Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 7 – TRUMP CARD
The red-eyed girl looked sad. He avoided the look of my laughing eyes before him.
Nunu thought that I also mocked her with that laugh as all the other witches mocked her uselessness as a one-time-use witch.
However, how could I ridicule that red-eyed little witch ever since I witnessed her overpower power capable of scorching the territory of the monster forest within a radius of one kilometer in just one strike?
Although he was only capable of using a single-use attack, the attack was too overpowering to be said to be completely useless.
“Nunu, you take yourself too low. Who says you're a useless witch since you have such overpowering power?”
I also tried to speak honestly to Nunu, trying to open her eyes about the true meaning of her self-worth.
However, low self-esteem has been firmly attached to him since he had to receive long-term treatment.
“But, Your Highness the Prince, all the witches in the guild said I did. I'm not worthy of being a witch since I've only been able to shoot one-time-use magic.”
I did not not not understand what the mockery that the other magicians had meant to her.
Imagine if in an attack, Nunu faced a horde of agile monsters and then he shot and missed. Instead of defeating the monsters, he even damaged the area unnecessarily in addition to disrupting the fight of his other comrades on the battlefield.
Not only that, after that Nunu will only become a burden on the battlefield after firing one magic that over power it since he no longer has mana left, he said, let alone to attack, even move he will not be able to anymore.
But it was only a story if the monster was able to dodge Nunu's overpowering attack.
Other than Nunu, here I have another trump card, a knight who has accompanied me since I was 7 years old. It was Albert fou Lugwein. Although he had a slightly irritating personality with his rigidity towards rules, he was a very great knight.
With Albert's combination of restraining the movement of the monsters and Nunu giving the ultimate attack, I was confident that the centipede queen would be defeated. And after that, it would be easy for ordinary soldiers to eradicate the rest of the monsters.
“I will prove that they were wrong against Nunu's true abilities with you will be the key to the extermination attack of the centipede monster wave.”
Hearing my words, Nunu's eyes shook. She was open as if she could not believe what I had just told her.
“Which is possible.. can I really do that, Your Highness the Prince?”
“Well, if it was Nunu whom I had just witnessed making a crater in the middle of the monster forest in one strike, I am sure one hundred percent of my sayings would be.”
Hearing me say that while smiling gently at him, he immediately showed a look of relief as if he had been freed from the burden that had been accumulating in his heart.
Nunu seemed able to rebuild his confidence after falling deeply into the pool of humiliation that stifled his heart for a long time.
A moment later, Nunu fainted looking exhausted.
I held the girl in my hand and took her back to my mansion.
Albert seemed so adamant about wanting to replace me holding Nunu since he thought it inappropriate for a prince to hold a commoner in his hand.
I immediately denied it and then scolded Albert for his attitude that was too underestimated the status of someone who was not from the noble class.
I hate the thought of people like Albert who glorify nobility too much. Supposedly, the person is more viewed based on his own attitudes and achievements, not based on which family they were born from.
Well, despite the fact that all this time said that the good family who will also produce quality sons and daughters, it is, but it must be underlined here that the good family is not always only from the nobility.
There are times when a couple of parents only come from among the common people and suffer from poverty as well, they are still able to educate their children well in the hope that their children will have a better life than themselves.
However, there are times when noble couples produce children who are corrupted about the desire to maintain their wealth and power has blinded them to corruption, collusion, and corruption, and other abuses against humanity.
However, far away I walked holding the light girl as if I was holding a cotton swab, my waist pocket suddenly tingled.
“Moooooo.”
Apparently it was Yasmin, my beloved ice turtle who did not seem willing to carry anyone other than herself.
I was forced to give Nunu's light body to Albert to replace me with him.
Albert's eyes immediately sparkled as I did so. However, because I was afraid that Albert would misunderstand my intentions and think that I had forgiven him for his harsh words to those outside the noble class who lived less fortunate, he said, I reaffirmed his mistake and the point where I was upset with him.
He immediately showed a cute puppy expression when I was scolded and I left him since it seems he has been introspection about his mistake.
We continued our journey back to the mansion as I played around with Yasmin.
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Nunu still needed around a full day to recover his mana.
Which means, we need to be able to survive one day longer against the attack of a wave of centipede monsters before being able to use Nunu as a trump card in the field.
But it hasn't been that difficult since I had another trump card named Albert by my side.
With Fernand backed by Albert leading the city's army to defend against a wave of monsters, and with the wall that has been solid again after being repaired plus me who guard the defense fortress also with my ice magic, waves of centipede monsters can be held to a certain degree so that they are unable to penetrate into the city.
At least, that's mostly. This time, there were three centipedes that had escaped from the defensive fortress that had even been strengthened by my ice magic. Apparently, the centipedes that managed to escape dug into the ground and then took advantage of the gap that was not protected by the fort in the ground.
This will be my record of the fortress repair list that I have to do in the future.
Fortunately, although there were three centipede monsters that managed to invade the city, three times more than the previous number, this time there were no casualties.
This is because in each citizen's home there are plants Alctus that smell pungent that can disrupt the senses of insect antennae so that the centipede monsters are not able to find the residents who hide in the house they each.
The centipede monsters were just pacing around the city streets, avoiding the pungent smell of the Alctus plants cluttering their antennae before being eradicated by the squads tasked with securing the city.
Thank goodness that the residents carried out my previous orders to put their own Alctus plants in their homes. Otherwise, no one would have expected as many casualties among civilians as would have fallen.