A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

147 – Even if Everyone Becomes Your Enemy (2)

When two countries of the same level of civilization go to war, the advantageous side is naturally the one with more resources.

Whether it is human resources or material resources, this is generally the case.

Historically, Nostrum was rich in resources.

Some of the developed areas were monopolized by powerful figures such as Morgania.

Drakes, which can be said to be the core power of the Kingdom of Nostrum, were handled professionally by the royal family.

Ordinary people?

A being who farms every day, eats rice, excretes food, and pays taxes.

After the fall of Nostrum, whenever the historians of the empire held a debate asking ‘Why did Nostrum fall?’, Countless reasons were given for the fall of Nostrum.

One of them is the advancement of technology.

Nostrum maximized the knight’s swordsmanship and honed the wizard’s individual skills to the limit.

Heroism.

As everything is focused on one individual with heroic abilities, Nostrum sometimes appears to be on the verge of destruction when such talent does not appear.

If so, let’s take it away.

Before war causes heroic talent to spring up in droves, let’s infiltrate the kingdom as much as possible and steal the talent.

The one that achieved the most clear results in that process was probably ‘Pungseok’.

“Astacia. Do you remember the wizard who caused an explosion in this plaza before?”

Day.

I took Astasia for a walk around the square in the old city where festivals were held in the past and we talked.

“Of course I remember. He’s the wizard who became a descendant of a vampire.”

“Yes. That wizard seems to have abilities in other areas.”

“Ability?”

“It is highly likely that he is the developer of the wind stone created in the Empire. More accurately, it should be said to be the origin of the idea.”

“…Yes?”

Astasia was embarrassed.

“Windstone was developed by the Imperial Magic Engineering Corporation…”

“The origins of the idea may be different. Just as minerals underground in Gibraltar are ‘changed tag’ into products mined in Morgania and sold on the market.”

“So the Empire turned him into a vampire? Because it was of no use?”

“Probably not.” In fact, this part requires some understanding of vampires and blood elves.”

In fact, they are mobilizing all the information they have as a regressor.

“After hunting vampires for a long time, I learned that vampires have the ability to absorb the memories of those who make them part of their clan.”

When a superior entity makes its subordinate entities its own, it makes the knowledge and concepts it knows into its own.

“I don’t understand the principle, but I think it might be absorbing the memories contained in the blood while sucking it.”

“It’s so… Amazing.”

“Yes. It’s fascinating. They are creatures beyond human understanding, so we had to be very careful when dealing with them.”

Over the past few years, while hunting vampires in contaminated areas, we have faced many crises.

Although he almost died and was injured, fortunately none of the vampire hunters in ‘Rift Spirit’ have retired.

“What you need to think about is the part about memory warfare. I have a rough idea of where the wizard got the idea for the wind stone, but the important thing is that the idea eventually passed to the empire, either through a vampire or something.”

Technology patents, aids, and other matters are no longer important.

“The Thersian Empire succeeded in developing windstone and creating an airship. Even that gateway, which seems tall now, cannot fire magic bombardment at a giant airship flying in the sky.”

“…”

“On the day of war, the Empire will march through the air across the canyon.”

To prevent the assault of the Dragoon Cavalry, muskets were installed in all directions to form a fire net.

We remodeled a ship retired from the sea, attached a main gun to the bow, and fired magical artillery fire.

By converting all the acquired magic stones into wind stones, it would be possible to operate a large-scale airship capable of allowing tens of thousands of soldiers to cross the canyon and land in Gibraltar.

“By now, the Empire is probably checking the ‘verification’ of its air force forces. Perhaps the targets are rebels within the Empire.”

“…On what basis do you judge that?”

“Imperial Newspaper.”

Astasia tilts her head.

“To be precise, they are using the spread words by the press to use the crown prince’s words to understand the empire’s movements about three days late.”

“You say something like that is possible with editorials or public opinion from the Imperial Newspaper?”

“It is difficult to read the thoughts of your father, the Habsburg Crown Prince, contained therein.”

Based on pre-reversion knowledge and understanding of history, and inductive statistics such as ‘Hapsburg would do this.’

“By now, a Sword Master-level being should have landed squarely on the rebel camp.”

I was sure.

“At least a sword master at the level of the Marquis of Claydoll.”

* * *

If there is hell in the human world, wouldn’t it be here.

The sun slowly rose and brightened the darkness, but every time the light fell in various places, the scene that was revealed was truly horrific.

Death.

Death.

Only death.

In the past, after the fall of a kingdom, the remaining old castle became a villa for a greedy crown princess’s family.

Were there so many corpses lying around in the old castle even before the owner changed?

I don’t know.

When Isabella herself came here, everything had already been cleaned up.

“Wow!!”

A lot of corpses with their heads cut off.

The face of the head rolling on the floor shows shock and fear, as if it had died from a single blow.

How dead she was.

Something happened.

Yes.

The sound of something falling from the sky was heard, and soon people’s screams began to echo.

A clear red trace even in the dark.

People’s blood was flying in all directions.

Those dying are all Isabella’s knights.

The numbers were just numbers, but the fact that they were the 3rd Imperial Knights, the ‘core force of the rebels’ in the future, made Isabella unable to believe this situation.

Dozens of knights with at least the skills of a senior knight.

Almost hundreds of people, including the sub-articles below.

Among the several kingdoms that the empire dealt with in the past, they were small but powerful and could be compared to the Royal First Knights.

Hundreds of ‘Knights’ were annihilated.

By just one person.

“Ahh, ah…”

Isabella barely managed to move forward, struggling to control her staggering body.

“We have to go, hurry…!”

Since the knights are dead, you yourself are not safe.

Even-

“My lord!!”

Beyond the hallway, in the shadows, a middle-aged man wearing a butler’s uniform shouted as if screaming.

“This place is over! Run away!”

“Caitlyn!!”

“I am finished…!!”

The eyes of the butler, who was bleeding from his abdomen, were shining red, but one of his legs was missing below the thigh and a bloody mist was flowing.

“Be sure to run away! Use the ‘mirror portal’ here to escape!”

“B-but…!”

“Head of the clan!! As the 39th ‘Thersian’, you must never give up now!”

“!!”

Isabella clenched her fists at Butler Caitlin’s shout.

“Oh, okay!”

Inside the villa.

In the old royal castle, there remains a magic circle prepared for the royal family to escape.

“I’ll go there!”

“No! Go first! I will follow you on my own!”

As she was planning something called ‘treason’, Isabella had repaired the magic circle in the corner of the villa in advance to prepare for any unexpected situation.

“How can I leave you-“

Suddenly.

The butler was split in half.

The moment it occurred to me that the red light was splitting diagonally, the butler disappeared, scattering red blood-colored fog.

Clutter, clatter.

“!!”

A creepy sound coming from behind.

The sound of an ax blade intentionally scraping against the floor.

“Where are you going like that, Your Highness the Crown Princess?”

In the dark, at the end of the hallway.

In a dark place, a red-eyed giant wearing full body armor with only his face exposed was grinning as he slung a bloody ax over his shoulder.

“Clay doll…!”

“Soshin, I have come to return the gift I received from the Crown Princess.”

The Marquis of Claydol chuckled as he licked the blood on the ax blade with his tongue.

“In the social world, you used all kinds of insults, including octopuses and bald heads, for your convictions.”

“Hey, you b*stard…!”

“No matter how petty it is, if you have a cause, it would be a good idea to take a little personal revenge.”

The Marquis of Claydol sneered, peeking under his helmet.

“I don’t have any hair to fall out anymore anyway, so what’s the point in cursing my hair to fall out?”

“You dirty man!”

Isabella continued to run down the hallway and scream.

“A scum who abandoned humanity and decided to become a monster!”

“Ha, haha…”

“Did you think that the lost hair would grow back? You’re welcome!”

Isabella ran to the end of the hallway, increasing the distance from Marquis Claydoll.

“Just as you can no longer stand in the sun, you will never see hair on your head! Even if you become a blood-sucking monster!”

“Ha, haha…!!”

The Marquis of Claydol burst out in laughter and pointed to where he was standing.

“That’s right. The sun has just started to rise, so now I have to be careful of it. But…”

Cheolkeong.

“Because all you have to do is not get sunlight.”

The front part of the Marquis Claydoll’s helmet, the face mask has come down.

Rattling, rattling.

Marquis Claydoll stepped on the corpse and walked forward.

Saaa.

The moment it passed the sunny window, smoke began to flow through Marquis Claydoll’s armor.

“Let me tell you one thing. If someone of Master level becomes a vampire, he will be able to survive like this even for a short moment.”

It was like paper burning and ash rising with smoke, but the reaction was very weak.

“Ugh, ugh!!”

Isabella ran away.

It had been running away and running away, focusing on places where there was sunlight, but now it seemed like the crazy monster had managed to overcome even the sunlight.

But.

“Nah, it’s late!”

As a result of many of the family’s knights sacrificing their lives, Isabella arrived at her destination.

“Are you trying to catch me?! You have no chance, you stupid bald head!”

“That… “

End of the hallway.

A large, full-length mirror hung like a door in the hallway.

“I will definitely get revenge! You bald head!”

Isabella took out her necklace from around her neck and threw herself into her mirror, clutching it tightly in her hands.

Wee-ing.

The mirror did not break, but rather embraced Isabella like calm water.

Pa-ah.

Isabella disappeared in an instant.

* * *

“Well, the end result is that ‘Sword Master is very strong.'”

No matter how much technology develops.

“Even if you fall from hundreds of meters in the air, wouldn’t a sword master be able to survive through a shock wave by striking an Aura slash towards the floor the moment you fall?”

Sword Master is not allowed.

“Even if the internal enemies are eliminated, the Empire will at least not be able to start a war as long as ‘Crimson Gibraltar’ exists.”

An airship is a tool.

And tools are things we can use too.

“What would happen if you built a small speedboat and the Crimson Margrave of Gibraltar was dropped in the middle of the empire? Let’s say Countess Charlotte was assassinated by an imperialist.”

“…We’ll all die, right?”

“Yes. We will all die.”

That is what the empire and the Habsburgs are most concerned about.

“That’s why you and I need to become closer and closer to each other than we are now. At least to prevent war.”

The relationship between me and Astasia is not a simple relationship between a man and a woman.

To prevent the empire from making extreme choices, it is not a war written in blood, but external harmony through peaceful economic and cultural exchanges.

“You and I are a symbol. A symbol of trust that we will not stab each other.”

That’s why.

“Astacia. I have become a person who has to live only for you.”

I must love Astasia.

“How are you?”

“Aren’t we in the same position?”

Astasia smiled brightly and opened her arms towards me.

“I also have to seduce Gray Gibraltar and win his heart, so the Empire won’t point its sword at Gibraltar and launch an airship.”

We know.

“As soon as we break up…”

“The Crown Prince will ‘dispose’ of you.”

I am through regression.

Astasia lived right next to her and watched.

“Just like it has been until now.”

Habsburg von Tersian.

To him, children are just tools.

She is even the one giving birth to that child.

And the scariest thing is.

“Hapsburg is a more brutally thorough person than I am.”

Being human and being like that.

“He’s crazy.”

* * *

Wee-ing.

The moment I passed the mirror.

“Ah.”

Isabella was in despair.

“You’ve come a long way.”

The Habsburg Crown Prince greeted Isabella while cutting a grayish-white steak on the table.

“I should have looked at the coordinates of the magic circle and crossed over.”

“Uh, how…?”

“Did you say Caitlin? She worked hard for the empire until the end.”

“…!”

“And, welcome.”

Habsberg stood up, spread his arms, and smiled broadly.

“My sky fortress.”

The place where I crossed the mirror was a place where the wind felt particularly cold.

“In the air castle, [Greyberg].”