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How to live as a tyrant's spoiled brat Episode 142
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Although Sereraji was an excellent magician, he was not an excellent fighter.
It's not that I didn't experience duels during my time as an Ivory Tower cadet, and my recent duel with the fire mage Finelcia reawakened my sense of duel, but a fight between a mage and a warrior is different from a fight between a mage and a wizard.
Moreover, their opponents were not creatures of this world, but chimeras.
“Sigh!”
Sprays acidic liquid, shoots bone needles like arrows, and applies pressure from a distance.
“Keeeeeek!”
He clings to the ceiling, crawls on six legs, and jumps down towards her.
“Woooooo!”
He charged forward with his armor-like body in front.
If he were a normal wizard, he would have panicked and collapsed in an instant, regardless of his skill.
But in Sereraji, it was Sereraji.
She was a genius sorceress with great firepower, and she had been watching the melee from over Valencian's shoulder, and she had a reason to win this fight.
“Chain lightning!”
Phage crackle!
The Blue Drake's horns were consumed by evil, and electricity shot out like tree branches.
“Eww!”
"damage!"
“Keeeeeek!”
Of course, the merchants were just as desperate as she was, but unlike her, they did not fight directly.
Flash!
Electric magic is performed in a very short period of time.
'If you're holding off an opponent for a few seconds, it doesn't mean you have a lot of mana, but rather that your skills are poor.'
Sereraji accepted the advice of his teacher by comparing it to his own experience, and felt and realized its extreme meaning.
'Faster.'
Flash!
'Faster!'
Flash!
'You can do it!'
Phage crackle!
“Sigh!”
The scorpion chimera and fox chimera, which had been spraying acidic liquid and shooting bone stingers like arrows, trembled and collapsed to the ground as they pressed down from a distance.
“Keeeeeek!”
The spider chimeras that had been crawling on six legs from the ceiling and jumping down towards her were swept away by the blue current and rolled on the floor.
“Woooooo!”
The stag beetle chimera, which had been charging forward with its armor-like body, trembled and fell to the ground with a thud!
Sereraji stomped on the head of the chimera that had fallen in front of her.
'Why are you wandering around this world?'
On the outside he looked like a monster, but her eyes showed something else.
They overworked their muscles, straining their joints. In the process of changing from six-legged walking to two-legged walking, they lost the space to store their wings. They also had to bend their necks forward to leave room for their chins.
'It's obvious even without looking.'
The deadline for submitting the assignment was approaching, and I needed to submit something impactful to get good grades, so I burned the night away to make the appearance of the chimera look good.
If you take unreasonable measures because the situation is urgent, problems will eventually arise.
“Your Highness the Grand Duke of Sereraji! Why are you doing this to us?”
“You don’t belong in the ivory tower anymore, do you?”
The merchants who had been shivering under the table shouted.
“Shut your mouth.”
Sereraji raised his staff and gave a sharp rebuke.
“You are all foolish and greedy. Is there a single person here who has never been to the ivory tower crematorium?”
“… … .”
No answer came back.
The room was filled with the smell of smoke and coal.
The upper class thought as they watched the chimeras burst forth.
If we do it wrong, we might all really die.
“They brought in the failed products in the first place and couldn’t control them, and later when problems arose, they whined that the ivory tower didn’t properly manage the incinerator.”
“You misunderstand!”
“Don’t you know that my eyes are not eyes but glass beads?”
Peek! Peek! Peek!
A wolf chimera leaped from under the table, swinging its scorpion tail and stinging.
At the same time, he stretched out his long tongue and tried to tie up Sereraji.
Sereraji was not a fighter, and his speed could not be followed with the eyes.
Flash!
But it wasn't necessary to just see it and block it.
As he struck the staff on the floor, another bolt of electricity flew.
The wolf chimera rolled on the floor with its tongue out.
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She confirmed the death of the chimera, pulled out the spike embedded in her thigh with great difficulty, made a hand seal with her right hand, and used detox magic.
Phew!
Then I heard a sound like a needle was digging into my calf.
"uh?"
Sereraji was momentarily confused and checked to see if there was a chimera left behind him.
Phew!
Once again, this time a spike dug into the instep.
"ah."
A look of confusion appeared on his pale face.
The ones who stabbed him in the back were the merchants hiding under the table.
* * *
Sereraji staggered back, hands outstretched.
“Catch him! Catch him!”
“Stab!”
“I’m not wearing armor! I can send you.”
“Take the cane away from me!”
“Cover your mouth and hold my hand! I won’t let you get hurt!”
“Whether I die this way or that way!”
“Anyway, if this gets known to the royal family and the ivory tower, we’re all finished.”
Merchants who had been hiding under the tables jumped out one after another.
Dozens of hands rushed towards Sereraji.
The figure seen in the darkness looked like a chimera with dozens of tentacles.
The flustered wizard's body swayed violently.
The blue and yellow gold and silver swayed and the lips trembled.
Even a rat will bite a cat when cornered, and those who have nothing to lose are the most fearful.
The merchants, in their desperation on the verge of ruin, stole the chimeras from the incinerator, and, unable to control them all, turned the northern refugee camp into a den.
It wasn't just the merchants who were desperate in this place.
… … If you take unreasonable measures because the situation is urgent, problems will eventually arise.
'ah.'
Even in the darkness, the dagger glowing blue was clearly visible.
Sereraji closed her eyes, each of a different color, tightly.
If you do something 'somehow', 'by all means', 'regardless of the means and methods', you will somehow get a reward.
As the merchants welcomed Sereraji in return, Sereraji welcomed the merchants in return.
“We are the same!”
“I wanted to protect! The world I lived in!”
“But what if you want to kill us all like this?”
“Take the price you paid for killing all my goods!”
cost.
The price of blood, the price of lineage.
It was her sore spot on words.
The price for being born into royalty was that she had to leave the ivory tower, and then she fell to the ground like an angel fallen from heaven.
Suddenly, Serena opened her eyes wide.
“Who dares to discuss the price with me?”
Two eyes of different colors flashed like lightning.
“Lightbulb.”
Phage crackle!
With the order, Sereraji's body became a ray of light.
“Uh, uh!”
“I’m screwed… … !”
The merchants were astonished as they looked at each other's faces in the light.
Dozens of hands that were about to bury Sereraji were gathered together and rushed towards each other, but the darkness split apart with a flash of light.
It seemed as if the beam of light was piercing through the mud slime.
Originally, this magic was not intended to be used in a small room.
If you're not careful, you could end up buried in a wall or just hitting a wall with full force.
But anyway, Sereraji succeeded, and the merchants rolled around on the floor.
Sereraji leaned against the wall, exhaled heavily, and looked back.
“A price. You could say that. But it’s ridiculous to ask the owner of the knife why it was stolen just because the thieves were using it to hurt people.”
But this world is a world where miracles of the gods occur, knights of the highest order compete against each other, and wizards who have lived for hundreds of years search for the truth.
Ridiculous things happened all the time.
“But then that ridiculous thing happened. So I had to come up with a ridiculous solution too.”
It's the same thing as going in and beating them all up.
“Oh, man. I’m starting to resemble my brother.”
Sereraji, who realized that, smiled in a sarcastic yet empty way.
He could not resemble Valencian.
If you take unreasonable measures because the situation is urgent, problems will eventually arise.
She anticipated that one day her half-brother would get into big trouble.
“Sigh!”
Then, one of the surviving chimeras behind them raised its body.
“… … What is going on?”
Sereraji tried to turn around, but his right hand was buried in the wall.
“We’re in big trouble.”
Peek! Peek! Peek!
There were three stab wounds in his thigh.
The chimera approached step by step.
“… … Krrrrrr.”
The triple-branched teeth gleamed eerily.
bang!
And then the door broke and Tentia came out.
“Your Highness the Grand Duke of Seraraji!”
“Tentia?”
* * *
The knight in full plate armor tore the chimera apart like paper, ripped off the bricks, and carefully pulled out Sereraji's right hand.
“How did you get here?”
“His Majesty Valencianus headed to the Ivory Tower, but he could not find you there. His Majesty’s junior wizard, Niar, who learned of the situation, gave me some pointers, and His Majesty Valen and I each went around.”
Sereraji nodded silently.
“… … .”
“… … .”
An awkward silence passed between them for a moment.
The last memory between them was an argument in that garbage dump.
“I am sorry, Your Majesty.”
The first one to bow was Tentia.
She was under orders from Valencianus, and could no longer put her own thoughts first.
“I was momentarily blinded and failed to see what was important. I should have taken up my sword for Your Majesty’s sake, but I failed to do so. It was my fault.”
That is why I was able to bow my head in peace before Sereraji.
“No. I didn’t notice the other person who was already burning to death because of the fire that fell on my feet. All wizards are like that, but I should have been more careful because I am the Archduke.”
Sereraji answered as if she knew something.
I won't look at the world only through the eyes of a wizard… … That wasn't the same thing.
From now on, she would walk while looking at the sky and fall into a well.
It wasn't so bad to move forward like that, staggering.
The problem was that it was the people around him who pulled him out of the well.
That was a nuisance.
But this time, I could say, somehow, I managed to do it.
Well, I've already caught them all.
However, Sereraji was a genius of magic, not a genius of evil.
She knew how to win, but she didn't know how to capitalize on her victory.
'What should we do now? First, we have to meet His Majesty the Emperor. In the meantime, what should we do with the upper class? The employees might come rushing in. It'll be difficult to take them all with us.'
It was my first time doing a 'deal' like this.
Actually, I didn't really want to do it.
She was a sorceress by nature, and unlike Valencianus, she did not enjoy human relationships, and Jaerilis was a terror that no one wanted to face.
“Sister.”
“You came at a good time!”
So I decided to respond the way she knows best.
“Feed these guys all you want, and just spare me and the ivory tower.”
They boldly admitted that they couldn't do it and outsourced it.
Valencian smiled as if he had known this would happen.
* * *
“… … So, first, we arrested an unqualified person on charges of distributing magic tools and reagents, confiscated all of his assets, and imposed a huge fine.”
An office bathed in the bright spring sunshine.
Jaylilith laughed like a well-fed carnivore reptile as she listened to Valencianus' report.
“You are truly cruel, confiscating property and imposing fines.”
“Thank you, Your Majesty.”
“But isn’t the ivory tower a bit too much?”
She narrowed her yellow eyes.
“There will be times when there are crop failures, and there will be times when there are accidents in the mines. How dare you cut down the top brass like that.”
Valencian answered with a confident expression.
“They say they intend to continue doing business with the top brass who have a good reputation and don’t prey on the cadets. It seems like they’re just pruning the branches, not killing the trees.”
Jaylilith nodded as if she understood.
Her yellow eyes glowed sadistically.
“So in the end, they stick together. I understand. I’ll be satisfied with what I’ve gathered so far. Since I didn’t get the book of magic I was hoping for, tell Grand Duke Sereraji to fight even harder and bring back new discoveries.”
He said that he would not strip away the ivory tower because of the negligence of chimera management.
Valencian bowed deeply and stood up.
* * *
Valencian headed straight for Sereragie's workshop.
“Sister. His Majesty said he would turn a blind eye.”
“What a relief… … !”
“Now let’s go and peel it and eat it!”