mage who transcends by returning, episode 255
The great ‘done’ sale.
That is the word that evaluates the current Kingdom of Sale.
A country that once achieved peace and prosperity under the reign of a great sage, but is steadily going downhill due to the stupidity of its descendants.
And the main character of that ‘failure’ is the current King Crochen of Seil.
Notorious as a tyrant, he ruined all the feats of his predecessors.
How could such a child be born under such an excellent father?
All the people of Seir groaned.
As if trying to hide his own shortcomings, Crochen raised the walls of the castle and lavishly decorated the interior.
In the castle every day, expensive bards’ songs rang out, and luxurious festivals were held… ….
And those were all things that the people of Seil had to bear.
The once-wealthy national treasury gradually showed its bottom, and a shadow fell on the lively faces of the people.
The country was collapsing, but only the king did not know the obvious fact.
“Huh hahaha….”
Krozen gave a faint smile as he saw the dancer who was fawning in front of him.
He has neither the dignity nor the will of a king.
Being in this place was not a leader who supported the country, but an idiot indulging in pleasure.
“Good good! This is life and the right that the king of a country should enjoy! Isn’t that nice!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
“As expected, you are right!”
In line with Crochen’s self-praise, the lords flattered him in unison.
It is not that there were no people who sincerely gave advice.
The king just knocked it all out.
“How stupid my father was! Didn’t you go away without seeing this kind of fun while focusing on that bastard’s state affairs? What a pity. Alas, what a pity!”
“Take my cup, Your Highness!”
“ha ha ha! I will!”
Seeing the servant handing out a bottle of wine with a cunning smile, Crozen was really happy.
happy.
He clearly remembered the events before he came to this position.
– Don’t be rash, son.
– We have a duty to do. There are things you have to carry as much as you enjoyed.
– Be persistent.
Natural words stuck in a plate.
Did he know how miserable and terrible the position of the son of a ‘excellent’ father is?
I don’t know.
Aren’t you born to be great? He wouldn’t have thought at all about the troubles of a half-penny son.
That’s why I drive it.
Wasn’t he trying to make himself a part of this ‘sale’ at will?
“Hehe, you look really generous today, Your Highness.”
“Uh hmm?”
Crochen, who was teasing the dancer while holding her in one hand, turned to the direction where the voice was heard.
There was an old man holding a cane and struggling to support his bent back.
With a kind smile, he slowly bowed to Crochen.
“Meet His Highness Krozen, the great Seong King.”
“Oh Avaritia!”
Crochen called the old man by name.
Avaritia.
A wrinkled smile spreads across the mouth of the old man who was called that.
Standing up with an infinitely kind expression, he asked Crochen.
“How about what I told you the other day? I think it would have worked, but… ….”
“Haha you were right!”
Crochen said that and stood up from her seat. There was a hint of joy on his face.
I don’t know anything else, but the ‘method’ that the old man in front of me told me always worked well.
“Demons that were said to have been spotted on the Haranin Plateau! They disappeared completely the way you said!”
“That is very fortunate.”
The old man in front of him, Avarithia, appeared in front of him in an instant.
It came naturally as a merchant.
Appearing like a wise man in a legend who appeared in front of a hero in crisis, he helped Crochen a lot.
At first, he too was suspicious.
Maybe you came here with a different idea. Wouldn’t it be a foreign ganja who wants to hit the back of the head at will.
However, as the situation progresses and is resolved according to his advice… ….
– Please teach me!
Naturally, he began to depend on Avaritia for the future of the kingdom.
And now, it wouldn’t be strange if Avaritti actually decided the future of Seil.
The servants who doubted Avaritia?
Of course there was.
However, most of them were just fired because they harbored a rebellion or were incompetent, as if they were prepared.
As if Avaritia was unconditionally right and chosen.
If Crochen had been a fit for a king like my father, he might have noticed something odd.
But he couldn’t.
No, it’s not ‘impossible’.
just….
“Haha, this will reduce the absurd story that we are defenseless against the ‘devil’!”
“Yes, I will.”
“Okay, is there anything else good to say today? The devil is solved, but a way to make the kingdom stronger.”
At those words, a smile spread across Avaritti’s lips. The thinly exposed pupils shed a strange light.
However, Krozen just continued his words without noticing.
Avaritti, who had been quietly listening to those words, opened her mouth.
“Heh heh, of course there is.”
he spoke slowly.
“In this complicated situation, what we need is not the happiness or hope of the people. that…It is just a by-product of the process of achieving a goal.”
“Hoo.”
“What matters is force in the end.”
Avaritia continued.
“Why is the empire able to boast of its mighty power now? It is because we have the power to ignore the checks of other countries.”
“surely….”
“You are delighted. Not long ago, we heard the news that there are ‘ancient ruins’ with great potential in our land.”
“…!”
At those words, Crozen’s eyes widened.
Ancient Ruins!
Recently, I heard information that the rumored hero was attacking those ruins one after another.
And the fact that he obtained enormous power from that ‘relic’… ….
‘Can I get those ruins?’
Maybe I can get the same power as that hero.
In an instant, deep greed filled Crochen’s eyes.
strength!
Because that’s what he wants more than anything else.
He recalled the future in which he obtained powerful power like a hero.
A brilliant future to be recognized as a true monarch, not a king who only has a facade!
“Okay, I will fully support you!”
He shouted at Avarithia without hiding his desire.
“Be sure to uncover the secret of the ruins and bring them to me!”
“I will, Your Highness.”
Avaritti lowered her head.
That’s why I didn’t see Crochen.
‘Hehehe.’
Avaritia’s face was shining bright red and laughing grotesquely.
* * *
On the way to the capital across the borders of Seil.
We couldn’t help but sigh at the sight unfolding before our eyes.
“Do do, give me the money!”
“Oh no you idiot! Food, not money! I need something to eat!”
The beggar-like bandits were threatening us with rusty farming tools.
“…hmm.”
As you can see, these are people who have never taken someone else’s, let alone properly hold a weapon.
“This is the fifth time.”
The butler said so with a very disturbed expression.
It’s already the fifth time that the ‘self-proclaimed bandit’ I encountered on the way to the capital across the border of Seil.
The problem is the condition of the sale I saw on the way.
I thought that the land would be in bad shape because it was under the reign of Crochen, but… ….
‘I couldn’t believe it would be this much.’
really the worst.
The lords are all busy picking out and eating the honeydew of their territories, and they are not paying the slightest consideration.
I’m not asking for anything great.
The life of the people of the territory must be maintained to a certain extent in order for the territory to return in the long term.
The problem was that all the territories he had passed through had not taken even the minimum measures.
“really…It’s serious.”
Aileen let out a small sigh as she looked at the ‘self-proclaimed bandits’ with only bones remaining.
Herma also has a complicated expression.
And Ariandel… ….
“…ah.”
He was staring straight ahead with a shocked expression.
Even though it is already the fifth time, she diligently bows her head as if blaming herself.
Should I say she’s a saint?
Or should I say that I still see a lack of experience?
what would be both
The Ariandel in my memory before the return and the current Ariandel are different from the time they were accumulated.
“You seem a little disturbed.”
“Ummm, this bandit…Isn’t that a bad thing in the first place?”
Ariandel tilted his head.
“But those people, no, the people I’ve met before coming here, ended up being driven like this….”
“It is.”
It would be nice if the world was clearly divided into good and evil.
If that’s the case, it’s enough to definitely pick out the evil and put an end to it.
But unfortunately, there’s a lot more gray than the obvious.
Things that are neither good nor evil.
It’s not that those ‘self-proclaimed bandits’ are good. But now they have no choice.
If you don’t steal it, you die.
Even if it’s not themselves, the family they took over will die.
The situation at Sale was that bad.
Perhaps the only thing he doesn’t know is Crochen.
“…Tsk.”
I sighed and listened to the staff.
At that moment, the evil spirit clinging to the staff… …No, it was the spirit of the trajectory, or something said.
– Is Daddy Violent?
“Let’s bite.”
Why the hell does he say violence every time I do something?
– Come to think of it, I didn’t get a name. give me a name
“Agari.”
– I don’t think the name Agari is cool. would you give me another one
“No, don’t bite it.”
oh i will really.
Why the hell are there so many things I don’t understand around me?
– I have to get a name so I can more reliably catch and eat demons… ….
“Oh really.”
– Keck.
The spirit became quiet only after nervously knocking the staff to the ground.
Even if you put a name on it in the first place, it is not something to decide now.
Even if it wasn’t my will, since he was born from me, I should give him a name… ….
‘Since the name Dirge already exists, how about the Dirge mk2?’
Dirge mk2.
Hmmm, something seems to be fine.
At that moment, the staff trembled.
It was as if I had heard something incredibly frightening.
…whatever
“Let’s stop.”
Took.
I disarmed the self-proclaimed bandits by lightly knocking my staff to the ground.
“Huh huh?!”
“It’s magic! A wizard!”
The bandits, who suddenly confirmed that their armament had been disarmed, panicked with pale expressions.
Then he fell to his knees and hit his head.
“I don’t know Mama Wizard, see you!”
“Sorry! Please, just live! My family is at home… ….”
It is a clichéd speech.
If this wasn’t a sale, I might have broken my head with the staff, dismissing it as bullshit.
but.
‘Those aren’t lies.’
There’s no sign of telling lies, and that’s how it looks right now.
this is the fifth time.
Even the ‘fourth’ I met just before that, the action I took was the same.
“Hey everyone?”
“Yes yep?!”
I spoke kindly to the bandits who trembled and stared at me.
“From now on, let’s start with a three-line summary with only the ‘truth’ to see how we came to do this in this way.”
“ah.”
The self-proclaimed bandits who had been staring at me silently looked at each other’s faces… ….
“That is true….”
and after a while
“No crazy.”
My hands trembled quite naturally when I heard the ‘circumstances’ of the self-proclaimed bandits.
“The lord ordered bandit work? Does that even require a quota?”
“Yes yes!”
So really these people.
Literally, it sounds like ‘pushed’.
The lord took his family as hostages and told him to bring his ‘quota’ of wealth regardless of whether he worked as a bandit or not.
It seems that some of the others who were already there were beaten to death along with their families for failing to meet their quota.
“under.”
The spirit, who was still, said.
– Oh, it smells of violence.
I know.
I think you’re right this time.
* * *
Sale’s Viscount Cowl.
Today, too, he was spending the day enjoying luxurious dishes made from the blood of local residents.
“Hey, that’s good. good!”
Some say that the territory develops only when one has to give to the people of the territory to some extent.
But Viscount Cowl didn’t think so.
Anyway, the tool called Young Ji-min is supposed to move somehow if you squeeze it out as you can.
Then, if one doesn’t work, replace it with another.
In fact, whatever the condition of the estate, Viscount Kaul himself had been enjoying a prosperous life.
Isn’t that what happened?
It doesn’t matter what the thousand things are.
Because replacing it is enough.
“Come now Viscount, please have mercy…! Families please… …!”
“The worms that haven’t even met their quota talk a lot.”
With eyes that see dirt, he looked down at Young Ji-min, who was groaning under his feet.
I don’t need these incompetent things.
I’m a bit concerned about the blood being sprayed in my room, but I think it’s better to keep it a little less here.
Thinking so, he ordered the knight guarding his side.
“Crush it.”
“Come on, Viscount! My please!”
No matter what Young Ji-min begged, the Viscount’s knight only pulled out his sword with emotionless eyes.
When the knight was about to strike the sword like that.
smart.
Suddenly a knock was heard.
Viscount Cowl frowned.
“What kind of person dare you?”
Do you mean knocking on his door without looking at it first?
“What a bastard! I told you not to knock on the door on your own… …!”
– under.
Aaaaaang!
Before he could even finish his words, the door to the room where there had been a knocking sound was blown out.
A thick layer of dust slowly lifted, and a man with blond hair and red eyes came in.
“Tada! Such a bastard is here!”
“…uh?”
He flapped his pure white robe and pointed his staff at the viscount.
“놀랐죠 개새끼야?”
The intruder Mikhail’s expression was very bright when he said that.
