at the sight as her face rises with madness.
“This is the result of my hard work as a lord. Father, how are you feeling? Would you please tell me how it feels to see your slaughtered daughter mixed up and burning in the cursed fire?”
=…=
Hwanin, who was staring at Earl Psud with her head down and unable to raise her head with an expressionless expression, shook her hand lightly, and Lia, who distorted her face like a devil, returned to her original straight expression. He stepped back.
The lord asks in a muffled voice.
=… What does the Holy Emperor want from you? What do you want me to tell you all about?=
“Hmm… The shock isn’t that great. It seems you already knew or guessed… I’m guessing you’ve already been in contact with the Council. Before the civil war started in earnest… ? I guess that’s about it. Oh, are the materials and supplies that are now flooding into the city the result of your choices?”
“…」
Mymria’s bloody, eerie gaze turns to Count Psud.
“I can roughly guess, but can you tell me what the secret pact you made with the council is?”
Earl Psud opened his mouth as if he had given up everything.
=… Instead of holding the family responsible for the assassination of Emperor Seongje… It was to raise EL as the head of the next generation. Before climbing… Rebuilding the city as much as possible and recruiting talented people…=
“Since the talents selected must have been full of spies and spies from the council or those who are destined to die, they ended up playing on the palm of the council. How does it feel to dedicate the Elwidris family to the leadership council?”
=… Keugh. =
Hwanin smiled at the groaning Earl Psud and beckoned, and he slapped the necks of the male and female Fleurnets brought by the knight spirits.
Burst- The head fell to the floor and rolled, and hot blood spurted out from the cut section and then began to trickle down.
“Count Psud.”
=…=
Earl Psud did not respond with a tired expression, as if his vitality had rapidly drained from the great mental shock.
Ordinary people can do shock death if they receive a huge mental shock from such a look.
However, the mental and vitality of a 7th grade professional does not collapse to this extent.
Hwanin continued to open his mouth without hesitation.
“There is only one way to carry the Elwidris family into the future.”
=…=
“Around the day after tomorrow, a group of people will come. These are the figures of the intelligence community I gathered, keep them by your side and moderate them. I will spare no assistance so that the family can return to normal as much as possible.”
=… Does Seongje also need the Elwidris family?=
Hwanin smiled at Lord Elwidris, who asked with a worn face, arrogantly looked down at Count Psud with his legs crossed and opened his mouth.
『I am not interested in your family. No, I am not interested in this world itself.”
=… !!=
Hwanin laughs again as he sees his two fists getting stronger.
The four sentences he said in his pre-existing poem. Hearing one of them, he spoke to Count Psud, who was trying to calm his passion.
“Anyway, stand by them and listen to what they have to say. If you wait while arranging the family and estates, the winds of change will blow in the country called Merianol.”
=…=
“After that, Yielkata will return, so transfer her lordship to the returning Elkata, and then simply follow her instructions as a simple monster hunter. You don’t have to think, you don’t have to judge, you just do what you’re told to do like a golem. Of course I won’t let you die. You must live as a hunter of Elcata until you die of old age. Isn’t it easy?”
Earl Psud, who had shown dozens of facial expression changes in 5 minutes, looked exhausted and full of regret, then got up from his seat and knelt down in front of Hwanin to answer.
=Instructions… I will follow…=
When Hwanin nodded slightly, Myeonglia, who had been watching everyone from his side and had a fierce expression, in an instant tapped Hwanin’s shoulder with a friendly expression.
“Sir Seongjae. Can I do whatever I want with those souls?”
What are you going to do? When her Hwanin gives permission with some curiosity, she approaches the four spirits whose name Lia floated like her ghost and escaped as her soul as she had just been killed.
And.
「K̸̢̹͇̟̗̙͈̝͙͉̬͕͈̲̫̽͑̌̊͊̿͑͌̃͐͠k̷̢̜̮̬̰̲̳͓̋̀͋̇͐͜͠ŷ̸̨͍̘̲̝̮̳̠͕̩̙̈̈̈̑̑̑̇ a̵̛͉͐͐̂ȁ̵̡̼̱̖̱͇͍͙̦̄̐̎͛͌͂̆̆̂͆͛̀̕͝ȁ̴̢̩̠̬̰̥̼͈̭͓̮̽͋͛̎̃̕a̴͎͕̒̈́́́̈́̈́̆͡͏̓̑ ͍̲̗̣̪̪͉̖̼̺ȁ̸̮̻̥͍̣͍a̶̢̗̥͙̟̹̮̝͕̦͈̣̳͚̍́͗̾̃̓͝a̷͖̰̘̚ ̩͍̞͍̺͙̹̰̮̯͇̖—̷̨͌̔̆̃̈̏̿̅—̷̛̹̟̐̑̒̾̎̂͝!̶̹͈̓̐̋͌́̑̆̽̎̉͂!̵̀͑̍͛͐̀̀͒ ̞͎̻͍̾͗!̷̛͉̖̮̣͍̜̪͖̖͔̳̣̲͇̲̿́͐̆͆̓̑!
I screamed out my soul at your still-dazed soul.
As the red mixed light wrapped around the four souls like the breath of a banshee, the four souls also let out a scream, and in an instant, they were corrupted, less than Myriad, but stained with blood and swaying.
Lia, who covered her mouth like a witch and smiled coquettishly, asked her visionary, as if she didn’t like it.
“Whoop whoop. Seongje-nim, did you need Jeokok besides me? I would be grateful if the authors write in the plural.”
=…=
=… !=
When Issilite and Anne, who are alarmed, take their hands to the weapon, Myriaa smiles like a wicked devil as if flirting with them.
“Don’t worry, Mr. Seongje’s wives. Never leave children without Seongjenim’s permission! Because it will not increase I just risked the lives of those who betrayed the pigs and those who took part in the swindle… Whoop whoop…」
Hwanin thought of Banshee Queen while looking at Nameria, and changed the souls of the four into simple beads without contracts.
‘Still, the right one is the right one.’
As a test, release one from the orb state and spread a wave of new-style tranquility locally.
“Ahhh. Ah…」
Then, like a broken voice recorder, it gave out a moan similar to static and noise, and then turned into a faint glow and attained Buddhahood.
At this rate, even if the entire city is stained with mixed substances, it will all be purified with a single new-style spirit drink.
Hwanin took care of the remaining three marbles with an expressionless expression and nodded his head slightly.
I got a pretty decent jade producer.
