The Everyday Life of an Incompetent Crown Prince

10: A Ray of Hope

I’m tired.

That was my impression after finishing the conversation with the magistrate.

It was the usual conversation, but his inquiring gaze was obvious, and on top of that, while usually only Zeel and the maid were present in the room, this time even Tanar showed up.

It was clear that everyone had something on their minds.

I’m getting a little anxious. As long as my father is on the throne, the right to succeed to the throne will not be meaningful. My father is still young, so I don’t have to worry about him being included in the list of past emperors anytime soon.

However, there is no such thing as absolute safety on the throne.

This country is a country that loves to invade other countries, so it has bought a lot of grudges, and it is not strange at all that there are people who have such thoughts inside the country. Mainly my mother, who is third in line to the throne.

“There’s nothing I can do about it.”

There is no way to get stronger as it is.

Well, if I just let go and reveal my true identity, I could get as strong as I wanted, but I would become the crown prince in the true sense of the word. I don’t want to be king anymore. If I were to go back now, the battle for the right to succeed to the throne would become even more intense.

However, to repeat, I am completely at a dead end now.

I was on the verge of giving up when I saw the guards training in a slightly different way than usual.

I had seen training using attack magic before, but today there was a guard who was acting as a target.

I stood up without thinking, and I felt like the people around me reacted, but I didn’t care.

The guard who was acting as a target raised a slightly larger shield, and when he took a stance against the oncoming magic (color), he created a translucent barrier in front of him. If I’m not mistaken, that’s a magic that deploys a simple defensive barrier.

I was so shocked that I wondered why I hadn’t noticed it before. It’s a gamble, but if I succeed, I’ll be able to train in magic without anyone stopping me.

“I’m going to the library.”

With just that, I headed for the library, walking a little faster than usual.

I can see hope. In order to get my hands on that ray of hope, I first have to get my hands on the level of intelligence that I have been too scared to raise until now.

For several days from that day on, I spent all my time in the library except for sleeping, eating, excreting, and bathing. I threw away all distractions and simply gained knowledge, chewed on it in my mind, and reread it while adding various interpretations, and I tried to put as much strain on my head as possible.

And so, on the night of the seventh day, I was lying in bed with my hand on my heart, trying to relax my tension.

Until now, the things I was too afraid to raise were magic power and the sixth level of intelligence. These two.

The reason I haven’t raised my magic power is because I was anxious about what would happen to me and what kind of effect it would have on my surroundings, but intelligence is different. I couldn’t raise it precisely because I could predict what would happen.

The ability level value ranges from the first level to the seventh level, but only up to the sixth level has actually been confirmed, and the seventh level is a level value that exists from speculation that it probably exists.

This world is basically made up of the number 7, so that’s why that kind of speculation exists, but the problem lies in the fact that the maximum level value that has been confirmed at present is 6-7.

The ability level value is average at the third level, excellent at the fourth level, genius at the fifth level, and the sixth level is a number that those who are outstanding enough to be called heroes or given a second name have.

What I’ve noticed recently by raising my ability level value is that the experience value that should be raised from the first level to the third level isn’t that much. And the actual ability itself isn’t so much that I feel a wall .

However, there’s an isolated wall from the third level to the fourth level, and also above that. When I raised my intelligence from the fourth level to the fifth level, I was really tormented by a splitting headache and the difference in how I perceived the world.

That’s the difference between excellent and genius. So how much of a difference is there between genius and hero? If I’m not careful, I might die because my mind can’t handle the amount of information I’m feeling and obtaining, that Kind of anxiety wouldn’t leave me alone.

However, in order to put into practice what I thought of today while watching the Imperial Guards’ training, I absolutely need the intelligence of the sixth level. That’s why I’ve been putting as much strain on my mind as possible up until today, getting used to using my intelligence.

And so now, I’m going to raise my level value.

“I’m going to do it.”

I’m psyched up, here I go.

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Car-Mine Colorless-Ji Garland-Lu Carlo-Jiggle-Arley

Race Human-Race

Soul Level 1

Vitality 200/200

Mental Strength 500/500

Status: (All ability level values are decreased)

(Individual information is in a concealed state)

Strength 4-7 (4-7/6-7)

Speed 4-7 (4-7/6-7)

Resilience 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Stamina 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Intelligence 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Power 1-1 (1-1/6-7)

Mental Resistance 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Resistance 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Attribute

Light 1-7 (1-7/6-7)

Darkness 0 (0/6-7)

Fire 0 (0/6-7)

Wind 0 (0/6-7)

Metal 0 (0/6-7)

Earth 0 (0/6-7)

Water 0 (0/6-7)

Skills

Offensive Skills: [Swordsmanship 4-1] [Spearmanship 4-1] [Hand-to-Hand Combat 4-1]

Defensive Skills:

Support Skills:

Recovery Skills:

Attribute Skills: [Light Magic 1-7] [Light Be Here 1-7]

Special Skills:

Unique Skills: ([All Ability Decrease] [Ability Immobilization] [Individual Information Concealment] [Skill Removal])

Race Skills:

Bloodline Skills:

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I closed my eyes for a few seconds, relieved that nothing happened in particular, and opened my eyes.

“――ah”

My consciousness ended there.

*

I woke up a week later, and the atmosphere in the mansion was terrible.

It was the first time I had been in a coma for a week, even though I had collapsed for a day, and it seemed like there had been a commotion as if a stampede had occurred in the mansion.

Apparently, even Jarnal had been turned away at the gate, and the soldiers guarding the mansion had an unusual amount of killing intent.

If the magician who first examined me and the grimoire doctor who rushed from the royal capital — an excellent magician directly under the royal family — had not given a diagnosis of extreme overwork, they would have suspected an assassination and several people in the mansion would have lost their heads. It seemed to have been that big of a comfort.

Although I felt a little sorry, I looked at my individual information (visual record) and felt a sense of satisfaction.

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Ka-Mine Colorless Ji Garland Le Carlo-Ziggle Arley

Race Human Race

Soul Rank 1

Vitality 270/1,000

Mental Strength 0/2,000

Status: (All ability level values are decreased)

(Individual information is in a concealed state)

Weakness: Mental strength is depleted

Physical strength is depleted

Recovery amount decreased: Essence of all things is insufficient

Strength 4-7 (4-7/6-7)

Speed 4-7 (4-7/6-7)

Resilience 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Vitality 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Intelligence 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Power 1-1 (1-1/6-7)

Mental Resistance 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Resistance 6-7 (6-7/6-7)

Magic Attribute

Light 1-7 (1-7/6-7)

Darkness 0 (0/6-7)

Fire 0 (0/6-7)

Wind 0 (0/6-7)

Gold 0 (0/6-7)

Earth 0 (0/6-7)

Water 0 (0/6-7)

Skills

Offensive Skills: [Swordsmanship 4-1] [Spearmanship 4-1] [Hand-to-Hand Combat 4-1]

Defensive Skills:

Support Skills:

Recovery Skills:

Attribute Skills: 【Light Magic 1-7】【Light Be 1-7】

Special Skills:

Unique Skills: ([All Ability Reduction] [Ability Immobilization] [Individual Information Concealment] [Skill Removal])

Race Skills:

Bloodline Skills:

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Mental power decreases when mental stress is applied, and when it runs out, vitality decreases. That’s exactly what’s happening to me now, but I felt a shiver down my spine when I thought that I might have died if I had been careless, but the joy of my intelligence rank increasing outweighed that. I wonder why my physical strength is decreasing?

For now, I’ll take a break today. I’ll recover my lost vitality, mental power, and physical strength, and start moving tomorrow.

…I felt it in the faces of the servants who were desperately taking care of me, that I might be confined to my room for several days. I thought so.