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The summer that heated up the capital is coming to an end, and the early autumn with its cool breeze has arrived.
The sky was clearly high and blue, white clouds drifted leisurely, and the trees inside the palace slowly shook their leaves.
And Jaylilith dragged me, who had come to report, and started walking towards the trail without warning.
“Your Majesty! All the ministers, great and small, will cry out for Your Majesty.”
I was confused and wondered who could stop her, and then I realized that there was no one.
“My dear, it is not polite to the world to stay locked up in the office on a day like this. How could I not enjoy myself when the sky is so clear?”
I was about to say, “How about you enjoy the documents brought by Your Majesty’s ministers?” but I simply followed her and walked towards the artificial forest trail.
“… … .”
I keep getting confused because her appearance is the same as before she returned, but Jaylilith is now nineteen years old.
I could have played for a day or so.
No, even the emperor needs to rest when it's time to rest!
Jaylilith walked through a forest of mixed oak and ash trees, walked by a pond full of reeds and cattails, and walked through a field of reeds, lifting one finger so that a dragonfly could land on it.
“… …He’s not coming.”
At her strangely gloomy voice, I quickly snatched the dragonfly sitting on the reed flower stand next to me and placed it between her fingers.
“Fold the wings upwards like this and place them between your two fingers.”
Jaylilith asked with her yellow eyes sparkling.
“Oh. When did you learn this?”
I said, feeling my heart tighten inside.
“Your Majesty… … taught me a long time ago. A very, very long time ago.”
“Jim was smart back then, I guess. Hahahaha.”
Jaylilith laughed brightly, laid down on the bed, and looked up at the sky.
Clouds floated across the blue sky.
“You are right. If you don’t come, I will go and catch you.”
“… … .”
“I am now the true Emperor of this Empire. At least the High Lords will not directly oppose my will.”
“It is the right thing to do.”
“Before I leave, I have signed a document ordering the territorial wars between the five counts and the two marquis families to be ended, and I have promoted Freuheit to the rank of duke.”
“That is a wise choice.”
“In addition, the church and each family have decided to work together to suppress the doctrine of imperial erosion. First, we will burn and destroy facilities that could serve as strongholds, such as closed gates and abandoned monasteries, arrest magicians without proof cards, and issue difficult-to-forge passage cards to the upper class.”
These were all policies that could greatly reduce their power.
If you remove a stronghold, large-scale research becomes difficult.
If we capture magicians without proof, there will be fewer who fall prey to the doctrine of erosion.
If we issue a pass, it will be harder for them to use the top as they do now.
Jaylilith looked up from the sky and looked at me.
“It is time to turn our eyes outside the empire… … Is the capital stable?”
Her body was here, but her eyes had returned to the Emperor's.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Tell me in detail.”
* * *
“… … I have completely reorganized the streets of learning. I have absorbed the overflowing number of highly educated people and sword users into the elite corps under the Brass Knights, solved the space problem by expanding the buildings, and created a joint student council so that I can control the numerous academies of the streets of learning forever. I have created a system that can catch suspicious people and support the capable.”
Jaylilith smiled with satisfaction and started to go back the way she came.
I followed him silently and continued to preach.
“You have helped me study new prayers and ways to use holy relics. Now, the Church Purification Corps can also excel in the field of fighting against invaders and foreign substances. In addition, the power of the vigilantes in the old slums has been increased, and the resurgence of the old slums has been resolved.”
“I see that the young congressman is doing well. I’m glad.”
“We have regulated the red-light district and brought the smuggled cigarette market under control. We have minimized the possibility of smuggling bringing danger to the capital.”
“Well done. Well then. What’s left?”
I pondered for a moment the dangers that remained in the capital.
“… … We don’t know when or in which direction the ivory tower will move. We are intervening through the Archduke in Sereraji, but there are limits. The revised church law does not work within the autonomous region.”
"and."
“It seems that a powerful cult has developed a magic to open the magic realm using the illegitimate children of the royal family as reagents. A danger has arisen that can strike at any time and from any place.”
Jaylilith stopped dead in her tracks and turned to look at me.
Her eyes stared calmly at me, and I waited without saying anything.
She opened her mouth slowly.
“… … I can get my hands on the human world at any time.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“But Jim’s enemies are beings beyond the blue sky, coming like the wind and disappearing like clouds.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Ruling over both worlds is a task that no matter how great it may be, it is impossible.”
“I would like to share Your Majesty’s burden with you. Will you please share it with me?”
Jaylilith looked sad for a moment.
“… …Even though I’ve become this strong.”
The incomprehensible mutterings disappeared into the wind, and she continued.
“I will be studying the magic mirror with the Ivory Tower and the Imperial Magic Workshop in the capital. Since we know how to open it by force, we can close it by force or open it ourselves. Depending on the direction of the research, we may be able to banish all the eroders within a certain range to the Old Ones.”
It was a tone that brought back the confidence of a time.
“I am the ruler of the five races and the master of all things. I will do the work of a thousand years. So you must help me with the work of humanity.”
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It was also a tone that conveyed a deep sense of trust.
I listened in silent delight.
“Go to the western border and deal with the King and Crown Prince of the Doroisen Kingdom. I will appoint you as my plenipotentiary. They say a meteorite fell near the border and they came to investigate the damage… … How pitiful to report such insincere lies.”
And he bowed his head and submitted.
“I will follow your orders.”
I was confident.
Before my return, most of my notoriety came from conferences.
* * *
I headed to the general workshop first.
Today, too, the disciples and assistants walked around with dead eyes, slurping coffee, while the two mad geniuses wrote complicated formulas on a scroll.
“The simpler the destruction spell circuit, the better. If you arrange it in a triangle like this, wouldn’t it create enough penetrating power?”
“But structurally, it has to be a bit more unstable, so it can easily collapse and cause cracks in the magic realm.”
“That’s difficult. Then, I’ll just organize the data and hand it over to the Imperial Palace Magic Workshop. Your Majesty, I’m sure you’ll take care of it.”
“To say something like that. … … Yeah. I thought so too.”
It seemed like Serena and Marcus had come to some sort of agreement.
“Sister. Marcus.”
I explained to them the orders I had received.
“… … So I think we should go together. Marcus as a guide, and my sister as a magician. The meteor thing is almost certainly a trick, but you never know.”
“It’s annoying, but… … if it’s a meteorite, there’s nothing I can do.”
Sereraji's eyes lit up with a different color as if she was excited.
Meteorites were a rare reagent in and of themselves.
If a meteorite really did fall, there would have to be a great wizard to appraise its value.
I turned to Marcus, and he looked up at me from his chair.
“Aren’t you worried that I’ll escape and return to the territory and lay siege?”
The artificial eye and the real eye pierced through me like a snake, and the leather uniform decorated with brass buttons had a strange atmosphere I had never seen before.
It was the aura of a man who was called the most majestic lord in the West.
“… … I’m also worried. But it’s better than leaving you alone in the capital without Lord Tentia. I need a guide who knows the area, and I also need someone who can fix Lord Tentia’s mechanical armor if something goes wrong.”
Marcus grinned.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve set foot on my hometown soil.”
The party was packed with little supplies.
There were six of us, including me, Sereraji, Sir Tentia, Marcus, and two mechanical knights.
If they really came only to investigate, there was no need to take many people with them, and if they came to invade, taking them halfway would only be a burden.
To be honest, I just hoped nothing would happen.
The very fact that you were hoping for that meant something had already happened.
* * *
Six wyverns flew across the autumn sky.
Autumn was the best season for flying.
"under!"
Tentia Kyung performed a three-wheeled flight with her red short hair fluttering.
“Not yet! Sir!”
I did four consecutive laps with my wyvern, demonstrating vertical ascents and descents.
Originally, Saint Matthew would have screamed, but it was a bit awkward that only the sound of clapping could be heard.
During the day, he would fly all day, and at night, he would sleep at the Wyvern Landing Pad in each county.
“How many more days do I have to go?”
On the tenth day.
Sereraji asked in a slightly tired voice.
“You must be feeling tired. Why don’t you try exercising?”
“What Lord Tentia said is correct.”
Sir Tentia pretended to comfort him but then nagged him, and Marcus joined in.
“… … I brought you a magic potion of vitality.”
Sereraji retorted sharply and took the medicine, and I tried to take a sip, but the back of my neck got burned.
Marcus said, pointing at the map.
“We’ve come this far now.”
“Aren’t we getting closer to the instrumentum?”
“We have to go all the way to the west.”
“Why is the spirit world so long sideways?”
Sereraji let out a deep sigh.
As we went west, the scenery below our feet became increasingly rough.
Instead of fertile farmland, steep cliffs and valleys overlooked the landscape, instead of lush greenery, moss and tough thorns grew thick, and villages and small towns became fewer and fewer.
“Of course. Isn’t there a reason why this became the border in the first place?”
“What does that mean?”
“Imagine drawing a border in the middle of a fertile plain. Every day there will be war, and eventually one side will take it over.”
Marcus laughed, and I explained to Sereraji further.
“It became a border because it was a place where left and right were naturally divided like this.”
That is, Marcus was thinking of going beyond these rocky mountains and valleys and invading the neighboring kingdom.
… … Was it possible that the Nibelungen existed?
“Marcus. What on earth are these looters thinking of coming over here?”
“Your Majesty. What can’t a person do when he’s hungry?”
“I see a few ruined villages over there. It’s not because of your symptoms, is it? I saw a few pretty big cities destroyed earlier.”
“… … In fact, I couldn’t even come here because the administrative power couldn’t reach this border. Don’t you know how weak my base was?”
The flight lasted a little over two weeks.
We landed the wyvern on the side of a rocky mountain and discovered a flag fluttering in the basin below.
“… … Roadisen.”
A banner of two crossed swords behind a shield.
A land of swordsmen, ruled for hundreds of years by a king who is a sword master.
Cowards who enjoy using spies on such topics.
That was my common sense about Doroisen.
“Your Majesty. No matter how I look at it, it doesn’t seem like you came here for a pure investigation.”
"Tentia Sir," said Marcus, donning the mechanical armor.
As she said, there were hundreds of tents visible down there.
There were also several emblems of knights, flags of mercenary groups, and signboard flags of swordsmen's dojos.
And the flag that rose in the center had a design of a silver shield with a single sword lying diagonally across it.
At the point where the two crossed swords rose higher than the national flag, it was natural that the owner of that flag was a person of great power.
“The crown prince has arrived.”
Sir Tentia's eyes lit up with pride.
“Are you strong?”
“He was known as an outstanding sword expert.”
But, I continued, sighing.
“You know how to win without fighting.”