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10 Convocation (1)
“ Master, I did as you said. Both when dealing with sabbatical and when fighting at the front door a little while ago.”
In the magic car heading to Chimseonggung, Liusina opened her mouth as she looked at Sion.
“ Yes.”
Shion looked out the window at him and nodded.
There were only two things Zion gave her additional instructions.
First, when dealing with the night of rest, deliberately leave traces of blood magic.
Second, do not hide your blood magic in case an quarrel occurs at the main gate of the Hwangseong Fortress.
Although he had told Liusina to come in without making a fuss, Shion had already guessed that there would be a commotion at the front door.
The act of going to pick up Riusina was also calculated.
Of course, if that happened, the enemies could have even noticed that Sion had intervened through her, but it didn’t matter.
‘ Because that’s what I ordered.’
Shion never had any intention of prolonging this, nor did he intend to leave the culprits who tried to kill him.
So I had to draw them out more, and the easiest way to do that was to clearly target myself.
If you pull it out, the body will also be revealed someday.
At that time, Zion was planning to drive the fangs he had hidden into his body.
‘ Things turned out better than I expected.’
Shion remembered Icarus’s general, Legan Ursula, whom he had seen a while ago.
Due to the words he had said to Riosina, he was able to be certain of the background of the attack on Chimseonggung Palace and the succession-type manipulation that he had been guessing to some extent.
And through him, he was able to make the three princes aware that the disappearance of the sabbath night was related to Zion himself.
‘ How will it come out?’
A young light of hope in Zion’s eyes.
When Sion ascended to the throne in the past, there were no competitors, so this kind of fighting was giving Sion a different stimulus.
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Meanwhile, the door of the horse-drawn carriage that arrived right in front of Chimseonggung was opened.
“ Master, isn’t the palace where the prince stays small?”
Shion entered the palace with Riusina’s words, which she did not know whether she was talking or teasing.
The first thing that came to Shion’s eyes was Priscilla, who waved her hand to greet her.
“ It’s been a long time. prince… … .”
Priscilla, who had seen it just a few days ago and brazenly said it had been a long time, stopped talking when she saw Riusina following Sion into the palace.
“ Who is that woman and she came with you?”
With him, she asks Shion with a wary expression on her face.
Before Shion could answer that, Liusina opened her mouth with an interesting look.
“ Did you follow me because this person is my master?”
“ Lord, Master??”
Looking at Priscilla who was embarrassed by Riusina’s words, Shion quietly asked Fredo, who greeted him with a happy face next to him.
“ Why is he here?”
“ You said that you stopped by because the divorce proceedings have not been completed yet.”
A word that anyone can tell by looking at it as an excuse.
He must have come to inquire about what happened when he killed the demons last time.
Priscilla continued to question Zion about the incident, but Zion did not answer him.
For a while, I had no intention of answering.
“ Keep it out in moderation.”
“ Hey, I can hear everything!”
Priscilla is furious when she hears Shion whispering to Fredo.
With her cry out in one ear, Shion took Fredo and Riusina and moved on.
“ Come on, wait… … !”
Priscilla, who was trying to grab Shion, fell down without reaching the end.
Come to think of it, Priscilla herself had no reason to be here.
Haven’t you already announced that you are going to break up the marriage?
However, from the day she announced the breakup of the marriage, the importance of Prince Zion was growing in her mind.
Curiosity rather than liking.
And his curiosity grew stronger the more he saw the new figure of Prince Zion.
From the attack on the Chimseonggung Palace and the demon hunting incident known as a black magician on the surface.
At that time, the image of Prince Zion, who freely manipulated the darkness and ravaged his opponent, could not leave his mind.
That is why, as soon as she heard the rumor that she was breaking up, she threw away all the suitors and followers who followed her, and was clinging to Chimseonggung.
“ Hey, why am I doing this?”
Priscilla let out a deep sigh as she looked at Shion’s back, which was getting farther and farther away.
* * *
“ I will touch the shadows.”
Shion, who tilted the teacup in front of him once, quietly opened his mouth to Fredo and Riusina, who were sitting opposite him.
The place where Zion is now is the study that exists in Chimseonggung Palace, and the common name and brief introduction between Fredo and Riusina had already been completed.
“ If it’s a shadow… … May I ask what you are talking about?”
Fredo asked Shion if he couldn’t get a good feel for those words.
“ Things called shadows are usually assassination groups or intelligence groups. Right, master?”
Before Shion answered him, Liusina shared her guess.
Since the Black Forest, whenever she speaks to Shion, she has been attached to the owner.
“ Yes.”
Shion nodded in reply.
“ The shadow of eternity. Also called the ‘Eye of the Empire’, it is an intelligence organization that only the Emperor can handle. Therefore, even those who know of its existence cannot exceed five fingers. The headquarters of those eons of shadows exist within the Imperial Castle.”
The information organization was an essential element in Zion’s future work.
I had to have it in my hand.
It would be perfect if the information organization he had in his hands became a shadow of eternity.
“ But if it’s such a secret place, you have to figure it out first… … .”
“You already know that.”
Shion answered Fredo’s question with a small smile.
Because in the chronicle of Flosimar, the shadows of eons were described in detail where the imperial castle existed.
At Shion’s words, Fredo and Riusina’s eyes lit up at the same time that it was so.
They have never seen their master ignorant of something.
“ Are you going to contact me right now?”
“ No. I will wait.”
At Liusina’s question, Shion shook her head.
“ Someone was going to help.”
In Shion’s mind, a conversation with the emperor was floating in his mind.
And the help came to Zion exactly a week later.
* * *
People’s Palace at the center of the Imperial Palace.
About a dozen people were gathered in a huge audience room that existed in such a people’s palace.
One of them, the Lion Princess Iveline Agnes, looked at the people gathered here with heavy eyes.
‘ It’s not even during the government meeting, but it seems like it’s almost the first time we’ve gathered like this.’
In Evelyn’s eyes, the figures of men and women with dark gray hair, just like herself, are reflected.
It was her brothers and sisters.
‘ No, I should say that they are more like competitors than brothers and sisters.’
Thinking about that, Evelyn smiled bitterly.
Superhumans who inherited the blood of Agnes deeply and have already far surpassed the limits of human beings through the natural sea.
And for their own benefit, the monsters who could take their lives without hesitation even if they were blood relatives were the people in front of them.
Among these, if there is anyone who can find humanity, it would be Evelyn herself.
There was one reason why she and the other members of the royal family gathered in the audience now.
‘ Why the sudden summons… … .’
Because the emperor, Urdios Agnes, had summoned them.
Because of that, the other members of the royal family, except for Prince Il, who is not currently in the Imperial Palace, were gathering in the audience with only one or two attendants.
Of course, the reason why the emperor suddenly called, lying in bed, waiting for the day he would die, was unknown and there was no guessing.
“ Long time no see, brother Enoch. Do you still have gloomy eyes and messy hair like that corpse?”
At that moment, a woman with long wavy gray hair hanging down and tilting her teacup with a graceful gesture opened her mouth with a smile.
Oh Princess Diena Agnes.
Based on the full support of the Fairy Forest, he is one of the powerful emperor candidates who obtained the main institutions of the Imperial Castle and the strongest spirit corps of the Empire, ‘Igracia’.
Her ears, unlike ordinary people, were pointed, because her mother was a fairy.
“ Diana, you still have that mongrel’s disgusting smell.”
He answered with an unsure what the third prince Enoch was thinking, with his dark gray hair hanging casually.
Rumors spread that the relationship between him and Diena was not the best, even among the immediate imperial family.
“ Are you only going to smell the filthy hobbies your brother had?”
The two looked at each other with calm eyes, as if a greeting like this wasn’t even a provocation.
But deep in their eyes, there was a murmuring intent towards each other.
“ Ah, so how is that going?”
At that moment, Diena, who clapped her hands as if she had remembered something, continued.
“ Teasing the youngest is one of Enoch’s older brother’s dirty hobbies. How are you today?”
As if she knew something, Diena’s eyes drew an arc.
She glanced at Evelyn with him.
Knowing that Evelyn had pity on the youngest prince, Sion Agnes, he was looking at his reaction.
However, Evelyn just stared at this side, and there was no further reaction.
“ That guy is the shame of the Agnes family. Just by being there, he’s undermined the honor of the imperial family and harms us. I wish I could disappear right now.”
On the other hand, Enoch’s reaction was more intense than expected.
It doesn’t do any harm to you, but there are people who get annoyed just by looking at them.
To Enoch, Zion Agnes was such an existence.
No, it was heartbreaking, but this Sabbath Night incident was no longer a harmless existence, knowing that he was involved.
at that time.
“ Ha ha ha! Still, did that guy from Shion passed the succession ceremony this time? I saw you again.”
A gigantic, handsomely-grown beard, who was listening to the story next to him, burst into laughter with a roaring voice and intervened.
Four Princes Utekan Agnes.
He was supported by a large group of giants in the north, and at the same time, he was a person who received tremendous support from the military due to his characteristic ferocious personality.
On the surface, he was just a macho man full of muscles, down to his brain, but no one here was deceived by his appearance.
Because they already knew that there were over a thousand snakes crouching inside that figure.
If I had been really stupid in the first place, I wouldn’t have been alive until now.
“ Oh, I heard that too. It’s definitely unexpected, isn’t it? Actually, I didn’t even think that the youngest would have a succession ceremony. But I’m sure someone will pass the succession formula like that… … .”
Diana glared at Enoch, arguing with Utekan’s words.
“ Yeah, it’s just a struggle for bugs. Even if you passed the succession ceremony, that’s all. Even if he comes to the People’s Palace, there’s nothing he can do. No, it would be difficult to even survive.”
Enoch snorted at him and said,
Passing the succession ceremony is equivalent to obtaining the qualifications to become an emperor.
Therefore, there would be a level of checks that could not even be compared with the past, and there was no way that Zion, who had neither strength nor power, could withstand it.
“ You need to know your subject to live a long time.”
Of course, Enoch also heard that Zion had changed from his henchman, Regan, but it could not have changed the image of Zion he had envisioned in an instant.
Diena and Utekan smile quietly without contradicting Enoch’s words.
In the first place, their thoughts of Zion were no different from Enoch’s.
“ Zion has changed.”
At that time, Evelyn, who had been quietly listening, opened her mouth.
“ It has changed a lot in recent years. What I saw recently surprised even me. I probably won’t be able to do anything like you guys think.”
“ Ha, okay? Shall we make a bet then?”
Enoch twisted his lips toward Evelyn and spoke.
“I wonder how long Zion will survive in the people’s palace.”
When he was young, Enoch had a smirk in his eyes when he said that.
“ That’s what I’m curious about too.”
One voice in their ears.
At that, people’s heads turned toward the door of the audience where the voice was heard.
At that place.
“ How long will you last?”
There was Sion entering the audience room with an ominous smile.
Pruscilla was sh*t and annoying character