249-Empire (9)
Episode 249-Empire (9)
“Your Excellency, they are real. “They are truly protected by beings in the distant sky!”
“Why don’t you calm down?”
The meeting time announced in advance. Count Garian, who looked somewhat haggard, perhaps because he had arrived in a hurry, rushed to him and reported to him, who had already come out and been waiting for him.
No matter how formal it was, it was an act that was against etiquette. However, the delegation seemed in such a hurry that they couldn’t even care about that.
In particular, the representative, Count Garian, explained with a mixture of hand and foot gestures what on earth they had seen and heard, with all manners and dignity thrown away.
That is how shocking what he saw there was, and Orca, who sacrificed his dignity to hear much more realistic testimony, learned roughly what they had been going through.
The light of heavenly punishment fell from the sky that only spread through rumors. But somehow Orca’s reaction was calm.
“You’d better calm down and control your excitement. There is no need to be scared anymore. “It seems that the God of Eden cannot exercise his divine power outside of that narrow space.”
“Ha, but they really have the blessings of a real god…”
“That’s nothing to worry about. Because we follow God, we cannot follow our order? “The religious forces are unavoidable.”
He smiled faintly and stroked his hair. He seemed lost in thought and his eyes were no longer looking at the delegation.
The envoys, who had succeeded in calming down to some extent, flinched as they looked at him. It was done in a bit of a hurry, but the report was finished anyway, so I started weighing whether I should go back or not.
“Well, before I left, I heard one more thing from the queen there. “It’s hard to believe, but it was quite shocking.”
“What is that?”
“They said that the hero did not actually leave, but died.”
While watching, Count Garian spoke again. One of the truths that Serenian called and told separately before the delegation left.
After hearing those words, Orca’s face stiffened.
“Are you telling me to believe that?”
“Well, I said that too. How on earth do forest elves who didn’t even participate in the Great War know that? But the queen said she was telling the truth from God. “Well, those words may be lies, but I can’t deny that when they say that in front of the sky…”
Count Garian, horrified by the murderous intent oozing out, spat out gibberish.
In fact, if you think about it calmly, it was an offensive statement to believe. First of all, Serenian simply conveyed the message. There was a good possibility that the statement was a lie, and the only evidence provided was the word that God had delivered it.
However, if someone who knows the truth hears this, it will be impossible to ignore it.
‘Stupid woman.’
Her face flashed before Orca’s eyes. A strange stranger, young but extremely strong, beautiful, and a chosen warrior.
After meeting her in the name of her swordsmanship teacher, Orca watched her miracles by her side and gained confidence in her. She says that with this woman, she can literally make her ideals a reality.
“Did the Elf Queen lie, after all? But in front of God, how dare you impersonate God’s words and lie like that…”
“That’s nonsense. “What do these bastards who serve evil foreign media know and talk about?”
When Count Garian blurted out her words as if he could not understand, Orca chuckled and then laughed.
“Come to your senses, everyone. The elves of the Great Forest, except for a very few, did not participate in the great war. “These are the people who did nothing while we were fighting and shedding blood, and then they are trying to shake up the peace we have come to find.”
“Go, Your Excellency.”
“These crazy evil guys. “How dare you toy with the empire’s envoys and end up planting a curse and killing them.”
Orca pulled out the saber on his waist and shook his head as if he felt sorry. The envoys were startled by his wide-eyed shock, but his sword was swung in one go.
“Ugh, ugh! Regent, you…!”
“There is nothing we can do as we don’t know what kind of nonsense those who are already possessed by evil spirits will spread as rumors that originated in the North are spreading. “Your deaths will be used to rally the people of the empire to drive out the evil spirits, and I will take good care of your relatives, so rest in peace.”
At the sight of Count Garian and his companions being torn in half by the fierce slash, those who managed to survive were frightened and raised their respective strength.
However, the sword of the being called the strongest of heroes was so fast and powerful that it shattered the bodies of everyone on the scene with just two swings from the spot.
‘This despicable bastard.’
The desert clan Parti was the same. She quickly raised her mana and moved her body, but she was unable to avoid the invisible slash that was about to cut her waist in half.
“!?”
But at that moment. Her necklace, which Parti had, glowed strongly and momentarily blocked Orca’s slash.
“The shaman’s gift…!”
After Parti had done her part, she lamented as she saw her necklace shattering before her eyes. She caught a glimpse of the silver-haired girl who had handed this to her.
This necklace was given as a gift by Pia, the forest clan shaman, to the desert clan she had never seen before during the dinner party. Parti accepted it without much thought, but her magic inherent in it was a considerable power that released mana to form her defense shield in critical situations.
“Do not resist.”
Orca landed her third slash without even blinking. However, this fleeting moment was enough time for Parti to do something of her own.
“…”
A sand blast that exploded in an instant. The slash cut through the gust of sand, but the sand that rose with the harsh wind quickly moved away from the imperial palace.
It was a traditional technique handed down to the desert clan. Orca saw Parti who had already walked away and clicked her tongue briefly.
“It’s so annoying.”
She then gathered all her strength and focused on her sword, then aimed the sword she was holding at the sky.
The intense mana emitted from the sword became a meteor traveling backwards through the sky, cutting through the night sky and whipping up the flying sand.
It was a sight that not only the imperial palace but also the residents of the city should have seen.
‘No…’
Although he managed to twist his body just before being hit, Parti was caught in the attack and his technique was broken and he fell helplessly to the ground, covered in blood. That was her last memory before she lost consciousness.
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“Your Excellency.”
“Clear this place and secretly send someone to check the body. And bring the members of her church aside.”
“Are you really planning on fighting with Eden? “What if the delegation’s testimony is true?”
“It must be true. But what does it matter? All you have to do is go to that place called Eden. “Before they grow any bigger, all we have to do is trample and burn the main forest step by step.”
He chuckled as he ordered Albert, the butler who had quietly appeared, to clean up after him.
Sending a delegation was literally just an exploration. His actions were decided from the beginning. No matter what the search result is, the difference is whether it returns a little or a lot.
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“…Hans, let’s go see the queen.”
“Yes, yes?”
The time when Orca punished the envoy. In a mansion in Eden, which was quite far from the imperial palace in the imperial capital, Hans woke up and scratched his sleepy face at the words of Pia, who came to visit him.
“The guardian stone I gave to Parti was broken. I was attacked. “It’s the work of a human male.”
Pia told me what she saw from Parti’s perspective in a dream connected through the guardian stone she gave her. Hans wondered what this meant, but Pia looked very serious, unlike usual, so he soon realized the seriousness of the situation.
“Tall height, fancy uniform, red hair and handsome appearance, and a sword. “All appearances match Imperial Regent Orca.”
And Serenian, who did not pay attention to Pia’s report, rubbed his eyes and clicked his tongue as if he felt sorry.
“Looking at his temperament, the Desert Clan could be dangerous.”
“Gu, we have to save it. “They are of the same race.”
Pia stamped her feet at the words of Serenian, who knew the situation the desert clan was in. The elves still had a strong sense of kinship.
‘The desert clan joined hands with the orca with their own hands. He entered on his own, saying he liked the order presented by the empire. Should I still save it?’
However, Serenian thought one more time. Because before he was an elf, he was a leader leading countless people.
‘Taking them out is the way to weaken the enemy’s power and increase our power.’
Of course, after considering several cases, his mind was slowly leaning to one side.
orca = the bad kind of simp