The wind blew. Just before it rains, the humid air with the smell of earth wraps around Shahahahad’s body.
Shahahahad stopped swinging his sword and raised his head at the wet air that wrapped around his skin.
“Are you going to stop today?”
“My knees hurt, and it looks like it’s going to rain.”
At Shahahahad’s words, his aide who handed him a towel laughed.
“Do you speak the same words as my grandmother?”
“These days, whenever I wake up, my clothes are getting shorter.”
Shahahahad shuddered as he wiped his sweaty hair with a towel.
A lighter body and weaker stamina than other young girls her age are now a thing of the past.
Now, he is at eye level with his aide. The body is still on the thin side, but that is just that the physique is not yet able to catch up with the body that is growing late.
Perhaps after the growth period is over, he will be taller than most knights.
The aide, recalling what looked like a bare branch of a winter tree, smiled as he received the familiar towel that came back.
“The report came up today as well.”
“… It’s fun.”
Shahahahad’s reddish-gold eyes blended with the slowly setting sunset and cast a distorted light.
After judging Seria completely as an enemy, Shahahahad chose perfect hiding.
The search that began with control of all information about oneself.
Thus, the information collection that started is filtered and filtered, and only the important information is delivered to you.
But that’s the state where reports come up every day. It was said that the power of Seria was deeply rooted, and there were also many contents related to Seria.
There was a reason why digging up information has become more important these days.
‘I don’t know what kind of strategy Seria used.’
The fact that Seria expressed the trait.
It was clear that Shahahahad was sure that Seria had nothing special to do except for the trait that was presumed to be sealed.
If it wasn’t for that, there’s no way she wouldn’t rise to the position of the Crown Princess while her other brothers’ traits were sealed off and she herself didn’t stand out for decades.
It wasn’t that I didn’t climb, it was that I didn’t.
until just a while ago.
“The trait that Seria manifested is definitely Mana-type.”
“Yes, Mr. Shahahahad.”
After taking a light shower, Shahahahad got dressed and walked quickly.
At first, I honestly thought it was a trick. Without that, Seria, who was incompetent until now, would not have been able to show her ability.
However, considering the current situation, it is certain that Seria has gained a strong trait.
‘Because it seems like I’m impatient because I can’t use it like me when I first grabbed the knife.’
I’m acting like it’s a mistake, but that’s three or four times in the past two or three weeks.
Seria herself may have been patient and showing off, but in a situation where she pretends that no successor to a great trait has emerged in this royal family for nearly 20 years, three or four times in less than a month makes no sense.
‘No, should I rather praise that patience?’
After the seal of the trait was lifted, convulsions occurred to the extent that his body was twisted, and he was unable to vomit everything he ate until he vomited only watery things.
Seria may have been more patient than Shahahahad himself, who was so happy and ecstatic that he swung his sword with that weak body.
“I think Innocent’s words have become clearer, but what do you think? Also targeting me.”
“I’d rather not keep them in check any longer.”
Shahahahad read through the posted reports and handed some of them over to his aide.
“Even though I wrote God’s contract, you’re probably the only one who doubts this much, Eyel.”
Shahahahad’s aide. Eyel replied while reading the paper.
“God’s contract is not omnipotent. In the first place… … .”
After reading the report, Eyel lowered her voice.
“Even gods are not omnipotent.”
If so, there would have been no pantheon in the first place. There must have been only one, only one God.
“Just as I joined hands with Innocent, it is certain that Seria joined hands with the Holy Protestant Church.”
“If it weren’t for that, there’s no way the saintess statue could have been paid for so easily. In the first place, we spent more than half of our intelligence personnel on it, but the only thing we managed to find out was the fact that the statue of the saintess actually exists.”
At the words of his aide, Eyel, Shahahahad rubbed one of his eyes and cheeks with the palm of his now quite calloused palm.
The continent is wide. If there was no warp gate, it would take more than 30 days just to go from big city to big city, and the means of contact were mostly people’s hands or electronic mail because of cost.
So the value of information is sometimes beyond imagination.
Shahahahad, who has just begun to gain strength, chose the method of selection and concentration instead of gathering information from various fields.
Investing money in working with Innocent and verifying it based on the information they provide.
“Funny it is. From the foolish Adelian handing over the saintess statue to Seria. Innocent told me about all the effects of the saintess statue.”
We only check if it’s true or not, but we’ve invested a third of the gold we’ve spent so far.
“And another third was the cost of virtually digging into the Holy Protestant Church.”
“So all we got is proof that Innocent’s information is not false.”
Eyel bowed her head at Shahahahad’s words that, of course, you shouldn’t believe everything as it is, but there is no need to investigate from the ground up with the mindset that it might be a lie from the beginning.
“I am always on Shahahahad-nim’s side. So from today, we will accept information from Innocent after light cross-validation. And honestly… Aren’t there only things that are hard to believe?”
The information you share has to be decent enough to be trusted. Aren’t most of the things they say to ordinary people who would immediately dismiss them as bullsh*t?
‘It’s not about artifacts and warlocks who can pray for miracles, nor about gaining notoriety in a short time, it’s literally a religion that makes human offerings as sacrifices to the gods.’
Eyel shook her head once. Apart from the former, the latter made more sense.
Most gods are determined based on human belief.
Even a very friendly and evil god needs people who at least recognize the god and fanatics, not torturing and killing blindly.
It would be more valuable to brainwash them with drugs and extract even false beliefs.
Wishing for pain was the same way black magicians do. Because they need black mana that comes from strong and very negative emotions, not faith and faith.
Pain, anger, sorrow, anger, despair, shame. Unholy and corrupt mana from such things.
‘But it wouldn’t be necessary to have something like that to worship God. I don’t even want evil spirits. What God wants is faith and faith. worship. But if you want those negative feelings… … .’
“Are the demons related? Then, what the Holy Protestants believe in may not be God, but the demon king.”
At Eyel’s words, Shahahahad opened his mouth.
“Then, if I stand out, Seria will choose… … .”
Before Shahahahad could finish his words, the lights that were on everywhere went out.
pitch-black darkness.
“It is magic.”
“There must have been some magic to prepare for it, right?”
A situation in which nothing can be seen, as if someone had covered their eyes with both hands.
From a place not too far away, I heard the sound of gurgling and regurgitating bubbles of blood.
Shahahahad and Eyel drew their swords and put their backs together in search of each other with mana.
“It is not likely that all warning and defense magic were released at once. At that moment, a signal from a different dimension was sent, so at most, it would have been temporarily disrupted and then cast a vision blocking spell.”
“Then, calculate how long we have to hold out before the knights will come, Eyel.”
“10 minutes. Ten minutes.”
“Possibility?”
Slowly, a dazzling aura began to rise from Eyel’s sword, and at the same time, a weak aura began to dwell in Shahahahad’s sword.
“Excluding Shahahahad-nim, you must have been using only me as a standard.”
I am 100% sure.
The moment Eyel said that, she heard the door open in the thick darkness.
* * *
“No, why are you sticking your hand in the breath of a passing whale?”
Seeing Rachel flying in a parabolic line into the sky, everyone gathered to wonder if a monster had jumped out, and the conclusion was that.
Rachel, who was swimming leisurely, found a whale that came up close to the surface to take a breath, and suddenly stuck her arm into the breathing hole.
“No, how is that right in front of you? Why don’t you put it in! But I didn’t know that if I put my hand in that big hole, it would spurt like that!”
“What would you do if someone stuck a finger up your nostril?”
“Should I kill you?”
I’m just thinking about it, can’t a word like naeronambul be included in the lion’s idiom now?
“Really Rachel is.”
“Thanks to junior Rachel, I saw something interesting. But what about when you fly?”
Watching Rachel cover her nose and growl, I shook my head, and the rest laughed as if it was pleasant.
Seeing that the pirates who had been glancing at each other were also giggling, it seems that the initial vigilance has eased.
However, there is no reason to laugh at Rachel doing such a stupid thing because as soon as Rachel fell into the sea, she uppercut the whale, and the whale’s head was lifted, and Rachel walked back over the sea.
At first, the look in her eyes, which was simply looking at her as a guest of Alice, has changed a lot.
They are not sailors of ordinary ships, but pirates, so it is inevitable that they have a rough temper. It’s not a way for us to press it down with force for no reason.
‘But since he’s a pirate, if he pays a certain amount of money and tells him that he’s a formidable opponent, at least it’ll be useful until we bring in our healer, Levi.’
Pirates in the first place, there is no way to be loyal. On top of that, someday, after Arman grows stronger, those who need to be eradicated.
‘Only if Zero can control Alice.’
Dirty things that are difficult for Arman to do easily. Or it could be used to keep small pirates in check.
No matter how much I raise Arman, there is a limit to increasing the quantity of soldiers, not the quality, unless the Namhae Archipelago itself is independent of the empire.
In addition, even if pirates were to be eradicated, it would be difficult to control small-scale ones that were not gigantic pirates, and they could not be annihilated no matter how much they were caught.
So, looking at the situation, raising Elise and rolling it into a Yanggang system is also a way… … .
‘If it’s the same pirates, not the navy, they’ll be able to assemble in case of emergency.’
Anyway, in the end, it will be a fight between the evil denomination and the continent.
While I’m lost in thought for a moment, I feel a slight vibration. When I took out the siren, the glutinous rice cake-like thing trembled.
In the case of Kane, Zero, and Alkaido, who will contact you for no reason, you can hear it right away when you call Siren, but now it vibrates and you see the mark on the Siren’s body.
“Have you arrived?”
＜-Yes. manager.＞
The Siren finally arrived at the Airship in the Forest of Spirits.