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6 Black Forest (1)
The five palaces boasting the most magnificent scale except for the Baengseonggung in the center.
Among them, the red-colored top floor of the palace.
A man with gray hair, a symbol of the royal family, was sitting in a chair resembling a throne, looking at the people’s palace.
“… … .”
A man stretching out one hand toward the palace of Baekseong, which slowly enters his field of vision.
The moment such a man is about to grab his outstretched hand.
“ Sir.”
A low voice came from outside the door with a knock.
“ Come in.”
The man who stopped what he was doing turned his head towards the door.
Soon after, a wizard opened the door politely in the man’s eyes and entered.
“ Something happened on the side of Chimseonggung.”
A man who bows his head and immediately brings up the main point.
“ Work? What happened? Did we order the raid? that it failed I don’t know why it failed.”
“ It is later than that.”
“ What?”
“ Magi has been detected in Chimseonggung Palace.”
“ Magi? What are you talking about?”
“ Other than that, I knew nothing. Recently, all of our eyes on the Chimseonggung Palace have been cut off, and even when we question the servants working there, they do not open their mouths at all.”
“ Infiltrate the eyes again, and take a closer look.”
“ I see. and… … .”
At the wizard’s attitude as if he didn’t finish what he had to say, the man looked at him as if he was asking what it was.
“ Recently, there are rumors that Prince Zion has changed.”
“ How?”
“ Once I heard that his temper had become very ferocious. It also uses an unknown power… … .”
“ Have you finally gone crazy? Well, it could be because I was threatened with death on a fictional day… … He looks like a weak guy.”
At the wizard’s words, the man snorted and opened his mouth.
“ I don’t care about rumors like that. Because that guy has been a loser since birth. The only thing that inherits Agnes’ blood is the color of his hair. No matter how hard he tries, he is nothing more than an insect crawling on the floor. Ah, now that I think about it, is it time to hold the succession ceremony this time? What happened?”
“ Seeing that there is no word of giving up, it seems that everything will go as planned.”
“… … If I gave up, I tried to leave it alone. You run rampant without knowing your own fountain.”
With those words, the man who had been thinking for a moment and tapped the armrest of the chair with his finger opened his mouth.
“ It’s a successor.”
“ Yes.”
“ Why don’t you try something a little more fun?”
The man’s eyes widened cruelly when he said that.
* * *
The Imperial Palace is located in the middle of the capital, Hubris, which is called the center of the world.
The imperial castle of the empire that boasts a great majesty that overwhelms those who see it beyond its grandeur.
Shion, who covered half of her face with a hood, was looking at the imperial castle of such an empire.
‘ Is there about a week left until the succession ceremony?’
The place where Zion thought so was the outskirts of the capital Hubris.
Outside the apparent sulfur.
After dealing with the monsters hiding in Chimseonggung and tidying up the surroundings, what Sion did was to get out of the castle.
Before the succession ceremony, there was work to be done quickly, and for that to happen, it inevitably had to come out.
‘ I think it was this way.’
Shion walks along the memory of reading the Chronicle of Flosimar.
Usually, when the immediate imperial family comes out of the imperial castle, many people, including the escort, follow them, but there was no one by Zion’s side as he walked down the street.
It must have been because Zion had come out secretly.
‘ It was on the outskirts of Hwangseong, so it was easier to get out than I thought.’
Only Fredo knew that Shion was out now.
The rest of the servants and knights would just know that Zion only went back and forth between the bedroom and the underground gymnasium.
It is said that the eyes were completely thinned out, but Zion did not completely trust them.
That’s why the monster incident was also believed to be the work of a warlock who simply tried to assassinate himself while hiding the truth.
Strict enforcement was natural.
Still, it will spread someday, but it will be fine for the time being.
‘ It was a suspicious look, but I don’t think we’ll see each other for a while.’
Lastly, how long did you walk while thinking of Priscilla?
‘ Are you here?’
Shion stopped in front of a building and looked at the sign.
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Moonlight Supper.
As you can see from the name, it was a restaurant that had quite a reputation in the capital.
From the 2nd floor, where private rooms exist, you cannot enter without a reservation.
But Zion didn’t come here to eat.
Information Guild Eye of the Moon.
That was the essence of this restaurant.
No, to be precise, it was one of the secret branches of the guild’s Eye of the Moon.
“ Would you like to order?”
staff member with a mustache approached Shion, who was sitting at one of the tables on the first floor, and asked politely, filling a glass of water with water.
“ Fried snowflakes served with sun-drenched wine.”
It was a comment that even made me cringe at the menu that this restaurant doesn’t have, but it was something I had to say.
Because it was the code for the quest order here.
It is a very classic method, but it is so effective that it will be used until now.
“ I see.”
The employee who took the order went to the counter for a while without changing his expression even after saying the password, talked with another employee, and then came back to Zion.
“ Guests. Would you like to come over here, as I will guide you to a private room?”
At the polite gestures that accompanied those words, Shion got up and followed the instructions of the staff.
To get to the private room, you had to climb the stairs to the second floor, but the place where the staff guided Zion was the entrance to the passage going down to the basement.
Without even explaining any further, the employee begins walking down the aisle where there is only enough light to barely illuminate the field of vision.
bum bum, bum bum.
How long did you walk after such an employee?
Suddenly, the passage widened and a round cavity came into Zion’s eyes.
And a desk in the center of the common room and a woman sitting behind it.
The woman wearing round glasses with her reddish brown hair tied into one looked at Sion, who had been following the employee, with a search-like gaze.
“ This is the first time we have guests.”
A calm voice that matches his appearance.
‘ Is this the branch manager?’
Seeing the staff politely standing next to the woman, Shion immediately opened her mouth to the woman.
“ I want to make a request.”
The woman who looked at Zion without saying a word for a while to the straight-forward words answered immediately.
“ Good. But before that, can you identify yourself?”
Shion laughed at those words.
“ Since when did the information guild ask for the identity of the client?”
“ Originally, we wouldn’t even ask for that… … This is a special case.”
A cold light appeared in the woman’s eyes as she looked at Zion.
“ A special case?”
“ Do you know that? The fact that this ‘Feast of the Moonlight’ became a branch of ‘Eye of the Moon’ not long ago. It’s not even officially open.”
Tok, Tododog.
A woman begins to tap the desk as if riding in a certain rhythm.
“ So, most of the people in our guild do not know the identity of this place, let alone outsiders. I even remember all the faces of people I know. But you… … .”
tuk.
“ How the hell did you know you came here?”
The moment the woman’s hand that was knocking on the desk stopped with those words.
Suga Gaga!
The masked men who were hiding in the common darkness thrust their swords towards Zion at the same time.
Could it have been that he couldn’t react because it happened so quickly?
Zion’s gaze was still on the woman.
Soon afterwards, swords were finally lodged in Zion’s neck and heart.
no.
“… … !”
tried to get stuck
one inch.
Swords that can no longer advance in front of Zion’s vital point.
Get a card!
The swords did not move at all, even if the masked men gave enough force to make their arms tremble.
It was as if a sword had been pierced into highly compacted sand.
And suddenly the alien darkness that surrounds those swords.
“ What is this… … .”
The eyes of the woman who saw the bizarre scene and the masked men who stabbed their swords began to shake.
“ Was it a little faster?”
A low voice came out of Zion’s mouth.
What was it that was faster?
Even before the woman’s question was over, Zion’s hand moved.
Aww!
Heukseongha, which grew rapidly on Zion’s right hand, blows away the entire mask on the right side at once.
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Masked people drooping on the wall without even being able to properly resist.
At that moment, the masked men on the other side grabbed their swords, which had been unfixed, and stabbed them once again towards Zion.
Wedge lover!
Swords that stretched out towards Shion’s neck sharper than before.
But this time, the sword did not reach Zion.
undercurrent.
Shion, who had dug into the gap between the sword strikes like a ghost, reached out without hesitation.
Quajik, quajik, quajik!
Exactly one at a time.
The masked men who did not respond to Zion’s attack and allowed it as they were, begin to be thrown to the floor.
“ How… … .”
A bewildered voice came out of the woman’s mouth.
Those masked men were skilled escorts assigned by the guild for the woman who had a special status even in ‘Eye of the Moon’.
But do you get hit so easily?
“ It doesn’t matter how I found out.”
In the meantime, Shion, who had cleaned up all the masked men, approached the woman again, squeezing the disheveled robe.
“ The important thing is that I make a request and you listen to it.”
The ‘Eye of the Moon’ branch here came earlier than when they started receiving quests, but it didn’t matter.
Just take it if you want it.
The woman who looked at Zion with trembling eyes for a moment finally opened her mouth.
“ What do you want?”
* * *
“ Information about the Black Forest and fake IDs… … .”
The woman, Eileen, murmured as she recalled the man in Rob who leisurely left with what she wanted a while ago.
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Men want two things.
It was a certificate to prove his identity and the location of a place called ‘Black Forest’.
“ Eileen. May I ask why you were commissioned?”
Next to Eileen, Allen, an employee with a mustache, cleared the rubble and asked, questioningly.
To his knowledge, this woman, Eileen, was never the kind of person who would give up what she wanted to an inappropriate client.
Even if life is threatened.
Besides, even if she couldn’t deal with the man a while ago, she had already made several escape routes.
However, Eileen accepted the robe man’s request very easily.
It was also the request of the opponent who even tried to kill it using the escorts.
“ Do you remember the battle a little while ago?”
Eileen, who was barely holding her breath at Allen’s question, looked at the escorts being carried away, and opened her mouth.
“ Yes. How could I forget?”
“ At that time, the man’s robe came off slightly for a moment.”
And at that moment, Eileen could see.
dark gray hair.
“ The gray hair… … There is only one family in the world that has that hair color.”
The family that now rules the world.
Agnes family.
Only pure blood of the Agnes family could have such a color.
“ That means… … .”
“ I think one of Agnes’ lions has moved.”
The imperial family doesn’t come out well in any way.
However, once they came out, they always caused a huge uproar in the world.
“ I will attach a person by express.”
Eileen, who nodded slightly at Allen’s words, continued.
“ Investigate who he is of the imperial family, why he came out of the imperial castle, why he moves alone, and additionally all the details of the ‘Black Forest’.”
“ I see.”
Watching Allen’s back as he exits the cavity with his hard eyes, Eileen recalled the man from a while ago.
‘ Who are you?’
The overwhelming charisma and the force that supports him.
He must have been one of the closest people to the position of the next emperor.
There was no thought in Eileen’s mind that the man from a while ago would be Shion Agnes, who is called the imprisoned prince.