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52 Organizing the Interior(2)
“ Are you going to give up the throne then?”
A question came out of Shion’s mouth, who looked at Evelyn for a moment.
The two princesses nodded at him.
“ Yeah, I never thought from the beginning that the throne was the right place for me. There was no one else to carry that burden, so I was going to carry it, but now I don’t have to.”
I finally found someone worthy to bear the burden.
Shion could tell from Yvelin’s expression that the emperor was a burden, that she had no regrets.
‘ Even in the chronicle, Evelyn was more concerned about the safety of the family and the well-being of the empire than the throne.’
To ascend to the throne was only an incidental task for that.
“ It seems to me that Rubrios has already drawn you towards you… … If that’s the case, I don’t recommend holding the coronation ceremony and ascending the throne as soon as possible. As long as time is time.”
Looking at Shion like that, Evelyn calmly continued speaking.
“ Of course, the Fairy Forest side, including Diena, would object, but now that level is negligible, isn’t it?”
“ Let me think about it.”
Even though he answered this way, Sion thought that the time of accession was at least after visiting Su In-hae and Jeong Nyong-rim.
Because that was the time when Zion himself thought it was the best.
“ Okay, then I will wish you good luck from afar.”
Evelyn, who turned around with those words as if the task was over, began to leave the gymnasium.
Even though she had given up on the goal she had pursued almost all her life, her face looked more refreshed than bitter.
“ Far? Looks like you’re going out of the castle.”
“You have to go to the border with the Magician. There were some things I couldn’t finish there during the last regular patrol. I am going to finish it this time.”
At that moment, Shion’s eyebrows, who were looking at Evelyn’s increasingly distant back, twitched softly.
‘ Is the time already?’
Eyes sinking coldly with that thought.
There was a reason why Zion reacted like this.
‘ According to the chronicle, the 2nd Princess will not be able to return to the end of this border patrol.’
Because you will die there.
There is such a thing as deterrence in the world.
A kind of compulsion to make the destiny of existence flow as it was originally set.
Therefore, no matter how hard we try to recognize the future and twist it, history does not change so easily.
The reason why things similar to the chronicle continue to happen even though Zion himself has caused countless events that can shake the entire empire one by one.
Therefore, there was a high probability that this event would also flow in the same way as the chronicle.
Unless Zion himself intervenes.
‘ I have to change my schedule.’
It seemed to me that I should visit the border between the fairy forest and the beast rather than the magic station.
‘ Of course, I’ll have to deal with this first before that.’
With that thought, Shion averted his eyes from Evelyn, who had completely disappeared from sight, and turned his gaze to Thierry, who was approaching him.
“ I have found information about Ouroboros’ stronghold.”
As if waiting for him, the head of the shadow bowed his head and opened his mouth in a quiet tone.
“ Tell me.”
There is nothing in the world that is inconvenient if you leave it alone, but there are things that are strangely annoying if you leave it as it is.
To Sion, Ouroboros was such an existence, so I was planning to take this opportunity to completely uproot it.
Anyway, I was thinking of cleaning it up before the war.
“ I was able to interrogate the members of the gang that Your Majesty had captured last time and integrate the information I had gathered so far to identify three locations. However, it seems that it will take a little more time to condense it into one place. It’s hidden more secretly than I thought… … .”
Shion’s eyes deepened as if contemplating something at those words.
‘ Since Evelyn’s death is near, there is not much time to devote to Ouroboros.’
However, it was not possible to use the knowledge of the chronicle.
Even in the chronicles, the location of the Ouroboros headquarters was not revealed.
Then there was only one way.
“ The only choice is to spray the bait and make it appear first.”
With those words, Thierry heard the instructions from Zion, and there was a small question in his eyes.
“ But I tell you… … Could ouroboros not bite this?”
“I have no choice but to ask. It’s not this one that’s urgent now, it’s that one.”
There was a reason why Zion was so sure.
Loss of the successive ‘Fragments of the Frost Queen’s power’ and the failure of the plan.
In addition, several branches in the capital, including the central branch, were destroyed, and even one of the officers, Sharin Mei, was killed.
On the other hand, despite the sacrifices made so far, almost nothing has been achieved.
‘ Perhaps the raid made during the competition was also a plan in haste to somehow divert attention, thinking that I would soon move to organize themselves.’
Of course, even that completely failed, which made the situation even worse, and there was no way to make a proper judgment in this situation.
‘ Obviously, they want to achieve meaningful results as soon as possible.’
With such a blurred judgment, it would be almost impossible to discover the 1% lie that Zion himself hid in the 99% truth.
‘ It’s just that you can’t use armed groups or people with known faces because you have to move secretly until you bite the bait… … .’
I needed someone.
A person who is not well known and possesses overwhelming force at the same time.
With that thought, Xion’s eyes, who were searching for the characters to be put into the operation in his head for a moment, suddenly changed.
“ Even the ogres will come if you tell me.”
Saying that, in the eyes of Zion who smiled,
“ Master Hi!!!”
The image of a woman approaching was reflected in the direction of the dance hall, waving her hand in a welcoming way.
* * *
“ Oh, like a dog, really.”
With the low voice coming from the mouth of the frantic Archduke Acrimosia, Dededede!
As if responding to it, the surrounding space begins to crumble.
Unlike usual, the low voice sitting in the front did not stop her.
“ Things are messed up.”
Even now, this situation was so annoying.
“ Did you just kill me the last time we met?”
It was, of course, Sion Agnes who Acrimosia was talking about.
Because he was the one who provoked their anger and was the second most concerned about the current Archduke of Jealousy.
“ So many things went wrong because of that one guy.”
Starting with the Tacheon plan, Hwangseong, Rezero, Plant, etc.
And now, even the grand dynasty for the great war was in danger of being destroyed.
“I heard they even declared war preparations against us.”
“ It was already planned, but I never expected it to go so quickly.”
“ The situation is more urgent than we thought. Looks like the Empire can no longer watch. It means that something needs to be done sooner or later.”
“ Hmm… … .”
Acrimosia, who had been thinking for a while with her arms crossed at the low voice, opened her mouth as if she had remembered something.
“ How about this? Before the war begins, the borders are cleared once and for all. For now, isn’t that the most annoying power? You don’t even need to come and look.”
“ It’s a good idea, but at this time of year, they probably have a more serious stance than usual. So it will be difficult with an average power.”
“ Then it’s okay if it’s not a mediocre power.”
“ Maybe… … Are you going to send one of the big suppliers?”
“ Right!”
The frantic Archduke snapped his finger at him.
“ If that’s the case, it certainly doesn’t matter if there are variables. But don’t you and I have to deal with Jellis?”
“ There is one guy who still has a hand.”
A word came out of Acrimosia’s mouth, who smiled and replied to those low voices.
“ Oman.”
* * *
A sparsely populated outskirts road in the capital Hubris.
Dozens of people who covered their bodies in black were secretly hiding in the bushes that existed around such roads.
“ I wait after checking the stealth and blocking techniques hanging on my body.”
Richt, the head of such masked men and one of Ouroboros’ officers, gave instructions to his subordinates in a low voice and fixed his gaze on the end of the flat road.
The reason he is here now is because of a piece of information he had recently obtained.
A top secret that the intelligence department of an organization with an intelligence equivalent to that of the Empire’s top intelligence guild had to make great sacrifices.
‘ According to the secret, a superlative engineering core with the same output as the core that keeps floating cities in the sky was carried along this route to the Imperial Castle.’
In preparation for the upcoming great war.
As soon as Ouroboros obtained the secret, it moved to seize the nuclear weapon, which is why Richt is here now.
‘ I said that if you explode a nuclear bomb in the middle of the capital, you can achieve the same effect as the previously unsuccessful plan ‘Frozen Night’.’
A power beyond imagination.
‘ You must succeed unconditionally.’
Thinking like that, Richt’s eyes lit up coldly.
This takeover plan was important enough to make up for the organization’s sluggish performance so far and the sacrifice of numerous members at once.
So he went out on his own.
‘ Also, I can feed him a shot.’
With him, Richt came up with a person in his head.
Zion Agnes.
The person who put his organization into a corner, and the number one enemy to be eliminated no matter what.
If this plan succeeds, in addition to blowing up half of the capital, it will be a huge blow to Zion Agnes’ preparations for war.
‘ Everything you can do is ready. Now just waiting for you to come.’
There was no thought in Richt’s mind that all of this was a trick.
Before moving to prepare for any possible traps, he had completed dozens of proofs of the information he had already obtained and confirmed that there were no ambushes within a certain radius around him.
In addition, he had even obtained information that the nucleus, which had been secretly stored in the first-class magic workshop in the floating city, had disappeared.
at that time,
“ Coming.”
Suha, who was next to him, whispered to him in a low voice.
With him, Licht turned his head in the direction Suha was pointing, and in the eyes of him, several horsepower cars approaching this way at high speed from the end of the road were reflected.
“ The large horsepower car in the center is the one loaded with the nucleus. Aim for it.”
Richet lowered his body even more as he felt the magical nuclear detection tool he had brought in advance vibrated softly in his arms.
Whoa!
It was the moment when the horsepower cars that were running at high speed in the meantime finally passed the road between the bushes where they were hiding.
“ Now.”
With the cold Richet’s instructions,
Aww!
The magic circle that had been planted on the surface of the road in advance was activated and a huge explosion occurred.
The magic cars that can’t beat the explosion and are thrown out and overturned.
and with him,
Sususu!
The members of Ouroboros, who were hiding, began to shoot towards the horsepower car in the center at a frightening speed.
“ Attack! It’s an attack!”
“ Stop coming this way!”
One step later, the wizards who got out of the horse-drawn carriage began to blow magic indiscriminately towards Richt and other members of the organization.
Kwagwagwagwang!
Was it because he had to move secretly?
Although the number of such wizards was only a few, their skills were excellent.
Even Richt and his subordinates, who were summarized only as the most elite in the organization, could not easily deal with them.
“ Ouch!”
“ Big, gagging!”
No, rather, some of the members of the organization were hit by the magic that such wizards fired, and their lives were seriously injured.
However,
‘ Damn it!’
Nevertheless, Richet’s expression hidden inside the mask was bright.
From the beginning, his goal was to seize the nucleus, not to annihilate the wizards, and he was on the verge of achieving that goal.
Aww!
Using the lives of his subordinates as a shield, Richt approached the horsepower car loaded with nuclear weapons at once, and without hesitation he took a crystal awl out of his pocket and drove it into the door of the horsepower car.
Whoa ah ah ah!
At the same time, the blue light bursting out of the runes densely engraved on the surface of the crystal awl begins to cover the magic difference at a tremendous speed.
“ Oh, no! The horsepower difference itself is about to move in space! Stop it, stop it!”
The highest-ranking wizard, who appears to be the leader of the convoy, looked at the scene and shouted urgently, but it was already too late.
At that moment, the blue light had already covered the entire horsepower car.
Tuhwa hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
With the immensely amplified light, Richt and the new type of horsepower car disappeared without a trace on the spot.
* * *
How long did the blurry and distorted vision last?
Because of that, when my insides are slowly churning,
Whoops!
The blue light that was covering all directions disappeared completely, and Richt’s vision returned to perfection.
and with him,
“ Ha ha… … Ha ha ha ha ha!”
A big laugh began to erupt from Richet’s mouth, who sat down.
The scenery seen beyond the sight of the return.
Because that scene was the appearance of the Ouroboros corps that he had been familiar with.
“ Richt! Are you successful?”
Shortly thereafter, other members of the organization began to approach Rihit one by one.
“ I don’t know yet.”
After answering the questions of the members of the organization, Richt got up from his seat and approached the horse-drawn carriage.
Contrary to his words, however, two letters of success were already floating in his mind.
The nuclear detector in his arms still didn’t stop vibrating.
‘ Now, let’s check.’
Quad Duck!
Richie grabs the door of the horse-drawn carriage and rips it open without hiding her eyes full of joy.
It was the moment when the young ecstasy in his eyes reached the climax with the inside of the horsepower difference slowly revealed.
“… … uh?”
In Richt’s eyes, the youthful joy suddenly turned into a question.
What he saw in his eyes were the top-notch tech nuclei filling the inside of the horse-drawn carriage and a woman standing next to him.
Immediately, the moment Richet’s expression distorted, feeling the blood-colored energy flowing from such a woman.
“ Hello?”
The woman, Liusina, gave him an eerie smile.