[Signal is being sent in a specific frequency band.]
is sending a signal. A signal that only dragons can perceive.
They were forcing attention.
They are letting me know that they are here.
However, the moment our eyes met, they disappeared from the audience as if evaporating.
As if getting my attention was a purpose in itself.
‘What’s your intention?’
I knew. Zero caught it from the moment he entered the Colosseum.
However, I couldn’t figure out the intention.
The use of the Heavenly Demon’s reign was a kind of ‘warning’. It was because I was curious about how the guys who lost the flow of mana would react.
However, he calmly waited until the confrontation was over.
After waiting, this time the reverse caught my attention.
‘I didn’t come here because of the Epic of Detection.’
If it was to find Eugene, the Epic of Detection, I would have looked more carefully and secretly.
They weren’t going to signal me to make their presence known.
If you didn’t know, you wouldn’t know, but it was a natural step to be vigilant now that you know.
In other words.
‘I am interested in myself.’
Came only to see me.
why?
‘······ It seems to be coming soon.’
However, I do know one thing.
The truth is that it will come back soon.
They want to meet face-to-face in a place with few people, not a place with a lot of people.
Or… do you mean to prepare your mind in advance?
What is certain is that they are strong men who cannot be compared to Balmung.
When our eyes met, the nerves of my whole body were on edge.
It seemed like this would be the feeling of facing a huge dinosaur right in front of you. The feeling of facing a wall I had never felt since returning.
It was the same feeling I felt when I faced Malfiel in the past.
‘I must have stretched out and slept badly.’
He won the confrontation, but uninvited guests came in.
However, I wasn’t scared.
If they had intended to instill fear or threaten them, they would not have made their presence known to me after the confrontation.
He must have acted like that because he wanted something from me.
If you show the appearance of being fully prepared, deploying soldiers, etc., you will look down on the contrary.
Sending a signal that only dragons could notice could mean they mistook me for a ‘dragon’.
And they weren’t the ones who could be stopped by preparing in the first place.
‘It worked out rather well.’
If you can’t block it, leave it open.
To find out their intentions and use them against them.
In times like these, what was needed was a lot of free time.
After organizing my thoughts, I raised the corners of my mouth.
After that, he raised his sword high into the sky.
“Waaa!”
“Long live Crown Prince Reinhardt!”
“hurray!!”
*
Raunel and Reinhardt stood in front of Emperor Deus.
Launel, the loser, still kept his mouth shut. Losers don’t say anything. It meant accepting the outcome.
The winner, Reinhardt, also didn’t say anything.
However, there was room.
Deus said.
“Reinhardt and Launel. It was a really great fight.”
He fought well enough to say that he was great.
Everyone should now know the status of the empire and the health of the imperial family.
Two sword masters were simultaneously released from the imperial family.
This is a great success and something to rejoice about.
Deus opened the box embroidered with dragons on the table.
A round orb that glows vermilion. it is dragon jade A treasure made at the time the empire was founded, and an item that is the symbol of the emperor.
“This dragon jade is an object containing the authority of the imperial family. The holder of the dragon jade has the power of an emperor and is entrusted with all necessary authority.”
In his entire life, Deus has never given anyone a dragon jade.
There was only one reason why Yongok was brought out at this spot.
“Reinhardt. A thorough investigation should be conducted, and this power should be used only to root out all threats to the Empire.”
Deus’ eyes turned to Reinhardt.
He showed his hidden skills and defeated Launel. I had completely misunderstood Reinhardt all along.
so believe I had to believe. If this power is misused, there will be bloodshed.
Yong-ok even had the right to immediate execution for any act that challenged the authority of the imperial family. So, Deus had never entrusted the Dragon Jade to someone else.
I don’t have it, but I gave it to Reinhardt for the first time.
“We will do our best.”
As I accepted the dragon jade, my fingertips trembled subtly.
It was because he did not think that the emperor would hand over even the dragon jade.
Knowing the meaning of the dragon jade, and knowing that he had never entrusted the dragon jade to anyone, I could see what it meant to hand the dragon jade to me now.
“Your Majesty.”
But there was something more clearly to be said.
As I accepted the dragon jade, my fingertips trembled subtly.
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Deus answered my call.
“Is there anything you want to say?”
“Please acknowledge my absolute authority over the investigative team.”
“How about absolute authority?”
“I’m talking about any involvement in the investigative team, including the right to appoint.”
It was necessary to make sure that the head of the investigation had the right to supervise the investigation team to his heart’s content.
In particular, the investigation team itself could lose its power if external pressure came in to organize the investigation team.
That would have been the scenario that the first empress and nobles most wanted.
“There will be no external pressure. Jim, too, will not intervene in the work of the investigation team at all. Let the investigation leader set you free.”
*
Crown Prince Reinhardt’s victory and the appointment of the head of the investigation caused a huge upheaval in the capital and the entire empire.
In particular, the story began to spread rapidly through the mouths of those who intuited the game at the Colosseum.
“What? Prince Reinhardt is the Sword Master?”
“Did you defeat Prince Launel? Does that make sense?”
“What kind of lie is this?”
Those who heard it through people could not easily believe it. It was because everyone was convinced that Prince Launel would win even if he fought with his toes.
But in reality, Crown Prince Reinhardt was victorious.
The victory was decided in front of 15,000 people.
Unbelievable, but true.
And if it is true, it means that the evaluation of Reinhardt was wrong.
“Then what are the rumors about Crown Prince Reinhardt?”
“How could a madman be a swordsman?”
“Was it all negative?”
“So His Majesty’s eyes are right, then.”
Rumors about the mad prince Reinhardt are too numerous to count.
The common point was ‘incompetent devil’. His actual ability is that he behaves like a demon because he has a high status without any problems.
However, through this confrontation, at least the rumor that he was ‘incompetent’ was confirmed to be wrong.
With that alone, more and more people were seeing Crown Prince Reinhardt again.
There were many people who praised Deus’ discernment, saying that the installation of the crown prince was actually done properly.
However, it was none other than the nobles who were most displeased with this result.
“It is nonsense. The crown prince is a sword master!”
“If the Crown Prince fully holds the right to investigate, what will happen to the future of the empire…”
“You have to lie down for a while. Until the Grand Duke returns.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to stand in line now?”
In the meantime, the aristocrats who framed the crown prince became contemplative.
In particular, the aristocrats who had lined up with the first empress continued to leave.
The decision was made in front of everyone. The result could not be overturned.
Then all that remains is to lie down.
Since he had a sword, it was the mind of the person holding it how to wield it.
However, few nobles knew the details. However, the first empress, who knew the inside story, was extremely angry.
“You gave me the Dragon Jade! As long as you don’t go crazy…!”
Dragon jade is an object that symbolizes the imperial family.
The first empress was well aware of that authority.
In other words, you will have the same power as an emperor.
If Reinhardt decided, he could have literally dethroned the first empress. There will be a backlash, but there is no answer if they are stripped away during the investigation process.
Above all, the nobles who followed her were leaving one by one.
The departure of the nobility brings about a weakening of power.
If his power weakens, it is natural that Launel’s position will also narrow.
“Raunel. Go in as the deputy investigator.”
The first empress made her last move.
It is to push Launel to the position of deputy chief investigator.
No matter how hard Reinhardt was, if the first empress pushed on, she had no choice but to give up.
But Launel shook his head.
“I don’t think you can, mother.”
“Is it time for you to be so carefree? You don’t know what that madman will do if you stay like this!”
“I lost. Even my mother has to admit defeat.”
“So you’re going to admit it and just sit back and die?”
“······ Stop it. Even if I lose, I don’t want to be ugly.”
Launel sighed and walked away.
lost in a fair match. As much as he lost in the confrontation he believed to be his overwhelming superiority, he must also know how to admit it.
Launel locked himself in the gymnasium and swung his sword.
The more impatient she was, the first empress.
‘What am I supposed to do with this?’
She was the one who bullied Reinhardt the most.
There was no way Reinhardt would leave her alone like that.
The fact that the aristocrats were joined in the special prison ward was all considered an attack aimed at him.
1 The Empress chewed her nails with an uneasy look.
*
“Take it all out without leaving a speck of dust behind.”
The next day, the imperial palace wizard Generic was unexpectedly investigated.
The investigation, which began with the Yellow Dragon Knights at the fore, was carried out quickly.
All the mansions and hidden warehouses were opened, and hidden secret documents and treasures were revealed to the world.
“Generic. Beyond buying and selling slaves prohibited by imperial law, there is evidence that they directly operated a slave market. Do you have any excuses?”
“…”
Generic was using his position as an Imperial Palace Wizard to run the slave market. It was revealed that he had amassed enormous wealth by auctioning off slaves banned by imperial law.
Since the auction house was thoroughly concealed with a barrier, it was possible to operate without being caught.
In addition, the nobles who colluded with him were also excavated.
In the end, Generic took off his clothes and stepped down from the position of the Imperial Palace Wizard.
But that wasn’t the end.
It turned out that the barrier was broken several times, and that he sold high-quality magic stones and used cheap magic stones.
I said, looking at Generic, who was tied to the scaffold.
“He’s like a parasite from the Empire.”
“Hey, where is this case! Didn’t you return all your property to the national treasury and lay down your position! There is no law that says you can be put to death for buying and selling slaves!”
“The crime of reselling the magic crystals used for the barrier and replacing them with cheap magic crystals is a serious crime that would not be enough even if I killed several times. A slave is nothing compared to this.”
I ordered the executioner.
“Execution.”
“Ah…!”
Generic was decapitated on the scaffold.
It is a summary execution under military law. It ignited things that had been shushed and passed on.
It was decided by the imperial law, but the nobles did not live by the law. They are truly above the law.
There are no nobles without slaves, and it was full of people who were trying to rob even a little of the country’s blind money.
The reason why they couldn’t control it was because the power of those nobles was too great.
It was because the nobles, including Archduke Carlos, could cause a rebellion if they were touched by mistake.
Literally, because I was scared. There is no need to break the peace.
‘The lumps of cancer that exist on the back side of peace.’
Evils that neither Emperor Deus nor Raunel could carelessly touch.
I touched the hive from the start.
Left alone, they became monsters.
Also, most of those evil nobles are the liaisons of Archduke Carlos.
What I have to do as the head of the investigation is not to find out the background of the monster that attacked the empire.
Balmung has caused it, but it has no effect if he puts up a dead man.
What I really had to do was to cut off Carlos’ hooks, the cancerous masses that were eating away at the empire.
Otherwise, the same past will just repeat itself.
“Izar. I will appoint you as the deputy investigator.”
“I will do my best, Your Highness.”
Izar. Isabella’s brother clenched his fists and cheered inwardly.
It was the moment when it was revealed that the rope that everyone called a rotten copper rope was actually a golden rope.
How is this not impressive? Your choice, your bet on everything was successful.
I said to Izar, who shivered.
“Thoroughly dig into where the magic crystals that should have been used for the barrier went. If there are nobles involved, they will all be put on trial.”
“I will do as headquarters, Your Highness!”
Due to the weakening of the barrier, the palace was attacked.
It was because Generic stole the magic crystals that were supposed to be used in the barrier.
So, the nobles who received and ate the magic stone cannot be said to be innocent.
Of course, I roughly guessed where the magic stones went.
It was all thanks to Archduke Carlos that Generic was able to do such a big thing in the first place. There is a high possibility that the nobles involved are also the puppets of Archduke Carlos.
Take this opportunity to cut the buds.
After about a week passed, silence came to the capital of the empire.
All the nobles in the central political world were lying on their stomachs, suppressing even the sound of their breathing.
However, because of the constant gaze, I had no choice but to call them first.
“······ Stop watching and come out, dragons.”
＜ Dragon Blood Society (1) ＞ End