Talent Recruitment (2)
By the time the son-in-law gradually gets dark.
knock knock knock—
A beautiful woman with pink hair and purple eyes was quietly peering out the window in a carriage along a city boulevard.
Her face with a soft smile had an innocent expression as if she didn’t know anything, but her heart was never at peace.
‘This···.’
Feeling uncomfortable with Chimi, the woman, Shiana, kept her eyes fixed outside the window and spread only a feeling of excitement to detect the surroundings.
One, two, three···.
Unlike before, the number of ghosts increased significantly.
Some of them even followed behind the carriage at a certain distance, as if they had set her as a surveillance target.
And when things got to that point, she knew for sure.
‘Your tail was stepped on!’
The Undead Army, Banshee Queen Olivia is investigating this side.
But I couldn’t figure out what the hell it was for.
He would not have been able to see through his identity, thoroughly disguised as a human, only through the ghost body.
‘No, you wouldn’t have noticed that I was that Ciana just yet. The investigation must have started for some other reason.’
If Olivia had known that she was that ‘Succubus Cyana’ and made her the subject of surveillance, she would have acted more thoroughly than this.
Now, it was a bit lax to say that it was targeting her as if it were an information warfare targeting normal humans.
‘Then where the hell did your tail get stepped on? Probably not as an imperial aristocrat… Reversal oath activity? Through Oldman?’
Her mind was complicated.
However, he would not know anything other than Siana’s real name and that her base was the Empire.
They were only at that level of cooperation from the beginning.
‘I’ve been anxious since I suddenly lost contact with the guys I sent to Talaria. Could it have anything to do with that?’
In the end, she had no choice but to judge that the location was exposed through various complex paths that could not be immediately identified.
‘Whatever the cause was, I couldn’t stay here any longer as long as I got this much attention. I’ll have to evacuate for now.’
If that happened, I would have to give up a lot of things, so of course it was not an easy decision.
Isn’t the aristocratic status of the Azerion Empire that she now has created after a long period of painstaking work?
But it was an unavoidable situation.
To say that Olivia was interested was the same as meaning that the Immortal King’s gaze was also directed this way.
If he delayed like this, he might be dragged into the Undead Army again.
‘no! Enlist again! I don’t want to die!’
The position and status can be recreated as much as you like.
However, if he is captured by the Immortal King this time, he will be subject to eternal slavery until he is subdued again.
‘Okay, let’s run away.’
When I thought that way, I was able to make up my mind, but there were quite a lot of things that I regret to throw away everything and immediately hide my body.
‘How hard I’ve laid the foundation!’
Shouldn’t we make some minimum arrangements in case we return later?
You will have to prepare some funds for a fresh start…
‘···Couldn’t it come right now? A mogul like the Immortal King won’t come forward himself.’
Even if they did, only Olivia and other executives would move.
And as they are in the middle of the imperial city, they won’t be able to plan their work easily.
That said, there was at least a few days left until they were ready to come.
In the end, Siana, who couldn’t give up her greed, rationalized herself and headed for the mansion.
Among the useful things she had to pack was, of course, ‘Andrew Weaver’.
There were some restrictions, but there was no ability to grasp the situation in various parts of the continent from a sitting position.
Suddenly, suddenly— rattle!
When she finally arrived at the mansion, she immediately opened the door and got out, ignoring the greetings of the servants who greeted her, and went straight to the place where she could feel Andrew’s presence.
Quaang—!
A door that makes a loud noise when you open it without hesitation.
But right now, I just didn’t have time to worry about that.
“Andrew—!”
“Ew? sister? What happened all of a sudden…”
“Get ready to move right now!”
“···Oh oh! After all, my sister thought so too! I was going to tell you first…”
“It’s okay, let’s move right away!”
Andrew, sprawled out in his armchair and drunkenly, staggered to his feet under her coercion.
In the meantime, Siana continued to think about how to use her hands to minimize the loss of the foundation while taking necessary items for the subspace created by black magic.
‘I have to take care of this… It’s a waste of effort to give up on this. How can we not just maintain the status quo? And that…’
However, while she was busy preparing for a late night getaway.
Saaa—
A chilly sensation crossed the nape of his neck.
‘ah?’
She knew this feeling very well.
An incomprehensibly thick, overwhelming power that covers the security barriers tightly installed in the mansion.
Deep, dark, heavy and sticky.
Death like an abyss that swallows everything.
It was the presence of ‘him’ that I had hoped for.
‘Ahh—! I should have just thrown it all away!’
In the end, Shiana, who had a premonition of her fate, had no choice but to close her eyes tightly.
***
‘The city of Tobea… can’t be called a big city, but it’s not small enough to be ignored.’
And a city of this size was bound to be thoroughly prepared for all kinds of abnormal situations in its own way.
That said, it’s not easy to infiltrate quietly from the beginning…
It was said that no matter how thoroughly the concealment barrier was built, it would be difficult to completely hide the aftermath of that magical power.
It is an impossible situation to quietly see work and leave.
So prepared.
Wee-ing- Weeing-!
Kwaaang-!
“Ahh! What is it all of a sudden?!”
“Kyaaah!”
Emergency alerts sounded throughout the city, and explosions erupted in response.
The explosion, which started in a luxurious mansion or a shabby back alley, drove the city that was gradually immersed in darkness into chaos in an instant.
‘Well then, shall we go?’
If it’s hard to move quietly, you can move in the turmoil.
Hans took advantage of the moment when his subordinates started their activities, and quietly infiltrated into the barrier he had set up beforehand.
An ordinary aristocratic mansion encountered in the barrier.
But that was only the appearance, and the inside was extraordinary…
‘Really, did you really care? Quite a few people must not even be aware of these security devices.’
Abilities such as [Magic Way] and [Magic Control] were activated one after another, and he breathlessly analyzed the spells in the mansion.
From perception distortion to concealing energy and barriers that exclude intruders.
All of them were high-level magic tricks, so it would have taken a considerable amount of time to destroy them normally.
Kwazijik-!
Dismissed!
Of course, this was not the case for the Immortal King, who had overwhelming power.
Just by moving his energy to the fullest, the complex magical structure of the security barrier was crushed and incapacitated by the overwhelming density of black magic that dwelled in his body.
‘Let’s see, then first…’
uhhh—
Waves of magical power spread throughout the mansion from Hans’s body, who had entered the interior in an instant, giving off a presence that distorted the space.
At the same time, I felt the presence of those who fainted and collapsed one by one inside the mansion—.
Immediately, those who resisted it were captured.
[I was there.]
and the next moment.
Hans was already seated in front of them.
“Hee… hee…!”
What was there was a dark blond haired man who suddenly appeared from the air and trembled violently at the sight of him…
[Well? you?]
It was a woman with pink hair who was prostrated on the floor before she knew it.
“Ahh-! King, you have come at last. Girl, I’ve been waiting with thirst for the king to come again!”
“Who, sister?”
Unconditional obedience that can be seen at a glance.
The sudden change of attitude made the man next to her look embarrassed, but now she had no time to care about him.
“Oh ho ho… the girl has been working hard to prepare so that the king can conquer the continent more comfortably and reliably, right? Secretly hiding among humans, enduring for a long time with only loyalty to the king, and getting an opportunity…”
The pink-haired woman broke into a cold sweat and desperately made excuses.
And the Immortal King, Hans, who looked down on it, immediately noticed why she was acting like this.
‘The demonic succubus, Siana.’
Although he disguised himself as a human so perfectly that even an archbishop-level clergy would feel uncomfortable with it, he couldn’t escape his [Eyes of the Abyss] that could detect all demons.
‘I think he was close to the top 10 even under the former Immortal King.’
She is a demon summoned from an adjacent dimension, the Pandemonium, and it was literally a case of joining the Undead Army by accident.
Flipping through the information left in his brain, he had a reputation for being somewhat usable in force, but more useful in other ways like Olivia.
‘Well, it’s not easy to pretend to be an imperial aristocrat while hiding your identity as a devil. It sure seems like he’s very resourceful.’
It means that he even deceived the eyes of the strongest people, including the temple, so he could be said to be the best talent in behind-the-scenes work.
Of course, now it was just a former executive who had been locked up and was caught.
[Keukkeuk, it looks like you’ve been really comfortable all this time?]
“No, no! The girl is counting on this day alone…”
[It seems that he was hiding quite well for something like that.]
“Ho, ho ho… I feel very sorry for not being able to contact you in the meantime…”
Her excuses began again, but I had no intention of listening to those useless words any longer.
“…but I absolutely did not satisfy my own selfish desires with the desire to complete the mission more thoroughly…”
[Siana—]
“Huh?!”
uhhh—
The moment he said that name, a strange resonance spread and penetrated Shiana’s body.
Along with that, the compulsory contract of 300 years ago was renewed and overwritten.
“Ahh···.”
In the aftermath, she groaned at the immortal king’s energy flowing into her body, not knowing that the horns had suddenly come out.
Unlike the other undead executives, she wasn’t affected by the power of death and never became stronger than before…
‘I guess he enlisted again.’
That was enough for her to become subordinate to the Immortal King again.
Again—
A drop of tear that flows down without my knowledge at the re-enlistment I didn’t want.
“Ahh? Those, tears of emotion without knowing it? Isn’t this the expression of my loyalty? Oh ho ho ho…”
But even in the midst of that, she worked hard as her survival instinct told her to.
Hans nodded in satisfaction, but this time his gaze returned to the man who was still stiff and hesitant.
‘What is this guy? His body is full of mana, but he has no trace of learning magic or aura.’
The dissolute-looking man with muddy blond hair froze at the sight of him, but Hans looked him up and down as if a predator were sifting through its prey.
‘There is no trace of training, but his physical ability is bizarrely good. It’s like… huh? no way?’
Physical strengthening due to external influences, not growth through normal training.
He knew this phenomenon very well.
“Does the king take an interest in this child? Andrew! Please come and say hello.”
“Yes, yep! hello! My name is Andrew Weaver. That… please take care of me?”
Andrew, a blond-haired man who shows a foolish attitude in a sudden situation.
But what interested Hans now was his exact identity.
And Shiana, possessed as a vassal of the century, bluntly confided in him unsolicited stories in order to somehow win his favor.
“Andrew is also the talent I sought for the cause? Even the king will be amazed at how useful his powers are. What kind of activity has he been doing so far…”
And at the end of the story, the information he was looking for finally popped up.
“… Another surprising fact is that he is from another world! It is said that he is from a completely different dimension, not the demon realm or the spirit realm. Oh ho ho.”
[… Hoo? Another dimension?]
Hans stared at him with his eyes wide open.
Cyana was freely leaking personal information, but Andrew couldn’t even protest and forcibly raised the corners of his mouth and smiled servilely.
“Yes, yes… Immortal King. I’m from that place called Earth. lol···. It will soon be nine years, yes.”
And his answer aroused a special sentiment in Hans.
‘Awakener from another Earth other than me.’
Now, two years are approaching since it was sent to the Auterica dimension.
Because it was the first time I met someone from the same neighborhood.
