Chapter 160 – Episode 159. I Am Calling You
“Astrid, calm down.”
Astrid looked down at Leopold, who, unlike the excited herself, was very relaxed, with an expression of incomprehension.
“Your Highness Haona, isn’t this just a simple Kannon?”
“Yes, I know. I have an idea, trust me. No need to worry about anything else, just sit down.”
“…”
Astrid’s face was full of dissatisfaction, but there was nothing she could say about Leopold.
If I throw up here, it becomes a story that I don’t trust Leopold, and I don’t like the condition that doesn’t even sound like Veracien’s words.
“Hurry.”
At Leopold’s urging, Astrid closed his mouth and sat down.
Seeing that expression, that expression with his cheeks puffy, Leopold couldn’t help but laugh inwardly.
‘I’ll have to appease him and release him later.’
It seems that I am angry, so how can I release it?
But not when he was contemplating it.
“Ok, fine. But Veracien, your purpose must be elsewhere. Yes?”
“Hoo.”
Vera Shien narrowed her eyes and she laughed.
Yes it is
Vera Sien doesn’t consider herself weird, but she has an uncanny taste for watching her sex scenes.
Leopold was well aware of her taste, so he must have said that.
“I’m not going to be hostile to you… Yes, that’s good I won’t be hostile to you if you don’t stage a big battle.”
“I am not interested in invading the human world. How nice to live in the demon realm. The problem is that it’s boring because there’s nothing to play with.”
Verassien seemed to be in a good mood.
Half of her conditions have already been met.
“And secondly… Well, absolutely not possible all day. We also have privacy. Instead, I’ll allow it if it’s only for about 2 hours at night. Isn’t that enough for you too?”
Leopold smiled faintly.
Vera Shien kept her mouth shut and looked at Leopold.
There must be some ulterior motive behind that smiling face, but I can’t read it.
I thought she was just an immature child, but unexpectedly, she was a prince with a good head, so Vera Sien had to think about it for quite some time.
“If you don’t like it, the negotiations are over… “
“No, no. Okay. Do it. Two hours a night.”
Leopold smiled wide.
If this is the case, there is no problem.
“Majesty. What do you think?”
Astrid, who was sitting next to her, poked Leopold’s side with her elbow.
“I’ve been thinking about it, so don’t worry. I will take care of everything.”
“… All right.”
Astrid shut her mouth, and this time Eranya poked Vera Shien in the side.
“… Hey, show me some too.”
“I see what you do.”
“Did you know that the root of witchcraft is in the demon realm?”
“I know.”
It was a fact that could be learned in the liberal arts.
Magic was born and developed in the human world, but witchcraft, on the contrary, has its roots in the demon world.
It is said that demons residing in the demon realm are specialized in witchcraft, but humans needed sacrifices to use witchcraft.
So-
“I saved the sacrifice. Later, Akemilla saved me.”
I mean Akemilla is involved.
Leopold had that fact engraved in his head.
“Anyway, Astain’s goal is the ruins. Large-scale devastation. If you draw a ruin formation and activate it.”
“If I activate it?”
Vera Sien lifted her finger and twirled it around.
Leopold’s, Astrid’s, and Erania’s gaze followed the movement of that finger and turned round and round.
“The gate is open.”
“… If it’s a gate, where is the gate?”
It was immediate.
As soon as he heard that the gate was opening, Leopold asked where he was connected, and Veracien thought to himself that he was a great guy again.
“The depths of the Demon Realm. The direct gate to the deep abyss, where even demons cannot go down, is open.”
“If it opens, what will happen?”
“The demons are pouring out. A huge number of strong monsters.”
“Monsters… “
“Okay.”
It was the ruin that made that possible.
It wasn’t a big deal if it was just a gate to the demon world.
Since this person right here was Vera Shien, the Grand Duchess of the Demon Realm, she was just like her gate.
However, when it comes to the depths of the demon realm, the story is different.
A place where even the rulers of the demon realm cannot enter without permission, and no one can come in and out at will.
The depths are where so many grotesque monsters exist that you don’t even know which monsters are swarming.
If the gate to such a place opens—
“Those monsters will pour out into the human world. A human who can stop it? There can be no such thing. It’s all about blocking even the demons.”
“… You did something cute, Astain.”
“That’s it. Well, the prep work took a long time, of course. Towers are built in the east, west, south, and north, and one of them is the Jaseng Tower. The place where Astrid was imprisoned.”
“Hmm… “
I’ve heard explanations, but I wonder if I should really believe this.
Leopold stroked his chin and was lost in thought.
This, no matter how much Berasien’s cooperation, was too large for Astain to do it alone.
Build towers in the north, south, east, and west,
And one of them is a self-sustaining tower.
That means there are three more such towers.
Is that possible?
“Did you see the whole academy collapse?”
Veracien put on his socks to see what Leopold was worried about.
Of course, that would be hard to believe.
“That’s a miniature version of the ruins. Inside the academy, I built a small tower one by one in the north, south, east and west and activated the camp. The result, as you saw.”
“Is that a miniature version?”
“Okay.”
Even though it is a miniature version, the academy suffered great damage.
There were no casualties, but most of the buildings needed for immediate education were destroyed.
Restoration work is underway, and it is clear that it has probably not been back to normal yet.
“That’s a very small scale ruin. The location of the gate is also connected to somewhere in the Demon World field. So what would happen if we connected it to the depths on such a large scale?”
It was clear that he would fall into extreme confusion.
The defense power of the empire would suffer great damage, and if the royal families of the ruined country who were aiming for that gap—most of them had dried up the seeds, but if there were any remaining—then it was clear that the continent would fall into chaos at once.
“It’s something I can’t wait to see. This was not the time to relax.”
“Spare? Did we arrive today?”
Leopold only noticed that he had made a mistake when he saw Erania with a puzzled expression.
Eranyana Veracien did not know.
That Leopold and Astrid had arrived just yesterday, and that the two of them had been flirting with each other in the meantime.
“Oh, no. Just so to speak. Anyway, one more question… It’s true that the ruins aren’t complete yet, right?”
“At least from my last memory when I was there, it was almost finished. Whatever it is, it hasn’t been activated yet.”
That kind of magic was done by humans alone, and now Veracien has betrayed it… Is it possible for Astein to activate it alone?
And even if he did activate it somehow, what on earth was he planning to do after that?
The more I listened, the more my sense of reality faded.
Furthermore-
“If Jasaeng Tower is part of the camp, shouldn’t you just demolish it?”
I don’t know the details of her sorcery, but if Vera Shien destroys her self-sustaining tower, then her true self will not be established.
Then, wouldn’t Astain’s efforts be undone?
Especially since it’s not even activated yet.
“It has to be done by removing the tower. But you have to get rid of all four.”
Realistically difficult.
The location isn’t even clear yet, but if you want to find all of them and even demolish them—
“In other words, in order to completely nullify the already completed Jin.”
Leopold sighed and looked at Veracien.
Vera Shien looked directly at Leopold and slashed her neck with her thumb.
“Okay. Cutting Astain’s throat. It’s the quickest and simplest.”
It was for this reason that Astain offered Veracien a contract in the first place.
It was impossible for humans alone to draw the most evil sorcery like a ruin circle, and even a circle that connects to the depths.
However, the demon he contracted with was Vera, the grand duchess of the demon realm—Verasien.
She had the power to do that.
So, after being entrusted with her powers from Vera Shien, and adding her own powers to it, Astein made her gin step by step,
Finally, Jin itself was completed.
“But why doesn’t it activate? If Astain’s goal is to destroy the empire, then it wouldn’t be strange if the demons were pouring out after it had already been activated.”
Even in Astrid’s opinion, something strange remained.
If Jin is complete, wouldn’t it be okay to activate it?
If that were the case, monsters would already pour out and the empire would surely be on the verge of destruction.
Astrid couldn’t understand why it didn’t activate even though she managed to escape to the north.
And Astrid wasn’t the only one who couldn’t understand Astain.
“That’s right. Well, maybe it’s not finished yet, or what… How could I know what that idiot was thinking… No, no. I get it. I can see it like this.”
Veracien’s purple eyes rolled and turned towards Astrid.
Astrid also stared at her staring eyes.
“I must be calling you. Astrid, she must be waiting for you to come.”
