The lady-in-waiting’s plan was to ask a lady-in-waiting to take care of the crown prince’s bath, change her duties for one day, and perform a ritual while the crown prince is taking a bath.
In a way, it was a sloppy plan, but in fact, I didn’t say anything because I didn’t think there would be any more clever ideas as a lady-in-waiting. I also had no other alternatives.
Before the crown prince entered the bath, an escort knight came in and inspected it, and then the ladies-in-waiting entered the bath. And the crown prince took a stand.
Since the Crown Prince also had basic training from a young age and learned the secrets of the royal family, he possessed quite a bit of knightly strength. It was practically impossible for a maid to give a great shock to such a crown prince.
While the crown prince was warming himself in the hot water, the lady-in-waiting started doing something. When I looked at what he was doing, he found that he was soaping the floor where he came out of the bath so that the Crown Prince wouldn’t notice.
[Does your hair look good?]
I was also amazed. If that’s the case, maybe it’s possible. After hearing my words, the maid smiled.
Finally, the moment of tension came when the bath was over and the crown prince came out of the bath.
Slippery!
The crown prince lost his balance for a moment and slipped, but tried to regain his posture with animalistic movements.
[Gandat! Defeat the deadly salt bottle!]
It was an opportunity that might not come again, and the maid’s life was at stake. Raising my soul power to the max, I bumped into the crown prince’s heel.
[Have you done it?!]
However, the power of defeating the deadly salt bottle was weak. The crown prince staggered for a moment, then tried to regain his posture.
“Prince! Forgive me!”
At that moment, the maid suddenly jumped out and slammed the crown prince. This time, the Crown Prince seemed to have no choice but to roll over with the lady-in-waiting, and a loud sound reverberated from the bathtub.
thud!
The Crown Prince collapsed with the back of his head firmly planted on the ground. And a huge evil spirit sneaked out of his body. I didn’t miss the opportunity and quickly attacked and absorbed the evil spirit.
power rises I feel more power than any soul I’ve absorbed so far. When I came to my senses after being intoxicated with the rising power for a while, escort knights had come in, seized the lady-in-waiting, and knelt down to watch over the Crown Prince’s safety.
I went to the lady-in-waiting and spoke.
[The demon has been defeated. Now the crown prince will come back to his senses]
“Prince!”
The maid laughed and cried. Tears were flowing, mixed with various emotions.
“Yeah two years! What are you laughing at?”
The escort knight shouted and slapped the maid on the cheek with a strong hand. Her lips parted and blood flowed out at once, but the lady-in-waiting still laughed and cried.
“This b*tch is crazy!”
As the knight raised his hand again to slap him on the cheek, he heard the crown prince’s voice.
“Stop it!”
The Crown Prince woke up and was looking this way. It was like that when possessed by evil spirits, but the crown prince’s spirit was great. It seemed to be twice as many as the professors of quite a few academies. It meant that he had that much ability. However, the color of the soul is quite dark. It wasn’t black, but it was a very dark gray.
I thought maybe this was something I did wrong.
“I haven’t spoken to anyone in the meantime, but my mind wasn’t clear. I constantly heard voices telling me to harm someone, and I did it without even knowing it. But now my mind is very clear. Isabelle, you must have saved me, right?”
Come to think of it, I didn’t even know the maid’s name. It was Isabelle.
“Yes, my prince, an evil spirit was attached to you, and I had no choice but to use this method to get rid of it.”
“Hoo? Who told you that?”
“I do not know the name, but a passing by called a good spirit spoke to me and informed me. Also, evil spirits were destroyed by Him.”
He said he was a passing soul, never said he was a good soul, but all of a sudden he became a good soul. I’ve never done anything bad, so am I a good soul?
“Are you talking to him?”
“Yes, my blood is related to him, he said.”
“He said he was a good soul, but he couldn’t be an ordinary soul. God help you and me.”
Now I suddenly became a god. Aren’t you being punished by a real god?
[I am not a god. And now I’m slowly leaving the palace.]
“The good spirit says he is not a god and it is time to leave.”
The lady-in-waiting relayed my words, and the crown prince bowed his head in the wrong direction, not where I was.
“Good soul, I owe you a lot.”
I was thanked by the Crown Prince. If left as it is, the crown prince used by the evil spirit might have inherited the country. i saved the country
I felt strange. I was a mediocre bastard and administrator of a viscount family in my lifetime, and I did a great job when I died. He was also greeted by the Crown Prince.
[Then go. Maybe come back in winter. Oh, by the way, you’d better investigate the chief chamberlain. He’s doing a very bad thing.]
As a result of tracing the rumors heard while touring the palace, most of them were false rumors, but the rumors about the chief chamberlain were true. I was doing a job that was too dirty to even mention.
Leaving behind the lady-in-waiting’s thanks, I left the palace where I had stayed for almost a month.
Still, the academy vacation is one month away. While thinking about where to go, he visited the market in the royal capital. It’s a place I’ve already visited.
However, depending on the point of view, the spectacle is infinite. The richest merchants in the kingdom will be here, and the most skilled technicians in the kingdom are also gathered here.
I took several lectures at the academy. Among them, nobles do not listen well, but there are lectures on commerce and technology. The opportunity to see them in action is very easy for me.
Headed to the headquarters of the Ashrons Merchant, which is said to be the largest guild in the kingdom. The head office of the upper ranks was crowded and busy, similar to the administrative office of the royal palace.
From the very end, I watched their work over my shoulder. I learned a lot during that time, and since I was an administrator of the territory, it was not difficult to understand most of the work.
Like that, I watched one step at a time and went up to look at the work of the top manager. It was fun to watch the top runners. As befits a person running the top ranks of the kingdom, this person was not an ordinary person. As expected, the color of the soul was dark gray, but the size of the soul was very large and had a slight glow. He was a gifted merchant.
There were hundreds of papers he read and paid for each day, and the amount he paid was comparable to the viscount’s five-year budget.
He was reading and signing as if he was skimming through such a huge amount.
[Awesome]
I couldn’t help but marvel. However, there was something else that caught my attention more than its performance and distribution.
Since it is a place where huge amounts of money move, corruption cannot be avoided. Of course, it would be nice if it wasn’t there, but it’s not realistic.
The top of the Ashlons also had quite a lot of money moving backwards. The amount of money paid to the royal palace and influential aristocratic families was enormous, and there were many amounts buried here and there like an emergency fund in case of an emergency.
Among them, there was a secret warehouse that only the owners of the upper ranks knew about. On the mountainside, not far from the royal capital, it was a dungeon that a person could barely crawl into. Even Sangsanju seems to be a place I don’t go to often, but I was lucky enough to be able to follow it. There was a welcome magic in the crypt, but after passing through the innermost wall, there was a solidly made box.
The owner of the upper house was putting small and expensive things in a secret warehouse. Most of them were jewels, but the pinnacle of small and expensive items is an artifact. Inside the box were several artifacts. As for me, I didn’t know, nor did I need to know, what function it had or what value it had. The soul had no need for artifacts or money. Should I tell Isabelle of the palace about this place? I thought about doing it, but gave up.
The academy’s vacation was over while I was watching the practical operation of the upper management, and I returned to the academy. Then I studied every day again. My knowledge increased every day, and so did my spiritual strength. At night, with nothing to do, I went out and absorbed evil spirits or large floating spirits. And then I found a place.
The world I see is like snow coming upside down. Somewhere life ends and the soul ascends to heaven. It is especially visible at night, and in certain areas, it was discovered that what appears to be a human soul ascends to the sky every night.
In other words, people die there every night. At first, I thought it was something like a doctor’s office, but when I went there, it wasn’t even a doctor’s office. From the outside, it was just a big warehouse, but that couldn’t be the case.
I went inside through the wall, but inside it was just an empty warehouse. So I went down to the basement, and there was hell there. Like a dungeon in a royal palace, many people were locked in numerous iron cages, and no one was fine.
[What kind of madman would do this?]
Could this be the black magician I’ve only heard of? I thought. I heard that black magicians capture and use souls, but I wondered if I could get caught if I did something wrong.
By the way, a black magician in the royal capital? It was strange when I thought about it. Warlocks were generally ostracized. Of course, it’s not that there aren’t black magicians who use it, but due to the nature of black magic, there are many cases where corpses or souls are used, so it was generally like that.
It was strange that a black magician who captured and used such a number of people in the capital would not be discovered.
I began to carefully inspect the dungeon. If he really encountered a black magician, he intended to run away immediately. First of all, the first basement floor was just a prison.
Carefully going down one more floor, a scene resembling a butcher’s shop appeared. The severed pieces of people were scattered everywhere. Maybe this isn’t a warlock’s laboratory, but just a gangster’s torture chamber? I decided to continue exploring the second basement floor.
Thinking so, I went over the wall and a large cavity appeared. A huge magic circle was drawn on the floor, and in the center was a naked giant bound with chains. The giant, likely three meters tall, had four arms.
[f*ck! You were a real black magician!]
As he said that, he saw a middle-aged man standing on the other side of the magic circle. Outwardly, it looked very fine. It’s not like he’s wearing a black hoodie or something. He was wearing very luxurious clothes and had a benevolent smile. And I don’t know if I have eyes, but they made eye contact anyway.
“A very interesting soul. come to me”
A middle-aged man reached out to me. Intuitively, I realized that the situation was very dangerous and started to run away with all my might.
I raised all my soul power and tried to run away at full speed, but I couldn’t speed it up. Some unknown force was pulling me toward the middle-aged.
If you get dragged, you die. No, I’m already dead, but I don’t know what will happen to me.
[aaa!]
I really gathered my soul and poured all my energy into it. Little by little, he moves away from the black magician. Then, at some point, the pulling force disappeared and I was able to soar to the ground in an instant.
Without delay, I immediately fled in the direction of the palace. If it was the safest place for warlocks in the capital, it would be there.
It flew really crazy. And the moment he crossed the wall of the palace, he was exhausted and shrunk like a deflated ball. I lost my mind. I knew that even the soul could lose its mind. And when I woke up again, it was a few days later.