Chapter 130 – 130. Unwanted Marriage Talk (1)
“Go away.”
“…”
“Go, duke!”
“How could Bishop Harkan do such a foolish thing… !”
Abros’ wrath began when the Bishop of the Temple of Vesta’s Pernin branch attended the court meeting held to report the treatment of the necromancer, identify the damage to local territories and small villages, and discuss future work.
“It’s not even funny. Did you think that I would calmly grant it after making such a bold request to take my daughter?”
What Harkan Geren, the bishop of the Temple of Vesta Pernin branch, presented to Avros was the arranged marriage of Eleanor and Bishop Harkan’s son, and in return, Harkan donated a huge amount of temple funds to the Duke of Armitas. , And promised to provide unconditional support from the priest in the difficult case of the kingdom.
In a way, as a card that can solidify the support of Helena Hobby and Prince Evan in the competition for the installation of the crown prince, the temple’s support was a proposal that could be welcomed with both hands raised.
He might have accepted it if it wasn’t for Bishop Har Khan’s sword intention that he wanted his daughter in return.
With an angry voice and face, he spits out his life with the momentum to kill the bishop of the Temple of Vesta, who has made unreasonable demands.
However, despite Abros’ anger, Bishop Harkan, who was in charge of the Vesta Shrine in Pernin, continued to speak without erasing his vile smile.
“Of course, I understand why the duke reacts that way. But duke, don’t you know? Princess Eleanor’s talent as a priest is truly outstanding. How can we pretend not to know such a wonderful person in our temple. We only want to welcome Princess Eleanor at the Temple of Vesta and support her so that she can walk the path of a wonderful priest.”
“So you’re going to marry Bishop Harkan’s son and my daughter? That sounds absurd.”
“Don’t you like it?”
“Because I know your sword. Rather than giving my daughter to your son, I would rather marry a commoner man than a nobleman.”
At Avros’ direct insult, the nobles who attended the court meeting began to grumble and glance at the nobles around them.
Hearing the insult, Harkan just kept a fishy smile that didn’t bother him at all.
Harkan’s ulterior motive was so obvious.
Bishop Harkan, who received a request for priest support from Riod, the leader of the knights and an expedition corps organized for the emergence and subjugation of threatening demon beasts, did not dispatch any important manpower, but sent out low-level priests in the form of an assortment only. He showed a very insincere attitude by sending four people.
‘I thought this expedition would fail…’
The priests of the temple, who had already heard the news, had already stepped out for self-preservation, and in the end, Bishop Harkan, who could not ignore Artia’s request for support, dispatched four lieutenant and low-ranking priests to match the assortment.
At the same time, I expected failure in my heart.
However, Arthia’s expedition was able to finish safely with no casualties, even though there were serious injuries, and during the expedition, all the priests of the Temple of Vesta had done was to treat and manage the wounded after the battle.
The only priest who was active in battle was Eleanor, and his ability as a priest who blessed and strengthened all the members of the expedition with a huge number of prayers of blessing and raised their morale at once was a level that the same priests were amazed at.
In addition, at the last moment, through the purification spell, the battlefield at the time of purifying all humanoid chimeras was completely Eleanor’s sole stage.
‘This is an opportunity!’
Bishop Harkan, who had guessed Eleanor’s hierarchy through the reports of the temple priests who had returned from the expedition, was naturally greedy.
If, at a young age, he wants to obtain a woman called ‘Flower of Pernin’, who possesses high-quality divine power within her body that can even stare at the hierarchy of a high priest, if he can marry Eleanor officially into the temple through an arranged marriage with his son. If so, he thought that if Eleanor continued to grow and become more active, it would be natural for her status and reputation to rise naturally.
That’s why I continued to talk to him so that the Duke of Armitas could not refuse his offer.
“Are you okay?”
“Not required. I will take care of my daughter’s affairs.”
“You will regret it.”
“Are you threatening me now?”
“You’re threatening the Duke? It doesn’t even matter. I’m just saying this out of annoyance, in case the duke will regret it later if he declines the offer I made now.”
So when it’s nice, get support from the temple side and hand over Eleanor to the temple.
Abros’ face contorted even more when he understood the meaning.
“How dare you threaten me, the owner of the duchy of this country.”
“Go, duke!”
“It’s not possible!”
He jumped up from his seat and hit the table violently with his fist, and several nobles jumped up in surprise to stop Abros from their seats.
“Quiet!”
When a threatening atmosphere was created, as if they were really going to hit Bishop Harkan, Queen Diane calmed the tumultuous court meeting.
“Bishop Harkan. This is a place to discuss important matters of the kingdom. Please refrain from personal stories.”
“Gee, I unknowingly brought up a topic that doesn’t fit the occasion. Let’s visit the duke ‘personally’ and talk about this.”
“…”
Queen Diane’s eyebrows twitched at the words of Bishop Harkan, who politely bowed her head and apologized.
From the standpoint of Queen Diane, who wants to inherit her throne by installing her own son, Damian, as her crown prince, the Duke of Armitas, who supports Helena Hobby and Prince Evan, has a relationship with the Temple of Vesta forces and becomes her support base. It was a situation where there was nothing good about the situation.
What on earth is Bishop Harkan’s intention to dare to tell Abros in front of himself that he wants Eleanor and her son to marry for convenience?
Queen Diane knew very well that Bishop Harkan was not the person who took the current bishop’s post with an image of integrity and good deeds.
Thinking about his character who thoroughly weighs the gains and losses of political interests and hates losing money, she digs into his intentions.
‘From the bishop’s point of view, he wouldn’t be interested in who the crown prince of this country would be, so if he really wanted to support Evan as the crown prince, he wouldn’t have bothered to bring up that story here. That… Is it an offer or a threat to me?’
Even Queen Diane knew that Bishop Harkan was aiming for Eleanor, who clearly showed off her presence through the humanoid chimera incident.
She was willing to make an excuse to help Queen Diane with her promised support, if only she would get her hands on Eleanor, and through Bishop Har Khan’s sinister eye smile, she told Queen Diane. It is transmitted
Queen Diane, who was glaring at Bishop Har Khan with her eyes narrowed, noticed his intentions and opened her mouth.
“Duke. Let’s think about this calmly. The important thing is whether it is helpful to the country or not.”
“… Egg… I will.”
Upon hearing Queen Diane’s words, Abros, who could not ignore her queen’s authority by openly expressing her intention to refuse, gnashed his teeth and answered with difficulty.
Afterwards, the court meeting reported the damage caused by black magic and necromancer, and discussed what measures to take in the area where the damage occurred, and what to do in the future.
“Whoa…”
“Are you okay?”
Riod started talking after Avros, who got up from his seat and left the room.
“Not okay. I expected you to come up with a trick, but to come with an arranged marriage really makes me feel like a beggar.”
“What are you planning to do?”
“I have no intention of moving on my own. It’s the man’s fault anyway, so I’ll take care of it myself.”
“… You’re pretty trustworthy. Eunhyun.”
“He just decided to trust that confidence that he had rants with me about taking responsibility.”
Riod nodded his head in agreement.
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“You found me?”
“Yes.”
“… What is it?”
Guided by Alex, Yuria secretly left the palace and visited the mansion of the Duke of Armitas. She looked at Eun-hyeon waiting for her at the mansion of the Duke of Armitas and made a suspicious expression.
It was also an absurd fact that Alex, who had become a new duke, accepted Eun-hyeon’s request and invited him to this place, who was outwardly a commoner.
“How far did the princess know about this incident?”
“… Eunhyun? What do you mean?”
At the direct question, Alex hardened his expression and asked back.
“It literally means. Princess. There is only one thing I want to know. Did this incident exist in the ‘wisdom’ in the princess’ head?”
“Yes… Ji… ?”
“Yeji?”
At the unexpected story, Armitas’s two siblings look at Yuria with dumbfounded expressions.
Receiving the gaze of her brother and sister, Yuria frowned at her and glared at Eun-hyeon, who betrayed her by breaking her tacit promise.
“Hey. I won’t tell anyone about this…”
“Now is the time to tell the truth and ask for help rather than hide it. Or is it that the princess doesn’t trust Alex? Is he unreliable?”
“It’s not like that! Who the hell believes such an absurd story…”
“Princess.”
“Ah, Alex…”
In response to Alex’s voice calling her calmly, Yuria called his name in her embarrassed voice.
“It’s okay. No matter how absurd the story may be, I will not ridicule the princess’s words or dismiss them as lies. So can you tell me too? The secret the princess has.”
Alex is no longer Yuria’s knight.
It was because it was unreasonable for Alex, who became the new heir to the ducal family with the fall of Ashton, to simultaneously carry out the duties of escorting Yuria closest to her family as a member of Krasir.
She had to leave the knights behind in order to inherit her family.
However, that did not change his mind about Yuria.
Alex cares for YuRia and still wants him to rely on her first and foremost.
That’s why the present moment, when Eun-hyeon let go of the bridge, was an opportunity for Alex.
“… Never, never laugh at me. And… You can’t tell this story to anyone.”
“Of course.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Whoa…”
Taking a deep breath, Yuria eventually opened her mouth, and she began to reveal her secrets in front of her brother and sister of Armitas, whom she thought she would never reveal in her life.
Excluding the concept of another world called Earth or the vague story of a web novel, he adapted it to suit the keyword ‘Foresight’ suggested by Eun-Hyeon, and arranged the plot of the story in his head, and Alex and Eleanor I listened and listened to the contents of Yuria’s ‘Wisdom’.
“Memories of previous lives in the days of the Ancients… Scenes from the future that come to mind… And to her own destiny… Did the princess plan an expedition to the Great Labyrinth of Archis then? To prevent the fate of marrying a nobleman from another country?”
“It was not a life that was swayed by someone, but I wanted to grow up on my own, make achievements, and legitimately demand freedom. It also failed spectacularly…”
YuRia smiled bitterly at herself as she recalled her own complacency and the memory of her mistake that almost killed Alex and the others.
“Um…”
“Also… Is it hard to believe?”
“No. Certainly, if someone else had told me, I wouldn’t have believed it. I was just thinking a little bit about how to organize this story in my head.”
“It’s calmer than I thought… I do… ?”
I thought she would laugh or react negatively, but when she saw the two struggling faces with serious faces, Yuria instead put on a puzzled expression.
“There are two reasons why I believed the words of the princess.”
Eunhyeon, who had been silently listening to Yuria’s explanation, opened her mouth.
“The first is that he knew the location of the Archis Great Labyrinth, which no one in the kingdom knew. The second was because I knew Erin’s future in fragments.”
“Is this Erin’s future? What is that…”
“Erin, she was originally going to fall for the devil’s enticement in that aristocrat raid incident and turn the whole of Pernin into a sea of fire.”
“What, what do you say… ?!”
Looking at Eunhyun’s face, who casually spewed out absurd facts, Eleanor put on a shocked expression.
“Right.”
Since Alex was with her Erin at the time, she remembered how the succubus that had attacked her nobles approached her Erin and tried to seduce her.
– Come with me. It’s revenge on this country that made Alvin like that.
She tried to brainwash her Erin into stoking her feelings for her own brother and turning it into her vengeful spirit, endangering her entire country.
Leaving aside the question of the extent of Erin’s latent powers, indeed, her suspicion that Erin may have fallen for her demon’s enticements and that she may have sought her revenge on this country was a plausible possibility. .
– Follow me. I’ll show you the way.
And Alex understood who had twisted the possibility of the future and gazed at Eun-hyeon.
– You are not the one who shows me the way.
Erin was not enough to shake off the brainwashing of her succubus, and even pierced her neck to get rid of her. Was
Eunhyun opened her mouth as she stared at YuRia who finished her story.
“Even if the principle or phenomenon cannot be explained, the princess knows fragments of what will happen in the future. About the Archis Great Labyrinth and Erinn, so I want to ask.”
Yuria quietly swallowed and waited for Eunhyun to speak.
“Did there be a case against the necromancer in the princess’s wisdom?”
