Chapter 19 – Episode 19 Emir’s Thoughts, What Happened to Maurice.
Emir Solarion wiped away the sweat.
She ran through the parade ground wearing a blue training suit carefully crafted by a craftsman stitch by stitch.
From the day I met Maurice, I started a diet to lose weight.
No matter how far she ran, her sweatpants were all wet, revealing the lines of her body.
The knights who were training at the parade ground didn’t dare to look at the lady’s body, so they turned their backs.
“Keah hmm hmm.”
It was impossible to keep an eye on her voluptuous body.
“My lady, you are overdoing it.”
The maid assisting Emir said with a worried face.
“It’s okay. Because I can bear it.”
“Today, I didn’t eat the dessert I loved so much, and even exercise… Then, if you suddenly collapse, it will be a big problem.”
“I ate a piece of cake, though.”
“It’s a problem because it’s one piece! Originally, he was a person who could easily take ten pieces.”
The maid who was talking stole her tears.
“I have to work harder to become a woman suitable for Maurice.”
Emir pinched his still soft belly.
‘To beat her.’
Emir’s mind was filled with Seria, who was fawning next to Maurice.
A girl like a fox.
I had no intention of losing Maurice helplessly.
Her heart, who had lived her entire life without knowing what anger was, burned like a flame.
“I will definitely get it back.”
The maid, Nelphi, sighed as she watched the burning Emir.
“It’s good that you’re full of energy, eh…”
After breaking up with the Dmitri family, he was a person who had no energy.
It is fortunate that such a person seems to have found energy again, but the direction in which he found energy was different.
How widely good men are spread out.
‘He refused all of them.’
I just wanted her to be happy.
“Nelphie, let’s do some light running and then go eat.”
It was a time when the emir burned the will to exercise.
“Miss.”
He was the butler serving the Duke of Solarion.
“Uh? Butler, what are you doing?”
“The Duke says he wants to dine with the lady.”
“Your father? It’s a weird thing.”
“Probably because of your visit to the Dmitri family.”
“I see. I will go up on time.”
Emir returned to the mansion wiping his sweat with the towel Nelphi gave him.
Dalgrak, moongrak.
Emir sat alone at the table with her father, Voraden Solarion, the head of House Solarion.
On the other side, she saw Duke Solarion sternly cutting meat.
Light blonde hair and beard.
And the transparent skin that I thought it might have been managed with magic.
He looked very close to his late 30s.
However, Duke Solarion is 60 years old this year.
He was also one of the masters who realized the extreme meaning of the sword and reached the stage of preventing aging.
Since the family head is so handsome, it might be natural for his daughter, Emir, to be a beauty.
A quiet meal without a word.
Solarion’s mealtime was always quiet.
No one spoke privately until the bowl was empty.
It wasn’t until after Emir finished all the meals.
“They went to the Demirit family.”
Duke Solarion opened his mouth.
“That’s right.”
“Why did you do that?”
“It was to restore the broken marriage in order.”
“Did the minister receive it?”
“No.”
“He won’t take it. No, you won’t.”
“I can give it back.”
“Even for political reasons?”
“Yes. Because I believe that a heart that loves people can overcome any hardship.”
“Whoa.”
Duke Solarion sighed and looked at Emir.
It was beautiful.
I’m not saying it because he’s a father.
It was a beautiful appearance even from an objective point of view as a man.
A masterpiece of masterpieces that captures both his and his wife’s strengths.
Men who fell in love with that appearance were numerous in the empire.
How many men did he marry?
Such an emir insisted on Dmitry’s Maurice, whom she had first met.
Every time you say Maurice, your cheeks turn red, the corners of your mouth rise slightly, and your eyes sparkle.
How can I not know?
It was the face of love.
She was in love with Maurice Dmitri.
She rejected her outpouring of marriage proposals to marry Maurice Dmitry.
How difficult it was when the Dmitri family was thrown to the ground.
‘Maurice Dimitri.’
A magical family that was thought to be completely extinct.
However, he emerged as a key figure trusted by the emperor before he knew it.
‘A neutral aristocrat.’
Neutral.
Two main powers were in the balance in the Empire.
The imperial faction, centered on the current emperor.
An aristocratic faction centered on Siegfried.
Centered on Siegfried, the central nobles made the third prince, who was the younger brother of the emperor, the emperor, not the current emperor.
As a result, a civil war broke out.
Prince war.
Victory, of course, was won by the imperial faction.
The civil war was won, but the emperor showed a shocking move to save the nobles, including Siegfried.
It was the emperor’s political message that he would embrace even those who pointed a sword at him.
The law doesn’t work for everyone.
Those who are still dissatisfied with the current emperor are left.
It was the current nobility.
On the other hand, the imperial faction was centered on the local lords whom the emperor employed en masse to win the civil war.
Solarion was one of them.
And the neutrals who couldn’t join them.
Neutral as they say, in fact, they were left behind in the main competition.
Those who did not participate in the prince war.
Even if they all unite, their power is insignificant.
There was only one aristocrat who remained officially neutral even after participating in the Prince’s War.
He is Maurice Dmitry.
Maurice Dmitri’s contribution to the victory of the current emperor in the prince war was great.
For without him the prevailing observation was that he might have been defeated.
That’s why the Emperor forced him to sit as Minister of Magic.
‘It must mean that he wants to make it his own person.’
There were many figures in the imperial faction.
Saedric of fire magic, Colonetu, the master of elemental magic, and Gelmont, the creator of space magic, were also good candidates.
In the end, though, they took other places.
Right now, the imperial faction is holding the upper hand.
The civil war was over and the coronation was held within a few months, so the lull was maintained.
‘A civil war could break out again at any time.’
If it happens
The emperor will draw his sword first.
‘As expected, the emperor wants a war.’
It was a civil war to fully strengthen the imperial power.
If Maurice were to be betrothed to the Imperial faction, the Solarion family.
No matter how much Morris wants to belong to the neutral faction.
Nobles will understand differently.
‘Not bad.’
It was a way to attract the nobles of the aristocratic faction to the imperial faction without shedding blood.
Solarion looked across from her at her wrathful daughter.
She was a beautiful daughter
It’s too much to pass on to others.
‘I don’t like the nasty rumors about Maurice Demitri, but it can’t be helped.’
However, if it was for the future of the emperor, the empire, and the family.
There are things you have to give up.
“My father canceled the engagement with Dmitri for the sake of the family, but I don’t think so. Rather, for the development of the entire family, Maurice Dmitri and…”
“Try it.”
“Yes?”
In response to the unexpected answer, Emir asked inappropriately.
“I told you to do it. Emir, you can make that man yours.”
“Uh…”
“You can do it. I’m sure she’ll keep her word that if she’s a daughter of House Solarion, she can get her married.”
Duke Solarion took a moment to catch his breath before continuing.
“Go to the Imperial Southern Academy.”
“Yes?”
She said, “I heard that the magic storm in the south hasn’t gone away yet.”
“That means.”
“Perhaps the minister will go south. He’ll work things out and go to the academy. Because he is the Minister of Magic.”
“Ah.”
“Let’s meet there pretending to be a coincidence. This is all I can give you.”
“Thank you. Father.”
The Emir was taken aback, even as he sincerely appreciated her.
Her father wasn’t the kind of person who would normally allow this.
Rather, she has been armed with numerous reasons and logic in case she is refuted.
How dare you allow me to do so in vain.
‘I wonder if my father felt it too.’
That there is no man like Maurice in the Empire.
“Father, I will do my best.”
“I will believe it.”
The two women had different thoughts and expressed the same opinion.
***
“Therefore?”
“Can you increase the budget?”
Sadrick said.
He brought a report asking for a whopping double the budget for battle mages next year.
“Secretary Sadrick.”
“Yes, Minister.”
“How much does it cost to train a battle mage right now?”
“As written in the report, it is 12 percent of the Ministry’s education budget. This is a significantly smaller field compared to 20% of secondary magic.”
“Little. By the way. By the way. Is there something missing in the amount?”
I hit the report that Sadrick held out with my hand.
“While the training cost for assistant mages written in your report includes the academy, the budget for academy education for battle mages is missing. Do you have anything to say about this?”
“The training of battle mages was excluded from the report because it is aimed at those who have graduated from the academy.”
“It’s not like that. In order to foster safely, you have to graduate from the basic academy. Then shouldn’t assistant mages do the same?”
“But Minister.”
“Excluding the academy fee, out of the total auxiliary magic training costs, auxiliary magic is only 8%. Rather, more money is being invested in battle mages.”
“An absolute number of battle mages are required to maintain national strength and keep enemies in check on the border.”
“I agree with that, but not now. It wasn’t long before the civil war ended. Even if this is not the case, if the Ministry of Magic increases military expenses while the budget of the standing army and knights increases, the imperial people will have to live with the anxiety of war again. We will keep the current system until next year. So let’s go.”
“… All right.”
Sadrick eventually withdrew with a disgruntled face.
Thud.
Hearing the door close and his footsteps receding, he was able to sigh.
“Whoa. Tough guy.”
It was clear that Sadrick wanted to increase the number of battle mages and start a war right away.
I can’t allow that
It was not yet time.
“It’s annoying. Annoying.”
He couldn’t even solve the Seria issue, but the work continued to pile up.
“You look very tired today.”
Said Jane with a grin.
I watched her face carefully for a moment.
Although sealed in the Magic Tower, she was one of the transcendental beings that transcended humans.
Thinking she might get some help, she pulled out a glass flower.
“Jane, do you know what this is?”
“Oh, the treasure of the elves. Where else did you get this? Even though you’re on bad terms with the elves.”
“It came from the world tree in my house.”
“Oh, I thought it was a bit small for some reason. But was it already time for it to form?”
“Can you analyze this?”
Jane looked at the glass flower carefully.
“No. Because my ability is not exploration. You know, observation.”
“Whoa, I had a subordinate with no talent.”
“Eh, I’m sorry to hear you say that.”
“Then, did any of the Ascendants have the ability to absorb?”
“Well…”
She thought as she rested her chin on her chin and closed her eyes.
“I do have one.”
“What kind of guy is he?”
“Was his nickname his ‘a blood-crazed idiot’? He was an insane guy. He was the one who made a fuss about what kind of magic he had learned.”
Did it remind me of the past?
Jane shook her body.
“Why do you ask that? Is it related to that flower by any chance?”
“Not similar.”
“I can’t tell you more than this. You know? The causal rate.”
I nodded.
The war of the past transcendental beings.
The myth that God sealed them when the world was on the verge of destruction in a war was a very famous story.
The transcendental bodies were sealed, and in order to keep the law of cause and effect, it became impossible to leak information and open power more than necessary.
All I knew was this far.
‘In the fantasy world, it’s magic.’
Isn’t it a being that came over from martial arts?
Absorb
I focused on that.
There was no further information to hear from Jane.
That nothing is easy.
The only way to find out is to do your own research.
‘I have to collect Seria’s hair and blood, so there must be a lot of work to do.’
After collecting her hair and blood, there was a place to go first.
Right at the Imperial Southern Academy Lab.
A trustworthy researcher resides there.
Come to think of it.
“What happened to the magic storm that appeared in the southern part of the Empire?”
“Oh, is that it? Actually, I was going to report it. I haven’t calmed down yet.”
“How long has it been since the storm first occurred?”
“Five days.”
“Five days.”
Originally, it should have calmed down and disappeared naturally after three days.
But what still remains.
“It must be a storm created artificially by someone.”
“You’re right. I haven’t found the man behind it yet.”
“I’ll go check it out.”
“You want to go by yourself?”
“Compassionateness. I have something to check. By the way, how many lives are there?”
“The city hasn’t been hit yet, so there are no casualties.”
“You don’t know what will happen.”
“Yes.”
“I get it. Let me check the rest for myself.”
I took the glass flower in the subspace and went outside.
