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It was dawn, just before daybreak.
A man and a woman were dragged before me by the Chief of Police.
“Walk quickly!”
“I’ll have to explain in detail what’s going on.”
“Your Majesty! I have brought Count Isiah and Princess Marlina.”
Count Isiah was a young man with black hair and suspiciously squinted eyes, and Princess Marlina was a young lady with a charming yet cute appearance.
“Well done. Let’s proceed with the search and seizure at the top as well.”
“Yes. It is already underway. We are also searching for survivors and rescuing the injured.”
The police commissioner seemed to be excited about the opportunity to make his presence known for the first time in a while and commanded the police chiefs.
After expressing my satisfaction at the passionate sight, I turned my eyes to Count Isiah.
My voice just didn't come out nicely.
“Count, Princess. I am sorry to have to meet you in this way.”
One small mistake almost cost me Rudy.
I also thought that it was a mistake to leave it behind.
If I hadn't gone to the general workshop as soon as I returned to the capital, I would have been in real trouble.
There, he delivered the Aizen magic tool to Sereraji and heard the story about Rudy and Count Isiah.
'A rare magical tool associated with ancient beliefs.'
'You seem pretty resourceful. Or you're an eroder.'
As I've been meeting a lot of different races lately, I've been having strange doubts.
'You know that eroder-extracting magic tool that Rudy took? My fragment went in there, right?'
'That's right.'
'Then I guess I can roughly tell where you are. Sorry. I'll get up right away.'
My heart was still pounding like crazy.
It was unclear whether the man was a member of the cult, a homegrown Encroacher, a mad mercenary spirit mage, or a foreign race.
But responsibility lies with the consequences, and these lovers who set out to finance their independence will have to take responsibility for bringing such a madman into the capital.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Me too, Your Majesty.”
Princess Marlina nodded in fear, and Count Isséas answered politely.
To put it nicely, he was confident, and to put it badly, he was arrogant.
I raised my hand to slap his cheek, but then realized that he was a court noble who had lived a clean life up until then, so I rested my chin on his shoulder.
Innocent until proven guilty, and it was our job to determine guilt or innocence.
“I’m going to have to explain in detail what exactly happened. I want you to know that I’m suppressing a lot of anger right now.”
Isiah bit his lower lip and trembled.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Then listen.”
He opened his mouth slowly.
“Actually… we don’t even know what’s happening right now.”
* * *
I put my hand into my bosom to find the dagger 'Black Scale'.
I respected you because you were a noble, but it seems like my respect has been betrayed.
Lifting a few fingernails might have changed the answer.
“Eek!”
As if she had seen something in my expression, Princess Marlina gasped and stumbled, and Isiah, his face turning pale, supported her.
“Your Majesty.”
“You're saying that now-.”
“That’s true! We simply sold magical tools that merchants had acquired from various places through the auction house.”
"huh?"
He lowered his voice.
It was a voice so quiet that even the surrounding police chiefs couldn't hear it.
“The business we run is more like a simple auction business than a magic tool distribution business. When merchants acquire magic tools from various places, the princess appraises them. She specializes in that field.”
“Then what did you do?”
“When she brought in valuable items, I decorated them and sold them. I created a fancy space and auction system, created a buzz in social circles, and got famous people to sponsor them…….”
“There must have been some exaggeration and false advertising along the way.”
He squeezed his thin eyes shut and opened them.
“I won’t deny it. There are some that have been made a little more interesting by embellishing the date of discovery or the style. However, I didn’t sell a magic tool that had no function as if it were something great.”
I looked back at Rudy and she nodded.
I let out a deep sigh.
It seemed that the young count had been taken advantage of while trying to start a business to provide luxury for his future wife.
“Your ignorance and immaturity almost brought about a great disaster.”
“……I’m sorry.”
Count Isiah shrugged his shoulders.
Finally, tears flowed from those squinted eyes.
Contrary to his appearance, he seemed innocent.
I looked at the chief of police again.
“Then the greatest responsibility lies with the upper class who brought in such a suspicious person.”
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“Your Majesty, I apologize. I am a step late.”
He let out a voice full of despair.
“All the people on duty today were wiped out… No. There’s one person. I’ll get his testimony right away!”
Then, in the middle of the night, a police superintendent came running, and his voice became louder by the minute.
The chief of police returned a moment later and spoke again in a defeated voice.
His tone of voice seemed as if he was embarrassed as he spoke.
“Your Majesty. He said he saw an elf. He said his chieftain made a deal with an elf. I guess he must have misunderstood because he is a good archer.”
I felt like spitting fire.
“Those little bastards are really-!”
“Yes, yes?”
The chief of police made a bewildered expression, and I ground my teeth.
There are opposites in everything.
Just as there are elves who go out to find new lands like Arinth, there are also elves who try to reclaim old lands.
It seemed like the number of enemies had increased.
“I will report to Your Majesty. Can I see you now?”
I went to see the captain of the Platinum Knights.
He gave a shocking answer.
“Your Majesty is not in the capital right now.”
* * *
It was a starry summer night.
A deep valley was dug under the sky, reaching a depth of one kilometer.
The valley was originally a reddish color because it was a land rich in iron, with iron mines nearby.
The valley was now dyed purple.
A month ago, a 2-kilometer diameter demon appeared in the center of the valley, encroaching upon the entire valley.
Unfortunately, it was built on the border between two count families, so neither side was willing to take action.
And time has come to punish him for his slothfulness.
“Whoa!”
“Wow!”
“Kak, kak!”
One by one, alien golems with bodies made of gray rock and purple crystals sprouting from them walked out of the valley.
“Euuuuuuuuuu-.”
“Mom, mom.”
“My lord, this doesn’t seem right, my lord.”
Eroders, whose skin had turned to gray rock, also walked out alongside the alien golems.
The total number reached 13 thousand.
The number of people killed was enough to burn several cities to the ground.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Golems, big and small, marched out of the valley.
All animals, from rats to birds, fled the area as soon as the magic gate opened, but one rabbit, with an injured leg, was still crawling on the ground, unable to leave the valley.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
The rock golem looked at the rabbit, its eyes gleaming an inorganic purple.
Snap.
The golem's massive jaw opened, and a slithery, slimy, visceral tongue spewed out from within.
Phew!
The tongue was reflected in the rabbit's eyes.
Gulp.
The foreign object wearing the shell of a rock golem quickly devoured the rabbit.
“A worm, neither a stone nor a lump of blood, has crawled into my world.”
At that moment, a cool voice echoed throughout the valley.
Whoosh!
The 13,000 aliens that came out of the demon realm looked up at the sky at the same time.
Since each individual had three or more eyes, the total number of eyes reached 60,000.
“I reject you. I banish you. Return to a place where there is no distinction between mind and body.”
The Emperor of the Empire floated above the valley, laughing at the gaze.
She raised one hand to the sky.
Saaaaah!
A golden aura flashed, a great swarm of mana rushed towards her, and her black dress fluttered loudly.
Her fingers drew circles in the air.
Kwaaaaah-!
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
A music box melody rang out, and the night sky turned golden.
Ding, ding, ding, ding!
Dozens, hundreds, thousands of giant golden rings filled the night sky.
At each intersection between the rings, the power doubled.
When it gets to around 6 or 7 circles, the power of the rings increases by 2,000 to 4,000 times.
There were dozens, hundreds, thousands of rings floating in the night sky.
Jaylilith smiled brightly and waved her hands.
“At this point, it’s slow even if you use a circle.”
Woohoo!
The rings glowed golden and moved around, rearranging themselves.
A slightly smaller circle overlaps beneath a large circle made up of thousands of intertwined circles, and beneath that, another slightly smaller circle overlaps.
It looked like an inverted cone pointing towards the ground.
Woohoo!
The circles, heated to their limits, radiated light and heat.
Hwarrrrrr-!
A pillar of fire as thick as the ivory tower shot out.
The bright red flames fell like judgment coming on the day of the end.
However, the fire was not fired to judge the people of this world, but to judge the foreigners from the other world.
Kwaaaaaaaang-!
The entire valley was engulfed in flames, and all foreign objects and eroders met their fair death.
“Kkieeee!”
The rocky shell evaporated, and the fleshy remains of the foreign body inside disappeared without leaving even ash.
The pillar of fire did not stop there, but continued shooting out into the demon realm.
Kwaaaaah-!
The inside of the Demonic Realm was affected by different laws of physics.
The degree to which gravity was reversed was a noble feat, with vaporized sulfuric acid replacing the atmosphere and even space-time being distorted.
Therefore, even the flames of Jaylilith could not immediately burn down the inside of the magic realm.
But Jaylilith was an emperor who knew the virtue of excess.
When something couldn't be solved with force, she would worry about whether she lacked the strength.
Whoosh whoosh-!
A torrent of flames so hot that even the fire demon would run away poured endlessly into the demon realm.
The insoluble crystals melted, the indestructible stones burned, and the foreign matter that was trying to cross into this world through the core groaned in the heat of the sun.
Crispy-!
The moment when the core finally could not withstand the flames any longer and collapsed.
Saaaaah-!
The purple space collapsed.
The valley has regained its original turquoise color.
"under!"
Jaylilith smiled contentedly and looked down at the valley, then flew into the sky to where the two counts and a group of priests were waiting.
“Your Holiness the Emperor.”
“Noble One.”
“Defender of the Faith.”
The two counts and the priests who saw the magic mirror close before their eyes fell flat on the floor with dumbfounded expressions.
“Your Majesty has come to guide us, mankind…….”
Jaylilith looked down at them for a moment, then held out her hand.
As expected, Valencian was the best at flattering.
"coffee."
"yes?"
“Pour me some coffee. I’m tired.”
A languid playfulness appeared on his face.
The count's attendants prepared coffee in a panic, and Jayrillis gave various orders to the two counts and the clergy.
“No matter how much I think about it, the most efficient way to close the Demon Realm is to pack it in.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“But you too can prevent and prepare for erosion. The Imperial Magic Workshop has developed a magical tool that gathers the grace of light and spreads it at night.”
“If you would grant us that grace, we will serve you faithfully.”
She knew how to distinguish between areas where it was effective for her to do it herself and areas where it was not.
While the administrative nobles of the empire exchanged letters and gold coins with the great nobles and created a system to identify corruptors, she personally closed the magic realm.
This also had the effect of making the local lords, who were terrified by seeing the divine emperor in person, more likely to accept official documents from the imperial family and great lords.
“A disaster is a bigger disaster, and a system must be maintained within a system. I will deal with the disaster, so you must firmly establish the system.”
Census, public works to prevent the extreme poor from sinking into poverty, reclamation of land, distribution, filling the gap in faith through the construction of churches, sponsorship of academies for clergy, purchase of 'street lights emitting divine power'.
The two counts bowed their heads and followed His Majesty the Emperor's orders.
And, as he was about to continue speaking, the emperor raised his eyebrows and looked up at the sky.
A wyvern was flying this way.
“Valencianus?”
Her twin came back sooner than expected.
I secretly thought that I might have been completely swallowed up by that great white shark.
I was looking forward to seeing what good news he would bring this time.
“Your Majesty! A foreign race has appeared in the capital!”