Chapter 261 – Chapter 261 ― Gap (1)
Chapter 261 ― Niche (1)
It was only this morning that I had a conversation with the West Blood Lord. In half a day, the situation suddenly changed.
Roan told Minoreus to call a small meeting. In the meantime, the count, who had purified himself and his clothes with his magic, came down from the cat tower.
“Has the knight commander come this far! What happened…”
Her body, where normally she would have landed gracefully, stumbled. It was because her intense ecstasy had disappeared and a subtle pain had risen.
Her Roan, who supported her, used her ‘her star touch’. A beautiful light flickering like starlight, much stronger than the light when using normal divine magic, hovered around the count’s body and faded.
“Ah.”
“How is it?”
The Count realized that the pain in his whole body was gone. Nodding, the Count bowed his head deeply, and Roan smiled at him.
“Did I hold onto you too much? The knight commander came all the way here.”
“They say Merde broke the truce.”
Short silence.
Upon Roan’s answer, the count’s expression immediately returned to normal. A cold face with a gentle smile that can be seen in the conference hall and her estate.
“You must hurry. I’ll go! Your majesty.”
“Aren’t you going to meet Urtellia? I’ll be waiting for you in her office.”
“Isn’t it an urgent situation? I will go back to Bukbaengnyeong and gather troops. Since you said you don’t know when the truce will be broken, I also gave a word to the lords. I will not make you wait long.”
And Count Bertellia, who came one step closer, hugged Roan around the waist. Roan looked down at the little earl and buried his face in her hair.
“… This experiment is the result of observing me.”
“Hmm. How is it?”
“It’s nice to have someone on your mind. It is even more gratifying to be rewarded for that.”
A beautiful smile spread across Count Bertellia’s face after they broke the embrace.
“I will not disappoint you. Victory to His Majesty the Emperor.”
In an instant, her colossal magical power enveloped her. As Roan took a step back from the momentum, her mana, which had flowed rapidly around her terrifyingly, was suddenly sucked into her.
The Count is gone.
“… Long-distance movement magic…”
It was an amazing scene, but there is no time to enjoy the afterglow. Roan immediately left the lab and headed to the waiting room with Minoreus.
“Wasn’t the Lord of the Northern Baengnyeong with you?”
The knight commander who was leading the way asked.
“Hmm. Returned to the manor.”
“… You are amazing too.”
The magic of being able to travel over a very long distance, a distance that would take two weeks by wagon, is a state of wonder beyond simple surprise.
How threatening it would be if a group of people could use such amazing magic.
Minoreus, who couldn’t use magic, couldn’t help but admire the count’s magic ability.
For the same reason, he showed great interest in the function of the ruins discovered by the emperor.
While Minoreus was lost in thought for a moment, Roan also read the description of the new skill.
[ — Analysis Lv4
Based on high wisdom and knowledge, the power to find outliers even when looking at the same thing as others
Dissecting and clarifying everything received through observation
The clearer information about the target is transcribed and not only informs the characteristics of the target, but also provides an advantage to the caster dealing with the object.
If there is no difference between the affected entity and the skill holder or the opponent’s level is higher, the skill’s influence is halved]
Did you have this skill?
First of all, level 4, the highest skill level you can get from a character.
And skills that cannot be obtained from other characters.
It’s not quite the same ability.
Roan knows what the phrase ‘gives the caster an advantage against objects’, which is sometimes found in other skills in the game, means.
Usually, such an explanation was attached to a swordsman, an agile thief, or an assassin-type skill.
What that phrase refers to is usually a skill that increases attack power when attacking first, or avoids an enemy attack through high speed or environment utilization.
It is an explanation that does not suit a wizard.
If you apply that trait to a wizard…
Perhaps it will be in the form of increasing attack power when attacking weak points, increasing critical hit chance, or gaining resistance bonuses?
If you experiment with notifying you through text, you will be able to know more clearly.
Acquiring such a unique and powerful skill is extremely helpful in the current situation.
Because Roan is about to go to war.
“Your majesty.”
The war was caused by humans, but Shykvienna greeted Roan with a restless expression.
Already the treasurer, Theron, was sitting in his seat tapping his desk with his bony fingers. War means that stable income will soon be cut off. Lyon looked very uncomfortable.
Subsequently, Aranya with a cold, hard face appeared with a secretary holding a magic orb connected to each great estate.
“Humans, you’re in too much of a hurry.”
It was Liron who was out of luck. The Seohyeol Lord received those words.
— The damage would have been great if Your Majesty had not warned you in advance.
It was a voice through a magic ball, but I could feel the utmost anger in his low voice.
“What size?”
— With 200 cavalry, they invaded the cleared area near the Dark Forest and the outpost beyond. Following them, a small infantry force of about 300 tried to enter, but was suppressed after an engagement. A few were captured and the rest retreated.
I didn’t hit the stake,
The clearing area is an ambiguous middle ground, but the post area is clearly Evirgio’s territory.
Clearing land was originally made to be visible to humans and to attract more humans, so it was created with the idea of expanding the borderline.
Of course, even if you say this, the area of the clearing is also vast, so it’s not easy to find people from end to end.
“Is it a small cavalry? That’s why I couldn’t find it in the morning.”
About 200 cavalry, plus 300 infantry, requires quite a bit of serious preparation. Even if the number of soldiers exceeded 100, the number of items needed would increase more than expected.
In addition to that, 200 horses.
200 horses eat a lot of hay.
That number of cavalry was too large for the lord of Merde, who ruled near the border, to raise at will.
“It’s safe to say that it’s a king’s order.”
– Yes. We are interrogating captured prisoners.
“It’s not just Geno that has been attacked. Your majesty.”
Roan’s head turned around at Aranya’s words.
Aranya, who met his eyes, bowed his head.
“I’m sorry. Your majesty.”
“It happened. Please explain.”
“An attack took place at the same time in the Southern Dark Spirit.”
Roan’s expression darkened.
It doesn’t accept humans as actively as Seohyeolryeong, but anyway, people live near the border of Namheukryeong and there are farmlands.
Not a localized provocation,
With the determination to really end this war, humans began to move.
— They set fire to farmland near the Dark Forest and raided nearby private houses. It was about 150 cavalry, and they didn’t get close to the fort and went back.
The cool voice of the Southern Dark Spirit replied.
“The idea?”
— We, too, were keeping a close eye on the border, as Your Majesty had promised. No one was hurt.
“It’s fortunate in misfortune. What about the damage?”
— Some of the agricultural lands in the Southern Black Spirit have been lost, but they are minor. The fire spread toward the Dark Forest, and the flames that went deep into the Dark Forest were extinguished by magic.
— West Blood Spirit’s clearing damage also spans the vicinity of the Dark Forest, and one quarter of human settlements in the clearing have been destroyed.
Aranya and Roan’s eyes met.
“Are you saying that humans deliberately touched the Dark Forest?”
“It seems so. Your majesty.”
Are you trying to provoke both demons and forest fairies?
Can today’s humans take on both the demons and the forest fairies? Do you believe that you have such power?
Is the forest fairy acting like this because she thinks she can’t leave the dark forest?
“If you found out that the envoys of the forest fairies were going to and from Zeno, it might have been a provocation to cut off the deal between us demons and forest fairies.”
At Aranya’s guess, all members of the small meeting nodded in agreement.
It is a reasonable inference.
However, unlike Roan, they do not know much about the human court mage Shulaner.
He has the artifact, and the pursuit of it was cut off near the border of Hazark, the Dark Forest, and Merde, as if by chance.
This is where humans attacked and burned it.
Even from the beginning, it was said that what the king was aiming for was the ‘seed of the dark forest’. What is it that keeps trying to touch the Dark Forest?
— Why didn’t they raid the fortress, but rather hit farms, houses, and forests? It’s a forest. Even if there was a political purpose aimed at forest fairies, there are only crops in the fields. It’s even a clearing, so it’s a place where the harvest doesn’t work properly.
The Eastern Yellow Spirit beyond the magic sphere raised a question. Everyone who shared their opinions at this meeting agreed.
“Besides, if you want to break the truce first, it’s right to do as much military damage as possible by attacking first. However, they moved at most 200 or 150 cavalry. If that’s the case, even if you don’t go to the great lord, it’s a scale that any lord who controls a tolerable territory can borrow.”
“The words of the knight commander… Are you saying that the number of enemies is too small?”
“Yes, corrections officer.”
Something flashed through Roan’s mind as he listened to the conversation in the conference room with his chin resting on one arm.
A message I glanced at while hugging Count Bertellia. She told me to prepare for the inner enemy.
And the inner enemy does not belong only to me.
“… It is to be seen.”
“Yes?”
“It means that it is intended to be seen by everyone.”
It was a low, unspecified murmur. Upon hearing this, Minoreus inadvertently asked a question. But not everyone in this place is stupid. Soon, a look of understanding appeared on the face of the knight commander, as well as in the eyes of Aranya and Schikwiena.
A dreadful silence fell.
Humans invaded the land of demons to kill humans in order to catch them.
— Ahaha! After all, they are beings who do not even have a sense of kinship. Trying to condemn those who abandoned their own people to survive.
At some point, I heard the count’s sneer at the meeting.
It seems that the King of Merde is not going to let humans cross over to Evirgio.
— Your Majesty appears to be right.
For a moment, the magic sphere on the side of the West Blood Command made a noise. After hearing the sound of talking to someone, the Seohyeol Lord returned and continued.
— Information obtained from a brief interrogation of a human soldier. People in the land of demons are called traitors.
Everyone listened to the Grand Duke’s words with bated breath. From the other side of the magic sphere, I heard the sound of hurriedly flipping through the paper.
— He said he couldn’t stand by when humans abandoned their land and attached themselves to the demons to enjoy a movie. A message has come to punish the traitor and end the war that makes everyone suffer.
There had been no such talk from Count Hilpe yet. That would mean that the king told such a story to only a few lords near the border.
If the war starts like this
After all, the other nobles won’t be able to sit still. If there was a proper start, the nobles of the capital would have no choice but to get caught up in it.
The crossing of human borders is also a big deal for the human lords who rule near the borders. Their cause and the king’s cause coincided, and the lords took part in the provocation with their own armies.
“Continue questioning.”
– All right. What to do after that
“… Hmm.”
Roan hesitated at the Grand Duke’s question.
Originally, in the previous war,
Humans were food.
Seohyeolryeongju pointed out the changed treatment of humans in the meantime and threw a question.
Roan lowered his eyes and said so that everyone in the conference room and the four highlords could hear.
