Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 141 – RESILIENCE LUSIANA
I have only heard the story from Kanazawa Junoichi Sensei that once in his native kingdom, there was a royal friend who presented their King with expensive carpets and sheets. When the King opened the gift, he found in it a beautiful woman naked with a seductive look.
The kingdom of friends apparently wanted to please the King with a gift of a woman.
But I never thought I would find the same situation as the King.
No, no, no. Obviously the situation is different this time. The princess had absolutely no intention of presenting herself to me, and moreover the clothes the princess wore remained as intact as they should be.
He did not intend to tease me, but instead sought an opportunity to negotiate with me through a path that no one thought possible.
“Pardon for the impoliteness of the servant to meet His Majesty the Emperor in this way, but I have no other idea than this to meet His Majesty the Emperor.”
“What a bold action of an enemy imperial princess who claims to be weak!”
I slightly lowered my smile with a cynical intent to mock the princess. However, she seemed to remain calm as if events like this were commonplace to her even I admitted that she was an extraordinary princess.
“Pardon the servant, His Majesty the Emperor. Servant was so desperate to stop the Emperor's Father that servant had no other way but to do this extreme act.”
At least the princess had come all the way here, so it wouldn't hurt to listen to her story.
I also told the guards to take the other groups of guests who came with the princess to another place. It seemed that one of them was quite strongly opposed to it, but in the end they all agreed to my request thanks to the princess's own wishes.
The princess who was surrounded by enemies plus she was in enemy territory, however, her determination seemed firm as if she was ready to accept all the consequences. He continued to speak before me without showing the slightest jitters.
“Actually, the Vlonhard Empire is currently cooperating with the holy temple inviting the sorcerers to our country to perform black magic. If left unchecked, not only this continent, but the whole world will perish.”
“Sorcery is indeed a dangerous illegal practice as it involves mana dying, but it is not impossible to defeat it with our imperial capabilities.”
I said it as if I didn't know yet, when in fact I understood what the princess wanted to say.
“That's more terrible than sorcery in general, His Majesty the Emperor. They extracted the life of a living person to form a philosopher stone to be implanted into another living life exactly like creating a homunculus, but using a living object, not a puppet. It was more cruel than a chimera because living lives were not combined, but instead forced into one container.”
It was obvious that the desperate face of the princess was telling such a vile thing. If it was an innocent Albert who heard his story, he would have already instantly believed it. And when I glanced at Albert, sure enough, his hands clenched with an expression of anger while shedding tears of frustration.
“For the sake of saving this continent, no, this world, Father Emperor, must be stopped, Your Majesty the Emperor. You can use me because I've been seeing for myself from the inside how the creation of monsters was done until I knew some things about their disability.”
The princess is not wrong anymore certainly talking about the project the first order. There is no guarantee that I can trust his words. But that doesn't mean I can ignore it. Even if he lied, there would be something useful that I could use behind his lies.
Even though it was from her mana flow, I did not capture the evil intentions of the princess at all, there was still the possibility that she was manipulated in order to pass on the prepared information to me.
In hindsight, for the size of a country's confidential information, it was too easy to leak. I was only able to find out about the project of the first order of the Northern Empire Vlonhard when Doctor Minerva discovered his klu for me.
The princess asked me to keep her coming to this place a secret because she thought, if it were to be discovered by Emperor Ethanus, it would be, his mother and younger siblings could potentially be in danger and could be killed by the emperor himself.
I respected her wish and made sure the fine mouths of the attendants who happened to also be in that place who knew of the existence of the imperial princess of the enemy were sealed shut.
I placed the princess in a comfortable room in a special guest room on the third floor with strict guard. I assigned Yasmin to watch over the princess's movements carefully without the princess even realizing it while I also kept my familiars in check.
However, there was a limitation of information that my familiar could obtain, where it would only show an image without sound, instead, moreover, the angle of view of the image obtained is only in accordance with where the familiar is placed. That's why to cover the gap to my familiar flaws, I put Yasmin there as an extra eye and ear.
The sudden matter of the princess was resolved, now I am again concentrating on the threat of an impromptu invasion of the Maosium Kingdom in the south.
After all, the people are a precious property of a country. However, the true people are never guilty if the country commits abuses against other countries. What is wrong is the government.
However, I have no other way to think about it in my brain right now to prevent the Maosium Empire from destabilizing our country than to give their country back to chaos in a brutal way that it probably will they sacrifice many of their lives.
But I don't want that to happen. As much as possible I do not want to involve innocent people in my clashes with their king.
I've prepared a plan. But so that innocent people do not fall victim to my plan to resist the invasion of the Maosium Kingdom, I also assign my trusted accomplice.
“Olo, I assign you along with your division to infiltrate the Maosium Kingdom. In the near future, I will make an artificial dungeon break there to keep King Maosium busy so that we do not have time to invade our country, at least until the war with Vlonhard Empire ends.”
“Is it our job to ensure that many lives will die in that artificial dungeon break, sir, for example by using some sort of restraining barrier so that the residents there cannot escape in chaos?”
I shook my head firmly against Olo's statement.
“No. What I want is just the opposite. Protect the people there as much as possible, at least until they all manage to escape the chaos of the dungeon break.”
“Why do you bother wanting to do just that..”
“Mr Helios, Mr Helios, let me come too! I have recently mastered healing magic, so surely I will be useful on the front lines. Moreover, I am also a native of the Ifrak Continent, so it will not arouse suspicion.”
The talking girl who suddenly pinched Olo was Nunu.
The girl who originally had a magic circuit defect and even until now despite having mana talent with a very large amount. But thanks to the artificial help I made for him, he can now control his mana flow well. From then on, he became more diligent in practicing various supporting magic and was not focused on his favorite offensive magic, one of which was healing magic.
Since this is just a rescue mission and not a battle mission, I can immediately agree to Nunu's proposal. Anyway in case anything happens, I've assigned Doctor Minerva there to immediately secure the situation.
Without waiting any longer, Olo, Nunu, as well as other warriors disguised with looks that resembled the inhabitants of the Ifrak Continent began to depart for the Ifrak Continent instantly through the portal of Doctor Minerva.
Now all that's left is to mess up the kingdom with an artificial dungeon break of my work.