Chapter 243 – Gaiden – Part 0, Chapter 17
“…Reciprocate, I have to do it.”
In front of the door of the room where the sound of men and women biting and sucking each other can be heard loudly, the widow, who was over forty but still attractive, calmed my trembling heart.
At first, even though she was saved by him, she couldn’t feel proper emotions because her mind was so devastated, and when she found out that the man who saved her was the same person who killed her daughter, she felt anger and betrayal. No matter how immoral she is, the time she spent with that child as her mother was neither small nor light.
Her time was her panacea, fading all her pain, and now she had no anger or hatred left in her. Only she was devastated and empty.
Her husband has been widowed for a long time, and her daughter has been publicly executed after committing her fornication and immorality. Now, she had no place to return to Ray, and this mansion and that person were the only resting place she could entrust herself to. And the woman who lost everything had no confidence to live a new life in a new place, and at the same time she had a desire for someone to heal her wounds.
As a result, she ends up standing at the door.
This is the line Once crossed, it is an irreversible boundary. It’s easy to get over. And now is not the only chance to cross the line, and you could always reach this front again later. However, Ray didn’t mind crossing the line too much.
Fear of irreversible choices is a person who has a lot to lose. But with her nothing to lose, it wasn’t much of a fear.
“Armageddon, baron…”
“…Ray?”
“Wait a minute…! What the hell are you…!”
The man and woman who were lying naked on her bed were perplexed by the appearance of the intruder. No wonder. Not too many people would like to see someone step in and show their nakedness in a relationship. Moreover, if the intruder’s outfit was naked with not even a thread on it, the embarrassment would be even greater.
“Please, would you accept me…?”
On that day, Ray finally crossed the line.
*
When asked to come with me, Cigarette refused, and Mystrina accepted. Mars glared at me for bringing another girl, so I had to let go that night. In the meantime, Ray suddenly stepped in, and somehow things worked out… Perhaps he was greatly shocked by Ray’s unexpected physical attack, but the next day, Mars knelt down in front of me and said,
“At first, I just wanted to reduce the number of people killed at your hands. But… I don’t know anymore.”
Mars hung his head and spoke in a trembling voice.
“No matter how much I fought for those who had nothing to do with me, it was only self-satisfaction in the end. A word of thanks for saving me made me stand up again, but at some point, I saw a figure forcing me to sacrifice as if it were natural. Still… I fought to protect them, because I thought it was my mission. But the day I was betrayed, it was you, the enemy, who took me back.”
There was no longer any hesitation in Marth’s eyes when he raised his head again. A firm, determined gaze stares at me.
“You are not a good person, but you are not a bad person who deserves punishment unconditionally. You have people who have been saved through acts that are nothing short of whimsical, and even if unintentionally, that is a good deed. Although it failed to bring you back to goodness, , at least I have no regrets just knowing that you are not a villain without a cause or a madman mad at killing.”
“What if I were that kind of person?”
“Then, I would have cut my head without remorse. Even if that fails and my head is blown off.”
That’s scary…
“To me now, you are more important than helpless people who just beg for help from others, than people who only care about their own comfort while crying out for a cause. Rather than recklessly sacrificing for the sake of others I have never known, the desire to fight for someone dear to me grew stronger and stronger. So… I swear here.”
“That means…”
Mars bowed to me, resting his fist on his breastplate.
“I am your sword. I will be the sword that is wielded only for you and cuts through your enemies.”
Not a knight’s oath to become a shield that protects all, but a black knight’s oath to become a sword for only one. The moment Mars uttered her oath to be called an apostle among her knights, the moment she revealed her determination to believe in me, accepting what she herself denied the most, I have now come to see her again as her champion. I felt that I couldn’t go back to the company of .
“…Yes, Mars. Then, as a reward for your loyalty, I will give you this power.”
After experimenting with Ange, a royal knight who was imprisoned in a dungeon, he got some sense of his ability. No matter how many times I saw it with my own eyes, Mars accepted the dark, ominous power that swayed in my hand without any doubt. In that moment, her dark power engulfed her… And soon she became one with her.
“This… It doesn’t feel as bad as I thought.”
Next, her Ray longed to receive her power from me, and I decided that it would be unreasonable to make her stand on her own and make her a candidate for a fellow warrior again, so I decided to take her as well.
Thus, my faithful servants, Mars, the red demon of the battlefield, and Ray, the beast trainer, were born.
*
“Oh, these fucked cubs are again boring again.”
Hundreds of letters came to the mansion again. Without reading the contents of the letter from the sender, I ordered Mars to burn it. Mars also took the letters without saying anything to my order and used them as fuel in the fireplace. I sighed as I erased the messages piled up in the communication port.
After I turned down the Mage Tower’s threat-like offer, the Mage Tower continued to annoy me with the fact that I had taken Mystrina. Of course, the reason I was holding back wasn’t because I was afraid of the magic tower’s power. If those guys are level 50 users, I am a user armed with cheat ending items. What am I afraid of?
No, it’s because the magic tower shouldn’t be ruined yet.
I unfolded the script given to me by the Luminous Goddess. The translucent pages turned over, stopping where I was hoping. I hoped that the contents and date written on it would have been changed, but it was still not changed. I sighed and closed the script again.
The destruction of the mage tower is not something right now. And the Mage Tower is destroyed by either me, Sillip, or Violence.
From now on, a week later by the madman Sillip, or a fortnight later by Violence, or even a month later, in my hands.
The Magic Tower is destined to lose all of its long history and remain as a passage in the history book.
*
The mage tower has several purposes. Raising excellent wizards, securing and managing dangerous magic items, and developing new magic. In fact, it is safe to say that most areas related to magic are handled by the Mage Tower. In addition, since the Mage Tower is an independent power that does not belong to any kingdom, it has quite a few kingdom-level powers unless each kingdom decides to give up magic as a group and attacks the Mage Tower together.
The magic tower is a very important place for humans, and the immortal dragon uses the world’s chaos as its power. There is no suitable target for the immortal dragon to regain its power as much as the collapse of the mage tower. Therefore, according to the scenario, the immortal dragon instructs the humans who have received its power to destroy the mage tower.
But why exclude Serberg? He’s mad for revenge and will never listen to the orders of the immortal dragon. And even if the immortal dragon doesn’t give orders, the three of us have reasons to destroy the mage tower.
First of all, it is the madman Sillib who acts first. He is a mad scholar seeking revenge for being ignored and kicked out of the society. From his point of view, he has unique power only in the field of magic, and it will be difficult to find anything to prove his worth as eliminating the best magical institutions.
The next thing to do is Violence. Her obsession with the throne and power is terrifying, and she is a woman who is very serious about possessing power, even though I share the same power, saying that I might be a threat to her. She is such a woman that she is not under her own control, and at the same time she cannot afford to let independent forces that can put pressure on her.
And if she doesn’t act on her own for some reason, then as a last resort, I will.
Sorceress Viola, one of the candidates for the hero’s companions. The setting is that she is a wizard who joins a group of warriors to avenge her after the magic tower collapses. In other words, in order to make her a candidate for her fellow warriors, you must first destroy her mage tower. Because that’s the setting and the scripted scenario.
If the magic tower is not destroyed, Viola will not join. The problem, however, is that 80% of the candidates for the wizard position are related to the Mage Tower, and unless something goes wrong with the Mage Tower, they have no reason to cooperate with the Hero. So the mage tower must be destroyed. At this point, I wonder if the Luminous Goddess is personally dissatisfied with the Mage Tower, but the original middle management position should be removed from the top.
With a complicated mind, I read the only message that remained in the crystal ball that had not been deleted. It was a message from Violence.
The content is nothing. This time, this time, the soldiers have made a disadvantageous act of arbitrary acts that have not been caused by excessive loyalty, and they will be able to return the Royal Knights and return the Royal Knights.
It’s funny. The Royal Knights are the ones ruled by Violence with authority, so they don’t listen to anything but her words. Sometimes it is possible to expand the interpretation of the order, but there is no way that not one or two, but fifty royal knights can do it at the same time? In the end, this sent the main force for a while to reconnoitre how much the opponent’s power was, but since it all became prisoners, it was like avoiding one’s responsibility.
I didn’t intend to kill the Royal Knights anyway, since they’re Violence’s core strength, but…
Since the Royal Knights were once broken, Violence will refrain from outside activities for a while to rule her internal affairs. In other words, it is safe to say that Violence will not attack the Mage Tower. Besides, Sillip doesn’t show any signs of moving from his current position… In the end, it means that I have to destroy that mage tower in a month.
In other words, it means that I have to endure the terror of the Mage Tower’s letters and crystal ball messages continuously until one month has passed.
Damn it
*
“I’m going crazy. I’m going crazy. I’m going crazy. I’m going out to lunch. I’m going crazy.”
Siftal, are there only lunatics in the Mage Tower? Not just one or two, but how could dozens of wizards do this at the same time? Are all the guys who are always busy improving magic or experimenting?
In accordance with the mutual non-aggression pact, I returned the royal knights to Violence with a warning not to invade my territory again (somehow Ange looked at me with sad eyes, but it must be because of my mood. Where in the world is there a female knight who would look at a mad wizard aristocrat who stabbed her lower body like that?) Two days have passed.
The amount of letters sent to me from the Magic Tower remained the same. By the way… The amount of messages coming to the crystal ball has increased a little… No, very much. The amount was quite extraordinary. Considering that only magicians can activate the crystal ball due to its magical power, dozens of wizards in the Mage Tower have abandoned the experiment and are constantly sending me protest documents with exactly the same content with each crystal ball.
Are these bastards human macros? I know that wizards are normally smart, but seeing that they are terrorizing messages to the point of overloading other people’s crystal balls, it seems that this is not necessarily the case. I’ve never sent 5700 characters to a writer and I’m not a writer, so why do I have to be terrorized with 5700 words by unknown wizards? You know you won’t be able to compete with strength, so why are you making such a stupid trick?
The task of finding and handling reports on what happened within the territory amidst the mountain of complaint mails made my eyes feel bloodshot. Oh my eyes
Surprisingly, only a week has passed.
There are still three weeks left until the magic tower is destroyed, but these bastards are already fucking this shit. No matter how many times I send messages, the crystal ball can’t handle the content and the taste keeps disappearing? The operation does not work like now, or the power goes out momentarily while blinking…
“Ah.”
Pew!!!
…Fuck.
The crystal ball could not handle the excessive data and eventually exploded. Besides, this is the only magic crystal orb left in my mansion right now…
Everything related to magic is monopolized by the Mage Tower, and magic items such as magic crystal balls are no exception. In other words, in order to get a new magic crystal ball, it means that I have to go back to that damn mage tower again.
These bastards, could this be the purpose?
Considering that magic items are monopolized by the Mage Tower, and because of the closed procedures of the Mage Tower, you cannot purchase items unless the buyer himself comes… Was it your intention to make me come? Even if you set traps, are you setting traps in pathways that you can only pass through, rather than placing tasty food?
These dirty, mean children…
“Master, what would you do? If you send the news by letter without a magic crystal ball, it will be difficult to get a report on what happened within the territory in a timely manner, and it will take an excessively long time to confirm an official letter from the royal family.”
The royal family can’t touch me anyway, so even if you say they don’t care, it’s a bit of a blow to interfere with the business of the estate. As usual, the Armageddon Territory was torn apart by the Dukes of Grakas and the Dukes of Period in the past and scattered among their factions, so each built their own infrastructure, which caused problems in the integration process.
As long as they are combined into one, they have to go hand in hand with each other, but since there have been things that have been done independently, big and small problems have continued to arise. It’s only natural that there will be noise since the integration was forced by force…
“Anyway, since I’ve been quiet these days, I seem to be easygoing again.”
Assassins who secretly sneak in among the hired workers whenever they have a chance, territorial people who did not recognize the territory merger and became bandits with weapons at will, and even the Mage Tower idiots who kept putting pressure on them without knowing the subject. It seems like I’m a bit too easy on myself.
I buried the duke of Grakas, one of the two dukes of the Hermon Kingdom, with my own hands.
In my heart, I want to kill all the idiots in the Mage Tower and peel off their skins, but it’s not the time to touch the Mage Tower yet. Instead, I decided to relieve the stress accumulated in the Magic Tower elsewhere before the time written in the script arrived.
“Mars. There’s something you need to do.”
“Just give me any orders.”
I handed over Mars’ work to Ray, and I instructed Mars to lead the fight against the territory. Since the territory has expanded, I had no intention of fighting the territory for a while to stabilize it, but dogs and cows looked down on me like a toothless tiger, so I need to set an example. The reason I’m calm now is that I’m taking a nap because I’m full, not because my teeth are missing.
“The goal is… Yes. The Marquis of Daybreak.”
Marquis, only the assassins your son sent to me are double digits. If you have a conscience, please humbly offer your neck.
*
While Mars marched with undead soldiers to slaughter the son of the Marquis, another assassin came.
“Huh, aren’t you tired of it now?”
“…”
It was a little different from the guys who had been assassinating opponents with only one beautiful woman who had a smooth face and mediocre skills. He had a smooth face, but he was an assassin who did not use beauty gimmicks with that, but quietly entered the scene like an assassin and tried to cut my throat. Of course, unless I was a being possessing the power of a goddess like a warrior, I couldn’t inflict a fatal wound on my body, so I rather pursued the fleeing assassin.
Why couldn’t you catch it? It’s not that I didn’t catch it, I didn’t catch it.
Even though these bastards shipped a large amount of necks last time, they keep sending assassins, so they deliberately send this assassin alive to chase after them, just to root them out.
With my body assimilated into the darkness, I silently pursued the fleeing assassin through the dark night road.
Finally, the Assassin arrived at the Assassin’s Guild in Hermon Kingdom…
“…Her.”
The guild guys tried to cut off the assassin who failed the mission.
Even if he was discovered, it seemed that he was trying to make an excuse that he was not a guy sent by his guild, but an assassin who acted independently. However, the problem is that the assassin was also a gentleman, one of the hero’s fellow candidates, and there was no story in the scenario where one of her candidates to be her companion died before the hero even started the journey, so I was in the dark to save her. I had to get up inside.
“Seriously, why doesn’t anything like this ever happen?”
After that, after returning to the territory, he saw a letter from Mars stating that ‘adventurers, mercenaries, and so-called righteous people, so-called heroes, have joined, and the battle for the territory is not going smoothly’.
Come to think of it, it seems that nothing in this play went as planned from beginning to end.
