Episode 145
The harvest festival went smoothly without any interruption.
At the end of the prepared schedule, at the end of the day’s performance, many travelers and beggars shouted and praised the name of Dragias at the free food.
With the force that was revealed as if to show off and the momentum of the powerful secretly spreading, there was no way that they would dare to riot.
As the days of the Harvest Festival passed, Allen, Elros, Elef, and the ring bridge did not move at all.
“Where are you planning to go today?”
“••• Well, since you’ve gone all the way to a quiet place?”
He enjoyed the festivities at a leisurely pace according to Rachel’s schedule, as if he had really had no plans.
Those who had been secretly monitoring him just in case, were also more and more relaxed at his appearance.
At some point he started to leave the sword, but they didn’t attach much meaning to it.
It was because it was not strange to leave the sword with her fiancee.
There were no problems except for rescheduling for the last day because the auction I had planned to go with her in the middle had grown in size.
Oh, and there was a point that the number of people coming to the festival increased a little… Overshadowed by the hustle and bustle of the festival, he did not pay much attention to it.
Except for a few who planned it.
So the last day of the harvest festival.
A street churning with splendid magic and seething heat that will decorate the last night of the harvest festival that lasted for ten days.
Allen and Rachel got dressed and got out of the carriage.
“Today is the last day, it’s a pity:’ “Isn’t this enough?” “That’s…”
She smiled broadly as she lifted her brimmed hat.
“I guess it depends on your answer?”
Allen replied bluntly, as if he had expected her response.
“If you want me to finish this job, I’ll let you know.”
“••really?”
She had the eyes of a surprise, but Allen came to a conclusion after thinking about it several times.
It is said that people make the same mistakes over and over again. It is the story of not learning something from a mistake.
‘In the case of ordinary people, it would be.’
However, some people learn from a mistake they make, while others learn from no mistakes.
Allen knew of several examples of what would happen by hiding this, and of an accident that resulted from conflicting thoughts.
Education for the heirs of the family was not just about learning how to handle things.
Therefore, he intended to provide the level of information that others know.
People who thought they knew everything would get anxious if they didn’t know something, so if they just relieved that anxiety, everything was solved.
It was an arrogant idea to hide everything in the first place.
She entered the auction house with a worried look on Allen’s answer.
As soon as they proved their identity, they were escorted upstairs to a different level than downstairs.
When I turned my head, there was not much to see.
The chief executive officer of the Empire had already packed all his belongings as if he was thinking of leaving this auction for the last time, and the king’s son snorted that he was not interested in the auction.
Despite his appearance, others only glanced at him, but no one stood up.
Because it would only bother me if I got entangled with the beast people.
“Then, if you go back, the business…”
“Yeah, I’m going to do that…”
The nobles and the Dragias family members having a small conversation.
Articles to protect the auction house were everywhere, and users moved refreshments for them in between.
Allen looked at the person downstairs, who was seated in anticipation of what might be coming, without knowing anything.
This auction is a trap.
Perhaps both Elef and Elos will act for what they are aiming for.
No one will get what they want.
Except for yourself.
“Hello! Thank you for participating in this auction. My name is Medine, who is hosting this auction.”
A middle-aged man was walking up the podium with a smile.
“I don’t need to say much longer. Now! Then, let’s start this auction hosted by the Draghias family.”
The auction has started.
Max turned his gaze to the other devotees who were rolling their feet.
“Why, however, are you afraid that things will fail?”
They looked at each other with restless faces, and a man took the lead.
“I’ll tell you.”
“Yes, tell me. Guard.”
“This is absolutely not to doubt our sexual intercourse, nor does it mean distrust of the Apostle-sama.”
“Yeah, I know your beliefs, so tell me. What’s the matter?”
The guard, who looked at Max with a face that didn’t seem reassured by those words, carefully pointed behind him.
“I, that’s really, really… Is this what the Apostle wanted?”
They had now escaped out of the city with all their belongings.
And at Allen’s request, after talking with the main body, I received the necessary items.
After a week of preparation, they were finally able to finish everything Allen had ordered.
“Tell me what you’re worried about. If you say it so vaguely, you don’t know.”
The guard looked at the magic circle in front of them.
A magic circle with a top-level blocking barrier and a few high-level magic scrolls that the apostle directly requested from the denomination.
“Is it right for the Apostle to want to burn all this plain?”
Max looked at him strangely.
“••• Even if there are monsters in the Dragias family, the rest are innocent. If this plain is burned, there will be food shortages across the continent.
I will arise, and many on the continent will starve.”
“That’s right, that’s right.”
The guard breathed a sigh of relief as he confronted him without reacting.
“If that was a normal fire.”
“•••Yes?”
Max smiled as he looked at the people watching the conversation from behind.
“How long has it been since you joined the Ring Bridge?”
“•••Now is the second year.”
“Then it must be the first time for such a large-scale operation.”
Max activated the magic circle in front of them. A wave of powerful magic that could not be covered even by a barrier spread out, and the flames swirled around.
“Our ring bridge is to return to the original cycle, not to kill people. That’s it.”
A white flame, different from the ordinary flame, began to spread throughout the central plain.
“It’s the same with this one. Don’t doubt him. It’s good to point this out, but I wouldn’t have done it if I had more faith.”
They shut their mouths.
Max shook his head as if it was okay. It was because I knew that their mentality was not bad after hanging out with them for several years.
It just wasn’t ripe.
“Come back and take care of the rest. I believe this will have strengthened your faith.”
“•••All right!”
The Guard and those who had agreed with him shouted.
Flames, burning only dead objects, not living things, began to silently cover the plains.
Max smiled kindly.
A warm atmosphere surrounded each other.
“What crazy cubs fired the plains?”
Elros couldn’t understand if he had just heard what he had just heard.
what? set on fire? who? where?
But his head didn’t give him a chance to evade the situation. His eyes turned to Eliff.
He gave orders with a distorted expression on his face as if he had heard the news before himself.
“Move all the troops of the family. Soldiers, knights, wizards, everyone!”
“Then the auction house…”
“Didn’t you hear what I said, everyone?”
When Eliq asked in a firm voice, the knight left the burial with the others without further questioning.
The auction house was buzzing.
“•••What? The plains burned?”
The capital that Dragias had accumulated for hundreds of years was created by owning that vast plain.
With the grain of that fertile soil and the productive power of the elves, they gained an advantage by exchanging with them, and a strong man came out of nowhere based on a lot of support.
None of the current Eight Rivers came from the three generations of families, but if you go up to the previous generation or the previous generation, you can find one.
This time, the head of the Dragias family, Belid Dragias, was also known as a powerful person who reached the 7th rank, although he was inferior to the eight rivers.
If you take out the relics and treasury weapons in the family’s treasury, it will be possible to stand up against the eight rivers.
Upon hearing that their lifeline was on fire, the members of the family, regardless of direct line or collateral, were heartbroken.
“•••The plains of the Dragias family were burned.”
Has the madman appeared after a long time?
Chief Executioner Johann Lachenbach was not afraid of retaliation, and first felt sympathy for the perpetrators.
Just because the lion was silent, it was a pity that there was an idiot coming to remove its mane.
He prepared to leave the city.
The harvest system is over, and there will be no need to get involved in any frivolous things.
“Ugh, that’s a surprise.”
Hughes, the son of the snoring dog king, woke up hastily from the commotion, but blinked as if he had not yet understood the situation.
“•••What’s up.”
He looked around, wiping his saliva.
Somebody prepared to escape, and while others were still busy grasping the situation, Elos made a decision.
‘The plan is messed up, but this could be better/
Originally, he had planned to cover the auction house with his own troops and reveal his brother’s identity to the public.
The downside of this plan, however, was that the forces around the auction house were too strong to fail.
So he was also aiming for the timing… .
‘There is no time when there are fewer troops by his side than now.’
he signaled At his signal, a group of troops waiting around stormed into the auction house.
“What, what!”
“•••This again.”
Each of the troops was made up of four hierarchies.
In the meantime, there were mercenaries who made a name for themselves, and there were warriors who said they were active in the vicinity. There’s even a 5th-level wizard wandering around alone.
Those whom he has gathered over the years based on various interests and powers
Since the family’s troops could not be used, this was the best way to gather them in secret. But that alone was enough to overwhelm the atmosphere.
Although it is difficult to deal with the great gate, it is not enough to capture the person in the auction house.
“Everyone, be still!”
Just as they had promised, when they surrounded the auction house, Elos fell onto the podium on the first floor.
“It’s no different for me to do this.”
Chief Executor John, who was about to sneak out, lowered himself with an interesting look.
Hopefully, you may be able to obtain a rare clan division or a secret related to it. For the sake of the empire and for the royal family, he decided to watch for a while.
“•••Oh, is it a fight?”
Of course, there were those who lit up their eyes for a slightly different reason.
Hughes looked at the stage with twinkling eyes when it seemed that something interesting had happened despite the sudden commotion.
“•••Allen.”
Allen looked down at it like a play with Rachel.
Elros, who was on the podium, exhaled in front of the gaze of confusion, suspicion and interest.
“You may wonder why I did this at this time, in this chaos.”
It’s something I’ve been preparing for years.
But he was confident that he did his best, even if he wasn’t perfect.
“The reason is simple.”
He pulled out a small red dagger from his bosom. As soon as he took the item out, most of the people in the auction house were stiff and motionless.
“Allen, are you okay?”
It was the same with Allen.
‘That’s… Dragon core, dragon blood, or something that suppresses those with dragon energy:
Dragon Slayer.
A tool for killing dragons.
“It is because there is an abuse of taking the body of our Grand Prince Dragias and my brother, Eliph Dragias.”
He pulled out one more thing he had prepared when everyone but the Imperial Chief Executioner, the Alliance of Beastmasters, and a few nobles stopped.
Essence that forcibly draws out all the dragon blood that flows from one’s own blood.
When he took it out and broke it, a red mist appeared and touched Eliff’s body as if looking for its owner.
At that moment, the shape of a black evil dragon rose from his body, and the mist was absorbed.
Seeing this, Elos smiled brightly.
“Isn’t that so. Evil dragon Nidhogg, the scornful snake that devoured our ancestors.”