Chapter 196 – Larsen Manor – 7
Under the window, Layton’s soldiers were still moving.
Dozens of tents and even a fire to prepare for the cold night. A temporary living area is being prepared for the residents who have fled to Layton’s Fortress.
Watching that, I turned my head to the sound I heard from behind.
“I-I really am! I don’t know anything! Help me!”
A man trembling and bowing his head on his knees.
Did I mention that he is the lord of Layton’s castle and a descendant of Paulette Larson? He’s shouting that he really knows nothing.
His father and several knights were directly interrogating the man.
“Really?”
“I guess so.”
I nodded at Triana’s words that approached me before I knew it.
Well, if I really knew something, I would have run away a long time ago.
“In the end, it must have been a throwaway horse just like the commoners of Layton.”
“Cruel.”
It’s bloodline though. Looking at the man screaming with a face that was close to crying even now, he clicked his tongue.
The castle, which was easily overpowered by my father, was immediately occupied by our military.
And after accepting the commoners who had evacuated right away, they were making temporary living quarters.
Looking at the sight of taking care of the citizens who evacuated inside the castle, I raise my eyes and look at the city beyond the wall.
“Wouldn’t it disappear naturally?”
“No matter how artificial magic it is, it has its limits.”
Beyond the walls, the black magic that occupied more than half of the city still hadn’t disappeared.
It’s not that I didn’t let it go because I couldn’t get rid of it.
It was a land that was damaged by black magic anyway. I just left it alone and tried to figure out the nature of that magical power.
If anything happens, just abandon this city.
“Yeah. That’s a bit annoying.”
“Your Excellency, former Earl William.”
“Ah, okay. Just call me by name It’s annoying to be tied down for nothing.”
When Triana, who was next to her, bowed her head in greeting, she waved her hand and said that former Earl William approached and said that he no longer needed the title of count. She nodded her head as she frowned in annoyance as if she were serious.
“How is it?”
“I am getting weak. But that’s all. Is it quite chewy? It will take quite a while to get rid of.”
“Hmm. How about the basement?”
“There is some runoff, but it’s not that contaminated.”
“That is fortunate.”
As for the continued erosion of the black magic, it was intentionally not extinguished to see how much influence it actually had on the land.
“What about extinction?”
“I think I need to use a little more than the magic you used.”
“You can benefit from traits, but in the end, that’s about it. Should I say it’s fortunate or should I say it’s a waste…”
“If it is a knight level, it can be prevented somehow and extinction is possible, but it seems that such a wide range is difficult. The answer is to just run away.”
“When you think of terrorism, it’s hard not to be able to do that.”
I have no choice but to investigate harder, but that will take a long time. Every dilemma.
Information about the current phenomenon has already been sent to each family. In the future, it was necessary to conduct inspections more thoroughly, and in particular, it was necessary to reorganize things related to various magical powers, such as magic stones, in detail.
“So, what shall we do?”
“Well. Once the monsters have captured enough. Get it sorted out soon.”
“Good. We have contacted you in advance, and reinforcements will come from Müller.”
“It’s a support force. Are those Violet ones coming too?”
“Well, they are experts in this matter.”
“Hmm. I don’t like it, but… Well, not even my subordinate. I can’t help it.”
William frowned at Violet’s story, as if he didn’t like the red blood very much. Still, the magic awakening medicine they invented was evaluated as a great invention, so he distinguished between public and private.
“Tsk tsk. I should have been aiming for Larsen City by now.”
William looked out of his window and clicked his tongue.
He made a disapproving look at being tied up by Layton.
The war of this era, that is to say, the fight between the possessors of magic power, is a quick battle. If it was not the case that the strategy was read and counterattacked when they attacked like now, they had to move on to the next battlefield right away before the news was delivered.
Moreover, Boreng is a family specialized in such tactics. He was a person who flashed in the east and in the west in the actual war, so he may be displeased with being stranded in the city.
“Well, I can’t help it. Because I was determined and took my time.”
This terrorism has done us no real damage. If the attack had been determined and commanded, it might be unknown. But it’s easy to hunt against the guys you recklessly let loose in the city.
However, I couldn’t ignore it and head to Larson.
Because the terror of black magic is that much.
“I’m sure Larson will play tricks too. If you think about it, the information you have obtained so far is not useless.”
“If you think about that and think you’re tied up, you can’t help but get nervous.”
I smiled bitterly at William’s words.
“Still, it will arrive soon.”
Because I told you to put everything else aside. Leave this city to them who arrived right away, and we go straight to Larson. The only ones to watch out for are Seongju, a collateral. The rest were almost wiped out on the walls, so a small number of people would be enough to manage them.
“Let’s leave as soon as we arrive.”
Anyway, the village on the way to Larson through this city, no matter how big it was, wasn’t big enough to wage a war.
Such villages only scan once as they pass by, and then go straight for Larsen.
“Before you do anything else.”
“That is the biggest problem.”
What kind of crazy idea did you do this to?
I wanted to hear it before I beheaded Paulette Larson.
* * *
“Are you okay?”
The purple circle looked at the numerous cylinders prepared underground.
I looked at the inside of the cylinder through which the inside was reflected like specially made glass.
“Then.”
The man standing behind the circle, Paulette Larsen, nodded at the circle’s words.
Anyway now it’s ruined Even the Larsen family, which possessed magical powers stronger than that of a baron, cannot be certain that they will fight against the count’s family and win.
Even more so, there are three of them. According to the last confirmed information, Müller… No, there were only three Count-class families, including that kid now called Hyperion.
“You can’t win against three of them.”
Paulette Larson considers himself a writer full of desire.
But he didn’t think he was stupid just because he was full of desire.
“Even if we stay like this, waiting is ruin.”
“Whoops.”
The purple circle smiled.
He, too, was not loyal to Paulette Larson, nor did he fully trust him with whom to do business.
But he agrees with him now. With Paulette Larson alone, he didn’t think he could win against the three Earls anyway.
“If you die and don’t become mine anyway, isn’t there any point in having it?”
At Paulette Larson’s cold words, Won grinned.
“I’m scared, I’m scared, so I’m getting goosebumps. The way he easily abandons his duties as a nobleman.”
“It is my duty.”
Huh.
Paulette Larsen laughed.
After all, it is a kind of brainwashing education that has been injected into the ears since childhood.
“Aristocrats rule, commoners are ruled.”
A simple relationship that has come down from ancient times.
“Or are there any complaints about it? Red blood?”
“Whoops. You’re welcome.”
The One, one of the red-blooded factions that would have been a resistance for such commoners.
He shrugged his shoulders.
“Anyway, even among commoners, it is foolish commoners to discriminate against and classify based on the money they have, the land they have, and their appearance.”
“Hoo.”
Paulette Larson’s eyes turned to the circle after looking at the cylinder.
Won smiled at the cold shining eyes and looked at the cylinder.
“What I want to do is research. As long as you can do research, you can do anything.”
“Huh. Are you saying that the same commoners are just materials after all?”
“Same commoner? They are different from me.”
Won with a cold smile looked at the human inside the cylinder.
Looking at such a circle, Paulette smiled viciously.
“What. Are you saying that you are different from the ignorant commoners?”
At that, Won shook his head.
“I don’t really want to say I’m superior.”
Just.
Humans are different creatures.
We don’t trust each other, we don’t understand each other.
“I just do it for my own desires.”
And do anything for that.
“You’re creepier than me.”
“Is that so? I am afraid of the baron.”
Paulette Larson. And won.
They each turned their gaze toward the cylinder they were looking at.
What is contained in it.
“What good are children if they have no future? My son would have been happy if it was for the family’s help.”
“Whoops. If they can kill more blue blood, they will gladly give themselves up.”
A cylinder encased in glass.
Monsters who were once human were quietly sleeping in cylinders.
