Chapter 131 – Chapter 131 Persuasion
“Hmm, what is this situation?”
Duke Solarion asked me.
“You still don’t understand? Isn’t it the meeting place of the three generations for the restoration of the capital?”
Duke Siegfried replied instead.
“It’s a three-generation family. When did Dmitri become a third-generation family?”
Solarion’s gaze remained fixed on me.
“Do you think that if you are a 9th class wizard, there is nothing lacking even if you become a 3rd generation family?”
Duke Siegfried stopped once more.
Solarion’s gaze fell on Siegfried for the first time.
“Since when did Siegfried become Dmitri’s minion? What a funny situation. The best political family in the empire is now a jerk…”
Solarion snorted.
But Siegfried didn’t even answer.
Rather, I just look at it with sad eyes.
“Come on, don’t you think that’s something to talk about in the current situation?”
I mediated between the two dukes.
It wasn’t a place where they gathered to fight in the first place.
“Kuhm.”
Duke Solarion sighed.
“So why did you call me?”
“I have a request for you two dukes.”
“Please. What kind of request is Maurice Dmitry, who has even possessed the emperor, asking for a favor in a mere duke!”
Despite the sarcastic remarks, I calmly opened my mouth.
“I want you to lend me your strength to convince the Magic Tower.”
“A mage tower?”
“It’s a magic tower.”
The two dukes opened their mouths at the same time.
“It’s the mage tower that drew the line with us in the first place. Do I really need the help of the Magic Tower? There is no need to add another debt for nothing.”
Said Siegfried.
“It is important to restore the capital as quickly as possible. There is no need for the inside to be uneasy in a situation where the defeated soldiers are still left.”
After looking at Solarion for a while, Siegfried opened his mouth.
“Do you, Maurice, feel uneasy about the current situation?”
“No.”
“But why?”
“It means that in the current situation, there is no need to leave the elements that cause trouble.”
“I agree with that.”
Solarion, who saw that, laughed.
“I oppose it.”
She knew it.
I didn’t think it would be easy.
“Why should I help?”
“I’m not just asking for help.”
“Then?”
“Make a deal.”
“It’s a deal.”
Solarion stroked her chin.
As if wanting to read my thoughts, Duke Solarion, who had been watching me, paused for a while.
“Put up your card. Then we’ll start talking.”
“I want to have an audience with the emperor.”
“You would have said that was impossible? That’s not the subject of a negotiation card. Give me cards for the Empire, not the Emperor and Solarion.”
“Her. Maurice Dmitri, who messed up the Empire, said it was for the Empire.”
“Do you think that trying to convince the Ministry of Magic is for my own personal gain?”
“Isn’t that so?”
Solarion’s attitude remained the same.
Denial.
All I had to do was open my mouth to dissent.
I understand.
They had been at war over the emperor until a few days ago.
Because I dethroned the emperor.
Solarion to reinstate the Emperor.
The war was won by me, and Solarion was defeated.
He had been made a prisoner of war, and I was detaining him by right of victor.
Even if you can freely roam around the capital.
It wasn’t completely free either.
As the leader of the imperial faction, he probably doesn’t know what it means to help me.
“My first goal is to restore the capital and enrich the lives of the people of the empire.”
“… Sounds funny.”
“Can’t you believe it?”
“Of course. There is something you did.”
“If I reinstated the emperor, wouldn’t you still help?”
“What?”
Solarion’s eyebrows twitched.
Siegfried, who already knew, simply closed his eyes.
“You mean to bring the emperor back?”
“Okay.”
“How can you believe that?”
“Will you believe it only if you sign a contract with the Word of God?”
“If you can.”
“If I use the language, the duke must help me right away. Do you still mean it?”
“A command like that is worth my help.”
Siegfried stood up.
“Do you really have to write until the age?”
“Exactly.”
“…”
If the emperor came to his senses, there was no need for me to lead everything.
Rather, there was no need to become an unorthodox emperor and create many political enemies.
I know Siegfried’s thoughts.
You must want to make me emperor.
He said that I would be better than the uncontrollable Ruclid.
‘There’s no need for me to make enemies.’
I saw two Dukes.
“Now, what are you going to do?”
Solarion rolled her eyes back and forth.
“Good.”
She said, “Okay. What about Duke Siegfried?”
“If you want, I will spare you no words.”
I circled
-If the work is finished, I will restore the emperor.
Whoops.
As mana spread in the room, each word gained strength.
A huge chain made of mana gripped my heart.
Thud.
“Ha.”
Siegfried could not hide his expression.
It was the first time I’d seen anything like that.
I got up with those dukes.
“Go to the magic tower.”
***
Siegfried, Solarion, and Dmitri.
In the current situation without an emperor, they were the three generations leading the empire.
“What’s up with the traitor?”
The Magic Tower Master, Daylaine, asked in a low voice.
At the appearance of Maurice, the wizards’ expressions became cold.
“Oh, that’s a familiar reaction.”
It was a response I had heard before.
When Dmitry was ruined in the past.
When a lot of stigma was covered.
It was the wizard’s contempt he had heard many times.
“If it weren’t for the two dukes behind me, I wouldn’t have even tried to see it.”
Dalene’s sarcasm didn’t matter.
There was no damage whatsoever.
“There is no need to talk off topic.”
“What?”
“We need the help of wizards to restore the capital. Send the manpower.”
“Whoever hears it will know you as the emperor now?”
“I hired the magician manpower many times even when I was the Minister of Magic.”
“What are the words of the man who messed up the empire like this?”
“I guess you didn’t think that the emperor messed up the empire.”
“There is no reason to listen to a renegade against the Empire.”
Dalene, determined.
Then, Solarion intervened.
“Help me.”
One short word.
However, the ripple effect of that one word was great.
It wasn’t anyone else, it was the Duke of Solarion, who had waged a war not too long ago.
To the fact that he sided with Maurice.
The wizards were agitated.
“What’s happening?”
“Why the hell is Duke Solarion?”
“What’s up.”
Daylaine stuttered at the unexpected support shot from Solarion.
“Huh, but Maurice broke the rules of the Mage Tower.”
“Do you really want to have a magic showdown?”
“…”
Does that look like something you don’t like?
Dalene struggled to open her mouth.
However, it seemed that the old-fashioned wizards would not change their minds.
“Isn’t it for you after all?”
I knew it.
“Not at all. In the end, the emperor will return to his place again.”
The worse Solarion intervened once again.
“… Can you be sure?”
“I already bet mana.”
“You mean you bet mana?”
Dalene was dubious even when she said that she had bet mana.
They knew that strong magicians were absolute when it came to using the commands, but Maurice was a far cry from their point of view.
It was like that when we were in the same 8th class.
How much more should I do now that I am in an unfinished 9th class?
I thought so.
So when wizards show a lukewarm response.
“Everyone be quiet!”
It was Cecilia.
She came in with Emily, biting her lip.
Her complexion her was pale, as if she was frightened, but her eyes her were alive.
All eyes were on her.
“Ah, Empress?”
“Why is the empress?”
“Didn’t you say you were missing?”
Cecilia, who was said to have been tortured by the emperor.
Having lost her eyes and ears, she returned intact.
Are the actions of the emperor a rumor?
When in doubt.
“The rumors about the emperor harming me are all true. Everything was restored by Secretary Morris.”
“Empress…”
“So, all wizards, please work hard to restore the capital.”
“Ah, I see.”
Since they are old-fashioned wizards, Cecilia’s words came louder than anyone else.
The wizards who had just shouted against the death penalty rolled their tails.
After her words her, Cecilia went back.
She whispered in a voice so low that only I could hear.
“With this, I paid off part of the debt that saved me.”
***
That’s how mages were deployed in each place.
Work began in earnest.
I distributed the numerous tasks that had come to me everywhere.
The gold upper house intervened in earnest.
Emily took people to assist Siegfried, and the wizards assist me.
A very balanced process was completed.
‘I won’t have to worry for the time being.’
Cecilia did not return to her palace and remained at Emily’s ranks.
When she returns to the imperial palace, she will remember the time she was tortured.
“I finished my work today.”
Taking off my glasses, I sighed and got up from my seat.
I slept through the night tonight.
The sun was coming up again.
Even though it’s divided, it’s like this.
If I hadn’t shared it, I would have still struggled with work.
‘Time flies.’
However, it was a very ambiguous time for me.
In my eyes like that.
Entered the room where Ruclid was confined.
He said, ‘He hasn’t been out of his room for days.’
He had been busy with work lately and had left it to Sebastian.
Still, her face should shine through.
I walked to Ruclid’s room.
