114 – New Party
After the test of nothingness, I regained my senses and quickly prepared to descend the rocky mountain.
It’s obvious, but I can’t remember the contents of the test. To be precise, I remember the test of beating 100 people, but after that, I can’t remember at all.
“Veronica.”
“Why is that, King?”
“…No.”
I looked for Veronica to go down the mountain.
But I don’t know why, but Veronica seems very uncomfortable. If you think about it based on the experience base of the past month, when Veronica makes that expression, it’s normal…
“Doesn’t it turn off right away?”
“Who hears bats hum?”
“A pet fox that doesn’t obey is eventually slaughtered. You don’t seem to know that.”
As expected, Celeste was behind Veronica as I expected.
To explain the relationship between the two… Yes, you can think of it as water and fire. Because it was a relationship that could never coexist.
Anyway, if I leave these two alone again, it will lead to the use of force like last time, so I have to intervene here.
“Hmmm…Veronica, now that I’m done with my work, I’m going to go back soon.”
“Oh, that’s a great idea! You don’t have to be in a dirty place like this!”
“Is your heart dirty?”
“Shut up. Because your breath stinks.”
“What? About the dismal Bat-b*tch?”
“What?”
Damn it, whether I intervene or not, in the end it’s the same flow again. It’s better to leave quietly at times like this…
“Oh, and I have something to tell you.”
“…Me?”
At that moment, Celeste, who was glaring at Veronica, instantly changed her expression into a bright face, then turned her head and spoke to me.
“King, there is no need to listen to that b*tch.”
“Shut up, you.”
“If you want to do that, try it.”
“..Just keep both of you quiet, so, what do you want to say to me?”
“Ah, that’s it…”
Celeste smiled at my question and spoke her shocking words.
“Gaon, I want to follow you.”
“Huh?”
“…..Is this b*tch crazy..!!!”
Kwaji Jik-!!
Crazy, for an instant, Veronica’s ominous mana enveloped the entire cabin. The concentration of mana is on a completely different level than when we fought until now. The cabin will be destroyed if this is left alone…
“Didn’t I tell you not to crash!!”
Suddenly!
…But who is the owner of this cabin? It is the home of the strongest being recognized by Veronica. He can’t stand to watch this cabin collapse.
With a sound as if something was actually being cut with a sword, all the ominous mana emitted by Veronica began to dissipate. It was the effect of Marth’s [Sword that cuts through mana].
“If you don’t drop these things, they will have an accident in less than a day?”
“I’m sorry Mars-sama, that b*tch… No, Celeste is saying weird things…”
“Hmm? Ah… Did you say that kid was following you?”
“…Did you know?”
“Oh, I gave you permission.”
For an instant, Veronica’s eyebrows quivered. I know because I’ve been watching Veronica for a long time. That’s her way of expressing that she’s very uncomfortable.
“…Why?”
“Ah… I wonder if my daughter should know what’s going on in the world these days…”
“Can I just send it by myself? Mr. Mars?”
“If even a bad guy gets seduced, it’ll be annoying.”
“………..”
Celestie is pretty. It is to speak from a very objective point of view. She was not inferior even to Veronica, who could be called the goddess of beauty.
However, a rose is beautiful, but just as there are thorns inside, if a man approaches Celeste for being beautiful… I don’t want to imagine that. He won’t be able to live with at least a good look.
“Have you seen it? I even got permission.”
“…Even if Mars-nim approves, isn’t there another person we still need to allow?”
“I know. That’s why you asked.”
Mars, Veronica, and Celeste’s eyes are instantly directed at me.
“…Me?”
“Yes. It’s a problem that will end if Gaon allows it.”
“My king… you know, right?”
As the two crazy b*tches made up their minds and started emitting mana, the cabin…No, the entire mountain top started to vibrate little by little.
Celeste’s mouth was smiling as if to answer quickly, but her eyes weren’t laughing at all, and Veronica had an expression that said, “If you allow me, I’ll follow you.”
What is Mars…
“hahahaha! Then I’ll have to go soon. I need to find some vegetables to accompany the meat.”
‘No, that human…!’
As a result of watching him for a month, I could see that Mars has a personality that hates troublesome things. In fact, even when Veronica and Celeste were fighting, it was just to prevent trouble from happening.
In other words, Mars is of no help in the current situation.
“Gaon.”
“O king.”
“”Answer (please) quickly!””
“……”
Save me
***
“Gaon?!”
“It’s been a while, Claudia.”
A few hours later, I descended from the rocky mountain and returned to the orc tribe village.
Feeling this cool air for the first time in a month… In fact, isn’t this heaven?
After being in the filthy thick mana for a month and the cold of minus 50 degrees Celsius, it really tasted like death. Besides, since I trained in that state…
‘If it wasn’t for this robe, it would have been difficult to endure.’
If it wasn’t for the red dragon robe I’m currently wearing, I’d probably freeze to death from the cold. Even if he hadn’t frozen to death, it would have been difficult for him to endure Mars’ rigorous training.
Veronica didn’t ask me to wear a robe for nothing.
“…But who is the person next to you?”
“Ah, that’s…”
In that moment, Claudia’s eyes moved to a woman standing next to me.
A figure of a woman wearing a white cloak whose face is hidden by the hood of the cloak. From the blue hair that slipped through her hood, it was possible to tell that she was a human with her own hair.
“…Just a companion…? Similar… That… What should I say…”
“I am the fiancée who promised a future.”
“”?!””
-This fire fox…!!!
Of course, the identity of the woman behind the cloak hood was Celeste. Despite many adversities, she eventually decided to join her company.
She’s a fiancée by the way…. The quality of her jokes is pretty bad. Veronica’s anger caused by those words is what I deserve.
-Go out now and break that b*tch’s habit…!
‘No, I’m trying to make another accident.’
-Don’t worry, I’ll just break one arm.
‘…….’
I think I should be concerned.
“That..Really? I don’t know, stop watching…”
“No, it’s just a joke, don’t take it seriously.”
“Oh, what is it? You were surprised…”
Claudia frowned when I said I was joking. I wonder how I ever thought that the girl I took from the top of that treacherous rocky mountain would be my fiancée.
“What about Illyana?”
“It’s in the room.”
When I asked about Illyana, Claudia pointed her finger at the small barracks and said,
After her sorcery test was over, Veronica took Illyana back to the Orc Village. I heard that Claudia has been looking for Illyana all day…?
As a result, she handed over her Illyana to Claudia safely, and she said that she gave some of her magical powers as a bonus.
“Are you awake?”
“Yeah, just yesterday. It looks a little dizzy, but it will get better soon.”
“I’m glad.”
Chack-!
I removed the piece of cloth from the door of Illyana’s barracks and went inside.
Then Illyana, a girl with gray hair who still had a youthful appearance, was looking at me with a surprised expression. Judging by the bowl of porridge in her hand, she must have been eating.
“… Gaon…?”
“Are you feeling better now?”
“…Yes..”
Illyana lowered her head with a melancholy expression at my question. Seeing her eyes redden, she knew she was about to burst into tears.
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Are you sad that you can no longer meet the only brother you could trust? Or not….
“I…now maybe I like…?”
“……”
“I don’t even have an older brother… There is no one to protect me anymore…”
Tuktuk…
Transparent water droplets ran down her cheeks.
Even though Illyana is the reincarnation of Bathory Erzebet, the strongest wizard, she is still a 20-year-old girl in spirit. It was rather forgiving that she was holding on in the current situation.
“Illyana.”
“Huh…Huh…”
During the month of her training, I thought a lot about Illyana.
What should I do with her?
Veronica gave the answer to that.
-Just take it with you. If you grow up, you will be a child who pays for food.
Illyana possesses a monstrous talent recognized by that Veronica.
Anyway, now that I’m leveling up, even if I catch low-level monsters, my experience doesn’t go up. So, if you hand over her suitable low-level monster to her Illyana and raise her…… One day you will be able to become a great power.
First of all…
[Current Mage Master: Illyana]
[Increases magic damage by 10% and chanting speed by 10% when the Magic Tower is nearby]
Already systemically, Iliana and I have become inseparable.
“Do you want to come with me?”
“…With Gaon…?”
“Oh, at least you won’t be accused of being a monster like you were in Boreas. Even if there is, I’ll scold you instead.”
“……”
I am thinking about it.
No matter how bad memories Boreas has, it is her hometown and the city she has lived in all her life. Leaving such a place would be a heavy burden on Illyana as well.
However, contrary to my worries, Illyana nodded her head as if she had made up her mind shortly after.
“Yeah…I want to go.”
“…..Did you decide sooner than you thought?”
“…It just seemed like… It should be like this.”
Illyana wiped her reddened eyes with the palm of her hand, forcing her to smile thanks to her tears.
“I don’t know why… I just wanted to go with Gaon.”
-It’s okay even if it’s not in this life. Even the next life is fine. I will definitely stand by your Majesty’s side. Think of it as a simple child’s stubbornness.
“……”
“…Gaon…?”
What was that…?
In an instant, a strange memory came to mind. An adult version of Illyana… No, Batory Elizabeth.
The words she whispered while smiling next to me. It was very fleeting, but I remember it vividly.
Why… These memories…?
***
“…Gaon…?”
-………
Veronica thought. She wondered if it would be all right to put Illyana, the reincarnation of her own teacher, Batory Erzebet, with her master?
Bathory Erzebet was a very big presence to her. She is a teacher who taught me magic and a grateful being who taught me the laws of the world.
But at the same time, an existence that was also a love mate.
‘…I don’t know…’
I don’t like it. She obviously hated Illyana, even though she knew full well that if she grew up by Gaon’s side, she would be of great help to him.
Celestie? I hate that year. But something is fundamentally different. She doesn’t really love the ‘King’, she simply ‘pretends’ to love her King because of her inferiority towards herself, because she knows very well that Celeste is a woman.
But Illyana is different. Just as Elizabeth, the lord of the mage tower, loved the king in the past, there is a very high chance that that child will too.
It was obvious that Gaon would become an important presence to her now that her mental support, even her brother, was gone.
‘…I feel bad…’
10,000 Years is the time she waited for the king to be reborn. She waited and waited for those eons of time.
‘As long as this time… I will never… lose…”
In Underworld, a world in the shadows where no one exists, Veronica made a deep commitment.
Our mc is slowly becoming a king in a chess. But, whether it’s a king or queen, all of them are controlled by a player…