Chapter 180 – Nosferatu (7)
The work went smoothly.
“Ah! Run away!”
“Where!”
Even the tycoons, who normally arrogantly walk around, have no choice but to fall flat on their faces when the lord, who has been silent until now, decides to draw his sword and start wielding it.
Especially since the bloody wind began to blow quickly without even having time to pick up and carry the property.
“I see, there are quite a few things that have been siphoned off according to the data.”
“I will retrieve everything.”
Merchants suspected of tax evasion had their property confiscated, and those with more serious sins were beheaded as a summary measure.
“Oh, that guy, that guy, I knew that! Anyway, that’s right, how can you covet the property of the lord? If you’re greedy, you’ll go away!”
“Eh, tsk tsk. Anyway, I recognized it when I raised the price of daily necessities and whatever, bragging about having a lot of money! They said it was because they had a lot of money and had to pay a lot of taxes, but in reality, they were putting it behind them, right?”
The reaction of the people of the region is truly great.
That’s also true, because most of the targets of this purge are those who are not very popular in the territory.
Merchants who sucked the backs of the locals are common, and the garbage in the ‘back alley’ is close to the object of hatred and hatred by the locals.
Especially those who colluded with merchants.
“Well, our Yeongji is worth living! It’s getting a little noisy these days… Qiandu is better than other places, how much the lord cares about things like us! Look at it now The lady leads the soldiers herself and punishes those who harass us!”
“Oops, am yo. Besides, the duke takes care of you, right? Looking at the lady who went to the Duchess’s estate and returned, it’s clear that the Duke of Amadu sent it! So don’t be ugly these days, I can’t leave here.”
Certainly Blackwood has a good reputation among the territories. It seems that the strangely high evaluation of me plays a part.
“Please properly distribute the assets recovered through this incident to the villagers through appropriate investigations and procedures. After all, it’s time to strengthen the stability of the territory for a while.”
“Yes, lady.”
The knight who came along as Daisy’s lieutenant is also quite capable. He didn’t have to explain that there were a lot of daisies, but he seemed to understand what he meant.
Even if you didn’t understand it, if you reflexively gave a loyal answer to your superior’s order, that’s blind and excellent loyalty as it is, so you passed.
Blind loyalty isn’t good?
That is also the story of being confined in the human tent. Or, among the good and bad things to hear, it’s a waste of time to choose and listen to only the good things to hear.
Neither does Daisy, nor does Blackwood’s people do, so it doesn’t matter.
Rather, blindly loyal knights should have become the object of envy for other nobles, but there is nothing wrong with that.
Not only loyal knights, but also soldiers who follow Daisy’s orders without a word.
It may also mean that Daisy has left a good image in the family.
In any case, it also means that a family with good internal unity is not so easily shaken.
‘The more I see it, the more I like it, Blackwood.’
It’s a bit burdensome to fantasize about me to the extent of being weird.
In any case, it is safe to consider him as a trustworthy colleague. As I was internally raising my assessment of Blackwood, Eileen poked her in the side of me.
‘Look over there. I think I found one here too?’
‘Huh?’
As I said, when I turned my gaze toward the outside of the shadows, the expressions of Daisy, the lieutenant, and the soldiers hardened.
“Why, why are you doing this! I’m sorry! You have paid your taxes well so far!”
A man with the name Smith. His occupation is carpentry. A sincere young man who moved to Blackwood two months ago… Is the setting.
Elsewhere, you might say, “Eh, punish the innocent Smith? Anyway, the aristocrats… !” Although he had a good reputation around him to the extent that the same words came out.
“What? Smith is actually a traitor… ?”
“Oh, hey! It can’t be! Don’t you believe me, John?! You know how diligently I have lived every day since I came to this manor!”
“… Under! Smith, I didn’t see that. Wow! Where is the traitor bastard pretending to be friendly and calling me by my name?”
“Eh, tsk tsk! A guy who doesn’t even know grace. The lord and duke are considerate of how well we live. If you come from outside, you should be grateful…”
This is Blackwood.
A strong manor, strangely loyal to Blackwood, who came out and received my recognition. Even if he had a good reputation, it wouldn’t matter if the lord or his agent came forward and marked him as treasonous.
“Eh, what is this…”
Smith with a bewildered expression. In the first place, let alone receiving the name of ‘Nosferatu’, he is a human who did not even become a blood demon.
Words written and thrown away.
He seems to have been quite loyal.
“Then, according to the Gnostic Law, I will execute you with immediate effect.”
Squeak-.
A head rolling on the floor.
Saying that the sword I found in Draculea’s treasure chest and giving it to Daisy was a waste, Daisy, who had slashed her throat with an ordinary iron sword, looked down at the corpse with a cold face.
Every time they find and decapitate Nosferatu one by one, the expressions of Daisy and her lieutenants and soldiers darken.
I never thought there would be this many——it must have been the same feeling.
Until now, I’ve been digging out the rotten roots in the territory, but it’s a combination of both.
It’s nothing more than a bonus.
In the end, it is to catch Nosferatu’s nephew who has permeated the territory. That’s the final goal.
Taking advantage of a moment of chaos, the notorious ‘Nosferatu’ was infiltrating the territory, and it made me feel sore and worried.
I’d rather take this opportunity to go further and purify Nosferatu altogether. That’s my goal, not Blackwood.
In any case, up to ‘expelling Nosferatu hiding in Blackwood’, it means that they have a common purpose.
So far, the ‘crow’ has caught five groups.
Daisy, who moves while knocking out the others, catches three of them.
If you include this one, is it four?
“I’ve caught quite a few daisies, too.”
“Rather, since it moves openly, wouldn’t it be impossible to avoid it? If you pull yourself out to run away at this point, it will look suspicious to anyone.”
Is it like that too?
Not sure if it’s a vampire who can take out one body, but simple collaborators or those who haven’t transformed into blood demons won’t be able to do that either.
In this situation, even going somewhere to hide can be viewed with suspicion by others.
‘What are you hiding?’
Wouldn’t it be better if he worked in the ‘back alley’ or was a guy with a bad reputation from the start? I’m sure there are several of them who have maintained a good reputation to make a proper spy role.
When those guys suddenly do something suspicious, you can’t go unnoticed.
Thanks to that, rather than the ‘crows’ who catch those who hide in the dark, Daisy is catching those who are active in the sun that others have secretly found out.
If you think so, it makes sense that Daisy catches more than expected.
Chow-!
I’m sorry-!
Even after that, Daisy mercilessly cleaned up the remnants left by Nosferatu. The ‘crows’ are also constantly sending information.
“Gagging… !”
Daisy finally decapitated the ninth head.
With this, all the tricks that were identified in the beginning have been sorted out.
The only thing left is the ‘real’ ones who can avoid even the eyes of the ‘crow’ who will be hiding really secretly.
“Let’s move now, too.”
In Daisy’s shadow, she slipped as her shadow overlapped with the shadows of the surrounding buildings, then she and Eileen came out of the shadows.
“Are you ready?”
“Phew. This is the first great magic that is this sophisticated.”
“You can do it. I believe.”
“Only at times like this?”
“Always.”
Eileen pouted her lips, saying it was her mouth. Even so, steadily, she began to channel her mana into the magic circle she had drawn in the shadows.
In Daisy’s shadow, I saw everything there was to be seen.
Daisy, who looked down at the shadow, sent a sign saying that she had caught all the people she needed to catch, except those involved in ‘Nosferatu’.
And all preparations are complete.
“Really. It’s like magic that searches for and redeems all traces of the tracked target in the territory. I had never heard of such magic.”
Just like that.
The traces we are tracking here are not mere traces of magical power or fingerprints.
It is a wide-ranging space-time magic that traces back and scans the ‘time’ inside the territory, and then targets everything that has traces of it.
It’s not actually rewinding time, it’s just watching the cctv’s time backwards.
With just this, you should be able to find everything that Nosferatu might have hidden.
“It’s absurd. Really… I stopped by a place called the Time Temple, and the goddess gave it to me?”
“It wasn’t given by the Goddess.”
“That’s it—!! Take me with you next time.”
“Go there again… ?”
Time magic.
It is a magical name that is commonly used by the final boss, main character, or the strongest person in the world in fantasy novels.
In fact, even Eileen, who has an aptitude for all existing magics, would not have dared to try it without my assistance.
How can I, who can’t even use magic properly unless it’s a specific magic, be able to use it? If you say
‘Time Temple’.
Maybe it was because I went there and came into direct contact with the goddess.
The aptitude for space-time magic had developed, albeit weakly.
But.
“You can use this kind of magic, but you’re not really suitable for it. What kind of joke are you talking about?!”
“It can’t be helped.”
The aptitude for a magic class is how ‘correctly’ you can use the magic for that class.
Even if you draw the same magic circle, you see the ability to make it in a more elaborate, more perfect and detailed form, and call it ‘aptitude’.
That is, there are cases like that.
The magic attribute is fire, but the aptitude is the freezing type.
So, in terms of magic itself, ice-type magic is more proficient, but because the attribute is fire, the power is not as great or it fails.
So even if I don’t have the proper attributes, I can’t use ‘space-time magic’ as much as I want even if I have the aptitude. If you ignorantly hit the mana, the output will go up that much.
Because that’s pretty inefficient.
However, that is in one word.
“If you don’t have my help, you won’t be able to show off your best aptitude… !”
It means that with the help of Eileen, who has excellent aptitude for all types of magic, she can use it as much as she wants.
In fact, Eileen was entrusted with my aide, and she perfectly portrayed the great magic technique.
After receiving her magic, if I draw a spell, I take control of her through the circuit connected to Eileen, and then cast it.
By going through very complicated steps, you can use great magic that will make you feel astonished.
Brilliantly shining magic of five colors. Just drawing a spell would consume a lot of mental strength.
“My head is pounding… ! When this is done, I will definitely get my pay back in bed!”
“She’s incredibly bold for a woman who was a virgin not too long ago.”
“Be quiet!”
I closed my mouth. Eileen closed her eyes tightly.
Right after.
Pillars of light rose brilliantly from all over Blackwood’s estate.
