7. Jealousy is my strength (42)
At the top of the lofty temple was a bell.
The sound of the bell announcing noon symbolized that the grace of the heavenly god Arus was spreading from the sky to the ends of the earth. How trivial and insignificant is the life of a human being who has to look up to the bell tower to find the source of the sound.
To this end, the temple always boasts a magnificent and majestic body.
So that man can be humble before God.
However, even these bell towers were mere human creations. There have always been those who crossed that divine peak.
In fact, some powerful people even monopolized this place.
One of them is now standing in front of me.
Iris, the second princess of the Empire.
Her cool silver hair fluttered in the wind in the sky. The eyes of the woman staring at the scenery over the railing with her back to me were deeply sunken.
It was a place where only a few could climb up, except for the bell guard. Even so, I couldn’t find even a point of awkwardness in the gaze that climbed here and looked at the ground.
It was around the time when the starlight penetrated the darkening earth. If the clear night comes like this, the world will shine brightly with two night skies.
Of course, there was no time to enjoy such a romantic sight.
The two of us came here for different reasons.
A soft breath escaped between Princess Iris’ lips.
“… … Is this your first time climbing the bell tower?”
“I don’t have any hobbies that force the temple.”
“I am surprised.”
Despite my sullen reaction, Iris’ expression did not change much. He might have already given up on tailoring a human named ‘Ian Percus’.
It was a yard where even the emperor of the empire, who was called a man of absolute power, could not treat me carelessly.
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Just because I was Princess Iris, there was no way she could touch me.
All the mistakes of the woman originated from that fact.
The reality is that the second son of a single viscount cannot be photographed and suppressed with power.
Iris didn’t even know that she had finally learned the right attitude toward me.
I have no choice but to give up and talk nonsense.
Only two people have ever been able to control me.
Leto and the saintess.
Delphine-senpai didn’t even try to control me in the first place, so I was excluded.
“There are rumors that he has a saintess as his lover. There could be no better place for lovers to have a tryst… … .”
“It is a misunderstanding.”
Because the saintess and I were not ‘lovers’, but ‘couple’.
Even the heavenly gods would not be able to blame my statement.
Of course, Princess Iris didn’t show any signs of trusting my words. I just snorted and looked down.
“If you have a desire to succeed in life, you should enjoy climbing high places.”
“I don’t quite understand, but… … .”
“People in power always have to look down on everything. When all humans converge to a point, all that remains is lines and lumps.”
Meanwhile, Princess Iris slowly turned and looked at me.
Pom, arms crossed and leaning against the railing, seemed rather comfortable. Because there were no other people’s eyes to care about here.
A well-stretched fan covered the princess’s mouth.
“Have you never dreamed? The dream of rising to a higher position than anyone else and looking down on the whole world… … .”
“Is it related to the ‘Imperial Family’s Secret Wish’?”
“Sure.”
Now that was the point.
I stayed silent and stared at Iris.
I meant to talk about it.
Princess Iris was not a careless person to the point of not being aware of this.
Hmmm, Princess Iris, who deliberately weighed it, let out a low voice.
“Ian Perkus, what do you think of ‘The Master’?”
“… … ?”
At the sudden question, I had no choice but to put on a puzzled expression for a moment.
What do you think of ‘Master’?
There is so much meaning and context in the name that I had to tilt my head for a while before opening my mouth.
“Well, wouldn’t it be a dream state for a warrior…?” … ?”
“Then what do you think I would think of Master?”
The moment I was about to burst out laughing, saying how could I know your heart.
Suddenly, there was a word that crossed my mind.
‘Gaze of Power’.
“Or not me, but His Majesty the Emperor? What is the Holy See of the Holy Land? What about the Round Table of the Southern Ten Kingdoms?”
“What do you mean by that?”
I inadvertently wrinkled my face and asked.
In some cases, even if they were punished for ‘blasphemy’, they had nothing to say. What do the highest powers in each country think of the Master?
The Master was the symbol and root of each country.
It was an irreplaceable force, and weren’t they beings that were no different from a strategic weapon in themselves.
Without them, it would have been impossible for the Three Kingdoms to take the lead in the continent.
Even the Master Set existing on the continent had a deep relationship with each country. Not only swordsmiths from the imperial family and saints from priests, but also the great witch sealed the vampires in the Great Forest, creating an opportunity for the birth of the Southern Ten Kingdoms.
Such great men could not be insulted.
That’s when I was so angry that I wanted to add even one more word.
Princess Iris smiled strangely as she folded the fan. As if this kind of reaction was already expected.
“How can you doubt the Master?”
“That, what… Isn’t the swordsman also an elder in the imperial family?”
“Yeah, that’s right. ‘Fortunately’, I mean.”
Unlike me who stuttered in embarrassment, Princess Iris’ attitude was relaxed.
“What if my great-grandfather wasn’t a Master? Or, what if a master who is not the Three Kingdoms appears again? What should I do if the newly born Master holds a grudge against the Empire?”
“Well, that… … .”
“It is too uncertain.”
It was an assertion.
A declaration that my opinion is not even worth considering.
It was normal to be offended, but somehow I didn’t feel like refuting the claim.
because it was true
“There are billions of people living in the Empire. The fact that the fate of this great country depends on the mind of just one person… Have you ever thought about how terrifying and strange it is to depend on unpredictable, uncontrollable variables?”
It was a sound I had never thought of before.
I was just the second son of a country viscount until recently. Stories like ‘master’ and ‘state power’ were just another world.
But what if I was the emperor of an empire?
It was fine so far. There was no sign of another Master being born on the continent, and the Masters of the Three Kingdoms were living quietly, protecting their respective homelands.
There is no guarantee that this will happen in the future.
Nonetheless, I hurriedly raised an objection.
“Isn’t there a way? It is an undeniable fact that a ‘master’ exists, and unless there is a means to fundamentally prevent the birth of such a being… … !”
“Think the other way around.”
One step while smiling incomprehensibly.
Before I knew it, the distance between me and Princess Iris had become quite close. Suddenly, the woman’s blue eyes formed on my retina.
blazing fire.
How can you define that feeling?
the princess whispered.
“It is impossible to block the Master’s birth. However, if you can mass produce Masters… … ?”
And my breath stopped.
The bulging eyes turned to the princess. The woman’s lips, approaching my ear, held an excited line.
“Even then, should our empire be terrified of just one master? And, what country would dare to go against the words of our empire?”
“But, that… … .”
“Impossible?”
With the sound of her breathing tickling her eardrums, Iris let out a faint laugh.
Finally, the woman’s voice faded away.
“Everybody did. It’s an impossible plan… My ancestors, Mr. Obama, and even the swordsman did the same.”
“Isn’t that saying it’s impossible after all?”
“No, it is possible.”
It was a word of strange confidence.
The flames in Princess Iris’ eyes showed no signs of being extinguished. On the contrary, as time passed, it was only adding to its brilliance.
It was such an obsession that the expression ‘madness’ came to mind.
“Ian Perkus, how much do you know about ‘The Vision’?”
“Isn’t it a technology containing the enlightenment of unmanned people?”
“Yes, that is correct. And the interesting thing about vision is that its utility doesn’t just stop at acquiring skills. Those who have learned the vision will definitely show improvement in their skills.”
I mumbled, swallowed my saliva, and fell into reminiscence.
It did.
At the end of the battle that crossed the line of fire, my hand held the tail of the always blurry realization. Wasn’t it possible to handle the vision properly only after that?
In the process, it was natural for his skills to advance.
Princess Iris seemed to want to claim that it was another function of ‘vision’.
“The reason is simple. Because it is a technology that contains the enlightenment of unmanned people who have reached a high level… In the process of learning that skill, the fragments of the enlightenment that the warriors gained are also melted.”
“So what? I’m not saying that if you blindly learn the vision, you might reach the Master… … .”
“You got it right!”
For the second time already, my breathing stopped.
What are you talking about?
My gaze, filled with pure doubt, turned to the princess. However, Princess Iris, already excited to the point of excitement, didn’t even pay attention to my face.
“Exactly, Ian Percus! What if you scrape together the visions of entire continents and beat them to one human being?”
“This crazy… … .”
It was around this time that I realized.
The woman in front of me was not just a person of power.
“The strongest warrior who has mastered the vision and enlightenment of all schools will be born… It’s not ‘talent’ or ‘accidental’. An inevitable god created by human power!”
This woman is crazy.
“This is the secret wish of our imperial family… … .”
is a madman
“Commonly, it is a ‘made god (Deus ex machina)’ plan.”
And again, he was a man of power capable of fulfilling a madman’s dream.
The woman’s eyes were already wet with ecstasy. Faced with this, I felt beads of sweat running down my back.
‘Fucked.’
Somehow, I thought that I had touched knowledge that I shouldn’t have heard.
Hem bukannya Ian ya yang bakal jadi Deus ex Machina