Chapter 184 – Chapter 16 – As You Want
“…”
Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk-tuk-.
A middle-aged man with dark blue hair is anxiously waiting for something.
Originally, even if the news was delivered, a few pieces would have passed.
However, for some reason, after those who were tightly attached to him left for the academy, he hadn’t even reported a single news.
The thought that something is wrong runs through his head.
The first possibility that came to mind was, of course, betraying oneself and turning one’s back.
It wasn’t a relationship bound by loyalty, it was just a relationship between the one who possessed the weakness and the one who was captured.
Because of this, there is always a possibility that they will grit their teeth and betray.
However, it’s not that he didn’t expect it, and because of that, he holds their fatal weakness.
Even if they betray, more than half of them will probably hit the ground and regret it later.
Above all, since they secretly hid those with high loyalty among them, if they saw signs of betrayal, they would notify themselves in advance or deal with them one by one on their own line before returning.
‘But no one comes back, and no news is delivered. That means…’
Regardless of whether they were traitors or loyalists, they were all captured or killed at once.
The man clicked his tongue as he thought about it.
Although the main purpose is to collect information, infiltrate, follow, and covert things.
Even though they had all the basic skills, the fact that they all suffered without anyone running away meant that there was something they didn’t expect.
‘Yulia, what did that bitch do?’
According to previous reports, he was strangely close to Klaus, the Devil of the South.
He said that in some cases, the relationship between a professor and a cadet could develop beyond that.
However, since the news was cut off after that, there was no choice but to gather information by combining the stories of the anti-demon king faction aristocrats that were handed down from time to time.
However, that alone was not enough. In the first place, since the stories of the nobles themselves were the main focus, there was no way they could write down any necessary information about Yulia or Klaus.
In the end, what he needed was the news of the informants he had planted, but at some point it was completely blocked.
‘Damn it, damn it.’
When things didn’t work out the way he wanted, the man started biting his nails.
It was a habit of his own, from when he was very young until now, when he was very old, that he couldn’t get rid of even if he tried, and when things didn’t work out the way he thought, he would show his nervousness.
The former demon king completely excluded his brother from his power, and brought the eastern nobles to him one by one and placed them under his command.
It was said that there were still a few stupid loyalists left in the castle, but it was safe to say that they were very few.
He didn’t call himself ‘King’, but his subordinates, nobles, and even himself were thinking of himself as the Demon King.
Afterwards, he continued to push the current Demon King Yulia and eventually made her go to the Continental Academy without a single subordinate, and while she had stupid thoughts there, she continued to pressure the loyalists to try to make them hit her first.
Everything was in his favor, but because he was still lacking in just one thing, he was bending down as much as possible while keeping Yulia and the rest of the forces in check.
The part that is unfavorable to you is a double-edged sword called ‘the cause’.
If you sharpen the blade properly and swing it, nothing is sharper than that, but if you swing it incorrectly, you can cut yourself.
In the current situation, if you make the first move, you may be accused of daring to usurp the throne.
My niece is by no means a foolish woman to even think of that.
To avoid that part, she continued to stimulate her, but did not move recklessly.
‘It’s been good so far. It was very good, but there was no problem with it. The nobles who had maintained their neutrality are suddenly shaken and something is going very strangely.’
Hot, hot-.
The man continued to think as he bit his nails.
As the neutral aristocrats were divided, they eventually succumbed to the torch of absorbing them.
In the meantime, there was an incident where a noble under my command absorbed the territory of a neutral aristocrat, and Julia and the loyalists stumbled and fell as if they had waited right away at that part.
Originally, all the lands of the nobles were bestowed by the demon king, but in the process of absorbing the lands, how could they see it and not upload a page?
Already, the anti-demon king faction does not recognize Yulia as the demon king.
For them, there is only one demon king, and it only refers to themselves.
However, each other was careful not to be caught by any weakness in the justification.
Even if she stays silent like this anyway, time is on their side, and the Demon King and her loyal followers will be filled with her anxiety every day.
But not too long ago, Ferdinand of the Else family, one of the powerful neutrals, suddenly opened fire saying that he would be loyal to the devil from now on.
Right after that, the neutral faction was split in an instant, and some joined the anti-demon lord faction, while others joined the loyalist faction, predicting a great upheaval.
Thanks to that, the political situation was confused, but Julia went so far as to say that she was quite displeased with the message from the demon king regarding the Battle of the Territory.
If they continue to fight like this, they, who are many times stronger than the loyalists, will have a much better advantage.
It’s a fight that you have no choice but to win anyway, so why are you so scared and keep falling back?
Why doesn’t our lord step forward confidently?
Their dissatisfaction grew higher and higher with each passing day.
‘Stupid things! It’s the way those in high places have their thoughts.’
Raising his voice in front of himself, who had dared to take the position of the Demon King, was quite disgusting.
But if you think about it another way, there was nothing wrong with what they said.
Anyway, they are the forces trying to drive out the current demon king and establish a new king.
No matter what they do, even if the king attacks them and they are forced to defend themselves, they can’t help but change the king in the end.
You can’t just wait like this for a cause forever.
I have to move, anyway, since my nephew carried out the provocation first, I don’t know about it externally, but I can make it clear internally.
If there’s one thing that bothers me, it’s that I don’t know the exact situation.
It was the part that there was definitely something going on at the academy, but not even a single piece of information came back because the senders were all gone.
“I will go in, lord.”
At this time, a demon carefully opens the door and steps inside.
He greeted me politely and then told me what he was looking for.
“I just got some news.”
“As expected, it’s not from the shadows.”
“That’s right. The son of a noble family below us. It’s a letter from someone who was a cadet at the academy, and I sent it here saying that the lord urgently needs to see it.”
As the man holds out his hand, he places the letter carefully upon it.
The man, who opened it and checked the contents written inside, immediately sighed, ‘Ehh?’, Then began to read the contents again with an expression asking what the hell is this all about.
“What the hell is this…”
“Lord? Why? Lord?”
“This, this letter. When did you come? And when did you fly in and how long did it take you to arrive?!”
“I don’t know the details, but… Even if it was sent by the fastest way, it would have taken four to five days, even if it had to go through several hands. Still, as far as I know, it’s the letter that arrived the fastest and reached the lord the fastest…”
“Hey, hey!!”
Kwazijik!!-
The man who ferociously crumpled the letter gritted his teeth and wrinkled his face.
Then he throws it ferociously forward and sighs deeply while holding my face.
The demons, looking at their owner like that, carefully open the letter and check the contents.
“… Uh huh?”
The reaction was not much different from that of the man who claimed to be his master.
After looking at the letter, the demons blink their eyes and look at their owner without even realizing it.
As if asking if what he saw was real, as if confirming that this was real.
“Hey, does this make sense? No, why is the demon of the south following Julia Agnesa? It means that he really made up his mind to pull out the tongue of an aristocratic knight who came to visit him. How could a human named Klaus, who showed such a vicious figure in the Continental War…”
“This is why you made the East a mess and no longer have the strength to take out the shadows.”
The man muttered that, as if he had eaten one.
The division of the neutral faction and the extreme confrontation between the loyalists and the anti-demon king faction.
So, of course, he had to summon the shadows under his command and scatter them all over the East.
As a result, there were no more people to send to the academy.
Even if it wasn’t so, the shadow wasn’t enough power to the extent that I thought that Yulia’s side alone had more than three teams, so I wondered if they were overstaffed.
How difficult it was to assemble those who had skills above a certain level, who were not particularly known, while gathering information, secretly infiltrating, and tailing.
It was a pity that there was no one, so I organized all of them and took advantage of the gap in the information gap.
‘While this letter left the arms of the family and reached me, Julia must have already crossed the border with that human. Considering that the time I wrote this was right before the academy vacation, it still remains. You cut off all my eyes and ears for this. I don’t know how the hell he figured it out, but he must have written something down!’
Slamming the armrest of the chair, the man gritted his teeth.
I thought something was strange when the situation in the east, which had been flowing calmly, suddenly turned around in a hurry.
Cataclysm can be beneficial to oneself, but conversely, it can also be beneficial to Yulia.
I’d rather have a calm situation, so little by little I could have made my lovely nephew completely sink and forced him to drown himself or to hold on to this hand and live.
When the wind and rain blows like this and the storm hits, I don’t know what’s going on.
‘The biggest problem of all is… Why the hell is the devil from the south coming to the east?’
She knows Klaus well because she herself participated in the Continental War.
It was that damned man who did not give in to any appeasement or threats and defended the South regardless of the cold attitude of the kingdom and nobles.
He thought his loyalty alone was really great, and his ability as an added bonus was disgustingly great.
The fact that the man suddenly abandoned the kingdom and followed Yulia meant that not only the West, but also the East could be shaken.
‘It’s ominous. No… It’s nothing sinister.’
It’s eerie, so eerie that his spine goes cold and cold sweat flows.
Julia’s uncle, Aupen Agricio, thought so.
And, when the news finally reached him.
“How are you, Klaus? Is the east side different from what you thought?”
“I thought that might be the case, but it isn’t. It is just like the kingdom.”
It was the moment when Yulia and Klaus had already crossed the border and entered the East on vacation.
