98 – If It’s for You (3)
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After receiving a secret order from the knight commander, about a dozen Espeons left the imperial castle.
Espeon, the Shadow of the Empire, a group of assassins who take care of all the dirty work in the imperial castle.
Within an organization or imperial castle that must only listen to the orders of the imperial, the influence of the knight commander castle is so strong that one follows his instructions.
The knight commander also took advantage of this and intended to cut off the Espions even if they were attacked by Leonard.
In case Leonard came to visit, the intention was to make a flimsy excuse, ‘Do I have the authority to control Espione?’
Or, it would be perfect if the imperial family designated Leonard as a dangerous person and began to eliminate him in earnest.
It would be okay if you didn’t send Espion from the beginning, but you can’t show your incompetence when Isidore is clearly watching.
Right now, he desperately needs the help of Isidore, the Imperial Wizard, and in such a situation, he cannot afford to disappoint Isidore and show him as incompetent.
At that time, there was someone who secretly watched the Espionages secretly leaving through the back door of the castle.
Her maid who stood at the third-floor window of the annex where the princess lived, often ran down her hallway.
When she went into a room, the maid took out one of the magic scrolls from her bookshelf and spread it out on her desk.
The maid, who was writing something on her scroll with a pen, tore it lengthwise.
The torn scroll glowed blue and the words her maid had written disappeared.
Now, those Espeons will all die before they even enter Silesi.
* * * * *
I went to the bank with Leana.
This is because so many gold coins came in due to this Brontes request that it was difficult for the guild leader’s safe to handle them.
And if you store too much cash, it can be very difficult if there is a thief.
Of course, I put Ornette’s magic on it, but there’s just in case.
When I deposited the gold coins received for this request at the Central Bank of the Republic in the city, the teller’s eyes widened.
“Are you saying you’re leaving everything to me?”
“Yes. Is there any problem?”
“Oh, no. That’s not it… Please wait a moment.”
The teller quickly ran off to somewhere.
After a while, the bank manager rushed out to greet us.
“Oh, hello. Are you from the Lucas Guild?”
Then, the branch manager’s eyes returned to the enormous bag of money still sitting at the counter.
“Don’t stay here, come inside. Let’s have a cup of tea.”
When I followed the branch manager in, the employees came and followed me whining, holding bags of money.
Ah, so in modern times, you’re treated like a VIP who leaves a lot of cash?
After sitting us down, the branch manager introduced himself, invited us to have his tea, thanked us for using our bank, and blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, two employees counted the gold coins one by one and stacked them into ten.
When the gold coin counting was finished, the branch manager thanked me again and asked to shake my hand.
“I am the office manager and this is the guild leader.”
As I smiled while turning the hand that was extended to me towards Leana, the branch manager looked quietly embarrassed.
“I’m sorry about this…”
“It’s okay. Everyone misunderstands that.”
Leana smiled and shook hands with the branch manager.
“Director.”
Leana called me as I left the bank.
“Someday, the manager must officially become the guild leader.”
“I want to do that, but what should I do if I’m not qualified?”
According to the laws of the principality, to become a guild leader, you must have a relevant academy diploma or have more than ten years of experience in the industry.
Measures to prevent random people from establishing guilds.
Since I don’t have either, I bought Leana’s guild and run it with the title of her secretary.
I don’t want to go to the academy at this age, and Clemence says there is a one-year short-term technical academy somewhere, but honestly, I don’t want to be away from the guild for a year.
There’s Leah, who’s much more knowledgeable about operations than I am, so what’s she going to do? She also wants to.
“You just have to stay by my side until ten years pass.”
“Is that so? But do you have to raise your salary every year?”
“It’s obvious. If your salary is insufficient, tell me.”
“I’m still receiving enough. If I receive more, the guild will be ruined.”
Leana smiled and stroked her hair.
To be honest, Leana’s salary is not high.
In addition, a significant amount of money continues to be transferred to Leana’s account after she is taking over the guild.
Right now, Leana is much richer than me.
It’s okay though.
All living expenses in her guild are taken out of Leah’s own money.
One day, I noticed that her spending was strangely low, and I asked Leana about it. After learning about it, I told her not to do that, but Leana is still feeding and clothing us with her own money.
Leana, I really like it.
“Hmm, manager. Are you spraying perfume?”
Leana sniffed her nose.
“Me? No?”
“Is this what your body actually smells like?”
Leah came closer and put her nose on my chest and took a deep breath.
“Hmm, it smells good.”
“Really? I don’t use perfume. Anyway, thank you. It seems like all our guild members smell good.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Celestine and Ornette also smell like perfume?”
Then Leana tilted her head.
“I don’t know? Didn’t Celestine say something similar last time? I don’t know.”
Is Celestine’s body odor really only felt as a scent to me?
Or is it because the demon hunter’s senses are sensitive?
Then what about Ornette?
And what about Leana’s scent coming from my body now?
I don’t know. I don’t think it’s that important.
As I was walking down the street talking to Leana, I saw a familiar figure in front of me.
“Mr. Patrick!”
Patrick, who was ahead, saw us and smiled gently.
“Hello, Mr. Leonard. Miss Leana.”
“Where are you going?”
“Where are you going? I’m on my way to work.”
“At this hour?”
The sun has already risen almost in the sky.
Well, since I’m the branch manager, who’s going to say anything if I come to work late?
“Then, thank you for your hard work. I’m a little late, haha.”
Patrick smiled brightly and crossed the street.
As he was just passing in front of me, instantly I felt a strong smell.
It was a strong smell of blood.
Even though there were no blood stains, I could tell.
It was clearly covered in blood and washed off with water.
Did that person kill someone somewhere else?
There is no place where things don’t go wrong, so every day is like a murder.
“Huh? Director. Isn’t that Captain Vivian?”
As I was watching Patrick walking away, Leana tapped my shoulder.
From the other side, I saw Captain Vivien on a horse quickly running towards me.
When I raised my hand to say hello, Captain Vivian saw me and quickly pulled the reins to stop his horse.
“Mr. Leonard!”
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“I was on my way to the guild! Do you have time?”
“If it’s time, is it time for tea or time for a request?”
“Of course it’s the latter!”
Looking back at Leana, Leana immediately nodded her head.
It’s much more profitable to ask for one border guard request than to do a few minor requests.
“What’s going on? Just give me the word and I’ll come out at any time.”
“Do you also handle Death Knights?!”
“Death Knight… ?”
* * * * *
A border area some distance east of Shlesi.
The Tancred Fortress of the Duchy of Nantes faces the Gerbet Tower, a watchtower on the western side of the empire, across the plain.
The commander of the Western Border Guard, who was in overall command of Fort Tancred, was observing the plain with a telescope.
What he sees are hundreds of Death Knights camped out on the plains.
To be exact, it was an undead army made up of Death Knights and their followers.
The Death Knights sitting right on the border between the principality and the empire have been like that for several days without leaning in either direction.
As with the undead, their numbers began to increase with one or two appearing one day.
At first, the empire recklessly sent out a group of soldiers to destroy the low-numbered outposts, but they were wiped out without a trace.
Therefore, the garrisons of both the Empire and the Principality are on high alert and constantly on alert.
“Seup, doesn’t that look like it came a little this way?”
“It seems to be the same.”
The adjutant responded to the border guard leader’s concerns.
“I see. It seems like it’s constantly moving even when it’s still.”
That’s because the Death Knight had a shape, but his armor was white and burning black, constantly fluttering.
“Anyway, when are those demon hunters or something coming?”
“It was yesterday that the Shlesi incident broke out, so it will probably come soon.”
“I don’t know how a demon hunter can do that.”
“But right now, the only people who know about such bizarre things are demon hunters.”
“I know. I know, bastard. That’s why I’m waiting like this.”
The Western Border Guard leader reprimanded his adjutant and observed the Death Knights with a telescope again.
* * * * *
“Ha, what is that again?”
Meanwhile, the Gervais Watchtower located on the empire side.
Imperial Wizard Isidore was irritated as he saw the Death Knights gathered in black.
I’m already very uncomfortable with Eleonol dying and Leonard being mentioned, but then something like that shows up and it’s damn good.
If you went a little further west, it would be the land of a principality, so why did they camp right in the middle of the border?
First of all, the emperor told me to go, so I came, but as a wizard, how on earth do I deal with people who can’t even use magic?
Maybe Leonard would know how to do it. But I can’t ask that.
It’s a shame to stick your face in and have everything fly away.
Fuck, what should I do with that?