Chapter 218 – Chapter 218 ― Mist, Mist of Swin Lake (7)
Episode 218 ― Fog, Swin Lake Fog (7)
“Father.”
Eleanor’s hoarse voice came out in a small voice.
However, neither Roan nor the Grand Duke averted their eyes.
“Father!”
Only then did the grand duke slowly turn his head to the empress.
“Yes. Majesty.”
“We need to move His Majesty. Where there is no snow…”
Eleanor looked around with a serious face like never before. The Central Knights who had followed the Emperor from Basel surrounded the surroundings, but the Grand Duke and the Knights of the Southern Dark Spirit, as well as people who seemed to have followed the crazy girl, were already crowding in.
You must not show the weak side of the emperor.
Roan, on the other hand, did not take his eyes off the Grand Duke. Fiora flew away and the Archduke still had his hand on the hilt. Someone who couldn’t have known that it was blasphemy.
Moreover, the Grand Duke’s eerie power emanated from him without filtering.
Is this what the count said?
Roan frowned.
I don’t know if it’s because of the pain or because of the power of the grand duke I’ve never seen before, but my dizzy head seems to have been shaken.
Intimidation. Pain in the neck. Stink.
Roan couldn’t open his distorted face.
The only thing he could breathe and endure was thanks to the asto powder he stuffed into his pocket.
Only then did I realize
Ah.
This is ‘greed’.
It is the energy of ‘greed’.
The malice Roan felt in the sandy land of the Eastern Emperor.
It is an aura that seems to have been condensed and refined.
The ‘gap’ that Erennier hid wasn’t like this either. Like the Count said, if I endure it, will it disappear soon? What did the Grand Duke do to make him feel like this now?
The distraction was a moment.
Roan seemed to have been hit with cold water by the message floating in front of his eyes.
[Message: Changes to long-term quests]
[Message: Attack progress— 58%]
‘Why?’
He didn’t do anything special with Ernear. Does the attack progress or favorability decrease? Roan was perplexed.
Something changed was that I was a weak opponent to the point of vomiting blood, and that the Grand Duke was by my side. Only those two…
Usually, for demons, a weak spouse is the worst. What did Erenier think of Roan?
‘Or is it the Grand Duke?’
Roan gritted it.
That malice, wickedness carried on the grand duke.
That power might have an effect on Eleanor.
First of all, the most important thing right now is the Grand Duke’s hand on the hilt of the sword. Greed shimmered in his red eyes as he briefly looked away from Erenier and then returned to me.
The demon duel must start in a fair state. As now, no matter who sees it, a fight in a state where I am not whole is not a fight. A stab in the back of the head like that would not count as a duel, and the throne would be vacant.
What is the Grand Duke thinking?
I think I was thinking the same thing as Ron.
Eleanor, who was supporting Roan, gained strength in his hands. I could feel the concentration of strength in the muscles of the knights who stood by Roan.
The durahan knight with his neck by his side sneaked up to Roan and saw an opportunity to get in between him and the grand duke.
Roan smiled lightly.
To think that a disfigured body like this would rather be like insurance.
[Message: Changes to long-term quests]
[Message: Attack progress— 56%]
Roan checked the remaining holy power in his body.
Thanks to ‘Patience’, which was activated right before the depletion of holy power, his holy power did not fall below 1.
Although it was very little, holy power rose like water droplets splashing on the floor. This should be it. ‘Star’s Blessing’ can consume as much holy power as I want.
Roan held Elenir’s hand.
As the warm energy passed through his hands, Erenir looked back at Roan in surprise, but Roan still had his gaze fixed on the Grand Duke.
The Grand Duke’s eyebrows twitched.
He seemed to have noticed that Roan was up to something.
Roan finally opened his mouth, wiping the blood from his mouth with the hem of his sleeve.
“Grand Duke. Get rid of that.”
“I can’t. Your majesty.”
As Roan looked at him with an insensitive face, the Grand Duke bit his hand off the hilt of his sword as if to yield a little.
“The crime of putting Her Highness in danger is serious.”
Although there was no movement, an atmosphere of relief spread among the Central Knights. The knights began to pill the wounded, and one of them returned with both hands holding Fiora respectfully. Fortunately, Fiora didn’t seem to make a lot of noise in the middle. Roan asked quietly with a lead sword.
“You mean that girl?”
“That’s right.”
Blessed by Roan, Billin was still lying with his limbs hanging out. Standing by his side is the Grand Duke’s secretary, Rumbe.
He couldn’t help but knead her hands and feet, and Roan’s eyes met hers. He slammed my forehead into the ground.
“I’m sorry. Your majesty. Majesty. And the Grand Duke.”
“Eleanor. It was a wonderful magic. I would have been very surprised. Are you okay?”
“That…”
Roan. Don’t worry about me, take care of your body.
Those words lingered under Erenir’s tongue. Erenior choked her throat, but she forced herself to swallow her worries like swallowing a pill she didn’t want to eat. It hurt like there was a stone stuck in her throat.
In such a crowded place, I couldn’t raise doubts about Roan’s body.
“Are you okay. It was just a little sudden.”
“Who is that bitch?”
“This is my daughter. Grand Duke.”
Rumbe’s voice was suppressed with despair.
As the Grand Duke said, the crime of trying to harm the empress is great. Whether it had a purpose or not.
However, Roan had already seen something similar like this in the Eastern Emperor. If you think about it, right above Swin Lake is the Eastern Emperor.
Whether ‘greed’ spreads malice, or the grand duke does something in Lake Swin. Everyone in the Great Lord’s Castle had any number of opportunities to be exposed to it.
Roan decided to hit the ball.
“I said it was endemic. Is this a seizure?”
The Grand Duke looked back at Roan with sharp eyes.
“How do you know?”
“Is it strange that the emperor knows the affairs of my land?”
“That’s right. This is a seizure.”
Rumbe’s trembling voice interrupted their conversation. Roan asked Turko, the vice-captain of the Central Knights, who stood in front of him.
“What if I try to harm the emperor or empress?”
“Unless it is a duel, we will be executed after going through a trial in the imperial castle.”
“What if I said it wasn’t intentional?”
“There is no intention, but the guilt does not go away. Being taken to the imperial prison is the same, and the subsequent disposition is left to His Majesty the Emperor or the Imperial Family.”
“A seizure just like that must have happened often here in Swinho, but what did you do in such an accident?”
What Roan asked was not Turko, a stranger, but Rumbe, a man from Swinho. After looking at the Grand Duke’s eyes and confirming that he had agreed to answer in silence, he said.
“… If the seizure continues, it will cause great harm to the surroundings. Kill or lock them up.”
The difference between the two was probably a difference in class.
Killing is probably when the perpetrator is of a lower rank than the victim. When a high-ranking person in the castle killed someone lower than himself, it would have been to the point of being locked up.
It is a world where class is more important than life. The taste is a bit bitter, but it’s hard to change everything overnight.
“That girl’s seizure is over. As soon as the child regains his sanity, send him to the imperial prison.”
“… What do you mean, Your Majesty?”
The Grand Duke asked in a cold voice while everyone was making faces of surprise.
“The disease is not getting better. Until the death. Didn’t you hear that?”
“So you haven’t heard?”
Power began to circulate in the trembling limbs.
Roan leaned on Erenia and gave strength to her legs to stand up as much as possible without shaking.
Roan looked down at the grand duke who was looking up at him with calm eyes.
“That I have a strange power. You know.”
“… Are you saying you were healed?”
“Didn’t you see? You too.”
As in the Eastern Emperor, when ‘Blessing of the Stars’ heals pollution, a tremendous light is emitted. Everyone around you must have seen it. The grand duke, biting his lip, slowly raised his body following Roan.
“He is the one who tried to kill Her Highness. Isn’t a summary execution not enough?”
“Shouldn’t the great lord, who couldn’t even catch the disease in this area, start thinking about killing Yeong Ji-min?”
The red eyes of the same color as Erenia flashed and shone. He and I know That this was not the Grand Duke’s fault. But he couldn’t come up with a solution, and I can.
That alone forced the Grand Duke to keep his mouth shut.
“Eleanor is my wife.”
Eleanor, who had crossed Roan’s arms, involuntarily pressed her fingers.
“And that child is also my people.”
The Grand Duke’s eyes sharpened.
“Won’t you even give me a chance to rectify the unsavory things that happened in my land, Your Majesty?”
“I’m sorry to mention it again, but I’ve solved a problem I haven’t been able to find an answer for here. Maybe we can find out the cause of the disease that goes around Swin Lake and come up with a countermeasure?”
“Isn’t it impossible for His Majesty to solve these trivial matters one by one?”
The red eyes between the narrowed eyes contained anger.
Don’t get involved in the affairs of my land.
But anger without a solution is powerless.
Roan knelt down behind the Grand Duke and looked at the Secretary General, who bowed his head towards the two of them.
He was face down towards us with his back to his daughter, who was lying on the ground and had no sign of getting up.
As if he was trying to protect her with his vile body.
It’s easy to kill someone who did the wrong thing.
It may be difficult to find an answer forever. Like the Grand Duke said, I might not be able to treat everyone blindly.
However, there is no need to drive those who can be saved to death.
His holy power was depleted, but thanks to his high health, his stamina quickly returned. Roan clenched his fists as if to gather the remaining strength in his body and awaken him. This is Roan’s ‘will’.
“If you can find a clue to a solution, that is enough. People call it hope.”
Roan’s shoulders stretched out.
Recognizing the return of strength to his body, Erenia pulled out the arm that was supporting Roan.
Roan squeezed her hand as she pulled away in gratitude.
[Message: Changes to long-term quests]
[Message: Attack progress— 65%]
A smile spread across Roan’s face.
I’m sure you can be sure what caused it. I still had a heart attack, but I couldn’t figure it out.
The progression of that attack is due to the influence of the land like the fog of the Grand Duke,
To be precise, it is an index that mixes the degree of influence of ‘greed’ and the degree of liking.
As she gradually escapes from the influence of this land, her attack rate increases. When her blessing was cast, her capture rate went up every time her necklace, which she had received from Swin Ho’s father, was missing.
Seeing that the attack rate goes down when the Grand Duke comes close, it seems clear now that the Grand Duke has a close relationship with ‘Greed’.
Even if he is not as crazy as Elenir, he is still a demon mage. It’s not impossible.
Roan was the only one who could laugh here.
The Grand Duke was staring at Roan with a frown on his face, as he had often seen in previous meetings.
Like the Eastern Hwangryeongju did, the secret of my estate was revealed. It can’t be a bright expression.
“It’s more fortunate than anything else that Her Highness the Empress is safe.”
Still, his arm seems to bend inward.
A light of relief flashed in his eyes as he looked at Erenia for a very short time, then it disappeared.
“I would like to ask you to reconsider whether you are giving me false hope.”
The Grand Duke’s cold voice is like ice.
However, the smile did not disappear from Roan’s face. Can be saved then save
I’ll have to find a way to recover my holy power first, but that’s a problem for later. For now, I have to go back to the castle.
“The hunt is over.”
At Roan’s words, the grand duke finally lowered his head.
He cannot arbitrarily resume a conversation the emperor has ended. He is no longer an emperor like Hanryang. The loyalty of the Central Knights is sky-high, and Elenia is not his own daughter, but the emperor’s wife.
Her daughter’s hand, which held his arm firmly despite its weakness, spoke of her choice.
The grand duke answered the emperor’s words, skillfully managing his complicated feelings as always.
“Yes. Please die.”
