Chapter 227 – The Black Hippo
It flew right to the place where the commotion occurred.
Already the people of this city are on their knees and bowing to me.
Those who did not were only outsiders or nobles and knights who followed them.
“Where are you raising your voice?”
“Hey, Earl Hyperion… ! Eh, this is different… !”
I look at the nobleman calling my name. An elderly man with a pale face.
Judging from the pattern painted on the carriage standing in the middle of the street, it seemed to be a member of the Confederation of Southern Nobles who had been invited by me.
And the one standing on the other side…
“Oh my goodness. Your Excellency Count Hyperion. Nice to see you.”
“Hmm.”
A woman in a dress greets her by covering her mouth with her fan.
She saw the woman’s figure and looked at the carriage behind her.
‘Indeed.’
A carriage with a pattern of a black hippopotamus.
I think I can understand why the fight happened.
Widely!
Came down to earth
After asking the soldiers who finally appeared to organize it, I looked at the two nobles who were still left.
“I know we’re on bad terms, but this is Müller. It is the land of Hyperion. What’s more, mana had been pouring out a little while ago. It’s not something you would do in the middle of Müller’s Road.”
“Kuh, kuh hmm.”
“Joy.”
Both nobles look at each other, then look away with a snort.
One is an aristocrat from the Confederation of Southern Nobles. And the other one.
“Excuse me. Count Hyperion. But what you need to know is that I’m not with those savage bastards… !”
I spread my hand to block the noble who raised his voice again.
Therefore.
“I would have told you not to raise your voice. Baron Cressio.”
“Kuk!”
I know you’re upset But don’t cross the permissible line.
Seeing that warning gaze, Baron Cresio glared at the nobleman for a moment, then shut his mouth.
“Put.”
Looking at Baron Cresio like that, I look at the noblewoman who laughed.
Coppery skin resembling her father’s, and a red dress with a design that revealed the upper part of her chest. Because of that, the voluptuous chest valley was clearly revealed. It was a figure that could be called a model of a beauty overflowing with health.
But now there are more important things than the heart.
“So are you. Princess Thoth. No more disrespect than this is acceptable.”
“Whoops. All right. This time, there is a part that I exaggerated. I apologize, Baron Cressio.”
“… Chit! I just need to know.”
Two people clicking their tongues and glaring at each other.
It was Maya Thoth, the daughter of Count Thoth, who participated as a representative of the families of Count Cresio and Count Thoth, who belonged to the Confederation of Southern Nobles, who were currently at war.
“Especially, this incident should have been made clear in advance. Invitations are sent to all key figures in the southern region, so if there is something sensitive about the current situation, it is okay not to attend. I hope that only those who can endure the situation will participate.”
It was not used openly, but it was a word aimed at the two forces.
“Of course I know. It is enough for me as long as I can finish this place peacefully.”
“Wouldn’t it be possible to say… ! Big hum. I formally apologize, Count Hyperion.”
While intervening with the two, I glanced at Maya Thoth.
Then Maya Thoth’s black eyes smiled. See what’s in it
‘The father and the daughter…’
At least Baron Cresio has good eyes, aside from other things.
As he said, the father and the daughter.
‘It’s so ferocious.’
Only now does she look like a smiling lady in front of me, but if I hadn’t intervened a moment ago, Baron Cressio would have died.
The Baron has common sense. No matter what, it’s someone else’s land. He probably didn’t intend to fight seriously in the middle of the street. So he had no defense whatsoever.
Thoth Maya intended to kill him at any moment.
The wild nature in those black eyes is unmistakably sinister, as if to reveal the human nature of Thoth Maya.
‘Is it a dangerous woman…’
I’ll have to be careful with the people of the castle.
Isabelle should cover it.
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“Huh.”
Maya Thoth in the carriage smiled as the chaotic situation was sorted out and guided into the castle under the escort and supervision of the soldiers of Müller Castle.
“Are you happy? Really…”
Seeing Maya like that, the knight who served as an escort and attendant who was sitting across from him sighed.
If Count Hyperion had appeared a little later, his master would have had an accident.
“Maya-sama was also unusually patient, but I should have just ignored it. It is dangerous to hit an abnormal accident by order of the master. There’s no need to get involved with that crap. Really. Lucky for you. Just in time, Count Hyperion appeared…”
“Kkeuk.”
Maya laughed at the knight’s words.
The knight, who stopped talking at the sight of him, frowned at him.
“Why is that? Even if I say something strange…”
“Did you really think it was a coincidence?”
“Yes?”
The knight’s mouth closed at Maya’s fishy smile.
Of course, it is possible that this is a coincidence of coincidence.
‘But how much sense would it make for it to appear at that timing?’
“I don’t know how… Maybe it’s simply a developed security system, but I think you’d better refrain from playing tricks in the city.”
“Maya-sama… !”
The knight’s expression hardened at Maya’s words.
Of course, it’s not that I don’t do that, but it’s not something to talk about openly. Especially in an environment where there is a possibility that people around you can eavesdrop like now.
“It’s a joke, a joke. Kyahahaha.”
“…”
The knight’s mouth twisted. If it wasn’t for the nobles he served, he would have shot him in the back of the head.
‘Nimi. Being a knight is a sin.’
Not paying attention to the knight’s poop-chewed expression, Maya gently swung her fan.
“Hey, that was great. Is that the magic of the sun? I thought you could never win?”
“Is that enough?”
Although Maya Thoth is the successor of the count family, she is one of the pillars in charge of the armed forces of Count Thoth, who is already in charge of actual warfare. Its magical power is already at the level of a pure count.
The knight’s face hardened at Maya’s words.
“Hmm. I don’t think it’s going to happen in the long run. Like other nature-characteristics, they will be at a very disadvantage in the area of that characteristic. I’m sure you’ll never win on the day the sun rises, right? There’s probably a way to restore strength with sunlight. If you’re going to do it, at night. That too must be finished before the sun rises… In order for us to gain an advantage, we have to engage in close combat, but as we saw earlier, it seems that we can fly freely in the sky. Isn’t the sun floating in the air in the first place?”
Night. Distance. And above all, the amount of purely powerful magical power.
“As expected, the win rate seems to be at least in close combat… Will you allow me?”
“For the lady to say that much… It is indeed a new lineage of remodeling. That is the power of the sun.”
Even if he is not an ally, he is in a position that can only be respected as a holder of magic power. At the knight’s words, Maya smiled and raised his hand.
Slightly darker skin. The flow of magical power that tickled that skin.
Thoth’s mana roared ferociously inside his body.
“Huh. I think I can get a shot if I get close, but that must be the problem, right?”
Thoth of the Black Hippo.
Its characteristics can be said to be foreign to an aristocratic family that has risen to the rank of title.
“Really. How are you going to fight I don’t think it would be fun if we just ran away like the Boring family.”
The basics of magic that everyone forgets because anyone can do it.
Strengthening of the pure body.
Overwhelming physical strength enhanced by Count-level magic.
The brutal violence shows a legion of people in a fantasy world who break everything.
With the power of a decent nobleman, let alone widen the distance, he was not even able to pierce the skin in the first place, and allowed access, resulting in a general hunt.
However, Maya Thoth, the successor of such bloodline, affirmed.
“That pierces our skin. I know when I see you like that.”
It is said that the destructive power of Leoric Hyperion’s magical power rips through the tough skin that the Thoth family is proud of.
“In the first place, I don’t know who I am. It doesn’t seem like simple heat, and it doesn’t seem like light either. It doesn’t seem to have the gravity that my father said before.”
“Ugh. It’s difficult.”
The knight nodded at Maya’s words as she shook her head.
They are accused of being barbaric, but they are not ignorant.
In order to defeat your opponent, you must know your opponent.
But there is an important fact to grasp.
The knowledge of this world is not shared.
In most cases, that knowledge is not shared unless it is pierced by force and devoured the knowledge left behind, as Leoric Hyperion captured Aslan and Larson.
Although there are very rare cases like Princess Amelia, where knowledge of the lineage is revealed.
Sigh.
Maya Thoth’s mouth was torn open.
A very ferocious smile, as if he wanted to go wild at any moment.
“Is it also the magic of the sun? Absolute power that had never appeared before on this continent. The Age of the Gods, the power of longing that everyone coveted but could not obtain.”
Sun.
“Ah, too.”
Want to fight
Maya Thoth had a beastly grin.
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