silent war (3)
When I asked who was the busiest among the executives under the current Immortal King, there was one that everyone picked first.
It was Olivia the Banshee Queen.
The task of uncovering the oath of Yeokcheon, which was Hans’s first order, had to be continued as their forces were widely distributed.
In addition, the task of absorbing those who have already been identified is the same without her.
It was such a situation, but this time, a new order came from Hans.
A merchant in Tarak had an attempt to assassinate a vampire. Find out the details and report it.
[Haa… Girl, I’m sorry I overworked like this….]
Olivia, who was floating in the darkness of the cave, surrounded by ghosts, grumbled to herself.
It was a joke of conversion that only the undead could do, but unfortunately, there was no one in this space who could accept her words.
[Maybe that’s why my skin seems to have gotten rougher these days… I’ve been avoiding sunlight as much as possible, the enemy of my skin…]
A translucent, slender finger ran down the same translucent, smooth cheek.
It was a humor that he tried again without giving up on the cold reaction of the people around him, but … of course, no one responded.
[Whoa… I’m an idiot who expected a sense of these stupid things…]
He didn’t dare play his mouth in front of the Immortal King, but talking to himself and playing with words was already close to a habit as he had been alone for a long time.
But that was only useless because there was no one who could speak the language…
Eventually, Olivia gave up and closed her eyes to analyze the information brought by the ghosts.
The ghosts, whose feelings, including desire and obsession, were castrated, had their ego blurred instead of extremely diminished, so it was very difficult to deal with them as they wanted.
It is almost impossible for ordinary people to extract and combine the necessary information from a list of unorganized, just recklessly collected information.
But, of course, she was no ordinary person.
[It’s strange… An attempt to assassinate Hubert, a merchant of Tarak… A strange dot is coming…]
First of all, it was impossible to find Hubert, the victim.
For a more accurate investigation, it is common sense to ride up the victim first, so I was going to figure out his location.
‘…it seems like he hid in a barrier that he was very careful about. Still, it hurts my pride that I didn’t even know where I was.’
Still, as he wasn’t the original target, she eventually gave up on finding Hubert and searched through the suspects first.
After that, it was only two days in parallel with other things.
From the people at the top of the competition centered on Tarak, to the nobles who had even a slight connection with the Hubert Company, and to organizations in the dark where interests were entangled.
After a sleepless forced march, she finally managed to get rid of them all.
[All of them were innocent, but… There were a lot of people who didn’t even know that he had suffered a disgrace…]
In the end, the final conclusion was that it was not a direct grudge crime involving Hubert or his superiors.
In a situation where the hard work of several days was in vain…
[Uhhhh- the demons are about to weep…]
Goo-!
As Olivia began to sob, the atmosphere vibrated and a death wave spread around her.
Those who are not spiritually defended are a terrible power that can lead to instant death just by hearing it.
[Cheer up—!]
[Uh-huh—]
The ghosts that filled the cave writhe and glow in the energy, and the surrounding area became a chaos in an instant.
However, Olivia, who caused the situation, did not care about the surrounding situation, and was slowly analyzing the information again with an innocent face.
If Hubert wasn’t a direct problem, the cause would be outside.
Her next target was to dig into vampires who were beasts.
But he was also not normal.
He hid his body so thoroughly that it was impossible to follow the trail of the ghosts only through the belated investigation of the ghosts.
However, the mission entrusted to me by the Immortal King could not be failed as it is.
With the intention of investigating all vampires in the area, she released the ghosts and gathered information.
And after several days of obsessive scrutiny, day and night, after putting off the oath of the Yeokcheon for a while—.
[Uh-huh… I guess it’s just these kids…?]
She was finally able to capture the vampires gathering in the city of Rappella, the Kingdom of Thalia.
A group of vampires completely different from the Brokoslac clan that ruled there were invading their realm.
[It seems like this is going to be fun… First, I have to report to the Immortal King…]
– Olivia? This is Dwell. How long should I wait?
At that time, a communication was received from Dwell McCain, who was robbing the oath of inversion together.
They told me to wait for a while to dig the back of the vampires, but somehow they contacted me just in time for the job to be over.
[···ha. Seriously, I’m going to overwork myself like this…]
So, Olivia, the Banshee Queen, had a busy day today as usual.
***
‘An invasion of another vampire clan?’
A few days after entrusting Olivia with the task, she has thoroughly investigated the truth of Hubert’s assassination more than expected.
Not only did he find out that the friction at Hubert’s company was not the cause, but rather a problem related to Brokoslock, a cooperative relationship…
He even found out that the clan that was believed to have carried out the operation was now gathering in the city of Rappella in the Kingdom of Talia.
‘Before hitting Talaria, did you mean to turn your gaze away? It would have been an added bonus if the additional investigative personnel had escaped.’
It was the expansion of power that Brokoslak, who was stuck in their own territory and adhered to the policy of isolation, attempted to expand their power in a short time.
Of course, from the outside, I had no choice but to judge that it was a plan that paid attention in many ways.
If a plan that took so much effort suddenly began to creak, it would have been a natural flow to figure out the cause and try to fix it.
‘And then, aiming at the gap, hit the base…. That’s roughly what you think.’
In addition, Olivia added that they seemed to be in a lot of haste.
Looking at the state of preparation for the barrier, it seems that he was trying to maintain a thorough secrecy.
And that also meant that the raid was imminent.
‘But the problem is that the Brokoslaks haven’t noticed it yet. In the midst of a lack of security due to the interlocking of the Monster Forest and the expansion of external forces…’
A situation in which the number of vampires was still low, and there was a hole in the internal monitoring network.
In addition, the cooldown of Bae Song-jin was still about two days away, so it was impossible for Heinz II to go straight to Talaria.
‘However, Hans is a little bit involved… If you use your power properly, your position will inevitably be revealed, and if you do that, things will become too big. It is not simply a conflict between vampires.’
It was still too early for the Immortal King to come to the fore.
It was only waiting for the Immortal Army to gather more evil forces, and the Continental side had reached an agreement after the summit was over.
‘They who broke in this time, you said that they were presumed to be the Eupersch clan, right?’
After all, they were the only ones who had the ability to do this.
If ‘Brokoslak’, one of the vampire clan’s three rivers, acquired a small kingdom in the west, ‘Obaipo’ was in power in the republic of the eastern region.
And one of the remaining three rivers and one of the strongest among them was the ‘Eupersh’, which was based in the central Azerion Empire and operated on a continental basis.
Also, their head was the ‘Holy Blood’, the pinnacle of Auterica vampires.
‘I didn’t know that I would face the Holy Blood in this way.’
The Holy Blood was never easily seen.
Currently, two people have been identified from this side.
With the exception of Brokoslac, who had gone into a long hibernation and had no promise of waking up, he was in fact the strongest of the vampires.
‘If it’s like this, the Bisque Eupersch will go out on his own. This is a headache.’
I knew that Eupersch and Brokoslac weren’t on good terms.
In the process of completely engulfing the Kingdom of Thalia in the past, there was a slight conflict with them who were active throughout the continent.
It was said that there was friction while driving out the vampires of Yupersh in the kingdom and consolidating the realm, but after that, Brokoslac was stuck in the corner of the continent and they united, so there was no need to clash.
‘But it’s a sudden attack on a large scale.’
I don’t know if there was a change of heart or if the expansion of this power was bothersome.
Since it has already happened, it is important to know how to respond now.
‘I can’t help it. He dares to touch Hubert and try to ruin even the brokoslock he obtained… I can’t stand still like this.’
Shouldn’t we do our best to do this too?
The moment I made up my mind.
Harley, who was staying at the Northern Steel Citadel to slaughter the monsters, moves.
Hans, who continued casting while scanning the area, also began to move secretly.
‘I don’t know how things are going to work, so I must have insurance first.’
If the Immortal King came to the fore, he would have no choice but to attract external attention, but he was able to somehow create an excuse.
If you need the corpses of vampires or want to bring them under your control, you should just open your mouth a little.
Still, Hans, who crossed the space and arrived in Talaria, hoping that he would not have to go out on his own, noticed an unexpected fact.
‘what? It’s not as bad as you think… isn’t it?’
that too.
Because something completely unexpected was running around there.
***
“Yeah, I know everything about it. Do you know if you get caught for nothing?”
“Yes, yes… of course, Harley-sama!”
“Believe? Am I a scary person when I’m angry? Kahahahaha—!”
“···sure! Do not worry!”
The expression of the person who crawled back and forth to Harley’s words stiffened awkwardly.
It was an expression I wanted to say, ‘It’s scary even if you don’t get angry’, but it was probably a mistake.
“I’m a little busy right now, so for the time being, listen to Howard. Please take good care of the staff below so that no one who wants to know how many lives they have has come out! You’ll know everything later!”
“Yes! I will treat Howard as an alter ego of the Lord of the business.”
As Tarak and the Fortress of Steel were only a day away, Harley’s activities had already been conveyed to this place.
Of course, there was no way the people in the upper house would not know about Hubert and the co-representative of him.
His overwhelming ability, as well as the protection of the church and the love call from Count Aonia, would go against his will… Really, he wouldn’t be able to even dare to dare with any courage.
‘This has been settled to some extent, then the next…’
Harley, who cracked down on Hubert’s company again, immediately moved to Tarak’s temple.
‘I must be busy. I got a few days’ probation, but I have to get things done as soon as possible and return to the citadel.’
Of course, the citadel, including Count Aonya, captured him.
Since Harley’s performances were so great in the past, there was no choice but to worry about his absence.
‘Still, I’ve been defending without a break, but this is about this amount of time.’
Thanks to this, it wasn’t difficult to take time off for a while by taking a break from this work.
Count Aonia even suggested that when Harley was absent due to the Hubert attack, he would personally order the Tarak Police Department to take special care.
Since there may be some people who would do a good job in Hubert’s absence, I decided to accept the offer with gratitude.
“What? Are you not Harley? I heard you’re in the Iron Citadel, what’s going on here?”
“Uh-huh! That’s what it means…”
And Harley finally arrived at Tarak’s temple.
Through the gate there, it was possible to move to the Temple of Talaria in the Kingdom of Talia.
To the place where the conflict between vampires was foretold.
