Chapter 433 – 433. The Fall of the Kingdom of Rendir (1)
After returning to his mansion after his meeting, Riod showed a puzzled expression that the person who came to greet him was not his wife, Theresia, but the maid.
As soon as she entered her mansion, it was always normal for Theresia to come out to the central hall of her mansion to greet her husband, Riod, but when there were special guests visiting her mansion, she couldn’t do that. Remembered.
“Are there any guests?”
“Yes.”
“Right.”
At Maid Zhang’s concise answer, Rio de nodded and moved on.
I could have guessed who was coming without even asking.
He had come to visit me from the other side when he had a problem he wanted to discuss.
Without hesitation, she reached the drawing room where Theresia was to be with her guests, and she opened the door and she entered.
“Are you here?”
“Hmm.”
Riod hurriedly ran to Theresia, who was about to get up to greet him, and restrained her wife.
“Are you okay. Don’t get up.”
Because she was worried about her pregnant wife’s body, she didn’t want to strain her in the slightest.
She caressed her wife’s swollen belly and was silent for a moment at the thought of her third child in her stomach.
“Thank you.”
As if her husband’s consideration made her feel good, Theresia smiled and nodded her head.
“Joy. Is it very extreme?”
“Whoops.”
Illyana made fun of her friend by snorting at her like that.
Eleanor also smiled at the sight of Riod and Theresia.
“Isn’t that guy doing this?”
“… I’ll do it. More than you.”
Illyana replied with a slightly confused expression.
What she envied was Theresia, who had a new life in her belly.
But she smiled and caressed her own belly, thinking that now she didn’t have to.
“Ah.”
Illyana, who was unconsciously trying to cross her legs, suddenly remembered something, and instead of crossing her legs, Illyana straightened her posture to sit comfortably with her legs lowered.
“Whoops.”
“Hmm?”
Seeing Illyana’s face with a small smile and a happy expression on her face, Riod tilted her head, unable to understand her meaning.
Only Theresia and Eleanor, both pregnant women and women like her, understood Illyana’s behavior as she corrected her posture, fearing that it might adversely affect the new life in her unknown belly.
“Eleanor.”
“Yes.”
“Don’t tell Hyun-yi yet. I will tell you directly.”
“All right.”
Eleanor happily nodded her head in agreement.
How could she not know how she wanted to convey this good news with her own mouth.
“… Maybe, you too?”
Riod looked at Illyana’s happy face as he caressed her stomach, and figured out what the slant was.
“Huh.”
“… Right. Congratulations.”
The news of Illyana’s conception is as auspicious news as when she got married after living alone for a long time.
Listening to the story, Eun-hyeon must still not know.
In response to Illyana’s coercive gaze, telling her to keep her quiet, Liod nodded her bluntly.
“So? Where is he?”
“I’m looking at Gerard’s condition. I will be back soon.”
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Slap!
“Keugh!?”
Gerard groaned at the sharp touch that mercilessly slapped his back, which exposed his bare skin.
“Tongue, brother! It hurts! Please be gentle.”
“What is pretty?”
To see a man close to 40 complaining that he was in pain from being beaten on the back was, in a way, a little pathetic and funny.
After the battle with Nosferard and Raynan ended, Gerard could not join the front line of clearing the remaining vampire remnants for a month after that.
Suffering from the aftereffects of using the divine beast’s magical power, he was currently convalescing at the Marquis Mansion of Riod.
Just in time, Riod called Eun-hyeon that he had something important to say, and before he said that, he was checking Gerard’s condition.
“… Older brother. Are you angry?”
“Honestly, I don’t feel so good.”
“…”
Outwardly, Eunhyun, who maintains the appearance of her early 20s, and Gerard, who has the appearance of her late 30s, were very strange.
Eun-hyeon felt as if he was putting a patch on his immature father’s back, but unlike that feeling, he carefully checked Gerard’s physical condition.
The atmosphere of examining his body without saying anything was so heavy and subtle that Gerard spoke to Eunhyeon.
“Older brother. Is it very bad? Aren’t you a bit scared because you don’t say anything?”
On the surface, Gerard’s body seemed to have nothing wrong.
His internal physical condition was not very good.
But it’s not even fatally dangerous.
“It’s not good, but it’s okay. You can get better if you heal properly. I didn’t say anything for a while…”
It’s because of the changes that happened to Gerard’s body.
“You have grown.”
“Uh? Is that true?”
“Okay. The amount of mana within his body has grown dramatically. This is why you can’t control yourself right now.”
The problem is that the vessel containing the magical power is too small compared to the amount of magical power that has suddenly and dramatically increased.
Unable to accept all of it, the mana flowed from the vessel was uncontrollably wandering around the inside of the body.
“I’ll make you a month’s worth of medicine, so eat and take it regularly. Please refrain from exercising for the time being.”
“… Isn’t that serious? My whole body is throbbing and numb, so it’s hard to control myself.”
“It can be said that the body was surprised by the sudden change. Do you remember the first time you trained with me? When he marched for months with shackles on his arms and legs.”
“… Of course I remember.”
Gerard frowned as he recalled the horrible memories from his past.
That experience at that time is no different from the starting point that made me who I am today.
How can I forget the memory of that time?
“It is similar to that time. The muscles inside the body are injured and torn due to excessive exercise, and the body is screaming in pain.”
In particular, what is running around Gerard’s body right now is not ordinary Gerard’s magical power.
The giraffe’s mana, which had been overly fused and aroused the energy of lightning, was breaking through the body, but there was no way the body would be fine.
This current situation seemed as if the giraffe’s magic was eating away at Gerard’s body, but in another way it was also an opportunity.
“But, in other words, it’s like a cornerstone of manure to become stronger.”
Just as torn muscles become stronger and harder as they recover, if you pass this stage and restore your body, Gerard will grow into a bigger vessel than before and will be able to hold a large amount of magical power.
That wasn’t ordinary power, but the magical power of a divine beast.
This left room for Gerard’s fatal weakness, which had been weak against non-human beings due to his lack of attack power, to be overcome.
“… Okay.”
After hearing Eunhyun’s story, Gerard nodded his head with a serious face.
“Thank you. This time he got help from his older brother.”
“If you’re grateful, next time don’t overdo it and try to buy yourself. To be honest, this time I was just lucky. Do you know?”
“… Of course.”
Gerard understood what Eunhyeon was trying to say.
He also knew very well.
Having eaten the inner end of the refined divine tree, he can still be alive, and there is no other way to explain that such a foundation for strength was provided by heavenly luck.
“It’s over. Wake up.”
Eun-hyeon used her magical power to forcibly suppress the giraffe’s magical power running through Gerard’s body.
It’s impossible to subdue it completely, but it should at least be enough for Gerard to move.
As soon as Eun-hyeon announced that the examination was over, Gerard stood up and put on his own clothes.
“Nice…”
His whole body was still throbbing, and the aftereffects of numbness in his hands and feet remained, but it wasn’t so much that he couldn’t move at all like before.
Eventually, Gerard, who was wearing all of his tops, looked at Eunhyun and opened his mouth again.
“… Older brother. There is something I want to tell you later, when I am with older brother Riod and older sister Illyana.”
“… Okay.”
Eunhyeon had already read through Gerard’s face that he would bring up an unusual topic and nodded his head slightly.
Eunhyeon, who had already heard vaguely from Erin what had happened in the Lindewald Territory, had a rough idea of what Gerard was trying to bring up.
Perhaps this is a story that requires mental preparation, thought Eunhyeon.
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In the drawing room, with Riod, Eunhyeon, Illyana, and Theresia and Eleanor, Gerard talked about who he had met in the Lindewald Territory and who he had fought for his life with.
The existence of Raynon, the changes that took place in his body, and even the existence of a certain demon that took control of Raynan’s demonized body.
The atmosphere in the parlor, where all the stories were told, was calm and solemn.
Eunhyun who was lost in thought, Iliana and Eleanor who were watching him, and Theresia who was watching Riod’s expression as well.
No one was opening their mouths.
With only the voices of Erin, Ayra, and Cha Han-sung coming from outside, Riod was the first to break the silence in the atmosphere.
“… Okay. It was that guy too.”
“Brother Riod? Did you know?”
It is Gerard who is surprised by Liod’s reaction, which is more calm than he thought.
“I wasn’t sure. But when I heard Erin’s words, the first face that came to my mind was Raynon.”
“… Miss Erin?”
Erin told Riod that the man who overpowered her was a man who knew Eunhyeon and Gerard.
If the two of them were acquaintances in common, it was natural to recall the face of the same hero, Raynan.
“… Okay.”
Eventually, Riod moved his gaze and spoke to Eun-hyeon, who continued to remain silent.
“Eunhyeon, did you know?”
“… No. I did not know.”
However, Eun-hyeon was putting on a puzzled expression that something was going on ahead of this shocking fact.
“What’s going on?”
“Recently, before I came here, I remembered information from the Heilangdan. Information that the Kingdom of Rendir has collapsed.”
The Kingdom of Lendir, which was as powerful as the Kingdom of Pernias, was quite far from the Kingdom of Pernias, so it was not easy to plant Black Wand personnel there as well.
So, while collecting information from the merchants who came in from the Kingdom of Rendir on a regular basis, he obtained information that the situation in the Kingdom of Rendir was unusual, and at the same time, Eun-hyeon felt some anxiety about the vampire incident.
Asking Gerard to participate in the operation to wipe out the vampires led by Riod was also a countermeasure against the anxiety of not knowing what it was.
As a result, it played a big role in stopping Raynan, but there was something more important than that.
“Recently, a large number of refugees from Rendir Kingdom began to flow to the border of Pernias Kingdom.”
The reason Eunhyeon was able to hear the news of the fall of the Rendir kingdom before anyone else was because he had an extraordinary ability to collect information by using the Heilangdan through a crystal ball for communication.
“But the reason for their destruction is more complex.”
“… What?”
After reading Eunhyeon’s expression, Riod sensed that something more troublesome was about to happen.
“The necromancer we missed then. He was sticking by Raynon’s side.”
“… !”
“Ah!”
At the mention of a completely unexpected presence, Leo and Eleanor shuddered and made faces of surprise.
“… Necromancer?”
Gerard, not knowing the circumstances, looked at the expressions of Riod and Eleanor, who had a history of fighting necromancers in the past, with a look of incomprehension.
And just like the two of them, Illyana had a bad expression on her face as well.
“The madman who worshiped that crazy bitch like a god?”
