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17 Agnes State Council (4)
“ Hiduk was beaten.”
The uninhabited outskirts of Hwangseong Fortress.
A woman in a monk’s robe opened her mouth first to the man in front of her with impressive expressionless eyes.
They were the ones I saw often these days.
All by one person.
“ Is it because of Zion Agnes again this time?”
“ Probably, Hiduk lost contact with him exactly in time for Sion Agnes’ visit to the Imperial University Tower.”
“ I even told you to be careful, but… … So what about that wizard?”
“ Of course it was a failure. Did you kill Hiduk after aiming for that from the beginning?”
The man shook his head at the woman’s words as he shrugged and asked.
“ It’s too much of a leap. The information about the hero is something we, too, have only found through the Future Plan.”
“ Maybe Zion Agnes can have that future plan… … no.”
The woman, who was trying to refute the man’s words, also shook her head.
Even if she thought about it, it was too big a leap.
It was much more realistic to think that it was simply coincidence by chance.
“ Still, I didn’t know that Sion Agnes had become strong enough to kill Hiduk.”
“ That surprised me too. So, I suspect that they may have gotten help from outside.”
“ If outside help… … Are you saying that the monster from the university tower might have come out?”
In the tower of Agnes Empire University, there was only one person who could be called a monster by a woman.
Archmage Ahmad Ozrima.
As it is one of the seven heavens called the apex of the world, he was a person who paid attention to the woman’s side as well.
“ Yes. It happened inside the tower, so there’s no way Ahmad Ozrima didn’t know. Still, seeing that no words came out like this, it is highly probable that he used his own hands.”
“ Then there’s a possibility that Sion Agnes has Ahmad?”
“ It is not. He even swore that he would not get involved in anything outside the tower. It must have been because it was just something inside the tower. Still, the fact that this incident has not been made public will be greatly affected by Zion Agnes. He also seems reluctant to reveal our existence to the world.”
A man telling his guess to a woman’s question.
“ One of them is like us. I don’t know why.”
The woman’s expression turned cold as she responded with a grin.
“ Are you sure you want to remove it?”
A colder voice came out of her mouth with him.
The man nodded his head at the woman’s words.
“ There is one way to get rid of it without coming from our side.”
“ What?”
“ Did you know that Zion Agnes recently destroyed an entire wizarding group?”
“ Icarus Wizards? know. Why?”
“ It is said that the third prince is trying to kill Sion Agnes. From what I’ve heard, it’s almost hateful.”
“ Yeah? Then you can push it a little bit more. ‘That guy’ is in charge of the third prince, right?”
“ Yes.”
“I don’t like ‘ That Guy’ because it’s a bit strange.”
The woman frowned and remembered a demon attached to the third prince Enoch.
He has great abilities and skills, but he has a very perverted hobby.
That’s why I didn’t know it would fit well with the 3rd Prince Enoch.
“ Would you like to talk to ‘that guy’?”
“ I see.”
The man answered the woman’s words without hesitation.
Because I was just trying to do it without even asking.
“ In a little while, the ‘Heroes’ will appear in the world. Until then, it would be best to erase as much of the annoying stuff as possible.”
The woman’s eyes, who were muttering as she looked at such a man, were radiating a shimmering light.
* * *
Agnes State Council.
It is a meeting that takes place only twice a year, and the second most important and largest convention in the Empire .
As such, only those with the highest power in the empire can attend, and the meeting itself is very solemn and formal.
And this meeting was also going on similarly to the meetings that had been held so far.
“ Among the agendas presented at the last meeting… … .”
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Most of the people who attended the meeting had their eyes fixed on one place.
Towards Zion, who is sitting right in his seat and looking at the meeting with eyes that do not know what he is thinking.
From the moment you enter the conference room until now.
People’s eyes never looked away from Zion.
As if possessed by something.
‘ Is that Zion Agnes that the author saw before?’
It was a common thought in the minds of those who had seen Zion at least once in the past.
For the past few months, I have heard that they have completely turned around and are continuing their unconventional steps as if they had awakened, but this was the first time I had actually seen them.
And it was much more impressive than they had imagined.
‘ I think it’s okay to say that I’m a completely different person except for my looks.’
The weakness of not being able to properly meet other people’s eyes in the past has completely disappeared, and the drowsiness has taken its place.
From such languor, the scent of a ruler who was looking down at everything from above in boredom was emanating from it.
In addition to that, a body that is incomparably stronger than before, and the strange ominousness that spreads from such a body.
The ominousness was already making the people in the conference room feel eerie, who had already gone through all the antenatal events and didn’t blink an eye at anything.
‘ Is that what happened to Icarus?’
One of them, Groud Ozurima, was also looking at Zion with surprised eyes.
I knew it even though I only saw him appearing in the conference room and walking.
That the word abandoned pure blood is no longer appropriate for the author.
How the hell did he change so much in such a short time?
Even the now-dead Rgan Ursula argued that Prince Zion had learned black magic, and it was understandable.
‘ Did Agnes’ blood really awaken too late?’
With that in mind, Groud looked at Alstein next to him.
His face was as blunt as usual, but his eyes could not be hidden, and he was astonished as Groud himself.
‘ This might be annoying.’
As Groud thought to himself.
‘ I know a lot of faces.’
Shion was also looking at the faces of the people in the conference room, receiving all the gazes directed at him.
The Chronicles of the Heroes of Flosimar.
This novel was obviously a story about a hero and his companions, but there were quite a few stories related to the emperor.
Since it is a place that can be called the center of the world, a lot of things happened around here.
Just as it shows why the title was given to a chronicle rather than a biography, in the chronicle of Flosimar, an event important enough to affect the world was recorded in detail, even if it was not directly related to the hero.
Therefore, people who could enter the People’s Palace, the center of imperial power, and especially those who could attend state affairs meetings, had a high probability of appearing in the chronicle.
‘ About half of them… … .’
Among them, Zion divided those who had to live and those who had to kill.
The criteria were simple.
Good and evil didn’t matter.
Those who will help and those who will not in the future.
And if it has anything to do with demons… … .
The person who is the monster itself.
Although most of the people here were involved in this, each and every one of them had the power to shake the empire.
There was no such thing as anxiety in Shion’s eyes.
If I had given up like this, I wouldn’t have even started in the first place.
No, rather strange expectations were flowing.
‘ Not yet.’
Among them, Zion wiggled his fingers while looking at the demons that wore human skins and pretended to be human.
Since they were the ones who played a direct role in destroying the empire, the urge to hunt even now surged, but the time was not yet.
As you have always done, if you destroy each one as planned, one day you will undoubtedly reveal that huge torso.
That will be the day when Zion himself will begin to thin out the villages that have infiltrated the Empire in earnest.
‘ Before that, I’ll have to sort this out.’
Zion thought so and looked at his brothers and sisters.
The chaos of the empire in the chronicle was also due to the absence of the emperor.
This was also largely due to the endless struggles and civil wars between the prince and princesses, who had equal powers, to seize the next throne.
In the end, the next emperor did not come out until the full-scale war with the demonic demon broke out, and it served as one of the main causes of the destruction of the world.
Zion never intended to let it flow like a chronicle.
at any cost.
‘ First of all… … .’
Such Zion’s eyes turned to Enoch, who was looking at this side with flaming eyes.
Everything I’ve planned so far has failed because of Zion himself, so it’s not unreasonable to express so much anger.
In fact, even if Enoch did not target him, Zion was planning to arrange Enoch first among the royal family from the beginning.
The reason was that Enoch’s back was the worst, but it was because he was the easiest opponent to organize.
3 Prince Enoch’s main power was, no matter what anyone said, his maternal maternal grandma, Tsushimaga Ozurima.
A family with the highest level of military power, who are the most famous magicians in the Empire and have produced ‘the sky’.
Shion knew how to make the Ozurima clan useless.
at that time.
“ I will wrap up the details of the agenda at the last meeting and move on to the deliberation of the agenda submitted at this meeting.”
In Shion’s ears, Evelyn’s voice was heard as she finished the settlement of the last meeting and passed the order to the plenary session.
With him, Shion stopped thinking and focused on the meeting.
Because this is the reason why I participated in the National Assembly today.
“ First, let us consider the agenda submitted by Utekan Agnes.”
Submission of the agenda of the State Council meeting.
Basically, anyone who could participate in a meeting had the right to submit an agenda.
Yes, it was difficult to pass and it took a long time, so it was like an implicit rule for the imperial family to synthesize their opinions.
Naturally, the more lawmakers and nobles who supported the imperial family, the higher the probability of passing the deliberation.
“ About increasing the military budget… … .”
The plenary session proceeded smoothly.
First, from the side of the 4th Prince Utekan, the 3rd Prince Enoch, and the 5th Prince Diena.
Agenda that moves quickly by giving away what is to be given in moderation and taking what to take.
Although the agenda was passed without much friction, there were doubts in the eyes of some people, including Diena.
‘ What?’
The appearance of Zion reflected in Diena’s eyes.
its sillent.
Sion Agnes’ side was too quiet.
When the agenda for the plenary session was submitted and deliberation was completed, it was safe to say that the state affairs meeting was virtually over.
Even though the plenary session was almost over, Zion did not say anything and just watched the meeting with a still eye.
neither for nor against
‘I must have attended the government meeting because there was something I wanted.’
It was a meeting that he attended until he drew as many as eleven lawmakers toward him within a week.
But after attending, it looks like they are not doing anything.
Especially for her, who has been watching Shion’s movements, her appearance was very strange.
‘ I don’t even have an agenda submitted in advance.’
It was when Diena frowned as if she did not understand as she read the list of agendas she had received before the meeting.
“ Now, the deliberation of all the submitted items has been completed, so with this… … .”
“ I also want to propose an agenda.”
A low voice cut off Evelyn’s words as she was about to move on to the next step.
The gaze of people who naturally turned to the direction the voice came from.
At the end of those gazes was Zion, who had not even said a word during the meeting.
“ Are you talking here now?”
Evelyn asked him, looking at Shion with suspicious eyes.
The Agnes State Council was one of the highest councils of the Empire, so each and every issue could affect the entire Empire.
Therefore, most of the proposals were prepared and submitted in advance, and there were very few cases where such proposals were made on the spot.
“ Yes.”
“ What?”
This did not mean that he could not make an offer, so Evelyn asked Shion about the proposal.
With him, a deep curiosity in the eyes of others.
How the hell was he trying to propose an important agenda, so he had been silent until now?
However, Zion’s words that followed were very different from their expectations.
“ Fourteens.”
“… … ?”
“ I propose to pull the four-way ceremony.”
“ If it’s a four-year meal… … Are you talking about the royal family screening ceremony?”
“ Right.”
At Zion’s answer, Ivelin and other people had doubts and bewilderment in their eyes.
Agnes Imperial Family regular inspection ceremony.
In a nutshell, it was an event where the imperial family went out of the imperial castle with their own forces like the Knights Templar and inspected them in front of the imperial people.
By showing the imperial family the majesty of the imperial family, it was a place to inform the well-being of the Agnes family, and at the same time, it was also a place to be recognized by the imperial people as the immediate imperial family with the right to officially inherit the throne.
Although it had a significant meaning, it was not an event that was considered to be that important.
But why is it that all of a sudden, there is talk about the regular inspection schedule?
An unexpected proposal that no one expected.
At that time, people were wondering if the royal family four-year-olds they knew were different from the four-generation ones Sion spoke of.
“ I want to hold the royal family inspection ceremony… … Are you serious about that?”
Evelyn asked Sion again.
In her eyes like that, a small worry crept into her eyes.
In order for the imperial family to conduct the royal family inspection ceremony, they basically had to have their own power.
However, as Yvelin knew, Zion had no power whatsoever.
‘ Even if I delay it further, it won’t be cool… … .’
However, whether or not he knew her heart, Shion nodded and answered.
“ Yeah. I think it will be fine after a week.”
The original royal family inspection ceremony was held about a month later.
However, Zion was telling me to advance it by three weeks.
“ Ha ha ha ha! good night! Let me agree!”
At those words, the 4th Prince Utekan was the first to vote in favor with a big smile.
Contrary to his wild smile, his brightly shining eyes seemed to have already calculated all the profit and loss that would occur to him as the four-year meal was pulled.
“ I will oppose it. If the royal family inspection ceremony is suddenly moved forward, all the current schedules will be disrupted.”
On the other hand, Diana votes against him.
In fact, she was more wary of Zion than the reason she said.
If it had been Shion that she had seen up until now, she would never have made such a proposal without thinking.
So, it was right to be careful until you figure out its intentions.
“ Enoch on your side?”
Due to Diena’s opposition, people’s eyes turned to the third prince Enoch and the nobles who supported him.
Of course, Shion would agree, while Yvelin was neutral.
If so, the direction of the agenda will be different depending on Enoch’s choice.
“I agree.”
Contrary to the expectation that he would oppose the agenda of Zion, who is in a confrontational relationship, Enoch immediately voted in favor of Evelyn’s question as if he had been waiting for it.
‘You know how to create an opportunity.’
Did you even know in advance?
The fact that the screening ceremony was to be accelerated was what Enoch himself was going to propose after the plenary session was over.
However, as Zion suggested it first, Enoch had no choice but to be happy.
Of course, Zion was also planning something to say, but it didn’t matter.
‘ This time, I will destroy you no matter what you do.’
From the depths of Enoch’s eyes looking at Zion, his flesh writhes.
But the third prince did not know.
Sion’s eyes are looking at him and smiling.
The fact that the three black stars shining in those eyes see through the murderous intent and even the magic hidden behind it.