Chapter 212

Chapter 212

Five minutes later, the small squabble between Siegfriend and Quandt ended.

“That’s why you have to make it a habit to let someone finish before speaking up. And you should have at least asked me why I was making such a request. Now let me ask—did I feel bad when you interrupted me and raised your voice? Yes or no?” Siegfried said.

The two of them weren’t sitting across from each other.

He did not get straight to the point and decided to emphasize Quandt’s mistake first.

Of course, it was difficult to say that Siegfried was totally blameless...

“I’m sure you felt bad! I’m sure you felt very bad!” Quandt replied while vigorously nodding his head. He then slammed his head on the table and exclaimed, “I was wrong! Forgive me!”

“Why would you do that if you knew you were wrong?”

“I-I apologize. I was foolish, and I failed to understand the depth of your wisdom...”

“We will have three out of the seven materials required to complete Herbert’s legacy if we do things right this time. We can say we’re already halfway there, right?”

“Yes!”

“Ah...?Maybe I should just stop here...”

“N-No! You can’t...! Why are you doing this? I already apologized so many times! Please calm down!”

“So... Are you going to do it for me or not?” Siegfried asked. He nonchalantly added, “I’ll go to the Autonika Workshop if you won’t—”

“I will do it! No questions asked!” Quandt jumped from his chair and shouted at the top of his lungs before continuing. “I asked all of our branches on the continent and found that we have seventy-eight in stock! We just need to craft twenty-two more. We can definitely do that in forty-eight hours!”

“Really? Can I leave it to you, then?”

“Of course! Has our workshop ever disappointed you? Don’t worry and leave it to us!”

And that was how Siegfried obtained one hundred of the extremely expensive Spear of the Hell’s Leech for free. Meanwhile, the price of the Spear of the Hell’s Leech suddenly shot up all over the continent.

“Huh? Why did this item suddenly become so expensive?”

“Is someone hoarding it?”

“What the hell? It went up four folds!”

The reason was that the Bavarian Workshop didn’t really craft a lot of these spears in the first place. They were able to make twenty-two of them in forty-eight hours since it was quite easy to craft, but the main problem was that the materials required to craft it were quite rare.

Siegfried’s sudden hoarding, coupled with the Bavarian Workshop no longer selling it for the meantime, sent its price skyrocketing.

It was the same situation at the Mercedes Workshop and Autonika Workshop. Their items that had the same function as the Spear of the Hell’s Leech had already gone up by twofold.

‘This should be more than enough to stop the Vampire Lord from regenerating,’?Siegfried thought.

He ticked off the Spear of the Hell’s Leech and Magic Sword of Vengeance: Avenger from the list, and all that was left now was to go to the Church of Thanatos, the God of Death, and obtain their holy water.

***

Meanwhile, at the Bloody Castle located within the Proatine Kingdom’s territory...

“Luciro.” Magnus summoned one of his most loyal servants.

“Have you called, my lord?”

“Go and check what the livestock are doing...”

“The livestock, my lord?”

“Humans have the habit of trying their luck and trying to do the impossible.”

“I do not understand my lord... my meager intellect cannot fathom the depths of my lord’s wisdom.”

“I’m just curious,” Magnus said with a smirk before continuing. “If the new king of my livestock truly submitted to me or not.”

“But my lord... you do not need to concern yourself with the thoughts of a meager human. Nothing will change whether their king has truly submitted to you or not.”

Luciro wasn’t lying.

Vampire Lord Magnus was also known as the Demon Lord of the Night, and there was no way that a mere human king could do anything against him. In fact, it was even arguable if the current emperor could do anything to the Vampire Lord.

The outcome would end up being the same, so it didn’t really matter whether the human king had truly surrendered or not.

“I’m not asking you to check because I want to know what he’s thinking.”

“I can only hope that your words will come true,” Magnus said as he licked his lips.

His appetite and sex drive slowly welled up from inside of him.

***

Meanwhile, at the Proatine Kingdom’s basement dungeon.

“Great work, everybody! We didn’t have enough time to practice the script, but you put on a splendid performance,” Gringore commended the hundreds of people gathered in the dungeon.

The hundreds of people in front of him replied at the same time.

“That was a piece of cake!”

“Haha! It was nothing!”

“It was quite easy to act out since the scenario was explained very clearly!”

“But don’t you think you hit me a bit too hard? I’m hurting...!”

“M-My bad... I tried to make it look as real as possible so...”

“I was so into it that I really thought my daughter was getting offered to that bastard! Hahaha!”

Gringore chimed in as well, “It was awesome! I can proudly say that your acting skills are simply flawless, and the future of our kingdom’s drama and poetry looks bright as well, thanks to our talented child performers! Hahaha!”

The child performers—no, the children that the soldiers had dragged as offerings a while ago smiled brightly.

“Wow!”

“Really? Can I really become an excellent actor like Gringore-nim?”

“Yey! Scribe Gringore-nim praised me!”

The children were naturally happy.

Gringore was renowned as a genius artist. He not only excelled in singing, but he also possessed tremendous skills in acting, dancing, and painting. He was truly what one would call a cheat character in the art world.

In fact, he was so talented that nobles from many powerful kingdoms traveled all the way to the small and weak kingdom that most people had never even heard of before just to see his performance.

The fact that they were praised by someone as renowned as Gringore was more than enough to put these child performers on cloud nine.

‘They only had a few hours to practice, but I’m certain that the vampires were fooled by the show we put up. I must say that I’m quite impressed with all of them,’?Gringore smiled.

However, he suddenly clicked his tongue and smirked. ‘His Majesty is truly an astounding tactician. It’s to the point that he scares me sometimes...’

A few hours ago, Siegfried called Gringore aside and instructed him on a few things.

“The vampires might come and check up on us, so we will need to put on a show for them.”

“Pardon me, Your Majesty?”

“I want you to round up all of the performers in our kingdom and put on a show with them. Make sure that the vampires will be fooled completely if they ever decide to come spy on us.”

“I shall do as you command, Your Majesty.”

“And you should use your ability to move around without being noticed by anyone.”

“You mean Dance of Ghost?”

“Yeah, whatever that’s called. That thing can trick a vampire’s eyes, too, right? Use that to keep an eye out whether vampires are around to check up on us or not.”

“Yes, I understand.”

Siegfried’s plan ended up being super effective to the extent that it fooled Luciro into making a false report to Magnus. However, that was not the end of Siegfried’s hair-chilling tactics.

Shiver!

Gringore felt goosebumps all over his body after thinking of the plans that his king had prepared for the vampires.

‘Who could have known that he would attempt to catch three birds with one stone? His majesty is truly a scary person...’

Three birds.

.

Yes, Siegfried had multiple targets.