Count’s Youngest Son is a Warlock

Divine Beast Birthday Banquet?

“Lucion.”

Carson went inside and suddenly called Lucion.

Carson’s voice resounded quite loudly in the silence-filled hall.

He knew that Carson called him so loudly and deliberately to announce his status as Lucion Cronia.

“Yes, brother,” Lucion replied with a smile.

“Your clothes are wrinkled.”

As Carson pointed his finger at his clothes and continued talking to the others, Lucion laughed embarrassingly.

“Oh, thank you. I didn’t even know that I wrinkled my clothes while looking at the grandeur of the Great Light Temple.”

What Carson and he talked about was normal but not for the other nobles.

Carson first talked to Lucion. He overturned the rumor that those who talk to Lucion would be cursed as he calmly had a conversation with him.

The nobles, who had thought that Lucion’s rumors were true as it had not been blocked by the Cronia, had their faces turned pale and ghastly. 

“By the way, brother,” Lucion called as he fixed his clothes.

“Say it.”

“I don’t know why, but it’s been so quiet even though this is a banquet. Is a banquet at a temple supposed to be this silent?”

At Lucion’s casual question, some nobles winced. 

Did it not say that it’s bad luck to be swayed by rumors?

However, the nobles, who were adamant about cutting down Lucion, zipped their mouths and avoided his gaze.

“I want to know why, too.”

Carson looked at the nobles quite aggressively.

The music that had been halted at the priest’s instruction started again, trying to ease and cover the tense atmosphere. 

As if the blood that had hardened was loosened, the voices of the people also returned to their usual buzz.

“Did you see that?” Carson said, pointing around.

“I saw it.”

“Skinny, cowardly, and very thin.”

The word ‘they’ was missing from Carson’s words.

“After this banquet, a lot of things will change as you thought.”

“Yes. That’s what I wanted.”

Lucion smiled and left Carson alone. He settled in the corner as he saw Tella waving her hand from afar.

‘This is slowly tiring me out.’

Lucion endured the nauseating feeling by wiping off his cold sweat.

Lucion Cronia, contrary to rumors, is fine.

To create this impression was his goal, so he succeeded on the first day of the banquet.

The way they see him has already begun to change.

He could feel that he was being liked just by dressing up properly, unlike the time when he was always wearing a hoodie.

[What is this…]

But Russell was disappointed.

Lucion looked at Hume and said, “This floor is what it was originally. Thin and wide.”

[It looks like mendicity.]

Russell looked at Lucion with concern.

How impractical.

Lucion smiled, but he could not help feeling the despair that flooded in.

‘Enduring this should be easy.’

This is supposed to be a really easy thing to do.

[Since we have achieved our goal, shouldn’t we go back now? There are many people who are aware that you are allergic to divine light, so it wouldn’t be strange to leave.]

“You don’t look good. Wouldn’t it be better to go home now?”

Hume deliberately borrowed Russell’s words, conscious of the gazes around him.

‘He lacks common sense, but he has a good sense.’

Lucion slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

“The banquet hasn’t started yet. I can’t leave my seat. It’s painful, but I can endure it.”

Lucion did not want to feed the hyenas who had their ears pricked up.

They were shot in their feet by their own actions, so they’d definitely be anxious to bite back somehow.

“… You have a divine allergy?”

Tella, who was approaching Lucion, paused.

“Oh, my lady. Good morning.”

“What mistake did I make… I’m so sorry. I’m…”

Lucion was genuinely embarrassed when Tella cried.

[Oh my. She cried. She cried.]

Russell teased Lucion, who was embarrassed, with a grin.

“Oh, never mind it. I’m okay. I’m just sincerely grateful that you invited me to such a good banquet.”

Even Lucion was briefly surprised that he could speak so eloquently.

Tela rustled her nose and left the drink to the servant.

With both of her hands free, she approached Lucion with a quick step.

“It’s not like this, but go out with me before the symptoms get worse.”

“The banquet hasn’t even started yet.”

“So that’s why before we start…”

The music suddenly stopped.

Lucion asked Hume, “What time is it?”

“5 minutes before 10 o’clock.”

Ttak.

The door opened, and priests dressed in black slowly entered.

“Why don’t you sit down, My lady?”

Lucion smiled and offered Tella a seat.

“… We should have left sooner.”

She hesitated and sat down helplessly.

The priests set up black curtains to block the light, turned off the lights, and prepared to welcome the priest with the divine beast.

“It’s 10 o’clock.”

Hume told him the time. As soon as he was done with his words, a priest in a pure white robe with black sleeves came in.

Behind him, gray-clad priests lined up.

Lucion groaned softly at the presence of the priests.

‘It feels like I’ve been hit hard in the stomach?’

“Have you seen that priest in a white robe with black sleeves?” Tella whispered, hesitating.

“I’ve seen one.”

“It’s an outfit that only priests with divine beasts can wear.”

“Really?”

“It is said that it is the first time in 20 years that a priest with a divine beast has appeared in this empire other than the holy nation of Nevast. Ah, this is top-notch information.”

Tella lowered her voice even more. “There are people coming from the imperial family too.”

Lucion’s eyes got bigger.

‘There’s a person coming from the imperial family?’

Honestly, the story of the imperial family did not come out that much in the novel. But, he knew who would be the next Crown Prince.

[Wow. What if we run into each other?]

Russell first drank kimchi soup.

T/N : Kimchi soup means someone doesn’t even think about giving you a rice cake, but you already have drunk Kimchi soup/ counting chicks when the egg hasn’t hatched yet.

“You were surprised, right? I knew it.” Tella giggled as she watched Lucion.

“But I don’t know who’s coming. Still, when you work at a bank, you hear all the trivial information. I also got this information from there.”

Lucion couldn’t hear Tella’s words from the middle.

‘… Crazy.’

As soon as one of the gray-clad priests followed the priest with the divine beast, the protagonist of this banquet entered, a red thread appeared.

‘Crazy!’

He had goosebumps running all over his body when saw the red thread stretching out to himself, the priest, and everyone in the hall.

Lucion’s eyes shook violently.

‘What’s happening?’

Lucion had to think. 

An event that was a turning point and could affect everyone in the hall.

Simply put, there was only one.

‘This is alarming!’

“Young master…”

Tella called Lucion, who suddenly became silent.

Just as Lucion was about to get up from his seat, Heint’s voice was heard from the back.

“That was close.”

“……!”

Tella looked back in surprise.

The blackout curtains were drawn and the only light to rely on was the candles the priests were holding, so the hall was very dark.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I mistook the start time of the banquet, so I sneaked in secretly… Lucion?”

Heint says like he’s embarrassed. He expressed his recognition of Lucion’s presence.

“Do you know this person?”, Tella asked, slightly covering her mouth with her hands.

“Yes, he’s my brother. Of course, he’s not my real brother.”

“Ni-, nice to meet you. I’m Tella Luteon, Lucion’s close friend. I’m sorry that I couldn’t officially greet you.”

“No, it’s the same for me. Oh, I’m Heint Tria.”

“Brother.”

Lucion calmly called Heint at the end of the conversation between the two.

His voice was so heavy that a smile disappeared on Heint’s face.

“Yes.”

“Can I ask you a question?”

“As much as you want.”

“If something bad happens here… How would it usually happen?”

Heint was a knight.

Of course, he has a lot of experience in this field.

“Usually, there are many cases where a barrier magician engulfs the whole place in a barrier. But considering the location of the Great Light Temple, it is difficult to build a barrier due to the power of light. So explosions are the most effective.”

Heint answered seriously without asking why.

‘It’s an explosion….’

Lucion thought for a moment.

Assuming that the explosion was the correct answer when the priest appeared, and a red thread appeared, he must have had a bomb switch.

[There is no way you would say such a meaningless thing. You’re telling me to find something strange, right?]

At Russell’s question, Lucion nodded.

“I’m sorry if both of you were offended.”

Lucion immediately apologized to Tella and Heint.

In a way, it was a very dangerous level of topic.

“I asked because brother Carson said that the light of the Great Light Temple was weak. A lot of things happened, so I guess I became sensitive without realizing it.”

“No. Come to think of it, it’s really weird.”

Heint crossed his arms.

“Even if the banquet is held today, a light power just this much is like throwing food at the warlocks.”

“Food? What kind of food are you talking about?” Tella blinked and asked.

“Darkness disappears when it touches light. Light, on the other hand, degrades when it touches darkness.”

[Exactly the fact that you are corrupted is the worst, and usually, you just lose the power of light.]

Russell looked around one by one and added words.

“Even a divine beast is no exception. In the past, there is a record of the Warlock’s depravity to divine beasts.”

Russell also explained as if annotating Heint’s words.

[It’s true, but unfortunately, I can’t use it much. If the owner of the divine beast loses power, the divine beast disappears. But those days are quite useful.]

“Really?” Tella asked in surprise.

“Yes. It’s true. The reason Warlocks are unable to access the Great Light Temple is due to the unique power of light emitted by the priests. But at such an important time, the light is weakening…”

Heint’s face hardened.

At first, he had no thoughts about it.

Lucion thought that Heint would have moved on without much doubt even if he hadn’t pinpointed the fact.

However, this is not just a small temple, but a large temple.

He thought he should find out.

“I’ll be away for a second.”

Carson had the strongest voice among them.

While Heint was away, Lucion looked at the shadow that Ratta hid in.

As she kept silent, he started to worry.

[Ratta is fine because the lack of darkness is supplemented by you. The problem is you. You should get out quickly or something.]

Russell, who read Lucion’s gaze, spoke out while searching around.

“Hmm…”

Hume also stood in place and raised his ears.

As the place was the kind of place where nobles gather, it was a little painful, more so when the smell of cosmetics and perfumes used by aristocrats were mixed in.

Among them, the sweet and refreshing scent that Lucion smelled at the perfume store last time also lingered.

[Unfortunately, there’s nothing special.]

Russell crossed his arms and concluded.

[As you know, even if a warlock is hiding here, you can’t tell unless you use darkness. Of course, it’s practically impossible.]

‘Even the teacher didn’t find anything.’

Lucion looked calmly forward.

The priest with a divine beast climbed to the podium built in the hall. The priests followed him one after another. It was in such a perfect order to hold a ceremony.

[This is crazy. Is the priest coming again?]

Russell glanced at the door and looked at Lucion’s condition.

“The priest over there with a black hat on his head is usually called a high priest. So, it’s right below the high priest,” Tella said.

She pointed to the last priest who entered.

Wearing pure white clothes, she was wearing a black crown on her head.

She was also woven into a red thread.

Ttak.

The door that was open finally closed.

‘Think. Let’s think about it.’

Lucion breathed out quickly, wiping off his cold sweat.

It was the first divine beast to appear in the Tesla Empire in 20 years.

‘Two years from now, the position of the temple and the holy nation will be higher than it is now.’

It was obvious.

Since the villain of the novel was a ‘Warlock,’ the position of the temple and the holy nation naturally rises.

‘I’m sure this case was mentioned in the novel.’

Lucion calmly recalled the story of the novel.

《 ’You’re still the same.’

Heint looked at the Great Light Temple hall as if he missed it.

‘At that time, I heard that there were half-pieces.’

Two years ago, a major explosion occurred in a great light temple.

He was not there at the time, so he did not know exactly what the incident was.》

There was a scene in which Heint returned to his hometown two years later and expressed his longing.

Lucion opened his closed eyes and licked his dry lips. ‘Was that explosion happened at this banquet?’

It was concluded that this was done by the warlock, so the oppression against the warlock intensified. At the same time, the power of the temple was known to have naturally grown.

Heint, who was not supposed to be here, attended the banquet.

‘He came here, who he would not have been here before.’

Lucion got up from his seat.

‘I can change it.’

Why would he hesitate to do it if he knew that there was a big event that was about to break in half?

“Young master? Why did the chair suddenly…”

Tella followed Lucion and looked up.

[Hang on, Lucion. What are you trying to do? You’re not going to throw that away, are you?]

Russell asked with an anxious look.

Lucion threw a chair toward the window as if saying that Russell’s gut was correct.

Clank.

The wind blew from outside with the sound of the window breaking.

‘It’s cool.’

When the cold sweat was washed away by the wind, Lucion seemed to live only then.

The light turned on in a hurry, and everyone was watching Lucion.

“Oh, my hand slipped.”

Lucion smiled calmly.