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17 Agnes State Council (3)
Even outside the Agnes Empire, a remote area with few people.
In the middle of the huge forest that existed there, an inconsistent red tower stood tall.
It’s a blood tower built by blood wizards to avoid human eyes.
In the spacious office on the top floor of such a blood tower, Kerma de Coles, the owner of the blood tower, was looking at the woman sitting in front of her with thrilled eyes.
“ Are you really Liusina Bloodwalker?”
“ Yeah, that’s right.”
To Kerma’s question, the woman, Riusina, answered with a tired face.
Because this question wasn’t the first.
It’s been a long time since I’ve come to the Blood Tower, and I’ve given enough proof about him on the first day, but Kerma was asking her once a day as if it were a morning greeting.
“ Oh, a thousand-year-old witch!”
“ Oh!”
“ Oh, mother of the beast!”
“ ooh!”
“ Oh, the handshake queen!”
“ Oh oh oh!”
In line with Kerma’s shout, the surrounding blood mages gathered their mouths as if worshiping them and added Chuimsae.
Looking at it, Liusina covered her eyes with one hand.
I couldn’t get used to seeing that look.
‘ Thanks to you, the blood tower was easily taken over.’
Liusina thought so and remembered her first day in the Blood Tower.
As soon as I caressed some of the blood wizards in the way, Kerma jumped out, and as soon as I proved who I was to Kerma, the control was over immediately.
As soon as she found out about her identity, she immediately remembered Kerma who had her head banged on the floor as if she was doing well.
For Riusina, who knew that there would be a bloody and flesh-splattering battle, it was a loss of steam, but in any case, the work that Sion had ordered had been completed.
‘ It’s okay to just do this and go back… … .’
Liusina thought so and looked at Kerma and the other blood mages, who looked like they could become a foot bath if she instructed them.
‘ Is it useful to take them with me?’
Without having to measure each person’s mana or ask for their level, they knew it.
How inferior they are compared to other horse towers.
I didn’t like it.
The fact that Liusina and those who inherited the blood magic she had learned became so weak.
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Moreover, it would not be of any help to his master, who turned most of the Agnes Imperial family, who now rule the world, as enemies.
In fact, Shion didn’t expect anything helpless in Blood Tower, but she didn’t like her.
‘ Then… … .’
Liusina glances at Kerma and the other blood mages, who are still looking at each other with a slightly moved face.
‘ The only choice is to make it stronger.’
The red light in her eyes slowly began to fade.
* * *
People’s Palace is the residence of the emperor who rules the world and the center of all power in the empire.
The largest conference room in such a people’s palace.
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Many people had already gathered there to greet each other or prepare something.
The number was over one hundred, and it might seem like a lot at first glance, but each and every one of them was absolutely indispensable to the National Assembly held here.
The members of the Gwangseong Council, the nobles of the high-ranking families who are supremely powerful in Hubris, the capital of the empire, where all powers gather, and the heads of major institutions of the Imperial Palace.
It could be said that they were indeed the people who moved the Agnes Empire.
“ Haha, long time no see. Albert Ball.”
Among them, Groud Ozurima, the first heir to the Ozrima clan, who is called the master of magic and boasts one of the five highest powers in the empire, opened his mouth to the blunt-looking middle-aged man sitting next to him.
Although he was called the successor, Groud was already over forty and was approaching invincibility.
“… … .”
Despite Groud’s greeting, a middle-aged man called Altstein only nodded his head and did not respond.
Groud shrugged as if he was familiar with him.
The bluntness of that middle-aged man was already widespread among the nobles.
“ It seems that the royal family have not arrived yet.”
Despite the middle-aged man’s reaction, Groud looked around the conference room and continued.
“ Perhaps the same people as last time will attend this time as well?”
As he looked around the conference room with those words, his eyes stayed on the most splendid-looking chair and the second largest chair next to it.
Seat of Emperor Urdios and 1st Prince Rubrios.
Those two positions have been vacant for several years.
Emperor, it was very strange that the first prince did not attend the state affairs meeting even if he said he could not get up from his seat because of the terrible illness that was going on today and tomorrow.
But none of those present, including Groud, found him strange.
1 Because the fact that the prince was fascinated with the Church of Light and threw everything else aside was a known fact as soon as it became known.
“ Then, unless there are any surprises, this meeting will be similar to the last one.”
Four members of the royal family, to be precise, a three-way battle with the exception of Iveline Agnes, who maintains a neutral position.
6 Prince Zion Agnes will not be able to attend this meeting, so the composition of the meeting will not change.
Groud, who had thought about that, opened his mouth again, looking at the middle-aged man as if he had suddenly remembered something.
“ Oh, did you hear the news? This time, Prince Zion himself dealt with all of Rgan Ursula and the Icarus Wizards, who escaped from the imperial dungeon.”
At the same time as those words, the eyes of the middle-aged man, who seemed to never even move, swayed slightly.
And Groud, who didn’t miss it, smiled lightly.
He knew why a middle-aged man reacted that way.
The middle-aged man belongs to the family of the 6th Prince Sion Agnes.
“ Isn’t that great? Not so long ago, His Majesty Zion was called the shame of the imperial family. However, in just a few months, he passed the succession ceremony and subjugated the phantom army, one of the seven great disasters. And this time, even to annihilate the Icarus.”
The Wizards of the Icarus, which were annihilated this time, were under the control of the third prince, Enoch, who was closely related to the Ozrima family.
Groud was talking comfortably as if it were someone else’s business.
“ Isn’t Prince Albert happy? Such a change in the charge of Prince Zion. Zion is your… … .”
“ Stop.”
Then, for the first time, a heavy voice came out of the middle-aged man’s mouth.
“ It has nothing to do with us. So I hope you don’t talk about him any more.”
Those words were quiet, but they had an irresistible power.
It was then that Groud stopped talking and shrugged once more.
“5 Princess Diena Agnes is entering!”
A loud servant’s voice echoed through the conference room.
Everyone who was sitting on him got up.
Through the heavily opened door, Diana, with her usual smile, with an unknown meaning, appeared along with her men.
The slight irritation in the eyes of the 5 princesses who went to her seat and glanced around the conference room was young.
‘ Ha, no one came, is this?’
The seats of the other brothers and sisters are still empty.
From some point on, the royal family except for her had been fighting a useless pride battle over who came into the meeting room later.
It was a bad practice that had no benefit and only delayed the meeting time.
‘ Should we make a bill about it at this meeting?’
When Diana seriously thought so.
“2 Her Majesty, Princess Iveline Agnes, enters!”
Evelyn, who returned from work outside the palace a few days ago, entered the conference room with the knights with her characteristic calm face.
Is it because I have been to the border with the Magic Station where there are still big and small battles every day?
There was some kind of tiredness on Evelyn’s face.
bum bum, bum bum.
She sits down, naturally receiving greetings from people who stand up to her and bow her head slightly.
It wasn’t long after Evelyn entered the conference room like that.
“ Ha ha ha! Isn’t it too late yet?”
“ Sorry for being a little late.”
4th Prince Utekan and 3rd Prince Enoch also began to enter in turn.
Enoch, the last to enter, apologized for being late, but he could not hide his slight sense of superiority in his eyes.
Then, as he sat down and looked around the conference room, a smile filled with joy began to appear on his lips.
‘ Didn’t you come too?’
One empty seat on one side of the conference room.
Enoch knew who the owner of that seat, which would be vacant by the end of today’s meeting, was.
Zion Agnes.
‘ How dare you try to attend a meeting without knowing the subject.’
Enoch did one thing when he realized that Zion was recruiting neutral members to attend the meeting.
To attract two of the 11 neutral members of the parliament to Enoch himself.
In that case, Zion could not attend the meeting because he could not receive support from only nine members.
A simple but effective way.
Since Zion had once again brought the members he had already enlisted to his side, there was nothing wrong with the plan.
‘ I wonder what kind of expression he will make.’
Enoch smiled even more deeply, imagining that indifferent face distorted.
Did you think that you were finally ready for the meeting?
Evelyn, who looked around at the smiling Enoch and the others who were sitting, got up from her seat.
“ Now, let’s start the government meeting… … .”
It was the moment when a declaration announcing the start of the meeting was about to come out of her mouth.
Rumble!
The door to the conference room opened again.
“… … ?”
People’s gaze towards him.
Who else wants to enter?
When I was young, people had doubts because no one would come here anymore.
“The 6th Prince Zion Agnes is entering!”
The loud voice of the attendant echoed through the conference room.
“!!!!!!”
At that moment, people’s eyes change from doubt to astonishment.
bum bum, bum bum.
In the ears of such people, the sound of quiet steps that ominously stimulates the depths of their hearts begins to be heard.
Sion with a languid gaze slowly entered the conference room with him.
Silence goes on
Was it because someone appeared who he thought would never be able to attend?
… … .
Everyone in the meeting room, both the royal family and the aristocrats, was looking at Zion entering with wide eyes without even getting up.
How the hell could Prince Zion get into the conference hall?
And that reaction was the most intense of the third prince, Enoch.
“ Wait!”
Enoch, who broke the silence with a loud shout, looked at the attendant who was in charge of the number of people attending the meeting.
“ How did he get here? How the hell can you get into the conference room!”
The servant shrugged and replied with a bloody figure that seemed to run away from his neck if he said something wrong.
“ City, His Majesty Zion, with the support of more than ten lawmakers, was qualified to attend the National Assembly.”
“… … what? It can’t be. I mean, check it out again!”
“ Wow, that’s for sure. I am exactly eleven MPs.”
Enoch, who had a dazed expression on his face for a moment at such a response from the servant, turned his head toward the neutral lawmakers he had previously recruited.
Two lawmakers shaking their heads quickly from side to side as if they were not themselves.
‘ Then who… … .’
Enoch’s eyes filled with confusion.
Could it be that there were more neutral legislators that we did not understand?
Besides, I couldn’t understand how it was eleven instead of ten.
at that time.
“ There is something I want to ask you.”
Zion, who came right in front of Enoch, opened his mouth with a languid voice.
“ Why did you think I would only attract neutrals?”
“… … What?”
“ You should have taken good care of yourself first.”
Enoch realized something at those words and turned his gaze to the seat where the members who supported him were sitting.
Two lawmakers who couldn’t make eye contact with him.
“ Such a dog… … !”
A cry of rage erupted from Enoch’s mouth.
“ Now… … .”
Zion turned away from Enoch as if there was nothing to see anymore.
“ Let’s start the meeting.”
He smiled at the people who were looking at him.