Chapter 824 – Heaven’s Pain (3)
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Fruits come only when there is a thick root.
So was the power. Powerful, omnipotent power that extends both domestically and internationally has meaning only when there is a solid foundation for the empire.
What if the person picking the fruit wants sweeter fruit, whether the tree is rotten or not?
The tree had no choice but to rot and break.
It hadn’t been heard from anyone, but the first prince had thought so since he was a child.
The first prince, Clianthus, muttered so and crossed his arms deep in his lair.
‘My father is crazy. Do you think so too?〉
〈… Of course, brother Clian.〉
“So you didn’t participate in the rebellion?”
The younger siblings who share the same will with Clian also affirmed.
‘… Those who have the quickest news will assume that the Holy Grail has been stolen, but the truth is a little different.’
It is true that it was stolen, but the people who took the Holy Grail were not the princes.
It was the Emperor who usurped the Holy Grail of the Torpedo.
It was, considering who stole from whom.
This incident of usurpation of the Holy Grail was the first step in the rebellion orchestrated by the imperial family.
Clian covered the glass with a magic item he had prepared prior to the rebellion to cover the lightning.
The brilliance of the lightning was barely hidden. Lightning is also a symbol of Romania. If this was not done, the leaked light would reveal its location.
─Nod. Princes nodding their heads.
They did not show traitor-like spirit, a sense of selfishness, or a desire for power.
That’s right. The people surrounding the Holy Grail were a bit older than the image of the prince usually thought of. The youngest 3rd prince was already about 37 years old.
That fact meant that they were members of the royal family who had legitimate succession rights in name and reality.
Those with a status that would have no problem even if he inherited the throne right away.
That’s why no one expected that such princes would plot a rebellion.
Right now, they were plotting like this, but the princes themselves had never thought that they would be kicked out of the succession and start a rebellion not too long ago.
It is treason to lose something you never thought you would lose, and to get it back. At this time, no prince had the desire for power enough to feel inspired.
That’s why many people regarded Clian as the next emperor.
– Hwareuk. Clian lit a spark with magic.
He lit a cigarette with his beard in his mouth.
The flame made the forty-year-old prince’s eyes flutter in the light of the cigarette.
Although plotting a rebellion on the anniversary of the founding of the country, Clian was not a madman.
He thought he was going crazy at any moment, but objectively considering the situation in Romania and his reasons for taking action, there was no personal desire or leap of logic.
On the contrary, if someone offered to solve it for her, she wanted to entrust all her possessions to him and stay drunk until the situation was over.
He considered it a sensible, if somewhat violent, decision, and had not a little reason to support his belief. That he would not be a tyrant, but a stern ruler with a sword.”
For this reason, the emperor was a person who received a lot of support from the military.
Would it have been more comfortable if he had pulled out his sword, saying that the next emperor should be me, as in a common coup d’état?
However, although he was dissatisfied with his father, who did not succeed to the throne, he was a prince with the discernment and intelligence to endure such dissatisfaction patiently.
If it hadn’t been for him to become the next emperor, he wouldn’t have gone so far as to commit treason.
“But what was the reality like?”
The emperor repeated murders more abominable than the purges known to the world.
The family, who should be the first to explain, didn’t say anything.
The third prince lowered his eyes. The mother of the 3rd prince, who had aged and weakened, could not handle her reality and made her extreme choice. She recovered the body only 15 days ago.
Clian rubbed his eyelids and groaned.
A great purge that almost annihilated even the first Senate family that supported the empire for a long time. It was an act that destroyed several noble families, starting with the Armasunas family. This was not the only tyranny committed by the man who was the father of Clian and called the emperor. The various tyranny committed by the emperor exploded after the revelation of the hoax. Even so, the emperor refused to allow even his eldest son Clan to have an audience, and the youngest prince, who could not even find where he was hiding, showed no signs of trying to solve the problem at all. That is why he plotted treason. Clian calmed his thirst for alcohol by burning a cigarette. ‘You are foolish. It’s so stupid that it only looks like madness.〉 Like the youngest princess, he grew up like a flower in a greenhouse and did not grow a flower garden in his head. That is why he knew that the job of emperor was a cruel and antinomic job that involved stabbing people, wiping the blood from their hands, and waving in front of citizens.
The obliteration of history itself can be so.
He is a Klian who has mastered royal studies. Could it be that you don’t know A person who dares to pursue an uncomfortable truth in front of the national interest is good as a human being, but disqualified as a ruler.
Clian’s ascension would not have healed this festering wound.
‘It’s not a bad habit that can be corrected in 30 to 40 years.’
So let’s say you can bury the truth.
But is the means of erasure so violent?
‘The subject of the great war, burying thousands of people in the dark to hide it?’
Has every emperor since the Great War agreed to overwriting history with blood ink?
So is it more than propaganda that this country has not changed at all since the war crimes period of the Great War? Even if you repent of your sins, you need a slightly plausible excuse.
Who would believe the serial killer who cut off people’s heads and said he suddenly repented!
He blew out cigarette smoke. He was not like a prince.
‘There must have been a better way. It’s okay to be shameless after revealing the history. Our country’s national power would not have collapsed to the extent of compensation, responsibility, or condemnation.〉
If Nord had heard it, he would have said that was an appropriate opinion in a fragmentary way.
Sins of the past? It was a feeble original sin to destroy the great powers of the time.
Even in the Norse world, there were not many days when the guilty nations were held accountable, and even less were they destroyed because of it.
However, in reality, there was an inside story that even the princes did not know. The Second Prince, who had renounced his right of succession and converted to religion, patted his brother on the shoulder.
〈… Yes, I guess. Maybe the still undisclosed inside story is enough to destroy this country. Those of us who were outcasts of his father do not know.〉
Clian’s lament was accurate.
In the depths of the imperial family, a truth more horrifying than what is currently being told in the world was crouching. Few people knew about it, and the princes were not among them.
They didn’t know that they weren’t chosen as crown prince candidates because they were realistically trying to build the country in a way other than erasing history, and they didn’t even hear the truth.
Not knowing, they resolutely shook themselves off and got up.
Clian opened his eyes as he embraced the Holy Grail.
It’s okay if you don’t know anything.
Because there were things they could do.
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We rode on Fran’s horses.
─Hey! Nor! What do you see in your eyes?!
─If it’s about the future, I can’t see it at all! There may be no risk whatsoever!
A few hours to quickly change clothes and run. Thanks to the golem horse’s tremendous speed, we were able to quickly reach the fourth point. If I were a normal person, my back would be broken.
-I can’t see the distant future! What the future holds depends on the prophecy of the seer!
Loki, who rode the same horse, shouted. Thanks to telepathy, conversation is not difficult even in this fierce headwind. When I turned my back, she said.
──If you can see the near future without restrictions, it will be difficult for you to arbitrarily see the distant future! Like the power based on the eyes, myopia and farsightedness are distinguished!
─I mainly mean that the near future is well visible, right? I heard it’s a shortworm!
I frowned as I answered telepathically.
‘It’s up to you to think.’
Let’s forget the pros and cons of my Foresight Power.
The important thing was that this theft of the Holy Grail would not pose an immediate threat to me.
‘The lack of risk is both an advantage and a disadvantage.’
When I can’t see the future with my eyes, safety is guaranteed with a high probability.
But just because the road I’m walking on is smooth, I can’t say it’s safe!
‘Even if it doesn’t pose a crisis to me right now, I can lose money.’
Even if I and my family are fine, there could be a crisis with my property or people around me.
Moreover, in the words of Loki, the more dangerous the future, the farther it can be seen.
‘On the contrary, it must mean that a future that is not difficult to deal with is difficult to know until it happens.’
Doesn’t that mean that you can’t see that far unless it’s world-ending oblivion?
Although it is a benefit that cannot be ignored even if you can only read the events of the next few days.
‘If you compare the time you subjugated Wooshin and the time you were beaten by Rahan, you’ll get an approximate estimate.’
Anyway, there is no big threat right now, so I couldn’t see the future either.
Dana also shouted as she lowered her body as if she were sticking to the horse.
─It’s powerful as a warrior, but a bit inappropriate as a prophet who sees the future!
─It doesn’t matter! If it’s a threatening future, sooner or later you’ll see it in your master’s eyes!
─It’s pretty cool that you only see it when life is going downhill! Because I hate body spoilers!
As I answered that, my clairvoyant saw the destination. We hid ourselves on top of a hill.
The prince was walking on a pilgrimage.
No matter how much, I wonder if there are nobles who believe that he is the next emperor and have no idea. Some nobles who were late to change lines were following the pilgrimage risking their lives.
-Senior. Is the Holy Grail intact?
—It seems like a bit of a pun because you keep talking about seniors.
—Everyone, be quiet for a moment. That… That’s fake.
Tyrsi replied promptly. She glared at the lightning bolts that filled her chalice.
─It’s a cleverly crafted fake Holy Grail. Even the lightning that fills the inside.
─I guess you didn’t want to publicize the theft itself?
─That’s right. Judging by the level of perfection of the fake Holy Grail, it was planned from the beginning.
Fran opened the map while lying face down.
—Didn’t the prince say that there was a radical aristocrat trying to steal the Holy Grail?
—Even that was not publicly announced. Accidents happen during the Cheon-tong-jeol ceremony.
─It’s all right. The real Holy Grail was stolen under the double pretext that it had been stolen while pretending it hadn’t been stolen. Look at the traces over there.
Dana pointed out the traces of battle that were so far away that normal people couldn’t see them.
We were able to find artificiality in the traces from experience and speculation.
—If you really fought over something, no matter how much magic flew around, there wouldn’t be any traces like that. It seems that at least two of the princes conspired to steal the Holy Grail?
─It looks like that.
I thought it was just a bug, but were it the princes?
If the 3rd and 4th points are the emperor’s eldest son and second son?
‘It’s not something I can’t understand since the situation is the situation.’
I entered the zone because I knew the circumstances, and the position was the exact opposite, but the royal family, who knew nothing, was in a position where it was absolutely impossible to become a zone.
The fuse that all visitors to Cheontongjeol have, in the vulgar language, those who have the shortest poop line.
It seems that they intend to do something by stealing the Holy Grail—or rather, the thunderbolt contained in the Holy Grail.
Nefertiti asked me.
—… What should I do? Follow me?
─You can’t just leave it alone. The prince walking over there is a fake.
It was a substitute made with transformation magic. It was better to follow him and peek into the situation. If something happens in the capital city, you will know by contact or foreknowledge.
—… For a moment! Let’s all move!
Then Fran stood up and said.
─It’s a person. They are moving in an orderly manner. Maybe the Templars or the Army!
-A pursuer? Emperor’s side? The prince side?
When Nefertiti asked right away, Fran answered.
-I don’t know. But they’re moving around the siege from afar.
Are you the prince trying to catch those who noticed the theft?
Or is he an emperor who wants to get the Holy Grail back?
There were so many possibilities that I couldn’t narrow it down. We rushed out of this location. It was highly likely that he would be discovered because he held the high ground to observe.
‘Fran’s detection range is wide. It’s easy for him to escape.’
However, it was a bit difficult to fight if the opponents were innocent civil servants and soldiers.
Not to mention hurting them, even if a fight breaks out, it’s annoying.
Are they the legitimate Romanian Armed Forces? If you get caught, you will either be imprisoned or obstruction of justice, or you will have to choose one of the two!
‘Looking at it with my clairvoyance, I don’t feel anything suspicious. There’s no need to fight.’
After winning and losing, the best thing to do now is to evade… Huh?
I clicked my tongue when I saw it reflected in my clairvoyant.
‘Mother. These days, the tip of the hair is like a dick.’
What I found was a flying bird.
And that’s a copy of the letter wrapped around his ankle!
It was a particularly expensive breed with a developed sense of smell and high intelligence. Being a trained hawk, he looked down at the ground looking for someone, and our eyes met. It was natural. It’s because I’m a Jeon Seo-gu.
─Senior! That bird!
-I saw it! It’s a report from Oftum!
The timing is damn right. Work got boring
Isn’t that a bird coming down from the sky? There is no way the guys who set up the siege will miss it.
Tell me to stop? Regardless of whether you understand it, then I will have to yell and draw aggro, and I will not be able to read the report.
You can’t leave it alone or avoid it.
It may be encrypted, but it was not good to have the letter stolen. Besides being unable to read, how many days will it take for a new letter from Optum to arrive?
Veronica pulled out her wand.
-Do not block their path with magic!
─No! An Imperial Investigator might be able to track and analyze mana! It’s not a small mana, and if you use strong magic like Veronica, you’ll definitely get caught!
As Tirsi shouted, Lari Lura’s eyes twinkled.
—So, you can just not use mana, right?
Tsuzuzuzu… ! Rari Lura’s fingers wove a thread of her power.
—… Yes. It’s enough to solve it with authority.
Tyrsi also made an excited expression. She noticed me too.
– Nord. Are you going with me?
─Even if you don’t use beast return, you won’t lose to normal soldiers.
─I like it♡! Just suppress it so you don’t get hurt!
-I’m going to lie down and eat rice cakes.
I took out the stealth camouflage rune mask and sprinkled it on them.
If you think about it, my first secret trip was with Tirsi, and Lalilura went around with me the most times in this clandestine affair. Isn’t this their hometown, Romania?
It would be nice just in time I put on a mask.
– Blame!!
We stood in the stirrups of a galloping golem horse and sprinted backwards.
