Chapter 252 – Chapter 252 ― Until One Hit (2)
Episode 252 ― Until one hit (2)
There are gaps in Basel’s imperial castle, and it smells of ‘greed’. However, there was a big difference in the scale of the trace, which Roan felt as a stench.
The gaps in Basel were to some extent centered around Elenia’s room, but the presence of demons emanating from the palace in Sprouse was enormous.
Even Helen and Urtellia, who couldn’t smell it in the imperial castle, seemed to notice the traces of Sprouse’s overwhelming ‘greed’.
There must be many priests in Sprouse,
How is it that no one notices such a strong demonic aura?
“This… Maybe it’s good? Master.”
Helen looked back at Roan with a puzzled face.
However, Roan had something prepared for such an occasion. Of course, Bondi was for the niche of Basel, and I didn’t think that the human palace would be like this.
Roan first reached out and cast a spell on the two. It is a ‘Star Blessing’ that relieves the effects of ‘Greed’.
Blessed, Urtellia and Helen are visibly relieved.
“Helen, will you bless me too?”
“Yes, Master.”
I received Helen’s blessing as a test, but I couldn’t stop the aura of ‘greed’ with normal divine magic.
“It seems that the current divine magic cannot block this energy.”
Roan comforted her disappointed Helen and took a ring from her pocket.
It was an item made at the request of Roan by Kruber, the blacksmith he brought to Evirgio a while ago.
The ring had a small metal ornament that looked like a jewel. When you open the invisible lock, you can put Astor powder in it.
Although a small amount of mana was absorbed when the ring was worn, it was nothing compared to the comfort felt when the aura of ‘greed’ disappeared.
This is enough to be said to be satisfactory.
“I’m fine now.”
“Your Majesty, do you know the identity of this strange thing?”
“It is a conjecture close to certainty. But I don’t think it’s time to talk about it leisurely now.”
According to Grünent, the prime minister of Merde leaves the office around noon. Unless a meeting is scheduled, he goes to the palace in the morning and stays at his home or the Prime Minister’s Office. It is because it has a different structure from Evirgio, where all facilities are gathered in the imperial castle.
In severe cases, the atmosphere is different from the small meeting where you cannot even leave work and have to be confined to the imperial castle. If you know the small meeting, you might feel unfair for sucking honey.
“Yes, I will hurry and go.”
As I started walking in front of the front door, a tall, white wall spread out. Decorated on the top of the palace walls and the front gate are all kinds of delicate stone sculptures symbolizing dragons. This pattern honors the owner of the magic stone that protects the castle of Sprouse.
Even Roan, who is used to large buildings and tall walls, could admire Merde’s royal palace, which exudes a different elegance from Basel’s massive grandeur.
The main gate of the palace was crowded.
The carriages of officials and nobles who were about to enter the palace passed through the gatekeeper, and there was a separate soldier who checked those who walked through the gate.
The uniform they wear in common has a dragon drawn on a light blue background, the symbol of the Capital Defense Force.
And soon, Roan found one of those soldiers who did not interrogate people, but only watched, so to speak, who had the rank of a squad leader among the gatekeepers.
“That person is like the highest. He is superior to other soldiers even by force.”
Helen and Yurtellia exchanged glances, and Yurtellia, who had covered her ears under her wizard’s hat with a transformation tool just in case, took off her hat.
“Then I will go.”
The uniform of the person Roan pointed out had more colorful patterns than those of the soldiers who were interrogating people.
Helen confirmed that Roan was right, and Urtellia approached the soldier with confident steps.
“Hmm? What.”
“Please help us.”
Standing against the wall of an upscale shopping street overlooking the main entrance, Roan listened to the conversation in the distance.
Urtellia made the most pitiful voice possible. The senior soldier frowned at the swarming annoyance, but when he saw Yurteria’s face, that expression relaxed a little. Urtellia’s face was small and white. A cute beauty face.
“… Say it.”
“I have a favor to ask of you.”
Helen’s eyes met.
At that moment, a shape shook around Urtellia’s face.
“… ?”
The eyes of the senior soldier inadvertently turned to it.
Roan, who had been watching from afar, clicked his tongue unconsciously.
The dragon’s shield, which blocks all magic, was affecting Urtellia’s transformation. The vague shape of cat ears tried to appear and then disappeared.
The moment the soldier opened her mouth to Helen, doubting her own eyes, Helen cast her skill with more concentration than usual.
“Look at me.”
“…”
Her outward appearance is just that of an ordinary soldier who is mesmerized by her Helen’s beauty and looks straight at her.
“If I ask you, please help me.”
“… Yes.”
Urtellia, not knowing what had just happened, nervously listened to Helen and her soldiers’ dialogue, and she involuntarily opened her mouth.
“… How is this…”
However, Helen, using her skill, cannot pay attention to Yurteria. Helen continued her speech, staring straight at her soldier.
“Did you see the Prime Minister’s carriage today?”
“Yes. You entered the palace early in the morning.”
Urtellia sneakily checked to see if the other gatekeepers were looking this way. No one is keeping an eye on Helen and her soldiers yet, but if they do, it’s troublesome.
Yurtellia, who was about to use magic inadvertently, realized again that this was a dangerous place to use magic, and bit her lip.
“You haven’t left yet.”
“That’s right.”
“Then could you call the Prime Minister’s coachman for a moment? We are his friends. You’re a kind soldier, so that shouldn’t be a problem.”
“That’s right. Please wait here.”
And the soldier respectfully bowed her head to Helen, and then she moved away from Helen and approached the men who were checking at her front door.
Yurtellia was watching that figure of her nervously. After the conversation, the high-ranking soldier disappeared into the small soldier’s doorway next to the castle gate, and Urtellia gasped for breath.
“Whoa… ! My God, Helen, what did you do?!”
“I don’t know exactly, but I think I have the ability to persuade others.”
“Is it okay to leave it like that and let it act as it pleases?”
“The important thing is that his heart was convinced. When I ask for something to be done and he gives permission, the subject does his best to honor my request. A certain level of evidence is sufficient.”
Listening to their conversation from a distance, Roan felt the deceitfulness of Helen’s skill once again.
If she’s not strong enough, it’s really hard for her to beat Helen’s ‘charisma’ skill. Helen is already strong enough, so it’s hard for her to surpass her skills.
Merde should be glad she’s not her bitch, but no one in this country thanked her.
And how many minutes did you wait?
Soon after, a senior soldier appeared with a neatly dressed man. A man wearing servant’s clothes with a splendid family crest engraved on it. The prime minister’s horsemanship.
They were arguing lightly.
“Well, is it because there is no one to come? What would you do if you left your seat and played the sutra? .”
“So you’re saying I lied?”
Some of the regular soldiers who were checking the entry and exit glanced at him and the coachman at the rank of squad leader, then went back to their duties. Noticing that the targets had appeared, Helen strode toward them.
“Uncle, it’s been a while.”
The coachman wanted to know who the beauty could be with such outrageous stories, so she stared at Helen with her brow slightly furrowed. Helen and the coachman’s eyes met. And the coachman’s mouth opened a little.
“… Mister.”
“Yes, it is disappointing that you forgot our faces too. I have come to tell you something urgently.”
“I’m sorry.”
The coachman, who had stopped for a moment, apologized as he strode back to Helen. To the senior soldier left behind her, Helen
“You can go back to your work now. Then you will forget all the conversations between me and my acquaintances, and you will never see my face or any of my friends.”
Said.
Roan admired the sight.
Even if the coachman still had remnants of the skill, he transferred the skill to both the soldier and the coachman in an instant and used it. Skills that require specific opponents require a lot of training and effort to activate consecutively or on multiple people.
Roan already knows the concept of ‘skill’ through the game and can read the proficiency and details of the skill, but Helen does not.
Being able to use her skill to this extent for a person on the continent of Moira, who probably only vaguely knows her skill as much as her own, means that Helen has honed her skills to that extent.
“Mister, we need to have a talk with the outgoing Prime Minister. Please give us a ride in the middle.”
“I see. But if the Prime Minister… You must be angry…”
The coachman’s face darkened.
Urtellia, who was very nervous at his words, involuntarily grasped the hem of her robe with both hands.
But Helen was calm.
“Don’t worry, mister. No matter how angry the prime minister gets, don’t you like a beautiful woman like my friend? Sometimes you go to meet a woman on purpose, don’t you?”
“I see… Summer solstice…”
Yurtellia opened her mouth in an absurd manner, then she closed it with a ‘sum’. But Helen doesn’t even give her a glance.
Turning on ‘detection’, Roan could see that Helen was focusing all her energy on the coachman.
“What time is today’s departure?”
“11 o’clock.”
“We will wait. At the shopping street crossroads over there, come to the empty lot behind the alley where leather goods are sold. Is this a place you know? This is where the wagons wait when noble ladies come out to buy things.”
“Of course I know.”
“If you stop the wagon there for a while, we will climb into the wagon. Don’t worry about anything after that. Nothing will happen.”
“Um… I get it.”
The coachman, driven by Helen, nodded her head blankly. Cold sweat began to form on the nape of Helen’s neck.
The stronger the power of ‘charisma’, the stronger the ‘persuasive power’.
For her remaining hour, she must put all her strength into making the coachman understand that her words are natural without questioning them halfway through.
“This is an alley in the leather goods shopping district. You must come. Otherwise, the Prime Minister will regret it.”
It’s nonsense.
There is no way that the prime minister would feel sorry for not picking up a woman he had never seen before.
However, in Helen’s words, “The prime minister likes beautiful women,” These words are naturally intertwined and become one logic. The coachman nodded her head, as if resolving once again.
“Then, we will forget this conversation and our faces until we meet again in a little while.”
“I get it.”
“Go back to where you work.”
“Okay. See you later.”
The coachman greeted Helen and turned away with her dazed face. After bowing down to the senior soldier earlier, he passed through the castle gate and disappeared.
Only then did Helen sigh and put her finger on the wall.
“Helen… !”
Urtellia supported her Helen in admiration.
Helen smiled as she slowly returned to where Roan was.
“I’m back.”
“Excellent.”
Receiving Roan’s praise, Helen’s expression brightened.
“It is the power of admiration. I think you can see how much effort she has put in. It looks like Jim’s technique needs to be refined as well.”
“Huh… Master… Such a compliment… !”
Helen’s body trembled slightly. Although Yurtalia didn’t know it, a blush appeared on her Helen’s cheeks. With her ‘detection’, Roan noticed that she was experiencing her sexual pleasure, but she chose to ignore it.
