Chapter 80 : Chapter 80

Chapter 80 - I'm Going to Rebel

I wore a large robe.

And a deep, large hood.

So my hair, skin, and facial features.

None of it was visible.

That was the intruder's appearance, and it was a fitting one for an intruder.

Except for the fact that she was walking down the main street as if she didn't know she was an intruder.

Flutter─

I observed the intruder from atop a Griffin.

Eclipse's sky was always dark, but there was a boundary between day and night.

It only covered the sun, but the corona created by the cover was visible.

The current sky was a dark ink color, without such a thing.

“Shall I take a look at your face.”

Ssk─

I jumped down.

The Griffin disappeared into a spatial artifact.

Only my body fell straight down.

The strong headwind hitting my ears was loud.

It was a sound only audible to the one falling, and couldn't be heard from below.

At least, not until I raised blood like a wave to avoid a fatal fall.

“…!”

Even though her face was hidden by the hood, I could feel a look of surprise.

Anyone would be.

Suddenly, and from behind.

A person who had landed using a wave of blood as a cushion was pointing a red spear at them.

Dddddddk─!

The intruder's body swelled.

It happened in an instant, so fast that I couldn't tell what had happened inside the robe.

The intruder, who had grown a head taller in a single breath, grabbed the spear made of solidified blood.

Kwaddeudeuk─

She broke it as if she were handling a lollipop.

“You have a strange talent.”

I commented lightly and raised my magic.

Its color was red.

[Magic Assimilation - Blood]

[Pure Magic - Water Attribute]

[Samche]

Though a sorcerer, I naturally cast pure magic.

The magic of the west that could control the state of liquid at will.

To borrow Josephine's words, it could be called the entirety of a water attribute magician.

Having learned it, it was indeed so.

In a situation where the undead were not summoned, my magic was literally overflowing thanks to the magic recovery magic circle.

That overflowing magic created a wave of blood, just like before.

It flowed and shimmered in the air according to my will.

“……”

The intruder did not just stand and watch.

A finger, the index finger, protruded slightly from outside the long sleeve.

From its tip.

Took─

Something was launched.

My red eyes narrowed in an instant at the launched something.

Its identity was grasped in a single breath.

“Flesh Bullet.”

A technique where one condensed created flesh and shot it as it was.

It was one of the specialties of the Beast Sorcery sorcerers.

I had no intention of just watching either.

Jjeojeojeojeojeojeok─

The wave of blood I had created soared from the ground like a waterspout.

The key was that I had solidified it.

The Blood Wave hardened just enough to block the Flesh Bullet, and the other half remained liquid.

In the strange phenomenon where liquid and solid coexisted, the Flesh Bullet was blocked as it was.

“……”

“You haven't said a word since a while ago. The right to remain silent isn't a good choice here.”

I changed the state of the wave once more.

Complete liquefaction.

I shot it straight ahead.

Directly from the close front, so she couldn't take advantage of an opening to counterattack or avoid it.

Swaaaaaaaaaaa─

The intruder's entire body was exposed to the Blood Wave.

I had aimed for her wrists and ankles.

A Blood Wave that swept over her body and partially solidified.

Both her hands and feet were bound by chains of hardened blood.

“You know, don't you. If you try to break it like before, your hands and feet will be shattered.”

“I am aware.”

A deep male voice.

“Coming here was indeed not the wrong choice.”

A woman's voice, slightly tinged with a metallic sound.

…It had changed so drastically.

At the same time, her body size shrank back to how I first saw her.

Still, she was about the same height as me, the Youngest Son.

Sreureuk─

The intruder shook her head and lowered her hood.

The identity she willingly revealed was just as the Butler had said.

“My name is Anthia Black Millesdusk. I am one of the collateral branches of the family.”

The black-purple hair, a characteristic of the direct line.

If there was a feature, it was that the color was faint.

It meant that the strong bloodline of Millesdusk was gradually thinning.

Nevertheless, the ability she had just shown was distinct.

“Even though you're from a collateral branch. You used the family's Beast Sorcery, ‘Reconstruction’, proficiently.”

“You flatter me.”

Reconstruction could only be used by a few among the family's Beast Sorcery sorcerers.

A technique that changed the appearance of a part of the human body or the entire body.

It could make it seem as if not only the body shape but also the gender had changed.

Just like right now.

The Youngest Son spoke to the still-intruder, a distant cousin.

“What business brings you here.”

I was curious.

Because the intruder was an intruder, yet not an intruder.

“I believe I told you to look for a position when it's open to outsiders.”

She was one of the four I had allowed to invest, excluding the Fourth Son.

But now, depending on her answer, her hands and feet could be cut off.

Because entering before the opening was an intrusion.

Nevertheless, Anthia's facial features did not waver.

I didn't know if it was because of Reconstruction, but her appearance was comparable to Josephine's.

“I can only apologize for that. But I wanted to see you so much.”

“What.”

“You, right now.”

“…Me.”

“Yes. You.”

She reconstructed the events that had happened to her, just as she had done to her body.

“It wasn't that much money, nor was it a letter sent with outstanding writing skills. But why did you accept me?”

“You crossed the gate because you were curious about that.”

“I wanted to see you, Young Master, even if I got caught. Though I didn't expect you to come out in person like this.”

“I'm not much of a night sleeper.”

“And after meeting you in person like this and unexpectedly exchanging blows. I realized that the luck that came my way was even more valuable.”

Although the Youngest Son's recent actions had been erasing his past infamy.

That didn't mean it went away.

But looking at her now.

“At least in my eyes, it has been decided that those are lies. You were crouching until you could fly the fastest.”

Let's say that's that.

In addition, the recent moment was a decent time for me as well.

‘Anthia. An NPC who becomes a good card if raised well. She harbored the ambition of seizing a key position in the family, even if it meant being at odds with the direct line.’

The information I knew was about this much.

But the short battle just now added to the information.

‘She knows her talents and knows how to use them. Moreover, she has honed them well.’

The reason I accepted Anthia's investment wasn't simply because she had potential.

“I was planning to have a separate talk with you when you came to the completion ceremony anyway. It's a good thing you came like this.”

Sreureuk─

The solidified blood washed away cleanly without a trace.

“You said you were curious about why you were chosen. Follow me. I'll tell you.”

“…Very well.”

She stepped forward resolutely, with the face of a warrior going off to fight somewhere.

Since it was a matter that required a warrior.

It wasn't an entirely wrong mindset.

***

Only when dawn was breaking.

Anthia, the captain of one of the top ten mercenary companies in the east, the Mille Mercenary Company, returned.

For a top ten mercenary company, they had a small total of about twenty members.

Among them, the vice-captain greeted the returning captain.

“You came back alive. I thought the investment with that Fifth Son and everything would be overturned.”

“…Is that why you didn’t disarm.”

“Even if the fool captain got caught, wouldn’t we have to go save her? Even if the enemy is a direct blood relative.”

“Enough, go change.”

“Did you accomplish what you set out to do?”

“……”

Another dark cloud formed on her already dark face.

“It didn’t go well? I knew it. I told you it would be better to just go to the completion ceremony.”

“No. I met the Young Master and heard the reason why he chose us.”

But that reason.

It was beyond absurd.

“The Young Master told me as soon as he sat me down. That he started later than his brothers and has not yet connected with any king.”

“That would be so. I heard that direct blood relatives usually build friendships with the kings of the eastern kingdoms.”

That was soon support, and it allowed them to use the surrounding roads or the corresponding kingdom as a base.

However, the Youngest Son had no such thing.

So he had to make one.

His own king.

“He said he's going to get rid of a certain king and start a coup from within to change the regime.”

“Yes…?”

“I wish I had misheard it too.”

But that face was serious.

So comfortably.

The Youngest Son spoke of and conspired rebellion.

The vice-captain stuttered.

“E-even if that succeeds. No, it’s absurd for it to succeed, but even if it does. It wouldn’t last long, would it…?”

“Because the newly established king would have no legitimacy.”

“Yes, yes. The people of the kingdom and the vassals won’t acknowledge him. Does the Fifth Son not know that?”

“I don’t know. But he didn’t seem like someone who didn’t know.”

“If he knows and is still trying to force it, he’s an even crazier person.”

“Unless he picks up a king’s illegitimate child from somewhere, it’s a problem whether it succeeds or not.”

But that was the Youngest Son's problem.

A different problem had befallen this mercenary company.

“…We, we can’t back out now, can we.”

“The Young Master already made it clear.”

─I never let go of the money that has once entered my wallet, nor the person who has entered my fence.

They should have been reassuring words to hear.

But at that time, it was creepy.

Anyone would be, looking at those gloomily shining blood-red eyes.

The moment she said she would back out of this.

It was as clear as day where those fangs would be aimed.

So she had no choice but to board.

On the express airship that was clearly heading for ruin.

The vice-captain put his hand on the captain's shoulder.

“Still, we. It’s thanks to you, Captain, that we’ve come this far. If we die, we die together.”

“…I have no intention of dying. Since it’s come to this, I have to succeed somehow.”

As a member of a collateral branch, she knew.

How far a direct blood relative could go in the east if they didn't care about the consequences.

But she didn't expect to be part of that hooliganism.

“Let’s wait until the completion ceremony for now. He might change his mind by then, and we need to find out if others know about this.”

“We’ll have to find out secretly.”

“Right. If we go around blabbing about it, the Young Master will naturally cut us off.”

Then they would be the ones treated like crazy people.

“…The Young Master definitely told us his plan and that what he wants is a coup. But it feels like we’re the only ones caught in a trap.”

The Fifth Son. The world was misunderstanding him.

Should she be glad that she cleared up that misunderstanding before becoming his enemy?

She didn't know yet.

***

The day before the completion ceremony.

In Eclipse, which would soon become noisy, the Youngest Son stopped by Hexa.

Hexa was hot from top to bottom.

Upstairs, Lores and Jubel were carefully selecting decoctions to sell.

Downstairs, Josephine, who had entered her new workshop, was fiddling with various things.

To her.

“Dante? What is it? So early in the morning.”

“I have a request.”

“A request from Dante is always welcome. What is it this time?”

“It’s related to this fellow.”

The Magic Sword was placed on the spacious table for drawing blueprints.

Enad resisted like a kidnapped hostage.

[What are you going to do to me again. You shameless bastard.]

What else.

I was trying to pursue a symbiosis that would be mutually beneficial.

Tak─

I placed the Bloodstone next to the Magic Sword.

“It’s called a Bloodstone. It’s a vampire’s item, and just touching it with your bare hands will suck your blood.”

“Hmm. A dangerous item.”

She said it was dangerous, but she was licking her lips.

For Enad himself, it was a hair-raising sight.

“This Bloodstone will become the core of the staff. As a core, it will respond to my magic and generate output, and the body of the staff is.”

“This Magic Sword, right? I completely understand.”

Before I knew it, Josephine had taken out her idea notebook.

This like this. That like that.

A small hand holding a small pen moved quickly across the notebook.

It was in the realm of creation and at the same time a precise calculation.

And not long after.

The Magitech engineer produced a result.

“It should be possible.”

“How long.”

“If the Magic Sword cooperates with me. I think it will be possible in a week.”

[Do you think I will cooperate. The moment you let your magic touch me, I will take over your body.]

“The resistance is fierce.”

“Oh, really? Well then.”

Hwarurururururururu─

The newly purchased industrial furnace raised its firepower in a matter of seconds.

[…….]

“I guess I’ll have to melt it down a bit before proceeding.”

[I’m going to sleep.]

With those last words.

The Magic Sword’s momentum subsided with a gentle snore.

The work continued peacefully.

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