Chapter 56: It Was a Dangerous Country

Chapter 56: It Was a Dangerous Country

Nevertheless just what in the world is that vortex? There are also those enigmatic-looking monsters

I don't know. But

The female Holy Knight then continued with an awfully meek voice.

I heard that the Kranzle Empire studies forbidden curses about the way to artificially create large-scale monster parade.

Artificially create large-scale monster parades? For what?

For war, of course. In fact, for the countries that have been crushed by the empire, they were invaded when their army was busy dealing with monster parades.

If that was true, that building might be a research facility for said curse.

Now that I think about it, that building might have been abandoned as soon as they realized that they couldnt control that vortex. Maybe this kind of research is still going on in their vassal state.

Does that mean they don't care about what happens to their vassal state? What a cruel country

Well, everything is just my own opinion. I could be wrong, but The empire cut off all exchange with the outside world. That's why I have no idea about what happens in their government.

Every religion had been banned too, huh.

Instead, an empress reigned supreme like God in the empire.

And then, they also developed illegal magecraft throughout the country. Moreover, the most terrifying thing about them is the fact that all those developed magecraft and tools are for military purposes. Every country who has been invaded by them lost far too easily.

It seemed I somehow ended up going into an extremely terrifying country.

The silver lining was the fact that I met the female Holy Knight

===The Dangerous Empire===

Your Majesty, there's no doubt about it.

That Shadow was kneeling with his head down as they reporting to their master who sat behind the bamboo curtain.

The white-haired man in the report who appeared in one of our vassal states, Raoul Kingdom, is definitely the No Life King who has become the hot topic in the world right now. By our calculation, he'll arrive in our imperial capital in a short while.

The content of their report was simply terrifying.

And yet, the shadow of the figure behind the bamboo curtain didn't seem to be disturbed by such news.

H-How!

No way

On the other hand, the ones who were visibly trembling in fear from head to toe were the two elderly figures who stood beside the bamboo curtain.

Despite their old, shriveled figures that look like they would fly just by being exposed to a gentle breeze, they were none other than the capable prime ministers of the empire. In short, they were the second most powerful figures in the empire.

A true monster that not even that Hero King can defeat, bu

In addition, I hear that he's accompanied by two Dragon Empe

But before the two wrinkled old men finished their sentences, the figure behind the bamboo curtain finally spoke for the first time.

What are you afraid of, old men? Don't you believe in our empire's magecraft?

It was a young voice.

Moreover, it carried some sort of might that didn't allow for the interruption.

She was the empress, Deodora Kranzle.

As the supreme ruler of the empire, the remark as the one hailed as an existence equal to God was absolute.

The prime ministers, whose ages were far older than her, kowtowed toward her in front of the bamboo curtain, trembling like newborn calves.

N-No, this lowly slave wouldnt dare!

The female Holy Knight look dumbfounded upon seeing my reaction.

You, aren't supposed to be like that with the children when they praise you like that.

I-It really can't be helped This is part of my nature after all.

And yet, youve had normal conversations with me since a while ago.

It was simply because I got used to her presence.

But knowing that I didn't have any problem talking with womenas long as I got used to themwas the biggest finding in this incident.

Well, it might be useless since I was about to enter the eternal rest that I wished for.

Eh? Dont you two look closer than before?

HAH?

We unintentionally looked at each others' face when the boy pointed that out.

The female Holy Knight denied that in a hurry.

N-No way, that must be your imagination.

E~h, that sounds even more suspicious! I mean, say that when you're not blushing, neech GR^&^*^^&%$^

DON'T LOOK DOWN ON THE ADULT!

I ignored their banter and entered the house while pondering the fact that there were still so many monsters in this city even after we destroyed the source of the incident. It seemed I needed to do a thorough sweep again.

I really wanted to go to the female Holy Knight's country as soon as possible, but I felt uneasy about leaving these children behind without taking care of the dangerous monsters outside first.

Thus, I decided to leave this country after I cleaned the area around this city.

Well, it'd take at least a few days for me though.

But then, the next morning

Eh? She's gone?

Y-Yeah. I couldn't find Neechan when I visited her residence this morning That's strange since she was still there last night

Can you show me her residence?

The next morning, the female Holy Knight suddenly vanished from her residence.

This is her residence.

The siblings led me to a small house.

The spear is

The spear that never left her side was leaning against the wall.

There was no way she was going to leave this spear behind.

? This burn trace

I found a burn mark on the floor.

It was a mark that was left behind after something was burned.

It's the mark of sleeping temptation incense.

!!

I turned around immediately upon hearing the unfamiliar voice of an unknown man.

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