The Emperor and Leo made a deal.
Leo had to kill the nobles to avenge Countess Ermeri, and the emperor accepted it to cut out the rotten nobles.
However, even as an emperor, it was a risk to bear.
So he demanded a price from Leo.
To have Leo become the hero who blocked the raid, and to lure and capture the raiders of the All Casein Guild in addition.
By doing that brilliantly, Leo’s job is done.
“Prince Leo. Just in case, you do not have to participate in this raid.”
said the emperor.
He nailed the deal between the two to be clean.
However, as Leo, he had to participate in this operation.
‘You can never miss the leap of growth that Scroll Merchant Willivence has.’
Besides, he was collecting various rare items like a war merchant.
Even securing a small portion of it would be a great fund for Gawain’s Information Guild.
In many ways, I had to go there.
Seeing Leo like that, the emperor admired inwardly.
‘Huh. To show such a sense of responsibility at that age.’
The transaction is over, but the situation is not completely over.
Dealing with the Casein Guild could be said to be in earnest from now on.
Leo did not step out of there, but rather said he would participate.
‘King Rom did a good job educating his children.’
I think it would be great if my daughter grew up like that.
‘Then, a pair that suits you very well… No, no. What am I thinking?’
The emperor shook his head.
Thoughts have gone too far.
he solemnly opened his mouth.
“Then you will know. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s ready, so go get ready.”
“I understand, Your Majesty.”
* * *
This attack was a surprise operation, so it was important to move as quickly as possible.
There’s no way that would be the case, but perhaps the Casein Guild could even get information about the imperial family.
If so, there was a risk that the enemy would escape before it even started if it dragged out time.
Therefore, the Emperor started the operation while maintaining maximum security.
Through the captives and the information Leo handed over, he identified the hideout of the Cassane Guild executives.
troops were sent there.
There were a total of 5 places, and each one was in charge of a great talent.
All of them were moved by a sword master or a 5th rank or higher mage.
‘Even the 6th Earl of Guillotine went… , oops Prince Bahelm is in charge of this place?’
Leo, who was reading the plan for the operation, stuck out his tongue.
It is not uncommon for Lord Bahelm, the strongest force in the empire, to move.
However, since he’s gone, that executive, no matter how great he is, must be considered dead.
Prince Bahelm was boldly said to be moving alone without any other troops, but he seemed more reliable than any other team.
“Then, let’s move now too.”
said Leo.
Then Hanson, who was next to him, looked at him with a worried expression.
“… Lowering.”
“Why? Sir Hanson wants to fall? Then tell me now. I will leave it.”
“… no. I will definitely participate. But… .”
Hanson sighed and pointed at the two.
“Please, why don’t you wait here for the two of you?”
The place he pointed to was Leo’s older brother and sister. Kizan and Elise were standing side by side.
said Ellis, hotly.
“Sir Hanson! what! Why am I asking you to take it off! I’m going too!”
“Sigh… Lowering. please… . Then later, if His Highness the King finds out about this, there will be great trouble.”
“It’s fine. My dad, if I say it, I’m going to die. I will tell you well.”
“… … .”
Alice giggled and laughed.
He didn’t say anything from the side, but Kizan also seemed to welcome moving like this more than staying in the capital.
The reason Leo wanted to take his two brothers was simple.
‘The elixir of growth is very difficult to store, so I have to eat it on the spot as soon as I find it.’
It is the leap of growth that it evaporates and disappears as soon as it is exposed to the air.
Willivence may have kept it well now, but if you make a mistake on the way to bring it, blow it all up.
‘In that case, it’d be better to take them along with me, and give them a little practical experience.’
Kizan and Ellis, like their brothers, have great potential.
He was already a third-class wizard, and he would probably rise to the level of a wizard in the near future.
Even after a few years, she will grow to a level where she will be of sufficient help to Leo, so she will be happy to take on the role of a babysitter now.
“ruler. Then, it seems like we just had a conversation, so shall we go?”
“great!”
“yes!”
“Sigh… Then you must do what I say, my lords.”
As Kizan and Elise shouted, their eyes twinkling, Hanson’s sigh came out loud.
* * *
Leo is a 5th-class mage, and through various incidents, he knows that his mind is also mature, but as an emperor, he was uneasy about entrusting everything to him.
So the Empire wanted to attach a person to help.
The person chosen as Leo’s assistant was Countess Ermeri.
“Please take care of me, my dear.”
“Can I come like this? It’s about raiding the casein guild executives?”
“Sure, what does it matter? I don’t even know Willivence very well anyway.”
After avenging the beasts who killed her husband, she looked much more relieved.
The sometimes lively look and the bloody glow around the eyes have disappeared.
Her brightened appearance made her look like she was in her early 20s.
“Come to think of it, I understand that the Countess is busy right now.”
She killed the master of the Blaze Mage Tower.
As it was secretly handled in the slums, the pagoda owner was externally treated as missing.
No matter how much the level of the Blaze Mage Tower has fallen a lot recently, it is an old and prestigious Mage Tower.
The pagoda owner of such a place disappeared, but it simply could not be dealt with.
However, the Casein Guild was of great help here.
Countess Ermery announced that at the same time that the nobles were killed in droves, the master of the Blaze Mage Tower was also killed in an ambush.
At the same time, he announced that he would return to the Mage Tower and inherit the position of the tower master.
Something was going on, but the wizards of the Mage Tower didn’t bother to reveal the incident.
They wanted the glory of the Blaze Magic Tower.
He thought that the person who would recreate the glory was not the dead Tower Master who lacked skill, but Countess Ermeri, who was called the next star of the empire.
That’s why, as the head of the count family, she secured the businesses of the deceased nobles, and at the same time took over the mage tower, and so on, and so on, and so on.
“Well, that’s true, but as a 5th-class mage and noble of the Empire, I can’t stay still in this situation.”
Countess Hermery shrugged.
I found time out of my busy schedule to help Leo, whom I now fully believe in.
“If you say so, I will be grateful for your help.”
Leo grinned.
If the reinforcements from the Empire side were her, it would be perfect.
Because I can move as I want without paying attention.
Besides, her skills were great as a bodyguard for her brother or sister.
When the party was filled up like that, Leo moved.
Willivence’s hideout was quite far from the capital of the empire.
Unlike Earth, this world was not fully developed just because the land mass was large.
In fact, if you look at the case of the United States, aren’t there many areas where only roads or train tracks are laid in a vast wasteland?
The same was true of the lands of the Empire, where there was usually nothing outside of inhabited cities.
Willivence’s hideout was in such a place.
It was a difficult tunnel to find if you did not know the location in advance.
– Jump!
Hanson raised his sword and at once split the huge rock blocking the entrance and went inside.
Countess Hermery stuck out her tongue as she looked inside.
“The scale is enormous. Willivence I knew that son of a bitch was rich, but I never thought he would have built an underground hideout like this… .”
They knew each other because they were members of the same Catsane Guild, but both knew little about each other.
So, as she entered this hideout, she couldn’t help but admire.
Of course, Leo, who had been to Bahelm’s underground magic tower not long ago, didn’t seem to be impressed.
“Let’s go in.”
After Leo said with his silver eyes shining coldly, he stepped inside.
* * *
Scroll Merchant Willivence.
He was a wicked man, but he was quite famous among the nobles.
-You think you’re going to lose the Battle of Yeongji? If so, please buy my scroll. Even knights can be killed in one hit if done well. giggle
It always appears where there is a war.
Then, he accumulated great wealth by selling various scrolls he made.
Those scrolls ranged from simple explosions or thunderbolt-type magic to illicit poisons or poison gas.
Therefore, even if they were victorious, many of the soldiers who participated in the war were poisoned or suffered from aftereffects for the rest of their lives.
Like the casein guild executive, he was trash that only revealed money without caring about bioethics.
“what. intruder? How the hell did you get here?”
There was a familiar bat near the ceiling of the entrance that Leo and the others broke into, and Willivence noticed through its eyes that someone had invaded.
he was puzzled
At the forefront, the Sword Master was spitting out sword steel.
The fact that such a force came in without a hitch meant that this hideout had been exposed, and that they knew their true identity.
If not, he would have sent only suitable knights or soldiers to order the search.
The other party following that sword master are probably formidable.
Then I noticed a red long-haired woman who stood out.
“… Countess Hermery? Why is that woman over there again?”
Moreover, not only her, but also three boys and girls with silver hair and silver eyes.
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Judging by their unusual appearance, they must have been princes of the Roman Kingdom.
The hero who saved the emperor announced by the imperial family this time.
The news that it was Prince Leo of the Kingdom of Rome passed through my head.
Willivence stood up from the chair he was sitting on.
A fat, gigantic figure filled the room.
‘How the hell did this happen… .’
Countess Ermeri, a high-ranking official like herself, the princes of the Kingdom of Rome, and a sword master.
I couldn’t tell what kind of harmony the authors had entered their hideouts.
He was an official who had absolutely nothing to do with the last attack on the imperial family.
Since the imperial family had only accidentally discovered the hideout through the captives, he thought that there was no way the royal family’s blade would come to him.
So he looked elsewhere for the cause.
‘no way… Is it because of this?’
His gaze turned to the box in the corner.
As a treasure obtained not long ago, he, a war merchant, could take pride in being the most valuable of the many artifacts he had ever seen.
Its identity was simple.
‘Are you sure. those children I don’t know what he did, but he must have come to know that I have a relic of one of the 5 heroes!’
It was the legacy of one of the five heroes who saved humanity in the past.