Chapter 244 – In the Process of Inheriting the Throne
—Whee Oh…
In the midst of a raging blizzard and pure white snow, a man as huge as a bear bent down as if he had discovered something. He probably wasn’t looking for footprints. Because of the never-ending blizzard, the traces left by people and animals will disappear in less than an hour.
“Hmm.”
The man tinkered with the empty snowdrift and looked out over the horizon with his eyes squinting. The young man standing behind the man grumbled, frowning slightly.
“Father. Why did you come all the way here yourself when you could have your subordinates do these troublesome things? You even hung up the children.”
The dozens of warriors who followed the young man seemed to agree with him, even if they didn’t show it on the outside. Obviously, such a troublesome task as a search for missing persons, but with a high possibility of wasting time, was too trivial for the leader of the alliance to directly step forward.
But Angorn shook his head slowly as if that wasn’t the case.
“Surely, I told Ashtal to report to me immediately if there was any sign that things might go wrong. He is as violent as a ferocious wolf, but he is so loyal that he would never have taken my orders in vain. What on earth does the fact that I have no contact with any of my subordinates mean?”
“Uh, that’s what… Maybe something went wrong in the middle?”
“Jackal, how many times has this father told you. Strength alone will never make you a great warrior. His head isn’t meant to be used to headbutt, it’s meant to be thought.”
“Kuhm.”
At Angorn’s admonition, the young man, the jackal, scratched his head and cleared his throat.
“Not only that. If the enemy was stronger than expected and the pursuers were annihilated in reverse, then there should be traces left. Not even a trace remains other than the faint remnants of mana.”
“Isn’t it that they quickly erased their traces and ran away?”
“The enemy is four. Are you saying that only four of them slaughtered a chasing party of one thousand households and countless livestock and monsters that followed them, and then cleaned up even the traces and escaped? In just one day?”
Cheonho. In terms of the number of people, it is a fairly large force that corresponds to the thousand people of the Imperial Army. Moreover, the fact that the elite army, including warriors and cavalrymen, had disappeared without a trace, not a force filled with rogues, was not something to be taken lightly.
“Oh, I heard…”
Only then did the jackal’s expression begin to harden, as if he had gradually realized the seriousness of the situation.
Looking at his son, who is exceptional in martial arts, but his brain is not far above the level of an ordinary warrior, Angorn takes a deep breath as if he is stuffy.
Suddenly, the stranger’s name popped into his mind.
‘No way… ?’
Several years ago, in the middle of a fierce war.
A warrior once rushed to Angorn with the absurd news that a tribe had been wiped out without a trace by a single knight.
Of course, at the time, it was considered a foolish rumor spread by those who tried to hide their mistakes, so those who spread such rumors were hunted down and strictly governed with military discipline. Because that was absolutely impossible with common sense unless you were a transcendentalist.
However, when the cross-verification based on the testimonies of numerous eyewitnesses was unanimous, he was forced to admit that the article that erased an entire tribe from the world existed.
There is a monster called the Slayer in the Empire.
A black knight with burning red eyes. It is said that the great warrior Astrid was brutally defeated by him, and when he stamped his feet, the warriors’ hardened bodies burst out like crushed frogs, and when they face the darkness radiating from him, their existence itself ceases to exist. Judging by the testimonies of the survivors, he was a more terrifying demon than any general of an empire.
Of course, rumors tend to be exaggerated, so the slayer Angorn actually faced on the battlefield wasn’t that dangerous, rather it was more like an inexperienced warrior with a somewhat unstable side.
When this phantom-like incident occurred, I couldn’t help but remember the man’s name.
“Shaman. Do you feel any traces?”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t feel any signs of life here. Head.”
“Even though this is the exact location where the battle took place?”
“Yes. The spirits wandering in the Great Snow Field are telling us that.”
“Huh, really… It’s a ghost to wail.”
Even, the old shaman who was brought along for the color enemy also shakes his head. If the situation is still unclear even after mobilizing a spiritist who is said to be an expert in searching for missing persons.
Now I can’t help it.
I don’t feel very reluctant because it feels like I’m needlessly putting on debt, but now that the situation has become like this, I have no choice but to ask for help. Sigbaldi took out a black lotus flower from his bosom and smashed it with his fist.
As the jackal said, he had a lot of other things to do besides searching for missing people. He couldn’t stay in the middle of the great snowfield forever.
—Pajik, Pajik… !
Black sparks ricocheted when the shattered lotus fragments were scattered in the air.
“Wow!”
A crack in the space cracked open and something began to slowly emerge from inside, and a scream erupted from the mouth of someone who was particularly weak in superstition. The jackal, who was watching his father’s actions closely, also couldn’t hide his surprise.
“Haa… On earth, didn’t I tell you not to call me in this annoying land? The sacrifices you wasted trying to break through the coordinate distortion and forcibly open the dimensional rift can be covered by your subordinates, right?”
The one who opened the rift and appeared was a young girl with purple comb hair. Contrary to her cute appearance, like her well-made porcelain doll, the wave of black magic that spreads from her is quite vicious, and the traces of time that cannot be hidden are felt in her old-fashioned tone.
Third Apostle of Eclipse, Lilith of Greed.
A black magician who had lived for hundreds of years had come to this place at the call of the same apostle.
As soon as she arrived, she was annoyed at her, but Angorn did not blink an eye at her attitude and said calmly.
“Lilith. I have something for you to do.”
“Ha?”
“I don’t feel so bad, so investigate what happened here.”
Feeling.
It was a very poor reason to call the same apostle to ask for help, but that was enough.
It is a kind of spirituality. For superhumans who have reached the stage, intuition is a phenomenon that is close to a kind of foreknowledge, not something that just comes to them.
Angorn Sigbaldi, the leader of the Alliance and the Apostle of the Eclipse, had a stronger intuition than ever that the mysterious incident that took place here should never be overlooked.
If the culprit in this case is who he thinks is right.
It will be the most vexing obstacle before putting into action the great cause soon to come.
* * *
After one attack, Wolfgang and his party successfully crossed the great snowfield without any problems.
“Welcome! Comrade!”
“Haha, long time no see.”
“You’ve been through a lot. Your face has become very sick. My barbara will tell you that you guys are back. To return to the island, you’ll need a teleportation magic circle and other preparations, so in the meantime, have a good rest in the best room. .”
Upon arriving at the Stark estate, he was a Stark Marshal who greeted Wolfgang excessively.
“Thanks to you for fulfilling my request, my breath has been relieved. The monsters have almost dried up.
“That’s very fortunate.”
Wolfgang was in a bit of a daze, wondering why the margrave would suddenly do that, but it turns out that the splendid massacre Scarlett staged just before crossing to the poles had a greater effect than expected.
‘Well, are good things good?’
He wanted to return as soon as possible and meet Alicia, but he couldn’t help it because he couldn’t just run to Jedo. In the meantime, he had to convey the circumstances to the enforcement officers of the counterintelligence department, who had acted as substitutes for the party, and had to report overdue.
“…That’s why, so everyone can rest for a day or two. If anything happens in the middle, contact me via communicator.”
“I get it.”
“Yes, brother!”
“Whew… I need to take a shower and get some sleep. I’m tired.”
Ordering his comrades to rest, Wolfgang slumped down on the bed in the guest room of the Lord’s Castle. He hasn’t even laid down yet, but just the soft touch of his buttocks is already enough to relieve fatigue.
“It’s a soft bed. How long has this been?”
Unlike before his departure, it was a little regretful that he couldn’t have a good time with Ophelia because he was staying at the lord’s castle rather than an inn, but he wasn’t particularly hungry for sex, so he just assumed that was the case.
Not too long ago, I took a few shots with cool vaginal cumshots. Come to think of it, where is Astrid and what is she doing right now?
The mission report came first, but Wolfgang, who couldn’t stand the luxury of sitting still in bed and bruising, suddenly saw a newspaper on the table.
“Where, what happened to the empire in the meantime?”
Then, Wolfgang leisurely opened a newspaper with a cup of hot tea he had requested from the maid of the castle.
[Princess Alicia, declare succession to the throne?]
—Slurp…
As soon as he faced the headline, the tea water in his mouth flowed out.
