Chapter 766 – 766. Warning and Gift (2)
“Responsibility… What? Under.”
The reaction was that he was so full of energy that he couldn’t even speak.
That was Alfred’s reaction to Eunhyeon’s warning.
Does this man know who he dares to openly fight?
No matter how brilliant he is in business and even if he is the son-in-law of the ducal family, he is the prince of his country.
He was stunned to think that he could be a match for himself.
Beyond the ridicule, annoyance slowly rose.
“Now that statement. Can you take responsibility for that?”
“I wouldn’t have taken it out without it.”
“…”
Alfred frowned at his confident and immediate response.
“Why… What do you think of our kingdom… !”
As if to represent Alfred’s heart, one of Alfred’s escort knights, who had been patiently listening to the conversation, finally exploded.
He is a person who takes great pride in the duties and positions he is performing.
From the point of view of the escort knights, who were united with that much patriotism and pride, the prince, who could be called the face of Barthel Kingdom, was being provoked and ignored to this extent, and he could not stay still.
However, in this court where the banquet being held under the auspices of the Pernias family was in full swing, it was impossible to draw the sword carelessly.
The escort driver approached Eunhyeon who was sitting and tried to grab her by the collar.
“What are you doing?”
Erin, who was in the middle, stood in front of Eunhyeon and blocked the escort knight.
The escort knight ignored Erin and stretched out her arm toward Eunhyeon.
“You ask what are you doing?”
The first honorific was omitted, and the cold tone filled with hostility.
I grabbed the arm of Erinn’s escort knight who spat out those words.
“Leave this… What!?”
The escort knight tried to shake off Erin’s hand that was holding his arm, but couldn’t and let out a groan.
‘What power… !?’
I was astonished at the grip Erin’s hand exerted.
A delicate little hand that couldn’t even grasp half of the thick arm of an escort knight.
However, a contradiction occurred in reality where that small and delicate hand could easily control the escort knight’s arm.
“Nice… Ugh!”
There is no time to understand the contradiction and accept it as reality.
“You dare to lay her hands on my husband?”
Erin, who was glaring at her ferociously and growling, looked like a ferocious beast that would bite off the arm of an escort knight at any moment.
Erin’s magical power, which flows as her intense emotions fluctuate, is terrifying.
Another escort knight, who witnessed the sight of his fellow escort knight helplessly being suppressed right next to him, murmured in amazement.
“What kind of woman…”
Does that mean it’s too strong?
It is not simply explained by strength.
Magical power condensed in Erin’s arms and hands.
The density and amount of mana that strengthened the body is the most important information in understanding each other’s capabilities among those who are fighting to the death.
‘I heard that he was an adventurer in the gold ranks, but…’
It is rare for an escort knight to meet gold-tier adventurers, so it is a lacking ground, but her magical power that Erin possesses may be among the highest among gold-tier adventurers.
‘It’s impossible.’
The escort knights were convinced in their hearts that they could not do anything about Erinn with their level.
“Erin.”
“Huh?”
“Stop.”
“Huh? But Hyuna. This person now…”
“Are you okay.”
Eunhyun smiled and shook her head.
“… Okay.”
Erin, who had no choice but to sit back down with a sigh, pursed her lips and gave a small grunt.
“Even if I’m angry, I shouldn’t wave her hand like that.”
Erin eased her annoyance little by little as Eunhyeon stroked her hair to soothe her.
“But… That knight just tried to stab Hyun with her hand?”
“I can’t. This is a public place, not a private place. You have to think about each other’s positions and positions.”
To be honest, if someone did harm to Eun-hyeon, even if it was Yuria, the queen of this country, she was confident that she would strike her down without hesitation, but she couldn’t help being dissatisfied with being told that it shouldn’t be.
“I did it wrong this time, so I know I’ll get scolded later.”
“Ah, I see…”
Erin’s response was somewhat strange as she responded with a little embarrassment.
Rather than sullen at her admonishment, the awkwardness as if she was trying to force herself to hide what she was glad about what was to come.
“Whoops.”
Eleanor was the only one who noticed the subtle change in Erin’s emotions.
“My wife has committed a disrespectful act. However, since she was the result of expressing her aggressive intentions first, she will not apologize.”
“…”
Alfred smiled and glared at Eun-hyeon, who still maintained a relaxed attitude.
‘Does he believe in something?’
The courage to think otherwise.
But, of course, Alfred also had the card he was hiding.
The personal information of Runan, the head of the information guild, Heilangdan, who is active with his hands and feet, is from this side.
Sooner or later, a report that collects and organizes all the weaknesses and information about him will come into his hands.
If that were the case, it would be easy to come up with a plan to attack Eunhyeon and the Duchy of Armitas.
The reason Alfred talked to Eunhyeon and his couple was to reduce the effort of planning and executing the plan.
It was because they could have saved a lot of money and time if they just returned the Alteria Corporation, its manpower, and property that they had built with the intention of surrendering on their own.
However, Eun-hyeon touched Alfred not as a surrender, but as a provocation.
‘Okay. I won’t make you regret that choice.’
He forcibly put up with an irritated expression and responded with a fishy laugh.
“Great. I will.”
With that said, Alfred got up from his seat.
“Since it doesn’t seem worth talking about anymore, I’ll leave it here.”
“I see.”
A simple greeting.
That was all.
It wasn’t the attitude of treating a royal family invited as an honored guest, but the disrespectful attitude of kicking out an unpleasant guest.
Alfred’s annoyance deepened in his heart at the rude behavior he had never received anywhere else.
“Erin. Would you like some cake?”
“Huh!”
“Ah, try it.”
“Oh~!”
He hadn’t even left the room himself, but his handling had already taken a back seat.
Alfred’s irritability and resentment was fueled by the rude act of dipping a piece of cake with a fork into his wife’s mouth.
“Hi-Hi. It’s good! It tastes even better because Hyeoni feeds it!”
Alfred swore at their insulting attitude.
‘This bathing suit must be… I’ll pay you back.’
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The location of the Kingdom of Bartell was not far from the Kingdom of Pernias.
It can’t be called a neighboring country, but it’s an ambiguous location to say that it’s a very distant foreign country.
The reason Alfred Bartel, the third prince of the Bartel Kingdom, had his eye on the Duchy of Armitas in the first place was because it was the territory that had recently been sweeping away the most money among neighboring countries.
As long as you get the Duchy of Armitas, which is like a goose that lays golden eggs, you will naturally have a foothold to interfere with the Kingdom of Fernias, and the goods that keep accumulating as a result are currently competing fiercely in the Kingdom of Bartel due to the issue of succession to the throne. It would be a great source of strength for Alfred, so he must have been greedy.
‘… I’ll have to finish it quickly.’
Elvin, who was moving through the shadows in the forest, grumbled inwardly.
He moved around in the shadows and is currently in the state of a spirit whose body does not exist.
No one could hear the murmur.
Erwin was currently on his way to the capital of Bartel Kingdom to carry out Eunhyun’s orders.
This mission to break into the kingdom alone was a very troublesome task for Erwin, so he grumbled a little, but he had no intention of rejecting it.
Erwin is a spirit who contracted with Eunhyun and is the benefactor who saved her sister and herself.
No matter what order he gives, Alvin doesn’t reject Eun-hyeon’s order or question it.
He just performs.
The reason he grumbled was because he had to brave the crowds of Eris to play with him because of the semi-forced mission.
Once she gets angry, it lasts for quite a while, so without the help of Alice, the girl’s mother, she doesn’t easily let go of her anger.
But is there any star?
If the boss at work is to blame, it is the same as the logic of life.
Alvin couldn’t help it.
Let’s keep moving while sighing inwardly, and arrived at his destination, the capital of Bartel Kingdom.
It would have taken her two months if she walked by land, but it took less than half a day for Elvin, who had moved through the shadows and traveled the minimum distance without rest, to reach the capital of Bartel Kingdom. It was a time not
In a way, he was faster than Eun-hyeon, who had a means of transportation that easily surpassed the performance of ordinary wagons such as Letona and Bumblebee.
It was a method that could only be used by Alvin because there was a limiting condition that he had to cross the shadow, but excluding that restriction, the distance and time required were overwhelmingly short and fast.
Alvin came out of her shadow in her deserted alleyway and materialized her own self.
Quietly, she looked around inside the capital of Barthel’s family.
‘… Is this the capital of the kingdom?’
She was not much different from Pernias Kingdom on the outside.
This was the conclusion I came to after looking around for about 2 hours.
Inside the capital, very peaceful and stable.
However, there was an atmosphere that was strangely difficult to express, should I say an atmosphere that was more relaxed than that of Pernin.
“They say the world is really ugly these days.”
“They say that the West has been completely taken over by the undead and beasts…”
“Could it be to our kingdom… ?”
“Yeki! This man! Ominous sound! And how do they come to our kingdom! There are still other countries ahead!”
“Oh, is that so? Haha!”
Geographically, the Barthel family is one of the countries at the far end of the eastern part of the continent.
The disaster that started with the fall of the kingdom of Rendir, which was located in the west, was gradually eating away at the continent, but the people of the kingdom of Bartel did not seem to realize the crisis yet.
He is too.
As a human being, you have to see a disaster with your own two eyes to realize the crisis.
No matter how much people around them say that another country has perished, that the undead and monsters are starting to boil, and that the end of the world is approaching, people do not have a proper sense of crisis unless they can feel it.
In fact, the disaster that came to Bartell Kingdom only came after the kingdom of Pernias and other small and medium-sized countries were destroyed.
‘I heard that this country is still in the middle of a battle for succession to the throne between princes.’
Eunhyeon is still making various preparations and efforts to prepare for undead or similar disasters in connection with the Holy Nation of Erenia, but this side still seemed to be unable to come to their senses.
Maybe that’s why he gave the order.
‘Let’s run wild once and raise a sense of crisis. However, there should be no large-scale casualties.’
There really are no unreasonable demands.
At the same time as delaying the ‘disaster’, there should be no loss of life.
Despite feeling the irrationality of the two conflicting orders, Alvin did not reject them.
‘There should be no human casualties.’
Even so, what should be done in order to cause great damage to the extent of recognizing it as a ‘disaster’?
Alvin thought.
What is the biggest damage to the kingdom?
The death of many people?
Impossible.
In the first place, Eunhyun thought that there should not be a large-scale loss of life.
However, there is always a ‘minority of lives’ that are more valuable than the countless ‘many lives’.
Alvin thought of a target that fit perfectly with the ‘minority of lives’.
‘Royalty.’
After thinking about it, Elvin didn’t hesitate, and went to the place where the royal family of Bartell Kingdom was.
She went to the palace.
