Chapter 358
“Help me! I’ll do anything! please!”
Pallen cried out, rubbing her palms like a fly.
“The servant is good too. Slave is good too! Just let me be by your side!”
Mark Götton banged his head on the floor and cried out in a serious voice.
-Umm… .
Lars scratched his chin and ate his mouth.
– The king is saying he doesn’t understand now, what did you do to those two?
‘I didn’t do anything except for the slap yesterday.’
Even Palen didn’t lose. ‘Cause I know I’m stunned
Raon knelt down and lowered his eyebrows slightly as he looked at Phallen and Mark Götton in the rain.
– But why?
‘I don’t know.’
-Aren’t you trying to blow your head off your mind?
‘It could be, but it’s unlikely.’
The Pallen I’ve seen so far is a woman with more pride than her abilities. Even if he devised a plan to beat himself, he wasn’t the type to get down on his knees and pray.
‘and… .’
Raon looked at Palen’s face and frowned.
‘It’s a face of fear.’
After fainting and waking up, it was as if something terrifying had happened. Without that, you can’t create that kind of expression.
“Come in, both of you.”
Raon turned back the steps he was about to leave and returned to the room.
“Go, thank you!”
“thank you!”
Phallen and Mark Götton knelt and crawled into the room.
“her… ”
Raon closed the door in a breeze, and sat down on the bed.
“Get up and sit down.”
He pulled out a chair and motioned for the two of them to sit down.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.”
“I am comfortable with this.”
Phallen and Mark Götton did not stand up, but knelt and shook their heads.
“how… .”
Raon touched the temples as he looked into the eyes of the two who had sunk to different colors.
‘I don’t understand.’
– I don’t understand you either.
‘what?’
-Why are you suddenly saying respect? Just yesterday, I spit in half.
Lars looked at this and frowned.
‘Because you’re being polite over there.’
– So you’re saying respect too? Did you gossip yesterday?
‘okay.’
– From the real king’s point of view, you’re not normal either. It is rotated about 45 degrees.
He floated in the air like cigarette smoke, saying he didn’t know it would be so difficult to understand humans.
‘It’s only natural that even the same person can’t understand each other.’
Raon closed his eyes for a moment, then opened them and looked at Mark. There was a small, delicate light in the eyes filled with emptiness and despair.
‘It would be easier to say this way.’
It seemed better to speak with Mark Götton first than to Pallen, crushed by fear.
“Mark Götton.”
“Yes!”
“What do you mean by accepting me as a servant?”
“It’s literally like that.”
Mark Götton pounded his fist on his left chest, where his heart was.
“I want to follow you even as a servant! Make me your lord!”
His voice also had a power that was hard to believe that he had seen it yesterday.
“Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
Raon sighed briefly and rested his arms on his knees. I was embarrassed and my body lost strength.
“If you are standing behind your back for revenge, you have found the wrong address. I don’t trust you.”
“That’s not it.”
“Then I belong to Sieghard… .”
“Not even that! Because when I woke up, I didn’t know you were Raon Sighardt.”
Mark Götton shook his head fiercely.
“When I woke up after fainting, it was my heart that hurt more than a jaw or cuts. The words he said before he hit my chin became an awl and stabbed me in the chest.”
He tapped his left chest once more.
“What Laon said is correct. When I was young, I neglected my efforts because of my talent, and when I got older, I thought it was already too late, so I put off the training I had to do, and only practiced what I wanted to do.”
Mark Götton pressed his clenched fist to the floor.
“I am trying. I wielded the tao, consoling myself that I was working hard, but there was no basics, no herbivores, no will.”
“Well… .”
He continued to speak even though his face was red from embarrassment.
“Thanks to Raon, I came to my senses at least late. If you accept it, I can be a slave. I want to take the last chance by helping you.”
He finished speaking and banged his head on the floor. The room rumbled with how hard it was slammed.
‘It sounds like the truth, but… .’
Raon wiped the back of his neck and glanced at Lars.
‘How did you see it?’
-Aren’t the eyes that were distorted as if they had been drugged wide open as if they had been ironed? It means sincerity.
‘What if I was brainwashed?’
– Such brainwashing in just one day is impossible. There was no scent left behind. But I can’t be sure. Because it may have written artifacts.
As Lars said, it’s sincere, but I can’t be sure.
It’s a good opportunity to receive a subordinate master as a subordinate, but you can eat and get an upset stomach, so don’t make a decision.
“I know why you came, but I can’t trust you unconditionally.”
“I understand.”
Mark Götton bowed his head. It seemed that his soul had changed with the one he saw yesterday. It has changed so much that I can’t trust it.
“I’ll think about it, go back.”
“All right.”
Mark Götton nodded and headed for the door. Crawl on your knees as you come in.
“Let’s go for a walk!”
“yep!”
After telling him to walk, he got up and went outside.
“Whew… .”
Raon shook his head and looked at Palen. She was still biting her dry lips like a man in terror.
“Fallen Sepia. Why are you here?”
“Yeah, I’m here to borrow your forgiveness.”
“What forgiveness?”
“Yesterday, I didn’t know the topic and I was cocky… .”
Pallen paused for a moment and swallowed dry saliva. Looking at her sharply shaking eyes, she seemed to be worried, but eventually her mouth opened again. It seemed that he couldn’t overcome his fear of something.
“Everything I tried to assassinate you… .”
“assassination?”
Raon shook his chin.
‘what?’
What do you think?
I expected Phalen to hire an assassination group, but never dreamed that he would reveal that he was trying to assassinate. Bringing up the assassination story was no different from revealing the whole truth.
“You tried to assassinate me?”
“Yes Yes… .”
Pallen rolled her eyes and nodded. Tears filled his eyes.
“Why did you say that? If I had been hiding, I wouldn’t have known.”
“Lord, I don’t want to die.”
“You don’t want to die?”
“yes. All, if I don’t tell you the truth, I’ll die. No, there will be more pain than death… .”
“Who is killing you?”
“Nu, there is a cross in his eye… Who are you?”
Pallen looked up into the air with blank eyes.
‘Who was that?’
I felt the fear and pain to the point of wanting to bite my tongue, but the only thing I remember was the red cross in my eyes.
The hairs all over his body stood on top of a terrifying chill.
But one thing is certain.
What I felt all night was not a dream. If you do not reveal all the facts to Raon and ask for forgiveness, you may end up experiencing that fear and pain for the rest of your life.
“Hey, that’s not important! please! Please forgive me!”
Pallen said it didn’t matter, and banged her head again and rubbed her hands together, begging for forgiveness.
“Well… .”
Raon looked at Palen and raised his chin slightly.
– It smells.
‘okay.’
Unlike Mark Götton, who seemed to have realized himself, there seemed to be an outside intervention in Phallen.
‘About two… .’
There were two places that were expected to have done this.
Were you under pressure from the assassination group that was trying to put in the quest? The second was honestly hard to imagine.
“Where were you going to put the assassination quest?”
“Hey, it’s a place called Black Death.”
“Black Death… .”
Raon’s eyes hardened when he heard the word Black Death.
‘Where does this name come from?’
Black Death was one of the external names used by Shadow, an assassin group that Derus raised in the shadows.
‘You’re like a rat.’
Tried to get in here too.
It seemed that Derus was trying to get involved in the fight for the successor of the Sepia Chamber.
Yonan, from the north to sepia. The gnome was reaching out to the entire continent.
“Ah, the quest probably hasn’t come in yet! I was told to just check the link. Cancel right away… .”
“no.”
Raon shook his head slowly to dry Palen.
“Execute that quest.”
“yes. yes?”
Pallen groaned and raised her head. Surprised, his eyes swelled as if they were about to burst.
“Dorian and the other brothers must have tried to assassinate too, right?”
“That, that… .”
“Cancel the rest and leave me and Dorian alone.”
“Why are you doing that… .”
“You don’t need to know that.”
Raon stood up and approached Phallen. He grabbed her chin and made eye contact.
“Did you say you would do anything?”
“ah… .”
Pallen licked her lips. When he saw his red eyes burning redder than the sun, the fear that had weighed on him last night came back to life.
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No, a cold sweat dripped down from his body, as if the darker darkness weighed him down.
“I look forward to it.”
“yes… .”
All I could do was nod my head to say something like kicking a slave’s leash.
* * *
After returning the frightened Pallen, Raon headed to the gym where they competed yesterday. Since it was breakfast time, no one was there.
-Bo, the king doesn’t want to go! go alone!
Lars whined, clutching the gym door as if he knew who he was going to meet.
‘I don’t want to go either, but I can’t help it.’
I had to go see that person to get a clear picture of this.
Raon went under the tree where he felt a small presence yesterday and spread his gimmick. After blocking the sound from escaping, he raised his gaze.
“Is it?”
“yes!”
A flying squirrel popped out of a branch covered with leaves with a muffled and roaring voice.
– Whoa!
Lars looked at Merlin in the form of a flying squirrel and squeaked.
– Crazy! She was also a madwoman!
The guy quivered, saying he didn’t know the difference from an ordinary animal.
“Is it yours?”
“yes!”
It was an absurdly light answer, as if he had no intention of cheating.
“Ha ha… .”
Raon put a hand on his forehead and let out a long sigh.
‘It was also Merlin.’
Yesterday’s flying squirrel I saw as if passing by, and today’s frightened Pallen, the prediction I had in mind came true.
“don’t worry. Because I’ve adjusted it so it doesn’t harm you. No matter what happens, nobody knows I got in.”
Merlin wiggled his hands and twisted his body from side to side. Listening to it now, her voice was quieter than usual, like a tired person.
‘Didn’t you feel Merlin’s presence yesterday?’
– None! If I had, I would have woken you up right away and told you to run away!
Lars hid behind her shoulder, saying that she was really a madman.
“How did you get here?”
“Who can keep a cute squirrel in check?”
Merlin shrugged and grinned. I feel it every time, but it seems to express the expression of the animal very well.
“Even so far, the mansion has vigilant magic.”
Several boundary magics are applied to the corps building. I don’t know how I broke through the border that gets thicker at night.
“I knew you were coming here, so I knew the route I was going to take in advance. The bigger the building, the more holes there are.”
“Chorus, path… .”
Raon touched his temple with his finger. It sounded terrifying to say that I had figured out all the routes in advance.
“Even if there is a hole, the boundary magic is… .”
“What the vigilance magic catches is the mana sleeping deep inside the target’s body. Because there is only a very small amount of mana in this child’s body. I can’t take it.”
Merlin spoke softly, like a teacher teaching a child.
“Then how did you instill fear in Phallen?”
I had my doubts because I heard about Merlin’s magic from Lars yesterday.
“I cast magic like this.”
– Impossible!
Lars jumped over his shoulder and shook his head wildly.
– As I said a while ago, how can I use magic when my mana is low!
That’s it. I ran out of bounds due to low mana, but I couldn’t understand how they used magic.
“Hey. here.”
Merlin pointed to the flying squirrel’s chest.
“Stand, please… .”
“okay. vitality. All of the children I controlled had my life in them, but I used them without taking them back. I am very interested in my work. Are you feeling good?”
Hearing Merlin’s laughter that flowed along with those words, the hairs all over his body stood up with a chill. She licked her lips and looked at Lars.
– Go, it is possible. Substitution of life force with mana is not unique to the uninhabited. But the vitality… .
‘It’s a lifetime.’
I feel like my heart is tightening.
Just as Matio, who fought before coming here, raises Aurors with his vitality, a wizard can create high-purity mana with his vitality.
That crazy woman seemed to have done this by cutting her lifespan.
“Are you really crazy?”
Raon shouted, grabbing his head with his hands.
“Oh! Are you worried about me?”
Merlin jumped from the tree. He flew lightly and landed on his trembling hand.
“happy… .”
She touched her finger with the tiny hand of a flying squirrel, dyeing her cheeks red.
“don’t worry. Because if it’s for you, I can melt everything I have.”
“Okay. How long have you shortened your lifespan?”
“Not long. Because you broke the wall of that child’s mind and entered bloodless.”
Merlin waved his hand, saying it had been less than a month.
“Don’t do that in the future. I may need your help, but I will not allow you to cut your lifespan.”
It’s not because I like Merlin. It was because he felt that if he used her like this, he might become a person like Derus, who played with himself in his previous life.
Even if Merlin did it himself, he didn’t want to do something like Derus.
“Now you are thinking of me.”
Merlin smiled like a half-moon as if happy.
“If you say so, I have to obey, okay… .”
She nodded her head with a deep smile.
“driving me crazy.”
Raon looked up at the sky and sighed.
– No, it doesn’t make sense. It’s already turned two wheels… .
Lars only poked out his trembling eyes, as if feeling fear.
“What did you do to Mark Goeton?”
“Did you do anything to him?”
“What?”
“I didn’t have time.”
Merlin shrugged, saying it was true.
‘Then that one… .’
was it real
Apparently, he really wanted to follow him.
“Did I help?”
Merlin smiled as he put his hand on his waist.
“… … .”
Raon looked at Merlin and closed his eyes.
‘It helped.’
It was a great help as he cut it off before Phalen did his tricks, and even got a chance to reduce the power of the shadows. However, it was never something to be done by shortening the lifespan.
“okay. But there was no need for you to go out like this. Never do this again.”
“yes. by the way… .”
“What is this time?”
“Because you care about me. I’m so excited I’m losing my connection. I must have been a little overworked yesterday.”
Merlin’s face grew redder and his voice began to cut off.
“This kid has been through a lot. So… .”
“I knew it. What this time?”
Raon smiled and looked at the flying squirrel. He was confident this time because he brought a variety of food in the subspace pocket.
“He wants to eat bird eggs and carrion.”
“… … .”
“Did you hear that? Eggs and rotten meat. Among them, I hate eggs.”
“Everyone, do squirrels eat those things?”
“Squirrels are omnivores, and their preferences change with each season. Then I’ll beg you.”
She left those words and disappeared. The dampness in the squirrel’s eyes disappeared in an instant.
“Quick!”
The flying squirrel reached out as if asking for food quickly.
“Oh, um, uh… .”
Raon looked into the subspace pocket. Of course, there were no eggs or carrion.
“T, you have a special taste.”
“Queek!”
The flying squirrel was loud and tapped the palm of his hand as if asking for speed.
“So uh… .”
“Lord!”
As I was contemplating what to do, the gym door opened and Dorian entered.
“Today my father invited me to dinner! Probably the test you mentioned earlier… .”
“It doesn’t matter now.”
Raon shook his head and gestured to Dorian.
“Do you have any eggs? with a small one?”
“Will you give me that guy?”
Dorian looked at the flying squirrel in the palm of his hand and put his hand in his stomach pocket. After a while, two cute little bird eggs were caught on his hand and came up.
“Quick!”
The flying squirrel liked to jump around on the palm of his hand.
“Maybe rotten meat… .”
“Are you eating that? It’s special.”
Dorian smirked as he looked at the flying squirrel.
“Well, you probably wouldn’t even be carrying it.”
Leon nodded his head. It is natural. No matter how much space there is, who would carry rotten meat?
“What carrion do you need? cow? pig? chicken? There are even ducks.”
Dorian pulled out the meat wrapped in plastic in his belly pocket one after another.
“Is there?”
“Of course it is. It’s a necessity.”
“Why? .”
-driving me crazy… .
Lars shook his head as he looked at Dorian and the flying squirrel alternately.
-Why are you carrying rotten meat?
The guy grabbed his head and screamed.
-Why are there so many crazy people in this age?
* * *
Raon and Dorian participated in the dinner that Addis invited. Most of the long rectangular tables were full even though we arrived 20 minutes before our appointment time.
‘Are they the servants of the successor candidates?’
Just as he had followed Dorian, one or two of his men were seated next to the other candidates for succession. When I looked into their bright eyes, it seemed like they were all talking to each other.
“The man at the end over there is our first older brother.”
Dorian took a step to the side and whispered.
A middle-aged man with good looks, who seemed to come from a beast tribe, was sitting in the seat to the right of the top table. The beard and hair were neatly organized, giving a cool impression without looking dull despite the large size.
‘Of course you know that.’
Jesser Sepia.
Falen and Dialun did not learn any martial arts or magic, but Jeser was famous not only in the Sangga, but also in the uninhabited side. He wasn’t a brilliant genius, but it was an unusual case of making money and becoming a master.
‘I said there is no elixir I haven’t tried.’
I heard that Addis’s true wife raised him very preciously, so Jesser has never had an elixir he hasn’t tried, and that he has been taught martial arts by a master level master every time. Because of that, the energy I felt in my body was immense.
“… … .”
Jesser glanced at this side and turned his head as if not interested.
‘As Dorian said.’
Unlike Phallen and Dialun, who were harassing, Jesser had said that he had completely ignored the very existence of it. Seeing how he treats his younger brother, who returned after 9 years, still doesn’t seem like a family.
‘but… .’
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Not only the individual’s strength, but also the strength and funds they have will not be compared with others. He was the highest ranked and most dangerous person in the succession race.
“Oh, come on.”
Pallen got up from her seat and bowed her head. The expression on his face was unmistakable.
“You have come too. welcome.”
Contrary to the words of welcome, Dialun bowed his head with bitterly cold eyes.
“Ah, hello.”
Dorian stood in the middle of the table and bowed his head.
“… … .”
“okay.”
“Yes… .”
Jesser didn’t respond at all, Dialun nodded slightly, and Falen shrugged.
“Let’s go.”
Raon sat down at the end of the table, guided by Dorian.
“Whew… .”
Dorian sighed, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
“I’m a little nervous.”
“It will be fine.”
Raon smiled and leaned back on the chair.
-The fragrance of the finest dishes is vibrating!
Lars sniffed the food flowing from somewhere and stuck out his tongue like a puppy.
-Tell me to hurry up! It seems that there are all land, sea, and air!
‘It will come out on your own. Stay still.’
The door to the dining room opened wide as Raon pressed Lars’ head and forcibly slipped it into the bracelet.
Koo!
Addis Sepia and his five caravans entered. Even though he had not mastered martial arts, his presence was so huge that it seemed to reach the ceiling.
Dude!
Everyone at the table stood up and bowed their heads to Addis.
“I see you, Lord!”
“Thank you for accepting the invitation. Sit down.”
Addis nodded his head as he sat on the chair in a modest posture.
“Yes.”
“thank you!”
The successor candidates and their men all sat down.
match!
When Addis clapped her hand, the restaurant door opened again, and the users came in with steaming dishes.
-Oh oh!
Lars took a deep breath and laughed.
– Looks like you’re going to start eating first!
‘Yes.’
Seeing the food being called first, it seemed like they were trying to get the main point out of the meal first.
-After all, it’s the choice of a father-like choice for the king’s subordinate!
Lars looked at the dishes placed on the table, and his eyes full of desire lit up.
– First, eat the truffle soup over there. After melting the boat with the warm soup, a proper battle… .
“Explain why everyone is called while the food is being prepared.”
As Lars was happily deciding the order of the dishes to eat, Addis’s low voice echoed through the restaurant.
“I am going to give you all one test.”
Silence fell in the restaurant, which had been slightly murmured by the cool, calm voice.
‘In this situation?’
To create a situation in which you have no choice but to become tense again after releasing tension is not an ordinary person.
‘It’s fun.’
Raon looked at Addis with excited eyes.
-ah… .
Lars could not take his eyes off the dish, with his shoulders shrunk like a jjuguri.
-Bar, the rice is getting cold… .