Chapter 329 – Episode 329 – Nothing Lasts Forever (4)
Episode 329 – Nothing lasts forever (4)
“Aaaaah!”
“Stop!”
Only the hinges remained on the door frame.
Before the dust had even settled, a trembling voice was heard beyond the square hole where the door had disappeared. It was a man’s cry, impossible to tell whether it was a scream or a shout.
One of Roan’s knights created a sword wind and kicked up the dust.
What was revealed beyond that were humans. They were servants who worked in the kitchen of the royal palace.
The workers’ clothes were covered in grease and dust. The basement was originally their space.
Perhaps they were confused and missed the right moment to run away.
Roan gave the knight who drew his sword a dissuading look and opened his mouth.
“Who do you think I am and want to stop me?”
Roan’s low voice is full of power. The humans swallowed their saliva at the emperor’s question.
The man who spoke while trembling was unable to control the kitchen knife he held in both hands.
The kitchen knife he may have touched throughout his life was bobbing up and down noisily. The maids and cooks were standing behind it as if they were hiding.
There are six people you should try.
Not Roan, but any demon here could cut them down like grass. It was an insignificant life for the demons, but Roan asked again.
“Why didn’t you run away?”
It was a softer question.
In the meantime, I could hear a commotion upstairs.
“I am…”
“Wait.”
A fellow knight caught the driver who was trying to stand by Roan’s side.
“Your Majesty will find you.”
The succubus knight who had been clearing the path so far looked back at his companion, glanced at the human male who was stealing glances at him even in this terrifying situation, and nodded slightly.
In the end, it was these humans who spent a long time in the place closest to the magic stone room.
No matter how secretly humans managed the magic stones, anyone who has been working for a long time may know something.
There are not only men here,
It occurred to her that His Majesty, who understands her well, would have a clever idea to find her hidden place.
“… “Uh, where should I go? It’s already noisy outside.”
Meanwhile, the man facing Roan while holding the kitchen knife began to hesitantly lower his arm. This is because the calm that Roan intentionally contained through ‘appeal’ reached people.
The hostility on people’s faces has decreased.
That doesn’t mean the tension has disappeared. However, at least it can be said that breathing space has been opened enough to determine that a fight will not break out immediately.
“Um, us… Are you going to send it to me? ?”
“If it helps, there is nothing that cannot be done.”
The person holding the kitchen knife in front was the chef. He was a man who worked in the royal palace for ten years and in a noble family for over 30 years.
As he spent a long time in aristocratic society and the royal palace, he also developed a keen eye for high status.
The sense of intimidation emanating from Roan was not unusual even for such a chef.
It wasn’t just that Roan was holding a sword or that he was tall. An overwhelming feeling that was difficult to explain in words was subtly coming from him. It was the effect of ‘charisma’ and ‘overwhelming’.
Such people are showing mercy to themselves. The chef clearly realized that point.
If there was no need, he would not have been the one asking questions and the knights behind him would have swung their swords long ago.
Their blades were stained with blood, unlike those of this noble man who led the way.
It was not new to him to see a knife stained with blood, but the blood would be different from that of the animals he had always handled.
“How can I help you…” . Is that okay?”
Shake.
The chef lowered his posture and dropped his knife. He clearly showed Roan that he had no intention of attacking him.
In an instant, the expressions of the knights changed strangely. It was admiration.
However, Roan did not answer right away.
‘… It’s definitely different around here.’
Roan, who was observing his surroundings with his skills, felt a strange feeling. The area around the kitchen was so quiet.
I wasn’t referring to people like those who hid in the kitchen because they couldn’t escape from the current chaotic situation.
There are not only humans in the royal palace.
Rats, bugs, and cat-like creatures that eat them. The places they frequent the most are the basement and the kitchen. Because there is food.
Roan’s ‘search’ searches for signs of life. It is a power so delicate that a human can even estimate its power, and now that my skill level has grown, I am able to feel even the smallest details.
But somewhere beyond this kitchen, and the space below.
There was no sign of life there at all. It seemed as if it was not an empty space but full of walls.
“There are knights and wizards around here… Have you ever seen people coming and going in this basement?”
As Grünent and the other wizards guessed, there is definitely a magic stone near this central kitchen. Roan was sure.
There’s no way there’s no sign of me like this.
“Today the owner of the throne changes. The master who will blame you will also disappear. “No one will blame you, so feel free to confess.”
For a moment, the humans looked at each other.
The eyes of the demon knights shining at the sight.
Surely they know something.
“Young knights sometimes stay late at night… There were cases where he secretly came down to ask for food.”
The maid started her speech with a crawling sound.
“Where do they usually come from?”
“You use the back door.”
“Where does the back door lead?”
The chef answered Roan’s question.
“It leads to a small backyard and warehouse. There is a warehouse in the yard where food ingredients are stored and a side staircase leading to the wine cellar in the basement.”
The guide looked at Roan as if he had something to say. Roan nodded lightly.
Grünent gave quite detailed information about the space where the employees came and went, to the point where one wondered if the princess knew such things, but he did not seem to know about the side staircase leading to the wine cellar.
“Have you ever met a stranger there? Not someone who works in the palace like you…”
Even as he continued talking, Roan was very concerned about the nearby structure that he had inspected a little while ago. It was like a small thorn stuck in the tip of my finger.
Why is there nothing?
No matter how close the magic stone is to the place where people were bitten, it is impossible for there to be nothing near the kitchen.
Even if the entire wall is made of thick walls, it is impossible for there to be no bugs in the cracks of the wall. Because there is no cement in this world yet.
Roan knew this well because he had once been astonished when looking around the space inside the imperial castle.
“Ah… Yes, there is. “Me.”
In the meantime, one of the people who were each struggling remembered a memory. It was a boy with a freckled face and an apron full of food stains. He seemed to be nervous, clutching and unfolding his crumpled apron several times.
Roan smiled sweetly and looked at him. I erased the thought from my mind for a moment.
The boy took a deep breath and answered in a gentle manner that seemed to soothe him.
“I once saw someone coming up the stairs after going to get some wine. “He wasn’t dressed like a patrol driver or someone working in the kitchen or garden.”
The chef and the maids also looked back at the boy as if this was their first time hearing this from him.
“Aren’t you the warehouse keeper by any chance? People from beginning to end. “Can you tell the clothes of high-ranking people apart?”
A maid asked the boy gently. If the boy’s answer is not what Roan wants, everyone here might be killed.
The boy, sensing her impatience, rolled his eyes.
“Well, at least I know what the people who keep coming and going around here are dressed. Even the clothes of people who run errands for high-ranking people. “I’ve been working for several years already, Sister Sally.”
The boy gave her maid an aggrieved look.
“It’s not like I was trapped here. There’s something I saw while running errands here and there in the castle…”
“Border.”
Roan’s suddenly quiet voice made the air cold.
The boy seemed to be frightened and closed his mouth,
The demons silently checked their standing positions. Some people checked the arm wearing protective gear, while others checked the blade of the weapon.
Roan let out a small moan through clenched teeth.
The downy hair on the nape of his neck stood up.
It wasn’t like there was nothing.
Because that can’t be possible.
Roan had experienced this feeling before.
It was his memory that constantly stimulated Roan’s instinct and sense of danger.
As the boy said in passing,
A feeling of being trapped.
It is a feeling I felt in the past, not now, just before I experienced death.
‘Magic stone.’
A magic stone of skill blocking brought by Erenier.
If the skill is blocked within the range of the magic stone, nothing feels like a lie.
As if I fell into the abyss alone.
It was said to be something created by Erenier.
At that time, Erenier had a connection with ‘greed.’ It may not be difficult to find traces of it in human palaces.
It is a place controlled by Schlaner, a servant of ‘Greed’, and it is the place where the magic stone of Bültz, who made a contract with ‘Greed’ long before that, is located.
Maybe it’s the power of his magic stone itself.
Conversely, was Erenier involved in something here? But I don’t want to believe that.
Roan heard a lot from the conversation with Erenier after loading. There was nothing about humans in Erenier’s words. She knew that the Grand Duke was planning something, but she did not know that it was connected to humans.
It’s confusing.
But Roan pulled himself together.
The same ‘will’ as before comforted his spirit.
Prioritize what is most important,
Protect your allies and yourself.
Roan, whose mind became clear again in an instant, quickly raised his spirits to the maximum and looked at the structure of the kitchen.
Places where attacks might come, places where walls might collapse, underneath and next to the kitchen. Roan, who was looking at areas where skills were blocked and undetected, made a decision.
“Look below.”
“Yes.”
The knights answered briefly. The humans were surprised by the sudden change in atmosphere and stood together, watching.
Just as Roan was about to open his mouth to use his skill to make them forget what happened just now.
It was the moment when the guide took a step toward the back door of the kitchen.
Kang —!
It was like a miracle that Roan managed to hit the spear that flew like a beam of light. This was possible because he kept his spirits high and kept his guard up.
Roan hit the sword sheath with all his might, and the spear blade, which was flying quickly, broke and flew away with a sharp cracking sound.
The demon knights quickly moved from the direction where the spear came from to the direction to block Roan.
“Watch out for the walls! Breakthrough!”
Roan could not say long words.
There were prepared holes in the kitchen wall here and there, just as there were windows or holes in the castle wall for firing long-distance weapons.
The spear flew from there.
The reason it had not been discovered until now was because the kitchen workers were using the hole to attach a shelf.
At the moment the spear flew in, miscellaneous things, such as a seasoning container that had been sitting in the hole for a long time, were blown into pieces.
And Roan felt a presence behind him.
Movement for the next shot.
The hole is designed so that no attack can be made from the inside.
It is best to move and avoid this place.
It feels like my presence is blocked by a wall.
Roan’s detection was clearly being interrupted.
Roan gritted his teeth.
At that moment, something else flew by.
It was the other hole, opposite to where the spear came from.
A faint sense of magical power.
‘Magic… !’
All actions after that were reflexive.
The moment the word magic passed through Roan’s brain, Roan instantly unleashed his magic.
‘Star Cloud Shield’. The magic the goddess gave him wrapped around the kitchen like a miracle.
Hundreds and thousands of times after death.
I never neglected my training every day from dawn to dusk in order to practice magic as instinctively as Helen did.
Roan’s everyday life was like that
It finally came to light with a roar.
