Chapter 140 – Purple
Late night
A small town in the Larson estate.
Already late at night, the city faced a quiet darkness without a single light as if it were surrounded by a black cloth.
-Sak, sasak!
There is a person who walks quietly in such a dark alleyway.
A person who avoids the gaze of those around him by wrapping himself in a black robe.
There are no people, but in case of one, move carefully at this time.
It moves based on a previously known password.
The man in the black robe immediately arrived at the designated place, took out a piece of paper with a password from his chest, and held it in his mouth.
In that state, after looking around for the last time, he knocked on the door two or three times.
“…”
-Kikkik
A door opens in the dark.
A building with no lights on inside. Despite the difficult place to step into, the black man’s robe entered within one step.
-Sureung!
And as soon as he entered, a sword blade came out from the side.
The blade, which had been dug down to the neck, pierced enough to touch the flesh with a flash of light that could be felt even in the dark world.
“…”
Even though her life was in danger, the black robed man waited quietly, with his hand raised.
The man with the blade waited in the dark, and another man appeared and carefully took the password from his mouth.
“… You came here at this hour, I was surprised. Come on in Everyone has arrived.”
“Gee, I’m sorry. Wasn’t it this time when I woke up after falling asleep during the day?”
As if someone were listening
They look at each other with cold eyes and talk like friends who have met for a long time.
One person put the blade that had been put away before he knew it.
The moonlight slowly reveals itself in the darkness.
The man took one last look around and quickly disappeared.
* * *
-Kikiiik!
Rattle!
The door closed with that sound.
As I entered, I could faintly hear a raucous noise, as if to prove that the building was now occupied.
“Five! You are here!”
“Long time no see. How are you?”
“Right! Would you like a drink too?”
Haha! I guess I’ll do some business inside for a while.”
All of them are organizers.
They drink, play songs, and eat, just like friends they haven’t seen in a long time.
Then, talk to them moderately and go inside the building.
Further back, slowly descend the stairs leading to the basement.
An underground warehouse where various things are stored. I approached the iron door in the corner.
“I am here.”
“…”
The door opened with a clank, revealing a small room inside.
No, is it a room?
A room surrounded by iron walls on all sides.
It’s not just the walls. The floor and ceiling are all made of iron.
All of them are made of magic stones, and are thoroughly covered for security.
A secret room undetectable by magical powers that can only be known by actually looking in front of one’s eyes.
After going inside and closing the door, the man in the black robe sighed.
“I feel it every time, but it’s so hard to get together in secret.”
“I can’t help it.”
As if responding to her man’s sigh, the other person inside smiled and nodded.
Recently, the search for red blood has intensified.
Larson’s manor is in better condition, but many other branches have been destroyed.
It’s not easy for the red blood that has been smashed like that to gather again.
Due to the nature of the point organization, only important executives know it properly. No, there are many cases where even the executives do not know the details, so there are many cases where members of the organization that spread like that do not know where to gather again, and become ordinary people as they are.
After all, it is blood red.
You can’t beat the nobility either.
Feeling such frustration and defeat.
A handful of them.
Continued defeat and escape. Accumulated emotions.
As they repeat it, anger builds up one by one, but only those who are full of miasma who do not give up become a very small number of executives.
5 people in a small room.
They unraveled the canvas they hadn’t seen in a long time.
“How is it there?”
“Don’t talk. All connections are lost.”
“Because they’re really quick-witted guys.”
It is not openly announced that it is red blood.
All the clans of merchants are like that.
However, they use the power of the secretly spread organization to provide support, and receive a certain price. Even if the opponent is suspicious, if you say you didn’t know, that’s it.
A relationship that benefits each other in that way.
Of course, at least after figuring out about the trading partner and then connecting.
“Did you hear? A story about the estate of Thoth.”
“Ah, I heard you. Are they all dead? As rumored, it’s cruel…”
“Haaa. How did it happen like this Isn’t it all because of Lord Müller?”
At that, the man closed his mouth.
Lord Müller.
Leoric Franz.
A man who becomes unusually strong after realizing the magical power of the sun.
No matter how much the lineage of the count is, the growth rate is strange.
Remembering him, the red blood on his face darkened.
“What are you going to do next?”
“I need to be quiet for a while. I have already notified other branches. Stop acting suspiciously without being suspicious.”
I listened quietly to the people around me.
Lord Müller. Is it because of that?
Of course, because of the Southern Conference he caused, the red blood was spilling a lot of blood now.
But…
“Müller’s operation failed, and the executive was also captured. All branches were closed, and even the existence of powder was known.”
“Seven…”
The man in the corner of the secret room.
The man called Seven said quietly.
“You want me to come and hide quietly? Could it be? Comrades.”
“… But.”
The other executives looked at each other and hesitated.
There were various stories coming out from within the purple faction as well.
Radicals, including fighting, saying that now is the time to stand up.
Moderates, including Won, who said it was premature and said they needed to research a little more.
The rest of the cadres now gathered in this small town could be said to be neutral.
The black robed man, Five, shook his head.
“We lost a lot of members in this incident. At least for the time being, we judge that we should stay still until the situation calms down.”
At the words of Five, who belonged to the moderate faction, even the neutral officers nodded their heads. In fact, Seven frowned at their attitude, which was close to moderate.
“At this rate, we will have to live forever subdued under the blue blood. Do you really want that?”
“But Seven. Baron Larson will not be able to support us for the time being. Wasn’t there a contact from Two who was actually by the baron’s side?”
The fact that Tu, who can be said to be the top of the radical faction, contacted him like that is like telling him to hide for a while.
At that, Seven smiled.
The madness that filled those eyes.
At that, Five’s body trembled.
“… Can you?!”
“The plan has already begun! My countrymen!”
What nonsense!
Five hit her desk and pulled her up.
Blue magic began to emanate from his body.
“What the hell have you done!”
“What are you doing? Didn’t you say They started planning.”
Plan?
“You mean powder?!”
Monster Powder.
An artificial magic powder independently researched by Purple.
The effect can attract monsters.
But.
“It’s still… !”
“You have achieved the desired effect. You can’t call it a failure. Can’t we close our eyes on minor side effects?”
“It can’t be trivial, can it? The land will die!”
The area sprinkled with powder.
Changes the magical energy present in the ground into a special wave and scatters it around. And the monsters who sensed it lose their reason and start rampaging to find the source.
And the side effect was to use the magic that existed on the ground.
“The dusted ground will die! Then the land will become uninhabitable even for animals, let alone plants! Sprinkle it down here in the South?”
“Heh. It can only be used on very small plots. Do you have such a land?”
“What? No way… ?”
Purple is currently attached to Baron Larson.
The state of listening to each other’s wants.
“Baron Larson wanted it. He said he wanted to get rid of Lord Müller.”
“… Monster Powder still has a lot to improve.”
Rather, there are piles of imperfect points except for luring monsters and causing them to lose their sanity.
Neither potency nor scope. Even the duration is incomplete.
“No matter how much Baron Larson wants it… Wasn’t what the baron wanted in the first place was Müller’s rich land?”
“You said that. There is land left.”
“… Those lands close to the Great Mountains?”
A land heavily influenced by the Great Mountains. Although it is a rich land, it is a difficult land for farming and livestock farming.
“When you say you started planning, do you mean you’ve already started?”
“That’s right. My men should have departed by now.”
Seven laughed.
The monsters brought in from the Great Mountains show strength that cannot be compared to monsters from ordinary lands.
The moment they rampage, Lord Müller, who is at war, will have no choice but to retreat. If Leoric Franz. If he chooses to leave the rampaging monsters alone, Baron Larson won’t take advantage of that opportunity.
“Shouldn’t you pay for the grudge that killed Nain?”
“… Kut.”
Five and Seven.
The moment they stare at each other.
“It moves.”
Triana Müller led her soldiers in pursuit of them.
