A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

204 – At That Time, the Imperial Ironclad Ship Appeared (1)

The best thing about using a flying dragon is that it flies through the sky at high speed, so you can quickly and accurately bring in the ‘person’ most needed to solve the case.

Saaa.

It’s raining in the sky.

Rain began to fall from the gray sky covered in ashes from the burning train, which had been dry just moments before.

Is someone crying about the train burning down?

No.

It’s magic.

The Grand Duke of Winchester flew his dragon at full speed to the Duchy of Morgania, brought the wizard who was working exclusively for the Grand Duke’s family, and made him use magic.

“It’s a miracle-like magic performed by a high-level wizard.”

With one swing of the wizard’s wand, the fire on the train and station carrying hundreds of people is quickly washed away.

“This is magic, right?”

“Yes, Astasia. It’s the same magic used by the wizard who dropped the fireball on the train. He dropped the fire, and now it’s falling water.”

“…It’s incredible. This much rain in a place where there is no water.”

All I can say is that it is truly incredible.

“Even for advanced wizards, this is the extent of it. What kind of miracles will happen if a master-level wizard appears?”

“Well, wouldn’t it be possible to at least summon a boulder from the sky and then easily demolish the Gibraltar Gorge?”

“One?”

“Masters also have levels. I should say it is fortunate that there is no master who is a wizard. If there had been such a person, the legendary Meteor magic would have fallen on the Lemberi Camp.”

What falls is raindrops instead of meteors.

The heavy rain is not even falling on the entire Lemburi camp, but is only concentrated on the area where the embers were burning near Lemburi Station.

‘This is why there is no progress.’

Most problems that occur in Nostrum can be solved with magic.

It was a huge flame that, if a mistake was made like now, the flames would spread not only to Lemburi Station but also to the tents laid out by the students there, and the entire Viscounty of Lembur Gunther would be engulfed in flames.＜ Br＞

Such a flame can be extinguished with a single click of the wizard’s wand.

Because there is such a miracle of magic, the empire must have researched and developed magical engineering to produce magical effects even if it did not receive the blessing of magic.

‘Actually, a method to achieve a similar effect was studied.’

An airship storing a huge amount of water is launched into the sky and then dropped onto the fire area to put the fire to rest.

It may not be the way to keep pouring rain like now, but if you keep pouring in water, the embers will eventually go out.

‘Astacia often thought about that.’

Is there a way to make the empire’s magic engineering have more influence on everyday life?

Other than the military aspect or war engineering aspect, is there any aspect that brings convenience to life?

We often talked like that sometimes.

It’s still the same to some extent.

“Ah. I guess I’m about to quit.”

Flutter, flutter.

A black drake comes down.

Before the flying dragon landed, the person who jumped off the flying dragon first landed on one knee with a ‘thud’ sound.

“Thank you for your hard work, Duke of Winchester.”

“Are there any injuries?”

“Yes. Not at all.”

The serious spirit of the Duke of Winchester is unusual.

“There was property damage, but no one died. Oh, us.”

Astasia hiccuped for a moment and hid behind me, and I tapped my staff forward and nodded lightly to the Archduke.

“The bodies of the dead are all lying around here. They are all burning up right now, so it is difficult to identify them or conduct an investigation…”

“Saint Geo, this crazy man has finally lost his mind.”

“…”

“There is someone else who will send an assassin to you.”

I didn’t say anything else, but the Duke of Winchester had already accurately identified the culprit.

“Is there any evidence?”

“Are you protecting St. Geo now?”

“That can’t be right.” Since you mentioned an ‘assassination threat’ against the king of a country, isn’t it just a matter of suspicion?”

The only person who would do something crazy like this is Saint Geo Nostrum.

You should not make such conclusions.

“Especially when dealing with Saint Geo, we must be careful. If she kills herself by taking poison secretly hidden in her mouth, we will face a disaster worse than Camp Lembury every day until Princess Naria turns 20. It will come.”

“…”

“Calm down, Archduke. Don’t you want to end up like the corpses lying around over there?”

What I wanted to make into Saint/Geo/North/Trum has not changed for a moment since before the regression.

If I were to choose a person who has caused me direct and indirect harm both in the past and present, before and after the regression, it would definitely be Saint Geo Nostrum.

“The person who hates him the most in this world would be my father, but the person he hates next would be me.”

“You… “

“Not yet…Yes.” We are waiting for the right time. You never know. The crazy person who sent his knights to assassinate the child of the Margrave family and the princess of the empire might do something even crazier than what he is doing now.”

For example.

“You never know. What if even Nostrum’s will to protect St. Geo Nostrum turns into a traitor to the point where you think, ‘Oh, this descendant is really bad.'”

Just as the Margrave of Gibraltar sided with the empire.

It is possible that someone in the kingdom may suddenly change.

“Do you mean to wait until Saint Geo Nostrum sells out the country?”

“After all, it is a story of possibility.”

I said it clearly.

In any case, it is a possibility.

“Anyway, the wind is particularly strong today. The wizard came running and put the fire at the station to rest, but I wonder how far the embers will fly.”

“Wait a minute. Gray, you…”

“Shouldn’t you repay what you’ve been harmed? Coincidentally, there’s also talk of ‘arrival’.”

I pointed toward the camp.

“If you don’t extinguish all the remaining embers of a fire, isn’t it just an ember that will catch the wind and come back to life?”

“…Are you serious about doing this?”

“Yes. Aren’t they going to blame it on the imperial assassins anyway?”

This is really natural.

“The embers were carried by the wind and carried to the camp.”

“…If I hadn’t been told in advance how to handle it, I would have told him to go put out the fire right away.”

“I also think it is fortunate that I spoke to the Archduke in advance.”

Hwieueuing.

In the pouring rain.

As the fire subsided, the wind blew and the charred ashes began to fly towards the camp.

* * *

“…I’m going crazy and crazy.”

Viscount Balzac, who was drinking tea in his office, felt like his beard was shaking.

“You just committed murder and arson in Viscounty.”

“…”

In front of Viscount Balzac, Marquis de Jeros Barcel is quietly closing his eyes with his arms crossed.

“Marquis, tell me. What happened now?”

“What happens? An imperial assassin carried out a terrorist attack. That’s it.”

Marquis Zeros continued speaking with an expression on his face that said nothing had happened.

“You committed a terrorist attack? That’s it?”

“The emperor of the empire has many illegitimate children. Those illegitimate children are just deviants.”

“Ha…!”

“If there is no princess, there will be no successor to the throne. If there is no princess, there will be no way for Gray Gibraltar to ascend to the position of crown prince in the name of a national letter. Isn’t it A simple principle?”

“If Princess Astacia disappears, wouldn’t the emperor try to give his other daughter to Gray Gibraltar?”

“Whether it’s Princess Astacia or Gray Gibraltar, if one of them dies, they die forever.”

“Ha. How do you determine that? On what basis?”

“…It’s troublesome to even give the evidence.”

Viscount Balzac pounded his chest in frustration at the attitude of Marquis de Zeroth, who seemed to be stuck.

“No, now an accident has occurred that makes me jump and jump. Are you going to stay like this?”

“Acting like this is the right thing to do. This is the justification here.”

“Justice?”

“An imperial committed a terrorist act on the educational activities of Orosol Academy. No matter where or who dies in the future, it will all be the Empire’s doing.”

“No way…”

“Viscount Balzac.”

Marquis Zeros pointed to the sword on his waist, his eyes shining sharply.

“In the kingdom, the king’s name is absolute.”

“…”

“And all who do not follow the king’s orders can be ruled with treason.”

“Isn’t that unreasonable?”

“There are all sorts of ways to use force. Although His Majesty the King is still ‘preparing.'”

Marquis Zeros stood up.

“No matter how much Orosol Academy insists on harmony with the empire and how the empire’s culture is flowing in, the hatred toward the empire that has built up over the past 500 years does not easily disappear.”

“…”

“And to put it the other way around, if you want to enjoy and enjoy the culture of the empire, it doesn’t necessarily have to be the culture of the empire, right?”

“…Wait, that’s really true?”

“The more people feel that the things of the empire are good, the more people will want to have the things of the empire.”

The Marquis of Jeros pointed out his window.

“The empire could not cross the canyon for 500 years. It was the same for us. It was not because we were powerless, but because we loved peace.”

“Ha…”

“But as times change, the nostrum must also change. So he said.”

“But, I don’t have the strength to do that…”

“No strength? Not at all.”

Marquis Zeroth twisted his mouth and clapped his hands together.

“I really don’t think we’ll have the power-“

Hwareuk.

“…What is that?”

“…”

While we were talking, I could briefly see flames rising.

“That is…”

“There’s a fire in the camp?!”

Grumbling.

A huge fire that spread so far that it could be seen even from Jajak Castle.

A flame bigger than the embers that burned the train quickly began to sweep through the Lembury camp.

“Marquis Zeros!!”

“…That’s not what we did.”

“Then what, does it mean that it was carried by the wind?”

“…”

Marquis Zeros said nothing.

“Well… “Someone must have put up a cigarette at camp.”

“Kaaah…!”

“Don’t worry, Viscount Balzac. If the camp is burned, what will be left?”

“…Withdrawal?”

“It’s a good thing for Viscount Balzac. After all, aren’t we running out of food to feed the students?”

“…”

“I guess something like this is called a fortune-telling.”

Roaring.

* * *

I feel sorry for the students who returned from the march, but all the bridges they could return to were burned down.

True fire.

The cause is unknown.

None of the students could figure out the reason why the camp burned down along with the train.

After marching for several hours to the border of the Marquis of Roland, the place to lie down and the train to return home were all burned down.

“…This doesn’t mean we have to walk to the academy, does it?”

“Ah…”

When the academy students, exhausted from the long march, become frustrated and despair.

Puuu.

Somewhere, along with a sound like a boat horn, light began to twinkle beyond the horizon.

“What is that?”

“That is…”

Something huge running on a flat surface, not on a train track.

“Well, that can’t be…”

“Imperial, magic automatic ship…?”

Flap.

At the bow, the flag of the Kingdom of Nostrum and the flag of the Terscian Empire intersected in the shape of an X, while another flag was fluttering in the wind.

Shape like a tree in the forest.

That sentence was a very familiar one to Orosol Academy students.

“…Iperia?”

It is.

It was a huge, golden chariot made of steel.