38 – A Night in Hyperion Castle – 3
Dalgrak… Dalgrak…
At about 10 o’clock at night, a carriage was running at high speed.
“Lee Seo-yoon. What are you thinking?”
“Oh…It’s nothing.”
“Don’t lie to me. You look like you’re remembering someone with a lot of worry on your face.”
“……”
In the carriage on the way to Eos, the capital of the empire, Lee Seo-yoon had a conversation with a knight who had become friendly in the past few days.
“Do you have a lover?”
“No…I don’t have one…”
“Then is it unrequited love?”
“Oh no!”
“That’s right.”
The knight giggled at Lee Seo-yoon’s dramatic reaction and asked Lee Seo-woon.
“Do you miss your unrequited love back home?”
“……Yes. A little bit.”
“Doesn’t sound like a bit?”
“……”
“Before I became a knight, he was a famous man in his hometown as a flirt. Just by looking at the woman’s expression, you can clearly see what he’s thinking.”
“..I don’t think I’m proud of it..?”
“hehehe…”
The knight showed a mischievous smile as he saw Lee Seo-yoon avoiding him little by little.
“But why are you suddenly so nice to me…?”
“This is originally normal, but before that, you were just angry because you were so frustrated. Even though the princess ordered it.”
“I see…”
Seoyoon trembled as she recalled the face of Irina who had stepped on her shoulder with the heel of her shoe.
“Are you afraid of the princess?”
“…Yes…So scary…”
“Please don’t hate the princess too much. She may be a bit violent and cold, but she’s the most considerate of the members of the royal family.”
“That…Is that…?”
“The reason why the princess used violence against you was because she wanted you to adapt to this world as quickly as possible, so she acted that way.”
“…….”
Even the words of the article did not resonate very much with Lee Seo-yoon, a sincere woman in the 21st century Korea. No matter what she was, as Lee Seo-yoon, who had been taught that violence against her was a bad thing, she could not understand the actions of Lee or her princess.
“Still, I won’t be scolded by the princess anymore. Lee Seo-yoon is the one who has grown the most in this expedition.”
“..Is that so… His level is still lower than Seojun’s…”
“I think you’ve grown enough just by being able to kill monsters.”
The knight handed a round blue bead to Lee Seo-yoon, who let her sigh with her head bowed.
“Is this…?”
“It’s a mana orb. It has no killing power, but it spreads mana quite far.”
“…Where do you use this?”
“It is usually used when requesting help. It uses the feature of spreading mana far away to inform people around you that ‘I am here’.”
“Hmm…Is it a bit like a flare?”
“Signal flare?”
“Ah… No…”
Lee Seo-yoon put her mana orb she received from her knight into her own pocket.
At that moment, the knight looked out of her carriage and shouted to Lee Seo-yoon.
“Oh, Eos!”
“Are you there?”
“Yes, I see a large castle wall over there. Hurry up and wake up the other peoples.”
Seo-yoon woke up Lee Seo-joon and Alex, who were sleeping in the corner of the carriage.
Then Seojun Lee and Alex rubbed their sleepy eyes and slowly rose from their seats.
“Haam…What’s going on…?”
“I think I’ve arrived in Eos.”
“Ah…Already?”
Seojun yawned and looked out of the carriage.
“Ohh… I can see it… I can see the Imperial Castle from outside the castle wall, by the way?”
“Anyway, since the castle is located on a high hill, it can be seen well from a distance.”
“I see…But are there any fireworks in the imperial castle? They are very bright?”
“…What..?”
The knight listened to Seojun’s words and looked out of the carriage again.
The imperial castle, as seen by the knight, was burning as if a fire had broken out due to jet-black flames full of ominous energy.
“That… That’s what the heck..!”
The knight shouted at the chariot that was driving the horses at that moment.
“Coachman! Speed up immediately! Something seems to have happened in the castle!”
“Ah..I see..!”
The carriage started running towards the imperial castle at an even faster speed.
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…Hmm…
“Master, aren’t you thirsty?”
“No.”
“Then you won’t get hungry?”
“Not even that.”
“Whoa… A master who has no complaints is unqualified for a slave.”
Why does a f*cking slave pass or fail his master?
After writing the mana contract with Irina in her office, Irina followed me and entered her room without knowing why.
A slave must always be by his master’s side?
“Anyway, I’m losing by the way, so why don’t you go back to your office or your room quickly?”
“What are you talking about, master, are you going to do the paperwork here from now on? Do you even sleep here?”
Are you kidding me?
“Who cares?”
“I’m just doing the right thing as a slave.”
“Damn it.”
“You don’t seem to really hate the owner, do you?”
Irina poked me in the chest with a sinister smile.
This sh*t?
“That…Isn’t it…What can I tell you…”
“Whoops… I mean the owner is also a man after all. Wait and see. They say to move all the papers in the office to this room within a day.”
The reason I can’t force Irina to leave is because all the effects of the mana contract have disappeared due to [Purity].
In other words, even if I gave the command, Irina was not given coercive power, and she was rather informing me that the mana contract effect had disappeared, so I couldn’t help it.
Looking at Irina’s condition now, she wanted to scream “Actually, the contract is invalid, so get out of here!”, But she decided to hold it in for now.
“But… By the way… Does the owner… Need… Assistance at night?”
“What?”
What is this crazy b*tch talking about?
“No…! Isn’t that… Slaves also s*x slaves…”
“……”
“Th…Don’t look at me like that…I just wanted to do my duty as a slave!”
What, your duty as a slave? Do you know that all slaves are s*x slaves?
“That’s all right, when will Seoyoon and Lee Seojun come?”
“According to the message, I’ll be back in two hours.”
Two hours… Do you want to come around 10pm? It’s faster than I thought. Can we meet tonight instead of in the morning?
“Really? Then, Irina, I’ll have time. I’ll order one.”
“What…What is it!”
Irina asked me with a happy smile.
I replied to the expectant Irina by patting my shoulder.
“Knead it.”
“….. Um…?”
“Give me a massage.”
Let’s get a massage from the princess herself.
“Ugh…Don’t do that…Just…That…”
“What? What do you want?”
“Ah.. No..!”
Irina climbed onto the bed, blushing, and began to massage my shoulders as I sat on the bed.
As expected, I can’t sleep dirty like I expected. Of course, it’s the first time in my life that I’m trying a massage, so it’s natural that I’m clumsy. So even if I couldn’t do it, I understood with a generous heart.
“Is it… Cool? Master?”
“How cool.”
Siwon is a piece of sh*t, my durability stat is so high that I can’t feel anything with Irina’s power.
“That .. Is that so? Maybe the original girl actually had some talent for her massage …?”
“..Uh.. It seems like that…?”
“Whoop…Master, I’ll make you feel the pleasure.”
How can you say that?
After that, I had Irina’s shoulder massage for about 20 minutes. I don’t know what was different before and after her massage, but she lied to Irina for the first time, saying, “Oh, the stiffness in her shoulders is gone.” Because she doesn’t have to kill the baby for nothing.
“Then it’s enough, go back.”
“I will stay here, your slave.”
“It would be nice to leave when it’s nice.”
“……”
If she stays here, I’ll take it as no matter what I do.
“Sheesh… I can’t help it.”
“Okay, so let’s go back. Whoo whoo whoo.”
“Then I’ll come early tomorrow morning.”
No, I don’t have to…
“By the way, don’t you take an attendant with you?”
“Originally, it is a principle for the imperial family to have at least three attendants, but the original daughter is troublesome, so she goes without an attendant.”
She was a more laid-back princess than I thought.
Ian or something seemed to have close to 10 attendants.
“I’m sorry, but let’s go.”
“Okay, going well.”
The moment Irina gets up from her bed and opens her door.
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A roar echoed around the imperial castle.
Quaaang-!!!!
“Ugh?!”
“What?”
In addition, along with a roar, I began to feel the ominous energy of mana.
“This can’t be…The owner…”
“…No, why is this energy all of a sudden…”
The mana I felt right now was very similar to the mana emanating from the fragments of chaos that killed 20 knights a while ago.
“But the mana I feel in the imperial castle…”
“I know, it’s more dangerous since the Chaos Fragments.”
Something was happening in the imperial castle right now.
I don’t know what’s going on, but what’s certain is that it’s never a good thing.
“Prepare to leave. I need to check what’s going on.”
“Okay. Master.”
I quickly grabbed the sword of amplification that was standing in the room.
Since Irina left her sword in her office, she decided to move with her bare hands.
“Going out?”
“Okay.”
Kikkik…
I cautiously opened the door and checked the hallway.
The hallway was already in a state where it was difficult to breathe due to the thick chaotic mana.
“Keugh…!”
“Breathe as slow as you can.”
I decided to use [Purity] On Irina periodically because Chaos Mana might have had some bad effect like Void Mana.
After leaving the room like that, as I continued to walk down the hallway with Irina, it wasn’t long before I found a black monster biting off the corpse of a woman presumed to be a lady-in-waiting in the distance.
But it was not a fragment of chaos. It wasn’t as big as the fragments of chaos, and it wasn’t slime in shape.
The black monster you see now has a similar appearance to a wild dog, and jet-black flames emanate from its back.
-Kreurre…
“Feelings.”
[LV 62 Familiar of Mixed Flame]
Stamina: ?/?
Mana: ?/?
Status: None
Familiar of Mixed Flames…? What kind of monster is this again?
“Master… It’s dangerous. If you’re level 62, you’re saying it’s a monster on the level of knight commanders.”
“…Is that the level of a knight commander?”
Level 62? Isn’t that easy compared to level 81 Chaos Fragments?
Of course, there are some extremely strong Chaos Fragments, but…
“We haven’t noticed that guy yet. So why don’t we hit it first?”
“But isn’t it too dangerous…? Just turn around and pass…”
I ignored Irina’s worries and her youthful advice and started chanting her magic.
“Sonic Buster.”
As always, I put a lot of Void Mana + Suzaku’s flame coating on Sonic Buster. Even with this simple task, the power increased by about two times, so there was no reason not to do it.
[Savage Attack is activated.]
-Kreurreureung?!
Sonic Buster hit the familiar of the mixed flames in a defenseless state, but it didn’t die in one shot, assuming it was a monster with a high level.
But it must have been fatal enough, the Familiar of Mixed Flames trembled and fell to the ground.
“Wind… Advanced wind attribute magic…?”
“The Storm Spear.”
Pu-wook!
[You have reached LV 42.]
[You have reached LV 43.]
After finishing the master of mixed flames with the spear of the storm, the level that had not risen for a long time rose by two at once.
“…So strong…”
“This is the basics of order.”
If I had to give my tail to such a monster, I wouldn’t have been able to come back alive from the labyrinth of the abyss.
“But there seems to be another one over there…?”
“Huh?”
At that time, a new Familiar of Confusion appeared at the end of the corridor.
This time, the Familiar of Mixed Flames was walking around the corridors with a male corpse without a lower body in its mouth.
“I can’t believe this… That this happened when His Majesty wasn’t around…”
Irina opened her eyes wide as she watched the familiar of mixed flames eagerly eating, and her body trembled.
Certainly, the fact that the imperial castle, which can be said to be the core of the empire, was easily penetrated was a bit of a shocking event in itself.
It is certain that tomorrow the fire in the imperial palace will cause an uproar throughout the empire.
“Isn’t there any reserve troops here?”
“Probably close to half of the important force was away. Since His Majesty went to the Holy Land for a meeting.”
“…Then who is the strongest person in the imperial castle right now?”
“..Probably… The first older brother would have gone to the Holy Kingdom with him, so the second older brother and the captains of knights who are a little over level 60 must be…”
“Hi go…”
This situation seems to be more serious than I thought. That one old man and the leader of the level 60 knights are at their full potential…
“To think of an attack while two of the top 4 on the continent were away… What kind of person…”
“It can’t be helped… Let’s get past it while dealing with monsters as much as possible.”
“Okay.”
I fired a spear of emptiness at the Familiar of Mixed Flames who were eagerly eating.
[Savage Attack is activated.]
-Kreukreuk…?!
“Is this one shot?”
The Familiar of Mixed Flames was a monster over level 60, but it seemed that its physical strength was a little low compared to its level. Thanks to this, a single Void Spear + Savage Attack combo could instantly kill the Familiar of Mixed Flames.
[You have reached LV 44.]
[You have reached LV 45.]
“Ohh…”
But looking at it now, this… Might be a bit of a bonanza…?